Const Law II: Civil Liberties

Semester: Fall 2013
Course ID: 381C
Credit Hours: 3
Unique: 29465

Course Information

Registration Information

Upperclass-only elective
Reversed priority

Meeting Times

Day	Time	Location
TUE, THU	9:05 - 10:20 am	TNH 2.124

Evaluation Method

Type	Date	Time	Location
Final exam	December 16, 2013	8:30 am	A-Z in 2.123

Description

This course will concentrate on the 1st and 14th amendments. Topics to be covered include: (1) free exercise of religion and establishment of religion; (2) freedom of speech; (3) privacy, including issues relating to abortion and sexual orientation; and (4) racial and sex discrimination, including issues related to affirmative action. Emphasis will be placed on the political theory or theories that best explain and justify constitutional doctrines.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Religious Freedom and the Constitution *

Eisgruber and Sager

Harvard , edition: pb
ISBN: 0-674-02305-6

2012 Supplement to Constitutional Law (optional)

Sullivan and Gunther

Thomson-West , edition: 2012
ISBN: 9781609301552

Constitutional Law *

Sullivan and Gunther

Thomson-West , edition: 17th
ISBN: 978-1-59941-752-3

A Theory of Justice (optional)

Rawls, John

Harvard , edition: rev. ed
ISBN: 9780674000780

Instructors

Abramson, Jeffrey B