Interest Areas
Legal History
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Legal History: Continental Legal History
February 2, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam A survey of the main outlines of Continental European legal history from the fall of the Roman Empire to…
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Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course examines, from the perspective of social and political history, constitutional developments from the enactment of the…
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Critical Corporate Theory Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…
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Framing, Narrative, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this seminar we will examine the ways in which the rhetorical and communications principles of framing and narrative…
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Constitutions, Law, and Empire
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What is a Constitution? Why, and under what circumstances, do people make them? What about the United States and…
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Mind and Criminal Responsibility in the Anglo-American Tradition
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam. Grades will be based upon short responses to weekly readings, a small project and presentation, and class participation. This…
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American Legal History: Law, Economy, and Society in the Era of the American Revolution
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…
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Legal History: American Legal Education
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
A research paper will be required rather than a final examination. This seminar is designed for students… -
Competing Values: Freedom, Equality, Property, & Democracy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will cover a variety of current and enduring questions involving fundamental issues of freedom, equality, property,…
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The Constitution in American History
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine the political and legal history of the U.S. Constitution, with an eye toward considering how…
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Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be expected to complete two short papers in response to course readings, and a longer paper… -
Prerequisites: None. Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This is one of the basic courses in American Constitutional Law. It focuses primarily on Equal Protection and Due…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Animal Law
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites, and 1L students are welcome in the class. Exam Type: One Day Take-Home Students will be evaluated on the basis…
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Originalism and Its Discontents
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: (A) One prior course on American constitutional law, and (B) one prior course on constitutional law, federal courts, administrative law, jurisprudence, or legislation /…
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The Crisis Facing Democracy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will examine contemporary challenges facing American democracy. Each week will consider a different challenge facing American…
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Advanced Readings in The Thirteenth Amendment
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course focuses on the Reconstruction Amendments, directing the core of its readings and class engagement to the Thirteenth…
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Warren Center Research Seminar: Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: Students who wish to enroll should have taken a course in either monetary law, financial regulation, or the history of economic regulation; participation is…
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Law and Literary Theory
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: None We will read and discuss narrative theory, literary criticism and short works of fiction in the context of American legal…
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Legal Profession
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study the nature of professionalism in American society…
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Critical Race Theorists and their Critics
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines the role of the law and legal activism in perpetuating and alleviating racial inequality in the…
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Farmed Animal Law and Policy
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: There are no formal prerequisites for the class, although an environmental law or animal law survey course is recommended. Exam Type: No Exam This…
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Legal History Workshop: Intimacy and the Law
January 25, 2023
Classroom: For weeks 1, 2, 7, 11, and 12, this workshop will meet in WCC 3011 and in Hauser 104 for Weeks 3, 4, 5,…
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Legal History Workshop: Sex and the Law
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop, offered as a 1-credit course held over six sessions, aims to provide students with historical perspectives on…
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(Jewish) Law and Story
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type:None Narrative and law; agada and halakha, story and rule. In recent decades the relationship between these pairs has become a central…
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Change in Jewish Law
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-home History is encoded in legal documents and systems. This is a truism of academic approaches to law, and…
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Legal History: American Legal Education
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
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From Nuremberg to The Hague– Law, The Individual and the Group
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will explore the origins of modern international criminal law and looks at their impact on current directions.
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Monuments and Memorialization
January 23, 2023
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Compromise
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Our reading course on “Compromise” is brand new, so this description is necessarily tentative with regard to specific assignments.
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Lincoln-Douglass
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam More books are said to have been written about Abraham Lincoln than about any other human being. What is…
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Reforming the American Constitution
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The main impetus for the Constitution of 1787 was the perception, spelled out in the very first paragraph of…
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Abraham Lincoln as Constitutional Theorist
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Abraham Lincoln is not only regarded (by most analysts) as very definitely one of our most important presidents. He…
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Reforming the American Constitution
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The main impetus for the Constitution of 1787 was the perception, spelled out in the very first paragraph of…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Constitutional Law: First Amendment
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course is one of the basic courses in the field. It addresses the Freedom of Speech, the…
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Legal History: English Legal History
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to the history of law and legal institutions in England from the Anglo-Saxons to the seventeenth century.
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Trusts and Estates
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines freedom of disposition in American succession law by way of: (a) intestate succession; (b) wills (including…
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Critical Corporate Theory Lab
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…
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Introduction to Islamic Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will survey core concepts in Islamic law (sharia) in historical and comparative modern contexts. Popular perceptions of…
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From Protest to Law: Triumphs and Defeats in Struggles for Racial Justice, 1950-1970
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
The requirement for the course is writing that amounts to about thirty double spaced pages. The… -
Law and Economic Development
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This course will explore past and present debates about the role of the legal order in economic development. We…
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Global Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This course explores law’s role in global affairs. We will examine the history of ideas, legal doctrines, institutional…
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Prerequisites: None Exam type: Any Day Take-Home This course focuses on the structure of the United States government, including the doctrines of separation of powers…
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Great Cases of the Supreme Court
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None. Basic knowledge of constitutional law preferred but not required. Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be required to submit a… -
Comparative Law: Ancient Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The focus of the class will be on comparing various ancient and…
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Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be expected to complete two short papers in response to course readings, and a longer paper…