PEDAGOGY

Privacy & Defamation in the United States and European Union

This course explores the purpose and value of legal doctrines that insure freedom for the press, and that govern torts related to defamation, libel, and invasion of privacy from a comparative law perspective. Students gain a working familiarity with the laws of the U.S., EU, and relevant international conventions, resolutions and treaties. Basic knowledge of the main function and social relevance of constitutional democracies, as well as an interest in individual rights in general are pre-requisite. Formal Pre-requisite: Constitutional Law. Assignments currently not available.

Advanced Constitutional Law, Theory and Practice of Free Speech in the United States

This seminar allows students to explore the impact of our national commitment to freedom of speech, association, and various forms of symbolic expression. The theoretical justifications for the protection of speech in service of truth, self-governance and self-realization are explored primarily through analysis of the market metaphor. Students evaluate both historic and current methods for suppressing speech in democratic polities. Pre-requisite: Constitutional Law. Assignments currently not available.

Advanced Constitutional Law, Individual Rights

This course explores how theories of social freedom and self-governance developed in the United States. Students analyze the most controversial socio-legal issues as they relate to privacy, equal protection and other questions of substantive due process. Students discuss trends related to national security, and the evolving role of attorneys to evaluate their overall impact upon civil liberties and nascent influence on the fundamental rights debate in the US and abroad. Pre-requisite: Constitutional Law I. Assignments currently not available.

Constitutional Law II

This course examines American constitutional law in historical and modern context; the allocation of decision-making authority among government institutions; guarantees related to due process, equal protection, and other clauses in the Bill of Rights and post-Civil War amendments. Assignments currently not available.