This skills simulation seminar will focus on selected topics that pose contentious policy challenges for law enforcement, including crafting and implementing effective crime control strategies, implementing investigative practices that are …
This seminar will explore current issues in the law of federal courts. Topics may include standing, political questions, non-Article III adjudication, qualified immunity, habeas corpus, stare decisis, and judicial rhetoric.
This class will explore key issues in criminal justice reform with the goal of understanding problems and evaluating potential solutions. Students will learn how to read social science literature to …
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) issues have become a major focus of institutional investors. This class will examine the law and economics of ESG factors in investing by reviewing recent …
This class will examine how the topic of corruption is addressed in several different legal domains including criminal law (bribery, extortion, fraud, and deprivation of honest services, etc.), election law, …
This course invites students to inquire into the relationship between places and law specific to those places. It will explore not only how law is tailored to particular physical, social, …
This seminar will study implementation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act and its implications for environmental protection more generally. We will cover various provisions of the statute as well …
As America moves into the twenty-first century one basic legal controversy continues to claim center stage: what is race? This class examines the three prevailing concepts of race currently used …
The contemporary debate over the proper role of a federal judge under the Constitution turns, in large measure, on what it is we think an Article III judge is doing …
This seminar analyzes current issues surrounding the First Amendment freedom of religion. It covers historical, philosophical, and judicial background, current issues in free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, including government …