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American Judicial Process NEW!

In this course, a condensed version of a semester-long course, we shall study the American Judiciary as a political institution. Focusing primarily on federal courts, we shall consider the nature of judging, the function of courts in constitutional democracies, the structure of the federal courts, the judicial selection process, access to judicial power, instruments of judicial power, the limits of judicial power, fact finding in the courts, precedents and legal reasoning, statutory interpretation, and constitutional interpretation. Especially since the US Supreme Court's current term will be among its most volatile in years, with ObamaCare, affirmative action, and perhaps even gay marriage on the docket, those who take this course will come away with a deeper, broader understanding of what Alexander Hamilton famously called "the least dangerous branch" of the national government.

This class is not available at this time.

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