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267.4 sec. 1 - Legal and Constitutional History (Fall 2009)
Instructor: Harry N. Scheiber (view instructor's profile)
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Units: 3
Meeting Time: Th 2:20-5:10
Meeting Location: 2240 Piedmont
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49708
Main Section Enrollment:
Enrolled: 16
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 20
As of: 11/25 06:43 AM
This seminar will meet weekly for discussion of assigned readings and lecture segments on major themes in American legal history from the colonial era to the present. Materials will consist of cases, articles from journals of history and law reviews, and several books of outstanding importance to the field. Topics will include the common law heritage in the colonies; constitutional “original intent,” federalism, race relations, the Progressive reforms and constitutional conservatism, modernization of government, the political economy inaugurated by the New Deal, the Warren Court, and “liberal legalism,” and constitutional discourse in the contemporary era.
The course is open to both JSP and JD students. A research paper is required of 2L, 3L and JSP students. An extra unit of credit optionally is available to JD students doing Writing Requirement papers.
This course may satisfy the Writing Requirement.
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Course Category: Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP)
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Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Howard Gillman - The Constitution Besieged - Ed. paperback edition/1993 - Publisher: Duke University Press
- Kermit Hall, Paul Finkelman & James W. Ely - American Legal History: Cases and Materials - Ed. 3rd paperback edition/2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press - ISBN: 97801995162250
- Kermit Hall, Paul Finkelman & James W. Ely - American Legal History: Cases and Materials - Ed. 3rd paperback edition/2005 - Publisher: Oxford University Press - ISBN: 97801995162250
- Kermit Hall, Paul Finkelman & James W. Ely - American Legal History: Cases and Materials - Ed. 3rd paperback edition/20054 - Publisher: Oxford University Press - ISBN: 97801995162250
- edited by Lawrence M. Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber - American law and the constitutional order - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988. - ISBN: 9780674025271
