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Class number:
2635
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Title: Law, History and Public Policy |
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Department: Public Policy & Law |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, LIB - 103 |
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Instructor(s): Falk, Glenn |
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Prerequisite(s): This course is only open to senior Public Policy and Law majors. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Writing Emphasis Part2 Requirements |
Course Description:
Lawyers, judges, politicians, and others often invoke history to support the arguments they wish to make. The use or misuse of history in constitutional interpretation can have significant consequences for the equality of all citizens, including women, African Americans, and Indigenous people, as well as for the future of our democracy. This senior seminar will study topics which lie at the intersection of law, history, and public policy, including the contested terrain of Second Amendment gun rights and gun control; the debate over whether our nation began with a proslavery or an antislavery Constitution, and why that question still matters today; and arguments over the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. |