American Legal History Topics

Description: This course focuses on the role of law in the broad spectrum of American political and social thought from colonial times to the present day. The interface between law and politics and the role of the courts in a constitutional democracy are central issues. Topics include controlling land use in colonial and founding generations; Politics in the founding generation; slavery and race in American thought; Nineteenth-century legal activism and its relationship to today`s Supreme Court; the legal revolutions of the New Deal and Warren Court; and a comparison of the doctrines of property, contract, and tort throughout American history. Modern issues focus on racial segregation and affirmative action, privacy and abortion, environmental protection, the new federalism of the Rehnquist/Roberts courts, and the role of this court in determining the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The objectives of this seminar are multiple. First, provide a more in-depth and contextualized study for some of the cases and topics that students are likely to have encountered in Constitutional Law I and (for those who have taken it) Constitutional Law II. At the same time, issues are discussed that are rarely treated as central to American constitutional development. Second, it will introduce students to current developments in American constitutional history, a once-doomed scientific field recently revived by new interpretations of some well-known topics. The seminar will thus illustrate how the «historiography» of a field such as constitutional history develops – how historical interpretations of a particular subject or episode increase and decrease over time. Third, through a series of short articles, this seminar will pay great attention to the criticism of students` expository writing. Topics that can be covered include the new Marbury v.

Scholarship. Madison and the Origins of Judicial Review; the Electoral College and the President`s Estate; the American Constitution and slavery; the extraterritorial scope of the United States Constitution; the so-called «Lochner revisionism»; sovereign state immunity and the Eleventh Amendment; American reconstruction and constitutionalism; new perspectives on the «civil rights revolution»; and others. Registration is limited to twelve (12) students and is subject to the authorization of the instructor. Board Revisiting the Critiques of Justices Who Upserving the Fugitive Slave Acts American Prohibitions: The War on Alcohol and the War on Drugs «She had. A Womb Subject to Bondage`: Reconsidering the Origins of British Colonial Descent Law The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State A Matter of Freedom: Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Founding of the Nation to the Civil War Polygamy in the Supreme Court: Reynolds v. United States in Legal History Constitutionalism and Human Rights: The Dilemma of the United States The Price We Pay: The Discriminatory Imposition of Black America from Reconstruction to the Current Crucible of Peace: The Treaty of Paris and the Founding of the American Republic The Supreme Court in Limbo: The Role of Justice Swing from Barron v. Baltimore (1833) to McDonald v. Chicago (2010): Gun Control and the Constitution Law and the Creation of Racial Categories in the United States Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution The American Bar Association`s accreditation standards require students to regularly take the courses in which they are enrolled.

Lewis & Clark expects students to attend classes regularly and prepare conscientiously for classes. Specific terms and conditions may vary from course to course. All attendance instructions for a particular class must be provided to students at the beginning of the semester in a program of study or other written document. Sanctions (e.g. mandatory withdrawal from the course, adjustment of grades and/or poor grade) are imposed in case of low attendance. Owning and Bearing Arms: What the Second Amendment Meant in 1791 — Not — The University, the Constitution, and the Goals of Academic Excellence Freedom of Speech and Social Justice in American History The Second Amendment Goes to Court: District of Columbia v. Vitale » (1962) The Stories We Tell About Race: Law, History, Narrative and the Color Line Women before the Bar: Snapshots of Early American Courtrooms The Labor Vision: What the Thirteenth Amendment Meant to Its Framers School Desegregation and the History of Brown v. La guerre contre les Juifs de Henry Ford et la bataille juridique contre le discours de haine Klicken Sie auf einen OAH-Vortragstitel, um zur OAH Distinguished Lecturer-Profilseite des Autors zu gelangen Cross-Dressing Laws and Expansion of American Policing Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russians and the History of Immigration Relief How Moderation Enabled the Ratification of the Constitution Reassessing Eugenic Sterilization: Der Fall von North Carolina George Washingtons Ernennungen zum Obersten Gerichtshof Der Judiciary Act von 1789: Politischer Kompromiss oder Verfassungsauslegung? Enabling Rights: Behinderung und Religion vor den USA.