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Advanced Topics in Freedom of Expression Seminar

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Enrollment limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00pm the day after the first class meeting. This seminar builds upon themes and delves more deeply into particular topics discussed in the course Speech, Press, and the Constitution. The seminar will consider particularly challenging problems related to the First Amendment's protections for free expression. The precise topics are yet to be determined. Past topics have included the First Amendment jurisprudence of the Roberts Court; the relationship between free expression and social power dynamics; and the central importance in First Amendment law of speech about political matters. Students' grades will depend primarily on a research paper of at least 25 pages. In the paper, the student will develop, articulate, and defend a thesis related to the course material. Students will complete an outline and a first draft prior to turning in their final papers. The instructor will meet with each student individually in the course of the semester to discuss progress on the paper. Students' presentations on their research will occupy the final third of the semester. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 4 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units.

Law: BCCCR, GENUP, LCU, SEM

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Greg Magarian

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Jurisprudence Seminar (Tamanaha)

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Enrollment limit: 20. Drop deadline: 5:00pm the day after the first class meeting. This course will explore issues in contemporary U.S. law from a jurisprudential perspective. The course will meet regularly throughout the semester. The central theme of the course will be to explore the implications of the rise and spread of an instrumental view of law in the U.S. legal tradition. The first few classes will focus on classic issues in legal philosophy, including the nature of law, natural law, liberal theory, and the rule of law. The final few classes will focus on contemporary theories and issues, including law and economics, critical legal studies, judicial appointments, legislative and administrative capture, etc. Students will be required to write four papers in the course of the semester, 5 pages each in length. The papers will respond to a series of questions I pose related to the course material and class discussion. (These are not research papers.) Students must write the essays on their own; you may not use ChatGPT or any other artificial intelligence program to write the essay. The class is designed to help you hone your writing skills and ability to construct arguments, with detailed feedback provided on the papers. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 3 hours of BCCCR instruction.]

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Brian Tamanaha

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Digital Civil Liberties Seminar (Richards)

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Enrollment limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00pm the day after the first class meeting. This readings seminar will focus on emerging issues of civil liberties in cyberspace, with special attention paid to freedom of speech and privacy in the age of social media. We will explore the potential and dangers of the Internet revolution in communications, and how it is affected by the activities of users, by companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and by government attempts to restrain or shape the evolution of online activity through law. The course will be structured around discussions of principal readings of recent (and hopefully readable) books and articles. There will be three student papers required: two short 3-page papers due during the semester providing a critical review of one of the readings chosen by the student, and a longer 10-page paper due at the end of exams comparing and critiquing two or more of the principal readings. The instructor will provide writing feedback on the shorter papers to guide the drafting of the longer paper, with the goal of helping students write clearly about complex subjects. Grades will be a combination of the papers and class participation. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units.

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Neil Richards

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Implicit Bias, Law & the Legal Profession Seminar (Norwood)

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Enrollment limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00 p.m. the day after the first class meeting. This 3-unit seminar will examine how biases against, and preferences in favor of, people who have certain characteristics can be both unknowing and unknowingly harmful. Social science has proven that our minds can be unconsciously skewed by stereotypes, hunches, and gut feelings. These hidden biases are reinforced by years of social learning and compounded by negative media image portrayals. Focusing on a handful of biases in the seminar, we will look at examples of biases in society and discuss how those biases came to be. We continue with some focus on examples of institutional biases. We will also look at the effect of harmful implicit biases on the legal profession. Finally, we will conclude looking at some of the resulting harms to others from our conduct and discuss strategies for disruption. The course will meet once a week with a short break in meetings to allow students to work on their research. Laptops are permitted. A maximum of three (3) absences are permitted. Class participation is required. The final grade will be based on a combination of attendance, class participation, the submission of weekly journal reflections, a draft paper, a class presentation of paper, and a final paper in range of 25-30 pages. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units.

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Kim Norwood

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Public Law Theory Seminar (Epps)

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This course will examine scholarship on theoretical issues in public law fields, with a primary focus on constitutional law. Potential topics include the separation of powers, arguments for and against constitutionalism and judicial review, and interpretive method. The first part of the course will survey traditional, big-picture debates in constitutional law and related areas, while the second part will closely examine more recent books or articles at the frontiers of public law theory. Instead of a long final research paper, students will be required to write several shorter papers during the semester. The instructor will provide feedback on papers during the semester so that students have the opportunity to improve their writing during the course. Students will be graded based on their papers and class participation. In order to facilitate an engaged discussion, electronic devices will not be permitted. Pre/co-requisite: Constitutional Law (although Professor Epps will consider requests for a waiver of this requirement from students who believe that special circumstances merit an exception). Drop deadline: 5:00 pm the day after the first class meeting.

Law: COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Dan Epps

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Good Society Seminar (Seligman/Schwab-Seligman)

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Enrollment limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00 pm the day after the first class meeting. What is a good society, one that is fair and just and best satisfies the aspirations of its people? This question has been a fundamental quest of philosophy and political theory for millennia. In this seminar we will consider several alternative versions of a good society, including Plato's Republic, Exodus, The New Testament, The Quoran, Marx and Liberal Democracy. We will also examine the legal rights the people and the responsibilities of government in a good society. Students will be expected to write a paper proposing their version of the good society. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.]

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Joel Seligman, Mary Schwab Seligman

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The American Presidency Seminar (Katz)

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Enrollment Limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00pm on the day after the first class meeting. This seminar examines the intellectual origins, historical development, powers and operations, and current debates surrounding the American President. Throughout the semester, we will pay attention to the distinction between the office's formal constitutional powers and changing norms of presidential leadership and politics, and consider how the latter impact the former. The first two weeks of the course track the historical development of the American presidency from the patrician presidency envisioned by the Framers to the nineteenth-century party man of Jacksonian America, and forward to more modern forms of leadership minted in the twentieth-century and today: agenda-setting, bureaucratic management, and control of public opinion and image. In each of the remaining weeks, we take up a discrete topic of modern presidential power, including foreign affairs, the war power, policy agenda-setting, relations with Congress, bureaucratic management, image leadership and the media, executive privilege, and impeachment. Finally, we assess the health of the American constitutional system in light of the Presidency's evolution. Are we, as some allege, facing a constitutional crisis? If so, can it be attributed to system-deep, historical, or cultural factors? [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 4 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Andrea Katz

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Voting Rights from Reconstruction to the Roberts Court Seminar (Crum)

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Enrollment limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00 pm on the day after the first class meeting. From debates about voter ID laws to political and legal battles over redistricting, race and voting rights are intertwined in our society. This course analyzes the intersection of race and voting rights from a legal and historical perspective. This course will also examine questions of federalism and Congress's Reconstruction Amendment enforcement authority. The first part of the course addresses the expansion of Black male suffrage during Reconstruction and the ratifications of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. It then canvasses the establishment of Jim Crow in the late 1800s and the large-scale disenfranchisement of Black voters. The second part examines the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its 1982 amendments, with particular attention paid to Sections 2 and 5 of the VRA as well as the Shaw line of cases. This part will also focus on race-based redistricting and racially polarized voting. The last part of the course covers contemporary issues in voting rights, such as the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder and current proposals to amend the VRA. Grades will be based principally on writing, with some credit awarded for contributions to classroom discussions. Students can choose between two paper options: write four response papers of 5-7 pages each or a 20-30 page research paper. Papers should be double-spaced in 12-point, Times New Roman font. Feedback will be provided on the first two response papers or on a first draft of the research paper. Students must choose between these paper options by week four of the course. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units.

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Travis Crum

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The Past and Future of Our Financial Regulation (Seligman)

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This seminar will review the history of financial regulation beginning with the formation of the country to the 2007-2008 financial debacle. Particular emphasis will be given to the extent to which the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act addressed the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The course will also explore the following two critical events that occurred in the decade after the enactment of Dodd-Frank: (1) the rise of digital assets including cryptocurrency portending a rival currency and financial system, and (2) the rapidly accelerating national debt that owes in part to the Corona Virus. Students will be required to write a paper on a topic related to our financial system and its financial regulation. Grades will be based on your final paper, oral presentation, and class participation. 3 Credits

Law: COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Joel Seligman

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Topics in Global Monetary and Fiscal Law Seminar (Rosenzweig)

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Enrollment limit: 16. Drop deadline: 5:00 pm the day after the first class meeting. This seminar will explore advanced topics in global monetary and fiscal law and policy. Some of the topics that will be addressed include: 1) central bank digital currencies, 2) digital taxation and global digital public goods, 3) taxation and development, 4) role of multinational institutions in monetary and fiscal policy, and 5) global carbon taxes. The grade in the seminar will be based primarily on a research paper of 25-30 pages, the quality of which should be comparable to a law review article. Each student will develop a paper topic based on assigned readings, class discussions, and consultation with the instructor. General areas of potential research include, but are not limited to, any of the topics mentioned above. (This seminar is not graded anonymously because the professor works with students on their papers throughout the semester.) [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 4 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units.

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Adam Rosenzweig

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Feminist Legal Theory Seminar

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In 1983, Catharine MacKinnon wrote "Feminism has no theory of the state. It has a theory of power." In this seminar, we explore how feminists have theorized the state, the law, and power. Is it worth turning to the state to produce change from a feminist perspective? What should that engagement with the state look like? What are its costs? We will read canonical feminist texts closely to study how various strands of feminism have answered these questions. We will examine how these various answers apply to fundamental debates within feminism including the regulation of public representations of sex, sexual violence, sexual harassment in the workplace, and the market. The seminar also surveys how the different feminist theorizations of law apply to contemporary controversies such as digital abuse, the move toward affirmative consent, polyamory, and trans athletes. This seminar reads the feminist legal theory canon from a critical perspective. Students are, of course, welcome and encouraged to adopt and play with other stances. Unless special accommodations apply, students may not use laptops in class. Final grades will be based on class participation, very short response papers, and a longer final paper. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.]

Law: BCCCR, COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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Brenda Dvoskin

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Law & Economics Colloquium Seminar

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The Law & Economics Colloquium offers students a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge legal scholarship. Over the course of the semester, we will discuss seven new working papers by leading legal scholars. The papers will cover a range of legal topics and empirical and theoretical approaches. For each paper, our discussion will take place over two weeks. During the first session, we will discuss the paper and relevant background literature, including a discussion of methods and purpose of the research enterprise. These sessions are guided by the instructors and a group of students who present and critique the paper's questions, methods, and conclusions. During the second session, the author will visit our class to present and respond to questions about the paper. Students are expected to be active participants in these discussions, which will be joined by other law faculty and members of the WashU community. Grades are based on (1) a series of response papers which will be reviewed and commented on for persuasiveness, organization, and clarity of the writing, (2) an in-class presentation, and (3) participation in discussions. No background in economics or statistics is required or expected. 3 units.

Law: COIFGR, LCU, SEM

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James Hicks, Scott Baker

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