The course uses a problem-solving approach emphasizing the application of evidentiary rules and principles in the context of trials to a jury. The Externship offers third year students who have completed Evidence and Trial Practice the opportunity to gain actual legal experience and receive feedback on their work from seasoned professionals with guidance and support from a faculty member. This course focuses upon basic legal issues relating to marriage, family and the termination of marriage. One segment of the course emphasizes jurisprudential and constitutional issues underpinning the institutions of marriage and family. A second segment emphasizes major doctrinal developments, including the laws of marital property, support and child custody.
Enrollment is limited to five third-year students.
The course proceeds on the premise that the subject of the jurisdiction of the federal courts need not be as dry, technical and mysterious as it is conventionally presented. The approach taken in the course is to break down artificial barriers and to integrate federal jurisdiction with federal constitutional rights and remedies. This course examines the constitutional law of the freedom of speech, press, association and religion, and the establishment of religion primarily as developed under the First Amendment. This course is designed to investigate gender and the law by focusing on the historical, social, economic and legal foundations of particular situations encountered by women. The course will explore what feminist analysis has to offer to a reconsideration of the philosophical underpinnings of our legal system.