The course examines the role of religion in American public culture. Studies of the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment provide the groundwork for an examination of the intersection of diverse religious belief and democratic government. This course examines the case law, statutes and regulations that affect consumer transactions. Selected topics to be announced. For the clinical component of the course, each student attorney will maintain a caseload of about five active cases.
Enrollment is limited to five third-year students.
The course examines the prosecutor's role in charge selection, plea bargaining, trial and sentencing, and defense counsel's role from appointment through appeal. Primary emphasis is placed on constitutional principles governing seizure of the person, interrogation, searches and seizures of evidence, and the limited right to counsel during investigation. The past history and future prospects of the exclusionary rule will be examined in detail. Conduct by police officers which may constitute entrapment and the use of the grand jury as an investigative body will also be considered. This course examines the constitutional law of due process and equal protection with primary emphasis on the meaning of equality under the Constitution and on the means of defining and protecting substantive rights under the due process clauses.