All courses are one-credit offerings. There is a total of nine courses in the curriculum. Students may take a maximum of six credits during the two 2-week sessions or three credits per session. All classes are 65 minutes in length. The teaching approach ranges from lecture and dialogue to the use of simulation.
Examinations are one hour in length.
These lectures are not for credit and will be given by Professor David Markell of the Albany Law School. The class and program schedule below further describe the academic organization of the program. A discussion of selected portions of the constitutional history of the United States with special emphasis upon the linkage of that history to contemporary constitutional issues. A comparison of Article 10 of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and Canadian provisions on free speech as they apply to subversive advocacy and dangerous ideas, the use of the public forum, symbolic conduct, libel, blasphemy, obscenity, hate speech, and commercial speech. Case readings will be drawn from the European Court of Justice and Commission on Human Rights, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Canadian Commission on Human Rights, as well as from the high courts of various other countries.