You will encounter terms in the reading, some of them in Latin, that are unfamiliar and not defined in the Glossary of your textbook. Several good law dictionaries are sold at the UWM Book Store. Schedule Please note that it may be appropriate occasionally to give more time or less to an issue than the schedule calls for, depending on the class's interest and commitment. You will only be examined on subjects that we have covered. Note also that the course does not cover every subject on civil rights and civil liberties.
Time constraints require some selectivity in a one semester course on so large a subject.
Within the areas covered, I have chosen to emphasize the most discussed and historically-important cases. We do not go into issues of broadcasting or the media generally, except for a brief look at libel, which is a form of expression not protected by our constitution. The subject of the media may be studied in journalism courses. We do not go into issues of general privacy such as abortion and sexual orientation. We do not go into the right to bear arms, an explicit guarantee in the Constitution.