Course Description

LAWS 8015
Seminar: Constitutional Theory
General Description:
Aims at thinking broadly about the challenges, and problems of constitutionalism in the U.S. What are the fundamental tensions that attend the constitutional enterprise?internally, externally? What relations does the Constitution have to democracy and liberalism? Readings will be taken from legal theory, social theory, philosophy and occasionally judicial opinions. Emphases will differ slightly each year as announced.

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LAWS 8015-001

Instructor(s): Robert Nagel

Meeting Times & Locations:
   Tue   2:25 PM - 4:05 PM   WOLF 421

First Assignment: The book for this seminar is Garvey, Aleinikoff, and Farber, Constitutional Theory: A Reader (West, Fifth Edition). Please sign up for our TWEN site, on which you will find a reading list (including the assignment for the first seminar) and a description of how the seminar will be structured.