ATTENTION 3LS | Race and the Law Seminar
No line, no waiting! Two additional seats are now available in Race & the Law Seminar being offered this fall. 3Ls who have not satisfied their advanced writing requirement should consider enrolling.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Race & the Law Seminar
Course 449
2-hour research/advanced writing course
This course will examine the role of race in American law and society. More specifically, it will analyze how the law conceptualizes racial issues and formulates answers to racial problems. The course will explore: 1) Slavery’s legal treatment of enslaved Africans through the use of slave narratives as well as traditional case law; 2) the role of the legal conception of a “color-blind” society in pivotal Supreme Court decisions; 3) the consequences of the “Separate but Equal” doctrine in the Post-Emancipation era; 4) how the vestiges of Slavery’s and Jim Crow’s concepts of racial inferiority still prevail in current legal doctrines and 5) the legal issues present in the contemporary movement for Reparations. The primary aims of this seminar will be a) to encourage students to develop a critical perspective of American Jurisprudence and b) to inspire them to visualize ways in which the American legal system can be an efficient medium for social change. Students will write and present a substantial, publishable quality paper. This course satisfies the Advanced Research/Writing Requirement.
