Sections offered SPRING 2020:
#8802 |
JOSEPH HOFFMAN |
MW 9:30am-10:45am |
LW 125 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
This course is designed to introduce students to the fascinating and diverse world of law. Through the close study of selected judicial opinions in legal cases covering a wide range of interesting and important topics – including the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, voting rights, police use of force, religious liberty, affirmative action, the death penalty, federalism, and many other timely issues – the course will illustrate how lawyers and judges use the law to try to achieve results that protect individual and public legal rights while furthering the best interests of society and the ends of justice. The course is intended for any student interested in learning more about law, about how legal decisions are made, and about the anthropological, political, practical, and personal impacts of law upon society. The course will be taught primarily through class discussion of judicial opinions and related primary legal texts, all of which will be supplied to students via Canvas. No prior knowledge of law is required.