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Diversity Courses
7606/Civil Rights Seminar
This seminar examines the civil rights movement that began in the years before Brown v. Board of Education and continued throughout the 1950's and 1960's. This examination is based on the PBS video series "Eyes on the Prize" and additional readings. The videos and the readings provide social, cultural, and historical perspectives on the civil rights movement and the legal developments that grew out of that movement..
7607/Constitutional Rights Litigation
This course is designed to enable students to develop a working knowledge of the procedural framework governing civil actions to enforce constitutional rights. Students will also explore the actionable elements of many of the individual rights protected by the Constitution, as well as defenses to constitutional tort liability, including Eleventh Amendment and common law immunities. Legal writing is an important component of the course and students are required to draft a federal court complaint and to write and orally defend a summary judgment motion brief.
405/Indian Country Law and the Environment
410/Indian Country Natural & Cultural Resources
7628/Indian Tribes as Government Stewards of the Environment
7610/Race and the Law Seminar
Provides an introduction to race as it relates to and is reflected in the law. The seminar focuses on the role and experience of African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latin-Americans, and Native-Americans in American society, with attention to questions concerning critical race theory, class, family, and feminism.
7615/Sexual Orientation and the Law Seminar
A look at the way law and the legal systems affect the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. The class will explore domestic and international laws that sanction discrimination against the LGBT community and the struggle for equality by this community.
420/Tribal Environmental Programs