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Lecture: An Introduction to U.S. Constitutional Law & Jurisprudence - Details
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Course name Lecture: An Introduction to U.S. Constitutional Law & Jurisprudence
Semester WS 2018/19
Current number of participants 207
Home institute Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje
participating institutes Institut für Wirtschaftsrecht, Juristischer Bereich - Law School
Courses type Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Wednesday, 24.10.2018 12:00 - 14:00
SWS 2
Miscellanea http://www.jura.uni-halle.de/studium_lehre_pruefung/studium_lehre/lehrveranstaltungen/_fachspez._fremdspr.-ausb.__i_/#anchor2525219

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Klausurbeginn: 14.00 Uhr

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This course serves as an introduction to the U.S. legal system through a close study of U.S. Constitutional law and the dominant analytical tools used to interpret and understand the U.S. Constitution’s legal effects. The class is lecture-based and will cover major U.S. case law, legislation, doctrines, and philosophical frames. Through this course, students will:
• Develop a more accurate understanding of the aims and guiding principals of one of the world’s most influential legal systems
• Acquire the capacity to make fine-tuned distinctions between the U.S. system and other legal systems
• Learn to engage in high-level discussion on contemporary topics in U.S. Law and make reasonable predictions about the system’s future growth and development
It is far too easy for people—scholars and laypeople, even Americans and especially Europeans—to think of American law as a modification or adaptation of European legal approaches. However, such thinking renders a great disservice to the depth and diversity of the American legal project and its knowledgeable revolt against European approaches to power. This course helps students understand the important ways in which the American legal system not only departs from but fundamentally defies traditional European approaches to Rule of Law.

The seminar is organized into two parts. Lectures in 2018 will cover major concepts in American Constitutional Law, modeled on the standard curriculum that is taught in U.S. Law schools. Lectures in 2019 will be based on applying these concepts to current issues and controversies, and may potentially include guest-lecturers and/or film screenings. This course fulfills the foreign language requirement. Grades are determined on the basis of a final examination. Optionally, students may submit a written assignment in lieu of the final examination (further information will be provided in the syllabus).