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Apr 29, 2024
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LAW 3911 - Law and Race
This course offers an overview of how race has been reflected in American law, emphasizing both a historical perspective and current legal issues that involve race as a major consideration. The course examines slavery and American law in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, reviews the Reconstruction Period and the passage of the postwar amendments, and analyzes landmark United States Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Current legal issues involving race as a major consideration in the court’s decision making are considered, including the right to an education, housing, employment and courtroom justice. A central question throughout the course is to determine to what extent the courts have relegated the interests of blacks and other minorities to a secondary role and to determine what constitutionally permissible, affirmative measures exist to remedy this situation.
Credits: 2
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