| LAWP 230-01 |
Negotiation and Advocacy
Instructor: Ella Goldman
Course Description:
This course will focus on the role of the advocate in the law and policy-making process. It will consider various types of advocacy (public debate, litigation, public relations, etc.) and various methods of negotiation as well as compare and contrast the advocate's role in different forums (legislatures, courts, administrative agencies, the press, etc.).
Prerequisites: POSC 120 or permission of the instructor.
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06:00 PM-09:00 PM, T
DENNY 212 |
| LAWP 248-01 |
The Judiciary
Instructor: Jonathan Baughman
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 248-01. This course explores the laws interpretation in and influence on contemporary American society. It considers the nature of the law, the structure of courts, legal terminology, sources of law, and approaches to legal reasoning through an engagement with both watershed cases and contemporary issues in civil and criminal law. Some of the questions we will address include: how do everyday individuals interact with the law? What is the relationship between judicial process that is, the engagement with and navigation of the legal system and justice? How do we understand the redress of harms or the application of punishment as part of the achievement of justice and fairness? What political, legal, social, or rhetorical barriers exist to full inclusion of individuals within the processes of law, and is full inclusion even desirable?Prerequisites: POSC 120 or permission of the instructor. This course is cross-listed as POSC 248.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| LAWP 260-01 |
Problem-Solving Courts
Instructor: Albert Masland
Course Description:
Through a hands-on, experiential examination of traditional courts, treatment courts, and addiction issues, this course will introduce the students to the use of problem-solving courts to address drug, DUI, and mental health concerns. A major course component will involve community-based learning. Students will be required to interact with court participants and members of the various problem-solving court teams (e.g., judges, attorneys, probation officers, treatment providers as well as other support specialists, depending on the courts focus). As the students become familiar with one component of the war on drugs, they will be challenged to examine and debate the war as a whole.
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04:30 PM-05:45 PM, T
DENNY 317
09:00 AM-10:15 AM, R
DENNY 317 |
| LAWP 290-01 |
Federal Indian Law and Policy
Instructor: John Truden
Course Description:
Cross-listed with HIST 211-04. A historical survey of United States policies and laws directed at Indigenous communities from 1776 to the present. Students should come away from this course with a basic literacy in foundational concepts, treaties, laws, litigation, major policy periods, and federal government entities that shape Native American and Alaska Native communities. Simultaneously, this course will explore how Indigenous peoples have engaged with, countered, and adapted to federal initiatives and institutions since the inception of the United States.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 311 |
| LAWP 290-02 |
Contested Campus
Instructor: Neil Weissman
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-02 and SOCI 230-04. The course will focus on two current issues challenging higher education: access and free speech. Regarding the first, we will examine who attends college and why, socio-economic diversity in higher education, and the debate over affirmative action including successor approaches following the Supreme Court decision on the issue. For the second, we will investigate policies around free speech and its limits (if any) on campus, speech codes, cancel culture, the status of protest on campus, and whether colleges have an obligation to be neutral. The course will draw materials relating to a range of institutions, including Dickinson. Students will have an opportunity to write final research essays on a campus issue of their own choosing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 303 |
| LAWP 400-01 |
National Security Law
Instructor: Harry Pohlman
Course Description:
Cross-listed with POSC 390-01. This political science senior seminar will explore the science and the art of leadership in the public realm. The course will cover executive-level and legislative leadership but will also include examination of leadership in the bureaucracies and in the military, as well as leadership of political and social movements. Not appropriate for first years.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 204 |