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Daily Reading and Assignment List


Week 1


January 16: Introduction to the Course: Aristotle, excerpt from the Constitution of Athens

January 18: Constitution of the United States


Week 2


January 23: Finer, “On Whether Constitutions Matter,” in Comparing Constitutions

January 25: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “The Path of the Law”


Week 3


January 30: Federalist Papers numbers 10, 45, 46, 51

February 1: Marbury v Madison


Week 4


February 6: Reck, “Philosophy in the Debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1787,” in Constitutionalism

February 8: McCullough v Maryland and Calder v Bull


Week 5


February 13: Griffin, “Theories of Constitutional Interpretation”

February 15: The path to the 14th amendment: State v Post, Dred Scott v Sanford


Week 6


February 20: Plessy v Ferguson, Missouri ex rel. Gains v Canada

February 22: Brown v Board of Education of Topeka


Week 7


February 27: Korematsu v United States, Craig v. Boren

March 1: Slaughter House Cases, Lochner v. New York


Week 8


March 6: Continue Lochner v New York, start Roe v Wade

March 8: Continue Roe v Wade, discuss Planned Parenthood v Casey


Week 9

March 13: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia

March 15: United States v. Sioux Nation


Week 10

Spring Break


Week 11

March 27: Continue United States v. Sioux Nation, Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians

March 29: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Atkinson Trading Co. V. Shirley


Week 12

April 3: Grotius, On the Laws of War and Peace, pp. 1-26

April 5: Kant, On Perpetual Peace


Week 13

April 10: United Nations, Charter

April 12: International Court of Justice


Week 14

April 17: Nicaragua v. United States, Libya v United States

April 19:


Week 15

April 24: International Declaration on Human Rights

April 26: Case


Week 16

May 1:

May 3:


Final Exam Week

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