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Courses 2013 - 2014

LAW A575 Human Rights History: Rights, Revolutions, Republics, 1750-1850

Credits: 4


Comparative constitutional history of rights lawyering. Read political trials from French Revolution in Europe through postcolonial Jacksonian American Republic. Learn basic rhetoric of early human rights discourse: on treason, seditious libel, racial equality, servitude, labor conspiracy, religious liberty, consumer protection, codification. Interdisciplinary graduate and advanced undergraduate students welcome; no prerequisites.

Autumn, 4 Credit(s)

Course Sections and Instructors
Instructor(s)
Walsh, Walter

Course Categories

  • International and Comparative Law
  • Public Service Law
  • Research
  • Seminar
  • Courts and the Administration of Law
  • International & Comparative Law
  • International Law
  • Lawyering Skills
  • Criminal Law
  • Public Law
  • Theoretical & Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Sample Syllabi

Walsh - Winter 2013


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