Courses 2010 - 2011
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.
Not offered this academic year.