CIVIL RIGHTS SEMINAR
LAW 6936
Professor Nancy Dowd
Fall Semester 2003
Syllabus
Course Materials: excerpts from Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law -- Cases & Materials West, 2003 (Mahoney, Calmore & Wildman, eds.), copied and reproduced, available from the Law School Bookstore by 8/14/03.
Note: page
numbers are the page numbers of the reproduced pages in the book
| DATE |
TOPIC |
ASSIGNMENT |
| August
19 |
Introductory
Week - First Seminar Meeting Theory: Concepts of Equality |
|
| August
26 |
Theory:
Concepts of Equality; Social Justice Lawyering |
186-192; 195-205; 328-333, 971-980, 1035-1038 |
| September
2 |
Theory:
The Concepts of Rights |
423-437,
444-449 |
| September
9 |
Application:
Education |
625-656 Paper: detailed written proposal for topic submitted & approved; preliminary bibliography preferred |
| September
16 |
Application:
Housing |
848-855, 857-858, 865-894, 903-930 |
| September
23 |
Application:
Family, Caregiving, Dependency |
498-508,
530-571 Paper: bibliography submitted |
| September
29 -- October 10 |
Individual
meetings with Prof. Dowd |
Paper:
outline, abstract, and if possible, beginning of rough draft,
copy of bibliography |
| October
14 October 21 October 28 November 4 |
Class
presentations |
|
| November
11 |
NO CLASS
(though class may decide to meet in lieu of Nov. 25) |
|
| November
18 |
Class
presentations |
Paper:
rough draft due (as close to completed paper as possible) |
| November
25 |
Class
presentations |
|
| December
12 (exam date) |
FINAL
PAPER DUE on or before 5pm to Prof. Dowd or Career Services (244 BGH) |