Jurisprudence
LAWS 7128-001
This course addresses a number of fundamental questions, such as: What is law? What should it be?  How is it generated?  The readings consist mostly of articles from leading schools of thought including legal formalism, legal realism, interpretive theory, law and economics, feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, law and literature, and legal aesthetics.

Power, Ethics, and Professionalism
LAWS 8608-001
This seminar examines critically the possibility and character of ethical reasoning within the legal profession.  Put simply, the seminar explores how it is possible to be a good lawyer and an ethical person.

Torts
LAWS 5425-802
Torts is the study of the nonconsensual allocation of losses for civil wrongs, focusing primarily on the concepts of negligence and strict liability.

Constitutional Foundations: Core Ideas
LAWS 8508-002
This seminar focuses on the core ideas underlying U.S. Constitutional Law.  Included are such fundamental notions as as means/ends analysis, institutional competence, the forms of rights, and more. The seminar will draw from a multitude of different sources—historical writings, contemporaneous press accounts, learned treatises, oral arguments, law review articles, and key judicial opinions such as McCullough v. Maryland, Lochner v. New York, Brown v. Board of Education.

Modern Legal Theory: Core Ideas
LAWS 8538-001
This seminar explores key ideas that have shaped American law and legal thought, such as Holmes’ bad man, the Coase Theorem, the "hunch" theory of law, and others.

Constitutional Law
LAWS 6005
This course is devoted to the study of constitutional structure: judicial review, federalism, separation of powers; and the constitutional rights of due process and equal protection.