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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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