LAW295

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 2: LAW & PROCESS is a hybrid of doctrinal topics and legal analysis skills. The course builds on Constitutional Law I and studies the protection of individual rights. The course will focus on the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment, concerning Equal Protection of the law, substantive due process, procedural due process, freedom of speech and press, and freedom of religion. This course will also provide several opportunities for students to complete skill-building exercises and receive individualized feedback. These exercises will allow students to improve on several of the qualities needed for success on the Bar Exam and in practice, including: understanding and applying cases, effective organization, issue analysis, writing for exams and for practice, and other forms of presenting legal predictions and arguments.

NOTE: Students cannot take both this course and the traditional Constitutional Law II course.