CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I (3) (REQ200)

Professors Elise Boddie, David Chang, Stephen Ellmann, Doni Gewirtzman, Frank Munger, James Simon, Nadine Strossen, 
The first of two terms of constitutional law, addresses primarily problems and issues arising under the 1787 text of the Constitution, including the function of judicial review and its limitations in constitutional cases; the distribution of power between the nation and the states in the federal system; federal power over commerce, taxation and spending, war, treaties, and foreign affairs; separation of powers at the federal level; state power to regulate and tax in interstate commerce; privileges and immunities of citizenship; retrospectivity and prospectivity of constitutional decisions; special problems of constitutional adjudication, including standing and political questions; and problems of procedural and economic due process.