This upper-level seminar course explores the interplay between religious freedom and gender in different contexts: bioethics, family and marriage, conscientious objection, LGBTQ+ rights, employment, religious and anti-religious speech, and security issues.
Restorative Justice
This course encourages students to think critically about the criminal justice system and the current system of punishment.
Restorative Practices Field Placement
This field placement offers students a placement in a nonprofit or government agency that uses restorative practices or principles in their work, usually as one of the tools or approaches in their work in a legal or legal-adjacent area.
Restorative Practices: Intro to Circle Facilitation
This two-day intensive course has required preparation (reading and related assignments) in advance of the class meetings. Designed for no more than 15 students, this course involves participation in restorative circles in order to learn the basics of the practice of circle facilitation.
Sex Offenders
The course examines the contemporary public policy and legislative treatment of sexually coercive behavior.
Sexuality and the Law
This course examines the struggle for equal participation in society by sexual minorities.
Special Education Law and Practice
This course examines the history, legal framework, and application of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
State and Local Legislation: Substance, Process, and Politics
This course teaches the principles involved in drafting legislation and regulations and incorporating policymaking into drafting.
Street Law
This course focuses on developing an understanding of the law, the legal process, our system of government, and effective citizenship.
The Art of Cross-Examination
This experiential course will teach students the fundamentals of cross-examination and introduce
them to the purpose and context of cross-examination in trials.
them to the purpose and context of cross-examination in trials.