Professor Nelson Lund: Teaching Interests
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I (Law 121)
4 Credit Hours
Analysis of the structure of American government, as defined
through the text of the Constitution and its interpretation. The course
focuses on the allocation of powers and responsibilities among governmental
institutions, including the separation and coordination of the legislative,
executive, and judicial functions at the federal level, and the relation
between the state and federal governments (including an introductory
treatment of the Fourteenth Amendment).
LEGISLATION (Law 266)
2 Credit Hours
An introduction for lawyers to public choice and competing
theories of legislative behavior. This course begins with an examination
of the process by which statutes are generated and the application of economic
analysis to that process. The remainder of the course considers the implications
of this analysis for a variety of legal issues arising in the interpretation
and implementation of statutes, especially the principles and techniques
of statutory construction.
Jurisprudence Readings Seminar (Law 622)
2 Credit hours
This seminar is devoted to a close reading of major works
of legal or political philosophy. Past seminars have considered Montesquieu,
Rousseau, Blackstone, the Federalist Papers and selected Anti-Federalist
writings, and Tocqueville.
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