welcome to constitutional law II!

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify the sections of the constitutional text that provide legal protections related to liberty and equality, along with their basic functions;

• Apply the doctrinal and analytical frameworks that govern the Constitution's liberty and equality protections;

• Recognize the types of legal problems that "trigger" constitutional claims related to liberty and equality;

• Identify the facts that are legally relevant to resolving disputes related to constitutional liberty and equality;

• Articulate different versions of a case's "holding";

• Make constitutional arguments using doctrinal analogies and distinctions;

• Understand how constitutional law interacts with other sources of law, like statutes and regulations;

• Place major doctrinal developments in social and historical context;

• Articulate the policy rationales for the Constitution's liberty and equality provisions;

• Critique the strengths and weaknesses of interpretive arguments;

• Use interpretive arguments to explore contemporary constitutional controversies about individual liberty and equality;

• Identify and manage legal and factual complexity;

• Empathize with and articulate divergent perspectives on a legal dispute;

• Engage in and model civil discourse about contentious and emotionally charged legal issues;

• Develop a lifelong intellectual and emotional engagement with constitutional law;

• Apply what you have learned to real world experiences;

• Teach what you have learned to other people; 

• Hold yourself and other members of a learning community accountable to high performance standards, and

• Have a ton of fun while we're working on these things.