GOVT 6635 - [Education, Social Justice, and the Law]

(crosslisted) AMST 6635

Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with AMST 4435/GOVT 4435.

A. M. Smith.

An interdisciplinary seminar that addresses landmark legal cases and political theory debates on the right to education, with special reference to education equity issues, especially racial segregation and court-ordered desegregation; voluntary integrative enrollment schemes; affirmative action in higher education; school funding and state court litigation pertaining to the education amendments in the state constitutions; and gender equality. Our readings will be primarily drawn out of a law casebook, but we will also read a major public policy text and a legal scholars’ anthology.