American law isn't just a system of rules here — it's a cultural text, and this course reads it alongside the novels, plays, and films that have absorbed, contested, and rewritten it from Blackstone through the torture debate. You'll pair landmark cases (Plessy, Brown, Roe, Lawrence) with literary and cinematic responses, working through them in discussion, a midterm and final, and a term essay that asks you to argue rather than summarize. It's an upper-year AMER elective, so you're expected to already read closely; what's new is treating court opinions as a genre and tracking how legal theory and storytelling shape each other on issues like slavery, free speech, and the death penalty.
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Course Learning Outcomes: Course Learning Outcome Assessment • Develop understanding of the origins and implications of the American adversarial system of law; Blog Posts Participation Midterm Final • Examine how “landmark” cases in American legal history both reflect and transform the cultural values and social institutions of their time; Blog Posts Participation Midterm Final • Critically assess specific instances of how American courts have addressed important social issues, such as slavery,