State Constitutional Law

3 credits · Law School

This course will explore the important field of State Constitutional Law. It will focus on State Supreme Court decisions, especially those decisions that have decided important constitutional claims differently from the United States Supreme Court. The focus will be on important constitutional law issues involving voting rights, abortion, and other privacy rights, gun regulation, funding of public education, and religious freedom. It will also explore several structural issues relating to State judiciaries and State Constitutions.