American law 2
Licence Droit - Deuxième année
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American law 2
US legal system, US constitutional law, Bill of rights, fundamental rights
This course follows the course dedicated to US constitutional legal history. It is aimed at deepening students' knowledge of the main stakes associated with the current US legal system. To that end, students will be presented the specificities of the US judiciary branch (role and structure of state and federal courts, theories of interpretation) with an emphasis on the difficulties raised by a dual court system (conflicts of laws and conflicts of jurisdiction) as well as its main characteristics embodied in the adversarial nature of the adjudication of conflicts and the specificity of the jury trial. Students are introduced to evidence law as well as to the great principles governing civil and criminal procedures. Beyond, students are introduced to specific topics in the field of civil liberties and fundamental rights such as the death penalty, voting rights issues, abortion and privacy, affirmative action, habeas corpus, or the fate of Guantanamo detainees, etc. For each topic, students must orally present a major US Supreme Court decision. Students are also required to read a legal novel (i.e. Guideon's trumpet, Contempt of court, Devil in the grove, Buffalo Creek disaster, etc.) and must each week restitute in a theatrical and legalistic way the content of relevant chapters (defense attorney/plaintiff’s lawyer, witness testimony, examination, cross-examination, etc.)
Licence Droit - Deuxième année
Droit
Pauline Abadie - Associate law professor - Nombre d'heures : 20
2 oral presentations + a final exam
Enseingnement présentiel
C1 - Autonome ou utilisateur expérimenté