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Winter 2022

Catalog # Section	Title Sort descending	Professor	Credits	Days	Meeting Times	Footnotes
807001	Civil Rights Litigation	Nakisha Chaney	3	We Fr	8:45 AM - 10:10 AM 8:45 AM - 10:10 AM	Winter 2022 4 This section of the course, seminar, or clinic fulfills the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students and the research requirement for LLM students. EXCEPTION—If the course/seminar is eligible as a first-year elective choice, second semester first-year JD students who take it do not fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR). 7 STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF THIS SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, OR CLINIC. This policy includes students who enrolled through the Law School's class bidding system or during the Drop/Add period from the waitlist and those students not enrolled but who are interested in enrolling, whether or not they are on the waitlist. Students who fail to attend the first class meeting WITHOUT making prior arrangements with the professor for an excused absence will have their name removed from the class roster or forfeit their enrollment opportunity. IF A STUDENT DECIDES TO DROP A SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, OR PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, DO SO WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THE FIRST CLASS MEETING. This will allow another waitlisted student an expedited opportunity to enroll. 8 This clinic, seminar, practice simulation, or Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) course requires students to submit supplemental materials (e.g., resume, statement of interest) in addition to either placing a bid in the Law School's class bidding system -- during an active bidding session -- or adding to the waitlist in Wolverine Access during the Drop/Add period. Specific submission requirements are described in the Law School's class bidding system -- during an active bidding session -- and/or the term document "Prof Pick" Classes Requiring Supplemental Materials located on the Law School's “Office of Student Records” website, under Classes and Registration / Registering for Classes. 9 This clinic, seminar, practice simulation, or Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) course has been designated a “prof pick.” PSI administrators select students for PSI courses. Clinic administration determines all clinic assignments. Priorities cannot be used on clinic bids. Priorities can, however, be utilized (and spent) on bids for "prof pick" seminars, practice simulations, and PSI courses in the Law School's class bidding system. During an active bidding cycle, the professor or PSI administrator selects the pool of students from which the class bidding system then considers for assignment based on priority usage, proximity to graduation, and student request queue order (i.e., the professor or PSI administrator selects the candidates, but class assignment is by computer selection). During the Wolverine Access Drop/Add period, admission to a "prof pick" class off the waitlist is by permission of the professor or PSI administrator and not according to waitlist order. 12 This course or seminar is limited in size. 37 Winter Term--First-year JD students cannot elect this course section, seminar, mini-seminar, research course, or clinic. 69 Although this course can fulfill more than one requirement for graduation, JD students who matriculated in or after May 2016 must take a separate course to fulfill each of the following requirements: a) upper-level course with a rigorous writing component; b) professional responsibility course of two or more credit hours; and c) two credit hours of experiential learning. A clinic or externship of less than 7 credits with more than one component (e.g., clinic and clinic field) is considered as one course. 91 Credits earned for this experiential course or clinic count toward the six (6) credits needed to fulfill the Experiential Learning requirement for graduation applicable to JD students who matriculated in May 2016 and thereafter. 213 This course, clinic, or externship can either fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement or the credits can count toward the Experiential Learning requirement, but not both.
Professor Chaney's section: This course will explore the practical, conceptual and procedural mechanics of civil rights practice through mock litigation of one or more simulated case studies. Students will engage the stages of litigation, including claim and defense development, preparing and answering pleadings, crafting written discovery, conducting effective depositions, and presenting oral argument, while exploring the nuanced issues that arise in civil rights practice, including client management, dealing with client and personal trauma and triggers, establishing noneconomic harm, and collaborative practice. Professor Steinberg's section: This course examines how civil rights lawyers use federal civil rights litigation to address contemporary social problems. Students will develop and litigate a simulated case based on an actual racial profiling controversy in Ann Arbor. They will gain experience in client interviewing, public records requests, complaint drafting, responding to motions to dismiss, oral argument, depositions and negotiations. Students will learn how to overcome the many procedural obstacles to justice posed by 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and explore the ethical issues faced by public interest lawyers when representing clients in civil rights cases. The course will also emphasize how litigation can be most effective in achieving social change when it is a part of an "integrated advocacy" campaign that includes public education, legislation and/or community action. Type: Practice Simulation Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled: EL, WR
677001	Federal Courts	Daniel T. Deacon	4	Mo Tu Th	1:00 PM - 2:15 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM	Winter 2022 37 Winter Term--First-year JD students cannot elect this course section, seminar, mini-seminar, research course, or clinic. 193 #677 FEDERAL COURTS: #540 Introduction to Constitutional Law is a pre-requisite
An intensive and critical examination of the role of federal courts in maintaining a constitutional order in the United States. Among the topics considered are justiciability, the power of Congress to control the jurisdiction of federal and state courts, Supreme Court review of state court decisions, federal habeas corpus for state prisoners, and suits challenging official action. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled:
779001	Prisons and the Law	Margo Schlanger, Amy Fettig	2	Tu Th	4:30 PM - 6:30 PM 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Winter 2022 35 Winter Term--First-year JD students may elect this course/seminar/clinic as an optional first-year elective. 225 #779 PRISONS AND THE LAW: This class will meet for ten sessions from Thursday, January 13 through Tuesday, February 15. A weekend day exercise will also be scheduled. Students should hold the weekend of February 5-6, all afternoon, until one of the dates is selected.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. In 1980, approximately 500,000 people were behind bars in this country. Now, even after significant pandemic-related, the figure approaches 2 million (over two-thirds of whom are non-white), incarcerated in jails, state prisons, and federal prisons. This course will examine the constitutional law, and some statutory law, relevant to their incarceration. The central topics will be the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments and its Fourteenth Amendment analog, and Congress's regulation of litigation brought by prisoners in the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Other classes will examine First Amendment rights in prison, solitary and supermax confinement, race discrimination inside jails and prison, and the law of injunctive relief in constitutional cases brought by inmates. (We will not discuss criminal procedure, habeas corpus, or sentencing.) This course is for anyone interested in civil rights, criminal prosecution, or criminal defense. The course will be co-taught by UM Prof. Margo Schlanger and Amy Fettig, the director of the Sentencing Project and former Deputy Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. It is 2 credits, meeting 4 hours per week for the first 5 weeks of the semester, with one weekend day negotiation exercise on Feb. 5 or 6. Note: Professor Schlanger has been nominated for an administration position. If she is confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Fettig will teach the class alone from that point forward. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled:

Fall 2022

Catalog # Section	Title Sort descending	Professor	Credits	Days	Meeting Times	Footnotes
807001	Civil Rights Litigation	Michael J. Steinberg	3	We Fr	10:20 AM - 11:45 AM 10:20 AM - 11:45 AM	Fall 2022 4 This section of the course, seminar, or clinic fulfills the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students and the research requirement for LLM students. EXCEPTION—Second semester first-year JD students who take the course/seminar as an elective do not fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR). 7 STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF THIS SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, OR CLINIC. This policy includes students who enrolled through the Law School's class bidding system or during the Drop/Add period from the waitlist and those students not enrolled but who are interested in enrolling, whether or not they are on the waitlist. Students who fail to attend the first class meeting WITHOUT making prior arrangements with the professor for an excused absence will have their name removed from the class roster or forfeit their enrollment opportunity. IF A STUDENT DECIDES TO DROP A SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, OR PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, DO SO WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THE FIRST CLASS MEETING. This will allow another waitlisted student an expedited opportunity to enroll. 8 This clinic, seminar, practice simulation, or Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) course requires students to submit supplemental materials (e.g., resume, statement of interest) in addition to either placing a bid in the Law School's class bidding system -- during an active bidding session -- or adding to the waitlist in Wolverine Access during the Drop/Add period. Specific submission requirements are described in the Law School's class bidding system -- during an active bidding session -- and/or the term document "Prof Pick" Classes Requiring Supplemental Materials located on the Law School's “Office of Student Records” website, under Classes and Registration / Registering for Classes. 9 This clinic, seminar, practice simulation, or Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) course has been designated a “prof pick.” PSI administrators select students for PSI courses. Clinic administration determines all clinic assignments. Priorities cannot be used on clinic bids. Priorities can, however, be utilized (and spent) on bids for "prof pick" seminars, practice simulations, and PSI courses in the Law School's class bidding system. During an active bidding cycle, the professor or PSI administrator selects the pool of students from which the class bidding system then considers for assignment based on priority usage, proximity to graduation, and student request queue order (i.e., the professor or PSI administrator selects the candidates, but class assignment is by computer selection). During the Wolverine Access Drop/Add period, admission to a "prof pick" class off the waitlist is by permission of the professor or PSI administrator and not according to waitlist order. 12 This course or seminar is limited in size. 69 Although this course can fulfill more than one requirement for graduation, students who matriculated in or after May 2016 must take a separate course to fulfill each of the following requirements: a) upper-level course with a rigorous writing component; b) professional responsibility course of two or more credit hours; and c) two credit hours of experiential learning. A clinic or externship of less than 7 credits with more than one component (e.g., clinic and clinic field) is considered as one course. 91 Credits earned for this experiential course or clinic count toward the six (6) credits needed to fulfill the Experiential Learning requirement for graduation applicable to JD students who matriculated in May 2016 and thereafter. 127 #807 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION is a recommended but not required pre-requisite for the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative (#901), an experiential offering that provides students with the opportunity to represent live clients on civil rights cases. 179 This course, clinic, or externship can either fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement or the credits can count toward the Experiential Learning requirement, but not both.
Professor Chaney's section: This course will explore the practical, conceptual and procedural mechanics of civil rights practice through mock litigation of one or more simulated case studies. Students will engage the stages of litigation, including claim and defense development, preparing and answering pleadings, crafting written discovery, conducting effective depositions, and presenting oral argument, while exploring the nuanced issues that arise in civil rights practice, including client management, dealing with client and personal trauma and triggers, establishing noneconomic harm, and collaborative practice. Professor Steinberg's section: This course examines how civil rights lawyers use federal civil rights litigation to address contemporary social problems. Students will develop and litigate a simulated case based on an actual racial profiling controversy in Ann Arbor. They will gain experience in client interviewing, public records requests, complaint drafting, responding to motions to dismiss, oral argument, depositions and negotiations. Students will learn how to overcome the many procedural obstacles to justice posed by 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and explore the ethical issues faced by public interest lawyers when representing clients in civil rights cases. The course will also emphasize how litigation can be most effective in achieving social change when it is a part of an "integrated advocacy" campaign that includes public education, legislation and/or community action. Type: Practice Simulation Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled: EL, WR
641001	Criminal Justice: Investigation and Police Practices	Eve Brensike Primus	4	Tu Th Fr	2:55 PM - 4:10 PM 2:55 PM - 4:10 PM 10:20 AM - 11:35 AM	Fall 2022 67 Students who have taken #645 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE SURVEY may not elect either #641 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ADMINISTRATION OF POLICE PRACTICES or #641 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: INVESTIGATION & POLICE PRACTICES or #643 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: BAIL TO POST CONVICTION REVIEW or vice versa. 169 #641 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: INVESTIGATION & POLICE PRACTICES: #540 Introduction to Constitutional Law is a recommended but not required pre-requisite or co-requisite.
This course will consider problems relating to the police role in the administration of criminal justice and judicial enforcement of limitations upon police practices. We will focus primarily on the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments and will answer the following questions: (1) When can the police stop, search, and/or arrest people? (2) When can the police search cars, homes, and offices and for what? (3) What are the laws surrounding police interrogation and confessions? (4) Who has a right to counsel and when and how is it triggered? (5) How are police line-ups and other identification procedures conducted and what are the constitutional limits on such procedures? (6) What remedy does a defendant have if his/her constitutional criminal procedure rights are violated? When is the evidence excluded and when should it be excluded? Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled:
677001	Federal Courts	Leah Litman	4	Mo Tu Th	2:35 PM - 3:50 PM 2:55 PM - 4:10 PM 2:55 PM - 4:10 PM	Fall 2022 41 Laptop use during class sessions is not permitted. 156 #677 FEDERAL COURTS: #540 Introduction to Constitutional Law is a pre-requisite.
An intensive and critical examination of the role of federal courts in maintaining a constitutional order in the United States. Among the topics considered are justiciability, the power of Congress to control the jurisdiction of federal and state courts, Supreme Court review of state court decisions, federal habeas corpus for state prisoners, and suits challenging official action. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled:
681001	First Amendment	Don Herzog	4	Mo Tu Th	1:00 PM - 2:15 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM	Fall 2022 41 Laptop use during class sessions is not permitted.
This course examines the law made by The Supreme Court concerning the freedom of speech, and the freedom and establishment of religion. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled:
631001	Intro to Constitutional Law and American Legal Process	Daniel H. Halberstam	3	Tu Th	10:20 AM - 11:45 AM 10:20 AM - 11:45 AM	Fall 2022 2 This course, seminar, or clinic grade basis is mandatory graded; the grade received may not be converted from a letter grade to a “P” grade. 63 Fall Term--#631 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND AMERICAN LEGAL PROCESS and #697 INTRO TO US TAX LAW: These courses are open only to foreign graduate students (LLM).
Only international LL.M. students may enroll in this course, which is designed specially for them. It is a survey course, which will expose LL.M. students to the structure and basic ideas of the most important areas of US constitutional law, in a historical and political context. The course begins with a condensed introduction to US history and constitutional history from 1607 to roughly 1970. Thereafter it covers the following topics: Marbury v. Madison and the theory of judicial review; the idea of enumerated powers and the Necessary and Proper Clause (McCulloch v. Maryland); the development of the commerce power (from Gibbons v. Ogden to the Affordable Care Act case); the spending power; the treaty and foreign affairs powers; separation of powers (Steel Seizure Case, the "War on Terror" cases, Nixon v. United States (the tapes case), appointment and removal, legislative veto); preemption, the dormant commerce clause, and the Article IV Privileges and Immunities Clause; the basic structure of individual rights protection (including levels of scrutiny, and incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the XIVth Amendment due process clause); equal protection (race, sex, and other categories; affirmative action); substantive due process and the right of privacy (abortion, same-sex relations); takings; the right to bear arms; freedom of speech, press, and assembly; freedom of religion (free exercise and establishment); state action, and the enforcement clauses of the Reconstruction Amendments. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Mandatory Graded Degree Requirements Fulfilled:
875001	Privacy, Technology, and the Fourth Amendment	Evan H. Caminker	2	Th	4:30 PM - 6:30 PM	Fall 2022 4 This section of the course, seminar, or clinic fulfills the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students and the research requirement for LLM students. EXCEPTION—Second semester first-year JD students who take the course/seminar as an elective do not fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR). 7 STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF THIS SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, OR CLINIC. This policy includes students who enrolled through the Law School's class bidding system or during the Drop/Add period from the waitlist and those students not enrolled but who are interested in enrolling, whether or not they are on the waitlist. Students who fail to attend the first class meeting WITHOUT making prior arrangements with the professor for an excused absence will have their name removed from the class roster or forfeit their enrollment opportunity. IF A STUDENT DECIDES TO DROP A SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, OR PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, DO SO WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THE FIRST CLASS MEETING. This will allow another waitlisted student an expedited opportunity to enroll. 12 This course or seminar is limited in size. 39 This seminar is offered for two (2) credits. However, the professor has the option of allowing students to do additional work to receive an additional credit. In many instances, this additional work will entail writing a longer seminar paper. Any student making such an arrangement with the professor must enroll in #900 RESEARCH. To request enrollment in Law 900 Research, refer to the Enrolling for Research instructions on the Law School's “Office of Student Records” website. 174 #875 PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: #641 Crim Justice: Invest&Police Prac or #645 Crim Pro Survey is a pre-requisite or co-requisite. 175 #875 PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: Students who have taken #875 Sel Topics on 4th Amend Law, #639 Fourth Amdt & Technology or #500 Computer Crimes are ineligible to take this class.
Privacy, Technology, and the Fourth Amendment The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures operates in a rapidly changing world. For example, advancing technology gives law enforcement and national security officials the power to hear or read most of our communications (through wiretapping our phones, tracking our phone calls, and reading our emails), read most of our private records (through searching our computers and smartphones and social media websites), and detect our whereabouts (through cell phone tracking or public cameras). Courts have struggled to interpret and apply established judicial doctrines as they adjudicate these and other novel conflicts between privacy and law enforcement / national security interests. Legislative efforts to draw additional lines have produced mixed results. And as technology continues to advance, the stakes grow ever higher. This seminar will assume basic knowledge of Fourth Amendment doctrine and address the scope of Fourth Amendment rights and remedies in this era of rapid technological change. We will carefully read judicial decisions and analyze constitutional rulemaking, as well as investigate cutting-edge issues in the field. While the course should particularly interest students inclined to become prosecutors or criminal defense lawyers, it should also interest students wanting an intense exposure to constitutional legal reasoning. Type: Seminar Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled: WR
793001	Regulating the Political Process: Voting and Election Law	Ellen D. Katz	4	Tu We Th	1:20 PM - 2:35 PM 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM	Fall 2022 41 Laptop use during class sessions is not permitted. 61 This course fulfills the Statutory or Regulatory Course Distribution Requirement for graduation applicable to JD students who matriculated in May 2016 and thereafter.
Regulating the Political Process: Voting and Election Law This course will explore the law governing the right to vote in the United States. It will examine the way the law and other forces have shaped the structure of American political participation, and will consider alternative directions American democracy might take. Topics will include the 2000 presidential election dispute, the individual right to vote, reapportionment, representation of minority interests in democratic bodies, preclearance procedures, political and racial gerrymandering, direct democracy, and alternative voting systems. A central aim of this course is to explore general issues of democratic theory in the context of the legal frameworks and the actual institutions that regulate American democracy. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled: SR

Winter 2023

Catalog # Section	Title Sort descending	Professor	Credits	Days	Meeting Times	Footnotes
807001	Civil Rights Litigation	Nakisha Chaney	3	We Fr	8:45 AM - 10:10 AM 8:45 AM - 10:10 AM	Winter 2023 4 This section of the course, seminar, or clinic fulfills the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students and the research requirement for LLM students. EXCEPTION—If the course/seminar is eligible as a first-year elective choice, second semester first-year JD students who take it do not fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR). 7 STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF THIS SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, OR CLINIC. This policy includes students who enrolled through the Law School's class bidding system or during the Drop/Add period from the waitlist and those students not enrolled but who are interested in enrolling, whether or not they are on the waitlist. Students who fail to attend the first class meeting WITHOUT making prior arrangements with the professor for an excused absence will have their name removed from the class roster or forfeit their enrollment opportunity. IF A STUDENT DECIDES TO DROP A SEMINAR, PRACTICE SIMULATION, OR PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE COURSE, DO SO WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THE FIRST CLASS MEETING. This will allow another waitlisted student an expedited opportunity to enroll. 8 This clinic, seminar, practice simulation, or Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) course requires students to submit supplemental materials (e.g., resume, statement of interest) in addition to either placing a bid in the Law School's class bidding system -- during an active bidding session -- or adding to the waitlist in Wolverine Access during the Drop/Add period. Specific submission requirements are described in the Law School's class bidding system -- during an active bidding session -- and/or the term document "Prof Pick" Classes Requiring Supplemental Materials located on the Law School's “Office of Student Records” website, under Classes and Registration / Registering for Classes. 9 This clinic, seminar, practice simulation, or Problem Solving Initiative (PSI) course has been designated a “prof pick.” PSI administrators select students for PSI courses. Clinic administration determines all clinic assignments. Priorities cannot be used on clinic bids. Priorities can, however, be utilized (and spent) on bids for "prof pick" seminars, practice simulations, and PSI courses in the Law School's class bidding system. During an active bidding cycle, the professor or PSI administrator selects the pool of students from which the class bidding system then considers for assignment based on priority usage, proximity to graduation, and student request queue order (i.e., the professor or PSI administrator selects the candidates, but class assignment is by computer selection). During the Wolverine Access Drop/Add period, admission to a "prof pick" class off the waitlist is by permission of the professor or PSI administrator and not according to waitlist order. 12 This course or seminar is limited in size. 37 Winter Term--First-year JD students cannot elect this course section, seminar, mini-seminar, research course, or clinic. 69 Although this course can fulfill more than one requirement for graduation, JD students who matriculated in or after May 2016 must take a separate course to fulfill each of the following requirements: a) upper-level course with a rigorous writing component; b) professional responsibility course of two or more credit hours; and c) two credit hours of experiential learning. A clinic or externship of less than 7 credits with more than one component (e.g., clinic and clinic field) is considered as one course. 91 Credits earned for this experiential course or clinic count toward the six (6) credits needed to fulfill the Experiential Learning requirement for graduation applicable to JD students who matriculated in May 2016 and thereafter. 127 #807 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION is a recommended but not required pre-requisite for the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative (#901), an experiential offering that provides students with the opportunity to represent live clients on civil rights cases. 213 This course, clinic, or externship can either fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement or the credits can count toward the Experiential Learning requirement, but not both.
Professor Chaney's section: This course will explore the practical, conceptual and procedural mechanics of civil rights practice through mock litigation of one or more simulated case studies. Students will engage the stages of litigation, including claim and defense development, preparing and answering pleadings, crafting written discovery, conducting effective depositions, and presenting oral argument, while exploring the nuanced issues that arise in civil rights practice, including client management, dealing with client and personal trauma and triggers, establishing noneconomic harm, and collaborative practice. Professor Steinberg's section: This course examines how civil rights lawyers use federal civil rights litigation to address contemporary social problems. Students will develop and litigate a simulated case based on an actual racial profiling controversy in Ann Arbor. They will gain experience in client interviewing, public records requests, complaint drafting, responding to motions to dismiss, oral argument, depositions and negotiations. Students will learn how to overcome the many procedural obstacles to justice posed by 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and explore the ethical issues faced by public interest lawyers when representing clients in civil rights cases. The course will also emphasize how litigation can be most effective in achieving social change when it is a part of an "integrated advocacy" campaign that includes public education, legislation and/or community action. Type: Practice Simulation Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled: EL, WR
677001	Federal Courts	Richard Primus	4	Mo Tu Th	1:00 PM - 2:15 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM	Winter 2023 37 Winter Term--First-year JD students cannot elect this course section, seminar, mini-seminar, research course, or clinic. 193 #677 FEDERAL COURTS: #540 Introduction to Constitutional Law is a pre-requisite
An intensive and critical examination of the role of federal courts in maintaining a constitutional order in the United States. Among the topics considered are justiciability, the power of Congress to control the jurisdiction of federal and state courts, Supreme Court review of state court decisions, federal habeas corpus for state prisoners, and suits challenging official action. Type: Upper Class Grading Method: Optional Pass/Fail Degree Requirements Fulfilled: