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Law and Social Change
Law
550A
Political Science 524
Course Outline and
Readings
1. Introduction to the Course (January 10)
- Course Goals
- An Approach to Studying Responses to
Judicial Policies
- An Introduction to Social-Scientific
Approaches to Law and Courts
- Discussion of Assignment #1 (Canon and
Johnson. Chapter 1)
Assignments for January 17
- Canon and Johnson, Chapter 2
- Epstein, Lee, Charles M. Cameron, Jeffrey
A. Segal, Strategic Defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court
(Funded by the National Science Foundation as SES-007996).
Click
here for a .pdf file containing this paper.
- Cross, Frank B. and Emerson H. Tiller.
1998. Judicial Partisanship and Obedience to Legal
Doctrine: Whistleblowing on the Federal Courts of Appeals.
Yale Law Journal 107:55.
- Take a look at
Assignment #1. It's due on February 7.
2. The Interpreting Population I (January 17)
- Overview of the American legal
system
- Lower court compliance with and defiance
of higher courts
Assignments for January 24
- Regents of the University of California
v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
- Hopwood v. Texas, 861 F. Supp. 551
(1994)
- Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F. 3d 932
(1996)
- Hopwood v. Texas, 84 F.3d 720 (1996)
- Texas v. Hopwood, 518 U.S. 1033
(1996)
- Gratz v. Bollinger, __ F. Supp. __ (E.D.
Mich. 2000)
- Remember that
Assignment #1 is due on February 7.
3. The Interpreting Population II (January 24)
- Overview of the American legal
system
- Case Study: Affirmative Action
Assignments for January 31
- Canon and Johnson, Chapter 3
- Wyatt v. Stickney, 325 F. Supp.
781(1971)
- Wyatt v. Stickney, 344 F. Supp. 373
(1972)
- Wyatt v. Aderholt, 503 F.2d 1305
(1974)
- Note. 1975 "The Wyatt Case:
Implementation of a Judicial Decree Ordering
Institutional Change." Yale Law Journal 84:1338.
-
Assignment #1 is due on February 7.
4. The Implementing Population I (January 31)
- Identity of the Implementing
Population
- To Implement or Not (or something in
between)?
- The (in)famous case of Wyatt v.
Stickney
Assignments for February 7
- School District of Abington Township
v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
- Birkby, Robert H. 1966. "The Supreme
Court and the Bible Belt: Tennessee Reaction to the
Schempp Decision." Midwest Journal of Political
Science 10:305. Click
here for a .pdf file containing this
article.
- Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643
(1961)
- Orfield, Myron W., Jr. 1987. "The
Exclusionary Rule and Deterrence: An Empirical Study
of Chicago." University of Chicago Law Review 54:
1016.
- Perrin, L. Timothy et al. 1998. "If
It's Broken, Fix It: Moving Beyond the Exclusionary
Rule." 83 Iowa Law Review 669 (1998)
-
Assignment #1 is due on February 7.
5. The Implementing Population II (February
7)
- The Implementation (or Not)
of the School Prayer Decisions
- The Implementation (or Not)
of Mapp
- Discussion of Assignment
#2
Assignments for February 14
- Canon and Johnson, Chapter
4
- Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S.
436 (1966)
- Cassell, Paul G. 1996.
"Miranda's Social Costs: An Empirical
Assessment." Northwestern Law Review 90:
387.
- Schulhofer, Stephen. 1996.
"Miranda's Practical Effect: Substantial
Benefits and Vanishingly Small Societal
Costs." Northwestern Law Review 90: 500
-
Assignment #2 is due on March 7.
6. The Consuming Population
(February 14)
- Finish
Discussion of the
Implementing Population
- Identity of
the Consuming Population
- To Consume or
Not?
- Defendants
and Miranda
Assignments for February
21
- Canon and
Johnson, Chapter 5
- Eskridge,
William N. Jr. 1991.
"Overriding Supreme Court
Statutory Interpretation
Decisions." Yale law Journal
101: 331.
- Meernik,
James and Joseph Ignagni.
1997. Judicial Review and
Coordinate Construction of
the Constitution." American
Journal of Political Science
41: 447. Click
here for a .pdf file
containing this article.
- Dickerson v.
United States, 530 U.S. __
(2000)
- United States
v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683
(1974)
-
Assignment #2 is due on
March 7.
7.
The
Secondary
Population
I:
The
Federal
Government
(February
21)
-
An
Overview
of
the
Secondary
Population
-
Congress
-
The
President
Assignments
for
February
28
-
Roe
v.
Wade,
410
U.S.
113
(1973)
-
Review
Canon
and
Johnson,
pp.
3-16
-
Meier,
Kenneth,
et
al.
1996.
"The
Impact
of
State-Level
Restrictions
on
Abortion."
Demography
33:
307.
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Hansen,
Susan.
1980.
"State
Implementation
of
Supreme
Court
Decisions:
Abortion
Since
Roe
v.
Wade."
Journal
of
Politics
42:372.
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Assignment
#2
is
due
on
March
7.
8.
The
Secondary
Population
II:
The
States
(February
28)
-
Finish
Discussion
of
the
Secondary
Population
I
-
Reactions
from
the
States
-
A
Look
at
State
Responses
to
Roe
v.
Wade
-
Calderia,
Gregory
A.
1986.
"Neither
the
Purse
Nor
the
Sword."
American
Political
Science
Review
80:1209.
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Calderia,
Gregory
A.
1987.
"Public
Opinion
and
the
Supreme
Court:
FDR's
Court-Packing
Plan."
American
Political
Science
Review
81:
1139.
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Franklin,
Charles
F.
and
Liane
C.
Kosaki.
1995.
"Media,
Knowledge,
and
Public
Evaluations
of
the
Supreme
Court."
In
Contemplating
Courts,
ed.
Lee
Epstein.
Washington,
D.C.:
CQ
Press.
-
Franklin,
Charles
F.
and
Liane
C.
Kosaki.
1989.
"Republican
Schoolmaster:
The
U.S.
Supreme
Court,
Public
Opinion,
and
Abortion."
American
Political
Science
Review
83:751
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Hoekstra,
Valerie
J.
and
Jeffrey
A.
Segal.
1996.
"The
Shepherding
of
Local
Public
Opinion:
The
Supreme
Court
and
Lamb's
Chapel."
Journal
of
Politics
58:1079.
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Assignment
#2
is
due
on
March
7.
9.
The
Secondary
Population
III:
The
People
(March
7)
-
Public
Support
for
the
Court
-
The
Media,
the
Court,
and
Its
Decisions
-
The
Court
as
a
Republican
Schoolmaster?
-
Discussion
of
Assignment
#3
-
Canon
and
Johnson,
Chapter
7
-
Dahl,
Robert.
1957.
"Decision-Making
in
a
Democracy:
The
Supreme
Court
as
a
National
Policy
Maker."
Journal
of
Public
Law
6:
279.
-
Casper,
Jonathan
D.
1976.
"The
Supreme
Court
and
National
Policy-Making."
American
Political
Science
Review
70:50.
Click
here
for
a
.pdf
file
containing
this
article.
-
Bush
v.
Gore
__
U.S.
__
(2000)
-
Assignment
#3
is
due
on
April
20.
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