Child, Parent and State (2 credits)

A course giving critical attention to the legal and institutional structures that account for salient social and politcal problems addressed through legislation and major test litigation. Topics vary, but include issues such as surrogate reproduction, deinstitutionalization of mentally ill or retarded minors, teen pregnancy and its relation to AFDC entitlement, foster care of dependent children, and student due process. The emphasis is less upon the application or intepretation of existion rules and regulatory practices and more upon the strategies, processes, history, and prospects of legal and political challenges to systematic regimentation of the young and the deviant. Prerequisites: None. Recommended but not reqired: Family Law