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Courses
This course is an introduction to EU law that looks at some of the key legal features of this unique legal system. Topics covered include EU institutional arrangements, direct effect, preliminary references, supremacy, the role of the European Court of Justice, the emerging debates over constitutionalism in the EU, and free movement of goods.
The institutional framework of the Common Law. Discusses the initial courts; the emergence of the dominant royal courts, King's Bench and Common Pleas; the writ system and development of the pleading forms and the methods of proof used in trials. Considers tenures, the principal Real Actions for the recovery of land at Common Law and selected writs. Culminates in a consideration of the doctrine of estates. Briefly surveys future interests, perpetuities and the rise of uses and trusts.
Addresses the “first half” of American legal history, 200 years of the colonial experience. The course covers the legal basis for colonization, sources of early American law, inheritance in early America, development of the American judicial system and legal issues raised by the American Revolution.
Historical development of law on the continent of Europe and in several areas of East Asia, all set in contrast to the Common Law as developed in England and, later, Great Britain. A take-home final will be required.