ClassInfo - Fall 2022 History Classes

Fall 2022 | HIST 3835 Section 001: Law in American Life: 1865 to Present (34007)

Instructor(s): Susanna Blumenthal
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022

Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, West Bank

Walter F. Mondale Hall 3
Enrollment Status:: Open (24 of 40 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Centralization of state power, rise of individual rights. Constitutionalization of American law. Passage, promise, abrogation, rediscovery of 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments. Expansion of federal administrative state. Origins of civil liberties. Law and the welfare state. Civil Rights Revolution of 1950s, '60s, '70s. Product liability law. Second half of two-semester survey. May be taken independently.
Class Notes:: This course explores the interaction between law, politics, and culture in the United States, concentrating on the period from the American Revolution through the New Deal. Although built on an underlying narrative account of the period, the course is organized thematically, with particular attention to fiv central topics: (1) democracy and the rule of law; (2) law, state, and economy; (3) marriage, gender, and the family; (4) race, slavery and Reconstruction; (4) law and the organization of labor; (5) crime and punishment; and (6) legal education and the profession of law. No previous background in the law or U.S. history is required.
Class Description:: This course explores the interaction between law, politics, and culture in American society, concentrating on the period from the Revolution through the New Deal. Although built on an underlying narrative account of the period, it will proceed thematically. Topics to be addressed include: democracy and the rule of law; slavery; the public-private distinction; Civil War and Reconstruction; industrialization; expansion of the federal administrative state; crime and punishment; legal education and the role of the lawyer in the American polity. Readings will include an array of primary legal sources, such as treatises, statutes, constitutions, and landmark cases, as well as contemporary religious, scientific, and literary works, which will help to situate the legal materials in broader cultural context. A number of secondary historical studies will be considered as well, both for insights into the topics covered, and to illustrate what legal sources can reveal about American history. No previous background in American history or American law is assumed.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34007/1229
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 2 May 2013

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