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State Constitutional Law

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the law of state constitutions. Course topics include the framing of state constitutions; state constitutional rights; state governmental powers; the structures of state government; and state constitutional change, including theories of popular constitutionalism and direct democracy.

Bioethical Issues In The Law

This course will cover topics such as legal reasoning in bioethical situations, determination of death, issues of human reproduction, organ transplantation, genetic testing, clinical research with human subjects, and end-of-life decision making. This second survey course in the health law area will provide the students who take this course and Healthcare Organizations and Finance (Law 830) with a broad understanding of this increasingly important area of the law. Neither class is a prerequisite for the other class. They may be taken concurrently or in any order taken by the student.

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