Reading List By Date Winter 2012 Constitutional Law II

COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST
Look up cases in the case name index in Epstein and read the bold pages. Cases marked with a *are  in the CQ Press online case archive at:
http://college.cqpress.com/sites/clca/rights.aspx

Tu 1/10
Introduction
U.S. Constitution and Amendments (Appendix 1) – focus on Amendments I-X, XIII, XIV, XV, XIX
Begin reading Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, entire, to be completed by 3/20. Details on related NAACP paper TBA.
I. Legal Reasoning and Constitutional Interpretation

Th 1/12
II. Constitutional Interpretation: Theories and Politics
Epstein 21-44
Via JSTOR (go to GVSU home quick links, then library, then databases, then JSTOR):
-Jeffrey A. Segal and Albert D. Cover, "Ideological Values and the Votes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 83, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 557-565
-Mark J. Richards and Herbert M. Kritzer, "Jurisprudential Regimes in Supreme Court Decision Making," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 305-320

Tu 1/17
III. First Amendment: Freedom of Expression
Fundamental Principles
Epstein 223-227
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Cohen v. California (1971)

Th 1/20
First Amendment: Print, Broadcast, Cable, Internet, & Video Games
Epstein 291-292, 310-312, 338, 358-9
The New York Times Company v. Sullivan (1964)
Reno v. ACLU (1997)
*Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011) – available via CQ Press online archive:
http://college.cqpress.com/sites/clca/rights.aspx

Tu 1/24
First Amendment: Advocacy of Illegal Action
Epstein 194-196
Schenk v. United States (1919)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Dennis v. United States (1951)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
*Introduce oral argument assigment

Th 1/26
IV. The Fourth Amendment Guarantee Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
Epstein 444-451, 460-464, 472-473, 476-478, 484-485
Terry v. Ohio (1968)
United States v. Leon (1984)
Safford v. Redding (2009)

Tu 1/31
V. Oral argument preview: Reading assignments to be announced in oral argument assignment handout

Th 2/2 – Th 2/9
V. Oral Argument – mandatory attendance

Tu 2/14
*ORAL ARGUMENT PAPER DUE
VI. Race, the Death Penalty, and the Eighth Amendment

Th 2/16
Race, the Death Penalty, and the Eighth Amendment
Epstein 550-553, 559-562, 568-570
The following two cases are available in the CQ Press online case archive at:
http://college.cqpress.com/sites/clca/rights.aspx
*McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)
*Roper v. Simmons (2005)

VII. First Amendment: Religious Liberties
Tu 2/21
Free Exercise Clause
Epstein 95-100, 114-116, 122-123
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
*Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) - in the CQ Press online case archive at:
http://college.cqpress.com/sites/clca/rights.aspx

Th 2/23
Establishment Clause
Epstein 129-130, 135-139, 143-147, 163-165, 183-186
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)

Tu 2/28 EXAM ONE

Th 3/1

VIII. The Fifth Amendment Guarantee Against Self-accusation
Epstein 497-499, 509-513
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
*Dickerson v. U.S. (2000) - in the CQ Press online case archive at:
http://college.cqpress.com/sites/clca/rights.aspx

SPRING BREAK – no class March 6 & 8

Tu 3/13

IX. Equality: Race, Gender and the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause

Introduction
Racial Discrimination and State Action
Epstein 585, 616
*The Civil Rights Cases (1883) - in the CQ Press online case archive at:
http://college.cqpress.com/sites/clca/rights.aspx
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
Moose Lodge v. Irvis (1972)

Th 3/15
School Desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas I (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas I (1955)
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1 (2007)

Tu 3/20
Discuss Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education
*NAACP PAPER DUE

Th 3/22
Equal Protection and Gender Equality
Start on readings for 3/27

Tu 3/27
Equal Protection and Gender Equality
Epstein 624-626
United States v. Virginia (1996)
Craig v. Boren (1976)

Tu 3/29
Affirmative Action
Epstein 659-661, 668-670, 675-676, 685-688
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena (1995)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

Tu 4/3
X. Substantive Due Process: Privacy, Autonomy and Reproductive Freedom (Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments)

Abortion
Epstein 385-388, 393-396, 408-409, 416-418
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) – covered on 416-418

Th 4/5
Privacy and Autonomy
Epstein 418-422, 642
Lawrence v. TX (2003)
Romer v. Evans (1996)

XI. Second Amendment
Epstein 374-377
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Tu 4/10 EXAM TWO

Th 4/12 Presentation Panels
Tu 4/17 Presentation Panels
Th 4/19 Presentation Panels 

W 4/25 Analytic research paper due by 1:00 pm