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National Security Law
Class Term:
Spring Term 2015-2016
Catalog Number:
5282
Class Number:
29253
Class Schedule:
Monday
6:30 pm -
8:20 pm
Room:
LAW G13
Lecture
Credits:
2 (2 Contact, 0 Field)
Graduation Requirements:
"W" Writing
Professional Skills
Priority:
Limited Enrollment - 3rd Year Priority
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
Standard Courses
Grading Details
Students will be graded based on their class participation (15%), two exercises (short papers, each worth 20%), and a memorandum that will serve as the final paper for the course (45%). The assignments are designed to mimic real-life scenarios that national security litigators face, and to help students hone analytical and writing skills. Students are expected to participate in class, and to work together to make the course a collaborative and engaging educational experience.
Description
This course examines national security law as asserted and developed in U.S. federal courts. It is not a course about policy; it is a course about litigation and the law. Students will learn litigation skills in the context of national security law. Conversations throughout the semester will focus on litigation strategy, and course assignments will encourage the honing of litigation skills including case analysis, research, and writing. We will study the role of Article III courts and will seek to understand how national security law has developed. We will review litigation challenges to the government's security policies and programs, limits on the court's jurisdiction, and the defenses that are available to the government. We will also study investigative and prosecutorial methods in the national security context. We will discuss whether (and if so, how) recent national security case law should be applied to other current and future national security problems. In some ways this course resembles a curriculum of advanced civil and criminal procedure. But it is more than that. We will aim to better understand the relationship between security, liberty, justice, and the law. The course will be participatory, meaning that students are expected to contribute to class discussion each week.