With the generous assistance of the professors at Columbia Law School, Columbia Pre-Law Society is able to offer the following two classes for you to sit in and audit for a day. Please email us by the respective deadlines to audit any of the following two classes at Columbia Law School.
Civil Procedure
Professor Olatunde Johnson
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Time: 1:20-2:40
This course examines the principal elements of the civil litigation process. The subjects studied include elements of a fair procedural system; phases of a lawsuit with an emphasis on pleadings, discovery, and pretrial adjudication; scope of courts’ jurisdiction over individuals and claims; the effects of prior adjudication; complex litigation; and alternatives to formal adjudication. Special attention is given to the ways in which procedural rules implement various values, policies, and conceptions of justice.
Deadline to confirm attendance: Friday, November 8, 2013
Constitutional Law
Professor David Pozen
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Time: 1:20-2:40
This is a basic course in constitutional law. The course locates the Constitution in the life of the United States. It explores the theory of the Constitution and its antecedents; judicial review, its justification and development, and its legal and political significance; the nature of our federal system; the growth of national power and of limitations on state authority and the abiding significance of the states; the separation of powers and varieties of checks and balances in the U.S. government; and then, for about half of the course, the theory and content of individual rights under the Constitution, the development of the principal rights during 200 years by constitutional amendment and judicial interpretation, and the jurisprudence of the Judiciary in its role as the guardian of rights under the Constitution and under civil rights acts.
Deadline to confirm attendance: Wednesday, November 13, 2013
