National Security Law and Policy Seminar*

Description:

This seminar focuses on the relation between law and national security and analyzes the interaction between domestic law and national security policies. It examines how domestic law can guide and constrain national security policymaking, and how national security policies can shape and alter domestic law. Various actors besides the president will be examined including the courts, Congress, individual states in the United States, municipalities, individuals, nation-states, multinational corporations, and regional organizations. Specific topics include the international system; the executive, legislative, and judicial branches; individual liberty versus national security; assassination and torture; slavery, segregation, and the death penalty; the rule of law, democracy, and free markets; and the New World Order and the clash of civilizations.

Students will be evaluated by a well-written scholarly paper for the “A” or “B” writing requirement, class participation and class presentations.

Meets A or B Writing Requirement

*Typically offered every other year