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221.76 sec. 001 - The Legal Politics of Campus Protests (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Jonathan Steven Simon (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
Instructor: Anthony Platt
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
M 08:00 AM - 09:50 AM
Location: Law 113
From January 13, 2025
To April 29, 2025
Course End: April 29, 2025
Class Number: 33539
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 6
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 24
As of: 11/21 12:35 PM
We live in tumultuous, divisive, dangerous, and uncertain times. Academia is roiled by controversies about human rights, war, freedom of speech, racism, anti-Semitism, investment policies, and authoritarianism. University presidents are under political attack; faculty grapple with how to handle controversial debates in the classroom; ideas (such as Critical Race Theory and Settler Colonialism) have become the subject of legislation and lawsuits; and students have been caught up in a web of disciplinary systems. Moreover, the role of protests in academia has become intertwined with national and local politics.
This seminar will combine a discussion of historical and contemporary texts with research projects. We will review some of the literature from the 1970s when debates about campus protests permeated cultural politics; and read primary documents associated with debates about free speech and protest at universities during the last year.
Students will be required to develop a research paper that explores doctrinal, empirical, or cultural aspects of events that have taken place at Berkeley or other universities. We will encourage research papers that address significant issues: How is power organized and applied in academia? How do universities prescribe the parameters of protest? How does a university’s complex disciplinary system work? What roles do campus and other police play in the disciplining of protest? How does national politics shape the legal politics of campus protest? How do protest movements on campus address, respond to, and challenge disciplinary and policing actions?
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Exam Notes: (P) Final paper
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Social Justice and Public Interest
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Public Law and Policy
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