282.1 sec. 001 - Domestic Violence & the Law: Past and Possible Future (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Mallika Kaur (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
W 10:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Location: TBA
From August 20, 2025
To November 19, 2025
Course End: November 19, 2025
Class Number: 32012
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 20
As of: 04/04 07:13 AM
During their career, all attorneys will–knowingly or unknowingly–work with and/or represent someone victimized by or someone accused of domestic violence (or intimate partner violence). Since millions of people in the U.S. report being victimized by DV each year, the resulting legal needs are as diverse as our population. Further, the efficacy of legal systems to fairly combat DV in the U.S. is passionately debated today. This course will examine the legal system's historic response to domestic violence as well as possible future trajectories. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this seminar will survey historical, psychological, and empirical materials as well as topics in criminal, family, tort, immigration, welfare, housing, employment, human rights, comparative international, and constitutional law.
We will explore how domestic violence laws disparately affect different groups, including people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, people of faith communities, and people who fall outside of the current normative family structures in the U.S. Ethical and policy issues will be explored throughout, and students will develop a trauma-centered and intersectional approach to issues at the intersection of law and gender asymmetries: race, immigration, incarceration, reproductive care, state’s rights, policing, restorative justice, and more.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home Final Exam
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Exam Length: 5 hours
Course Category: Family Law
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Criminal Law
Race and Law
Social Justice and Public Interest
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