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LSTU E-100 Introduction to the Law (12792)
Fall term
Robert M. Bonin, LLM, Attorney and Partner, Bonin & Marashian.
Class times: Thursdays beginning Sept. 3, 5:30-7:30 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit $600, undergraduate credit $900, graduate credit $1,800.
The topics of this course include sources of law; finding law, lawyers, and courts; the litigation process (trial and appellate); privileges such as lawyer-client, doctor-patient, and interspousal rights of privacy; owning real estate, zoning, mortgages, and eminent domain; tort law (negligence and malpractice); contracts; commercial code and loans; criminal law; employment law; family law; landlord and tenant; and business forms and fiduciary obligations. (4 credits)
LSTU E-101 Evidence (23365)
Spring term
Bruce Hay, JD, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Class times: Mondays beginning Jan. 25, 7:35-9:35 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit $600, undergraduate credit $900, graduate credit $1,800.
This course examines the laws and policies governing the process of proof in American trials, with special attention to the types of evidence juries are permitted to hear in criminal cases. Topics include relevance, character evidence and criminal history, hearsay, attorney-client privilege, and constitutional notions of due process, fair trials, and the right to confront one's accusers. (4 credits)
LSTU E-103 Criminal Law and the Constitution (13256)
Fall term
Bruce Hay, JD, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
Class times: Wednesdays beginning Sept. 2, 7:35-9:35 pm. Optional sections to be arranged.
Course tuition: noncredit $600, undergraduate credit $900, graduate credit $1,800.
This course examines the intersection of constitutional law and the American criminal process, with emphasis on the constitutional restraints on police, prosecutors, and courts in the investigation, trial, and punishment of crimes. The bulk of the reading consists of modern and contemporary decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Topics explored include warrantless searches, interrogation and confessions, the rules of evidence at trial, eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence, the composition and behavior of the jury, plea bargaining, appellate review and habeas corpus, and imprisonment and capital punishment. (4 credits)
LSTU E-104 Guarding our Civil Liberties (22924)
Spring term
Robert M. Bonin, LLM, Attorney and Partner, Bonin & Marashian.
Class times: Thursdays beginning Jan. 28, 5:30-7:30 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit $600, undergraduate credit $900, graduate credit $1,800.
The first part of this course presents a historical analysis of the suppression of civil liberties in the United States. These include the Alien and Sedition Acts, Enemy Alien Act, Palmer Red Raids in 1920, Japanese WW II internments, Hoover security lists, Counter Intelligence Program, House on Un-American Activities Committee, and McCarthy investigations. Current issues include torture, Guantanamo, rendition, indefinite confinement, habeas corpus, state secrets doctrine, warrantless wiretaps, privacy, presidential signing statements, corruption and withdrawal of opinions of Office of Legal Counsel, and the firing of US attorneys. Prerequisites: LSTU E-100 is helpful but not required. (4 credits)
LSTU E-110 Law and Ethics: Making the Moral Decision (11519)
Fall term
Ellsworth Lapham Fersch, PhD, JD, Lecturer on Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Class times: Mondays beginning Aug. 31, 5:30-7:30 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit $600, undergraduate credit $900, graduate credit $1,800.
This course explores how America's legal system copes with moral ambiguity and controversial ethical questions. It analyzes major cases concerning administrative practices (affirmative action, corporate policy, privacy, professional conduct, sexual harassment) and basic issues (abortion, capital punishment, care of children, right to die). The course evaluates decisions and assesses various approaches to fundamental ethical dilemmas and the impact of law in contemporary society. (4 credits)
LSTU E-120 Internet and Society: Technologies and Politics of Control (22054)
Spring term
Colin M. Maclay, MPA, Managing Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Robert Faris, PhD, Research Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Class times: Tuesdays beginning Jan. 26, 5:30-7:30 pm.
Course tuition: undergraduate credit $950, graduate credit $1,850.
Limited enrollment.
This course examines current legal, political, social, and technical struggles for control of the global Internet—and the content and relationships it conveys. The course focuses on the interaction of new technologies and services with emerging models of production, innovation, communication, learning, and civic engagement—looking at both the US and international contexts. Prerequisites: willingness to experiment with new technologies, and to participate in class discussions, whether virtually or in person. (4 credits)