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This course looks at methodologies for comparing elements of law within various legal traditions, and focuses specifically on the impact that constitutional framework and governmental structure have on the development of individual civil liberties. This examination will focus on civil liberty themes such as those found in United States law in the First and/or Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, and may include such topics as freedom of speech, press, and association; religious free exercise and religious establishment by the State; the rights currently subsumed under the doctrine of substantive due process; and equal protection.
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