Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Alissa Gomez (CLINICAL FACULTY [405(b)])
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Constitutional Law
Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Time: 10:30a-12:00p TTH Location: 213
Course Outline: This seminar will provide students with an opportunity to learn about different strands of feminist legal theory and to examine emerging topics in modern feminism. Students will read several classics in feminist thought, analyzing their pre-suppositions about sex, sexuality, gender, power relations, and the role of law in constructing or de-constructing those ideas. We will then discuss modern feminist dilemmas and analyze how the various strands of feminist legal theory might explain, support, or attack them. This course fulfills the UHLC writing requirement, with students writing academic legal papers on a topic related to the seminar and that is at least 10,000 words, (including footnotes) or approximately 35 pages
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=12
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
No book required for this course
Course Materials: Reading materials will be posted.