Spring 2023
5308 Federal Courts - KUMAR- 17884
Professor(s):
Sapna Kumar (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Procedure and Practice
Time: 10:30a-12:00p MW Location: 260
Course Outline: This course covers the jurisdiction of the federal courts and a number of other issues concerning the relationship of the federal and state courts. Specific topics to be covered include: congressional control over the jurisdiction of the federal courts; justiciability doctrines such as standing; enforcement of federal rights against state officials; federal question and diversity jurisdiction, including supplemental jurisdiction; federal common law; the 11th Amendment and sovereign immunity; abstention doctrines; and federal appellate jurisdiction, including United States Supreme Court review of state court judgments.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. After student registration opens, there may be instruction mode changes to this course up through two weeks before the first day of classes for the term, but notice of such changes will be sent to then-registered students. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.
Quota=50.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments: Important Note: The assigned casebook is the 9th edition of the book and NOT the most recent edition.
Low, Jeffries, Bradley, Federal Courts and the Law of the Federal-State Relations
(9th ed), PP. 115-132
Final Exam Schedule: 05/05 9am-12pm Remote
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: ISBN 9781683280064 Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations 9th Author: Curtis Bradley; Peter Low; John Jeffries Jr.
