Fall 2024
Students must see the Office of Student Services for registration services.
Professor(s):
Lydia Tiede (UH FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Non-Law Courses
Time: 10:30a-1:00p T Location: PHG 310
Course Outline: The course surveys the variation of legal systems and courts across the world from a comparative perspective. Students will learn how constitutions, courts, and other legal actors vary and how these variations affect judicial decisions and the judiciary’s interaction with other branches of government in lawmaking and enforcement.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: This course is taught by Lydia Tiede from the Dept. of Political Science and will meet in the Political Science dept. Course number is POLS 6357. Only 2 Law students may enroll, but more may be permitted class size permitted.
To register for this course, students must see Mr. Shah Daram in the Student Services Office/Law Center.
Prerequisites:
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This course will have:
Exam:
Paper: Yes
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA:
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Ginsburg, Tom. 2003. Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tushnet, Mark. 2018. Comparative Constitutional Law, Advanced Introduction. 2nd Edition. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
