Fall 2024
Professor(s):
Demetria Frank (VISITING)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Constitutional and Criminal Law
Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Time: 1:00p-2:30p MW Location: 200
Course Outline: This seminar will encourage students to explore the rise of mass incarceration, its consequences for prisoners and communities, prison litigation, and the emerging reforms that seek to reduce prison populations and improve the justice system. Central to this course is exploration of First Amendment rights for people incarcerated and avenues for expression within the confines of incarceration. Students will also examine how First Amendment and other rights are upheld and challenged within prison walls while scrutinizing the significance of these rights in preserving public safety and maintaining incarcerated person dignity. The text for this course is Incarceration and the Law: Cases & Materials.
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.
The text for this course is Incarceration and the Law: Cases & Materials.
Quota=10.
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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
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Incarceration and the Law: Cases & Materials (ISBN: 978-1-68328-796-4). All other readings will be provided electronically.
