Democracy and the Rule of the Law: Hard Cases
F06
Eileen Scully
Even as we daily comply with rules and laws, and expect others to do so, much of the progress in American society toward greater equality and respect for human rights has been achieved through disobedience and resistance to conformity. What might be required beyond compliance to law to shape a personal, local, national, and global future ever more proximate to American ideals? Are American legal institutions, processes, and attitudes the best or wisest model for newly democratizing countries? These are several of the various questions we will take up in this course.