Globalization & The Constitution (S)
LAW JD 696
This seminar will examine how globalization is reshaping U.S. constitutional law. Broad powers relating to U.S. foreign relations were historically allocated to the President. A functional imperative of traditional diplomacy and interstate conflict, this constitutional centralization justified anomalous doctrines of foreign relations relating to separation of powers, federalism, and individual rights. Globalization has enabled actors other than the President -- including Congress, the judiciary, the federal bureaucracy, state and local governments, corporations, and individuals -- to assume enlarged roles on the world stage. Globalization has also magnified the salience of international law and international institutions to U.S. constitutional law. This course will chart and interrogate this shift in various contexts -- including climate change, human rights, trade, and immigration -- in which constitutional law and norms are adapting to changed global realities. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.

