See what Vermont Law offers for public law courses, from Election Law and First Amendment Law to Civil Procedure Seminars.
Public Law Courses
301/Advanced Civil Procedure Seminar
7522/Election Law
This seminar examines legislative and judicial regulation of the political process. It stresses two main themes: 1) the ways in which Congress and the state legislatures regulate campaigns, elections, and participants in the political process and 2) the ways in which courts can justifiably intervene in that process..
7500/First Amendment Law
7510/Legislation
This course will examine legislative law and the legislative process. The course will consider the nature and history of legislative power, legislative structure and procedure, legislative advocacy, drafting statutory law, statutory construction, legislative history and legislative oversight. The course will consider the role of legislative attorneys in the process and the development of public policy through examination of a current public policy issues.
7525/Legislative Clinic
Students are assigned to a standing committee of the Vermont General Assembly, under the supervision of the committee's chair and a legislative counsel, and are required to complete legal research and drafting projects relating to that particular committee's pending legislation. Students are required to be in attendance at the General Assembly in Montpelier for at least two days each week. The course runs concurrently with the session of the General Assembly, which means that it begins in early January and concludes in April.
7550/National Security Law
Explores lawyers' involvement in the formulation and implementation of United States foreign and national defense policy through the examination variety of domestic, constitutional, and international law issues such as authority for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, intelligence gathering at home and abroad, detention and interrogation of terrorist suspects, planning for the next terrorist attack, protection of sensitive government information, and other current topics.Perspective & AWR
7591/Public Law Topics
7594/Public Law Topics
7580/State and Local Government
309/State Constitutional Law Seminar