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I replowed the territory]">Success: population &amp; mercantilism</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/colonial-america-mercantilism" title="The Structuring of Mercantilism: Britain and Her American Colonies">The mercantilist relationship</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/colonial-america-economy-population-gove" title="The Colonies Become A Success: Economics, Population, Government & More">Colonial economy, population &amp; government, etc.</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Rebellion and Independence</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Miscalculation</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/colonial-america-england-loses-the-colon" title="England Fumbles Her Colonies: From the French/Indian War, Through the Stamp Act to Bloodshed">England loses the colonies</a><span class="qmtitle" >Taxation &amp; Representation</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/2008/2/11/06d-class-discussion-no-taxation-without-representation-was.html" title="Class Discussion: ">Discussion: was it real or rhetoric?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/2008/2/11/06e-understanding-the-taxation-issue-the-colonists-never-wan.html" title="Understanding the Taxation Issue: The Colonists Never Wanted Representation; They Wanted Local Rule.">They never wanted reprsentation</a><span class="qmtitle" >Separation</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/colonial-america-becoming-declaring-inde" title="America Becomes Independent -- Extra-Legal Assemblies, The Declaration & Sociological Factors">Becoming/declaring independence</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Creating American Government</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Early Experiments</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/colonial-america-governments-during-revo" title="The Articles and the States: Early Experiments in Self Governance.">Experiments in self governance</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/articles-of-confederation-failure-and-na" title="The Failure of the Articles and the Nagging Question -- Was the Revolution About Nationhood or Independence?">the Articles, failure and nationhood</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Constitution</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/constitutional-convention-protocol-and-o" title="The Constitutional Convention -- Organization & Protocol">The convention -- protocol and origin</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/constitutional-convention-plans-of-gover" title="Understanding the Plans of Governance; Virginia, New Jersey & The Great Compromise">The convention -- plans of government</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/american-constitution-ratification" title="Ratification of the Constitution">Ratification of the new constitution</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Inventing American Constitutionalism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What is \'Unconstitutional?\'</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/colonial-america-james-otis-constitution" title="What is ">James Otis &amp; "constitutionality"</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Constitution\'s Theory of Design</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/american-constitution-philosophic-signif" title="The Philosophic Significance of the American Constitution">Its philosophic significance </a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/american-constitution-statutory-power" title="What the American Constitution Does to the Statutory Power -- the Power to Govern Has Never Been More Difficult">What it does to statutory power </a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/american-constitution-design-engineering" title="The Architecture and Engineering of the American Constitution -- A Machine for Self Governance Premised Upon Structured Conflict.">The oil of the new machine: structured conflict </a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/american-constitution-parliamentary-phil " title="Getting Broader Perspective -- There is Parliamentary Philosophy Hidden Beneath the Constitutional Form">Parliamentary philosophy hidden within </a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/american-constitution-how-democratic" title="How Democratic Was the New Republic?">But how democratic? </a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Federalist Court</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Background</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/political-parties-development-of-in-late" title="Hamiliton v. Jefferson -- The Development of Political Parties in America">Development of political parties</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/supreme-court-early-years" title="A Look at the Early Supreme Court -- Washington Appointments, Circuit Riding, Seriatim Opinions, etc.">Supreme court -- the early years</a><span class="qmtitle" >Key Cases</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/the-federalist-court-chisholm-v-georgia" title="Chisholm v. Georgia -- Lessons for the Court From its Political Culture">Chisholm v. Georgia</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/the-federalist-court-martin-v-hunters-le" title="Martin v. Hunter\'s Lessee -- The Triumph of the Constitution and the Rule of Law?">Martin v. Hunter\'s lessee</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/the-federalist-court-mccullough-v-maryla" title="McCullough v. Maryland and the National Bank -- Marshall\'s Logic Strikes Again">McCullough v. Maryland</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Judicial Review</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Marbury v. Madison</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/judicial-review-marbury-v-madison-judici" title="The Story of the Judiciary Act of 1789">Judiciary Act of 1789</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/judicial-review-marbury-v-madison-midnig" title="The Federalists in Retreat -- The Story of the Midnight Judges">The midnight judges)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/judicial-review-marbury-v-madison-histor" title="Marbury v. Madison -- the Historic Decision">The historic decision</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/judicial-review-marbury-v-madison-politi" title="Was Marbury the Product of Partisan Ideology or Was it a Herculean and Correct Exposition of the Law?">Was it politics or law?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Judicial Review</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/supreme-court-judicial-review" title="The Ghost Debate: Arguments for and Against Judicial Review">Was it intended?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/judicial-review-why-it-created-controver" title="Why Judicial Review Was Controversial -- the Cultural Confusion Produced by the Accident of American Constitutionalism">Why it created controversy</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Growth of Federal Power</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Limited Government?</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-introduction-to" title="Introduction to Part II of the Course: Teaching Federal Power Through The Idea of Regime Politics">Why the issue is problematic</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-the-constitutions-words" title="The Fundamental Problem: What Does The Constitution Actually Allow Congress to Do?">"Simon says" Uncle Sam cannot do that</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-conceptualizing-commerce" title="Conceptualizing the Commerce Problem -- What Exactly is \'Regulating Commerce?\'">What is "regulating commerce" anyway?</a><span class="qmtitle" >The "Regimes"</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">John Marshall (Federalists)</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Gibbons</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-marshall-gibbons-the-facts" title="Gibbons v. Ogden: The Facts of the Dispute">The facts</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-marshall-gibbons-the-issue" title="Class Discussion: Who Should Have Won the Gibbons Case and What Do You Consider When Answering This Question?">The issue</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-marshall-gibbons-the-rulin" title="Hercules Strikes Again: The Ruling In Gibbons v. Ogden">The ruling</a><span class="qmtitle" >Brown v. Maryland</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-marshall-brown-v-maryland" title="Brown v. Maryland and the Original Package Rule">Open package rule</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Roger Taney (Anti-Federalist)</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Intro</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-an-introduction-to-roger-t" title="An Introduction to Roger Brooke Taney">Who is Roger Taney?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Key Contributions</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-taney-state-police-powers" title="The Taney Court and the Rise of State Police Powers">Miln: state police powers</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-taney-dormant-power-cooley" title="Roger Taney\'s Commerce Clause: Cooley and the License Cases">Dormant commerce power (cooley, license cases)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Laissez Faire</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Caused It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-social-transformation-late" title="Social Transformation in the Late 1800s -- Jefferson\'s America Dies as Hamilton\'s America Grows Out of Control">Social transformation, late 1800s</a><span class="qmtitle" >Early Commerce Decisions</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-ec-knight" title="E.C. Knight -- Laissez Faire Protects The Economic Goliaths">E.C. Knight (protecting Goliath)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-hammer-v-dag" title="Hammer v. Dagenhart -- Laissez Faire Ideology Strikes Again">Hammer v. Dagenhart (allowing child labor)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-the-effect-of-laissez-fair" title="Understanding What the Laissez Faire Commerce Decisions Actually Did to Protect Industry From Regulation">The effect of these rulings</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-commerce-cla" title="What a Laissez Faire Commerce Clause Would Actually Look Like, If It Where to Exist">How a laissez faire commerce clause would read</a><span class="qmtitle" >Taxation Decisions</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-mccray-v-us" title="McCray v. United States -- Taxing Power as it Should Be?">McCray v. US (taxes can regulate?)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-bailey-v-dre" title="Bailey v. Drexel -- Taxes, Penalties, and Language Games">Bailey v. Drexel Furniture (but can\'t penalize?)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-us-v-butler" title="United States v. Butler -- Laissez Faire\'s Theft of the Federal Taxing Power.">U.S. v. Butler (taxes CAN\'T regulate)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-butler-as-re" title="The Significance of Butler -- Regime Politics Strikes Again.">Butler as regime politics</a><span class="qmtitle" >"Substantive Due Process"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-lochner-and" title="Another Laissez Faire Victory: How Lochner and Substantive Due Process Stopped the States From Regulating Business">Blunting the states,too</a><span class="qmtitle" >Killing the New Deal</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-schechter-po" title="Schechter Poultry: The Facts and the Decision">Schechter Poultry(the final straw)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-schechters-s" title="The Significance of Schechter and Roosevelt\'s Reaction to the Decision">Schechter\'s significance; FDR\'s reaction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-laissez-faire-carter-v-car" title="Carter v. Carter Coal -- The New Deal is Obstructed Yet Again">Carter v. Carter Coal (the last stand)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-the-four-horseman" title="The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse">The "Four Horseman" (mischief makers)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">FDR and Beyond</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Roosevelt\'s Significance</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-great-depression" title="The Begininning of the End for Laissez Faire: The Great Depression and the Failure of Capitalism">Great depression and capitalism\'s failure</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-the-new-deal" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Ideological Significance of the New Deal">The New Deal arrives</a><span class="qmtitle" >"Switch in Time"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-court-packing-plan" title="Roosevelt\'s Final Solution to the Laissez Faire Justices -- The Court Packing Plan.">The court packing plan</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-west-coast-hotel" title="West Coast Hotel -- The New Deal\'s First Attack Squadron Arrives">West Coast Hotel (ending substantive due process)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-owens-switch-in-time" title="What Caused Justice Robert Owens to Switch His Vote?">Owens and why he switched his vote</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-nlrb" title="NLRB -- Out With The Old and In With the New.">NLRB (ending commerce doctrines)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-nlrb-law-and-politics" title="Class Discussion: What Does the Court\'s Switch in NLRB Say About Judging, Power, Politics, Law & Society?">Discussion: NLRB, law and politics</a><span class="qmtitle" >Meet the New Boss</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-wickards-principles" title="Wickard v. Filburn -- To Infinity And Beyond">Wickard -- to infinity and beyond</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-fdr-commerce-government-mo" title="Other New Deal Decisions -- You Don\'t Have to be Regulating Commerce In Order To \'Regulate Commerce\'">Motivation test abolished</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-outlawing-discrimination-w" title="Using the ">)Outlawing discrimination with the commerce clause</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-the-new-deal-commerce-clau" title="The Significance of New Deal Constitutionalism: Do We Have a Parliamentary System When it Comes to Federal Power?">Do we have a Parliamentary system now?</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Rehnquist Court</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >David Strikes Goliath</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-lopez-rehquist-eras-first" title="United States v. Lopez -- The Rehnquist Era Fires Its First Shot.">Lopez (the first shot)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-morrison-entering-the-dang" title="United States v. Morrison and Breyer\'s Dissent -- Is the Court Entering a Danger Zone?">Morrison (entering the danger zone?)</a><span class="qmtitle" >David Walks Away</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-raich-and-retreat" title="Gonzalez v. Raich -- Why Did David Back Away From Goliath?">Raich, retreat and why?</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >The Big Picture</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/federal-power-the-big-picture" title="The Big Picture -- Is the Commerce Problem a Failure of Law or an Intelligent Innovation; and Do We Have a Parliamentary System in Place of Limited Government?">Is the commerce fiction good or bad?</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >The Power of Institutions</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Emergency Powers</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Legal v. "Extra-Legal"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-legal-and-extra-legal" title="How Emergency Powers Can Be Both Legal and Extra-Legal; and Conceptualizing How Presidential Power Grows During War">What\'s the difference?</a><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Legal" Emergency Power</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Suspending Habeas Corpus</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-milligan-suspending-hab" title="Ex Parte Milligan -- When Should Congress or the President Be Able to Suspend Habeas Corpus?">Ex Parte Milligan (when can you suspend habeas?)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Revoking the Court\'s Jurisdiction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-mccardle-revoking-court" title="Ex Parte McCardle -- Revoking the Court\'s Jurisdiction Pursuant to Article III">Ex Parte McCardle</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-revoking-court-jurisdic" title="Are There Limits on the Power of Congress to Revoke the Court\'s Jurisdiction? If Not, Couldn\'t You Create a Parliamentary System This Way?">The limits upon revoking jurisdiction</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Extra-legal" Emergency Power</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The President\'s Prerogative</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-lincoln-law-and-power" title="Lincoln and the Civil War -- Was Lincoln Lawless, and Should \'Law\' Matter in a Time of War?">Lincoln, law, war and power</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-power-the-prize-cases" title="The Prize Cases -- the Presidency as The Dominate Organ During Times of War">The Prize Cases (presidents come first)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-enemy-combatants-quirin" title="The Case of the Nazi Saboteurs -- How is Quirin Different From Milligan and Was the Result Proper?">Quirin and Nazi terrorists</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-enemy-combatants-captur" title="Why Didn\'t Congress\' ">The Captures Clause (why Quirin didn\'t raise it)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-japanese-internment-soc" title="The Social Context of the Japanese Internment -- Discrimination and Hysteria">Japanese internment (social context)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-japanese-internment-the" title="\'The Final Solution\' -- Rounding Up American Citizens Because of Their Ethnicity">Japanese internment ("the final solution")</a><span class="qmtitle" >Structuring This Power</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-how-to-structure-youngs" title="Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer -- The Facts of the Case">The Youngstown case (facts)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-how-to-structure-youngs" title="The Propping Up of Congress in Youngstown -- Were the Liberal/Conservative Views Contradictory, and Does the Middle Position Work?">Youngstown\'s solution: don\'t ignore statutes</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-how-to-structure-dames" title="Dames & Moore -- An Explanation of How Hidden Executive Power Might be Legally Structured">the Dames and Moore idea: watch existing laws</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-enemy-combatants-hamdi" title="Hamdi -- Detention and the Due Process Ritual">Hamdi and the due process ritual</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-enemy-combatants-hamdan" title="Hamdan -- The Court Props Up Congress, But What if Congress Doesn\'t Want to Play?">Hamdan and propping up Congress</a></div></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Presidential Power</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Theorizing About</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-epochs-introduction" title="Introduction: There Are Three Distinct Epochs in the History of the Construction of Presidential Power in American Government">There are three epochs of power</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-epoch-i-the-framers-p" title="Epoch I in the Hisotry of Executive Power -- The Framer\'s Presidency: A Race Car Without an Engine?">Epoch I (the framer\'s presidency)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-epoch-ii-the-american" title="Epoch II in the History of Executive Power -- The Age of the American Caesar">Epoch II (the American Caesar?)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-epoch-iii-reigning-in" title="Epoch III in the History of Executive Power -- Liberal Legal Culture Reigns in the President\'s Emergency Prerogatives">Epoch III (reigning in Caesar)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-liberal-legal-culture" title="Class Discussion: Does Liberal Legal Culture Represent a Threat to Article II Constitutionalism? Are Article I Powers More Legitimate Than Article II Powers?">Is liberal legal culture threatening Article II??</a><span class="qmtitle" >Development Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-evolution-of" title="Summarizing Presidential Power: How the Modern Presidency Changed From a Madisonian to a Hamiltonian Institution">Evolution of power and role</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-views-about-1900s" title="Views About Presidential Power and the Vesting Clause in the 1900s">views about in the 1900s</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-curtiss-wright-rhetor" title="The Ideology of Curtiss-Wright Versus the Framer\'s Article II -- Will The Real President Stand Up?">Curtiss-Wright (rhetoric)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-executive-agreements" title="Belmont and Executive Agreements -- Another Gift of New Power From the Courts?">Example of implied power: executive agreements</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Rule of Law</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-above-law-pardons-ime" title="Presidents and the Rule of Law -- Pardons and Impeachment">Above the law? (pardons, imeachment)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-above-law-investigati" title="Presidents and the Rule of Law -- Investigating and Suing Presidents, and Executive Privilege">Investigations, lawsuits, exec. priv</a><span class="qmtitle" >Starting War</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/presidential-power-starting-war" title="So Who Really Has The Power To Start War Anyhow? Do Presidents Abuse Their Shooting Capacity? Is the War Powers Act Constitutional?">Who really has the power?</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Role of Court in American Government</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Philosophic Issue</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/2008/3/22/11h-judicial-power-wisdom-tryanny-and-politics-de-tocquevill.html" title="Judicial Power, Wisdom, Tryanny and Politics -- De Tocqueville v. Hamilton">Hamilton versus "jurocracy"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Examples In This Course</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/2008/5/2/19i-what-do-the-civil-war-cases-and-the-other-powers-cases-s.html" title="What Do the Civil War Cases and the Other Powers Cases Say About the Court\'s Function in American Government? Are Powers Cases Different Than Liberty Cases?">What do civil war cases say about it?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/emergency-powers-japanese-internment-kor" title="Fred Korematsu\'s Story -- What Does it Say About the Court\'s Function in American Government, and About Supreme Court Judging?">What does Korematsu say about it?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/2008/5/2/20k-conceptualizing-how-the-court-functions-in-american-gove.html" title="Conceptualizing How the Court Functions in American Government When Politcal Hegemony Captures the \'Policy Branches\'">Is the Court beholden to hegemony?</a></div></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1show/" title="Lists lectures in the order they were given. Includes introductory segments, class announcements and so forth">View chronological-order page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1arch/" title="webpage containing alphabetized topical index">View topical-index page</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Supreme Court Decision Making</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >How Do You Want To Search?</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Use These Neat Menus</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Course Information</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Subject Matter</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-subject-matter" title="What is This Course All About?">Jurisprudence, Behaviorism &amp; Orthodoxy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-teaching-approach-phi" title="How I will Teach This Subject -- Philosophy, Not Social Science or Legal Culture, is King.">Teaching approach (philosophical) </a><span class="qmtitle" >The Professor</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-who-is-the-professor" title="Greetings! My Name is Sean Wilson. I\'m Your Professor.">Who is the professor?</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Course Rules</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-the-rules" title="Course Rules: Exams, Quizzes, Quality Points, Student Parliaments & More">Exams, quizzes and more</a><span class="qmtitle" >Helpful Advice</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-tips-for-success">Tips for success</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/1/26/04c-your-first-quiz.html" title="Your First Quiz">Your first quiz</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-exam-advice" title="Take-Home Assignment: Advice For Sociological Jurisprudence">Advice for paper</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-help-with-the-paper" title="Help With Your Paper -- How The Various Schools of Jurisprudence Would Decide Hypothetical Cases">Help with the paper</a><span class="qmtitle" >Slide Methodology</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-introduction-slide-methodology" title="How I Use Slides, Why, and How You Should Take Notes">Slide methodology</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Must Know Beforehand</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/philosophy-terminology" title="Introduction to Philosophic Terms -- Epistemology, Paradigm & A Priori">Philosophic terminology</a><span class="qmtitle" >Development of Legal Epistemology</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">From Antquity Through the 1700s</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Development of Statututory Power</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/1/25/03c-review-and-clarification-getting-the-material-organized.html" title="The Difference Between Legislating Statutes and Adjudicating Rules of Law">Difference between statutes and precedents</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/statutory-law-the-historical-power-of" title="The Historical Development of the Power of Statutory Law">How power over statutes developed</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/statutory-law-rome-and-land-reform" title="Might Makes Right -- A Story of ">Roman example: might makes right?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/statutory-power-in-absolute-monarchy" title="Absolute Monarchy and ">Monarchy: to share or not to share statutes?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Rise of Common Law</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/common-law-historical-development" title="The Historical Development of Courts and Common Law In England">Historical development in England</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/common-law-history-and-ideology-of" title="The Development of the Court System in England, and the Philosophic Significance of the Ideology of Common Law">History and ideology of</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/common-law-example-of-orthodoxy-tipping" title="An Example of Common Law Orthodoxy -- Is There a Duty to Tip?">Example of the orthodoxy (tipping)</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Great Conundrum</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/bonhams-case" title="Bonham\'s Case and its Philosophic Significance">Bonham\'s case: who is the boss?</a><a href="/supremes/category/foundations-of-judging-what-are-they" title="What is the Ultimate Basis of Legality?">What are the foundations of judging?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-and-natural-law-clarifying-th" title="Clarifying the ideas of Postivism and \'Natural Law\'">Difference between positivism and natural law</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/2/8/05k-introduction-to-philosophy-of-law-cognition.html" title="Introduction to Philosophy of Law and Cognition (what the foundations of judging say about the judicial mind)">Introduction to jurisprudence &amp; cognition</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/2/8/05c-the-basis-of-legality-summary-and-review.html" title="The Basis of Legality: Summary and Review">Summary and review of the basis of legality</a><span class="qmtitle" >America\'s Contribution</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/american-constitutionalism-privatizing-r" title="American Constitutionalism and the Removal of Religion From Government">"Privatizing" religion</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/american-constitutionalism-rationalizing" title="American Constitutionalism and the New Rationalization for the Statutory Power: \'Machine Makes Right\'">New rationalization for statutory power</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/american-constitutionalism-codification" title="American Constitutionalism and the Codification of Fundamental Law">Codification of fundamental law</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/american-constitutionalism-common-law-an" title="What American Constitutionalism Does to the Metaphysics of Common Law and How Bonham\'s Case Should Now Be Decided">Lowering the rank of common law</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/american-constitutionalism-judging-is-sp" title="American Constitutionalism: Legal Judging is Special and Distinct From Other Kinds of Policy Choice">Judging is "special"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/american-constitutionalism-ninth-amendme" title="American Constitutionalism\'s Greatest Loophole: The Ninth Amendment">The big loophole: Ninth Amendment</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">From 1800s to the Present</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The American Legal Debate</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Classical Legal Thought</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-introduction" title="Introduction to Classical Legal Thought">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-langdell-blackst" title="Christopher Columbus Langdell, William Blackstone and the \'Science of Law\'">Langdell, Blackstone &amp; "science"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Examples (Using "Logic")</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-marbury-v-madiso" title="The Great Solomon? John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison and the Historic Syllogism.">Marbury v. Madison (the great syllogism)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-mccullough-v-mar" title="McCullough v. Maryland -- The Facts and An Introduction">McCullough v. Maryland (introduction)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-mccullough-v-mar" title="What are other styles (ways) to decide the case?">If McCullough Hadn\'t Used Classicism</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-marshall-mccullo" title="John Marshall Strikes Again -- Was it \'Hercules\' or Ideology?">Did Marshall use logic or ideology?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Examples (Using Tradition)</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-is-using-traditi" title="What is Wrong with the Use of Tradition in Judging? A Quick Look at Dred Scott.">Is it ok to use "tradition" to decide cases?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-brandwell-ideolo" title="Ideology and the Metaphysics of Tradition -- the Brandwell Concurrence">Was Brandwell tradition or ideology?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Understanding The "A Priori" Format</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/classical-legal-thought-a-priori-wyneham" title="Classicism and the A Priori --a Look at Wynehammer and Prohibition">Wynehammer and the "a priori"</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Holmes/"Realists"</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Conundrum Returns</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/holmes-philosophic-significance-of" title="The Conundrum Returns -- The Philosophical Significance of Holmes, the Realists and the Lochner Dissent">What is the foundation of legal judging?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/holmes-rebellion-against-classicism" title="Holmes, The Common Law, and the Great Rebellion Against Classical Legal Thought">The rebellion against classicism</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/2/17/10c-a-summary-of-the-problems-holmes-and-realism-created-for.html" title="A Summary of the Problems Holmes and Realism Created for Legal Orthodoxy">Summary of the Holmesian critique</a><span class="qmtitle" >Examples of Holmes\' Critique</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/lochner-majority-opinion" title="The Lochner Majority -- Classicism\'s Last Stand">The Lochner majority (classicism\'s last stand)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/holmes-lochner-dissent" title="The Lochner Dissent -- the Ideology of Orthodoxy and of the Need to Judge Pragmatically">The Lochner dissent ("quit faking")</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Realists and Realism</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/legal-realism-history-of" title="The Story of What the Realists Stood For and How They Came to Be. (They Arose in Holmes\' shadow amid an intellectual culture that was beholden to progressivism and empiricism)">Who are "The Realists?"</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Sociological Jurisprudence"</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/legal-realism-policy-through-statutes-an" title="Two Important Urges Eminating From Legal Realism -- Deference to Political Assemblies and to the New \'Policy Science\'">Policy by statutes and empiricism</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-law-as-a-grow" title="One Solution to the Problems of Legal Realism -- Law as a Growth Science?">New solution: law as a growth science?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Real Examples Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-brown-v-bd-of" title="Meet the New Boss -- Brown v. Board of Education and the Triumph of \'Sociological Jurisprudence\'">Brown v. Bd. of Education</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-brown-v-bd-su" title="Summary of the Decision in Brown v. Board of Education">Brown v. Board (a summary)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-supreme-court-decisions-class-d" title="Class Discussion -- Was Warren\'s Opinion in Brown Ideological? What about Marshall, Holmes and Taney -- Did They Use Ideology When Deciding?">Was Brown "ideological?"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-supreme-court-decisions-prelimi" title="When is a Supreme Court Decision \'Ideological?\' An Introduction to Some Basic Ideas.">When is a decision \'ideological?\'</a><span class="qmtitle" >Hypothetical Examples Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-example-speed" title="An Example of Sociological Jurisprudence -- Speed Traps.">Speed Traps</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-example-gay-m" title="Example of Sociological Jurisprudence -- Gay Marriage.">Gay marriage</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-examples-war" title="An Example of Sociological Jurisprudence -- Spying, Data Mining & The War on Terror">War on terror</a><span class="qmtitle" >Critique Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-flaws-of" title="The Flaws of Sociological Jurisprudence -- Why the Approach Was Only a Fad.">The flaws of this approach</a><span class="qmtitle" >Decline Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/sociological-jurisprudence-death-and-dec" title="The Death and Decline of Sociological Jurisprudence -- The Court Shuns Statistics and Science.">Death and decline</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Positivism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-introduction-definition-of" title="Introduction to Positivism -- Law as the \'Cold, Naked Words.\'">Introduction to; definition of</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/3/2/13c-review-of-previous-lecture-what-positivism-is-how-it-cam.html" title="Review of Previous Lecture: What Positivism Is, How it Came About, its Relationship to State-Building and Implications for Culture, Judging and Society">Summary of positivism</a><span class="qmtitle" >Significance Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-morality-as-rule-following-no" title="The Implications of Positivism: No International Law, and Social Morality is Rule Following?">Implications for morality, international law</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-judging-is-reading" title="The Implications of Positivism For Judging: Replace the Solomon and Hercules With a Glorified Librarian?">judging is reading</a><span class="qmtitle" >Development Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-historical-development-regime" title="Positivism as a Modern Regime Ideology -- Why it Developed in American Legal Culture">Development into a regime ideology</a><span class="qmtitle" >Examples Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-the-tom-brady-fumble" title="Positivism in Football, Too? The Case of the Tom Brady Fumble">The Tom Brady fumble</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-riggs-v-palmer-class-discussi" title="Riggs v. Palmer -- Class Discussion: Who Should Win the Case and What Are Judges Supposed to Do?">Riggs v. Palmer (class discussion)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-riggs-v-palmer-the-decision" title="Riggs v. Palmer -- The Decision.">Riggs v. Palmer (the decision)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-neal-v-united-states-federal" title="Neal v. United States -- An Introduction to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines">Neal v. US (sentencing guidelines)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-neal-v-united-states-weight-o" title="Neal v. United States -- the Weight of the Drugs">Neal v. US (weight of the drugs)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-neal-v-united-states-class-di" title="Neal v. United States -- Class Discussion: Should You Follow Law SOLELY For Law\'s Sake?">Neal v. US (discussion: why follow stupid laws?)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-neal-v-us-the-decision" title="Neal v. United States: The Rest of the Story: Amended Guidelines, a Stupid Statute and a Court That Says It Can Only Read.">Neal v. US (the idiot\'s decision)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Critique of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-excess-legalism" title="Positivistic Culture -- Is There Too Much Legalism? Can There Be Too Much Positive Law?">Excess legalism in culture?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-problems-with-it-approach-to" title="The Problems With Positivistic Judging: Discretion Can Be Good, Rules and Neutrality Are Not Synonymous, and Legislatures Have Their Work Either Way.">Problems with this approach to judging</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/4/13/14c-review-of-previous-lecture-why-follow-bad-rules.html" title="Review of Previous Lecture: Why Follow Bad Rules?">Summary: why follow bad rules?</a><span class="qmtitle" >If Law is Indeterminate?</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Introduction</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/4/13/14d-did-positivism-lie-are-there-really-rules-that-we-can-fo.html" title="Did Positivism Lie? Are There Really Rules That We Can Follow? Aren\'t Most Important Rules Uncertain?">Aren\'t most legal rules unclear?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/4/13/14e-a-theory-of-language-indeterminacy-and-positivisms-solut.html" title="A Theory of Language Indeterminacy and Positivism\'s Solution For It">Solutions for Unclear language</a><span class="qmtitle" >Summary of Solutions</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/4/13/15c-review-of-previous-lecture-how-positivism-finds-meaning.html" title="Review of Previous Lecture -- How Positivism Finds Meaning When Text is Indeterminate">Positivism\'s solutions for indeterminacy</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Solutions</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Three Different Schools</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Originalism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-originalism-v-neo-originalism" title="Originalism v. Neo-Originalism; Intentions Versus Semantic Culture">Originalism v. neo-originalism</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-originalism-speakers-meaning" title="Originalism and Speaker\'s Meaning -- Finding the Intention of the Assembly">Original intent (speaker\'s meaning)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Problems With</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-originalism-problems-with-spe" title="The Problems With Speaker\'s Meaning: Do Political Assemblies Have Meaningful Intentions, and How Would This Be Known?">Failings of Speaker\'s Meaning)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-originalisms-central" title="Originalism\'s Flaw: Law is Not Intention; It is the Textual Meaning That Passes the Democratic Ritual">"Law" is not your intentions</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Analytic" Positivism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-canonical-jurisprude" title="Analytic Positivism\'s Solution -- Word Analysis and Canonical Jurisprudence">Using rules to read for you</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-a-reading-machine" title="Introduction to Analytic Positivism: The Creation of a Canonical Reading Machine and Its Ideological Significance?">A judicial reading machine?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-only-a-philosophic-e" title="Caution: ">Caution: this only a philosophic exercise</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Canons of Construction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-rules-of-reading" title="Canonical Jurisprudence -- Inventing Rules That Tell The Judge How to Read Indeterminate Sentences">Rules of reading</a><span class="qmtitle" >Supporting Literal Semantics</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-literal-semantics" title="The Relationship of Canonical Jurisprudence to Literal Semantics">Reading canons support literalism</a><span class="qmtitle" >Supporting Equitable Results</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-canons-for-good-resu" title="The \'Counter Canons\' -- \'Rules\' for Reading Good Results?">Canons for good results</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-analytic-canonical-equity" title="Canonical Equity -- How Positivistic Legal Culture Behaves When it Wants to Avoid Positivism">Example of canonical \'realism\'</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Inductive" Positivism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-inductive-finding-the-essence" title="Inductive Positivism: Finding The Essences and Great Principles of Words">Finding essences "behind" words</a><span class="qmtitle" >An Example</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/positivism-inductive-griswold-v-connecti" title="Griswold v. Connecticut -- Inductive (Kantian) Positivism in Action">Griswold v. Connecticut</a></div></div></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Skepticism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-introduction" title="Introduction to Skepticism -- The Philosophy of Anti-Foundationalism">Introduction to deconstruction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-teaching-tool-v-orthodoxy" title="Skepticism as a Teaching Tool Versus as an Orthodoxy">As a teaching tool v. orthodoxy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-approach-to-law" title="Skepticism\'s Approach to Legality -- There Is No Law; There is Only Power">What it does to "law"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-vocabulary" title="Mastering Skepticism\'s Vocabulary (Hegemony, Construction, Impulse, Etc.)">Learning the "buzz words"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-two-grammars-of-epistemology" title="Language Wars -- On The Two Grammars of Epistemology">Word pairs for world views?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Applications of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-external-v-internal" title="Two Kinds of Arguments: External Versus Internal Skepticism">Two kinds: external v. internal</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-argument-from-hallucination" title="The Argument From Hallucination: Is The External World ">Argument from hallucination</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/skepticism-fundamental-contradiction-dun" title="\'The Fundamental Contradiction\'(a.k.a. The Duncan Kennedy Fallacy)">"Fundamental contradiction" (Duncan Kennedy fallacy)</a></div></div><span class="qmtitle" >Original Thoughts About These Problems</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Re-conceptualizing Jurisprudence</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Organizing the Approaches</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-summary-of-basic-approache" title="A Summary of the Basic Approaches in Jurisprudence">Summary of basic approaches</a><span class="qmtitle" >Relating Them to Cognition</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-ideation-kantian-influence" title="The First Cognitive Dimension: Ideation (The Kantian Influence on the Mind)">The "Kantian" influence on the mind)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-ostensible-verifiability" title="The Second Dimension of Cognition: Ostensible Verifiability (">Seeing is believing</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-psychology-of-desire" title="The Third Cognitive Dimension: The Psychology of Desire">Desires are what rules</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-three-dimensional-semantic" title="Finding All Three Cognitive Dimensions in Grammar: Three Dimensional Semantics is Always Better Than Two">Three dimensions to semantics?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Implications for "Law"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-the-triangle-law-as-recipe" title="The Triangle -- Is Law a Cognitive Recipe?">"Law" is a cognitive recipe?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/jurisprudence-schools-integrity-ideology" title="Jurisprudence, Schools of Thought and the Big Picture -- Law as Integrity Versus Law as \'Ideology\'">Integrity versus ideology?</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Social Science\'s Ideas</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-theories-of-decision-making" title="Introduction to Behaviorist (Quantitative) Theories of Supreme Court Decision Making">Theories of decision making</a><a href="javascript:void(0);">Who Are The Justices</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-introduction" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices and the Career \'Liberal Ratings\'">Justices and "liberal ratings"</a><span class="qmtitle" >By Appointing President</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-roosevelt-appointees" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices -- The Roosevelt Appointees">Roosevelt appointees</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-truman-appointees" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices -- The Truman Appointees">Truman appointees</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-eisenhower-appointees" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices -- The Eisenhower Appointees">Eisenhower appointees</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-kennedy-and-johnson-appoint" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices -- The Kennedy and Johnson Appointees">Kennedy and Johnson appointees</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-nixon-and-ford-appointees" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices -- Nixon (and Ford) Appointees">Nixon and Ford appointees</a><span class="qmtitle" >Current-Era Members</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/the-justices-the-current-appointees" title="Let\'s Meet the Justices -- The Current Appointees">The current appointees</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">It\'s all Just "Ideology"</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >A Troubling Idea</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">What is "Ideology?"</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-what-is-it-class-discussion" title="Class Discussion -- What is \'Ideology?\'">Class discussion: what is it?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-unit-of-analysis" title="When You Use The Word ">Selecting a unit of analysis</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-what-it-means" title="Ideology -- What Does it Mean and Why is There All the Confusion?">What "ideology" means</a><span class="qmtitle" >Subject Matter of Beliefs?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-as-a-belief-lexicography-of-exe" title="Summary: Ideology as a Belief Lexicography of Exemplar Subjects in American Politics">Lexicography of exemplar subjects in politics</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-lexicographic-typology-of-exemp" title="Ideology as a Lexicographic Typology of Beliefs About Exemplar Subjects in American Politics">Lexicographic typology of exemplars in politics</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-typology-and-atmospheric-postul" title="Class Discussion: Are Your Views on Religion, Epistemology, Ethics or Human Nature Your \'Ideology?\'">Discussion: "atmospheric" postulates</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-typology-and-non-exemplars" title="The Supreme Court Often Decides Non-Exemplars -- What Do You Do With That Problem?">The Court decides non-exemplars?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-judges-and-lexicographic-typolo" title="Class Discussion: Is It Bad For Justices to Have \'Ideology Scores\' -- Especially Where That Only Means Having Opinions on Exemplar Subjects in American Politics?">Discussion: what if judges have high scores?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Justification for Beliefs?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-as-criticismobservation-of-epis" title="Ideology as Criticism of, or Observation About, Epistemology">Criticism/observation of epistemology</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-epistemology-unit-of-analysis" title="Class Discussion: Pragmatism, Ideology, Philosophy and Epistemology -- What\'s the Difference?">Discussion: when epistemology is the unit of analysis</a><span class="qmtitle" >Application of Beliefs?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-casuistry-brief-introduction" title="A Brief Introduction to Casuistry">Intro to casuistry</a><span class="qmtitle" >Underlying Motivation (Passions)?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-as-deficient-psychology-as-bias" title="Ideology as Deficient Psychology (Ideology as Bias)">Deficient brain state (bias)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-attitudes-and-cognition" title="Ideology as Attitudes Within a Deficient Cognitive Path (Ideology as Pathology)">Attitudes and cognition</a><span class="qmtitle" >Social Consequences of Beliefs?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-as-rationalizing-clients" title="deology as Rationalizing Clients in the Political Culture">Rationalizing clients</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Using this idea</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Who Uses It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-rush-limbaugh" title="Is Rush Limbaugh \'Using Ideology\' in This Example?">Rush Limbaugh</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-spock-and-david-gergan" title="Is Spock and David Gergan Using Ideology In These Examples?">Spock and David Gergan</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-pat-buchanan" title="Is Pat Buchanan Using \'Ideology\' in These Examples?">Pat Buchanan</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-boils-down-to-art-appreciation" title="In All of These Examples, What Does it Mean to \'Follow Ideology\' Anyway? Isn\'t This Really a Kind of Art Appreciation?">Boils down to art appreciation?</a><span class="qmtitle" >A Meaningless Idea?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/ideology-follownot-follow-is-meaningless" title="To Follow or Not to Follow Ideology -- Is the Question False to Begin With?">Follow/not follow is meaningless?</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Empirical evidence for</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behavorism-the-docket-liberal-ratings-is" title="An Examination of the Court\'s Docket, The Definition of a \'Liberal Vote,\' and The Justices Career \'Liberal Ratings\'">Dockets, Ratings &amp; issues</a><span class="qmtitle" >Career Liberal Ratings</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-liberal-ratings-for-differen" title="An Examination of Career Liberal Ratings for Justices Across Different Issue Areas">For different subject areas</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-liberal-ratings-problems-wit" title="What Are the Problems With These \'Liberal Ratings\' and Is it Bad For a Justice to Have an Extreme Score?">Problems with, significance of</a><span class="qmtitle" >Newspaper Reputation Scores</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-segalcover-scores" title="A Look at Segal/Cover Scores and Their Problems">Segal/Cover scores</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Paltry Relationship</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behavorism-newspaper-reputation-models" title="The Relationship Between Newspaper Scales and Career Liberal Ratings -- A Whole Lot of Nothing?">The newspaper-reputation model</a></div></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">It\'s Strategy</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Game Theory</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-game-theory" title="An Introduction to Game Theory and How it Might Apply to Supreme Court Decision Making">Explaining game theory</a><span class="qmtitle" >Example Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-game-theory-example-street-v" title="Street v. New York -- Flag Politics, Game Theory and Strange Bedfellows">Street v. New York</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">It\'s Generational Regimes</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-regime-theory" title="An Explanation of Regime Theory -- The Right of Political Generations to Stamp the Court. Is the Politics of Law a Discreet Policy Phenomenon?">Intro to regime theory</a><span class="qmtitle" >Is It True?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-regime-theory-career-ratings" title="Regime Theory -- What Support Might Be Found For it Using Career \'Liberal Ratings?\'">According to career ratings?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-regime-theory-search-and-sei" title="The Best Quantitative Evidence for Regime Theory? An Examination of Search and Seizure Data">Specific issue: search-and-seizure</a><span class="qmtitle" >Is It Bad?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/behaviorism-regime-theory-ethics-of" title="Regime Theory -- Is There Anything Wrong With It? Do Justices Misbehave When They Etch Generational Concerns Into Law?">The ethics of regime theory</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">No, It\'s Structuralism</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is Structuralism?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-introduction" title="An Introduction to Structuralism">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-thinking-as-negating-deriv" title="Structuralism\'s Relationship to Karl Popper\'s Famous Contribution in Philosophy of Science -- Is Thinking Negating?">Thinking as negating (derived from Karl Popper)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structualism-dworkin-structured-discreti" title="Ronald Dworkin -- Structured Discretion and a Refined, Better Concept of \'Law\'">Dworkin: structured discretion and concept of law</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-dworkin-chain-novels-integ" title="Ronald Dworkin -- \'correct\' legal answers, Hercules, Chain Novels, & Integrity">Dworkin: chain novels, integrity, hercules, correct answers</a><span class="qmtitle" >Relating It to Cognition</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-three-dimensions-of-brain" title="Structuralism and the Three Dimensions of Brain Cognition (the Triangle)">Three dimensions of brain cognition (triangle)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-fit-within-a-theory-of-cog" title="Judges and Their Brains -- How Structuralism Fits Within a Larger Theory About the Cognition of Judgment">Fit within a theory of cognition</a><span class="qmtitle" >Implications for "Law"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-implication-for-jurisprude" title="Structuralism\'s Implication for Jurisprudence and its Relationship to \'Neo-Institutionalism\' in Political Science">implication for jurisprudence, ties to neo-institutionalism</a><span class="qmtitle" >Example Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-example-flag-burning-intro" title="Flag Politics and Texas v. Johnson -- an Introduction">Flag burning -- an introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/2008/5/5/24f-flag-politics-smith-v-goguen-and-spence-v-washington-how.html" title="Flag Politics (Smith v. Goguen and Spence v. Washington) -- How Good Results Can Produce Bad Doctrine">Flag burning -- background cases</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-example-flag-burning-scali" title="The Scalia/Kennedy View in Texas v. Johnson -- A Kantian Moment in the Brain?">Flag burning -- Scalia/Kennedy as principled</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-example-flag-burning-rehnq" title="The Rehnquist Dissent in Texas v. Johnson -- A Pathological Moment in the Brain?">Flag burning -- Rehnquist dissent as value laden</a><span class="qmtitle" >Evidence For</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/structuralism-evidence-for-core-politica" title="Core Political Speech -- More evidence of How a Higher Legal Principle Can Transform Judicial Conclusions?">Core political speech</a></div></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremeshow/" title="Lists lectures in the order they were given. Includes introductory segments, class announcements, etc.">View chronological-order page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremearch/" title="webpage containing alphabetized topical index">View topical-index page</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Politics of Trials and Litigation</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >How Do You Want To Search?</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Use These Neat Menus</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Course Information</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is The Course About?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/01b-what-is-this-course-about.html" title="What is This Course About?">How trials and lawsuits "work"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/01c-why-this-course-is-relevant.html" title="Why This Course is Relevant">Why this is relevant to you</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/10/01d-course-organization.html" title="Course Organization">Organization of subject matter</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/course-info-part-ii-of-the-course-introd" title="What Part II of the Course is All About">Part II of the Course (Introduction)</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Professor</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-information-who-is-the-professor" title="Greetings! My Name is Sean Wilson. I\'m Your Professor.">Who is the professor?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/10/01e-teaching-philosophy-and-method.html" title="Teaching Philosophy and Method">Teaching philosophy and method</a><span class="qmtitle" >Course Rules and Helpful Advice</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/01f-course-rules.html" title="(exams, grades, excuses, etc., etc.)">Course rules</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/course-info-field-research-paper" title="Your Field-Research Paper">Course paper</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/course-info-field-research-paper" title="More About Your Field Research Paper">Course paper (more)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/course-info-online-quizzes" title="Your First Quiz!">Online quizzes</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/course-info-online-quizzes" title="(what to expect)">Your midterm examination.</a><span class="qmtitle" >Slide Technique</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/course-info-professors-slide-technique" title="Understanding the Professor\'s Slide Technique: How to Takes Good Notes">Professor\'s Slide Technique</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >The Ritual of the Trial</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Its Purpose and Method</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Legitimizing Sanction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/02d-trial-of-jesus-introduction.html" title="(provides basic background for the story of the trial of Jesus as told in portions of the synoptic gospels">Trial of Jesus (introduction)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/02e-the-trial-of-jesus-showing-the-purpose-of-the-trial.html" title="The Trial of Jesus (showing the purpose of the trial)">Discussion: Why was Jesus tried?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Forms of the Ritual</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/10/02f-trial-of-jesus-trial-procedure.html" title="(discussing the method of Jesus\' trial -- inquisition -- and how this social ritual worked)">Jesus and trial by inquisition</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/02g-the-trial-as-ritual-witch-trials-grace-sherwood.html" title="(discussing trials by dunking and asking: why use this method?)">Salem witch trials (Grace Sherwood)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/04f1-class-discussion-why-do-you-think-we-use-juries.html" title="Class Discussion: Why Do You Think We Use Juries?">Discussion: why do we use juries?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/04f2-why-not-get-rid-of-the-jury-in-the-adversary-system.html" title="Why Not Get Rid of the Jury in the Adversary System?">Why not get rid of juries?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/15/04g-layperson-justice-why-juries-are-used-in-the-adversary-s.html" title="Layperson Justice: Why Juries Are Used in the Adversary System"></a><span class="qmtitle" >The Myth of "Getting Truth"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/03d-does-the-attorneys-role-in-the-adversary-system-subvert-.html" title="Does the Attorney\'s Role in the Adversary System Subvert the Search for Truth?">Do attorneys pursue truth?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/03e-do-civil-settlements-disclose-the-truth.html" title="Do Civil Settlements Disclose the Truth?">Do settlements disclose truth?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/04h-jury-nullification.html" title="Jury Nullification">Does jury nullification get at the truth?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/14/03f-are-adversary-trials-designed-to-maximize-the-truth.html" title="Are Adversary Trials Designed to Maximize the Truth?">Is the goal of the trial really truth?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/15/04i-the-adversary-system-a-layperson-ritual-premised-upon-st.html" title="The Adversary System: A Layperson Ritual Premised Upon Structured Conflict.">Structured conflict, layperson justice</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >The Court System</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Organization, Culture and Task</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/05d-the-rules-of-the-game-what-you-will-learn-about-legal-pr.html" title="The Rules of the Game: What You Will Learn About Legal Procedure">What you can learn from procedure</a><span class="qmtitle" >Trial Courts</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/05e-the-trial-court-and-its-function-in-the-american-judicia.html" title="The Trial Court and Its Function in the American Judiciary">What are they?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/05f-the-magistrate-court-in-the-american-judiciary.html" title="The Magistrate Court in the American Judiciary">Magistrate/small-claims court</a><span class="qmtitle" >Court Systems and Culture</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/05g-the-basic-structure-of-the-state-court-system.html" title="The Basic Structure of the State Court System">The structure of state courts</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/05h-the-federal-court-system-in-the-ameican-judiciary.html" title="The Federal Court System in the Ameican Judiciary">Federal courts</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/05i-the-culture-of-different-courts-in-the-american-judiciar.html" title="The Culture of Different Courts in the American Judiciary">The culture of courts</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Processing The Case</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Game of Procedure</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What\'s The Objective?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/29/06e-getting-perpective-learning-the-trial-court-instruction-.html" title="Getting Perpective: Learning the Trial Court Instruction Manual">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-remedies-and-their-structure" title="How the Legal System Structures Goals and Remedies">Remedies and Their Structure</a><span class="qmtitle" >What Papers Do You File?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/29/07d-getting-perspective-where-we-are-in-the-trial-court-inst.html" title="Getting Perspective: Where We Are In The Trial Court Instruction Manual.">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-pleadings" title="Commencing Litigation: Indictments, Informations, Complaints, Etc.">Pleadings</a><span class="qmtitle" >What Court Do You Want?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-subject-matter-jurisdiction" title="Federal Question and Diversity Jurisdiction">Subject Matter Jurisdiction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-forum-shopping" title="Playing Home and/or Away: the Game of Forum Shopping">Forum Shopping</a><span class="qmtitle" >What\'s Considered "Frivolous?"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-frivolous-cases" title="What Mechanisms Protect You Against Frivolous Lawsuits and Prosecutions?">"Frivolous Cases"</a><span class="qmtitle" >How Do You Build The Case?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/9/30/08d-where-we-are-in-the-trial-court-instruction-manual.html" title="Getting Perspective: Where We Are in The Trial Court Instruction Manual">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-discovery-civil-cases" title="How Discovery Works in Civil Cases">Discovery (Civil Cases)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-discovery-criminal-cases" title="How Discovery Works in Criminal Cases">Discovery (Criminal Cases)</a><span class="qmtitle" >How Do You Settle?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-settling-cases-criminal-civil" title="Settlement Culture in Criminal Versus Civil Cases">Settling Cases (Criminal &amp; Civil)</a><span class="qmtitle" >How to be Declared Victorious</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-summary-judgment" title="Winning Without Combat: Summary Judgment and Other Such Dispositions">Summary Judgment</a><span class="qmtitle" >How The Trial Works</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/10/7/09d-getting-perspective-where-we-are-in-the-trial-court-inst.html" title="Getting Perspective: Where We Are in the Trial Court Instruction Manual">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-jury-selection-process-strateg" title="The Game of Jury Selection: Pools, Qualification, Strikes & Strategy">Jury Selection (Process &amp; Strategy)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-trial" title="Trial Procedure: Opening, Closing, The Case, Jury Indoctrination & Deliberation/Verdict">Trial process</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Proving The Case</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Questing Witnesses</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Technique</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-direct-examination-techniques" title="Techniques in Direct Examination">Direct Examination (Techniques)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-cross-examination-good-techniq" title="The Witness as Parrot: Good Techniques of Cross Examination">Cross Examination (Good Technique)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/procedure-cross-examination-impeachment" title="From Mistake to Lie: Impeaching Witnesses During Cross Examination">Cross Examination (Impeachment)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Rules</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/10/7/10d-introduction-to-the-rules-of-evidence.html" title="Introduction to the Rules of Evidence">Intro to rules of evidence</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-lay-expert-witnesses" title="Lay and Expert Witnesses">Lay &amp; Expert Witnesses</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-objections-form-of-qu" title="Evidence Objections Based Upon the Form of the Question">Objections, Form of Question</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-gamesmanship" title="Move It or Lose It: The Evidence Game">Gamesmanship</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">What You Can\'t Use</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Certain Secrets</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-privileges" title="Secrecy in Evidence: The Law of Privileges">Privileges</a><span class="qmtitle" >Certain "Gossip"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-hearsay" title="The Basic Structure of the Hearsay Rule">Hearsay</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">What You Can\'t Show</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Relevance "Rule"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-relevance-what-is-it-" title="What is Relevance?">Discussion: what is "relevance?"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-relevance-basis-and-a" title="Basis and Anti-Basis: The Peculiar Structure of the Rule of Relevance">It has basis and "anti-basis"</a><span class="qmtitle" >An Example</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/evidence-relevance-photographs" title="Class Discussion: How Many Photos Does the Relevance Rule Require?">Discussion: how many photographs?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Is This Really A "Rule?"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/trial-judging-the-illusion-of-" title="Photographic Evidence: How The Illusion of a Relevance Rule Sanctions Free Choice">The illusion of a "balancing rule"</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Having the Case Judged</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Power of Trial Judges</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Gives Them Discretion</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/12d-why-trial-judges-have-so-much-discretion-examining-appel.html" title="Why Trial Judges Have So Much Discretion: Examining Appellate Standards of Review">Standards of appellate review</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/trial-judging-discretion-abuse" title="The Fiction of Law? Judging Under the Abuse of Discretion Standard">Abuse of discretion standard of review</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/trial-judging-discretion-clear" title="More Judicial Discretion: The Clearly Erroneous Standard of Review">Clearly erroneous standard of review</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/trial-judging-discretion-and-h" title="The Significance of \'Harmless Errors\' and of Trial Discretion">"Harmless error" rule</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/10/21/13c-understanding-the-politics-of-trial-judging-standards-of.html" title="Understanding The Politics of Trial Judging: Standards of Review">Discretion, standards of appellate review</a><span class="qmtitle" >An Example of This Power</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/10/21/13d-umpire-and-participant-understanding-how-review-standard.html" title="Umpire and Participant? Understanding How Review Standards Congifure Judging Choices">Understanding and applying the standards</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/10/21/13e-lawlessness-versus-intelligent-design-the-harnessing-of-.html" title="Lawlessness Versus Intelligent Design: The Harnessing of Local Power Into the Judicial System">Consider this hypothetical</a><span class="qmtitle" >Is This Good or Bad?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/3/14c-trial-judging-summarizing-discretion-and-conceptualizing.html" title="Trial Judging: Summarizing Discretion and Conceptualizing Legality">Discretion is "local power"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/trial-judging-discretion-v-law" title="If Trial Judge Has Discretion, Does that Mean that \'Law\' Fails? (Answer: It Depends)">Does it cheat "law"</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Constructing Your Lawsuit</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Secrets of Contracts</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/3/15d-my-plan-of-attack-for-the-contracts-lectures.html" title="My Plan of Attack for the Contracts Lectures">How I will organize these lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/3/15e-what-are-contracts-all-about.html" title="What are Contracts All About?">Contracts are about business, not morality</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-summary" title="Summary of Contracts Law">Summary</a><span class="qmtitle" >How to Form One</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-prerequisites" title="Prerequisites to Formation (capacity, statute of frauds, legality, etc.)">Prerequisites</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-assent" title="The Basic Rules of Assent"> Offer, acceptance, consideration</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-defenses-to-assent" title="Defenses to Assent (mitake, fraud, etc.) ">Defenses to assent</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-excuses" title="Excuses for Performance (modification, impossibility, frustration, etc.)">Excuses for performance</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-operation-of-law" title="Contracts by Operation of Law">By operation of Law</a><span class="qmtitle" >How to Steal Expectations</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-primacy-of-the-writing" title="The Primacy of the Writing: How Lawyers Steal Your Expectations">Primacy of the writing</a><span class="qmtitle" >What Happens If You Breach</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/4/17d-understanding-contract-damages-and-remedies.html" title="Understanding Contract Damages and Remedies">Damages and remedies</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/4/17e-an-illustration-of-how-contract-damages-work.html" title="An Illustration of How Contract Damages Work">An example</a><span class="qmtitle" >The True Purpose of the Rules</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/contracts-suing-prom-dates" title="The Politics of the Remedy: Suing Prom Dates for Breach of Contract">Suing your prom date</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Torts and the Injury Game</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-introduction" title="What is Tort and Injury Law?">What is a "tort?"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Big Money May Exist</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-damages" title="Understanding Tort Damages (pain and suffering, emotional distress, punitives, etc.)">Understanding how damages work</a><span class="qmtitle" >What To Sue For</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-intentional" title="Intentional Torts (an Introduction)">Intentional injuries</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-non-intentional" title="Non-Intentional Torts (an Introduction)">Accidents</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-theories-of-liability" title="Understanding Theories of Tort Liability (a fault continuum going from strict liability to intentional injuries)">Theories of liability</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-negligence" title="Understanding the Tort of Negligence">Negligence</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-defenses-to-negligence" title="Assumption of the Risk, Comparative Negligence">Defenses to negligence</a><span class="qmtitle" >How To Invent Liability</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/torts-how-to-invent-liability" title="How Lawyers Invent Liability">How lawyers do it</a><span class="qmtitle" >How The Transaction Works</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/4/19h-inside-information-who-gets-the-money-and-how-lawyers-th.html" title="Inside information -- Who Gets the Money and How Lawyers Think About Liability">The fee contract and office talk</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/2007/12/4/20d-the-injury-game-from-an-inside-perspective-what-the-lawy.html" title="The Injury Game From an Inside Perspective -- What the Lawyers do, and Why">Secrets from the inside</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Secrets of Family Law</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Science of "Love"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-love-as-a-chemical-brain-stat" title="(explores brain science evidence and some anthropological evidence for purposes of suggesting a theory about why species become attracted)">Love is a chemical brain state</a><span class="qmtitle" >Marriage and Divorce</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-getting-perspective-about-mar" title="(the history of marriage, high rate of divorce, etc.)">Getting some perspective</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-formation-of-marriage-annulme" title="The Legal Formation of Marriage and Grounds for Annulment">Formation and annulment</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-grounds-for-divorce" title="(explores the basic grounds for obtaining divorce)">Grounds for divorce</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Politics of Money</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-equitable-distribution" title="Sharing Assets and Liabilities: an Introduction to Equitable Distribution">What has to be shared?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-equitable-distribution-term-o" title="Equitable Distribution -- The Game of When the Sharing Ends">When does sharing start and end?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-alimony" title="An Introduction to Alimony (what it is, grounds for, etc.">How does alimony work?</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Politics of Children</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-custody" title="The Politics of Children -- How \'Custody\' Takes Children Away From (Usually Male) Parents">How "custody" works</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-child-support" title="The Politics of Family Transfer Payments -- Are the Incentives Proper?">How child support works</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-shared-parenting-and-encourag" title="Shared Parenting and Fatherhood: How to Reform Custody and Support Laws so That Divorce is Fair to Men.">A better idea: shared parenting</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Dreaded Transaction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/family-law-an-insiders-perpective" title="The Nature of the Divorce Transaction -- An Insider\'s Perspective">an Insider\'s perpective</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Criminal Law</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/category/criminal-law-introduction" title="Introduction to Criminal Law -- Mens Rea & the Actus Reas">Intro to criminal law</a><a href="javascript:void(0);">(other lectures not posted yet)</a></div></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/llsshow/" title="Listed in the order they were presented; includes introductions, class announcements and reviews of the previous-day\'s lectures">View chronological-order page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/search-lectures/" title="webpage containing alphabetized topical index">View topical-index page</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Struggle for Civil Rights in America</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >How Do You Want To Search?</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Use These Neat Menus</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Course Introduction</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What It Is About</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/3/01b-what-the-course-is-about.html">The subject matter</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/3/01d-course-rules.html">Course rules</a><span class="qmtitle" >About the Professor</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/course-introduction-my-teaching-philosop" title="(a whole host of views about what college is supposed to be like. Really is a bit of a rant. Was given for to first and second year students in a lower level class. It was my attempt to battle certain challenges that I sometimes face teaching this generation of students)">My teaching philosophy and method</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/course-information-professors-slide-tech" title="Understanding the Professor\'s Slide Technique: How to Take Good Notes">Professor\'s slide technique</a><span class="qmtitle" >Tips for Success</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/course-information-online-quizzes" title="Your First Quiz">Online quizzes</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Understanding Castigation</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">In History (Humanity)</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is \'Caste?\'</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/10/02d-the-origins-of-social-caste.html" title="(defines castigation and considers its origins in humanity)">What is castigation?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Kinds of Castes</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/10/02e-castigation-through-patriarchy-rome.html" title="(considers the Roman social caste, which was premised upon patriarchy and which castigated both men and women to the \'patar familias\'">Roman patriarchy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/10/02f-clan-driven-social-castes-rome.html" title="(considers the Roman social caste, which was based upon a clan-driven method of organization, as opposed to a rank-order system. The difference is that one is responsive to a \'boss;\' the other in theory ranks each individual person">Clan-driven castigation (in Rome)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/10/02h-rank-order-castigation-aristocracy-and-feudalism.html" title="(demonstrates the feudal aristocratic caste system, which was based in theory upon each individual having his or her own rank in society">Rank-order castigation (aristocracy)</a><span class="qmtitle" >How Culture Precedes "Rights"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/10/02g-gender-in-rome.html" title="(demonstrates how the concept of \'rights\' is defined by culture)">Gender and rights construction in Rome</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >The American Revolution</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">What It Promised, In Theory</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03d-getting-perspective-the-american-revolution-in-theory-ve.html" title="Getting Perspective: The American Revolution in Theory Versus Fact">Two ways to intepret 1776</a><span class="qmtitle" >History Of</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03e-the-midieval-world-and-its-ancient-political-order.html" title="The Midieval World and Its Ancient Political Order">The world before "rights"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03f-the-great-ideals-of-the-enlightenment.html" title="The Great Ideals of the Enlightenment">The Enlightenment</a><span class="qmtitle" >Idealism</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03g-the-enlightened-idealism-of-the-american-revolution.html" title="The Enlightened Idealism of the American Revolution">Ending artificial castes</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03h-ending-social-deference-in-the-new-republic.html" title="Ending Social Deference in the New Republic">Ending social deference</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03i-meritocracy-the-new-social-order-in-post-colonial-americ.html" title="Meritocracy: The New Social Order in Post-Colonial America?">Advancement by merit</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Contradiction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/03j-the-great-contradiction-liberty-from-slaveholders.html" title="The Great Contradiction -- Liberty from Slaveholders?">Liberty for slaveholders?</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Those Being Marginalized</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Race</a><div><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Framers, Race and Slavery</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >How Slavery Started</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/16/04e-understanding-labor-relationships-in-colonial-america.html" title="Understanding Labor Relationships in Colonial America">Colonial labor relationships</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/16/04f-how-slavery-emerged-in-colonial-america.html" title="How Slavery Emerged in Colonial America">How slavery started</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/16/04g-the-transaction-americans-buying-and-selling-other-human.html" title="The Transaction: Americans Buying and Selling Other Humans.">The "transaction"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/9/16/04h-american-slavery-facts-figures-and-statistics.html" title="American Slavery -- Facts, Figures and Statistics.">Facts and figures</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Views of The Culture</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-post-colonial-american-attitudes" title="Attitudes About Race and Slavery in Post-Colonial America">Post-colonial attitudes</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Views of Key Elites</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-framers-alexander-hamiltons-views">Alexander Hamilton</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-framers-ben-franklins-views">Ben Franklin</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-framers-john-and-abigail-adams" title="John and Abigail Adams on Slavery and Race Discrimination">John and Abigail Adams</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-framers-thomas-jefferson" title="The Ugly Virginian: Thomas Jefferson, Slavery and Race">Thomas Jefferson</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-framers-george-washington" title="The Redemptive Virginian: George Washington, Slavery and Race">George Washington</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Constitution</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT POSTED YET">(not posted yet)</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Quaker Petition</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT POSTED YET">(not posted yet)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Through the 1800s</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Slavery Grows More Powerful</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-why-slavery-didnt-die-in-the-1800s" title="Why Slavery Didn\'t Die Naturally in the 1800s (cotton gin; spinning \'jinny\')">Why slavery didn\'t die in the 1800s</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-missouri-compromise" title="America\'s Second Bandaid: The Missouri Compromise">The Missouri Compromise</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-andrew-jackson" title="The Pro-Slavery Hegemony: Andrew Jackson and Race. [note: there is much better treatment of Jackson in the presidency class.]">Andrew Jackson,"agrarian hegemony"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Dred Scott</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-dred-scott-fugitives-liberty-laws-a" title="Fugitives, Liberty & Comity: Understanding the Legal Issues That Create Dred Scot">Fugitives, liberty laws and comity</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-dred-scot" title="The History of Dred Scot and the Ideology of the Decision">Dred Scot (history. ideology)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Lincoln, War, Hope and Justice</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-1850s-intense-disputes-about-slaver" title="Democracy Begins to Fail: The Slavery Issue Explodes in the 1850s">1850s, intense disputes about slavery</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-lincoln-and-the-war" title="Lincoln and the Civil War (Quick Summary)">Lincoln and the War</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-emancipation-proclamation" title="Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.[covers why didn\'t Lincoln didn\'t emancipate all slaves]">Emancipation Proclamation</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-reconstruction" title="Reconstruction: Signs of A New Political Order in the South.">Reconstruction: a new south?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-slaverysharecropping-economics" title="The Economics of Slavery Versus Sharecropping. Does it Matter That the Economic Situation Did Not Change?">Economics: slavery v. sharecropping</a><span class="qmtitle" >Politics and the Failure of Law</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-civil-war-amendments">Civil War amendments</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-equal-protection-majority-pathos-in" title="Was Majority Pathos The Greatest Flaw In the Framer\'s Exeriment After Democratization? Also, Will the Ritual of Another Act of Legality Change Society in the South? That is, Will Law Prevail Where Culture Cannot?">Equal Protection (majority pathos &amp; legalism)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-reconstruction-ends" title="The Politics of Law: The End of Reconstruction">Reconstruction ends</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-civil-rights-cases-of-1873" title="America\'s First Anti-Discrimination Statute and The Civil Rights Cases of 1873.">Civil Rights Cases (of 1873)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/10/1/08h-law-without-police-the-lessons-of-cruikshank.html" title="Law Without Police: The Lessons of Cruikshank">Cruikshank -- "law" without police</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/09e-cruikshank-revisited.html">Cruikshank revisited</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-plessy" title="Separate But Equal: Plessy\'s History, the Creoles and Harlan\'s Dissent">The story of Plessy</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Through the 1900s</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Organization, Education and Social Change</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-transformation-of-attitudes-in-the" title="The Ice Begins to Thaw: Race and Social Transformation in the 1900s">Transformation of attitudes in the 1900s</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-political-organization-naacp-howard" title="Organizing The Resistance: The NAACP, Howard Law School & Thurgood Marshall">Political Organization (NAACP, Howard Law School)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-attacking-segregation-litigation-st" title="Attacking Segregation: The NAACP Litigation Strategy">Attacking Segregation (litigation strategy)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-brown-v-board-of-education" title="Victory at Last? -- Brown v. Board of Education">The historic case of Brown v. Bd</a><span class="qmtitle" >Symbolism and Double Talk?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-brown-v-bd-brown-ii-pragmatism" title="The Fine Print: Brown II, Pragmatism & Double Talk">Brown II &amp; "pragmatism")</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-brown-v-bd-southern-resistance" title="The Southern Resistance: Faubus, Little Rock, Manifestos & Hatred">The southern resistance</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-brown-v-bd-hollow-hope-rosenberg-ha" title="Was Brown a Failure? -- Gerald Rosenberg and Alexander Hamilton">The Hollow Hope and Hamilton</a><span class="qmtitle" >Free at Last, Free at Last?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-civil-rights-movement" title="Peaceful and Determined Disobedience: The Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/10h-victory-at-last-the-passage-of-the-civil-rights-act.html" title="Victory at Last: The Passage of the Civil Rights Act">Passage of the 1964 act</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/11d-passing-the-civil-rights-act.html" title="passing the act (continued)">Passage of the act (continued)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-dr-king" title="The Virtues of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.">Doctor King</a><span class="qmtitle" >Why This Law Is Different</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-civil-rights-act-what-it-does" title="What the Civil Rights Act Does">Civil Rights Act (what it does)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-discrimination-lawsuits-how-they-wo" title="Discrimination Lawsuits: Basic Features and How They Work">Discrimination lawsuits (how they work)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-statistical-discrimination-avoiding" title="Statistical Discrimination: Fallacies in Reasoning With Aggregate Statistics">Avoiding statistic-reasoning fallacies</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/11i-the-effect-of-civil-rights-laws-keeping-track-of-employm.html" title="The Effect of Civil Rights Laws: Keeping Track of Employment Numbers">The law\'s effect: watching numbers</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/10/29/12d-the-effect-of-the-civil-rights-act-continued.html" title="The Effect of the Civil Rights Act (continued)">The law\'s effect (continued)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Affirmative Action and Bill Cosby</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-affirmative-action" title="Affirmative Action: the Issues and Debate">Discussion: affirmative action</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-affirmative-action-bakke" title="The Bakke Case">The Bakke case</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-bill-cosbycontroversial-statements" title="The Controversy Surrounding Bill Cosby\'s Observations">Bill Cosby (controvery)</a></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/race-civil-rights-policy-analysis" title="Policy Analysis: How Civil Rights Policy Change Happened Over Time">Policy Analysis</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Gender</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Philosophic Issue</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/13d-class-discussion-are-men-and-women-distinct-or-basically.html" title="Class Discussion: Are Men and Women Distinct or Basically the Same?">Discussion: is gender special or irrelevant?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/13e-the-central-problem-is-gender-special-or-irrelevant.html" title="The Central Problem: Is Gender Special or Irrelevant?">Two views: "I\'m special; I\'m the same"</a><span class="qmtitle" >A Patriarchal Caste</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-conceptualizing-caste" title="Conceptualizing Gender\'s Caste (how it is different from race and other castes)">Conceptualizing gender\'s caste</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-patriarchy" title="The Basic Problem: Patriarchy and the \'Woman\'s Sphere\'">The problem of patriarchy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-patriarchy-in-marriage" title="(historical examples of patriarchy in marriage)">Patriarchy in marriage</a><span class="qmtitle" >Education and Suffrage</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-education-of-women-in-1800s" title="The Education of Women in the 1800s">Education of Women in 1800s</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-suffrage-movement" title="The Call for Suffrage">Suffrage Movement</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/2007/11/10/14i-policy-analysis-comparing-the-struggles-of-race-and-gend.html" title="Policy Analysis: Comparing the Struggles of Race and Gender">Policy analysis: is gender\'s path different?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Shedding Patriarchy</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-feminist-movement-modern" title="Shedding Essentialism and Patriarchy: The Modern Feminist Movement">Modern feminist movement</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Court and Its Culture</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-supreme-court-early-cases" title="Legalizing the Patriarchal Caste:The Early Supreme Court">The Court legitimizes patriarchy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-supreme-court-modern" title="Legalizing Modernity: the Supreme Court and the Modern Era">The Court legitimizes modernity</a><span class="qmtitle" >Fairness For Men, Too?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-women-athletics" title="Class Discussion: Women Athletics and Gender Fairness">Discussion: separtism in athletics</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-divorce-laws" title="Divorce Law and Gender Fairness [a (very) brief consideration]">Children and family law</a><span class="qmtitle" >Policy Analysis</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gender-policy-analysis" title="Policy Analysis: Theorizing How Gender Fairness Changed Over Time">Policy Analysis</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By National Origin</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Asians</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/asians-introduction" title="Asian Americans and Discrimination -- an Introduction">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/asians-japanese-internments" title="Korematzu and the World War II Japanese Internments. [Note: a better version of this story is in con law I].">Japanese Internments</a><span class="qmtitle" >Jews</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT READY YET">(not posted yet)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Europeans</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT READY YET">(not posted yet)</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Melting Pot?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/melting-pot-american-absorption-of-ident" title="America the Melting Pot? An Interesting Parodox.">Is America a "melting pot?"</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Sexual Orientation</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Central Issue?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gays-science-morality-politics" title="Class Discussion: Gays, Science, Morality & Politics. [Note: this segment is too long and should have been broken up. Also, the slide timings appear to be off]">Discussion: Science, Morality &amp; Politics</a><span class="qmtitle" >History, Sodomy &amp; Marriage</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gays-considering-the-rights-struggle" title="The Gay Rights Struggle -- Some Preminary Thoughts">How is this struggle different?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gays-history-sodomy-the-court" title="Gays, History, Sodomy & the Court">History, Sodomy &amp; the Court</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/gays-marriage-romer-v-evans" title="More Legal Issues -- Gay Marriage, the Court & Obstructing Future Generations">Marriage, Romer v. Evans</a><span class="qmtitle" >Transgender</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT READY YET">(not posted yet)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Beliefs</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >About Religion</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/religion-philosophy-conceptualization" title="Class Discussion: What is Religion and How to Conceptualize Discrimination">Discussion: what is religious discrimination?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/religion-history-of" title="Toleration or Not? -- The History of Religon in America">History of freedom and discrimination</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/religion-discrimination-supreme-court-ca" title="Confusing Results: The Supreme Court and Religious Discrimination in America">The Court and entitlement</a><span class="qmtitle" >About The Unpopular</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT READY YET">(not posted yet)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Class</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Labor</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/labor-before-industrialization" title="Colonial and Post-Colonial Labor Relationships">Before industrialization</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/labor-social-transformation-of" title="Industrialization and The Social Transformation of Labor in America in the 1800s">Social transformation of</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/labor-history-of-unions-strikes">History of unions &amp; strikes</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/category/labor-presidents-the-court" title="The President, the Court & Labor -- Yet Another Lesson in Cultural Transformation">Presidents &amp; the Court</a><span class="qmtitle" >The Poor</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT READY YET">(not posted yet)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Citizenship</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Native Americans</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT POSTED YET">(not posted yet)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Illegal Aliens</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT POSTED YET">(not posted yet)</a><span class="qmtitle" >"Enemy Combatants"</span><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT POSTED YET">(not posted yet)</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">By Personhood</a><div><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOT POSTED YET">(not posted yet)</a></div></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/scrshow/" title="Lists lectures in order that they were given. Includes introductory segments">View chronological-order page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lecture-archive/" title="webpage containing alphabetized topical index">View topical-index page</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">American Presidency</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >How Do You Want To Search?</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Use These Neat Menus</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Course Introduction</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What It Is About</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/course-introduction-what-the-course-is-a" title="(three things: history of the institution, behavior and resources, and constitutional law">The subject matter</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/course-introduction-course-rules">Course rules</a><span class="qmtitle" >About the Professor</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/course-introduction-how-i-approach-polit" title="(use history and philosophy to develop the subject matter \'political science\' is not its own \'science\')">My approach to "political science"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/professors-slide-technique" title="Understanding the Professor\'s Slide Technique: How to Take Good Notes">Professor\'s slide technique </a><span class="qmtitle" >Tips for Success</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/online-quizzes" title="Your First Quiz!">Online quizzes</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Creating the Presidency</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">How it Happened</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What is a "President?"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/2007/9/10/02da-what-is-a-president-class-discussion.html" title="(class discussion: what do you need to have a \'president\' in the first place?)">Discussion: what is a "president?"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/2007/9/10/02db-what-is-a-president-answers.html" title="What is a ">The answers</a><span class="qmtitle" >Early Forms of "Executive" Power</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/precursors-to-presidents-the-roman-repub" title="Precursors to Presidents: The Emergence of the Roman Republic">The Roman Republic</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/precursors-to-presidents-the-romon-consu" title="The Roman Consul">The Roman Consul</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/precursors-to-presidents-kings-and-monar" title="Conceptualizing Monarchical Power">Kings and monarchs</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-power-history-of-s" title="The History of Power Sharing in Governments">History of separation of powers</a><span class="qmtitle" >Structuring the New Institution</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-authority-how-brit" title="The Structure of Britain\'s Rule Over Her Colonies (royal governors, privy council, etc.)">How Britain structured rule of her colonies</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-authority-early-po" title="Early Experiments in American Executive Design (plural executives, parliamentary systems)">American experiments in executive authority</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-authority-the-fram" title="Debating the Executive at the Constitutional Convention">The framers dilemma</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-power-article-ii" title="An Introduction to Article II">A quick look at Article II</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-authority-the-inte" title="\'The Dog on the Chain\' -- The Architectural Compromise in Executive Design">The interesting compromise -- "the dog on the chain"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/structuring-executive-authority-unresolv" title="The Unresolved Questions Surrounding America\'s New Chief Executive">Unresolved questions</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Developing the Presidency</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Washington and Nationhood</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Introduction</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/washington-and-nationhood-why-study-wash" title="Why Study Washington and Historical Presidents?">Why study Washington?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/washington-and-nationhood-washington-the" title="An Introduction to Washington (the person)">Washington the person</a><span class="qmtitle" >French/Indian War</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/frenchindian-war-the-ohio-country" title="The \'Ohio Country:\' France v. Great Britain">The Ohio Country</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/frenchindian-war-the-early-journeys-to-w" title="Washington\'s Early Journeys to Western Pennsylvania">The early journeys to western PA</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/frenchindian-war-the-braddock-campaign" title="Washington and the Braddock Campaign (Braddock is slaughtered and Washington survives the battle, his stature once again elevated)">The Braddock campaign</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/washington-and-nationhood-the-virginia-b" title="Washington and the \'Virginia Blues\' (the creation of a disciplined \'special-ops\' militia force in Virginia">The "Virginia Blues"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/frenchindian-war-the-forbes-campaign" title="Washington and the Forbes Campaign (Forbes takes Washington\'s key advice, and they win easily)">The Forbes campaign</a><span class="qmtitle" >American Revolution</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/revolutionary-war-pre-game-show" title="The Pregame Show: How Could Part-Time Farmers Defeat the British Empire?">David prepares for Goliath</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/revolutionary-war-the-1st-quarter" title="The First Quarter: Mistakes, Confrontation, Surprise and Retreat">Beaten, defeated and still attacking</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/revolutionary-war-the-2nd-quarter" title="The Second Quarter: Saratoga and the French">Saratoga, the French and asymmetrical warfare</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/revolutionary-war-the-3rd-quarter" title="The Third Quarter: Cold Winters, Mutinies and Despair for the Revolutionary Cause">Harsh winters, better troops &amp; mutanites</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/revolutionary-war-the-4th-quarter" title="The Fourth Quarter: America\'s Accidental Victory Against Britain">The strange "victory"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Building Nationhood</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/2007/10/2/05i-the-newburg-conspiracy-washington-rejects-the-american-t.html" title="The Newburg Conspiracy: Washington Rejects the American Throne">The Newburg Conspiracy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/washingtons-presidency" title="Washington\'s Presidency: Leading by Example">Washington\'s presidency</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/washington-national-tour" title="Building Nationhood: Washington and the National Tour">The National Tour</a><span class="qmtitle" >Race and Slavery</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/washington-and-race" title="Washington and Race: Redemption and Virtue at Mount Vernon">Washington redeems himself?</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Thomas Jefferson</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >History or Myth?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jefferson-the-person-the-myth" title="History Versus Myth: An Introduction to Jefferson">Jefferson the person &amp; the myth</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jefferson-summary" title="(summary of the lectures)">Jefferson -- a summary</a><span class="qmtitle" >Ideology and Failures</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jefferson-his-outlandish-views" title="Jefferson\'s Fixatious Views: Women, Crime, Race, Indians and More">His outlandish views</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jeffersons-failures" title="Jefferson\'s Failures: Finance, Farming, Plagiarism & Protecting Virginia">His many failures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jefferson-his-ideology" title="Jefferson the Ideologue: A Virtuous Agrarian Slave Republic Forever?">"Agrarian Ideology"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jefferson-formation-of-politic" title="Jefferson the Partisan: The Formation of Political Parties">Formation of political parties</a><span class="qmtitle" >His Presidency</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/jefferson-the-presidency" title="Jefferson the President: Federal Power, Success & Failure">His presidency</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Andrew Jackson</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Person</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/andrew-jackson-the-person" title="Andrew Jackson the Person: The Making of Old Hickery">The person</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/andrew-jackson-war-hero" title="Andrew Jackson the War Hero">The war hero</a><span class="qmtitle" >His Presidency</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/andrew-jackson-agrarian-ideolo" title="Jackson Becomes President: America\'s Second Ascension of Agrarian Ideology">"Agrarian ideology" wins again</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/andrew-jackson-presidency">Jackson\'s administration</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Progressivism Arrives</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Background</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/presidency-late-1800s-dominate" title="Congress\' Clerk? -- The Presidency in the Late 1800s">The Congress\' clerk?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/progressive-movement" title="The Birth of Political-Party Liberalism in America: Progressivism Emerges in the 1900s">The "progressive movement"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Teddy Roosevelt</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/theodore-roosevelt-the-person" title="Theodore Roosevelt: The Enthused, Courageous & Ethnocentric Reformer">The person</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/theodore-roosevelt-the-preside" title="America\'s First Progressive: Theodore Roosevelt, the Bully Pulpit & the Square Deal">The presidency </a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/progressivism-taft-fumbles-it-" title="Republicans Fumble Progressivism: Taft\'s Betrayal and the Bull Moose Party">Republicans fumble progressivism</a><span class="qmtitle" >Woodrow Wilson</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/woodrow-wilson-the-person" title="Woodrow Wilson: The Accidental Progressive and \'Southern Gentleman\'">The person</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/woodrow-wilson-presidency" title="The Democrats Become Progressive: The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson">The presidency</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">FDR and the Modern Presidency</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Background</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/roaring-20s-conservative-presi" title="The Calm Before the Storm: Conservative Presidents and Laissez Faire">Roaring 20s &amp; laissez faire</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/the-great-depression" title="Capitalism Finally Breaks: The Great Depression">The Great Depression</a><span class="qmtitle" >FDR the Person</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/franklin-roosevelt-the-person" title="\'A Christian and a Democrat:\' An Introduction to Franklin Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt -- The person</a><span class="qmtitle" >The FDR Presidency</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/fdr-the-new-deal-and-its-domin" title="The New American Hegemony: FDR and the New Deal">The New Deal dominates American politics</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/fdr-secondthird-and-fourth-ter" title="FDR -- The Second, Third and Fourth Terms">FDR after the first term</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/fdr-helping-britain-getting-in" title="Helping Britain: How FDR Cleverly Positioned America Toward Entering World War II">Helping Britain and getting into war</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/fdr-conlcuding-thoughts" title="(mostly, stuff I forgot to include in the other lectures!)">FDR -- conlcuding thoughts</a><span class="qmtitle" >What It All Means</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/fdr-how-new-deal-ideology-changed-the-pr" title="How New-Deal Ideology Changed the Presidency">Transformation of the presidency</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/fdr-the-modern-presidency-as-new-deal-id" title="The Modern Presidency is Nothing But New Deal Ideology">The modern presidency arrives</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Electing a President</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">How The Process Evolved</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Electoral College</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/elections-electoral-college-history" title="The Electoral College as the Hall of Fame">The Electoral College\'s original intent</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/elections-washington-and-virtue" title="America\'s First Presidential Selection: Washington, Virtue and Non-Partisanship">Washington\'s "hall of fame" election</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/elections-partisanship-arrives" title="Electing a President: The Partisan Model Arrives With Jefferson in 1800">The partisan model arrives</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/elections-electoral-college-process" title="The Mechanics of Electoral College, and What Happens if Elections Tie (again and again)">How the process works</a><span class="qmtitle" >Nomination System</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nomination-history-of" title="The Democratization of the Nomination Process: From King Caucus to Primaries">Development of nominating</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nomination-new-hampshire" title="Is it Fair for New Hampshire to Have All of That Power?">Is New Hampshire too powerful</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Governing</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Poll Numbers</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-truman" title="The Poll Numbers of Harry Truman">Truman</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-eisenhower" title="The Poll Numbers of Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-john-kennedy" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy">John Kennedy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-lyndon-johnson" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-richard-nixon" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-gerald-ford" title="The Poll Numbers of Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-jimmy-carter" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-reagan" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-george-i" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of George I">George I</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-clinton" title="The Presideny and Poll Numbers of Bill Clinton">Clinton</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/poll-numbers-george-ii" title="The Presidency and Poll Numbers of George II">George II</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Congress</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Controlling Congress</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/controlling-congress-how-to" title="How Presidents Can Control Congress">How presidents attempt it</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/controlling-congress-comparing-carter-an" title="(Reagan was more successful with divided government than Carter was with unified government">Comparing Carter and Reagan</a><span class="qmtitle" >Congress is Lame?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/congress-attempts-at-reassertion" title="Congress Tries to Beef Up in Modern World, Too">Trying to reassert itself</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/congress-budgeting-and-failure" title="Congress and the Budget -- An Appaling Tale of the Failure of Leadership">Budgeting and failure in leadership</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/congress-legislative-veto" title="More Congressional Failure -- The Legislative Veto">The legislative veto</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/congress-can-it-ever-lead-again" title="Can Congress Ever Be the Leader Again?">Can Congress ever lead again?</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">The Execuive Bureaucracy</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/executive-bureaucracy-the-cabi" title="The President\'s Cabinet: Why Isn\'t It More Useful?">The Cabinet</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/executive-bureaucracy-executiv" title="The \'Second Government?\' The Construction of The Executive Office of the President">The Executive Office of the President</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/executive-bureaucracy-white-ho" title="The President\'s Most Intimate Servants: The White House Staff">The White House Staff</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Decision Making</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/2007/11/10/13d-john-fitzgerald-kennedy-an-introduction.html" title="(the person, the war hero, camelot, etc.)">Introduction to John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/2007/11/10/13e-prelude-to-the-bay-of-pigs-communists-and-the-red-scare.html" title="Prelude to the Bay of Pigs: Communists and the Red Scare">The "red scare"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/2007/11/10/13f-the-bay-of-pigs-and-presidential-decision-making.html" title="The Bay of Pigs and Presidential Decision Making">Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/decision-making-kennedy-and-the-cuban-mi" title="The Cuban Missile Crisis and Presidential Decision Making">Cuban missile crisis</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Power and The Rule of Law</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/presidential-power-and-the-rule-of-law" title="(discusses ways that the president could be above the law, legally)">Pardons, Impeachment, Investigation, etc.</a><a href="javascript:void(0);">Nixon and Watergate</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >The Person</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nixon-introduction" title="Psychology, Drama, Pragmatism and Ideology -- An Introduction to Richard Milhouse Nixon">A complicated psychology</a><span class="qmtitle" >The President</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nixon-domestic-presidency" title="Nixon\'s Domestic Presidency -- Where Did the Ideologue Go?">His domestic presidency</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nixon-foreign-policy" title="Nixon and Foreign Policy -- His Greatest Accomplishments?">Foreign-policy presidency(1)</a><span class="qmtitle" >Watergate</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nixon-watergate" title="Nixon and Watergate -- an American Political Drama">The Watergate Scandal</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/nixon-what-watergate-really-was" title="What Watergate Really Was -- Powerholders Subverting Democracy and Dissent">What Watergate really Was</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="NOTE: some of these lectures are not posted yet. Whether they are or are not, better versions of them can be seen in con law I">War and Emergency Powers</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Starting War</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/war-power-who-can-start-war" title="Who Has The Power to Start War In the American System of Government?">Who really has this power? </a><span class="qmtitle" >Power During War</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/war-power-an-introduction" title="Presidents, War & Power -- An Introduction">An Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/war-power-lincoln-the-civil-war" title="(does law matter in a time of war?)">Lincoln &amp; the Civil War </a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/war-power-suspending-habeas-corpus-ex-pa" title="Suspending Habeas Corpus -- The Milligan Principle">Habeas Corpus and Milligan</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/war-power-japanese-internment-korematzu" title="Fred Korematzu and The Japanese Internment">Japanese Internment, Korematzu</a></div></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/pshow/" title="Lists by order the lectures were given. Includes introduction, class announcements, reviews of previous lectures, etc.">View chronological-order page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lecture-archive/" title="webpage containing alphabetized topical index">View topical-index page</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Research Presentations</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Midwest 2007</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lecture-archive/" title="(This is when I was interested in showing how the language of even something relatively vague like the Bill of Rights could structure how legal decisions might be made, even when no higher court or institution was present to directly police the legal decision makers. I\'m not currently interested in this anymore. I\'ve shelved the idea for something more important.)">How Legal Words Cognitively Structure Choice</a></div></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Blog</a><div><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span><span class="qmtitle" >Which One?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/pdshow/" title="My thoughts to myself">Pontification</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/email-archive/" title="My thoughts to others">Emailed Thoughts</a><span class="qmtitle" >Just Some Stuff</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Use These Neat Menus</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >My Thoughts:</span><a href="javascript:void(0);title=">Intellectual Issues</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >About Philosophy</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">In General</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Method and Craft</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-method-and-craft-compared-to" title="comparing how philosophy finds something versus how mathematics does">Compared to mathematics</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-method-and-craft-nature-of" title="considering the nature of philosophy\'s craft">The nature of</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-method-and-craft-picture-digg" title="thoughts about my own struggles with philosophizing">A picture of digging</a><span class="qmtitle" >Wittgenstein</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-styles-of-wittgenstein-versus" title="comparing the styles of Wittgenstein and Jefferson">Comparing Ludwig and Jefferson</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-wittgenstein-understanding-hi">Understanding his way of talking</a><span class="qmtitle" >Language</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-language-modular-reference">A modular theory of reference</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-language-modular-designati">A modular theory of designation</a><span class="qmtitle" >Political Philosophy</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/political-philosophy-what-is-it">What is it?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Rorty</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-rorty-poor-abilities" title="Rorty has become some poster child for those who either don\'t have great philosophic abilities (pragmatists) or those acadmeics who desire a version of left wing skepticism that avoids some its rather moronic pitfalls in the 1980s. My thoughts on Rorty are what they are: he was not a very good philosopher">Rorty\'s poor abilities</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Jurisprudence</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Approaches to Legal Epistemology</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-history-of-legal-justi" title="helps conceptualize whether judging has correct answers. There are four basic approaches here: classical determinism, progressive determinism, structuralism and skepticism">Does "law" have correct answers?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-positivism-and-natural" title="email group discussion">Positivism and natural law in history</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-what-political-science">What political science says about jurisprudence</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/structuralism-preliminary-thoughts-about">structuralism -- preliminary thoughts about</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-history-of-legal-justi">as a theory in jurisprudence</a><span class="qmtitle" >Originalism and "Neo-Originalism"</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-why-conservatives-shou" title="email group discussion">Why conservatives should fear original legal orthodoxy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-the-merits-of-neoorigi" title="email group discussion">The merits of NeoOriginalism</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-original-meaning-requi" title="email group discussion">Original meaning requires natural law and metaphysics</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/2008/7/1/why-an-originalist-cant-want-the-constitution-to-mean-what-p.html" title="email group discussion: Why an \'Originalist\' Can\'t Want the Constitution to Mean What Popular Expectations Were in 1787 American Culture">Why original public understandings are "unoriginal"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Law and Language</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/2006/6/2/gradiency-in-legal-sentences.html">"Gradiency" in legal sentences</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/law-language-language-games-4th-amendmen">4th Amendment language games</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Bias/Judgment</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Philosophy of Bias</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-bias-is-ideology-a-behavio">Is ideology a behavior?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-bias-values-versus-princip">Values v. principles?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-bias-what-is-politically-c">What is "politically correct?"</a><span class="qmtitle" >Philosophy of Judgment</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/casuistry-project-introduction" title="(this is a project that I am currently working on)">Introduction</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/casuistry-project-what-is-casuistry">What is "casuistry?"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/casuistry-project-postulate-frame-and-ca">Postulate frame and the casuistry matrix</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/casuistry-project-relationship-between-f">Relationship between frame and matrix</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >About Political Science</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">In General</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >What Is It?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/political-science-what-is-it">What is political science?</a><span class="qmtitle" >Potential Problems?</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/political-science-failure-to-cumulate-kn">Failure to cumulate knowledge?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/political-science-quantitative-methods-p">Quantitative work in law schools</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-the-journals-magazine">"Magazine knowledge"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/political-science-why-dont-we-brief-empi">Why not brief empirical studies?</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Judicial Politics"</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-do-justices-vote" title="notes in wittgensteinian format">Do justices "vote?"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-what-is-policy-prefere" title="notes in wittgensteinian format">What is "policy preference?"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-law-matters" title="was the intro do my dissertation. I was turning it into a book, but have since haulted this project">Law matters</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/philosophy-of-law-what-political-science">What political science says about jurisprudence</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">"Attitudinal Model"</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Problems With Theorizing</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-lang" title="This is just me blogging about the subject">Attitudinal theory is a language game</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinalism-cogniti" title="email group discussion">Attitudinalism, cognition and trial courts</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-conf" title="email group discussion">Attitudinal theory is confused</a><span class="qmtitle" >Problems With Models and Interpretation</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-so-c" title="demonstrates problems with the thinking that forms the basis of this model">The so-called "case facts model"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-hist" title="recalls the strange fascination political scientists had with bivariate ecological regression models in the 1990s and beyond">The history of bivariate regression</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-ecological-inference-i" title="Looking at why ecological inference can be tricky">Ecological inference in ideology models</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-ecological-v-logit-lib" title="Comparing model predictions">Ecological v. logit</a><span class="qmtitle" >The True Relationship Between These Variables</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-the" title="empiricism without the exaggerated results">The true relationship between scores and "votes"</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-ideology-models-affect" title="this one shows that it only takes 12.5% of the \'votes\' to produce the explained variance in the R-squared of an ecological model">Ideology models affect only 12.5% of the votes since 1948</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-if-s" title="what the model would look like if newspaper-reputation scores were perfectly accurate in a hypothetical world">What if Segal/Cover scores were perfect?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-attitudinal-model-what" title="what \'voting\' would look like if justices really followed their reputation scores">What if justices really voted that way?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-why-ideology-models-fa">Why ideology models fail (too many centrists)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-segalcover-scores-what" title="This is a bit dated. My thoughts have moved beyond this. See my recent SSRN paper.">What are Segal/Cover scores measuring anyway?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/judicial-politics-segalcover-scores-stat" title="fooling around with some data back in the day when I was doing that">Segal/cover scores statistically insignificant for some years</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Other Academic Topics</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">American Colonial History</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/american-colonial-history-colonial-willi" title="the place has a nasty bias in favor of anti-federalism. It might even be thought of as a form of Virginian propaganda">Colonial Williamsburg is ideologically biased</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/american-colonial-history-democracy-and" title="(sent to an email group)">Don\'t apply democratic theory to the constitution</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Constitutional Law</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/constitutional-law-suspension-clause-com" title="(sent to an email group)">The suspension/commerce clause &amp; liberal legal culture</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Academia</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/academia-what-the-60s-generation-did-to" title="(sent to an email group">What the 60s generation did to academia</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/constitutional-law-suspension-clause-com" title="(sent to an email group)">Liberal legal culture\'s suspension-and-commerce-clause rhetoric</a></div></div><span class="qmtitle" >My Life</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">My Diary</a><div><span class="qmtitle" >Father and Daughter</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/diary-jam-session-father-and-jocelyn-the">Guitar jam session (first ever!)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/diary-jocelyns-new-guitar">Jocelyn\'s new guitar</a><span class="qmtitle" >Music</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/diary-ted-mccloskey-and-hi-fis">Ted McCloskey and Hi-Fi\'s</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >My Research</span><a href="javascript:void(0);">Chicago Paper, 2008</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/category/research-chicago-paper-2008-nonsense-of" title="(my latest research, as of April 2008. I\'ve officially moved in another direction.)">Nonsense of Quantitative Ideology Models</a></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/research-agenda/">Research web page</a><span class="qmtitle" >About Football</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/nfl-football/" title="this is a discussion board. Feel free to join in">Discussion Board</a><span class="qmtitle" >About Movies</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/movie/" title="this is a discussion board. Feel free to join in">Discussion Board</a></div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/home/">View latest entry</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/diaryarchive/" title="categorized by an alphabetized topical index">View topical-index page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/pdshow/" title="ordered by date uploaded, most recent first">View reverse-chronological page</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Courses</a><div><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span><a href="javascript:void(0)">Constitutional Law I (powers)</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1page/" title="(powers of government, not liberties of people)">Course page</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/conlaw1/" title="my online directory files; for better searching, see top menu item \'Powerpoint Slides\'">Powerpoint slides</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/" title="has everything: topical index, chronological list, by week uploaded, etc.">Lecture archive</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1show/">Chronlogical list of lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/">Lecture journal</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Supreme Court Decision Making</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/courtpage/" title="(mixture of philosophy of law, supreme court \'intellectual history,\' and judicial behaviorism. Really is a top course in the field. No other political scientist that I am aware of has a course like this)">Course page</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/supct/" title="my online directory files; for better searching, see top menu item \'Powerpoint Slides\'">Powerpoint slides</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremearch/" title="has everything: topical index, chronological list, by week uploaded, etc.">Lecture archive</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremeshow/">Chronological list of lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/">Lecture journal</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Also called \'law and the legal system\'">Politics of Trials and Litigation</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/pagelawlegal/" title="(I have difficulty naming this course. Sometimes it is called \'law and the legal system.\' It has nothing to do with the supreme court or the constitution. It\'s all about the trial and common legal transactions. How attorneys build cases, how the trial court processes the case. It sounds basic and para-legalish, but it isn\'t. It tells the story from the inside -- \'tricks of the trade,\' and so forth. It shows what lawyers and trials are really like from the perspective of one who has inside information, but is not employed to promote the institution. It\'s my highest rated course.">Course page</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/judproc/" title="my online directory files; for better searching, see top menu item \'Powerpoint Slides\'">Powerpoint slides</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/search-lectures/" title="has everything: topical index, chronological list, by week uploaded, etc.">Lecture archive</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/llsshow/">Chronological list of lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lawproclectures/">Lecture journal</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Struggle for Civil Rights</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rightspage/" title="(This is a lower-level course taught to freshmen and sophmores. It doesn\'t get into much legal detail. Mixes history, philosophy and \'law and society\' to frame the subject. The course theme is that the framing generation left out many segments of American society from its idealism, but, paradoxically, those segments used the new institutions to get what was wrongly denied them. The course sounds liberal, but I pitch it centrist. That is, liberal ideas are up for inspection and critque too.)">Course page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/powerpoint-slides-struggle-for/" title="">Powerpoint slides</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lecture-archive/" title="has everything: topical index, chronological list, by week uploaded, etc.">Lecture archive</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/scrshow/">Chronological list of lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/rights-lectures/">Lecture journal</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">American Presidency</a><div><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/prespage/" title="(uses a lot of developmentalism. I\'m not a current events professor)">Course page</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/presidency/" title="my online directory files; for better searching, see top menu item \'Powerpoint Slides\'">Powerpoint slides</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lecture-archive/" title="has everything: topical index, chronological list, by week uploaded, etc.">Lecture archive</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/pshow/">Chronological list of lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/" title="xx">Lecture journal</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Philosophy and Development of American Government</a><div><a href="http://seanwilson.org/01.amgovtpage.html" title="">Course page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/amgovtpowerpoint-slides/" title="my online directory files; for better searching, see top menu item \'Powerpoint Slides\'">Powerpoint slides</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/subject-index-philosophy-of-am/" title="has everything: topical index, chronological list, by week uploaded, etc.">Lecture archive</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/lectures-for-philosophy-of-ame/" title="xx">Chronological listing of lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/amgovtcourse-lectures/" title="xx">Lecture journal</a></div></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">PowerPoint Slides</a><div><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/supct/" title="">Supreme Court Decision Making</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/conlaw1/" title="">Constitutional Law I</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/judproc/" title="">Politics of Trials and Litigation</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/powerpoint-slides-struggle-for/" title="">Struggle for Rights in America</a><a href="http://seanwilson.org/powerpoint/presidency/" title="">Ameican Presidency</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/amgovtpowerpoint-slides/" title="For more up to date slides, check the course page">Philosophy/Development of American Government</a><a href="http://www.docstoc.com/profile/Wittgenstein" target="_blank" title="I upload slides on docstoc now">DocStoc</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Sean Wilson</a><div><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span><span class="qmtitle" >About Me</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/sean-wilson/" title="A brief introduction">Who am I?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/storage/WilsonVita.pdf">Curriculum Vitae (not current!)</a><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/151/60a">LinkedIn</a><a href="http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/pls/wilson/index.html">Professional page</a><span class="qmtitle" >Teaching</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/evaluations/">Teaching Evaluations</a><a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=759754">Rate My Professor (Penn State)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/evaluations/">Teaching Evaluations</a><a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1184829">Rate My Professor (Wright State)</a><a href="javascript:void(0)">Teaching Philosophy</a><div><a href="javascript:void(0)" title="NOT READY YET">Most Recent Job Statement</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/web-lectures/" title="Explains how I invented these things and what they are">My web lectures</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/supremes/category/course-introduction-slide-methodology" title="How I Use Slides, Why, and How You Should Take Notes">My slide methodology</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/course-introduction-how-i-approach-polit" title="(use history and philosophy to develop the subject matter \'political science\' is not its own \'science\')">Use history and philosophy</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/conlaw1/category/course-introduction-teaching-philosophy" title="My Teaching Approach in the Class -- Developmentalism, Philosophy, but Never Law for its Own Sake">Never teach law for its own sake</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/presidency-lectures/category/course-introduction-my-teaching-philosop" title="(a whole host of views about what college is supposed to be like. Really is a bit of a rant. Was given for to first and second year students in a lower level class. It was my attempt to battle certain challenges that I sometimes face teaching this generation of students)">What college should be about</a></div><span class="qmtitle" >Research</span><a href="http://ssrn.com/author=596860">SSRN Page</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/research-agenda/">Summarizing My Agenda</a><a href="https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=3674">Dissertation</a><span class="qmtitle" >Contact Me</span><a href="http://twitter.com/seanwilsonorg">Twitter</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/email/">Email</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0);">Photos</a><div><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span><span class="qmtitle" >In General</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/photos/">Squarespace Page</a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10173541@N05/show/" target="_blank">Flickr</a><span class="qmtitle" >Of My Family</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=64255">My Family</a><span class="qmtitle" >Of Me</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=96375">My Childhood</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=64253">In College, With Friends</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=65376">As a Hippie?</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=64244">Protesting in College</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=65157">After I Cut My Hair</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=64868">Law Student (3rd year)</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=65212">As a Lawyer</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=65242">As a New Father</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=96384">New Year Celebrations</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=52698">What I Look Like Today</a><span class="qmtitle" >Of Jocelyn Audrey</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=52699">Recent Headshots</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=96380">Childhood</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=96234">Jocelyn\'s New Guitar</a><span class="qmtitle" >Of My Dogs</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=65237">Snoopy Wilson II</a><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=1188176&galleryId=64240">A Hippie and His Dog</a></div><a href="javascript:void(0)">Video</a><div><span class="qmdivider qmdividerx" ></span><span class="qmtitle" >Diary</span><a href="http://ludwig.squarespace.com/diary-archive/">My Video Diary</a></div><span class="qmclear">&nbsp;</span></div><script type="text/javascript">qm_create(0,false,0,500,\'lev2\',false,false,false,false);</script>');