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In a crisis, national security initiatives move at the speed of a startup yet in peacetime they default to decades-long acquisition and procurement cycles. Startups operate with continual speed and urgency 24/7. Over the last few years they've learned how to be not only fast, but extremely efficient with resources...

In a crisis, national security initiatives move at the speed of a startup yet in peacetime they default to decades-long acquisition and procurement cycles. Startups operate with continual speed and urgency 24/7. Over the last few years they've learned how to be not only fast, but extremely efficient with resources...

This course provides a survey of some of the major contributions to political thought in the past century. The course will place special emphasis on the development of theories of political authority and legitimacy in the context of the modern bureaucratic state, as well as the connection between authority and...

In this course, we will explore the last 75 years of immigration history in Germany, centering on the contemporary situation of migration and settlement. We will examine how both legal and cultural borders to belonging become instated, and how this relates not only to systems of governance in Germany but...

The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past.

The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past.

The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past.

The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past.

The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past.

Since the late 19th century, a woman's right to control her intimate reproductive life in the United States emerged as a publicly contested arena. This conflict and the stakes for reproductive rights has never been more fraught than now, with the loss of the Constitutional protection of abortion rights when...

(Undergraduates enroll for 5 units; graduate students for 3-5 units.) Thirty years ago, the Cold War ended. Today, great power competition is back, with many analysts describing our current era as a "New Cold War" among the United States, China, and Russia. How did we go from the euphoria surrounding...

The end of the Cold War in 1991 was a glorious moment to be a multilateralist and liberal democrat. Even previously closed-off China had chosen the path of economic liberalization and some political reform. It seemed like the whole world wanted to become a democracy and join the democratic community...

(Undergraduates enroll for 5 units; graduate students for 3-5 units.) Thirty years ago, the Cold War ended. Today, great power competition is back, with many analysts describing our current era as a "New Cold War" among the United States, China, and Russia. How did we go from the euphoria surrounding...

The American civil justice system sits at a crossroads. In three-quarters of the 15 million civil cases filed in state courts each year, at least one side lacks a lawyer. Beneath those cases sit tens of millions more legal problems that never make it to court. Many are significant, even...

Law made by administrative agencies dominates the modern legal system and modern legal practice. This course examines the legal and practical foundations of the modern administrative state. Topics include rationales for delegation to administrative agencies; the legal framework (both constitutional and statutory) that governs agency decision-making; the proper role of...

Administrative agencies interpret statutes, promulgate regulations, and adjudicate disputes, thereby affecting employment, food and drug safety, the environment, energy markets, telecommunications, and immigration. Surveys the law of the administrative state, considering rationales for delegation to administrative agencies, procedural and substantive constraints of agency decision-making, and the judicial review of agency...

Federal agencies make an astounding number of policy decisions, engaging in more "lawmaking" and "adjudication" than Congress and the federal courts, respectively. These policy decisions range from the seemingly trivial, such as how many cherries are needed for frozen cherry pie, to matters of life-and-death importance, such as how to...

This is a graduate workshop focused on quantitative interdisciplinary research analyzing global environmental policy. This class covers advanced material in environmental economics/policy and explores the frontier of research. This course is a seminar format, where we read recent research papers and discuss them. The course surveys large-scale global environmental challenges...

This course will address significant areas of procedural law and design that go beyond the first- year civil procedure course, with special attention to aggregate and multiparty litigation (e.g., class actions and Multidistrict Litigation (MDL)). Contemporary litigation frequently involves multiple related actions, multiple parties, and multiple claims that may interact...

Students who have completed the Criminal Defense Clinic are eligible to apply for enrollment as returning students in Advanced Clinic. Advanced Clinic work may include: factual and legal analysis on Sixth Amendment violations of the right to a speedy trial, culminating in briefing and oral argument in the trial court...