Mary Anne Case
Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-834-3867
email: macase@law.uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 40401 1 Constitutional Law IV: Speech and Religion
  This course covers various aspects of the first amendment, with particular emphasis on freedom of speech and press, religious liberty, and religious establishments. It is recommended that students first take Constitutional Law I. Students who have completed Constitutional Law II are ineligible to enroll in this course. The student's grade is based on a take-home final examination.
  Spring (3) +
  
  
• 49901 6 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  
• 63312 1 Workshop: Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender
  This workshop, conducted over two sequential quarters, exposes students to recent academic work in the regulation of family, sex, gender, and sexuality and in feminist theory. Workshop sessions, to be held irregularly throughout the winter and spring, are devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers from outside speakers and University faculty. The substance and methodological orientation of the papers will both be diverse. This workshop may be taken for fulfillment of the Substantial Writing Requirement. Grading is based on a substantial paper or on completion of short papers that respond to the paper being presented, with class participation taken into account. Enrollment is limited.
  Winter (1) a, b
  
  
• 68001 1 Marriage
  With the aim of making predictions and recommendations for the future, this course examines marriage as a state-sponsored institution, considering its history, its variants (e.g., common law marriage) and close substitutes (e.g., domestic partnership), conceptual frameworks for analyzing it (e.g., analogies between marriage and the business corporation or partnership or relational contract), past and future variants on the joining of one man and one woman (e.g., polygamy and same-sex marriage), and the use of marriage as an ordering principle in various areas of law. The grade is based on a substantial paper, series of short papers, or final examination, with class participation taken into account.
  Autumn (3) b
  
  
• 73101 1 Sex Discrimination
  This course will cover the spectrum of distinctions made in the law on the basis of sex and of legal prohibitions on the making of sex distinctions. The grade is based on a substantial paper, series of short papers, or final examination, with class participation taken into account.
  Winter (3)
  
  
• 95932 1 Greenberg Seminar: Reformation or Renunciation? Muslim Feminist Literature of Dissent
  In this seminar we will read works of five important female public intellectuals with varying approaches for reconciling Islam, freedom, democracy, and equality. We will read each woman s contributions with the hopes of beginning to understand the range of experiences and theories for change in Islam. We will pay particular attention to the politics of reform in a context in which internal critique - particularly by women - is often met by charges of complicity with colonial agendas.
  Autumn (1) a
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Comparative Law: European Legal Systems
• Constitutional Law III: Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process
• Diversity and Community Standards
• Feminist Jurisprudence
• Marriage
• Regulation of Sexuality
• Sex Discrimination