Bernard E. Harcourt : Courses and Seminars
Criminal Procedure I: The Investigative Process
LAWS 47201
The course focuses on the constitutional law that governs searches, seizures, and confessions. The course considers in detail the evolution of the exclusionary rule and the development and administration of the probable cause and warrant requirements. It also examines stop and frisk, administrative searches, searches incident to arrest, vehicle searches, consent searches, and the admissibility of confessions.
The student's grade is based on a final examination.
Spring 2012
Bernard E. Harcourt
Law and Political Thought: Neoliberalism and Its Critics
LAWS 70705
What is neoliberal thought, what are neoliberal policies, and what are the major critiques that have been leveled against neoliberalism? These are the questions we will explore in this course, focusing both on the primary texts that are generally associated with neoliberalism (e.g., Hayek and Friedman), as well as the most important critical attacks on neoliberalism (e.g. Harvey, Peck, Klein, and Sen). The term neoliberalism is often misunderstood, although it is nothing more than a neologism that combines the term "neo" (which means the revival of an older thing) with the term "liberalism" (which refers to early liberal economic thought). In this course, we will study the concept in depth in order to get a firm understanding of its theoretical and practical implications.
Winter 2012
Bernard E. Harcourt
Michel Foucault 1969-1976
LAWS 51305
In an interview in 1971 shortly after completing the first year of his annual lectures at the Coll?ge de France, Michel Foucault stated that "the problems surrounding the penal system have interested me for quite a while, so I will undoubtedly deliver a series of courses on the topic over the 27 years that I have remaining at the Coll?ge de France." The fecund research project that Foucault would launch built directly on his archaeologies of the social sciences and of knowledge and his writings on madness, and ultimately led to the publication in 1975 of Discipline and Punish and in 1976 of The History of Sexuality, Volume I. In this course, we will explore this rich period in Foucault's thought, paying special attention to the annual lectures at the Coll?ge de France and the published works that serve as book-ends, from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to Discipline and Punish (1975) and passages from Volume I (1976), as well as I, Pierre Rivi?re (1973).
Autumn 2011
Bernard E. Harcourt
Workshop: Public Law and Legal Theory
LAWS 63402
Working from a variety of methodological orientations, the workshop examines questions arising at the intersections of public law, legal theory, and interdisciplinary work in law and the social sciences, with an emphasis on criminal law, legal history, and politics. Sessions are devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers by faculty members from other institutions.
Students must enroll for the entire year and will receive one pass/fail credit.
Students are required to read the papers, attend the workshop, ask questions, and to submit one reaction paper per quarter on a paper of their choosing.
Winter 2012
Bernard E. Harcourt, R. H. Helmholz, Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. McAdams
Workshop: Public Law and Legal Theory
LAWS 63402
Working from a variety of methodological orientations, the workshop examines questions arising at the intersections of public law, legal theory, and interdisciplinary work in law and the social sciences, with an emphasis on criminal law, legal history, and politics. Sessions are devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers by faculty members from other institutions.
Students must enroll for the entire year and will receive one pass/fail credit.
Students are required to read the papers, attend the workshop, ask questions, and to submit one reaction paper per quarter on a paper of their choosing.
Spring 2012
Bernard E. Harcourt, R. H. Helmholz, Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. McAdams
Workshop: Public Law and Legal Theory
LAWS 63402
Working from a variety of methodological orientations, the workshop examines questions arising at the intersections of public law, legal theory, and interdisciplinary work in law and the social sciences, with an emphasis on criminal law, legal history, and politics. Sessions are devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers by faculty members from other institutions.
Students must enroll for the entire year and will receive one pass/fail credit.
Students are required to read the papers, attend the workshop, ask questions, and to submit one reaction paper per quarter on a paper of their choosing.
Autumn 2011
Bernard E. Harcourt, R. H. Helmholz, Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. McAdams
