31 July 2013

EVENT: America's Unwritten Constitution on Coursera

Coursera.org provides free course of Akhil Reed Amar on American Unwritten Constitution.

Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law at both Yale College and Yale Law School.

This course is designed to introduce you to one of the most important texts in human history—the United States Constitution. Why and how did this document come into existence in the 1780s? How and why has it been amended over the years? Who decides what it means? What are the ground rules for proper constitutional interpretation? How does the written Constitution interact with unwritten sources of constitutional authority, such as judicial decisions, presidential proclamations, landmark statutes, and widespread popular understandings?

Sessions: January 2014 (12 weeks long)


Further information can be found here.
 

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