Spring 2013
    Law No.: LAW7070
    Sched. No.: 113219316

Presidential Powers
Section 1
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Prakash, Saikrishna B.



Administrative Information:
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Days, Times (Room):TR, 1000-1120 (WB103)
Credits:3Type:Lecture
Capacity:44 **This information is current as of 05/17/2013 06:18:20 AM**
Current Enrollment:24 **This information is current as of 05/17/2013 06:18:20 AM**
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Course Description:


This course will consider a variety of issues involving the President’s constitutional powers. The course will include a review of some or all of the following: law enforcement (including the institution of the independent counsel); program administration (including the President’s authorities in relation to the so-called independent federal agencies); budgeting and accounting; the line-item veto; executive privilege; impeachment; immunity to suit for the President and other executive officers; authority over foreign affairs and the war powers, including claims to extensive powers war powers (e.g., the use of coercive interrogation), detention of “enemy combatants,” the use of military tribunals to impose criminal punishment, and surveillance of communications. We will examine the major judicial decisions on these subjects, but one insight from the course will be an appreciation for how few of these questions have been or could be litigated. We will consider how to make sound judgments on the distribution and exercise of governmental powers, even when traditional sources are lacking. The casebook is Peter Shane and Harold Bruff, Separation of Powers Law (2d ed. 2005), with supplementary material.

COURSE REQUIREMENT: Examination