Course Home Page for Rule Of Law: Controlng Govrnmt

Fall 2008
Law No.: LAW5615
Sched. No.: 300rp

Rule Of Law: Controlling Government*
Section 0001
X
Moore, John

Administrative Information:

Days, Times (Room):	M, 1900-2100 (HOME)
Credits:	3	Type:	Seminar
Capacity:	16^{This information is current as of}^{08/28/2008 01:57:36 AM}^
Current Enrollment:	16 ^{This information is current as of}^{08/28/2008 01:57:36 AM}^

Course Description:

This seminar explores the theory and cost of government failure and its relationship to contemporary movements for constitutional and legal reform. The seminar reviews the growing body of information about government failure internationally and domestically; examines theoretical approaches to explaining such failure, including public choice theory; and then examines the implications for the rule of law and constitutional and legal reform as applied to controlling government. Each session seeks to develop the meaning and importance of the rule of law, and to involve the students in development of a legal framework for controlling government, empowering the individual, and celebrating human freedom. Case studies reviewed this year will include Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, the property rights movement, wrongful criminal convictions of innocent persons exonerated by the Innocence Project, and the promotion of democracy. The seminar typically meets with top distinguished experts such as James Buchanan (winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics); the Honorable Robert H. Bork (of the American Enterprise Institute); Professor Richard Pipes (top scholar on communism and on the importance of property rights); Professor Bradley A. Smith (former Chairman, Federal Election Commission); Michael Tanner (CATO expert on Social Security reform); Ambassador Mark Palmer (activist on democracy enlargement and presidential speech writer); Ms. Shawn Armbrust (Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project).

COURSE REQUIREMENT: A substantial research paper