Constitutional Law
A study of recurring themes and principles in American constitutional doctrine and theory.

 

Federal Courts
A study of the federal judiciary's doctrines and theories of jurisdiction and justiciability: standing, "arising under," Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity, abstention, equitable restraint, and Supreme Court review of high state court decisions.

 

The First Amendment & The Internet
A study of traditional American free speech doctrines and their modern applications to Internet communication.   

 

Mass Media Theory & First Amendment Jurisprudence
A study of the "ecology" of mass communications (from the perspectives of history, sociology, economics, psychology, and political theory), and of the relationship between this "ecology" and American free speech theory.