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The Laws of Intimacy
Class Term:
Spring Term 2024-2025
Catalog Number:
5148
Professor(s):
Professor
Lecture
Credits:
2 (2 Contact, 0 Field)
Priority:
General Enrollment Course
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
Standard Courses
Grading Details
Grades will be based on a take-home final examination (80%), and class participation (20%).
Description
So much throughout the history of our nation, federal, state and local governments have attempted in various ways to regulate our society’s most intimate relationships and decisions. Challenges to laws regulating marriage, sexual conduct, reproduction, health and other very personal decisions permeate our country’s jurisprudence. These “laws of intimacy,” provide a historical window through which one can view the evolution of some of America’s greatest and most enduring societal and civil rights conflicts.
This course will provide students with an overview of the history underlying various “laws of intimacy” and the legal principles that have come to shape the debates concerning these issues. Students will apply these legal principles in their own analyses of continued efforts to regulate the most personal of human behaviors and decision-making.his course will provide students with an overview of the history underlying various “laws of intimacy” and the legal principles that have come to shape the debates concerning these issues. Students will apply these legal principles in their own analyses of continued efforts to regulate the most personal of human behaviors and decision-making.