PLA 204 - General Law II

(3 credits)

45 lecture hours
Prerequisites: PLA 101
This course presents advanced study of constitutional, labor, and administrative law. This course is designed to enable the student to gain additional perspective on the legal system as a whole, by viewing it from the particularities of its individual parts. The law is presented as a complex “amorphous” or “living” entity, capable of change, growth, and upheaval-yet capable of effecting continuing standards of justice and fair play. Students study the functioning of stare decisis systems and the effective use of both case precedent and statutory interpretation. Students also examine the philosophical and historical formation of the law. The course focuses on the complex inter-relationship of the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of government, and the inherent difficulties of the process of growth within the structure.