LAW 642: Federal Courts - fall

Prerequisite: LAW 545 & LAW 546 or LAW 504

Examination of judicial federalism, including such topics as the bases for the exercise of federal judicial power; original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; the Eleventh Amendment; suits in federal court against state officials; restrictions on federal judicial power such as the various abstention, equitable restraint and anti-injunction doctrines; Supreme Court review of state court decisions; habeas corpus; removal; federal question jurisdiction; and federal common law.