LAW 9210 - Federal Courts

This course examines the concepts of federalism and the separation of powers between federal and state governments. The course will concentrate on choice of law principles and the rules and doctrines that determine which side in a legal dispute gets its preferred forum. Representative topics include choice of law in the federal system; the power of the federal courts to create federal law; the power of Congress to control the federal courts; the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts; removal of cases from state to federal court; the power of the federal courts to apply rules of law different from those applied in state courts; and prerequisites for Supreme Court review of state-court judgments. Credit(s): 3