Spring 2010 Course Schedule

Political Crime & Terrorism (LAW-713-001)
Kittrie

Meets: 03:00 PM - 04:50 PM (W) - Room 526

Enrolled: 19 / Limit: 22

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Description

National and International Definitions, Prosecutions and Defense of Sedition, Civil Disobedience, Coup d’etat, Treason, Espionage, Rebellion, Insurgency and Revolution. Including, political dissent, draft resistance, and political struggles of Native Americans, labor, minorities, women, and immigrants. The Seminar will explore the Socio-psychological profile of the political offender, Causes of political crime, and Governmental measures for the suppression of political crime and subversion: surveillance, wiretapping, deportation, extradition, outlawing of political parties, detention camps, loyalty oaths, and conspiracy trials. Emphasis will be placed on national, comparative, and international law aspects of political crime and terrorism.

The Seminar will be held during the Spring semester, 2010, on Wednesdays, from 3 p.m. to 4:50 pm. The Seminar accords 2 hour credits. Two (2) additional hours may be earned through a longer and more comprehensive paper. The Seminar qualifies for Upper Writing Requirements.

Please contact Professor Nicholas N. Kittrie, nkittrie@wcl.american.eduor his assistant, Cleveland Grant, cgrant@wcl.american.edu, for any further information.

Featured in the national press as “one of the most eminent American experts on domestic and global insurgency,” Dr. Kittrie, former counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, is the author and co-editor of The Tree of Liberty – A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime which received the AABP 1998 award as the Best Book in Law, and has served as consultant to the former Vice-President’s Commission on Terrorism. Dr. Kittrie’s seminar will be open to J.D. and LL.M students, as well as to U.S. and foreign law practitioners.

Textbooks and Other Materials

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Required texts: (1) Kittrie, The Tree of Liberty (Johns Hopkins Press); (2) Kittrie, Rebels With a Cause (Westview Press). See announcement on MyWCL regarding texts.

First Class Readings

The Tree of Liberty - pp. xxxvii-xlvi; Rebels with a Cause - pp. xv-xxiv, 1-18. Both readings are available on MyWCL.