Fall 2009 Course Schedule

Congress, Law-making and Foreign Affairs (LAW-935-001)
Rynearson

Meets: 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM (TTH) - Room 501

Enrolled: 12 / Limit: 20

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Notices

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Description

Explores the various levers of law-making power in the foreign affairs field that are available for exercise by Congress to affect U.S. foreign policy, including the "power of the purse" (authorization and appropriations statutes), the congressional war power, the Senate's role in treaty-making, the enactment of international economic sanctions, border-control measures, the power to establish governmental offices and bodies, and the passage of nonbinding "policy" resolutions. Special reference will be made to post-9/11 statutes and related legal developments. The seminar will emphasize basic skills and exercises in the drafting of foreign relations legislation.

Textbooks and Other Materials

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There is no textbook for the course, but students are required to purchase course packets.

First Class Readings

The first class reading assignment is to read the pages of volume I of the course packet under the section heading entitled 'The Legislative Process'. Most of those pages are duplicated in the file now available in the documents section of Blackboard.

Syllabus

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