Students can enhance their worldview of the law by spending a summer semester at the Valparaiso University Cambridge Center in Cambridge, England. You'll be taught by Valparaiso Law professors and possibly guest lecturers from the host community.

In the summer of 2010, the program will run from June 21 through July 27. The courses offered are:

495-C1 Legal London - 1 cr. (required course)
Prof. Edward Gaffney, Jr.

This course comprises the London portion of the program and provides students with a basic introduction to the process of lawmaking in Parliamentary government and the adjudication of civil and criminal cases in England, both at the trial and appellate levels. The course includes readings, lectures, and visits to important sites in legal London.

495-C2 International. & Civil Liberties: Freedom of Speech - 2 cr.
Prof. Michael Murray

This course will focus on freedom of expression with an international and comparative law perspective. We will study free speech and press rights and freedom from censorship under the United States' First Amendment, the European Human Rights Convention, UK and Commonwealth Countries' laws, and the laws of other Asian, African, and South and Central American nations. We will examine issues that arise from governmental attempts to preserve peace and national security and prohibit or regulate incitement to violence; censorship of "fighting words," "true threats," hate speech, and racist speech; censorship of obscenity, pornography, indecent, and offensive expression; and censorship of symbolic speech, artistic expression, and expressive conduct. We also will discuss special problems that are posed by prior restraints on expression, by modern media, and by new and developing forms of international and transnational communication, such as the internet. The course text will be Michael D. Murray, International and Comparative Freedom of Expression (2010 manuscript in PDF-eBook form). There will be one, final examination for the course grade.

270-A Comparative Law: European Union - 2 cr.
Prof. Richard Stith

A historical, theoretical, and contemporary comparison of the Anglo-American legal tradition with that of continental Europe (the latter being the dominant tradition in the modern world). Roman, French, and German law receive special attention. The emerging law of a united Europe will also be discussed. In today’s increasingly globalized world of legal analogy and argument, this course may be useful even to those students who do not plan to engage directly in transnational law.

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If you are interested in this program, contact Debbie Gleason at 219-465-7840.