Josie F. Brown
Assistant Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 413
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-6963
f 803-777-2368
brownjf@law.sc.edu
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Courses
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I, LAWS 525 (3 hours) The first half of the year-long Constitutional Law sequence (required). This class introduces students to the United States Constitution and to methods for interpreting and applying that document's provisions. The course is substantively focused on "structural" constitutional issues, including the scope and limits of federal power and the divisions of power and responsibility between the branches of the federal government. The course also treats the state action doctrine and the provisions of the Constitution that protect individual economic rights.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II (SECTION A), LAWS 526 (3 hours)The second-half of the year-long Constitutional Law sequence (required for Class of 2005 and later; open to class of 2004 as an elective).This class focuses on some of the provisions of the United States Constitution that guarantee and protect individual rights against government encroachment. Among the topics covered are: equal protection,due process, freedom of speech, and freedom of/from religion.
RACE, EDUCATION & THE CONSTITUTION: A LEGAL HISTORY OF BROWN v. BOARD, LAWS 825 (3 Hours) The course will examine this uniquely significant case by tracing the social, political, and legal forces leading up to the Supreme Court's historic pronouncements in Brown itself, the nature and quality of the Supreme Court's original articulation of the constitutional principles on which the decision was based, and the Court's subsequent interpretation,application and revision of Brown over the last half century. Students will have an opportunity to use the work of leading constitutional scholars of past and present as well as contemporary commentators to assess Brown's historic accomplishments, to measure its practical and normative deficiencies, and to construct its complex current meaning.
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