Lahore University of Management Sciences. Law 230 Constitution (Comparative) Law

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1 Law 230 Constitution (Comparative) Law Spring Semester 2013 Instructor Saad Rasool Room No. 283 Office Hours Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Course Basics Credit Hours 4 Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 2 Duration 110 Minutes Recitation/Lab (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week Duration Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week Duration Course Distribution Core Elective Open for Student Category Close for Student Category Elective All First Years COURSE DESCRIPTION

2 COURSE PREREQUISITE(S) None COURSE OBJECTIVES Learning Outcomes Grading Breakup and Policy Assignment(s): NA Home Work: NA Quiz(s): NA Class Participation: 30% Attendance: 10% Midterm Examination: 20% Project: NA Final Examination: 40% Examination Detail

3 Midterm Exam Yes/No: Combine Separate: Duration: Preferred Date: Exam Specifications: Final Exam Yes/No: Combine Separate: Duration: Exam Specifications: COURSE OVERVIEW Week/ Lecture/ Module Topics Recommended Readings Module 1 Constitutionalism Cass Sunstein, Constitutionalism and Succession, 58 U. Chi. L. Rev. 633 (1991) Walter F. Murphy, Constitution, Constitutionalism, and Democracy, in CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY: TRANSITIONS IN THE CONTEMPORAR Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz, Melanie Beth Oliviero, and Steven C. Wheatley eds., 1993) Walter F. Murphy, Consent and Constitutional Change, in HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (James O Reilly, ed., 1992) Module 2 Judicial Review Introduction The Constitution of Pakistan: Part VII The Judicature (Articles B) Justice (R) Fazal Karim, Part I, in JUDICIAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC ACTIONS (Volume 1) Case law United States Marbury v. Madison Module 3 Separation of Power Bruce Ackerman, The New Separation of Powers, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 633 (2000) Laurence P. Claus, Separation of Powers and Parliamentary Government, in GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vikram David Amar,

4 Module 4 Federalism Martha A. Field, The Differing Federalisms of Canada and the United State, 55 Law and Contemporary Problems 107 (1992), in COMPARATIVE CONS Jackson, and Mark Tushnet) Otto Kaufman, Swiss Federalism, in Forging Unity Out of Diversity: The Approaches of Eight Nations (Robert Goldwin, Art Kaufman, and William Scha Federalism, in COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vicki C. Jackson, and Mark Tushnet) CANADA Barry L. Strayer, The Canadian Constitution and Diversity, in Forging Unity out of Diversity: The Approaches of Eight Nations (Robert Goldwin, Art Kau Schambra eds., 1985) (excerpts) in COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vicki C. Jackson, and Mark Tushnet) Module 4 Fundamental Freedoms Freedom of Speech United States First Amendment to the US Constitution Pakistan Constitution of Pakistan 1973, Article 19 Republic of South Africa Constitution of the Republic of South Africa No. 108 of 1996, Chapter II, Section 16 United States a. Traitors i. Schenck v. U.S. ii. Abrams v. U.S. iii. Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten iv. Gitlow v. New York v. Brandenburg v. Ohio b. c. Fighting words i. Cantwell v. Connecticut ii. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire iii. Cohen v. California Racists i. Terminiello v. Chicago ii. Forsyth City v. Nationalist Movement iii. Beauharnais v. Illinois

5 d. iv. Skokie Cases v. RAV v. City of St. Paul vi. Virginia v. Black Flacks i. New York Times v. Sullivan ii. Curtis Publishing v. Butts iii. Branzburg v. Hayes e. Pornography i. Roth v. U.S. ii. Miller v. California iii. Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton iv. American Booksellers Ass n v. Hudnut v. Reno v. ACLU vi. Ashcroft v. ACLU (I&II) f. Kids (& a Bong) i. Tinker v. Des Moines School Dist. ii. Morse v. Frederick Pakistan a. Salman Taseer Case b. Shahbaz Bhatti Case Module 4 Fundamental Freedoms Freedom of Conscience United States First Amendment to the US Constitution Pakistan Constitution of Pakistan 1973 Article 2 & Article 20 Republic of South Africa CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA NO. 108 OF 1996, Chapter II, Section 15

6 United States a. Prayers i. Engel v. Vitale ii. Abington v. Schempp iii. Lee v. Weisman iv. Santa Fe Indep. School Dist. v. Doe b. Monkeys i. Epperson v. Arkansas ii. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School European Union a. Itto-Preminger-Institu v. Austria Pakistan a. Recitation of Quran/Naat in the beginning of public and school gatherings. b. Compulsory teaching of Islamiyat in educational institutions. c. Display of Koranic expressions in educational & government institutions. d. Display of Islamic images in public places. Module 4 Fundamental Freedoms Freedom of Exercise of Religion United States First Amendment to the US Constitution Pakistan Constitution of Pakistan 1973, Article 2 & 2(A) United States a. Shirkers i. Minersville School Dist. v. Gobitis ii. West Virginia v. Barnette iii. Reynolds v. U.S. iv. Sherbert v. Verner

7 v. Wisconsin v. Yoder vi. Goldman v. Weinberger b. First Peoples i. Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery ii. Employment Div. v. Smith iii. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah iv. City of Boerne v. Flores v. Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente France a. S.A.S. v. France (43835/11) Pakistan a. Ahmedis and the right to profess religion (State s authority to declare individuals Muslims/Non-Muslims) b. Shias (Historical & ideological divide and State s role in endorsing one sect over the other) c. Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and other minorities d. Role of the Shariat Court Module 4 Fundamental Freedoms Freedom of Assembly United States First Amendment to the US Constitution Pakistan Constitution of Pakistan 1973 Article 17 Republic of South Africa CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA NO. 108 OF 1996, Chapter II, Section 18 Unites States: a. Members Only i. NAACP v. Alabama ii. Glickman v. Wileman Bros. iii. Johannns v. Livestock Marketing Assn.

8 b. Haters i. Roberts v. U.S. Jaycees ii. Boy Scouts v. Dale iii. Rumsfeld v. FAIR Pakistan a. Historical Development Right to organize and protest i. 1940s Pakistan Movement ii. 1960s ZAB and Mujeeb-u-Rehman iii. 1970s PNA Movement iv. 1980s Zia-ul-Haq s Regime and Free Writer s Association v. 2000s Lawyer s Movement Module 5 Pluralism and Democracy United States a. The Initial Attack on Separate but Equal, in CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES (Erwin Chemerinsky) b. Kathleen M. Sullivan, Constitutionalizing Gender Equality, 90 Calif. L. Rev. 735 (2002) (excerpts), in COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vicki Tushnet) India a. Fali Sam Nariman, The Indian Constitution: An Experiment in Unity Amid Diversity, in Forging Unity Out of Diversity: The Approaches of Eight Na Kaufman, and William A. Schambra eds., 1985) (excerpts) in COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vicki C. Jackson, and Mark Tushnet) b. Sankaran Krishna, Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Political Culture in India, in Political Culture and Constitutional (Daniel P. Franklin and Mic COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vicki C. Jackson, and Mark Tushnet) United States a. Grutter v. Bollinger b. Brown v. Board of Education Module 5 Counter Majoritarianism Or Bassok, THE TWO COUNTERMAJORITARIAN DIFFICULTIES.

9 Module 5 Basic Structural Doctrine Basic Structure Doctrine in Pakistan, Fidelity to constitutionalism, or judicial expediency? Harvard Law School. Rasool, Saad. South Africa a. State v. Makawanyan, Case No CCT/3/94, 1995 (3) S.A.391, 1195 (4) BCLR 665 (CC) (June 6, 1995) Module 6 Controversy Death Penalty Hungary United States a. Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989) b. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) Europe a. Soering v. United Kingdom, 161 Eur. Ct. H.R. (Ser. A) at 8 United States a. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) b. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) Module 6 Controversy Abortion Canada a. Morgentaler, Smoling and Scott v. The Queen, (1988) 1 S.C.R. 30. Germany a. Gerald L. Neuman, Casey in the Mirror: Abortion, Abuse and The Right to Protection in the United States and Germany, 43 Am. J. Comp. L. 273 (1 Module 6 Controversy Affirmative Action Bangladesh Ashutosh Bhaqwat, Affirmative Action and Benign Discrimination, in GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vikram David Amar, and Ma

10 Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law: Principles and Polices, Chapter 9: Racial Classification Benefiting Minorities, (Third ed., 2006) Module 6 Controversy Legalizing Immorality The Legalization of Prostitution: Myth or Reality, Report by Heinrich Boll Foundation Module 7 Doctrine of Proportionality Beit Sourik Village Council v. Government of Israel, (2004) HCJ 2056/04 R v. Oakes. (1986) 1 S.C.R. 103 Module 8 Socio-Economic Rights and State Action Doctrine State Action Doctrine Frank I. Michelman, The State Action Doctrine, in GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Vikram David Amar, and Mark V. Tushnet, 2009 Socio-Economic Rights Government of Republic of South America v. Grootboom, Case CCT 11/00 Kolkata Air Pollution Cases Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings The Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973.