Description

Questions about the nature, scope, and consequences of executive power are at the core of how the United States governs itself. This course explores those questions. Its focus is on some of the major legal doctrines, institutional realities, and present-day challenges faced by the executive branch of the United States government. The course analyzes the evolving legal doctrines governing executive power in the context of how the executive branch actually operates when managing the federal government, when attempting large-scale policy changes in areas such as the creation of new cabinet agencies or major legislative initiatives, and when addressing national security challenges. Accordingly, the seminar draws on legal, historical, and political science scholarship as well as doctrine and statutes, and gives special attention to the intersecting effects of legal doctrine, institutional practices, political constraints, and substantive policymaking.

• Number of Units: 3
• Course Number: 624

Recently Taught By:

• Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar