Categories: Legal Theory and Jurisprudence Constitutional Law
Instructor(s)
Rogers, JoelCourse Data
Room 3250
M 11:00am-1:00am
Pass/Fail: Yes
Past Grade Distributions (Fall '22 and onward)
Fall 2022
Course Description
This class is about the design of an egalitarian-democratic “affirmative” or “welfare” state consistent with “the rule of law.” As treated here, the activities of the “welfare state” include not only income maintenance and social insurance programs but those many other policies and programs, characteristic of all modern capitalist democracies, that supplement or replace unregulated markets and formal rights and procedural democracy in the pursuit of improved living standards and more substantive equality among members. We will examine the welfare state origin and evolution, current problems, and strategies to address those problems.