teaching slavery

[stoke001]

Paul, you'll be happy to know that I used Gunther and Sullivan and
supplemented it with your paperback on Dred Scott, plus a few
other cases on slavery:  Prigg, Mann v. Hunt, and Lemmon v. The
People.  It works wonderfully.  Prigg and Lemmon, believe it or not,
make it a single day's work to teach dormant commerce, a little
later.  Dred Scott is a wonderful teaching device, in my limited
experience.

When's that next edition of Brest, Levinson coming out?

Michael Stokes Paulsen
University of Minnesota Law School


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> I am writing a short piece on slavery and constitutional law and am
> curious how many con law professors teach anything about slavery in
> their con law class, especially in "Con Law I."  A number of case
> books --  Brest/Levinson; Stone-Tushnet, Louis Fisher -- have material
> on slavery.  I am curious if people actually 1) assign the material
> and 2) discuss it.  Some casebooks, notably Gunther and Sullivan, do
> not have anthing on slavery at all; do people who use that text ever
> supplement it with say an excerpt from Dred Scott?
>
>
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