TIPS CONLAW Workshop: Equal Protection Cases

Tuesday January 25, 2005

Lehman College, Carman Hall

8:00 a.m. Coffee/Danish

8:30 a.m. Review of TIPS Course Requirements

8:45 a.m. The Coin Game: How the Supreme Court Resolves Equal Protection Cases: Project CRITICAL Lesson 1

9:15 a.m. Participants will work in pairs to analyze Equal Protection Cases involving Race or Gender Issues.

1. Do a CompuLEGAL analysis of your case

2. Read and critique the Project CRITICAL lesson plan of your case

3. Report to entire group on your CompuLEGAL analysis

4. Point out to the entire group which parts of the lesson plan would be most beneficial to use in teaching this case.

Equal Protection: Race

Dred Scott v. Sandford: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 2 on Equal Protection: Race

Plessy v. Ferguson: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 3 on Equal Protection: Race

Korematsu v. United States: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 4 on Equal Protection: Race

Brown v. Board of Ed.: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 5 on Equal Protection: Race

University of CA Regents v. Bakke: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 7 on Equal Protection: Race

Equal Protection: Gender Cases

Johnson v. Santa Clara Co. Transportation Agency: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 5 Equal Protection Gender

U.S. v. Virginia: CompuLEGAL, CRITICAL Lesson 7 on Equal Protection Gender

10:00 a.m. BREAK

10:15 a.m. Recent cases:

Grutter v. Bollinger

Gratz v. Bollinger

Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health Massachusetts More

11:15 a.m. Update: Owasso School District v. Falvo

11:30 a.m. LUNCH

12:30 p.m. Independent work on your TIPS product 3 WebQuests

2:30 p.m. Evaluation

2:45 p.m. Adjourn