Professor John C. Kuzenski

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Prospective PS 205 Students: If you'd like to add the class, please try PackTracks first. If this doesn't work by the first day of class, since there are no official waitlists, please COME to the first scheduled class meeting and ask me for permission to register for the course. I will add students on a space-available basis. NOTE: we will not meet on January 10th due to a professional conference I must attend. See you on January 15th for our first meeting!

One or the other of these links is probably relevant to what you seek! Please email me* if not, or if you have any other questions or comments about the course you're in and/or this website.

* so as to foil SPAMbots and the miserable scum that operate them, I have not provided a link to my email address here <chuckle>. But you should have written it down when I provided it in class! :)

Important!:  if you have reason to believe you are not receiving class emails from the wolfware.ncsu.edu mailing list, you must go to TRACSlink (click on the name for a hyperlink straight to it) to ensure that your preferred email address is listed in UNITY/EOS... I have no ability to alter, correct or otherwise mess with these settings, so it's your responsibility to do so! I will try to duplicate emailed information on this website, but there are no guarantees.  Please also remember when using this new resource that all course-specific information for a given week (or other time period) will still be under the link "course information page" below-- so please get into the habit of checking it regularly when you visit this page!

REGULAR LINKS:

PSRSP Announcements (for PS 201 only)-- I'm not teaching PS 201 this term, so ignore this link!

Grade Reports-- all NCSU classes-- NO LONGER USED. Please check your email regularly for WOLFWARE grade posts.

PS 201 Syllabus-- Intro American Government

PS 205 Syllabus-- Law and Justice

PS 205 Readings List-- Law & Justice Class Pack Table of Contents

PS 371 Syllabus-- Research Methods

Course Policies-- all classes/sections I teach, additional important stuff as noted on your in-class syllabus. This document (in .PDF format) is considered part of your syllabus and you must retrieve and at least read it (I suggest printing it for your records!) at the beginning of the semester!!

POWERPOINT LINKS: (slideshows I've created for class-- see specific info below)

PS 201-- The U.S. Constitution

PS 201-- Judicial Review & Civil Rights

PS 201-- Public Opinion and Media

PS201-- Parties and Elections

PS 201-- Congress & the President

PS 201-- Final Exam Guide

PS 205-- First Week Exercise: Law AND Justice? The "Bob's Luv-A-Pet" Scenario

PS 205-- Legal Theories (slideshow #1)

PS 205-- Criminal & Civil Law (slideshow #2)

PS 205-- An Introduction to Comparative Law: Legal Traditions (slideshow #3)

PS 205-- Judicial Selection (slideshow #4)

PS 205-- Lawyers, Professional Ethics and "Zealous Representation" (slideshow #5)

PS 205-- Reisman's Models of Zealous Advocacy (law review article- student-created) (slideshow #6)

PS 205-- Juries: History, Composition, Peremptories and Nullification (slideshow #7)

PS 205-- The Insanity Defense (slideshow #8)

PS 205-- Structured Sentencing: A Brief Background (slideshow #9)

PS 205-- Contributory Negligence: Justice or Injustice in Tort?  (slideshow #10)

PS 205-- Civil Tax or Criminal Penalty? NC's Unauthorized Substances Excise Tax (slideshow #11)

PS 205-- Basics of Property Law & Adverse Possession (slideshow #12)

ODD or INTERESTING PERSONAL LINKS: (just because I feel like putting them here-- nyah)

My internet radio station. Be nice to it, because it's nice to you.

More to come soon!!!

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