Problems peculiar to federal practice: jurisdictional prerequisites (federal question, diversity of citizenship, jurisdictional amount), removal, venue, abstention, limitations on the power to issue injunctions, and the authority of federal courts to issue the writ of habeas corpus. An in-depth study of choice-of-law problems peculiar to federal practice and limitations on the scope of Supreme Court review of state judgments.
This is an elective course. Most, though not all, electives are offered each year. Students may expect to have at least one opportunity to subscribe to all electives at some time in their three years in the college.