Rebecca E. Zietlow Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values Office:  LC2002B Campus Phone: (419) 530-2872 Fax Number: (419) 530-7911 Email:   rebecca.zietlow@utoledo.edu Secretary:  Lois Patek (419) 530-2965

Fall 2008

Constitutional Law II

Syllabus

First Assignment
You may pick-up a copy of the case U.S. v. Heller, needed for your first assignment, in Suite 2002.

The Articles of Confederation

Professor Rebecca Zietlow, a faculty member since 1995, is a graduate of Barnard College (BA) and Yale Law School (JD).

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Zietlow clerked for the Honorable John F. Grady, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, and worked as a staff attorney for four years at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago.

In addition, Professor Zietlow has published in the fields of welfare reform, due process, and congressional enforcement of civil right. She is a regular blogger at Essentially Contested America.

Recent publications include:

The Promise of Congressional Enforcement of the Thirteenth Amendment, in THE PROMISES OF LIBERTY: THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT ABOLITIONISM AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT, Alexander Tsesis, Ed., Columbia Univ. Press (2008).

The Judicial Restraint of the Warren Court (and Why it Matters) , 69 Ohio State L. J. ___   (forthcoming)

The Auto-Lite Strike and the Fight Against “Wage Slavery” (with James Gray Pope), 38 Univ. Toledo L. Rev. 839 (2007)

The Promise of Congressional Enforcement , in Alexander Tsesis, Ed., THE PROMISES OF LIBERTY: THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT ABOLITIONISM AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT (Columbia University Press, Forthcoming 2007)

ENFORCING EQUALITY: CONGRESS, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS (New York University Press 2006)

The New Parity Debate:  Congress and Rights of Belonging, 73 U. Cinn. L. Rev. 1347 (2005) (with Denise C. Morgan)

To Secure These Rights: Congress, Courts and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 57 Rutgers L. Rev. 945 (2005)

Contributor, State Sovereignty and States' Rights, in THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2d ed., 2005)

Juriscentrism and the Original Meaning of Section Five,  13 TEMPLE POLITICAL & CIVIL RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 485 (2004)

Civil Rights and Bingham's Theory of Citizenship , 36 AKRON L. REV. 717 (Symposium Issue) (2003) Federalism's Paradox:  The Spending Power and Waiver of Sovereign Immunity, 37 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 141 (2002).

Belonging, Protection and Equality: The Neglected Citizenship Clause and the Limits of Federalism , 62 U. PITT. L. REV. 281 (Winter, 2000).  

Beyond the Pronoun: Toward an Anti-Subordinating Method of Process , 10 TEX. J. WOMEN & L. 1 (Fall, 2000).

Exploring a Substantive Approach to Equal Justice Under Law , 28 N.M. L. REV. 411 (1998).

Writing Scholarship While You Practice Law , 3 MICH. J. OF RACE & LAW 589 (1998); reprinted in 5 MICH. J. OF RACE & LAW 767 (2000).

Giving Substance to Process: Countering the Due Process Counterrevolution , 75 DENV. U. L. REV. 9 (1997).

Supreme Court Finds Right to Waiver of Appellate Fees in Parental Rights Termination Cases, PUBLIC INTEREST L. REV.  (Fall 1997)

In the Supreme Court: Can a lack of funds bar an indigent mother from appealing the termination of her parental rights? WEST’S LEGAL NEWS (October 1, 1996)

Two Wrongs Don't Add Up To Rights: The Importance ofPreserving Due Process In Light Of Recent Welfare Reform Measures 45 AM. U. L. REV. 1111 (1996)