immigration in America

I couldn't find the excerpt from America America which I was looking for. So instead you can have a look at this short scene from the movie.

In this interview, Martin Scorsese discusses movie-making and the immigrant experience.
A few years back I wrote a post on West Side Story.

Finally, you may enjoy a very interesting post on a French blog on the song by Joan Baez on the Sacco & Vanzetti cause célèbre. The same blog offers a selection of songs and an analysis of their historical context. I strongly reccommend visiting it.

outline for lecture 7

The university website is experiencing problems putting the outlines online.

So if you can, please download the outline for Lecture 7 : here.

Simply click on where it says télécharger ce fichier.

Seminar 3 : the Bill of Rights

The podcast I've recommended for this week are short episodes made by a young law student in 2006 : basically at the end of every day he made a few podcasts summarizing what he'd learnt or been studying. I find it usually enjoyable and useful.

Visit the webpage : Life of Law Student : constitutional law II. and download the podcasts or search for it on i-tunes.

Here is a very good example of the current significance of the Bill of Rights and of the debate of free speech :




This is an extract from The West Wing, season 6, episode 8 (In the room)

I whole heartedly reccomend this TV series which is amazing : you'll learn a lot about the American constitution, the political workings of the institutions and the hot potato issues of the 2000s, and painlessly to boot.