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The Faces Behind the Cases

6-weeks | Available (Membership Required)

3/18/2025-4/22/2025
11:05 AM-12:20 PM EST on Tue
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The Faces Behind the Cases

6-weeks | Available (Membership Required)

Lawyers cite cases as precedent to support their arguments. Judges cite cases as precedent to justify their decisions. People in general discuss the social and political implications of significant cases. There is, however, another rarely discussed aspect of major decisional case law: the human-interest side. The litigants, lawyers and judges were real-life people with lives and stories that go beyond the cases that pushed them into the legal limelight. This course will first touch upon the significance of some famous cases and then focus on the stories of the participants to see the faces behind the cases.

Note: This course was previously offered  in Fall 2021.


Mickey Steiman

Mickey Steiman (A.B. Colgate University; J.D. Syracuse University College of Law) has been in private practice for thirty-eight years in Dutchess County. He has also served as senior trial attorney in the Office of Special Litigation, US Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. and has been an adjunct professor at Marist College.