The Section 1983 Claim: The Basics
Total Credits: 1.25
- Categories:
- Civil Rights | Constitutional Law
- Speaker:
- Sheldon H. Nahmod
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 21 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Apr 20, 2022
- Product Type:
- On Demand
- License:
- Access for 365 day(s) after purchase.
Description
This session will discuss:
• Section 1983 and Fourteenth Amendment violations
• First Amendment retaliatory arrest claims
Fifth Amendment/Miranda claims
• Cause in fact: the Mt. Healthy burden-shift
• Proximate cause after Mendez
• Heck v. Humphrey and existing convictions
• Section 1983 malicious prosecution claims after Manuel
Speaker
Sheldon H. Nahmod Related Seminars and Products
University Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus (Program Chair)
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Professor Sheldon Nahmod is a leading expert on constitutional law, civil rights and the law of §1983. He is the author of Civil Rights and CivilLiberties Litigation: The Law of Section 1983 (2023-24 edition)(West, Westlaw), published annually since 1979, and has argued civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and many other federal courts. He lectures nationally to attorneys and has also lectured to federal judges on §1983.
He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Divinity School. Professor Nahmod received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the State and Local Government Law Section of the ABA for his work in §1983 jurisprudence. He was named University Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus in 2018.
