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227.82 sec. 001 - Supreme Court October Term 2024 (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Amanda L Tyler (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 1
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
Tu 08:00 AM - 09:50 AM
Location: Law 134
From January 14, 2025
To February 25, 2025
Course End: February 25, 2025
Class Number: 33728
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 24
Waitlisted: 21
Enroll Limit: 24
As of: 11/25 07:15 PM
This 1-unit class will invite students to read seven currently pending Supreme Court cases as an introduction to the Supreme Court as an institution with emphasis on the ways in which the institutional forms and structures of the Court influence the decisions that the Court hands down. Each week, students will be introduced to how the Court functions and they will discuss and debate one of the Court’s pending cases. The class will meet for seven weeks in two-hour sessions at the beginning of the semester. This is a pass/fail course. Course credit will be based on a combination of classroom participation and a writing assignment, which will entail drafting one seven-page bench memo setting forth your recommendation as to how a sitting justice should decide one of the pending cases we will read.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all enrolled students. Failure of enrolled students to attend the first class without prior email notice to the Professor explaining the absence and receiving approval of the absence will result in the student being dropped from the course after the first class.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
Exam Notes: (None) Class requires a series of papers, assignments, or presentations throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Public Law and Policy
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Litigation and Procedure
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