601:715. PROBLEMS IN FIRST AMENDMENT LAW (2)
Corrado
This is a first amendment course that involves civil rights advocacy as well as doctrinal legal analysis. The first three weeks of the course will an introduction to first amendment history, law and theory, taught principally by lecture. Beginning in week four and for every week thereafter, half the class will be devoted to oral argument on an assigned case problem that illustrates a current first amendment issue. Two class members will argue and the rest of the class will serve as "Supreme Court Justices." Each advocate will then be responsible for submitting a brief, limited to 20 pages, within two weeks of argument. The remainder of each class will be discussion of the first amendment issue exemplified by that week's problem.
Students will also be required to submit a final paper, similar in format to the class briefs.
Corrado
This is a first amendment course that involves civil rights advocacy as well as doctrinal legal analysis. The first three weeks of the course will an introduction to first amendment history, law and theory, taught principally by lecture. Beginning in week four and for every week thereafter, half the class will be devoted to oral argument on an assigned case problem that illustrates a current first amendment issue. Two class members will argue and the rest of the class will serve as "Supreme Court Justices." Each advocate will then be responsible for submitting a brief, limited to 20 pages, within two weeks of argument. The remainder of each class will be discussion of the first amendment issue exemplified by that week's problem.
Students will also be required to submit a final paper, similar in format to the class briefs.