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In constitutional law this week I'm teaching a Supreme Court standing case from this Term, Summers v. Earth Island Institute, to supplement the students' casebook. I decided the case was valuable enough to add it, even though we will cover it well out ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
27 Apr 2009
It's that time of year, so I'm working on my final exams. In my 1L structural constitutional law course I'm giving a take-home exam, as I have done for the last two semesters in this course. My sense with this subject had been that I was reading too ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
17 Apr 2009
I wonder, however,
about a possible downside to this otherwise positive development: greater
external scrutiny of individual attorneys’ case management.
I was a public
defender in New York City from 1994 to 2005, both with the Legal Aid Society in
the ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
7 Apr 2009
I look forward to posting on an assortment of topics this month, but let me begin with a conference announcement that hopefully will interest some readers. Our law school co-directs the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning with Washburn University ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
2 Apr 2009
Professor Berman already has posted on the new court data for criminal filings in federal district courts though 2007, and he has highlighted a few interesting statistical tidbits in this data. I noted another one as a read the data, and I just don't ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
2 Sep 2008
With the start of the new school year, I’ve seen a lot of
interesting a valuable discussion about teaching methods, such as whether to
use the Socratic method or PowerPoint, or whether to ban or limit laptops in class. What I sometimes wonder most, ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
26 Aug 2008
Obama and McCain announced their choices yesterday at the Saddleback
Civil Forum. Nothing too surprising about the choices, including McCain’s
apparent block characterization of Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer
as legislators from the ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
19 Aug 2008
At my school, student tutors typically are assigned to each 1L course. These tutors are chosen and compensated by the SBA. The SBA seems to try to assign tutors who took that professor for the particular course, but this alignment isn’t always possible. ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
18 Aug 2008
I’m teaching an advanced criminal procedure course this
Spring. This course is not subject to our school’s usual grading curve, so I’m
planning to require an academic paper instead of giving an exam. I haven’t
assigned an academic paper in a course ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
5 Aug 2008
Whenever I have heard these words from my older daughter, I dutifully have responded by trying to motivate her to find productive ways not to be bored. Apparently, though, I instead could respond, "That's OK, sweetheart, it's just your internal SPAM ...
From BROOKS HOLLAND,
PrawfsBlawg,
5 Aug 2008
