Syllabus
Main Syllabus for January 17 onward
Syllabus for UIC students only for Week of January 10-13, 2017
This week only we will not meet jointly with IIT Chicago-Kent Law school students in the course.
Both Tuesday and Thursday meetings will be in LC A4 (UIC), 2:00 to 3:15.Initial Content: A crash course in American law:
- Source of US law: 50 states and federal law
- Constitution vs. statute vs. regulations
- The role of appellate courts in making law
- The role of agencies
- Criminal law, tort law, and contract law
Initial Week Reading for UIC students only, complete before the first meeting if possible, certainly right after:
Orin S. Kerr,
How to Read a Legal Opinion
Homework for UIC students, out Tuesday Jan. 10, due start of class, Thursday, Jan. 12
is posted to the
class Piazza site
Topic revision: r9 - 2017-01-10 - 02:15:13 - Main.sloan