I did it once, and it was the single biggest mistake I've made in ten years of teaching. My two experiences with a hornbook as the primary reading material in class -- one as a student, one as a professor -- were both unequivocal disasters.
At 11:48 AM 11/4/2003 -0800, you wrote:
I am thinking about teaching Constitutional Law next spring (a 4 unit course here) by assigning a hornbook, some current or very recent cases, and problems for the bulk of the class (so the students can learn the black letter law), and then looking at individual justices, approaches to legal reasoning and the workings of the Court. I've got a few questions:
Has anyone out there tried this, or something like it? If so, how did it go?
Does anyone know of a good set of problems to use or select from?
Does anyone know of a good, relatively concise and up to date, description of the basic approaches and attitudes of each of the current justices?
Does anyone know of any movies or other videos that students can watch, be interested in, and learn from?
I'd greatly appreciate any comments/suggestions/advice since I will be venturing into (for me, at least) uncharted waters.
Yhanks.
Joshua D. Rosenberg, JD, LLM, MA, EdD Professor of Law University of San Francisco School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (415) 422-6413 fax: (503) 907-6204
John Copeland Nagle Professor of Law Notre Dame Law School Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-9407 (574) 631-8078 (fax)
