[EL] law & politics workshop proposal

[Christopher S. Elmendorf]

Listservers--

I am putting together a proposal for a workshop-based law and politics seminar which, as I presently envision it, would be taught to a mix of law students and political science grad students, and which would feature a roughly even mix of presenters (half from law schools, half from political science departments).

I’d welcome advice--off list is fine--from anyone who has taught law students and grad students together in a seminar setting.  Were you able to sustain interest from both groups of students?  Did you screen for law students with strong backgrounds in social science or statistics?  Were you able to create productive “learning moments” by calling on grad students to explain the technical side of a paper to law students, and asking law students to interrogate the grad student (or the paper’s author) as a lawyer might probe an expert witness?

Thanks in advance for sharing suggestions . . . or words of caution.

Chris



Christopher S. Elmendorf
Professor of Law, U.C. Davis School of Law
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