[EL] Election Law as a paper course or an exam course?

[Abu El-Haj,Tabatha]

Mark,

I have taught it both ways. I thought it worked particularly well as a writing course. I organized the course around themes (access to the vote, redistricting, campaign finance, and parties). We covered the Supreme Court case law out of the casebook, but rather than having an issue-spotting exam, students were assigned a circuit at the beginning of the semester, and then wrote memos about how issues left open by the Supreme Court were playing out in that circuit. In the future, I would probably include more on the VRA in the classroom component to facilitate the memos.

Tabatha


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From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on behalf of Mark Scarberry <mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu>
Date: Monday, June 1, 2020 at 5:42 PM
To: Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
Subject: [EL] Election Law as a paper course or an exam course?


External.
This is a mundane pedagogical question that may seem unimportant in this difficult time, but I would like to hear list members' views.

Do you prefer to teach the Election Law class as a paper course (with the focus on students writing substantial papers) or as the usual kind of doctrinal course?

Perhaps your views will be different in the current circumstances as opposed to whatever the "normal" circumstances might be.

Mark

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