EXP: Appellate Advocacy (Sanghvi)
Faculty
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| Nilam Sanghvi Adjunct Professor of Law nilam.sanghvi@temple.edu |
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Drafting Legal Documents
Expository Writing
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
100% Other (20% class participation
10% first writing assigmnent (with option to drop grade)
10% first oral argument (with option to drop grade)
30% second writing assignment
30% second oral argument
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No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
T 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Silverman Hall 240B
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
3.0
Students in this course will strengthen their ability to persuade through writing and oral argument. We will develop, refine, and practice strategies for persuasion in appellate litigation, and examine how those strategies can be transferred to other areas of legal practice.
The first half of the semester will focus on written advocacy. There will be two writing assignments: (1) a short brief that is a closed research assignment to allow students to focus on issue spotting and starting to work on their appellate writing; and (2) a full appellate brief that will allow students to research and hone the skills of making both legal and policy arguments.
During the second half of the semester, the class will turn its focus to oral advocacy. In class, students will practice oral advocacy through regular “mini-arguments,” moots, and other oral presentations. The semester will end with each student making a final oral argument before a three judge panel. Conditions allowing, we will attempt to observe an in-person or video appellate argument and reflect on the experience.
Some of the assignments, but not all, will have a public interest focus. We will also have a federal appellate judge and a former Pennsylvania state appellate judge as guest speakers. Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to work closely with Professor Sanghvi and the class TAs on writing and oral advocacy skills.
Active class participation is encouraged.
Skills Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the individual course skill; Demonstrate the ability to receive and implement feedback; Demonstrate an understanding of how and when the individual course skill is employed in practice.
Constitutional Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of constitutional law; Perform legal analysis in the context of constitutional law; Communicate effectively on topics related to constitutional law; Demonstrate an understanding of constitutional law affects other areas of law.
Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.
Criminal Law and Procedure Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of criminal law and procedure; Perform legal analysis in the context of criminal law and procedure; Communicate effectively on topics related to criminal law and procedure; Demonstrate an understanding of the role criminal law and procedure play in society and their impact on other areas of law and society.
Public Interest Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of the varied legal aspects of public interest law; Perform legal analysis in the context of public interest law; Communicate effectively on topics related to public interest law; Demonstrate an understanding of how public interest law is connected to and affected by a wide variety of legal and regulatory structures and doctrines.
Textbooks
"Making Your Case: The Art of Persauding Judges" by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner |