Legal Scholarship Seminar (Wilkinson-Ryan/Hoffman, D)
Faculty
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| Tess Wilkinson-Ryan Professor of Law and Psychology twilkins@law.upenn.edu |
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| David Hoffman Professor of Law, Deputy Dean dhoffman@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Expository Writing
Grading
50% Participation,
50% Paper
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:
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- When you are better, please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
- Other [If you have some other option for assisting students who are absent, you can insert your own text here.]
Meeting Times/Location
W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Tanenbaum Hall 345
Category
Seminar
Credits
3.0
This course is designed to expose students to the nuances of producing and engaging with legal scholarship through workshop presentations by established and emerging legal scholars. The seminar will have 6-7 outside speakers visit the class over the course of the semester to present drafts of their most recent work to the class in workshop format. Students are expected to actively participate at the workshop by asking questions related to the paper and the topic. The papers presented will represent a range of methodologies, perspectives, and substantive areas. The class sessions prior to each presentation will discuss the outside speaker's paper in detail, and students are expected to write short (2-3 page) response papers critiquing the author's paper. The course is also designed to provide students with a general overview of academic careers in the law, and the process of obtaining an entry-level teaching position. The final grade for the class will be based on the response papers and class participation.
Perspectives on the Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.