LAW 619 - Supreme Court Seminar

Fall Neal Devins

This course will look at Court decision-making over the past two terms and the upcoming 2023-24 docket; it will also consider the causes and consequences of the partisan split between liberal/Democrat and conservative/Republican Justices. This course will also provide students with an opportunity to meet with former Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and prominent Supreme Court advocates (including Stanford law professor Pam Karlan and former Solicitor General Paul Clement). Students will also attend (virtually) a moot court of a case that the Court will hear in November (and we will likely have an opportunity to discuss the moot with the advocate arguing the case). There will be around 8 class meetings over the course of the semester. There is no exam; students will write two 4 page memos. Memos will be based on class readings and there is no independent research.