For half the semester we will examine various aspects of the Supreme Court - how Justices are selected, how the Court chooses its cases, the extent to which the Justices� political preferences influence the decisions, and so on. In the other half of the course we will sit as a mock Supreme Court, deciding eight of the current term�s cases. Each student will be a lawyer presenting oral argument in two cases and a Justice deciding the other six. Each student will write at least two opinions.