Law 565A - Seminar: Legal History Workshop

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Students will participate along with faculty in the law school's biweekly Legal History Workshop. Every other week we will discuss a work-in-progress presented by its author, who will usually be a law professor or a historian. Some of the presenters will be from UCLA; most will be from other universities. Students will write 4-5 page papers commenting on each of the works presented. The student papers will be given to the workshop presenters before each workshop. Students will be expected to be active participants in the workshop. In the weeks between workshops, we will meet to reflect on the previous week's workshop and prepare for the next one.

Knowledge of history is emphatically not a prerequisite. All that is required is a willingness to think critically about other people's writing and to suggest ways our authors might improve their work.

Grading will be based 50% on the papers and 50% on class participation. This course satisfies the "substantial analytical writing requirement".