Order Instructions For this Signature Assignment, find a company that has faced a publicized ethical dilemma involving the law in the past 10 years. Research published court decisions, legal and business journals as well as any other scholarly resources you find related to issue. Report the facts of the ethical […]

Order Instructions Research and analyze these legal ethical dilemmas. Be sure to consider all points of view and all possible solutions.   1.You have worked at your law firm for over 20 years. You began as a legal secretary and now you are a paralegal. As you pass the conference […]

As we wrap up our read of the LaPira book this week, I’d like to use the DB to focus on a highly significant legislative oversight effort underway: the January 6th hearings in Congress.   For the DB this week, please do some outside reading/viewing on the January 6th hearings: […]

Order Instructions This week, we continue with our read of LaPira et al’s edited volume, Congress Overwhelmed; you are asked to read Chapters 10-14.   For the DB this week, please pick one chapter from Chapters 10-14 and write a 300-400 word post summarizing it here.   1. What are […]

This week, much of our reading focuses on the role of legislative branch staffers. You are asked to read Chapters 5-9 of the LaPira, et al book (Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform.), and read two articles on Congressional staffers (links below).   For the […]

Order Instructions This week, we begin our read of our next book in the course, Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform. You are also asked to watch a panel talk about the key ideas in the book.   As we step into reading the book, […]

Order Instructions Annotated Bibliography Assignment Instructions Overview The foundation for sound scholarship is a solid command of the academic literature in your field. A scholar builds this foundation by reading and evaluating one academic source at a time. Over time, you will read many, many sources. It is vitally important […]

Order Instructions As we close out our read of former Congressman Henry Waxman’s book this week, please use this week’s DB to zoom in on the chapters of the book dealing with Congress’s oversight function (and how Waxman utilized it).   1. Looking at the issues he discusses in Chapters […]

Order Instructions Week 4 Assignment – Criminal Law, Criminal Culpability, and Criminal Liability Overview According to the text, criminal law is aimed at the misbehavior that falls below society’s norms and values. The burden of enforcing criminal law and maintaining public order and public safety falls to local, state, and […]

Order Instructions Last week, as we began our read of Showdown at Gucci Gulch, we began to get into the “4 P’s framework” — how people, process, policy and politics interact to either make a legislative effort come together successfully, or not. I asked you to focus on the first […]

Order Instructions As we wrap up our course this week, please reflect back on the four texts we’ve read in this course (Hofstadter, Jacoby, Klein, and Osnos).   Think about the two texts that you’ve found most useful to help understand the history and/or context of our current moment in […]

Order Instructions As we wrap up our course this week, you are asked to read the section of Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue that focuses on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s writing and thinking as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As you’ll note, the text includes her opinion […]

Order Instructions As we head into the last two weeks of our course, you are asked to read Chapters 14-17 of the Osnos book. Among other things, Osnos discusses the current culture of gun ownership in the United States, school shootings such as the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS […]

Order Instructions As we approach the end of our course, we’ll spend the next two weeks considering the career and legacy of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the most well-known and influential Supreme Court justices of the last generation.   This week, you are asked to read about […]

                                               Assignment Instructions   For this assignment, you will create a brief presentation using PowerPoint. Find one chronic gang (do not pick a gang that was included in […]

Order Instructions In our discussion sections these past couple weeks, we’ve been discussing the case Evan Osnos makes — or is attempting to make — about what he sees as “the making of America’s fury.”   As you head into reading the middle section of Wildland this week, please use […]

Order Instructions This week, we begin our read of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, the new book by journalist Evan Osnos that tracks changes in American society over the last decade through a series of intertwined personal narratives. You are also asked to watch a video with Osnos and […]