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page was last updated on Thursday, May 01, 2008.
- Office
hours this week include Tuesday, April 29, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
and Friday, May 2, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
- The
examination will is “open materials” and “open computer.” You can access materials stored on your
hard drive. You may not
communicate with others by any means, including email or IM or the
Internet. You may not access
the Internet, but you may store downloaded material on your hard
drive. The exam software permits you to drag
and drop but not cut and paste between documents.
- Should
you read anything by me?
Several students have discovered my recent article Semantic
Originalism. If you do want
to look at this, I would suggest your limit yourself to Part I, the
introduction, and Part II.C.
This article is long and its intended audience is constitutional
theory specialists. Don’t get
bogged down.
- Outside
Reading. Prompted by a student email, I have
the following suggestions for possible outside reading:
--One volume hornbook: Constitutional
Law: Principles & Policies by Erwin Chemerinsksy (This will be more
useful after the break when we turn to contemporary doctrine.)
--A
History of the American Constitution by Daniel Farber & Suzanna
Sherry (This puts the reading for the first half of the course in
historical context. Especially
useful if you have never studied American history.)
--Constitutional
Law--National Power and Federalism: Examples and Explanations & Constitutional
Law—Individual Rights, both by Christopher N. May and Allan Ides. (A solid outline.)
--Restoring
the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty by Randy E. Barnett
(A synthetic analysis of the subject by the author of our casebook. The most relevant source for
understanding our course materials.)
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