The Final exam will be given Friday June 4 from 9 AM to 1 PM.
As we discussed during class, the final exam will consist of two medium-length essay questions (of 100 points each) plus a third question (worth 25 points) asking you to affirm your attendance for Zoom classes. One of the essay questions will be a traditional question involving a factual hypothetical. The other essay question will consist of my asking you to write a dissenting opinion analyzing the majority opinion of one of the cases we read for this course (either in the casebook or via a link I provided).
Here is the kind of dissenting opinion I have in mind:
The kind of critique I have in mind is what you might find in a thoughtful dissent responding to the reasoning of the majority opinion. Your paper should explain the main points of the majority’s reasoning fairly and charitably, and then explain why you (not necessarily you personally, but you in the role of a dissenting Justice) believe the Court’s decision is not a correct analysis of the Constitution."
So, make sure you have access to all the cases we read this semester, whether in the casebook or via a link I provided. You will want to spend some time during the exam re-reading the case and your notes and thinking about how to craft a powerful dissenting opinion.
We can discuss this a bit more in our Zoom session on Tuesday.
I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend. My Dad was on a ship (The Helena) at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a day that still lives in infamy. And I always think of him on Memorial Day (and, of course, on Pearl Harbor Day).
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