Information about Your Presentations

As stated in the course description for this seminar, each of you will give a presentation to the class time on a topic of your choice.

You will need to prepare a lecture of about 20 minutes (uninterrupted).  In fact, however, interruptions will be encouraged so that a whole hour (55 minutes) is devoted to your presentation.

You will also need to prepare a packet of readings, including authorities such as cases, statutes, articles, etc., as well as your own commentary. (More about the packet will be posted shortly and linked right HERE.) Your classmates will read the packet in order to be an informed audience for your talk. A draft of the packet will be due three weeks before your talk date. You will also meet with me sometime one to two weeks before the draft is due, to see how you are doing, help with topic narrowing, etc. I am also happy to meet individually before that to talk about sel topic. See below for the dates for the presentation, and then, backwards in time, to the draft due date and the preliminary meeting date.

I expect that the first talk will be no earlier than OCT. 11 with the draft packet due on 9/20, and the preliminary meeting a week or so before that. That is quite soon. If someone is ready and eager to go that early, that is fine. But if not, there is enough time, with an enrollment of 13, for the student talks to begin on 10/18, with two people going every week, and one person going on the last day of class, 12/6.

NOTE: When there are two student talks in one day, I would like to be able to have the option of letting the class run until 5:55, so that everyone gets enough time both as speaker and as questioner. Spots will be filled once I have everyone's answers, but dates are not set in stone: you can always switch to an open spot or swap with a willing swapper (provided the draft packet deadline has not passed).

Talk
Date
 (Draft
Due)
 [Preliminary
Meeting*]
10/11
 (09/20)
 [09/09]
10/18 (09/27) [09/16]
10/25 (10/04**) [09/23]
11/1 (10/11) [09/30]
11/8 (10/18) [10/07]
11/15 (10/25) [10/14]
11/22 (11/01) [10/21]
12/06 (11/08) [10/28]
* I have tentatively scheduled the preliminary meetings for the Friday nine days before the draft is due, but any day between one and two weeks before the draft due date is OK.  My schedule is quite flexible.  Email is often the easiest way to arrange a mutually convenient time.

** No seminar on Tuesday, 10/4, but school is in session. This is the Tuesday the law school has designated Monday.


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