Hello Students!

Your final course grades are now posted on CUNYfirst and in the GradeBook here on OL (bottom right corner of the home page).  THANK YOU all for an excellent semester!  I truly enjoyed working with, and learning from, each of you.  I hope you learned a lot, and that you had at least some fun.  I hope to work with each of you again in some way.  If I can ever be helpful to any of you, please don’t hesitate to contact me.  I’ll be on campus pretty regularly throughout the summer so you’re welcome to contact me then, and anytime.  Have a productive, fun, and safe summer, and I hope to see you all again soon!

Cheers,

KC

Hello Students!

Your grades on the final exam are now posted in the GradeBook here on OL, linked in the bottom right corner of the home page.  I also graded your Law in Culture and Court Observation assignments — you’ll find your grades on those items in my “reply” to your post of the assignments.  I’ll post course grades on CUNYfirst tomorrow (Wednesday May 24).

Cheers!

KC

Hello Students!

I hope you enjoyed the wet, and wonderful, weekend, and your exams and other end-semester activities are going well!  Tomorrow (Tue May 23) is our last official class!  By popular demand, we’ll attend another court proceeding(s), either in state or federal court.  This meeting/trip is optional!  If you have not yet completed the Court Observation assignment that’s 5% of your grade in this course, you may use this trip to do so, then post your summary here on OL by the end of the day tomorrow.  If you’ll join us, please meet in the department office (N622) at 10am, where you may lock your belongings.  I’ll be in touch again soon about final exam grades and course grades!

Cheers!

KC

Hello Students!

I hope you all enjoyed our final exam review today!  Just a reminder, we’ll take the final exam this coming Thursday May 18, in our regular classroom (N1007) at our regular class time (10-11:15am).  STUDY!  Here are study suggestions. Please bring something to write with, and your big, smart BRAINS!!  You may bring paper copies of the court charts and maps that we have used, though I don’t expect you’ll need them.

It will be particularly helpful to review past quizzes.  Your grade on today’s quiz (#4) is posted in the GradeBook here on OL.  The answer key is posted in the “Class notes & materials” tab.

If you have any questions between now and the exam, please call me at 917.363.0063.  Please don’t email me because I won’t be checking email frequently!

Have a pleasant evening and Wednesday, I look forward to seeing you Thursday morning!

KC

Hello Students!

I hope you all enjoyed the lovely weekend!  Just a reminder, tomorrow at the beginning of class, we’ll take quiz #4, on legal research and writing!  Please study, and arrive on time so you don’t miss it.  Then we’ll do a fun activity to review for the final exam, which you’ll take on Thursday May 18!  You can win PRIZES!!  Please review these study suggestions. 

Enjoy the rest of this beautiful day, see you tomorrow!

KC

Hello Students!

I hope you enjoyed the lovely, “Spring-y” weekend!  As some of you noted, the syllabus states that you are required to submit a draft demand letter by email tomorrow 8am — disregard it!  We will discuss that and some other amendments to the syllabus in class tomorrow.  Your only assignment for tomorrow is to read textbook ch. 9, especially pp. 251-260, on legal writing.  If possible, please bring your copy of the excerpts from the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that I distributed in our last class because we will continue discussing htat.  Here’s the full decision, just fyi — no need to print it out, it’s over 200 pages!  If you don’t have your excerpt tomorrow, that’s OK.

If you didn’t give your oral reflection on your court observation in last Thursday’s class, you are welcome to do that tomorrow or Thursday, May 11, without penalty.  If you didn’t yet post your court observation summary on OL (due tomorrow, per syllabus), you may do so by end of this Thursday, May 11 without penalty.  If you didn’t yet post your Law in Culture review due this past Thursday, May 4, you may also do that by the end of this Thursday, May 11 without penalty.

I’m sorry for confusion about the assignments!  Enjoy the rest of today, see you tomorrow morning!

KC

Hello Students!  I hope you didn’t drown in the rain this weekend!  Just a reminder, by 2pm today (Monday May 1!) please “reply” to my post below (titled “REPLY by Mon May 1…!”) with a question for our visitor in tomorrow’s class, City Tech grad and current CUNY Law Student Joseph Bernard.  My post below includes some details about her background and experience that you might want to ask about, or anything else.  I will send her the questions this afternoon, to consider before our discussion tomorrow!

Enjoy the rest of this lovely SUNNY day, see you tomorrow!

KC

Hello Students!

By Monday, May 1, at 2pm, please REPLY to this post with one or more questions you’d like to ask Joseph Bernard, who will join us for the second half of Tuesday’s class!  Joseph is a graduate of City Tech’s Law and Paralegal Studies program, in which she was an outstanding student, and graduated with high honors.  She is now in her second year at CUNY Law School.  At CUNY Law, she has served as a Teaching Assistant for the Contracts course for two semesters; she served a Judicial Internship in the Civil Term, Kings County; and she was among 16 students selected from her class to be a member of the Trial Practice Seminar.  After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in employment law (focusing on retaliation and discrimination cases), and she’s interested in mediation.

Please post your questions by 2pm Monday so I can send them to Joseph that afternoon, to consider before she joins us Tuesday morning!  For Tuesday’s class, please also read textbook ch. 7, pp. 175-201 (on reserve in the college library), which we’ll discuss in the first half of class.

I hope you all enjoyed today’s court observation!  I did!  Here is the follow-up assignment, which we’ll discuss Tuesday but I’m providing it in case you want a preview.

Enjoy the weekend, see you Tuesday!

KC

Hello Students!

Just a reminder, for our class tomorrow (Thursday April 27) we will visit the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York to observe one or more criminal trials!!   Please meet 10am SHARP in the department office, N622 (NOT the classroom) where we will lock up our belongings, including phones which the court does not allow us to bring in.  Please also bring a mask, because some judges require them in their courtrooms.  We will be back on campus before 11:30am.

The court observation is a mandatory assignment (5% of course grade) so if you do not attend this trip, you can complete it by attending a court proceeding on your own.

This will be awesome!  I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

KC

Hello Students!  Quiz #3 is now available on Blackboard, in the “Content” folder, it’s the first item.  If you would prefer to take the quiz on paper, in the department office (N622), you are welcome to do so.  Please call me at 917.363.0063 to arrange it.  Otherwise, please complete the quiz today (Tuesday, April 25, 2023) here on Blackboard, anytime between 10am-5pm, in one hour, and in one sitting.  So, once you start the quiz, you must complete and submit it before logging off Blackboard.  Choose the best answer to each question.  Each response is worth 2 points.  If you have questions or technical problems, or you need additional time, please CALL me at 917.363.0063.  (Please do not email or text.)  Good luck!

KC