Hello Students!

Great work in class today, with particularly challenging material! Just a reminder, this Thursday Oct 9, you’ll take the Midterm Exam in class. Here are some study suggestions, and here is the answer key to quiz #2 which will also be helpful to review. (The key to quiz #1 is posted in the “class notes & materials” page.) Study hard, arrive on time, bring your court charts & maps and your Bluebook, something to write with, and your big, smart BRAINS!

I posted our tutor’s schedule and contact information in the “class notes & materials” page.

See you Thursday!

KC

Hello Students!

Also I will not be available for my regular office hours of 11:30am-12:30pm today. I will be available for my 4-4:30pm office hours today!

See you later!

KC

Hello Students! Just a reminder, we will NOT meet as a class Thursday Sept 25.  Instead, if you didn’t already, please submit your brief of People v. Neulander by 2:30pm Thursday. (That will count as your attendance for Thursday’s class.) Here is a MS Word template brief format you can use to type the brief, or you are welcome to type your own document (please follow the format in the template), or handwrite it. You can use this case citation (it’s already in the template): People v. Neulander, 34 N.Y.3d 110 (2019).  By 2:30pm Thursday Sept 25, please submit your brief, either by emailing it to me as an attached Word or pdf document OR leave a paper copy in my mailbox in the department office. If you’d like to discuss the brief, or anything else, I’ll be available in the department office (N622) during our scheduled class time plus office hours (2:15-4:30pm). It’s optional!

Also don’t forget! On Tuesday Sept 30, everyone should have your own copy of the Bluebook in class so we can start learning to use it! If you have one, you’ll get a prize!!  🙂  Guidance for how to get a Bluebook is in the syllabus.

Have a great day!

KC

Hello Students!

The Legal Studies and Social Science Departments cordially invite you to exercise your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to celebrate our United States Constitution!

Join faculty, students and guest speaker Yasin Hassan, Paralegal & Systems Manager at Davis Ndanusa Ikhlas & Saleem LLP in a lively “virutal roundtable” discussion about how constitutional principles affect our daily lives, and how interpretations of the Constitution continue to evolve in response to new challenges.  (Zoom info below)

Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Time: 1:00pm-2:15pm

This year’s event will explore two timely and important themes:

• The Expansion of Federal Power: How has the federal government historically expanded into areas once left to the states? And what are the implications of the most recent federal expansions, including into policing itself, for democracy and accountability?
• Individual Rights and Citizenship: What do contemporary interpretations of the Constitution mean for fundamental rights, including the future of birthright citizenship?

Hello Students!

I apologize for the delay in posting this!  Here is the schedule for online training sessions to be a Volunteer Counselor with NYPIRG’s Small Claims Court Action Center:

• Tue Sept 16, 1-2pm
• Th Sept 18, 12-1pm
• Mon Sept 22, 12-1pm
• Th Sept 25, 1-2pm
• Wed Oct 1, 4-5pm

Register through this link to receive information for joining the session: