Interested in taking a class designed by ACSers?

[Anjali Motgi]

ACS,

Feeling bereft that PSW is over? If you're still choosing courses for next semester, I strongly suggest you consider taking Politics of Method, a course designed by ACS students last term.

Ever wondered why Justice Scalia is such a zealous advocate of originalism? Curious when and how law & economics got to be such a big deal? Find the Wikipedia entry on the Coase Theorem unsatisfying? Want to understand whether and how judges decide cases in principled ways? Then this is the course for you!

The course explores where the important legal methods of law and economics and originalism came from, how they work in practice, how they interact with politics, and critiques. Why these two? Because they're widely invoked by both the left and right, and have a history of affiliation with political movements.

The course is taught by Professors David Grewal, Amy Kapczynski and Reva Siegel (our ACS faculty sponsor). Last term, the course was fortunate to have guest visitors such as Professor Balkin, Deputy Dean Kysar and Dean Post, and the class will likely have exciting visitors this term, as well. 1Ls, this is a great class to get you thinking about legal methods and their interaction with progressive ideas. I took the seminar last term--as did a number of ACS members--and we all really enjoyed it.

See the course description on CISS, and feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. 

Best,

Anjali

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Anjali Motgi

Yale Law School, J.D. expected 2014

214.924.4731 | anjali...@yale.edu