U.S. Supreme Court and the October 24 Term

This course will examine the cases decided by the Supreme Court in its most recent term. Students will be encouraged to not only understand the reasoning the Court explicitly employs in deciding a case, but to also consider extra-legal reasons for decisions and the implications of those decisions.

Required Reading: Students will access the cases from links provided to the cases on the Justia Law site (or other sites as appropriate). For students not familiar with how the Court functions and how to read a case, there will be supplemental materials provided prior to the first class.

Kevin Hart has been a long-time student and observer of the Supreme Court, beginning as an undergraduate Political Science major at Allegheny College. As a newsletter journalist in Washington, D.C., he covered the Supreme Court for several years, both attending oral arguments and writing reports of the cases when they were decided. He taught Health Law for five years in the MPH program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. With a law degree from Syracuse University, he is now a retired lawyer, having been admitted to the bars in Pennsylvania, New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.