Trevor W. Morrison

Courses

• 1L Reading Group: The Supreme Court

  We will read and discuss several recent books on the Supreme Court and certain of its personnel. The proposed reading list, which we will discuss at our first meeting, includes: Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, The Brethren; Edward Lazarus, Closed Chambers; Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court; and Joan Biskupic, The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.

• Constitutional Law (for 1Ls)

  This course provides an overview of American Constitutional law. It focuses on issues of equality and individual liberty, federalism, judicial review, separation of powers, and the allocation of authority between the federal and state governments. It places questions of doctrine and theory in an historic, social and political context.

  Hybrid Teaching Notes

  In this course, faculty will teach from the classroom to a mix of in-person and remote students at every class meeting.  The total in-person student enrollment for this course, which will likely exceed socially distanced seating available in the classroom, requires rotational cohorts of in-person students, giving each student the opportunity to be physically present at every other or every third class meeting.  The first class meeting will be convened fully remotely.