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CourseIntroduction 3 - 04 Nov 2021 - Main.EbenMoglen
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General Introduction | | | We don't read cases. statues, or regulations here. We are caught sidling through the law reviews only when they have something to say to our purpose, which is almost never. But we do read the literature of psychology, anthropology, philosophy and history, and we read the literature of lawyering—for, by, and about lawyers—for the purpose of thinking and drawing out of the box. We write together, in the course wiki, which also contains all the reading. There's formal writing: two essays of not more than 1,000 words on topics you choose, in at least two drafts. There's informal writing: the journal each student keeps, that only you and I can read, in which we can write about your learning exclusively, one to one. There's in-between writing in which we discuss the readings and our own writings collectively, commenting and rewriting and re-commenting and "refactoring," to come to consensus about what our reading leads us to. There is no exam. | |
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< | Because this is the epidemic, all our work is conducted in the mode of VirtualInstruction, supplemented by hybrid in-person instruction—for those in NYC—under appropriate infection control, outdoors. The course I have built up over thirty years I started adapting in 2012, for the inevitable moment when climate crisis or pandemic forced us to abandon in-person law school. Having spent all those years building the Ark, I know how to sail it now that the flood is upon us. There is absolutely no Zoom here, or in any of my other courses; you can read WhyNotVideoConferencing to understand why I gave up early in those seven years on the practices my colleagues now depend on for their epidemic improvisations.
By looking around in this wiki as a guest you can get a pretty good idea of what it's like to be enrolled. If you look in the Index under Archived Material, you can find years of student writings, along with my comments and others comments on my comments and each successive version, for hundreds of essays reflecting the creative efforts other students made. I change readings on the fly from week to week, depending on how I think the conversation can next be improved by new voices; all the readings are available through the wiki so you don't need to buy anything. You can see in the PossibleReadingList some of what I expect we might read together, given what I've used in the last few years. You should read the EvaluationPolicy so you understand how you and I will deal with the Occupation Forces. I recorded an audio trailer for you, so you can hear what the weekly class audio component sounds like. You can also find at ClassAudio all the full-length podcasts I made for my students last spring after the epidemic began and our class ceased to meet. If you have any questions, please email me. | >
> | By looking around in this wiki as a guest you can get a pretty good idea of what it's like to be enrolled. If you look in the Index under Archived Material, you can find years of student writings, along with my comments and others comments on my comments and each successive version, for hundreds of essays reflecting the creative efforts other students made. I change readings on the fly from week to week, depending on how I think the conversation can next be improved by new voices; all the readings are available through the wiki so you don't need to buy anything. You can see in the PossibleReadingList some of what I expect we might read together, given what I've used in the last few years. You should read the EvaluationPolicy so you understand how you and I will deal with the Occupation Forces. I recorded an audio trailer for you. You can also find at ClassAudio all the full-length podcasts I made for my students last spring. If you have any questions, please email me. | | | Note on Privacy |
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