Professor Ronald W. Staudt
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Course Information OFFICE & PHONE My office is Room 530. My telephone number is 312-906-5326 and my e-mail address is rstaudt@kentlaw.edu. My computer is always on while I am in the law school and I encourage you to send messages to me by electronic mail. SOME NEW TECHNIQUES FOR LEARNING THE LAW I plan to take advantage of the technological support that the law school has available to help us study the problems of access to justice and technology. Everyone should have 24 hour access to LEXIS and to the Internet so that we can read the newest material available. If you need more training in the use of the computer databases, let me know. In addition, I consider e-mail to be an extension of class. I will establish a web site for our class with this document and other pertinent information. The class web site URL will be http://www.kentlaw.edu/classes/rstaudt/access2justice2006seminar/. SEMINAR REQUIREMENTS, GRADING AND CLASS ATTENDANCE In order to satisfy the Chicago-Kent seminar requirement for graduation, you must have completed at least 54 hours of credit, and Advanced Research, prior to beginning the seminar. You may take a seminar before you have earned 54 hours, but it will not satisfy the senior seminar graduation requirement. Your grade for this seminar will be based on the following performances: 80% — the paper, including the topic proposal, outline, first draft and final rewritten paper. The paper is the centerpiece of the seminar and needs to be at least 25 pages long and annotated according to blue book citation form.To encourage your active involvement during the semester, one-half of a grade differential may be based on general class preparation and participation. In other words, I will grade the papers and other course performances and assign a grade. If you are a conscientious, insightful and effective member of the class, your grade may be raised to one-half letter grade higher. If you are frequently unprepared and fail to participate, I will consider that performance in lowering marginal examination grades by one-half of a grade. I consider electronic mail to be an opportunity to extend the class beyond its usual form and time limits. E-mail to me (which I will forward to all class members, unless you specifically ask me to keep a message private) are counted as part of your class participation in the course. All students should plan to attend all the class meetings. The group is small and your participation is essential for a successful seminar. At a minimum you must attend at least 80% of the classes in this seminar. There are 14 classes. You must be present for at least 11 of these classes. Any student who does not attend the minimum number of classes has not met a requirement for getting credit for the seminar. Keep your own count. This is not an "excuse" system; a student's reason for non attendance is not of interest. SEMINAR STRUCTURE AND PRELIMINARY ASSIGNMENTS The assignments page is a dynamic statement of the class topics, assignments and required student performances. The assignments will change as the semester progresses. Check this page before you start your reading for each class. In addition to class attendance and readings, there are seven performances that are required to complete this seminar:
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