Jan.2

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jan.2:

start by finding out who they are introduce yourself tell them your aspirations for the course

here to teach you evidence. evidence is testimony in context from which another draws meaning. that's you. i am here to teach you how to make and understand evidence. i am here to think about with you how we make and understand meaning from evidence.

our field of play is the American Jury Trial and the explosively expanding net

this is a course about process as substance about relationships among the game we choose to play, the rules of the game, and how you play the game. two games i want to explore

litigation and poker

by litigation i mean trial by jury by poker i mean no limit tournament texas hold'em by process i mean to encompass our own

laptops and journals

form groups

lunch plans

learn to play poker

engage in moot court activity in second life

play in a tournament

film nights and friday afternoons

exam

where they are along the path flatland, visualized

EVIDENCE: The Law of Trial By Jury

Conceptualizing the "original position"

Imagine a land of heroes and heroines each one of whom has liberty and a personal sense of responsibility. Call this group WE THE PEOPLE. Count yourself among us. How do WE the PEOPLE not lose our Liberty yet still claim the benefits of GOVERNMENT?

Imagine yourself speaking to this challenge in the voice of a founder about to make a government by which WE will seek to govern ourselves, knowing as we do that a government will promulgate, interpret and enforce rules that will threaten to stifle our liberty.

On Liberty, Mill, Chapter 1

Fried, Liberty: The Very Idea

Barnett, The Presumption of Liberty

Breyer, Active Liberty

Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation

Magna Carta

Trial By Jury

Penn and Bushel

Hamilton and John Peter Zenger

My Cousin Vinny