Spring 2024
Professor(s):
John Blevins (VISITING)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Transfer Students
Time: 4:00p-5:30p MW Location:
Course Outline: This course introduces students to the role of statutes and administrative regulation in the practice of law today. The course covers, as its primary subject, the interpretation of statutes and regulations. This element includes the close reading of one or more complex statutes. The course also covers, as a second element, basic aspects of administrative law: in particular, how agencies implement and enforce statutes and regulations. The course may also include other elements, such as legislative process or regulatory policy.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/8/2024 3-6 311
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: Yes
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Required Course)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
• William N. Eskridge, Jr., Abbe R. Gluck, and Victoria F. Nourse, Statutes,
Regulation, and Interpretation: Legislation & Administration in the Republic of
Statutes (2014) [hereinafter "Casebook"], and
• William N. Eskridge, Jr., Abbe R. Gluck, and Victoria F. Nourse, Supplement to
Statutes, Regulation, and Interpretation: Legislation & Administration in the
Republic of Statutes (2021) [hereinafter "Supplement"]
