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Debate Club: Supreme Court Cases

Completed by 10 learners
Ages 13-18
Live Group Class
Engage and enhance your knowledge of the Constitution while honing your skills at argumentation, logic and persuasiveness.
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(777 reviews)
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Live video meetings
1x per week
6-18 learners per class
85 min

What's included

1 live meeting
1 hrs 25 mins in-class hours per week
Homework
1-2 hours per week. Cases and overview materials will be provided in the classroom during the week prior to class for review and preparation.
Assessment
If requested, grades and assessments are available. All assignments must be completed in order to receive grade or assessment.
Grading
If requested, grades and assessments are available. All assignments must be completed in order to receive grade or assessment.

Class Experience

US Grade 8 - 11
In this ongoing class, each week learners will engage in courtroom proceedings to convince a panel of Judges that a Supreme Court case was either decided correctly or should be overturned.  The case will be posted ahead of time with relevant useful materials and teams will be assigned.  At the start of each week's class the teams will meet to prepare for the first 25 minutes.  The last hour of class will be dedicated to each opposing side's arguments, rebuttals and the judges questions.  Finally, the judges will determine whether that Supreme Court case should stand or be overturned.  

This class will help hone learners skills in argumentation, logic, persuasiveness, listening, responding, asking pertinent questions and critically analyzing information.  As well, learners will identify how to use past cases to argue in support or against their current case (a skill lawyers need to focus on), how to differentiate facts and laws in a case, how to read, interpret and analyze the Constitution, and different ways that Justices may employ to understand the meaning of the Constitution (four corners, drafter's intent or present day interpretation).  Using all this new found knowledge in an active, team environment allows for a greater amount of learning and a deeper understanding of concepts and content.  

There will be 20 cases in each section of the course.  You can join in at any time as each case stands alone and no prior knowledge is necessary to engage with the class and material.  

- Citizens United v. FEC
 - Engel v. Vitale
 - NYT v. U.S.
 - McDonald v. City of Chicago
 - Gideon v. Wainwright
 - Shaw v. Reno
 - Tinker v. Des Moines School District
- U.S. v. Lopez
 - Wisconsin v. Yoder
- U.S. v. Tsarnaev
 - New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. City of New York
 - Bronovich v. DNC
- Pattowatomie v. Earls
 - Timbs v. Indiana
 - Carpenter v. U.S.
 - Matal v. Tam
 - U.S. v. Virginia
 - Regents of UC v. Bakke
 - Hazelwwod v. Kuhlmeier
 - Mitchell v. Wisconsin

Learning Goals

This class will help hone learners skills in argumentation, logic, persuasiveness, listening, responding, asking pertinent questions and critically analyzing information.  As well, learners will identify how to use past cases to argue in support or against their current case (a skill lawyers need to focus on), how to differentiate facts and laws in a case, how to read, interpret and analyze the Constitution, and different ways that Justices may employ to understand the meaning of the Constitution (four corners, drafter's intent or present day interpretation).

Other Details

External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Supreme Court case law and the Constitution will be the main sources used in this course.

Meet the teacher

Joined May, 2018
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a human rights lawyer for the United Nations and law school professor and have been teaching Constitutional law and human rights law to middle and high school student for the past 4 years.  

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