27 sessions · Mondays and Wednesdays · Materials and recordings appear as they are published.
ToolingStudent presentationPaper milestoneCurrent events
| # | Date | Topic | Cases | Materials & links | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | Mon, Aug 24 | Introduction | Who Are You?Prompting strategies | ▶ Zoom | |
| b | ToolingTooling: Munsterman Chapters 4 and 13 | — | |||
| 2a | Wed, Aug 26 | ToolingTooling: Claude Cowork | Claude Cowork | ▶ Zoom | |
| b | ToolingTooling: Connectors and Skills | — | |||
| 3a | Mon, Aug 31 | PaperTopic selection: Volokh We will also look at Claude for Word | Stuckler skills | — | |
| b | PaperTopic selection: Volokh | Thesis assessor skill | |||
| 4a | Wed, Sep 2 | ToolingTooling: NotebookLM and Gemini with Canvas and connector | Gemini Notebook on Gemini Notebooks | — | |
| b | Trump v. Slaughter | Trump v. Slaughter | |||
| 5a | Wed, Sep 9 | Class canceled to facilitate work on topic | — | — | |
| b | Class canceled to work on topics | — | |||
| 6a | Mon, Sep 14 | ToolingTooling: AI writing process; Claude for Word; maybe Grok for Word Tooling: CoCounsel and Protégé | — | — | |
| b | ToolingTooling: AI writing process; ChatGPT image models Trump v. Cook | — | |||
| 7a | Wed, Sep 16 | PaperTopic presentations | — | — | |
| b | PaperTopic presentations | — | |||
| 8a | Mon, Sep 21 | Callais | — | — | |
| b | Callais | — | |||
| 9a | Wed, Sep 23 | ToolingTooling: Munsterman Chapter 14 | — | — | |
| b | Congressional restrictions on federal court review | — | |||
| 10a | Mon, Sep 28 | StudentStudent presentation: The Census and Apportionment (Lowery) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Direct taxes (Gomez) | — | |||
| 11a | Wed, Sep 30 | StudentStudent presentation: Dormant foreigh commerce clause (Patel) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Interstate tax allocations (Goerlitz) | — | |||
| 12a | Mon, Oct 5 | CurrentCurrent events: SCOTUS term 2026 | — | — | |
| b | CurrentCurrent events: SCOTUS term 2026 | — | |||
| 13a | Wed, Oct 7 | StudentStudent presentation: Bills of Credit, Legal Tender and Monetary Powers (Yesildal) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Remedies (Hernandez) Nielson v. Watanabe is pending before SCOTUS | Marbury, Bivens, Egbert | — | ||
| 14a | Mon, Oct 12 | StudentStudent presentation: Military Justice (Dagon) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Militia clauses (Stegall) | — | |||
| 15a | Wed, Oct 14 | StudentStudent presentation: Habeas Corpus (Nazarali) Genalo v. Black is pending before SCOTUS | Ex Parte Merryman, Ex Parte Milligan | — | — |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Bills of Attainder (Lowery) | — | |||
| 16a | Mon, Oct 19 | StudentStudent presentation: Contracts Clause (Gomez) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Interstate compacts (Patel) | — | |||
| 17a | Wed, Oct 21 | StudentStudent presentation: Treaties and executive agreements (Goerlitz) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Associational and Organizational Standing (Yesildal) | — | |||
| 18a | Mon, Oct 26 | PaperFirst draft presentations | — | — | |
| b | PaperFirst draft presentations | — | |||
| 19a | Wed, Oct 28 | StudentStudent presentation: Ripeness and Mootness (Hernandez) Grand v. City of University Heights is pending before SCOTUS | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Full Faith and Credit (Dagon) | — | |||
| 20a | Mon, Nov 2 | StudentStudent presentation: Extradition (Stegall) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Limits on state choice of law (Nazarali) | — | |||
| 21a | Wed, Nov 4 | StudentStudent presentation: Seventh Amendment and administrative state (Lowery) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Public Rights doctrine (Gomez) Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC is pending before SCOTUS | — | |||
| 22a | Mon, Nov 9 | StudentStudent presentation: Citizenship (Patel) Trump v. Barbara | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: The 21st amendment (Goerlitz) | — | |||
| 23a | Wed, Nov 11 | StudentStudent presentation: The Texas constitution structure (Yesildal) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Texas Bill of Rights (Hernandez) | — | |||
| 24a | Mon, Nov 16 | StudentStudent presentation: Texas "federalism" (Dagon) | — | — | |
| b | StudentStudent presentation: Texas separation of powers (Stegall) | — | |||
| 25a | Wed, Nov 18 | Regulation of Territories (Nazarali) | — | — | |
| b | CurrentCurrent events TBD | — | |||
| 26a | Mon, Nov 23 | PaperFinal paper presentations | — | — | |
| b | PaperFinal paper presentations | — | |||
| 27a | Mon, Nov 30 | PaperFinal paper presentations | — | — | |
| b | PaperFinal paper presentations | — |