OBvious movies about the Court include First Monday in October. There's
also Talk of the Town, with Jean Arthur and Cary Grant, about a Supreme
Court nominee. Judgment at Nuremberg has a character based on Justice
Rober t Jackson. There is also a TV movie called Nuremberg with Alec
Baldwin in the Justice Jackson role. There is a TV movie called Strange
Justice about the Clarence Thomas nomination. Separate But Equal has some
scenes in which the Justices discuss their thinking about the pending Brown
v. Board of Education case. There are also a lot of movies about important
Court decisions, including Gideon's Trumpet and Roe v. Wade; you might be
able to find some scenes that you could use to illustrate the workings of
the Court. The Pelican Brief centers on the murders of some (fictional)
Supreme Court justices. I believe there is a Supreme Court scene in The
People v. Larry Flynt as well. You can check the website www.imdb.com
(Internet Movie Database) for available on videotape or DVD.
Christine Corcos
Associate Professor of Law
Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Program
LSU A&M
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con law professors
I am thinking about teaching Constitutional Law next spring (a 4 unit
course here) by assigning a hornbook, some current or very recent cases,
and problems for the bulk of the class (so the students can learn the
black letter law), and then looking at individual justices, approaches
to legal reasoning and the workings of the Court. I've got a few
questions:
Has anyone out there tried this, or something like it? If so, how did it
go?
Does anyone know of a good set of problems to use or select from?
Does anyone know of a good, relatively concise and up to date,
description of the basic approaches and attitudes of each of the current
justices?
Does anyone know of any movies or other videos that students can watch,
be interested in, and learn from?
I'd greatly appreciate any comments/suggestions/advice since I will be
venturing into (for me, at least) uncharted waters.
Yhanks.
Joshua D. Rosenberg, JD, LLM, MA, EdD
Professor of Law
University of San Francisco School of Law
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