LLM Legislative and Administrative Advocacy

Legislative and Administrative Advocacy examines how bills become law and how agency rules are promulgated. Each student will research and draft a proposed bill or agency regulation on behalf of a client group, present it in a mock hearing, and write a research paper. Grades are based in equal proportions on the draft of an instrument, mock hearing, and research paper; there is no examination. Class meetings will cover legislative and administrative enactment and promulgation procedures, research methodologies, drafting techniques, constitutional restrictions, and public access to information. This clinical course is open for enrollment by second and third year students. Students will register via the normal registration procedure; no application process is required. Interested students are encouraged to get on the waitlist and attend the first class, when decisions will be made about enrollment in the course. Professors Marcello and Babst plan to invoke a rule penalizing students for lack of preparation and/or excessive absenteeism.