The Supreme Court and American Politics · Political Science
Not bad. 2 Short papers/Easy mid-term and final.
Finishing law school and STILL using his book/notes. Better than many of the law school classes I've taken.
Lots of reading of cases. Midterm is multiple choice and T/F (and hard as hell). 8-10 page paper (graded stupidly), and final (which most of us thought we were going to fail--it wasn't that bad.. but it wasn't easy).
Lieberman is good enough, although, he is pompous as all hell. If your question is stupid, he'll let you know, if it's not, he'll say the answer is obvious. The class in general is great, if you are intersted by the Court. If not, don't take the class (there ain't no politics here).
Lots of reading (all of it Court cases and background info on the cases). 2 papers (4 pgs each but toughly graded and thus take a lot of time in order to get a good grade). Midterm (T/F, mult choice--not as bad as ppl ahve claimed). Final (3 essays). Grading is strict, but keep up with things and you can get an A. And what a sweet A it is in a hardcore class like this.
This was the best class I ever took in the poli sci department. Is overviews a wide variety of constitutional law issues (race, gender, abortion, separation of powers, impeachment, etc etc etc), and the class sessions consist of discussion in addition to lecture, which makes things interesting (especially when the prof shoots down some big-mouthed, opinionated student). And Lieberman is absolutely great. Not only will he stay around to answer questions from the class, he also arrived 20 mins early to every class and stood in front of the room ready for questions.
Two four pp papers that ask you to solve a complicated Constitutional issue (one related to Enron)-difficult but actually fun to do. Midterm and Final, requires a solid amount of studying
Prof Lieberman is an excellent and extremely smart lecturer who might come off as pompous only because he seems to really know everything about the topic! He doesnt hesitate to thankfully inform "that annoying know-it-all" that a quotation of sectionA subsection II line 3 of the Constitution is completely irrelevant and wrong. If you have any interest in law take this class!!.Although its a lot of work, i learned more than in any other class ive taken at Columbia. Unlike some of the other reviewers, i thought the grading was extremely fair and the TA's (although fairly snooty) did not rip into people's papers. Extensive research was NOT needed for the papers since Leiberman tells you exactly what cases to use.
great lecturer, not very helpful on the assignments though...nor are the T.A.'s. Dificult course, lots of memorization of cases. Papers are somewhat short but demand a lot of research and assignments are rather misleading. Great for pre-law interests, although it may be discouraging-not good for a GPA boost...