LAWS 4513
Constitutional History: The Framing of the Constitution · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections
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This seminar will focus on the framing period of the U.S. Constitution as a political, legal, historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary process. We will consider a range of topics using primary and secondary sources, including, e.g., the idea of a constitution; the narrative of the Convention; the reliability of the sources; the various initial plans and strategies; issues of representation and slavery; the conception of the executive and judiciary; the role of committees and drafts; ratification; the process of amendment; American constitutional culture. As a 3 credit seminar, expectations include class assignments related to class reading and the writing process, and completion of a research paper on an approved topic related to an aspect of constitutional history, politics, or constitutionalism broadly conceived (e.g., history, biographical, American, global, comparative etc.). The seminar includes weekly exercises designed to support the writing of the research paper.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary BilderLaw | 1005 records | 78th | 86th |
There is no ranking to read here: Mary Bilder is the only instructor with evaluation records for LAWS 4513, so the number is a record, not a position.
Also taught by Mary Bilder
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| LAWS 2110Critical Perspectives: Law, Context, and Professional Identity | 3080 records | 66 |
| LAWS 8667Legal Practice Externship | 251 records | 91 |
| LAWS 2150Law Practice 1 | 1032 records | 84 |
| LAWS 2155Law Practice II | 1032 records | 83 |
| LAWS 8130Advanced Legal Research | 829 records | 92 |
| LAWS 2190Professional Responsibility | 926 records | 74 |
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All 13 items · means across 5 recordsBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
5 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Bilder | Fall 2025 | 01 | 100 | 100 | 60 |
| Mary Bilder | Spring 2025 | 01 | 100 | 98 | 60 |
| Mary Bilder | Fall 2023 | 01 | 100 | 90 | — |
| Mary Bilder | Fall 2022 | 01 | 100 | 98 | 60 |
| Mary Bilder | Spring 2022 | 01 | 100 | 98 | — |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.