LAWS 7642
Election Law and Politics · 1 instructor on record · 1 section
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Elections have always been a focal point of American politics. This is natural; victory at the polls is the prize. However, recent years have seen a remarkable upswing in interest in what happens prior to any given election. Attention has focused on such matters as the drawing of district lines, the desire to have "honest" elections while keeping the franchise as open as possible, and the question of which offices should be elected. Many observers have concluded that the "Rules of the Game" determine the outcome long before any votes are cast.This course focuses on rules of the game questions such as the following:--Who should be able to vote? --Do measures such as Voter ID prevent electoral fraud or disenfranchise potentially eligible voters? --What rules govern gerrymandering, whether driven by partisanship or by racial considerations? --Should the election of judges--a feature of many state governments--be abolished, or is it possible to have elections without politics? The course is offered in Seminar form, for two credits, and satisfies the perspectives and upper level writing requirements. The grade is based primarily on a substantial paper. There will be frequent interactions between students and the instructor at all stages of the paper's production. The Casebook is Lowenstein, et al, Election Law (7th edition, 2022).There will be some handouts and frequent use of the Election Law Blog.Interested students should feel free to contact Professor Brown atbrowngd@bc.edu.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| George BrownLaw Provisional | 821 record | 25th | 48th |
There is no ranking to read here: George Brown is the only instructor with evaluation records for LAWS 7642, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.
Also taught by George Brown
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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 1 recordBar 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
1 section · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Brown | Fall 2025 | 01 | 82 | 74 | 40 |
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.