Recording FAQ

Default rule: No recording

The default assumption is that there is no audio or video recording of any sort during class.  Also, if you’re a blogger and writing about your law school experience, please do not attribute statements to identifiable individuals.

The goal here is to encourage a robust, uninhibited classroom discussion.  Surveillance chills speech and experimentation.   It’s hard to try ideas on for size, even in an academic setting, if a clip of what you say will surface 20 years later at a job interview or a nomination hearing.   Moreover, I will often put students into specific roles regardless of their personal beliefs.  That means statements can be taken very much out of context.

Flipping out of the default: Express permission

That said, if you can’t make it to class for a good reason (medical appointment, personal emergency, job interview), audio taping the class for personal usage is ok.  (The fact that you want to relive the drama of class every day on your commute back home onthe 405 is NOT a good reason.)  But get express permission from me first via e-mail.

Process

updated 1/24/2012 9:27 AM

If you are in my AAJ class (room 1310), I will simply have the class recorded with the built-in equipment.  Please alert me as soon as possible, preferably 24 hours.

If you are in my communications law class (room 1337), please have a friend pick up a digital recorder from the library circulation desk. (It is better that a friend do this because I will forget.) When you get my express permission, I will send an e-mail to the library so that they expect someone to pick up a recorder. After class, that friend should drop off the digital recorder with the library.

When the audio is uploaded, I will save the link on the Vboard page for the class. The links will be made available for approximately two weeks and not indefinitely. So, listen to the lectures promptly.