The Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at Newhouse


	Mark Obbie Associate Professor, Magazine Journalism and Media Law

	William Banks Professor of Law

	Keith Bybee Associate Professor, Political Science

	Sanjay Chhablani Assistant Professor of Law

	Lisa Dolak Professor of Law

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	News Perspectives on Crime, Courts and Justice Fall 2007 One credit hour

	Legally Speaking Fall 2007 Segments in NEW 305 and NEW 405 classes

	NEW 500: Law, Politics and Media Spring 2008 Two credit hours


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The lectures that we bring to campus, and the information on this site, are services to the university community and beyond. But our principal focus is in the classroom.

In the Future
We hope to offer other courses, including specialized reporting on the law, research using data and tools provided by Syracuse University’s TRAC service and interdisciplinary courses offered in conjunction with the College of Law and Maxwell School. Watch this site for updates.

Current Course Offerings

News Perspectives on Crime, Courts and Justice

Fall 2007

One credit hour

Law touches all aspects of society: government, culture, national security, public safety — even sports and entertainment. This course examines news coverage of current controversies and the intersection of journalism, politics, and the law.

Topics include: what principles are at stake in the legal battles surrounding the war; how Supreme Court appointments have changed as a result of abortion politics; the tactics used by journalists and lawyers in high-profile and “tabloid trial” cases; what the fight is about over a “litigation explosion”; and how journalists might cover future litigation over same-sex marriage.

NEW 200 is offered October 1 through October 31 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:45 to 5:05 p.m. at the Newhouse School.

We are currently evaluating the course's status and will update this page once we decide whether this will be offered in fall 2008 and subsequent semesters. Meantime, NEW 500 -- an expanded version of NEW 200 -- is planned to begin in spring 2008 and be offered annually in the spring. Watch this site for updates or contact Professor Obbie.

Legally Speaking

Fall 2007

Segments in NEW 305 and NEW 405 classes

A Carnegie Legal Reporting Program instructor teaches two types of legal-reporting tactics in existing news reporting classes.

In NEW 305, we explore how to find stories on any Syracuse University beat using legal-reporting methods and documents. How does knowledge of the legal system and government records turn up original, groundbreaking stories on any topic?

In NEW 405, we discuss nuts-and-bolts courts reporting: how to use people and documents to tell stories about specific court cases, or on the justice system in general.

NEW 500: Law, Politics and Media

Spring 2008

Two credit hours

A seminar on the major issues of the day where law, politics and journalism intersect. Learn what the law says, and how practical considerations of politics, public pressure, and media scrutiny affect our understanding of such critical issues as the president’s powers during war, wrongful convictions and the death penalty, and public pressure in major media-blitz legal cases

This seminar is led by faculty experts from the College of Law, Maxwell, and Newhouse, with outside experts from journalism, law, the bench, and politics.

This course is open to students at the College of Law and graduate students at the Maxwell and Newhouse schools. It also is open to select Newhouse juniors and seniors who have completed NEW 205 (news reporting) and with the permission of Professor Obbie.

NEW 500 will be meet Wednesdays, 2:30-5, Jan. 14-March 26 (10 weeks), at the College of Law (Room 204, McNaughton Hall).


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