Assignment: Throughout the semester, we have dealt with many different areas of law (Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Trial Procedure, Civil Procedure, Torts (including Intentional Torts, Negligence, and Defamation/Right of Privacy) Contracts and many different doctrines within those areas.

Now, you have an opportunity to change it.

Your assignment is to write up a one-page, single-spaced typed analysis on one area of the law or legal rule that you would change, why you think it needs changing, and how you would change it (recommend a potential solution, along with some pros and cons of implementing this solution). This assignment isindividual.

For example, maybe you want to eliminate some of the procedural requirements someone needs to go through in order to get to court (such as shortening the time where someone can file an answer). In order to support your theory, you must include two research sources to back up your claims. Citing to these sources should be done by using footnotes. Wikipedia is not a source; use news articles! As a paper and citation example:

If I could change one area of law, it would be to shorten the time someone has to wait in order to get into court. Currently, courts have long wait times, and plaintiffs who have serious injuries should be able to redress their concerns in a quicker way since they are already losing money on medical costs. A potential solution would be to conduct court hearings online so judges can hear cases more efficiently. Specifically, California has wait times of over a year for certain civil cases, and sometimes plaintiffs have to drive hours to attend court.1 The benefits of this plan are that money and time are saved. The drawbacks are that if defendants are not required to go to court, they may not show up to defend their lawsuits and it may become tougher to enforce a judgment against them.

Use THIS citation format in the footer of your paper:

1 Los Angeles Times. Cutbacks in California court system produces long lines, short tempers. www.latimes.com/local/la-me-court-cuts-20140511-story.htmlLinks to an external site.. (5/10/2023).

CITE FORMAT: Source. Article Title in Italics. Website Link Underlined. (Date of Article in Brackets).