Final Project(15 PowerPoint slides, not including title slide, and scholarly references

For your Final Project, you will argue a position for or against theADA Act using statutes (legislative), regulations (executive), and court cases (judicial) to bolsteryour argument. (This issue should be present in at least two of the three types ofprimary legal sources.)

Then, you will utilize the legal research sources you learned about in the course to research the ADA Act. Your project should include a description of the sources you found to be useful in researching the issue; an explanation of how they helped you understand the issue; a summary of the current state of the issue; an explanation of your predictions about potential policy shifts and trends; and finally, your position on the policy utilizing the law.

The followingguidelines specify the requirements for your narrated video PowerPoint presentation, for which you will put together 15 PowerPoint slides where you will take a position on a policy issue using federal or state statutory law, state or federal regulatory law, and state or federal case law. (In doing so, you must provide the correct Basic Legal citation for that law cited.)

Professional Presentation Style

• Presented as 15 PowerPoint slides (not including references, title slide,)

Policy Description

• Describe the policy issue you selected.
• Explain whether it is a federal or state issue.
• Take a position on whether you agree with the policy or not and why.
• Discuss whether you think this policy would be subject to any budgetary constraints, the range of resources, and any research strategies you would employ to avoid potential pitfalls with the policy.
• Cite the relevant federal or state statute, regulation, and case law that supports your position.
• Include an evidence-based thoughtful statement of any future policy shifts and trends you think might occur and why.

Legal Sources

• Identify at least three secondary sources you used to research the issue and explain why each was useful.
• Explain how you used secondary resources to identify primary resources related to the issue.
• Name the primary resources you identified.

Visual Elements

• Include clear, relevant, professional-looking visual elements, including at least:
  • One graphic
  • Three images
  • One chart