Professor Huppin is great and the lectures are all pretty interesting. He encourages a lot of debate and discussion in class and really encourages you to think deeply about the issues you go over in the class. The material itself is not too difficult to understand, but there are some issues that are pretty detailed and require you to study them very well. Exams are tough, mostly because of the multiple choice questions, but the short answer/essay questions are pretty straightforward and should be no surprise as long as you've been attending lecture. Response papers are also pretty straightforward and are not difficult at all. Also, you NEED to do the reading because he pulls a lot of multiple choice questions from there. The online readings are pretty short and are usually just news articles, but the readings from the course reader are dense (they're chapters from a legal textbook), so don't wait until the last minute to do those because they take forever to get through! They're not hard reads, I think because it's supposed to be a pretty basic introductory legal textbook, but they're just really long and really detailed. Huppin is a little tough but he's fair and he is a great professor/person, so as long as you do your part with attending lectures, keeping up with the readings and studying you should do fine. I highly recommend taking this class!

Professor Huppin is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA. He's funny and truly cares about students understanding concepts well. He stays long after class to talk with students and holds consistent office hours for questions about course material and beyond. His assignments are graded generously, and midterms/finals are fair. I highly recommend taking this class to learn about legal communication with such a great professor! Take the review below me on him being patronizing and sexist with a grain of salt. As a girl of minority background, I can confidently say that he has never made any comments of that nature.

Class is primarily based on various Supreme Court and lower court cases about freedom of speech. He brings up hypothetical examples in class and asks you to apply court decisions to these examples. The class is pretty straightforward. One midterm, one final, and two very simple thought papers where you basically just write about your opinion. The papers aren't that formal its just about getting you to think. He has review sessions before each exam and is very helpful when you ask questions. He posts his powerpoints, but omits some of the slides so the people that attend class gain an advantage over those who don't. He asks questions from the course reader that he doesnt discuss in class on the exams.

I also took Prof Huppin for legal comm the following quarter (got an A- this time) and it was pretty much the same format.

Good luck with this course! He’s a great professor and the cases are interesting.

This class requires a lot of work, but it's very rewarding and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you have the slightly bit of interest in the law, I think you'll like it too. He discusses very interesting and controversial topics like the right to die, the right to abortion, freedom of religion and others. There are a lot of Supreme Court readings you need to get through that you cannot leave till the last minute. If you study and understand the concepts and the legal rationale behind them, you shouldn't find the midterm or final challenging at all. It is mostly questions discussing why a certain case had a certain outcome, and one semi-essay question where you get a hypothetical scenario and you need to apply the concepts you learned in class. You get to watch movies and interesting videos and have really rich discussions in class! The professor is also pretty objective and doesn't bring in his own personal opinions to class, which is pretty refreshing at UCLA.

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lot of memorization, but interesting content.