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Sherri Moore is one of the greatest humans on this planet. Her lectures are super engaging, and the quizzes and tests are very straight forward as long as you attend class. There isn't any homework, and you get to use cheat sheets on the tests. I have no interest in being a lawyer, or studying the law, but this class is by far my favorite I have taken at UVA! Everyone should take it!!

Like other posts say, if you study you'll probably end up with an A-. Even if you're not pre-law or comm, you'll still learn a lot of content applicable to daily life (ex: product warranties, property succession, contracts). No homework other than studying for weekly quizzes. Study for those at least an hour a week and A- average for that section is attainable. Some test questions are fairly tricky but make the study guide and you should get at least a B+ on the tests.
Overall, highly recommend it. If you're not sure about pre-law, I think this class is good to take to solidify your interest. Also, go to the last lecture-- and remember to bring some tissues if you're a cry baby like me.
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Coming from an engineer, take this class. Moore is a great professor and the topics are interesting and in my opinion should be general knowledge for everyone. The class isn't too hard, just make sure to be at lecture and take notes. If you are also an engineer with the business minor, don't even think of any other COMM class, just take this. Outside of test weeks, I quite literally spent 0 time on this class outside of class.

Tell me why this was my lowest grade of the semester and ending up tanking my beautiful gpa... Sherri is undoubtedly a great lecturer but her tests cover soooooo much content. I admit I should've put more effort into the cheat sheets and probably would've done better but the material is so boring and I already got into comm so I lost all motivation. This is a class I would recommend taking only if you're ready to devote an immense amount of time studying for the tests.

This is a course I recommend you take if you enjoy energetic professors. Sherri Moore is an excellent lecturer. Her charisma is what saves this class from being very boring since the material is somewhat complicated and dry. I found myself getting lost in my notes since she lecturers quickly.
Not only is there a lot to memorize, but the material itself is a bit abstract, and there is no real application of it besides the numerous court cases and scenarios she briefly touches on. I recommend getting a group of people together to study to fill in any details you may have missed in lecture.

This class is well worth the hype if you have any interest in law. Professor Moore is such a cool woman, and despite the relatively dry nature of some of her lecture topics, she manages to keep the class interesting by adding personal anecdotes. You don't need to do any work outside of class, but going to lecture each week is imperative because she doesn't post notes if you happen to miss lecture. Lectures typically ended around 20 minutes early, but she flies through them so you have to be paying attention in order to get down all the information needed. Her final lecture is incredibly inspiring and is worth attending even if you aren't enrolled in her class. Exams for the class are pretty straightforward forward and a cheat sheet is allowed, so an A/A- is very attainable if you put in some effort. The weekly quizzes are easy, and don't require any studying outside of class to get an A if you pay attention in lecture and pick up concepts easily.

Sherri Moore is amazing! This is the only class I have taken where handwriting notes is even possible. Sherri doesn't allow ANY tech in the class (she's super strict on it and she'll throw you out if she sees you're on your phone) but in turn she writes down on the board anything we'd ever need to write in our notes. She also allows a front and back cheat sheet on the midterms (3 pages for the final), which was able to hold every piece of information I needed on the exam. She's a fair grader, and will throw out exam questions that the majority of students do poorly on. Overall she did a great job of making a relatively boring topic interesting and engaging! Highly recommend if you're at all interested in law, even if you don't plan on pursuing it as a career-- most of the information is helpful to everyone!

Must-take class regardless of major. Professor Moore is an incredible lecturer who makes law interesting. This isn't just a commercial law class, it's really more of an introduction to the entirety of the American legal system (constitutional, administrative, common, civil etc.; torts; contracts). Graded extremely fairly - 11 10-question quizzes worth 15% of your grade with the lowest score dropped (these are easy, just review your notes from the week and you should be good), 2 50-question exams worth 20% each, 100-question final worth 45%. All multiple choice. No trick questions, everything comes from class. If you write down everything Moore says and cram as much as possible onto your cheat sheets (tiniest possible handwriting, full sheets of printer paper), you'll do fine.

Sherri Moore is easily one of the most enjoyable professors at this school. Comm Law I is an excellent intro legal course that teaches the basics from the constitution and the amendments to criminal and civil law. If you have any interest in law school or the law this is 100% a class to take. Even if you don't, it is an excellent class made enjoyable by a great professor.

Grade Breakdown:
15%: Short, weekly quizzes reviewing material from that week
20%: 50 question midterm
20%: 50 question midterm
45%: 100 question final

For the exams you are allowed to bring handwritten cheat sheets that you are able to cram most of the course material on to.

Summary: Great professor! Engaging lectures with interesting content, but wish exams were better.

I'll leave the positive things to a couple sentences because it's well known. She's smiley, energetic, kind...literally all of the above. There were so many bits that she did throughout the semester that were memorable, don't want to spoil them.

My one gripe with this class is the exams. Preface: I'm a third-year who's only gotten one A- (this my second) in college, even with taking tough classes, so maybe I'm salty. The exams had many super-specific detail questions, which she may have talked about for 5 seconds in lecture and if you missed it, there are no online notes. I took super detailed notes during class, made great cheat sheets, but you could study forever and still not ace it.

The questions don't check if you understand the gist of the content. For example, you're not going to be compensated for knowing what contracts fall under statutes of fraud. Instead you're going to be asked about an exception to a suretyship provision under statutes of fraud. It seems easy to study for, but the "exception" type questions start to add up, and you're bound to miss some.

The second midterm (and even the final) had several typos or formatting errors. I'm thinking the exams aren't created with the care and passion in which the lectures are given.