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Professor Moore is my favorite professor at UVA. She easily relates to students and gives real-life examples of which students can relate. A couple of notes on the format of the class: firstly, there are weekly quizzes. Sometimes, these quizzes became annoying and forced you to pay attention to lectures' most meticulous details. If you missed them, you likely did not fare well on quizzes. Other than weekly quizzes to keep you in check, there are two midterm exams. The exams were doable, but they were not a walk in the park. You needed to study for the exams and to read each of the questions carefully. The same goes for the final: there are 100 questions and if you did not have the stamina to get through the final, you would mightily struggle. By no means is this class an easy "A." An "A-" is attainable, but is with consistent with lots of studying and attending EVERY lecture.

Take your notes online. The tests are open note during COVID times and it will help a lot. The review sessions with the TAs were also helpful.

Fun class! You learn a lot! Great way to figure out whether you might be interested in law. Perfect for people who really don't know anything about the law. The professor is super nice and engaging. Her final lecture is amazing. TAs are very knowledgeable and helpful. Command-F on tests is crazy helpful given the online format. The only issue with the class is how poorly formatted the notes are.

Sherri Moore is awesome. She is so funny and extremely nice. Having it be online this semester for covid, all the lectures were uploaded online which was really nice because you could go back and re-watch every lecture if you were confused on things. There is no homework so if the class is online, I suggest you rewatch every lecture on double speed to take better notes as your homework for the class. This will ensure you get a good grade. One huge thing to note is that you need to not forget to take any of the quizzes! I forgot to take two of them and got an A- in the class because of it. I calculated my grade and if I had remembered to take the quizzes I forgot I would have gotten an A. All in all a very good class.

Moore is the GOAT. She made Zoom class interesting and she's just a super nice, cheery person in general. We had open note exams cuz Zoom, but for the future make sure to go to lecture, that is all the info you need to succeed for quizzes/exams. Do the extra credit early in the semester (it's easy and nice to get out of the way). Exams were pretty straightforward and the 2nd midterm and Final are much more application-based (for example, reading about an incident and determining what legal concept is in play) but if you show up and take notes from her outline, you'll be fine. I barely missed a B+ but oh well lol I still loved the class and it's useful info for sure!! Sometimes the topics can be a bit boring, but Sherri definitely makes it interesting and bearable by giving funny jokes or examples, she is super relatable for students and I see why so many people love her as a person! She also dropped our two worst quiz scores so do not worry if one or two don't go as well!!

This is a very good class. You learn a lot, and Prof. Moore is great at explaining things. That being said, it is not the greatest course in the history of the universe as some people say. But that is ok! It is still very good. If you want to know about the law, this is the introduction you need! There is a lot of material but Prof. Moore gives great real-world examples and applications. If you are thinking about law school 100% you should take this. No reading, just weekly collab quizzes and then 2 tests and a final.
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professor moore is so kind and caring, even in zoom lectures and always found a way to make me smile/laugh during class. we had 3 exams during the semester (including the cumulative final) as well as weekly quizzes. the material can be quite dense, but again, professor moore made me want to try to understand it. if you have the opportunity to take it-- do it! the content is quite helpful to know and it was taught in such a great way.

This course is more of an introduction to law course more than anything else, but it is definitely worth a shot, especially if you're a Politics or Commerce major (I'm double-majoring in economics and psychology but still enjoyed taking it). Your grade is comprised of weekly quizzes (20%, one gets dropped at the end of the semester), two midterms (20% each) and a final exam (40%). Prof. Moore is a great lecturer that manages to keep the class engaged, and the content is pretty straightforward. There are no readings for this class, but be warned that Prof. Moore goes through A LOT of content during the lectures and you can't type them out (you have to write it all out by hand), so keeping yourself 100% focused is really important in order to do get a good grade. Quizzes are fairly easy and don't require a lot of prior studying, but make sure to review thoroughly for exams as questions can sometimes be tricky. Overall: Interesting content, great professor and fun lecture. I definitely recommend taking it if you have the chance! #tCFfall2021

Not a pleasant course. Sure, Prof Moore is nice but it is hard to see past all the ways she makes her course harder than it has to be. Need a 95 to get an A (I got a 93), no technology in class bc she wants all attention on her (which is so unnecessary bc writing down everything at the speed she goes is a big ask - and honestly it is self centered), and extra credit is basically fruitless. Would not recommend it

like other comments have said, sherri moore is a great person and prof but this class is definitely overrated and not as easy as everyone makes it out to be. some of the quizzes were trickily worded and so were some questions on the exams. don't take this class if you're looking for something relatively easy because it was kind of intense for me.