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Developing A Law School Course On Presidential Impeachment, Gregory S. Crespi Oct 2019

Developing A Law School Course On Presidential Impeachment, Gregory S. Crespi

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This short essay discusses my motivation for and the process that I went through over the past two years developing a law school course on Presidential Impeachment and related topics. I recommend that those law school faculty members who may have only a modest constitutional law background, but who feel as I do that more sustained discussion of the questions that would be presented by an attempt to remove President Trump from office through impeachment are called for, consider also developing and offering such a course.

I found that through reading a few accessible books and supervising a handful of …