2.1 Where Topics Come From

The syllabus's-own-field: "contemporary legal/judicial issues, problems, or challenges" — the three-gates: the issue (the live-debate (the law-unclear (the question-open))) + the problem (the gap (the law-vs-the-practice (the implementation-failing (the access-denied)))) + the challenge (the new-phenomenon (the technology (the AI-and-the-law (the LAW5705's-fields)) (the climate (the LAW5603's) (the federalism's-fresh-questions (the LAW5303's))))); The sources-of-ideas: the course-notes-reread (the questions-you-asked-in-class (the professor's-"interesting- question" (the footnote's-silence))) + the current-events (the new-judgments (the new-statutes (the new-amendments (the news'-law-stories (the case's-aftermath-the-unstudied))))) + the reported-gaps (the judgments-critiquing-the-law (the commissions'-reports (the LAW5902's- institutions'-findings (the NHRC's-and-the-NWC's-recommendations (the ready-made-reform- agenda)))) + the supervisor's-list (the faculty's-own-areas (the expertise-nearby));