Course grade breakdown: Weekly quizzes = 20%, two non-cumulative exams each = 20%, and the final exam = 40%.

I HIGHLY recommend taking this class just to have Sherri Moore as a professor. Each class is shortened to an hour, handwritten notes only, and absolutely no electronics during class. She is such an amazing lecturer so it is very easy to stay engaged. GO TO CLASS 1) because Sherri Moore is so funny and a sweet woman to get to know, and 2) her examples are key to understanding how she will test on the material. Plus you will have a quiz every week (if the class is TuThu, the quiz will be every Thu), so you will have to go for that. My advice would be to actually prepare for the quizzes because there is A LOT of material. This way you will stay on top of it and studying for the exams will be much easier. For the first exam, you can probably get away with just relying on your cheat sheet, but the second and final exam are much more application-based. For those exams (ESPECIALLY the final), study using examples, and then tailor your cheat sheet to your knowledge.

Sherri Moore ultimately just wants to see her students LEARN and SUCCEED, which is why I recommend this class to anyone. Whether you are interested in law or not, everyone deserves to experience great professors and this is one of UVA's best! Not an easy A (which is a 95%) but it is very doable if you stay consistent.

TLDR: Practical information, phenomenal professor, dense material, no homeworks/readings

I seriously cannot put into words how phenomenal a professor Sherri Moore is. Being in her class is an absolute pleasure and she is truly an expert in the field of law. This being said, before I took this class, everyone told me I absolutely HAVE to take it. While I do agree that the information you learn is practical and applies to real life, I can imagine it being dense and difficult for someone not interested in law. You MUST attend lecture, but there are no additional homework and readings for this class, so you can imagine how important it is to really make the most of lecture and your notes. I reviewed my notes for 1 hour per week before the weekly quizzes and way more extensively before tests. I would also recommend this class to anyone who is on the fence about pre-law / law school, as it definitely gave me more insight. This class is NOT an easy A; I wouldn't even say it is a guaranteed A-. That being said, I think this class is definitely worth taking!

Take this class! Go to lecture, enjoy all the wisdom and humor of Sherri Moore, take detailed notes, and learn a lot. Weekly quizzes were not difficult and the exams were fairly straightforward if you attended lecture and labored over your cheat sheet. Professor Moore is an absolute treat and made every lecture entertaining and worthwhile. Overall, a rewarding class and fantastic professor - I can't recommend either enough!

HANDS DOWN A MUST TAKE CLASS. Sherri is truly the best professor I have ever had here at UVA. She is engaging, admirable, and so respectable. She truly is an expert in the field of law. I genuinely was super excited to come to this class every lecture, so much so that I am taking COMM LAW 2 in the fall just to have her again. The class is not an easy A; However, if you put in the effort you will be successful. The grade in the class makes up of a weekly quiz (2 of which are dropped), 2 midterm exams, and a final. I will make note, it is difficult to get an A in this course, because the cutoff for an A is a 95 and there is just so few assignments. Best part: no weekly readings. You simply show up to lecture, take detailed notes, and study for maybe an hour before the weekly quizzes. Oh and perk! She always ends the lecture early about after an hour. Regardless of your major, this class is a must take while at UVA. I genuinely felt I learned such applicable material every single lecture and this course has made me interested in pursuing law school further in life. Taking this class just to experience her iconic last lecture is worth it. I will truly never forget the inspiring message she shared and will apply that principle to future pursuits in life. Overall highly recommend this course is AMAZING!!

Like everyone else, I highly recommend this class. Sherri is very kind and super super knowledgeable. You absolutely have to go to class and be prepared to write your notes very fast. She doesn't allow typing so you have to handwrite everything and she moves through content pretty fast. Everything is super interesting but there's just a lot to cover. Study for the weekly quizzes and go through your notes pretty regularly. Since there's so much detail, it's hard to get everything down on your cheat sheet for exams no matter how small you write so it's important to have some key concepts in your head. I really enjoyed the class but found it a bit challenging because there was so much information memorization.

Make sure you attend the last lecture! #tCFS25

PHENOMENAL class. No reading/HW, literally just go to lecture and take notes - she will literally tell you what to write down. Content is fascinating, she is HILARIOUS. An A is hard b/c of weighting but put in the work. You get cheat sheets for the tests even though they're hand-written. Sherri is accomplished, knowledgeable, and SO engaging.

TAKE IT!!!!!!!

Everything good about this class has already been said. Professor Moore is an undeniably great professor and it is definitely a must take for any pre-law students. With that being said, the class was incredibly frustrating for anyone with SDAC accommodations. There were three exams throughout the entire semester and people with SDAC accommodations took them in a different room proctored by the TA's. The issue with this is that the TA's did not communicate the location of the exam for SDAC students until maybe a day before the exam. For the final, we were emailed the location the NIGHT before the exam. Not to mention that when I arrived to take the final, the TA's changed the room only 5 minutes before the exam opened. Again fantastic class but very annoying and pretty insulting to those requiring accommodations.

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.

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.

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.