UCLA LAW 108A: Legal Research and Writing: Lecture 1

Sections & times

Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 14 discussions. 1 discussion is open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.

Grades

No grades on record, so there is no average to report.

In the A range

no letter grades in the record to count

D, F or W

no letter grades in the record to count

Taken pass/no pass

nobody in the record took it pass/no pass

The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

No summer session is in that record.

The table below splits them.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

IP 577 of 577

Counts are out of 577 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.

How the non-letter outcomes are counted

They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor	Predicted GPA	n	Terms	A range	Workload	Fall 2026
LANNING, DEIRDRE P reviews ↗	-	-	2	-	-	not teaching it
WETZSTEIN, SARAH R reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it
COLLINS, AMELIA MILLER reviews ↗	-	-	2	-	-	not teaching it
LYON GROSSMAN, KERRY ASHLEY reviews ↗	-	-	2	-	-	not teaching it
BIRNHOLZ, DIANE E reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it
LIGHT, JASON ALAN reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it
HAN, EDWARD reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it
BARIL, JESSICA REICH reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it
ANDRE, SARAH ERICKSON reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it
COTTON, GERLONI reviews ↗	-	-	1	-	-	not teaching it

Why Predicted is not the Raw average

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.

Reviews for LAW 108A

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

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In Falls

Ran in 2 of the last 5 Falls, so it turns up in Fall sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Fall 2022.

From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.

From the registrar's catalog

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Why there is none, and where the text is

It reads them for general education courses only, so this says nothing about the course. Any section below links out to the registrar, where the catalog text is, and that text is also where a prerequisite the structured list does not carry would be written.

Sections in Fall 2026

You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.

Seat counts as of 01 Oct 18:32: the oldest of these 15 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

Lec 1 Time TBA
Closed

The Staff

no grade history

335 of 335 · 4 over enrolled high risk

14 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1L, TR 10:35am-12:00pm. Lecture reads closed, so its 1 open discussion cannot be reached from here. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.

This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 14 discussions below.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (14)
- Dis 1A
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 3467
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1B
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 2357
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1C
  MW 10:35am-12:00pm · Law Building 3473
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1D
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 2448
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 enrolled
- Dis 1E
  TR 3:20pm-4:45pm · Law Building 2448
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1F
  WF 10:35am-12:00pm · Law Building 3467
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1G
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 3473
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1H
  TR 9:00am-10:25am · Law Building 3467
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1I
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 2467
  
  Closed
  24 of 24 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1J
  TR 3:20pm-4:45pm · Law Building 2467
  
  Closed
  22 of 22 enrolled
- Dis 1K
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 1337
  
  Closed
  22 of 22 enrolled
- Dis 1L
  TR 10:35am-12:00pm · Law Building 3467
  
  Open
  1 seat left.
  
  22 of 23 enrolled
- Dis 1M
  MW 3:20pm-4:45pm · Law Building 3467
  
  Closed
  22 of 22 · 1 over enrolled
- Dis 1P
  TR 1:45pm-3:10pm · Law Building 1327
  
  Closed
  25 of 25 · 1 over enrolled

Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: 24 a term over 2 terms, summer excluded, most recently 24 in Fall 2022. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.

From the people who took it

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · The Staff · 335 of 335 · 4 over enrolled

Unchanged over about 1 month

335 of 335 · no seats left in its discussions

Both readings say 335 of 335.

1 Sep 11:4016 Sep 16:511 Oct 22:02

dibs read 168 of the 665 hours its hourly record covers, 25%, and did not look in 497. dibs had no hourly record before 4 Sep, which is the other 67 of 732 plotted.

How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.