SO I’VE BEEN GRADING my Administrative Law assignments. Every year I pick a set of proposed regulations from the Federal Register, and have my students draft comments on them, which I then file so that they become part of the rulemaking docket. I don’t tell the students what to say; they get to pick their positions. I just grade them based on their logic, research, avoidance of typos, etc. I’m usually quite impressed with what they produce, and this year is no exception. My experience has been that law students are better at projects like this than at taking exams. That’s good, since one hardly ever takes an exam as part of practicing law.