The primary goal of Legal Analysis: Strategies and Tactics is to strengthen students' legal problem-solving abilities. Students will improve how they learn the law so that they can draw on this understanding for the wide variety of legal problems encountered in law school exams, the bar exam, and in legal practice. Fundamental lawyering skills such as reading comprehension, rule mastery, issue spotting, outlining, the mechanics of legal analysis and strong writing are emphasized. The course will address other skills that typically are not overtly addressed in law school, such as critical thinking. Throughout the course, students will be provided with multiple opportunities for hands-on practice with focused drills, group exercises and workbook activities to directly and indirectly sharpen the expression of these skills. The course enhances learning by providing students with particularized feedback from peers and the professors so students can evaluate their work on their own and see a clear pathway for consistent improvement in their performance. The course explicitly connects the learning activities to law practice and, more immediately, to law school and bar exam success.
Legal Methods, Strat & Tactics
Course number
LAW 520
Credit hours
2 Credit Hours
Description