US Law and Legal Analysis (MLS)
SLN #: 88831Course Prefix: LAW-598
Course Section: 003
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Erickson
Course Books: View List of Books
Course Description:
This course will introduce MLS students to the U.S. legal system and to the types of legal reasoning used by lawyers and judges. Students will be provided the necessary instruction to use legal reasoning in their academic work, including reading and understanding cases and statutes, doing basic legal research and writing legal memoranda, and applying existing law to the issue at hand. Finally, the course will provide an overview of a handful of key areas that are particularly important for business and policy applications, such as federalism/pre-emption, constitutional law and administrative law.
This course is for MLS students ONLY
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: No
Seminar: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Additional Attendance Policy: Per Statement of Student Policies
* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.