Advanced Legal Analysis
SLN #: 62024Course Prefix: LAW-791
Course Section: 1002
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Dragnich
Course Books: View List of Books
Course Description:
This course is ideal for students who have previously taken Legal Analysis, but all upper-level students are welcome to enroll. The course emphasizes the skills of reading primary sources (cases, statutes, and factual documents), distilling rules and applying them to a given set of facts, and writing accurately and concisely. This course will prepare students to take a bar exam performance test and for legal practice. According to the National Conference of Bar Examiners, a performance test “is designed to test an examinee’s ability to use fundamental lawyering skills in a realistic situation and complete a task that a beginning lawyer should be able to accomplish.” The Multistate Performance Test is 20% of the UBE and performance tests will be approximately 30% of the Next Gen Bar Exam.
In this course, students will review commonly tested document types, assess legal authorities and litigation documents, learn how performance tests are assessed, and write multiple performance tests throughout the semester. Feedback will be provided in a variety of modalities, including self-assessment, rubrics, and individual assessment from the professor.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: No
Seminar: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Final Exam Given: No
Paper Or In-Class Presentation: Paper
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Teaching Method: In Person
* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.