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Presents the beginning law student with an overview of the structure and operation of the United States’ legal system and provides him or her with the opportunity to examine the methodology and reasoning utilized by the courts. The student is introduced to legal reasoning and analysis and to “thinking like a lawyer.”
Learning Outcomes: - Introduce self and explain course expectations.
- Integrate the issue statement in a judicial decision with the facts of the case.
- Apply the IRAC analysis format to a judicial decision.
- Analyze a hypothetical fact pattern using the IRAC formula.
- Evalute procedural history in the judicial system.
- Evaluate the relevance of a legal precedent to a given fact situation.
- Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor.
- Evaluate the various sources of law.
- Examine the Court System.
- Examine policies in law.
- Examine and understand Legal Reasoning.
- Evaluate Majority, Plurality and Dissent decisions.
- Evaluate Common Law and Statutory Law.
- Integrate course concepts in the form of an essay.
- Identify case citation, rule of law and dicta.
- Examine necessary habits for good legal writing.
- Evaluate and understand perspectives of judges and lawyers.
- Compare the operational system of the United States Federal and State legal systems.
- Identify skills and tips for studying law.
- Integrate course concepts in the form of a lecture.
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