LEGAL ETHICS: ADVANCED SACK

Catalog description

Satisfies Professional Responsibility Requirement. Legal Ethics: Adv. Sack will cover doctrinal material consistent with other Legal Ethics courses, but do so using the Sack Program model. As part of the 2L Sack Program, Legal Ethics: Adv. Sack will require students to complete at least two writing assignments. Students may receive feedback on those assignments from a Sack Fellow (a successful upper division student). The class will also integrate and explicitly teach legal analysis skills and self-directed learning. The legal analysis skills taught will include, among other things, synthesizing and distilling legal rules, sophisticated analogical reasoning, identifying legal issues, utilizing relevant facts to support one side or another to analyze legal issues. In terms of self-directed learning, students will engage in self-assessment and self-reflection on their own work product and learning process.