Topic: Legal Literacy and Defense

Catalog description

this course students will engage with a variety of materials in order to gain an understanding of legal principles and their usefulness when applied to everyday disputes. Students will be tasked with writing intraoffice memos to supervisors, drafting laws, and producing essays to defeat inadequate proposals. In addition, students will learn how to efficiently navigate grievance systems and seek remedies and will practice "high-stakes" forms of writing such as requests for leniency The course will also require students to apply their understanding of legal principles to the facts in a given case and will address how to represent a client through the use of adversarial writing. We will engage in frequent brainstorming sessions in order to anticipate reasonable counterarguments and strengthen our position while still in the planning phase. Let's learn to think like a lawyer!