LAWE 708

Catalog description

The Data Literacy for Lawyers course aims to equip law students with foundational data fluency skills to make them better equipped to handle data in their future legal practice--whether it be to make their own legal arguments stronger or to better cross examine an expert witness. The course will teach students about empirical data collection as well as empirical data analysis methods, and it will pull examples from several areas of law including criminal justice, employment discrimination, trademarks, corporate law, and antitrust. There is no mathematics required in the course; statistical concepts, rather than calculations, will be taught. Believe it or not, statistical and legal reasoning are actually very similar!