Legislative Drafting Seminar

Catalog description

Developing regulatory assessments and legislative reform lie at the core of the Legislative Drafting experience. Students shall work towards the goal of increasing lawmakers’ capacity for proposing policy goals and enacting sound state reforms. Each student shall be required to draft legislation and prepare a research report that assesses the bill's provisions and demonstrates its effectiveness. Students confer individually with their professor for assessment of written work and edit and rewrite their papers to produce works of such quality that they could be published as student notes in a law review. This course satisfies the requirement that a student take Advanced Legal Analysis and Writing to graduate. Legal Analysis and Writing I and II are prerequisites for this course.