Overview
Description
Exposure to American legal thought, methods of reasoning, and research with a focus on identifying legal issues and developing basic legal research skills.
Units
Lecture1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- briefly describe the origin and organization of law and the legal system.
- identify, locate, and utilize various types of legal primary and secondary sources.
- read and analyze basic enacted law/statutes and case law.
- explain various applications of legal research and develop research strategies for addressing legal questions and real-life legal problems.
- update and validate legal research.
- apply appropriate legal citation for legal sources in a variety of contexts.
- utilize various tools for manual and online legal research.