Curriculum Guide · Courses

Professors Sonya Bonneau, Erin Carroll, Michael Cedrone, Jessica Clark, Frances DeLaurentis, Diana Donahoe, Vicki Girard, Susan McMahon, Julia Ross, Rima Sirota, and Kristen Tiscione

J.D. Seminar 536 | 5 credit hours (year long)

All Law Fellows are required to enroll in the Legal Writing Seminar. Each Legal Research and Writing faculty member teaches the Seminar to the Law Fellows assigned to that faculty member’s first year sections. In the Seminar, students study the major schools of theory and pedagogy which support entrance to the legal discourse community. Students examine student and professional legal writing in light of its legal substance to identify effective and ineffective features. Under close faculty supervision, they learn to provide formative feedback to legal writers through written comments and individual instructional conferences. Finally, students are required to apply the insights they have gained by drafting a substantial analytical document which meets the Law Center’s upper-level WR requirement.

THIS COURSE REQUIRES PROFESSOR PERMISSION TO ENROLL.