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J.D. Course 011 | 3 credit hours

This elective analyzes the processes by which courts and legislatures make and change law. It offers students an in-depth and critical look at the "legal process" theory of law, its strengths, its weaknesses and its contemporary relevance. The course will focus on how courts create and shape common-law doctrines (herein the role of stare decisis and theories of adjudication), the relative institutional competence of courts and legislatures, the interplay between statutes and the common law, and how courts go about (and should go about) interpreting statutes.

For more information on this course, please review the Prospectus.