Legal Writing

Introduction to the widely accepted conventions of legal writing based on expressing the three modes of legal reasoning: rule-based, analogical, and policy reasoning and their interdependence. Legal Writing examines the conventions applicable to a predictive memo (memorandum) and an appellate oral argument of the type that students prepare for Moot Court. Students will learn about the materials and sources used in productive legal discourse and the importance placed on each in the structuring of public policy that creates the structure and tenure of a republic. The design of the course is to mirror, on an undergraduate level, the mandatory writing course that first-year law students are required to take.