696 Legal Scholarship (Muir) - Graduate students only

LAW696 

Graduate Seminar: Practice and Theory in Legal Scholarship

(Muir)

Prerequisite courses: 

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Instructor(s): Professor James Muir and guests

Course credit: 3

Method of presentation: seminar

METHOD OF EVALUATION

There will be several assignments of 1 to 12 pages in length building toward a literature review for your graduate thesis or dissertation. Students will be expected to do 100 and 150 pages of reading a week and discuss the readings in class.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is an introduction to academic legal study. It has two components. The assignments will draw the two components together.

First, we will read and discuss legal scholarship that adopts a wide variety of methods. The goal is to expose you to the range of possibilities in graduate study and to help you develop a critical understanding of common methods and theories employed in legal scholarship.

Second, we will work on the skills required to succeed in legal scholarship: planning, researching, and writing.

SPECIAL COMMENTS

LAW696 is for graduate student registration only. Description updated 2022-23. Please contact the instructor for any specific questions you may have related to this particular course section.

REQUIRED TEXTS (IF ANY):

None. All texts will be available through the library website.