GOVT 3316 - Legal Research

Credit(s): 3

This course is designed to introduce the student to the types of legal reasoning used by lawyers and judges. It focuses on the necessary skills to use legal resources and legal reasoning in the student’s academic work, including reading and understanding cases and statutes, doing legal research and writing legal memoranda, and applying existing law to the issue at hand. Students will be familiarized with primary and secondary legal sources. Course instruction is designed to enhance reasoning and advocacy skills.
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 2301 and GOVT 2302