PO209
Legal Writing
0.5 Credit
Hours per week:
- Lecture/Discussion: 3
Designed to provide students with the basic skills necessary to understand and write about legal decisions in a manner intended to enrich broader public dialogue, this course equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to make the legal system intelligible to the ‘outside' world. Topics to be covered in the course may include: legal research and preparation; understanding legal challenges, libel/privacy/contempt and criminal cases; legal commentary and analysis; and legal writing in a digital age.