Legal Process

Legal Process is a Fall semester 2-unit elective course for advanced students on academic probation (cumulative GPA below 2.0), by petition, or by invitation from the Office of Student Affairs.

The course is designed to help students improve their basic legal reasoning and exam writing skills. Students apply these skills to a new area of substantive law. Substantial time is devoted to case briefing, note-taking, course outlining and essay writing.

Legal Process is taught in 2 parts. Part I consists of two 6-hour workshops with an intense focus on skills, using a first year substantive topic as the base. The workshops are team-taught by Profs. Jan Costello and Jennifer Kamita. In Part II, follow the workshops, the students continue honing their skills in a new substantive area of law. Part II is team-taught by a faculty member and Prof. Kamita. Faculty members who have taught this course include: Dean David Burcham and Profs. Jan Costello, Edith Friedler, Charlotte Goldberg, Allan Ides, Lisa Ikemoto, Katherine Pratt and Marcy Strauss.