Advanced Legal Writing

Advanced Legal Writing - Professor Charlie Martel

Topic: Public Interest Advocacy

• Course Number: LAW-212
• Course Type: Highly Specialized
• Credits: 3
• Enrollment Limit: 16
• Description: In this course, students will refine their legal writing skills in a simulated voting rights lawsuit. The initial classes will provide reading and background on voting rights. Students will then get an introduction to the case. Students will draft a complaint in a lawsuit, a strategy memo on possible
  arguments, and a brief. Since voting rights advocacy involves public policy, students will also draft editorials and policy briefs that will require making the legal issues accessible to citizens who are not lawyers. Students interested in writing a capstone paper in connection with the course should contact Professor Martel as soon as possible after registering for the course.
• Registration Details & Restrictions: Capstones in this course will be allowed with Professor Martel’s agreement only, and will be limited since the purpose of the course is to build skills by working on a simulated case. Students must be approved by Professor Martel to take the course. If you want to take the course, please send Professor Martel an email explaining 1) why you want to take the course and 2) how you hope to build your legal skills in the course. It is strongly recommended that students registering for the course receive a Pass or higher in Lawyering courses.
• Prerequisite: Lawyering I and II
• Evaluation Method: Students will be graded based on their performance on the series of writing assignments that will be given throughout the course. There will not be an exam for this course. 
• Capstone: limited and with professor permission. see above
• WIE: yes