Describes a course taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. Content was divided into four segments: an introduction to the literature and a brief history of its development, court procedures, marriage and family law, and commercial law. Origins of the course and problems, especially that of comparing two legal systems…

Descriptions by three law professors of approaches they have developed to integrate the topic of compensation or no-fault systems into their basic torts course. (JT)

Contains an annotated outline intended to assist law professors who may wish to incorporate international material in their regular conflicts courses as a summary lecture, a full semester course in private international law, or interwoven with the pertinent section on American law. (JT)

Describes each unit of a course required for first-year law students which seeks to develop legal skills in case analysis and synthesis, research and writing, oral presentation, client interviewing, pleading, fact investigation, counseling, pre-trial discovery, and negotiation. Includes explanation of a clinical unit utilizing a simulated consumer…

A course in health care law organized around the special institutions of the industry and related public policy concerns is described. The course is seen as an opportunity to examine the interplay of law and policy and to address ethics, professionalism, and profession regulation in this and other professions. (MSE)

Justifies and describes a course offered at Stanford Law School in 1972 listing course objectives and outlining content which included focus on art looting, government and the arts, artist's rights in the work of art, consumer protection, and taxation. (JT)

The purpose in teaching a negotiation course is to stimulate law students' awareness of both their own capabilities and limitations as negotiators. It is anticipated that students will develop an understanding of how to recognize, control, and cope with the demands of personality interactions. (MLW)

Presents results of an Association of American Law Schools survey of its member schools to determine current role of economics in legal education. Includes lists of courses and professors by school plus 10 descriptions of courses emphasizing economic theory. Discusses the implications exploring methods for achieving substantial sophistication in…

Explores the general nature of lawyering skills focusing theoretically on elements of a training design. Includes theoretical analysis of lawyer interactions with others, especially skills involved in interviewing and counseling, and describes an interviewing and counseling skills course with exercises designed to provide emotional and…

The incorporation of criminal law theory into the first-year criminal law course is discussed as an example of adding the jurisprudence of specific subject matters to standard courses. Jurisprudential issues appropriate for study are suggested along with guidelines for teaching techniques, selection of materials, and use of class time. (JT)

Civil procedure courses are ideal for connecting doctrine and ethics because procedural rules strain constantly to balance competing interests. A University of Iowa course includes at least one significant moral discussion during each general doctrinal unit. (MSE)

Outlines content of a law-school course in legal scholarship, describes course mechanics, and reports on its success. A section explains why law students should be given additional instruction in jurisprudence, legal history, and social science. Discusses legal education's content and quality, effects of student-run law reviews, and…

The University of Missouri-Columbia Law School has implemented a first-year course in dispute resolution integrating topics in torts, property, civil procedure, contracts, and criminal law and taught by teachers in all of those areas. (MSE)

A seminar at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois) that reviews six first-year law school courses by focusing on feminist issues in course content and structure is described. The seminar functions as both a review and a shift in perspective. Courses revisited include civil procedure, contracts, criminal law, justice and the legal system,…

Describes a year-long collaboration to teach legal research and writing alongside civil procedure. In fall, civil procedure topics were used for writing assignments, in combination with simulation and demonstration exercises based on that case. In spring, students wrote briefs on motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment in a second case…