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Seminar in Jurisprudence

L797 is taught by Conrad

This seminar will emphasize basic skills training in the drafting and revision of formal expository prose. The principal course textbook will be one that offers a relatively accessible introduction to the field of Anglo-American philosophy of law. But the course will also make use of manuals for self-help in the improvement of writing skills. Every student will be required to give a prepared in-class presentation on one of the chapters in the principal textbook. And every student will be required to submit at the midpoint of the semester a first draft of a seminar paper on a topic developed in consultation with the instructor. This seminar paper assignment will call for some research beyond the textbook, but research far less extensive than the research typically required at our School for a law journal Note or for a typical seminar writing project.