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Apr 16, 2024
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Law 1600 - Introduction to Law
This is a required one (1) credit course which will provide incoming 1L students and transfer students with instruction in skills and basic concepts needed to succeed in their courses. It is specifically designed to be taught in large part before the new students begin attending their Fall semester course. The course, through readings, assignments and lecture, will cover basic concepts used in understanding and analyzing both cases and statutes. Among the topics covered will be the common law, the federalist system of both the courts and the legislative bodies, reading and analyzing cases and determining the relevant rule of law from a statute or series of cases. The objectives of the course are: (1) to prepare students to read and understand legal concepts for the very beginning of their 1L year; (2) the roles and differing characteristics of sources of law: the common law; legislation, administrative regulations; treaties, and judicial interpretation of legislation, regulations, treaties and constitutions; (3) the processes through which law is made and changed and how those processes differ from one source of law to another; and (4) the different roles that state and federal law play in the process of lawmaking.
Credits: 1
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