Course description:
This intellectual equipment is what legal drafting is all about. Drafting is an essential experience to prepare you to practice of law. To that end, the Legal Drafting course is designed to give you practice effectuating clients‘ intentions while attempting to avoid potential legal problems. This involves gaining mastery of the relevant law as well as applying language skills in new and demanding contexts. The course should also substantially reinforce and refine the writing skills that you developed in previous years of studying law.
Course Aims:
Course outcomes:
The ultimate goal of the course is to get student ready to undertake drafting tasks demanded of lawyers. Specifically, the course should help do the following:
- Approach drafting tasks with confidence.
- Organize and complete drafting tasks efficiently.
- Work skillfully with conceptually complex material.
- Choose language strategically.
- Write clearly, concisely, and without inadvertent ambiguity.
- Draft documents with readable structure and style.