First-Year | DEV-College of Law | Illinois https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:41:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 610: Introduction to Advocacy https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/introduction-to-advocacy/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:52 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/introduction-to-advocacy/ This course is the second in the sequence of required first-year legal writing courses, focusing on persuasive writing and oral advocacy.  The major writing assignments are a pre-trial memorandum and an appellate brief.  Students also conduct oral arguments and participate in a negotiation exercise.  This course meets twice a week.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the spring semester of the first year for JD students. Prerequisites: Legal Writing and Analysis and Legal Research.

Evaluation: Writing assignments and oral arguments

Course Classification: Experiential

]]> 627: Legal Research https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/legal-research/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:52 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/legal-research/ In this course, students will be introduced to the basic tools and methodology used in conducting legal research and will develop the skills necessary to identify and locate relevant, complete and current legal information in both print and digital formats. Weekly problem-based research exercises will be assigned.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the fall semester of the first year.

Evaluation: Exercises throughout the semester and final examination.

]]> 792: Fundamentals of Legal Practice https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/fundamentals-of-legal-practice/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:52 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/fundamentals-of-legal-practice/ Students taking this course will engage with both internal and external instructors to learn about the legal profession and the building blocks of a successful legal career. Relying heavily on College of Law faculty, as well as guest instructors and panelists, this course will cover basics of professionalism and the legal profession, including marketing, personal branding, business development, and other aspects of the business of law. Students will also learn about professional communications, providing excellent client service, and leadership necessary to function as legal professionals.

Sequence and Prerequisites: None

Evaluation: The course will be graded pass/fail. A determination of passing or failing performance will be based on attendance and participation, interviews, and several brief written assignments.

]]> 601: Contracts https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/contracts/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/contracts/ Law 601 is the basic course on the law of enforceable promises (contracts). Subjects covered in this course include offer and acceptance, reasons for enforcing promises, legal and equitable remedies for breaches of contract, mistake and excuse for nonperformance, legislative and judicial policing against overreaching and unfairness, Statute of Frauds, interpretation of contract language, conditions, and, if time permits, assignment and delegation and third-party beneficiaries. The course is taken in the first semester and is based primarily on the common law; a major purpose of the course is training students in the ability to analyze and synthesize cases.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the first year for JD students.

Evaluation: Administered final examination

]]> 603: Torts https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/torts/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/torts/ This course deals with the law of civil wrongs. The various bases of tort liability will be studied, including negligence, intentional torts, and strict liability. Although coverage will vary from section to section and from year to year, specific topics may include intentional torts such as battery, assault, and false imprisonment; negligence and the concept of reasonable care; the concept of duty; liability for emotional and economic harm; causation; limits on liability; contributory and comparative fault and assumption of risk; liability for abnormally dangerous activities, and an introduction to damages.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the first year for JD students.

Evaluation: Administered final examination

]]> 606: Constitutional Law I https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/constitutional-law-i/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/constitutional-law-i/ This course provides an introduction to the law of the Constitution of the United States. Topics covered include federalism and separation of powers; the origins and nature of judicial review and limitations on federal court jurisdiction; the nature and scope of federal legislative and executive power; state power and relationships between the federal government and the states; the impact of the Reconstruction-era amendments; equal protection, due process, and other constitutional protections for individual rights; and methods of constitutional interpretation. 

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the first year for JD students.

Evaluation: Final examination

]]> 602: Property https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/property/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/property/ This course deals with the concept of property, the acquisition of private property, the recognized property interests, and the use of property. It emphasizes the historical and modern development of the doctrine of estates; the control of property through time (future interests); the division of property among groups (co-ownership); landlord/tenant law; and private land use controls. 

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the first year for JD students.

Evaluation: Administered final examination

]]> 604: Criminal Law https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/criminal-law/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/criminal-law/ In this course the student studies the development of the substantive criminal law and problems related to its application in modern society. Among the matters that may receive significant attention in the course are: (1) the purposes of the criminal law; (2) limitations upon the definition of crime and the imposition of punishment; (3) the general requirements of act and mental state in the criminal law; (4) the classification of crimes in the homicide area; (5) the insanity defense; (6) various principles of justification and excuse; (7) the inchoate crimes of attempt, conspiracy, and solicitation; (8) rape; and (9) accomplice liability. Particular emphasis is placed upon the Model Penal Code as an illustration of a comprehensive, modern criminal code.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the first year for JD students.

Evaluation: Administered Final Examination

]]> 607: Civil Procedure I https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/civil-procedure-i/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/civil-procedure-i/ Civil Procedure is a course required in the first year. Although coverage and sequence vary among the different sections, generally the course offers an overview of litigation, from the client’s first office visit to the time judgment becomes final or the case is settled. The course examines pretrial practice, including service of the summons and complaint, the answer, motions practice, and discovery. The course also investigates the rules that control the scope of a lawsuit, including those that relate to the sorts of claims and parties that may be embraced within a single suit, and those that apply to such special joinder devices as class actions and interpleader. The course additionally examines post-trial procedures, such as the motion for judgment as a matter of law and motion for a new trial, the timing and nature of appellate review, and the effects of judgments. The course covers basic material regarding jurisdiction and provides necessary background for many advanced litigation courses, also including personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, removal, supplemental jurisdiction, Erie doctrine, and federal common law.  More broadly, the course will help students understand the role and limitations of the adversary system. It will further provide a study of the tradeoffs among justice, speed, and efficiency in the judicial process.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the first year for JD students.

Evaluation: Administered final examination

]]> 609: Legal Writing and Analysis https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/legal-writing-and-analysis/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:47:51 +0000 https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/academics/courses/legal-writing-and-analysis/ In this course, students receive instruction in several critical legal skills: legal analysis, objective legal writing, client interviewing, and citing to authority in accordance with The Bluebook. Students complete a number of assignments, including short writing exercises and both a closed universe office memorandum and an open research office memorandum.  The course meets twice a week.

Sequence and Prerequisites: Required in the fall semester of the first year.

Evaluation: Writing assignments

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