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May 09, 2024
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POSC 281 - Introduction to Legal Reasoning 3 hours
This course is a solid preparation course for all students considering law as a profession, developing critical thinking skills, Law School Admission Test (LSAT) reasoning, and first-year law school skills. The course will examine overall theories of legal reasoning from formalism to realism. Legal arguments from textual to policy will also be discussed, identifying approaches to attack them. Utilizing well-known and maybe a few obscure court cases, students will learn how to pull out the key legal question from pages of specious arguments and verbose Court opinions (issue-spotting) and recognize reasoning and arguments. Students will work on these skills with questions and assignments that mimic LSAT thinking processes.
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