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LAW 201: Civil Procedure I

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. This course is a study of the process of civil litigation from the commencement of a lawsuit through final judgment under modern statutes and rules of court, with emphasis on the federal rules of civil procedure. May include class participation, written assignments, or other elements. Your instructor will advise you of the basis for grading.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5

LAW 203: Constitutional Law

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. This course offers an introduction to American constitutional law. In addition to examining questions of interpretive method, the course focuses on the powers of the federal government and the allocation of decision making authority among government institutions, including both federalism and separation of powers. Class participation, attendance, written assignments, and final exam. This course is open to first-year Law School students only.
Terms: Win | Units: 3

LAW 205: Contracts

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It provides exposure to basic contract law. The course will identify the scope and purpose of the legal protection accorded to interests predicated on contract and will focus on problems of contract formation, interpretation, performance, and remedies for breach.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5

LAW 207: Criminal Law

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It examines the traditional general issues in the substantive criminal law, including the purposes of punishment and the appropriate limits on the use of the criminal sanction. It focuses predominantly on how criminal statutes are organized around objective offense elements (conduct, causation, and attendant circumstances) and mental states, and to a lesser degree on inchoate crimes, complicity, justification and excuse.
Terms: Win | Units: 4

LAW 217: Property

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It deals with possession and ownership of land and with the incidents thereof, including private and public restrictions on its use and development, nuisance, trespass, concurrent interests, landlord and tenant, and eminent domain. Attendance and final exam. Your instructor will advise you of other basis of grading. This course is open to first-year Law School students only.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4

LAW 219: Legal Writing

This course introduces students to the ways lawyers write to persuade. In a hypothetical criminal case in state court, students draw on the useful facts from the record, synthesize rules from cases, and analogize and distinguish cases in a closed universe. Students receive feedback from the instructor on multiple drafts before submission. Students then submit one persuasive brief on a motion in the conventions of the Bluebook. This course depends on participation; attendance is mandatory. Grading reflects written work, class preparedness and participation, and professionalism. This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2

LAW 222: Legal Research: Advanced

Open to Law and Stanford graduate students. Preparation for research in practice and clerkships. Emphasis is on cost-effective research, legislative analysis, administrative law research, and open-access resources. How to evaluate sources and use them effectively, expand skills in primary and secondary U.S. legal sources, develop skills for effective online research, and use non-legal information resources. Final project.
Last offered: Winter 2009

LAW 223: Torts

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It considers issues involved in determining whether the law should require a person to compensate for harm intentionally or unintentionally caused. These problems arise in situations as diverse as automobile collisions, operations of nuclear facilities, and consumption of defective food products. Among other considerations, the course explores various resolutions in terms of their social, economic, and political implications.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5

LAW 224A: Federal Litigation in a Global Context: Coursework

This course builds on the writing skills developed in Legal Writing. Students submit and orally argue one persuasive brief on a motion in federal district court. Students represent the plaintiff or defendant in a simulated global torts case that raises complex issues of federal civil procedure. Students work in an open universe with the online legal research tools, bluebook the cases, plan litigation strategy, peer review drafts, and moot a motion. This course depends on participation; attendance is mandatory. Winter grading reflects students¿ written work, including outlines, drafts, final briefs, citation, and professionalism. This course is open to first-year JD students only.
Terms: Win | Units: 2 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 4 units total)

LAW 224B: Federal Litigation in a Global Context: Methods and Practice

This course continues with the winter simulation with students representing the plaintiff or defendant in a global torts case. Students submit and orally argue one persuasive brief on a motion in federal district court. Students build on their writing and oral advocacy skills with more emphasis on the lawyering practice. Students lead strategy sessions, conduct legal writing by email, meet and confer with opposing counsel, research, bluebook, peer edit, moot, judge, and orally argue a motion. This course depends on participation; attendance is mandatory. Spring grading reflects all non-written aspects of the work, including research, strategy, peer review, moots, and oral argument (including your roles as a judge and colleague), and professionalism. This course is open to first-year JD students only.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2
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