LAW 7636 - Selected Topics in American Law

This is a skills-development course that provides students with an intensive substantive review of selected legal material routinely tested on the bar exam and relevant to law practice, including contracts, torts, civil procedure, criminal law and procedure, real property, evidence, corporations, constitutional law, professional responsibility, wills and trusts, community property, and remedies.  Through the use of problems and exercises in a bar exam format, students will become familiar with the techniques for analyzing, organizing, and writing essay questions based on California law.  This is not a substitute for a bar review course, but a course on how to write good legal analysis in a particular area in a short window of time.  All students entering their final year of law study ranked in the bottom 25% of their class MUST take Selected Topics in American Law in the fall semester and MUST take Advanced Selected Topics in the spring semester. 

Because of the helpful and important nature of Selected Topics in American Law, all students are strongly encouraged to enroll even if it is not required. Offered every semester. 3 credits.