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LW3121: Critical Thinking for Lawyers
Semester 2 | Credits: 10
To provide students with a detailed understanding and applicative knowledge of the basic techniques of argument analysis and construction, persuasion and rhetoric, and legal policy formation.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the atoms (concepts) and molecules (propositions) of legal argument
- Know and be able to construct and evaluate the 4-5 main types of legal argument (text-based, precedent-based, tradition-based and policy-based)
- Be able to map and evaluate the arguments proferred by different lawyers on different sides of a legal case
- Be able to construct a complex legal argument on a particular case
- Understand and apply basic principles and techniques of rhetoric
- Understand and apply basic techniques of persuasion, including use of visual supports (etc)
- Make a persuasive oral/written presentation
- Understand some of the ethical/moral/political principles and policies underlying the law
- Understand and apply basic theories for criticizing and reforming the nature and content of the law
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- CARMEL FLYNN:
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- JOHN DANAHER:
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Reading List
- "- Wilson Huhn The Five Types of Legal Argument (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press 2014)" by n/a
- "- Frederick Schauer Thinking Like a Lawyer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2009)" by n/a
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.