Research and Writing
LAWS 5226-2. Legal Writing. Provides an intensive introduction to the resources available for legal research. Students also prepare written material of various kinds designed to develop research skills, legal writing style, and analysis of legal problems.
LAWS 6206-3. Litigation Drafting. Examines the intersection of civil procedure and legal writing. Emphasizes the drafting of persuasive adversarial litigation documents, including complaints, answers, motions in limine, motions to dismiss, motions of summary judgment, and jury instructions. Intensive writing and workshop format.
LAWS 6226 (2-3). Advanced Legal Research. Focuses on improvement of legal writing skills including organizing, drafting, and revising legal writing. Improves research and analysis skills.
LAWS 6236-2. Judicial Opinion Writing. Places contemporary American judicial opinion in historical and comparative context. Analyzes individual and institutional writing choices that authors of judicial opinions must make and ethical dilemmas they must confront. Builds upon the first-year legal-writing curriculum. Challenges students to develop and defend their own opinion-writing approaches and styles as well as to write from approaches and in styles that are not their own.
LAWS 6458-2. Creative Writing for Lawyers. Requires substantial writing and reading. Begins with participants bringing to class a piece of creative writing consisting of three to five thousand words. Each session consists of one hour of discussion and critique of an assigned writing exercise that everyone has prepared for the class, and one hour of workshop critique of each participant’s longer work, in turn.
LAWS 6856-2. Advanced Legal Research. Offers an in-depth look at research resources and methods. Includes sources from the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of federal and state government; research in topical areas such as environmental law, taxation, and international law; and extensive coverage of secondary and nonlaw resources. Covers both print and electronic sources. Students will have several assignments and a final project.
LAWS 7846-1. Independent Legal Research. Involves independent study and preparation of a research paper under faculty supervision. Students produce a research paper equivalent to a seminar research paper. A draft is submitted, subjected to critique by the faculty member, and redrafted. Available during or after the fifth semester of law school. Prereq., instructor consent.
LAWS 7896-1. Independent Legal Research: Law Review. Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the University of Colorado Law Review.
LAWS 7906-2. Independent Legal Research: Law Review. Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the University of Colorado Law Review.
LAWS 7916-1. Independent Legal Research: Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy. Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.
LAWS 7926-2. Independent Legal Research: Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy. Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.
LAWS 7936-1. Independent Legal Research: Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law. Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law.
LAWS 7946-2. Independent Legal Research: Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law. Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law.
LAWS 8458-2. Seminar: Law and Literature. Focuses on the question of what literature can teach lawyers through a variety of literary works and films. Covers traditional works by Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Camus, Kafka, and Melville, as well as more contemporary works by Toni Morrison and Norman Mailer. Several short reflection papers, a journal, and a final paper will be required.
