Course Section | Columbia Law School

Primary Goals

• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in a specific body of law, including major policy concerns
• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in doctrinal analysis, including close reading of cases and precedents, and application to facts
• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in the historical development of law and legal institutions
• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in use of other disciplines in the analysis of legal problems and institutions, e.g., philosophy; economics, other social sciences; and cultural studies
• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in the influences of political institutions in law

Secondary Goals

• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in judicial, legislative and/or administrative processes
• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in values-based considerations in law-making
• At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in jurisprudential considerations in legal analysis