How to Frame a Legal Argument

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

This is a short course that will introduce some of the theory behind legal argumentation within the context of an environmental case currently active in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. We will look at how lawyers and judges communicate in the formal structure of courtrooms and in the world outside of the courtroom. The goal is to provide perspectives both on the practice of environmental law in a case-specific instance and on how to manage and present an oral argument.