LEGISLATION AND REGULATION
Legislation and regulation play the dominant role in shaping law in the modern American legal system. All lawyers, irrespective of the area of law must understand statutes and regulations. An introduction providing a deeper understanding of these forms of law and the institutions that make this law, and to help them better appreciate the role that lawyers play in the American legal system as it operates in practice. To think like a lawyer, and hence to represent or advise clients, requires an ability to do so in the context of the regulatory state.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Law JD Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the role of legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts in the U.S. legal system Audience: Graduate 2. Explain the relationship between and among these institutions Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the role that lawyers play in furthering their clients’ interests in each of these institutions Audience: Graduate 4. Explain the differences in the forms of legal argument that occur in these different institutions Audience: Graduate 5. Relay how courts interpret statutes Audience: Graduate 6. Describe how administrative agencies interpret and implement statutes Audience: Graduate 7. Describe how courts oversee the interpretation and implementation of statutes by administrative agencies Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the role of legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts in the U.S. legal system Audience: Graduate 2. Explain the relationship between and among these institutions Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the role that lawyers play in furthering their clients’ interests in each of these institutions Audience: Graduate 4. Explain the differences in the forms of legal argument that occur in these different institutions Audience: Graduate 5. Relay how courts interpret statutes Audience: Graduate 6. Describe how administrative agencies interpret and implement statutes Audience: Graduate 7. Describe how courts oversee the interpretation and implementation of statutes by administrative agencies Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027