These peer reviews will be reviewed in turn by me. In addition to the exercises, required written work includes three short written assignments and peer reviews of each of these using criteria developed over the course of the workshop. The other half is spent working as a group on exercises-flawed sentences or passages from legal documents or articles. Half of each workshop consists of a teaching component that focuses on topics from clarity to cohesiveness to effective style.
Duke simpleimage class series#
"Legal Writing: Craft & Style" is the new moniker for the "Advanced Legal Writing Workshop." This series of thirteen workshops is for 2Ls and 3Ls who wish to hone their legal writing or editing skills. Questions about the ways in which race, socioeconomic status, and gender have shaped property rights will inform our conversation throughout the semester. Such claims are deeply contextual and relational saying that someone “owns” something is generally the beginning, not the end, of the legal inquiry. As far as the law is concerned, property is not a “thing” like a piece of land, but a set of claims that some people have against others with regard to particular resources. Among these, the most important are likely the relational and interdependent nature of property rights. There are a number of common threads that tie property law together, and a series of recurring themes that we will emphasize throughout the semester. Throughout, we will consider justifications for property rights as well as the fine-grained details of how courts and other institutions resolve conflicts about property. This course explores how and why property is allocated what default rights and obligations come with ownership the role of private agreements with respect to property and the extent and limits of the state’s power to set the terms of ownership. Property law guides how we interact through and around a variety of valuable and increasing scare resources, including land, personal possessions, and ideas.
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