Mission and Learning Outcomes
The mission of the 365滚球官网 法学院 is to:
- Provide access across all cultures and ideologies to the highest quality of legal education;
- Lead the region in promoting civil discourse on concerns of policy and law and in providing legal service to underserved populations;
- 为当地做出贡献, 区域, 国家, and inter国家 scholarly dialogue on issues of critical importance in our time.
Graduates will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law and legal institutions. Graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate competence in the substance of foundational common law subjects.
- Demonstrate competence in the substance of U.S. Constitutional Law and related federal statutes.
- Demonstrate foundational competence in the substantive law of the student’s chosen area of study, 如果适用的话.
- Demonstrate the capacity to engage in sophisticated statutory reading, application and interpretation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate jurisdiction and choice of applicable law (i.e.，州，联邦等.).
- Demonstrate an understanding of the trajectory of a legal dispute or lawsuit from start to finish.
Graduates will demonstrate the capacity to engage in sophisticated legal 推理 和分析. Graduates will be able to:
- Identify the legal rules and principles applicable to a given context
- Identify legally relevant facts, both known and unknown, in a given legal context
- Identify nature and consequence of ambiguities in the facts in a given context
- Construct and support an argument grounded in appropriate legal authority and policy considerations, while recognizing and addressing weaknesses thereof.
- Understand role of legal research in identifying applicable law and developing analysis and argumentation relevant for a particular dispute.
Graduates will be proficient at communicating complex legal arguments, 推理, 和分析, both in writing and in oral communication. Graduates will be able to:
- Produce written work that is logically organized, 清晰简洁, 无语法的, 语法, 以及其他形式错误, and reflects an understanding of its audience and purpose.
- Orally communicate legal arguments effectively and nimbly.
Graduates will recognize that multiple different potential resolutions to a dispute exist, including avoiding disputes before they begin. Graduates will be able to:
- Identify problems and classify them (i.e., legal, business, family, interpersonal, etc.).
- Identify possible means of resolving each identified problem, including legal and non-legal means.
- Assess the probability that each identified means will resolve the identified problem and quantify the anticipated costs, 风险, and benefits associated with each identified means.
- 由此图, make a reasoned recommendation about the best course of action to attempt to resolve the identified problem.
Graduates will understand their professional and ethical obligations to their clients, 法院和律师事务所, 公众. Graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate competence in the Rules of Professional Responsibility.