[心得] 96年暑期課程「LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING」課程大綱
前言：學校在今年暑假有與美國John Marshall Law School合作，請該校的教授
來台教授二門課程，其中一門是「LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING」，是由Hopkins
教授講授的，他的資料在http://www.jmls.edu/directory/hopkins_kevin.shtml
（本人比照片福態一點…）
所以就把他上課內容的大綱po上來供大家參考，因為明年他還是有可能會來開課~
LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING
PART 1：LEGAL WRITING
The text book for this portion of the class is: DIANA V. PRATT, LEGAL
WRITING: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH(4th ed. Thomson/West).
6/25/07 Review of the Sources of American Law, the U.S. Courts, and
（日期）
Civil Trials.
Read: Pratt, pp. 2-35(reviewing the sources of law, the court
system, and civil cases).
6/26/07 Cases and Legal Analysis
Read: Pratt, pp. 36-52("Understanding Cases"); and pp.52-58(
State v. Haley and State v. Dugger for practice in locating the
elements of a case brief).
Prepare a case bried for Webster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc. and
be prepared to discuss your case brief during class.
6/27/07 Statutes and Legal Analysis
Read: Pratt, pp. 64-82(down to Exercise 5A);
(In-class Exercise on Statutory Analysis).
6/28/07 Legal Reasoning
Read: Pratt, pp. 88-107(down to Exercise 6A);Read Exercise 6B
(p. 118-120);and pp. 120-124(Messa v. Sullivan), 125-126(Dobrin
v. Stebbins). Prepare case briefs for Messa v. Sullivan and
Dobrin v. Stebbins. We will discuss the dog bite problem in class.
6/29/07 Legal Reasoning(Continued)
Read: Pratt, pp. 127-133. Prepare case briefs for Siewerth v.
Charlestion and Nelson v. Lewis. We will continue to discuss the
dog bite problem in class.
6/30/07 The Office Memorandum
Read: Pratt, pp. 165-177(down to Exercise 7A);203-210(Statement
of Facts). Review Appendix A(Basic Memoranda)pp. 352-357(for an
example of a legal memorandum).
7/2/07 The Writing Process
Read: Pratt, pp. 178-193;211-220(down to "information and check-
list for Memo Writing").
PART II: LEGAL RESEARCH
The text book for this portion of the class is: Roy M. MERSKY AND DONALD
J. DUNN, LEGAL RESEARCH ILLUSTRATED(8th ED. 2002). The reading assignments
below are taken from this book.
7/3/07 Introduction to Legal Research: Brief review of sources of
American Law, legal citation, and research strategies.
7/4/07 Creating a Research Vocabulary: Research Vocabulary and Issue
Spotting
Read: Mersky, pp. 14-20;
*In-class Exercise(To Be Distributed).
7/5/07 Primary Sources of Law: Court Cases
Read: Mersky, pp. 21-51, &62-70(down to Section F:"Illustrations")
7/6/07 Case Law Research: Using Digests to Find Case Law
Read: Mersky, pp. 74-101(down to Section N. Illustrations).
7/9/07 Secondary Sources: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and other law-
finding tools.
Read: Mersky, 318-328(Legal Encyclopedias);392-402(down to "Section
G. Jury Instructions and Verdict...");pp.370-379(illustrations);
329-342(legal periodicals and indexes).
7/10/07 Statutes: Constitutions, Codes(Annotated and Unannotated)
Read: Mersky,pp. 120-133(Constitutions);pp. 134-155(down to
"Section F. Tables for Fdedral Laws");pp. 164-176(down to "Section
E. How to identify/Find Citations to Documents...");pp. 192-199(
Finding legislative history documents);pp. 203-216(State Legis-
lation);pp. 104-114(American Law Reports("A.L.R."))
7/11/07 Administrative Law and Citations
Read: Mersky,pp. 231-249 & pp. 281-310(down to: "Section H. Keycite
on Westlaw").
*Wrap-up and Review of Research Strategy
7/13/07 *Final Examination
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