The University of Tennessee College of Law
The legal writing program at The University of Tennessee College of Law is one of the cornerstones of the College=s academic program and demonstrates the College's commitment to teaching and training students to be excellent lawyers.
The writing program includes both required and elective courses. In courses that fulfill writing requirements, students create documents that give advice, present arguments on behalf of clients, specify the terms of contracts or other instruments, and present scholarly analysis of legal issues. In elective courses throughout the curriculum, students prepare professional documents of all types.
In the first year, students take a 6-unit, graded sequence (Legal Process I and Legal Process II ) taught by full-time tenured or tenure-track law professors and by practicing attorneys. Working closely with the classroom teachers, a Ph.D. writing specialist helps each student identify writing strengths and weaknesses (as demonstrated in a diagnostic essay assignment completed by each in-coming first-year student or in documents written for Legal Process classes) and offers individual tutoring and a series of writing workshops to all students who wish to improve their writing skills. Reference librarians teach classes in legal research and work with Legal Process teachers on writing and research assignments.
After the first year of law school, students continue to develop their writing and research skills through two upper-level writing requirements. Through the Planning and Drafting requirement, students learn to plan and draft documents, such as contracts, governing the future conduct of clients and others. The Expository Writing requirement focuses on developing critical analysis skills through researching and writing a scholarly research paper on a subject chosen by the student. Students may satisfy the upper-level writing requirements through a variety of courses and independent projects. Many students elect to take more than one course that satisfies each of these requirements.
Beyond the required courses, opportunities to gain experience in preparing professional documents are available throughout the curriculum, particularly in practice-oriented courses offered as part of the Advocacy and Business Transactions concentrations. Finally, the College of Law's Moot Court Program and its three student-edited journals B the Tennessee Law Review, Transactions, and the Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy B offer additional exciting opportunities to gain realistic, professional experiences in legal writing.
The writing program includes both required and elective courses. In courses that fulfill writing requirements, students create documents that give advice, present arguments on behalf of clients, specify the terms of contracts or other instruments, and present scholarly analysis of legal issues. In elective courses throughout the curriculum, students prepare professional documents of all types.
In the first year, students take a 6-unit, graded sequence (Legal Process I and Legal Process II ) taught by full-time tenured or tenure-track law professors and by practicing attorneys. Working closely with the classroom teachers, a Ph.D. writing specialist helps each student identify writing strengths and weaknesses (as demonstrated in a diagnostic essay assignment completed by each in-coming first-year student or in documents written for Legal Process classes) and offers individual tutoring and a series of writing workshops to all students who wish to improve their writing skills. Reference librarians teach classes in legal research and work with Legal Process teachers on writing and research assignments.
After the first year of law school, students continue to develop their writing and research skills through two upper-level writing requirements. Through the Planning and Drafting requirement, students learn to plan and draft documents, such as contracts, governing the future conduct of clients and others. The Expository Writing requirement focuses on developing critical analysis skills through researching and writing a scholarly research paper on a subject chosen by the student. Students may satisfy the upper-level writing requirements through a variety of courses and independent projects. Many students elect to take more than one course that satisfies each of these requirements.
Beyond the required courses, opportunities to gain experience in preparing professional documents are available throughout the curriculum, particularly in practice-oriented courses offered as part of the Advocacy and Business Transactions concentrations. Finally, the College of Law's Moot Court Program and its three student-edited journals B the Tennessee Law Review, Transactions, and the Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy B offer additional exciting opportunities to gain realistic, professional experiences in legal writing.
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