Currently there are three Law
Reviews: Global Studies Law Review, Journal of Law & Policy, and Law
Quarterly. Interested students must compete in a writing competition
at the end of the first-year of law school to be eligible for
selection to the Law Reviews.
(Transfer students are given the
opportunity to compete at the beginning of their first semester at
Washington University School of Law).
See http://ls.wustl.edu/Publications/Writingcompetition/index.html for more information on the writing competition (for all three law
reviews). After successful completion of both fall and spring
semesters, second-year students receive credit for fall and spring
(1 credit posted to the fall semester and 1 credit posted to the
spring semester). Third year students receive (1) credit for fall at
the end of the fall semester and (1) credit for spring at the end of
the spring semester. Students are registered for law review by the
Registrar’s Office.
GLOBAL STUDIES LAW REVIEW
2nd Yr.: W77 596S LAW
3rd Yr.: W77 696S
LAW JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY
2nd Yr.: W75 616S LAW
3rd Yr.: W75 716S LAW
LAW QUARTERLY
2nd Yr.: W77 598S LAW
3rd Yr.: W77 698S LAW
INTRO. TO U.S. LAW AND METHODS I
W77 729A LAW 01 W 3:00p-4:30p and F 1:00p-2:30p Greenhaw /
Koby
Research lab A: Tu 2:00p-3:00p Luo
Research lab B: Tu 3:00p-4:00p Luo
[Enrollment open only to
international LL.M. and exchange students; visiting scholars and JSD
students may audit.] This is the first in a two course sequence to
introduce lawyers who did not receive their legal education in the
United States to distinctive aspects of U. S. law and methods.
Rather than mastery of legal rules, the goal is to learn how law is
made, found and enforced in the United States. Methods and writing
classes cover U.S. legal institutions; sources of law and how to use
them in analysis, especially opinions of state or "common law"
courts; formats and style for effective written communication with
U.S. educated lawyers; avoidance of plagiarism and exam taking. The
objective is to learn partially through resolution of problems in
writing, by assuming the role of a U.S. lawyer arguing a case
related to, but significantly distinct from, case precedent.
Professors in written comments and personal conferences stress
prediction of probable court holdings through analysis and synthesis
of judicial opinions and use of facts in analogical reasoning.
Research classes instruct and give practice exercises in locating
and using both paper and electronic sources and tools to prepare for
the Intro to U.S. Law & Methods II course, seminars and individual
research projects or dissertations. Students will meet 3 hours per
week with Profs Greenhaw and/or Koby, and 1 hour per week for
research lab with Prof. Luo. 3 units.
SUPERVISED MOOT COURT
W79 500 LAW
A student may receive one credit
for participation in an external moot court competition through
Supervised Moot Court. In order to receive credit, a student must
secure a full-time faculty member as an adviser, prepare an
appellate brief of passing quality (minimum 10 pages per student),
present a minimum of two oral arguments of passing quality, and
attend two mandatory seminar sessions on appellate brief writing and
appellate argument. Supervised Moot Court is graded on a pass/fail
basis and does not fulfill the research and writing requirement.
Approval forms are found in the Student Forms area near the student
mailboxes or on the web at http://ls.wustl.edu/Registrar/Forms.
Students wishing to do a supervised moot court are required to read
the full description of supervised moot court found in Faculty Rule
(G)(7) at http://law.wustl.edu/Students/Rules/facultyrules.html.
The
full-time faculty member who reviews the brief and critiques the
preparation for oral argument is limited to supervising no more than
six students per year in Supervised Research, Supervised Practicum,
or Supervised Moot Court. [Students should keep in mind the
limitations regarding credit toward their degree for competition
work (as a participant or board member): 1) a maximum of 4 total
credits from competitions; 2) only one competition per semester.] 1
unit. varied professors
SUPERVISED PRACTICUM
W74 662G LAW
Students interested in pursuing a
Supervised Practicum must write a petition to the faculty and turn
in the Supervised Practicum approval form to the mailbox of Prof.
Dan Keating, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, prior to the first
day of classes in the semester the student plans to do the
Supervised Practicum. There is no guarantee that a student will be
able to do a Supervised Practicum; a student's ability to take this
course will always be a function of finding a willing and able
full-time faculty member and supervising attorney at the practicum
site who will agree to supervise the project. One to three units of
academic credit may be earned in Supervised Practicum by working on
a clinical project under the direct supervision of a member of the
faculty. The exact nature of the Supervised Practicum experience
shall be determined by the individual faculty member. The precise
number of credits earned for the Practicum, which depends upon the
scope of the project, shall be determined by the supervising faculty
member after completion of the clinical project. Supervised
Practicum is graded on a pass/fail basis. Students wishing to do a
supervised practicum are required to read the full description of
supervised practicum found in Faculty Rule (G)(6) at http://law.wustl.edu/Students/Rules/facultyrules.html.
A student may enroll in
only one supervised practicum during his/her law school career. A
student cannot be enrolled in a clinic course and a supervised
practicum in the same semester. The forms are available in the
hanging file folders located by the student mailboxes or on the web
at http://ls.wustl.edu/Registrar/Forms
. Credit variable, max 3
units. varied professors
SUPERVISED RESEARCH
W74 695 LAW
May only be taken for academic
credit (1-3 credit hours) on a pass/fail basis. Supervised research
does not fulfill the research and writing requirement. No more than
2 Supervised Research courses may be taken in total and no more than
1 may be taken in a semester. To complete registration for this
course, a Supervised Research Form must be turned in to the
Registrar's Office by the end of the second week of the semester.
The forms are available in the hanging file folders located by the
student mailboxes on the third floor or on the web
at http://ls.wustl.edu/Registrar/Forms
. The work must be completed
during the semester; incompletes are not permitted. There is no
guarantee that a student will be able to do a Supervised Research; a
student's ability to take this course will always be a function of
finding a willing and able full-time faculty member who will agree
to supervise the project. Therefore, one of the first steps that a
student who is interested in this experience should undertake is to
secure the participation of a faculty member. Students wishing
to do a supervised research are required to read the full
description of supervised research found in Faculty Rule (G)(5)
at http://law.wustl.edu/Students/Rules/facultyrules.html.
Faculty members are
limited to supervising no more than 6 students per year in either
Supervised Research, Supervised Practicum, or Supervised Moot Court.
Registering for Supervised Research online is not a guarantee that
the student is enrolled - the steps described in the above
description must also be satisfied. Credit variable, max 3 units.
varied professors
