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://law.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 & METHODS II (LHG/MK)
W77 729B LAW 01 FRI 12:00p-1:00p - Greenhaw / Koby
[Open only to international LL.M.
and exchange students.] This course continues the instruction and
practice in distinctive elements of U. S. legal method begun in the
fall. The goal remains to learn how law is made, found and enforced
in the U.S., and the objective is to learn by assuming the role of a
U. S. lawyer, researching, analyzing and arguing a problem with U.S.
federalism aspects in writing and orally to a federal court. The
course seeks to illustrate the dominating role of federal
constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court in the development of
U. S. law and how each source of law -- cases, statutes and the
Constitution - blend and refer to one another. Research and writing
instruction, including individual conferences on drafts, is
included. 1 unit.
SUPERVISED MOOT COURT
W79 500 LAW 01 Professor Varies
[See Faculty Rule (G)(7) at http://law.wustl.edu/Students/index.asp?id=1076
or in the Student Handbook for a complete description.] Students
are registered for this course by the Registrar's Office once the
form, signed by the professor, is turned in to the Registrar's Office
(Rm 303). 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 advisor, 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. 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.
SUPERVISED PRACTICUM
W74 662G LAW 01 Professor Varies
[See Faculty Rule (G)(6) at http://law.wustl.edu/Students/index.asp?id=1076
or in the Student Handbook for a complete description.]
Students are registered for this course by the Registrar's Office
once their petition has been approved. 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. In addition to completing a form (see below), the
interested student must submit a petition prior to the first day of
classes. 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. 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://law.wustl.edu/Registrar/index.asp?id=2131.
The form must be submitted
to Associate Dean Dan Keating and the petition to Elizabeth Patton by
email (eapatton@wulaw.wustl.edu) no later than the first day of classes
each semester. Credit variable, max 3 units.
SUPERVISED RESEARCH
W74 695 LAW 01 Professor Varies
[See Faculty Rule (G)(5) at http://law.wustl.edu/Students/index.asp?id=1076
or in the Student Handbook for a complete description.]
Students are registered for this course by the Registrar's Office once
the form, signed by the professor, is turned in to the Registrar's
Office (Rm 303). 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
two 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, Room 303, by the end of the second week of the
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.
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.
Faculty members are limited to supervising no more than 6 students
per year in either Supervised Research, Supervised Practicum, or
Supervised Moot Court. Credit variable, max 3 units.
TEACHING ASSISTANT
W74 600R LAW 01 TBA Lewis
W74 600R LAW 02 TBA Moul
W74 600R LAW 03 TBA Shields
W74 600R LAW 04 TBA Dorothy
W74 600R LAW 05 TBA Field
W74 600R LAW 06 TBA Koby
Students chosen as a Teaching
Assistant receive one unit of academic credit per semester for this
year-long Teaching Assistantship. These students assist the legal
writing professors throughout the year by helping prepare potential
research assignments, drafting bench memoranda regarding potential
research assignments and being accessible to first-year students as
the students research and draft their assignments. Students chosen
for this position will engage in significant research and writing
during the course of the year. Students applying for this position
can be rising second-year or third-year students who have
demonstrated their legal research and writing skills on one of the
publications, moot court programs, or in summer employment.
Interested students should submit (in April, to apply for the
following year) a cover letter and resume regarding their interest
in the position, including the nature of their legal research and
writing experience. Students should indicate in their cover letter
whether or not they have taken Advanced Legal Research or plan to
enroll in that course during their third-year of law school.
Applicants should send their cover letter and resume to the Legal
Writing Professor whom they would prefer to assist. Those applicants
who do not have a preference should submit their resume to the
director of the LRW program. 1 unit.
