Learning Outcomes

JD Program Learning Outcomes

We expect that, by the time of graduation from the JD program, our students will achieve knowledge and understanding of:

1. Legal analysis and legal reasoning, including different modes of legal interpretation and their applicability to different legal texts.

2. Key concepts in and the legal rules that comprise substantive and procedural law.

3. The mechanisms and institutions through which law is made.

4. Professional responsibility and the ethical rules of the profession, including the lawyer’s ethical duties to her client.

5. Professional skills lawyers need to be effective and ethical participants in the legal system.

6. Legal research methods and of effective oral and written legal communication.

7. The American legal system and its relationship to the American system of government.

8. Interdisciplinary approaches to law and the distributional effects of legal rules.

Explore Area Group and Course Learning Outcomes

• Administrative Law
• Antitrust and Competition Policy
• Civil Procedure
• Civil Rights
• Clinical Programs
• Comparative and Foreign Law Area
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts and Commercial Law
• Corporate and Securities Law
• Criminal Law and Administration
• Democracy and the Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law
• First-Year Teachers
• Health and Public Benefits Law
• Immigration Law
• Labor and Employment Law
• Legal Theory and Legal History
• Professional Responsibility
• Property, Land Use and Urban Affairs
• Security and Law Area Group
• Torts and Insurance Law