This course utilizes the case study method, students should learn to:

  • : This includes carefully reading case facts, identifying relevant legal issues, researching applicable law, and developing sound arguments.
  • : Students learn to present arguments clearly, concisely, and persuasively, and respond to others' arguments.
  • : The case method motivates students to think creatively and find innovative solutions to legal problems.
  • : They should master research methods of classic international law cases, understand the interpretation of court judgments, and analyze the application of general legal principles in judgments.
  • : Students should be able to apply legal doctrine and theory to problem-solving in client-specific contexts.
  • : Students will accurately identify legal rules applicable to a set of facts, including conflicting rules.
  • : Students will logically apply case law or other relevant legal authority to a set of facts using facts, reasoning, comparisons, and policies.
  • : Students will anticipate significant opposing arguments based on fact, law, or policy, and address them adequately.
  • : Accurately identify the issue on appeal, holding, judgment, procedural history, material facts, rules of law, reasoning, and policy choices.
  • : Evaluate a case opinion from multiple perspectives, such as the use of precedent, reasoning, rhetoric, reliance on historic, economic, or political sources, and attention to prospective impact