The foundation of a student's legal education is built during the first year, when students acquire the basic building blocks of the law, along with the fundamental skills of legal analysis and argumentation. I, Criminal Law, Property, Torts, and Legal Writing and Research.
Contracts is a six-hour course that extends over the entire year.
In the fall, each student takes three of these four-hour courses semester and the first half of Contracts. The first-year class is divided into four sections of approximately 120 students. In the fall, each large section is divided into smaller sections for one of the four-hour courses. Thus, some students will be taught Civil Procedure in a small-group setting. The small-group faculty assign and supervise an early legal writing project, and give individualized help to students in their legal writing.