Students continually perform and are critiqued both live and on videotape by experienced trial lawyers. Lawyering or permission of the professor. Students learn how principles of contract law find expression in contract language and explore how contract readers interpret contract language. In a workshop format, students learn and practice the skills needed to draft contracts for clients in an ethical, effective, and cost-efficient manner. The course concentrates on Web browsers and Web searching and indexing tools and emphasizes the location and content of primary legal materials on the Internet.
Students receive reading assignments before the class begins.
Students should have a general familiarity with the operation of a computer. Computer expertise is not required. Students do a review of arbitration law, including key court decisions regarding enforcement of agreements to arbitrate, vacating awards and judicial review. The class discusses controversial current topics such as compulsory arbitration, arbitration of statutory claims and other public policy issues, and explores the growing trend toward arbitration of international commercial disputes. The course does not address issues related to labor arbitration or Minnesota no-fault insurance arbitration.