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Acquire an intensive introduction to U.S. law, legal systems, and methodologies as well as the nature of legal education, sources of law, and legal writing. Topics include American Federalism; separation of powers and judicial structure; the U.S. mixed system of statutes, regulations, common law, and constitutional law; the hierarchy of sources of law; the synthesis of law sources; legal research; the judicial process and the doctrine of stare decisis; overruling precedent, holding, rationale, and dictum; proper ways of writing a legal memorandum, memo, and client letter; the legislative process; and issues of statutory interpretation.
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