Law 34 (Legal Research) and Law 17 (Legal Writing) Written Project.

1. Select your own case, code, or legal subject.

2. Then do one of more of the following with respect to that case, code, legal subject, or legal principle.

Define, Describe, Identify, explain, give examples, demonstrate, distinguish, prepare, show, illustrate, point out, categorize, justify, interpret, differentiate, solve, relate, contrast, criticize the case, code, legal subject or legal principle.

3. Format:

3-5 pages (minimum of 3 pages, and try to keep it to no more than 5 pages - 6 if you must)

typewritten, handwritten (legibly), or word processed

4. Procedure:

you will hand in a 50 word summary of your project = 100 points

you will hand in a rough draft of your project = 250 points

you will hand in a final written project (having corrected your rough draft) = 400 points

5. For Law 34 you will show your step by step approach in doing the legal research (i.e. show the steps to took in carrying out your legal research).

You may use the same project for Law 17 (for those students who are taking both Law 17 and Law 34), however in the Law 17 written project, you will spend more time in the legal analysis of the matter, and in the Law 34 written project more time will be spent on how you obtained your legal results or solution to the problem, with a shorter legal analysis of the results than in your Law 17 treatment of the same subject.

6. Evaluation:

Your grade on the written portion of the project (Law 34) and for Law 17 will be based upon the grading rubric, or format we covered in class located at http://lamission.org/outcomes -

Your grade on the Law 34 step by step analysis will be graded according to the legal research process and steps we have studied in Law 34 - Legal Research.

good luck.
Prof. J.
10/09/00