Spring 2027

Introduction to American Law

Introduction to the American common law tradition and the American legal system for Law LLM or Visiting International students in the Law LLM Pathway.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Freya BowenJeffery Bowen

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.17 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand the overall structure of U.S. law and the U.S. legal system so that they can place other more detailed courses and later experiences with U.S. law in context.

  • Gain experience analyzing original U.S. legal decisions

  • Understand the basic principles underlying several areas of U.S. law and legal procedure

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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LAW 601

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.60 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.17 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=9 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.60 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.17 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=9 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

FREYA BOWEN is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JEFF BOWEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.17 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

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Topics

  • American common law tradition
  • Structure of the U.S. legal system
  • Areas of U.S. law and legal procedure

Skills

  • Analyzing original U.S. legal decisions
  • Understanding basic principles of U.S. law and legal procedure

Grades

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LAW 601 · Spring 2027

Introduction to American Law

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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