Spring 2027

Legal Sources

Legal Sources covers U.S. legal document creation, organization in law libraries, and introduces common law case analysis.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Andrew Norman

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.44 GPA, 62.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand the sources of law in the U.S. legal system and how they are organized.

  • Understand the structure and relationship between state and federal court systems.

  • Understand how to analyze cases and statutes and how to apply them to resolve legal issues.

  • Understand how to write a predictive analysis in memorandum format regarding the research and resolution of a legal issue.

  • Understand how to use standard research tools to find primary and secondary legal authorities, and how to evaluate the weight of these authorities.

  • Understand when and how to cite legal authorities.

Source: UW Guide

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LAW 602

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.44 GPA, 62.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ANDREW NORMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=1 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.44 GPA, 62.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Institutions creating U.S. legal documents
  • Organization and retrieval of legal documents in law libraries
  • Common law case analysis
  • State and federal court system structures

Skills

  • Use standard research tools to find and evaluate legal authorities
  • Cite legal authorities correctly
  • Analyze and apply cases and statutes to resolve legal issues
  • Write predictive analyses in memorandum format

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LAW 602 · Spring 2027

Legal Sources

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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