LEGAL SOURCES

LAW 602

Course Description

Overview of the institutions and entities that create legal documents in the U.S.; how these documents are organized and found in a law library; introduction to common law case analysis. Open only to Law LLM students or Visiting International students in the Law LLM Pathway.

Prerequisties

Consent of instructor

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Offered

Occasionally

Grade Point Average

3.42

12.3% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

0.33% from Historical

A Rate

50%

101.97% from Historical

Class Size

9.45% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

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