Spring 2027

Legal Analysis, Advocacy, & Writing II

Legal Analysis, Advocacy, & Writing II teaches persuasive legal writing, oral advocacy, and advanced legal research through briefs and transactional drafting.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Dustin Brown3.8/5Andrew NormanAshby Fox +5 more

Summary

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Past student reviews · Dustin Brown

Reading was necessary for the final exam. The course was rated with a moderate difficulty level.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Learn and utilize a variety of techniques to write persuasive legal documents

  • Choose and use legal authority appropriately to build a legal argument

  • Write trial-level and appellate briefs using appropriate format, organization, and citations

  • Develop the skills to research complex legal issues efficiently, using an array of sources and strategies

  • Apply basic principles of transactional drafting

  • Present an oral argument on behalf of a client

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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LAW 722

LAW 723

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Professors

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About this rating

Raw average: 4.75/5 from 4 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 5.0/5 raw quality · 3.0/5 difficulty · 1 reviews

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Past student reviews · Dustin Brown

Dustin Brown teaches interactively, introducing new activities to help students understand material. He has a good sense of humor, is receptive to feedback, and is willing to meet outside of class if students are prepared to ask questions. The student noted that reading is necessary for the final exam.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.33 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.00 GPA, 0.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.00 GPA, 0.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.46 GPA, 46.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.31 GPA, 30.8% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.20 GPA, 20.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 37.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.23 GPA, 23.1% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.46 GPA, 61.5% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.38 GPA, 38.5% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.38 GPA, 37.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 25.0% A/AB (n=4 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.25 GPA, 25.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.67 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 25.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Past student reviews · Andrew Turner

Past students found Andrew Turner to be a good LRW professor who was necessarily critical on papers but made the class feel comfortable with that feedback. He also loved his metaphors and liked to have fun in class.

ANDREW NORMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ANDREW TURNER is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ASHBY FOX is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DESMUND WU is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DUSTIN BROWN is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HUGH DOWELL is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOHN STRANGE is recorded teaching in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KIM PETERSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

TONY LUCCHESI is recorded teaching in 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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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Dustin Brown

Dustin Brown taught the course interactively, using new activities to help students understand the material. He had a good sense of humor and was receptive to feedback.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.45 GPA, 46.4% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 29.0% A/AB (n=69 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 33.3% A/AB (n=60 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Dustin Brown

Reading was necessary for the final exam. The course was rated with a moderate difficulty level.

Past student reviews · Dustin Brown

The instructor was willing to meet with students outside of class so long as they were prepared to ask questions.

Topics

  • Persuasive legal writing and oral presentation
  • Ethics and strategies of advocacy
  • Advanced legal research
  • Legal correspondence and transactional drafting

Skills

  • Persuasive legal writing
  • Drafting trial and appellate briefs
  • Advanced legal research
  • Transactional drafting
  • Oral advocacy

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
LAW 723 · Spring 2027

Legal Analysis, Advocacy, & Writing II

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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