Course Description

This course will focus on administrative law research skills, examining agencies/powers, state/federal regulatory processes, organization of administrative law materials, and a variety of sources of administrative law. There is no focus on one specific subject area/agency; the objective is for students to understand administrative law resources and research process generally.

Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate law students will not be doing any extra work beyond that required of the Juris Doctor students. J.D. students are post-baccalaureate students and the workload expected of them is the same workload expected of post-baccalaureate graduate students. Law students are professional students, not undergraduate students. Graduate law students are primarily international lawyers seeking expertise in the American legal system. This expertise is gained through exposure to Juris Doctor courses.

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Athena Title

Advanced Legal Research

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Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in JURI 4085E or JURI 6085E

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Non-Traditional Format

The difference between whether the course is taught for 1 or 3 credit hours depends on the professor teaching it, and how in depth the course will cover each area. For 1 credit hour, the course is basically a survey course that briefly touches on each topic.

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Prerequisite

Students must be enrolled in the School of Law to register for this course

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Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

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Student learning Outcomes

• Students will learn to efficiently utilize a variety of free and commercial sources.
• Students will learn to employ search strategies to find regulations, enabling and authorizing statutes, administrative decisions, guidance documents, executive orders, cases, secondary source information, and public policy related to accessing administrative legal materials.

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Topical Outline

• The basic framework of administrative law and agencies and their role in the lawmaking process
• State and federal regulatory processes (rulemaking types, processes, and comments)
• Locating state and federal regulations (including the organization and purposes of administrative codes and registers, and using various finding aids and methods)
• Updating and Validating administrative sources of primary law
• Sources for adjudications, agency review, and judicial review of agency decisions
• Other agency publications and secondary sources for administrative law research

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Syllabus

Select Faculty / Instructor to download syllabus:   Simmons, Heather Tuesdays 3:00   Taylor, Amy   Violi, Anjelica

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Public CV

Select a file to download:   Simmons, Heather   Taylor, Amy   Violi, Anjelica

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