Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery, Practice for Every Law Student

Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery, Practice for Every Law Student offers 100 paced exercises to sharpen students' legal analysis skills.

Professors will find:

• A bank of 100 legal analysis exercises at the ready, whenever students' analysis skills need attention or refinement
• Exercises adaptable to any paradigm, that increase the depth of students' writing
• Varied assignments that contain thoughtful sample answers and helpful annotations
• Learning objectives and outcomes for each chapter
• Assessment and grading rubric for each chapter
• Go-to material ready for any class period
• 100 exercises that can be used as is or expanded to fit professors' preferences
• Sample annotated answers for 50 of the exercises that their students can use to assess their own performance
• A Teacher's Manual for professors with sample annotated answers for the remaining 50 exercises and helpful variations on exercises
• Online resources for ready access to authority

Students will receive:

• Tools students need to develop a keen understanding of rule-based and analogical reasoning
• 100 unique and fresh exercises to practice and self-assess their performance, using their own law school's analysis paradigm
• Self-assessment opportunities to ensure progress in analysis
• Learning objectives and outcomes for the legal analysis exercises
• Writing assignments with self-contained feedback
• Online resources for easy access to exercise cases, statutes, and regulations and helpful tips on improving legal analysis and writing skills

Academic support professionals can expect:

• 100 progressive legal analysis exercises for students to complete
• Go-to material assignable to any student
• Self-contained exercises that do not require particular knowledge of substantive law
• Sample annotated answers for 50 of the exercises that students can review
• A Teacher's Manual for professors with sample annotated answers for the remaining 50 exercises
• Online resources for access to authority

Cassandra L. Hill is the Dean and a Professor of Law at the Northern Illinois University College of Law.

Katherine T. Vukadin is a Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston, where she teaches legal research and writing.