Grise's Interactive Law School Orientation, Academic Success, and Well-Being Modules: Introduction to Legal Analysis
Description
This four-lesson module introduces you to rules, rule-based reasoning, analogical reasoning, and the organization of legal analysis. The module provides the opportunity to reflect on each lesson and compile a list of useful information.
Lesson One, Rules, explores what rules are and how they are structured. You learn the basic components of rules and then practice identifying the parts of a rule.
Lesson Two, Rule-Based Reasoning, examines the five steps lawyers take when they use rule-based reasoning. You will walk through the five-step process with a hypothetical legal problem involving a statute and then answer questions to practice using rule-based reasoning.
Lesson Three, Analogical Reasoning, reviews the meaning of analogies and explains what analogical reasoning is and why lawyers use this method of legal analysis. You will read a case and then use the five-step analogical reasoning process to solve a legal problem.
Lesson Four, Organizing Legal Analysis (CREAC), explains one method lawyers use to organize their analysis of legal problems. After you learn about the CREAC organizational method and walk through a sample CREAC analysis, you will use CREAC to organize a memo.
Taken together, this module introduces you to three basic types of legal analysis that you will use in writing assignments, exams, and throughout your legal career.
Lesson One, Rules, explores what rules are and how they are structured. You learn the basic components of rules and then practice identifying the parts of a rule.
Lesson Two, Rule-Based Reasoning, examines the five steps lawyers take when they use rule-based reasoning. You will walk through the five-step process with a hypothetical legal problem involving a statute and then answer questions to practice using rule-based reasoning.
Lesson Three, Analogical Reasoning, reviews the meaning of analogies and explains what analogical reasoning is and why lawyers use this method of legal analysis. You will read a case and then use the five-step analogical reasoning process to solve a legal problem.
Lesson Four, Organizing Legal Analysis (CREAC), explains one method lawyers use to organize their analysis of legal problems. After you learn about the CREAC organizational method and walk through a sample CREAC analysis, you will use CREAC to organize a memo.
Taken together, this module introduces you to three basic types of legal analysis that you will use in writing assignments, exams, and throughout your legal career.