Administrative Law Writing Practicum

Credits: 2.00
Faculty: Claire Kelly, Elizabeth Fajans

Co-requisite: Administrative Law

The Administrative Law Writing Practicum is a two-credit, two-hour per week course that fulfills the Upperclass Writing Requirement and is open to ten students who are enrolled in Professor Kelly's administrative law during the same semester. This practicum will provide students with a better grounding in the fundamentals of drafting through the preparation of a statute and implementing regulations for an administrative law problem. Students in the practicum will draft documents for use by the entire administrative law class. The administrative law class will provide feedback in the form of ideas and comments on the statute and regulation. The practicum class will focus on the fundamentals of drafting including the problems and the solutions to poor drafting, semantic and syntactic ambiguity, terms of authority, and differences between, and appropriate use of, specific, general, and vague language, grammar problems, the ethics and politics of legislative drafting, the process of drafting a rule-making document, the components of a statute, and the impact of statutory construction on the drafter.