Graduate Learning Outcomes
Alexander Blewett III School of Law
The Blewett School of Law’s Graduate Learning Outcomes include the following competencies:
- Demonstrate knowledge and practical understanding of the conceptual frameworks, procedural rules, and fundamental areas of substantive law;
- Demonstrate legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, and problem solving;
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication in a legal context;
- Cultivate a professional identity, and develop the ability to fulfill professional and ethical responsibilities to clients and the legal system;
- Recognize the import of cross-cultural awareness and a lawyers’ responsibility to improve access to justice and eliminate bias, discrimination, and racism in the law; and
- Demonstrate fundamental lawyering skills, which may include document-drafting, factual investigation and development, client interviewing and counseling, organization and management of legal work, and negotiation and dispute resolution.