Week 3: Learning to Brief a Case
The Week of Chester, the Parrot Students are still enrolling in the course. So, we continue to provide background information as everyone continues to settle in. This week we covered some important topics, but mostly through lecture (my least favorite way to teach). We cover: Primary versus secondary sources of law. Binding versus persuasive precedent in the common law system. The Qatari legal system and the role of case law. The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Center . Case briefing. The professional value of competence as a lawyer. What a partner or a judge expects from a lawyer's writing. Bracket use in quotations. Ellipses dot use in quotations. And, how to read and brief a case carefully. It's ambitious coverage, and I often wonder how much of it they really understand. Luckily, we cover it several times throughout this course and the required Legal Writing II course. We use Conti vs. ASPCA as the first case...
