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  School of Law–Camden 2009–2011 The Juris Doctor Curriculum The Lawyering Program  

The Lawyering Program

A central and unique feature of the curriculum is the lawyering program, which is designed to ensure that students have substantial opportunities to acquire the skills and perspectives that are necessary in the practice of law. The lawyering program is comprised of a series of courses, experiences within courses, and cocurricular activities that engage students in the intellectual, pragmatic, ethical, and personal issues that arise in the practice of law. In most of the program's activities, students simulate the role of lawyers and carry out activities such as litigating or counseling clients, under attorney supervision. Through the lawyering program, students:

1. acquire a basic grounding in lawyering skills, such as problem solving, drafting, counseling, and advocacy, and in professional values, such as reflectiveness and the need and capacity for self-learning;

2. achieve a perspective on legal doctrine through study and experience of the application of doctrine by lawyers and clients in various contexts;

3. learn doctrine and its application experientially, as well as didactically; and

4. integrate different bodies of doctrine; doctrine and skills; and doctrine, skills, and legal theory.

 
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