Professional Responsibility (Ossei-Owusu)
Faculty
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| Shaun Ossei-Owusu Presidential Assistant Professor of Law oss@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Grading
20% Participation,
80% Exam
Exam
Multiple Choice,
In Class,
Closed-Book
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email Dean Sara Pyle, Associate Dean of Students. Upon receipt of her authorization, I will email instructions to you for accessing the recording for the class session(s) you missed.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
T 1:30PM - 3:20PM
Silverman Hall 240B
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
A major objective of this course is to assist students to bring to bear their own emergent concept of the sort of lawyer they each wish to be on the problems presented. We will examine the ways in which the Model Rules of Professional Conduct channel but do not displace the need for discretion and judgment in situations in which the lawyer faces conflicting obligations.
Business and Corporate Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of business and corporate law; Perform legal analysis in the context of business and corporate law; Communicate effectively on topics related to business and corporate law; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between the world of business and finance and that of business and corporate law, and how they affect other areas of law and society.
Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.
Professional Responsibility and Ethics Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.
Public Interest Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of the varied legal aspects of public interest law; Perform legal analysis in the context of public interest law; Communicate effectively on topics related to public interest law; Demonstrate an understanding of how public interest law is connected to and affected by a wide variety of legal and regulatory structures and doctrines.
Textbooks
"Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System" by Shaun Ossei-Owusu |