Legal Analysis Micro-credential
  • Type Validation
  • Level Intermediate
  • Time Months
  • Cost Paid
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Legal Analysis Micro-credential

Issued by Purdue University Global

The legal analysis micro-credential provides earners with an introduction to the substantive law of both voluntarily assumed legal obligations (contracts) and obligations imposed by the law (torts), along with a foundation in the skills and methods of applying legal principles to factual scenarios to predict outcomes that is at the heart of legal analysis.

  • Type Validation
  • Level Intermediate
  • Time Months
  • Cost Paid
Additional Details

Skills

  • Legal Analysis
  • Legal Contracts
  • Tort Law

Earning Criteria

  • CL600: Introduction to Legal Analysis I - This first-year course is designed to introduce earners to the study of law and the American Legal System. It teaches the ability to spot and analyze legal issues in factual situations. The course also introduces earners to legal reasoning and legal writing.
  • CL601: Introduction to Legal Analysis II - This course is a continuation of CL600: Introduction of Legal Analysis I. This first-year course is designed to introduce earners to the study of law and the American Legal System. It teaches the ability to spot and analyze legal issues in factual situations. The course also introduces earners to legal reasoning and legal writing.
  • CL610: Contracts I - This course examines the legal theories and principles relating to parties and agreements and their resultant obligations or benefits. Covered topics include the following: formation, conditions, and remedies of contracts; bargained-for consideration; third-party contracts (including assignments and delegations); statute of frauds; parol evidence; impossibility of performance; and frustration of purpose.
  • CL611: Contracts II - This course is a continuation of CL610: Contracts I. This course examines the legal theories and principles relating to parties and agreements and their resultant obligations or benefits. Covered topics include the following: formation, conditions, and remedies of contracts; bargained-for consideration; third-party contracts (including assignments and delegations); statute of frauds; parol evidence; impossibility of performance; and frustration of purpose.
  • CL623: Torts I - This course explores the study of civil liability relating to intentional acts and violation of duties imposed by law. In addition, legal wrongs committed by a private person upon the person or property of another independent of a contractual relationship are covered in detail in this course. Topics include intentional torts and defenses to intentional torts, misrepresentation, negligence, and damages.
  • CL624: Torts II - This course is a continuation of CL623: Torts I. This course explores the study of civil liability relating to violations of duties imposed by law. In addition, legal wrongs committed by a private person upon the person or property of another independent of a contractual relationship are covered in detail in this course. Topics include negligence and defenses to negligence, strict liability, product liability, nuisance, defamation, and invasion of privacy.