Legal Writing is an intensive writing lab that builds on the skills you acquired in your legal courses, using varied assignments from transactional, litigation, and legislative practice. In a supportive and collaborative classroom environment, you will learn about drafting statutes, contracts, complaints, answers, motions and nice motions, orders, interrogatories, general correspondence and opinion letters. You will also re-examine, and take to a higher level, aspects of the types of writing you did in your legal courses. For example, you will work on objective issue statements and persuasive questions presented, objective and persuasive fact statements, and the large-scale organization of the discussion sections of research memos and the argument sections of briefs. This course is a bridge between the other legal courses, because it teaches the skills necessary to analyze legal issues in any area of law. Specifically, the course should help students improve the following skills: • Analyzing and conceptualizing legal issues; • Organizing strategies; structuring legal arguments and documents; • Using core writing techniques, including clarity, cohesion, and concision; • Writing strong introductions and conclusions; • Mastering objective vs. persuasive techniques; • Using new editing techniques; and • Sharpening efficient writing and editing skills, using timed assignments. Language of Instruction: English and Arabic. LAW Information and Communications Technologies (2.0); 2 cr. The integration of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in our daily activities enables businesses and individuals to inform, communicate, and engage in transactions. This opens up a wide spectrum of opportunities and a variety of legal and regulatory issues. The course examines the relationship between ICT and Law in three principle areas: • ICT Law: The first area develops the different ICT generations (data processing, multimedia, internet, social media, mobile, etc.) • Lebanese ICT laws • International ICT laws (Europe, USA, and others): The second and the third areas examine ICT laws at a national and international level. The following topics will be covered: - Digital rights, privacy, and security (right to data protection, how data processing should be regulated in the information society, etc.); - Intellectual property; - Media and electronic communications regulat