This advanced writing course is a practice-based, skills-building class requiring students to draft, edit, and negotiate a complex technology agreement, as well as drafting a legal research memo for a technology client. Using data privacy-related cases and enforcement actions as context, the curriculum is designed to translate contract principles and doctrine (to which students have been exposed) into real-world practice. Students will acquire the foundational tools necessary to engage in legal research and write clear, effective, plain-language provisions into agreements that memorialize a bargain between parties based on realistic situations. Exercises include simulations in which students will draft, edit, and negotiate sections of agreements. Students will also be expected to show an understanding of what it means to develop, foster, and sustain client trust, advocate in a client's best interests, as well as effectively and ethically engage with a counter-party's counsel. Exercises are designed to help students improve their critical thinking, due diligence, research, analysis, drafting, and editing skills, which deepens an understanding as to the expectations of attorneys and clients with whom they will be working and supporting respectively. CONSENT APPLICATION: To apply for this course, students must complete and submit a Consent Application Form available at https://law.stanford.edu/education/courses/consent-of-instructor-forms/. See Consent Application Form for instructions and submission deadline.
3 units · Law Honors/Pass/Restrd Cr/Fail
This advanced writing course is a practice-based, skills-building class requiring students to draft, edit, and negotiate a complex technology agreement, as well as drafting a legal research memo for a technology client. Using data privacy-related cases and enforcement actions as context, the curriculum is designed to translate contract principles and doctrine (to which students have been exposed) into real-world practice. Students will acquire the foundational tools necessary to engage in legal research and write clear, effective, plain-language provisions into agreements that memorialize a bargain between parties based on realistic situations. Exercises include simulations in which students will draft, edit, and negotiate sections of agreements. Students will also be expected to show an understanding of what it means to develop, foster, and sustain client trust, advocate in a client's best interests, as well as effectively and ethically engage with a counter-party's counsel. Exercises are designed to help students improve their critical thinking, due diligence, research, analysis, drafting, and editing skills, which deepens an understanding as to the expectations of attorneys and clients with whom they will be working and supporting respectively. CONSENT APPLICATION: To apply for this course, students must complete and submit a Consent Application Form available at https://law.stanford.edu/education/courses/consent-of-instructor-forms/. See Consent Application Form for instructions and submission deadline.
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.