Spotting the Central Legal Issue and Reflecting On It

Using Writing in the Zones to Help Students Become Competent in Legal Reasoning in a Problem-Based Learning Contract Law Course
Juan Carlos Durán-Uribe, Universidad de los Andes

Introduction

How can Writing in The Zones (WiTZ), as an informal writing pedagogy, help Contract Law students to become competent in legal reasoning, particularly in identifying the central legal issue of a complex Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Contract Law case while being reflective about the process? In this project I answer this question by designing and implementing two WiTZ exercises in my sixteen-week long, PBL Contract Law course at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), on the second and sixth weeks of the Spring term, 2023. […]