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Cooley was one of the first to recognize that research and writing is just as important as torts, contracts, and property.

Cooley students are required to take six hours of Research & Writing

• First-year classes are taught and graded by full-time, tenure-track professors—with more than 116 years of teaching experience among them.
• We teach both book and electronic research, using a problem approach, and we stress the best use of each.
• Cooley was one of the first law schools to teach legal drafting—it's been part of our program for 10 years. Our students draft contracts, releases, and statutes.
• We test what we teach: all Cooley students take a punctuation test and two research tests.

What Cooley students say:

"Cooley students have a definite advantage because of the excellent Research & Writing classes we are required to take."


"Thanks for imparting that knowledge, for being precise, and for making us enjoy the process. (Please note the serial-comma usage.)"


"The process has really changed the way I write."

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