It used overtly religious language when addressing the faithful, but when it addressed the nation it employed the religiously neutral language
of natural
law, a language
suited to the Enlightenment -
rooted American political arena.
While the goals
of LA&W are similar to those
of legal writing classes taught at many schools — to teach students to understand, analyze, and apply legal authority and to communicate the results
of that analysis in writing — the course also contains some components that are influenced by its Legal Methods
roots, as well as some that may or may not be taught in a first - semester civil procedure class: a focus on judicial methods, an introduction to legal institutions and processes, and instruction on the anatomy
of a civil
law suit, the timeline
of a civil case, and the link between procedural and substantive
law.30 The full set
of course goals was outlined in the 2000 Report and has remained unchanged: