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Critical Legal Thinking "how-to" Rubric--Use this to prepare your responses to the critical legal thinking case assignments

Requirement	Excellent	Very Good	Good	Needs Improvement
Recognize the Applicable areas of law ( 8 points)	Correctly states each area of applicable law	Correctly states all but one area of applicable law	Correctly states most of the areas of applicable law	Misstates the areas of applicable law
Identify the applicable principles of law ( 18 points)	Correctly states each element or principle of law	Correctly states most of the elements or principles of law	Correctly states some of the elements or principles of law	Correctly states only a few of the element or principles of law
Identify the key facts ( 18 points)	Correctly identifies each of the key facts	Correctly identifies most of the key facts	Correctly identifies some of the key facts	Correctly identifies only a few of the key facts
Apply the law to the facts to resolve the issue ( 18 points)	States a decision that resolves the issue, supported by application of the elements or principles of law to the facts	States a decision that resolves the issue, but fails to fully support it by application of the elements or principles of law to the facts	States a decision that resolves the issue, but fails to support it by application of the elements or principles of law to the facts	Fails to state a decision that resolves the issue.
APA Format; Organization; and grammar, punctuation, and spelling ( 8 points)	Good, logical organization with no errors	Good, logical organization with only one or two errors	Good, logical organization with several errors	Confusing organization, or numerous errors