2019-2020 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    May 17, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • LAW 530 - Negotiation

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    The course will emphasize learning the skills of negotiation by simulations in which students will negotiate and watch their classmates negotiate. Class members will conduct three negotiations, a simple sales contract, a retainer agreement between an attorney and a client, and a complex multi-party dispute.
  • LAW 601 - Civil Procedure

    College of Law
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Procedural processes that guide the adjudication of civil actions in American courts. Allocation of judicial power between federal and state courts, focusing on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Fundamental policies underlying particular procedural rules.
  • LAW 602 - Constitutional Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course covers (1) Judicial Review in all its aspects, including the Case and Controversy Doctrine, and (2) Structure, that is, Federalism (Federal and State regulatory and taxing powers) and Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances among the branches of the federal government.
  • LAW 603 - Contracts

    College of Law
    5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Legal protection afforded promissory agreements. Contract interpretation; contract formation, including offer and acceptance, mutual assent, and consideration. Parties affected by contracts and remedies for breach of contract.
  • LAW 604 - Criminal Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Elements of various crimes and problems of statutory construction and interpretation. Substantive defenses, emphasizing the defense of insanity, as well as attempts and the specific crimes of conspiracy, theft, and homicide.
  • LAW 607 - Property

    College of Law
    5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Problems concerning the possession of land and chattels. Methods of acquiring title to personal property, possessory and concurrent estates, and landlord and tenant problems. Historical introduction to real estate, including future interest, real covenants, and easements.
  • LAW 608 - Torts

    College of Law
    5 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Imposition of liability for personal wrongs as viewed by traditional tort law and current alternatives. Historical development and policy basis of liability for various types of injury-producing conduct, including intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability.
  • LAW 609 - Legal Communications and Research I & II

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Every semester
    Fall Semester: Introduction to basic lawyering skills, including legal analysis, citation, and court hierarchy and application of these skills to complex factual situations in a mock law firm setting. Spring Semester: Continuation of Legal Communications and Research. Skills introduced this semester include legal research, oral argument, and the written presentation of legal arguments in persuasive form.
    Repeatable
  • LAW 630 - Negotiation

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    The course will emphasize learning the skills of negotiation by simulations in which students will negotiate and watch their classmates negotiate. Class members will conduct three negotiations, a simple sales contract, a retainer agreement between an attorney and a client, and a complex multi-party dispute.
  • LAW 641 - Fact Investigation and Analysis

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An introduction to the world of fact investigation and analysis, this course will provide an overview of how to develop and scrutinize facts.  The course will cover five major topics: 1) How lawyers gather facts; 2) How lawyers evaluate evidence/facts; 3) How to organize evidence into a comprehensive narrative; 4) How human memory, biases, and perception affect fact gathering; and 5) The ethical issues surrounding fact investigations.  The course will involve a significant interactive skill development component including mock interviews, drafting exercises, guest speakers, and hands-on investigation exercises.
  • LAW 642 - Introduction to Legal Practice: Applying Contracts, Torts, and Civil Procedure

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course translates theory into practice through a semester-long simulation of legal work.  Building upon students’ mastery of Torts, Contracts, and Civil Procedure, this course introduces students to essential lawyering skills including client relations, negotiations, interviewing, drafting, motion practice, and discovery.  The course will also focus on professional identity issues as they arise in the context of the applied learning of the practice of law.
  • LAW 643 - Land Use Planning and Zoning Law: An Applied Property Course

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The course will provide an applied property experience focused on learning strategic lawyering and practice oriented skills while developing knowledge about land use law and the administrative regulatory process.  The course will be structured around three important elements: 1) Learning by observing and interacting with local zoning board officials; 2) Translating knowledge into strategic action by focusing on how to use the law to advance your client’s interest; and 3) Solving real world and practice-based problems developed from actual zoning application files.
  • LAW 644 - National Security Lawyering

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The central goal of this course is to equip students with skills required to practice law in a political and bureaucratic context. It will teach students about the organizational structure of the national security infrastructure; how key figures make, implement, and oversee policy and operational decisions; and the unusually diverse array of legal materials that regulate national security players and thus constitute the “law” of national security law.
  • LAW 645 - Negotiation for Lawyers

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of negotiation. Students will learn basic negotiation skills and will be introduced to a variety of other skills including: valuation of a client’s position; interviewing; business communications; and basic drafting.
  • LAW 646 - Problem Solving and Intelligent Lawyering

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    A series of problems challenge students to determine client interests and consider different options for effective representation. The problems span civil and criminal law and become more complicated as the semester progresses. Discussions with practicing attorneys will supplement students’ work on the problems. To develop skills of perception and judgment, the course also incorporates the study of mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Students will learn about concentration, awareness, and the development of compassion in legal representation. They will practice interviewing clients and making decisions in a group. If they would like, students may also be guided in mindful breathing, meditation, and yoga.
  • LAW 647 - Professional Responsibility: Becoming a Lawyer

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course will cover the essential components of professional responsibility and will focus on professional identity formation.  Utilizing a problem approach that lends itself to simulations and skills development, students will learn how to analyze ethical issues; develop basic interviewing, counseling, and informal advocacy skills; practice collaboration; and reflect on the role of the lawyer and their own professional development.  This course meets the Professional Responsibility requirement.
  • LAW 648 - Public Interest Lawyering

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course will explore major lawyering themes and skills used by public interest lawyers, cutting across diverse practice areas and settings.  The course is designed to integrate academic theory with experiential learning (through role plays, simulations, and individual and group exercises) related to current issues affecting public interest law advocacy today.
  • LAW 690 - Legal Communications & Research III

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Every semester
    A variety of courses that build on the skills learned in the first two semesters of the Legal Communication and Research Program. The courses focus more specifically on practice areas (such as civil litigation, criminal litigation, and transactional drafting) as well as courses that focus on legal writing (such as theories and strategies in persuasive writing and revising and editing legal prose).
    PREREQ: LAW 609 
  • LAW 693 - Legal Foundations

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This is the first residential course in the online JD program. it is a two-credit course designed to prepare students to study law. The course will introduce students to the American legal system, build a foundational understanding of the basic framework of legal and lawmaking institutions, and help prepare them to succeed in their legal studies.
  • LAW 699 - Constitutional Law II

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    A continuation of Constitutional Law I (LAW 602) for second-year law students. Must be taken during the second year. This course covers Individual Rights, that is, Due Process, Equal Protection and the First Amendment, including freedom of speech, the press and religion.
    PREREQ: LAW 602 
  • LAW 700 - National Security Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Obtaining information about the government; restraints on publication; government surveillance; travel restrictions; war and emergency powers; nuclear weapons issues; civil disobedience and draft issues.
  • LAW 701 - Accounting for Lawyers

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    Principles of financial accounting applied to business entities: proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; accounting for and tax implications of business organizations; and problems with estates and trusts. Not open to students who have more than one year of accounting.
  • LAW 702 - Administrative Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Nature and function of the administrative process. Procedural constraints on administrative investigation, adjudication, and rule making; judicial review of agency action.
  • LAW 703 - Pension and Employee Benefit Law

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    Tax and other consequences of various plans of deferred compensation for executives and other employees.
  • LAW 704 - Commercial Transactions

    College of Law
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Commercial practices under the Uniform Commercial Code, particularly sales, commercial paper and bank collections, letters of credit, bulk transfers, and secured transactions; business background, planning, and counseling.
  • LAW 705 - Comparative Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the legal systems of the civil law, with a focus on continental Europe. Many characteristic features of the Civil Law – the absence of a jury, the relative lack of reliance on judicial precedents, the emphasis on codification – have their origin in ancient and medieval times. Our course will therefore trace a historical review of European legal history and the civil law, beginning with Roman law, proceeding through medieval times and the early modern era of the 18th and 19th centuries, to the modern period of international law. We will focus on the emergence of the three most influential modern systems, those of France, Germany, and Italy. We will examine the civil codes, the nature of continental adjudication, the inquisitorial approach to criminal justice, and comparative constitutional law. We will conclude the course by addressing the rise of the European Union and its legal institutions.
  • LAW 706 - Conflict of Laws

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    Legal rules applicable to disputes with contacts to more than one state or country; the historical development of such rules; and their application in contract, tort, property, and other cases.
  • LAW 708 - Constitutional Criminal Procedure - Investigative

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Constitutional and statutory requirement for investigative procedures in criminal cases. Topics include searches, seizures, lineups, confessions, and electronic surveillances.
  • LAW 709 - Capital Habeas Practicum

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course provides students with an overview of the substantive and procedural law involved in capital post-conviction litigation. Topics include an overview of some of the constitutional principles governing the imposition of the death penalty, the exclusion of intellectually disabled defendants from death-eligibility, effective assistance of counsel in capital cases, and certain aspects of state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus procedure. This course has a heavy experiential component in which students focus on developing lawyering skills needed for effective post-conviction capital litigation, including legal research and writing and effective courtroom advocacy.
  • LAW 712 - Business Associations

    College of Law
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This is a business organizations course covering both unincorporated businesses and corporations. The first half of the course pertains to small business forms: partnerships; LLCs and close corporations. The balance covers public corporations, including regulation under securities laws.
  • LAW 713 - Adv. Constitutional Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Comprehensive coverage of issues of freedom of speech, the free exercise of religion, and establishment of religion.
  • LAW 714 - Deposition Practice

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course is designed for students who intend to engage in a heavy civil litigation practice. The course focuses on the skills, techniques, tactics, strategies and ethical considerations of witness preparation for depositions and the taking and defending of depositions under federal and state rules of civil procedure.
  • LAW 715 - Wills and Trusts

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Law governing interstate succession; execution, and revocation of wills; inter vivos will substitutes; the creation, nature, and revocation of trusts.
  • LAW 716 - Environmental Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Pollution control and toxic substance regulation; the ends and means of environmental protection; the institutional responsibilities of legislatures, agencies, and courts. This course devotes substantial time to statutory interpretation and some time to covering administrative law, including agency rulemaking and judicial review of agency rulemaking.
  • LAW 717 - Estate & Gift Taxation

    College of Law
    3-4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Taxation of transfers during life and at death. Planning and alternative modes of disposition.
  • LAW 718 - Evidence

    College of Law
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Procedural and substantive rules of evidence. Judicial notice, presumptions and burdens of proof, rules governing the receipt of oral and documentary evidence, impeachment, direct and cross-examination, competency, hearsay, privileges, and the best evidence rules.
  • LAW 720 - Family Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    State regulation of family relations. Family autonomy, marital and nonmarital contracts, adoption. Issues in divorce: separation agreements, spousal and child support, property division, and child custody.
  • LAW 721 - Federal Courts

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Essential functions of federal courts. Relationships between federal courts and the other branches of the federal government, the states, and the individual.
  • LAW 722 - Federal Income Tax I: Individual Tax

    College of Law
    3-4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    A study of the structure and underlying principles of the U.S. Federal income tax system, including an introduction to tax planning.  This course devotes substantial class time to the fundamentals of statutory interpretation, including: agency adjudications, judicial review of agency action, statutory interpretation techniques, methodologies, and legislative history.
  • LAW 723 - Federal Income Tax II: Taxation of Business Transactions

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Income tax problems of the corporation and its shareholders, emphasizing corporate organization, distributions, redemptions, liquidations, reorganizations, collapsible corporations, and S corporations.
    PREREQ: LAW 722 
  • LAW 724 - Veterans Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course examines the substantive, administrative, and procedural process of claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Students will learn how to write regulations, understand the notice and comment procedures for proposed regulations, and write informal and formal briefs to the agency and courts. Students will have the opportunity to advocate for a mock veteran, third party, and VA interests. The course will devote substantial class time in covering fundamentals of administrative law, including agency rulemaking process, agency adjudication, and judicial review.
  • LAW 725 - Distressed Dealmaking

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Distressed Dealmaking is designed to provide students with a real world, hands-on understanding of the issues involved in a major corporate restructuring. In considering the perspectives of all stakeholders and the management of a business in financial distress, the course will explore ¿ through cases lived by the professor (including Toys R Us, BCBG, Gymboree, the Atlantis Bahamas and others) ¿ the delicate balance of legal knowledge, business acumen and crisis management skills necessary to maximize the value of the corporation. Students will participate in a simulated presentation to a board of directors to better understand the complexities of a corporate reorganization process.
  • LAW 726 - Intellectual Property

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Survey of the foundations of copyright, patent, unfair competition, and trade law. For students who wish to concentrate in intellectual property or who want a basic course as preparation for business planning or litigation practice.
  • LAW 727 - International Business Transactions

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course provides an introduction to the transactional, regulatory, and litigation aspects of international business involving at least one private party. Major areas of substantive coverage include international sales of goods (with special focus on the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods), licensing of technology, foreign direct investment, contract and tort liability in the United States and abroad, and the law proscribing corruption in cross-border transactions. We will also cover subsidiary litigation and regulatory topics, such as choice-of-law analysis, international commercial arbitration, international civil litigation in U.S. courts (focusing on jurisdiction and other procedural threshold issues), U.S. regulation of foreign investment and export controls, and intellectual property protection.
  • LAW 728 - International Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course introduces students to the basic subjects, processes, and problems of contemporary public international law.  We begin by exploring the sources of public international law; the traditional role of states in international law formation; and the growing role of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and subnational municipalities in transnational legal processes.  Our attention then turns to the relationship between international law and U.S. law, including the principles that govern (and impede) the application of international law in U.S. courts.  Rather than attempt to canvass the myriad subfields that comprise contemporary public international law, we devote sustained attention to a selection from among the following subjects: principles of jurisdiction, international regulatory regimes and globalization, state claims to natural resources, the law of war, and international human rights.  With this foundation in place, the course concludes with an invitation to grapple with several perennial critiques of the international legal system.
  • LAW 729 - Homeland Security Law & Policy

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
  • LAW 730 - Labor and Employment Law

    College of Law
    2-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Organization and representation of employees, union collective action; collective bargaining, including the administration and enforcement of collective agreements.
  • LAW 731 - Selecting Your Jury

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Students will be instructed on the procedures and laws governing jury selection in a criminal case, see jury selection modeled for them, and will also participate in simulated jury selection exercises under the supervision of experienced trial attorneys. An emphasis will be placed on identifying a theory of the case and identifying potential jurors who can be persuaded to accept the case theory. Other topics to be addressed include but are not limited to preparation, organization, interacting with the judge and opposing counsel, the role of the client, and overcoming objections. ¿
  • LAW 733 - Law and Market Economy

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    Use of economic tools in the analysis of law and legal regulations, including use of economic incentives to analyze evolution of legal institutions and impact of these institutions on economic dynamics.
    PREREQ: (ECN 301 OR 311) AND ECN 302
  • LAW 735 - Federal Criminal Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Examines substantive Federal criminal law, including the following topics: The Federal Role in Enforcement Against Crime, The Consequences of Jurisdictional Overlap, Fraud and Political Corruption, Mail Fraud, The Hobbs Act, Official Bribery and Gratuities, Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering, Currency Reporting Offenses, Group and Organizational Crime (including RICO), Anti-Terrorism Enforcement, The Criminal Civil Rights Statutes, The Federal False Statement Statutes, Obstruction of Justice, Sentencing Guidelines, and Forfeiture.
  • LAW 742 - Entertainment Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Will simulate actual entertainment law practice and will emphasize the process by which contracts are developed and entered into so as to make use of copyrighted properties. The student will be required to draw upon and further develop multiple legal skills, particularly substantive analysis, drafting, analysis of and otherwise dealing with “paper” from the other side, practical research, formulation of advice, and participation in various kinds of oral discussions.
  • LAW 743 - New York Civil Practice

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Civil practice law and rules and interpretive cases and other aspects of civil litigation in New York.
  • LAW 744 - Perspectives on Terrorism

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This unique, interdisciplinary course provides insight into the dynamics of terrorism and counterterrorism. Specializations are offered in four areas: law, politics, history, and communications. Law and other graduate students my register in any of the four departments, with the permission of the instructor. Although some class sessions will include discipline-specific discussions in small groups, participants will also converge in a large classroom for presentations, discussions and examinations of fundamental problems associated with terrorism.
  • LAW 745 - Negotiation Skills

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    Negotiation Skills will introduce students to the tools they need for effective negotiation. This course will focus on the three stages of negotiation: preparation, negotiation and post negotiation self ¿assessment. Students will negotiation numerous times during the semester and will receive feedback on their negotiations.
  • LAW 746 - Professional Responsibility

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Relationship of the lawyer to the profession, community, client, and society. ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and American Lawyer’s Code of Conduct.
  • LAW 747 - Real Estate Transactions

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Standard residential and commercial real estate transactions, including consideration of brokerage arrangements, contracts of sale, methods of financing, methods of title protection, mortgage markets, construction loans, and permanent financing.
  • LAW 748 - Sports Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will examine various areas of the law as they relate to sports (both professional sports and intercollegiate sports), including such areas as contract law, antitrust law, labor law, law regulating player agents, gender discrimination law, and personal injury law.
  • LAW 750 - Securities Regulations

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Securities Act of 1933: regulation of the distribution of securities, including the registration process, exempt securities, exempt transactions, enforcement, and liabilities. Securities Exchange Act of 1934: regulation of trading in securities and related market activities, including tender offers proxy solicitations, market manipulation, disclosure requirements, insider trading, and express and implied civil liabilities.
  • LAW 752 - Antitrust Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This is a survey of federal antitrust law and policy under the Sherman, Clayton, and FTC Acts. It takes an historic, layered approach, building on the four eras of antitrust enforcement: The Foundation Period (1890-1914); The Rule of Reason Period (1915-1939); The Per Se Rule and Focus on Market Structure (1940-1974); The Modern Era (1975-Present). The course covers basic economic theory of the free-market; The Rule of Reason and per se offenses; price fixing, market division, and boycotts; trade association behavior; monopoly and attempts to monopolize, mergers and joint ventures; vertical restraints like resale price maintenance; exclusive dealing and tie-in agreements; and selected exemptions from antitrust liability.
  • LAW 754 - Trial Practice

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Courtroom techniques and tactics drawing on substantive and procedural law and evidence courses. Students prepare and conduct trial exercises under direction of instructor.
    Repeatable
  • LAW 755 - Trademarks and Unfair Competition

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A practical review of current intellectual property issues relating to trademarks, trade dress, false advertising, internet and the First Amendment, and rights of publicity. The course features mock courtroom presentations by experienced litigators and guest presentations by practitioners in the field.
  • LAW 758 - Civil Rights Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Focusing on race, gender, class, and sexual preference, this course examines the social, political, and legal structures that determine what civil rights are and who has them. Significant attention will be paid to the role of U.S. Supreme Court opinions and federal legislation.
  • LAW 759 - Computer Crimes

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course is organized around three questions: 1) what conduct involving a computer is prohibited by criminal law? 2) What legal rules govern the collection of digital evidence in criminal investigations? 3) What powers do state, national, and foreign governments have to investigate and prosecute computer crimes? More specifically, topics will include computer hacking, computer viruses, encryption, online undercover operations, the Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, the law of Internet surveillance, laws governing access to e-mail, forum-shopping, jurisdiction, national security, and federal & state relations and international cooperation in the enforcement of computer crime laws. Special attention will be paid to cyber terrorism. No advanced knowledge of computers and the Internet is required or assumed.
  • LAW 760 - Patent Prosecution

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course is designed primarily for students who plan to practice in the area of Patent Law before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) which permits only registered patent attorneys and agents to represent clients in the prosecution of patent applications. The course will cover the process of procuring a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The course will also enhance students’ understanding of the legal standards for patentability (building upon the principles explored in Patents and Trade Secrets), will familiarize students with the PTO’s elaborate rules of practice in patent cases, and will provide students with practice applying these standards and rules to facts and situations encountered in basic patent prosecution practice.
    PREREQ: LAW 765 
  • LAW 761 - Appellate Advocacy Skills

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Development of skills used in the appellate process, including postjudgment practice, creation of the record, finding error, brief writing, and oral argument structure, emphasizing written skills. Required for second-year students seeking Moot Court Board membership.
  • LAW 763 - Disability Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This class deals with federal laws prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on the American Disabilities Act of 1990. The goal of the course is to provide you with a legal, conceptual, and practical understanding of people with disabilities, forms of discrimination that occur on the basis of disability, and the protections against such discrimination that currently exist.
  • LAW 764 - Bankruptcy Law: Creditors Rights and Debtors Protection

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will cover state law remedies (how to collect a judgment), the rights of secured and unsecured creditors under state law and in bankruptcy, and the protections available to individuals and businesses in bankruptcy.  The course will devote substantive class time to covering the fundamentals of statutory interpretation, including statutory interpretation techniques and methodologies, canons of statutory interpretation, and the role of legislative history in statutory interpretation.
  • LAW 765 - Patents and Trade Secrets

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course examines the U.S. patent system and focuses on issues of patentability, validity, and infringement. The protection and enforcement of trade secrets are also covered.
  • LAW 768 - Copyright-Literary and Artistic Works

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Advanced copyright course. In-depth exploration of a number of copyright law areas in music, fine arts, and film; issues on the boundaries of copyright law. Includes fair use, work for hire in both industry and academia, compensation for ideas, moral rights, right of publicity, the impact of new technologies on research, data bases and fact-based works, infringement on unpublished works, and international copyright protection.
  • LAW 769 - Trial Practice-Advanced

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Every semester
    Advanced training in direct and cross-examination, witness interviewing and preparation, negotiation techniques, voir dire and jury preparation, final arguments, discovery, pretrial and trial “”motions, pretrial conferences, jury trial techniques, posttrial procedure.
    PREREQ: LAW 754 
  • LAW 770 - Corporate Compliance Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course examines the rules and standards that govern the burgeoning subject of compliance and risk management. It will examine questions of governance: boards of directors, executives and third party vendors. It will examine the compliance function, organized by the nature of the enforcer: managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistleblowers, gatekeeper and plaintiffs; attorneys. It will also examine particular areas of law: information security, off-label drugs, foreign corrupt practices, money laundering, sexual harassment, etc.
  • LAW 775 - Internet Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A survey of legal issues relating to computers networks, including electronic commerce, the protection and enforcement of proprietary rights in software and electronic works, privacy and security, and content regulation. This course also explores the evidentiary use of computer records and other emerging issues in computer law.
  • LAW 776 - Investigating and Reopening Civil Rights Murder Cases

    College of Law
    3-6 credit(s)
    This three-credit course is the result of SUCOL’s effort to re-open the 1964 murder investigation of Frank Morris, a 51 year old African American business owner in Ferriday, Louisiana. Mr. Morris was pushed at gunpoint back into his burning store by suspected members of the Ku Klux Klan. He died four days later of burns over 100 % of his body. Although the FBI identified witnesses who pointed to two local law enforcement agents, no charges or indictments followed and the case was dropped. Seventy-five such cases have been identified by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice with the assistance of the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Urban League. Students will each be assigned a different case to work up as a possible one to encourage the FBI to reopen. They will prepare chronologies, potential witness books, assess evidence and draft working memos of law on issues related to bringing this case to prosecution. Course projects will require consideration of a variety of legal issues, including state federal jurisdiction, federal laws on civil rights crimes, statutes of limitations speedy trial double jeopardy, mmunity, federal investigative and rosecutorial efforts, state and local prosecutions, and evidence. Course projects will require consideration of a variety of legal issues, including state/federal jurisdiction, federal laws on civil rights crimes, statutes of limitations/speedy trial/double jeopardy, immunity, federal investigative and prosecutorial efforts, state and local prosecutions, and evidence.
  • LAW 777 - Elder Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will address ethical issues related to the competency assessment of elder clients. Income maintenance, including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, and other public and private pensions as well as Medicare and Medicaid will be considered. Guardianship, long-term care, and estate planning will be considered as well. Additional topics may include employment discrimination, housing, health care decision making, and elder abuse.
  • LAW 778 - International Human Rights

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    After introducing human rights law in the context of a case study on the death penalty, this course examines international human rights law from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The course is designed to provide students with an informed and critical perspective on international instruments, intergovernmental organizations, and domestic legal arrangements articulating and implementing human rights. Topics will include the historic origins of modern human rights law; the content of and connections between civil, political, social, and economic rights; relationships between human rights law, international criminal law, and the law of armed conflict; transnational strategies associated with implementation and enforcement of human rights law; the importance of soft law; and international responses to mass atrocities.
  • LAW 781 - Forensic Evidence

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will survey the legal and scientific issues arising in forensic settings, such as fingerprint identification, handwriting identification, bite mark identifications, voice identifications, weapons identifications, DNA testing, alcohol and drug testing, and polygraph testing.
  • LAW 785 - Advanced Torts

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will explore the substantive laws of products liability, medical malpractice, workplace injuries, defamation, and invasions of privacy; through use case studies will develop action plans, draft pleadings, and other mechanisms used in tort litigation.
  • LAW 788 - Immigration Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course offers an introduction to the laws, practices, and policies governing the ability of non-United States citizens to enter and remain in the United States either temporarily or permanently.  The topics of study include the rights of non-U.S. citizens, the bases upon which the United States admits non-U.S. citizens either temporarily or permanently and the procedures for admission, the bases upon which non-U.S. citizens may be removed from the U.S. and the procedures for removal, the principles and policies behind the current and past system of immigration law, the complex and intricate statutory and regulatory framework governing immigration, and the roles and powers of the different branches of government in the development and implementation of immigration law and policy.  The material in this course will implicate and develop your understanding of other areas of law, including administrative law, international law, and constitutional law.
  • LAW 790 - Counterterrorism and the Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This course will concern U.S. and international law responses to terrorism. The course will include a brief overview and history of terrorism. Topics will include legal definitions of terrorism, investigation and intelligence collection in the U.S. and abroad, apprehension of terrorists across borders, immigration and border controls, prosecution of terrorists, sanctions against terrorism and its supporters (including reprisal, assassination, asset freeze and forfeiture), crisis and consequence management in the event of terrorist attacks (including martial law and detention, domestic use of the military, catastrophic emergency measures, hostage and rescue operations), and law reform issues.
  • LAW 793 - Legal Applications

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This is the second residential course in the online JD program. It is a three-credit problem-based course that would utilize experiential learning techniques to help students (1) integrate the doctrinal subjects they are learning, (2) better understand the relationship between common law and statutory law, and (3) build new skills. The residential experience will culminate with students presenting an oral argument on a motion.
  • LAW 794 - Regulatory Law & Policy

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An advanced exploration of regulatory decision making, focusing on the reasons for and methods used in implementing regulation; how policy and politics impact on regulatory decisions and relate to the legal authority of agencies; case studies of regulatory programs, their successes and failures. Course requirements include one or more research papers which will meet the College of Law writing requirement. Administrative Law or Public Administration and Law are prerequisites for this course. This one-semester course is a J.D./M.P.A. program requirement.
    PREREQ: LAW 702 
  • LAW 796 - Constitutional Criminal Procedure - Adjudicative

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Constitutional and statutory requirements for adjudicative procedures in criminal cases. Topics include accus-atory instruments, bail, discovery, guilty pleas, double jeopardy, speedy trial, fair trial, jury trial, assistance of counsel, and confrontation.
  • LAW 798 - International Tax Law

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    The course format will include a limited number of weekend lectures delivered in residence in Syracuse, New York, and synchronously online to non-SU law students via an online education platform during the spring semester. The substance of the course will be taught in Switzerland and Lichtenstein where students will attend live lectures with local practitioners and visit entities (banks, accounting firms, etc.) which are the subject of the course’s learning outcomes. You will travel to Zurich and Saas Fee, Switzerland and Vaduz, Lichtenstein over Spring Break 2018.
  • LAW 800 - Foundational Skills for Attorney Licensing

    College of Law
    2-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The course will provide an understanding of the bar review and bar exam process as well as the skills necessary to be successful in the licensing process . A significant portion of the course will be spent discussing how to approach and do well on practice bar exam questions, including essays, performance tests and multiple choice questions. Time will be spent discussing how to learn from bar review outlines and lectures, and how to conduct a self-assessment to understand personal study habits and adjustments which must be made prior to the review of bar-tested subjects. The course will also cover specific topics and skills to help students understand how to manage their attitude, stress, and study time.
  • LAW 803 - Law Practice Management

    College of Law
    2-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Law Practice Management comprehensively examines all aspects of the formation, management, development and growth of a law firm. The course will focus primarily on solo practitioners and small partnerships. The course will explore forms of partnership, licensing requirements, insurance, human resources and employment practices, accounting and finance, information technology, marketing and business development, and dissolution.
  • LAW 806 - Legal Interviewing and Counseling

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Legal Interviewing and Counseling is a course that will introduce students to the theory and practice of legal interviewing and counseling and the skills necessary to conduct interviews and provide counseling to clients. Classes will involve a combination of interaction discussion and interviewing and counseling sessions. In addition, students will be assigned one interviewing and one counseling demonstration to present in class that will include written submissions.
  • LAW 810 - Emerging Issues in Int’l Law

    College of Law
    2-3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Emerging Issues in Int’l Law
  • LAW 811 - General Counsel

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This applied learning course is designed to expose students to a number of areas of practice that are common for house counsel. Students will work individually and in teams and undertake simulations in litigation management, agreement negotiation and drafting, employment problems, and intellectual property practice. Students will learn how lawyers handle complex problems in such diverse areas and may conduct research, draft agreements and file memoranda, conduct interviews, and negotiate to resolve the issues found in the practical exercises that will be the backbone of the course.
  • LAW 814 - Technology Transactions Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the technical, business, and legal factors involved in bringing new technologies to market. Fall semester covers basic intellectual property law, securities and debt finance related to intellectual property, covenants not to compete, licensing basics, antitrust restraint of trade and monopolization. Spring semesters covers design patent, design copyright, trade dress, trade secrets, licensing negotiation, antitrust treatment of mergers, and patent assertion entities. At the conclusion of each semester, students will have a broad knowledge of technology innovation law and practice.
    Repeatable
  • LAW 815 - Technology Commercialization Research Center

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This applied learning course allows students interested in the areas of intellectual property and business law to apply their knowledge to actual new technology. Students work in supervised teams consulting with companies, entrepreneurs, or universities that are seeking to commercialize new technologies. The finished product includes a report and presentation that covers such things as: analyzing the technology, investigating intellectual property protection, examining the market landscape, identifying any regulatory concerns, and exploring opportunities for funding or licensing. Instructor guides the issue-spotting and provides feedback on reports through the individual team supervisors: Professor of Practice Jack Rudnick and adjunct professors Dean Bell and Dominick Danna, and project advisor Chris Horacek.
  • LAW 816 - Commercial Real Estate Practice

    College of Law
    2 credit(s) Irregularly
    This applied learning course will build on the fundamentals of the Real Estate Transactions I course and will focus on the development of a regional shopping mall which will provide a framework for the course outline. The course will not only provide ways to convey many of the concepts found in this type of real estate, but will also provide the basis to explore the relationship between the real estate concepts and the business framework of which they become a part. Case law will be utilized to supplement certain interpretations of Real Property Law.
    PREREQ: LAW 747 
  • LAW 818 - Advanced Directives: End of Life Seminar

    College of Law
    1 credit(s)
    This course will address NY health care advance directives and will include and experiential component conducted in collaboration with Luvenia Cowart, Professor of Practice in Public Health, and Dr. Maria Brown, Research Professor in Social Work, both of Falk College. The legal services will be offered in conjunction with Professor Cowart and Dr. Brown’s “Healthy Living” program, which provides services to predominantly African American caregivers of people with dementia. This grant-funded initiative provides education, wellness activities, information and referral, and other services to caregivers in central Syracuse. Students will learn the substantive law relevant for advising clients, in this case typically the caregivers, on preparing health care directives, provide a community education presentation on these issues, and assist caregiver participants in a “limited legal assistance” capacity in completing these documents.
  • LAW 819 - Family Law Mediation and Collaborative Law

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    This Course will focus on alternative dispute resolution in the family law area. Students will study mediation and collaborative law through written materials and mock exercises. The ethical issues involved in these forms of ADR will also be addressed.
  • LAW 822 - National Security & Counter Terrorism Research Center

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center serves as a working research laboratory for law and other graduate students interested in national security and counterterrorism issues. Students will work in teams on research projects assigned by the director. Typically, the projects will involve assessments of legal and law-related issues of concern to federal, state, and local government officials in responding to national security and terrorism threats. Other projects may examine private sector security concerns.
  • LAW 824 - Advising the Startup I

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course is the first part of a two part year-long sequence on legal issues arising from start-up companies as they develop and move towards an initial public offering.  This first part covers the legal issues arising from protection on inventions and creations through intellectual property law, choice of business entity, basic securities law, contracts, employment law, licensing, and antitrust.  The course is designed for students across disciplines (law, business, engineering, information science, public policy) who are interested in the legal foundations for start-ups and entrepreneurship.  For JD students, pursuing LAW 815 and the Technology Commercialization track, the two-semester sequence of LAW 824 and LAW 825 replaces and expands upon the previous LAW  814 and is strongly recommended for LAW 815 and technology commercialization career.  JD students must take both LAW 824 and LAW 825; non-JD students can take either or both semesters.  Writing credit is available for law students.
  • LAW 825 - Advising the Startup II

    College of Law
    3 credit(s)
    This course is the second part of a two part year-long sequence on legal issues arising from start-up companies as they develop and move towards an initial public offering. This second part covers the legal issues arising from protection of design through intellectual property law, licensing drafting, exhaustion of intellectual property rights, FDA regulation introduction, Telecom and Internet regulation introduction, and the relationship between antitrust and regulation. This course is designed for students across disciplines (law, business, engineering, information science, public policy) who are interested in the legal foundations for start-ups and entrepreneurship. For JD students pursuing LAW 815 and the Technology Commercialization track, the two-semester sequence of LAW 824 and LAW 825 replaces and expands upon the previous LAW 814 and is strongly recommended for LAW 815 and a technology commercialization career. JD students must take both LAW 824 and 825; non-JD students can take either or both semesters. Writing credit available for law students.
  • LAW 826 - Emerging Technology & the Practice of Law

    College of Law
    1 credit(s) Irregularly
    This class will provide students with an understanding and the fundamentals of emerging technologies and how they intersect with the legal profession. The class is being offered in partnership with the NewYork State Bar Association. It will be held every other week. Tentative topics include the practice of law and: artificial intelligence, block chain and cybercurrency, legal analytics, privacy, algorithms and oppression, privacy, social media ethics, drones and autonomous vehicles, among other topics.
  • LAW 827 - Corporate Financing Transactions

    College of Law
    1.5-2 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course combines diverse aspects of business and law education in a transaction-based setting. It guides students through a syndicated commercial loan, including the structuring, negotiation, pricing, and documentation.
    COREQ: LAW 712  
  • LAW 828 - Advanced Criminal Evidence

    College of Law
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The course will cover Federal and New York rules of evidence, and constitutional rules pertaining to the rights to confront and present a defense, in connection with a range of issues typically arising in criminal cases. Weekly assignments will be designed to simulate work that would be performed in a prosecutor’s or defender’s office. They will include motions in liminie and supporting memoranda, inter-office trial preparation memoranda, and both trial court and appellate advocacy of evidentiary issues. The course is a limited enrollment course and the grade will be based exclusively on written and oral advocacy.
    PREREQ: LAW 718 
  • LAW 829 - Criminal Justice Reform Seminar

    College of Law
    3 credit(s)
    Across the country, fiscal pressures, political changes, and a growing embrace of evidence-based approaches to policymaking have created a momentum around criminal justice reform. These reform efforts seem especially promising because of their interdisciplinary roots and their bipartisan support. While some data points - like drops in prison populations and declining arrest rates - demonstrate the these initial efforts are having an incremental impact, more transformative reforms are needed. The seminar will address criminal justice reform broadly, covering a range of criminal justice reform topics including, for example, prosecutorial discretion, right to counsel, sentencing and punishment, reentry, mental health issues, risk assessment, juvenile rights, plea bargaining, privatization, and comparative international criminal justice reform. The course will include special focus on three particular areas of criminal justice reform that are currently capturing significant attention in the criminal justice community: (i) policing, (ii) pretrial detention and bail reform, and (iii) the opioid crisis. Students taking this course will learn about these topics through in-class guess speakers, assigned readings, and their own outside research. Students will assemble a final report focusing on criminal justice reform topics. The final projects are expected to include practical blue prints for federal, state, or local policymakers. In developing their own writing projects for the course, students will have the option of working alone (to satisfy the College of Law Writing Requirement) or collaborating with others to develop reports on the aforementioned topics.
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