2021-2022 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 710 - Sexual Orientation & the Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Legal issues as they affect the lives of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the United States. Constitutional law, employment law, family law, property law, criminal law, and estate planning will be the areas of primary focus.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 719 - Law and Psychology College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
An important goal of the legal system is to guide, constrain, and react to human behavior. In doing so, the law makes numerous assumptions about people’s thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and conduct-assumptions that may or may not be true. Psychology, as the empirical study of human thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and conduct, is in an important position to evaluate such assumptions. Over the past several decades, increasing numbers of social scientists have devoted substantial attention to the systematic study of law and legal institutions. At the same time, social scientists are testifying as experts in increasing numbers, and encouraging courts and policy-makers to use research evidence in adjudicating court cases and in setting public policy. This course will provide a survey of research in psychology as it relates to the legal and political process; in-class activities and demonstrations will form a significant part of the class. Among the topics covered may be jury decision-making, the insanity defense, paternalism, media violence, negotiation, race, trial consulting, obscenity and pornography, and capital punishment. Each topic will be considered from both a theoretical and an applied perspective.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 729 - Homeland Security Law & Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
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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.
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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. ¿
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LAW 732 - Housing Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course examines housing law through the lenses of federal and state law. Topics will include: The Fair Housing Act, housing affordability, smart cities, gentrification, exclusionary and inclusionary zoning, federal housing policy, community development and investment, and housing discrimination.
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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.
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LAW 737 - Media and Communications Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This is a survey class that covers First Amendment issues for all media, defamation, privacy, incitement and violence, FCC licensing, political programming, regulation of cable and satellite, copyright, international regulation, music, advertising, and film industry contracts.
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LAW 740 - Health Law & Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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LAW 762 - Employment Discrimination Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, age, and disability. Consideration of constitutional, statutory, and other remedies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 766 - Lawsuit College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Lawsuit emulates, as realistically as possible, a lawsuit from start to finish. Students will represent either the plaintiff or the defendant. The case begins when your client walks into your office. For the plaintiff, you must decide which claims to make. For the defense, it is your job to figure out how to defend your client against that claim, or what counter-claims you should bring. The class ends with a final trial. In between, you will represent your client at every stage of the litigation - from drafting the initial complaint and answer, filing discovery demands, answering interrogatories, conducting a deposition and participating in settlement discussions.
Student teams are supervised and classes are taught by the course’s co-instructors. Guest lecturers from the SUCOL faculty will also help teach students specific advocacy focused skill sets in preparation for the litigation’s various stages. In doing so, Lawsuit utilizes the collective expertise and experience of the SUCOL faculty to help best prepare students for the world of litigation.
The course is a year long and consists of three experiential credits for each semester.
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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.
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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
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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.
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LAW 771 - Voting Rights Voting Rights
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course examines past and current developments in voting rights law. Topics include: the right to vote, the Voting Rights Act, laws that govern the political process, political representation, gerrymandering, election administration, political parties, ballot initiatives, and campaign finance.
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LAW 772 - Alternative Dispute Resolutions College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
An introduction to the spectrum of processes other than courtroom litigation that are available for resolving disputes. This includes such “pure” processes as negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, and such “hybrid” processes as the Mini-Trial and the Summary Jury Trial.
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LAW 774 - Asian Americans & the Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
In this seminar we examine Asian American legal history and contemporary issues within historical context; and refine research, writing, presentation, and discussion skills. We cover topics and cases such as the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, US v. Wong Kim Ark, Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the model assimilated minority myth and the bamboo ceiling, Asian Americans in the legal profession, and countering anti-Asian pandemic harassment. Students select cutting edge research topics. Substantial research papers and a class presentation are required. This course satisfies the upper level writing requirement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 780 - Adoption Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Legal theories involved in adoption law, the attorney’s role in adoption practice, and the various legal documents involved.
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LAW 784 - Employment Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course provides a survey of the common law and statutory principles relating to modern employment. Among the topics we will cover: the nature of the employment relationship, the at-will rule and its limitations, layoffs and unemployment insurance, employee mobility issues (e.g., covenants not-to-compete), employee privacy, family leave, worker safety, and wage and hour law. This course is intended to provide an overview and survey of the field and there is some overlap with topics traditionally covered in Employment Discrimination and Labor Law courses. While we will touch on some issues ordinarily covered in those course, we will not do so in the depth they are given when taught in distinct 3 or 4 credit courses. During the semester, I hope to be able to provide those students who are interested with the opportunity to represent a claimant in an unemployment administrative hearing under my supervision. Assisting a claimant in an unemployment insurance case provides students with the opportunity to learn about employment law in a very practical way.
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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.
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LAW 786 - Lawyer As Negotiator College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
A study of negotiation and the lawyer’s role in the negotiating process. Ethical problems in negotiation. Negotiation skills taught through simulated negotiations.
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LAW 787 - Children and the Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Parent-child, child-state relationships. Education, health, welfare, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and representation of children will be covered in this course.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 792 - Privacy Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
As information technology advances, so do concerns about the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information. As a consequence of the digital revolution, the field of privacy law has grown exponentially in the past two decades.
This course focuses on the concept of information privacy generally and examines its tension with other competing values and interests, including free speech, national security, law enforcement, public health, and commercial interests. The course includes units on information privacy issues that arise in: media, law enforcement, national security, health records, government records, financial information; consumer data; and employment information. The course will also include a unit on international privacy law approaches (including, in particular, the E.U. Data Protection Directive).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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LAW 799 - International and E.U. Human Rights Law College of Law
1 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This seminar examines cutting edge issues in human rights law, primarily through a deep institutional study of the European Court of Human Rights, but also accesses a comparative view of some of the international human rights framework. The course will mostly take place in Strasbourg in order to closely focus on the institutions of human rights articulation and enforcement in the European Union and the Council of Europe. The seminar will be devoted to closely studying various emerging topics in European rights law, which may include: the relationship between international humanitarian and human rights law liability; interactions between international and domestic law regarding specific norms, such as freedom of speech and individual criminal liability, among others.
The European region is at the vanguard of regional rights systems in articulating and promoting international law regarding these issues, and the European Court of Human Rights¿ involvement raises a host of related issues, particularly for states in the Council of Europe. Students will take an active role in discussing and analyzing these and other topics. Students do not require a background in international law, but will benefit from having one. This seminar is a complement to the International Human Rights Law seminar and can be taken in addition to that class, or independently. The issues in these sister-courses will not significantly overlap. While the focus of the IHRL class is on the system of IHRL law and its development and enforcement, this class is centered on the substantive issues arising in the European Union and the Council of Europe. The seminar has an experiential component regarding international law, as well as a writing requirement, either a long paper or a series of short papers, as well as presentations of the materials.
The seminar combines various pedagogical approaches to engage students’ multiple learning modalities. The class is experiential and is primarily learner-driven with a heavy emphasis on student participation and leadership. I structure the course to encourage students’ basic comprehension of reading material to occur before class (including by assigning written responses to the reading materials). By emphasizing and incentivizing student comprehension in advance of class discussions, our time can be focused primarily on higher-level synthesis and critical analysis of the materials. I use a variety of methods to stimulate learner-driven learning and in-class discussion–simulations, case studies, hypotheticals, debates with assigned roles, questions generated from members of the class in advance of the class, and questions from me. I seek to ensure that every student contributes during each and every class, and also encourage students to take responsibility for advancing course discussion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LAW 807 - Constitutional Civil Rights Litigation College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Constitutional civil rights litigation deals with constitutional theory and interpretation, emphasizing practical aspects and procedural tactics inherent in suing or defending a civil rights claim in federal court. The course covers who are proper defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, what kind of constitutional violation must be shown, how causation works for constitutional torts, immunity and other defenses that have been read into the statute, how damages are assessed, and when successful plaintiffs can recover attorneys fees.
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LAW 809 - Advanced Disability Law and Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This is a one-semester applied learning course. The goal of this course is to expose students to disability law and policy as applied to real situations. Each student will work on a project that has originated from a request from a “real client” or client organizations, such as the National Council on Disability, the World Bank, Mental Disability Rights International, or other organizations that work with and for people with disabilities.
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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
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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.
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