2022-2023 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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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LAW 813 - The Rule of Law in Post Conflict Reconstruction Seminar College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course addresses the legal challenges faced by the international community in reconstructing societies following armed conflict or other crises. The course is divided into two sections. Part one focuses on a number of core issues, including defining and identifying the rule of law; the relationship between the law and reconstruction; the question of transitional justice and international criminal law; international human rights; protecting vulnerable populations; and regulating the security sector. In the second part, the focus moves to case studies, South Africa, Rwanda, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and East Timor to test some of the theoretical premises as well as stimulate debate.
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LAW 815 - Innovation Law Practicum 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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LAW 831 - Refugee and Asylum Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
The 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees is over 60 years old. The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution stands at over 40 million and is unlikely to diminish. Against this background, international debates continue regarding the nature of the protection that refugees should be granted, the role of the international community, and the obligations of receiving countries towards refugees. This course aims to introduce students, through comparative legal studies, to how the 1951 Refugee Convention has developed.
The module covers the international legal framework for refugee protection, its main challenges and shortcomings, by referring to how international, regional, and national courts interpret and implement refugee and asylum law. Main areas of discussion will include international criteria for the attainment, exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, the development of the non-refoulement principle, and the changing role of UNHCR, as well as how the EU, the AU and OAS employ the term refugee while also noting how states react to those decisions.
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LAW 832 - Cyber Security Law and Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
The 2009 White House Cyberspace Policy Review states: The United States needs to conduct a national dialogue on cybersecurity to ensure an integrated approach toward the Nation’s need for security and the national commitment to privacy rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and law. This three-credit, one-semester seminar intends to be part of that dialog. Some cyber security law already exists. Other laws of long standing present issues of applicability or adaptability to the cyber realm. Many proposals remain in Congressional committees, such as bills that would mandate security measures for all entities receiving federal money, establish a federal certification for technicians serving computer networks of entities receiving federal money, and provide the President with authority to “pull the plug” on national Internet connectivity in times of emergency. This course is premised on the belief that much policy and law to implement it will be made in the next few years to institute a national policy to protect U.S. interests in cyberspace. The seminar uses an interdisciplinary approach, but no special background or prerequisites are required.
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LAW 835 - Women in the Law Seminar College of Law
3 credit(s)
This course examines the historical and contemporary treatment of women under the Constitution, statutes, and common law. Students will examine how the legal system has constructed and applied notions of gender and gender equality. It will introduce students to significant contemporary legal scholarship on the status of women in modern America, and will explore how gender affects legal relationships and status. Feminist jurisprudence, or feminist theory, will be applied to doctrinal legal issues. Satisfies the upper level writing requirement.
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LAW 836 - Class Actions:Complex Litigation College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Class action is the most controversial procedural device. After studying the technical issues (prerequisites, certification, notice, opt out, settlement, res judicata) and its specific applications (consumer, antitrust, security, discrimination, mass tort) in concrete cases (tobacco, asbestos, Wal-Mart), you will be able to better understand the political and social implications behind class actions. Although class actions may bring social change and right injustices, it may also be improperly used to harass and blackmail defendants into settling non-meritorious claims. The course also deals with non-class aggregation, like joinder, impleader, interpleader, intervention, consolidation, transfers, and bankruptcy. It is also an excellent opportunity to review civil procedure concepts.
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LAW 837 - European Union Law College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will introduce students to the European Union, its legal system and legal doctrines. Topics covered include the European Union and its principal institutions, the constitutional framework of the European Union, the operation of the Court of Justice of the European Union, legislative procedure, the internal market, and fundamental rights.
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LAW 838 - Inclusive Capitalism, Property Rights, and Binary Economics College of Law
1-2 credit(s) Irregularly
One of the most important duties of lawyers is to help people identify and secure their essential rights and responsibilities. Serving clients effectively requires that lawyers ask the right questions. When addressing economic rights, here are nine important questions: (1) Why does wealth tend to concentrate in market economies even in times of great prosperity? (2) Why does the great promise of the industrial revolution (abundance and leisure) remain unfulfilled for most people? (3) Why does every generation of students graduate deeper in debt? (4) What is behind the adage, it takes money to make money? (5) How can more economic opportunity become more broadly distributed? (6) What are the growth and distributive consequences of the fact that most capital is acquired with the earnings of capital? (7) Is there a practical, efficient way to enable all people to acquire capital with the earnings of capital, without taking anything from existing owners? (8) What is the relationship between the distribution of capital ownership and the functioning of a democracy? (9) What role can lawyers play in pursuing these and related questions to better serve their clients, themselves, and society? This seminar will explore these and related questions. The seminar will not require an above average mathematical aptitude or prior exposure to economics, but rather only an open mind and a willingness to approach economic issues from a foundation grounded in professional responsibility. Students will read assigned material, do additional reading of their own choosing, make an in-class presentation (optional), and write a paper that will satisfy the writing requirement for graduation.
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LAW 840 - Laws of Armed Conflict Seminar College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Mankind has attempted to regulate the horror of war for centuries. This seminar will review those attempts, focusing on the modern era. Particular attention will be paid to recent challenges related to the war on terror and the ramifications for future enforcement of these key principles. Any student interested in practicing national security law or going into international criminal justice must have a clear understanding of the law of armed conflict. This seminar will assist in that understanding. The student will have the opportunity to be involved in several practical exercises that will reinforce their learning and write a paper on various cutting edge issues, of their choosing, related to the law of armed conflict.
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LAW 844 - Emerging Technologies and Global Security College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
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LAW 853 - Comparative Privacy Law College of Law
1 credit(s) Irregularly
Domestic legal systems vouchsafe and define “privacy,” and its first cousin “dignity,” in different ways that strongly reflect local legal and cultural values. Yet, in an increasingly globalized world, purely local protection of privacy interests may prove insufficient to safeguard effectively fundamental autonomy interests - interests that lie at the core of self-definition, personal autonomy, and freedom. This short course will survey constitutional privacy rights in the United States, Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. Consideration of constitutional privacy protections in these jurisdictions will establish important points of transnational agreement about how to define and protect privacy interests; it will also demonstrate that serious disagreements exist about protecting privacy - most notable in resolving the inherent tension between protecting both privacy and freedom of speech. The course will give sustained attention to the potential benefits and challenges that will confront any serious efforts to harmonize constitutional privacy protections across national borders. A comparative legal analysis of privacy will also illuminate, some of the important underlying social and political values that lead the U.S. to fail to protect privacy as reliably or as comprehensively as other liberal democracies. Finally, and no less important in this era of Big Data, drones, and society-wide surveillance programs, the short course will consider carefully the significant interrelationship that exists between privacy and speech in the context of sustaining and facilitating democratic self-government.
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LAW 862 - Public Health Law Seminar College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course deals with the law which empowers, tailors and limits federal, state and local governmental efforts to enhance and protect the health of the general population. It will make use of case studies of government educational and regulatory efforts in several areas of historic and very current controversy to examine issues which commonly arise with that law. The course will introduce students to the constitutional foundations and limits on the essential power of national, state and local governments and their officials to protect the health of individuals in areas where such protection may conflict with other important rights, such as with abortion, `immoral behavior, religious practices and beliefs, and with seat belts, ferrets and fluoridation. It will examine the use of peculiarly public-health-protective techniques such as quarantine and other liberty-restricting methods in the context of traditional diseases such as tuberculosis, newer diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and more recent threats of pandemic (including the H1N1 flu) and biological terrorism. Recognizing the public health system’s needs for accurate information in fashioning government responses and programs, the course will look at the law related to public health surveillance the law about the effective collection and maintenance of information and its use in biomedical research. In examining case studies about contagious diseases, environmentally-related cancers and DNA-banking, students will be exposed to tensions between the public health system’s need for information and the privacy rights of individuals about whom such information is gathered.
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LAW 864 - Estate Planning College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will explore estate planning from two perspectives. First, it will deal with the substantive aspects of estate and gift tax and property law (including joint interests, life insurance, and retirement plan proceeds) which must be considered in developing an estate plan. Wills, trusts, and other planning techniques will be considered in detail. Second, the practical aspects of dealing with estate planning clients will be considered in depth, including how to explain difficult technical matters to the client, how to present documents to clients in an understandable format, and issues of ethics and professionalism. Short drafting and writing exercises as well as a substantial paper, consisting of a package of client memoranda and documents, will be required.
COREQ: LAW 715 AND LAW 717
Repeatable
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LAW 866 - Banking Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Federal and state laws and regulations affecting banks in the United States.
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LAW 868 - Smart Grid: Sec. Prov. & Ecn College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This highly interdisciplinary, team-taught course covers the fundamental engineering, economic, and legal principles underlying the smart grid. It focuses on building the skills needed to design and test the protocols, policies, and specifications for enabling technologies that will guarantee the security and integrity of the grid while preserving personal privacy and providing maximum market flexibility with minimal need for new regulation. Students who complete the course will be able to integrate four perspectives - technology, security, economics, and law - allowing them to lead the development of the next generation electric grid.
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LAW 869 - EU-US Cooperation in Criminal Matters College of Law
1 credit(s) Irregularly
Students will work on cases relating to most popular instruments in such cooperation, namely extradition and mutual legal assistance with a focus on electronic evidence-gathering. To that end the students will analyze and apply the adequate legal framework (EU-US Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement and EU-US Extradition Agreement and domestic acts accompanying it). Given the transnational character of the course students will also have a unique opportunity to cooperate with their foreign colleagues. That will consist of conducting hypothetical cases relating to extradition and evidence-exchange between EU-US. The students will both issue requests abroad and execute the requests coming from their foreign colleagues. This exercise will not only be a chance of practicing the international procedure, but also reporting and overcoming obstacles to cooperation in criminal matters, such as double criminality, surrounding of citizens, admissibility of foreign evidence, data protection.
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LAW 870 - Corporate Finance Seminar College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
This seminar will study of the basis for financial decisions of corporations and the shareholders, including an introduction to basic techniques of investment decisions, valuation and financial structure. We will concentrate on valuing the firm and its securities and senior securities (bonds, debentures and notes). Interest and time permitting, we will explore capital structure and leverage and possibly do some work in mergers and acquisitions. Pre/co requisites: Business Associations
PREREQ: LAW 712
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LAW 880 - Race and Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Race and Law is a 3-credit graduate law discussion class critically examining the ways laws and courts address issues of race and construct race relations in the United States. Primary readings are historical and modern legal cases, the U.S. constitution, relevant U.S. statutes, and interdisciplinary scholarship on race and law. This course studies the history of treatment of African-Americans, Native peoples, Latinos, Asians and White people in American law before we look at particular topic areas and contemporary legal analyses. Topics may include equality doctrine, education and segregation, civil rights (e.g., housing, employment, public accommodations, and legal responses to civil rights organizing), criminal laws, policing and profiling, and prisons, sexuality and family, immigration, and existing and potential legal remedies. Weekly reading assignments, periodic online exercises, and active, engaged class discussions of assigned materials are critical components of the course. Students are required to write a 10-12 page analytical paper on one of the topics covered in the course and based on course materials and readings. Students may also be required to facilitate a class discussion on reading assignments and create a research bibliography. This law school course is open to non-law graduate students on a limited basis. Non-law students are required to get permission of the professor before enrolling in this law school class.
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LAW 882 - The Law and Practice of Electronic Discovery College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
The advent of the digital age has changed the way lawyers exchange information in litigation. Whether it be on computers, cell phones, tablets, data management portals, or social media, the key documents and information necessary to litigate are stored electronically, posing never before seen challenges for today’s lawyer. Whether advising a client of litigation holds and data retention policies, propounding or responding to discovery demands, preparing for and taking depositions, or engaging in motion practice on evidentiary issues, understanding technology is paramount to the modern day litigator. In this course, you will be that lawyer. Employed as an associate at a fictional law firm, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of electronic discovery in two cases, from the initial client interviews, through and including depositions and trial preparation. Taught by a lawyer with experience as an associate and partner at large law firms in New York City and Boston, boutique practices, a federal clerkship, and as in-house counsel, this course offers a great opportunity to learn both the law and the requisite skills to be a successful lawyer in the digital age.
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LAW 883 - Central Challenges in National Security Law and Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Using a series of case study modules that jump off the front page, the course examines critically the hardest U.S. national security law and policy challenges of the decades ahead. The case studies range from decisions to intervene and what laws apply if we do intervene in humanitarian crises, insurrections, or civil wars, and what laws should govern when we are involved; dealing with the Arab Spring; dealing with Iran and North Korea related to nuclear weapons; anticipating and controlling new technologies in warfare and surveillance; managing civil/military relations in protecting the homeland; countering the cyber threats to our infrastructure and cyber attacks waged by nation states, such as China and Russia; managing public health as a national security issue; resource depletion and global warming as a national security issue. Students will learn to integrate legal and policy analyses, and will gain lessons in how policy is made and implemented with significant legal guidance. Students will present analyses of case studies to the class, and will write briefing memoranda concerning some of the case study modules.
COREQ: LAW 700
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LAW 884 - Advanced Litigation Skills College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Trial work is a relatively modest fraction of a litigator’s life. Yet most law schools routinely offer trial advocacy courses, and largely ignore the other practical forms and occasions for litigation advocacy. This is a one-semester program where aspiring litigators would confront the more typical litigation problems that would combine and hone their training in legal writing and written advocacy, civil and criminal procedure, and privilege and other issues arising in the course of discovery, motion practice, negotiation and oral advocacy. This experiential course would accomplish this through a series of classroom simulations and written homework assignments that required the students to address a series of typical litigation problems.
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LAW 889 - International Human Rights and Comparative Disability Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course introduces students to recent developments in international human rights and comparative disability law, including an analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD was entered into force in 2008 as the first treaty to protect the rights of people with disabilities under international law. This course is for law students and other graduate students who are interested in disability rights and international human rights law, generally. The course uses disability as a case study for the study of the development of international human rights protections for certain groups; the adoption, monitoring, and implementation of UN treaties; the role of regional human rights tribunals in enforcing human rights protections for people with disabilities; and the relationship between international human rights laws and domestic disability-related laws in selected countries.
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LAW 891 - Climate Change: Science, Perception & Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Climate change (global warming) is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. This course introduces students to the challenges posed by climate change through a unique multidisciplinary exploration of the scientific, economic, policy, communicative, and even philosophical dimensions of the issue. The course will cover topics such as the current state of scientific knowledge about climate change, the role of the media in shaping public opinion on the issue, competing discourses of climate change, risk and uncertainty in decision-making, costs and benefits of different types of policies, the Kyoto protocol and other policy initiatives, actions being taken to address the issue, and the ethical dimensions of the choices facing humanity. Faculty from SU and ESF in law, economics/public administration, earth science, and environmental studies will co-teach this course and bring to students a unique dialog that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Moreover, emphasis will be placed on drawing out the general lessons obtained from a multidisciplinary approach to climate change: many of the insights will be applicable to other complex, highly technical environmental problems. This course is intended to bring together students from a diverse range of backgrounds and does not have specific prerequisites.
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LAW 893 - Advanced Legal Topics College of Law
2 credit(s)
This is the fifth and sixth residential courses in the online JD program. This two-credit course will have a number of different sections, focused on different substantive areas of the law. Students will take the course twice during the course of their study, selecting different sections for each. The goal is to allow students to acquire a deep understanding of an area of legal practice, appreciate the level of knowledge and engagement needed to successfully practice in a specialized field of law, and understand how key policy concerns can shape a particular field of law.
Repeatable, 2 credits maximum
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LAW 901 - Externship Seminar College of Law
1-2 credit(s)
Client problems brought to a good D.C. attorney are almost always solved through a combination of legislative pressure, executive branch pressure, and perhaps ultimately litigation against either another party and/or an agency of the executive branch. Very often the best solutions to these problems are forged behind the scenes, the opposite of the way lawyers in other jurisdictions often serve their clients interests. This seminar will feature influential and successful D.C. attorneys and distinguished guest lecturers to discuss one or more client problems brought to them and how they went about a solution. Each week, students will go through a real case study problem set that the guest lecturer encountered in his or her practice, whether in government, a nonprofit, a corporation, or a law firm. After establishing a fact pattern, students will discuss the various options for solving the legal problem. Finally, students will hear from the guest lecturer how he or she actually attacked the legal problem, and the outcome if known. Students will also discuss projects that they have been working on along with any issues that may have arisen.
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LAW 903 - Criminal Defense Law Clinic College of Law
6 credit(s) Every semester
Student attorneys represent clients charged with misdemeanors and violations in Syracuse City Court. They engage in extensive fact investigation, interviewing, client counseling, and plea negotiations, and appear regularly in local courts. They also assist clients with civil matters related to the pending criminal charges
COREQ: LAW 746
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LAW 909 - Bankruptcy Clinic College of Law
2 credit(s)
The pro bono bankruptcy clinic consists of a clinic open to second and third year students, and a pro bono volunteer program open to first year students. The upper division clinic students will represent an indigent client in filing a bankruptcy case and will be in charge of the team supervising the first year student volunteers. The clinic students will be responsible for obtaining from the clients all of the information required by the Bankruptcy Code for filing a bankruptcy case, organizing that information, drafting the petition and schedules, and representing the client at the official meeting of creditors. Students will also address an legal issues that arise in the case. The class component will involve formal training in basic consumer bankruptcy law and practice, and an open discussion of issues that arise in the cases.
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LAW 910 - LondonEx: Clinical Internship College of Law
6 credit(s) Only during the summer
Students will spend the first week of the seven week program attending lectures by authorities in English law. This introduction to the English Legal System will prepare the students for their internships by providing an overview of the fundamental tenets of English law, with an emphasis on English legal institutions, court structure, the legal profession, and adjudicative procedure in both civil and criminal cases. Classes during this first week will meet for a minimum of 15 hours and will be supplemented by visits to one of the Inns of Court and the Houses of Parliament and by a guided tour of Legal London. Following this first week of classes, students will undertake six-week internships with barristers, solicitors, public agencies or other legal organizations, under the supervision of Syracuse University College of Law faculty. Internships are full-time jobs, and students are expected to work the normal hours at their placements.. During this six-week period these internship experiences are augmented by once-a-week, two-hour evening seminars conducted by the program faculty and cooperating English practitioners.
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LAW 912 - Elder and Health Law Clinic College of Law
6 credit(s) Every semester
This clinical course will focus on representation of the elderly in a variety of substantive areas, with initial focus on administrative proceedings regarding public benefits, especially Medicaid. Students will have substantial opportunities to interview and counsel clients, conduct fact investigation, grapple with thorny ethical issues unique to elderly clients, and advocate for clients in a variety of settings, including in administrative proceedings. Students will have primary responsibility for their cases, under the guidance of the faculty member. There may be opportunities for collaboration with medical staff from the SUNY Upstate Geriatric Clinic and other professionals working with the elderly.
COREQ: LAW 746 OR LAW 647
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LAW 914 - Low Income Taxpayer Clinic College of Law
3 credit(s) Every semester
The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic offers legal assistance to low income taxpayers who have controversies with the I.R.S. The controversies may include collection, examination, appeals or Tax Court matters. Student attorneys will also be involved in community outreach and education regarding income tax matters.
COREQ: LAW 722 AND (LAW 746 OR LAW 647 )
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LAW 920 - NY Lawyer Seminar College of Law
2 credit(s) Every semester
The NY Externship Program provides students with the opportunity to work with lawyers. The program consists of a two-credit seminar that meets once a week which discusses lawyering as a profession and a 2 or 3 credit yearlong externship placement during which students work under the supervision of a lawyer in offices throughout Upstate New York.
COREQ: LAW 746 OR LAW 647
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LAW 921 - NYEx College of Law
2-12 credit(s) Every semester
This is a 2-12 credit externship placement where students work under the supervision of a lawyer in offices throughout Central New York.
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LAW 923 - Disability Rights Clinic College of Law
6 credit(s) Every semester
The Disability Rights Clinic is dedicated to providing representation to individuals and groups in our community who are unable to secure representation elsewhere. One reason DRC clients are unable to find other lawyers to represent them is due to their lack of financial resources. In our community, as elsewhere, the vast majority of lawyers provide legal assistance only to those who can afford to pay for their services. And in recent years, federal funding, the major source of funding for legal services for people with low or no incomes, has been reduced dramatically. A second reason DRC clients are unable to find lawyers elsewhere relates to the types of cases they may have which may involve controversial issues or conflicts of interest for other lawyers. DRC student attorneys practice in federal and state courts, and before administrative agencies in a broad range of civil rights matters, including race, gender, age and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, prisoners rights, immigration, accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and employment matters.
COREQ: LAW 746 OR LAW 647 AND LAW 763
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LAW 926 - Veterans Legal Clinic College of Law
6 credit(s)
COREQ: LAW 746 OR LAW 647
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LAW 931 - Pro Bono Scholars Program Externship College of Law
10 credit(s)
Students in the final year of law school to devote their last semester of study to performing pro bono service for the poor through an approved externship, legal services provider, law firm, or corporation. Placements are available in Central New York and Washington, DC. Only students selected by the Pro Bono Scholars Program committee and approved by the New York Court of Appeals may register for the course. Students accepted for the Program will spend 12 weeks working full time in a placement beginning in March. Students will also have a seminar component, Pro Bono Scholars Seminar, for which they will earn two credits.
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LAW 940 - Studying Disability in Japan and the U.S.: A Comparative Approach to Laws, Policies, & Perspectives College of Law
1 credit(s) Irregularly
Travel to Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima to compare Japan and the United States under a disability studies lens. You will draw on a number of disciplines, including policy, law, and education, for a close-up look at policies and practices in Japan. Tour sites of disability in Japan - schools, institutions, and government offices - and meet people with disabilities, all in an effort to learn how disability is negotiated.
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LAW 955 - Transactional Law Clinic College of Law
6 credit(s) Every semester
The Transactional Law Clinic is one of only a handful of law school clinics nationwide which provide students the opportunity to represent not-for-profit housing and community organizations involved in affordable housing development and community economic development for people with low incomes. The Transactional Law Clinic was founded in 1988 with a grant from the United States Department of Education Clinical Legal Experience Program. Since 1989, Associate Professor Deborah Kenn has directed Clinic, which upon the conclusion of the United States Department of Education grant in 1992, has been funded in full by the College of Law.
COREQ: LAW 746 OR LAW 647
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LAW 957 - Childrens Rights & Family Law Clinic College of Law
6 credit(s) Every semester
This combined clinical offering is designed for students interested in developing legal skills in the area of children’s rights and in handling various civil cases. Students will assist in cases pertaining to education, school disciplinary hearings, suspension hearings, children’s access to public education and public housing. Students will also represent clients in court and in negotiations to enforce child and spousal support and on divorce and custody cases. Representation of the clients includes interviewing witnesses, gathering evidence, negotiation settlements, appearing in court, and conducting hearings and trials. During the seminar, students will discuss the fundamentals of interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and written and oral advocacy as well as the substantive areas of family and public interest law, public assistance, and social security.
COREQ: LAW 746 OR LAW 647
Repeatable
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LAW 959 - Advanced Legal Research College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
Advanced Legal Research expands upon the foundation of research skills acquired in the first year. The course addresses effective research methods and strategies, examines the structural and theoretical underpinnings of traditional and automated research systems, and explores specialized areas of research (such as legislative history, administrative law, and non-legal resources). Students will have ample opportunities to refine research techniques through hands-on practice sessions in the law library.
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LAW 975 - Law of the Global Commons: Law of the Sea, Space Law, and Cyberlaw College of Law
3 credit(s)
Course Overview: Law of the Global Commons is a national security and international law-based course that will address emerging legal and policy challenges within the maritime, space, and cyber domains. The course will begin with an overview of international law and the literature on collective action and tragedy of the commons before moving to a substantive discussion of each domain. First, within law of the sea, we will discuss the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the current challenges facing the world¿s oceans, which constitute 70% of the earth¿s surface. How is climate change impacting the ocean? What is the future for Arctic governance and the South China Sea? Second, within space law, we will discuss the Outer Space Treaty, its follow-on agreements, and the emergence of private space exploration. Where are the gaps in space law? Is this a domain for international collaboration or confrontation? Third, we will address the cyber domain, with a focus on the ongoing cybersecurity challenges facing the United States and the rest of the world.
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LAW 994 - Advanced Legal Topics College of Law
Irregularly
This is the fifth and sixth residential courses in the online JD program. This two-credit course will have a number of different sections, focused on different substantive areas of the law. Students will take the course twice during the course of their study, selecting different sections for each. The goal is to allow students to acquire a deep understanding of an area of legal practice, appreciate the level of knowledge and engagement needed to successfully practice in a specialized field of law, and understand how key policy concerns can shape a particular field of law.
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LIN 580 - International Course College of Arts and Sciences
1-12 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
Repeatable
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LIN 591 - Second Language Acquisition College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Survey of research on second-language acquisition; biological, cognitive, effective, and social factors.
PREREQ: LIN 301 OR LIN 601
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LIN 600 - Selected Topics College of Arts and Sciences
1-6 credit(s)
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Repeatable
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LIN 601 - Introductory Linguistic Analysis College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 301
Techniques and methods of modern linguistics, including specific analysis of phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic aspects of natural language structure. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 605 - Linguistic Structure of English Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 305
Systematic and comprehensive survey of the structure of Modern English from a linguistic perspective. Topics include phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics/pragmatics,various syntactic properties pertaining to English. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 606 - Field Methods in Linguistics College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 406
Course introduces students to tools/techniques for collecting/analyzing language data. Under documented language used when possible. Students work with a native-speaker consultant. Additional work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 301 OR LIN 601
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LIN 611 - Semantics of Human Languages College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 411
Introduction to analysis of meaning in natural languages. Additional work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 601
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LIN 612 - Meaning and Communication College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 312
Introduction to aspects of linguistic meaning that are dependent on context and other non-linguistic factors.
PREREQ: LIN 601
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LIN 621 - Introduction to Methodology of Teaching Languages: English/Foreign Language Teaching College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 321
Topics include history and theories of language teaching; the teaching of content (grammar, sound system, lexis, and pragmatics) and skills; and assessment. Additional work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 601
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LIN 622 - Advanced Methods of Teaching Languages: English/Foreign Language Teaching College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 422
Topics include curriculum development, technology in language learning, global dialects, individual differences, second language acquisition, and professional development. Students complete a practicum. Additional work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 621 /LIN 421
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LIN 626 - Structure of Standard Arabic College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: LIN 326
Structure of Standard Arabic, including the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Includes social and historical issues related to the development of the Arabic language. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 631 - Phonological Analysis College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 431
Introduction to analysis of sound systems of natural languages. Extra work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 601 /LIN 301
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LIN 641 - Syntactic Analysis College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 441
Introduction to analysis of morphological and syntactic systems of natural languages. Extra work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 601 /LIN 301
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LIN 651 - Morphological Analysis College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: LIN 451
An introduction to morphological theory and analysis in contemporary generative linguistics. The course familiarizes students with the main topics that interest morphologists by exposing students to a range of cross-linguistic data.
PREREQ: LIN 301/LIN 601
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LIN 661 - Introduction to Historical Linguistics College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 461
An introduction to traditional terminology and methods, and to more recent studies in formal, explanatory theories of language change. Theories of phonological as well as syntactic change. Additional work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: LIN 601 /LIN 301
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LIN 671 - Dimensions of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: ANT 671
Double Numbered with: LIN 371
Foundations, theory, and practice of bilingual/bicultural education. Critical concepts of linguistic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic issues and methods as applied to bilingualism/multiculturalism. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 672 - Language, Culture, and Society College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: ANT 672, WGS 672
Cross-cultural survey of the role of language in culture and society, including cognition and language usage along the dimensions of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and social status.
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LIN 673 - Language Variation and Change College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Crosslisted with: ANT 678
Double Numbered with: LIN 373
An exploration of the theories, qualitative and quantitative methods, and the ideological, social, cultural, linguistic and structural factors involved in the study of language variation and change. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 674 - Topics in Sociolinguistics College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s)
Double Numbered with: LIN 374
Functions of language in society. Geographical, socioeconomic, and gender differentiation. Social significance of various types of speech forms. Requirements include a research project for graduate students.
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LIN 675 - Forensic Linguistics College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
Crosslisted with: ANT 675
Double Numbered with: LIN 375
Examines the application of core linguistic concepts,( including concepts of socio-psychological/pragmatic/discourse analysis), and interpretive techniques to investigate crimes, and other legal matters in which language data is used as pertinent evidence. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 681 - Global Communication Through World Englishes College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 381
World Englishes pose unique challenges for linguists, language pedagogues, business leaders, communication experts, and researchers in intercultural/ international communication. Various topics reflecting these challenges are presented. Additional work required of graduate students.
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LIN 692 - Second Language Acquisition College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LIN 392
Survey of research on second-language acquisition; linguistic, biological, cognitive, affective, and social factors.
PREREQ: LIN 601 OR LIN 605
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LIN 731 - Advanced Phonology College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
A variety of phonological problems using an autosegmental or geometric approach. Stress and tone; gemination; compensatory lengthening; and certain morphological problems.
PREREQ: LIN 631
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LIN 741 - Advanced Syntax College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Recent advances in syntactic theory and empirical studies conducted within the government and binding framework. Student construction of hypotheses and analysis of data.
PREREQ: LIN 641/441
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LIN 997 - Masters Thesis College of Arts and Sciences
1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
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LIT 510 - Studies in Greek and Roman Literature in Translation College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Selected topics in Greek or Roman literature studied in English. No knowledge of Greek or Latin required.
Repeatable
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LIT 521 - Mythhology College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. Knowledge of foreign languages not required.
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LLM 900 - American Legal System College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course is designed to introduce students to United States law. The course will offer a survey of the United States legal system, an introduction to United States constitutional law and provide an overview of multiple areas of United States doctrinal law both substantive and procedural.
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LLM 901 - Legal Writing for International Students College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course will instruct the student in legal research, writing and analysis. It is specifically designed for LLM students.
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LLM 902 - International LL.M. Prep Course College of Law
1 credit(s)
An introduction to the process of American legal education and assessment. The class will teach an introduction to the Socratic method, the case briefing system of legal analysis and introduce skills in preparation for common legal assessment methods, including case briefing, case analysis, exam taking methodology, and other essential skills.
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LPP 755 - Law of Business Organizations Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: LPP 455
Legal aspects of organizations formed to carry on business enterprises: agencies, partnerships, and corporations.
PREREQ: LPP 255 OR MBC 643
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LPP 756 - Land Development Law Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: LPP 456
Regulations pertaining to land development. Nuisances, eminent domain, regulatory takings, zoning, growth, management controls, environmental impact analysis, and protection of sensitive land areas.
PREREQ: LPP 255 OR MBC 643
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LPP 757 - Law of Commercial Transactions Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Double Numbered with: LPP 457
Legal aspects of commercial transactions. Contracts, sale of goods, commercial paper, and secured transactions.
PREREQ: LPP 255 OR MBC 643
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LPP 758 - Environmental Law and Public Policy Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: LPP 458
Range of environmental problems from a legal and public policy viewpoint: air, water, and toxics pollution; solid and hazardous waste; and environmental planning.
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LPP 759 - The Law of Global Business Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Crosslisted with: INB 759
The legal environment of international business: the framework of international law and organizations influencing the transactions of international business. Topics include the international law, international contracts, customs, and world trade law.
PREREQ: LPP 255 AND SCM 265
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LPP 765 - Social Influences On Business Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Various environmental factors that control and enhance the conduct of business. Nature, function, impact, and development of such factors. Matters of current interest.
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LPP 766 - Seminar in Business-Government Relations Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Topics in business-government relations, including regulation of competition, trade practices, securities, communications, utilities, and employment. Joint business-government ventures. Governmental promotion of business activity. Government purchasing and contracting.
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LPP 767 - Management and Ethics Martin J. Whitman School of Management
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Double Numbered with: LPP 467
Ethical dilemmas encountered by managers of organizations. Individual ethical responsibility versus role responsibility. Pressures within organizations to violate ethical duties. How an organization can be managed so that employees can deal effectively with ethical dilemmas. Extra work required of graduate students.
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M&E 601 - Media and Education CAS Colloquium S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
1 credit(s) Only during the summer
Critical examination of intersections between the fields of Media and Education for educational professionals.
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M&E 610 - Media and Education Master’s Colloquium S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
1 credit(s) Every semester
Critical examination of intersections between the fields of Media and Education at three distinct phases in students’ programs of study.
Repeatable 2 time(s), 3 credits maximum
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M&E 611 - Proseminar in Media and Education S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
3 credit(s) Every semester
Critical examination of the intersections of law, ethics and professionalism in the increasingly confluent fields of media and education.
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M&E 621 - Media and Education Practicum: Project Development S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Conceiving, structuring and planning media projects in students’ respective fields of educational practice. Students will participate in an interactive forum designed to foster discussion about creative and educational challenges arising from their work.
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M&E 622 - Media and Education Practicum: Production S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Production and post production of media projects in students’ respective fields of educational practice. Students will participate in an interactive forum designed to foster discussion about creative and educational challenges arising from their work.
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M&E 650 - Special Projects Seminar S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
2 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This flexible course format is designed to accommodate Media and Education project-based initiatives in a variety of educational areas of study.
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M&E 689 - Media & Education Capstone S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This advanced practice course is designed to provide M&E students the opportunity to cap their Master’s experience with a summative media and education project of their own design.
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M&E 690 - Independent Study S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Repeatable
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MAE 510 - Nuclear Reactor Design, Operation and Safety College of Engineering and Computer Science
3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
Crosslisted with: NUC 510
Principles of fission reactor analysis and design; reactor kinetics, operation and control; reactor thermo-fluid-dynamics; reactor safety; reactor accident case studies.
PREREQ: NUC 301 AND MAE 551
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MAE 512 - Technology Management College of Engineering and Computer Science
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course develops a foundation for the concepts of ethics, technology life-cycles, product life cycles, concurrent engineering, managing people, project evaluation, leading technology teams, managing R&D and innovation and managing risks in order to support the planning, scheduling, and controlling activities required for successful completion of technologically innovative projects.
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