2015-2016 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 610 - Legislation & Policy College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Students will be able to choose from among several specialized first-year elective courses including health law, Indian law, land use planning and zoning law, sentencing law, special education law, and violence against women. In each of these courses, students will explore the institutions and processes of public law making, including an examination of statutory interpretation and legislative and administrative process, as applied to the particular substantive area of law.
Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
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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 642 - Introduction to Legal Practice: Applying Contracts, Torts, and Civil Procedure College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course translates theory into practice through a semester-long simulation of legal work. Building upon students’ mastery of Torts, Contracts, and Civil Procedure, this course introduces students to essential lawyering skills including client relations, negotiations, interviewing, drafting, motion practice, and discovery. The course will also focus on professional identity issues as they arise in the context of the applied learning of the practice of law.
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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 646 - Problem Solving and Intelligent Lawyering College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course focuses on the lawyer’s role as a problem-solver. A series of problems challenge students to determine client interests and consider different courses of action for effective representation. The problems span more than one area of law and become more complicated as the semester progresses. To develop skills of perception and judgment, the course also incorporates the study of mindfulness and emotional intelligence.
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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 648 - Public Interest Lawyering College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course will explore major lawyering themes and skills used by public interest lawyers, cutting across diverse practice areas and settings. The course is designed to integrate academic theory with experiential learning (through role plays, simulations, and individual and group exercises) related to current issues affecting public interest law advocacy today.
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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 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
3 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 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 711 - Land Use and Zoning Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will involve an examination of basic land use and zoning laws. Attention is paid to a variety of zoning and regulatory tools as well as to local laws addressing environmental concerns. This includes basic zoning, density controls, variances, exceptions, special uses, exactions, inclusionary and exclusionary zoning, and the takings issue. The focus of the course will be on the importance of private property rights and the protection of those rights in the context of public controls and regulations. The course will examine the way in which public and private claims to land are resolved through a mix of market and non-market mechanisms.
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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 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.
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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
Law and policy regarding the taxation of income of the individual taxpayer, including characteristics of income, personal and business deductions, principles of income splitting and tax accounting, dispositions of property, capital gains.
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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 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 burgeoning 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 four subjects: principles of jurisdiction, 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 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 732 - Federal Government Contracts College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Overview of government contracts. Course will cover pre-contract activity leading to contract award, contract types, and the contractual document with specific emphasis on the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Irregular course offering.
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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 736 - The Law and Literature College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
The focus of this course/seminar will be the law, the legal process, and concepts of justice as they are treated in a number of works of fiction as well as by lawyers in judicial opinions and other writings. The fictional readings will be short stories (Tolstoy, Faulkner, Glaspell, Hawthorne, Cather, de Maupassant, Vonnegut, etc.) and two novellas. In-depth consideration of the materials should demonstrate to the student the wide gamut of emotions, human relationships, and ambiguities with which case law frequently does not adequately deal. The materials raise issues of morality, natural law, divine law, mercy, the limits of advocacy, and ethics all of which must deeply concern any lawyer who wishes to strive to fulfill the true object of his or her profession.
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LAW 738 - Communications Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Examination of the market structure and regulation of the communications industry as well as the relationship between the communications industry and the several branches of government. Topics include the authority of state and federal government to license spectrum and to regulate broadcast communications and cable, satellite, wireline and wireless services. Other topics may include broadcast fairness, political broadcasting and regulation of the Internet and emerging technologies.
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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 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 749 - Religious Faith, Secular Nationalism, and the Practice of Law College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will explore the relationship between an individual’s religious beliefs and the practice of law, and will be centered around the important and growing body of literature of the religious lawyering movement. Initially, the course will take up the fundamental question of whether one can be religious and be a lawyer. In this context, the course will explore the extent to which a secular disposition about law, for example, that law is America’s civil religion or an expression of American nationalism precludes a space for faith in the practice of law. Subsequently, the course will examine how religious beliefs might be integrated into the practice of law, and what practicing as a religious lawyer might look like.
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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 753 - Legal Interviewing College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will combine the theory and practice of legal interviewing. The substantive and theoretical framework for legal interviewing will be examined and then applied in practice. Practical applications will include both simulations and at least two live interviews of real clients with real-time, real-life legal problems.
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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 756 - Lawyering Skills College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Lawyering Skills - Basic: The course covers the practical lawyering skills essential for the successful and effective representation of clients in various areas of the law, including criminal law, corporate, real property and zoning, estates and trusts, litigation, appellate practice, and other area of practice. When discussing those areas of law, special emphasis will be placed on client interviews, ethical issues, negotiation techniques, counseling skills, drafting documents, making presentations, persuasive writing, decision-making, and, most importantly; critical and strategic thinking. By doing so, the course should condense and weave together a broad range of experiences and exercises which the students may encounter in the actual practice of law. Laweryring Skills - Planning for the Non-Traditional Family: Drafting of legal instruments for individuals and their loved ones who do not fit the traditional nuclear family model. Topics would include domestic partnership agreements, estate planning instruments (e.g. wills, trusts, and corporate formations), tax planning, and second-parent adoptions.
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LAW 757 - Mergers & Acquisitions College of Law
2-3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course is for students with a strong interest in capital markets, public corporations, and modern corporate practice. Topics covered include source of gains in business ombinations, duties and risks of sellers, buyers’ risks in acquisitions, and securities laws.
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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 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.
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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 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.
PREREQ: LAW 726 OR LAW 742
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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 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 - Chinese Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Focus on the development of the Chinese legal system since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, with due attention to social, political, and economic factors. Close examination of areas of substantive and procedural law, such as constitutional law, professional responsibility, criminal law and procedure, and labor law.
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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 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 782 - New York Criminal Procedure College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will supplement existing courses in Constitutional Criminal Procedure and complement the applied learning course in Advanced (NY) Criminal Procedure. The course is desirable: (1) as a vehicle for students to learn differences between Federal and New York Constitutional Criminal Procedure; (2) as a vehicle for students to learn procedural rules which are important despite the lack of constitutional status; and (3) as a vehicle for students to prepare for the New York bar exam and/or practice of criminal law in New York.
PREREQ: LAW 708
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LAW 783 - Law and Popular Culture College of Law
2-3 credit(s) Irregularly
Law is everywhere around us, and the most unlikely of places are the best subjects to examine. Even in contexts outside the obviously legal, law manifests, constantly updating itself. If traditional legal education and other formal legal representations represent the “high culture” of law, what is deemed popular culture, that which is modern, material, and local–unabashedly represents the “low.” This class examines the dissemination of legal information to the masses and the concomitant effect of the masses upon the law. By examining film, literature, art, and music, students will learn the dialectical influences of law and humanity, and how this is translated into various media.
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LAW 784 - Employment Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will cover a wide variety of topics in the employment relationship. It is a complex area covered by both federal and state statutes as well as common law. Topics that will be covered include establishing the employment relationship, terms and conditions of employment, health insurance and other fringe benefits, the work environment, and terminating the employment relationship.This course may include an experiential component consisting of the opportunity to represent a client in an unemployment insurance board hearing.
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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 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
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, exclusion and deportation, and nonimmigrant status.
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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 791 - Secured Transactions College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course deals in depth with the creation and perfection of security interests in personal property, priority claims, and remedies upon debtor’s defaut under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Additionally, some consideration is given to related concepts under the Federal Bankruptcy Code.
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LAW 792 - International Organizations College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
Course Description Required.
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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 795 - Canadian Law College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
The course is intended to provide students with an overview of the law and legal systems of Canada. It will explore Canada’s historical development, legal structure, and place within the common law world. Covering topics such as Federalism, Responsible Government, the Charter of Rights, Family Law, Conflicts of Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, First Nations, Hate Speech, and Business Law the course will concentrate on both the similarities and differences with U.S. law and the probable reasons for the differences. Some attention will be devoted to the law of Quebec and the duality of its legal system. At least one week will be spent on conducting legal research in Canadian Law, but the course is not a research course.
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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 800 - Foundational Skills for Attorney Licensing College of Law
2 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 804 - The Law of Genocide Seminar College of Law
3 credit(s)
This seminar examines the historical, philosophical and political origins of statutes that outlaw crimes against humanity and genocide. It then focuses on aspects of the first post-World War II trial of the SS personnel at the Nazi concentration camps of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz, followed by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem; the trial in Tel Aviv of the head of the Jewish police of a Polish ghetto; the trial of former Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and related proceedings; as well as certain prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in particular those relating to incitement to genocide on the part of newspapers and radio broadcasters. It will be compare and contrast aspects of these trials. Also discussed is the impact of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and consideration of the development of the law relating to genocide and crimes against humanity over the course of the past 70 years and its contemporary implications. The goal of the seminar is to provide the students with a broad awareness of the jurisprudential, historical, political, and social dimensions that underlie the ongoing efforts to criminalize and prosecute ethnically, religiously or racially motivated mass murder and related atrocities.
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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 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 812 - Legal Counseling College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
Legal Counseling will introduce students to the skills necessary to provide counseling to clients. Classes will involve a combination of interactive discussion and counseling simulation exercises. The class will cover identifying clients’ legal needs and objectives, and then assisting clients in evaluating options, weighing consequences, and decision-making.
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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 814 - Technology Transactions Law College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the technical, business, and legal factors involved in bringing new technologies to market. This is a year-long course that covers topics ranging from basic intellectual property law and performing patent searches to economics to finance and business areas such as financing technology innovation. The course includes multiple guest lectures from practicing professionals involved in technology transactions at universities as well as private companies and in law firms. At the conclusion of the course, students will have a broad knowledge of technology innovation law and practice.
Repeatable
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LAW 815 - Technology Commercialization Research Center College of Law
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
This applied learning course allows students interested in the areas of intellectual property and business law to apply their knowledge to actual new technology projects. In this year-long course, students work in teams consulting with companies, entrepreneurs or universities that are seeking to commercialize new technologies. The finished product includes a report and presentation that cover 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. Technology Transactions Law is a prerequisite for this course but may be taken concurrently.
COREQ: LAW 814
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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 817 - Military Law and Procedure Seminar College of Law
2 credit(s) Irregularly
Military Law and Procedure is an overview of the military justice system and its procedural application in today’s Armed Forces of the United States. Students will read, discuss, and practice how the Uniform Code of Military Justice and its procedural applications ensure proper discipline within the ranks of today’s armed forces. The course will trace the history of discipline within those armed forces, the development of the rule of law in the military, the practice aspects of advocating before a courts-martial, as well as understand the non-judicial and administrative aspects of discipline in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. Additionally, the students will study the application of the UCMJ on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the new challenges faced by commanders and their legal advisers in the battlefields of tomorrow.
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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 821 - Domestic Violence College of Law
3 credit(s) Irregularly
This course will analyze case law as well as other text and articles applicable to domestic violence cases. One of the objectives of this course will be to expose, through class discussions, some of the misconceptions regarding domestic violence and its victims. Students will have the opportunity to participate in simulated exercises designed to develop interviewing and information gathering techniques necessary for the thorough representation of the domestic violence victim in court. Visits to the class by guest speakers are also planned. The course will delve into all of the possible issues that need to be addressed in representing the domestic violence victim.
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