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Accounting for Lawyers
Course Number: LAW 864The first portion of this course focuses on basic bookkeeping theory and mechanics. The remainder of the course introduces the student to accounting theory, interpretation of financial statements, legal meaning and consequences of independent certified audits, torts liability of accountants, legal regulation of the practice of accounting and special accounting practices required for federal income taxation, state corporate law, and the SEC.
Credit Hours: Two hours; may be offered as a seminar. Enrollment is limited to students with three or less credit hours in accounting since high school.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Administrative Law
Course Number: LAW 862Study of the administrative process, including an examination of the law concerning the powers and procedures of administrative agencies and the law governing judicial review of administrative action.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Advanced Constitutional Law
Course Number: LAW 943A detailed study of the basic problems presented by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The study will include a review of the religion, speech and assembly clauses as well as specific current issues.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Advanced Legal Research
Course Number: LAW 987Prerequisite: Legal Research. An in-depth study of methodologies and materials to be used in resolving complex legal problems. Coverage will include advanced computerized legal research in legal and nonlegal databases as well as specific legal topics, which may include tax, bankruptcy, administrative or international law.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Advanced Trial Practice
Course Number: LAW 850Prerequisites: Evidence and Trial Practice. A trial practice course involving sophisticated problems designed to develop a high level of litigation skill. Topics that may be covered include: discovery in complex litigation, tactics in multi-party litigation, trials in specialized areas, expert witnesses and specialized types of evidence. A final trial is required with each student working individually rather than on a team. Enrollment is limited.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Animal Law
Course Number: LAW 977A study of various aspects of the law as they pertain to non-human animals, including civil and criminal laws governing animal abuse, rules governing ownership and transfer of animals, and the rights of animal owners to recover for harm. In addition, the course will analyze the status of animals as entities possessing legal rights under state law, the constitution, and the laws of certain other countries.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Antitrust Law
Course Number: LAW 915Study of federal legislation and decisions thereunder, designed to protect competition; includes consideration of economic policy.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Arbitration Practice and Procedure
Course Number: LAW 908An analysis of law applicable to labor arbitration, including participation in a mock arbitration proceeding as an advocate and arbitrator.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Authors' and Performers' Rights
Course Number: LAW 974
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law or equivalent. Study of the rights afforded to authors and performers in addition to the copyright, such as the right of attribution, integrity, and fixation of live performance. Includes coverage of the �moral rights� of artists under the Visual Artists Rights Act, equivalent rights under other federal laws and state law, emerging rights to tape and broadcast, as well as the historical evolution of these additional rights.
Credit Hours: One hour; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Basic Income Taxation
Course Number: LAW 865Introduction to federal income taxation. It includes an examination of the legitimate purpose of taxation; items included in and excluded from gross income; personal and business deductions; depreciation; capital gains, inventory problems, nonrecognition and recapture provisions; and basic methods of accounting.
Credit Hours: Four hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Basic Legal Skills
Course Number: LAW 801Practical training in use of a law library, preparation of legal memoranda, brief-writing, oral advocacy in a moot court program, and other supervised instruction in basic skills. To be completed as directed in the curriculum schedule.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Brandeis Law Journal Editorial
Course Number: LAW 937Credit Hours: One to three hours, with a maximum of three credit hours. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Brandeis Law Journal Editor-In-Chief
Course Number: LAW 938Credit Hours: One hour. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Brandeis Law Journal Membership
Course Number: LAW 935Upon completion of the requirements of the candidacy program and assumption of staff duties and responsibilities, a person becomes eligible for one credit hour as a "member" of the Journal staff.
Credit Hours: One hour. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Brandeis Law Journal Publication
Course Number: LAW 936Credit Hours: One hour. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Business Organizations
Course Number: LAW 828Introduction to legal and ethical rules governing doing business in the corporate form; includes attention to a corporation's forma-tion, financing, structure, and government; liabilities of corporate officers and directors, and share-holder derivative suits; transactions in corporate securities; changes in corporate structure and control; and special needs of close corporations.
Credit Hours: Four hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Business Planning
Course Number: LAW 941Prerequisite: Basic Income Taxation and Business Organizations. Exercises in seeking ways of handling a series of hypothetical business interests; calls for application of corporate, securities regulations, tax, and financial consideration to specific transactions involving formation and expansion of enterprises, raising new money and distributing assets, and changes in ownership and control.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Business Torts
Course Number: LAW 928A study of the law of unfair competition, false advertising, misappropriation, interference with business relationships, trade secrets and similar rights, plus an overview of patent, copyright, and trademark law.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Civil Procedure I
Course Number: LAW 808Introduction to the law of procedure, including pleading, discovery, motion practice, trials, post-trial and appellate proceedings, jurisdiction, venue, process, multiparty litigation, former adjudication, the law-equity distinction, and choices between state and federal law.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Civil Procedure II
Course Number: LAW 809Introduction to the law of procedure, including pleading, discovery, motion practice, trials, post-trial and appellate proceedings, jurisdiction, venue, process, multiparty litigation, former adjudication, the law-equity distinction, and choices between state and federal law.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Civil Rights and Liberties
Course Number: LAW 927An examination of both constitutional and statutory materials dealing with selected civil rights and liberties.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Communications Law
Course Number: LAW 891Examination 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.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Comparative Constitutional Law
Course Number: LAW 824A comparison of various aspects of the United States Constitution with the constitutions of one or more other nations. The course will cover issues such as the status of a constitution as enforceable law, the structure and nature of government, federalism, separation of powers and the roles of various branches of government, and individual rights. The course may deal with constitutional issues generally by sampling a wide range of constitutions, or focus extensively on the constitutions of one or two other nations.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Conflict of Laws
Course Number: LAW 884Study of legal problems connected with factual situations including more than one sovereign state; includes choice of law, jurisdiction, and recognition of judgments of other states, with emphasis on the way problems are handled in our federal system and under one constitution.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Constitutional Law I
Course Number: LAW 819Study of the structure of governmental powers in the United States, as defined in its constitution as interpreted by its courts, including the distribution of powers between state and federal governments and, within the federal government, among its legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Constitutional Law II
Course Number: LAW 820Study of individual rights, emphasizing due process, equal protection, and the First Amendment.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Contemporary Problems in International Law
Course Number: LAW 889In-depth study of current trends and changing areas in international law.
Credit Hours: One to three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Contracts I
Course Number: LAW 804Introduction to basic contract liability, including study of offer and acceptance, consideration, assignments, beneficiaries, joint and several obligations, performance and breach, statute of frauds, illegality, and discharge. This course will focus on common law contract principles as well as contract formation and selected performance rules under Article II of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Contracts II
Course Number: LAW 805Introduction to basic contract liability, including study of offer and acceptance, consideration, assignments, beneficiaries, joint and several obligations, performance and breach, statute of frauds, illegality, and discharge. This course will focus on common law contract principles as well as contract formation and selected performance rules under Article II of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Copyright Law
Course Number: LAW 970An introductory course on the fundamentals of copyright law, covering such topics of its constitutional, statutory and common law origins in the context of literary, artistic, musical and related proper-ties. Covers copyrightable materials, the present copyright protection, its relation to Unfair Competition, and various legal problems caused by the distribution of copyrighted materials, "fair use" and technological advancements and innovations.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Corporate and White Collar Crime
Course Number: LAW 968An examination of the substantive law of white-collar crime, as well as the practice, procedure, and strategy concerning federal white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions. Theories of liability may include traditional white collar crime offenses like mail and wire fraud, insider trading, perjury, RICO, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, environmental and antitrust offenses, as well as recent entries into the field and sentencing enhancements in light of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This course also will provide an introductory look at the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Corporate Finance
Course Number: LAW 962Prerequisite: Business Organizations. An examination of legal materials in the areas of senior securities, capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and federal regulation of public financing, with related materials in financial and management theory. The course focuses on the problems of publicly held corporations and their securities holders; closely held corporations will not be covered. No prior economic training is required.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Corporate Taxation
Course Number: LAW 873Prerequisite: Basic Income Taxation. Study of federal taxation of corporations, including tax incidents of organization, operation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations, divisions, and reorganizations; survival of corporate tax attributes; affiliated corporations; foreign corporations and foreign-source income; and subchapter S corporations.
Credit Hours: Four hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Criminal Justice Externship I
Course Number: LAW 951Prerequisite: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure I and Evidence. Also, strongly suggested are Constitutional Law I and II and Criminal Procedure II. Students in this externship may be assigned to one of the following agencies: Public Defender, Jefferson County Attorney, or Commonwealth Attorney. Students are assigned to cases coming into those offices and prepare and try them under the supervision of an attorney in the agency and a member of the Brandeis School of Law faculty.
Credit Hours: All sections will receive two credit hours each semester except the defense section, which will receive three credit hours each semester. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Criminal Justice Externship II
Course Number: LAW 952Prerequisite: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure I and Evidence. Also, strongly suggested are Constitutional Law I and II and Criminal Procedure II. Students in this externship may be assigned to one of the following agencies: Public Defender, Jefferson County Attorney, or Commonwealth Attorney. Students are assigned to cases coming into those offices and prepare and try them under the supervision of an attorney in the agency and a member of the Brandeis School of Law faculty.
Credit Hours: All sections will receive two credit hours each semester except the defense section, which will receive three credit hours each semester. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Criminal Law
Course Number: LAW 810Introduction to the substantive law of crimes; includes offenses against the person, habitation and occupancy, and property, and other offenses; also questions of responsibility, defenses, and imputability.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Criminal Procedure I
Course Number: LAW 821Survey of the law of search and seizure, confessions and right to counsel.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Criminal Procedure II
Course Number: LAW 822Study of procedures in criminal cases in the pre-trial, trial, and post-trial stages; includes bail, grand jury, preliminary hearing, joinder and severance, speedy trial, pretrial publicity, juries, double jeopardy, discovery, habeas corpus, and appeals. Criminal Procedure I is not a prerequisite.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Debtor-Creditor Law
Course Number: LAW 835Study of problems arising under the federal Bankruptcy Act; includes preferences, fraudulent conveyances, proof and allowance of claims, composition, and discharge.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Decedents' Estates and Trusts
Course Number: LAW 853Study of wills, trusts, future interests and fiduciary administration; includes pertinent common and statutory laws and considerations relevant to planning and drafting testamentary and trust documents and to the probate and contests of wills; and a study of the powers and duties of personal representatives, trustees and other fiduciaries in the management of trusts and estates.
Credit Hours: Four hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Disability Law
Course Number: LAW 978An examination of the range of the law's treatment of individuals with disabilities. The course will address discrimination law issues (focusing primarily on the provisions and interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act); public and private benefits issues (including Social Security, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and employer-sponsored disability plans); and some criminal law issues (including transmission of communicable diseases and the treatment of mental and emotional disabilities in prosecutions). Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Domestic Relations
Course Number: LAW 826Examination of the interaction of legal rules and social factors concerning family life; involves marriage, the husband and wife relationship, divorce and annulment, and problems related to children, such as legitimacy, adoption, custody, neglect, and compulsory education.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Domestic Violence
Course Number: LAW 842A study of the history, causes and effects, and treatment of domestic violence, and the responses of the legal system: tort suits, civil and criminal actions, roles of the courts and police. Violence between domestic partners will be examined cross-culturally and attention will be given to its effects upon children.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Domestic Violence Externship
Course Number: LAW 953The Domestic Violence Externship takes place at the Center for Women and Families. Under the guidance of a supervising attorney, students will study statutes concerning family violence and procedures for seeking remedies and will participate in intake, meetings with clients and court appearances involving protective orders, divorce, custody, visitation and dependency.
Credit Hours:
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Drafting
Course Number: LAW 986This course will provide a practical experience in drafting legal documents beyond that already acquired in other doctrinal courses. Students will learn general principles of good drafting and will draft a variety of legal documents. These documents may include some of the following: various litigation materials such as complaints, answers, interrogatories and jury instructions; wills and related documents; basic contracts; statutes; and administrative regulations. Basic Legal Skills is a prerequisite.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Employment Discrimination
Course Number: LAW 914General problems from the standpoint of the practitioner in employment discrimination, including in-depth study of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, administrative and judicial practice remedies for discrimination and affirmative action.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Employment Law
Course Number: LAW 912Examines the foundations of emplyment law and the evolution of modern employment law; the employment relationship (hiring, discrimination); terms and conditions of employment (wages and hours, benefits, conditions of employment; safety and health, disability and illness); termination of employment (discharge, leaving a job, unemployment, retirement).
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Energy Law
Course Number: LAW 841Examination of legal problems related to utilization of coal, shale, nuclear, and solar energy sources (avoiding duplication with Coal,Oil and Gas Law); includes background of the energy crisis, identification of legal areas most relevant to energy development, and contributions of the law of energy planning.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Environmental Law
Course Number: LAW 931This course provides a broad overview of the principles and structure of legal protections for the natural and human environment, and then focuses on specific environmental statutory and regulatory systems. While students will get some basic exposure to the system of environmental protection in the U.S., the scope of environmental law is too broad to cover all the major statutes and doctrines. Topics covered in any particular offering of this course may include endangered species and wildlife, waters and watersheds, water quality and pollution, wetlands, forests, grassland ecosystems, environmental impact analysis, air pollution, hazardous and toxic substances, waste management, risk assessment, and environmental justice.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Estate and Gift Taxation
Course Number: LAW 869Study of law concerning federal estate and gift taxes, including determination of net gifts subject to tax, gross estate, permissible deductions, exemptions and credits, and impact of estate and gift taxes on estate planning.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Estate Planning
Course Number: LAW 870Prerequisite: Basic Income Taxation, Estate and Gift Taxation. Consideration of methods for transferring property during lifetime or at death, with emphasis on tax features.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
European Union Law
Course Number: LAW 885Focuses on the evolution of supra-national rules in the European Union, including the EU influence on the regulation policies of non-EU countries.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Evidence
Course Number: LAW 823Study of rules governing proof of alleged facts and admission of evidence in civil and criminal cases; includes treatment of presumptions, judicial notice, admissions, relevance, hearsay, opinions, real evidence and the best-evidence rule.
Credit Hours: Four hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Extramural Competitions
Course Number: LAW 934Prerequisite: Legal Research and Basic Legal Skills. Students participate in extramural advocacy competitions that the faculty has approved as means for earning academic credit. Such competitions must involve both written and oral advocacy. So much as competition rules permit, students must perform under substantial, continuous supervision and instruction by an advisor, a full-time law faculty member who shall evaluate each student's written and oral performance, and determine the number of credits each student has earned. Students may earn up to two hours credit for participation in an extra-mural advocacy competition. Students who participate in more than one competition may earn up to four hours credit. In no case may the total number of hours earned in internships and extramural advocacy competitions exceed eight.
Credit Hours: One or two hours. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Federal Jurisdiction
Course Number: LAW 837Study of problems relating to use of the federal courts; includes justiciability, state-federal conflicts, diversity and federal question jurisdiction, amount in controversy, removal, venue, choice of law, and federal appellate practice.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Genetics and the Law
Course Number: LAW 959This course examines the new developments in genetics that are taking place as a result of the Human Genome Project, the large scale effort to map and sequence all of the human genes. This course explores the many legal issues in genetics, including reproduction, access to healthcare, discrimination, forensics and gene therapy.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Health Care Regulation
Course Number: LAW 946Examines laws regulating the delivery and financing of health care, including regulation of private and public payers, and of health care facilities and individual providers. Emphasis is on federal and state regulations to control quality of and access to health care, coverage and reimbursement issues, and constitutional and administrative law considerations. Topics covered include private health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, licensure and certificate of need, third party reimbursement strategies, peer review, duties of disclosure and for protecting medical records, and liability for medical accidents in managed care.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
HIV/AIDS and the Law
Course Number: LAW 996After an overview of medical, social and political dimensions of HIV/ AIDS, there will be consideration of how persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are affected by law and the legal system in such areas as housing, employment, education, family (including custody, visitation, and adoption), health care, public health, insurance and torts.
Credit Hours: Two hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Immigration Law
Course Number: LAW 992An examination of the sources and limits of federal authority over immigration, as well as the govern-mental processes addressing admission, deportation, temporary and permanent residency, citizenship and asylum.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Independent Study
Course Number: LAW 933Supervised research and preparation of a publishable written work. Open only to students with the permission of the Associate Dean and the instructor. In seeking the permission of the Associate Dean the student must provide a detailed outline of the proposed research project with a schedule of projected deadlines and a projection of the length of the paper; the faculty member who will supervise the project must approve the outline. One or
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Insurance
Course Number: LAW 825Application of contract rules to insurance contracts; involves study of insurable interests, formation of the contract, concealment, representations and warranties, waiver and estoppel, rights under the contract, and its construction.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Intellectual Property Issues in the Digital Age
Course Number: LAW 895
Note: Course formerly called Law and Computers. An examination of some of the legal problems arising out of the impact of computers and the Internet on society, including discussion of privacy concerns, computer crime, intellectual property in computer hardware, software, and business methods, problems arising from the non-localized nature of the Internet, liability for defective software, and computer records as evidence.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Intellectual Property Licensing and Transfer
Course Number: LAW 894This course deals with domestic and foreign licensing and franchise arrangements involving patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks. In addition to reviewing the law governing licenses and franchises, the course will introduce certain related issues, such as antitrust, bankruptcy, misuse concerns, and negotiation of license and franchise agreements. Students also will participate in drafting some of the more important clauses used in licensing and franchise agreements, including valuation and royalty determinations and confidentiality agreements.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
International Business Transactions
Course Number: LAW 887Investigation of problems which arise from doing business abroad.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
International Intellectual Property Law
Course Number: LAW 897A study of the international protection of intellectual property rights. The primary focus of the course will be the various treaties and conventions dealing with intellectual property rights, including the Paris Convention, Berne Convention, Madrid Agreement and Protocol, Hague Agreement on Industrial Design, and WTO. In addition, the course will cover various other issues relating to intellectual property in ther international sphere, such as differing perceptions of morality, fair competition, and freedom-of-speech concerns.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offeed as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
International Law
Course Number: LAW 886Study of the international legal system; with emphasis on the principles of international law and activities of the United Nations and other international organizations encountered by the practicing lawyer.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
International Study
Course Number: LAW 888International law study at an approved foreign law school. Students enrolling in this course may receive up to 12 hours credit for classes taken at a foreign school with which the University has a formal exchange arrangement. Prior to enrolling, students must obtain approval of the Dean, and the American Bar Association and a faculty advisor. Credit will be awarded by the dsignated faculty advisor, based upon appropriate documentation from the student and host school.
Credit Hours: 1-12 hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Introduction to Health Law
Course Number: LAW 946This course provides an introduction to many fundamental health law issues such as those relating to access to and the quality of health care; private and public financing systems; antitrust in the healthcare field; privacy; and long-term care. The content of the course may vary from year to year, depending on which more specialized courses may be available to students. It is recommended that students with special interest in health law take this course as a pre- or co-requisite to more specialized health law courses.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Judicial Externship
Course Number: LAW 948Prerequisite: Evidence and Civil Procedure. Selected students will be afforded an opportunity to observe the legal system from the perspective of the judge.
Credit Hours: Two hours. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Jurisprudence
Course Number: LAW 926Inquiry about the nature of law and its relation to moral principles and to social facts and institutions; examines different ways of thinking about law (natural law, legal positivism, and legal realism) and how they affect how judges and lawyers think about what they do.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Juvenile Justice
Course Number: LAW 845A study of the juvenile and the legal system, including such topics as the history of the juvenile court system, rights of children, emancipation, abused and neglected and dependent children, commitment of children, parental care, and the juvenile and the criminal justice system.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Labor Law
Course Number: LAW 910Introduction to the law of collective bargaining and relations of unions with members; nonmembers, employers, and the public.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Labor Law in the Public Sector
Course Number: LAW 909The law of collective bargaining in the public sector, including police, firemen, teachers, and federal agencies.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Land Use and Planning Law
Course Number: LAW 904This course examines legal issues related to planning and land use activities in the U.S. Students will study various legal and regulatory tools, including ordinances, state and federal legislation, and judicial decisions. Considerable attention will be given to planning perspectives on legal problems, as well as legal perspectives on planning problems, and thus has an interdisciplinary focus. This class may be composed of both law students and graduate planning students, and the course may be cross-listed with UPA 678. The course may be offered as a research seminar that would satisfy the writing requirement.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Law and Economic Analysis
Course Number: LAW 921Examines the uses and limitations of economic analysis in addressing legal problems. Specific topics include voluntary exchanges and their alternatives, private rights and wrongs, coping with uncertainty, competitive markets, the role of the government, public policy and distributive justice.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Law and Education
Course Number: LAW 898A survey of the various state, federal and constitutional laws that have an impact on public and private education. Student discipline, teacher employment and discharge, curriculum, education of the disabled, student rights, free speech and press, and other legal issues which inhere in American educational processes at the elementary, secondary and college levels are examined.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Law and Literature
Course Number: LAW 985A study of the legal system and legal concepts by using works of literature. The purpose of the course is to encourage students to discuss and debate problems that challenge our legal system, e.g., spouse abuse, abuse of power, corporate responsibility, equal access, etc., by using nontraditional materials by writers such as Hurston, Dickens, Melville, Faulkner, and Ellison.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a course or seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Legal Aid Clinical Externship I
Course Number: LAW 949Study and practice in lawyering skills; includes interviewing, investigation, counseling, negotiation, and courtroom behavior, with the goal of developing a model of lawyer decision-making. Students may have actual clients and represent them in court.
Credit Hours: Two to four hours. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Legal Aid Clinical Externship II
Course Number: LAW 950Study and practice in lawyering skills; includes interviewing, investigation, counseling, negotiation, and courtroom behavior, with the goal of developing a model of lawyer decision-making. Students may have actual clients and represent them in court.
Credit Hours: Two to four hours. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Legal History
Course Number: LAW 838Study of the origins and development of English law, its reception in the American colonies, and the development of law and legal institutions in the United States.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Legal Problems of the Elderly
Course Number: LAW 923An examination of the extent to which the legal system has been responsive to the needs of the elderly, including the study of problems of employment, mandatory retirement, social security, health care, housing, nursing homes, financial planning, protective services, and the right to die.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Legal Problems of the Poor
Course Number: LAW 922An examination of the legal system's potential for being responsive to the legal needs of the poor. Substantive areas may include housing law, consumer law, welfare law, and delivery of legal services to the poor. Study will include cases, problems and skill development including interviewing and drafting.
Credit Hours: Three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Legal Research
Course Number: LAW 800The study and use of legal materials. Students receive classroom instruction in the types of law books, their function, and legal research techniques. In addition, they obtain practical experience by completing assignments, which require use of legal materials in the Law Library. All students must satisfactorily complete training in computer-assisted legal research, Westlaw and Lexis in their first year. Completion of the entire Legal Research program is a requirement for graduation.
Credit Hours: One hour.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Legislation
Course Number: LAW 919Study of the legislation process, including legislative apportionment and organization, investigations, lobbying controls, legislators privileges and immunities, state constitutional limitations on legislative action, and statutory construction.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Managed Care and the Law
Course Number: LAW 958This course focuses on the current and evolving state and federal laws regulating practices and strategies used by entities and organizations providing healthcare coverage through managed care plans. Topics include laws addressing contracting issues of concern to physicians, as well as federal and state laws addressing consumer concerns.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Medical Malpractice
Course Number: LAW 945A study of theories underlying and the special problems confronted in medical malpractice litigation against professional and institutional providers. Topics covered include the standard of care and burdens of proof, defenses, causation and damages, theories of institutional liability, the physician-patient relationship, duties of confidentiality and informed consent, and tort reform initiatives.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Medicine, Bioethics and the Law
Course Number: LAW 980This course will consider such topical issues as termination of life-support systems, abortion, contraception, genetic screening, disposition of incurably damaged infants, Do Not Resuscitate orders, living wills, human research and experimentation, organ donation and distribution, definitions of life and death, and duty to provide medical treatment to the poor.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Mergers and Acquisitions
Course Number: LAW 969A study of the substance, form and mechanics of corporate combination transactions. This course explores issues that may arise under federal securities laws and state corporate laws in connection with corporate mergers, takeovers and defensive tactics, including the duties such laws impose on corporate directors. This course takes students from the planning and choosing of particular forms of combinations and into substantive areas, including but not limited to the application of the Williams Act.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Negotiable Instruments
Course Number: LAW 832Study of problems arising from issuance of and payment for goods or services by negotiable instruments such as checks, drafts, and notes; explores rights and liabilities of parties handling negotiable instruments and process by which commercial banks collect and pay checks.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Negotiations
Course Number: LAW 893Gives students actual experience in a variety of negotiation settings, as well as discussion and analysis of the theory and practice of negotiation. The student will be required to participate in a minimum of five negotiations. Grading will be based on a final examination or written exercises, and on student performance in simulated negotiations.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Partnership Taxation
Course Number: LAW 872Prerequisite: Basic Income Taxation. Study of the federal income taxation of partnerships and partners, with emphasis on the tax incidents of organization, operation, and dissolution of partnerships; includes consideration of tax aspects of subchapter S corporations.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Patent Law
Course Number: LAW 917Introduction to the substantive and procedural law of patents, with emphasis on practical considerations.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Products Liability
Course Number: LAW 860Study of the law, rights, and remedies associated with injuries caused by defective products; includes strict liability, negligence, warranty, and important statutory controls.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Professional Responsibility
Course Number: LAW 859The course presents an overview of the law of lawyering, emphasizing the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA Code of Judicial Conduct while also examining case law and other standards governing lawyers. Topics include confidentiality; conflicts; disqualification; the marketing of legal services; malpractice; unauthorized practice; lawyer compensation; the role of the advocate; the attorney-client relationship; the lawyer's duty to the courts, third parties and the public; and law firm issues.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? Yes
Property I
Course Number: LAW 806Basic training in property law, including treatment of possession, finders, bailments, gifts, bona fide purchasers, liens, pledges, fixtures, estates, conveyancing, leases, and easements.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Property II
Course Number: LAW 807Basic training in property law, including treatment of possession, finders, bailments, gifts, bona fide purchasers, liens, pledges, fixtures, estates, conveyancing, leases, and easements.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Psychiatry, Mental Health and the Law
Course Number: LAW 947Explores a broad range of areas where psychiatry and the law intersect. Topics include the relationship of mental illness to criminal responsibility and competence to enter into legal transactions and relationships; contemporary issues in involuntary civil commitment of mentally ill and retarded persons; protection of confidentiality and privacy within the therapist-patient relationship; the psychiatrist as expert witness in civil cases, and other.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Public Service Requirement
Course Number: LAW 955Credit Hours:
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Race and the Law
Course Number: LAW 906This course examines the legal treatment and status of groups of color which may include the examination of one or more of the following racial groups: African Americans; Latinos/as; Asian Americans; and Native Americans. Students may consider the history and evolution of certain understandings of race. Students may examine critical perspectives on a variety of issues that may include: the difficulties of defining and understanding the meanings of "race;" the nature of "racism," and "oppression;" theories of racial formation; the differing implications of colonization and immigration; the formation of stereotypes; theories of unconscious racism; the gendered and sexualized nature of race; and the situation of biracial and multiracial persons. Many discussions may focus solely on the experiences of racial minorities, and discussions may include the development of a white racial identity.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Real Estate Transactions
Course Number: LAW 902Study of selective problems encountered in financing, purchase and sale, and litigation concerning real property. Includes exercises in drafting documents and title examinations.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Regulatory Law and Policy
Course Number: LAW 998An examination of regulatory decision making. In contrast to Administrative Law, this course focuses on the substance of regulation, including the justifications for regulation and the traditional regulatory tools used in implementation. Prepares students for advocacy in regulatory arenas such as health or environmental law by exploring interdisciplinary skills such as policy analysis, economic analysis, political analysis, and use of empirical research.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Remedies
Course Number: LAW 863Study of legal and equitable remedies, including damages, restitution, injunctions, specific performance, accounting, reformation and rescission, and declaratory judgment.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Secured Transactions
Course Number: LAW 834Sales and loans when security is required; includes examination of how a lender can protect its interest on default by taking a security interest in a borrower's personal property, and how a lender secures a priority position under Uniform Commercial Code Article IX vis-�-vis other lenders.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? Yes
Securities Regulation
Course Number: LAW 918Study of laws affecting the capital markets, including a consideration of federal regulation of distribution of securities and trading in securities, civil liabilities thereunder, and state blue-sky laws.
Credit Hours: Three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Selected Problems in Civil Procedure
Course Number: LAW 942Students will consider, in depth, procedural issues related to litigation. Topics for study include motions to dismiss, class action, discovery, summary, judgments, and post-trial motions.
Credit Hours: Two hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Special Topics
Course Number: LAW 999Inquiries into timely legal subjects, as announced.
Credit Hours: One or more hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Tax Externship
Course Number: LAW 954Prerequisite: Basic Income Tax. Selected students will be afforded an opportunity to work with the local office of the Internal Revenue Service. They will draft pleadings for filing with the United States Tax Court and the United States Bankruptcy Court, attend Tax Court trials and hearings in the Bankruptcy Court, draft correspondence to the Department of Justice concerning civil and criminal matters and draft letters to taxpayers' counsel, attend settlement conferences and other meetings with taxpayers and their representatives, and do tax re-search and draft memoranda. Student will study an overview of tax procedure and receive instruction in computer assisted tax research.
Credit Hours: Two hours. Pass-Fail.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Technology Transfer Externship
Course Number: LAW 957Students in this externship will work in the university's Office of Technology Transfer under the primary supervision of the attorneys in that office and one law faculty member. Students will conduct legal research and draft a variety of documents relating to rights in technology produced at or transferred to the University, including lecenses, material transfer agreements, cell line agreements, confidentiality agreements, and laboratory decommissioning agreements. Students may also participate in drafting portions of patent applications. Enrollment is limited to three students, who must be approved by the supervising law faculty member.
Credit Hours: One or two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Torts I
Course Number: LAW 802Study of civil wrongs, including assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence, proximate cause, deceit, libel and slander, and trade and labor disputes.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Torts II
Course Number: LAW 803Study of civil wrongs, including assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence, proximate cause, deceit, libel and slander, and trade and labor disputes.
Credit Hours: Three hours each course.
Course Type: First-Year
Required Course? Yes
Core Course? No
Trademark Law
Course Number: LAW 973A course dealing with the law of trademarks, service marks, and trade names, including coverage of the types of trade symbols that may function as marks, protection of trade dress and product design, geographic scope of rights, infringement, and registration of trade symbols under the Lanham Act.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Trial Practice
Course Number: LAW 848Prerequisite: Evidence. Gives the student actual experience in preparing and presenting all phases of civil and criminal litigation. The student will prepare and present voir dire, opening and closing statements, witness examinations and arguments on evidence. There will be particular emphasis on trial strategy and other techniques of persuasion.
Credit Hours: Three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Water Resources Law & Policy
Course Number: LAW 839This course involves the study of water rights, and the policies and legal principles governing the management of water resources generally. Specific topics may vary. Topics may include riparian rights, prior appropriation systems, water use permitting systems and statutory codes, the management of drainage and runoff, the law and practices of water institutions, interstate water disputes, watershed-based management, integration of water supply and water quality protections, and the control and distribution of clean drinking water supplies.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Women and the Law
Course Number: LAW 905This course examines the treatment and status of women in the U.S. legal system. Students will consider women's historical treatment as outsiders in the legal system, constitutional issues that affect women, and jurisprudential perspectives relating to women and the law. Students will examine critical perspectives on a variety of issues that may include women in law school, in legal practice, in employment, in the family, in their reproductive role, and as targets of violence.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours; may be offered as a seminar.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Workers' Compensation
Course Number: LAW 913Study of federal and state legislation governing employment relationships, with particular emphasis on workers' compensation, its development, practice, and theory. Includes unemployment insurance, social security, and fair employment standards.
Credit Hours: Two or three hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No
Written Advocacy
Course Number: LAW 929An intensive practicum in the development and application of those basic skills and techniques conducive to effective written communication and persuasion.
Credit Hours: Two hours.
Course Type: Upper-Class
Required Course? No
Core Course? No