CUA Columbus School of Law

Course Descriptions
Law (LAW)

To view the complete schedule of courses for
each semester, go to Cardinal Students.

LAW 101: Lawyering Skills
2 Credits

In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges. Mr. Koby

LAW 102: Lawyering Skills II
2 Credits

In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges.

LAW 103: LSP Research -- Day
0 Credits

no description available

LAW 107: Civil Procedure
4 Credits

An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review.

LAW 108: Civil Procedure
4 Credits

An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review.

LAW 111: Social Justice and the Law: Introduction to Catholic Social Thought
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 112: Catholic Social Teaching, Jurisprudence and the Law
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 114: Constitutional Law
5 Credits

A study of the American constitutional system, emphasizing sources, limits, and modes of exercise of federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction; the allocation of powers between the federal government and the states; the separation of powers among the coordinate branches of the federal government, and selected topics involving the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War Amendments.

LAW 119: Contracts
5 Credits

A study of the fundamental principles of contract law, as expressed both in the Common Law and Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code. Topics include the formation of contract obligation; the writing requirement of the statute of frauds; unfairness, overreaching, and the limits of public policy as grounds for non-enforcement; interpretation; breach; remedies for breach; and the rights of third parties. In addition to substantive contract doctrine, the course is designed to teach analysis of common law and statutory materials and application of law to factual situations.

LAW 129: Criminal Law
3 Credits

The course covers the elements of criminal conduct in general, the crime of rape, the various forms of homicide and theft offenses, anticipatory offenses, group criminality and common law, and statutory defenses including insanity, provocation, and duress.

LAW 130: Criminal Law
3 Credits

The course covers the elements of criminal conduct in general, the crime of rape, the various forms of homicide and theft offenses, anticipatory offenses, group criminality and common law, and statutory defenses including insanity, provocation, and duress.

LAW 131: Property
4 Credits

This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing.

LAW 132: Property
4 Credits

This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing.

LAW 137: Torts
4 Credits

A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products.

LAW 138: Torts
4 Credits

A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products.

LAW 159: LSP Research -- Evening
0 Credits

no description available

LAW 161: Lawyering Skills I
2 Credits

In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges.

LAW 162: Lawyering Skills II
2 Credits

In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges.

LAW 163: Social Justice and the Law: Introduction to Catholic Social Thought
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 167: Civil Procedure
4 Credits

An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review.

LAW 168: Civil Procedure
4 Credits

An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review.

LAW 179: Contracts
2 Credits

A study of the fundamental principles of contract law, as expressed both in the Common Law and Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code. Topics include the formation of contract obligation; the writing requirement of the statute of frauds; unfairness, overreaching, and the limits of public policy as grounds for non-enforcement; interpretation; breach; remedies for breach; and the rights of third parties. In addition to substantive contract doctrine, the course is designed to teach analysis of common law and statutory materials and application of law to factual situations.

LAW 180: Contracts
3 Credits

A study of the fundamental principles of contract law, as expressed both in the Common Law and Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code. Topics include the formation of contract obligation; the writing requirement of the statute of frauds; unfairness, overreaching, and the limits of public policy as grounds for non-enforcement; interpretation; breach; remedies for breach; and the rights of third parties. In addition to substantive contract doctrine, the course is designed to teach analysis of common law and statutory materials and application of law to factual situations.

LAW 191: Property
2 Credits

This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing.

LAW 192: Property
2 Credits

This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing.

LAW 197: Torts
4 Credits

A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products.

LAW 198: Torts
4 Credits

A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products.

LAW 201: Administrative Law
3 Credits

This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 202: Administrative Law
3 Credits

This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 204: Administrative Law
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 205: Corporations
4 Credits

The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 206: Corporations
4 Credits

The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 223: Evidence
4 Credits

This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 224: Evidence
4 Credits

This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 229: Fed Income Taxation
4 Credits

An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 230: Federal Income Taxation
4 Credits

An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 241: Trusts & Estates
4 Credits

A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 242: Trusts & Estates
4 Credits

A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 254: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process
3 Credits

All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy.

LAW 261: Administrative Law
3 Credits

This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 262: Administrative Law
3 Credits

This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 271: Constitutional Law
2 Credits

A study of the American constitutional system, emphasizing sources, limits, and modes of exercise of federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction; the allocation of powers between the federal government and the states; the separation of powers among the coordinate branches of the federal government, and selected topics involving the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War Amendments.

LAW 272: Constitutional Law
3 Credits

A study of the American constitutional system, emphasizing sources, limits, and modes of exercise of federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction; the allocation of powers between the federal government and the states; the separation of powers among the coordinate branches of the federal government, and selected topics involving the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War Amendments.

LAW 275: Criminal Law
3 Credits

The course covers the elements of criminal conduct in general, the crime of rape, the various forms of homicide and theft offenses, anticipatory offenses, group criminality and common law, and statutory defenses including insanity, provocation, and duress.

LAW 283: Evidence
4 Credits

This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront.

LAW 284: Evidence
4 Credits

This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 289: Federal Income Taxation
4 Credits

An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 290: Federal Income Taxation
4 Credits

An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 302: Agency Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 303: Advanced Tort Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 304: International Civil Litigation
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 305: Commercial Transactions
4 Credits

In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 306: Commercial Transaction
4 Credits

In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 307: Agency Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 308: Law of War
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 309: International Civil Litigation
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 310: Advanced Topics in Patent Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 320: Patent Enforcement
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 321: Remedies
3 Credits

This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 322: Remedies
3 Credits

This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 323: Insurance Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 355: Trusts & Estates
4 Credits

A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 356: Trusts & Estates
4 Credits

A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 391: Law and Economics of Property Law (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 392: American Banking Law (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 393: Negotiation for Lawyers: Theory and Practice
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 401: Appellate Advocacy
2 Credits

Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation.

LAW 402: Appellate Advocacy
2 Credits

Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation.

LAW 403: Health Law Practicum I
2 Credits

The health law practicum meets as a required course for the Health Law certificate. It meets once a week to discuss issues in social policy that relate to health care. It will consider, as well, issues related to health law internships and cutting edge issues in health law. The purpose of the practicum is to provide students with a theoretical context against which to consider their own careers in health law and to apprize them of recent developments.

LAW 404: Health Law Practicum II
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 405: Adv Issues in Corp Law
2 Credits

This course will focus on selected topics in corporate law and the role of corporate counsel in addressing these issues. Topics will include the operation of the attorney-client privilege in corporate settings; the responsibility of counsel with respect to corporate compliance programs in areas such as environmental, employment, and fraud and abuse law; internal investigations of alleged wrongdoing; opinions of counsel in connection with complex financial transactions and other significant corporate actions; organizational ethics; indemnification of officers directors; and legal aspects of dealing with corporate crises. Paper/Exam Option. Paper may satisfy one of the two upperlevel writing requirements. Prerequisite: Corporations

LAW 406: The Israeli Legal System
2 Credits

The Israeli legal system is a young phenomenon, routed in modern and liberal democratic notions. Yet, some of its aspects are characterized by Jewish religious values and to a lesser extent, by influences of Ottoman and British mandatory law. Israel's security condition, igts multy-dimentional, heterogeneous society and its lack of a coherent

LAW 407: Conflict of Laws
3 Credits

The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 408: Conflict of Law
3 Credits

The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 409: Health Law Fieldwork
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 410: International Human Rights Law
3 Credits

This course introduces students to substantive and procedural aspects of international human rights law. Topics include the UN human rights instruments, the regional human rights courts, the international criminal tribunals, the humanitarian law of war, the enforcement of human rights norms in U.S. courts, and the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy.

LAW 410A: International Human Rights Law - Litigation
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 411: Comparative Law Sem:Terrorism
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 412: Health Care Fraud & Abuse
2 Credits

At the outset, this course would identify the various criminal and civil federal statutes which are used to prosecute health care fraud and would set forth examples of the circumstances under which each might be appropriate. The course would then go into details of the federal anti-kickback statute, analyzing the language of the statute iteself, some of the key cases decided under the statute, the regulatory "safe harbors" promulgated by the Office of the Inspector General, and the rulings and advisory opinions that have been published. Some hypotheticals would be presented to generate an open discussion of the arguments that might be made by prosecutors and by the defense counsel under the statute. Another topic for detailed attention would be the federal Physician Self-Referral Statute (the "Stark law"), which addresses the myriad of both ownership and compensation financial relationships between physicians and hospitals or other health care entities to which the physicians refer business. Federal regulations have been finalized for much of the statute and are expected to be completed this year. The Stark Law presents many opportunities to analyze very common financial relationships for compliance with the many exceptions in the regulations. The course will also explore the expanding attempts by prosecutors to use the False Claims Act to address all sorts of offensive practices, and the requirements for a relator to bring qui tam cases under this act. Key cases relating to health care prosecutions under the False Claims Act will be discussed. Attention will also be given to the rules covering other frequently applied sanctions including Medicare and other federal and state healthcare program exclusions and civil money penalties for fraud and abuse related matters. Finally, the course will address issues such as the conduct of fraud investigation, health care corporate compliance programs, and offensive health care marketing practices.

LAW 413: Arbitration and the Constitution
2 Credits

This seminar would consider the intersection of two areas of the law often considered independently from each other. We normally think of the Constitution as largely regulating public conduct ¿ the horizontal distribution of power among the branches of the federal government, the vertical distribution between the federal government and the states, and the civil liberties that constrain state action against the individual. By contrast, arbitration is typically understood as a purely private undertaking between private individuals ¿ outside the ambit of the judicial process and, consequently, outside any constitutional strictures. This seminar explores how these two areas of the law increasingly overlap. It considers the intersection from a variety of angles ¿ Article III, Due Process, State Action, the Jury Right and federalism, just to name a few. Students wishing to take this course should have a good grounding in constitutional law. A prior class in arbitration is not a prerequisite for the course, but it may be helpful. Participants in the seminar will not write an exam but, instead, will be expected to write one or more papers over the course of the semester.

LAW 414: Comparative Law Seminar: Terrorism
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 415: Int'l Trade and National Security
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 416: National Security in Cyberspace
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 417: Advanced Legal Research and Writing
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 418A: Freedom of Expression in the American Constitution (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 420: Government Contracts, Grants and Programs
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 421: Professional Responsibility
3 Credits

This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available.

LAW 422: Professional Responsibility
3 Credits

This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available.

LAW 423: Criminal Procedure: Investigative Process
3 Credits

All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy.

LAW 424: Cyberlaw I: Legal Issues Relating to Computer Networks
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 425: Law, Business and Ethics
3 Credits

Law, Business and Ethics will examine the current ethical crises in American business, and its long-term ethical dilemmas, from three perspectives. First, the course will examine some of the most important ethical theories relevant to the conduct of business, both as developed by philosophers and management thinkers. Second, the course will examine the legal regime that regulates ethical conduct in business, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Third, the course will study the ethical codes that most large businesses have adopted, consider the extent to which such codes function like private, internal legal codes, and determine the extent to which lawyers can help businesses in making such does effective. Course readings will include selections from the writings major moral thinkers, students of business ethics and jurisprudence, in addition to traditional legal sources such as statutes and cases. Course requirements will include a qualifying paper to satisfy the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

LAW 426: Cyber Law II: Legal Issues Related to Doing Business in a Digital World
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 427: Election Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 427A: Election Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 428: Comparative Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 429: Lgl. Extrn: Becoming an International Lawyer
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 430: Comparative Remedies (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 431: Becoming A Public Policy Lawyer Seminar
2 Credits

This course is required for second-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a field placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy, and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit for each sixty hours of fieldwork. Students are encouraged to complete three hours of fieldwork credit but may elect to complete only two fieldwork credits. This two-credit seminar will include reflective oral and written dialogue and readings designed to foster learning from the field and clinical experiences, to advance the students' professional development and prepare them for public law careers. Participants study various aspects of their own and others' field experience, including the goals and operations of the organizations where they are working, the process and problems encountered in the making or implementation of law or policy, the professional conduct and roles of the lawyers with whom they work, and other topics. The course will expose students to a wide variety of legal organizations and substantive fields. The course is designed to assist students in identifying professional goals and paths through which they might pursue those goals.

LAW 432: Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer
2 Credits

This course is required for second-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a field placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy, and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit for each sixty hours of fieldwork. Students are encouraged to complete three hours of fieldwork credit but may elect to complete only two fieldwork credits. This two-credit seminar will include reflective oral and written dialogue and readings designed to foster learning from the field and clinical experiences, to advance the students' professional development and prepare them for public law careers. Participants study various aspects of their own and others' field experience, including the goals and operations of the organizations where they are working, the process and problems encountered in the making or implementation of law or policy, the professional conduct and roles of the lawyers with whom they work, and other topics. The course will expose students to a wide variety of legal organizations and substantive fields. The course is designed to assist students in identifying professional goals and paths through which they might pursue those goals.

LAW 433: Lgl Extrn.: Becoming an International Lawyer
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 434: Introduction to Intellectual Property
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 435: American Criminal Law and Procedure (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 436: Catholic Natural Law Tradition
2 Credits

This two-credit elective course uses a seminar format in which the participants explore the principles of traditional Catholic natural law theory, including their origins in the Eternal Law of Almighty God. The readings include excerpts from the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas and it is expected that the classroom discussions will draw relevancies to current understandings of law and justice and current movements in legal philosophy. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 437: Comparative International Tax
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 437A: Comparative Tax
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 438: Advanced Torts
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 439: Advance Legal Research
2 Credits

This course will develop students' research skills in both traditional book-based and computer-assisted legal research. The course will provide an in-depth approach integrating book-based and computerized research in statutes, legislative history and tracking, administrative and executive publications, case finding and verification, secondary sources and indexes, current awareness and topical reporters, government documents, international law, and nonlegal research. The course will provide extensive hands-on experience with computer-assisted research in LEXIS, WESTLAW, CD-Rom sources, and the Internet. Efficient research strategies will be developed through the preparation of several research memoranda. Specialized topical research will be addressed by the preparation of a research guide by each student in a subject area of interest to that particular student. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Writing and Research or a course on legal literature taught at the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course.

LAW 440: Advanced Legal Research
2 Credits

This course will develop students' research skills in both traditional book-based and computer-assisted legal research. The course will provide an in-depth approach integrating book-based and computerized research in statutes, legislative history and tracking, administrative and executive publications, case finding and verification, secondary sources and indexes, current awareness and topical reporters, government documents, international law, and nonlegal research. The course will provide extensive hands-on experience with computer-assisted research in LEXIS, WESTLAW, CD-Rom sources, and the Internet. Efficient research strategies will be developed through the preparation of several research memoranda. Specialized topical research will be addressed by the preparation of a research guide by each student in a subject area of interest to that particular student. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Writing and Research or a course on legal literature taught at the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course.

LAW 441: Appellate Advocacy
2 Credits

Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation.

LAW 442: Appellate Advocacy
2 Credits

Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation.

LAW 443: Advanced Legal Research & Writing
3 Credits

This course will develop students' writing and research skills by guiding them through the process of researching for and writing a case note on a pending Supreme Court case. The first component of the course will be devoted to the development of advanced legal research skills including planning research strategies, field research, research in public records, constitutional law research, statutes, legislative histories, tracking legislation, treaties, administrative and executive publications, agency rules, regulations and adjudications, government documents, case finding, case verification, secondary sources, looseleaf services, LEXIS, WESTLAW, Internet resources, nonlegal research, and specialized legal research. The remainder of the course will be devoted to the refinement of writing skills, focusing particularly on organization, use of authority, and development of an effective writing style. Successful completion of this course fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Research or a course on legal literature taught by the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course.

LAW 444: Advanced Legal Writing and Research
3 Credits

This course will develop students' writing and research skills by guiding them through the process of researching for and writing a case note on a pending Supreme Court case. The first component of the course will be devoted to the development of advanced legal research skills including planning research strategies, field research, research in public records, constitutional law research, statutes, legislative histories, tracking legislation, treaties, administrative and executive publications, agency rules, regulations and adjudications, government documents, case finding, case verification, secondary sources, looseleaf services, LEXIS, WESTLAW, Internet resources, nonlegal research, and specialized legal research. The remainder of the course will be devoted to the refinement of writing skills, focusing particularly on organization, use of authority, and development of an effective writing style. Successful completion of this course fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Research or a course on legal literature taught by the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course.

LAW 445: Trial Skills: A Criminal Case
3 Credits

This course has the same content as Trial Practice with two exceptions: (1) the course covers the role of the advocate in the trial process of a criminal case, and (2) there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process; Evidence.

LAW 446: Trial Skills: A Criminal Case
3 Credits

This course has the same content as Trial Practice with two exceptions: (1) the course covers the role of the advocate in the trial process of a criminal case, and (2) there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process; Evidence.

LAW 447: Latin American Legal Inst
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 448: Federal Criminal Litigation
2 Credits

The goal of this course is to familiarize the students with the theoretical and practical concerns of federal criminal litigation from both prosecution and defense perspectives. The course deals with the law, theory, ethical considerations, and tactical concerns that relate to criminal practice in federal court from the pre-indictment phase through plea negotiations or trial and appeal. Lectures, class discussions, and reading materials focus on the general analytical framework for prosecuting and defending a federal criminal case. This is not a trial techniques course. It is concerned with the law, ethics, and strategy behind the techniques.

LAW 449: Trial Skills: A Civil Case
3 Credits

This course has the same course content as Trial Practice except that there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisite: Evidence. Faculty.

LAW 450: Trial Skills: A Civil Case
3 Credits

This course has the same course content as Trial Practice except that there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisite: Evidence. Faculty.

LAW 451: Corporations
4 Credits

The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 452: Corporations
4 Credits

The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 453: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process
3 Credits

All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy.

LAW 454: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process
3 Credits

All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy.

LAW 455: Trusts & Estates
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 456A: American Business Organizations Part I:Unincorporated Business Organizations (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 456B: American Business Organizations Part II: corporations (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 457: American Legal Analysis and Writing (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 461: Professional Responsibility
3 Credits

This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available.

LAW 462: Professional Responsibility
3 Credits

This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available.

LAW 463: Advanced Issues in Copyright and Trademark Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 465: Commercial Transactions
4 Credits

In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 466: Commercial Transactions
4 Credits

In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 467: Intl Hum Law:Peace Keeping
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 468: Civil Rights/Legal History Seminar: Brown vs. Board of Education
2 Credits

This seminar will examine the revolutionary changes that took place in civil rights law pertaining to race discrimination in the mid-twentieth century. The course will focus on landmark judicial decisions including Shelley v. Kramer, Brown v. Board of Education, Heart of Alabama Motel v. United States, and Loving v. Virginia. The course will begin with an examination of Plessy v. Ferguson and other decisions of the early post-Civil War period and then consider the developments and advocacy strategies that led to the radical changes of the post-World War II era and, later, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and beyond. Class discussions will focus on the importance of legal advocacy and the role of the judiciary in developing the law on race discrimination. The course will conclude with a review of modern corollary developments in other areas of civil rights law. In lieu of a final examination, this course requires a qualifying paper that fulfills one-half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 469: Litigating with the Federal Government
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 470: Japanese Legal System in Comparative Perspective
2 Credits

A study of the Japanese Legal System in comparison with the U.S. in such areas as the education, licensing and role of lawyers, judicial system and power, civil litigation remedies in civil litigation, appeal of civil judgments, criminal procedure, administrative law and alternative dispute resolution.

LAW 471: Conflict of Laws
3 Credits

The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 472: Conflict of Laws
3 Credits

The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 473: American Civil Procedure (Cracow)
2 Credits

American Civil Procedure (Cracow)

LAW 481: Remedies
3 Credits

This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 482: Remedies
3 Credits

This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 483: Evidence
4 Credits

This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 484: Civil Rights Legislative Practice
2 Credits

Civil Rights Legislative Practice is a writing and research seminar, graded numerically. The course focuses on the practices and procedures of public policy formulation in the substantive areas of civil rights and its related areas (education, economic development, etc.) Substantive law and policy will be taught from background materials and from new developments covered in the Congressional Monitor, Congressional Quarterly, Congressional Quarterly on-line services, the government locator website "Thomas," and faxes and correspondence from civil rights organizations working in the Capital. The grade will be based on a research paper which may satisfy the writing requirement. Students who register to take Civil Rights Legislative Practice also may register to take Civil Rights Legislative Practice/Supervised Fieldwork.

LAW 485: Health Managed Care: Structure & Legal Problems
2 Credits

This course will investigate the structure and some of the more pressing legal problems surrounding the growth of so-called "managed care" organizations which are rapidly becoming the major vehicles of health care coverage for the country. Included will be a study of the various types of Health Maintenance Organizations, Independent Practice Organizations, Preferred Practice Organizations, and Hospital Based Managed Care Plans. Emphasis will be placed on the antitrust aspects of managed care, the rights and duties of individual physicians vis-a-vis MCOs, the rights of patients vis-a-vis MCOs, and consideration of the future of managed care as the backbone of health care in the years to come.

LAW 486: Veterans Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 487: Military Law: A Comparative Perspective
2 Credits

This course examines military law, both criminal and noncriminal, from a perspective that emphasizes comparisons of military law with state and federal domestic law, and comparisons of United States military law with the military law of other countries. Topics include the sources of military law; the law of war and martial law; the role of Congress and the President in overseeing the military; the application of the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution to service members and to activities on military installations; the need for a separate military criminal justice system; subject matter and in personam jurisdiction of military tribunals; command control and influence; and comparison with the Federal Rules pf Evidence and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Fraternization, homosexuality, and other systemic policy issues concerning the military are also covered.

LAW 488: Introduction to Arbitration and Mediation
3 Credits

This course will focus on the evolving law of alternate dispute resolution (ADR) in particular the law related to mediation and arbitration. It should be considered an introduction to ADR and a basic building block of the ADR curriculum. While there will be some skills training, this course focuses on the ADR statutes and case law including the Federal Arbitration Act, the 'New York' Convention, the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1990 and the UN Convention on Arbitration (UNCITRAL). Ethical issues of mediation and arbitration will be highlighted as well. Cutting edge questions including the limits of mandatory arbitration, a-national arbitration, confidentiality in mediation and the growing law of mediation and the status of neutrals will be considered. ADR in the Federal sector will be discussed.

LAW 489: Islamic Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 490: Federal Income Taxation
4 Credits

An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 491: Business Reorganization
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 492: CyberLaw
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 493: American Federal Taxation (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 494: American International Property Law (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 495: Role of the Federal Prosecutor
2 Credits

This course will explore the powers and responsibilities of the federal prosecutor. Class segments will focus on how decisions are made by federal prosecutors throughout different stages of the criminal justice system, in light of legal, policy, practical and ethical considerations. Using actual cases as well as federal statutes, guidelines, and other materials, the course will discuss the factors that influence the decisions and discretion of the federal prosecutor. The course will also examine the interaction between and among federal, state and foreign jurisdictions, in particular the interests of competing sovereigns in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity. Prerequisites: Students must have taken a criminal law and criminal procedure class. Constitutional Law and Evidence would also be helpful.

LAW 496: Cyberlaw
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 497: Tax Procedure
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 498: Community Econ Development
3 Credits

This course is an advanced course in business reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Students will navigate a distressed company through the chapter 11 reorganization process. Coverage will include the following topics: pre-filing considerations and strategies connected with a corporation's decision to seek relief under chapter 11; commencing the chapter 11 case and first-day motions; creditor committees, trustee and examiner issues; developing a plan of business reorganization; filing the reorganization plan; disclosure statement requirements and solicitation of plan acceptances; plan confirmation requirements; post-confirmation issues. Attention also will be given to special chapter 11 issues involving airline bankruptcies; utility bankruptcies; toxic tort-type cases; collective bargaining agreements; and retiree-benefit issues. Prerequisite: Bankruptcy. Enrollment limited to twenty students.

LAW 499: Business Reorganization
2 Credits

This course is an advanced course in business reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Students will navigate a distressed company through the chapter 11 reorganization process. Coverage will include the following topics: pre-filing considerations and strategies connected with a corporation's decision to seek relief under chapter 11; commencing the chapter 11 case and first-day motions; creditor committees, trustee and examiner issues; developing a plan of business reorganization; filing the reorganization plan; disclosure statement requirements and solicitation of plan acceptances; plan confirmation requirements; post-confirmation issues. Attention also will be given to special chapter 11 issues involving airline bankruptcies; utility bankruptcies; toxic tort-type cases; collective bargaining agreements; and retiree-benefit issues. Prerequisite: Bankruptcy. Enrollment limited to twenty students.

LAW 501: Consumer Law Seminar
3 Credits

This is a limited-enrollment seminar that partially satisfies the school's writing requirement. Students may not take Consumer Transactions in addition to this course. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. This course looks selectively at aspects of common law and federal and state statutory and regulatory materials affecting consumers as buyers, borrowers, and lessees. Representative areas of coverage include advertising, transactional disclosure, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, product warranties, rate regulation, credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Statutes involved include the Federal Trade Commission Act, the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Billing, Consumer Leasing, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Credit Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection Practices, et al.), the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and state "little FTC" acts. Each student will research, write, and present a paper that will constitute a major portion of the final grade. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 502: Consumer Law Seminar
3 Credits

This is a limited-enrollment seminar that partially satisfies the school's writing requirement. Students may not take Consumer Transactions in addition to this course. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. This course looks selectively at aspects of common law and federal and state statutory and regulatory materials affecting consumers as buyers, borrowers, and lessees. Representative areas of coverage include advertising, transactional disclosure, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, product warranties, rate regulation, credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Statutes involved include the Federal Trade Commission Act, the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Billing, Consumer Leasing, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Credit Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection Practices, et al.), the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and state "little FTC" acts. Each student will research, write, and present a paper that will constitute a major portion of the final grade. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 503: Creditors' & Debtors' Rights
2 Credits

A complete study of the legal principles and remedies involved in enforcing creditors' and debtors' rights under state law, including: attachments before judgment; judicial liens, statutory and consensual liens; garnishment and execution; forced sales of property; creditors' suits and supplementary proceedings; the Federal Tax Lien Act; the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act; common law compositions and assignments for the benefit of creditors; bulk sale transfers under the Uniform Commercial Code; equity receiverships; debtors' rights and exemptions under state law. Offered alternative years.

LAW 504: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
2 Credits

A complete study of the legal principles and remedies involved in enforcing creditors' and debtors' rights under state law, including: attachments before judgment; judicial liens, statutory and consensual liens; garnishment and execution; forced sales of property; creditors' suits and supplementary proceedings; the Federal Tax Lien Act; the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act; common law compositions and assignments for the benefit of creditors; bulk sale transfers under the Uniform Commercial Code; equity receiverships; debtors' rights and exemptions under state law. Offered alternative years.

LAW 505: White Collar & Business Crimes
2 Credits

This course includes a review and analysis of (1) general principles of white collar criminal prosecution and defense, including jurisdiction of various federal and state criminal law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies; (2) the scope of applicable federal criminal laws and some state laws regarding white collar and business crimes; (3) fraud and political corruption crimes, with a focus on federal crimes of mail fraud and bank fraud, and crimes involving official bribery and gratuities; (4) financial and securities fraud, RICO, and money laundering, with an emphasis on asset forfeiture and the rights of third parties; (5) group and organizational crime statutes such as conspiracy, federal and state racketeering, and continuing criminal enterprise statutes; (6) regulatory crimes in the health and environmental areas; (7) crimes involving the protection of federal rights and functions, including perjury statutes, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering; and (8) the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the use of minimum mandatory sentences. This is an exam course.

LAW 506: White Collar & Business Crimes
2 Credits

This course includes a review and analysis of (1) general principles of white collar criminal prosecution and defense, including jurisdiction of various federal and state criminal law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies; (2) the scope of applicable federal criminal laws and some state laws regarding white collar and business crimes; (3) fraud and political corruption crimes, with a focus on federal crimes of mail fraud and bank fraud, and crimes involving official bribery and gratuities; (4) financial and securities fraud, RICO, and money laundering, with an emphasis on asset forfeiture and the rights of third parties; (5) group and organizational crime statutes such as conspiracy, federal and state racketeering, and continuing criminal enterprise statutes; (6) regulatory crimes in the health and environmental areas; (7) crimes involving the protection of federal rights and functions, including perjury statutes, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering; and (8) the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the use of minimum mandatory sentences. This is an exam course.

LAW 507: History of Canon Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 508: Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives
2 Credits

Current issues affecting the regulation of financial market derivatives and oversight of derivative transactions under U.S. securities and commodities laws. Topics include the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, interaction of securities and commodities statutes and regulations, registration and regulation of commodity market participants, administrative and injunctive enforcement powers involving violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, developments in self-regulation, and private rights of action.

LAW 510: Strategic Standardization
3 Credits

Strategic Standardization will examine the creation of both governmental and private sector standards that establish certain manufacturing and other requirements in the areas of product health and safety, environmental controls, telecommunications and other areas of business and commerce. The course will first examine the creation and implementation of standards within the United States by such private organizations as Underwriters Laboratories and the American National Standards Institute. It will look at the use of standards by governmental bodies such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The course will then move to an examination of standards at the international level. This inquiry will include a look at the work of the International Standards Organization (ISO) including, for example, the ISO's implementation of a crucial environmental standard, ISO 14000. The course will also examine the work of other international bodies, such as the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Course will deal with a number of sophisticated legal issues such as antitrust, product liability, international trade, the work of international organizations and the incorporation of private standards in the regulatory programs of governmental agencies. We anticipate that this course will be of particular interest to law students with an engineering background, but there are no pre-requisites for the course other than upper division standing. Additional information many be obtained from Professor Fox.

LAW 511: Trial Advocacy I
3 Credits

A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 512: Trial Advocacy II
4 Credits

A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 513: Law & Economics
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 514: Unincorporated Business Organizations
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 515: Employment Law
3 Credits

The theme of the course is the protection of the individual employee by statute, administrative rule or through judicial decision. Among the major topics to be covered are: wage and hour legislation; occupational safety and health; workers' compensation; workplace torts; reconsideration of the employment-at-will doctrine; and protection against unemployment. There also will be a discussion of recent legislative developments in Congress and the states.

LAW 516: Employment Law
3 Credits

The theme of the course is the protection of the individual employee by statute, administrative rule or through judicial decision. Among the major topics to be covered are: wage and hour legislation; occupational safety and health; workers' compensation; workplace torts; reconsideration of the employment-at-will doctrine; and protection against unemployment. There also will be a discussion of recent legislative developments in Congress and the states.

LAW 517: Trial Advocacy I
3 Credits

A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 518: Trial Advocacy II
4 Credits

A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 519: Agency/Partnership
2 Credits

Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered.

LAW 520: Agency/Partnership
2 Credits

Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered.

LAW 521: Antitrust
3 Credits

A study of those federal statutes intended to preserve the benefits of competition in unregulated industries. The course considers the impact of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act on the practices and structure of American business. The course includes some economic analysis, but a background in economics is not necessary. The relevant concepts are developed throughout the course.

LAW 522: Advanced Administrative Law
3 Credits

Explores, in depth, selected topics not typically covered in the basic Administrative Law course. Specific topics will depend on present and upcoming regulatory and judicial decisions. Among topics recently considered were constitutional separation of powers; statutory separation of prosecution and decision making in administrative agencies; and exemptions from notice and comment in informal rulemaking. A variety of course materials, including court decisions, briefs, scholarly studies, and committee reports, will be used as a basis for discussion. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Administrative Law.

LAW 523: Bankruptcy
3 Credits

A complete study and review of all legal principles involved in seeking relief under the various chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, including the various relief chapters (chapters 7, 11, and 13), automatic stay litigation and concepts, property of the bankruptcy estate, secured, priority and unsecured claims, discharge and dischargeabili-ty issues, debtors' rights and exemptions under both state law and the Bankruptcy Code, the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy, the question of priorities and conflicts between creditors, fraudulent transfers, and the jurisdiction and venue of the United States Bankruptcy Court. Students who have taken the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights course may not enroll for Bankruptcy.

LAW 524: Advanced Administrative Law
3 Credits

Explores, in depth, selected topics not typically covered in the basic Administrative Law course. Specific topics will depend on present and upcoming regulatory and judicial decisions. Among topics recently considered were constitutional separation of powers; statutory separation of prosecution and decision making in administrative agencies; and exemptions from notice and comment in informal rulemaking. A variety of course materials, including court decisions, briefs, scholarly studies, and committee reports, will be used as a basis for discussion. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Administrative Law.

LAW 525: Labor Law
3 Credits

A survey of the legislative, administrative, and judicial regulation of labor relations. The course deals with the scope of national labor legislation, the protection of the right of organization and the designation of bargaining agents, the negotiation and administration of the collective agreement, the legality of strikes, picketing and boycotts, and employer interference with concerted activities.

LAW 526: Labor Law Seminar: Rights of Individuals with Disabilities
2 Credits

An intensive examination of current problems in labor law with special emphasis upon the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the employment provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

LAW 527: Bankruptcy
2 Credits

A complete study and review of all legal principles involved in seeking relief under the various chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, including the various relief chapters (chapters 7, 11, and 13), automatic stay litigation and concepts, property of the bankruptcy estate, secured, priority and unsecured claims, discharge and dischargeabili-ty issues, debtors' rights and exemptions under both state law and the Bankruptcy Code, the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy, the question of priorities and conflicts between creditors, fraudulent transfers, and the jurisdiction and venue of the United States Bankruptcy Court. Students who have taken the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights course may not enroll for Bankruptcy.

LAW 529: Agency-Partnership
3 Credits

Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered.

LAW 530: Bankruptcy
3 Credits

A complete study and review of all legal principles involved in seeking relief under the various chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, including the various relief chapters (chapters 7, 11, and 13), automatic stay litigation and concepts, property of the bankruptcy estate, secured, priority and unsecured claims, discharge and dischargeabili-ty issues, debtors' rights and exemptions under both state law and the Bankruptcy Code, the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy, the question of priorities and conflicts between creditors, fraudulent transfers, and the jurisdiction and venue of the United States Bankruptcy Court. Students who have taken the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights course may not enroll for Bankruptcy.

LAW 531: Securities Regulation: Issuance
3 Credits

This course will focus, in depth, on problems arising under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 dealing with matters such as the purpose and operation of the registration process, the application of the registration process to the secondary distribution, understanding of who is an issuer and underwriter, defining a "security" and a "public offering," availability of various transactional and security exemptions, and the imposition of civil and criminal liabilities for noncompliance with various regulations. Corporations suggested.

LAW 531A: Securities Transactional Work in Securitization of Assets
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 532: Agency/Partnership
3 Credits

Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered.

LAW 533: Advanced Administrative Law Advanced Administrative Law
3 Credits

Explores, in depth, selected topics not typically covered in the basic Administrative Law course. Specific topics will depend on present and upcoming regulatory and judicial decisions. Among topics recently considered were constitutional separation of powers; statutory separation of prosecution and decision making in administrative agencies; and exemptions from notice and comment in informal rulemaking. A variety of course materials, including court decisions, briefs, scholarly studies, and committee reports, will be used as a basis for discussion. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Administrative Law.

LAW 534: Securities Regulation: Secondary Trading
3 Credits

Primary emphasis on the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will probe matters such as regulation of the securities markets and the securities industry, annual and periodic reporting requirements and the integration thereof with the 1933 Act, regulation of broker/dealer activities and prevention of market manipulation, concerns arising during takeover actions and corporate repurchases, insider trading, securities fraud, civil liabilities arising under the 1934 Act, collateral violators and the role of corporate counsel. Corporations suggested.

LAW 535: Legal Drafting Seminar
3 Credits

This course offers students an introduction to legal drafting, with an emphasis on such essential skills as writing with clarity and precision, conforming with statutes and ordinances, using form books appropriately, achieving the goals of clients, identifying and eliminating ambiguity, editing and proofreading a written product, and simplifying complex thoughts and ideas. The first half of this course will provide students with a thorough introduction to the principles of general drafting through the use of written exercises, peer critique, and in-class workshops. These may be general office documents or documents in a particular doctrinal area. Through the course of the semester, students will draft a minimum of three major legal documents in addition to rewrites and shorter written exercises. Successful completion of this course will satisfy one of the two upper-level legal writing requirements. Enrollment will be limited to sixteen students per section. Faculty.

LAW 536: Legal Drafting
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 537: History of Early American Law
2 Credits

This course covers the seventeenth-century English constitutional background, colonial legal order, law and ideology in the early republic, federalist jurisprudence, development of antebellum contract, property, and negligence law, corporation law and the antebellum economic development, the law of slavery, and the sectional crisis of the 1850s. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 538: History of Modern American Law
2 Credits

The course considers nineteenth-century criminal and family law, foundations of modern labor law, origins of the regulatory state, development of modern tort and contract law, jurisprudential trends and the New Deal crisis, civil rights movement, recent constitutional developments, and interdisciplinary movements in law schools today. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 539: Computer Law
2 Credits

This course covers the nature and subject matter of computer law, including software, copyright, patent, semiconductor chip, and trade secret protections; basic computer contracting issues; international protections; drafting software development, licensing, maintenance, and service agreements; tort, criminal, and constitutional law issues; the effects of the information superhighway/Internet; and the interrelationship between computer, multimedia, and communications law.

LAW 540: Securities Regulation: Enforcement Procedures & Issues
2 Credits

This Securities Program offering will introduce the serious Securities Law students to the operation of and the principles behind the practices of the SEC's Enforcement Program, particularly as they relate to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. During the term, students will be introduced to: the investigation process; the settlement process; the Commission hearing; potential remedies; appealability of the Commission's decision; impact of the Commission's actions upon collateral actions by state securities regulators, private shareholders, and federal and state criminal authorities. The course will respond to, through readings and discussion, those issues which currently are under focus in the Enforcement division. Students taking this course are required to contemporaneously take or previously have taken Corporations. It is suggested that students also contemporaneously or previously take a basic securities course.

LAW 541: Canon Law for American Attorneys
3 Credits

An introduction to the legal system of the Roman Catholic Church with particular emphasis on laws, structures, and procedures of relevance to American attorneys representing Catholic dioceses, religious communities, educational and health care institutions, bishops, priests, religious, and associations of the laity. Particular attention will be given to canon laws governing church property, marriage, and the relationship of priests and religious to their dioceses and communities. Comparison of relevant canonical and American legal concepts.

LAW 542: Copyright Law
3 Credits

This course covers the nature and subject matter of copyright, including literary, artistic, and musical works, computer software, and motion pictures; how copyrights are acquired, licensed, and enforced; the fair use privilege and other limitations on the copyright owner's rights; and principles of international protection.

LAW 543: Copyright Law
3 Credits

This course covers the nature and subject matter of copyright, including literary, artistic, and musical works, computer software, and motion pictures; how copyrights are acquired, licensed, and enforced; the fair use privilege and other limitations on the copyright owner's rights; and principles of international protection.

LAW 544: American Public Law-Historical Perspective
2 Credits

Explores major developments in the history of American constitutional law from the Reconstruction Era to the present. Representative topics will include federalism, civil rights, inter-branch relations, growth of the regulatory state, legal realism and the New Deal jurisprudential "revolution"; Cold War constitutionalism; the lessons of Watergate; and contemporary constitutional trends.

LAW 545: Trial Skills: A Medical Malpractice Suit
3 Credits

A semester-long, limited enrollment course on how to try a complicated medical malpractice case in the courtroom. The course deals with various aspects of civil litigation, including discovery, but emphasizes trial tactics and skills. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which lawyers confront in civil cases. Student presentations at mock trials are videotaped for review and critique. Videotapes on cross-examination are utilized and the course contains brief lectures on the substantive law of medical malpractice. The course does not end with a mock jury trial. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. Grading will be Pass/Fail. Prerequisites: Evidence and Civil Procedure.

LAW 546: Advanced Copyright Seminar: Hot Topics in Intellectual Property
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 547: Financial Institutions Regulation
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 548: Health Managed Care
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 549: Legal Accounting
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 550: Advanced Federal Civil Procedure
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 551: Litigation with the Federal Government
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 552: Products Liability Seminar
2 Credits

Limited to sixteen students, the course offers the opportunity to submit a research paper on some topic concerned with personal injury cases involving defective products. After two preliminary class meetings, the balance of the semester will be devoted to preparation and discussion of student papers. Most of the subsequent meetings will be with the instructor on a tutorial basis. By the end of the first week, seminar paper topics and a preliminary bibliography must have been approved. In order to remain registered in the course, students must attend the first two class sessions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will be encouraged to seek publication of their papers.

LAW 553: Products Liability Seminar
2 Credits

Limited to sixteen students, the course offers the opportunity to submit a research paper on some topic concerned with personal injury cases involving defective products. After two preliminary class meetings, the balance of the semester will be devoted to preparation and discussion of student papers. Most of the subsequent meetings will be with the instructor on a tutorial basis. By the end of the first week, seminar paper topics and a preliminary bibliography must have been approved. In order to remain registered in the course, students must attend the first two class sessions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will be encouraged to seek publication of their papers.

LAW 554: Vis International Arbitration Moot
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 555: Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 556: History of Early American Law
2 Credits

This course covers the seventeenth-century English constitutional background, colonial legal order, law and ideology in the early republic, federalist jurisprudence, development of antebellum contract, property, and negligence law, corporation law and the antebellum economic development, the law of slavery, and the sectional crisis of the 1850s. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 557: Trademark Law
2 Credits

A study of nature of marks accorded common law and federal statutory protection as trade, service, certification, and collective marks. Special emphasis is given to concepts of adoption and use in commerce; intent-to-use; affixation; the descriptive, deceptively misdescriptive, geographic, surname, and secondary meaning of marks. Also treated are the topics of relationship of tradenames and trademarks, geographic and product extent of trademarks, concurrent use, confusing similarity, dilution, permissive use by others, and loss of trademark protection from causes such as abandonment or acquisition of a generic meaning. Students may not take both this course and Trademarks and Unfair Competition.

LAW 558: International Business Transactions
2 Credits

This course concentrates on private business transactions that cross national boundaries. After an examination of some basic international and comparative law principles, the course examines various types of international commercial agreements such as joint ventures, contracts for the sale of goods, agency and distribution agreements and franchises. In addition, the course includes some practical exercises in negotiating and drafting international business contracts, and examines methods of dispute resolution such as international commercial arbitration. There will be a number of guest lecturers on some of the specialized topics covered during the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The final grade is based on a contract-drafting exercise.

LAW 558A: International Business Transactions (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 559: International Business Tranactions
3 Credits

This course concentrates on private business transactions that cross national boundaries. After an examination of some basic international and comparative law principles, the course examines various types of international commercial agreements such as joint ventures, contracts for the sale of goods, agency and distribution agreements and franchises. In addition, the course includes some practical exercises in negotiating and drafting international business contracts, and examines methods of dispute resolution such as international commercial arbitration. There will be a number of guest lecturers on some of the specialized topics covered during the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The final grade is based on a contract-drafting exercise.

LAW 560: Death Penalty Seminar
3 Credits

This course examines the substance and procedural law dealing with capital punishment in the judicial process. The focus of the course is on how the death penalty is being administered today--some twenty years after the 1976 Supreme Court cases which rejected constitutional challenges to the death penalty statutes that were enacted after Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972). A number of particularly pressing legal problems will be examined, e.g., constitutional challenges to the death penalty; race and gender of defendants given the death penalty; constitutional limitations on death eligibility; the role of aggravating and mitigating circumstances; the sentencing phase of capital cases; the use of expert witnesses; and state and federal habeas corpus review in capital cases. This course offers unique opportunities to examine the law and our legal system from a variety of historical, religious, political, ideological, philosophical, economic, sociological, and other perspectives. Enrollment limited to sixteen students. Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process.

LAW 561: Consumer Transactions
3 Credits

This course treats the spectrum of legal problems which arise uniquely in cash and credit sales, loans, and similar transactions involving consumers. Representative areas of coverage include rate regulation, credit disclosure, unfair and deceptive sales practices, warranties, particular credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Attention is given to issues arising under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection, et al.), Uniform Consumer Credit Code, state "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" statutes, and other federal, state, and local consumer protection laws. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. Students may not take Consumer Law Seminar in addition to this course.

LAW 562: Consumer Transactions
3 Credits

This course treats the spectrum of legal problems which arise uniquely in cash and credit sales, loans, and similar transactions involving consumers. Representative areas of coverage include rate regulation, credit disclosure, unfair and deceptive sales practices, warranties, particular credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Attention is given to issues arising under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection, et al.), Uniform Consumer Credit Code, state "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" statutes, and other federal, state, and local consumer protection laws. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. Students may not take Consumer Law Seminar in addition to this course.

LAW 563: Creditors' & Debtors' Rights
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 564: Homeland Security
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 565: Labor Law Seminar: Rights of Individuals with Disabilities
2 Credits

An intensive examination of current problems in labor law with special emphasis upon the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the employment provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

LAW 566: Maritime Law
2 Credits

This course covers the leading principles of the Maritime Law of the United States, including its constitutional basis, admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, other federal jurisdiction of shipping matters, traditional and current maritime legal issues, government policies and regulation of shipping, environmental cases, and international issues.

LAW 567: Sales & Leases
3 Credits

The course deals with the rights and responsibilities of participants in commercial transactions involving the sale or lease of goods. Coverage draws primarily on UCC Articles 2 and 2A, and centers on issues arising in the performance, rather than the creation, of sales and lease contracts: warranty responsibilities; delivery obligations; risk of loss; rights of inspection, rejection, revocation of acceptance, and cure; and the parties' remedies for breach, including reclamation of goods. The course also considers pertinent cognate areas such as documentary exchanges, letters of credit, and United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods.

LAW 568: Sales & Leases
3 Credits

The course deals with the rights and responsibilities of participants in commercial transactions involving the sale or lease of goods. Coverage draws primarily on UCC Articles 2 and 2A, and centers on issues arising in the performance, rather than the creation, of sales and lease contracts: warranty responsibilities; delivery obligations; risk of loss; rights of inspection, rejection, revocation of acceptance, and cure; and the parties' remedies for breach, including reclamation of goods. The course also considers pertinent cognate areas such as documentary exchanges, letters of credit, and United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods.

LAW 569: The Innocence Project
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 569A: The Innocence Project Clinic
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 570: Trademark & Unfair Competition
3 Credits

This course covers the nature and subject matter of common law and statutory trademark protection, including distinctiveness, genericism, and the development of secondary meaning; the acquisition, retention, and scope of trademark rights; the registration process and its effect; infringement issues, including parody and counterfeiting; and international aspects of protection. Students may not take both this course and Trademark Law.

LAW 571: Trial Practice (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 572: Public Policy Research
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 573: Public Policy Practicum
3 Credits

This course is required for third-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit hour for each sixty hours of fieldwork, and must complete at least three hours of fieldwork credit during the course. In this seminar, the students complete readings and participate in reflective oral and written dialogue designed to advance their professional development and to prepare them for public law careers. They submit three to five pages of reflective writing each week. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students also prepare and present twenty-five to thirty-page research papers on topics of their choice related to the policy issues that arise in their clinics or fieldwork. When the seminar is offered year-long, students are required to enroll in an externship or clinical course during the fall semester. Reflective study of field experience will be the central focus of the seminar during the fall. Topic selection and preliminary research for the papers will occur also during the fall semester. The spring seminar will focus principally on the research and writing of the papers. Students who wish to do so may enroll in a fieldwork or clinical experience in the spring semester as well as the fall. Students will receive two credits for the fall seminar and two credits in the spring.

LAW 574: Canon Law for American Attorneys
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 575: Public Policy Practicum
2 Credits

This course is required for third-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit hour for each sixty hours of fieldwork, and must complete at least three hours of fieldwork credit during the course. In this seminar, the students complete readings and participate in reflective oral and written dialogue designed to advance their professional development and to prepare them for public law careers. They submit three to five pages of reflective writing each week. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students also prepare and present twenty-five to thirty-page research papers on topics of their choice related to the policy issues that arise in their clinics or fieldwork. When the seminar is offered year-long, students are required to enroll in an externship or clinical course during the fall semester. Reflective study of field experience will be the central focus of the seminar during the fall. Topic selection and preliminary research for the papers will occur also during the fall semester. The spring seminar will focus principally on the research and writing of the papers. Students who wish to do so may enroll in a fieldwork or clinical experience in the spring semester as well as the fall. Students will receive two credits for the fall seminar and two credits in the spring.

LAW 576: Public Policy Practicum
2 Credits

This course is required for third-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit hour for each sixty hours of fieldwork, and must complete at least three hours of fieldwork credit during the course. In this seminar, the students complete readings and participate in reflective oral and written dialogue designed to advance their professional development and to prepare them for public law careers. They submit three to five pages of reflective writing each week. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students also prepare and present twenty-five to thirty-page research papers on topics of their choice related to the policy issues that arise in their clinics or fieldwork. When the seminar is offered year-long, students are required to enroll in an externship or clinical course during the fall semester. Reflective study of field experience will be the central focus of the seminar during the fall. Topic selection and preliminary research for the papers will occur also during the fall semester. The spring seminar will focus principally on the research and writing of the papers. Students who wish to do so may enroll in a fieldwork or clinical experience in the spring semester as well as the fall. Students will receive two credits for the fall seminar and two credits in the spring.

LAW 577: Legislation
3 Credits

This course will focus on how statutes are enacted and on a variety of the sometimes conflicting approaches to statutory interpretation. Students will become familiar with the structure and procedures in Congress, the relationship of the Congress to the President, and with some of the recent controversies surrounding the way Members of the House of Representatives are elected. In addition, students will be given an opportunity to participate in a statutory drafting exercise. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 578: Legislation: The Making of a Federal Statute
2 Credits

This course offers students an introduction to legal drafting, with an emphasis on such essential skills as writing with clarity and precision, conforming with statutes and ordinances, using form books appropriately, achieving the goals of clients, identifying and eliminating ambiguity, editing and proofreading a written product, and simplifying complex thoughts and ideas. The first half of this course will provide students with a thorough introduction to the principles of general drafting through the use of written exercises, peer critique, and in-class workshops. These may be general office documents or documents in a particular doctrinal area. Through the course of the semester, students will draft a minimum of three major legal documents in addition to rewrites and shorter written exercises. Successful completion of this course will satisfy one of the two upper-level legal writing requirements. Enrollment will be limited to sixteen students per section. Faculty.

LAW 579: Agency/Partnership
2 Credits

Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered.

LAW 580: Agency/Partnership
2 Credits

Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered.

LAW 581: Antitrust
3 Credits

A study of those federal statutes intended to preserve the benefits of competition in unregulated industries. The course considers the impact of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act on the practices and structure of American business. The course includes some economic analysis, but a background in economics is not necessary. The relevant concepts are developed throughout the course.

LAW 582: Trial Skills: Medical Malpractice Case
3 Credits

A semester-long, limited enrollment course on how to try a complicated medical malpractice case in the courtroom. The course deals with various aspects of civil litigation, including discovery, but emphasizes trial tactics and skills. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which lawyers confront in civil cases. Student presentations at mock trials are videotaped for review and critique. Videotapes on cross-examination are utilized and the course contains brief lectures on the substantive law of medical malpractice. The course does not end with a mock jury trial. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. Grading will be Pass/Fail. Prerequisites: Evidence and Civil Procedure.

LAW 583: Labor Law Seminar: Collective Bargaining & Arbitration
2 Credits

The focus of this course is the lawyer's role in the collective bargaining process including the negotiation and enforcement of the labor contract. Enforcement through both the labor arbitration and judicial process will be examined. Students study the applicable legal precedents and develop practice skills by participating in a variety of in-class simulations. Offered alternate years.

LAW 584: Advanced Antitrust
3 Credits

This seminar studies significant antitrust policies and issues in depth. Emphasis is placed on significant current developments. There will be no final examination, but each student is to conduct a class, write a paper, and participate in the discussion of the papers of fellow students. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Antitrust. Mr. G. Garvey.

LAW 585: Labor Law
3 Credits

A survey of the legislative, administrative, and judicial regulation of labor relations. The course deals with the scope of national labor legislation, the protection of the right of organization and the designation of bargaining agents, the negotiation and administration of the collective agreement, the legality of strikes, picketing and boycotts, and employer interference with concerted activities.

LAW 586: Congressional Investigations
2 Credits

This seminar explores the range of issues involved in congressional investigations, with special attention paid to the differing perspectives of the major players, both inside and outside of Congress, in a congressional investigation. ongressional investigations involve a unique interplay of legal and political issues. Legal issues -- involving such matters as the rights of private institutions and private citizens who may be implicated in a congressional nvestigation, the legal and political ability of the Executive Branch to resist congressional probes, the authority of the Judicial ranch to interfere with or limit the conduct of congressional investigations, and the relationship of congressional investigations to related criminal and civil inquiries conducted by other governmental entities -- must be factored into the political calculus of the contending political forces involved in a congressional investigation. Political determinations -- which underpin such issues as the scope and duration of an investigation or whether witnesses should be interviewed, deposed or called to testify live at a hearing -- may have significant legal ramifications. This seminar will address these issues at both the practical and the theoretical levels. As part of the course, class members will be asked to participate, on a team basis, in mock problems concerning different aspects of the process.

LAW 587: Legis: Making of a Federal Statute
3 Credits

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LAW 588: Labor Law Seminar: Collective Bargaining & Arbitration
2 Credits

The focus of this course is the lawyer's role in the collective bargaining process including the negotiation and enforcement of the labor contract. Enforcement through both the labor arbitration and judicial process will be examined. Students study the applicable legal precedents and develop practice skills by participating in a variety of in-class simulations. Offered alternate years.

LAW 589: Regulated Industries
3 Credits

This course provides an introduction to the scope and nature of government regulation in the United States. It examines the constitutional restraints on regulatory power and reviews the economic and other justifications for regulation (i.e., natural monopoly, destructive competition, allocation of scarce resources, assurance of quality or competence, consideration of otherwise ignored social costs, and wealth redistribution). Given the nature of contemporary efforts to reform the regulatory state, emphasis is placed throughout the course on the deregulation of traditionally regulated sectors of the economy. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 590: Professional Sports & the Law
2 Credits

The organized professional team sports of baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and hockey employ practices unique in American business, perhaps tolerated in no other business. The course primarily involves an examination of contract law, antitrust law, and labor law in the context of an analysis of the business of professional sports. Among the issues to be considered in the course are current antitrust developments in professional sports, including the unique antitrust status of major league baseball; collective bargaining in professional sports; the impact of the labor exemption under the antitrust laws; examination of standard-player contracts and the forms of self-regulation and league structure of each league; and an appraisal of the future development of professional sports. The course demands and encourages a different outlook on professional sports leagues and the athletes they employ.

LAW 591: Securities Regulations: Issuance
3 Credits

This course will focus, in depth, on problems arising under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 dealing with matters such as the purpose and operation of the registration process, the application of the registration process to the secondary distribution, understanding of who is an issuer and underwriter, defining a "security" and a "public offering," availability of various transactional and security exemptions, and the imposition of civil and criminal liabilities for noncompliance with various regulations. Corporations suggested.

LAW 592: Securities Regulation: Issuance
3 Credits

This course will focus, in depth, on problems arising under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 dealing with matters such as the purpose and operation of the registration process, the application of the registration process to the secondary distribution, understanding of who is an issuer and underwriter, defining a "security" and a "public offering," availability of various transactional and security exemptions, and the imposition of civil and criminal liabilities for noncompliance with various regulations. Corporations suggested.

LAW 593: Securities Regulation: Trading
3 Credits

Primary emphasis on the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will probe matters such as regulation of the securities markets and the securities industry, annual and periodic reporting requirements and the integration thereof with the 1933 Act, regulation of broker/dealer activities and prevention of market manipulation, concerns arising during takeover actions and corporate repurchases, insider trading, securities fraud, civil liabilities arising under the 1934 Act, collateral violators and the role of corporate counsel. Corporations suggested.

LAW 594: Securities Regulation: Trading
3 Credits

Primary emphasis on the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will probe matters such as regulation of the securities markets and the securities industry, annual and periodic reporting requirements and the integration thereof with the 1933 Act, regulation of broker/dealer activities and prevention of market manipulation, concerns arising during takeover actions and corporate repurchases, insider trading, securities fraud, civil liabilities arising under the 1934 Act, collateral violators and the role of corporate counsel. Corporations suggested.

LAW 595: Trial Practice
3 Credits

A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 596: Trial Practice
3 Credits

A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 597: Trial Practice
3 Credits

A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 598: Trial Practice
3 Credits

A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence.

LAW 599: Adv Trial Practice
3 Credits

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LAW 600: Land Trans & Finance
2 Credits

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LAW 601: Administration of Criminal Justice
2 Credits

This course covers a variety of topics in the criminal law/criminal procedure field. Students will be given an opportunity to participate in the selection and presentation of subject matter and materials to be covered and assigned. In the past, coverage has included the use of penal statutes to criminalize behavior that creates a risk of transmitting the HIV virus, electronic surveillance, and problems relating to informants. There will be no examination for this course; each student will be required to submit a paper on which the final grade will be primarily based, and to conduct a class on his or her topic. Topics will be decided jointly by the student and professor. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 602: Legisprudence: Theories of Law Making
3 Credits

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LAW 607: International Criminal Law
2 Credits

This course introduces students to the many unique problems posed when the investigation or prosecution of offenses against the criminal law of one country (primarily the United States) have international consequences. It first explores the foundations of international criminal law, including the bases for criminal jurisdiction. It then covers in depth two issues central to international criminal law, the extradition of fugitives and mutual legal assistance (i.e., international evidence gathering). The course may incidentally touch upon other topics, including money laundering, the forfeiture of illegally obtained assets, the treatment of Nazi war criminals, and diplomatic immunity. Primary source material is emphasized, including international treaties, decisions of United States courts, and federal statutes.

LAW 608: International Economic Regulation
2 Credits

This course focuses on international and foreign national economic laws and policies that foster, or impair, transnational economic commerce. It explores the WTO and GATT, various transnational competition laws, IMF, the World Bank, and conflicting policies of developing nations designed to stimulate trade and investment while promoting internal growth and domestic control. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 609: International Human Rights
3 Credits

A seminar course exploring legal principles involved in the creation and functioning of international bodies, with emphasis on their role in establishing and applying human rights standards. The legal basis for the authority of international bodies to act, and their relationships to individual nations and to other worldwide and regional associations, is examined in the context of specific case studies of current interest, with emphasis on human rights standards. Included among the case studies considered are war crimes issues involving former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, self-determination problems in Chechnya, and current United States policies relating to the treatment of Cuban and Haitian boat people. Special attention is given to how international bodies attempt to resolve areas of dispute between nations, and otherwise use their independent procedures to help develop standards of international conduct, and to monitor compliance by nations. Human rights laws, monitoring mechanisms, and enforcement experiences are considered extensively as models throughout the course. The relationship between international human rights standards and domestic legal remedies is explored with respect to problems of racial discrimination and the treatment of refugees. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement.

LAW 610: International Organizations & Human Rights
2 Credits

A seminar course exploring legal principles involved in the creation and functioning of international bodies, with emphasis on their role in establishing and applying human rights standards. The legal basis for the authority of international bodies to act, and their relationships to individual nations and to other worldwide and regional associations, is examined in the context of specific case studies of current interest, with emphasis on human rights standards. Included among the case studies considered are war crimes issues involving former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, self-determination problems in Chechnya, and current United States policies relating to the treatment of Cuban and Haitian boat people. Special attention is given to how international bodies attempt to resolve areas of dispute between nations, and otherwise use their independent procedures to help develop standards of international conduct, and to monitor compliance by nations. Human rights laws, monitoring mechanisms, and enforcement experiences are considered extensively as models throughout the course. The relationship between international human rights standards and domestic legal remedies is explored with respect to problems of racial discrimination and the treatment of refugees. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement.

LAW 611: Public International Law
3 Credits

An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 612: Comparative and International Trade
3 Credits

This course examines the major issues of international trade and its regulation at the national and international level. The focus is on the United States trade laws, including the tariff system and customs laws, the safeguard provisions, antidumping and countervailing duty remedies, and retaliatory measures. Attendant issues such as the distribution of powers to regulate international trade, the delegation doctrine, and judicial review of regulating agencies are also examined. The international regulatory framework--principally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization--are examined in some detail, with a focus on the fundamental rule of nondiscrimination, the resolution of disputes through the dispute settlement system, and the relationship between international agreements and the United States law. Finally, the course also examines specialized topics including free trade areas and customs unions, treatment of nonmarket/transitional economies, developing countries, and international trade in service.

LAW 613: Separation of Powers
2 Credits

A study of the doctrine of separation of powers in American constitutionalism. By analyzing specific confrontations over domestic and foreign policy issues, the student will gain a deeper understanding of the manner in which judicial, executive, and legislative forces interact to shape constitutional law. Includes analysis of appointment and removal powers, delegated powers, legislative veto, line item veto, independent commissions, independent counsel, executive privilege, congressional investigations, foreign affairs, war powers, and congressional power over federal courts. The grade will be based on two short papers presented to the class and a long term paper. Satisfies the writing requirement.

LAW 614: Advanced Constitutional Law: First Amendment
2 Credits

This is a course on the First Amendment. Although all parts of the amendment are addressed, primary emphasis is on freedom of speech. Consideration will be given to analytical techniques used in resolving First Amendment problems, the role and performance of courts in First Amendment cases, the lawyering process as it relates to the First Amendment, and the political and social values underlying the First Amendment. Practical problems will be worked on throughout the course. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Occasionally this course is also offered as a limited enrollment seminar.

LAW 616: Public International Law
3 Credits

An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 617: International Economic Regulation
2 Credits

This course focuses on international and foreign national economic laws and policies that foster, or impair, transnational economic commerce. It explores the WTO and GATT, various transnational competition laws, IMF, the World Bank, and conflicting policies of developing nations designed to stimulate trade and investment while promoting internal growth and domestic control. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 617A: International Economic Regulation (Cracow)
2 Credits

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LAW 618: Legal Rights of People with Disabilities
2 Credits

This course studies federal legislation and court decisions protecting the rights of people with disabilities. All Titles of the Americans with Disabilities Act and its regulations are studied, and recent cases arising under this law are discussed. Other federal legislation in the areas of employment, education, and housing rights of people with disabilities are also examined. This course can fulfill the upperclass writing requirement. Limited to twenty students.

LAW 619: Law & Literature
2 Credits

Dr. Bloomfield's section explores the techniques by which creative writers--poets, playwrights, novelists, and short story writers--have dealt with significant legal issues. Topics include alternative/comparative legal systems; the competing claims of law and equity; the legal treatment of radical and religious minorities; the interpretation of statutes; changing professional mores; the role of the judge; women and the law; and popular criticism of bench and bar. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be based in part on class discussions and in part on a paper. The paper will not satisfy the upper-division writing requirement. Mr. Wagner's section explores literature as a medium communicating basic questions about the meaning and value of law. The course seeks an abstract grasp of theoretical problems concerning law and its meaning and value that are communicated through literature. It seeks equally to elicit student insight into the meaning and value of law in his or her social and professional context. As a secondary goal, it aims at understanding the methodology and theory that make possible valid and true statements about the relation of law and literature. The course pursues its goals through the reading of literary sources. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be assigned based on paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 620: Law & Literature
2 Credits

Dr. Bloomfield's section explores the techniques by which creative writers--poets, playwrights, novelists, and short story writers--have dealt with significant legal issues. Topics include alternative/comparative legal systems; the competing claims of law and equity; the legal treatment of radical and religious minorities; the interpretation of statutes; changing professional mores; the role of the judge; women and the law; and popular criticism of bench and bar. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be based in part on class discussions and in part on a paper. The paper will not satisfy the upper-division writing requirement. Mr. Wagner's section explores literature as a medium communicating basic questions about the meaning and value of law. The course seeks an abstract grasp of theoretical problems concerning law and its meaning and value that are communicated through literature. It seeks equally to elicit student insight into the meaning and value of law in his or her social and professional context. As a secondary goal, it aims at understanding the methodology and theory that make possible valid and true statements about the relation of law and literature. The course pursues its goals through the reading of literary sources. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be assigned based on paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 621: Federal Indian Law Seminar
2 Credits

The popular belief is that Native Americans are fast becoming acculturated and will soon be extinct. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Native American population has increased rapidly in the twentieth century and Indian tribes own some 52,000,000 acres of land, some of it in coal, petroleum, oil, and other minerals, including most of the known United States deposits of uranium. The seminar will focus on the major questions in Indian law today, especially state and federal incursions into tribal sovereignty; the federal-Indian trust relationship; and tribal ownership of land, including the legal bases for the tribes' northeastern land claims. Throughout the course the seminar participants will pose and attempt to answer the question: Do the Indian tribes occupy a preferred place in our democratic system? If so, should this special relationship be terminated? Class participants will write a paper on a topic of their choice. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Limited to sixteen students.

LAW 622: Fair Employment Law
2 Credits

A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 623: Fair Employment Law
2 Credits

A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 624: Jurisprudence
3 Credits

This course introduces the student to jurisprudence. It surveys the generic themes or issues which occupy inquiry in jurisprudence regardless of philosophical position. Such themes or issues extend to the legitimacy of the legal order; the relativity of the authority of law in relation to concepts of personhood, community, society, politics, or transcendence; the mediation of legal authority by patterns of interpretation and legal reasoning; the purposes of law relating to justice, civic order, public morality, and public welfare or well-being. The course's exploration of these themes or issues is designed to facilitate the restatement and critique of the diverse answers they elicit from differing approaches to jurisprudence. The course, then, proceeds to a synthesis of the key features of the schools or positions which comprise the primary options in contemporary normative jurisprudence. These schools or positions include Utilitarianism/Law and Economics, Libertarianism and Neo-Kantianism, Liberal Rights Theory, Natural Law, Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminist Jurisprudence. The course grades will be assigned based on a paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 625: Jurisprudence
3 Credits

This course introduces the student to jurisprudence. It surveys the generic themes or issues which occupy inquiry in jurisprudence regardless of philosophical position. Such themes or issues extend to the legitimacy of the legal order; the relativity of the authority of law in relation to concepts of personhood, community, society, politics, or transcendence; the mediation of legal authority by patterns of interpretation and legal reasoning; the purposes of law relating to justice, civic order, public morality, and public welfare or well-being. The course's exploration of these themes or issues is designed to facilitate the restatement and critique of the diverse answers they elicit from differing approaches to jurisprudence. The course, then, proceeds to a synthesis of the key features of the schools or positions which comprise the primary options in contemporary normative jurisprudence. These schools or positions include Utilitarianism/Law and Economics, Libertarianism and Neo-Kantianism, Liberal Rights Theory, Natural Law, Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminist Jurisprudence. The course grades will be assigned based on a paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 626: Sources of Christian Jurisprudence
2 Credits

This seminar surveys the theory and experiences that are primary sources of jurisprudence within the Christian tradition. It explores the value of these sources as a basis for understanding diverse attitudes towards the meaning of law found within contemporary Christianity. It seeks, in addition, to build a conceptual and historical foundation for developing, validating, and criticizing formal jurisprudential theory from the Christian vantage point. Relying on primary documents, students examine both formative Christian experiences of law which may be considered archetypal and Christian experiences of law which are more recent and of a more specifically American character. Through a close reading of original Christian authors, students encounter the progression of Christian theory about law from the Bible to the leading thinkers of the historically diverse strands of the later tradition. Unifying themes concern the relationship of reason to revelation, law to morality, and charity to justice. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper which fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 627: Sources of Christian Jurisprudence
2 Credits

This seminar surveys the theory and experiences that are primary sources of jurisprudence within the Christian tradition. It explores the value of these sources as a basis for understanding diverse attitudes towards the meaning of law found within contemporary Christianity. It seeks, in addition, to build a conceptual and historical foundation for developing, validating, and criticizing formal jurisprudential theory from the Christian vantage point. Relying on primary documents, students examine both formative Christian experiences of law which may be considered archetypal and Christian experiences of law which are more recent and of a more specifically American character. Through a close reading of original Christian authors, students encounter the progression of Christian theory about law from the Bible to the leading thinkers of the historically diverse strands of the later tradition. Unifying themes concern the relationship of reason to revelation, law to morality, and charity to justice. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper which fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 628: Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniquest
2 Credits

The seminar is a limited-enrollment (twenty students) course that looks at mechanisms for resolving disputes other than the mechanism of litigation. It concentrates on negotiation, arbitration, mediation-conciliation, the so-called "rent-a-judge" and the "mini-trial" proposals. The seminar will be mainly an in-depth discussion and analysis of the individual devices and will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives in relation to litigation. A number of guest lecturers will attend and participate. Class participation by all members of the seminar is required and the final grade will be based on the research paper written by each participant. Each student will be required to give a short, oral presentation on his or her paper topic toward the end of the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 629: Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques
2 Credits

The seminar is a limited-enrollment (twenty students) course that looks at mechanisms for resolving disputes other than the mechanism of litigation. It concentrates on negotiation, arbitration, mediation-conciliation, the so-called "rent-a-judge" and the "mini-trial" proposals. The seminar will be mainly an in-depth discussion and analysis of the individual devices and will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives in relation to litigation. A number of guest lecturers will attend and participate. Class participation by all members of the seminar is required and the final grade will be based on the research paper written by each participant. Each student will be required to give a short, oral presentation on his or her paper topic toward the end of the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 630: Banking Law
3 Credits

This course surveys the evolving legal and regulatory environment within which banks operate. Areas of coverage include the history and structure of the federal and state regulation of banking generally (i.e., the "dual banking system"); criteria and limitations on chartering, merging, branching, and interstate banking; principal controls on the business of banking (deposit taking, lending, securities and insurance activities), including activities of holding company affiliates; regulation of troubled financial institutions; liability of officers, directors, and professionals; operation of foreign banks in the United States. The course also emphasizes the social and policy issues raised by the regulation of the banking industry.

LAW 631: Banking Law
3 Credits

This course surveys the evolving legal and regulatory environment within which banks operate. Areas of coverage include the history and structure of the federal and state regulation of banking generally (i.e., the "dual banking system"); criteria and limitations on chartering, merging, branching, and interstate banking; principal controls on the business of banking (deposit taking, lending, securities and insurance activities), including activities of holding company affiliates; regulation of troubled financial institutions; liability of officers, directors, and professionals; operation of foreign banks in the United States. The course also emphasizes the social and policy issues raised by the regulation of the banking industry.

LAW 632: Women and the Law
2 Credits

This seminar surveys legal sources and remedies to combat sex discrimination in such areas as employment, education, constitutional law, criminal law, family law, property and credit, government programs, and state involvements with reproduction. The course uses cases and readings to illustrate the common aspects of sex discrimination and issues of importance to women. A paper is optional and fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Faculty.

LAW 633: Federal Courts
2 Credits

The course examines the nature of the federal judicial function, explores in depth an aspect of federal-state relationships - the dual court system - that is a particular concern and responsibility of lawyers, and provides the opportunity for systematic thought about a series of problems important to an understanding of our constitutional system. Among the topics which may be considered are historical development of the federal court system, congressional power to regulate the jurisdiction of federal courts, standing as it affects judicial power, political questions, the meaning of "arising under" jurisdiction, actions claiming constitutional protection against official state action, the original and removal jurisdiction of the district courts, and the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

LAW 634: Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process
3 Credits

This elective course is recommended as an adjunct to Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. Whereas Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process focuses on Constitutional Criminal Procedure with primary emphasis on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues, this course will provide an in-depth examination of procedural problems in criminal litigation. Topics covered may include right to counsel at trial, on appeal, and in collateral proceedings; the right to court-appointed experts, transcripts, and other aids; the plea-bargaining process; discovery obligations in general and reciprocal discovery in criminal cases; notice requirements for the insanity and alibi defenses; joinder and severance of counts and defendants; trial rights such as right to jury trial, right to speedy trial, peremptory challenges and the challenge for cause, the right to jury instructions on elements of the crime, defenses and theory of the case, etc.; proof issues such as burden of production and persuasion; and ethical issues in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases. It is suggested that this course be taken by those students intending to pursue a career in criminal litigation, either as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney. As currently offered, it is available only in the spring semester.

LAW 635: Federal Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended.

LAW 636: Federal Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended.

LAW 637: Comparative Law
3 Credits

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with knowledge about the basic legal systems in the world. Special emphasis will be given throughout the course to legal systems in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the countries of the former Soviet bloc. The course begins with discussion of legal education and the legal professions in these countries. The basic principles of British, French, and German constitutional law are studied to provide the political background necessary to compare these legal systems. The course also examines judicial structures and court organization as well as key principles of criminal and civil law.

LAW 638: Comparative Law
3 Credits

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with knowledge about the basic legal systems in the world. Special emphasis will be given throughout the course to legal systems in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the countries of the former Soviet bloc. The course begins with discussion of legal education and the legal professions in these countries. The basic principles of British, French, and German constitutional law are studied to provide the political background necessary to compare these legal systems. The course also examines judicial structures and court organization as well as key principles of criminal and civil law.

LAW 639: Banking Law
3 Credits

This course surveys the regulation of all financial institutions, i.e., banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and mutual funds. The course will examine the history and development of regulation of each of these institutions and the markets in which they operate. Because commercial banks are the most regulated financial institutions, careful attention is devoted to the bank regulatory scheme, including chartering, branching, interstate banking, activities restrictions, and the regulation of troubled banks. Examination of insurance companies will include analysis of the insurance contract and federal/state relationship in insurance regulation. The securities industry will be examined through the regulation of broker-dealers and trading markets. The focus on the investment company industry will include consideration of fiduciary duties and required disclosure. Most importantly, the course will examine the deterioration of historic barriers between financial institutions and the services that they provide. The course will give careful consideration to this cross-industry competition and how it has and will impact law and policy. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X -- Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 640: Financial Institutions Regulations
3 Credits

This course surveys the regulation of all financial institutions, i.e., banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and mutual funds. The course will examine the history and development of regulation of each of these institutions and the markets in which they operate. Because commercial banks are the most regulated financial institutions, careful attention is devoted to the bank regulatory scheme, including chartering, branching, interstate banking, activities restrictions, and the regulation of troubled banks. Examination of insurance companies will include analysis of the insurance contract and federal/state relationship in insurance regulation. The securities industry will be examined through the regulation of broker-dealers and trading markets. The focus on the investment company industry will include consideration of fiduciary duties and required disclosure. Most importantly, the course will examine the deterioration of historic barriers between financial institutions and the services that they provide. The course will give careful consideration to this cross-industry competition and how it has and will impact law and policy. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X -- Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 641: Separation of Powers
3 Credits

A study of the doctrine of separation of powers in American constitutionalism. By analyzing specific confrontations over domestic and foreign policy issues, the student will gain a deeper understanding of the manner in which judicial, executive, and legislative forces interact to shape constitutional law. Includes analysis of appointment and removal powers, delegated powers, legislative veto, line item veto, independent commissions, independent counsel, executive privilege, congressional investigations, foreign affairs, war powers, and congressional power over federal courts. The grade will be based on two short papers presented to the class and a long term paper. Satisfies the writing requirement.

LAW 642: Securities Regulation: Investment Company and Investment Advisers Acts
2 Credits

This course will cover federal regulation of the investment management industry, focusing primarily on the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act, while also examining the impact of other federal laws, including ERISA, the Commodity Exchange Act, and the Internal Revenue Code. Topics of study include regulation of the operation, management, and distribution of mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, including closed-end funds, hedge funds, and offshore funds. Class discussion will include analysis of business practices in light of the statutory and regulatory scheme, pertinent case law, and positions taken by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Prerequisite: Corporations.

LAW 644: Federal Regulation of Food and Drugs
2 Credits

This course explores the Food and Drug Administration's development of regulatory controls in response to Congress' legislative enactments regarding the safety of food and the safety and effectiveness of drugs. Course work entails an analysis of FDA's enforcement tools, the agency's substantive regulatory authority over foods, drugs, and selected other regulated commodities, and the agency's creative use of its legislative authority to develop regulatory mechanisms for the protection of the public health. While focusing on substantive food and drug law, the course also scrutinizes the operation and problems an administrative agency faces in dealing with sometimes conflicting legal, scientific, and policy concerns regarding a given issue. To this end, the course focuses on FDA's efforts to establish safe levels for added carcinogens in food, to ensure the safety of foods produced by recombinant DNA technology, to improve the public health by comprehensive food labeling reform, and to establish the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals in an ethical and timely manner. This course is highly recommended for persons interested in the regulatory process and in the practical aspects of administrative law.

LAW 645: Legal Issues of the Middle East Process
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 646: Hollywood Looks at Lawyers
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 647: Securities Markets Regulation Seminar
2 Credits

An in-depth analysis of several themes central to the regulation of exchange and over-the-counter trading in domestic securities. Topics to be covered include purpose and operation of securities markets; the implementation of self-regulatory oversight with focus upon the relationship between the exchanges and broker/dealers and the exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission; regulation of broker/dealers; the implication of listed and unlisted trading; the development of the national market system and the system's reliance upon intermarket communication and execution systems and brokers' performance of fiduciary duties of best execution; order flow issues; alternative trading systems and competition in the securities market and the impact of offboard trading restrictions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. It is strongly advisable, but not an absolute prerequisite, that students registering for the seminar have taken at least one securities course. Limited enrollment.

LAW 648: Civil Rights Law
3 Credits

This course is both an advanced course in constitutional law and a survey course on civil rights legislation. Coverage includes discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, alienage, gender, disability, age, religion, and sexual orientation, with particular emphasis on the interrelation between constitutional and statutory law and on the major interpretive and strategic problems of civil rights law. Attention will be given to the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the federal government's constitutional powers to define and protect civil rights, the Reconstruction Era civil rights statutes, the modern regulatory statutes (Title II (public accommodations) and VII (employment discrimination) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Fair Housing Act of 1968; the Americans with Disabilities Act), and the modern "conditional spending" statutes (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Sec. 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975).

LAW 649: Civil Rights
2 Credits

This course is both an advanced course in constitutional law and a survey course on civil rights legislation. Coverage includes discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, alienage, gender, disability, age, religion, and sexual orientation, with particular emphasis on the interrelation between constitutional and statutory law and on the major interpretive and strategic problems of civil rights law. Attention will be given to the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the federal government's constitutional powers to define and protect civil rights, the Reconstruction Era civil rights statutes, the modern regulatory statutes (Title II (public accommodations) and VII (employment discrimination) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Fair Housing Act of 1968; the Americans with Disabilities Act), and the modern "conditional spending" statutes (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Sec. 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975).

LAW 650: Immigration & Nationality Law
2 Credits

The course will explore the constitutional limits of the federal immigration power as enunciated in the federal courts, and the different roles of the departments and federal agencies involved in the administration and enforcement of immigration and nationality law. It will discuss the various categories of immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as the procedures used for admission into the United States. In addition, the course will review removal grounds, and the procedures, including appellate practice, used in removing aliens from the United States. Considerable time will be spent on the area of refugees and asylum. Finally, the course will provide an overview of employer sanctions and the requirements of acquiring and losing citizenship. Administrative Law is a suggested, but not required, prerequisite.

LAW 651: Immigration & Nationality Law
2 Credits

The course will explore the constitutional limits of the federal immigration power as enunciated in the federal courts, and the different roles of the departments and federal agencies involved in the administration and enforcement of immigration and nationality law. It will discuss the various categories of immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as the procedures used for admission into the United States. In addition, the course will review removal grounds, and the procedures, including appellate practice, used in removing aliens from the United States. Considerable time will be spent on the area of refugees and asylum. Finally, the course will provide an overview of employer sanctions and the requirements of acquiring and losing citizenship. Administrative Law is a suggested, but not required, prerequisite.

LAW 652: Complex Litigation
3 Credits

An advanced course in civil procedure entailing an in-depth examination of procedural problems involved in multiparty, multiclaim litigation in federal and state court. Among the topics considered are complex joinder, intervention, and effects on jurisdiction and justiciability; disposition of duplicative litigation; extensive analysis of class action practice; problems peculiar to large-case discovery, including use of computers in discovery, protective orders, and privilege; the case management movement and the judicial control of litigation; and advanced problems of res judicata and collateral estoppel involved in multiparty, multiclaim litigation. Faculty.

LAW 653: Complex Litigation Seminar
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 654: Law & Public Policy
2 Credits

This course will consider the relationship of law and the making of public policy, giving special emphasis to the variety of interactions among the three branches of the federal government. Students will study, in depth, three government proceedings (an administrative rulemaking, the enactment of a law by Congress, and an appeal to the United States Supreme Court), focusing both on the legal and policy issues involved and the roles of government officials, attorneys, and members of the public in these proceedings. This course is required for students seeking a certificate in Law and Public Policy. LPP students are encouraged to take this course in the spring of their second year, and must complete a course in Administrative Law before enrolling in this course.

LAW 655: Law & Public Policy
2 Credits

This course will consider the relationship of law and the making of public policy, giving special emphasis to the variety of interactions among the three branches of the federal government. Students will study, in depth, three government proceedings (an administrative rulemaking, the enactment of a law by Congress, and an appeal to the United States Supreme Court), focusing both on the legal and policy issues involved and the roles of government officials, attorneys, and members of the public in these proceedings. This course is required for students seeking a certificate in Law and Public Policy. LPP students are encouraged to take this course in the spring of their second year, and must complete a course in Administrative Law before enrolling in this course.

LAW 656: Federal Litigation
3 Credits

This course deals with specialized problems which arise in suits against the government: sovereign immunity, the nature and limitations of Tucker Act and Federal Tort Claims Act jurisdiction, suits against government corporations and officers, discovery and privilege, and representation problems - conflict of interest, lobbying, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and attorneys' fees.

LAW 657: Comparative Law Seminar: Political Violence
3 Credits

This course examines the legal systems of three countries--the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States--in their response to the challenge posed by political violence. All share the tradition of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights of 1689 and all exalt law as a fundamental basis of unity in society. Yet, their anti-terrorist laws and their courts' interpretations of those laws differ significantly. Students will be assigned (or select) a topic such as membership in proscribed organizations, extradition, surveillance, or detention without trial, will lead a seminar discussion and submit a paper on the topic. The course is intended to give students the opportunity to examine the concept of "the rule of law" when its institutions and procedures are subjected to extreme stress. Examples will also be drawn from the experiences of other countries in the common law tradition: Israel, South Africa, India, and Pakistan. Limited enrollment. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 658: The Law of Church & State Relations
3 Credits

This course is a survey of the law governing churches, their affiliates, and believers, and is taught from a "practice-oriented" perspective. Students will incorporate a hypothetical religious or religiously affiliated charitable organization, and provide advice to its Board of Directors concerning the options to be considered given the type of organization to be formed. Subjects to be covered will include federal and state constitutional and statutory protections for religious liberty; the structure and organization of churches and religiously affiliated organizations; the law of nonprofit and charitable corporations; taxation of churches and charities; labor and employment law; and the application of freedom of speech and association principles to organizations and groups. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Exposure to Corporations or Tax will be useful, but is not required.

LAW 659: The Law of Church/State Relations
3 Credits

This course is a survey of the law governing churches, their affiliates, and believers, and is taught from a "practice-oriented" perspective. Students will incorporate a hypothetical religious or religiously affiliated charitable organization, and provide advice to its Board of Directors concerning the options to be considered given the type of organization to be formed. Subjects to be covered will include federal and state constitutional and statutory protections for religious liberty; the structure and organization of churches and religiously affiliated organizations; the law of nonprofit and charitable corporations; taxation of churches and charities; labor and employment law; and the application of freedom of speech and association principles to organizations and groups. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Exposure to Corporations or Tax will be useful, but is not required.

LAW 661: Administration of Criminal Justice
2 Credits

This course covers a variety of topics in the criminal law/criminal procedure field. Students will be given an opportunity to participate in the selection and presentation of subject matter and materials to be covered and assigned. In the past, coverage has included the use of penal statutes to criminalize behavior that creates a risk of transmitting the HIV virus, electronic surveillance, and problems relating to informants. There will be no examination for this course; each student will be required to submit a paper on which the final grade will be primarily based, and to conduct a class on his or her topic. Topics will be decided jointly by the student and professor. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 663: Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process
3 Credits

This elective course is recommended as an adjunct to Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. Whereas Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process focuses on Constitutional Criminal Procedure with primary emphasis on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues, this course will provide an in-depth examination of procedural problems in criminal litigation. Topics covered may include right to counsel at trial, on appeal, and in collateral proceedings; the right to court-appointed experts, transcripts, and other aids; the plea-bargaining process; discovery obligations in general and reciprocal discovery in criminal cases; notice requirements for the insanity and alibi defenses; joinder and severance of counts and defendants; trial rights such as right to jury trial, right to speedy trial, peremptory challenges and the challenge for cause, the right to jury instructions on elements of the crime, defenses and theory of the case, etc.; proof issues such as burden of production and persuasion; and ethical issues in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases. It is suggested that this course be taken by those students intending to pursue a career in criminal litigation, either as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney. As currently offered, it is available only in the spring semester.

LAW 664: Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process
3 Credits

This elective course is recommended as an adjunct to Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. Whereas Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process focuses on Constitutional Criminal Procedure with primary emphasis on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues, this course will provide an in-depth examination of procedural problems in criminal litigation. Topics covered may include right to counsel at trial, on appeal, and in collateral proceedings; the right to court-appointed experts, transcripts, and other aids; the plea-bargaining process; discovery obligations in general and reciprocal discovery in criminal cases; notice requirements for the insanity and alibi defenses; joinder and severance of counts and defendants; trial rights such as right to jury trial, right to speedy trial, peremptory challenges and the challenge for cause, the right to jury instructions on elements of the crime, defenses and theory of the case, etc.; proof issues such as burden of production and persuasion; and ethical issues in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases. It is suggested that this course be taken by those students intending to pursue a career in criminal litigation, either as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney. As currently offered, it is available only in the spring semester.

LAW 665: Space Law
2 Credits

This course deals with public international law regulating space activities and United States domestic law governing national space efforts. The topics covered include the uses of outer space; activities in the UN COPUOUS, ITU, ESA, and other international organizations; the legal regime of outer space resulting from multilateral and bilateral treaties; liability for damage caused by spacecraft; military uses of outer space; remote sensing from space; telecommunication by satellite; and commercial space activities worldwide. Students have the option of writing a paper, in lieu of a final examination.

LAW 666: Space Law
2 Credits

This course deals with public international law regulating space activities and United States domestic law governing national space efforts. The topics covered include the uses of outer space; activities in the UN COPUOUS, ITU, ESA, and other international organizations; the legal regime of outer space resulting from multilateral and bilateral treaties; liability for damage caused by spacecraft; military uses of outer space; remote sensing from space; telecommunication by satellite; and commercial space activities worldwide. Students have the option of writing a paper, in lieu of a final examination.

LAW 667: Juvenile Law
2 Credits

A study of the law relating to juvenile court: juvenile delinquency, child abuse and neglect, foster care, status offenses, and termination of parental rights. Includes discussion of the philosophy underlying juvenile court, intake procedures, waiver to adult court, initial hearings, adjudicatory hearings, dispositions, treatment options, the role of counsel, and current efforts at reform. The course examines the unique partnership of law and social work in juvenile court. Students may substitute one or more portfolio writing exercises as full or partial fulfillment of the final examination course requirement. Paper must be practice oriented and may include opinion letters, bench briefs, and memoranda of law. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 671: Public International Law
3 Credits

An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 672: Comparative and International Trade International Trade
2 Credits

This course examines the major issues of international trade and its regulation at the national and international level. The focus is on the United States trade laws, including the tariff system and customs laws, the safeguard provisions, antidumping and countervailing duty remedies, and retaliatory measures. Attendant issues such as the distribution of powers to regulate international trade, the delegation doctrine, and judicial review of regulating agencies are also examined. The international regulatory framework--principally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization--are examined in some detail, with a focus on the fundamental rule of nondiscrimination, the resolution of disputes through the dispute settlement system, and the relationship between international agreements and the United States law. Finally, the course also examines specialized topics including free trade areas and customs unions, treatment of nonmarket/transitional economies, developing countries, and international trade in service.

LAW 674: Public International Law
3 Credits

An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 676: International & Comparative Taxation
2 Credits

This course considers comparative taxation issues, including choice of tax base, development of tax legislation, the effect of inflation on taxes, etc. The course provides students with a good overview of the areas considered but will necessarily not include in-depth analysis of many of the subjects.

LAW 678: Patent Law
3 Credits

A study of inventions that are protectable under United States patent laws; the requirements for patentability, including concepts of utility, novelty, unobviousness, and adequate disclosure; the nature of acts constituting patent infringement; interpretation of patent claims and the scope of exclusive rights under a patent; and remedies for infringement.

LAW 679: Advanced Patent Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 682: Fair Employment Law
2 Credits

A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 683: Fair Employment Law
2 Credits

A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 684: Jurisprudence
3 Credits

This course introduces the student to jurisprudence. It surveys the generic themes or issues which occupy inquiry in jurisprudence regardless of philosophical position. Such themes or issues extend to the legitimacy of the legal order; the relativity of the authority of law in relation to concepts of personhood, community, society, politics, or transcendence; the mediation of legal authority by patterns of interpretation and legal reasoning; the purposes of law relating to justice, civic order, public morality, and public welfare or well-being. The course's exploration of these themes or issues is designed to facilitate the restatement and critique of the diverse answers they elicit from differing approaches to jurisprudence. The course, then, proceeds to a synthesis of the key features of the schools or positions which comprise the primary options in contemporary normative jurisprudence. These schools or positions include Utilitarianism/Law and Economics, Libertarianism and Neo-Kantianism, Liberal Rights Theory, Natural Law, Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminist Jurisprudence. The course grades will be assigned based on a paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination.

LAW 684A: Jurisprudence
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 684B: Jurisprudential Problems in Contemporary American Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 684C: Jurisprudential Problems in Contemporary American Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 684D: Jurisprudence: A History of the Idea of Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 684E: Jurisprudence: A History of the Idea of Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 685: Catholic Social Teaching & The Law
2 Credits

This course introduces students to the basic tenets of Roman Catholic Social Teaching - the response of the Catholic Church to the social, political, and economic order as it has evolved over the past one hundred years. These teachings began with the 1891 papal encyclical Rerum Novarum and have developed through later encyclicals, documents of the Second Vatican Council, and pastoral letters of bishops' conferences. Dominant principles include the notions of solidarity, subsidiarity, and a preferential option for the poor. Once the underlying principles of Catholic social thought are developed, the course will selectively compare American law with the Catholic ideal in four specific areas of study: economic and labor regulation; family law; war and peace and other life issues such as abortion and assisted suicide; and social policy (e.g. welfare reform, etc.).

LAW 686: Government Contracts
2 Credits

Analyzes the basic considerations in contracting with the United States federal government. The course will examine the differences between contracting by private parties and government contracting. The course will cover contract formation and the procurement process (such as sealed bidding and competitive negotiation), the authority of government agents to contract, and problems that can arise during evaluation, source selection, and contract award. The Truth in Negotiations Act, defective pricing issues, and audit powers of the federal government will be briefly discussed. The course will cover problems of contract administration and performance, such as changes and constructive changes, delays and suspension of work, termination for default and for government convenience, inspection, warranties, and acceptance. The course also will focus on remedies in United States government contracting, including the bid protest system of the federal government, actions in federal courts, the disputes procedure of the federal government, and extraordinary contractual relief. Issues relating to procurement fraud will be briefly addressed.

LAW 687: Government Contracts
2 Credits

Analyzes the basic considerations in contracting with the United States federal government. The course will examine the differences between contracting by private parties and government contracting. The course will cover contract formation and the procurement process (such as sealed bidding and competitive negotiation), the authority of government agents to contract, and problems that can arise during evaluation, source selection, and contract award. The Truth in Negotiations Act, defective pricing issues, and audit powers of the federal government will be briefly discussed. The course will cover problems of contract administration and performance, such as changes and constructive changes, delays and suspension of work, termination for default and for government convenience, inspection, warranties, and acceptance. The course also will focus on remedies in United States government contracting, including the bid protest system of the federal government, actions in federal courts, the disputes procedure of the federal government, and extraordinary contractual relief. Issues relating to procurement fraud will be briefly addressed.

LAW 688: Introduction to International Arbitration & Mediation
2 Credits

This course will focus on international commercial arbitration. It will trace the history of commercial arbitration including the lex mercatoria through present international regimes such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Rules. Various internationally used venues such as the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris (ICC), the London Court on International Arbitration (LCIA), and the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) will be explored as well. Some attention will be paid to enforcement of awards, including the role of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention). Attention will be paid both to selected aspects of the Federal Arbitration Act (including how the New York convention is enforced under United States law) and to the growing movement toward an "a-national" arbitration jurisprudence. The course will also consider European Union treaties on arbitration. Some consideration will be given to mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in an international context. A drafting exercise will be included in the course. Student must also prepare a qualifying course paper which will fulfill one of the two upperclass writing requirements (see Academic Rule X, p. xx). Recommended prerequisite: Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques.

LAW 689: First Amendment Seminar: Religious Liberty
2 Credits

An in-depth seminar which addresses the practical and theoretical problems arising in religious liberty cases involving individuals and institutions. Though the course materials address the First Amendment as a whole (Speech, Religion, and Petition), the nature of the liberty protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the solution of practical problems are explored from the perspective of religious institutions, believers, and dissenters. A thorough knowledge of basic concepts of church/state relations and freedom of speech is helpful, but not necessary. Presentation and defense of individual seminar paper are required. Meets writing requirement. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law.

LAW 690: First Amendment Seminar: Religious Liberty
3 Credits

An in-depth seminar which addresses the practical and theoretical problems arising in religious liberty cases involving individuals and institutions. Though the course materials address the First Amendment as a whole (Speech, Religion, and Petition), the nature of the liberty protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the solution of practical problems are explored from the perspective of religious institutions, believers, and dissenters. A thorough knowledge of basic concepts of church/state relations and freedom of speech is helpful, but not necessary. Presentation and defense of individual seminar paper are required. Meets writing requirement. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law.

LAW 692: Law of Federal Aid Programs
3 Credits

This course is designed to acquaint students with the law pertaining to a broad range of federal aid programs, the departments and agencies that administer them, and the legal problems faced by lawyers, program administrators, and recipients on a day-to-day basis. Course objectives are to survey the law governing federal aid programs which account for a major portion of the federal non-defense budget, to examine the lawyer's role in shaping the content and administration of these programs, and to explore the types of legal problems that may hamper effective program administration. It is also intended to furnish students, including those who may be considering government or public interest careers, with additional insights regarding programs that affect almost all Americans. The course examines the constitutional underpinnings of the spending power; major processes affecting federal aid programs (including the formulation of substantive legislation, executive and congressional budget making, appropriations, rulemaking and judicial review); and overarching constitutional and administrative concerns, as well as the thrust of major individual programs in such areas as natural resources and environment, agriculture, transportation and community development, education and social services, arts and humanities, social and income security, health and medicare. Statutory and other drafting projects provide an opportunity for relevant skills development. There is the option of an examination or a paper which may fulfill the upperclass writing requirement.

LAW 693: Legal Issues of the Middle East Peace Process
2 Credits

This course will review the basic texts of the Middle East peace process ranging from the Balfour Declaration to the Wye Accords. It will consider both international law and domestic issues relevant to the peace process. Collateral issues such as water, environment, and national security will be explored as well. On occasion guest lecturers from various embassies and governments will join the class. A paper that meets the writing requirement will be required.

LAW 695: Federal Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended.

LAW 696: Fed Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended.

LAW 698: Practice & Procedure Before National Labor Relations Board
2 Credits

This course covers all important aspects of the detailed procedures of the Board. Unfair labor practices are examined from the filing of the initial charge in the regional office to the final enforcement in the United States Court of Appeals. Procedure in representation cases is also fully explored. The importance of informal procedures is stressed, and the substantive law is examined, especially from the standpoint of tactics. The student is evaluated on the basis of class participation and a paper. The paper fulfills the upperclass writing requirement.

LAW 699: Natural Resources Law & Policy
2 Credits

This seminar examines a selected number of issues involving the control and allocation of natural resources within the United States and internationally. The issues examined include regulation of oil and natural gas, regulation of energy, environmental issues, control of nuclear waste, and international controls on resources such as the Law of the Sea Treaty. In lieu of final examination, this course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is normally limited to twenty students.

LAW 700: Natural Resources Law & Policy
2 Credits

This seminar examines a selected number of issues involving the control and allocation of natural resources within the United States and internationally. The issues examined include regulation of oil and natural gas, regulation of energy, environmental issues, control of nuclear waste, and international controls on resources such as the Law of the Sea Treaty. In lieu of final examination, this course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is normally limited to twenty students.

LAW 703: Family Law
3 Credits

A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives.

LAW 704: Family Law
3 Credits

A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives.

LAW 708: Intro to the American Legal System - Cracow
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 709: Water & Air Pollution
2 Credits

This course focuses on the statutory scheme for water and air pollution prevention by analyzing the major federal statutes in these fields, primarily the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. In addition, the course will discuss water and air pollution on the state level; the similarities and differences between the two regulatory schemes; methods of achieving compliance with the air and water pollution requirements; and critique of the multimedia approach to permitting and enforcement. At the discretion of the instructor, this course will be an examination or paper option. Prerequisite: Environmental Law or permission of instructor. Faculty.

LAW 711: Comparative Law Seminar: Political Violence
3 Credits

This course examines the legal systems of three countries--the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States--in their response to the challenge posed by political violence. All share the tradition of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights of 1689 and all exalt law as a fundamental basis of unity in society. Yet, their anti-terrorist laws and their courts' interpretations of those laws differ significantly. Students will be assigned (or select) a topic such as membership in proscribed organizations, extradition, surveillance, or detention without trial, will lead a seminar discussion and submit a paper on the topic. The course is intended to give students the opportunity to examine the concept of "the rule of law" when its institutions and procedures are subjected to extreme stress. Examples will also be drawn from the experiences of other countries in the common law tradition: Israel, South Africa, India, and Pakistan. Limited enrollment. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 712: Post-Socialist Legal Systems
2 Credits

This course is premised on the assumption that the recent political and economic restructuring of the Eastern and Central European countries is perhaps the most important event in post-World War II history. This event most likely will result in constitutional transformation in Eastern Europe. Using the analytical techniques of Comparative Law, the course will examine the basic institutions and principles of Socialist and post-Socialist legal systems. It will focus on the Soviet system of law and the legal system of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, which emerged in the region of previous Soviet domination. The course also will take up contemporary legal systems of other major Socialist countries. Lectures, class discussions, and examinations will compare and contrast legal and political institutions of Western democracies and post-Communist systems.

LAW 713: International Securities Regulation-Cracow
2 Credits

This course focuses on the international securities market and how it interacts with the American securities regulatory system. An initial background will be developed outlining the purpose and operation of a securities market, the nature of the participants in a securities market, the operational definition of securities, the basic regulatory system for the issuance and trading of securities and the registration and regulation of securities industry personnel. Through the course, the student will gain a familiarity with the concept of securities markets, securities regulation, and the process of self-regulatory oversight. The course seeks to create an understanding of the inter-relationships between national securities markets, the international nature of major world corporations and the need to create common denominators for international principles of securities regulation. Finally, the course provides an overview of how the American securities regulatory system addresses capital formation by foreign issuers in American markets, operation of foreign securities industry personnel in American markets, and law and policies for establishing jurisdiction over non-domestic securities personnel.

LAW 714: International Intellectual Property Law
2 Credits

An overview of the international aspects of intellectual property law, focusing on the major areas of copyright, patent, and trademark law. The course will cover the development and nature of international protection under domestic law as well as under bilateral and multilateral agreements; the use of trade negotiations as a mechanism for the implementation and harmonization of rights; and enforcement problems, including issues of jurisdiction, territoriality, exhaustion of rights, and conflicts of law. Limited enrollment. Fulfills upperclass writing requirement. Prerequisite: Copyright Law or Patent Law.

LAW 715: Foreign Investment in East-Central Europe & the European Union
2 Credits

This course will offer students a unique opportunity to investigate the fundamental principles of foreign investment, as they relate to Central and Eastern Europe in the period of transition from socialism to free-market economy. The principles represent the common requirements for attracting foreign investment, technology, and managerial expertise necessary to restructure the ailing economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The course will also analyze the types of business transactions best suited for the establishment of joint ventures in the region. Some of the investment principles that will be investigated in the course include repatriation of profits; government approval requirements; expropriation; real property ownership and use; company laws; valuation and accounting regulations; infrastructure support; regulating labor; dispute resolution; taxation; intellectual property protection; availability of investment assistance programs (i.e., OPIC, EXIM, EBRD); export controls to Central and Eastern Europe; and measures that assist trade (i.e., MFN). These fundamental investment principles will be assessed from two perspectives. The first is to question whether the principles are sufficiently incorporated into the new legal systems of Central and Eastern Europe. The second is from the perspective of a comparative overview of these investment principles within the differing investment policies of the Central and East European countries. The course will be structured using several teaching methods. Each class will focus on one or more of the fundamental investment principles. Students will be required to prepare for each class through assignments from the course syllabus. Classes will promote open dialogue in order to provide students with an in-depth understanding of critical nuances in foreign investment policies. As a supplement to the discussions, a portion of some classes will be devoted to guest lecturers - an expert in the particular investment principle(s) being discussed. Finally, each student will participate in the actual assessment of draft foreign investment laws. The students will have an opportunity to work directly with the drafters of foreign investment laws as they are being developed in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This is an exam course.

LAW 716: Corporate Finance Seminar
2 Credits

The course will examine the major financial and structural changes which an on-going corporation might experience. Topics that will be explored include valuation methods, leverage finance, debt instruments, going-private transactions, hostile and friendly tender-offers, reorganizations, recapitalizations, acquisitions, and spin-offs. These subjects will be analyzed in terms of their corporate and securities law implications as well as for related economic and policy concerns. Corporations required. A previous or contemporaneous course in securities is recommended. A good understanding of business can serve as a substitute. Limited enrollment.

LAW 717: ERISA: Pensions (Tax Policy)
2 Credits

This course examines federal tax policy aimed at increasing the adequacy of retirement savings. The course surveys the tax provisions of ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) and provides an in-depth examination of the fundamental policy considerations which these provisions reflect as they relate to qualified plans. The material covered in this course complements the material covered in ERISA: Pensions (Taxation), but completion of that course is not a requirement. Prerequisite: None (Federal Income Taxation recommended).

LAW 718: ERISA: Pensions (Tax Policy)
2 Credits

This course examines federal tax policy aimed at increasing the adequacy of retirement savings. The course surveys the tax provisions of ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) and provides an in-depth examination of the fundamental policy considerations which these provisions reflect as they relate to qualified plans. The material covered in this course complements the material covered in ERISA: Pensions (Taxation), but completion of that course is not a requirement. Prerequisite: None (Federal Income Taxation recommended).

LAW 719: Comparative Foundations of Modern Law (Crawcow)
3 Credits

This course looks back to a time when Europe had a common law that transcended national and legal boundaries. This system of law reigned from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. The term "common law" sounds strange to most English-speaking historians when applied to continental legal systems. We speak of common low as being the legal system that evolved in England from the eleventh century to the present. But, as Europe struggles to create a new common law, the history of the old may provide a model for thinking about how legal systems develop, how law might not necessarily be limited by national boundaries, and how legal norms might be seen as transcending the positve law of the nation state. Three themes in the evolution of European legal systems over two millennia will be studied in depth: codification of law, development of procedural norms, role of the jurist in the legal system and in society. The goal of the course is twofold: to present a survey of European law from the Code of Justinian (6th century A.D.) to the Code Napoleon and to explain how the civil and Anglo-American common law traditions developed their distinctive legal institutions. Course requires four papers ca. 8 pages each.

LAW 721: Law of the European Union (Cracow)
3 Credits

The rationale of this course is to provide an overview of the political and legal framework of Common Market institutions, trade relations with the European Union, and legal and business implications of the European process of integration. The focus will be on the process of the creation of the European Community, goals and purposes of the Community, the structural framework and processes for the development of Community law, constitutional issues, the role of the European Court of Justice, East-West trade, and United States trade within the European Community. Examination/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 722: Partnership Taxation
2 Credits

The tax consequences of the formation and operation of a partnership, including the basis of partnership interests and of partnership assets and the effect of liabilities on basis; the determination of partnership income and a partner's distributive share thereof; sales and exchanges of partnership interests; liquidating and nonliquidating partnership distributions and tax consequences involving the retiring partner. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation.

LAW 723: Comparative Contract Law
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 724: Law of the European Union
3 Credits

The rationale of this course is to provide an overview of the political and legal framework of Common Market institutions, trade relations with the European Union, and legal and business implications of the European process of integration. The focus will be on the process of the creation of the European Community, goals and purposes of the Community, the structural framework and processes for the development of Community law, constitutional issues, the role of the European Court of Justice, East-West trade, and United States trade within the European Community. Examination/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 725: Regulated Industries: A Comparative Perspective (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 726: Mediation & Arbitration Skills
3 Credits

The focus of this course is on the theory, skills, and attitudes involved in the conduct of mediation and arbitration. In addition, some attention is given to the role of counsel in mediation and arbitration. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills required to function as a mediator or arbitrator in a range of disputes. Skills are learned through active participation in simulated exercises, which are videotaped, reviewed, and critiqued by other students and the faculty member. Readings and discussion of the theoretical bases for mediation and arbitration and the ethical issues inherent in these practices also form a part of the course. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience.

LAW 727: Safety & Health in the Workplace
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 728: Mediation & Arbitration Skills
3 Credits

The focus of this course is on the theory, skills, and attitudes involved in the conduct of mediation and arbitration. In addition, some attention is given to the role of counsel in mediation and arbitration. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills required to function as a mediator or arbitrator in a range of disputes. Skills are learned through active participation in simulated exercises, which are videotaped, reviewed, and critiqued by other students and the faculty member. Readings and discussion of the theoretical bases for mediation and arbitration and the ethical issues inherent in these practices also form a part of the course. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience.

LAW 729: Mediation & Arbitration Skills
3 Credits

The focus of this course is on the theory, skills, and attitudes involved in the conduct of mediation and arbitration. In addition, some attention is given to the role of counsel in mediation and arbitration. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills required to function as a mediator or arbitrator in a range of disputes. Skills are learned through active participation in simulated exercises, which are videotaped, reviewed, and critiqued by other students and the faculty member. Readings and discussion of the theoretical bases for mediation and arbitration and the ethical issues inherent in these practices also form a part of the course. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience.

LAW 730: Environmental law
3 Credits

This course will consider federal statutes and regulations that are designed to improve the quality of our environment, e.g., Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, etc. A basic understanding of the statutory schemes will be complemented by theoretical and policy analysis. Discussion of relevant administrative law principles will be incorporated throughout the course. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examinations.

LAW 731: Education Law
3 Credits

This course will consider current legal problems in public and private education systems. Primary emphasis will be on public elementary/secondary education. Topics to be discussed include the roles and authority of state and local education agencies, compulsory education, curriculum control, students' and teachers' rights, desegregation, testing and ability grouping, allocation of educational resources, federal aid programs, and problems of church and state. The prerogatives of parents, the roles of such private groups as teachers' unions, the functions of courts and lawyers in resolving education law problems, and the usefulness of social science materials in elucidating education problems will be considered. Occasionally this course is also offered as a limited enrollment seminar that fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Offered alternate years.

LAW 732: Education Law
3 Credits

This course will consider current legal problems in public and private education systems. Primary emphasis will be on public elementary/secondary education. Topics to be discussed include the roles and authority of state and local education agencies, compulsory education, curriculum control, students' and teachers' rights, desegregation, testing and ability grouping, allocation of educational resources, federal aid programs, and problems of church and state. The prerogatives of parents, the roles of such private groups as teachers' unions, the functions of courts and lawyers in resolving education law problems, and the usefulness of social science materials in elucidating education problems will be considered. Occasionally this course is also offered as a limited enrollment seminar that fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Offered alternate years.

LAW 733: Comparative Foundations of Modern Law (Crawcow)
2 Credits

This course looks back to a time when Europe had a common law that transcended national and legal boundaries. This system of law reigned from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. The term "common law" sounds strange to most English-speaking historians when applied to continental legal systems. We speak of common low as being the legal system that evolved in England from the eleventh century to the present. But, as Europe struggles to create a new common law, the history of the old may provide a model for thinking about how legal systems develop, how law might not necessarily be limited by national boundaries, and how legal norms might be seen as transcending the positve law of the nation state. Three themes in the evolution of European legal systems over two millennia will be studied in depth: codification of law, development of procedural norms, role of the jurist in the legal system and in society. The goal of the course is twofold: to present a survey of European law from the Code of Justinian (6th century A.D.) to the Code Napoleon and to explain how the civil and Anglo-American common law traditions developed their distinctive legal institutions. Course requires four papers ca. 8 pages each.

LAW 734: International Business Transactions (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 735: Legal Drafting Seminar
3 Credits

This course offers an introduction to legal drafting, with an emphasis on such essential skills as writing with clarity and precision, conforming with statues and ordinances, using form books appropriately, achieving the goals of clients, identifying and eliminating ambiguity, editing and proofreading a written product, and simplifying complex thoughts and ideas. The first half of this course will provide students with a through introduction to the principles of general drafting through the use of written exercised, peer critique, and in-class workshops. These may be general office documents or documents in a particular doctrinal area. Through the course of the semester, students will draft a minimum of three major legal documents in addition to rewrites and shorter written exercises. Successful completion of this course will satisfy one of the two upper-level legal writing requirements. Enrollment will be limited to 16 students per section.

LAW 735A: Pre-Trial Litigation: From Complaint to Eve of Trial
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 735B: Pre-Trial Litigation: From Complaint to Eve of Trial
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 736: Not for Profit Organizations
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 737: Not for Profit Organizations
2 Credits

Considers many aspects of the legal treatment of not-for-profit organizations, including management and organizational issues, fiduciary responsibilities, tax exemptions and other special privileges, restrictions on political and economic activities, special fund-raising regulations, etc. The course does not have prerequisites, but because it pulls together many areas of law, it is an ideal third-year course. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 738: Comparative Non-Profit Law
2 Credits

Considers many aspects of the legal treatment of not-for-profit organizations, including management and organizational issues, fiduciary responsibilities, tax exemptions and other special privileges, restrictions on political and economic activities, special fund-raising regulations, etc. The course does not have prerequisites, but because it pulls together many areas of law, it is an ideal third-year course. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 739: Regional & Community Development
2 Credits

This course deals with legal developments in assuring that economically disadvantaged persons, minorities, and women have access to standard housing and a decent living environment. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of federal policy and practices on residential patterns in metropolitan areas and small towns, and the consequences of these policies and practices for the environment. May satisfy upperclass writing requirement.

LAW 740: Environmental Crimes
2 Credits

This course will familiarize students with the criminal enforcement aspects of environmental law and provide a thorough background to prepare them to work in environmental enforcement on behalf of government agencies or to assist corporate and business clients in compliance with applicable statutes. Topics to be covered include historical background to the criminal enforcement system; interplay of the civil and criminal enforcement systems; statutory provisions criminalizing environmental violations; special issues of corporate liability; creation of environmental compliance plans; litigation of an environmental crimes case; sentencing of environmental crimes; and international environmental crime. The final course grade will be based primarily on a research paper. In addition, a short oral presentation on the paper topic will be required from each student. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Environmental Law or permission of the instructor. A previous course in Criminal Procedure is recommended.

LAW 741: Contemporary Social Issues Under Jewish Law
2 Credits

This seminar will focus on the application of Jewish law principles to a variety of contemporary social issues, such as autopsies, organ transplants, position of women in religious life, respect for parents, smoking, and life and death issues during the Holocaust. As a context for discussion, the seminar will provide a historical overview of the Jewish legal system, emphasizing the place of the Bible as a source of Jewish law. Original sources, in translation, will be used wherever possible. No prerequisites. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 742: Contemporary Social Issues Under Jewish Law
2 Credits

This seminar will focus on the application of Jewish law principles to a variety of contemporary social issues, such as autopsies, organ transplants, position of women in religious life, respect for parents, smoking, and life and death issues during the Holocaust. As a context for discussion, the seminar will provide a historical overview of the Jewish legal system, emphasizing the place of the Bible as a source of Jewish law. Original sources, in translation, will be used wherever possible. No prerequisites. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 743: ERISA: Pensions (Taxation)
2 Credits

Survey of the structure, operation, and requirements for obtaining and maintaining IRS approval of tax qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock-bonus plans under X401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code are explored. Faculty.

LAW 744: National Security Law and Policy Seminar
2 Credits

The seminar will examine the issues that are confronted in applying general legal standards and processes to activities that are intended to further the national security interests of the United States. Against the background of developments in national security programs and law since World War II, the discussions will explore the legal, constitutional, and policy problems that are confronted in applying a regulatory system to these activities; examine the inherent interbranch tensions that develop in this area because of the separation of powers; analyze the constitutional, statutory, administrative, and policy determinations that are required to resolve conflicts between accepted legal principles, individual rights, and national security requirements; and review selected foreign approaches to similar problems confronted abroad. The objective is enhanced insight into broader constitutional, legal, political, and governmental issues in light of the acute pressures placed upon the legal system by the peculiar nature, objectives, and imperatives of national security programs. Students will be expected to contribute to the class sessions on a regular and meaningful basis. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement with approval of course instructor.

LAW 745: Comp Aspects of Antitrust Regs in the US and EU
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 748: Law of Hazardous and Toxic Waste
2 Credits

This course focuses on the various federal regulatory programs which apply to hazardous and toxic materials. Statutes that may be covered include the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. The structure and emphasis of the course will be announced at the time of preregistration. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 751: International Arbitration & Mediation (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 751A: International Arbitration and Litigation (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 752: Intellectual Property Transactions
2 Credits

This limited enrollment course is focused primarily on the analysis and drafting of documents related to transactions involving the transfer of interests in intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and know-how. Through the process of analyzing and drafting transactional documents, students will be introduced to the relevant statutory and case law and will become familiar with substantive legal principles related to title, express and implied licenses, license transfers, and assignments of rights in intellectual property. Students may also be exposed to substantive areas of the law having significant impact on intellectual property rights, such as international law, antitrust, tax, and bankruptcy. The grade will be based primarily on the final written work products produced by each student. This course meets the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Students must have taken at least one of the following: Patent Law, Copyright Law, Trademark Law, or Trademarks and Unfair Competition.

LAW 753: Virginia Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

This course explores the specialized practice and procedures of the state courts of Virginia. The topics it covers include subject matter jurisdiction, active jurisdiction, parties, venue, pleading, discovery, pre-trial and trial motions, post-verdict motions, judgments, costs, and appeals. It also includes within its scope distinctions between law and equity and extraordinary writs. The course is directed primarily towards students planning to practice law in Virginia. It offers important preparation for those students who expect to become litigators in Virginia, and it seeks to convey insight into litigation and settlement strategies with distinctive application in the state. It seeks, as well, to serve to prepare students for practice in Virginia, who do not plan to litigate, but who merely seek more adequate knowledge of the more complex than usual procedural backdrop of general law practice in the state.

LAW 755: Comparative Commercial Lw:Consumer Protection- Cracow
2 Credits

The course will examine various modes of legal protection for consumers as borrowers and buyers of goods and services under the laws of the United States and selected European countries. Topics covered will include freedom of contract, unfair and deceptive practices, advertising and transactional disclosure, price and interest-rate controls, and enforcement mechanisms. Schedule permitting, students will collaborate in developing law reform proposals for the central European area.

LAW 756: Forgn Inv E/Ctrl Eur&Eu-Cracow
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 757: Comparative Legal Profession and Legal Ethics
2 Credits

This course offers a comparative perspective on the legal profession and on legal ethics. The course will cover the core topics in U.S. professional responsibility law such as confidentiality, conflicts of interest, bar admission and discipline. U.S. law will be compared with law on these topics in Poland and other European countries. The course is important for lawyers interested in international transactions because the practice environments, roles of lawyers, and rules governing lawyers are so different in the US, in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, and because the law governing lawyers is changing so rapidly in Central and Eastern Europe. The course has been approved to satisfy the professional responsibility requirement at Catholic University Law School. Students attending other law schools must check with their schools on whether the course will satisfy the requirements at their schools. Upon request, CUA will provide documentation to other schools on the scope and coverage of the course requirement. Students who have taken other professional responsibility course may take this course with the permission of the instructors.

LAW 758: Community Development in a World Economy
2 Credits

This course will examine the leadership roles of government, business, and citizens operating in partnership in metropolitan regions to improve quality of life and competitiveness in the global marketplace. Particular emphasis is placed on federal, state, and local law and policy issues in the key areas of economic development, livable communities, and overcoming barriers of race, ethnicity, and income. The Washington Metropolitan Area will be the case study. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 759: ERISA: Labor Management Perspective
3 Credits

This course will provide an overview of the substantive provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), as well as those of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) that affect pension and welfare benefit plans. Emphasis will be placed upon fiduciary responsibilities and other topics affecting individual participant rights and for which regulatory authority has been delegated to the Department of Labor, as well as upon issues peculiar to collectively bargained (including multi-employer) plans. Matters for which regulatory authority has been delegated to the IRS (including minimum participation, accrual, vesting, and funding requirements) will be discussed only to the extent they are privately enforceable.

LAW 760: Comparative Corporations and Other Business Associations Law (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 761: Int'l Environmental Law
3 Credits

This course is designed to introduce students to the basic international institutions which address international environmental issues and the specific programs they have developed for doing so. Students should obtain a working knowledge of international institutions, an understanding of the major environmental problems facing the global environment, and isight into the difficult political, moral, and scientific issues facing the ongoing development of international environmental law. Issues considered will include air polution, water resourses and pollution(with respect to oceans, rivers, and lakes), hazardous materials(including both chemical manufacturing and hazardous waste disposal), and wildlife and natural habitats. The course will also consider the connections between international environmental law and trade, the connections between international environmental law and human rights, and certain issues in private international law. The grade will be based on a final exam.

LAW 762: Estate Planning
2 Credits

An advanced course which attempts to integrate in a meaningful way the principles of property law and tax law as they apply to the accumulation and disposition of wealth. Revocable and irrevocable trusts, wills, interspousal lifetime and death transfers, life insurance, employee benefits plans, and estate planning for owners of incorporated and unincorporated businesses are examined in detail. Special attention is given to practical problems in planning for the most effective and economical disposition of property in view of the tax and property consequences of the various alternatives. Drafting skills are developed; the major project for each student is to draft a will and explanatory memorandum at the end of the course. No examination is given. Enrollment limited to fifteen students. Prerequisites: Trusts and Estates, Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers, or permission of the instructor.

LAW 763: Family Law
3 Credits

A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives.

LAW 764: Family Law
3 Credits

A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives.

LAW 765: Land Transactions and Finance
3 Credits

This course studies the law of real estate financing methods and transaction documentation. Lender liability, title insurance, and federal income tax considerations are included with an examination of the lawyer's role in the development and transfer of land.

LAW 766: Land Transactions & Finance
3 Credits

This course studies the law of real estate financing methods and transaction documentation. Lender liability, title insurance, and federal income tax considerations are included with an examination of the lawyer's role in the development and transfer of land.

LAW 767: Land Use
2 Credits

This course studies the process of imposing limitations (legal, political, economic, and social) upon the use and management of privately owned land by judicially crafted principles of waste and nuisance; by contract; through the use of easements, covenants, and servitudes; by zoning and subdivision regulation; and by environmental legislation. Simulated exercises of land development conflicts (e.g., the administrative processes of zoning deliberations before a zoning board) and role-playing will assist the students in developing competencies and skills--particularly negotiation--when representing the full component of clients in a typical land-use conflict: the developer, private property owners, together with local, state, and federal administrative bodies. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 768: Land Use
2 Credits

This course studies the process of imposing limitations (legal, political, economic, and social) upon the use and management of privately owned land by judicially crafted principles of waste and nuisance; by contract; through the use of easements, covenants, and servitudes; by zoning and subdivision regulation; and by environmental legislation. Simulated exercises of land development conflicts (e.g., the administrative processes of zoning deliberations before a zoning board) and role-playing will assist the students in developing competencies and skills--particularly negotiation--when representing the full component of clients in a typical land-use conflict: the developer, private property owners, together with local, state, and federal administrative bodies. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 769: Maryland Civil Practice
2 Credits

This course covers important procedural aspects of civil litigation in the Maryland state courts. It surveys the Maryland Rules of Procedure, the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article of the Annotated Code, and relevant common law principles. All stages of civil pre-trial litigation are considered, but particular emphasis is placed on elements of Maryland procedural law relating to pleadings, motions, and discovery. The course is directed primarily towards students planning to practice law in Maryland, and it offers important preparation for those students who expect to become litigators in Maryland. It seeks, as well, to prepare students for practice in Maryland, who do not plan to litigate, but who merely seek more adequate knowledge of the distinctive procedural backdrop of general law practice in the state.

LAW 770: Conflict of Laws:Comparative & International Perspective (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 773: Corporate Taxation
3 Credits

The law of taxation as applied to corporations and their shareholders in the various contexts of corporate life, including incorporation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations and reorganizations. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation.

LAW 774: Corporate Taxation
3 Credits

The law of taxation as applied to corporations and their shareholders in the various contexts of corporate life, including incorporation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations and reorganizations. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation.

LAW 775: Tax Policy
3 Credits

The course examines the basic economic principles of taxation as well s specific theories underlying the major plicies of the current federal tax system and their impact on taxpayers. The major focus is on the federal income tax system with additional discussion of state and local systems. Students have the option of writing a paper, in lieu of a final examination, which satifies the upperclass writing requirement. Enrollment limited.

LAW 777: Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers
3 Credits

Tax problems and consequences of gratuitous transfers of wealth during lifetime and at death. The law of estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxation is critically examined as it applies to transactions involving outright gifts, trusts, life insurance, employee benefits, alimony, joint property, estates, future interests, and powers. Considerable emphasis is given to the effects of taxation on planning and implementing lifetime and testamentary dispositive arrangements. Particular attention is given to the attorney's role in advising clients concerning alternative means for the gratuitous disposition of property. Prerequisite: Trusts and Estates or permission of instructor.

LAW 778: Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers
3 Credits

Tax problems and consequences of gratuitous transfers of wealth during lifetime and at death. The law of estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxation is critically examined as it applies to transactions involving outright gifts, trusts, life insurance, employee benefits, alimony, joint property, estates, future interests, and powers. Considerable emphasis is given to the effects of taxation on planning and implementing lifetime and testamentary dispositive arrangements. Particular attention is given to the attorney's role in advising clients concerning alternative means for the gratuitous disposition of property. Prerequisite: Trusts and Estates or permission of instructor.

LAW 779: Legal Accounting
2 Credits

A survey of the elementary techniques and basic theoretical concepts of accounting and financial statements. Emphasis is on those accounting issues that are relevant to the practice of law, and attention is given to the impact of accounting on such legal questions as damages, valuation, creditor and shareholder rights, and fraud. The course is designed for students who are unfamiliar with accounting, and prior study or training in accounting, business, or finance is not a prerequisite.

LAW 780: Legal Accounting
3 Credits

A survey of the elementary techniques and basic theoretical concepts of accounting and financial statements. Emphasis is on those accounting issues that are relevant to the practice of law, and attention is given to the impact of accounting on such legal questions as damages, valuation, creditor and shareholder rights, and fraud. The course is designed for students who are unfamiliar with accounting, and prior study or training in accounting, business, or finance is not a prerequisite.

LAW 781: Comparative & International Trade (Cracow)
3 Credits

This course examines the major issues of international trade and its regulation at the national and international level. The focus is on the United States trade laws, including the tariff system and customs laws, the safeguard provisions, antidumping and countervailing duty remedies, and retaliatory measures. Attendant issues such as the distribution of powers to regulate international trade, the delegation doctrine, and judicial review of regulating agencies are also examined. The international regulatory framework--principally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization--are examined in some detail, with a focus on the fundamentals rule of nondiscrimination, the resolution of disputes through the dispute settlement system, and the relationship between international agreements and the United States law. Finally, the course also examines specialized topics including free trade areas and customs unions, treatment of nonmarket/transitional economics, developing countries, and international trade in service.

LAW 782: Compar Bankruptcy Law (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 783: Education Law Practice: A Simulated Lawyering Experience
3 Credits

This course uses a variety of instructional formats to examine legal and policy problems in the nation's systems of public and private education. Primary emphasis is on higher education. Students are organized into two or three "law offices" that represent various individual and institutional "clients." The clients' problems involve matters such as discipline of emotionally disabled students, denial of faculty tenure, university regulation of hate speech or of protest activities, state legislative regulation of sexual harassment in schools and colleges, of university affirmative action plans for admissions or financial aid, and the rights of parents to "home school" their children. These problems and the assigned background readings emphasize special applications to education of contract law, tort law, administrative law, constitutional law, and civil rights law. Simulations, role-playing exercises, and writing assignments that accompany the problems help students develop lawyering competencies such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, research and writing, and problem solving. Students may enroll for 3, 4, or 5 credits; the required simulation assignments and writing assignments will increase as the credit load increases. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is limited. Either concurrently with this course or in a subsequent semester, a few students may earn academic credit in an education law externship--e.g., an externship with externs in the Catholic University Office of General Counsel. Externs must enroll in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, or in Supervised Fieldwork, as appropriate; see instructor for further information before registering.

LAW 784: Education Law Practice: A Simulated Lawyering Experience
4 Credits

This course uses a variety of instructional formats to examine legal and policy problems in the nation's systems of public and private education. Primary emphasis is on higher education. Students are organized into two or three "law offices" that represent various individual and institutional "clients." The clients' problems involve matters such as discipline of emotionally disabled students, denial of faculty tenure, university regulation of hate speech or of protest activities, state legislative regulation of sexual harassment in schools and colleges, of university affirmative action plans for admissions or financial aid, and the rights of parents to "home school" their children. These problems and the assigned background readings emphasize special applications to education of contract law, tort law, administrative law, constitutional law, and civil rights law. Simulations, role-playing exercises, and writing assignments that accompany the problems help students develop lawyering competencies such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, research and writing, and problem solving. Students may enroll for 3, 4, or 5 credits; the required simulation assignments and writing assignments will increase as the credit load increases. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is limited. Either concurrently with this course or in a subsequent semester, a few students may earn academic credit in an education law externship--e.g., an externship with externs in the Catholic University Office of General Counsel. Externs must enroll in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, or in Supervised Fieldwork, as appropriate; see instructor for further information before registering.

LAW 785: Education Law Practice: A Simulated Lawyering Experience
5 Credits

This course uses a variety of instructional formats to examine legal and policy problems in the nation's systems of public and private education. Primary emphasis is on higher education. Students are organized into two or three "law offices" that represent various individual and institutional "clients." The clients' problems involve matters such as discipline of emotionally disabled students, denial of faculty tenure, university regulation of hate speech or of protest activities, state legislative regulation of sexual harassment in schools and colleges, of university affirmative action plans for admissions or financial aid, and the rights of parents to "home school" their children. These problems and the assigned background readings emphasize special applications to education of contract law, tort law, administrative law, constitutional law, and civil rights law. Simulations, role-playing exercises, and writing assignments that accompany the problems help students develop lawyering competencies such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, research and writing, and problem solving. Students may enroll for 3, 4, or 5 credits; the required simulation assignments and writing assignments will increase as the credit load increases. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is limited. Either concurrently with this course or in a subsequent semester, a few students may earn academic credit in an education law externship--e.g., an externship with externs in the Catholic University Office of General Counsel. Externs must enroll in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, or in Supervised Fieldwork, as appropriate; see instructor for further information before registering.

LAW 786: Distribution of Health Services
2 Credits

This course concentrates on the legal structure for the delivery of health services in the United States. Legal problems of federal, state, and private programs for the delivery of health services will be analyzed, and legal means of improving the quality and quantity of health care for low-and moderate- income persons will be explored.

LAW 788: Interviewing Counseling & Negotiation Skills
3 Credits

This course introduces students to the basic lawyering skills of interviewing, counseling, and negotiation. It employs simulation exercises, self-critiques, and feedback from the course instructor as well as other students. The course is intended to teach and improve basic skills needed for the practice of law. In addition to the exercises, students will be exposed to the theoretical underpinnings of the skills and will be guided in coming to grips with some of the ethical issues involved in interviewing, counseling, and negotiation. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 789: Environmental Law
3 Credits

This course will consider federal statutes and regulations that are designed to improve the quality of our enviroment, e.g., Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Clean Air Act, National Enviromental Policy Act, Comprehensive Enviromental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, etc. A basic understanding of the statutory schemes will be complemented by theoretical and policy analysis. Discussion of revelant administrative law principles will be incorporated throughout the course. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperlevel writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examinations.

LAW 790: Environmental Law
3 Credits

This course will consider federal statutes and regulations that are designed to improve the quality of our enviroment, e.g., Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Clean Air Act, National Enviromental Policy Act, Comprehensive Enviromental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, etc. A basic understanding of the statutory schemes will be complemented by theoretical and policy analysis. Discussion of revelant administrative law principles will be incorporated throughout the course. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperlevel writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examinations.

LAW 793: Health Law
3 Credits

This course will cover professional methodology (the "medical model" and the litigative process), compensation for professional fault (malpractice and other bases for claims), obtaining and presenting medical evidence, structure and performance of the medical professions, and aspects of medical science and public policy. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 794: Health Law
2 Credits

This course will cover professional methodology (the "medical model" and the litigative process), compensation for professional fault (malpractice and other bases for claims), obtaining and presenting medical evidence, structure and performance of the medical professions, and aspects of medical science and public policy. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 795: Law, Science & Medicine (Bioethics)
2 Credits

The seminar investigates legal, ethical, and social problems caused by developments in medicine and the biological sciences. Topics include informed consent, death and dying, genetic planning and manipulation, fetal research, treatment of and experimentation with institutionalized persons, societal controls on scientific advances, and allocation of health care resources. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 796: Law, Science, and Medicine
2 Credits

The seminar investigates legal, ethical, and social problems caused by developments in medicine and the biological sciences. Topics include informed consent, death and dying, genetic planning and manipulation, fetal research, treatment of and experimentation with institutionalized persons, societal controls on scientific advances, and allocation of health care resources. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 797: Local Government Law
2 Credits

This course will examine the organization, the sources and extent of authority, and contemporary legal and policy problems of local governments. Topics include delegation of powers, home rule, federal-local relationships, local government finance, equitable distribution of services, regional governance, and special considerations in litigation involving local governments. Federal constitutional and statutory developments having particular application to local governments will also be studied.

LAW 801: Electonic Mass Media Policy and Regulation
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course will examine federal electronic mass media policy and regulation as formulated, implemented, and interpreted by the Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the courts. The course will first provide an overview of the electronic mass media industry and the FCC, then relate First Amendment jurisprudence and case law to contrasting concepts of broadcast regulation. Using this analytical framework as a reference, the course will cover the role of the FCC in spectrum allocation; FCC licensing policy and regulation; FCC economic structural policy and regulation; FCC content-behavioral policy and regulation; and the impact of emerging and converging electronic mass media technologies such as cable T.V. and direct broadcast satellites on future mass media policy and regulation and the First Amendment. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. This course does not satisfy the law school's writing requirement. The basis for the final grade is primarily a paper.

LAW 802: Electronic Mass Media Policy & Regulation
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course will examine federal electronic mass media policy and regulation as formulated, implemented, and interpreted by the Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the courts. The course will first provide an overview of the electronic mass media industry and the FCC, then relate First Amendment jurisprudence and case law to contrasting concepts of broadcast regulation. Using this analytical framework as a reference, the course will cover the role of the FCC in spectrum allocation; FCC licensing policy and regulation; FCC economic structural policy and regulation; FCC content-behavioral policy and regulation; and the impact of emerging and converging electronic mass media technologies such as cable T.V. and direct broadcast satellites on future mass media policy and regulation and the First Amendment. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. This course does not satisfy the law school's writing requirement. The basis for the final grade is primarily a paper.

LAW 803: Legal Externship: Becoming an Immigration/Human Rights Lawyer
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 804: Legal Externship: Becoming an Immigration/Human Rights Lawyer
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 807: First Amendment: Problems of the Media
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course considers the general issue of the extent to which the First Amendment Press clause affords protection of the media in the gathering and dissemination of news and information. Specific subject matter to be covered includes competing theories of First Amendment Press Clause, libel, invasion of privacy, the censorship and punishment of obscenity and indecency, restrictions on the reporting of matters affecting national security and foreign relations, reporter access to persons and places, constitutional privileges for news persons not to divulge confidential sources and information, state shield laws, free press-fair trial issues, judicial secrecy, and the "fair use" defense to copyright infringement actions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The grade for this course is based primarily on the student research paper. Enrollment is limited to twenty-four students.

LAW 808: First Amendment: Problems of the Media
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course considers the general issue of the extent to which the First Amendment Press clause affords protection of the media in the gathering and dissemination of news and information. Specific subject matter to be covered includes competing theories of First Amendment Press Clause, libel, invasion of privacy, the censorship and punishment of obscenity and indecency, restrictions on the reporting of matters affecting national security and foreign relations, reporter access to persons and places, constitutional privileges for news persons not to divulge confidential sources and information, state shield laws, free press-fair trial issues, judicial secrecy, and the "fair use" defense to copyright infringement actions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The grade for this course is based primarily on the student research paper. Enrollment is limited to twenty-four students.

LAW 811: Telecommunications Regulation
3 Credits

A Communications Law Institute survey course encompassing the historical and contemporary treatment of telecommunications, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Topics include the history and development of common carriers in general (carriers by water, carriers by rail); the development of communications common carriers (carriers by wire, i.e., telephone and telegraph); the emergence of common carrier regulatory theories and policies; telecommunications legislation; government intervention in the regulatory process; and the emergence of competition. Special emphasis on U.S. v. A.T.&T.--the breakup of the Bell System. A major component of the course will be devoted to the regulatory and policy aspects relating to the merging of the technologies of information processing and telecommunications. Topics in this component will include the growth and composition of the information processing and telephone industries, their increasing interdependence, and the evolving regulatory environment regarding this phenomenon. This component will also include a study of the FCC's Computer Inquiry decisions, current legislative and judicial initiatives, and their anticipated impact on the information processing and telecommunications industries. Significant emphasis is placed on emerging wireless and broadband services. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 812: Telecommunications Regulations and Core Technologies
2 Credits

A Communications Law Institute survey course encompassing the historical and contemporary treatment of telecommunications, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Topics include the history and development of common carriers in general (carriers by water, carriers by rail); the development of communications common carriers (carriers by wire, i.e., telephone and telegraph); the emergence of common carrier regulatory theories and policies; telecommunications legislation; government intervention in the regulatory process; and the emergence of competition. Special emphasis on U.S. v. A.T.&T.--the breakup of the Bell System. A major component of the course will be devoted to the regulatory and policy aspects relating to the merging of the technologies of information processing and telecommunications. Topics in this component will include the growth and composition of the information processing and telephone industries, their increasing interdependence, and the evolving regulatory environment regarding this phenomenon. This component will also include a study of the FCC's Computer Inquiry decisions, current legislative and judicial initiatives, and their anticipated impact on the information processing and telecommunications industries. Significant emphasis is placed on emerging wireless and broadband services. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period.

LAW 814: Telecomm Reg/Technology
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 815: FCC Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

In this specialized Communications Law Institute course, the student will be encouraged to develop a working knowledge of the kind of presentations to be made in applications and for FCC staff consultations. Where a hearing is involved, the student will become acquainted with use of the discovery process (depositions, motions to produce, interrogatories, admissions, subpoena, and subpoena duces tecum), petitions to enlarge, motions for summary decision; how to prepare for prehearing conferences; the preparation and marshalling of written affirmative and rebuttal evidence for presentation before the Administrative Law Judge; the use of stipulations; direct and cross examination; preparation of Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, briefing and oral argument before the Review Board; application for review to the Federal Communications Commission, and presentation and strategy for judicial review. Issues of standing, exhaustion of administrative remedies, and whether interlocutory orders are reviewable also will be considered. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester.

LAW 816: FCC Practice & Procedure
2 Credits

In this specialized Communications Law Institute course, the student will be encouraged to develop a working knowledge of the kind of presentations to be made in applications and for FCC staff consultations. Where a hearing is involved, the student will become acquainted with use of the discovery process (depositions, motions to produce, interrogatories, admissions, subpoena, and subpoena duces tecum), petitions to enlarge, motions for summary decision; how to prepare for prehearing conferences; the preparation and marshalling of written affirmative and rebuttal evidence for presentation before the Administrative Law Judge; the use of stipulations; direct and cross examination; preparation of Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, briefing and oral argument before the Review Board; application for review to the Federal Communications Commission, and presentation and strategy for judicial review. Issues of standing, exhaustion of administrative remedies, and whether interlocutory orders are reviewable also will be considered. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester.

LAW 819: Legislative Oversight of Intelligence
3 Credits

In the wake of 9/11 and 11/M (the terror attacks in Madrid on March 11 2004), many of those responsible for overseeing intelligence in both the legislative and executive branch are investigating their intelligence services and the ways political leaders handle intelligence. This course will examine oversight legislation in liberal democracies in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia focusing on agency design, the respective roles of the legislative and executive branches,and the possibility of independent review. Each seminar participant will be assigned (or select) a topic or a particular country and will lead a discussion and submit a paper on the assigned project. The course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement.

LAW 820A: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 820B: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 821A: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 821B: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 830: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
4 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 839: New Communications Technology & the Law
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course is intended to give the students an understanding of (1) technology-driven changes in the regulation of wireless and wireline communications services; (2) the legal problems of the Internet, including liability of content and access providers for copyright infringement, defamation, and obscene/indecent on-line communications; and (3) the evolving legal problems associated with electronic privacy and data protection. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester.

LAW 840: New Communication Technologies & Law
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course is intended to give the students an understanding of (1) technology-driven changes in the regulation of wireless and wireline communications services; (2) the legal problems of the Internet, including liability of content and access providers for copyright infringement, defamation, and obscene/indecent on-line communications; and (3) the evolving legal problems associated with electronic privacy and data protection. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester.

LAW 841: International Regulation of Telecommunications
2 Credits

This course will study the changing patterns in international telecommunications law and policy management caused by dramatic cost reductions in telecommunications and the blurring distinctions between the telephone, television, and computer as communications platforms. It will review the traditional management of international communications at the International Telecommunications Union and related space law concepts and then consider the liberalization of international trade in telecommunications services through international lawmaking at the World Trade Organization. The course will consider international competition policy issues, as well as other jurisdictional and policy conflicts of nation-states, such as freedom of expression and limits to territorially-based jurisdiction. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Recommended prior courses: Public International Law, Antitrust, or Problems in Telecommunications Law and Policy.

LAW 842: International Regulation of Telecommunications
2 Credits

This course will study the changing patterns in international telecommunications law and policy management caused by dramatic cost reductions in telecommunications and the blurring distinctions between the telephone, television, and computer as communications platforms. It will review the traditional management of international communications at the International Telecommunications Union and related space law concepts and then consider the liberalization of international trade in telecommunications services through international lawmaking at the World Trade Organization. The course will consider international competition policy issues, as well as other jurisdictional and policy conflicts of nation-states, such as freedom of expression and limits to territorially-based jurisdiction. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Recommended prior courses: Public International Law, Antitrust, or Problems in Telecommunications Law and Policy.

LAW 843: Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer
2 Credits

After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate.

LAW 844: Problems in Telecommunication Law & Policy
2 Credits

This Communications Law Institute course, limited to Institute students in their final year, will examine a series of broadcasting, domestic and international common carrier, spectrum allocation, media definition, and technology planning issues. Students will prepare for each class by reading the assigned materials and generally taking responsibility for additional research to achieve a complete understanding of the major constituencies or coalitions involved and the policy choices presented. For each issue, an appropriate number of students also will prepare a written position statement advocating one particular constituency's legal interpreta-tion/philosophy. These students will present this position in a panel discussion that at times may parallel a debate, moot court proceeding, FCC meeting, or international policy-making forum. After presentations by the students responsible for advocating particular positions, the entire class will have the opportunity to pose questions and additional complications. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students.

LAW 845: Entertainment Law
2 Credits

This course emphasizes specialized contract law for the entertainment industry, including the role of attorneys, agents, and managers in the negotiation of recording, management, publishing, and performance agreements. The course will address the substantive law of the entertainment industry as well as a practical approach to the representation of clients involved in various fields of entertainment.

LAW 846: Entertainment Law
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 847: Regulation of Wireless Telecommunications Services
2 Credits

This course will address the spectrum allocation and radio licensing issues arising under Title III of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations and policies thereunder. It will address those aspects of Title III that are not uniquely applicable to broadcasting and will provide the student with a historical, philosophical, and legal background, as well as a practical working knowledge, of those aspects of Title III regulation that are applicable to all uses of the electromagnetic spectrum from the mundane and commonplace to the technologically advanced and complex (e.g., garage door openers, baby monitors, cordless telephones, cellular and PCs, point-to-point microwave, business radio uses, satellite communications systems, etc.).

LAW 848: Regulation of Wireless Telecommunication Services
2 Credits

This course will address the spectrum allocation and radio licensing issues arising under Title III of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations and policies thereunder. It will address those aspects of Title III that are not uniquely applicable to broadcasting and will provide the student with a historical, philosophical, and legal background, as well as a practical working knowledge, of those aspects of Title III regulation that are applicable to all uses of the electromagnetic spectrum from the mundane and commonplace to the technologically advanced and complex (e.g., garage door openers, baby monitors, cordless telephones, cellular and PCs, point-to-point microwave, business radio uses, satellite communications systems, etc.).

LAW 850: American Corporate Law (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 851: American Legal Research (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 852: American Private Law: Remedies in Contracts, Property, and Torts (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 853: American Legal Profession: Regulation, Prof. Responsibility, & Discipline (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 854: American Public Law: Constitutional Principles of Government and the Administrative State (Cracow)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 854A: American Public Law: constitutional Principles of Government (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 854B: American Public Law: The Administrative State (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 855: Civil Liberties in the American Constitution (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 856: The American Litigation Process: Discovery, Pleadings, and Advocacy (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 857: American Federal Taxation (Cracow)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 897: Legal Externship: Becoming a Comm Lawyer
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 898: CCLS: General Practice
5 Credits

no description available

LAW 899: Moot Court National Team
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 900: CommLaw Conpectus II
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 901: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
3 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 901B: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 902: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
3 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 902A: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 903: CCLS: General Practice
6 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 904: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
6 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 905: CCLS: General Practice
7 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 906: CCLS: General Practice Clinic
7 Credits

This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 908: D.C. Law Students in Court: Civil
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 909: Public Policy Fieldwork
2 Credits

This course may be taken only in conjunction with Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer or Public Policy Practicum to satisfy the mandatory fieldwork requirements of those courses. Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits in fieldwork placements approved by the director of the law and Public Policy Program. Supervising faculty members will specify accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and fieldwork placement supervisors, written reflection on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 910: D.C. Law Students in Court: Civil
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 911: Public Policy Fieldwork
3 Credits

This course may be taken only in conjunction with Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer or Public Policy Practicum to satisfy the mandatory fieldwork requirements of those courses. Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits in fieldwork placements approved by the director of the law and Public Policy Program. Supervising faculty members will specify accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and fieldwork placement supervisors, written reflection on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 912: Law Students in Court:Criminal
6 Credits

no description available

LAW 913: DC Law Students in Court:Civil
6 Credits

A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register.

LAW 914: D.C. Law Students in Court: Civil
6 Credits

A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register.

LAW 915: Legal Extrnship:Suprv Fldwrk
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 916: Legal Intrn: Suprvsd Fldwrk
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 917: Law Journal Wr (Conspectus)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 918: Communications Law Conspectus I
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 919: Law Journal Editing-Conspectus
2 Credits

Enrollment in the course is optional. For editorial assistants, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty advisers upon recommendation of the Executive Board. Grades for each Comment Editor will be recommended by the Executive Board, and grades for each Executive Board member will be determined by the faculty advisers based on the Editor's fulfillment of his or her responsibilities for both semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester, but each editor should register for one credit each semester.

LAW 920: Law Journal Editng(Conspectus)
1 Credits

Enrollment in the course is optional. For editorial assistants, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty advisers upon recommendation of the Executive Board. Grades for each Comment Editor will be recommended by the Executive Board, and grades for each Executive Board member will be determined by the faculty advisers based on the Editor's fulfillment of his or her responsibilities for both semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester, but each editor should register for one credit each semester.

LAW 921: D.C. Law Students in Court: Criminal
6 Credits

A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register.

LAW 922: D.C. Law Students in Court: Criminal
6 Credits

A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register.

LAW 923: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork
2 Credits

Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation.

LAW 924: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork
2 Credits

Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation.

LAW 925: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork
3 Credits

Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation.

LAW 926: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork
3 Credits

Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation.

LAW 927: Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer
3 Credits

After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate.

LAW 927A: Becoming a Lawyer
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 927B: Legal Externship
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 927C: Legal Externship
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 928: Legal Externsihp: Becoming a Lawyer
3 Credits

After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate.

LAW 928D: Becoming and International Lawyer
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 928E: Becoming a Securities Lawyer
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 929: Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer
4 Credits

After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate.

LAW 930: Legal Internship: Becoming a Lawyer
4 Credits

After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate.

LAW 931: Directed Research
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 932: Directed Research
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 933: Public International Law Internship
2 Credits

The course is coordinated with pro bono activity of law school faculty members providing government-relations and legal support to the Roman Catholic Church in East Timor, particularly in coordination with Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Bello. East Timor, currently under UN governance, is on the road to independence and is beginning to develop a set of relationship with foreign government, multilateral institutions (including the World Bank and IMF), and private, non-governmental actors in world affairs. The purpose of the internship is to train students in the broad range of legal issues governing economic and social development, including human rights, transitional justice, and the economic and political issues arising in structuring and implementing international assistance programs. These skills will be developed in the context of developing a lawyer-client relationship with the Church in East Timor, in which CUA students will act as counselors and advocates for Church interests in implementation of the UN mandate for East Timor. Students will have assigned reading both generally to acquaint them with the UN plan and to prepare them to address specific issues as they arise.

LAW 935: Public Interest Advocacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Lawyering
3 Credits

This seminar adds a new dimension to the law school curriculum offerings on public policy. Using the firearms issue as a case study, the seminar focuses on corporate responsibility, legislative responses to public health issues, litigation as a tool for social change, and the role of lawyers advocating for public health and safety. Students use a public health problem-solving paradigm to analyze gun violence issues, develop workable interventions, set policy priorities, and evaluate their effectiveness. Candidates for the Master of Social Work degree in the National Catholic School of Social Service can also register for the seminar. The course provides additional in-depth analysis of core subject matter fields studied in the first year. In the context of third-party liability cases against gun manufacturers and dealers, students analyze negligence theory and theories of strict liability. In addition to providing the only law school classroom discussion of Second Amendment cases and theory, the seminar explores the constitutional limits on state and federal government legislation aimed at promoting public health and safety. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach. Students learn elementary concepts of epidemiology and statistics, and how to use credible data to enhance a legal argument. Classroom exercises are designed to introduce students to the theory of incidence rates and the analysis of graphs and charts. The readings also include essays on ethical considerations in legislating public health and safety standards. Skills learned are important to all types of practice, including litigation. Grading is based on a final paper (80%) and classroom participation (20%). May fulfill the upperclass writing requirement with approval of the course instructor. Limited enrollment. Faculty.

LAW 936: Moot Court: Telecomm Comp
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 937: SEC Student Observer Program
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 938: SEC Student Observer Program
3 Credits

A clinical externship program under the supervision of Securities and Exchange Commission staff attorneys. Projects in the past have involved the drafting of proposed statutes and rules, investigation of industry and issues practices, and litigation of civil enforcement actions and administrative proceedings. Students attend a weekly seminar at the SEC covering different topics in securities law. Students are required to devote 180 hours during the semester of enrollment (including time spent in the weekly seminar) to fieldwork activities at the SEC. Students in this program are subject to the Commission's conflict of interests rule. Corporations is a prerequisite; securities courses and other related experience improve the student's chances of being selected by the SEC for this limited enrollment program. There is an early application process for admission to this course. Contact the Clinical Programs Office for details. Students should not submit an application to participate unless they are prepared to accept a placement if selected. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis.

LAW 939: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 940: CCLS: Immigration/Hum Rgts Ext
2 Credits

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LAW 941: Directed Research
2 Credits

A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register.

LAW 942: Directed Research
2 Credits

A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register.

LAW 943: CCLS: Families & the Law Clinic
1 Credits

The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 944: CCLS: Families & the Law Clinic
3 Credits

The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 945: CCLS: Families & Law Clinic
6 Credits

The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 946: Directed Research
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 947: Students in Court: Bankrupty Clinic
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 948: CCLS: Families & the Law Clinic
6 Credits

The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87.

LAW 949: Legal Extrn: Becoming A Comm Lawyer
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 949A: Becoming a Communications Lawyer
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 949B: Legal Externship (Communications Law)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 949C: Legal Externship (Communications Law)
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 950: Publ Int Adv:Interdis/Approach
3 Credits

This seminar adds a new dimension to the law school curriculum offerings on public policy. Using the firearms issue as a case study, the seminar focuses on corporate responsibility, legislative responses to public health issues, litigation as a tool for social change, and the role of lawyers advocating for public health and safety. Students use a public health problem-solving paradigm to analyze gun violence issues, develop workable interventions, set policy priorities, and evaluate their effectiveness. Candidates for the Master of Social Work degree in the National Catholic School of Social Service can also register for the seminar. The course provides additional in-depth analysis of core subject matter fields studied in the first year. In the context of third-party liability cases against gun manufacturers and dealers, students analyze negligence theory and theories of strict liability. In addition to providing the only law school classroom discussion of Second Amendment cases and theory, the seminar explores the constitutional limits on state and federal government legislation aimed at promoting public health and safety. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach. Students learn elementary concepts of epidemiology and statistics, and how to use credible data to enhance a legal argument. Classroom exercises are designed to introduce students to the theory of incidence rates and the analysis of graphs and charts. The readings also include essays on ethical considerations in legislating public health and safety standards. Skills learned are important to all types of practice, including litigation. Grading is based on a final paper (80%) and classroom participation (20%). May fulfill the upperclass writing requirement with approval of the course instructor. Limited enrollment. Faculty.

LAW 951: Law Review I
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 952: Law Review I
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 953: Law Journal Wr (Law Review)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 954: Law Review I
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 955: Law Journal Edit:Law Review II
2 Credits

Enrollment in the course is optional. For staff members, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty moderator upon the recommendation of the executive board, based upon the comments written by each member. Grades for each associate editor will be recommended by the executive board and for each executive editor by the faculty moderator, based upon the editor's adequate fulfillment of his or her responsibilities throughout the semester. As a general rule, students must register for one credit in each of the semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester. The earning of any credit for the course is contingent on satisfactory work through both semesters: i.e., no separate grades will be entered after the first semester. Satisfies the writing requirement with the approval of course instructor.

LAW 956: Law Review II
1 Credits

Enrollment in the course is optional. For staff members, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty moderator upon the recommendation of the executive board, based upon the comments written by each member. Grades for each associate editor will be recommended by the executive board and for each executive editor by the faculty moderator, based upon the editor's adequate fulfillment of his or her responsibilities throughout the semester. As a general rule, students must register for one credit in each of the semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester. The earning of any credit for the course is contingent on satisfactory work through both semesters: i.e., no separate grades will be entered after the first semester. Satisfies the writing requirement with the approval of course instructor.

LAW 957: Law Journal Edit(Law Review)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 958: Law Review II
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 959: Legal Externship: Becoming A Communications Lawyer
4 Credits

After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate.

LAW 960: Advocates for Victims of Gun Violence
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 961: Advocates for Victims of Gun Violence
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 962: Moot Court: (Siegel Comp)
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 963: Becoming A Public Policy Lawyer
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 964: Becoming A Public Policy Lawyer
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 965: Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 966: Moot Court: Gourley Cup Competition
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 967: Advocacy for the Elderly
6 Credits

no description available

LAW 968: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly
6 Credits

no description available

LAW 969: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 970: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly
4 Credits

no description available

LAW 971: Advocacy for the Elderly
5 Credits

no description available

LAW 972: CCLS :Advocacy for the Elderly
5 Credits

no description available

LAW 973: Advocacy for the Elderly
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 974: Criminal Prosecution Clinic
4 Credits

This clinical program is designed to promote the acquisition or improvement of basic lawyering skills essential to effective criminal practice in a prosecution setting, including familiarity with certain substantive legal principles, courtroom skills, the ability to learn from practical legal experience, the enhancement of problem-solving capabilities in a legal context, the recognition and principled resolution of ethical dilemmas arising in a criminal prosecution practice, and the development of an independent, critical perspective on the functioning of the criminal justice system. Students work with Assistant United States Attorneys or assistant states attorneys to prepare and try criminal cases in either the United States District Court or a state criminal court. Students are expected to devote sixteen hours each week to the prosecutor's office. A weekly, two-hour seminar is also required. The seminar is designed to prepare students to work effectively and ethically in the prosecutor's office. Students are expected to be familiar with the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Rules of Court in the jurisdiction in which they practice. All students enrolled in the Criminal Prosecution Clinic must be eligible to be certified under the applicable student practice rule of the jurisdiction in which they will appear. In addition, each student must have successfully completed Evidence, Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process, and a Trial Practice/Skills course in order to participate in the Clinic. Limited to fourteen students (spring semester only). Grading is on a pass/fail basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process; Evidence; Trial Advocacy, Trial Practice, or Trial Skills.

LAW 975: Law Journal Wr (Hlth Law Jrnl)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 975A: Law Journal Writing (Law, Philosophy and Culture)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 976: Health Law Journal I
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 977: Law Journal Editing-Hlth Law
2 Credits

Awarded at the conclusion of the second term, this ungraded (Pass/Fail) course credit is awarded on the basis of work by the members of the editorial board in the fulfillment of their responsibilities during the first and second semesters.

LAW 978: Health Law Journal II
1 Credits

Awarded at the conclusion of the second term, this ungraded (Pass/Fail) course credit is awarded on the basis of work by the members of the editorial board in the fulfillment of their responsibilities during the first and second semesters.

LAW 979: CCLS:Immigration / Human Rights Externship Fieldwork
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 980: Moot Court: Sutherland Cup
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 981: Moot Court: Environmental Law Competition
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 982: Moot Court: Wagner Cup Competition
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 983: Law Students in Crt: Civil
6 Credits

no description available

LAW 984: Moot Court: Jessup Cup Competition
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 985: Health Law Fieldwork
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 986: Moot Court: National Civil Rights Competition
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 987: D.C. Law Students in Court: Criminal
3 Credits

no description available

LAW 988: Moot Court: Vanderbilt Competition
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 989: Moot Court: Natnl App Adv Comm
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 990: Moot Court Nat'l Team
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 991: Law Journal Writing
1 Credits

This course is open only to students who are producing a Writing Project for one of the school's law journals. These students must take this course if they choose to receive academic credit for their journal Writing Project or count it toward satisfaction of the upperclass writing requirement. Generally, students register for one credit for each of the two semesters; the credits are not awarded until the end of the second semester. During the first three weeks of the first semester, workshops will focus on writing skills such as organization, integrating research, transitions and headings, substantive footnoting, grammar and vocabulary appropriate to the journal audience, constructive use of editor and expert-reader feedback, and re-drafting. A writing specialist will schedule writing tutorials for students throughout the year as need dictates. Students must complete a journal portfolio that includes all drafts of the Writing Project, an Expert Reader's comments, the supervising editor's comments, the Editor-in-Chief's comments, and a certification that the student has attended all required workshops. The journal's faculty adviser, in conjunction with the Editor-in-Chief, must certify that the portfolio is complete and that the student's Writing Project is of publishable quality. The course fulfills one of the two upperclass writing requirements, but the student may not count BOTH this course and the Law Journal Editing toward completion of the upperclass writing requirement (see Academic Rule X, p. xx).

LAW 992: Law Journal Writing
1 Credits

To be eligible to register, a member must be certified by the faculty editor and the student editor of the Health Law Journal. Enrollment is optional, but only those members who are certified may enroll in the course. Upon the recommendation of the student editor, the faculty editor will record a Pass/Fail grade for all successful members. As a general rule, students who register for this course will do so for one credit in each of the semesters. Grades will be entered at the end of each semester. The first semester credit will be awarded on the basis of research undertaken for the publication of case note or comment and may satisfy the school's writing requirement. The second semester credit will be awarded on the basis of fulfillment of normal responsibilities associated with the work of the Journal.With the permission of the editors a student may, in subsequent semesters, earn an additional credit in lieu of enrollment in Health Law Journal II.

LAW 993: Law Journal Editing
2 Credits

This course is mandatory for third and fourth year law journal members who supervise student Writing Projects (as determined by each editor-in-chief)); it is optional for other third and fourth year journal members. During the first five weeks of the semester, the course will focus on topic selection, publication decisions, substantive editing, style editing, word editing, and professional working relationships. The instructor will provide editing exercises and workshops, and will lead discussions of classic law review articles and trends in legal scholarship. For the remainder of the semester, students will supervise and edit at least two student Writing Projects or will critique or edit at least two other manuscripts submitted to the law journal. During this time the instructor and a writing specialist will conduct editing tutorials, as the need arises, and will be available for student conferences. If a student has not completed the required editing assignments by the end of the first semester, work may continue into the second semester, in which case course credit will not be awarded until the end of the second semester. The journal faculty adviser, in consultation with the editor-in-chief, must certify that each student has successfully completed the required assignments. The course may fulfill one of the two upperclass writing requirements, but a student may not count BOTH this course and Law Journal Writing toward completion of the upperclass writing requirement (see Academic Rule X, p. xx).

LAW 993A: Law Journal Editing: (Law, Philosophy and Culture)
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 994: Moot Court: ATLA Cup Competition
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 995: Mediation Clinic
2 Credits

no description available

LAW 996: Moot Crt(Crim Justice TR Advo)
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 997: Law Journal Editing (HLJ)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 997A: Law Journal Editing: (Law, Philosophy, and Culture)
1 Credits

no description available

LAW 998: Moot Court: Environmental Law
2 Credits

To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition.

LAW 999: Moot Court: Env Law Comp
2 Credits

no description available

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	Course Descriptions Law (LAW) To view the complete schedule of courses for each semester, go to Cardinal Students. LAW 101: Lawyering Skills 2 Credits In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges. Mr. Koby LAW 102: Lawyering Skills II 2 Credits In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges. LAW 103: LSP Research -- Day 0 Credits no description available LAW 107: Civil Procedure 4 Credits An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review. LAW 108: Civil Procedure 4 Credits An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review. LAW 111: Social Justice and the Law: Introduction to Catholic Social Thought 1 Credits no description available LAW 112: Catholic Social Teaching, Jurisprudence and the Law 1 Credits no description available LAW 114: Constitutional Law 5 Credits A study of the American constitutional system, emphasizing sources, limits, and modes of exercise of federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction; the allocation of powers between the federal government and the states; the separation of powers among the coordinate branches of the federal government, and selected topics involving the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War Amendments. LAW 119: Contracts 5 Credits A study of the fundamental principles of contract law, as expressed both in the Common Law and Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code. Topics include the formation of contract obligation; the writing requirement of the statute of frauds; unfairness, overreaching, and the limits of public policy as grounds for non-enforcement; interpretation; breach; remedies for breach; and the rights of third parties. In addition to substantive contract doctrine, the course is designed to teach analysis of common law and statutory materials and application of law to factual situations. LAW 129: Criminal Law 3 Credits The course covers the elements of criminal conduct in general, the crime of rape, the various forms of homicide and theft offenses, anticipatory offenses, group criminality and common law, and statutory defenses including insanity, provocation, and duress. LAW 130: Criminal Law 3 Credits The course covers the elements of criminal conduct in general, the crime of rape, the various forms of homicide and theft offenses, anticipatory offenses, group criminality and common law, and statutory defenses including insanity, provocation, and duress. LAW 131: Property 4 Credits This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing. LAW 132: Property 4 Credits This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing. LAW 137: Torts 4 Credits A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products. LAW 138: Torts 4 Credits A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products. LAW 159: LSP Research -- Evening 0 Credits no description available LAW 161: Lawyering Skills I 2 Credits In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges. LAW 162: Lawyering Skills II 2 Credits In the first semester, students develop analytical skills, a clear and effective writing style, and the ability to research, through drafting an opinion letter and office memoranda. In the second semester, students learn advocacy skills through the writing of a memorandum in support of a motion, development of an appellate brief and oral argument before a panel of attorney judges. LAW 163: Social Justice and the Law: Introduction to Catholic Social Thought 1 Credits no description available LAW 167: Civil Procedure 4 Credits An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review. LAW 168: Civil Procedure 4 Credits An introduction to the judicial system and the basic problems and concepts involved in the adjudication of civil cases. The litigation process from jurisdiction through appellate review is considered. Topics include jurisdiction, pleadings, pretrial motions, discovery, pretrial conferences, jury trial, post-trial motions, finality of judgments, and appellate review. LAW 179: Contracts 2 Credits A study of the fundamental principles of contract law, as expressed both in the Common Law and Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code. Topics include the formation of contract obligation; the writing requirement of the statute of frauds; unfairness, overreaching, and the limits of public policy as grounds for non-enforcement; interpretation; breach; remedies for breach; and the rights of third parties. In addition to substantive contract doctrine, the course is designed to teach analysis of common law and statutory materials and application of law to factual situations. LAW 180: Contracts 3 Credits A study of the fundamental principles of contract law, as expressed both in the Common Law and Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code. Topics include the formation of contract obligation; the writing requirement of the statute of frauds; unfairness, overreaching, and the limits of public policy as grounds for non-enforcement; interpretation; breach; remedies for breach; and the rights of third parties. In addition to substantive contract doctrine, the course is designed to teach analysis of common law and statutory materials and application of law to factual situations. LAW 191: Property 2 Credits This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing. LAW 192: Property 2 Credits This is the basic course in property. It considers such topics as the nature of "property," property "interests," and property as an institution in contemporary society; problems in possession; the historical development of land law and its manifestation in the law of landlord and tenant; and conveyancing. LAW 197: Torts 4 Credits A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products. LAW 198: Torts 4 Credits A study of the noncontractual obligations that an individual in society owes to others according to the common law and statutes. Emphasis is placed on intentional acts violating legally protected interests, such as assault, battery, and false imprisonment; negligent conduct resulting in injury; causation traditional forms of liability without fault and the more recent development of nonfault liability for defective products. LAW 201: Administrative Law 3 Credits This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 202: Administrative Law 3 Credits This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 204: Administrative Law 4 Credits no description available LAW 205: Corporations 4 Credits The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 206: Corporations 4 Credits The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 223: Evidence 4 Credits This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 224: Evidence 4 Credits This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 229: Fed Income Taxation 4 Credits An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 230: Federal Income Taxation 4 Credits An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 241: Trusts & Estates 4 Credits A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 242: Trusts & Estates 4 Credits A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 254: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process 3 Credits All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy. LAW 261: Administrative Law 3 Credits This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 262: Administrative Law 3 Credits This course involves the study of the administrative process, including formal and informal processes within various administrative agencies, as well as judicial, legislative, and executive control of administrative activity. The investigative, interpretative, rulemaking, adjudicatory, and enforcement operations of administrative agencies will be covered. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 271: Constitutional Law 2 Credits A study of the American constitutional system, emphasizing sources, limits, and modes of exercise of federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction; the allocation of powers between the federal government and the states; the separation of powers among the coordinate branches of the federal government, and selected topics involving the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War Amendments. LAW 272: Constitutional Law 3 Credits A study of the American constitutional system, emphasizing sources, limits, and modes of exercise of federal and Supreme Court jurisdiction; the allocation of powers between the federal government and the states; the separation of powers among the coordinate branches of the federal government, and selected topics involving the guarantees of individual rights in the Bill of Rights and the post-Civil War Amendments. LAW 275: Criminal Law 3 Credits The course covers the elements of criminal conduct in general, the crime of rape, the various forms of homicide and theft offenses, anticipatory offenses, group criminality and common law, and statutory defenses including insanity, provocation, and duress. LAW 283: Evidence 4 Credits This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. LAW 284: Evidence 4 Credits This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 289: Federal Income Taxation 4 Credits An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 290: Federal Income Taxation 4 Credits An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 302: Agency Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 303: Advanced Tort Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 304: International Civil Litigation 2 Credits no description available LAW 305: Commercial Transactions 4 Credits In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 306: Commercial Transaction 4 Credits In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 307: Agency Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 308: Law of War 2 Credits no description available LAW 309: International Civil Litigation 3 Credits no description available LAW 310: Advanced Topics in Patent Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 320: Patent Enforcement 2 Credits no description available LAW 321: Remedies 3 Credits This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 322: Remedies 3 Credits This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 323: Insurance Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 355: Trusts & Estates 4 Credits A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 356: Trusts & Estates 4 Credits A study of the inter vivos and testamentary means of gratuitously disposing of property among family and friends. Consideration is given to the rules of intestate succession; the execution, revocation, and contest of wills; the creation and operation of private and charitable trusts; some applications of the remedy of constructive trust; the use of will substitutes; the use of powers of appointment; and construction problems commonly encountered when provision is made for the enjoyment of property by beneficiaries over an extended period of time. Consideration is also given to problems of probate reform. Registration in day-division sections is limited to second-year day-division students, and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 391: Law and Economics of Property Law (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 392: American Banking Law (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 393: Negotiation for Lawyers: Theory and Practice 1 Credits no description available LAW 401: Appellate Advocacy 2 Credits Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation. LAW 402: Appellate Advocacy 2 Credits Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation. LAW 403: Health Law Practicum I 2 Credits The health law practicum meets as a required course for the Health Law certificate. It meets once a week to discuss issues in social policy that relate to health care. It will consider, as well, issues related to health law internships and cutting edge issues in health law. The purpose of the practicum is to provide students with a theoretical context against which to consider their own careers in health law and to apprize them of recent developments. LAW 404: Health Law Practicum II 2 Credits no description available LAW 405: Adv Issues in Corp Law 2 Credits This course will focus on selected topics in corporate law and the role of corporate counsel in addressing these issues. Topics will include the operation of the attorney-client privilege in corporate settings; the responsibility of counsel with respect to corporate compliance programs in areas such as environmental, employment, and fraud and abuse law; internal investigations of alleged wrongdoing; opinions of counsel in connection with complex financial transactions and other significant corporate actions; organizational ethics; indemnification of officers directors; and legal aspects of dealing with corporate crises. Paper/Exam Option. Paper may satisfy one of the two upperlevel writing requirements. Prerequisite: Corporations LAW 406: The Israeli Legal System 2 Credits The Israeli legal system is a young phenomenon, routed in modern and liberal democratic notions. Yet, some of its aspects are characterized by Jewish religious values and to a lesser extent, by influences of Ottoman and British mandatory law. Israel's security condition, igts multy-dimentional, heterogeneous society and its lack of a coherent LAW 407: Conflict of Laws 3 Credits The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 408: Conflict of Law 3 Credits The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 409: Health Law Fieldwork 2 Credits no description available LAW 410: International Human Rights Law 3 Credits This course introduces students to substantive and procedural aspects of international human rights law. Topics include the UN human rights instruments, the regional human rights courts, the international criminal tribunals, the humanitarian law of war, the enforcement of human rights norms in U.S. courts, and the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy. LAW 410A: International Human Rights Law - Litigation 2 Credits no description available LAW 411: Comparative Law Sem:Terrorism 2 Credits no description available LAW 412: Health Care Fraud & Abuse 2 Credits At the outset, this course would identify the various criminal and civil federal statutes which are used to prosecute health care fraud and would set forth examples of the circumstances under which each might be appropriate. The course would then go into details of the federal anti-kickback statute, analyzing the language of the statute iteself, some of the key cases decided under the statute, the regulatory "safe harbors" promulgated by the Office of the Inspector General, and the rulings and advisory opinions that have been published. Some hypotheticals would be presented to generate an open discussion of the arguments that might be made by prosecutors and by the defense counsel under the statute. Another topic for detailed attention would be the federal Physician Self-Referral Statute (the "Stark law"), which addresses the myriad of both ownership and compensation financial relationships between physicians and hospitals or other health care entities to which the physicians refer business. Federal regulations have been finalized for much of the statute and are expected to be completed this year. The Stark Law presents many opportunities to analyze very common financial relationships for compliance with the many exceptions in the regulations. The course will also explore the expanding attempts by prosecutors to use the False Claims Act to address all sorts of offensive practices, and the requirements for a relator to bring qui tam cases under this act. Key cases relating to health care prosecutions under the False Claims Act will be discussed. Attention will also be given to the rules covering other frequently applied sanctions including Medicare and other federal and state healthcare program exclusions and civil money penalties for fraud and abuse related matters. Finally, the course will address issues such as the conduct of fraud investigation, health care corporate compliance programs, and offensive health care marketing practices. LAW 413: Arbitration and the Constitution 2 Credits This seminar would consider the intersection of two areas of the law often considered independently from each other. We normally think of the Constitution as largely regulating public conduct ¿ the horizontal distribution of power among the branches of the federal government, the vertical distribution between the federal government and the states, and the civil liberties that constrain state action against the individual. By contrast, arbitration is typically understood as a purely private undertaking between private individuals ¿ outside the ambit of the judicial process and, consequently, outside any constitutional strictures. This seminar explores how these two areas of the law increasingly overlap. It considers the intersection from a variety of angles ¿ Article III, Due Process, State Action, the Jury Right and federalism, just to name a few. Students wishing to take this course should have a good grounding in constitutional law. A prior class in arbitration is not a prerequisite for the course, but it may be helpful. Participants in the seminar will not write an exam but, instead, will be expected to write one or more papers over the course of the semester. LAW 414: Comparative Law Seminar: Terrorism 3 Credits no description available LAW 415: Int'l Trade and National Security 2 Credits no description available LAW 416: National Security in Cyberspace 2 Credits no description available LAW 417: Advanced Legal Research and Writing 2 Credits no description available LAW 418A: Freedom of Expression in the American Constitution (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 420: Government Contracts, Grants and Programs 3 Credits no description available LAW 421: Professional Responsibility 3 Credits This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available. LAW 422: Professional Responsibility 3 Credits This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available. LAW 423: Criminal Procedure: Investigative Process 3 Credits All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy. LAW 424: Cyberlaw I: Legal Issues Relating to Computer Networks 2 Credits no description available LAW 425: Law, Business and Ethics 3 Credits Law, Business and Ethics will examine the current ethical crises in American business, and its long-term ethical dilemmas, from three perspectives. First, the course will examine some of the most important ethical theories relevant to the conduct of business, both as developed by philosophers and management thinkers. Second, the course will examine the legal regime that regulates ethical conduct in business, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Third, the course will study the ethical codes that most large businesses have adopted, consider the extent to which such codes function like private, internal legal codes, and determine the extent to which lawyers can help businesses in making such does effective. Course readings will include selections from the writings major moral thinkers, students of business ethics and jurisprudence, in addition to traditional legal sources such as statutes and cases. Course requirements will include a qualifying paper to satisfy the Upper Division Writing Requirement. LAW 426: Cyber Law II: Legal Issues Related to Doing Business in a Digital World 2 Credits no description available LAW 427: Election Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 427A: Election Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 428: Comparative Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 429: Lgl. Extrn: Becoming an International Lawyer 3 Credits no description available LAW 430: Comparative Remedies (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 431: Becoming A Public Policy Lawyer Seminar 2 Credits This course is required for second-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a field placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy, and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit for each sixty hours of fieldwork. Students are encouraged to complete three hours of fieldwork credit but may elect to complete only two fieldwork credits. This two-credit seminar will include reflective oral and written dialogue and readings designed to foster learning from the field and clinical experiences, to advance the students' professional development and prepare them for public law careers. Participants study various aspects of their own and others' field experience, including the goals and operations of the organizations where they are working, the process and problems encountered in the making or implementation of law or policy, the professional conduct and roles of the lawyers with whom they work, and other topics. The course will expose students to a wide variety of legal organizations and substantive fields. The course is designed to assist students in identifying professional goals and paths through which they might pursue those goals. LAW 432: Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer 2 Credits This course is required for second-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a field placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy, and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit for each sixty hours of fieldwork. Students are encouraged to complete three hours of fieldwork credit but may elect to complete only two fieldwork credits. This two-credit seminar will include reflective oral and written dialogue and readings designed to foster learning from the field and clinical experiences, to advance the students' professional development and prepare them for public law careers. Participants study various aspects of their own and others' field experience, including the goals and operations of the organizations where they are working, the process and problems encountered in the making or implementation of law or policy, the professional conduct and roles of the lawyers with whom they work, and other topics. The course will expose students to a wide variety of legal organizations and substantive fields. The course is designed to assist students in identifying professional goals and paths through which they might pursue those goals. LAW 433: Lgl Extrn.: Becoming an International Lawyer 4 Credits no description available LAW 434: Introduction to Intellectual Property 3 Credits no description available LAW 435: American Criminal Law and Procedure (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 436: Catholic Natural Law Tradition 2 Credits This two-credit elective course uses a seminar format in which the participants explore the principles of traditional Catholic natural law theory, including their origins in the Eternal Law of Almighty God. The readings include excerpts from the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas and it is expected that the classroom discussions will draw relevancies to current understandings of law and justice and current movements in legal philosophy. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 437: Comparative International Tax 2 Credits no description available LAW 437A: Comparative Tax 2 Credits no description available LAW 438: Advanced Torts 2 Credits no description available LAW 439: Advance Legal Research 2 Credits This course will develop students' research skills in both traditional book-based and computer-assisted legal research. The course will provide an in-depth approach integrating book-based and computerized research in statutes, legislative history and tracking, administrative and executive publications, case finding and verification, secondary sources and indexes, current awareness and topical reporters, government documents, international law, and nonlegal research. The course will provide extensive hands-on experience with computer-assisted research in LEXIS, WESTLAW, CD-Rom sources, and the Internet. Efficient research strategies will be developed through the preparation of several research memoranda. Specialized topical research will be addressed by the preparation of a research guide by each student in a subject area of interest to that particular student. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Writing and Research or a course on legal literature taught at the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course. LAW 440: Advanced Legal Research 2 Credits This course will develop students' research skills in both traditional book-based and computer-assisted legal research. The course will provide an in-depth approach integrating book-based and computerized research in statutes, legislative history and tracking, administrative and executive publications, case finding and verification, secondary sources and indexes, current awareness and topical reporters, government documents, international law, and nonlegal research. The course will provide extensive hands-on experience with computer-assisted research in LEXIS, WESTLAW, CD-Rom sources, and the Internet. Efficient research strategies will be developed through the preparation of several research memoranda. Specialized topical research will be addressed by the preparation of a research guide by each student in a subject area of interest to that particular student. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Writing and Research or a course on legal literature taught at the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course. LAW 441: Appellate Advocacy 2 Credits Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation. LAW 442: Appellate Advocacy 2 Credits Students will study standards of appellate review, review of the trial record, and appellate practice techniques. Instruction will focus on the prosecution of a simulated case to a federal or state appellate court. Students will review the trial record for appealable issues, submit an appellate brief, and argue the case orally before panels of judges and attorneys at the Appellate Advocacy Cup Competition. Successful completion of the Lawyering Skills course is a prerequisite to enrollment in this course. Satisfies the writing requirement. The final grade is based on evaluation of the student's written work, oral advocacy and class participation. LAW 443: Advanced Legal Research & Writing 3 Credits This course will develop students' writing and research skills by guiding them through the process of researching for and writing a case note on a pending Supreme Court case. The first component of the course will be devoted to the development of advanced legal research skills including planning research strategies, field research, research in public records, constitutional law research, statutes, legislative histories, tracking legislation, treaties, administrative and executive publications, agency rules, regulations and adjudications, government documents, case finding, case verification, secondary sources, looseleaf services, LEXIS, WESTLAW, Internet resources, nonlegal research, and specialized legal research. The remainder of the course will be devoted to the refinement of writing skills, focusing particularly on organization, use of authority, and development of an effective writing style. Successful completion of this course fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Research or a course on legal literature taught by the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course. LAW 444: Advanced Legal Writing and Research 3 Credits This course will develop students' writing and research skills by guiding them through the process of researching for and writing a case note on a pending Supreme Court case. The first component of the course will be devoted to the development of advanced legal research skills including planning research strategies, field research, research in public records, constitutional law research, statutes, legislative histories, tracking legislation, treaties, administrative and executive publications, agency rules, regulations and adjudications, government documents, case finding, case verification, secondary sources, looseleaf services, LEXIS, WESTLAW, Internet resources, nonlegal research, and specialized legal research. The remainder of the course will be devoted to the refinement of writing skills, focusing particularly on organization, use of authority, and development of an effective writing style. Successful completion of this course fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students who are taking or have already taken Advanced Legal Research or a course on legal literature taught by the School of Library and Information Science may not take this course. LAW 445: Trial Skills: A Criminal Case 3 Credits This course has the same content as Trial Practice with two exceptions: (1) the course covers the role of the advocate in the trial process of a criminal case, and (2) there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process; Evidence. LAW 446: Trial Skills: A Criminal Case 3 Credits This course has the same content as Trial Practice with two exceptions: (1) the course covers the role of the advocate in the trial process of a criminal case, and (2) there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process; Evidence. LAW 447: Latin American Legal Inst 2 Credits no description available LAW 448: Federal Criminal Litigation 2 Credits The goal of this course is to familiarize the students with the theoretical and practical concerns of federal criminal litigation from both prosecution and defense perspectives. The course deals with the law, theory, ethical considerations, and tactical concerns that relate to criminal practice in federal court from the pre-indictment phase through plea negotiations or trial and appeal. Lectures, class discussions, and reading materials focus on the general analytical framework for prosecuting and defending a federal criminal case. This is not a trial techniques course. It is concerned with the law, ethics, and strategy behind the techniques. LAW 449: Trial Skills: A Civil Case 3 Credits This course has the same course content as Trial Practice except that there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisite: Evidence. Faculty. LAW 450: Trial Skills: A Civil Case 3 Credits This course has the same course content as Trial Practice except that there will be no mock jury trial at the end of the semester. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. This course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisite: Evidence. Faculty. LAW 451: Corporations 4 Credits The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 452: Corporations 4 Credits The course entails the study of the fundamental principles in the fields of agency, partnerships, corporations, and securities regulation, examined in relation to the functioning of the corporate enterprise. Both publicly owned and closely held corporations are considered, with detailed consideration of basic problems and some attention to more advanced areas relating to conflicts of corporate control and questions of corporate responsibility and shareholder input in corporate decision making. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 453: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process 3 Credits All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy. LAW 454: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process 3 Credits All sections of the course focus primarily on issues of constitutional criminal procedure relating to the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (custodial interrogations), and Sixth Amendment (interrogation and identification), and also include an examination of the defense of entrapment. Professor Fishman's section also covers the grand jury, the rules governing subpoenas for testimony, exemplars and documents, and the obligations and responsibilities a defense attorney has when he or she discovers evidence tending to incriminate the defendant. Professor Clark's section also covers aspects of the right to counsel and issues relating to effective assistance of counsel, bail, constitutional controls on discovery, plea bargaining, and double jeopardy. LAW 455: Trusts & Estates 4 Credits no description available LAW 456A: American Business Organizations Part I:Unincorporated Business Organizations (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 456B: American Business Organizations Part II: corporations (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 457: American Legal Analysis and Writing (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 461: Professional Responsibility 3 Credits This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available. LAW 462: Professional Responsibility 3 Credits This course examines the legal profession and the law that governs the professional behavior of lawyers, including the Code of Professional Responsibility, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the law of legal malpractice, relevant rules of civil procedure, and other law. It addresses ethical questions relating to the lawyer's role in the legal system, and relating to relationships with clients, adversaries, tribunals, colleagues, employees, witnesses, and others. The course looks at issues that arise in the various roles occupied by lawyers, including advocate, counselor, and negotiator. The course must be taken by every student during the second, third, or fourth year of law school. Enrollment is open to second-year day students (and to second- and third-year evening students) to the extent that space is available. LAW 463: Advanced Issues in Copyright and Trademark Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 465: Commercial Transactions 4 Credits In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 466: Commercial Transactions 4 Credits In a transactional approach the course treats the creation and effect of financing arrangements and other secured transactions which facilitate sales of goods, the rights of third parties claiming interests in the goods, and the use of checks, notes, and electronic payment techniques. Thus the course combines materials traditionally taught in separate courses on bills and notes and secured transactions. Principal emphasis is the Uniform Commercial Code as the prevailing commercial legislation, but the impact of the common law, the Bankruptcy Act, and other pertinent authority also is considered throughout. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 467: Intl Hum Law:Peace Keeping 3 Credits no description available LAW 468: Civil Rights/Legal History Seminar: Brown vs. Board of Education 2 Credits This seminar will examine the revolutionary changes that took place in civil rights law pertaining to race discrimination in the mid-twentieth century. The course will focus on landmark judicial decisions including Shelley v. Kramer, Brown v. Board of Education, Heart of Alabama Motel v. United States, and Loving v. Virginia. The course will begin with an examination of Plessy v. Ferguson and other decisions of the early post-Civil War period and then consider the developments and advocacy strategies that led to the radical changes of the post-World War II era and, later, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and beyond. Class discussions will focus on the importance of legal advocacy and the role of the judiciary in developing the law on race discrimination. The course will conclude with a review of modern corollary developments in other areas of civil rights law. In lieu of a final examination, this course requires a qualifying paper that fulfills one-half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 469: Litigating with the Federal Government 3 Credits no description available LAW 470: Japanese Legal System in Comparative Perspective 2 Credits A study of the Japanese Legal System in comparison with the U.S. in such areas as the education, licensing and role of lawyers, judicial system and power, civil litigation remedies in civil litigation, appeal of civil judgments, criminal procedure, administrative law and alternative dispute resolution. LAW 471: Conflict of Laws 3 Credits The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 472: Conflict of Laws 3 Credits The course will introduce students to the problems arising when clients are confronted with private law matters having multistate or multinational elements. The course will thus emphasize the traditional concerns of conflicts of law; jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year day-division students and in evening-division sections, to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 473: American Civil Procedure (Cracow) 2 Credits American Civil Procedure (Cracow) LAW 481: Remedies 3 Credits This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 482: Remedies 3 Credits This course deals with the nature and source of the remedies of specific performance, reformation, rescission, damages, restitution, injunction, and declaratory judgment. Emphasis is placed on the historical development and modern application of equitable principles and the limitations that have been recognized on the exercise of equitable powers. Registration in day-division sections limited to third-year students and in evening-division sections to third- and fourth-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 483: Evidence 4 Credits This course covers basic rules governing presentation of evidence at trial including procedural matters (objections, offers of proof), relevancy, character evidence, examination and impeachment of witnesses, opinion evidence, hearsay, authentication, the "original documents" rule. The course examines the comparative roles of counsel, judge, and jury. It also explores the tactical decisions and ethical dilemmas that a trial attorney is likely to confront. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 484: Civil Rights Legislative Practice 2 Credits Civil Rights Legislative Practice is a writing and research seminar, graded numerically. The course focuses on the practices and procedures of public policy formulation in the substantive areas of civil rights and its related areas (education, economic development, etc.) Substantive law and policy will be taught from background materials and from new developments covered in the Congressional Monitor, Congressional Quarterly, Congressional Quarterly on-line services, the government locator website "Thomas," and faxes and correspondence from civil rights organizations working in the Capital. The grade will be based on a research paper which may satisfy the writing requirement. Students who register to take Civil Rights Legislative Practice also may register to take Civil Rights Legislative Practice/Supervised Fieldwork. LAW 485: Health Managed Care: Structure & Legal Problems 2 Credits This course will investigate the structure and some of the more pressing legal problems surrounding the growth of so-called "managed care" organizations which are rapidly becoming the major vehicles of health care coverage for the country. Included will be a study of the various types of Health Maintenance Organizations, Independent Practice Organizations, Preferred Practice Organizations, and Hospital Based Managed Care Plans. Emphasis will be placed on the antitrust aspects of managed care, the rights and duties of individual physicians vis-a-vis MCOs, the rights of patients vis-a-vis MCOs, and consideration of the future of managed care as the backbone of health care in the years to come. LAW 486: Veterans Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 487: Military Law: A Comparative Perspective 2 Credits This course examines military law, both criminal and noncriminal, from a perspective that emphasizes comparisons of military law with state and federal domestic law, and comparisons of United States military law with the military law of other countries. Topics include the sources of military law; the law of war and martial law; the role of Congress and the President in overseeing the military; the application of the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution to service members and to activities on military installations; the need for a separate military criminal justice system; subject matter and in personam jurisdiction of military tribunals; command control and influence; and comparison with the Federal Rules pf Evidence and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Fraternization, homosexuality, and other systemic policy issues concerning the military are also covered. LAW 488: Introduction to Arbitration and Mediation 3 Credits This course will focus on the evolving law of alternate dispute resolution (ADR) in particular the law related to mediation and arbitration. It should be considered an introduction to ADR and a basic building block of the ADR curriculum. While there will be some skills training, this course focuses on the ADR statutes and case law including the Federal Arbitration Act, the 'New York' Convention, the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1990 and the UN Convention on Arbitration (UNCITRAL). Ethical issues of mediation and arbitration will be highlighted as well. Cutting edge questions including the limits of mandatory arbitration, a-national arbitration, confidentiality in mediation and the growing law of mediation and the status of neutrals will be considered. ADR in the Federal sector will be discussed. LAW 489: Islamic Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 490: Federal Income Taxation 4 Credits An analysis of the federal income tax law as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The course will focus on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to date, as well as considerations of tax policy. Taxation of business associations will not be treated in this course. Registration in day-division sections limited to second-year day-division students and in evening-division sections to second-year evening-division students; others may enroll on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 491: Business Reorganization 2 Credits no description available LAW 492: CyberLaw 2 Credits no description available LAW 493: American Federal Taxation (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 494: American International Property Law (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 495: Role of the Federal Prosecutor 2 Credits This course will explore the powers and responsibilities of the federal prosecutor. Class segments will focus on how decisions are made by federal prosecutors throughout different stages of the criminal justice system, in light of legal, policy, practical and ethical considerations. Using actual cases as well as federal statutes, guidelines, and other materials, the course will discuss the factors that influence the decisions and discretion of the federal prosecutor. The course will also examine the interaction between and among federal, state and foreign jurisdictions, in particular the interests of competing sovereigns in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity. Prerequisites: Students must have taken a criminal law and criminal procedure class. Constitutional Law and Evidence would also be helpful. LAW 496: Cyberlaw 3 Credits no description available LAW 497: Tax Procedure 2 Credits no description available LAW 498: Community Econ Development 3 Credits This course is an advanced course in business reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Students will navigate a distressed company through the chapter 11 reorganization process. Coverage will include the following topics: pre-filing considerations and strategies connected with a corporation's decision to seek relief under chapter 11; commencing the chapter 11 case and first-day motions; creditor committees, trustee and examiner issues; developing a plan of business reorganization; filing the reorganization plan; disclosure statement requirements and solicitation of plan acceptances; plan confirmation requirements; post-confirmation issues. Attention also will be given to special chapter 11 issues involving airline bankruptcies; utility bankruptcies; toxic tort-type cases; collective bargaining agreements; and retiree-benefit issues. Prerequisite: Bankruptcy. Enrollment limited to twenty students. LAW 499: Business Reorganization 2 Credits This course is an advanced course in business reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Students will navigate a distressed company through the chapter 11 reorganization process. Coverage will include the following topics: pre-filing considerations and strategies connected with a corporation's decision to seek relief under chapter 11; commencing the chapter 11 case and first-day motions; creditor committees, trustee and examiner issues; developing a plan of business reorganization; filing the reorganization plan; disclosure statement requirements and solicitation of plan acceptances; plan confirmation requirements; post-confirmation issues. Attention also will be given to special chapter 11 issues involving airline bankruptcies; utility bankruptcies; toxic tort-type cases; collective bargaining agreements; and retiree-benefit issues. Prerequisite: Bankruptcy. Enrollment limited to twenty students. LAW 501: Consumer Law Seminar 3 Credits This is a limited-enrollment seminar that partially satisfies the school's writing requirement. Students may not take Consumer Transactions in addition to this course. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. This course looks selectively at aspects of common law and federal and state statutory and regulatory materials affecting consumers as buyers, borrowers, and lessees. Representative areas of coverage include advertising, transactional disclosure, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, product warranties, rate regulation, credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Statutes involved include the Federal Trade Commission Act, the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Billing, Consumer Leasing, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Credit Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection Practices, et al.), the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and state "little FTC" acts. Each student will research, write, and present a paper that will constitute a major portion of the final grade. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 502: Consumer Law Seminar 3 Credits This is a limited-enrollment seminar that partially satisfies the school's writing requirement. Students may not take Consumer Transactions in addition to this course. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. This course looks selectively at aspects of common law and federal and state statutory and regulatory materials affecting consumers as buyers, borrowers, and lessees. Representative areas of coverage include advertising, transactional disclosure, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, product warranties, rate regulation, credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Statutes involved include the Federal Trade Commission Act, the federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Billing, Consumer Leasing, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Credit Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection Practices, et al.), the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, and state "little FTC" acts. Each student will research, write, and present a paper that will constitute a major portion of the final grade. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 503: Creditors' & Debtors' Rights 2 Credits A complete study of the legal principles and remedies involved in enforcing creditors' and debtors' rights under state law, including: attachments before judgment; judicial liens, statutory and consensual liens; garnishment and execution; forced sales of property; creditors' suits and supplementary proceedings; the Federal Tax Lien Act; the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act; common law compositions and assignments for the benefit of creditors; bulk sale transfers under the Uniform Commercial Code; equity receiverships; debtors' rights and exemptions under state law. Offered alternative years. LAW 504: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights 2 Credits A complete study of the legal principles and remedies involved in enforcing creditors' and debtors' rights under state law, including: attachments before judgment; judicial liens, statutory and consensual liens; garnishment and execution; forced sales of property; creditors' suits and supplementary proceedings; the Federal Tax Lien Act; the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act; common law compositions and assignments for the benefit of creditors; bulk sale transfers under the Uniform Commercial Code; equity receiverships; debtors' rights and exemptions under state law. Offered alternative years. LAW 505: White Collar & Business Crimes 2 Credits This course includes a review and analysis of (1) general principles of white collar criminal prosecution and defense, including jurisdiction of various federal and state criminal law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies; (2) the scope of applicable federal criminal laws and some state laws regarding white collar and business crimes; (3) fraud and political corruption crimes, with a focus on federal crimes of mail fraud and bank fraud, and crimes involving official bribery and gratuities; (4) financial and securities fraud, RICO, and money laundering, with an emphasis on asset forfeiture and the rights of third parties; (5) group and organizational crime statutes such as conspiracy, federal and state racketeering, and continuing criminal enterprise statutes; (6) regulatory crimes in the health and environmental areas; (7) crimes involving the protection of federal rights and functions, including perjury statutes, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering; and (8) the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the use of minimum mandatory sentences. This is an exam course. LAW 506: White Collar & Business Crimes 2 Credits This course includes a review and analysis of (1) general principles of white collar criminal prosecution and defense, including jurisdiction of various federal and state criminal law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies; (2) the scope of applicable federal criminal laws and some state laws regarding white collar and business crimes; (3) fraud and political corruption crimes, with a focus on federal crimes of mail fraud and bank fraud, and crimes involving official bribery and gratuities; (4) financial and securities fraud, RICO, and money laundering, with an emphasis on asset forfeiture and the rights of third parties; (5) group and organizational crime statutes such as conspiracy, federal and state racketeering, and continuing criminal enterprise statutes; (6) regulatory crimes in the health and environmental areas; (7) crimes involving the protection of federal rights and functions, including perjury statutes, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering; and (8) the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the use of minimum mandatory sentences. This is an exam course. LAW 507: History of Canon Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 508: Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives 2 Credits Current issues affecting the regulation of financial market derivatives and oversight of derivative transactions under U.S. securities and commodities laws. Topics include the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, interaction of securities and commodities statutes and regulations, registration and regulation of commodity market participants, administrative and injunctive enforcement powers involving violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, developments in self-regulation, and private rights of action. LAW 510: Strategic Standardization 3 Credits Strategic Standardization will examine the creation of both governmental and private sector standards that establish certain manufacturing and other requirements in the areas of product health and safety, environmental controls, telecommunications and other areas of business and commerce. The course will first examine the creation and implementation of standards within the United States by such private organizations as Underwriters Laboratories and the American National Standards Institute. It will look at the use of standards by governmental bodies such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The course will then move to an examination of standards at the international level. This inquiry will include a look at the work of the International Standards Organization (ISO) including, for example, the ISO's implementation of a crucial environmental standard, ISO 14000. The course will also examine the work of other international bodies, such as the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Course will deal with a number of sophisticated legal issues such as antitrust, product liability, international trade, the work of international organizations and the incorporation of private standards in the regulatory programs of governmental agencies. We anticipate that this course will be of particular interest to law students with an engineering background, but there are no pre-requisites for the course other than upper division standing. Additional information many be obtained from Professor Fox. LAW 511: Trial Advocacy I 3 Credits A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 512: Trial Advocacy II 4 Credits A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 513: Law & Economics 2 Credits no description available LAW 514: Unincorporated Business Organizations 3 Credits no description available LAW 515: Employment Law 3 Credits The theme of the course is the protection of the individual employee by statute, administrative rule or through judicial decision. Among the major topics to be covered are: wage and hour legislation; occupational safety and health; workers' compensation; workplace torts; reconsideration of the employment-at-will doctrine; and protection against unemployment. There also will be a discussion of recent legislative developments in Congress and the states. LAW 516: Employment Law 3 Credits The theme of the course is the protection of the individual employee by statute, administrative rule or through judicial decision. Among the major topics to be covered are: wage and hour legislation; occupational safety and health; workers' compensation; workplace torts; reconsideration of the employment-at-will doctrine; and protection against unemployment. There also will be a discussion of recent legislative developments in Congress and the states. LAW 517: Trial Advocacy I 3 Credits A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 518: Trial Advocacy II 4 Credits A year-long study, through student performance, of the role of the advocate in the trial process. Class members form "law firms" for civil cases, and prosecution and defense teams for criminal cases, and undertake representation of the parties in all aspects of litigation. Each team is expected to develop a case from the initial client interview through actual litigation before a presiding judge. The course deals with all phases of pretrial and trial work, including fact-gathering, use of pleadings and pretrial motions, preparation of witnesses, discovery techniques, negotiation and settlement efforts, voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, and presentation of evidence. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers. All exercises are videotaped and reviewed individually. Enrollment is limited and preference is given to third-year students. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 519: Agency/Partnership 2 Credits Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered. LAW 520: Agency/Partnership 2 Credits Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered. LAW 521: Antitrust 3 Credits A study of those federal statutes intended to preserve the benefits of competition in unregulated industries. The course considers the impact of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act on the practices and structure of American business. The course includes some economic analysis, but a background in economics is not necessary. The relevant concepts are developed throughout the course. LAW 522: Advanced Administrative Law 3 Credits Explores, in depth, selected topics not typically covered in the basic Administrative Law course. Specific topics will depend on present and upcoming regulatory and judicial decisions. Among topics recently considered were constitutional separation of powers; statutory separation of prosecution and decision making in administrative agencies; and exemptions from notice and comment in informal rulemaking. A variety of course materials, including court decisions, briefs, scholarly studies, and committee reports, will be used as a basis for discussion. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Administrative Law. LAW 523: Bankruptcy 3 Credits A complete study and review of all legal principles involved in seeking relief under the various chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, including the various relief chapters (chapters 7, 11, and 13), automatic stay litigation and concepts, property of the bankruptcy estate, secured, priority and unsecured claims, discharge and dischargeabili-ty issues, debtors' rights and exemptions under both state law and the Bankruptcy Code, the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy, the question of priorities and conflicts between creditors, fraudulent transfers, and the jurisdiction and venue of the United States Bankruptcy Court. Students who have taken the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights course may not enroll for Bankruptcy. LAW 524: Advanced Administrative Law 3 Credits Explores, in depth, selected topics not typically covered in the basic Administrative Law course. Specific topics will depend on present and upcoming regulatory and judicial decisions. Among topics recently considered were constitutional separation of powers; statutory separation of prosecution and decision making in administrative agencies; and exemptions from notice and comment in informal rulemaking. A variety of course materials, including court decisions, briefs, scholarly studies, and committee reports, will be used as a basis for discussion. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Administrative Law. LAW 525: Labor Law 3 Credits A survey of the legislative, administrative, and judicial regulation of labor relations. The course deals with the scope of national labor legislation, the protection of the right of organization and the designation of bargaining agents, the negotiation and administration of the collective agreement, the legality of strikes, picketing and boycotts, and employer interference with concerted activities. LAW 526: Labor Law Seminar: Rights of Individuals with Disabilities 2 Credits An intensive examination of current problems in labor law with special emphasis upon the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the employment provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. LAW 527: Bankruptcy 2 Credits A complete study and review of all legal principles involved in seeking relief under the various chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, including the various relief chapters (chapters 7, 11, and 13), automatic stay litigation and concepts, property of the bankruptcy estate, secured, priority and unsecured claims, discharge and dischargeabili-ty issues, debtors' rights and exemptions under both state law and the Bankruptcy Code, the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy, the question of priorities and conflicts between creditors, fraudulent transfers, and the jurisdiction and venue of the United States Bankruptcy Court. Students who have taken the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights course may not enroll for Bankruptcy. LAW 529: Agency-Partnership 3 Credits Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered. LAW 530: Bankruptcy 3 Credits A complete study and review of all legal principles involved in seeking relief under the various chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, including the various relief chapters (chapters 7, 11, and 13), automatic stay litigation and concepts, property of the bankruptcy estate, secured, priority and unsecured claims, discharge and dischargeabili-ty issues, debtors' rights and exemptions under both state law and the Bankruptcy Code, the powers of a trustee in bankruptcy, the question of priorities and conflicts between creditors, fraudulent transfers, and the jurisdiction and venue of the United States Bankruptcy Court. Students who have taken the Creditors' and Debtors' Rights course may not enroll for Bankruptcy. LAW 531: Securities Regulation: Issuance 3 Credits This course will focus, in depth, on problems arising under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 dealing with matters such as the purpose and operation of the registration process, the application of the registration process to the secondary distribution, understanding of who is an issuer and underwriter, defining a "security" and a "public offering," availability of various transactional and security exemptions, and the imposition of civil and criminal liabilities for noncompliance with various regulations. Corporations suggested. LAW 531A: Securities Transactional Work in Securitization of Assets 2 Credits no description available LAW 532: Agency/Partnership 3 Credits Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered. LAW 533: Advanced Administrative Law Advanced Administrative Law 3 Credits Explores, in depth, selected topics not typically covered in the basic Administrative Law course. Specific topics will depend on present and upcoming regulatory and judicial decisions. Among topics recently considered were constitutional separation of powers; statutory separation of prosecution and decision making in administrative agencies; and exemptions from notice and comment in informal rulemaking. A variety of course materials, including court decisions, briefs, scholarly studies, and committee reports, will be used as a basis for discussion. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Administrative Law. LAW 534: Securities Regulation: Secondary Trading 3 Credits Primary emphasis on the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will probe matters such as regulation of the securities markets and the securities industry, annual and periodic reporting requirements and the integration thereof with the 1933 Act, regulation of broker/dealer activities and prevention of market manipulation, concerns arising during takeover actions and corporate repurchases, insider trading, securities fraud, civil liabilities arising under the 1934 Act, collateral violators and the role of corporate counsel. Corporations suggested. LAW 535: Legal Drafting Seminar 3 Credits This course offers students an introduction to legal drafting, with an emphasis on such essential skills as writing with clarity and precision, conforming with statutes and ordinances, using form books appropriately, achieving the goals of clients, identifying and eliminating ambiguity, editing and proofreading a written product, and simplifying complex thoughts and ideas. The first half of this course will provide students with a thorough introduction to the principles of general drafting through the use of written exercises, peer critique, and in-class workshops. These may be general office documents or documents in a particular doctrinal area. Through the course of the semester, students will draft a minimum of three major legal documents in addition to rewrites and shorter written exercises. Successful completion of this course will satisfy one of the two upper-level legal writing requirements. Enrollment will be limited to sixteen students per section. Faculty. LAW 536: Legal Drafting 2 Credits no description available LAW 537: History of Early American Law 2 Credits This course covers the seventeenth-century English constitutional background, colonial legal order, law and ideology in the early republic, federalist jurisprudence, development of antebellum contract, property, and negligence law, corporation law and the antebellum economic development, the law of slavery, and the sectional crisis of the 1850s. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 538: History of Modern American Law 2 Credits The course considers nineteenth-century criminal and family law, foundations of modern labor law, origins of the regulatory state, development of modern tort and contract law, jurisprudential trends and the New Deal crisis, civil rights movement, recent constitutional developments, and interdisciplinary movements in law schools today. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 539: Computer Law 2 Credits This course covers the nature and subject matter of computer law, including software, copyright, patent, semiconductor chip, and trade secret protections; basic computer contracting issues; international protections; drafting software development, licensing, maintenance, and service agreements; tort, criminal, and constitutional law issues; the effects of the information superhighway/Internet; and the interrelationship between computer, multimedia, and communications law. LAW 540: Securities Regulation: Enforcement Procedures & Issues 2 Credits This Securities Program offering will introduce the serious Securities Law students to the operation of and the principles behind the practices of the SEC's Enforcement Program, particularly as they relate to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. During the term, students will be introduced to: the investigation process; the settlement process; the Commission hearing; potential remedies; appealability of the Commission's decision; impact of the Commission's actions upon collateral actions by state securities regulators, private shareholders, and federal and state criminal authorities. The course will respond to, through readings and discussion, those issues which currently are under focus in the Enforcement division. Students taking this course are required to contemporaneously take or previously have taken Corporations. It is suggested that students also contemporaneously or previously take a basic securities course. LAW 541: Canon Law for American Attorneys 3 Credits An introduction to the legal system of the Roman Catholic Church with particular emphasis on laws, structures, and procedures of relevance to American attorneys representing Catholic dioceses, religious communities, educational and health care institutions, bishops, priests, religious, and associations of the laity. Particular attention will be given to canon laws governing church property, marriage, and the relationship of priests and religious to their dioceses and communities. Comparison of relevant canonical and American legal concepts. LAW 542: Copyright Law 3 Credits This course covers the nature and subject matter of copyright, including literary, artistic, and musical works, computer software, and motion pictures; how copyrights are acquired, licensed, and enforced; the fair use privilege and other limitations on the copyright owner's rights; and principles of international protection. LAW 543: Copyright Law 3 Credits This course covers the nature and subject matter of copyright, including literary, artistic, and musical works, computer software, and motion pictures; how copyrights are acquired, licensed, and enforced; the fair use privilege and other limitations on the copyright owner's rights; and principles of international protection. LAW 544: American Public Law-Historical Perspective 2 Credits Explores major developments in the history of American constitutional law from the Reconstruction Era to the present. Representative topics will include federalism, civil rights, inter-branch relations, growth of the regulatory state, legal realism and the New Deal jurisprudential "revolution"; Cold War constitutionalism; the lessons of Watergate; and contemporary constitutional trends. LAW 545: Trial Skills: A Medical Malpractice Suit 3 Credits A semester-long, limited enrollment course on how to try a complicated medical malpractice case in the courtroom. The course deals with various aspects of civil litigation, including discovery, but emphasizes trial tactics and skills. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which lawyers confront in civil cases. Student presentations at mock trials are videotaped for review and critique. Videotapes on cross-examination are utilized and the course contains brief lectures on the substantive law of medical malpractice. The course does not end with a mock jury trial. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. Grading will be Pass/Fail. Prerequisites: Evidence and Civil Procedure. LAW 546: Advanced Copyright Seminar: Hot Topics in Intellectual Property 2 Credits no description available LAW 547: Financial Institutions Regulation 2 Credits no description available LAW 548: Health Managed Care 2 Credits no description available LAW 549: Legal Accounting 2 Credits no description available LAW 550: Advanced Federal Civil Procedure 2 Credits no description available LAW 551: Litigation with the Federal Government 2 Credits no description available LAW 552: Products Liability Seminar 2 Credits Limited to sixteen students, the course offers the opportunity to submit a research paper on some topic concerned with personal injury cases involving defective products. After two preliminary class meetings, the balance of the semester will be devoted to preparation and discussion of student papers. Most of the subsequent meetings will be with the instructor on a tutorial basis. By the end of the first week, seminar paper topics and a preliminary bibliography must have been approved. In order to remain registered in the course, students must attend the first two class sessions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will be encouraged to seek publication of their papers. LAW 553: Products Liability Seminar 2 Credits Limited to sixteen students, the course offers the opportunity to submit a research paper on some topic concerned with personal injury cases involving defective products. After two preliminary class meetings, the balance of the semester will be devoted to preparation and discussion of student papers. Most of the subsequent meetings will be with the instructor on a tutorial basis. By the end of the first week, seminar paper topics and a preliminary bibliography must have been approved. In order to remain registered in the course, students must attend the first two class sessions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will be encouraged to seek publication of their papers. LAW 554: Vis International Arbitration Moot 2 Credits no description available LAW 555: Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives 2 Credits no description available LAW 556: History of Early American Law 2 Credits This course covers the seventeenth-century English constitutional background, colonial legal order, law and ideology in the early republic, federalist jurisprudence, development of antebellum contract, property, and negligence law, corporation law and the antebellum economic development, the law of slavery, and the sectional crisis of the 1850s. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 557: Trademark Law 2 Credits A study of nature of marks accorded common law and federal statutory protection as trade, service, certification, and collective marks. Special emphasis is given to concepts of adoption and use in commerce; intent-to-use; affixation; the descriptive, deceptively misdescriptive, geographic, surname, and secondary meaning of marks. Also treated are the topics of relationship of tradenames and trademarks, geographic and product extent of trademarks, concurrent use, confusing similarity, dilution, permissive use by others, and loss of trademark protection from causes such as abandonment or acquisition of a generic meaning. Students may not take both this course and Trademarks and Unfair Competition. LAW 558: International Business Transactions 2 Credits This course concentrates on private business transactions that cross national boundaries. After an examination of some basic international and comparative law principles, the course examines various types of international commercial agreements such as joint ventures, contracts for the sale of goods, agency and distribution agreements and franchises. In addition, the course includes some practical exercises in negotiating and drafting international business contracts, and examines methods of dispute resolution such as international commercial arbitration. There will be a number of guest lecturers on some of the specialized topics covered during the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The final grade is based on a contract-drafting exercise. LAW 558A: International Business Transactions (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 559: International Business Tranactions 3 Credits This course concentrates on private business transactions that cross national boundaries. After an examination of some basic international and comparative law principles, the course examines various types of international commercial agreements such as joint ventures, contracts for the sale of goods, agency and distribution agreements and franchises. In addition, the course includes some practical exercises in negotiating and drafting international business contracts, and examines methods of dispute resolution such as international commercial arbitration. There will be a number of guest lecturers on some of the specialized topics covered during the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The final grade is based on a contract-drafting exercise. LAW 560: Death Penalty Seminar 3 Credits This course examines the substance and procedural law dealing with capital punishment in the judicial process. The focus of the course is on how the death penalty is being administered today--some twenty years after the 1976 Supreme Court cases which rejected constitutional challenges to the death penalty statutes that were enacted after Furman v. Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972). A number of particularly pressing legal problems will be examined, e.g., constitutional challenges to the death penalty; race and gender of defendants given the death penalty; constitutional limitations on death eligibility; the role of aggravating and mitigating circumstances; the sentencing phase of capital cases; the use of expert witnesses; and state and federal habeas corpus review in capital cases. This course offers unique opportunities to examine the law and our legal system from a variety of historical, religious, political, ideological, philosophical, economic, sociological, and other perspectives. Enrollment limited to sixteen students. Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. LAW 561: Consumer Transactions 3 Credits This course treats the spectrum of legal problems which arise uniquely in cash and credit sales, loans, and similar transactions involving consumers. Representative areas of coverage include rate regulation, credit disclosure, unfair and deceptive sales practices, warranties, particular credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Attention is given to issues arising under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection, et al.), Uniform Consumer Credit Code, state "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" statutes, and other federal, state, and local consumer protection laws. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. Students may not take Consumer Law Seminar in addition to this course. LAW 562: Consumer Transactions 3 Credits This course treats the spectrum of legal problems which arise uniquely in cash and credit sales, loans, and similar transactions involving consumers. Representative areas of coverage include rate regulation, credit disclosure, unfair and deceptive sales practices, warranties, particular credit and collection abuses, credit reporting, and enforcement mechanisms. Attention is given to issues arising under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (Truth in Lending, Fair Credit Reporting, Equal Opportunity, Fair Debt Collection, et al.), Uniform Consumer Credit Code, state "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" statutes, and other federal, state, and local consumer protection laws. A prior course in Commercial Transactions is not required. Students may not take Consumer Law Seminar in addition to this course. LAW 563: Creditors' & Debtors' Rights 3 Credits no description available LAW 564: Homeland Security 2 Credits no description available LAW 565: Labor Law Seminar: Rights of Individuals with Disabilities 2 Credits An intensive examination of current problems in labor law with special emphasis upon the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the employment provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. LAW 566: Maritime Law 2 Credits This course covers the leading principles of the Maritime Law of the United States, including its constitutional basis, admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, other federal jurisdiction of shipping matters, traditional and current maritime legal issues, government policies and regulation of shipping, environmental cases, and international issues. LAW 567: Sales & Leases 3 Credits The course deals with the rights and responsibilities of participants in commercial transactions involving the sale or lease of goods. Coverage draws primarily on UCC Articles 2 and 2A, and centers on issues arising in the performance, rather than the creation, of sales and lease contracts: warranty responsibilities; delivery obligations; risk of loss; rights of inspection, rejection, revocation of acceptance, and cure; and the parties' remedies for breach, including reclamation of goods. The course also considers pertinent cognate areas such as documentary exchanges, letters of credit, and United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods. LAW 568: Sales & Leases 3 Credits The course deals with the rights and responsibilities of participants in commercial transactions involving the sale or lease of goods. Coverage draws primarily on UCC Articles 2 and 2A, and centers on issues arising in the performance, rather than the creation, of sales and lease contracts: warranty responsibilities; delivery obligations; risk of loss; rights of inspection, rejection, revocation of acceptance, and cure; and the parties' remedies for breach, including reclamation of goods. The course also considers pertinent cognate areas such as documentary exchanges, letters of credit, and United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods. LAW 569: The Innocence Project 3 Credits no description available LAW 569A: The Innocence Project Clinic 3 Credits no description available LAW 570: Trademark & Unfair Competition 3 Credits This course covers the nature and subject matter of common law and statutory trademark protection, including distinctiveness, genericism, and the development of secondary meaning; the acquisition, retention, and scope of trademark rights; the registration process and its effect; infringement issues, including parody and counterfeiting; and international aspects of protection. Students may not take both this course and Trademark Law. LAW 571: Trial Practice (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 572: Public Policy Research 2 Credits no description available LAW 573: Public Policy Practicum 3 Credits This course is required for third-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit hour for each sixty hours of fieldwork, and must complete at least three hours of fieldwork credit during the course. In this seminar, the students complete readings and participate in reflective oral and written dialogue designed to advance their professional development and to prepare them for public law careers. They submit three to five pages of reflective writing each week. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students also prepare and present twenty-five to thirty-page research papers on topics of their choice related to the policy issues that arise in their clinics or fieldwork. When the seminar is offered year-long, students are required to enroll in an externship or clinical course during the fall semester. Reflective study of field experience will be the central focus of the seminar during the fall. Topic selection and preliminary research for the papers will occur also during the fall semester. The spring seminar will focus principally on the research and writing of the papers. Students who wish to do so may enroll in a fieldwork or clinical experience in the spring semester as well as the fall. Students will receive two credits for the fall seminar and two credits in the spring. LAW 574: Canon Law for American Attorneys 2 Credits no description available LAW 575: Public Policy Practicum 2 Credits This course is required for third-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit hour for each sixty hours of fieldwork, and must complete at least three hours of fieldwork credit during the course. In this seminar, the students complete readings and participate in reflective oral and written dialogue designed to advance their professional development and to prepare them for public law careers. They submit three to five pages of reflective writing each week. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students also prepare and present twenty-five to thirty-page research papers on topics of their choice related to the policy issues that arise in their clinics or fieldwork. When the seminar is offered year-long, students are required to enroll in an externship or clinical course during the fall semester. Reflective study of field experience will be the central focus of the seminar during the fall. Topic selection and preliminary research for the papers will occur also during the fall semester. The spring seminar will focus principally on the research and writing of the papers. Students who wish to do so may enroll in a fieldwork or clinical experience in the spring semester as well as the fall. Students will receive two credits for the fall seminar and two credits in the spring. LAW 576: Public Policy Practicum 2 Credits This course is required for third-year students in the Law and Public Policy Program and is open to other students if space is available. In consultation with the instructor, each student selects either a live-client clinical course or a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney at a nonprofit organization, a government office (executive, legislative, or judicial branch of federal, state, or local government), a law firm, or a corporation. Placements and clinical courses should involve the students in the development or implementation of law and/or public policy and must be approved by the LPP director. Students enrolled in externships receive one credit hour for each sixty hours of fieldwork, and must complete at least three hours of fieldwork credit during the course. In this seminar, the students complete readings and participate in reflective oral and written dialogue designed to advance their professional development and to prepare them for public law careers. They submit three to five pages of reflective writing each week. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Students also prepare and present twenty-five to thirty-page research papers on topics of their choice related to the policy issues that arise in their clinics or fieldwork. When the seminar is offered year-long, students are required to enroll in an externship or clinical course during the fall semester. Reflective study of field experience will be the central focus of the seminar during the fall. Topic selection and preliminary research for the papers will occur also during the fall semester. The spring seminar will focus principally on the research and writing of the papers. Students who wish to do so may enroll in a fieldwork or clinical experience in the spring semester as well as the fall. Students will receive two credits for the fall seminar and two credits in the spring. LAW 577: Legislation 3 Credits This course will focus on how statutes are enacted and on a variety of the sometimes conflicting approaches to statutory interpretation. Students will become familiar with the structure and procedures in Congress, the relationship of the Congress to the President, and with some of the recent controversies surrounding the way Members of the House of Representatives are elected. In addition, students will be given an opportunity to participate in a statutory drafting exercise. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 578: Legislation: The Making of a Federal Statute 2 Credits This course offers students an introduction to legal drafting, with an emphasis on such essential skills as writing with clarity and precision, conforming with statutes and ordinances, using form books appropriately, achieving the goals of clients, identifying and eliminating ambiguity, editing and proofreading a written product, and simplifying complex thoughts and ideas. The first half of this course will provide students with a thorough introduction to the principles of general drafting through the use of written exercises, peer critique, and in-class workshops. These may be general office documents or documents in a particular doctrinal area. Through the course of the semester, students will draft a minimum of three major legal documents in addition to rewrites and shorter written exercises. Successful completion of this course will satisfy one of the two upper-level legal writing requirements. Enrollment will be limited to sixteen students per section. Faculty. LAW 579: Agency/Partnership 2 Credits Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered. LAW 580: Agency/Partnership 2 Credits Every attorney acts as an agent and as a fiduciary. Many lawyers join, form, or represent partnerships. This course stresses the concept of responsibility as it relates to an organization's accountability for the actions of persons whom they employ. Topics include the nature, creation, and termination of an agency/employment relation, employer's contract and tort liability for employees' activities relating to third parties (including the increasing problem of employee fraud and misconduct), and the fiduciary rights and duties between principals and agents. The course also addresses the nature, formation, operation, and termination of partnerships, including partners' property interests and the rights of creditors. Uniform laws, statutory influences, and practice implications are also considered. LAW 581: Antitrust 3 Credits A study of those federal statutes intended to preserve the benefits of competition in unregulated industries. The course considers the impact of the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act on the practices and structure of American business. The course includes some economic analysis, but a background in economics is not necessary. The relevant concepts are developed throughout the course. LAW 582: Trial Skills: Medical Malpractice Case 3 Credits A semester-long, limited enrollment course on how to try a complicated medical malpractice case in the courtroom. The course deals with various aspects of civil litigation, including discovery, but emphasizes trial tactics and skills. The course includes tactical and ethical problems which lawyers confront in civil cases. Student presentations at mock trials are videotaped for review and critique. Videotapes on cross-examination are utilized and the course contains brief lectures on the substantive law of medical malpractice. The course does not end with a mock jury trial. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. Grading will be Pass/Fail. Prerequisites: Evidence and Civil Procedure. LAW 583: Labor Law Seminar: Collective Bargaining & Arbitration 2 Credits The focus of this course is the lawyer's role in the collective bargaining process including the negotiation and enforcement of the labor contract. Enforcement through both the labor arbitration and judicial process will be examined. Students study the applicable legal precedents and develop practice skills by participating in a variety of in-class simulations. Offered alternate years. LAW 584: Advanced Antitrust 3 Credits This seminar studies significant antitrust policies and issues in depth. Emphasis is placed on significant current developments. There will be no final examination, but each student is to conduct a class, write a paper, and participate in the discussion of the papers of fellow students. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Antitrust. Mr. G. Garvey. LAW 585: Labor Law 3 Credits A survey of the legislative, administrative, and judicial regulation of labor relations. The course deals with the scope of national labor legislation, the protection of the right of organization and the designation of bargaining agents, the negotiation and administration of the collective agreement, the legality of strikes, picketing and boycotts, and employer interference with concerted activities. LAW 586: Congressional Investigations 2 Credits This seminar explores the range of issues involved in congressional investigations, with special attention paid to the differing perspectives of the major players, both inside and outside of Congress, in a congressional investigation. ongressional investigations involve a unique interplay of legal and political issues. Legal issues -- involving such matters as the rights of private institutions and private citizens who may be implicated in a congressional nvestigation, the legal and political ability of the Executive Branch to resist congressional probes, the authority of the Judicial ranch to interfere with or limit the conduct of congressional investigations, and the relationship of congressional investigations to related criminal and civil inquiries conducted by other governmental entities -- must be factored into the political calculus of the contending political forces involved in a congressional investigation. Political determinations -- which underpin such issues as the scope and duration of an investigation or whether witnesses should be interviewed, deposed or called to testify live at a hearing -- may have significant legal ramifications. This seminar will address these issues at both the practical and the theoretical levels. As part of the course, class members will be asked to participate, on a team basis, in mock problems concerning different aspects of the process. LAW 587: Legis: Making of a Federal Statute 3 Credits no description available LAW 588: Labor Law Seminar: Collective Bargaining & Arbitration 2 Credits The focus of this course is the lawyer's role in the collective bargaining process including the negotiation and enforcement of the labor contract. Enforcement through both the labor arbitration and judicial process will be examined. Students study the applicable legal precedents and develop practice skills by participating in a variety of in-class simulations. Offered alternate years. LAW 589: Regulated Industries 3 Credits This course provides an introduction to the scope and nature of government regulation in the United States. It examines the constitutional restraints on regulatory power and reviews the economic and other justifications for regulation (i.e., natural monopoly, destructive competition, allocation of scarce resources, assurance of quality or competence, consideration of otherwise ignored social costs, and wealth redistribution). Given the nature of contemporary efforts to reform the regulatory state, emphasis is placed throughout the course on the deregulation of traditionally regulated sectors of the economy. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 590: Professional Sports & the Law 2 Credits The organized professional team sports of baseball, basketball, football, soccer, and hockey employ practices unique in American business, perhaps tolerated in no other business. The course primarily involves an examination of contract law, antitrust law, and labor law in the context of an analysis of the business of professional sports. Among the issues to be considered in the course are current antitrust developments in professional sports, including the unique antitrust status of major league baseball; collective bargaining in professional sports; the impact of the labor exemption under the antitrust laws; examination of standard-player contracts and the forms of self-regulation and league structure of each league; and an appraisal of the future development of professional sports. The course demands and encourages a different outlook on professional sports leagues and the athletes they employ. LAW 591: Securities Regulations: Issuance 3 Credits This course will focus, in depth, on problems arising under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 dealing with matters such as the purpose and operation of the registration process, the application of the registration process to the secondary distribution, understanding of who is an issuer and underwriter, defining a "security" and a "public offering," availability of various transactional and security exemptions, and the imposition of civil and criminal liabilities for noncompliance with various regulations. Corporations suggested. LAW 592: Securities Regulation: Issuance 3 Credits This course will focus, in depth, on problems arising under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 dealing with matters such as the purpose and operation of the registration process, the application of the registration process to the secondary distribution, understanding of who is an issuer and underwriter, defining a "security" and a "public offering," availability of various transactional and security exemptions, and the imposition of civil and criminal liabilities for noncompliance with various regulations. Corporations suggested. LAW 593: Securities Regulation: Trading 3 Credits Primary emphasis on the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will probe matters such as regulation of the securities markets and the securities industry, annual and periodic reporting requirements and the integration thereof with the 1933 Act, regulation of broker/dealer activities and prevention of market manipulation, concerns arising during takeover actions and corporate repurchases, insider trading, securities fraud, civil liabilities arising under the 1934 Act, collateral violators and the role of corporate counsel. Corporations suggested. LAW 594: Securities Regulation: Trading 3 Credits Primary emphasis on the Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will probe matters such as regulation of the securities markets and the securities industry, annual and periodic reporting requirements and the integration thereof with the 1933 Act, regulation of broker/dealer activities and prevention of market manipulation, concerns arising during takeover actions and corporate repurchases, insider trading, securities fraud, civil liabilities arising under the 1934 Act, collateral violators and the role of corporate counsel. Corporations suggested. LAW 595: Trial Practice 3 Credits A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 596: Trial Practice 3 Credits A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 597: Trial Practice 3 Credits A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 598: Trial Practice 3 Credits A semester-long limited enrollment course covering the role of the advocate in the trial process. The course deals with the various facets of trial court litigation including voir dire of jury panel, opening and closing statements, direct and cross-examination of witnesses and presentation of exhibits. The course will include tactical and ethical problems which confront trial lawyers in both civil and criminal cases. The course will end with a mock jury trial involving either a criminal or a civil case. Limited to sixteen students. In case of overenrollment, preference will be given to students who have not taken another Trial Practice or Trial Skills course. The course will be either graded or Pass/Fail at the discretion of the instructor. If graded, the course grade will be based on student performance during the semester. Prerequisite: Evidence. LAW 599: Adv Trial Practice 3 Credits no description available LAW 600: Land Trans & Finance 2 Credits no description available LAW 601: Administration of Criminal Justice 2 Credits This course covers a variety of topics in the criminal law/criminal procedure field. Students will be given an opportunity to participate in the selection and presentation of subject matter and materials to be covered and assigned. In the past, coverage has included the use of penal statutes to criminalize behavior that creates a risk of transmitting the HIV virus, electronic surveillance, and problems relating to informants. There will be no examination for this course; each student will be required to submit a paper on which the final grade will be primarily based, and to conduct a class on his or her topic. Topics will be decided jointly by the student and professor. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 602: Legisprudence: Theories of Law Making 3 Credits no description available LAW 607: International Criminal Law 2 Credits This course introduces students to the many unique problems posed when the investigation or prosecution of offenses against the criminal law of one country (primarily the United States) have international consequences. It first explores the foundations of international criminal law, including the bases for criminal jurisdiction. It then covers in depth two issues central to international criminal law, the extradition of fugitives and mutual legal assistance (i.e., international evidence gathering). The course may incidentally touch upon other topics, including money laundering, the forfeiture of illegally obtained assets, the treatment of Nazi war criminals, and diplomatic immunity. Primary source material is emphasized, including international treaties, decisions of United States courts, and federal statutes. LAW 608: International Economic Regulation 2 Credits This course focuses on international and foreign national economic laws and policies that foster, or impair, transnational economic commerce. It explores the WTO and GATT, various transnational competition laws, IMF, the World Bank, and conflicting policies of developing nations designed to stimulate trade and investment while promoting internal growth and domestic control. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 609: International Human Rights 3 Credits A seminar course exploring legal principles involved in the creation and functioning of international bodies, with emphasis on their role in establishing and applying human rights standards. The legal basis for the authority of international bodies to act, and their relationships to individual nations and to other worldwide and regional associations, is examined in the context of specific case studies of current interest, with emphasis on human rights standards. Included among the case studies considered are war crimes issues involving former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, self-determination problems in Chechnya, and current United States policies relating to the treatment of Cuban and Haitian boat people. Special attention is given to how international bodies attempt to resolve areas of dispute between nations, and otherwise use their independent procedures to help develop standards of international conduct, and to monitor compliance by nations. Human rights laws, monitoring mechanisms, and enforcement experiences are considered extensively as models throughout the course. The relationship between international human rights standards and domestic legal remedies is explored with respect to problems of racial discrimination and the treatment of refugees. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. LAW 610: International Organizations & Human Rights 2 Credits A seminar course exploring legal principles involved in the creation and functioning of international bodies, with emphasis on their role in establishing and applying human rights standards. The legal basis for the authority of international bodies to act, and their relationships to individual nations and to other worldwide and regional associations, is examined in the context of specific case studies of current interest, with emphasis on human rights standards. Included among the case studies considered are war crimes issues involving former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, self-determination problems in Chechnya, and current United States policies relating to the treatment of Cuban and Haitian boat people. Special attention is given to how international bodies attempt to resolve areas of dispute between nations, and otherwise use their independent procedures to help develop standards of international conduct, and to monitor compliance by nations. Human rights laws, monitoring mechanisms, and enforcement experiences are considered extensively as models throughout the course. The relationship between international human rights standards and domestic legal remedies is explored with respect to problems of racial discrimination and the treatment of refugees. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. LAW 611: Public International Law 3 Credits An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 612: Comparative and International Trade 3 Credits This course examines the major issues of international trade and its regulation at the national and international level. The focus is on the United States trade laws, including the tariff system and customs laws, the safeguard provisions, antidumping and countervailing duty remedies, and retaliatory measures. Attendant issues such as the distribution of powers to regulate international trade, the delegation doctrine, and judicial review of regulating agencies are also examined. The international regulatory framework--principally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization--are examined in some detail, with a focus on the fundamental rule of nondiscrimination, the resolution of disputes through the dispute settlement system, and the relationship between international agreements and the United States law. Finally, the course also examines specialized topics including free trade areas and customs unions, treatment of nonmarket/transitional economies, developing countries, and international trade in service. LAW 613: Separation of Powers 2 Credits A study of the doctrine of separation of powers in American constitutionalism. By analyzing specific confrontations over domestic and foreign policy issues, the student will gain a deeper understanding of the manner in which judicial, executive, and legislative forces interact to shape constitutional law. Includes analysis of appointment and removal powers, delegated powers, legislative veto, line item veto, independent commissions, independent counsel, executive privilege, congressional investigations, foreign affairs, war powers, and congressional power over federal courts. The grade will be based on two short papers presented to the class and a long term paper. Satisfies the writing requirement. LAW 614: Advanced Constitutional Law: First Amendment 2 Credits This is a course on the First Amendment. Although all parts of the amendment are addressed, primary emphasis is on freedom of speech. Consideration will be given to analytical techniques used in resolving First Amendment problems, the role and performance of courts in First Amendment cases, the lawyering process as it relates to the First Amendment, and the political and social values underlying the First Amendment. Practical problems will be worked on throughout the course. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Occasionally this course is also offered as a limited enrollment seminar. LAW 616: Public International Law 3 Credits An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 617: International Economic Regulation 2 Credits This course focuses on international and foreign national economic laws and policies that foster, or impair, transnational economic commerce. It explores the WTO and GATT, various transnational competition laws, IMF, the World Bank, and conflicting policies of developing nations designed to stimulate trade and investment while promoting internal growth and domestic control. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 617A: International Economic Regulation (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 618: Legal Rights of People with Disabilities 2 Credits This course studies federal legislation and court decisions protecting the rights of people with disabilities. All Titles of the Americans with Disabilities Act and its regulations are studied, and recent cases arising under this law are discussed. Other federal legislation in the areas of employment, education, and housing rights of people with disabilities are also examined. This course can fulfill the upperclass writing requirement. Limited to twenty students. LAW 619: Law & Literature 2 Credits Dr. Bloomfield's section explores the techniques by which creative writers--poets, playwrights, novelists, and short story writers--have dealt with significant legal issues. Topics include alternative/comparative legal systems; the competing claims of law and equity; the legal treatment of radical and religious minorities; the interpretation of statutes; changing professional mores; the role of the judge; women and the law; and popular criticism of bench and bar. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be based in part on class discussions and in part on a paper. The paper will not satisfy the upper-division writing requirement. Mr. Wagner's section explores literature as a medium communicating basic questions about the meaning and value of law. The course seeks an abstract grasp of theoretical problems concerning law and its meaning and value that are communicated through literature. It seeks equally to elicit student insight into the meaning and value of law in his or her social and professional context. As a secondary goal, it aims at understanding the methodology and theory that make possible valid and true statements about the relation of law and literature. The course pursues its goals through the reading of literary sources. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be assigned based on paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 620: Law & Literature 2 Credits Dr. Bloomfield's section explores the techniques by which creative writers--poets, playwrights, novelists, and short story writers--have dealt with significant legal issues. Topics include alternative/comparative legal systems; the competing claims of law and equity; the legal treatment of radical and religious minorities; the interpretation of statutes; changing professional mores; the role of the judge; women and the law; and popular criticism of bench and bar. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be based in part on class discussions and in part on a paper. The paper will not satisfy the upper-division writing requirement. Mr. Wagner's section explores literature as a medium communicating basic questions about the meaning and value of law. The course seeks an abstract grasp of theoretical problems concerning law and its meaning and value that are communicated through literature. It seeks equally to elicit student insight into the meaning and value of law in his or her social and professional context. As a secondary goal, it aims at understanding the methodology and theory that make possible valid and true statements about the relation of law and literature. The course pursues its goals through the reading of literary sources. Enrollment is limited to twenty students. Course grades will be assigned based on paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 621: Federal Indian Law Seminar 2 Credits The popular belief is that Native Americans are fast becoming acculturated and will soon be extinct. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Native American population has increased rapidly in the twentieth century and Indian tribes own some 52,000,000 acres of land, some of it in coal, petroleum, oil, and other minerals, including most of the known United States deposits of uranium. The seminar will focus on the major questions in Indian law today, especially state and federal incursions into tribal sovereignty; the federal-Indian trust relationship; and tribal ownership of land, including the legal bases for the tribes' northeastern land claims. Throughout the course the seminar participants will pose and attempt to answer the question: Do the Indian tribes occupy a preferred place in our democratic system? If so, should this special relationship be terminated? Class participants will write a paper on a topic of their choice. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Limited to sixteen students. LAW 622: Fair Employment Law 2 Credits A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 623: Fair Employment Law 2 Credits A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 624: Jurisprudence 3 Credits This course introduces the student to jurisprudence. It surveys the generic themes or issues which occupy inquiry in jurisprudence regardless of philosophical position. Such themes or issues extend to the legitimacy of the legal order; the relativity of the authority of law in relation to concepts of personhood, community, society, politics, or transcendence; the mediation of legal authority by patterns of interpretation and legal reasoning; the purposes of law relating to justice, civic order, public morality, and public welfare or well-being. The course's exploration of these themes or issues is designed to facilitate the restatement and critique of the diverse answers they elicit from differing approaches to jurisprudence. The course, then, proceeds to a synthesis of the key features of the schools or positions which comprise the primary options in contemporary normative jurisprudence. These schools or positions include Utilitarianism/Law and Economics, Libertarianism and Neo-Kantianism, Liberal Rights Theory, Natural Law, Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminist Jurisprudence. The course grades will be assigned based on a paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 625: Jurisprudence 3 Credits This course introduces the student to jurisprudence. It surveys the generic themes or issues which occupy inquiry in jurisprudence regardless of philosophical position. Such themes or issues extend to the legitimacy of the legal order; the relativity of the authority of law in relation to concepts of personhood, community, society, politics, or transcendence; the mediation of legal authority by patterns of interpretation and legal reasoning; the purposes of law relating to justice, civic order, public morality, and public welfare or well-being. The course's exploration of these themes or issues is designed to facilitate the restatement and critique of the diverse answers they elicit from differing approaches to jurisprudence. The course, then, proceeds to a synthesis of the key features of the schools or positions which comprise the primary options in contemporary normative jurisprudence. These schools or positions include Utilitarianism/Law and Economics, Libertarianism and Neo-Kantianism, Liberal Rights Theory, Natural Law, Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminist Jurisprudence. The course grades will be assigned based on a paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 626: Sources of Christian Jurisprudence 2 Credits This seminar surveys the theory and experiences that are primary sources of jurisprudence within the Christian tradition. It explores the value of these sources as a basis for understanding diverse attitudes towards the meaning of law found within contemporary Christianity. It seeks, in addition, to build a conceptual and historical foundation for developing, validating, and criticizing formal jurisprudential theory from the Christian vantage point. Relying on primary documents, students examine both formative Christian experiences of law which may be considered archetypal and Christian experiences of law which are more recent and of a more specifically American character. Through a close reading of original Christian authors, students encounter the progression of Christian theory about law from the Bible to the leading thinkers of the historically diverse strands of the later tradition. Unifying themes concern the relationship of reason to revelation, law to morality, and charity to justice. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper which fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 627: Sources of Christian Jurisprudence 2 Credits This seminar surveys the theory and experiences that are primary sources of jurisprudence within the Christian tradition. It explores the value of these sources as a basis for understanding diverse attitudes towards the meaning of law found within contemporary Christianity. It seeks, in addition, to build a conceptual and historical foundation for developing, validating, and criticizing formal jurisprudential theory from the Christian vantage point. Relying on primary documents, students examine both formative Christian experiences of law which may be considered archetypal and Christian experiences of law which are more recent and of a more specifically American character. Through a close reading of original Christian authors, students encounter the progression of Christian theory about law from the Bible to the leading thinkers of the historically diverse strands of the later tradition. Unifying themes concern the relationship of reason to revelation, law to morality, and charity to justice. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper which fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 628: Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniquest 2 Credits The seminar is a limited-enrollment (twenty students) course that looks at mechanisms for resolving disputes other than the mechanism of litigation. It concentrates on negotiation, arbitration, mediation-conciliation, the so-called "rent-a-judge" and the "mini-trial" proposals. The seminar will be mainly an in-depth discussion and analysis of the individual devices and will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives in relation to litigation. A number of guest lecturers will attend and participate. Class participation by all members of the seminar is required and the final grade will be based on the research paper written by each participant. Each student will be required to give a short, oral presentation on his or her paper topic toward the end of the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 629: Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques 2 Credits The seminar is a limited-enrollment (twenty students) course that looks at mechanisms for resolving disputes other than the mechanism of litigation. It concentrates on negotiation, arbitration, mediation-conciliation, the so-called "rent-a-judge" and the "mini-trial" proposals. The seminar will be mainly an in-depth discussion and analysis of the individual devices and will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives in relation to litigation. A number of guest lecturers will attend and participate. Class participation by all members of the seminar is required and the final grade will be based on the research paper written by each participant. Each student will be required to give a short, oral presentation on his or her paper topic toward the end of the semester. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 630: Banking Law 3 Credits This course surveys the evolving legal and regulatory environment within which banks operate. Areas of coverage include the history and structure of the federal and state regulation of banking generally (i.e., the "dual banking system"); criteria and limitations on chartering, merging, branching, and interstate banking; principal controls on the business of banking (deposit taking, lending, securities and insurance activities), including activities of holding company affiliates; regulation of troubled financial institutions; liability of officers, directors, and professionals; operation of foreign banks in the United States. The course also emphasizes the social and policy issues raised by the regulation of the banking industry. LAW 631: Banking Law 3 Credits This course surveys the evolving legal and regulatory environment within which banks operate. Areas of coverage include the history and structure of the federal and state regulation of banking generally (i.e., the "dual banking system"); criteria and limitations on chartering, merging, branching, and interstate banking; principal controls on the business of banking (deposit taking, lending, securities and insurance activities), including activities of holding company affiliates; regulation of troubled financial institutions; liability of officers, directors, and professionals; operation of foreign banks in the United States. The course also emphasizes the social and policy issues raised by the regulation of the banking industry. LAW 632: Women and the Law 2 Credits This seminar surveys legal sources and remedies to combat sex discrimination in such areas as employment, education, constitutional law, criminal law, family law, property and credit, government programs, and state involvements with reproduction. The course uses cases and readings to illustrate the common aspects of sex discrimination and issues of importance to women. A paper is optional and fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Faculty. LAW 633: Federal Courts 2 Credits The course examines the nature of the federal judicial function, explores in depth an aspect of federal-state relationships - the dual court system - that is a particular concern and responsibility of lawyers, and provides the opportunity for systematic thought about a series of problems important to an understanding of our constitutional system. Among the topics which may be considered are historical development of the federal court system, congressional power to regulate the jurisdiction of federal courts, standing as it affects judicial power, political questions, the meaning of "arising under" jurisdiction, actions claiming constitutional protection against official state action, the original and removal jurisdiction of the district courts, and the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. LAW 634: Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process 3 Credits This elective course is recommended as an adjunct to Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. Whereas Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process focuses on Constitutional Criminal Procedure with primary emphasis on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues, this course will provide an in-depth examination of procedural problems in criminal litigation. Topics covered may include right to counsel at trial, on appeal, and in collateral proceedings; the right to court-appointed experts, transcripts, and other aids; the plea-bargaining process; discovery obligations in general and reciprocal discovery in criminal cases; notice requirements for the insanity and alibi defenses; joinder and severance of counts and defendants; trial rights such as right to jury trial, right to speedy trial, peremptory challenges and the challenge for cause, the right to jury instructions on elements of the crime, defenses and theory of the case, etc.; proof issues such as burden of production and persuasion; and ethical issues in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases. It is suggested that this course be taken by those students intending to pursue a career in criminal litigation, either as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney. As currently offered, it is available only in the spring semester. LAW 635: Federal Practice & Procedure 2 Credits This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended. LAW 636: Federal Practice & Procedure 2 Credits This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended. LAW 637: Comparative Law 3 Credits The purpose of this course is to provide the student with knowledge about the basic legal systems in the world. Special emphasis will be given throughout the course to legal systems in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the countries of the former Soviet bloc. The course begins with discussion of legal education and the legal professions in these countries. The basic principles of British, French, and German constitutional law are studied to provide the political background necessary to compare these legal systems. The course also examines judicial structures and court organization as well as key principles of criminal and civil law. LAW 638: Comparative Law 3 Credits The purpose of this course is to provide the student with knowledge about the basic legal systems in the world. Special emphasis will be given throughout the course to legal systems in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the countries of the former Soviet bloc. The course begins with discussion of legal education and the legal professions in these countries. The basic principles of British, French, and German constitutional law are studied to provide the political background necessary to compare these legal systems. The course also examines judicial structures and court organization as well as key principles of criminal and civil law. LAW 639: Banking Law 3 Credits This course surveys the regulation of all financial institutions, i.e., banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and mutual funds. The course will examine the history and development of regulation of each of these institutions and the markets in which they operate. Because commercial banks are the most regulated financial institutions, careful attention is devoted to the bank regulatory scheme, including chartering, branching, interstate banking, activities restrictions, and the regulation of troubled banks. Examination of insurance companies will include analysis of the insurance contract and federal/state relationship in insurance regulation. The securities industry will be examined through the regulation of broker-dealers and trading markets. The focus on the investment company industry will include consideration of fiduciary duties and required disclosure. Most importantly, the course will examine the deterioration of historic barriers between financial institutions and the services that they provide. The course will give careful consideration to this cross-industry competition and how it has and will impact law and policy. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X -- Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 640: Financial Institutions Regulations 3 Credits This course surveys the regulation of all financial institutions, i.e., banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and mutual funds. The course will examine the history and development of regulation of each of these institutions and the markets in which they operate. Because commercial banks are the most regulated financial institutions, careful attention is devoted to the bank regulatory scheme, including chartering, branching, interstate banking, activities restrictions, and the regulation of troubled banks. Examination of insurance companies will include analysis of the insurance contract and federal/state relationship in insurance regulation. The securities industry will be examined through the regulation of broker-dealers and trading markets. The focus on the investment company industry will include consideration of fiduciary duties and required disclosure. Most importantly, the course will examine the deterioration of historic barriers between financial institutions and the services that they provide. The course will give careful consideration to this cross-industry competition and how it has and will impact law and policy. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X -- Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 641: Separation of Powers 3 Credits A study of the doctrine of separation of powers in American constitutionalism. By analyzing specific confrontations over domestic and foreign policy issues, the student will gain a deeper understanding of the manner in which judicial, executive, and legislative forces interact to shape constitutional law. Includes analysis of appointment and removal powers, delegated powers, legislative veto, line item veto, independent commissions, independent counsel, executive privilege, congressional investigations, foreign affairs, war powers, and congressional power over federal courts. The grade will be based on two short papers presented to the class and a long term paper. Satisfies the writing requirement. LAW 642: Securities Regulation: Investment Company and Investment Advisers Acts 2 Credits This course will cover federal regulation of the investment management industry, focusing primarily on the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act, while also examining the impact of other federal laws, including ERISA, the Commodity Exchange Act, and the Internal Revenue Code. Topics of study include regulation of the operation, management, and distribution of mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, including closed-end funds, hedge funds, and offshore funds. Class discussion will include analysis of business practices in light of the statutory and regulatory scheme, pertinent case law, and positions taken by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Prerequisite: Corporations. LAW 644: Federal Regulation of Food and Drugs 2 Credits This course explores the Food and Drug Administration's development of regulatory controls in response to Congress' legislative enactments regarding the safety of food and the safety and effectiveness of drugs. Course work entails an analysis of FDA's enforcement tools, the agency's substantive regulatory authority over foods, drugs, and selected other regulated commodities, and the agency's creative use of its legislative authority to develop regulatory mechanisms for the protection of the public health. While focusing on substantive food and drug law, the course also scrutinizes the operation and problems an administrative agency faces in dealing with sometimes conflicting legal, scientific, and policy concerns regarding a given issue. To this end, the course focuses on FDA's efforts to establish safe levels for added carcinogens in food, to ensure the safety of foods produced by recombinant DNA technology, to improve the public health by comprehensive food labeling reform, and to establish the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals in an ethical and timely manner. This course is highly recommended for persons interested in the regulatory process and in the practical aspects of administrative law. LAW 645: Legal Issues of the Middle East Process 2 Credits no description available LAW 646: Hollywood Looks at Lawyers 2 Credits no description available LAW 647: Securities Markets Regulation Seminar 2 Credits An in-depth analysis of several themes central to the regulation of exchange and over-the-counter trading in domestic securities. Topics to be covered include purpose and operation of securities markets; the implementation of self-regulatory oversight with focus upon the relationship between the exchanges and broker/dealers and the exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission; regulation of broker/dealers; the implication of listed and unlisted trading; the development of the national market system and the system's reliance upon intermarket communication and execution systems and brokers' performance of fiduciary duties of best execution; order flow issues; alternative trading systems and competition in the securities market and the impact of offboard trading restrictions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. It is strongly advisable, but not an absolute prerequisite, that students registering for the seminar have taken at least one securities course. Limited enrollment. LAW 648: Civil Rights Law 3 Credits This course is both an advanced course in constitutional law and a survey course on civil rights legislation. Coverage includes discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, alienage, gender, disability, age, religion, and sexual orientation, with particular emphasis on the interrelation between constitutional and statutory law and on the major interpretive and strategic problems of civil rights law. Attention will be given to the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the federal government's constitutional powers to define and protect civil rights, the Reconstruction Era civil rights statutes, the modern regulatory statutes (Title II (public accommodations) and VII (employment discrimination) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Fair Housing Act of 1968; the Americans with Disabilities Act), and the modern "conditional spending" statutes (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Sec. 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975). LAW 649: Civil Rights 2 Credits This course is both an advanced course in constitutional law and a survey course on civil rights legislation. Coverage includes discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, alienage, gender, disability, age, religion, and sexual orientation, with particular emphasis on the interrelation between constitutional and statutory law and on the major interpretive and strategic problems of civil rights law. Attention will be given to the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the federal government's constitutional powers to define and protect civil rights, the Reconstruction Era civil rights statutes, the modern regulatory statutes (Title II (public accommodations) and VII (employment discrimination) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Fair Housing Act of 1968; the Americans with Disabilities Act), and the modern "conditional spending" statutes (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Sec. 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975). LAW 650: Immigration & Nationality Law 2 Credits The course will explore the constitutional limits of the federal immigration power as enunciated in the federal courts, and the different roles of the departments and federal agencies involved in the administration and enforcement of immigration and nationality law. It will discuss the various categories of immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as the procedures used for admission into the United States. In addition, the course will review removal grounds, and the procedures, including appellate practice, used in removing aliens from the United States. Considerable time will be spent on the area of refugees and asylum. Finally, the course will provide an overview of employer sanctions and the requirements of acquiring and losing citizenship. Administrative Law is a suggested, but not required, prerequisite. LAW 651: Immigration & Nationality Law 2 Credits The course will explore the constitutional limits of the federal immigration power as enunciated in the federal courts, and the different roles of the departments and federal agencies involved in the administration and enforcement of immigration and nationality law. It will discuss the various categories of immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as the procedures used for admission into the United States. In addition, the course will review removal grounds, and the procedures, including appellate practice, used in removing aliens from the United States. Considerable time will be spent on the area of refugees and asylum. Finally, the course will provide an overview of employer sanctions and the requirements of acquiring and losing citizenship. Administrative Law is a suggested, but not required, prerequisite. LAW 652: Complex Litigation 3 Credits An advanced course in civil procedure entailing an in-depth examination of procedural problems involved in multiparty, multiclaim litigation in federal and state court. Among the topics considered are complex joinder, intervention, and effects on jurisdiction and justiciability; disposition of duplicative litigation; extensive analysis of class action practice; problems peculiar to large-case discovery, including use of computers in discovery, protective orders, and privilege; the case management movement and the judicial control of litigation; and advanced problems of res judicata and collateral estoppel involved in multiparty, multiclaim litigation. Faculty. LAW 653: Complex Litigation Seminar 2 Credits no description available LAW 654: Law & Public Policy 2 Credits This course will consider the relationship of law and the making of public policy, giving special emphasis to the variety of interactions among the three branches of the federal government. Students will study, in depth, three government proceedings (an administrative rulemaking, the enactment of a law by Congress, and an appeal to the United States Supreme Court), focusing both on the legal and policy issues involved and the roles of government officials, attorneys, and members of the public in these proceedings. This course is required for students seeking a certificate in Law and Public Policy. LPP students are encouraged to take this course in the spring of their second year, and must complete a course in Administrative Law before enrolling in this course. LAW 655: Law & Public Policy 2 Credits This course will consider the relationship of law and the making of public policy, giving special emphasis to the variety of interactions among the three branches of the federal government. Students will study, in depth, three government proceedings (an administrative rulemaking, the enactment of a law by Congress, and an appeal to the United States Supreme Court), focusing both on the legal and policy issues involved and the roles of government officials, attorneys, and members of the public in these proceedings. This course is required for students seeking a certificate in Law and Public Policy. LPP students are encouraged to take this course in the spring of their second year, and must complete a course in Administrative Law before enrolling in this course. LAW 656: Federal Litigation 3 Credits This course deals with specialized problems which arise in suits against the government: sovereign immunity, the nature and limitations of Tucker Act and Federal Tort Claims Act jurisdiction, suits against government corporations and officers, discovery and privilege, and representation problems - conflict of interest, lobbying, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and attorneys' fees. LAW 657: Comparative Law Seminar: Political Violence 3 Credits This course examines the legal systems of three countries--the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States--in their response to the challenge posed by political violence. All share the tradition of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights of 1689 and all exalt law as a fundamental basis of unity in society. Yet, their anti-terrorist laws and their courts' interpretations of those laws differ significantly. Students will be assigned (or select) a topic such as membership in proscribed organizations, extradition, surveillance, or detention without trial, will lead a seminar discussion and submit a paper on the topic. The course is intended to give students the opportunity to examine the concept of "the rule of law" when its institutions and procedures are subjected to extreme stress. Examples will also be drawn from the experiences of other countries in the common law tradition: Israel, South Africa, India, and Pakistan. Limited enrollment. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 658: The Law of Church & State Relations 3 Credits This course is a survey of the law governing churches, their affiliates, and believers, and is taught from a "practice-oriented" perspective. Students will incorporate a hypothetical religious or religiously affiliated charitable organization, and provide advice to its Board of Directors concerning the options to be considered given the type of organization to be formed. Subjects to be covered will include federal and state constitutional and statutory protections for religious liberty; the structure and organization of churches and religiously affiliated organizations; the law of nonprofit and charitable corporations; taxation of churches and charities; labor and employment law; and the application of freedom of speech and association principles to organizations and groups. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Exposure to Corporations or Tax will be useful, but is not required. LAW 659: The Law of Church/State Relations 3 Credits This course is a survey of the law governing churches, their affiliates, and believers, and is taught from a "practice-oriented" perspective. Students will incorporate a hypothetical religious or religiously affiliated charitable organization, and provide advice to its Board of Directors concerning the options to be considered given the type of organization to be formed. Subjects to be covered will include federal and state constitutional and statutory protections for religious liberty; the structure and organization of churches and religiously affiliated organizations; the law of nonprofit and charitable corporations; taxation of churches and charities; labor and employment law; and the application of freedom of speech and association principles to organizations and groups. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Exposure to Corporations or Tax will be useful, but is not required. LAW 661: Administration of Criminal Justice 2 Credits This course covers a variety of topics in the criminal law/criminal procedure field. Students will be given an opportunity to participate in the selection and presentation of subject matter and materials to be covered and assigned. In the past, coverage has included the use of penal statutes to criminalize behavior that creates a risk of transmitting the HIV virus, electronic surveillance, and problems relating to informants. There will be no examination for this course; each student will be required to submit a paper on which the final grade will be primarily based, and to conduct a class on his or her topic. Topics will be decided jointly by the student and professor. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 663: Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process 3 Credits This elective course is recommended as an adjunct to Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. Whereas Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process focuses on Constitutional Criminal Procedure with primary emphasis on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues, this course will provide an in-depth examination of procedural problems in criminal litigation. Topics covered may include right to counsel at trial, on appeal, and in collateral proceedings; the right to court-appointed experts, transcripts, and other aids; the plea-bargaining process; discovery obligations in general and reciprocal discovery in criminal cases; notice requirements for the insanity and alibi defenses; joinder and severance of counts and defendants; trial rights such as right to jury trial, right to speedy trial, peremptory challenges and the challenge for cause, the right to jury instructions on elements of the crime, defenses and theory of the case, etc.; proof issues such as burden of production and persuasion; and ethical issues in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases. It is suggested that this course be taken by those students intending to pursue a career in criminal litigation, either as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney. As currently offered, it is available only in the spring semester. LAW 664: Criminal Procedure: The Post-Investigative Process 3 Credits This elective course is recommended as an adjunct to Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process. Whereas Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process focuses on Constitutional Criminal Procedure with primary emphasis on Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment issues, this course will provide an in-depth examination of procedural problems in criminal litigation. Topics covered may include right to counsel at trial, on appeal, and in collateral proceedings; the right to court-appointed experts, transcripts, and other aids; the plea-bargaining process; discovery obligations in general and reciprocal discovery in criminal cases; notice requirements for the insanity and alibi defenses; joinder and severance of counts and defendants; trial rights such as right to jury trial, right to speedy trial, peremptory challenges and the challenge for cause, the right to jury instructions on elements of the crime, defenses and theory of the case, etc.; proof issues such as burden of production and persuasion; and ethical issues in the prosecution and defense of criminal cases. It is suggested that this course be taken by those students intending to pursue a career in criminal litigation, either as a prosecutor or as a defense attorney. As currently offered, it is available only in the spring semester. LAW 665: Space Law 2 Credits This course deals with public international law regulating space activities and United States domestic law governing national space efforts. The topics covered include the uses of outer space; activities in the UN COPUOUS, ITU, ESA, and other international organizations; the legal regime of outer space resulting from multilateral and bilateral treaties; liability for damage caused by spacecraft; military uses of outer space; remote sensing from space; telecommunication by satellite; and commercial space activities worldwide. Students have the option of writing a paper, in lieu of a final examination. LAW 666: Space Law 2 Credits This course deals with public international law regulating space activities and United States domestic law governing national space efforts. The topics covered include the uses of outer space; activities in the UN COPUOUS, ITU, ESA, and other international organizations; the legal regime of outer space resulting from multilateral and bilateral treaties; liability for damage caused by spacecraft; military uses of outer space; remote sensing from space; telecommunication by satellite; and commercial space activities worldwide. Students have the option of writing a paper, in lieu of a final examination. LAW 667: Juvenile Law 2 Credits A study of the law relating to juvenile court: juvenile delinquency, child abuse and neglect, foster care, status offenses, and termination of parental rights. Includes discussion of the philosophy underlying juvenile court, intake procedures, waiver to adult court, initial hearings, adjudicatory hearings, dispositions, treatment options, the role of counsel, and current efforts at reform. The course examines the unique partnership of law and social work in juvenile court. Students may substitute one or more portfolio writing exercises as full or partial fulfillment of the final examination course requirement. Paper must be practice oriented and may include opinion letters, bench briefs, and memoranda of law. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 671: Public International Law 3 Credits An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 672: Comparative and International Trade International Trade 2 Credits This course examines the major issues of international trade and its regulation at the national and international level. The focus is on the United States trade laws, including the tariff system and customs laws, the safeguard provisions, antidumping and countervailing duty remedies, and retaliatory measures. Attendant issues such as the distribution of powers to regulate international trade, the delegation doctrine, and judicial review of regulating agencies are also examined. The international regulatory framework--principally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization--are examined in some detail, with a focus on the fundamental rule of nondiscrimination, the resolution of disputes through the dispute settlement system, and the relationship between international agreements and the United States law. Finally, the course also examines specialized topics including free trade areas and customs unions, treatment of nonmarket/transitional economies, developing countries, and international trade in service. LAW 674: Public International Law 3 Credits An introductory course exploring legal elements underlying relations and obligations among nations and their rights and responsibilities to each other and to their citizens. The problems this course examines will cut across the major issues of the international legal studies - sources and subjects of international law, problems of international jurisdiction, international claims, international organization, foreign investment, international finance, environmental protection, economic sanctions, and use of force in the international system. The students will explore these issues against the background of crucial events of our era. Paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperclass writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 676: International & Comparative Taxation 2 Credits This course considers comparative taxation issues, including choice of tax base, development of tax legislation, the effect of inflation on taxes, etc. The course provides students with a good overview of the areas considered but will necessarily not include in-depth analysis of many of the subjects. LAW 678: Patent Law 3 Credits A study of inventions that are protectable under United States patent laws; the requirements for patentability, including concepts of utility, novelty, unobviousness, and adequate disclosure; the nature of acts constituting patent infringement; interpretation of patent claims and the scope of exclusive rights under a patent; and remedies for infringement. LAW 679: Advanced Patent Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 682: Fair Employment Law 2 Credits A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 683: Fair Employment Law 2 Credits A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, sex, age, religion, and national origin. Primary focus will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1967, but other federal statutes (Equal Pay, Age Discrimination, and Americans with Disabilities Acts) will be surveyed. Study will include the structure of proof under Title VII, defenses and remedies available, and special problems such as sexual harassment, employment of aliens, and affirmative action. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement, if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 684: Jurisprudence 3 Credits This course introduces the student to jurisprudence. It surveys the generic themes or issues which occupy inquiry in jurisprudence regardless of philosophical position. Such themes or issues extend to the legitimacy of the legal order; the relativity of the authority of law in relation to concepts of personhood, community, society, politics, or transcendence; the mediation of legal authority by patterns of interpretation and legal reasoning; the purposes of law relating to justice, civic order, public morality, and public welfare or well-being. The course's exploration of these themes or issues is designed to facilitate the restatement and critique of the diverse answers they elicit from differing approaches to jurisprudence. The course, then, proceeds to a synthesis of the key features of the schools or positions which comprise the primary options in contemporary normative jurisprudence. These schools or positions include Utilitarianism/Law and Economics, Libertarianism and Neo-Kantianism, Liberal Rights Theory, Natural Law, Critical Legal Studies, Postmodernism, and Feminist Jurisprudence. The course grades will be assigned based on a paper/examination option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examination. LAW 684A: Jurisprudence 2 Credits no description available LAW 684B: Jurisprudential Problems in Contemporary American Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 684C: Jurisprudential Problems in Contemporary American Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 684D: Jurisprudence: A History of the Idea of Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 684E: Jurisprudence: A History of the Idea of Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 685: Catholic Social Teaching & The Law 2 Credits This course introduces students to the basic tenets of Roman Catholic Social Teaching - the response of the Catholic Church to the social, political, and economic order as it has evolved over the past one hundred years. These teachings began with the 1891 papal encyclical Rerum Novarum and have developed through later encyclicals, documents of the Second Vatican Council, and pastoral letters of bishops' conferences. Dominant principles include the notions of solidarity, subsidiarity, and a preferential option for the poor. Once the underlying principles of Catholic social thought are developed, the course will selectively compare American law with the Catholic ideal in four specific areas of study: economic and labor regulation; family law; war and peace and other life issues such as abortion and assisted suicide; and social policy (e.g. welfare reform, etc.). LAW 686: Government Contracts 2 Credits Analyzes the basic considerations in contracting with the United States federal government. The course will examine the differences between contracting by private parties and government contracting. The course will cover contract formation and the procurement process (such as sealed bidding and competitive negotiation), the authority of government agents to contract, and problems that can arise during evaluation, source selection, and contract award. The Truth in Negotiations Act, defective pricing issues, and audit powers of the federal government will be briefly discussed. The course will cover problems of contract administration and performance, such as changes and constructive changes, delays and suspension of work, termination for default and for government convenience, inspection, warranties, and acceptance. The course also will focus on remedies in United States government contracting, including the bid protest system of the federal government, actions in federal courts, the disputes procedure of the federal government, and extraordinary contractual relief. Issues relating to procurement fraud will be briefly addressed. LAW 687: Government Contracts 2 Credits Analyzes the basic considerations in contracting with the United States federal government. The course will examine the differences between contracting by private parties and government contracting. The course will cover contract formation and the procurement process (such as sealed bidding and competitive negotiation), the authority of government agents to contract, and problems that can arise during evaluation, source selection, and contract award. The Truth in Negotiations Act, defective pricing issues, and audit powers of the federal government will be briefly discussed. The course will cover problems of contract administration and performance, such as changes and constructive changes, delays and suspension of work, termination for default and for government convenience, inspection, warranties, and acceptance. The course also will focus on remedies in United States government contracting, including the bid protest system of the federal government, actions in federal courts, the disputes procedure of the federal government, and extraordinary contractual relief. Issues relating to procurement fraud will be briefly addressed. LAW 688: Introduction to International Arbitration & Mediation 2 Credits This course will focus on international commercial arbitration. It will trace the history of commercial arbitration including the lex mercatoria through present international regimes such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Rules. Various internationally used venues such as the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris (ICC), the London Court on International Arbitration (LCIA), and the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) will be explored as well. Some attention will be paid to enforcement of awards, including the role of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention). Attention will be paid both to selected aspects of the Federal Arbitration Act (including how the New York convention is enforced under United States law) and to the growing movement toward an "a-national" arbitration jurisprudence. The course will also consider European Union treaties on arbitration. Some consideration will be given to mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in an international context. A drafting exercise will be included in the course. Student must also prepare a qualifying course paper which will fulfill one of the two upperclass writing requirements (see Academic Rule X, p. xx). Recommended prerequisite: Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques. LAW 689: First Amendment Seminar: Religious Liberty 2 Credits An in-depth seminar which addresses the practical and theoretical problems arising in religious liberty cases involving individuals and institutions. Though the course materials address the First Amendment as a whole (Speech, Religion, and Petition), the nature of the liberty protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the solution of practical problems are explored from the perspective of religious institutions, believers, and dissenters. A thorough knowledge of basic concepts of church/state relations and freedom of speech is helpful, but not necessary. Presentation and defense of individual seminar paper are required. Meets writing requirement. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. LAW 690: First Amendment Seminar: Religious Liberty 3 Credits An in-depth seminar which addresses the practical and theoretical problems arising in religious liberty cases involving individuals and institutions. Though the course materials address the First Amendment as a whole (Speech, Religion, and Petition), the nature of the liberty protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the solution of practical problems are explored from the perspective of religious institutions, believers, and dissenters. A thorough knowledge of basic concepts of church/state relations and freedom of speech is helpful, but not necessary. Presentation and defense of individual seminar paper are required. Meets writing requirement. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. LAW 692: Law of Federal Aid Programs 3 Credits This course is designed to acquaint students with the law pertaining to a broad range of federal aid programs, the departments and agencies that administer them, and the legal problems faced by lawyers, program administrators, and recipients on a day-to-day basis. Course objectives are to survey the law governing federal aid programs which account for a major portion of the federal non-defense budget, to examine the lawyer's role in shaping the content and administration of these programs, and to explore the types of legal problems that may hamper effective program administration. It is also intended to furnish students, including those who may be considering government or public interest careers, with additional insights regarding programs that affect almost all Americans. The course examines the constitutional underpinnings of the spending power; major processes affecting federal aid programs (including the formulation of substantive legislation, executive and congressional budget making, appropriations, rulemaking and judicial review); and overarching constitutional and administrative concerns, as well as the thrust of major individual programs in such areas as natural resources and environment, agriculture, transportation and community development, education and social services, arts and humanities, social and income security, health and medicare. Statutory and other drafting projects provide an opportunity for relevant skills development. There is the option of an examination or a paper which may fulfill the upperclass writing requirement. LAW 693: Legal Issues of the Middle East Peace Process 2 Credits This course will review the basic texts of the Middle East peace process ranging from the Balfour Declaration to the Wye Accords. It will consider both international law and domestic issues relevant to the peace process. Collateral issues such as water, environment, and national security will be explored as well. On occasion guest lecturers from various embassies and governments will join the class. A paper that meets the writing requirement will be required. LAW 695: Federal Practice & Procedure 2 Credits This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended. LAW 696: Fed Practice & Procedure 2 Credits This is a course in civil practice. The first semester covers fundamental principles of federal subject matter jurisdiction and of jurisdiction over the person, federal venue, service of process in federal courts, joinder of claims and parties, multiparty actions (who may or must be parties, how to get them in, how to get them out), and the complexities of class suits and multidistrict litigation. The second semester covers stockholders' derivative suits and similar actions, federal inter-pleader, substitution and intervention, federal pleading, motions practice, summary judgment, federal discovery practice and pretrial procedure, methods of terminating actions before trial, verdicts and judgments, new trial, and relief from a judgment. The first semester is not required as a prerequisite to taking the second semester, but it is strongly recommended. LAW 698: Practice & Procedure Before National Labor Relations Board 2 Credits This course covers all important aspects of the detailed procedures of the Board. Unfair labor practices are examined from the filing of the initial charge in the regional office to the final enforcement in the United States Court of Appeals. Procedure in representation cases is also fully explored. The importance of informal procedures is stressed, and the substantive law is examined, especially from the standpoint of tactics. The student is evaluated on the basis of class participation and a paper. The paper fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. LAW 699: Natural Resources Law & Policy 2 Credits This seminar examines a selected number of issues involving the control and allocation of natural resources within the United States and internationally. The issues examined include regulation of oil and natural gas, regulation of energy, environmental issues, control of nuclear waste, and international controls on resources such as the Law of the Sea Treaty. In lieu of final examination, this course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is normally limited to twenty students. LAW 700: Natural Resources Law & Policy 2 Credits This seminar examines a selected number of issues involving the control and allocation of natural resources within the United States and internationally. The issues examined include regulation of oil and natural gas, regulation of energy, environmental issues, control of nuclear waste, and international controls on resources such as the Law of the Sea Treaty. In lieu of final examination, this course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is normally limited to twenty students. LAW 703: Family Law 3 Credits A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives. LAW 704: Family Law 3 Credits A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives. LAW 708: Intro to the American Legal System - Cracow 2 Credits no description available LAW 709: Water & Air Pollution 2 Credits This course focuses on the statutory scheme for water and air pollution prevention by analyzing the major federal statutes in these fields, primarily the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. In addition, the course will discuss water and air pollution on the state level; the similarities and differences between the two regulatory schemes; methods of achieving compliance with the air and water pollution requirements; and critique of the multimedia approach to permitting and enforcement. At the discretion of the instructor, this course will be an examination or paper option. Prerequisite: Environmental Law or permission of instructor. Faculty. LAW 711: Comparative Law Seminar: Political Violence 3 Credits This course examines the legal systems of three countries--the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States--in their response to the challenge posed by political violence. All share the tradition of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights of 1689 and all exalt law as a fundamental basis of unity in society. Yet, their anti-terrorist laws and their courts' interpretations of those laws differ significantly. Students will be assigned (or select) a topic such as membership in proscribed organizations, extradition, surveillance, or detention without trial, will lead a seminar discussion and submit a paper on the topic. The course is intended to give students the opportunity to examine the concept of "the rule of law" when its institutions and procedures are subjected to extreme stress. Examples will also be drawn from the experiences of other countries in the common law tradition: Israel, South Africa, India, and Pakistan. Limited enrollment. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 712: Post-Socialist Legal Systems 2 Credits This course is premised on the assumption that the recent political and economic restructuring of the Eastern and Central European countries is perhaps the most important event in post-World War II history. This event most likely will result in constitutional transformation in Eastern Europe. Using the analytical techniques of Comparative Law, the course will examine the basic institutions and principles of Socialist and post-Socialist legal systems. It will focus on the Soviet system of law and the legal system of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, which emerged in the region of previous Soviet domination. The course also will take up contemporary legal systems of other major Socialist countries. Lectures, class discussions, and examinations will compare and contrast legal and political institutions of Western democracies and post-Communist systems. LAW 713: International Securities Regulation-Cracow 2 Credits This course focuses on the international securities market and how it interacts with the American securities regulatory system. An initial background will be developed outlining the purpose and operation of a securities market, the nature of the participants in a securities market, the operational definition of securities, the basic regulatory system for the issuance and trading of securities and the registration and regulation of securities industry personnel. Through the course, the student will gain a familiarity with the concept of securities markets, securities regulation, and the process of self-regulatory oversight. The course seeks to create an understanding of the inter-relationships between national securities markets, the international nature of major world corporations and the need to create common denominators for international principles of securities regulation. Finally, the course provides an overview of how the American securities regulatory system addresses capital formation by foreign issuers in American markets, operation of foreign securities industry personnel in American markets, and law and policies for establishing jurisdiction over non-domestic securities personnel. LAW 714: International Intellectual Property Law 2 Credits An overview of the international aspects of intellectual property law, focusing on the major areas of copyright, patent, and trademark law. The course will cover the development and nature of international protection under domestic law as well as under bilateral and multilateral agreements; the use of trade negotiations as a mechanism for the implementation and harmonization of rights; and enforcement problems, including issues of jurisdiction, territoriality, exhaustion of rights, and conflicts of law. Limited enrollment. Fulfills upperclass writing requirement. Prerequisite: Copyright Law or Patent Law. LAW 715: Foreign Investment in East-Central Europe & the European Union 2 Credits This course will offer students a unique opportunity to investigate the fundamental principles of foreign investment, as they relate to Central and Eastern Europe in the period of transition from socialism to free-market economy. The principles represent the common requirements for attracting foreign investment, technology, and managerial expertise necessary to restructure the ailing economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The course will also analyze the types of business transactions best suited for the establishment of joint ventures in the region. Some of the investment principles that will be investigated in the course include repatriation of profits; government approval requirements; expropriation; real property ownership and use; company laws; valuation and accounting regulations; infrastructure support; regulating labor; dispute resolution; taxation; intellectual property protection; availability of investment assistance programs (i.e., OPIC, EXIM, EBRD); export controls to Central and Eastern Europe; and measures that assist trade (i.e., MFN). These fundamental investment principles will be assessed from two perspectives. The first is to question whether the principles are sufficiently incorporated into the new legal systems of Central and Eastern Europe. The second is from the perspective of a comparative overview of these investment principles within the differing investment policies of the Central and East European countries. The course will be structured using several teaching methods. Each class will focus on one or more of the fundamental investment principles. Students will be required to prepare for each class through assignments from the course syllabus. Classes will promote open dialogue in order to provide students with an in-depth understanding of critical nuances in foreign investment policies. As a supplement to the discussions, a portion of some classes will be devoted to guest lecturers - an expert in the particular investment principle(s) being discussed. Finally, each student will participate in the actual assessment of draft foreign investment laws. The students will have an opportunity to work directly with the drafters of foreign investment laws as they are being developed in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This is an exam course. LAW 716: Corporate Finance Seminar 2 Credits The course will examine the major financial and structural changes which an on-going corporation might experience. Topics that will be explored include valuation methods, leverage finance, debt instruments, going-private transactions, hostile and friendly tender-offers, reorganizations, recapitalizations, acquisitions, and spin-offs. These subjects will be analyzed in terms of their corporate and securities law implications as well as for related economic and policy concerns. Corporations required. A previous or contemporaneous course in securities is recommended. A good understanding of business can serve as a substitute. Limited enrollment. LAW 717: ERISA: Pensions (Tax Policy) 2 Credits This course examines federal tax policy aimed at increasing the adequacy of retirement savings. The course surveys the tax provisions of ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) and provides an in-depth examination of the fundamental policy considerations which these provisions reflect as they relate to qualified plans. The material covered in this course complements the material covered in ERISA: Pensions (Taxation), but completion of that course is not a requirement. Prerequisite: None (Federal Income Taxation recommended). LAW 718: ERISA: Pensions (Tax Policy) 2 Credits This course examines federal tax policy aimed at increasing the adequacy of retirement savings. The course surveys the tax provisions of ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) and provides an in-depth examination of the fundamental policy considerations which these provisions reflect as they relate to qualified plans. The material covered in this course complements the material covered in ERISA: Pensions (Taxation), but completion of that course is not a requirement. Prerequisite: None (Federal Income Taxation recommended). LAW 719: Comparative Foundations of Modern Law (Crawcow) 3 Credits This course looks back to a time when Europe had a common law that transcended national and legal boundaries. This system of law reigned from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. The term "common law" sounds strange to most English-speaking historians when applied to continental legal systems. We speak of common low as being the legal system that evolved in England from the eleventh century to the present. But, as Europe struggles to create a new common law, the history of the old may provide a model for thinking about how legal systems develop, how law might not necessarily be limited by national boundaries, and how legal norms might be seen as transcending the positve law of the nation state. Three themes in the evolution of European legal systems over two millennia will be studied in depth: codification of law, development of procedural norms, role of the jurist in the legal system and in society. The goal of the course is twofold: to present a survey of European law from the Code of Justinian (6th century A.D.) to the Code Napoleon and to explain how the civil and Anglo-American common law traditions developed their distinctive legal institutions. Course requires four papers ca. 8 pages each. LAW 721: Law of the European Union (Cracow) 3 Credits The rationale of this course is to provide an overview of the political and legal framework of Common Market institutions, trade relations with the European Union, and legal and business implications of the European process of integration. The focus will be on the process of the creation of the European Community, goals and purposes of the Community, the structural framework and processes for the development of Community law, constitutional issues, the role of the European Court of Justice, East-West trade, and United States trade within the European Community. Examination/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 722: Partnership Taxation 2 Credits The tax consequences of the formation and operation of a partnership, including the basis of partnership interests and of partnership assets and the effect of liabilities on basis; the determination of partnership income and a partner's distributive share thereof; sales and exchanges of partnership interests; liquidating and nonliquidating partnership distributions and tax consequences involving the retiring partner. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation. LAW 723: Comparative Contract Law 2 Credits no description available LAW 724: Law of the European Union 3 Credits The rationale of this course is to provide an overview of the political and legal framework of Common Market institutions, trade relations with the European Union, and legal and business implications of the European process of integration. The focus will be on the process of the creation of the European Community, goals and purposes of the Community, the structural framework and processes for the development of Community law, constitutional issues, the role of the European Court of Justice, East-West trade, and United States trade within the European Community. Examination/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 725: Regulated Industries: A Comparative Perspective (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 726: Mediation & Arbitration Skills 3 Credits The focus of this course is on the theory, skills, and attitudes involved in the conduct of mediation and arbitration. In addition, some attention is given to the role of counsel in mediation and arbitration. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills required to function as a mediator or arbitrator in a range of disputes. Skills are learned through active participation in simulated exercises, which are videotaped, reviewed, and critiqued by other students and the faculty member. Readings and discussion of the theoretical bases for mediation and arbitration and the ethical issues inherent in these practices also form a part of the course. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience. LAW 727: Safety & Health in the Workplace 3 Credits no description available LAW 728: Mediation & Arbitration Skills 3 Credits The focus of this course is on the theory, skills, and attitudes involved in the conduct of mediation and arbitration. In addition, some attention is given to the role of counsel in mediation and arbitration. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills required to function as a mediator or arbitrator in a range of disputes. Skills are learned through active participation in simulated exercises, which are videotaped, reviewed, and critiqued by other students and the faculty member. Readings and discussion of the theoretical bases for mediation and arbitration and the ethical issues inherent in these practices also form a part of the course. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience. LAW 729: Mediation & Arbitration Skills 3 Credits The focus of this course is on the theory, skills, and attitudes involved in the conduct of mediation and arbitration. In addition, some attention is given to the role of counsel in mediation and arbitration. Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills required to function as a mediator or arbitrator in a range of disputes. Skills are learned through active participation in simulated exercises, which are videotaped, reviewed, and critiqued by other students and the faculty member. Readings and discussion of the theoretical bases for mediation and arbitration and the ethical issues inherent in these practices also form a part of the course. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience. LAW 730: Environmental law 3 Credits This course will consider federal statutes and regulations that are designed to improve the quality of our environment, e.g., Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, etc. A basic understanding of the statutory schemes will be complemented by theoretical and policy analysis. Discussion of relevant administrative law principles will be incorporated throughout the course. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examinations. LAW 731: Education Law 3 Credits This course will consider current legal problems in public and private education systems. Primary emphasis will be on public elementary/secondary education. Topics to be discussed include the roles and authority of state and local education agencies, compulsory education, curriculum control, students' and teachers' rights, desegregation, testing and ability grouping, allocation of educational resources, federal aid programs, and problems of church and state. The prerogatives of parents, the roles of such private groups as teachers' unions, the functions of courts and lawyers in resolving education law problems, and the usefulness of social science materials in elucidating education problems will be considered. Occasionally this course is also offered as a limited enrollment seminar that fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Offered alternate years. LAW 732: Education Law 3 Credits This course will consider current legal problems in public and private education systems. Primary emphasis will be on public elementary/secondary education. Topics to be discussed include the roles and authority of state and local education agencies, compulsory education, curriculum control, students' and teachers' rights, desegregation, testing and ability grouping, allocation of educational resources, federal aid programs, and problems of church and state. The prerogatives of parents, the roles of such private groups as teachers' unions, the functions of courts and lawyers in resolving education law problems, and the usefulness of social science materials in elucidating education problems will be considered. Occasionally this course is also offered as a limited enrollment seminar that fulfills the upperclass writing requirement. Offered alternate years. LAW 733: Comparative Foundations of Modern Law (Crawcow) 2 Credits This course looks back to a time when Europe had a common law that transcended national and legal boundaries. This system of law reigned from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. The term "common law" sounds strange to most English-speaking historians when applied to continental legal systems. We speak of common low as being the legal system that evolved in England from the eleventh century to the present. But, as Europe struggles to create a new common law, the history of the old may provide a model for thinking about how legal systems develop, how law might not necessarily be limited by national boundaries, and how legal norms might be seen as transcending the positve law of the nation state. Three themes in the evolution of European legal systems over two millennia will be studied in depth: codification of law, development of procedural norms, role of the jurist in the legal system and in society. The goal of the course is twofold: to present a survey of European law from the Code of Justinian (6th century A.D.) to the Code Napoleon and to explain how the civil and Anglo-American common law traditions developed their distinctive legal institutions. Course requires four papers ca. 8 pages each. LAW 734: International Business Transactions (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 735: Legal Drafting Seminar 3 Credits This course offers an introduction to legal drafting, with an emphasis on such essential skills as writing with clarity and precision, conforming with statues and ordinances, using form books appropriately, achieving the goals of clients, identifying and eliminating ambiguity, editing and proofreading a written product, and simplifying complex thoughts and ideas. The first half of this course will provide students with a through introduction to the principles of general drafting through the use of written exercised, peer critique, and in-class workshops. These may be general office documents or documents in a particular doctrinal area. Through the course of the semester, students will draft a minimum of three major legal documents in addition to rewrites and shorter written exercises. Successful completion of this course will satisfy one of the two upper-level legal writing requirements. Enrollment will be limited to 16 students per section. LAW 735A: Pre-Trial Litigation: From Complaint to Eve of Trial 2 Credits no description available LAW 735B: Pre-Trial Litigation: From Complaint to Eve of Trial 3 Credits no description available LAW 736: Not for Profit Organizations 3 Credits no description available LAW 737: Not for Profit Organizations 2 Credits Considers many aspects of the legal treatment of not-for-profit organizations, including management and organizational issues, fiduciary responsibilities, tax exemptions and other special privileges, restrictions on political and economic activities, special fund-raising regulations, etc. The course does not have prerequisites, but because it pulls together many areas of law, it is an ideal third-year course. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 738: Comparative Non-Profit Law 2 Credits Considers many aspects of the legal treatment of not-for-profit organizations, including management and organizational issues, fiduciary responsibilities, tax exemptions and other special privileges, restrictions on political and economic activities, special fund-raising regulations, etc. The course does not have prerequisites, but because it pulls together many areas of law, it is an ideal third-year course. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 739: Regional & Community Development 2 Credits This course deals with legal developments in assuring that economically disadvantaged persons, minorities, and women have access to standard housing and a decent living environment. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of federal policy and practices on residential patterns in metropolitan areas and small towns, and the consequences of these policies and practices for the environment. May satisfy upperclass writing requirement. LAW 740: Environmental Crimes 2 Credits This course will familiarize students with the criminal enforcement aspects of environmental law and provide a thorough background to prepare them to work in environmental enforcement on behalf of government agencies or to assist corporate and business clients in compliance with applicable statutes. Topics to be covered include historical background to the criminal enforcement system; interplay of the civil and criminal enforcement systems; statutory provisions criminalizing environmental violations; special issues of corporate liability; creation of environmental compliance plans; litigation of an environmental crimes case; sentencing of environmental crimes; and international environmental crime. The final course grade will be based primarily on a research paper. In addition, a short oral presentation on the paper topic will be required from each student. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Environmental Law or permission of the instructor. A previous course in Criminal Procedure is recommended. LAW 741: Contemporary Social Issues Under Jewish Law 2 Credits This seminar will focus on the application of Jewish law principles to a variety of contemporary social issues, such as autopsies, organ transplants, position of women in religious life, respect for parents, smoking, and life and death issues during the Holocaust. As a context for discussion, the seminar will provide a historical overview of the Jewish legal system, emphasizing the place of the Bible as a source of Jewish law. Original sources, in translation, will be used wherever possible. No prerequisites. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 742: Contemporary Social Issues Under Jewish Law 2 Credits This seminar will focus on the application of Jewish law principles to a variety of contemporary social issues, such as autopsies, organ transplants, position of women in religious life, respect for parents, smoking, and life and death issues during the Holocaust. As a context for discussion, the seminar will provide a historical overview of the Jewish legal system, emphasizing the place of the Bible as a source of Jewish law. Original sources, in translation, will be used wherever possible. No prerequisites. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 743: ERISA: Pensions (Taxation) 2 Credits Survey of the structure, operation, and requirements for obtaining and maintaining IRS approval of tax qualified pension, profit-sharing, and stock-bonus plans under X401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code are explored. Faculty. LAW 744: National Security Law and Policy Seminar 2 Credits The seminar will examine the issues that are confronted in applying general legal standards and processes to activities that are intended to further the national security interests of the United States. Against the background of developments in national security programs and law since World War II, the discussions will explore the legal, constitutional, and policy problems that are confronted in applying a regulatory system to these activities; examine the inherent interbranch tensions that develop in this area because of the separation of powers; analyze the constitutional, statutory, administrative, and policy determinations that are required to resolve conflicts between accepted legal principles, individual rights, and national security requirements; and review selected foreign approaches to similar problems confronted abroad. The objective is enhanced insight into broader constitutional, legal, political, and governmental issues in light of the acute pressures placed upon the legal system by the peculiar nature, objectives, and imperatives of national security programs. Students will be expected to contribute to the class sessions on a regular and meaningful basis. Fulfills the upperclass writing requirement with approval of course instructor. LAW 745: Comp Aspects of Antitrust Regs in the US and EU 2 Credits no description available LAW 748: Law of Hazardous and Toxic Waste 2 Credits This course focuses on the various federal regulatory programs which apply to hazardous and toxic materials. Statutes that may be covered include the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. The structure and emphasis of the course will be announced at the time of preregistration. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 751: International Arbitration & Mediation (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 751A: International Arbitration and Litigation (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 752: Intellectual Property Transactions 2 Credits This limited enrollment course is focused primarily on the analysis and drafting of documents related to transactions involving the transfer of interests in intellectual property, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and know-how. Through the process of analyzing and drafting transactional documents, students will be introduced to the relevant statutory and case law and will become familiar with substantive legal principles related to title, express and implied licenses, license transfers, and assignments of rights in intellectual property. Students may also be exposed to substantive areas of the law having significant impact on intellectual property rights, such as international law, antitrust, tax, and bankruptcy. The grade will be based primarily on the final written work products produced by each student. This course meets the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite: Students must have taken at least one of the following: Patent Law, Copyright Law, Trademark Law, or Trademarks and Unfair Competition. LAW 753: Virginia Practice & Procedure 2 Credits This course explores the specialized practice and procedures of the state courts of Virginia. The topics it covers include subject matter jurisdiction, active jurisdiction, parties, venue, pleading, discovery, pre-trial and trial motions, post-verdict motions, judgments, costs, and appeals. It also includes within its scope distinctions between law and equity and extraordinary writs. The course is directed primarily towards students planning to practice law in Virginia. It offers important preparation for those students who expect to become litigators in Virginia, and it seeks to convey insight into litigation and settlement strategies with distinctive application in the state. It seeks, as well, to serve to prepare students for practice in Virginia, who do not plan to litigate, but who merely seek more adequate knowledge of the more complex than usual procedural backdrop of general law practice in the state. LAW 755: Comparative Commercial Lw:Consumer Protection- Cracow 2 Credits The course will examine various modes of legal protection for consumers as borrowers and buyers of goods and services under the laws of the United States and selected European countries. Topics covered will include freedom of contract, unfair and deceptive practices, advertising and transactional disclosure, price and interest-rate controls, and enforcement mechanisms. Schedule permitting, students will collaborate in developing law reform proposals for the central European area. LAW 756: Forgn Inv E/Ctrl Eur&Eu-Cracow 2 Credits no description available LAW 757: Comparative Legal Profession and Legal Ethics 2 Credits This course offers a comparative perspective on the legal profession and on legal ethics. The course will cover the core topics in U.S. professional responsibility law such as confidentiality, conflicts of interest, bar admission and discipline. U.S. law will be compared with law on these topics in Poland and other European countries. The course is important for lawyers interested in international transactions because the practice environments, roles of lawyers, and rules governing lawyers are so different in the US, in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, and because the law governing lawyers is changing so rapidly in Central and Eastern Europe. The course has been approved to satisfy the professional responsibility requirement at Catholic University Law School. Students attending other law schools must check with their schools on whether the course will satisfy the requirements at their schools. Upon request, CUA will provide documentation to other schools on the scope and coverage of the course requirement. Students who have taken other professional responsibility course may take this course with the permission of the instructors. LAW 758: Community Development in a World Economy 2 Credits This course will examine the leadership roles of government, business, and citizens operating in partnership in metropolitan regions to improve quality of life and competitiveness in the global marketplace. Particular emphasis is placed on federal, state, and local law and policy issues in the key areas of economic development, livable communities, and overcoming barriers of race, ethnicity, and income. The Washington Metropolitan Area will be the case study. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 759: ERISA: Labor Management Perspective 3 Credits This course will provide an overview of the substantive provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), as well as those of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) that affect pension and welfare benefit plans. Emphasis will be placed upon fiduciary responsibilities and other topics affecting individual participant rights and for which regulatory authority has been delegated to the Department of Labor, as well as upon issues peculiar to collectively bargained (including multi-employer) plans. Matters for which regulatory authority has been delegated to the IRS (including minimum participation, accrual, vesting, and funding requirements) will be discussed only to the extent they are privately enforceable. LAW 760: Comparative Corporations and Other Business Associations Law (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 761: Int'l Environmental Law 3 Credits This course is designed to introduce students to the basic international institutions which address international environmental issues and the specific programs they have developed for doing so. Students should obtain a working knowledge of international institutions, an understanding of the major environmental problems facing the global environment, and isight into the difficult political, moral, and scientific issues facing the ongoing development of international environmental law. Issues considered will include air polution, water resourses and pollution(with respect to oceans, rivers, and lakes), hazardous materials(including both chemical manufacturing and hazardous waste disposal), and wildlife and natural habitats. The course will also consider the connections between international environmental law and trade, the connections between international environmental law and human rights, and certain issues in private international law. The grade will be based on a final exam. LAW 762: Estate Planning 2 Credits An advanced course which attempts to integrate in a meaningful way the principles of property law and tax law as they apply to the accumulation and disposition of wealth. Revocable and irrevocable trusts, wills, interspousal lifetime and death transfers, life insurance, employee benefits plans, and estate planning for owners of incorporated and unincorporated businesses are examined in detail. Special attention is given to practical problems in planning for the most effective and economical disposition of property in view of the tax and property consequences of the various alternatives. Drafting skills are developed; the major project for each student is to draft a will and explanatory memorandum at the end of the course. No examination is given. Enrollment limited to fifteen students. Prerequisites: Trusts and Estates, Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers, or permission of the instructor. LAW 763: Family Law 3 Credits A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives. LAW 764: Family Law 3 Credits A study of marriage, nonmarital relationships, divorce, custody and support obligations, as these affect children and adults within the context of state, federal, and constitutional standards and perspectives. LAW 765: Land Transactions and Finance 3 Credits This course studies the law of real estate financing methods and transaction documentation. Lender liability, title insurance, and federal income tax considerations are included with an examination of the lawyer's role in the development and transfer of land. LAW 766: Land Transactions & Finance 3 Credits This course studies the law of real estate financing methods and transaction documentation. Lender liability, title insurance, and federal income tax considerations are included with an examination of the lawyer's role in the development and transfer of land. LAW 767: Land Use 2 Credits This course studies the process of imposing limitations (legal, political, economic, and social) upon the use and management of privately owned land by judicially crafted principles of waste and nuisance; by contract; through the use of easements, covenants, and servitudes; by zoning and subdivision regulation; and by environmental legislation. Simulated exercises of land development conflicts (e.g., the administrative processes of zoning deliberations before a zoning board) and role-playing will assist the students in developing competencies and skills--particularly negotiation--when representing the full component of clients in a typical land-use conflict: the developer, private property owners, together with local, state, and federal administrative bodies. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 768: Land Use 2 Credits This course studies the process of imposing limitations (legal, political, economic, and social) upon the use and management of privately owned land by judicially crafted principles of waste and nuisance; by contract; through the use of easements, covenants, and servitudes; by zoning and subdivision regulation; and by environmental legislation. Simulated exercises of land development conflicts (e.g., the administrative processes of zoning deliberations before a zoning board) and role-playing will assist the students in developing competencies and skills--particularly negotiation--when representing the full component of clients in a typical land-use conflict: the developer, private property owners, together with local, state, and federal administrative bodies. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 769: Maryland Civil Practice 2 Credits This course covers important procedural aspects of civil litigation in the Maryland state courts. It surveys the Maryland Rules of Procedure, the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article of the Annotated Code, and relevant common law principles. All stages of civil pre-trial litigation are considered, but particular emphasis is placed on elements of Maryland procedural law relating to pleadings, motions, and discovery. The course is directed primarily towards students planning to practice law in Maryland, and it offers important preparation for those students who expect to become litigators in Maryland. It seeks, as well, to prepare students for practice in Maryland, who do not plan to litigate, but who merely seek more adequate knowledge of the distinctive procedural backdrop of general law practice in the state. LAW 770: Conflict of Laws:Comparative & International Perspective (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 773: Corporate Taxation 3 Credits The law of taxation as applied to corporations and their shareholders in the various contexts of corporate life, including incorporation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations and reorganizations. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation. LAW 774: Corporate Taxation 3 Credits The law of taxation as applied to corporations and their shareholders in the various contexts of corporate life, including incorporation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations and reorganizations. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation. LAW 775: Tax Policy 3 Credits The course examines the basic economic principles of taxation as well s specific theories underlying the major plicies of the current federal tax system and their impact on taxpayers. The major focus is on the federal income tax system with additional discussion of state and local systems. Students have the option of writing a paper, in lieu of a final examination, which satifies the upperclass writing requirement. Enrollment limited. LAW 777: Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers 3 Credits Tax problems and consequences of gratuitous transfers of wealth during lifetime and at death. The law of estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxation is critically examined as it applies to transactions involving outright gifts, trusts, life insurance, employee benefits, alimony, joint property, estates, future interests, and powers. Considerable emphasis is given to the effects of taxation on planning and implementing lifetime and testamentary dispositive arrangements. Particular attention is given to the attorney's role in advising clients concerning alternative means for the gratuitous disposition of property. Prerequisite: Trusts and Estates or permission of instructor. LAW 778: Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers 3 Credits Tax problems and consequences of gratuitous transfers of wealth during lifetime and at death. The law of estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxation is critically examined as it applies to transactions involving outright gifts, trusts, life insurance, employee benefits, alimony, joint property, estates, future interests, and powers. Considerable emphasis is given to the effects of taxation on planning and implementing lifetime and testamentary dispositive arrangements. Particular attention is given to the attorney's role in advising clients concerning alternative means for the gratuitous disposition of property. Prerequisite: Trusts and Estates or permission of instructor. LAW 779: Legal Accounting 2 Credits A survey of the elementary techniques and basic theoretical concepts of accounting and financial statements. Emphasis is on those accounting issues that are relevant to the practice of law, and attention is given to the impact of accounting on such legal questions as damages, valuation, creditor and shareholder rights, and fraud. The course is designed for students who are unfamiliar with accounting, and prior study or training in accounting, business, or finance is not a prerequisite. LAW 780: Legal Accounting 3 Credits A survey of the elementary techniques and basic theoretical concepts of accounting and financial statements. Emphasis is on those accounting issues that are relevant to the practice of law, and attention is given to the impact of accounting on such legal questions as damages, valuation, creditor and shareholder rights, and fraud. The course is designed for students who are unfamiliar with accounting, and prior study or training in accounting, business, or finance is not a prerequisite. LAW 781: Comparative & International Trade (Cracow) 3 Credits This course examines the major issues of international trade and its regulation at the national and international level. The focus is on the United States trade laws, including the tariff system and customs laws, the safeguard provisions, antidumping and countervailing duty remedies, and retaliatory measures. Attendant issues such as the distribution of powers to regulate international trade, the delegation doctrine, and judicial review of regulating agencies are also examined. The international regulatory framework--principally, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization--are examined in some detail, with a focus on the fundamentals rule of nondiscrimination, the resolution of disputes through the dispute settlement system, and the relationship between international agreements and the United States law. Finally, the course also examines specialized topics including free trade areas and customs unions, treatment of nonmarket/transitional economics, developing countries, and international trade in service. LAW 782: Compar Bankruptcy Law (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 783: Education Law Practice: A Simulated Lawyering Experience 3 Credits This course uses a variety of instructional formats to examine legal and policy problems in the nation's systems of public and private education. Primary emphasis is on higher education. Students are organized into two or three "law offices" that represent various individual and institutional "clients." The clients' problems involve matters such as discipline of emotionally disabled students, denial of faculty tenure, university regulation of hate speech or of protest activities, state legislative regulation of sexual harassment in schools and colleges, of university affirmative action plans for admissions or financial aid, and the rights of parents to "home school" their children. These problems and the assigned background readings emphasize special applications to education of contract law, tort law, administrative law, constitutional law, and civil rights law. Simulations, role-playing exercises, and writing assignments that accompany the problems help students develop lawyering competencies such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, research and writing, and problem solving. Students may enroll for 3, 4, or 5 credits; the required simulation assignments and writing assignments will increase as the credit load increases. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is limited. Either concurrently with this course or in a subsequent semester, a few students may earn academic credit in an education law externship--e.g., an externship with externs in the Catholic University Office of General Counsel. Externs must enroll in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, or in Supervised Fieldwork, as appropriate; see instructor for further information before registering. LAW 784: Education Law Practice: A Simulated Lawyering Experience 4 Credits This course uses a variety of instructional formats to examine legal and policy problems in the nation's systems of public and private education. Primary emphasis is on higher education. Students are organized into two or three "law offices" that represent various individual and institutional "clients." The clients' problems involve matters such as discipline of emotionally disabled students, denial of faculty tenure, university regulation of hate speech or of protest activities, state legislative regulation of sexual harassment in schools and colleges, of university affirmative action plans for admissions or financial aid, and the rights of parents to "home school" their children. These problems and the assigned background readings emphasize special applications to education of contract law, tort law, administrative law, constitutional law, and civil rights law. Simulations, role-playing exercises, and writing assignments that accompany the problems help students develop lawyering competencies such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, research and writing, and problem solving. Students may enroll for 3, 4, or 5 credits; the required simulation assignments and writing assignments will increase as the credit load increases. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is limited. Either concurrently with this course or in a subsequent semester, a few students may earn academic credit in an education law externship--e.g., an externship with externs in the Catholic University Office of General Counsel. Externs must enroll in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, or in Supervised Fieldwork, as appropriate; see instructor for further information before registering. LAW 785: Education Law Practice: A Simulated Lawyering Experience 5 Credits This course uses a variety of instructional formats to examine legal and policy problems in the nation's systems of public and private education. Primary emphasis is on higher education. Students are organized into two or three "law offices" that represent various individual and institutional "clients." The clients' problems involve matters such as discipline of emotionally disabled students, denial of faculty tenure, university regulation of hate speech or of protest activities, state legislative regulation of sexual harassment in schools and colleges, of university affirmative action plans for admissions or financial aid, and the rights of parents to "home school" their children. These problems and the assigned background readings emphasize special applications to education of contract law, tort law, administrative law, constitutional law, and civil rights law. Simulations, role-playing exercises, and writing assignments that accompany the problems help students develop lawyering competencies such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, research and writing, and problem solving. Students may enroll for 3, 4, or 5 credits; the required simulation assignments and writing assignments will increase as the credit load increases. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Enrollment is limited. Either concurrently with this course or in a subsequent semester, a few students may earn academic credit in an education law externship--e.g., an externship with externs in the Catholic University Office of General Counsel. Externs must enroll in Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, or in Supervised Fieldwork, as appropriate; see instructor for further information before registering. LAW 786: Distribution of Health Services 2 Credits This course concentrates on the legal structure for the delivery of health services in the United States. Legal problems of federal, state, and private programs for the delivery of health services will be analyzed, and legal means of improving the quality and quantity of health care for low-and moderate- income persons will be explored. LAW 788: Interviewing Counseling & Negotiation Skills 3 Credits This course introduces students to the basic lawyering skills of interviewing, counseling, and negotiation. It employs simulation exercises, self-critiques, and feedback from the course instructor as well as other students. The course is intended to teach and improve basic skills needed for the practice of law. In addition to the exercises, students will be exposed to the theoretical underpinnings of the skills and will be guided in coming to grips with some of the ethical issues involved in interviewing, counseling, and negotiation. Enrollment limited to sixteen. On occasion this course may be offered as a two-hour course for administrative convenience. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 789: Environmental Law 3 Credits This course will consider federal statutes and regulations that are designed to improve the quality of our enviroment, e.g., Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Clean Air Act, National Enviromental Policy Act, Comprehensive Enviromental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, etc. A basic understanding of the statutory schemes will be complemented by theoretical and policy analysis. Discussion of revelant administrative law principles will be incorporated throughout the course. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperlevel writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examinations. LAW 790: Environmental Law 3 Credits This course will consider federal statutes and regulations that are designed to improve the quality of our enviroment, e.g., Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Clean Air Act, National Enviromental Policy Act, Comprehensive Enviromental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, etc. A basic understanding of the statutory schemes will be complemented by theoretical and policy analysis. Discussion of revelant administrative law principles will be incorporated throughout the course. Exam/paper option. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upperlevel writing requirement if the instructor allows papers in lieu of examinations. LAW 793: Health Law 3 Credits This course will cover professional methodology (the "medical model" and the litigative process), compensation for professional fault (malpractice and other bases for claims), obtaining and presenting medical evidence, structure and performance of the medical professions, and aspects of medical science and public policy. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 794: Health Law 2 Credits This course will cover professional methodology (the "medical model" and the litigative process), compensation for professional fault (malpractice and other bases for claims), obtaining and presenting medical evidence, structure and performance of the medical professions, and aspects of medical science and public policy. At the discretion of the instructor, this course may include a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 795: Law, Science & Medicine (Bioethics) 2 Credits The seminar investigates legal, ethical, and social problems caused by developments in medicine and the biological sciences. Topics include informed consent, death and dying, genetic planning and manipulation, fetal research, treatment of and experimentation with institutionalized persons, societal controls on scientific advances, and allocation of health care resources. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 796: Law, Science, and Medicine 2 Credits The seminar investigates legal, ethical, and social problems caused by developments in medicine and the biological sciences. Topics include informed consent, death and dying, genetic planning and manipulation, fetal research, treatment of and experimentation with institutionalized persons, societal controls on scientific advances, and allocation of health care resources. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 797: Local Government Law 2 Credits This course will examine the organization, the sources and extent of authority, and contemporary legal and policy problems of local governments. Topics include delegation of powers, home rule, federal-local relationships, local government finance, equitable distribution of services, regional governance, and special considerations in litigation involving local governments. Federal constitutional and statutory developments having particular application to local governments will also be studied. LAW 801: Electonic Mass Media Policy and Regulation 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course will examine federal electronic mass media policy and regulation as formulated, implemented, and interpreted by the Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the courts. The course will first provide an overview of the electronic mass media industry and the FCC, then relate First Amendment jurisprudence and case law to contrasting concepts of broadcast regulation. Using this analytical framework as a reference, the course will cover the role of the FCC in spectrum allocation; FCC licensing policy and regulation; FCC economic structural policy and regulation; FCC content-behavioral policy and regulation; and the impact of emerging and converging electronic mass media technologies such as cable T.V. and direct broadcast satellites on future mass media policy and regulation and the First Amendment. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. This course does not satisfy the law school's writing requirement. The basis for the final grade is primarily a paper. LAW 802: Electronic Mass Media Policy & Regulation 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course will examine federal electronic mass media policy and regulation as formulated, implemented, and interpreted by the Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the courts. The course will first provide an overview of the electronic mass media industry and the FCC, then relate First Amendment jurisprudence and case law to contrasting concepts of broadcast regulation. Using this analytical framework as a reference, the course will cover the role of the FCC in spectrum allocation; FCC licensing policy and regulation; FCC economic structural policy and regulation; FCC content-behavioral policy and regulation; and the impact of emerging and converging electronic mass media technologies such as cable T.V. and direct broadcast satellites on future mass media policy and regulation and the First Amendment. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. This course does not satisfy the law school's writing requirement. The basis for the final grade is primarily a paper. LAW 803: Legal Externship: Becoming an Immigration/Human Rights Lawyer 3 Credits no description available LAW 804: Legal Externship: Becoming an Immigration/Human Rights Lawyer 4 Credits no description available LAW 807: First Amendment: Problems of the Media 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course considers the general issue of the extent to which the First Amendment Press clause affords protection of the media in the gathering and dissemination of news and information. Specific subject matter to be covered includes competing theories of First Amendment Press Clause, libel, invasion of privacy, the censorship and punishment of obscenity and indecency, restrictions on the reporting of matters affecting national security and foreign relations, reporter access to persons and places, constitutional privileges for news persons not to divulge confidential sources and information, state shield laws, free press-fair trial issues, judicial secrecy, and the "fair use" defense to copyright infringement actions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The grade for this course is based primarily on the student research paper. Enrollment is limited to twenty-four students. LAW 808: First Amendment: Problems of the Media 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course considers the general issue of the extent to which the First Amendment Press clause affords protection of the media in the gathering and dissemination of news and information. Specific subject matter to be covered includes competing theories of First Amendment Press Clause, libel, invasion of privacy, the censorship and punishment of obscenity and indecency, restrictions on the reporting of matters affecting national security and foreign relations, reporter access to persons and places, constitutional privileges for news persons not to divulge confidential sources and information, state shield laws, free press-fair trial issues, judicial secrecy, and the "fair use" defense to copyright infringement actions. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. The grade for this course is based primarily on the student research paper. Enrollment is limited to twenty-four students. LAW 811: Telecommunications Regulation 3 Credits A Communications Law Institute survey course encompassing the historical and contemporary treatment of telecommunications, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Topics include the history and development of common carriers in general (carriers by water, carriers by rail); the development of communications common carriers (carriers by wire, i.e., telephone and telegraph); the emergence of common carrier regulatory theories and policies; telecommunications legislation; government intervention in the regulatory process; and the emergence of competition. Special emphasis on U.S. v. A.T.&T.--the breakup of the Bell System. A major component of the course will be devoted to the regulatory and policy aspects relating to the merging of the technologies of information processing and telecommunications. Topics in this component will include the growth and composition of the information processing and telephone industries, their increasing interdependence, and the evolving regulatory environment regarding this phenomenon. This component will also include a study of the FCC's Computer Inquiry decisions, current legislative and judicial initiatives, and their anticipated impact on the information processing and telecommunications industries. Significant emphasis is placed on emerging wireless and broadband services. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 812: Telecommunications Regulations and Core Technologies 2 Credits A Communications Law Institute survey course encompassing the historical and contemporary treatment of telecommunications, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Topics include the history and development of common carriers in general (carriers by water, carriers by rail); the development of communications common carriers (carriers by wire, i.e., telephone and telegraph); the emergence of common carrier regulatory theories and policies; telecommunications legislation; government intervention in the regulatory process; and the emergence of competition. Special emphasis on U.S. v. A.T.&T.--the breakup of the Bell System. A major component of the course will be devoted to the regulatory and policy aspects relating to the merging of the technologies of information processing and telecommunications. Topics in this component will include the growth and composition of the information processing and telephone industries, their increasing interdependence, and the evolving regulatory environment regarding this phenomenon. This component will also include a study of the FCC's Computer Inquiry decisions, current legislative and judicial initiatives, and their anticipated impact on the information processing and telecommunications industries. Significant emphasis is placed on emerging wireless and broadband services. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the add/drop period. LAW 814: Telecomm Reg/Technology 2 Credits no description available LAW 815: FCC Practice & Procedure 2 Credits In this specialized Communications Law Institute course, the student will be encouraged to develop a working knowledge of the kind of presentations to be made in applications and for FCC staff consultations. Where a hearing is involved, the student will become acquainted with use of the discovery process (depositions, motions to produce, interrogatories, admissions, subpoena, and subpoena duces tecum), petitions to enlarge, motions for summary decision; how to prepare for prehearing conferences; the preparation and marshalling of written affirmative and rebuttal evidence for presentation before the Administrative Law Judge; the use of stipulations; direct and cross examination; preparation of Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, briefing and oral argument before the Review Board; application for review to the Federal Communications Commission, and presentation and strategy for judicial review. Issues of standing, exhaustion of administrative remedies, and whether interlocutory orders are reviewable also will be considered. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester. LAW 816: FCC Practice & Procedure 2 Credits In this specialized Communications Law Institute course, the student will be encouraged to develop a working knowledge of the kind of presentations to be made in applications and for FCC staff consultations. Where a hearing is involved, the student will become acquainted with use of the discovery process (depositions, motions to produce, interrogatories, admissions, subpoena, and subpoena duces tecum), petitions to enlarge, motions for summary decision; how to prepare for prehearing conferences; the preparation and marshalling of written affirmative and rebuttal evidence for presentation before the Administrative Law Judge; the use of stipulations; direct and cross examination; preparation of Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, briefing and oral argument before the Review Board; application for review to the Federal Communications Commission, and presentation and strategy for judicial review. Issues of standing, exhaustion of administrative remedies, and whether interlocutory orders are reviewable also will be considered. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester. LAW 819: Legislative Oversight of Intelligence 3 Credits In the wake of 9/11 and 11/M (the terror attacks in Madrid on March 11 2004), many of those responsible for overseeing intelligence in both the legislative and executive branch are investigating their intelligence services and the ways political leaders handle intelligence. This course will examine oversight legislation in liberal democracies in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia focusing on agency design, the respective roles of the legislative and executive branches,and the possibility of independent review. Each seminar participant will be assigned (or select) a topic or a particular country and will lead a discussion and submit a paper on the assigned project. The course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. LAW 820A: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture) 1 Credits no description available LAW 820B: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture) 2 Credits no description available LAW 821A: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture) 1 Credits no description available LAW 821B: Law Journal Editing (Law, Philosophy and Culture) 2 Credits no description available LAW 830: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 4 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 839: New Communications Technology & the Law 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course is intended to give the students an understanding of (1) technology-driven changes in the regulation of wireless and wireline communications services; (2) the legal problems of the Internet, including liability of content and access providers for copyright infringement, defamation, and obscene/indecent on-line communications; and (3) the evolving legal problems associated with electronic privacy and data protection. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester. LAW 840: New Communication Technologies & Law 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course is intended to give the students an understanding of (1) technology-driven changes in the regulation of wireless and wireline communications services; (2) the legal problems of the Internet, including liability of content and access providers for copyright infringement, defamation, and obscene/indecent on-line communications; and (3) the evolving legal problems associated with electronic privacy and data protection. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. Non-Institute students may elect this course on a space-available basis during the first week of the semester. LAW 841: International Regulation of Telecommunications 2 Credits This course will study the changing patterns in international telecommunications law and policy management caused by dramatic cost reductions in telecommunications and the blurring distinctions between the telephone, television, and computer as communications platforms. It will review the traditional management of international communications at the International Telecommunications Union and related space law concepts and then consider the liberalization of international trade in telecommunications services through international lawmaking at the World Trade Organization. The course will consider international competition policy issues, as well as other jurisdictional and policy conflicts of nation-states, such as freedom of expression and limits to territorially-based jurisdiction. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Recommended prior courses: Public International Law, Antitrust, or Problems in Telecommunications Law and Policy. LAW 842: International Regulation of Telecommunications 2 Credits This course will study the changing patterns in international telecommunications law and policy management caused by dramatic cost reductions in telecommunications and the blurring distinctions between the telephone, television, and computer as communications platforms. It will review the traditional management of international communications at the International Telecommunications Union and related space law concepts and then consider the liberalization of international trade in telecommunications services through international lawmaking at the World Trade Organization. The course will consider international competition policy issues, as well as other jurisdictional and policy conflicts of nation-states, such as freedom of expression and limits to territorially-based jurisdiction. This course requires a qualifying course paper that fulfills one half of the upper-level writing requirement. Recommended prior courses: Public International Law, Antitrust, or Problems in Telecommunications Law and Policy. LAW 843: Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer 2 Credits After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate. LAW 844: Problems in Telecommunication Law & Policy 2 Credits This Communications Law Institute course, limited to Institute students in their final year, will examine a series of broadcasting, domestic and international common carrier, spectrum allocation, media definition, and technology planning issues. Students will prepare for each class by reading the assigned materials and generally taking responsibility for additional research to achieve a complete understanding of the major constituencies or coalitions involved and the policy choices presented. For each issue, an appropriate number of students also will prepare a written position statement advocating one particular constituency's legal interpreta-tion/philosophy. These students will present this position in a panel discussion that at times may parallel a debate, moot court proceeding, FCC meeting, or international policy-making forum. After presentations by the students responsible for advocating particular positions, the entire class will have the opportunity to pose questions and additional complications. Enrollment limited to twenty-five students. LAW 845: Entertainment Law 2 Credits This course emphasizes specialized contract law for the entertainment industry, including the role of attorneys, agents, and managers in the negotiation of recording, management, publishing, and performance agreements. The course will address the substantive law of the entertainment industry as well as a practical approach to the representation of clients involved in various fields of entertainment. LAW 846: Entertainment Law 3 Credits no description available LAW 847: Regulation of Wireless Telecommunications Services 2 Credits This course will address the spectrum allocation and radio licensing issues arising under Title III of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations and policies thereunder. It will address those aspects of Title III that are not uniquely applicable to broadcasting and will provide the student with a historical, philosophical, and legal background, as well as a practical working knowledge, of those aspects of Title III regulation that are applicable to all uses of the electromagnetic spectrum from the mundane and commonplace to the technologically advanced and complex (e.g., garage door openers, baby monitors, cordless telephones, cellular and PCs, point-to-point microwave, business radio uses, satellite communications systems, etc.). LAW 848: Regulation of Wireless Telecommunication Services 2 Credits This course will address the spectrum allocation and radio licensing issues arising under Title III of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations and policies thereunder. It will address those aspects of Title III that are not uniquely applicable to broadcasting and will provide the student with a historical, philosophical, and legal background, as well as a practical working knowledge, of those aspects of Title III regulation that are applicable to all uses of the electromagnetic spectrum from the mundane and commonplace to the technologically advanced and complex (e.g., garage door openers, baby monitors, cordless telephones, cellular and PCs, point-to-point microwave, business radio uses, satellite communications systems, etc.). LAW 850: American Corporate Law (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 851: American Legal Research (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 852: American Private Law: Remedies in Contracts, Property, and Torts (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 853: American Legal Profession: Regulation, Prof. Responsibility, & Discipline (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 854: American Public Law: Constitutional Principles of Government and the Administrative State (Cracow) 2 Credits no description available LAW 854A: American Public Law: constitutional Principles of Government (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 854B: American Public Law: The Administrative State (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 855: Civil Liberties in the American Constitution (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 856: The American Litigation Process: Discovery, Pleadings, and Advocacy (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 857: American Federal Taxation (Cracow) 1 Credits no description available LAW 897: Legal Externship: Becoming a Comm Lawyer 2 Credits no description available LAW 898: CCLS: General Practice 5 Credits no description available LAW 899: Moot Court National Team 1 Credits no description available LAW 900: CommLaw Conpectus II 2 Credits no description available LAW 901: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 3 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 901B: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 2 Credits no description available LAW 902: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 3 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 902A: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 4 Credits no description available LAW 903: CCLS: General Practice 6 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 904: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 6 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 905: CCLS: General Practice 7 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 906: CCLS: General Practice Clinic 7 Credits This clinical program provides students with the opportunity to experience the general practice of the law. Students handle the legal problems of low-income residents of the District of Columbia. The caseload of the clinic consists primarily of SSI/public benefits, special education, and family law matters. These cases offer the full range of client representation before administrative agencies on the local and federal level and the courts of the District of Columbia. The majority of the clinic's court cases are in the District of Columbia Superior Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Interns eligible for certification under the Student Practice Rule present their clients' cases in court. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to develop skills in time and office management, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, drafting, motions practice, trial techniques, and reflective lawyering. In addition to the clinical work, a three-hour seminar is conducted once a week. The seminar includes participatory exercises in interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and selected aspects of trial techniques; and structured discussions of ethical considerations, recent common law and statutory development, and general case discussion. Students enrolled for six credits expect to spend a minimum of twenty hours weekly on clinic work. Students may also enroll for seven or thirteen credits, but only with the prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. Enrollment for thirteen credits requires a minimum commitment of forty hours weekly. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: General Practice Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Brustin and Scully. The course is graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 908: D.C. Law Students in Court: Civil 3 Credits no description available LAW 909: Public Policy Fieldwork 2 Credits This course may be taken only in conjunction with Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer or Public Policy Practicum to satisfy the mandatory fieldwork requirements of those courses. Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits in fieldwork placements approved by the director of the law and Public Policy Program. Supervising faculty members will specify accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and fieldwork placement supervisors, written reflection on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 910: D.C. Law Students in Court: Civil 4 Credits no description available LAW 911: Public Policy Fieldwork 3 Credits This course may be taken only in conjunction with Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer or Public Policy Practicum to satisfy the mandatory fieldwork requirements of those courses. Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits in fieldwork placements approved by the director of the law and Public Policy Program. Supervising faculty members will specify accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and fieldwork placement supervisors, written reflection on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 912: Law Students in Court:Criminal 6 Credits no description available LAW 913: DC Law Students in Court:Civil 6 Credits A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register. LAW 914: D.C. Law Students in Court: Civil 6 Credits A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register. LAW 915: Legal Extrnship:Suprv Fldwrk 1 Credits no description available LAW 916: Legal Intrn: Suprvsd Fldwrk 1 Credits no description available LAW 917: Law Journal Wr (Conspectus) 2 Credits no description available LAW 918: Communications Law Conspectus I 1 Credits no description available LAW 919: Law Journal Editing-Conspectus 2 Credits Enrollment in the course is optional. For editorial assistants, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty advisers upon recommendation of the Executive Board. Grades for each Comment Editor will be recommended by the Executive Board, and grades for each Executive Board member will be determined by the faculty advisers based on the Editor's fulfillment of his or her responsibilities for both semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester, but each editor should register for one credit each semester. LAW 920: Law Journal Editng(Conspectus) 1 Credits Enrollment in the course is optional. For editorial assistants, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty advisers upon recommendation of the Executive Board. Grades for each Comment Editor will be recommended by the Executive Board, and grades for each Executive Board member will be determined by the faculty advisers based on the Editor's fulfillment of his or her responsibilities for both semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester, but each editor should register for one credit each semester. LAW 921: D.C. Law Students in Court: Criminal 6 Credits A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register. LAW 922: D.C. Law Students in Court: Criminal 6 Credits A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register. LAW 923: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork 2 Credits Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation. LAW 924: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork 2 Credits Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation. LAW 925: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork 3 Credits Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation. LAW 926: Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork 3 Credits Students perform 120 hours of uncompensated legal work for two credits or 180 hours for three credits, under the supervision of an attorney in placements such as federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Students must have completed Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer, Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer, or Becoming a Public Policy Lawyer as a prerequisite. Supervising faculty members will specify some accompanying assignments designed to enhance the externship, such as agreement on a learning agenda with the faculty and placement supervisors, journal reflections on the externship, and meetings with the faculty supervisor. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer may be counted toward graduation. LAW 927: Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer 3 Credits After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate. LAW 927A: Becoming a Lawyer 2 Credits no description available LAW 927B: Legal Externship 2 Credits no description available LAW 927C: Legal Externship 3 Credits no description available LAW 928: Legal Externsihp: Becoming a Lawyer 3 Credits After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate. LAW 928D: Becoming and International Lawyer 1 Credits no description available LAW 928E: Becoming a Securities Lawyer 1 Credits no description available LAW 929: Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer 4 Credits After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate. LAW 930: Legal Internship: Becoming a Lawyer 4 Credits After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate. LAW 931: Directed Research 1 Credits no description available LAW 932: Directed Research 1 Credits no description available LAW 933: Public International Law Internship 2 Credits The course is coordinated with pro bono activity of law school faculty members providing government-relations and legal support to the Roman Catholic Church in East Timor, particularly in coordination with Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Bello. East Timor, currently under UN governance, is on the road to independence and is beginning to develop a set of relationship with foreign government, multilateral institutions (including the World Bank and IMF), and private, non-governmental actors in world affairs. The purpose of the internship is to train students in the broad range of legal issues governing economic and social development, including human rights, transitional justice, and the economic and political issues arising in structuring and implementing international assistance programs. These skills will be developed in the context of developing a lawyer-client relationship with the Church in East Timor, in which CUA students will act as counselors and advocates for Church interests in implementation of the UN mandate for East Timor. Students will have assigned reading both generally to acquaint them with the UN plan and to prepare them to address specific issues as they arise. LAW 935: Public Interest Advocacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Lawyering 3 Credits This seminar adds a new dimension to the law school curriculum offerings on public policy. Using the firearms issue as a case study, the seminar focuses on corporate responsibility, legislative responses to public health issues, litigation as a tool for social change, and the role of lawyers advocating for public health and safety. Students use a public health problem-solving paradigm to analyze gun violence issues, develop workable interventions, set policy priorities, and evaluate their effectiveness. Candidates for the Master of Social Work degree in the National Catholic School of Social Service can also register for the seminar. The course provides additional in-depth analysis of core subject matter fields studied in the first year. In the context of third-party liability cases against gun manufacturers and dealers, students analyze negligence theory and theories of strict liability. In addition to providing the only law school classroom discussion of Second Amendment cases and theory, the seminar explores the constitutional limits on state and federal government legislation aimed at promoting public health and safety. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach. Students learn elementary concepts of epidemiology and statistics, and how to use credible data to enhance a legal argument. Classroom exercises are designed to introduce students to the theory of incidence rates and the analysis of graphs and charts. The readings also include essays on ethical considerations in legislating public health and safety standards. Skills learned are important to all types of practice, including litigation. Grading is based on a final paper (80%) and classroom participation (20%). May fulfill the upperclass writing requirement with approval of the course instructor. Limited enrollment. Faculty. LAW 936: Moot Court: Telecomm Comp 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 937: SEC Student Observer Program 3 Credits no description available LAW 938: SEC Student Observer Program 3 Credits A clinical externship program under the supervision of Securities and Exchange Commission staff attorneys. Projects in the past have involved the drafting of proposed statutes and rules, investigation of industry and issues practices, and litigation of civil enforcement actions and administrative proceedings. Students attend a weekly seminar at the SEC covering different topics in securities law. Students are required to devote 180 hours during the semester of enrollment (including time spent in the weekly seminar) to fieldwork activities at the SEC. Students in this program are subject to the Commission's conflict of interests rule. Corporations is a prerequisite; securities courses and other related experience improve the student's chances of being selected by the SEC for this limited enrollment program. There is an early application process for admission to this course. Contact the Clinical Programs Office for details. Students should not submit an application to participate unless they are prepared to accept a placement if selected. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. LAW 939: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly 2 Credits no description available LAW 940: CCLS: Immigration/Hum Rgts Ext 2 Credits no description available LAW 941: Directed Research 2 Credits A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register. LAW 942: Directed Research 2 Credits A clinical program in trial advocacy, the D.C. Law Students in Court program offers students an opportunity to develop skills as trial lawyers while representing indigent persons in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Students may participate in either the civil division (which focuses primarily upon the representation of tenants in landlord-tenant actions, but also handles some consumer and other civil matters) or the criminal division (in which student attorneys defend persons charged with misdemeanor offenses and/or juveniles charged with delinquent acts ranging from drug possession to assault with a deadly weapon). Students in both divisions have the opportunity for jury trials. Students are responsible for all aspects of litigation under the supervision of clinical instructors. Student attorneys interview clients and witnesses, conduct investigations, prepare pleadings, and conduct all motions, hearings, trials, and occasional appeals pursuant to the Superior Court's third-year practice rule. Only students who have completed forty-one credit hours and courses in Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process are eligible to participate in the clinic. Seminars are held in the civil division on Monday evenings from 6 to 8 and in the criminal division on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8. Students must set aside one day per week for court appearances and plan to devote approximately twenty hours per week to the clinic. This is a year-long program. No academic credit will be awarded to a student who completes only one semester. In the civil division there is an option of taking three, four, five, or six credits in the second semester. In the criminal division, the course must be taken for six credits both terms. Evening-division students and students who have part-time employment may participate. In the civil division only, students may participate in either the summer session and first (fall) semester or the first and second semesters. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Limited to fifteen students. An interview with a supervising attorney is required before a student may register. LAW 943: CCLS: Families & the Law Clinic 1 Credits The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 944: CCLS: Families & the Law Clinic 3 Credits The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 945: CCLS: Families & Law Clinic 6 Credits The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 946: Directed Research 2 Credits no description available LAW 947: Students in Court: Bankrupty Clinic 2 Credits no description available LAW 948: CCLS: Families & the Law Clinic 6 Credits The Families and the Law Clinic is designed to help students develop lawyering skills while focusing on a particular area of practice: domestic violence and family law. Whether a student is interested in family law issues or another area of law, the Families and the Law Clinic gives individualized instruction in and exposure to many aspects of legal practice. Among the skills developed in the clinic are oral argument, trial advocacy, legal interviewing, witness preparation, client counseling, case preparation, fact investigation, drafting motions and pleadings, and discovery practice. Students will assist victims of domestic violence in obtaining temporary and permanent restraining orders in D.C. Superior Court. Students will also represent clients in general domestic relations litigation and advocate for clients before administrative agencies. Cases will address issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, property distribution, and child support. In addition to litigation, each student will work on a community project during the course of the semester. Some students develop and implement community legal education programs for children and adults focusing on family law issues in the District of Columbia. Other students engage in a variety of law reform efforts and legislative advocacy, working with the D.C. Bar, community coalitions, and D.C. Superior Court Task Forces, while other students conduct legal education and empowerment training for family abuse clients. Students are expected to spend twenty hours per week working at the clinic. Three of the hours will be spent attending a weekly seminar class that focuses on skills building, professional responsibility, and substantive domestic violence and domestic relations law. Faculty members meet with students on a weekly basis. Faculty critique students after simulations and after live client counseling and oral advocacy. Enrollment for three hours is limited to students who have satisfactorily completed a minimum of six credits of CCLS: Families and the Law Clinic, and requires prior approval of Professors Barry and Klein. Graded with a pass/fail option. This course requires a qualifying portfolio paper that fulfills a portion of the upper-level writing requirement. Refer to Academic Rule X - Writing Requirement and Directed Research, p. 87. LAW 949: Legal Extrn: Becoming A Comm Lawyer 3 Credits no description available LAW 949A: Becoming a Communications Lawyer 2 Credits no description available LAW 949B: Legal Externship (Communications Law) 2 Credits no description available LAW 949C: Legal Externship (Communications Law) 3 Credits no description available LAW 950: Publ Int Adv:Interdis/Approach 3 Credits This seminar adds a new dimension to the law school curriculum offerings on public policy. Using the firearms issue as a case study, the seminar focuses on corporate responsibility, legislative responses to public health issues, litigation as a tool for social change, and the role of lawyers advocating for public health and safety. Students use a public health problem-solving paradigm to analyze gun violence issues, develop workable interventions, set policy priorities, and evaluate their effectiveness. Candidates for the Master of Social Work degree in the National Catholic School of Social Service can also register for the seminar. The course provides additional in-depth analysis of core subject matter fields studied in the first year. In the context of third-party liability cases against gun manufacturers and dealers, students analyze negligence theory and theories of strict liability. In addition to providing the only law school classroom discussion of Second Amendment cases and theory, the seminar explores the constitutional limits on state and federal government legislation aimed at promoting public health and safety. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach. Students learn elementary concepts of epidemiology and statistics, and how to use credible data to enhance a legal argument. Classroom exercises are designed to introduce students to the theory of incidence rates and the analysis of graphs and charts. The readings also include essays on ethical considerations in legislating public health and safety standards. Skills learned are important to all types of practice, including litigation. Grading is based on a final paper (80%) and classroom participation (20%). May fulfill the upperclass writing requirement with approval of the course instructor. Limited enrollment. Faculty. LAW 951: Law Review I 1 Credits no description available LAW 952: Law Review I 1 Credits no description available LAW 953: Law Journal Wr (Law Review) 2 Credits no description available LAW 954: Law Review I 2 Credits no description available LAW 955: Law Journal Edit:Law Review II 2 Credits Enrollment in the course is optional. For staff members, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty moderator upon the recommendation of the executive board, based upon the comments written by each member. Grades for each associate editor will be recommended by the executive board and for each executive editor by the faculty moderator, based upon the editor's adequate fulfillment of his or her responsibilities throughout the semester. As a general rule, students must register for one credit in each of the semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester. The earning of any credit for the course is contingent on satisfactory work through both semesters: i.e., no separate grades will be entered after the first semester. Satisfies the writing requirement with the approval of course instructor. LAW 956: Law Review II 1 Credits Enrollment in the course is optional. For staff members, a Pass/Fail grade will be given by the faculty moderator upon the recommendation of the executive board, based upon the comments written by each member. Grades for each associate editor will be recommended by the executive board and for each executive editor by the faculty moderator, based upon the editor's adequate fulfillment of his or her responsibilities throughout the semester. As a general rule, students must register for one credit in each of the semesters. Grades are entered at the end of the second semester. The earning of any credit for the course is contingent on satisfactory work through both semesters: i.e., no separate grades will be entered after the first semester. Satisfies the writing requirement with the approval of course instructor. LAW 957: Law Journal Edit(Law Review) 1 Credits no description available LAW 958: Law Review II 2 Credits no description available LAW 959: Legal Externship: Becoming A Communications Lawyer 4 Credits After consultation with the Coordinator of Clinical Programs or faculty instructor, students select a placement at which to do uncompensated legal work under the supervision of an attorney or faculty instructor. Placements must be approved by the Coordinator of Clinical Programs. Placements include federal, state, and local government agencies, judicial chambers, prosecutor's and defender's offices, law firms, corporate general counsel's offices, public interest organizations, and labor unions. The placement is combined with a seminar focused on enhancing learning from the externship, techniques for learning from experience useful after graduation, and issues in becoming a lawyer and joining the profession. For three credits, students are required to do 120 hours of uncompensated fieldwork; for four credits, 180 hours are required. One of the credits awarded is considered an academic credit and the remaining are clinical credits. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis. Legal Externship: Becoming a Lawyer is a prerequisite for Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork within the following guidelines: without prior permission of the Coordinator of Clinical Programs, students may take no more than five clinical credits in the same placement and no more than seven clinical credits under the combination of this course and Legal Externship: Supervised Fieldwork. Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer should be taken by CLI students to fulfill one of the externship requirements for the CLI certificate. LAW 960: Advocates for Victims of Gun Violence 3 Credits no description available LAW 961: Advocates for Victims of Gun Violence 3 Credits no description available LAW 962: Moot Court: (Siegel Comp) 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 963: Becoming A Public Policy Lawyer 3 Credits no description available LAW 964: Becoming A Public Policy Lawyer 3 Credits no description available LAW 965: Legal Externship: Becoming a Communications Lawyer 1 Credits no description available LAW 966: Moot Court: Gourley Cup Competition 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 967: Advocacy for the Elderly 6 Credits no description available LAW 968: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly 6 Credits no description available LAW 969: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly 4 Credits no description available LAW 970: CCLS: Advocacy for the Elderly 4 Credits no description available LAW 971: Advocacy for the Elderly 5 Credits no description available LAW 972: CCLS :Advocacy for the Elderly 5 Credits no description available LAW 973: Advocacy for the Elderly 3 Credits no description available LAW 974: Criminal Prosecution Clinic 4 Credits This clinical program is designed to promote the acquisition or improvement of basic lawyering skills essential to effective criminal practice in a prosecution setting, including familiarity with certain substantive legal principles, courtroom skills, the ability to learn from practical legal experience, the enhancement of problem-solving capabilities in a legal context, the recognition and principled resolution of ethical dilemmas arising in a criminal prosecution practice, and the development of an independent, critical perspective on the functioning of the criminal justice system. Students work with Assistant United States Attorneys or assistant states attorneys to prepare and try criminal cases in either the United States District Court or a state criminal court. Students are expected to devote sixteen hours each week to the prosecutor's office. A weekly, two-hour seminar is also required. The seminar is designed to prepare students to work effectively and ethically in the prosecutor's office. Students are expected to be familiar with the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Rules of Court in the jurisdiction in which they practice. All students enrolled in the Criminal Prosecution Clinic must be eligible to be certified under the applicable student practice rule of the jurisdiction in which they will appear. In addition, each student must have successfully completed Evidence, Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process, and a Trial Practice/Skills course in order to participate in the Clinic. Limited to fourteen students (spring semester only). Grading is on a pass/fail basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Process; Evidence; Trial Advocacy, Trial Practice, or Trial Skills. LAW 975: Law Journal Wr (Hlth Law Jrnl) 2 Credits no description available LAW 975A: Law Journal Writing (Law, Philosophy and Culture) 2 Credits no description available LAW 976: Health Law Journal I 1 Credits no description available LAW 977: Law Journal Editing-Hlth Law 2 Credits Awarded at the conclusion of the second term, this ungraded (Pass/Fail) course credit is awarded on the basis of work by the members of the editorial board in the fulfillment of their responsibilities during the first and second semesters. LAW 978: Health Law Journal II 1 Credits Awarded at the conclusion of the second term, this ungraded (Pass/Fail) course credit is awarded on the basis of work by the members of the editorial board in the fulfillment of their responsibilities during the first and second semesters. LAW 979: CCLS:Immigration / Human Rights Externship Fieldwork 3 Credits no description available LAW 980: Moot Court: Sutherland Cup 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 981: Moot Court: Environmental Law Competition 2 Credits no description available LAW 982: Moot Court: Wagner Cup Competition 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 983: Law Students in Crt: Civil 6 Credits no description available LAW 984: Moot Court: Jessup Cup Competition 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 985: Health Law Fieldwork 2 Credits no description available LAW 986: Moot Court: National Civil Rights Competition 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 987: D.C. Law Students in Court: Criminal 3 Credits no description available LAW 988: Moot Court: Vanderbilt Competition 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 989: Moot Court: Natnl App Adv Comm 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 990: Moot Court Nat'l Team 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 991: Law Journal Writing 1 Credits This course is open only to students who are producing a Writing Project for one of the school's law journals. These students must take this course if they choose to receive academic credit for their journal Writing Project or count it toward satisfaction of the upperclass writing requirement. Generally, students register for one credit for each of the two semesters; the credits are not awarded until the end of the second semester. During the first three weeks of the first semester, workshops will focus on writing skills such as organization, integrating research, transitions and headings, substantive footnoting, grammar and vocabulary appropriate to the journal audience, constructive use of editor and expert-reader feedback, and re-drafting. A writing specialist will schedule writing tutorials for students throughout the year as need dictates. Students must complete a journal portfolio that includes all drafts of the Writing Project, an Expert Reader's comments, the supervising editor's comments, the Editor-in-Chief's comments, and a certification that the student has attended all required workshops. The journal's faculty adviser, in conjunction with the Editor-in-Chief, must certify that the portfolio is complete and that the student's Writing Project is of publishable quality. The course fulfills one of the two upperclass writing requirements, but the student may not count BOTH this course and the Law Journal Editing toward completion of the upperclass writing requirement (see Academic Rule X, p. xx). LAW 992: Law Journal Writing 1 Credits To be eligible to register, a member must be certified by the faculty editor and the student editor of the Health Law Journal. Enrollment is optional, but only those members who are certified may enroll in the course. Upon the recommendation of the student editor, the faculty editor will record a Pass/Fail grade for all successful members. As a general rule, students who register for this course will do so for one credit in each of the semesters. Grades will be entered at the end of each semester. The first semester credit will be awarded on the basis of research undertaken for the publication of case note or comment and may satisfy the school's writing requirement. The second semester credit will be awarded on the basis of fulfillment of normal responsibilities associated with the work of the Journal.With the permission of the editors a student may, in subsequent semesters, earn an additional credit in lieu of enrollment in Health Law Journal II. LAW 993: Law Journal Editing 2 Credits This course is mandatory for third and fourth year law journal members who supervise student Writing Projects (as determined by each editor-in-chief)); it is optional for other third and fourth year journal members. During the first five weeks of the semester, the course will focus on topic selection, publication decisions, substantive editing, style editing, word editing, and professional working relationships. The instructor will provide editing exercises and workshops, and will lead discussions of classic law review articles and trends in legal scholarship. For the remainder of the semester, students will supervise and edit at least two student Writing Projects or will critique or edit at least two other manuscripts submitted to the law journal. During this time the instructor and a writing specialist will conduct editing tutorials, as the need arises, and will be available for student conferences. If a student has not completed the required editing assignments by the end of the first semester, work may continue into the second semester, in which case course credit will not be awarded until the end of the second semester. The journal faculty adviser, in consultation with the editor-in-chief, must certify that each student has successfully completed the required assignments. The course may fulfill one of the two upperclass writing requirements, but a student may not count BOTH this course and Law Journal Writing toward completion of the upperclass writing requirement (see Academic Rule X, p. xx). LAW 993A: Law Journal Editing: (Law, Philosophy and Culture) 2 Credits no description available LAW 994: Moot Court: ATLA Cup Competition 2 Credits no description available LAW 995: Mediation Clinic 2 Credits no description available LAW 996: Moot Crt(Crim Justice TR Advo) 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 997: Law Journal Editing (HLJ) 1 Credits no description available LAW 997A: Law Journal Editing: (Law, Philosophy, and Culture) 1 Credits no description available LAW 998: Moot Court: Environmental Law 2 Credits To be eligible to register, a student must be certified by the Moot Court Board and its faculty moderator. A Pass/Fail grade will be given by the moderator upon recommendation of the board. No more than four credits may be earned. Students are selected by participation in an intraschool trial competition. LAW 999: Moot Court: Env Law Comp 2 Credits no description available
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