LAW 8764      Administrative Law
Introduction to the administrative process; role, function, and processes of administrative agencies; policy issues of administrative government; judicial review.
Credits: 1,3 hours
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LAW 8710      Advanced Lawyering Processes
Legal analysis, research and writing; instruction and discussion of the research and writing process and related topics in legal method and legal education; supervised production of an expository writing, advocacy writing and scholarly writing; development of research and writing exercises for use in the first-year Legal Writing Program and service as Teaching Assistants in the Program; limited enrollment; admission by application to the instructor.
Credits: 1,3 hours
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LAW 8643      Advanced Legal Research-Litigation
Prepares students who wish to focus on advocacy and litigation (including students in litigation with respect to Family Law and Urban, Land Use and Environmental law). The course is also intended to facilitate research for the student's legal research and writing requirement. the course will refresh and refine research skills, help students to think systemically about legal research, and familiarize students with applicable resources. As the final project, students will have the opportunity to develop an in-depth research "path finder" or guide for an approved topic of their own choosing.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8707      Advanced Legal Writing: Litigation Drafting
Preparation of litigation documents and pleadings, including complaint or petition; cross-claim, counterclaim or third-party petition; answer; discovery documents such as a set of interrogatories or requests to admit; dispositive motions; and settlement agreements. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I & II.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8888      Advanced Partnership Taxation
A study of selected topics in tax planning and in negotiating and drafting organizational documents (e.g. partnership agreements and operating agreements) for entities that will be classified as partnerships for tax purposes, including advanced exploration of issues relating to special allocations and book/tax disparities, optional adjustments to basis, payment to retiring and deceased partners, the impact of I.R.C. Section 751 on partnership distributions and on sales and exchanges of partnership interests, partnership mergers and divisions, partnerships with tax-exempt partners, and tiered partnerships. Prerequisite: Partnership Taxation (law #8888R) or a comparable course from another law school approved by instructor.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8732      Lawyers and Dispute Resolution
An overview of the emerging trend towards alternative forms of dispute resolution and some reasons for it, methods of dispute settlement, such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration and adjudication, the roles lawyers play in these various modes, problems and possibilities of non-adversarial methods of resolving conflict, particularly mediation.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8665      Animal Law
This course will begin with a brief overview of the philosophical and cultural issues underlying human/animal relationships, including basic theories of the legal systems's responses to social change. Legal issues relating to food animals, companion animals, laboratory animals, wild animals, and performing animals will be examined with reference to: (1) federal statues (Animal Welfare Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Wild Horses and Burros Act, Animal Damage Control Act, National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act, Refuge Recreation Act, National Environment Police Act, and Humane Slaughter Act); (2) state statues (anti-cruelty, wills and trusts, hunting, racing and fighting statues); (3) local animal control regulations; and (4) extensive common law (standing, rights, free exercise of religion, property, landlord-tenant disputes, torts, marital dissolution and custody, and bailment).
Credits: hours
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LAW 8605      Antitrust And Competition Law
This course studies how antitrust laws work to create an environment in which free and open competition thrives. Course examines how antitrust laws seek to prevent unreasonable horizontal (competitors) and vertical (supply chain) restraints that harm consumers and to deal with markets where one competitor has attained monopoly power, conduct that is specifically exempted from antitrust regulation, who is entitled to seek redress for antitrust violations, and particular issues unique to antitrust litigation.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8747      Appellate Advocacy II
Preparation of memorandum (points relied on and summary of argument); presentation of two arguments before practicing attorneys. Ungraded.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8748      Appellate Advocacy III
Ellison Moot Court Competition; preparation of an appellate brief and presentation of two oral arguments before federal and state judges. Open to the 16 finalists from Appellate Advocacy II. Ungraded.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8775      Appellate Advocacy IV
Participation on National Moot Court competition team. Ungraded.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8814      Appellate Practice Clinic
Students represent appellants before the western district court of appeals in their appeals from denial of unemployment compensation. Students attend training sessions to learn relevant substantive and procedural law of unemployment compensation, and then assist in reviewing files to select cases for appeal and contacting potential clients, review records and transcripts of the selected cases, meet with the clients, research and write the brief and reply briefs, and argue the cases on appeal. Students must be Rule 13 eligible and have completed Appellate Advocacy II.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8850      Applied Evidence
Problems and simulations in evidence; application of the rules of evidence in many of the following topic areas: objections to the form of the question; hearsay; lay and expert opinion; authentication, the introduction of real and demonstrative evidence, rules of relevance, cross-examination and impeachment.
Credits: 1,3 hours
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LAW 8636      Criminal Procedure II
Continuation of the study of the administration of criminal justice; exclusionary rules; bail; prosecutor's discretion; grand jury; preliminary hearing; jurisdiction, venue; joinder and severance of offenses and defendants; right to speedy trial; pleas of guilty; discovery; trial by jury; publicity; double jeopardy.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8714      Gender And Justice
Students will examine and discuss legal issues of special importance to women. Topics will include (among others) sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, domestic violence, reproductive autonomy, and pornography. The course seeks to present each topic in its social context by supplementing legal readings with materials drawn from the social sciences, literature, and film. Paper required. Enrollment limited to fifteen students. Recommended: Constitutional Law I.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8723      Banking Law Seminar
Federal and state law governing banking activities; regulation of bank holding companies; formation of banks; the FDIC and FSLIC; interstate banking; deregulation of banking transactions; banking activities by non-banks; regulation of securities activities of banks. Paper required. Prerequisite: Commercial Transactions.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8877      Bankruptcy Court Clerkship
The United States Bankruptcy Courts have jurisdiction over claims arising under federal bankruptcy law. Cases in these courts present issues arising not only under the Bankruptcy Code, but also in many other areas, such as secured transactions, contract law, labor law, and tax law. Student interns will, among other duties, observe court proceedings, assist in writing legal memoranda, and draft opinions. Enrollment in the Bankruptcy Court Clerkship Program is limited to students who have completed both Secured Transactions and Debtors & Creditor's Rights. Students work at least 70 hours at the court; and attend monthly conferences with the professor in charge of the program's over site.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8737      Bioethics and Assisted Reporduction
This course will examine the regulation of assisted reproduction, focusing, in particular, on the determination of legal [parenthood. The course will consider the legal determination of the status and disposition of embryos, the possibilities of transfer or donation, use of donor gametes, surrogacy, nuclear transfer, and interjurisdictional conflicts. In addressing these topics, the course will compare Ireland, a relatively conservative country on reproductive issues, with the UK with a mix of liberal and conservative approaches in the United States.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8746      Research & Writing Requirement
Completion of a paper of publishable quality, demonstrating intensive research and analysis under faculty supervision.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8783      Federal Public Land & Resource Law
Exploitation and conservation of natural resources; management of federal lands; water law; energy law; federal wildlife preservation; resolution of disputes involving use of natural resources.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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