LAW 8773      Environmental Law
This course covers law developed to control pollution and to protect our country's physical environment. The course provides introductions to ecological theories and to early common law efforts to protect the environment. But the course mainly focuses on current environmental statues (for instance, the Superfund Act, the Resourse Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act) and on current federal constitutional issues involving the environment. (Priorities in this mix may vary from year to year, depending on current events and related course offerings). Enforcement policies, citizen activism the needs of private industry, and the administrative process are also considered. No prerequisites.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8614      Estate Planning And Drafting
Continuation of Estates & Trusts I using problems and cases as a basis for class discussion. Working in teams, students engage in the planning of estates for actual clients, proceeding through the entire process and culminating in the execution of wills, trusts or other appropriate instruments. Course is not open to students who have taken Estate Planning. Prerequisite: Estates & Trusts I.
Credits: 3,4 hours
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LAW 8615      Estate Planning And Practice
Tax-oriented examination of contemporary estate planning problems for the larger estates, with emphasis on issues of direct concern to practitioners. This course is designed for LL.M. students. Others may take the course with permission of the Associate Dean.
Credits: 3-4 hours
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LAW 8611      Estates And Trusts
Intestate succession; testamentary dispositions; execution, modification, and revocation of wills; will contests; advancements, ademption, and exoneration; family allowances; rights of estate creditors; express, implied, resulting, and constructive trusts; basic tax aspects of estates and trusts; rule against perpetuities; will substitutes.
Credits: 3,4 hours
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LAW 8609      Ethical Issues In Family Law Representation
Advanced study of the ethical obligations of public and private attorneys in estate, family, and juvenile law representation. Topics may include identification of the client, ethical and legal obligations of confidentiality and disclosure, competence and client communication, respect for third persons (particularly obligations toward children of clients) and other related subjects. Paper and presentation required. Pre or co-requisites: Estates and Trusts and Family Law. When offered for 2 credit hours, the course fulfills the Schools Professional Responsibility graduation requirement
Credits: 1,2 hours
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LAW 8621      Evidence
General principles relating to proof of facts in civil and criminal trials; presumptions; order of proof; relevancy; judicial notice; real and demonstrative evidence; authentication; best evidence rule; hearsay; competency; impeachment; rehabilitation.
Credits: 3 hours
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LAW 8662      Federal Court Internship
Second or third-year students with a GPA of at least 3.0 serve in a clerkship with a judge or magistrate of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, or the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Students work at least 70 hours at the court, and attend review conferences over the course of the semester. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8843      Federal Income Taxation Of Estates And Trusts
Income tax problems of the fiduciary; grantor's trusts; income, estate, and gift tax problems relating to optional or discretionary acts of the fiduciary in retention and/or distribution of income or corpus.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8765      Federal Jurisdiction
Federal court system and jurisdiction of the federal courts; diversity of citizenship; removal of cases from state to federal courts; conflicts between state and federal judicial systems; original and appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8656      Public Defender Trials Clinic
As permitted by Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13, senior law students, under supervision, handle cases referred from the Public Defender. Students enroll for two semesters and are required to devote at least 10 hours per week to applied skills, weekly conferences, and lectures. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: Criminal Law and Legal Writing I and II. Students must also have completed or be enrolled in Criminal Procedure I, Evidence, and Professional Responsibility. Ungraded. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 3 hours
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LAW 8552      Federal Taxation
Theory, history, and principles of federal income taxation; basic concepts of income, classification of income and deductions.
Credits: 3 hours
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LAW 8633      First Amendment Law
Basic themes and advanced problems relating to the law of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, including exploration of the values behind the protection, subversive advocacy, regulation of speech in the public forum, access to the media, regulation of the press, symbolic expression, libel, obscenity, commercial speech, picketing, right of association, loyalty oaths, legislative investigations and government demands for information, separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, state aid to the religious schools, regulation of religion-based conduct.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8903      Fundamentals of Investigations
This course focuses on skills and methods needed to fully obtain facts so as to determine strategies and analyze possible outcomes for all stages of litigation, both criminal and civil. Detailed information on searching public records, internet sites, and other document retrieval, as well as methods to locate people are provided to students through interactive format. Using an investigation on parallel tracks approach, i.e., paper and people, students learn the relationship between documents and thorough, reliable interviewing of clients and witnesses.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 531      INTRODUCTION TO LAW & LAWYERING PROCESSES FOR LL.M. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Introduction to legal reasoning; case analysis and synthesis; case research; structure and style in legal writing with emphasis on expository writing, including office memoranda
Credits: hours
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LAW 8760      Insurance
Life, fire, accident, and liability insurance; nature of insurance; nature of insurance contract; special rules of construction; standard policy provisions; regulation of insurance industry.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8808      Intellectual Property Law
Substantive and procedural law of intellectual property. Coverage includes copyrights and patents and other areas at the option of the instructor.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8905      Intellectual Property Litigation
Advanced engagement with intellectual property concepts and practical skills in litigation of these cases. The course will address the three essential areas of intellectual property law concept (copyright, patent, and trademark) and explore how these differences translate into different procedural and substantive considerations in litigation. Simulations of various stages of litigation will focus on litigation strategy and drafting skills.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8754      International Business Transactions
Legal problems encountered in international business; jurisdiction and choice of law; enforcement of judgments; methods of protecting foreign investments; extra-territorial application of United States regulations, e.g. anti-trust law.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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LAW 8831      International Human Rights Law
Study of the law protecting individuals and groups against govermental violations of internationally guaranteed rights; historical antecedents and theoretical underpinnings; human rights in national law (the United States); post World War II developments; principal international human rights instruments; regional human rights arrangements; human rights of women, refugees, ethnic minorities; implementation of rights; international obligations of the United States; selected civil, political, ecomomic and social rights.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8753      International Law
Survey of international legal studies; nature and role of international law, its effectiveness in dealing with international problems and its application in domestic jurisdictions.
Credits: 2,3 hours
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