LAW 8897R      Governmental and Legal Aspects of Education (K-12 Schools)
Study of legal issues within higher education. Focus is on state and federal law and regulations as they pertain to issues from academic freedom to governance and administration. Focus on strategies for preventive law is a major component of the course.
Credits: 3 hours
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LAW 8898      Construction Law
The Construction Law course would emphasize state and federal construction law and would provide the students with practical experience in drafting contracts, negotiating disputes, and conducting a mock arbitration. The course would cover the contract responsibilities and remedies of contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, sureties and owners, including the United States Government. The course would emphasize the controlling state and federal statutes and regulations, as well as case law which illustrates the application of the statutes and other areas of law not covered by statute. The classroom sessions will include discussion of the practical aspects of legal practice in the construction industry, with instruction and examples regarding the drafting of documents and contracts, negotiation of disputes, and decision-making regarding the type of dispute resolution forum to recommend to a client.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8900      Takings Law
An examination of all aspects of takings law including the historical and constitutional basis for eminent domain, the public use requirement, regulatory takings, development exactions, and alternatives to takings. Comparisons between U.S. and state regimes and comparative takings law.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8901      Advising Life Sciences and Technology Entrepreneurs
A condensed study of the key legal issues for the entire cradle-t-grave (founding-to-exit transaction) life cycle of high-growth technology and life sciences ventures, focusing on these critical phases: structuring and organizing the high-growth venture; relationships with key constituencies; acquiring, protecting and licensing intellectual property assets; financing transactions and realizing wealth through exit transactions. Prerequisites: Business Organizations
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8902      Topics and Cases Related to In-House Counsel
This course surveys a wide range of legal issues from the in-house counsel perspective, including those related to professional responsibility, corporate governance, transactions, compliance, risk management, intellectual property and litigation. Through the use of case studies, students will use legal principles and business judgement to analyze scenarios in various corporate settings. Prerequisites: Business Organizations.
Credits: 1 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 8903B      Business Investigations
The course will cover the practical aspects of conducting fact investigations in the business environment, with a focus on planning, staffing and managing business investigations, understanding and developing investigative techniques appropriate for the business environment and communicating the results of investigations and related recommendations to management and others. A theme throughout the course will be how the lawyer of business manager who is charged with the responsibility of conducting an investigation can maintain independence and avoid being compromised by pressures from management, media or other external sources of influence. Guest lecturers will include professionals with experience in the discipline. Prerequisites: Bus. Org; Empl, Disc; White Collar Crime; Bus. Pla.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8904      Multicultural Lawyering and Spanish for Lawyers
In this course, students acquire skills and knowledge needed to represent Spanish speaking clients, including mastering selected Spanish legal vocabulary, working with translators, conducting initial client interviews, and identifying cultural impacts on communication. Ethical dimensions of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural counseling are examined and students receive training in counseling skills. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 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 8906      Corp. Governance, Com & Soc Resp. Mult. Co.
This course examines the mechanisms available to corporate executives, auditors, attorneys and boards to comply with state, federal and international laws related to compliance and governance. Students study and examine the impact of a conflict between these laws and cultural norms; Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Securities and Exchange Commission Regulations, Department of Justice policies, Dodd-Frank Act, and other pertinent legislation and regulations; and consider how reputational factors, pressures from institutional investors, shareholders and shareholder service organizations, activists, organized labor and nongovernmental organizations impact corporate behavior and decision-making.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8907      Seminar in Advanced Trademark
This course examines advanced substantive topics in various trademark areas, some of which are not covered in prior classes and some of which explore areas of controversy in greater depth. Students will also be exposed to the trademark administrative process in greater depth. Prerequisites: Law 8797-Business Torts & Unfair Competition. Cannot be taken concurrently with Law 8797-Business Torts & Unfair Competition.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8910      Intellectual Property Clinic
Under the supervision of faculty who are licensed attorneys, students will counsel start-up companies and their owners and assist with intellectual property matters related to Trade Secrets, Copyright Trademark, & Patent and planning in connection with concepts related to Business Torts. Students will conduct patentability and trademark searches, prepare patent landscape reports, trademark registrations, opposition and cancellation responses and assist Clinic clients in identifying trade secrets and potential patentable inventions and preparing intervention disclosures as well as provide general intellectual property information and advice to Clinic clients.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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