LAW 8707C      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: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8707E      Advanced Legal Writing: Scholarly Writing
Preparation of students for scholarly writing including independent study, law review, and seminar papers. Focus will be on topic identification and refinement; developing a thesis; research strategies including reiterative and mediated searching, systemic evaluation of resources, problem typing and solving, and resources for specific topics in the law; proper attribution and use of authority; developing a working draft; and creating a balanced, thorough, and carefully reasoned and supported analysis.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8707F      Advanced Legal Writing: Appellate Brief Writing
Preparation of federal and state court appellate briefs, including the jurisdictional statement; statement of the case; statement of facts; points relied on; statement of the issues presented; summary of the argument; argument; and responses and replies to arguments. Prepares students to outline and organize arguments; edit and revise written work; and finalize an appellate brief.
Credits: 1 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 8710B      Legal Analysis & Methods
Preparation of students for the bar review and exam process with a focus on improving analytical skills to approach and do well on practice bar exam questions, including essay, multiple-choice, and performance questions. The course will cover specific topics tested on the bar exam with additional emphasis on refining memorization skills and learning how to self-assess understanding of concepts. Permission of instructor is needed to enroll. International LLM students also need permission of the Associate Dean for international Studies to enroll.
Credits: 2 hours
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LAW 8711      Remedies
Remedies for violation of legally protected interests; history and development of equity jurisdiction and modern equity practice; injunctions; declaratory judgments; rescission; reformation; restitution; contempt; damages. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8713      Death Penalty Clinic
The post-conviction process of collateral review in death penalty cases; training in legal representation of the postconviction petitioner. Pre-or Co-requisite: Problems and Issues in the Death Penalty.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8713C      Capital Punishment in the Modern World: Constitutional & Human Rights Perspectives
A consideration of problems and issues in the death penalty, including the following topics: the historical and constitutional perspectives on the death penalty; the practical application of the death penalty in the United States; capital punishment and human dignity; and the future of capital punishment
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8713P      Innocence Project
Students, under supervision, provide investigate and legal assistance to prisoners with persuasive actual innocence claims. Students meet weekly with the director of the program for training and evaluation. Assigned tasks depend on the needs of the Innocence Project, and may include interviewing potential clients, gathering records, investigating actual innocence claims, consulting with experts, drafting post-conviction and/or clemency pleadings, and appearing at court hearings. Clinical students work in conjunction with law and journalism students enrolled at the University of Missouri-Columbia and are required to work 240 hours a semester or roughly eighteen (18) hours a week on their clinic cases. Limited enrollment (normally, 8 students). Prerequisites: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure I and Wrongful Convictions. Pass/Fail.
Credits: 4 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 8714C      Gender and Justice: Selected Topics
Students examine and discuss, from a comparative perspective, legal issues that have a substantial impact on the construction of gender, paying particular attention to the laws of Ireland and the United States. Topics will include selected portions of some of the following issues: sex discrimination from an historical perspective in each country the constitutional standards for evaluation of sex discrimination; sexual harassment; domestic violence; reproductive rights; familial rights (same-sex marriage, divorce, and custody); feminist theory (equal treatment theory, cultural feminism, radical feminism, lesbian theory, racial essentialism, and theories of global gender equality); and depictions of gender in popular culture. The course seeks to present each topic in its social context by supplementing legal readings with materials drawn from the social sciences and literature.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8714G      Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation, Religion & Film
A focus on the ways in which facets of identity (e.g., gender, race, sexual orientation and religious beliefs) are illuminated in films and other popular media that have implications for law and public policy, including how public sentiments are influenced by movies and other media and how movie portrayals of these identity characteristics shape popular conceptions of what the law should be in relation to them. Readings and discussions illuminate the ways various media both feed, and at times test, societal assumptions about identity characteristics.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8714R      Assisted Reproduction Seminar
An in-depth examination of assisted reproduction from a legal perspective. The course will include interdisciplinary study of the development of reproductive technologies and the implications for law and regulation. The course will attempt to situate the legal discussion within the context of the changing science and the nature of the industry. Discussion will therefore consider the international development of the industry, the importance of determination of parenthood to its viability, potential exploitation of vulnerable patients, and the impact on the resulting children,. Course topics will include consideration of the constitutional, family law and regulatory frameworks, posthumous reproduction, embryonic stem cell a research and human cloning.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8714S      Sexuality and the Law
An examination of sexual orientation,sexuality,and the law. This course will introduce students to existing and emerging jurisprudence in these areas by examining case law with an eye toward how holdings in specific cases can be expanded or restricted in future litigation. The five-day course will examine the manner in which constructions of sexuality and sexual orientation have impacted the development of law in the areas of constitutional law (including speech and the right to privacy),employment,marriage,parenting,violence and military service.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8716      Cyberlaw and Information Policy
Survey of the areas of the law with existing or potential application to computers (such as contract law, intellectual property law, criminal law, tort law and constitutional law) highlighting the legal issues involved in the areas studied.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8720      Secured Transactions
Secured Transactions in personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, function and form of a security agreement, process of perfecting a security interest, priority among unsecured parties; secured sales of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Credits: 3 hours
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LAW 8721      Commercial Transactions
Law of negotiable instruments; bank collections; Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code; electronic funds transfers.
Credits: 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 8725      Water Law
Private acquisition of water rights through riparian ownership and prior appropriation; public rights to water existent in bed ownership easements and trusts; ground water management; water distribution organizations; federal allocation and control of water resources; interstate allocation.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8728      Law And The American Indian
An anthropological, historical and legal study of the American Indian, including a focus on American Indian traditional law and values, federal policy and current legal issues.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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