LAW 8788A      Introduction to Arbitration & Selected Topics
Exploration of selected topics in the field of commercial arbitration in the united States, including the doctrinal foundation of arbitration in the common law as modified by Federal and State statutes, the comparative benefits and drawbacks of arbitration as compared to litigation, the legal requirements for enforcing arbitration agreements in the resolution of employment, consumer, healthcare and commercial disputes, the standards for compelling arbitration, and confirming, correcting or vacating arbitration awards, the role of substantive law in determining the outcome of arbitrated disputes, and consideration of how the arbitration process can be customized to meet special needs.
Credits: 1-2 hours
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LAW 8790      Legal Aid Clinic
Internship at offices of Legal Aid of Western Missouri. Students receive instruction in basic poverty law representation and techniques for experiential learning and, depending on placement, are given supervised instruction and practice opportunities in client counseling, fact investigation and discovery, case preparation and pleadings, community advocacy and trial techniques. Faculty and Legal Aid attorney supervision. Limited enrollment. Concurrent enrollment in certain courses may be required for some field placements. Ungraded. Pass/fail.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8791      Civil Rights
Elements of a Section 1983 case, enforceable rights and available defenses; procedural aspects of civil rights cases; suits against federal and state governments. Prerequisites: Constitutional Law I.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8792      Seminar On Gun Law & Policy
This course examines legal and public policy issues relating to firearms and the role they play in the United States, with a particular emphasis on debates about the meaning of the Second Amendment and attempts to hold gun manufacturers and sellers liable under tort law. Research paper required. No prerequisite courses.
Credits: hours
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LAW 8792S      Seminar On Gun Law & Policy
This course examines legal and public policy issues relating to firearms and the role they play in the United States, with a particular emphasis on debates about the meaning of the Second Amendment and attempts to hold gun manufacturers and sellers liable under tort law. Research paper required. No prerequisite courses.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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LAW 8793A      Health Law 1: Liability and Quality Issues in Health Care
Health Law 1: Liability and Quality Issues in Health Care
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8793B      Health Law II: Regulation, Organization and Finance
Health Law II: Regulation, Organization and Finance
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8796      Economics And The Law
Tools of economic analysis which have particular application in the law; equity and efficiency are weighed in regulation, pollution, discrimination, monopoly, financial markets, human resources and government expenditure and taxation policy. Principles will be introduced and expanded upon using both lecture and case study techniques.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8797      Business Torts And Unfair Competition
The common law applicable to relations between businesses that compete against each other or that cooperate with each other in the production and distribution of the same product. Tort, contract and property law principles as remedies not available in parallel statutory schemes, such as the antitrust or patent laws. Statutes that codify the common law or create statutory procedures or remedies for common law rights. (Consent of the instructor required for students who have taken Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law).
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8798      Copyright Law
Protection extended to works of authorship including literacy works, computer programs, works of applied art, sound recordings, photographs, etc. under U.S. copyright law. How protection for works is achieved, the nature of rights protected, transfer of rights, and infringement actions. Related common law rights that may exist under doctrines such as implied contract, unfair competition, right of privacy, and right of publicity. (Consent of the instructor is required for students who have taken Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Law).
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8800      Legal Research Thesis
Research for LL.M. thesis.
Credits: 1-8 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 8808I      International Intellectual Property
This course focuses on the main principles of protection and obligations of the signatories to the World Trade Organization Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement (GATT/TRIP's) - in particular focusing on the main intellectual property and Industrial property rights, including (1) Copyright, (2) Performers Rights, (3) Patents, (4) Trade Marks, and (5) Related rights such as unfair competition and the protection of geographical indications; and addresses what the obligations are that are imposed on signatories in respect of protection and enforcement of these rights.
Credits: 1 hours
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LAW 8808L      Intellectual Property Licensing
This course provides for advanced engagement with intellectual property concepts while also providing training in practical skills. The course will first entail reminding students of the differences among the three essential areas of intellectual property law (copyright, patent, and trademark) and indentifying how these differences translate into different standard license agreements. Additionally, students will consider the challenges in drafting a consolidated license agreement that transfers interests in multiple types of intellectual property. Second, the course will include considerable practice for students in drafting contract language.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8808S      Intellectual Property Remedies
This course will explore the remedies available to intellectual property owners and the protections available to those accused of infringing copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents. The course will delve into issues of how rapidly advancing technology has made it more difficult to apply the current remedies and explore whether they go too far or not far enough in protecting owners of intellectual property. It will also help students recognize that case evaluation does not end after analyzing whether liability exists.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8813      Employment Discrimination Law
Substantive and procedural aspects of Equal Employment Opportunity Act and related matters.
Credits: 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 8814E      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: 2 hours
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LAW 8814R      Employment Law
Survey of legal doctrines regulating the employment relationship, including the regulation of wages, hours and benefits; privacy in the workplace; workers' compensation; suits for unjust dismissal; drug and polygraph testing; and sexual harassment. May be offered as a seminar.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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LAW 8815      Products Liability
Theory and practice in products liability cases; negligence; misrepresentation; strict liability; theories of product defect; applicability of the Uniform Commercial Code including warranties and disclaimers; actions among members of the distribution chain.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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