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LAW 7040 - Health Care Structure and Financing
This course will provide an overview of the structure and financing of the American health care system. It will provide a broad overview of American law and regulation as it applies to these areas.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7041 - Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice
An exploration of criminal law and the regulation of vice.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7042 - Immigration Law
This course introduces the complex substantive provisions of U.S. immigration laws and the procedures used to decide specific immigration-related issues. Attention is given to underlying constitutional, philosophical, and historical issues, and to the interaction of Congress, the courts, and administrative agencies regarding major public policy issues on immigration, including current anti-terrorism policy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7043 - Insurance
This course provides a working knowledge of basic insurance law governing insurance contract formation, insurance regulation, property, life, health, disability, and liability insurance, and claims processes. The emphasis throughout is on the link between traditional insurance law doctrine and modern ideas about the functions of private law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7044 - Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark
This is a survey course for students seeking a general introduction to intellectual property as opposed to concentrating on one or more of its special subjects. The main focus will be on Patent, Copyright and Trademark with a brief treatment of Trade Secrets and some common law treatments of intellectual property outside the realm of specially designed property rights.
Credits: 4
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LAW 7045 - Education Law, Policy, and Inequality
This course considers law and policy pertaining to elementary, secondary, and higher education focusing on how educational systems respond to inequality. Issues of race, gender, and class, which dominate legal and policy discussions of educational inequality, are the most prominent features of the course..
Credits: 3
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LAW 7046 - International Patent Law and Policy
This course will provide an introduction to key aspects of the international patent system and to concerns animating a variety of controversies regarding patents in areas such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and software.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7047 - Trademark Law
This course studies the law governing how brands may be legally protected. Topics include: trademarks as distinguished from other forms of intellectual property; searching and clearance; federal and state registration; common law origin of trademark protection in the law of unfair competition; trademark infringement; Internet domain names; international treaties relating to trademarks.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7048 - Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
This course will survey the theory and the law of trademarks and unfair competition. Topics include the acquisition of trademark rights; registration of trademarks; loss of trademark rights; infringement; false designation of origin; advertising; author’s and performers’ rights of attribution and publicity; dilution; Internet domain names; trademarks as speech, and remedies for trademark infringement.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7049 - Foundations of Climate Change Law and Policy
This course is a critical introduction to the law, economics and science of climate change policy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7050 - International and Foreign Legal Research
The main objectives of this course are to introduce students to the components of a complex international legal problem; develop research skills using print sources, online databases and the Internet; offer strategies for finding the law and information. Topics include public and private international law, arbitration, human rights, intellectual property, environmental law, and trade law.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7051 - International Business Transactions
This course deals with domestic and international regulations that affect transnational business transactions. Topics include choice of law and forum; international sales law; letters of credit and other payment mechanisms; business forms; technology transfer; foreign direct investment and its regulation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7052 - International Civil Litigation
This course examines the distinctive issues that arise when civil litigation takes on an international dimension, including personal jurisdiction, choice of law, enforcement of judgments, sovereign immunity, the developing law of human rights. Arbitration and discovery outside the United States are also considered.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7054 - International Deal Making: Legal and Business Aspects
This course will focus on the application of legal and business knowledge to real-world transactions in the international context. The course will enroll students who are interested in applying their knowledge to deal structuring, legal and business concerns, negotiations, documentation, and deal closing.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7055 - International Human Rights Law
This course focuses on the theory and practice of international human rights law including the basic principles as well as the international mechanisms and institutions established in the past half-century to protect human rights. The difficulties involved in converting those principles into practice and the effectiveness of different ways of using international human rights law to further human rights protection will also be explored.
Credits: 2 to 3
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LAW 7056 - Criminal Law in the Supreme Court
The course will consider several unedited United States Supreme Court opinions so that each case can be studied in its full procedural context. In addition to the substantive issues for which the cases have been selected, attention will be paid to Supreme Court practice and lower federal court procedures as they impact issues decided by the Supreme Court.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7057 - Judicial Role in American History
A survey of leading American Supreme Court judges from Marshall through the Burger Court. The course consists of lectures and readings, along with discussions of topics on contemporary issues.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7059 - Labor Law
This course is designed to provide a general introduction to the practice of law under the National Labor Relations Act from the late 1800s through passage of the Wagner Act (1935) and its modification by the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments. We will review the Act’s concept of concerted, protected activity, unfair labor practice or “ULP” and the way ULPs are processed through the Board and courts.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7060 - Land Use Law
This course will explore the regulation of land use, with an emphasis on the constitutional and environmental dimensions of land use law. The course will begin with the basic elements of the land development and regulation process, including the basics of planning and zoning. We will also address public ownership and private alternatives to regulation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7061 - Law and Literature
In the first half of the course, we read literature through texts drawn from two areas of substantive law: torts and immigration. In the second half of the course, we move away from these legal frameworks, and read cases and texts selected with recourse to a set of concepts that originate in literature and literary criticism. We will consider how legal storytelling sometimes subverts narrative forms and patterns to innovative ends.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7062 - Legislation
This course will examine both the theory and the practice of statutory interpretation. We will become familiar with the canons of construction frequently invoked by courts. Finally, we will consider some specialized but important topics in statutory interpretation, such as doctrines of severability and pre-emption.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7063 - Local Government Law
Local government law examines both the theoretical bases for decentralized government and the specific functions of local governments in the American legal and political system. The course utilizes legal cases as well as political and social theory in considering the proper distribution of powers among federal, state, regional, and local institutions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7064 - Nonprofit Organizations
The course surveys the role of nonprofits, reasons for use of the nonprofit form, and the different types of nonprofit organizations, with particular attention to the statutes governing nonprofit corporations. Topics include the formation, dissolution, and governance of nonprofits, state regulation of charitable solicitations, and tax and tax policy issues related to nonprofits.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7065 - Medical Malpractice and Health Care Quality
This course will examine the regulation of health care quality in the United States through medical malpractice liability, professional licensure, obligations flowing from the professional-patient relationship, and external and internal regulation of health care facilities (including accreditation, staff privileges, and peer review).
Credits: 3
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LAW 7066 - Mental Health Law
This course will address legal issues regarding the needs and rights of individuals with mental disorders. Topics include the nature and treatment of mental disorders; the right to treatment; civil commitment; competence; informed consent and the right to refuse treatment; the financing of mental health care; protection from discrimination; and the regulation and liability of mental health professionals.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7067 - National Security Law
Following the 9/11 attack, one of the fastest growing areas of legal inquiry has been national security law. This course is a comprehensive introduction, blending relevant international and national law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7068 - Oceans Law and Policy
The course begins by examining the goals of oceans policy. After a brief introduction to oceanography, the course moves into a detailed discussion of issues in international oceans policy. The course also explores issues in national oceans policy, focusing on Merchant Marine development, continental shelf development, coastal zone management, and the future of oceans policy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7069 - Philosophy of Law
The course focuses on selected issues mostly within what is broadly termed analytical and normative jurisprudence. Treatment ranges from traditional topics such as the nature of law, legal systems, and legal rights, to the role of moral theory in private law and legal justification. Recent contributions to such topics (e.g., legal pragmatism) are considered and assessed.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7070 - Presidential Powers
This course will consider a variety of issues involving the application of law to the president’s functions. Many such issues are of constitutional stature and fall under the general rubric of separation of powers or checks and balances. Therefore we will necessarily examine as well the powers vested in other branches of government.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7071 - Professional Responsibility
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Credits: 2 to 3
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LAW 7072 - Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Law Practice
This course will examine selected areas of professional responsibility, including the creation and termination of the attorney-client relationship, the scope of representation, conflicts of interests, confidentiality, and the attorney’s ethical obligations during litigation. In addition, the course will address the attorney’s relationships with the courts, the organized bar, and the community.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7073 - Germs, Guns, and Lead: Public Health Law and Policy
This course will explore the legitimacy, design, and implementation of policies aiming to promote public health and reduce the social burden of disease and injury. It will highlight the challenge posed by public health’s population-based perspective to traditional individual-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics and constitutional law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7074 - Professional Sports and the Law
The course focuses on the practical application of contract law, antitrust law, and to some extent arbitration and negotiation of disputes and current legal issues relating to the sports industry. Particular attention will be given to professional sports leagues and individual sports, as well as their practical application to the business of sports today.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7075 - Quantitative Methods
This course provides an introduction to the basic mathematical tools that a lawyer needs. The topics covered are drawn principally from probability, statistics, and finance. The course emphasizes the use of statistical and quantitative reasoning in litigation (such as employment discrimination, toxic tort, and voting rights cases) and in policy debates.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7076 - Rescue, Charity, and Justice
This course will explore the nature and the implications of the positive duties we owe to others (that is, the duties we have to positively assist others, not merely to refrain from directly harming them). The course will consider possible philosophical foundations for such duties and arguments for and against creating or preserving positive legal duties.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7077 - Refugee Law and Policy
This course examines the basics of refugee law and the procedures involved in adjudicating claims to political asylum. Topics include: theory and philosophy of refugee protection, comparative refugee law, gender-based persecution claims, “temporary protected status,” the role of the UN, treaties concerning refugees, and extradition law (including the political offense exception).
Credits: 3
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LAW 7078 - Remedies
Remedies is a transubstantive course crossing the boundaries both within private law and between private and public law. This course will examine the relationship between liability and remedy across diverse areas of law. While emphasis will be placed on private law remedies, public law remedies will be considered at some depth for purposes of comparison.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7079 - Rights
This seminar will examine the nature of and possible justifications for claims of right. Readings will be from both classical and contemporary sources, including the works of philosophers, legal theorists, and political theorists.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7080 - Health Law Survey
This course is designed to provide a survey of the spectrum of topics generally considered part of “health law.” It will introduce the various institutions and players involved in health care delivery and the legal relationships between those institutions–at both the state and federal level.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7081 - Schools, Race, and Money
This course examines the “right” to equal educational opportunity, and the various legal efforts at the state and federal level to improve elementary and secondary educational opportunities. Topics include school desegregation, school finance litigation, school choice, and the federal government’s role in expanding the educational opportunities of low-income and disabled students.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7082 - Secured Transactions
This course covers the essential provisions and structure of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The law of secured transactions facilitates the taking of security interests by creditors to secure loans they make to debtors. The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the Code sufficient to enable them to structure secured transactions and litigate secured claims successfully.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7083 - Secured Transactions (Law and Business)
This course is an introduction to debt financing, with particular emphasis on the use and enforcement of security interests in collateral and on the priority structure of creditor claims against a business organization. While focusing on personal property security interests (and UCC Article 9), we will also discuss provisions of state statutes governing mortgages and of the federal Bankruptcy Code.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7085 - Social Science in Law
This course deals with the uses of social science by practitioners and courts. The roots of social science in legal realism are considered, and the basic components of social science methodology are introduced. No background in methodology or statistics is necessary. Both applications in the criminal context and in civil law will be considered.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7086 - Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence
Credits: 3
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LAW 7087 - Sports Law
This course explores the legal rules regulating professional and amateur sports. There is a substantial treatment of both Labor Law and Antitrust regulation, but neither course is a prerequisite.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7088 - Law and Public Service
This course will introduce students to law and public service, broadly defined to include all careers that serve the public interest, from litigating civil rights cases to prosecuting and defending criminal suspects to providing legal services for indigent clients to representing local, state, and federal government agencies to working for an international human rights organization and everything in between.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7089 - Race and Law
This course will examine the response of law to racial issues in a variety of contemporary legal contexts. Topics may include criminal justice, education, employment, interracial relationships and adoption, hate speech, voting.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7090 - Regulation of the Political Process
A web of constitutional, statutory, and judge-made laws regulate the American political process. This course will examine these laws and their implications for three broad and important issues: participation, aggregation, and governance. Participation involves the right to vote and various restrictions thereon, aggregation involves apportionment and redistricting, and governance involves campaign finance and the role of political parties.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7091 - Water Law
This course will review state and federal laws governing water and disputes between competing water uses. Topics will include public rights to water and resolving water use disputes; protecting water quality of lakes, rivers, and streams; federal laws affecting the allocation and use of water (the Clean Water Act, the Federal Power Act, the Endangered Species Act) and the law governing interstate water disputes.
Credits: 2 to 3
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LAW 7092 - International Trade Law and Policy
This course introduces the institutions and rules governing trade between sovereign states. Policy perspectives are taken from international economic theory and theories of international relations. The focus is the emergent World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and various institutions of U.S. trade policy. The course also considers the impact of trade policy on the environment, labor, and competition policy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7093 - Law and Economics Colloquium (YR)
This is the first semester of a yearlong colloquium focusing on the interplay of law and economics.
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LAW 7094 - Law and Economcs Colloquium (YR)
This is the second semester of a yearlong colloquium focusing on the interplay of law and economics.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7095 - Law of Work
This course combines topics of an Employment Law course (75%) with a survey of Labor Law issues (25%; relations between employers and unions). The course has a problem-solving format.
Credits: 4
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LAW 7096 - Themes in Law and Biomedicine (YR)
This is the first semester of a yearlong course exploring curent issues in law and biomedicine.
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LAW 7097 - Themes in Law and Biomedicine (YR)
This is the second semester of a yearlong course exploring curent issues in law and biomedicine.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7098 - Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills
This class will examine and explore those tactics and strategies which public interest lawyers routinely employ, and those obstacles and dilemmas that public interest lawyers must often confront, with a particular focus on the advocacy work that takes place outside of, or in conjunction with, litigation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7099 - Law of Charitable Giving
This course will explore state and federal law governing who is eligible to receive charitable contributions, restrictions on the use of these assets, and how much control a donor can maintain. The course will also examine the role of state attorneys general and the Internal Revenue Service in regulating charitable gifts.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7100 - Law and Economics
Illustrates the uses - and the limitations - of economic analysis in representative areas of the law, ranging from trial advocacy to abstract legal theory. A structured set of legal problems with significant economic content is used to acquaint the student with those technical economics tools most likely to be of use to a lawyer.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7101 - Natural Resource Law and Policy
The course has the analytical goals of ensuring that students acquire basic competence in techniques in statutory and regulatory interpretation, become acquainted with the history and political economy of natural resource regulation ’ and in particular with the steady movement to federalization ’ and begin to develop the ability to critically analyze and question the scientific basis for federal resource management decisions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7102 - Religious Liberty
This is a survey course on issues of religious liberty arising under the Free Exercise Clause, the Establishment Clause, the Test Oath Clause, state constitutional provisions, and modern religious liberty legislation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7103 - Law and Education
This course will primarily focus on the ways in which law structures educational opportunity. We will cover the legal and policy issues involved in school desegregation, school finance litigation, school choice, standards and testing (including the No Child Left Behind Act), and special education.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7104 - Torts II
An overview of issues that are not covered in the first semester of Torts, such as some dimensions of defective products, defamation, privacy, and intentional economic harm.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7105 - Modern Real Estate
This course provides an introduction to the basic components of the residential real estate transaction with an emphasis on the listing agreement, the contract of sale, deeds of conveyance, title assurance (public and private), real estate finance, foreclosure and deficiency judgments.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7106 - Law of the Police
This course will explore the web of interacting federal, state, and local laws that govern the police and police departments.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7107 - Property II: A CaseFile Course
This course continues the study of basic property law and theory.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7108 - Real Estate Finance Law
This course will provide an introduction to real estate transactions and financing, including mortgages, foreclosure, the regulation of mortgage lending, the secondary market for home loans, government intervention in the housing market, and details of land transactions such as contracts of sale, recording, and brokerage agreements.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7109 - Constitutional Structure
This course will examine the structural elements that make up the constitutional process.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7110 - Federal Navigation and Water Resources
Topics addressed in detail will include the evolution of federal authority over the navigable waters of the United States for navigation and flood control; legal and environmental issues involved in the planning, construction, and operation of multipurpose federal water resource development projects by federal and state agencies, and the role of the federal government in municipal and industrial water supply.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7111 - Civil Liberties Survey
This is a survey of individual rights under the Constitution, excluding equal protection and criminal procedure. The allocation of time to subjects will be somewhat uneven, largely reflecting the interests of the casebook editors.
Credits: 4
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LAW 7112 - Energy Regulation and Policy
The first part of this course will provide a basic foundation in the economic, legal, and political aspects of energy regulation, renewable energy, and energy efficiency. The second part will address the major U.S. energy legislation since World War II and any pending climate change legislation and/or Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7113 - Law and Game Theory
This course introduces law students to game theory as a tool of positive and normative analysis of law. Game theory is the branch of economics that focuses on the formal analysis of strategic interaction.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7114 - Native American Law
This course provides an introduction to Native American law (or ‘Federal Indian law’ or ‘American Indian law’). The subject matter is the legal relationships among Indian nations and the U.S. government, state governments, and individuals. The course will cover both the historical development of Native American law and contemporary issues, including tribal sovereignty, property, natural resources, gaming, and civil and criminal jurisdiction.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7115 - Pretrial Litigation Skills
In this course, students will learn and practice the skills associated with the pretrial phase of civil litigation in the federal district courts.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7600 - Admiralty (SC)
This short course will examine the basic substantive and procedural doctrines in federal maritime law and compare them to analogous doctrines in other areas of law. Among the topics to be covered are: jurisdiction in admiralty, carriage of goods by sea, collision, personal injury and wrongful death, salvage, and piracy.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7601 - Commercial Law in the Context of the People’s Republic of China (SC)
This short course will look closely at certain areas of Chinese law that directly impact non-Chinese investors that establish companies in China.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7602 - Comparative Democratic Constitutionalism (SC)
This intensive short course will examine the constitutions and constitutional jurisprudence of the U.S., Germany, Canada and South Africa.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7603 - Corporate Law Policy (SC)
This short course will discuss works on pressing issues in corporate law policy such as misreporting of corporate performance, differences between US and Europe and corporate law reforms.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7604 - Ethical Issues in Foreign Policy (SC)
This sort course will explore ethical issues in foreign policy.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7605 - Ethics, Integrity, and Avoiding “Club Fed” (SC)
Avoiding “Club Fed” starts with consistently making sound ethical choices throughout a career. In this short course we will discuss real situations in which ethical issues arise for attorneys and their clients. Many situations will come from current press reports; others will come from the less publicized dilemmas that often confront young professionals. Our focus will be on the private practice of law and business clients.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7606 - Finance of Small Enterprise (SC)
This short course deals with the business and legal issues that arise in financing a small business from its startup to an eventual exit of the founder through a sale or IPO. This course is from the perspective of small business senior management and deals with the range of financing options and the pros and cons of each as a business is started and grows.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7607 - Death Penalty: An International Perspective (SC)
This short course will cover the issue of capital punishment from an international perspective. We will discuss the history of capital punishment, the influence of international law and the human rights movement, the legal and moral issues involved in its application.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7608 - Plea Bargaining (SC)
This short course will focus on plea bargaining and the guilty plea system in modern America.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7609 - Rhetoric (SC)
This short course will focus on readings from Aristotle, Cicero, and other ancients and modern rhetoric writers, lectures on rhetorical style and substance, review and analysis of video tapes of distinguished oral presentations, informal discussion, student presentation of three video taped speeches and critique thereof.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7610 - French Public and Private Law (SC)
This short course will study the various sources of French Law, the French Civil Code, the increasing significance of case law and the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights, Towards a European Civil Code, basic principles of contracts and new directions, key notions on torts (recent trends in case law) and modern trends in family law (spouse, so-called Pacs, effects of foreign polygamy and repudiation in France, inheritance).
Credits: 1
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LAW 7611 - Economic Crisis: Causes and Cures (SC)
This short course surveys the events of the U.S. economic crisis and proposed regulatory reforms.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7612 - Genetics and the Law (SC)
This class explores various legal/policy issues that arise in the context of the new genetic technologies.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7613 - Globalization and International Civil Litigation (SC)
This short course will examine traditional principles of private international law in the context of the rapidly changing global business environment. Areas covered will include the concept of international jurisdiction, choice of law rules in inter-jurisdictional contracts and in internet transactions, the implications of electronic commerce for private international law, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7614 - Governance and Control of the Multinational Business Enterprise (SC)
This short course examines the methods for internal governance and control of the multi-national business enterprise with emphasis on internal structure, enterprise culture, local and regional legal regimes, the significance of business and economic environments, public opinion and politics, and selected legal issues.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7615 - Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates (SC)
A study of Subchapter J of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code ’ the Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates. In this short course we will examine the ways in which the process of determining income tax liability for these two taxable entities is the same as that for taxing the income of individuals and the important ways in which the process differs. Prerequisite: Law 6106
Credits: 1
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LAW 7616 - Indian Law (SC)
The legal relationships between Indian tribes and national and state governments define a distinctive but growing body of federal law. Influenced by the history of European “invasion” of North America and anchored in decisions rendered by the Supreme Court, the course is not only a study of legal history, but also a story about contemporary legal conflicts that frequently spill over into Congress and the federal courts.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7617 - International Banking Transactions (SC)
This short course is an introduction by a banker (and former lawyer) into basic international banking products and transactions, such as loans, deposits, forwards, futures, swaps, options and securitizations. Discussions will focus on the purpose of these transactions, their economic / financial workings, legal requirements, documentation and advisory needs and will give an introduction into regulatory aspects driving these transactions.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7618 - International Financial Crimes (SC)
This short course looks at the criminalization of financial transactions that may arise in the course of operating an international business. Focused principally on U.S. federal criminal law, we will also consider international agreements relating to bribery and money laundering. The class will concentrate on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and wire and mail fraud.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Law 6003 - Criminal Law
Credits: 1
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LAW 7619 - Start-Up of a Biotech Company (SC)
This short course will provide insight into the peculiar issues of the financing of a biotechnology company and will touch on the entrepreneur’s evaluation of a scientific opportunity, the business issues in negotiating and drafting a patent license term sheet, the key elements of the business plan, and developing and delivering a power point presentation to potential investors.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7620 - Taxation and Economic Development (SC)
This short course asks a simple question: what role does a country’s tax system play in assisting (or impeding) the country’s economic development goals? Our special focus is on trying to answer that question in the context of a developing country. The course assumes that participants already have a basic understanding of the goals and impacts of tax and transfer systems.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7621 - Textualism and Its Critics (SC)
This short course will examine textualism as a method of statutory interpretation. We will address the following questions: What is textualism? What are the arguments for it? And what are the arguments against? In discussing these questions, we will consider the goals of statutory interpretation, the nature of legislative intention, and the value of various legal sources in determining the meaning of enacted law.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7622 - Trade Secrets: History, Theory, and Practice (SC)
Unlike patents, trade secrets represent long held and utilized secret information and processes. In 2007, the federal courts signaled a retrenchment in patent protection in three major decisions which will the initial discussion topic for this short course. These decisions make clear that there now are even more reasons to understand and utilize trade secret law as a method of protecting intellectual property.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7623 - Mergers and Acquisitions: Corporate Finance Perspectives (SC)
This short course will explore merger and acquisition activity primarily from the perspective of the corporate actors (management and board of directors) and their investment banking and legal advisors. Emphasis is on a practical introduction to mergers and acquisitions of publicly-traded companies.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7624 - Virginia and the Constitution (SC)
In the 400 years since its first settlement, Virginia has been intimately intertwined with the central themes of American constitutionalism ’ the idea of rights, the balance between national and state power, the nature of religious liberty, the problem of race and discrimination, etc. In this short course, we will consider selected persons, documents, and events which illuminate those themes.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7625 - Negotiation Institute (SC)
This course examines the negotiation process from both a theoretical and a practical perspective including the different stages of the negotiation process, negotiator styles, verbal and non-verbal communication, negotiation techniques, the impact of gain/loss framing on participant risk aversion, and other factors that influence negotiation interactions.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7626 - Oral Presentations In and Out of the Courtroom (SC)
This short course is designed to help students improve their ability to communicate persuasively in the wide variety of settings in which non-litigators are called upon to speak including client meetings, business negotiations, and presentations to public agencies.
Credits: 2
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