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LAW 6104 - Evidence
The course will cover questions of relevance, hearsay, privilege, and expert testimony, among others, and it will focus largely on problems arising in concrete factual settings, as opposed to traditional case analysis. Major emphasis will be placed on the Federal Rules of Evidence, which now apply in the courts of roughly 40 states as well as the federal system.
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 6105 - Federal Courts
This course is about the federal judicial system and its relationship to various other decision-makers, including Congress and the state courts. We will examine the jurisdiction of the federal courts; the elements of a justiciable case or controversy; the role of state law and so-called “federal common law” in federal courts; implied causes of action; and state sovereign immunity.
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 6106 - Federal Income Tax
This course will concentrate on the provisions that apply to all taxpayers, with particular concern for the taxation of individuals. The course is intended to provide grounding in such fundamental areas as the concept of income, income exclusions and exemptions, non-business deductions, deductions for business expenses, basic tax accounting, assignment of income, and capital gains and losses.
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 6107 - International Law
This is the introductory course in public (government-to-government) international law. Topics include the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, recognition and statehood, diplomatic immunity, sovereign immunity, the law of the sea, torture, the Geneva and Hague Conventions, treaties, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization.
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 6109 - Corporations (Law & Business)
This course considers the formation and operation of corporations and will compare corporations to other business forms. It will examine the roles and duties of those who control businesses and the power of investors to influence and litigate against those in control. The course will also address the special problems of closely held corporations and issues arising out of mergers and attempts to acquire firms.
Credits: 4
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LAW 6112 - Environmental Law
In Environmental Law, we address pollution control under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts as well as natural resource protection under the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act. Although the primary focus will be on federal law, we will also explore some local, state and international dimensions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7000 - Admiralty
This course examines the basic substantive and procedural doctrines in federal admiralty law and compares them to analogous doctrines in other areas of law. Topics include: jurisdiction in admiralty, carriage of goods by sea, salvage, general average, collision, maritime torts for personal injury and death and environmental law on navigable waters.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7002 - Agency and Partnership
This course deals with the agency relationship and its consequences, focusing on such topics as contractual authority, vicarious liability, and fiduciary obligation. Using litigated cases, students will learn how to help clients structure their affairs in a manner consistent with their business goals, including minimizing unwanted liability.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7003 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
This course covers dispute resolution processes alternative to litigation, including negotiation, mediation, mini-trial, and others. Particular emphasis will be given to arbitration, its theoretical and statutory foundations, and its procedures.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7005 - Antitrust
This class studies American efforts to prevent the private subversion of free competition. In addition to analysis of the statutes and case law, students consider the history of antitrust regulation and the economic assumptions that drive much of its application.
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 7007 - Bankruptcy
This course will explore in detail some of the legal, theoretical, and practical issues raised by a debtor’s financial distress. Principal emphasis will be on how the Federal Bankruptcy Code uses or displaces otherwise applicable law as the provider of rules that govern the relationships among debtors, creditors and others.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7008 - Bioethics and the Law
This course explores the intersection among medicine, technology and the law. Topics may include human reproduction and birth, human genetics and the privacy and ownership of genetic information, death and dying, research involving human subjects, organ transplantation, and public health and bioterrorism.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7009 - Criminal Procedure Survey
In this course, we will explore the constitutional rules that constrain executive actors when they investigate crime and prosecute criminal defendants. Specifically, we study the degree to which the Fourth and Fifth Amendment limit police investigations and the ways in which constitutional guarantees of due process, equal protection, and trial by jury affect criminal prosecutions. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7018 and LAW 7019.
Credits: 4
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LAW 7010 - Communications Law
This course surveys the field of electronic communications. Major themes of the course include how to manage a “scarce” resource, the conflict between firms and between media, the conflict between competition and monopoly, the conflict between free speech and regulation, the conflict between self governance and regulation, and, the conflict between different regulators.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7011 - Comparative Constitutional Law
The seminar will explore the issues entailed in the drafting and uses of a constitution. To what extent do constitutions reflect universal values (such as human rights), and to what extent are they grounded in the culture and values of a particular people? How much borrowing goes on in the writing of a constitution?
Credits: 3
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LAW 7013 - Complex Civil Litigation
This course addresses the dramatic expansion of civil litigation in our society in recent years, and the accompanying development of new and often innovative procedural mechanisms for coping with that expansion. The class action will be given primary attention; other topics will include discovery, judicial control of complex cases, trial, and preclusion.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7014 - Conflict of Laws
This course examines the rules and principles that govern the resolution of multi-jurisdictional conflicts of laws in the United States. The central issue throughout the course is, simply, what law governs a multi-jurisdictional dispute? It considers various theoretical bases for choice of law principles, as well as the principal constitutional limitations on choice of law.
Credits: 2 to 3
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LAW 7015 - Constitutional History I: American Revolution to 1896
This course traces the history of American constitutional law development from the Articles of Confederation through the Civil War. Topics include the framing and ratification of the Constitution, the Alien and Sedition Acts, the landmark decisions of the Marshall Court, the constitutional ramifications of slavery, and various constitutional issues raised by the Civil War.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7016 - Constitutional History II: The Twentieth Century
This course examines, from a historical perspective, constitutional developments from the enactment of the Civil War amendments to the Brown decision involving school desegregation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7017 - Constitutional Law II: Religious Liberty
This course examines the two clauses in the Bill of Rights which define and safeguard religious freedom - the one barring laws “respecting an establishment of religion” and the other protecting the “free exercise of religion.” Is Mutually Exclusive with Religious Liberty
Prerequisite: LAW 6001 - Constitutional Law
Credits: 3
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LAW 7018 - Criminal Adjudication
This course looks at the way the judicial system operates once criminal charges are filed. Topics include bail and preventive detention, the right to the effective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial discretion and plea bargaining, the right to trial by jury, appeals from criminal convictions, and habeas corpus review.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7019 - Criminal Investigation
This course examines the constitutional jurisprudence that regulates the government’s investigation of crime and apprehension of criminal suspects. In particular, the course will focus on the doctrines by which the judiciary polices the police, including the primary remedy (suppression of evidence) for police misconduct.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7021 - Duty to Obey
This course examines debates concerning our (alleged) moral duty to obey the law, and, more generally, our “political obligations.” It explores the justifications that have been offered for the various kinds of legal disobedience. Readings are from contemporary sources in political philosophy and legal theory.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7022 - Employment Discrimination
This course focuses upon the principal federal statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex, especially Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It also examines the federal constitutional law of racial and sexual discrimination, primarily as it affects judicial interpretation of the preceding statutes.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7023 - Employment Law: Contracts, Torts, and Statutes
In contrast to the traditional labor law course, this course is an introduction to the diverse body of law that governs the individual employment relationship. The course examines a selection of the important issues that employment lawyers face in practice.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7024 - Banking and Financial Institutions
This course will examine the regulation of financial institutions, with an emphasis on federal regulation of banking.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7025 - Employment Law: Health and Safety
This course examines legal responses to work-related health and safety issues. The worker’s compensation system and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) are studied in some detail.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7027 - Regulation of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste
In this course we explore the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act or Superfund, which assigns liability for the cleanup of contaminated sites and accounts for the bulk of federal environmental litigation, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which establishes “cradle-to-grave” regulation of hazardous waste. We will also explore the regulation of toxic substances.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7029 - European Union Law
This course offers a comprehensive survey of the constitutional and legal structure of the European Union. After a brief historical introduction, the course will explore such fundamental structural features as sources and forms of European Union acts, the role of the Court of Justice and of fundamental rights, as well as current problems in European integration.
Credits: 2 to 3
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LAW 7030 - Family Law
This course focuses on the law surrounding intimate relationships between adults. In particular, we will focus on the institution of marriage and its changing scope and social meaning, divorce and its financial consequences, and the parent-child relationship, including establishing parenthood, adoption, child custody, and child support.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7031 - Federal Criminal Law
This course explores the scope and structure of federal crimes. The course covers the jurisdiction of the federal government over crime, including constitutional limitations; the emerging law of federal mens rea; four crimes that illustrate the enormous reach of the federal criminal law; and RICO, the most important organized crime statute in history. Broader policy issues are discussed.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7032 - Federal Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers
This course is an introduction to the federal taxation of gratuitous transfers made by individuals during life and at death.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7033 - First Amendment Freedoms
This elective sequel to the required introductory course focuses significantly on First Amendment doctrine and theory, including free speech, freedom of the press, and religion.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7034 - Food and Drug Law
This course considers the Food and Drug Administration as a case study of an administrative agency that must combine law and science to regulate activities affecting public health and safety.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7035 - Foreign Relations Law
This course examines the constitutional and statutory doctrines regulating the conduct of American foreign relations.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7036 - Contemporary Political Theory
In the latter half of the twentieth century, political liberalism has been the most influential theory of the state in the Western world. Philosophers, economists, legal academics, feminists, critical race scholars, and historians have sought to explain and justify the scope and limits of political coercion by debating the merits of liberalism.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7037 - Habeas Corpus
This course will explore remedies available to challenge criminal convictions. We will also examine systemic causes of faulty convictions such as: unreliable eye witness identifications, faulty forensic science, inadequate defense counsel, fabrication of evidence, suppression of evidence, and false and coerced confessions.
Credits: 3
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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: 2 to 4
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LAW 7046 - Current Issues in U.S. and International Patent Law
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: 2 to 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 7053 - Federal Criminal Law Beyond US Borders
Introduces a variety of problems posed by the investigation or prosecution of criminal laws in the international arena, and explores the foundations of international criminal law, including the bases for criminal jurisdiction. It then covers in depth two issues central to international criminal law, the extradition of fugitives and mutual legal assistance (international evidence gathering).
Credits: 3
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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: 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: 2
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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 to 4
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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 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 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 to 4
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LAW 7071 - Professional Responsibility
Professional Responsibility.
Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7071, 7072, 7134, or 7605 if any taken previously.
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.
Prerequisite:Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7071, 7072, 7134, or 7605 if any taken previously.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7073 - Public Health Law and Ethics
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.
Prerequisite: 2nd- or 3rd year or LLM status
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 to 4
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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 - Racial Justice 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. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7707 Race and Law (SC) and LAW 9058 Race and Law Seminar
Credits: 2 to 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 7093 - Law and Economics Colloquium (YR)
This is the first semester of a yearlong colloquium focusing on the interplay of law and economics.
Credits: 0
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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: 3 to 4
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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: 2 to 3
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LAW 7100 - Civil War and the Constitution
This course will examine the constitutional history of the United States from 1845 to 1877, paying attention to how the U.S. Constitution shaped the Civil War, and also to how the war left its mark on the Constitution. Cannot enroll if have taken Law 9203
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 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
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 7110 - Law of Politics
This course examines the variety of laws governing the political process in America; in particular, voting rights, redistricting, campaign finance, and lobbying and ethics regulation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7111 - Constitutional Law II:Survey of Civil Liberties
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: 3 to 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 7116 - Common Law I
In this course we explore the kinds of arguments made by lawyers in contested cases.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7117 - Consumer Law
This course surveys federal and state law regulating consumer lending and other consumer transactions. We will discuss the law as it now exists and as it is likely to evolve under the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Credits: 3
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