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LAW 7120 - Monetary Constitution
This course will focus on the financial infrastructure of our nation’s government. Key issues addressed include the national debt, central banking, the budget process, grants to individual states and economic growth.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7122 - Private Equity and Hedge Funds
This class will examine the securities, contractual, and tax aspects of forming, managing, and investing in private equity and hedge funds. Topics will include fund organizational structure, manager compensation, 1940 Act and Dodd Frank issues, tax issues, and practical aspects of fund documentation, among others. Prior or concurrent enrollment in Corporations and Federal Income Tax is recommended, but not required.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7123 - Class Actions and Aggregate Litigation
The course will begin by exploring whether the class action device that allows civil claims to be resolved in the aggregate has proved to be effective for deterring illegal activity and compensating those who suffer from it. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 9132 Class Actions and Complex Litigation seminar.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7124 - Remedies II
This course is a follow-up to the introductory Remedies course designed to complete the survey of important remedial topics.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7125 - Practical Trust and Estate Administration
This course covers advanced and applied topics in estate planning and probate, wealth management, trust and estate administration, and trust, estate, and fiduciary litigation. The course focuses on the role of an attorney as executor or trustee, and the role of an attorney in advising executors, trustees, and beneficiaries.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7126 - Behavioral Decisionmaking and the Law
Economics assumes people are rational, law assumes people are compliant, but is it really so? In recent years both disciplines have come to incorporate more and more research from psychology and other social sciences about actual human behavior. We will read research about factors that affect human decision-making and then apply it to substantive and procedural issues in law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7128 - Commercial Sales Transactions: Domestic and International
This course covers the law governing domestic and international sales of goods. It also treats legal and institutional rules applicable to important aspects of the transport of goods and payment.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7129 - Constitutional Law II: Parents, Children and Reproduction
This course is an advanced constitutional law class focusing on issues concerning the parent-child relationship and reproductive rights.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7130 - International Financial Regulation
This course will examine the regulation of international finance. It will cover topics such as: cross-border aspects of U.S. banking and securities regulation; financial regulation in the European Union; financial market development in China; coordinated regulation and resolution of global financial firms; cross-border financial derivatives; and monetary issues, including global imbalances, sovereign debt, and the Euro crisis.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7131 - Criminology
This course introduces law students to the scientific study of violent crime, including factors that give rise to violence and those that may account for the remarkable decline in violence in recent years.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7132 - Slavery and the Constitution
This course will address how the Constitution dealt with the institution of slavery in America. We will focus on the framing and ratifying of the Constitution’s provisions relating to slavery, including the compromises they embodied; we will look at how lawyers argued over the Constitution’s application to various aspects of slavery, and we will consider how courts responded to those arguments.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7133 - Business and Governmental Tort Liability
The emphasis throughout this course is on the bases for the imposition of liability and the constraints (including constitutional limits) on liability. Separate consideration also is given to categories of recoverable damages and to the nature and impact of liability insurance.
Prerequisite: If enrolled in LAW 7104 cannot take LAW 7133
Credits: 3
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LAW 7134 - Professional Responsibility for Tax Lawyers
This course examines the rules of professional conduct for lawyers, with a particular emphasis on the application of those rules to tax lawyers. We will study the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (which set ethical rules for all lawyers), Treasury Department Circular 230 (which sets additional ethical rules for tax lawyers), and the civil-penalty regime of the Internal Revenue Code (which sets rules for tax lawyers and their clients).
Prerequisite:Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7071, 7072, 7134, or 7605 if any taken previously.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7135 - Law and Economics
The economic analysis of law has generated foundational insights and a handful of Nobel prizes. It guides many scholars, judges, practitioners, and policy-makers, and it provides one of the major theoretical perspectives on the study of law. This course introduces the topic.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7136 - Regulatory Law and Policy
This course focuses on the cross-cutting elements of risk regulation to provide students with a set of general tools and concepts that can inform area-specific advanced courses and be applied in many different practice settings. This course complements the material covered in Administrative Law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7137 - Advanced Civil Procedure
This course is designed to review in more depth the key topics that you studied in first-year Civil Procedure and to cover additional procedures for which there is typically insufficient time in the first-year course.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7138 - Advanced Topics in Securities Regulation
The course will examine the federal statutes and regulations relating to securities transactions and the duties of issuers, underwriters, officers, directors, controlling persons, and other significant market participants. We will discuss the regulation of public and private offerings, secondary trading markets, and disclosure by publicly traded companies.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7139 - Common Law II
In this course we explore the kinds of arguments made by lawyers in contested cases.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7140 - Federalism
This course will explore the division of authority between the states and the national government. We will cover the history and theory of American federalism as well as modern aspects of federal-state interaction, including limits on federal and state power, federal common law, and cooperation between the state and federal governments.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7141 - Energy and the Environment
This course will explore the legal and environmental issues in the development of energy resources.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7142 - Arbitration
This course will examine published cases and materials, and also perform in-class exercises, based on contemporary arbitration issues.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7143 - Youth Law
This course covers selected legal aspects of the law governing parents and children, with a particular focus on the changing legal status of adolescents and young adults.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7144 - Negotiation
The goal of this class is to introduce students to negotiation theory, with a focus on the collaborative negotiation method used by most successful negotiators today.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7145 - Rules
In this course, students will learn to read, interpret, draft, aggregate, manipulate, and improve rules embodied in contracts, statutes, treaties, constitutions, customs, sports, and games. We will write, and explore the implications of, rules in assignments involving individual work, small-group work, and class discussion. Grade depends on exercises and short papers undertaken throughout the semester.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7146 - National Security and Information
The course explore the laws that govern the relationship between information and national security institutions, both the governments use of information and its attempts to control uses of information by others.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7147 - Employee Benefits Law
Federal law closely regulates employer-provided retirement, health, and welfare benefits. In this course, we will examine key federal statutes for this important and dynamic area of the law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7148 - Employment Law: Wage & Hour Regulation (Lecture)
The lecture will examine the laws, regulations and policies governing wages.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7149 - Graduate Research Colloquium (YR)
This course is the first half of a year-long colloquium designed for students enrolled in the Graduate Program. It will include an introduction to major schools of legal thought and research methods, as well as sessions in which students will present their works in progress.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7150 - Graduate Research Colloquium (YR)
This course is the second half of a year-long colloquium designed for students enrolled in the Graduate Program. It will include an introduction to major schools of legal thought and research methods, as well as sessions in which students will present their works in progress.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7151 - Law and Economics II: Public Law and Economics
Students will analyze fundamental lawmaking processes, including bargaining, voting, and delegating, as well as legal institutions like courts and administrative agencies.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7152 - Tax Policy
This course will examine the legal, economic, and political considerations relevant to formulating tax policy.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7153 - Restitution and Unjust Enrichment
This lecture course will survey the principal restitutionary causes of action and the principal restitutionary remedies.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7154 - Advanced Environmental Law
Advanced Environmental Law will engage students on complex problems under a broad selection of federal environmental statutes and their state counterparts, including interstate air pollution reduction and trading regimes, management programs for large watersheds and ecosystems, liability schemes for contaminated sites and natural resource damages, and chemical risk assessment and risk management.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7155 - Topics in Banking and Financial Regulation
The goal of this course is to give students a basic understanding of the law and economics of financial regulation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7156 - Constitutional Law II: Money and Constitutional Rights
This course will examine the relationship between money and constitutional rights.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7157 - Urban Law and Policy Lecture
This course will examine the legal, economic, and political forces that have shaped American metropolitan areas with particular attention to the policies that have shaped American cities and suburbs.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7158 - Positive Political Theory & Regulatory Process (Lecture)
This lecture course introduces students to the use of positive political theory (PPT) to explain and critique important aspects of administrative and public law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7159 - Military Law
This lecture course will provide students with a broad introduction to and overview of the main areas of practice for military lawyers, including military justice, administrative & civil law, fiscal law, and operational law.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7160 - Computer Crime
This lecture course will address the rapidly-changing field of computer crime and data privacy, surveying the major domestic authorities in the area, such as the Wiretap Act, the Pen/Trap statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Fourth Amendment, as applied to computers.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7161 - State and Local Government Law
This course closely examines the theories and legal rules behind state and local government authority. Special focus will be put on the ways local law spatially and socially organizes American society, the rules governing intergovernmental conflict and cooperation, and the role of state and local governments in furthering or frustrating democratic participation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7162 - International Finance
This course will examine the regulation of international finance and how that regulation affects cross-border financial activities and transactions. After an introduction to the history of modern international finance and regulatory cooperation efforts, it will cover U.S. and European regulation of cross-border banking and securities, capital adequacy rules, financial derivatives, sovereign debt restructurings, and other selected topics.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7163 - Legislation and Regulation
Legislation and Regulation is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the way Congress and administrative agencies adopt binding rules of law (statutes and regulations, respectively) and the way that implementing institutions – courts and administrative agencies – interpret and apply these laws.
Credits: 3 to 4
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LAW 7164 - Law and Psychology: Wrongful Convictions
This lecture course surveys the psychology research regarding behaviors in the criminal justice system – by police, prosecutors, jurors, judges, and witnesses – that can result in wrongful convictions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7165 - Writing Legal History
Students in this course will write a paper based on original research in legal history (approx. 40 pages expected). During class sessions, students will be introduced to the basics of the discipline of legal history and learn how to incorporate these ideas into their own original projects. Additionally, students will meet individually with the instructor to discuss the progress of their research over the course of the semester.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7166 - Law and American History: From the Colonial Years through the Civil War
A survey of the relationship between law and American history from the colonial years through the Civil War. Topics to be covered include law and the conditions of agricultural household life, law and the founding of the American republic, the emergence of the Supreme Court, law and entrepreneurship, law and the dissolution of the Union, and law in the Civil War.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7167 - Law and American History: From Reconstruction through the 1920s
A survey of the relationship between law and American history from Reconstruction through the 1920s.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7168 - Legal History of the Early Republic: The Age of Marshall
Readings will include Marshall Court opinions as well as a wide range of other primary and secondary sources. We will discuss the economic, political, and social movements of the 1800s-1830s, with a focus on the influence of these movements on law and government structure.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7169 - Food Law
This course provides an introduction to the laws regulating food safety and food labeling and advertising in the United States. Topics to be addressed include federal regulation of adulterated and misbranded food products; enforcement and inspections; food recalls and crisis response; and state and local food regulation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 7500 - JAG School Course
A series of Law courses specific to military application. The series will be designated by different sections of the course.
Credits: 1 to 4
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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 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 7605 - Ethics and Integrity for Law Firm Lawyers and Their Clients (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: 2
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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 7612 - Genetics and the Law (SC)
This class explores various legal/policy issues that arise in the context of the new genetic technologies.
Credits: 1 to 2
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LAW 7613 - Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (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 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.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7616 - Native American 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.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7619 - Start-Up of a Medtech 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 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: 1 to 2
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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. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 9053, 9055, and 9185. Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7626, 9053, 9055, or 9185 if any taken previously.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7627 - Personal Injury Law (SC)
This course examines the trial of a typical personal injury case from claim investigation, pleadings, discovery, and trial to post trial motions and appeal, focusing on both legal doctrines and tort litigation strategy. Tort law theory and its practical operations will be discussed as well as proposals for tort reform as applied to auto accidents, medical malpractice, and product liability.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7628 - White Collar Topic: Cover-up Crimes (SC)
From lying to shredding documents to hiding witnesses, conduct aimed at concealing matters under investigation has become a prosecutor’s favorite for investigation in its own right This course surveys the criminal laws applicable to efforts to cover-up the facts, and their severe consequences.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7631 - Applied Problem Solving (SC)
This short course surveys applied problem solving concepts that can be used to find the optimal solution to a given business opportunity or challenge.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7633 - Selected Topics in Consumer Bankruptcy (SC)
This short course will examine selected topics in consumer bankruptcy and insolvency.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7635 - Legal Sources and Decision-making: Theoretical Perspectives (SC)
Twentieth-century European legal theory was dominated by the question of what gives law its validity, whereas American legal theorists have been preoccupied with rather different questions. Yet in Europe and the United States, legal theorists have ultimately found themselves worrying about much the same set of problems.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7637 - Trial Advocacy College (SC)
The Trial Advocacy College is a week-long course offered each January through the offices of Virginia Continuing Legal Education (CLE). This advocacy skills, hands-on course is the most advanced advocacy training offered at the law school. Each student gets to practice every aspect of advocacy culminating in a jury trial.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7641 - Corporate Strategy (SC)
This course is an introduction to corporate strategy and performance.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7644 - Private Equity (SC)
Private equity firms have become one of the largest and most important players in the capital markets. Understanding how these lucrative entities function and how their acquisitions are structured will serve as a vehicle for a survey discussion of corporate M&A and building a legal practice in this area.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7645 - Baseball (SC)
This course examines the effect of various laws and law-like rules on Major League Baseball. Suitable for non-experts and will include (optional) session aimed at bringing them up to speed.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7646 - Advising the Board of Directors in a Mergers and Acquisitions World (SC)
This course will examine some of the issues corporate boards confront when considering merger and acquisition transactions, including (i) board and management conflicts, (ii) financial and legal advisors, (iii) an appropriate sales process, (iv) hostile bidders, (v) deal protection measures, and (vi) anticipating possible litigation, and will discuss the nature of the advice that counsel should provide a board in each context.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7648 - Federal Sentencing (SC)
This short course will provide an overview of federal sentencing policy and practice. Students will be introduced to the history and goals of sentencing, the types of sentences available to judges, the collateral consequences of conviction, and the sentencing reform movement that led to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7651 - The Fed in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (SC)
This short course will explore at a high level the role of the Federal Reserve, its reponse to the financial crisis in the fall of 2008 and the implications of the crisis for the Fed and the financial services industry.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7653 - Leadership and Team Management (SC)
In this short course we will explore the issues of team management and leadership applied in various settings. Students will learn about how failures in leadership evolve and how to prevent them; how to manage crises effectively; and how to build an organization that is less susceptible to significant preventable failures.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7654 - National Security, Human Rights, and the Courts (SC)
Terrorism against individuals and states has become a serious challenge for civilized societies at the turn of the 21st century - due to the physical threats it poses on the one hand and the fear that taking extreme measures against its perpetrators will overstep democratic values and infringe human rights on the other hand. The course is dedicated to analyzing the ways legal systems perceive terror and try to fight it.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7656 - Islamic Law (SC)
This course will provide students with a basic introduction to Islamic law as a legal system, beginning with its origins as revealed law, proceeding through its manifestations as a ‘jurists law’ in the middle ages, and concluding with its transformation into codified state-law in the 20th century.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7658 - Topics in Corporate Governance (SC)
In this short course we will examine the topics in corporate governance of publicly held corporations. Each class will consider one of the following topics: (1) Institutions and Mechanisms of Corporate Governance (2) Enron-class Scandals and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (3) Regulatory Competition (4) Shareholder Activism (5) Major Differences in Corporate Governances around the world.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7659 - National Security Detention (SC)
This short course will attempt to de-tangle and examine the difficult issues present in the still evolving U.S. national security detention system set up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, from the perspective of traditional civilian habeas corpus law and the international law of war and human rights.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7660 - Defamation (SC)
A survey of the common law and constitutional dimensions of defamation law.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7670 - Legal Issues at the End of Life (SC)
This short course will examine ethical and legal issues at the end of life, including withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, physician-assisted suicide, definitions of death, and organ harvesting.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7671 - Poverty and the Constitution (SC)
This course will explore the Supreme Court’s flirtation with constitutional protection for poor people during the 1960s and 1970s.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7672 - Hedge Funds: Contract and Regulation (SC)
This course will offer an introduction to the regulation and contractual structure of hedge funds. We will closely read model hedge fund operating agreements and will pay careful attention to the unusual ways in which these funds structure relationships between investors and managers. We will also survey some of the statutes and regulations that apply to hedge funds and some of the relevant academic literature.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7673 - Military Law (SC)
This course is an overview of the domestic and international law relevant to the United States armed forces. No prior knowledge is required; the course is suitable for both experienced students and for those with limited or no understanding of the U.S. military.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7674 - Israeli Health Law and Bioethics (SC)
In this short course, students will be introduced to the Israeli health system including patients rights, medical malpractice, organ donation, end-of-life decisions, reproductive medicine and genetic research.
Credits: 2
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LAW 7678 - Structural Social Change and Constitutionalism (SC)
This seminar has two specific aims: on the one hand, to explore the theoretical and practical tensions and connections between structural social change and the judiciary in Colombia, South Africa and India; and, on the other hand, to analyze critically the idea that the Indian Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the Colombian Constitutional Court are creating a constitutionalism of the Global South.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7679 - Education Rights and Enforcement (SC)
This course will explore major issues in education law and policy through the lens of state constitutional education rights, and enforcement of those rights in the courts. The course will examine the substantial body of litigation over the last 50 years challenging inequities in state public school funding, and the resulting disparities in resources and outcomes for students.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7682 - Innocence Cases: How Much Is Enough? (SC)
A survey of three infamous innocence cases - Troy Davis, Damien Echols and Marty Tankleff - to consider why the result in each case turned out so differently: Davis was executed, Echols was freed after an Alford plea, while Tankleff was exonerated completely.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7683 - Presidentialism in Administrative Law (SC)
This short course will explore the doctrine of “presidentialism” in administrative law. Presidentialism refers to the argument that most of the workings of the administrative state are exercises of executive power and these workings must therefore be under the control of the President. The seminar will examine the history of this concept, case law relating to this concept, and this concept through the lens of administrative law theory.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7684 - Constitutional Issues in Higher Education (SC)
This short course will explore constitutional questions presented by recent litigation involving public universities. Topics will include: affirmative action, campus speech codes, whether student organizations may be required to adhere to non-discrimination policies, funding of religious student organizations, and academic freedom.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7690 - Health Care Marketplace: Competition, Regulation, and Reform (SC)
This short course will examine salient features of the legal and economic framework in which we provide medical care in the United States.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7691 - Juvenile Justice Reform (SC)
This course will use scientific research on adolescent development as a lens through which to examine the design and operation of the juvenile justice system, focusing on a recently released study by the National Academy of Sciences.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7692 - Persuasion (SC)
This short course offers a quick but intensive training course in effective verbal communications.
Credits: 1
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LAW 7693 - Energy Businesses and Private Company Acquisitions (SC)
This short course will survey and analyze the different major sectors of the Energy business from “upstream” businesses like exploration and production to “downstream” businesses like distribution.
Credits: 1
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