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LAW 9112 - Trials of the Century:Literary & Legl Represntatns of Great Criminal Trials
This seminar examines a number of famous criminal trials and explores what commonalities, if any, are shared by those trials that capture our cultural imagination. The focus is on rhetorical and narrative strategies for representing the facts, as well as the legal rules, adversarial norms, and ideological stakes in such trials.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9114 - Law of Armed Conflict
This course will introduce the student to the full scope of the contemporary law of war including international humanitarian law, centered on the Geneva Conventions, customary practice, numerous other treaties such as the Hague accords of 1899 and 1907, and rulings in hundreds of war crimes trials. It will contain a mixture of humanitarian and pragmatic concerns.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9115 - Law in Society
This course examines law as a moving force and a responsive element in society. The course explores several legal disciplines with a focus on understanding the questions that must be addressed in making informed decisions. The focus is on more effective problem-solving with the uncertainty, trade-offs, and unanticipated outcomes that may come from applying legal concepts.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9116 - Direct Democracy
Voters in many American states use direct democracy to make laws on everything from soda bottles and horsemeat to taxes and same-sex marriage. In so doing, they sidestep many of the checks and balances of republican government that the Framers carefully designed. This seminar will examine the history, theory, and practice of direct democracy, as structured by federal and state constitutional law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9120 - Intelligence Law Reform
This seminar will trace the development of intelligence law from the creation of the CIA in 1947, through the Cold War, to the current War on Terrorism. We will review the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and more recent intelligence reform legislation including the creation of a Director of National Intelligence and a National Counter-Terrorist Center.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9121 - Supreme Court and Criminal Law
This seminar will focus on the role of the Supreme Court in establishing general doctrines governing the scope of substantive criminal law including statutory interpretation principles, retroactive decision-making and the meaning of fair notice, the constitutionality of guideline sentencing schemes, and constitutionally imposed proportionality limits as they apply to the death penalty, prison sentences, and fines.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9123 - Judging
How do judges decide cases? Lawyers and scholars have long debated this question, which has important implications for normative theories about how judges should decide cases. This seminar will examine these positive and normative accounts of judging in a variety of contexts, seeking to integrate social science research with a lawyers internal perspective on the judicial process.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9125 - International Criminal Law
This course will address basic principles of international law and practice pertinent to criminal law.
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LAW 9127 - Current Issues in Corporate Law and Governance
This seminar will cover current issues in corporate law and governance such as executive compensation, corporate governance and firm value, state competition in corporate law, anti-takeover law, the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on corporate governance and the desirability of increasing shareholder power.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9129 - Disability Law and Ethics
This course surveys American federal and state law as it relates to people with disabilities. Primary focus is on discrimination in employment and in public and private programs and services, including education, housing, and health care. Social and historical contexts relating to disability will also be explored.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9131 - Global Intellectual Property: History and Theory
This seminar will survey the “first principles” and subsequent development of the global copyright and patent systems and pay particular attention to 20th century developments of globalization and digitization.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9132 - Class Actions and Complex Litigation
The seminar will begin with an introduction to the class action and will quickly turn to the question of whether or not the device has proved to be an effective policy tool. We will examine this question primarily in three subject matter areas, mass torts, employment discrimination, and securities fraud.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9136 - Special Education Law
This seminar is an introduction to the field of special education law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9140 - Law, Literature, and Family
This seminar seeks to illustrate the connections between law, literature, and the family in the legal arena.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9141 - Law and the Humanities
Responding in part to the perceived increasing influence of ‘Law and Economics’ scholarship, legal scholars over the last few decades have launched various interdisciplinary efforts under such names as ‘Law and Society,’ ‘Law and Literature,’ ‘Law and History,’ and ‘Law and the Humanities.’ The problem with this last approach, which is the subject of this seminar, is that there is little consensus as to what the ‘humanities’ properly refers to.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9142 - Contemporary Debates in Criminal Law
This seminar is intended to expose students to the most fundamental and provocative doctrinal, analytical, empirical, and philosophical debates that scholars have faced over the past quarter century.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9144 - Legal History Colloquium
This colloquium will have guest speakers addressing significant legal events in U.S. history.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9145 - Topics in Law and Economics
This is a research seminar. Students will be expected to read and critique papers that are assigned each week, including some of the instructor’s published and draft papers.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9146 - Global Health Law & Policy
This seminar will investigate the many and competing challenges to developing a standardized global health policy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9147 - Causation in the Law
This seminar will explore different aspects of causation and the law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9148 - International Law and International Relations
This research-oriented seminar is intended for students interested in international finance and the structure of financial regulation in the global economy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9149 - Tax Shelters: Law and Policy
This seminar class will investigate the legal and policy issues surrounding aggressive and abusive tax planning, frequently referred to as “tax shelters”.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9150 - Tax Policy and Reform
The unsustainability of current U.S. fiscal policy will lead inevitably to major change and reform of the U.S. tax system. This seminar will review the principles of sound tax policy and examine the main tax problems and options facing this country, such as the alternative minimum tax, tax expenditures, a value-added tax, energy taxes, taxes on capital gains, tax compliance, and current proposals to reform the income tax system.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9152 - African-American Lawyers from the Civil War to the Present
This seminar explores the history of the African-American lawyer from the nineteenth century to the present. Special attention is given to the place of the black lawyer in the African-American community, the relationship of black lawyers to the larger predominantly white legal community, and the role of black lawyers in the Civil Rights Movement.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9154 - Money and Rights
This seminar will explore the relationship between money and rights.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9155 - Sovereign Debt Crises
This seminar will examine the sovereign debt crises now unfolding across much of North America and Europe. Attention will be paid to three different groups of sovereign entities.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9156 - Advanced Campaign Finance
This seminar examines the variety of laws governing the ways money is raised and spent on political campaigns in America. Specific focus will be brought to the rules governing candidate committees, political party committees, independent expenditures and issue advocacy, as well as donor-focused restrictions such as ‘pay to play’ limitations and particular limits on lobbyists and government contractors.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9157 - Citizenship and Group Identity
This seminar will explore the various forms of citizenship and membership reflected in law. We will consider theories of citizenship and nationalism, examine closely the history of citizenship law in the United States, and compare how citizenship is conceived of and debated with the U.S. with ideas of citizenship in other countries.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9158 - Literature, Law and the Environment
Taught joinly by professors of literature and environmental law, this seminar will explore the evolution of the environmental movement through literature and its fruition in U.S. law and policy.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9159 - Constitutional Theory
This course examines some of the main topics in constitutional theory, including the legitimacy of judicial review, theories of constitutional interpretation, the role of non-judicial actors in determining constitutional meaning, and the politics of constitutional change. Readings will include classics in constitutional theory, along with recent work in the field.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9160 - Evidence Law: Psychological Bases
Underlying the Rules of Evidence are many assumptions about how people behave and how people (in particular jurors) reason. We will think about the origins and necessity of the rules in general, and specifically look at things like the usefulness of the examination/cross-examination style, character evidence, and other variables.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9165 - Privacy and Surveillance
This seminar will consider the history and current applications of technologies and cultures of surveillance.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9166 - Issues in Federal Civil Practice and Procedure
In this seminar we will be discussing the history, development, and reform of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and then focus on a survey of some of the more contentious issues within federal practice and procedure.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9169 - Social Work of Law
For many lawyers the line between their work and social work is not a clear one. The seminar will examine the social work that lawyers do with individuals, families, and communities, and it will aim to expose students to the diverse sorts of clients and groups whom they will encounter and join with in a variety of practice areas.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9170 - International Tax Policy
This seminar examines the fundamental structural issues that states confront as they attempt to impose income taxes on cross-border transactions involving the movement of goods, services, capital, and individuals.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9171 - Law and Business Management in the Healthcare Sector
Health care currently represents 17% of the United States GDP and that share is growing. This course will analyze legal, economic, financial and ethical issues in the major sectors of the health care industry.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9174 - Comparative Constitutional Design
In this seminar, we explore the considerations and challenges in designing a constitution. We will focus on the ‘hard-wired’ aspects of a constitution - that is, its institutional or structural components - not its interpretation per se.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9175 - Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation
This seminar will be jointly offered in the Law School and the Department of Environmental Sciences and co-taught by members of those departments. The course will use several species restoration initiatives of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to study biodiversity conservation.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9176 - Topics in U.S. Foreign Policy
In this course we will examine a variety of historical topics in U.S. foreign policy that involved significant aspects of both domestic and international law, such as Jefferson’s war on the Barbary Pirates, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (and its impact on the prospects of foreign recognition of the Confederacy), and Truman’s conduct of the Korean War.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9177 - Constitutional Rights of Corporations
In this seminar, we will focus not just on First Amendment rights, but on their status as constitutional persons, theory of corporate personhood, and on other constitutional rights that corporations do and do not, or may or may not possess. We will focus in particular on criminal procedure rights of corporations.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9178 - American Legal Realism
In this seminar, we will look at some of the major works associated with the movement known as “Legal Realism,” which reached its heyday in the 1930s. The goal will be to identify and evaluate the central claims of the articles and books discussed, which will include both primary and secondary sources and works from both the past and present.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9179 - Profiling
This class will examine the moral and legal permissibility of profiling. It will ask what profiling is, when and why it is morally troubling and how it is and ought to be legally regulated.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9181 - SEC and Class Action Securities Enforcement
The course will be about the law and practice of government law enforcement and the additional enforcement provided by private class actions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9182 - International Law and the Use of Force
This seminar will examine the extent to which international law successfully regulates the use of force in the international community. We will focus on the prohibition on the use of force found in the U.N. Charter, and the exceptions to that prohibition.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9183 - Legal Theory
This course examines the rise and fall of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) as a movement in American legal thought.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9184 - Federal Judicial Process
This seminar focuses on practical aspects of adjudication in the federal appellate and district courts, with emphasis on how judges think, the mechanics of judging, and the role of law clerks.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9185 - Oral Presentations Outside The Courtroom
This seminar 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 7626, 9053, and 9055. Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7626, 9053, 9055, or 9185 if any taken previously.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9187 - Advance Directives in Health Care: Innovation and Impediments
This seminar will address opportunities and controversies relating to the use of advance directives in health care. It will begin by exploring the moral logic of advance decision-making regarding treatment at the end of life, the moral objections that have been raised, the practical obstacles to their execution and effective use, and initiatives and proposals for overcoming these problems.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9189 - Crime and Punishment in American History
This seminar will examine major scholarly works in the history of American crime and punishment, with a special emphasis on the period up to 1865. Special attention will be given to the relationship between criminal justice policies and American politics, culture, and race-relations.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9191 - Gender, Status, and Taxation
In this seminar, we will use the ‘married/singles’ dichotomy as a prism to explore the many ways in which deceptively simple ‘uniform’ determination affects economic realities.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9192 - International Criminal Justice: Its Successes, Failures, & Future Prospects
We will examine the applicable law of international crimes; the choices of procedure for international courts; the powers to enforce orders and judgments of international courts; and the challenges posed by the complementary jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. We will also concentrate on the political dimensions of international criminal justice. Prerequisite: LAW 6003 Criminal Law
Credits: 3
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LAW 9196 - Laws of War: Contemporary Debates
This seminar will examine four new phenomena that are placing stress on the system: new actors fighting armed conflicts (terrorist groups, private contractors); new weapons (drones, robots, and cyber weapons); new public scrutiny (Wikileaks, embedded journalists); and an expanding role for courts in adjudicating how states should apply the laws of war (Guantanamo habeas cases).
Credits: 3
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LAW 9197 - Advanced Natural Resources Law: Energy and Water Resources
This seminar addresses key elements of natural resources law, with an emphasis on energy resources (non-regulatory aspects) and water resources. Students will study the relevant statutes, case law, and underlying policies relating to these natural resources in the United States. During the seminar, students will also draw on pertinent and practical legislative and administrative materials.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9198 - Labor Law Seminar
This course provides a review of the National Labor Relations Act and related U.S. laws which govern the rights of employees to organize and bargain collectively, commonly known as labor-management relations or the collective bargaining process.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9199 - International Business Negotiation
The goals of this course are (i) to introduce students to transactional law, (ii) to provide negotiations training in the context of transactional practice, and (iii) to further practical legal skills. The focus is on having students apply their legal and non-legal knowledge in the context of serving as a lawyer negotiating an international business transaction within the controlled environment of the classroom.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9200 - Federal Litigation Practice
This course seeks to complement the law school’s robust trial advocacy curriculum by focusing on the litigation that takes place before trial, and how every step in a case’s lifespan affects the ultimate outcome of the case. Students will focus on developing their advocacy skills in the pretrial motion process and gaining a practical understanding of the increasingly important role of discovery in civil cases.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9201 - Advanced Intellectual Property
This course will address advanced issues in intellectual property law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9203 - 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.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9204 - Human Rights and Islam
The course will introduce students to the theoretical foundations of human rights and Islam, critically evaluate ‘Islamic law’ as a legal system and its application in modern nation-states, and discuss liberal and conservative scholarly approaches on the compatibility of human rights and Islam.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9205 - Immigration Enforcement
This seminar will explore how immigration enforcement unfolds within the United States. We will examine how localities, states, and the federal government have responded in dynamic and at times contradictory ways to the presence of immigrants. We will also examine how immigration status shapes doctrinal developments in areas such as civil rights, access to courts, detention, and criminal procedure.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9206 - International Patent Law and Policy Seminar
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 9207 - Law and Accelerating Technology
This seminar will consider the legal implications of technological acceleration. Law itself is an information technology and thus its form and practice will be profoundly affected by the computational revolution.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9208 - Monetary Constitution Seminar
This seminar will focus on the history and law of the financial infrastructure of our nation’s government.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9209 - Race and Law: Landmark Cases
This course will examine historically significant race and law cases. The readings will primarily include judicial opinions supplemented by scholarly accounts of the historical context in which each case arose, the parties and other significant actors connected to each case, and the implications of each case for subsequent social and legal developments.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9210 - Scientific Evidence
This seminar examines the theoretical and the practical questions raised by the use of scientific evidence in our legal system. We will begin by examining the standards for the admissibility for scientific evidence, focusing on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and its effects.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9211 - Work and Family in Law and Culture
In this seminar we will examine the ways in which work, family, and their relationship are defined, represented, and regulated by legal and literary texts.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9212 - White Collar Criminal Defense Practice
This course focuses on the corporate and securities law issues relevant to mergers and acquisitions, including the Williams Act; state statutory and case law; as well as important forms of private ordering such as poison pills, lockups, earnouts, and the allocation of risks by the acquisition agreement. Relevant accounting and tax issues will be covered as well.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9213 - Gender Justice and State Responsibility
This seminar will explore, within the context of gender, the international law of State responsibility (due diligence) normative principles that form its framework, gaps and debates in its fulfillment. As a general rule, State responsibility for human rights violations is based on acts or omissions committed either by State actors or by actors whose actions are attributable to the State.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9214 - Cost Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Oversight
This seminar will provide an in-depth examination of regulatory review and cost-benefit analysis, focusing on the formal rules and informal conventions governing review, the substantive methodology of cost-benefit analysis, and normative debates over whether and how regulatory review and cost-benefit analysis should be conducted.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9215 - Market Organization
The course will examine and compare a wide variety of forms that markets take. In each session, we will examine a particular market form ‘from commodities markets to ‘regulated’ utilities to sports leagues to crime families and even markets for markets’ ¬in light of the law that governs it, the conditions under which it thrives, and the challenges that it faces.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9216 - Readings in Constitutional Law
This course examines some of the main topics in constitutional theory, including the legitimacy of judicial review, theories of constitutional interpretation, the role of non-judicial actors in determining constitutional meaning, and the politics of constitutional change. Readings will include classics in constitutional theory, along with recent work in the field.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9217 - Advanced Copyright Law
This course will focus on some of the most current disputes in copyright law. It will also consider some recent ideas for reforming copyright law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9218 - National Debt Colloquium (YR)
This is the first semester of a yearlong colloquium to investigate the history and formation of the national debt and the major issues surrounding its continued growth. Once the issues have been decided,students will work in small teams to investigate their issue more deeply in preparation for preparing an online module to be included in a student-developed online educational series on the National Debt.
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LAW 9219 - National Debt Colloquium (YR)
This is the second semester of a yearlong colloquium to investigate the history and formation of the national debt and the major issues surrounding its continued growth. Once the issues have been decided,students will work in small teams to investigate their issue more deeply in preparation for preparing an online module to be included in a student-developed online educational series on the National Debt.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9220 - Law and Economics of Regulatory Science
After a quick overview of the wide variety of federal regulatory agencies responsible either for the evaluation of science (e.g the Food And Drug Administration) or the promulgation of science-based regulation (the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Interior), we will read a number of articles that describe and evaluate the scientific process in both its idealized and realized form.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9221 - Cyber Law and Policy
This seminar will examine the rapidly evolving domestic and international cyber law and policy landscape and guide students through the crosscutting issues driving some of the 21st century’s most dynamic legal and policy debates.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9222 - International Arbitration
This seminar commences with the basic principles of international arbitration, such as consent of the parties. It then examines arbitration proceedings, from the constitution of the tribunal to applicable rules of arbitral procedure.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9223 - International Intellectual Property
This is an introductory course providing an overview of the law relating to intellectual property, primarily trade secrets, patents, copyrights, industrial designs, and trademarks. Coverage will include subject matter limitations, key requirements for protection and enforcement, and policy issues associated with these expanding areas.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9224 - Advanced Criminal Law: From Theory to Practice
Using detailed fact patterns of cases that were actually criminally prosecuted, students will garner further sophistication in both the practice and the theory of criminal law.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9225 - Corporate Governance
The main purpose of this course is to better understand the dynamics among the key players in corporate governance – executives, boards of directors, and shareholders – of publicly traded companies in the United States.
Prerequisite: LAW 6103 or LAW 6109
Credits: 3
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LAW 9226 - Contract Theory
This seminar will address the potential moral underpinnings of contract law. Our primary focus will be on the relationship between contract and promise.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9227 - Age of Majority
This seminar explores the legal rules and public policies that assign rights and privileges of adulthood (the ‘age of majority,’ so to speak) as well as those that assist young people to successfully assume the responsibilities of adulthood.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9228 - Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (YR)
This is the first semester in a seminar intended to allow Fellows in the Law & Public Service Program to share research and writing on public-interest topics.
Prerequisite: 3rd-Year Law
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LAW 9229 - Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (YR)
This is the second semester in a seminar intended to allow Fellows in the Law & Public Service Program to share research and writing on public-interest topics.
Credits: 1
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LAW 9230 - Forensic Evidence
This seminar examines the theoretical and the practical questions raised by the use of forensic evidence in our legal system.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9231 - Constitution-Making
In this seminar, we’ll explore how and why constitutions are created. We’ll start by discussing the foundational theories on constitution-making which explain why constitutions are written and the political forces that affect the constitution’s design. We’ll next apply these theories to real-world constitutions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9232 - Bioethics and the Law Seminar
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.
Prerequiste: Equivalent to LAW 7008
Credits: 3
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LAW 9233 - Global Legal History
This course considers European legal regimes as they moved around the globe. It examines those regimes interactions with one another and with non-European legal cultures from roughly 1500 to 1900.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9234 - Human Rights Study Project
In this class, we will prepare for human rights fieldwork. Part of the class will be focused on identifying research topics. To that end, we will explore current human rights events and link them to existing themes in the theoretical literature. The second goal of the class is to practically prepare for human rights fieldwork. To that end, we will cover interviewing techniques, fact-finding, and the practicalities of human rights research.
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LAW 9235 - Current Issues in Human Rights
In this bi-weekly seminar we will discuss current issues in international human rights law.
Credits: 1
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LAW 9236 - Bioethics And Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy & Administration
The course enables students to spend time in administrative settings within the UVA Medical Center as “participant-observers,” in order to gain first-hand experience of the subject matter that is the focus of the theory, teaching, and practice of ethics, law, and health policy in relation to the organization and operation of healthcare institutions.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9237 - Empirical Methods in Corporate Law and Finance
The seminar will discuss empirical methods in the research of corporate law, governance finance. The first meetings will focus on empirical methodology . We will learn how to read and evaluate empirical results. Subsequent meetings will cover empirical research in specific issues such as hedge fund activism, staggered boards and majority voting.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9238 - Advanced Administrative Law: Rulemaking
This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain a deep understanding of several case study rulemakings, which will be examined from their point of initiation through final legal challenge.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9239 - BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law
This course will look at the evolution of “Biglaw” institutions from the early days of law practice partnerships, why they developed, how they operate and what they look like today.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9240 - Constitutional Law II: Poverty
This course will ask whether and how the Constitution can be read to protect the poor. We will explore the Supreme Court’s flirtation with such protection during the 1960s and 1970s.
Prerequisite: LAW 6001
Credits: 3
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LAW 9241 - Death Penalty
Death is different: why is that so, and how is it so? This seminar will examine the law and policy of capital punishment.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9242 - Feminism and the Free Market
This seminar examines the role of markets in promoting (or inhibiting) the full participation of women in society.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9243 - International Law in National Legal Systems Seminar
This seminar will examine how international law is implemented, interpreted and applied in different national legal systems.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9244 - Legal History of the 1960s
This course will explore what was at stake in the legal, social, political, cultural, and intellectual developments of the “long 1960s” -roughly from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s.
Credits: 3
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LAW 9245 - Originalism and its Critics
What exactly an originalist interpretation of the constitution entails and whether courts should base their constitutional decisions on such readings, remain deeply controversial questions. In this seminar, we will take up such questions.
Credits: 3
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