Block (Advanced)
Block (Advanced)
LAW 623
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will focus on the function, procedure, and powers of administrative agencies; constitutional and statutory limitations; judicial review and relief from orders and decisions; the administrative process and its role in the development of public policy. Satisfies the administrative law requirement.
LAW 615B
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. A course designed to sharpen the student’s ability to research complex legal issues, to prepare appellate briefs and to engage in oral argument. Required of students who wish to try out for interscholastic Moot Court Competition. Satisfies third semester of legal writing requirement and skills course requirement.
LAW 737
1 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Immigration & Nationality Law, LAW 734. This course will focus on specific immigration issues that arise in the business context.
LAW 677
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. This course is designed to build upon basic knowledge of legal resources and provide the foundation needed for advanced legal research. Sources emphasized will include legislative and statutory law, administrative law, judicial authority, and secondary sources. In addition, the course will examine research strategies, cost-effective research techniques, practitioner materials, and interdisciplinary research associated with business, scientific, and technical information. The goal of the course is not only to familiarize the student with particular legal research resources… see more
LAW 677B
2 Credit Hours
Federal regulatory and administrative law have become integral to almost every lawyer's practice. As evidenced in the daily Federal Register, there are routinely regulatory amendments that require lawyers engaged in administrative legal practice to respond to rapidly changing law. Understanding the tools of administrative law research is a skill necessary to practice in regulated fields like Tax, Environmental Law and Bankruptcy. In this course, you will strengthen your general research skills, with an emphasis on how administrative law fits into both federal and state law schemes.
LAW 691
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course provides an introduction to business associations. Employers and business entities, whether sole proprietorships, partnerships, or large corporations, utilize agents-- especially employees -- to effectuate their business objectives. Agency relationships can be formed intentionally or inadvertently, but regardless how they originate, the law imposes strict duties of conduct on both agents and their principals, and exacts severe penalties for their breach. The course examines the law of agency closely, including vicarious liability for wrongs of another and… see more
LAW 786
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This 2-credit seminar will focus upon the legal issues the elderly face when interacting with the health care system, including dying with dignity decisions, nursing home abuse and paying for health and long-term care. There are no upper level prerequisites for the course. The grade in the course will be determined by a paper and class presentation.
LAW 696
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Judicial, court-centered processes are neither the only nor, necessarily, the best methods of resolving disputes. This course surveys the range of dispute resolution processes that are alternatives to litigation and adjudication. These include detailed study of the primary dispute resolution processes -negotiation, mediation, and arbitration - as well as some of their hybrid variants. The course also examines noteworthy applications of these litigation alternatives, the context for which ranges from the personal to the global. The ethical issues surrounding effective… see more
LAW 550
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Lectures and discussions exploring various topics in American legal history from colonial times to the twentieth century. Topics may include legal control of “deviants” (criminals, juvenile delinquents, paupers, political dissidents), the growth of legal institutions and the legal profession, developments in substantive private law, law and the economy, the problem of freedom of speech and press, the law of slavery, and the changing status of women and children. Other topics may be substituted or added from time to time. Satisfies perspective elective requirement.
LAW 570
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. The ancient Athenians have been widely celebrated for their contributions to literature, philosophy and political thought. However, the genius of the Athenian people was also reflected in their legal innovations – which include the concepts of trial-by jury and judicial review. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the structure and procedures of the Athenian legal system. Topics covered in the course include the Athenian constitution, the Athenian jury system, the resolution of commercial disputes, adultery, the torture of witnesses, and the… see more
LAW 715
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Animal Law focuses on the legal, social and biological nature of nonhuman animals, including companion animals, wildlife, and animals raised for food and research. The course will consider such topics as:
1. Areas of national concern and statutory interpretation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Endangered Species Act, federal cruelty laws, the Animal Welfare Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Humane Slaughter Act;
2. State and federal constitutional issues, e.g., exemptions from laws involving the use of animals, “hunter harassment” laws,… see more
LAW 646
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course provides an overview of legal and economic problems in the public control of corporate market power, focusing on the legal (and occasionally economic) significance of price fixing, boycotts, monopolization, franchising restrictions, and mergers. Students will examine how courts evaluate business practices and/or corporate structure.
LAW 841
3 Credit Hours
Corequisite: RCC. The Appellate Practice Clinic has three primary goals: First, to introduce students to the arc of a trial-court record -- including briefings, motions, court hearing transcripts, and opinions. Second, to utilize the students' research and writing skills to plan, and then execute, a fine-tuned appellate brief. Finally, to allow students the opportunity to develop and practice their oral-argument skills. The Clinic will represent both under-privileged clients who would otherwise represent themselves; and file Amicus Briefs on behalf of deserved parties in cases that are of… see more
LAW 633
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. The nature, law and practice of arbitration of disputes and claims of various types with an emphasis on labor arbitration. Satisfies skills course requirement.
LAW 659
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course reviews both policy issues and practical applications of selected areas of the law that relate to the creation, display, reproduction, sale, resale and taxation of works of fine art. The areas we will explore are: limitations on the freedom of visual expression, in the form of both government regulation and private causes of action; copyright and trademark law and the fair use doctrine as they apply to visual images and distinctive artistic style; artists’ right to protect their artistic reputation by preserving the integrity and attribution of their works of… see more
LAW 744
1 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Immigration & Nationality Law, LAW 734. The course will examine Asylum Law, including an examination of overseas refugees; the meaning of persecution; issues relating to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, social group, sexual orientation, gender; non state actors; standards of proof; exceptions to eligibility; and the convention against terror.
Students will be evaluated through a written project, requiring them to analyze a fact pattern according to the principles studied during the semester. The course will not satisfy the upper level writing… see more
LAW 641
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will explore all aspects of federal banking regulation, from standards for obtaining a bank charter and federal deposit insurance to restrictions on bank activities and bank failure. It will not canvass the commercial law governing bank transfers or payments already covered by Commercial Law, L601. Satisfies the administrative law requirement.
LAW 624
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. A survey of the fundamentals of bankruptcy law, including the “Automatic stay” of creditor collection activity, the creation of the debtor’s bankruptcy “estate,” the treatment of “executory contracts,” the trustee’s “avoiding” powers, the nature of “claims” against the debtor’s estate, the individual debtor’s right to a “discharge,” “exemptions,” the powers and jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court, and the processes of “liquidation,” “adjustment” of debts of an individual debtor, and “reorganization” of a business.
LAW 637
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC and Bankruptcy (LAW 624); Secured Transactions (LAW 603) is recommended but is not a prerequisite. A survey of bankruptcy and other laws that affect the business decisions to put a business into a Chapter 11 Reorganization and the decisions necessary after the company has filed its Chapter 11 proceedings, including the decisions to file bankruptcy, the DIP financing, jurisdiction and venue, obtaining credit, treatment of executory contracts, review of operating issues, management decisions ethics, claims issues, sale of assets, drafting the disclosure statement,… see more
LAW 679
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course examines the theory, jurisprudence, and practice of the modern death penalty system in the United States. It focuses on constitutional and statutory issues surrounding death sentences, including: limitations on imposing the death penalty based on factors such as the type of crime, and the role and age of the defendant; pretrial and trial issues such as prosecutorial discretion in charging, jury selection, psychiatric experts, aggravating and mitigating circumstances; right to counsel at trial and on post-conviction review; processes available for judicial and… see more
LAW 803
3 or 4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. The Civil Litigation Clinic is designed to provide students with real-client experience across a wide variety of cases. It provides students with the opportunity to apply the skills they acquired in their law school classes to actual cases or controversies. Supervised by clinical professors, the students may represent clients in administrative hearings, trial courts, appellate procedures and more. Students may appear before state and federal tribunals. They may engage in issues relating to consumer protection, landlord-tenant, employment law, and asylum. They may represent… see more
LAW 513
4 Credit Hours
In Civil Procedure we study the process by which legal disputes of a civil nature are decided in an adversarial system of justice. This includes how a civil lawsuit begins, which courts may hear the dispute, where the lawsuit may be filed, who may be a party, how parties gather facts to support their claims and defenses, what law governs a case that is filed in federal court, how such a case is resolved, procedural remedies, and the binding effect of a final judgment. Specifically, topics covered may include pleadings, joinder of claims and parties, subject matter jurisdiction, personal… see more
LAW 635
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Whether sued in federal or state court, whether considered rightly or wrongly initiated, class-action lawsuits are more popular today than ever. Indeed, Congress’ highest-profile litigation reform effort of late – its recently-enacted Class Action Fairness Act – goes directly to this sensation’s heart. Given class actions’ prevalence, well-rounded lawyers need to understand class actions’ substantive, procedural, political, societal, economic, and constitutional nuances and effects. This course will examine multiple substantive class-action areas, such as consumer fraud… see more
LAW 601
4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. A survey of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), except for Articles 8 and 9, with emphasis on Articles 2, 3, and 4 dealing with sales, negotiable instruments and bank collections. In addition, some consumer laws and federal regulations on sales and bank collections are addressed. Lesser emphasis is given to UCC Articles 2A, 4A, 5 and 7 on leases, wire transfers, letters of credit and documents of title; UCC Article 6 on bulk transfers is also covered briefly.
LAW 824
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC, approval by clinical faculty. The Community Advocacy Law Clinic is a one-semester, 3 credit experiential course where students use their legal training to assist our community’s most vulnerable populations: low-income families, children, the elderly, the homeless, and people suffering from physical and mental illness. Students, under the supervision of clinical faculty, will work with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, social workers and others to address the legal needs of real clients in a wide variety of matters including adoption, child support, housing, public… see more