Block (Advanced)
Block (Advanced)
LAW 619
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Students will study monetary damages, restitution and equitable relief in the context of contract, property and torts with an examination of the goals behind remedial rules and whether our system is accomplishing these goals. The course provides insight into the integrated nature of our legal system across the different subject areas by focusing on the impact of the merger of law and equity and the many public policy implications underlying statutory and common law efforts to provide appropriate redress to an injured party.
LAW 752
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. The subject matter of the course will be the practical legal issues that arise when counseling the musical artist. The class will follow the artist from the early days as a "baby band" to when the artist becomes "classic" or "heritage." The course will focus on practical aspects of counseling the burgeoning artist including song/sound recording creation, sample clearances, band partnership agreements, the producer agreement, band management, shopping for a label, negotiation the label agreement, getting an agent, applying for copyrights and trademarks, and going on tour.… see more
LAW 753
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will begin with an overview of the sports marketing industry and then proceed to discuss some of the more important legal doctrines relating to that industry, involving intellectual property law, labor law and contract law. In that context, the course will explore the skills necessary to conduct a series of “hypothetical” sports-related contract negotiations. The students will then participate in group-based contract-drafting exercises with an emphasis on client representation. Contracts to be drafted include a “product endorsement agreement,” and a “name,… see more
LAW 521
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: RCC. In this two-credit course, students will develop mastery of Article II of the Uniform Commercial Code and expertise in statutory interpretation. The course will cover UCC rules on offer and acceptance; offer and acceptance in modern electronic contracting; UCC Statute of Frauds including exceptions; UCC rules on interpretation and the parol evidence rule; UCC warranties; a more thorough exploration of doctrines of defense and excuse; rights and duties of third parties (including assignment and delegation and third party beneficiary contracts); a more thorough exploration of… see more
LAW 791
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course is intended to help students make the transition from instrumental to critical writing. The seminar will guide students through the drafting of some common legal documents as well as a long scholarly paper. Students will build on the first year foundation of legal research skills by exploring many other research sources. The course is designed to provide specific guidance, strategies and techniques for each stage of the writing process, from citation to inspiration. The seminar will deal with editing, proofreading, and, ultimately, advice on achieving… see more
LAW 630
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. The course will consider a broad range of school-related issues, including rights of parents, the role of school boards, tort liability under various state statutes and regulations (including bullying and hazing), employment rights under various state laws, religious and free expression rights for students and employees, privacy rights in schools, school district guidelines for diversity and affirmative action, and constitutional and statutory procedural rights.
LAW 660
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC* and Evidence (LAW 661) (may be taken concurrently). This course concentrates on issues dealing with the introduction of expert testimony with particular focus on testimony involving scientific and technical matters. These are among the most interesting and complex evidentiary issues confronting courts today. Experts testify in a wide variety of criminal and civil cases. Their testimony is crucial to determinations of malpractice, competence, identification, valuation of goods and property, causation and to psychological evaluations. During the semester, a number of experts… see more
LAW 603C
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC; Contracts (LAW 501 or LAW 511). The course surveys Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) dealing with the use of personal property as collateral security. In addition, the parts of the bankruptcy code which affect the enforcement of security agreements in bankruptcy are addressed, as are the sections in UCC Article 8 which deal with security interests in investment securities, and UCC Article 2 dealing with consignments. Problem solving and legal analysis and reasoning are involved.
LAW 655
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Strongly recommended: Corporations (LAW 692). This course offers a consideration of the state and federal regulation of securities and transactions involving securities, with emphasis upon the creation of a "security," distributions of securities in the formation of capital, trading in securities, and rights associated with being the holder of a security. Careful attention is also given to specialized liabilities associated with transactions involving securities as a matter of both state and federal law. Satisfies administrative law requirement.
LAW 585
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Lawyers, judges, and legislators increasingly draw upon social science data purporting to reveal information about human behavior. The course considers some social science data and seeks to help the law student understand, employ, and challenge the data of this "science." Satisfies perspective elective requirement.
LAW 787
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This seminar will provide a survey of the international and domestic laws that govern outer space activity. Students will be introduced to the existing space law treaties that address the use of force in space, liability for damage caused by space objects, jurisdiction, the rescue and return of astronauts, remote sensing, property rights, and other matters. Attention will also be given to national space laws, as well as to the regulatory aspects of space activity, such as the allotment of orbital slots and export controls on space technology. The class will also explore… see more
LAW 654
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. Special education programming at the local level in the United States is affected significantly by the actions of the federal and state governments. This course provides students with an understanding of the complex network of interrelated federal and state statutory provisions, attendant regulations, and administrative and judicial decisions concerning special education. Instructional topics include the legal basis of education, the importance of the U.S.Constitution, free appropriate education, related services, extended school year, student records discipline,… see more
LAW 819
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Participation in the Sports & Entertainment Law Summer Academy and permission of the Academy faculty. Externship placement in a sports or entertainment industry setting arranged through the Sports & Entertainment Law Summer Academy.
LAW 656
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. The course will explore the legal evolution of America’s three major sports leagues (Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association). The course will devote approximately equal time to each of these three major leagues, and compare/contrast the similarities and differences among them from an historical legal perspective. Specifically, the course will evaluate the evolution of the three leagues, and examine how Supreme court and other courts’ landmark decisions have affected the path of their progress.
LAW 698
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Tax I (LAW 607); Tax II (LAW 697). This course focuses primarily on the Federal income tax consequences of corporate ownership reorganizations. It explores corporate combinations, including taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, corporate divisions (spin-offs, split-offs, and split-ups), as well as rearrangements of the capital structure of a single corporation, such as through recapitalizations and stock dividends. It also explores the carryover of tax attributes after corporate combinations
LAW 607
4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course provides an introduction to Federal income taxation of the individual, including the concepts of income, deductions, capital transactions, income splitting and tax accounting; use of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations; and principles of statutory interpretation, including use of legislative histories, court decisions and administrative rulings.
LAW 697
4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Tax I (LAW 607), or permission of instructor if concurrently registered for LAW 607. This course examines the basic rules in Subchapters C, S, and K of the Internal Revenue Code, regarding the Federal income taxation of business enterprises, whether the enterprise is organized as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company. It includes discussion of the formation of corporations and partnerships, distributions of profits from the entity, termination of the enterprise, choice-of-entity concerns, and other related topics. It is recommended for anyone who will… see more
LAW 604
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Tax I (LAW 607). Topics covered include organizational structure of tax exempt and charitable organizations; policy and practice of preferred tax treatment for selected organizations and gifts to them; statutes, regulations, and IRS practice; legislative origins, judicial interpretations, and policy consideration; tests of qualification, disqualification, and limited tax preference; mechanics of securing and retaining exemption; qualified exemption; unrelated business income; private inurement; political activity; denial or loss of exemption; return and reporting… see more
LAW 606
3 or 4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Tax I (LAW 607) or Estates & Trusts (LAW 609). Federal gift, estate and generation skipping taxation of wealth transfers will be analyzed primarily through the concepts of completed gifts and gross estate inclusions with some study of deductions and the tax itself. Federal income taxation of estates, simple trusts and complex trusts, including distributions to beneficiaries, with some study of grantor trust rules and income in respect of a decedent will also be covered. Income taxation of trusts will be covered when the course is offered for 4 credit hours.
LAW 628
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Tax I (LAW 607). This course examines the U.S. Federal Income Taxation of both inbound transactions (the U.S. income tax consequences of business and investment activities in the U.S. by foreigners) and outbound transactions (the U.S. income tax consequences of foreign business and investment activities by U.S. taxpayers). It will examine, in particular, (1) the jurisdictional rules regarding the right to tax income in the international context, (2) the “source” rules (domestic or foreign) for income and deductions, (3) the foreign tax credit, (4) problem of “deferral” of… see more
LAW 647
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Tax I (LAW 607). This course will provide a survey of tax procedure, including the rules for practice before the IRS under Circular 230 and various tax litigation issues. The course will also provide a survey of the tax penalties and tax crimes that transactional and controversy tax practitioners must regularly consider and mange in representing private and government clients. Transactional tax advisors need to consider penalties and crimes when structuring deals and preparing opinion letters to support those deals. Without an understanding of opinion letters and the… see more
LAW 762
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will explore the following idea and why it might be important for law: just exactly what is a "firm" (or any other "organization" for that matter), how does the law conceive of "firms," and what difference does it make? An underlying theme of the course, not surprisingly, is that answers to these questions might make a very big difference, and the course will ask what the law could learn from them from economics and from a specialized area of social science literature, improbably neglected among legal academics, that goes by the name “the theory of… see more
LAW 512
3 Credit Hours
Torts considers injuries to persons and property, both intentional and unintentional, and may include physical, dignitary, and economic harms. The course examines the three basic theories of civil liability--intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability--and considers issues of duty, causation, and defenses to liability. The course may also consider the overall goals of the torts system, the allocation of responsibility between judge and jury, and the interplay of statues and the common law process. Required for graduation.
LAW 653
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC; Copyright, Patent & Trademark Law, LAW 658, recommended but not required. This course will cover the constitutional, statutory, and common law attributes of trademark law; the rights and remedies that trademark law provides for producers; the protection that trademark law provides for competitors and consumers; and the intersection of American trademark law with other forms of intellectual property protection, with the First Amendment, and with international law. Students are expected to master the substantive law of trademark, but the major goal of the course is to… see more
LAW 826
2 to 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC; approval of clinical faculty. The Transactional Law Clinic offers students the opportunity to practice law under the supervision of a staff attorney. The Clinic's clients are neighborhood and community-based nonprofit corporations producing and managing affordable housing, initiating economic development and enhancing the quality of life in urban neighborhoods. The Clinic operates as a small firm or practice group providing a variety of legal services to clients. The work students undertake in the Clinic is primarily transactional, consisting of: legal research to address… see more