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Course Descriptions

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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
LAW 861
3 Credit Hours

In this experiential simulation course, you will learn about the type of work that transactional lawyers do and the fundamental skills that a transactional practice requires.  This course will provide you with multiple opportunities to practice skills like problem-solving, project management, identifying pathways to meet client goals, conducting effective client meetings, and the basics of successful negotiation.  You will also learn how the work of transactional lawyers differs from litigators and the best ways to locate appropriate practice resources.  The course will include ten… see more
LAW 634
3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC. Transition to Practice will focus on teaching students the fundamental skills that all lawyers need to be successful: problem-solving, interviewing, counseling and negotiating. The course uses a combination of inter-related classroom work, simulations, and research, as well as reading and writing assignments to build these critical skills. The grade will be based on observed simulations, written assignments/work products, class participation, assessments and evaluations, and a capstone assignment. Permission of the instructor(s) is required. The course is designed to… see more
LAW 620
3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will consider how one goes about litigating transnational cases. Such litigation may involve a transnational claim structure and may involve public or private litigation. Some aspects of U.S. substantive law having extraterritorial effect will be considered (for example, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act). Procedural subjects to be studied include jurisdiction, effectuation of service on parties overseas, problems of conducting pre-trial discovery outside the United States and enforcement of foreign judgments. Offered infrequently.
LAW 663
2 or 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*; Evidence (LAW 661). The course will analyze the trial process from selection of the jury through final argument and jury instructions. Students will participate in frequent exercises involving portions of the trial process and will meet in both large and small group classes. Satisfies the skills course requirement.
LAW 863
2 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*; Evidence (LAW 661) recommended. The course is designed to promote professionalism in the litigation arena in both the preparation and trying of cases. The course consists of preparing for and participating in mock trial competitions. The preparation consists of approximately sixteen supervised weekend classes per semester. The trial competitions consist of a one-day cross-town competition in the Fall and a three-day regional competition in the Spring. During these competitions, each class member will argue their case against students from law schools throughout the… see more
LAW 864
2 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*, Trial Advocacy Competition (LAW 863), and Evidence (LAW 661). The course is designed to promote professionalism in the litigation arena in both the preparation and trying of cases. The structure of the course is the same as Trial Advocacy Competition (LAW 863): students must try out for membership on the team in the fall, and then prepare for and participate in mock trial competitions. The substance of the course is different: in this advanced trial advocacy course students will build on the prior year’s experiences and gain a deeper understanding of trial variety of… see more
LAW 525
3 Credit Hours

This is an experiential skills course that will guide students through the major components of pretrial and trial practice in the context of medical malpractice and healthcare law litigation. The purpose of this course is to foster professionalism, ethics, and excellence in trial advocacy. Students will receive a fictional legal case and will represent both plaintiff and defendant in various aspects of the pretrial and trial process. Students will gain "hands-on" experience as they argue pretrial motions and conduct voir dire; motion arguments; opening statement; direct/cross examination; and… see more
LAW 882
Criminal Division—Fall; Civil Division—Spring) (Fall or Spring: 4 Credit Hours (16/hours/week); Summer: 5 credit hours (40 hours/week)

This placement is in the Cleveland office of United States Attorney. Students work in the Civil Division during spring semester and the Criminal Division during fall semester. Students will be introduced to the range of activities and types of cases, including appeals, handled by the division in which they are placed. For more information about this externship and the prerequisites, seehttps://www.law.csuohio.edu/careerplanning/externships/placements.
LAW 652
2 or 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*. The course on white collar crime is divided into three major sections. First, it considers overarching principles of corporate criminal liability, personal liability in an organizational setting, appropriate sanctions for white collar crimes, and the grand jury process. Second, it examines a number of “generic” offenses, that cut across substantive areas, including conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice. Finally, the course explores more particularized types of white collar offenses such as bribery of public officials,… see more
LAW 631
2 or 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*. The materials insistently question the role of law in the creation and destruction of social and economic conditions that disadvantage women. "Feminist jurisprudence" or "feminist theory" is presented more as an array of alternative approaches to doctrinal issues than as a separate body of thought. Topics covered include "Women and Work," "Women and the Family," and "Women and Their Bodies." Satisfies perspective elective requirement.
LAW 651
2 or 3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: RCC*. When injuries to employees occur at the workplace, often tort suits against the employer are excluded from the range of available remedial options. Instead, the worker is confined to the statutorily prescribed administrative remedy of workers’ compensation. This course explores the injured employee’s remedies at common law and under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) and provides and in-depth study of substantive and procedural problems arising under Workers’ Compensation statutes with particular emphasis on Ohio’s distinctive law. Beginning Fall 2008, satisfies… see more
LAW 843
3 or 4 Credit Hours

Under the direct supervision of the Director, students will provide legal representation directly to clients seeking exoneration, a new trial, or a reduced sentenced based on constitutional or other legal errors in their original conviction and/or sentence. These representative services include the following: conducting client interviews; conducting a legal assessment of potential claims and avenues for post-conviction relief, including researching possible procedural bars and whether they can be overcome; conducting legal research and drafting motions, petitions, appellate briefs, and… see more