Law
Courses
LAW 514S Banking and Finance Law and Regulation 3.0 Credits
A significant sector of the legal profession provides advice to the banking industry, to government regulators, and, of course, to individuals, corporations and other institutions in connection with banking transactions. This course will provide an introduction to the regulatory environment of the banking industry and the roles of bank regulators and central banks. Attention will be given to systematic risk and the response to that risk by way of prudential regulation, including capital and liquidity requirements. The financial crisis of 2007-8 and previous regulatory failures will be examined as will the legislative steps taken by governments to reduce risks of bank failure.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 515S Ethics and Social Responsibility: The Lawyer as Ethical Gatekeeper 3.0 Credits
We will examine, through cases, problems, discussions and readings, issues of ethics and social responsibility that arise in real life contexts and decide what principles to apply to ethical problems. Lawyers have a special responsibility in both the public and private sectors to ensure ethical behavior and to establish systems for preventing unethical behavior. Issues of concern to lawyers will be integrated into each class discussion. Particular focus will be given to the nexus between law and ethics. Another part of the course will be devoted to a study of professional values and responsibility and legal ethics. Running throughout the course is the theme of the lawyer as ethical gatekeeper.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 516S Foreign and Domestic Investment in Africa's Natural Resources: Law, Policy, and Sustainability 3.0 Credits
Foreign and domestic investment in extractive and other natural resource industries in Africa can contribute significantly to national development through tax revenue, transfer of capital and technology, job creation, linkages with local industries, infrastructure development, community development and the elimination of poverty. At the same time, the history of natural resource development in Africa sends up a warning signal that these benefits do not come without careful planning and without careful drafting. Governments need carefully crafted policies and regulatory and legal frameworks for natural resource development. Parties to natural resource agreements need skilled negotiators to achieve their goals. This course will give students the skills they need to develop these frameworks.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 517S International Commercial Arbitration 3.0 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of the history, process, and intricacies of international commercial arbitration. This course is especially interested in examining the practical realities faced by lawyers as they navigate the complex world of international arbitration on behalf of their clients. While the course provides basic history and context to situate international commercial arbitration in the proper legal framework, the course topics, which range from drafting arbitration agreements to enforcement of awards, are aimed at providing concrete strategies for practitioners or future practitioners in this field.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 518S International Trade and Investment: Practice and Law 3.0 Credits
Transnational trade and investment is a major and growing phenomenon in the 21st century. This course will examine the legal and regulatory frameworks of transnational trade and investment, with particular attention to developing regions in Asia, Latin America and most especially in Africa.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 520S Project Finance for Infrastructure Development in Africa 3.0 Credits
Finding a means of financing major infrastructure projects is a key to the project’s ultimate success in Africa and elsewhere. “Project finance” is a favored means of enabling governments of emerging market countries and others across the world to build roads, ports and airports; provide power to their people; exploit natural resources; build medical facilities; and finance a myriad of other public works. We will examine how infrastructure projects are structured and negotiated and how related risks are allocated and mitigated. We will examine the ways in which major projects are financed, focusing on the key legal features of the financing and the various parties who bring infrastructure projects to life.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 550S Torts 3.0-5.0 Credits
This course examines the general theories of civil liability for injuries to persons or property. Topics include liability for intentional misconduct, an introduction to the law of negligence, and a strict liability as well as defenses to claims of tort liability.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 552S Contracts 3.0-5.0 Credits
This course examines the enforcement of promises and bargains. Topics include contract formation, the doctrine of consideration, formalities including the Statute of Frauds and the parol evidence rule, performance and breach, defenses, remedies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 554S Civil Procedure 3.0-5.0 Credits
This course examines the civil litigation process with an emphasis on the federal courts. Topics include remedies, pleadings, pre-trial motion practice, discovery, motions for summary judgment, trial procedure, appellate review, and issue and claim preclusion.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 555S Legislation and Regulation 3.0 Credits
This course is intended to introduce the student to lawmaking through statutes and agency regulation in the modern regulatory state. The course will examine the reasons why we have developed into a regulatory state. It will consider the roles and relationships of Congress and administrative agencies within the three branches of government. It will look at how statutes are created and passed. The course is also designed to provide the student with an introduction to the theory and practice of statutory interpretation, including how to read and understand a statute. In addition, the course will introduce students to how agencies create and enforce regulation, including some of the requirements placed on agencies by the Administrative Procedures Act, and the judicial review of regulations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 556S Property 3.0-5.0 Credits
This course examines the basic elements of the law of real and personal property. Topics include ownership and possession of property, gifts, the rights of bona fide purchasers, adverse possession, estates and future interests in real property, and co-ownership and concurrent interests.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 558S Criminal Law 3.0-5.0 Credits
This course examines the principles that underlie liability for criminal conduct. Topics include the definition of crimes and the principles of punishment, the required acts and mental states necessary for liability, and defenses to and justifications for conduct. Specific crimes will be discussed including conspiracy and intentional murder and manslaughter.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 560S Constitutional Law 3.0-5.0 Credits
This course examines the basic issues in federal constitutional law. Topics include the role of the courts in interpretation of the Constitution, the scope of legislative and executive powers, the limitation of the powers of state and local governments, and an introduction to concepts of equal protection.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 565S Legal Methods I 2.0-4.0 Credits
This course provides instruction in the fundamentals of predictive writing and legal research, including LEXIS and Westlaw training.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 566S Legal Methods II 2.0-4.0 Credits
This course continues Legal Methods I. Students will learn additional legal research skills and will be introduced to persuasive writing techniques.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S
LAW 568S Intro to Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiations 1.0 Credit
This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 602S First Amendment 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course examines speech and religion clauses of the First Amendment. It considers the philosophical and historical foundation of free expression; analytical problems in First Amendment jurisprudence; and the relationships between free exercise of religion and the separation of church and state.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 603S Media Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will consider media law and the practical implications of representing media clients. Topics will include: who is “the media” in a digital age; statutory and constitutional protections; prior restraints and criminal liability; civil liability arising out of publication (including defamation and other tort liability); problems of newsgathering; reporter’s privilege; and advising the media client.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 604S Advanced Constitutional Law 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course takes an in depth look at individual rights under the Constitution with a particular emphasis on substantive and procedural due process and equal protection under the law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 605S Constitutional Theory 3.0 Credits
This course covers central issues in constitutional theory and practice, principally as they have arisen in the United States. Topics include the nature of constitutionalism; theories of constitutional interpretation; the use of history and narrative in constitutional argument; theories of constitutional change; the relationship between constitutional adjudication, democratic politics, and social movements; the significance of constitutional culture; the roles played by executive, legislative, and judicial actors; questions of constitutional legitimacy; and circumstances giving rise to constitutional dysfunction or crises. The course will explore these topics in the context of specific issues arising historically and in recent years.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 560S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 606S Civil Rights Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course explores the principles of civil rights law and practice. It will also review both the history and current development of this area of law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 608S Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Lit Sem 1.0-2.0 Credit
This is the required companion course for students participating in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. It is designed to prepare law students to teach constitutional law in local high schools and to supervise these high school students as they compete in regional and national constitutional moot court competitions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 610S Reproductive Rights & Justice 2.0-3.0 Credits
Most people know about reproductive rights because of abortion’s prominence in American politics. Fewer people know about reproductive justice, a different framework for similar issues that explores how systemic oppression impacts all aspects of reproductive decision-making. This approach centers social, racial, and economic justice and focuses as much on a person’s rights to have and raise children as it does on their right to not have them through access to safe and legal abortion care and contraceptive access. This course will focus on several major topics within both reproductive rights and justice: contraception, sterilization, abortion, pregnancy discrimination, assisted reproductive technology, and more.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 611S Sex, Gender, & the Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will explore the law and theory of sex and gender. Looking to a wide variety of legal doctrines and theorists, students will gain an understanding of how the law was developed, where it is going, and what it should be. The course will also address other identity characteristics and how they intersect with sex and gender.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 612S Sexual Orientation and the Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
The course will focus on the interaction between sexual orientation and the law. Students will study how the transformation of social attitudes around sexual orientation plays out in various doctrinal areas.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 614S Supreme Court Seminar 3.0 Credits
This seminar will introduce students to the history and function of the United States Supreme Court. Students will study several active cases, draft simulated Supreme Court opinions, and practice oral argument. Where possible, students will actually attend one day of Supreme Court argument.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 620S Administrative Law 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course studies the law governing administrative agencies in the task of carrying out governmental programs; interrelations of legislative, executive and judicial agencies in development of public policy; decision-making processes and internal procedures of administrative agencies, and legislative, executive, and judicial controls on them.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 621S Federal Courts 3.0 Credits
This course considers the constitutional, statutory, and judicial rules that determine whether a case is tried in state or federal court.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 622S Employment Discrimination 3.0 Credits
This course studies the federal and state statutes and case law that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, and sexual orientation. This course covers substantially different material than Employment Law and students may productively take both courses.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 623S Election Law 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course considers the ways in which state and federal law regulate elections and the political process. Students will gain a perspective on both practical aspects of election regulation and the power relationships that motivate these rules.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 624S Environmental Law 3.0 Credits
This course surveys the federal and state statutes and regulatory programs which attempt to limit water pollution, air pollution, environmental degradation, species extinction, hazardous waste, and chemical regulation problems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 625S Energy Law 2.0 Credits
This course will provide an overview of energy law. Topics will include: (1) an overview of U.S. energy policy; (2) introduction to Administrative Law and Regulatory Economics; (3) public utility regulation and deregulation; (4) preemption; (5) climate change; (6) electricity; (7) traditional fossil fuels: coal and oil; (8) nuclear power; (9) natural gas and the Marcellus Shale; (10) renewable energy; (11) conservation and storage; (12) oil and gas law; and (13) developing a revised U.S. energy policy.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 626S Animal Law 2.0 Credits
This course will encourage students to consider the philosophical and jurisprudential bases for the current status of animals in our legal system. The course will examine both the history of, and future trends regarding, that status.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 627S Admiralty Law 2.0 Credits
This is an introductory level course covering basic principles including sources of maritime law, federal and state law jurisdiction over maritime claims, special maritime remedies (arrest and attachment), carriage of goods by sea, maritime torts (collisions, allisions, pollution, personal injury claims, seamen’s rights/remedies), maritime contract disputes and liens, and marine insurance. The course will cover these subjects from both a historic and pragmatic perspective.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 628S Civil Litigation Remedies 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will help students gain an understanding of the law and policies relating to equitable remedies (specific performance and injunctions), damages at common law (compensatory and punitive damages), and restitution.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 630S Class Actions/Other Complex Litigation 3.0 Credits
This course builds on the first year civil procedure course by examining the rules and practice that apply in sophisticated litigation settings. Students will learn about representative (class) actions; how to address related cases pending in different courts and other case management issues; the application of claim and issue preclusion principles; and other issues often faced in complex litigation. The course will cover a number of recent Supreme Court cases affecting civil procedure and will provide students with the working knowledge of the procedures they will likely need in cases of any significance.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 632S Conflict of Laws 3.0 Credits
The course focuses on cases involving multi-jurisdictional elements. Three primary areas are covered: choice of the law approaches; enforcement in a forum of judgments rendered in another state; and jurisdiction over an out-of-state party. Both relationships among American states and issues involving state and federal law are addressed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 634S Evidence 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course studies the law governing proof of disputed factual matters in criminal and civil trials, including issues of relevancy, competency, hearsay, and other exclusionary rules, and the privilege of witnesses.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 637S Advanced Evidence 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will provide in-depth investigation of evidentiary issues relevant to trial lawyers.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 634S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 638S State and Local Government Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course examines state and local governments, their role in setting public policy, and the interrelationship between them. Areas to be explored may include forms and structures of state and local governments, selection of public services, taxing and spending powers, home rule, zoning law, and general powers and immunities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 639S National Security Law 3.0 Credits
This course will examine the legal frameworks governing the use of national security powers by the U.S. government. It will explore the exercise of military force, the structures of the law enforcement and intelligence communities, and the legality of counterterrorism-related activities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 640S Education Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will cover constitutional and statutory law and policy issues relating to public schools, including rights of parents, teachers and students, school discipline, religion, speech, discrimination, and disability rights.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 642S Special Education Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This class considers the law governing education of students with disabilities, with a particular focus on the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Students will study the evaluation and planning process, procedural due process provisions, substantive issues such as use of least restrictive environment and school discipline, and remedies under the law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 643S Children and the Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course examines the relationship between children, family and the state.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 644S Family Law 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to the family. Topics will include marriage, including barrier to marriage and the legal relationships between spouses; parents and children; divorce and its incidents, including child support and custody, and jurisdictional issues.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 645S Pennsylvania Family Law Practice 2.0 Credits
The course will teach students the practical side of practicing family law in Pennsylvania from the initial client contact through final dissolution of the marriage or custody issues and will cover the essentials of divorce, equitable distribution, child support, alimony pendente lite, alimony, custody and special relief. Students will be divided into groups of “Plaintiff’s Attorney” and “Defendant's Attorney” and will learn and be expected to determine strategy in equitable distribution, support and custody and be able to perform support calculations and spot issues related to these matters.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 646S Mediation and Arbitration 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course explores the theory, practice and law of mediation and arbitration, with an emphasis on the roles lawyers play in these processes. The course will include simulated mediations and arbitrations to foster a deeper understanding of the material and to develop lawyering skills in resolving disputes without litigation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 647S The Rights of Children 2.0 Credits
This interdisciplinary course is focused on looking critically at our treatment of children and reimagining children’s rights from conception to adulthood. Over the semester, students will engage a wide-range of issues in criminal law, education law, tax law, environmental law, and family law, among other areas. Each week the class will take up a bold idea for discussion: What if children were allowed to vote? What if there was no inheritance? What if we required everyone to take time off to care for others? Throughout the term, students will work on a research paper on a topic of their choosing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 648S Representing the Regulated Client 2.0 Credits
Using a practical approach, this course will cover the complex issues involved in representing clients who are subject to administrative regulation. Although it addresses issues relevant to a wide variety of regulated clients, it will have a particular focus on environmental regulation matters.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 652S Pennsylvania Practice 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course develops a student’s practical understanding of how the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure govern civil litigation including case initiation, discovery, motion practice and pre-trial preparation. The goal of the course is to prepare a student to work as a first year associate in a civil litigation law firm.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 653S Entrepreneurial Law Clinic Seminar 1.0 Credit
The Entrepreneurial Law Clinic Seminar will meet once a week, allowing participants in the Clinic to discuss various issues they encounter in their work in a seminar setting.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 2 credits
Prerequisites: LAW 713S
Corequisite: LAW 924S
LAW 654S Lawyering Practice Seminar 2.0 Credits
This seminar focuses on learning from experiences, both in the Co-op and in later professional practice. Students will study the roles being played by lawyers and the institutions where lawyers work. They will discuss their fieldwork experiences, make formal class presentations, and listen to practicing attorneys. Enrollment is by permission only.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 655S Lawyering Practice Seminar II 1.0 Credit
This is a professionalism course designed to support students' second co-op experience as they continue to build skills and develop professional identity. Students will continue to focus on the study of lawyers and their roles and obligations within the context of their co-op and later professional practice. Course meetings will revolve around student presentations, engagement with practicing attorneys and developing a professional development plan and personal writing portfolio.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 654S
LAW 656S Justice Lawyering Sem 1.0-3.0 Credit
This course, which is a co-requisite of the field clinics, is a critical look at law and social justice.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 3 credits
LAW 657S Contemplative Lawyering 2.0 Credits
Contemplative Lawyering is course about ethics and wellbeing, both personal and professional. Through readings, podcasts, journaling, and in-class discussion, you will learn how ethics and well-being are inextricably related. You will also learn mindfulness practices, both "sitting" and "portable," that help support the cultivation of ethics and well-being. At the end of the course you will have a new set of tools to help you move forward into your life as a practicing lawyer in a healthier, more ethical, more easeful way.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 658S Labor Law 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on the laws governing collective bargaining by unions and employees, and the laws regularity the relationship between individuals and their unions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 660S E-Discovery & Digital Evidence 2.0 Credits
This course intends to prepare law students for modern-day litigation practice, which has become increasingly dependent on the understanding and use of technology. Doctrinally, this course covers the identification, preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information (“ESI”) in civil litigation. Practically, this course covers the organization, use and presentation of ESI from the very beginning of the case through trial preparation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 670S Criminal Procedure: Investigations 3.0 Credits
This course considers the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the Fifth Amendment's right to Due Process and against compulsory self-incriminations, and the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel, all with particular emphasis on the application of these constitutional provisions within the context of criminal investigation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 671S Criminal Procedure: Prosecution & Adjudication 3.0 Credits
This course will study the basic rules of criminal procedure, beginning with the institution of formal proceedings. It will emphasize prosecutorial discretion, preliminary hearings, the grand jury, criminal discovery, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, jury selection, pretrial publicity, double jeopardy, the right to counsel, and pretrial release and sentencing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 672S Sentencing Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course examines theories of sentencing, sentencing regimes, use of guidelines, and constitutional limits on sentencing.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 673S Crime and Community 2.0 Credits
In this course, students will study how various communities are affected by crime and criminal justice policies. Issues that may be considered include the war on drugs, large-scale incarceration, and sexual offender regulations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is LAW.
LAW 674S Health Care Fraud and Abuse 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course examines the major federal and state legislation for providers who seek reimbursement under governmentally funded health care programs including the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Kickback statute, the False Claims Act, and the Stark I and Stark II legislation and regulations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 675S Federal Criminal Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This is a broad survey course on current federal criminal law and practice. Students will become familiar with a wide range of federal criminal statutes, theories of criminal liability and culpability, federal sentencing law, federal jurisdictional issues, and federal practice from the investigative through trial stages.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 676S White Collar Crime 2.0-3.0 Credits
This class will present an overview of white collar criminal litigation. The course will emphasize federal law and focus on liability for corporations and corporate executives, fraud, obstruction of justice, and related matters.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 678S Juvenile Justice Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will conduct an in-depth study of juvenile justice jurisprudence, doctrine, and policy in the United States. It will consider particular constitutional issues as they relate to children in the juvenile justice system. It will also consider the major differences between the criminal justice and the juvenile justice systems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 680S Death Penalty Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will focus on the substantive and procedural issues presented in cases where prosecutors seek the death penalty. It will also consider the legal issues arising in collateral challenges to death sentences, particularly through the Federal habeas corpus process.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 682S Criminal & Civil Rights Litigation Strategies 2.0 Credits
This advanced litigation course is designed to train students in how to create a strategy for handling a criminal or civil rights matter. Students will begin with substantial factual material. With this base, they will move through the processes of developing a case theory, designing an investigation and discovery strategy, targeting relevant court motions, and preparation of the case for trial.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 670S [Min Grade: D] and LAW 634S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 690S Marijuana Cannabis Law 2.0 Credits
The distribution and sale of marijuana is illegal federally while an ever increasing number of states have embraced and monetized the sale of medicinal and/or adult recreational marijuana use. This class will cover: (i) the backstory to the federal-state "stand-off"; (ii) the inability of marijuana businesses to utilize, among other things: federally-insured bank accounts, customary business tax deductions, and bankruptcy protections; (iii) essential information to ethically "practice in the field" to include: cultivation, storage, testing, marketing/packaging, distribution, sales, financing, employment, licensing, regulatory and land-use compliance; and (iv) other issues including marijuana in sports, in immigration matters, in pregnancy, and issues specific to Veterans and minority communities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 700S Business Organizations 3.0-4.0 Credits
This class studies the legal attributes of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. It examines the rights, duties and liabilities of managers, owners, and agents. It also focuses on formation issues, operational powers and fundamental changes in business forms such as dissolution, merger, or acquisition.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 701S Federal Income Tax 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course is intended to give students an understanding of the fundamental legal and policy concepts underlying the federal individual income tax. The course will focus on the statutory framework of U.S. tax laws, particular judicial authorities, and selected Treasury Department regulations and rulings.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 702S Enterprise Tax 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course will survey the differing federal income tax treatments of the various forms of business and investment activities, including both corporations and partnerships.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 701S
LAW 704S Corporate Finance 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize law students with the principles of corporate finance. In the world of corporate finance, the distinction between lawyers and investment bankers has blurred. Whether issuing new securities, taking a firm public via an IPO or securing a credit facility, corporate lawyers and investment bankers work side-by-side. Lawyers without an appreciation of corporate finance are at a distinct disadvantage. This course will provide the framework of these types of financings and offer students chances to test their knowledge with a series of simulated transactions during the course of the semester.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 706S Secured Transactions 3.0 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the law governing contractually created interest on personal property used to secure payment or performance of obligations. Students will study the creation, perfection, priority, and enforcement of security interests in personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 708S Payment Systems 3.0 Credits
This course introduces the student to the law of negotiable instruments, primarily checks and promissory notes. The course focuses on Articles 3 (Negotiable Instruments) and 4 (Bank Deposits and Collections) of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 710S Bankruptcy 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course will examine both state law remedies and priorities and the federal Bankruptcy Code. Topics will include elements common to all bankruptcies, as well as Chapter 7 liquidations in the consumer context, and Chapter 8 and 13 wage-earner payout plans.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 711S Sales 3.0 Credits
This course reviews contract formation issues from the perspective of Uniform Commercial Code Article 2 and focuses on significant commercial contractual issues such as formation, performance (delivery and payment), title to goods, third party rights, warranty, and remedies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 712S Private Equity and Venture Capital Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course examines the legal and financial aspects of venture capital and private equity transactions. Subjects include venture capital financing, leveraged buyout transactions, management equity incentive structures, and related tax topics. Students will also be introduced to the venture capital and private equity fund industry.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 700S
LAW 713S Transactional Lawyering 4.0-5.0 Credits
This hands-on skills course places students in the role of dealmakers. Students must anticipate legal problems and create agreements that avoid those pitfalls.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 700S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 714S Securities Regulation 3.0 Credits
This course examines securities market regulation, including registration, exemption, and remedies under the Securities Act of 1933; reporting and accounting standards under the 1934 Act; the proxy system; and the regulation of broker-dealers, specialists, and self-regulatory organizations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 715S Mergers and Acquisitions 3.0 Credits
This is an upper-level simulation course designed to familiarize the student with mergers and acquisitions practice. In a series of five exercises, students will work as teams to draft, mark-up and negotiate the provisions of an acquisition agreement. The course provides an opportunity to develop drafting, client counseling, negotiation and deal structuring skills while exposing students to the various substantive legal doctrine that impact a hypothetical cross-border leveraged buyout transaction.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 700S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 716S Antitrust 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on antitrust law, with emphasis on how modern technology might challenge traditional antitrust principles. Topics include Rules of Reason vs. per se analysis, monopolies, mergers, joint ventures, tying arrangements, exclusive dealing, predatory pricing, and other business behaviors that have arisen in a variety of industries and markets.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 718S E-Commerce 2.0-3.0 Credits
The advent of the Internet and the integration of electronic technologies into business has had an enormous impact on the way that commerce is carried out. This course will examine the legal challenges faced by businesses as they as they migrate to an electronic environment, and the extent to which the law must adapt to the changing landscape.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 719S Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Law 2.0 Credits
This course is designed to provide an overview of blockchain and cryptocurrency law. On the technology side, students will obtain a basic understanding of cryptocurrencies, blockchain consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, current and anticipated blockchain use cases, and significant projects in the industry. Building off this learning, students will analyze and evaluate the way lawmakers and regulators are dealing with this cutting-edge technology in the U.S., particularly in the areas of securities law. Ethical and jurisdictional considerations will be discussed throughout as applied to the role of regulators and the courts evaluating the technology. Students will be introduced to blockchain business representatives as guest speakers, and will draft and present an analysis of a selected blockchain company.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 722S Employment Law 3.0 Credits
This course studies the law regulating the employer-employee relationship. Topics include the process of establishing employment, and its terms; employers legal obligation to employees; termination; and compliance with existing regulatory regime.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 724S Nonprofit Organizations 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will provide an overview of the legal environment of nonprofit organizations. Emphasis will be upon examining the law as it affects various aspects of nonprofits including incorporation, governance, fundraising and solicitation, employment, political activities, and tax status. Students will learn how the law regulates and structures nonprofit entities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 726S Sports Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will involve application of various legal doctrines (including contracts, labor, antitrust, intellectual property, tax, torts, remedies, arbitration and constitutional law) to a broad range of sports-related activities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 728S Entertainment Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
The course will provide an overview of legal issues arising in the entertainment industry. Topics include acquisition of rights, talent agreements, project financing and structures, and distributor and licensing agreements. The course will also survey contracts, business organizations, securities, labor, copyright, trademark and rights of privacy/publicity law impacting the entertainment industry.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 730S Legal Regulation of Global Financial Crimes 3.0 Credits
This course covers a broad scope of global financial crimes and their intersection with the US financial system. Students will learn about a variety of types of financial crimes; what laws and regulations come into play; which regulators enforce them; the consequences for individuals and financial institutions who enable such crimes (whether intentionally or otherwise); the latest data breach issues, laws, and regulations (including GLBA, GDPR, and others); and how current events, politics, and technological advances intersect with these criminal enterprises.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 731S Workers Compensation 2.0 Credits
This course will address the history, statutory construction, and evolving nature of workers compensation law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 733S Employee Benefits Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course considers the legal, economic, and social welfare aspects of benefits provided through an individual’s ties to the employment market. The course will consider mandatory benefit regimes in which all employers and employees must participate, such as Social Security and Medicare; and voluntary benefit programs, which employers may choose to adopt or not adopt for their employees.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 734S Legal Regulation of Investment Advisers 3.0 Credits
This course will thoroughly review the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and how it laid the foundation for present day regulation. It will explore the various legal and regulatory schemes that govern investment companies and look at the key policies that drive them.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 735S Legal Regulation of Investment Companies 3.0 Credits
This course will thoroughly review the Investment Company Act of 1940 and how it laid the foundation for present day regulation. It will explore the various legal and regulatory schemes that govern investment companies and look at the key policies that drive them.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 736S Broker/Dealer Regulation 3.0 Credits
This course will discuss the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern broker-dealers. It will explore the multiple legal and regulatory regimes that govern broker dealers and affiliated institutions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 737S Banking Law 3.0 Credits
This course will explore the development of banking law and how that development shapes our current banking regulatory regime. It will also compare the US banking regulatory scheme comprised of state and federal bodies with the more uniform systems operating in many foreign jurisdictions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 740S Trusts and Estates 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course will survey the law of gratuitous transfers and inheritance. The class will cover the creation, execution, alteration and interpretation of wills as well as the creation, revocation and interpretation of trusts and trust instruments of various types.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 741S Estate Planning 2.0 Credits
This class will introduce students to the fundamental principles and objectives of estate planning. With these fundamentals, the course will then examine the basic tools and techniques used in planning an estate to meet the needs of an individual or married couple, such as wills, various types of trusts, and lifetime gift giving. Probate of an estate, durable power of attorneys, guardianships, and planning for other life situations will also be explored.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 740S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 742S Real Estate Transactions 2.0-3.0 Credits
This upper-level property course studies the legal aspects of residential and commercial real estate sales, development and finance.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 746S Land Use Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course studies the principal methods of public control of private land use. It will consider issues relating to nuisance, eminent domain, taxation and zoning.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 760S Copyright 3.0 Credits
This course surveys the law of copyright. Topics to be discussed include the subject matter of copyright; ownership and transfer of copyrights; the rights afforded to copyright owners; duration of copyright rights; infringement; and remedies. Related areas of law such as author's moral rights, unfair competition, and contractual protection.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 761S Patents 3.0 Credits
This course provides an introduction to patent law, focusing upon the requirements of patentability (patentable subject matter, utility, novelty and non-obviousness), infringement, and defenses to infringement. Other topics include the economics of information and innovation competition, claims drafting, licensing, patent misuse and antitrust violations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 762S Patent Prosecution 2.0 Credits
This course focuses on drafting patents, strategy and tactics before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and standards for patentability in the context of business effectiveness and ethical requirements.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 761S [Min Grade: D] (Can be taken Concurrently)
LAW 763S Patent Litigation & Strategy 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will delve more deeply into the questions of patentability, infringement, licenses, and assignments. Also, it will focus on the special aspects of patent litigation arising from its technical nature.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 761S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 764S Trademarks & Unfair Competition 3.0 Credits
This course analyzes the law of unfair commercial practices. It covers trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, infringement, interference with contractual relationships, appropriation of intellectual property created by another, defamation, disparagement, false advertising, unfair methods of competition, unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and remedies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 765S Essentials of Intellectual Property Law 3.0 Credits
The purpose of this course is to prove an overview of intellectual property for those preparing to be civil or criminal attorneys who do not specialize in the field. Over the past century, the creation of new solutions and content has become a primary foundation of the U.S. economy. As such, it has become integral to the practice of business law. Some types of protection, including anti-hacking legislation, trade secrets, copyright, and trademark law, are becoming increasingly import in criminal law as well. Those interested in technology and business law will benefit from this foundational course that outlines the basics of intellectual property law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 768S Internet Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course addresses a variety of legal issues that relate to the Internet. Areas covered include intellectual property, electronic privacy, constitutional rights, and commercial law issues.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 770S European Union Data Privacy and Protection 3.0 Credits
This course explores the law governing information privacy, data protection, and data security in the European Union. Topics may include an introduction to the EU Data Protection Directive and the new General Data Protection Regulation (2018), the Data Protection Authorities and cybersecurity in Europe. Students will also explore the so-called “Right to Be Forgotten,” and how EU law affects US companies doing business in Europe or with European entities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 780S Health Care Quality Regulation 3.0 Credits
This course examines all aspects of medical errors and quality in health care, including malpractice suits, licensing, staff privileging of doctors, and current regulatory approaches. It will also look at issues of patient rights and autonomy, including consent, medical information, clinical research, and issues in death and dying.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 781S Health Care Business Regulation 3.0 Credits
This course examines the history of the American health care system and will consider the tensions between costs and the access to care. Topics will include the federal Medicare and Medicaid systems, cost controls through health insurance and federal regulation, antitrust issues, ERISA, EMTALA, and other federal regulatory regimes.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 782S Health Policy Colloquium 2.0 Credits
This course will use case studies to examine regulatory choices in health care. The course will first examine the tools available to regulators in the U.S. health care system. The course will then consider regulatory strategies that a regulator might consider to handle several case studies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 780S
LAW 783S Bioethics 2.0-3.0 Credits
This class explores the legal and ethical issues surrounding the development of new biological technologies. Topics may include the research bioethics, assisted reproductive technology, genetics, issues surrounding death and dying, and organ transplantation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 784S Health Care Finance 2.0-3.0 Credits
This class will consider basic economic concepts related to health care finance and private insurance.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 785S Legal Regulation of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Research and Development 3.0 Credits
This course explores the regulatory entities and schemes governing the research and development, management, financing, and reporting requirements of clinical trials in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. Topics include the role of the Institutional Review Board, compliance with Good Clinical Practice standards, informed consent, pharmacovigilance and the protection of human research subjects, payments and financial transparency, conflicts of interest, ethical considerations in designing and executing clinical trials, and reporting requirements.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 786S Products Liability 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on the theories and scope of liability arising from the distribution and sale of harm-producing products. Topics include concepts of defectiveness, design problems, duty to warn and problems with causation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 787S Legal Regulation of Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Sales and Marketing Practices 3.0 Credits
This course explores the law governing pharmaceutical and medical device sales and marketing practices, including product pricing, advertising, labeling, promotion and distribution. Topics may include identification of the entities regulating pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, disclosure and transparency requirements, payments to doctors and institutions, fraud and abuse, anti-bribery laws, direct-to-consumer advertising including internet advertising, off-label marketing and promotion, labeling over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, and limitations on the government’s ability to regulate commercial speech.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 788S Law of Medical Malpractice 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course covers medical liability issues arising from the treatment relationship between health care providers and their patients. Topics include the history of the medical malpractice tort, its evolution as a "crisis," informed consent, the framework for a medical malpractice lawsuit, and an analysis of proposals for medical malpractice reforms.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 789S Genetics Law and Ethics 2.0-3.0 Credits
This seminar will explore key legal, ethical and policy issues in the collection, storage and use of genetic data. Genomics is revolutionizing health care as breakthrough technologies emerge at an accelerating pace in areas such as gene therapy, precision medicine and Crispr gene editing. Law and policy are struggling to keep up and strike a balance between nurturing this innovation and protecting privacy and other individual rights. The seminar will focus on the ways genetic science intersects with principles of health law and ethics in pursuit of this goal. Among the issues to be explored are duties of clinicians, patient rights, discrimination risks, eugenics, insurance underwriting, privacy threats, and property rights in data.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 790S Toxic Torts 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will consist of an in-depth study of mass tort litigation of all kinds, at both the state and federal level, focusing primarily on the manufacture and distribution of defective and toxic products and pharmaceuticals. Class actions will be studied as a remedial tool.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 791S Regulating Patient Safety 2.0-3.0 Credits
This seminar will look at the problem of medical errors in American health care, the emerging Patient Safety movement, and regulatory strategies for reducing errors and improving quality in hospitals, drug delivery systems, and physician office practices.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 792S Food and Drug Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course considers the federal regulation of products subject to FDA jurisdiction, including food, human prescription and nonprescription drugs, animal feed and drugs, biologics and blood products, medical devices, and cosmetics. The course examines the public policy choices underlying the substantive law, FDA enforcement power, and agency practice and procedure.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 793S Mental Health Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course introduces students to the legal doctrine related to the treatment and right of people with mental illness. It will also consider the role of mental health professionals in the functioning of law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 794S Advanced Torts 2.0-3.0 Credits
Advanced Torts will cover areas of tort law particularly relevant to business, including tortious interference with contract, commercial defamation, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud, and spoliation liability.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 796S Insurance Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will survey the basic types of individual and corporate insurance policies, legal principles of insurance law and the role insurance plays in society. Topics may include insurance industry regulation, policy structure, risk management and interpretation, insurance marketing, insurance intermediaries, claims, and potential insurer defenses.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 802S Reflections on Practice 1.0 Credit
This course is designed to accompany a CPT work experience. Working in the U.S. in law can be a challenging experience. The goal of this course is to help students learn from their work experience by the use of reflection and feedback.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 4 credits
LAW 803S Beginning Spanish for Lawyers 1.0 Credit
This course is an introduction to the Spanish language for law students and is intended for students with limited experience with the language. It is designed to help students develop basic communication skills in Spanish by engaging them in a variety of interactive tasks. As a skills course, it is student-centered in order to maximize students’ active participation at the individual, small group and whole group levels.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 804S Intermediate Spanish for Lawyers 1.0 Credit
This course is intended for law students who possess some experience with the Spanish language or have taken LAW 803S. It is designed to help students develop formal, professional communication skills in Spanish by engaging them in a variety of interactive tasks that mimic those found at an entry level lawyer/paralegal position. It is a skills course, which is student-centered, interactive and conversation-based. In class activities are designed in order to maximize students’ active participation at the individual, small group and whole group levels.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 805S Public Interest Law and Policy 2.0 Credits
This course will explore the role of the public interest lawyer in social policy reform, including impact litigation and non-litigation advocacy. Teams of 2-3 students will choose an issue they care about, learn about advocacy strategies and, through role playing, research, and drafting, experience what they could do to address their chosen issue. The course will include pre-trial litigation and non-litigation exercises and activities (e.g., class action complaints, mock depositions, draft legislation, mock public testimony, draft settlement agreements...), lectures and class discussions on a wide range of issues.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 811S Expert Witnesses 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will examine the legal, policy, and practice considerations relating to the use of expert witnesses in civil and criminal cases. The course will examine the various roles of expert witnesses in civil and criminal cases, the rules of evidence that govern the recognition of experts and admissibility of expert testimony, techniques for effective direct examination and cross-examination of experts, and the ethical guidelines most relevant to expert testimony. This course will emphasize how attorneys can work effectively with experts (across disciplines) in the context of litigation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 812S Behavioral Science Applications to the Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This seminar is designed to inform law students and selected doctoral students in psychology about the usefulness of social science information in the practice and scholarship of law while at the same time indicating the problems and pitfalls of using such information particularly at the appellate level. Thus, this seminar explores the interplay and conflict between law and psychology and the many ways in which social science research can or should have an influence on legal decision making.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 819S Transactional Competition Team 1.0-6.0 Credit
This course is restricted to students who have been approved by the instructor to participate as team members in a transactional lawyering competition approved by the instructor, such as the Transactional LawMeet®. Students are required to participate fully as a team member and to compete effectively in the selected competition under the supervision of the instructor or a senior practitioner selected by the instructor to serve as the team’s coach.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 18 credits
Prerequisites: LAW 713S [Min Grade: D] (Can be taken Concurrently)
LAW 820S Immigration Law 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course covers issues in immigration law including inadmissibility and deportability, relief from removal, asylum and refugee status, citizenship, nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, and administrative and judicial review.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 821S European Union Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will cover an analysis of the Treaty of Rome and other relevant legal instruments and the major institutions and characteristics of European Union law, including basic freedoms of the treaty (free movement of persons, goods, services, and capital), the Commission, the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 822S Comparative Constitutional Law 2.0-4.0 Credits
Focusing on constitutional structure and law in a variety of countries, this course will address comparative approaches to issues as judicial review, judicial appointment, separation of powers, federalism, and fundamental rights. The course will also explore fundamental, underlying questions about the nature of constitutions and constitutionalism, processes of constitution design, political constraints on constitutional rights and constitutional courts, and constitutional culture.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 824S International Law 3.0-4.0 Credits
This course will examine the nature and sources of international law; international organizations, including the United Nations and the International Court of Justice; and the developing law of human rights. Other topics include the role of international law in the United States courts; the law relating to the use of military force; and international trade law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 825S International Human Rights Advocacy & Practice 2.0-3.0 Credits
This seminar explores the use of international human rights strategies to advance social justice advocacy in the United States. On issues ranging from racial disparities in the criminal justice system to access to housing, U.S. lawyers increasingly use the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and Inter-American Human Rights System, draw on international human rights and comparative foreign law in litigation before U.S. courts, and engage in broader advocacy such as documentation, organizing, and education. The course will examine the growing movement to incorporate international human rights strategies into U.S. social justice lawyering, explore the relevance of U.S. human rights advocacy in the current political landscape, and develop practical approaches to thoughtfully engage these tools.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 826S Refugee and Asylum Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course explores the treatment of foreign refugees and political asylees, with particular emphasis on relevant statutes, regulations and treaties.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 827S Immigration Litigation 2.0 Credits
The course will focus on handling cases before the immigration court. Beginning with an overview of the immigration court system and pertinent parts of immigration law, this course will also examine grounds of removal and of inadmissibility, bond motions, grounds to challenge the Notice to Appear, three of the most common forms of relief, adjustment of status and fear of return to home country. The course will be geared to a practical handling of these problems, but with a firm grounding in the legal authorities.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 828S International Business Transactions 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course examines the legal framework of private international business transactions including: sales of goods and services, foreign investment, technology transfer and government regulation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 830S Professional Responsibility 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will examine the ethical duties of lawyers toward clients, courts, and society. The course emphasizes the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the Model Code of Professional Responsibility, and relevant case law. Topics covered include confidentiality, conflicts of interest, competence, fee arrangements, and the unauthorized practice of law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 832S Contract Theory Seminar 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course is designed to get students thinking more creatively and deeply about the ideas animating contract law and policy. While the first-year Contracts course is about mastering the technical aspects and doctrines of contract law, this course is about taking those skills to another level. The overarching course goal is to consider and discuss the ideas which undergird and give life to contract law. The course will cover the basics of contract theory, surveying some different ideas about “the grand unifying theme of contract,” examining the strengths and weaknesses of these different ideas and theories of particular doctrines in contract law (this could include consideration, promissory estoppel, efficient breach, and/or special problems of form contracts).
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 833S Race and the Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course considers the role of race in American law and examines the role of law in constructing notions of race.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 834S Jurisprudence 3.0 Credits
This course addresses essential questions about the nature of law and its role in society. What is law? What is its source of legitimacy? How does it function? Readings will consider major texts in Western jurisprudential philosophy.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 836S Legal History 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course surveys Anglo-American legal history from the origins of the common law through the 20th century. The course will focus on the development of both legal institutions and substantive law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 838S Foundations of Legal Analysis 2.0 Credits
This course is designed to develop and refine the skills necessary for legal analysis and writing. The course will be taught using a hands-on, experiential approach largely driven by written classroom exercises and written assignments submitted for evaluation and feedback by faculty. The course is based on three principles: varied and frequent writing practice; faculty feedback on written assignments; and analysis of writing models.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 840S Literature and The Law Seminar 2.0-3.0 Credits
This seminar will explore the role of law, legal institutions, and legal actors in literature. It will also consider the ways in which literature and literary theory can be used in practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 842S Law and Mind Sciences 2.0-3.0 Credits
Much of law and legal theory is based on commonsense assumptions about human behavior: criminals are evil; contracting parties act freely and with full knowledge; and workplace discrimination results from conscious prejudice. This seminar will explore evidence from social psychology, social cognition, cognitive neuroscience, and related fields that challenges these and similar conceptions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 844S Law and Social Movements 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course studies the various ways in which law succeeds - or fails - to bring about changes in the allocation of rights to groups and individuals. The class will focus on particular legal and social change movements, considering the effectiveness of strategies such as litigation and law reform.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 848S Courts and Public Policy 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course explores how public policy is created, interpreted, and implemented through various governing agencies including courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and "street-level" bureaucrats. Readings will examine the practical concerns about the capacity and competence of these different institutions to make and enforce lasws. The course will engage theoretical questions, considering both the powers and limitations of courts in a democratic society.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 850S Inside-Out: Crime and Inequality in the United States 3.0 Credits
This course explores the history of criminal justice policy in the United States through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. The Inside-Out Program seeks to deepen conversations about crime and justice by creating opportunities for dialogue between those on the inside and those on the outside of correctional facilities in the United States.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 866S Advanced Immigration Law 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course covers advanced issues concerning the law, policy, and politics of immigration and citizenship in the United States, including relevant perspectives on those issues from other disciplines. Topics covered may include the constitutional power to regulate immigration and its limits, discrimination against noncitizens by private and public entities, workplace and labor rights of noncitizens, the intersection of immigration and criminal law, federal enforcement priorities, asylum and humanitarian protections, state and local enforcement initiatives, immigrant integration and inclusion policies, the politics and policy of immigration reform, and selected contemporary litigation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 820S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 870S Business Law Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
This course covers business law-related resources, in both print and electronic format, including primary and secondary sources; company information and demographics; SEC and tax information and documents; and current awareness tools. Students will learn how to locate, use and evaluate these resources.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S and LAW 566S
LAW 871S Intellectual Property Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
The goal of this course is to provide students with grounding in the materials essential to performing introductory intellectual project research, enabling them to complete complex IP research assignments, whether for coursework or practice. Classes will contain an overview of research tools, explanations on how to use them effectively and assignments demonstrating their proper use. This course will augment current and furture IP course offerings.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S and LAW 566S
LAW 872S Health Law Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
The goal of this course is to provide students with the tools necessary to perform effective legal research in all areas of health care law. Students will learn how to use electronic and print resources and techniques to research health law statutes, legislative history, case law, regulations, and literature, as well as medical and health sciences information. Overviews and explanations of research tools and sources will be given.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S [Min Grade: D] and LAW 566S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 873S Foreign and International Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
This class will give students a working knowledge of research methods, in traditional print sources and in electronic formats, for conducting research in the laws of foreign countries and international law.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S [Min Grade: D] and LAW 566S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 874S Pennsylvania Legal Research 1.0 Credit
In this course, students will become familiar with Pennsylvania primary resources (including cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, etc.) and Pennsylvania secondary legal resources (including practice guides, treatises, and CLE materials.) The class will cover all available resources, including print resources, free electronic resources, and subscription database resources. Grading is Credit/No Credit.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S [Min Grade: D] and LAW 566S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 875S Litigation Legal Research 1.0 Credit
The goal of this course is to prepare law students for research in civil litigation practice. Students will learn how to use electronic and print resources to find, evaluate, and use primary and secondary sources to support each stage of the litigation process. Classes will contain an overview of research tools, explanations on how to use them effectively and efficiently, and assignments demonstrating their proper use. Grading is Credit/No Credit.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 876S Tax Law Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
The goal of this course is to introduce students to the concepts of tax research and the sources of tax authority. The learning outcomes for this class include giving students familiarity with statutory interpretation and legislative history, regulations, administrative decisions and letter rulings, case law, and secondary sources on tax law. There will also be discussion of the authoritative weight of various types of tax materials. The course focuses on Federal tax law, but includes an overview of state tax research—with an emphasis on Pennsylvania law—as well as international tax research.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S [Min Grade: D] and LAW 566S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 877S Criminal Law Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
This course covers basic criminal law research resources, in both print and electronic formats. Main topics include the following: primary and secondary resources of criminal law and procedure; interdisciplinary research; criminal law reports and statistics; and current awareness resources. This class covers both federal and state criminal law resources.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 565S [Min Grade: D] and LAW 566S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 880S Advanced Legal Research 1.0-2.0 Credit
This course provides students a thorough grounding in the research skills needed by today's lawyers. Students will learn how to use advanced electronic and print resources and techniques to research case law, statutes, legislative histories, administrative law, and other practice-based research tools.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 882S Litigation Drafting 2.0 Credits
This course explores technical and strategic issues in the drafting of litigation documents such as complaints, answers, written discovery, motions, affidavits, discovery schedules, pretrial orders, jury instructions, releases and correspondence. Students will complete a number of drafting assignments in and out of class.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 884S Contract Drafting 2.0 Credits
In this course, students will develop basic skills needed to draft and revise contracts. Through a variety of writing assignments, students will learn the component parts of typical contracts and their purpose, as well as the ways in which the substantive content can be customized to satisfy a particular client's needs and concerns. This involves translating deal points into contract concepts, as well as revising legal boilerplate to enhance and protect their client’s interests. The course is designed to be helpful for students who plan to be litigators, as well as students who plan to do transactional work.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 886S Writing Strategies for the Bar 2.0 Credits
This course will prepare students for the written portions of the bar exam - essays and performance test questions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 887S Advanced Legal Analysis and Bar Skills 2.0-4.0 Credits
This course will prepare students for the written essays, performance tests and multiple-choice questions of the bar exam. Students will develop their exam-writing skills by taking practice questions under exam conditions and receiving critiques of their answers. Students will also review several areas of substantive law commonly tested on bar exams. NOTE: This course is not a substitute for a commercial bar review course.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 888S Writing for Judicial Clerkship 2.0 Credits
This is an upper level writing course designed to prepare students seeking judicial clerkships for their particular writing tasks.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 890S Improvisation for Lawyers 1.0 Credit
In this intensive course, students will hone their legal performance skills by studying improvisational theater techniques. The course will involve extensive hands-on performance.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 891S Communicating for Success 2.0 Credits
The goal of this interactive seminar is to assist students in becoming practice-ready when they graduate from law school. The course will explore the array of skills and values that lawyers need to be effective in working with their clients using a relationship-centered model. Participants will draw upon their real world experiences in and out of law school to develop concrete tools and techniques to communicate with clients in a wide variety of contexts and to achieve better outcomes. Grading is Credit/No Credit.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 892S Starting & Managing Law Pract 1.0-2.0 Credit
This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and resources required to establish or manage a law firm. Topics will include marketing, case management, and ethical considerations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 893S Accounting for Lawyers 2.0 Credits
This course will introduce students to financial statements and accounting concepts that will facilitate law practice with corporate clients and in other matters where financial auditing is involved.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 894S Moot Court Board 1.0-6.0 Credit
Students will be selected by the faculty supervisors to serve on the moot court board. Students will develop an intra-scholastic moot court competition and will be eligible to compete in interscholastic competitions.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 4 times for 6 credits
LAW 895S Legal Decision Technology 3.0 Credits
This course explores how legal decision technology can be used to expand public access to legal information. Students will learn about cutting edge legal decision technologies, hone their statutory interpretation skills, and build interactive apps that answer specific legal questions. This is a hands on, lab-style class, but no prior programming experience is required.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 896S Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition Team 1.0-6.0 Credit
Students who have been selected for one of the Alternative Dispute Resolution competitions will enroll in this course and complete all required work in order to earn co-curricular credit for competition.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 3 times for 24 credits
LAW 897S Technology for Law Practice 3.0 Credits
This course teaches the basic technological and software skills needed for a daily law practice. Topics will include legal document management, drafting, and collaboration; spreadsheets; timekeeping; billing; e-discovery; case and practice management; cybersecurity; technology ethics and professional responsibility; and PDF creation and manipulation. Students will complete a legal technology audit that they can use as a blueprint for their future practice.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 900S Pre-Trial Advocacy 2.0-3.0 Credits
Students will learn the major steps in the pretrial litigation process including theory development, client interviewing, informal fact, investigation, pleading, discovery, depositions, pretrial motions, jury selection, and the settlement process.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 902S Introduction to Trial Advocacy 0.0-3.0 Credits
This course will teach students to perform trial skills based on strategic themes and theories. The students will conduct direct and cross-examination of lay, party and expert witnesses, opening and closing statements, make objections and introduce exhibits. The course will culminate with each student performing in a mock trial.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 634S [Min Grade: D] (Can be taken Concurrently)
LAW 904S Advanced Trial Advocacy: Civil 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course is a continuation of Introduction to Trial Advocacy and is an advanced civil trial skills class which teaches students advanced trial skills; evidentiary issues; and case development. Students will perform exercises and develop case theories using mock civil cases.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 902S [Min Grade: CR]
LAW 906S Advanced Trial Advocacy: Criminal 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course is a continuation of Introduction to Trial Advocacy and is an advanced criminal trial skills class which teaches students advanced trial skills; evidentiary issues; and case development. Students will perform exercises and develop case theories using mock criminal cases. The course will culminate with a criminal mock trial.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 902S [Min Grade: CR]
LAW 907S Advanced Trial Advocacy: Courtroom Technology & Advocacy 2.0-3.0 Credits
This advanced course focuses on analyzing both criminal and civil cases and preparing those cases for a presentation before a jury. The course is specifically designed to expand the skills already developed during the Introduction to Trial Advocacy course. The course methodology combines lectures, demonstrations and individual student performances, during which students will be responsible for conducting all aspects of a trial. There will be extensive critique and feedback by instructors experienced in the art of effective trial advocacy. The course culminates with each of the students conducting a complete mock trial. The course requires that all aspects of the students’ trial presentations be given while utilizing technology, which may include TrialPad for the iPad, Power Point, Timeline 3d, iThoughts, etc.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 902S [Min Grade: CR]
LAW 908S Adv Trial Ad: Trials/Century 2.0 Credits
This course will teach students to understand, develop and perform advanced trial skills based on strategic themes and theories used throughout the trial process. Students will analyze actual trail transcripts and exhibits, and movie vignettes of advocates from famous "Trials of the Century.".
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 902S [Min Grade: CR]
LAW 910S Appellate Advocacy 2.0 Credits
This course provides students with advanced training in appellate advocacy, including the study of the rhetoric of persuasion, the preparation of appellate briefs and effective oral advocacy, and will include an introduction to appellate procedure. This course is required for students serving on the moot court board.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 912S Deposition Skills & Technology 2.0 Credits
Students will receive instruction through focused lectures, demonstrations and feedback from the professors on in-class performances. Students will spend a significant amount of time analyzing civil case files, preparing witnesses for depositions, learning questioning techniques and performing depositions of lay witnesses, parties and experts. Students will also use iPads with loaded deposition software to learn how to prepare and take depositions. Students will also use iPad technology to prepare post-deposition analysis of the depositions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 918S Trial Team 1.0-6.0 Credit
Students will compete in inter-scholarship mock trial competition.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 4 times for 6 credits
LAW 920S Drexel Law Review 1.0-6.0 Credit
Students will receive credit for their work in preparing and contributing to, the Drexel Law Review.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 4 times for 6 credits
LAW 922S Federal Reentry Court Practicum 1.0-3.0 Credit
This class is designed to support the Supervision to Aid Reentry (“STAR”) Program (aka “Federal Reentry Court”). Federal Reentry Court assists previously incarcerated federal prisoners to successfully reenter the community. Students will provide legal representation to participants on matters, including challenging traffic citations and fines, restoring driving privileges, landlord/tenant disputes, family law, and identity fraud. Students must participate in court sessions and attend a bi-weekly seminar. Students may elect to receive 1-2 academic credits per semester, or to receive pro bono credit. Students must make a year-long commitment to participate in both the seminar and the other aspects of the project, regardless of credit election.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 923S Pennsylvania Innocence Project Practicum 3.0 Credits
This is a practicum in which students work on behalf of individuals claiming they were wrongly convicted of a crime and seeking exoneration. Each student will be assigned cases under the supervision of an attorney. In the course of investigating factual claims and researching legal issues, students will review criminal files, interact with investigators, contact other attorneys, interview the client and witnesses, gather documentation, and prepare legal documents and memoranda. Students will also learn the law relevant to both innocence claims and legal issues in their cases.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 924S Entrepreneurial Law Clinic 5.0-6.0 Credits
The Clinic will offer business and intellectual property law counseling to entrepreneurial start-ups based in the Greater Philadelphia area. These services will range from entity formation, founders' agreements, and employment law counseling to trademark and patent registrations and general intellectual protection counseling.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 18 credits
Prerequisites: LAW 700S [Min Grade: D]
LAW 925S Field Practicum 1.0-3.0 Credit
This is an immersive real-world experiential course designed to support students as newcomers to legal practice. Students will focus on the study of lawyers and their roles and obligations, and also have the opportunity to examine legal institutions within the context of a directed field experience into which the student has previously been accepted.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 21 credits
LAW 931S Law Co-op 3.0-9.0 Credits
The Co-op is a field placement in a corporation, law firm, judicial office, public interest organization, or government agency. Students must attend a pre-placement orientation and will work a set number of hours per week and satisfy the supervisor's expectations.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 27 credits
Corequisite: LAW 654S
LAW 933S Co-op Intensive 9.0-10.0 Credits
The Co-op is a field placement in a corporation, law firm, judicial office, public interest organization, or government agency. Students must attend a pre-placement orientation and will work 35-40 hours per week and satisfy the supervisor's expectations.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 2 times for 14 credits
Corequisite: LAW 654S
LAW 941S Criminal Litigation Clinic I 5.0-6.0 Credits
This clinical program places students in a criminal practice setting. Students will represent criminal defendants in all phases of pre-trial and trial activity. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 942S Criminal Litigation Clinic II 5.0-6.0 Credits
This course is a continuation of LAW 941S.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 941S
LAW 943S Civil Litigation Clinic I 5.0-6.0 Credits
This clinical program places students in a civil practice setting. Students will learn varied litigation skills in the context of direct representation of clients. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 944S Civil Litigation Clinic II 5.0-6.0 Credits
This course is a continuation of LAW 943S.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 943S
LAW 947S Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic 5.0-6.0 Credits
This clinic provides intensive litigation training in cases before federal courts and agencies. The clinic’s current focus is on representing individuals in immigration matters. Students play a lead role in all aspects of their cases. Students will counsel clients, conduct fact investigation, develop case strategies, draft briefs and other filings, conduct court hearings, represent clients on appeal, and handle other matters related to their clients’ cases, all under the supervision of the clinic director. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic. A grade will be assigned at the end of the Spring semester.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 948S Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic II 5.0-6.0 Credits
This clinic provides intensive litigation training in cases before federal courts and agencies. The clinic’s current focus is on representing individuals in immigration matters. Students play a lead role in all aspects of their cases. Students will counsel clients, conduct fact investigation, develop case strategies, draft briefs and other filings, conduct court hearings, represent clients on appeal, and handle other matters related to their clients’ cases, all under the supervision of the clinic director. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic. A grade will be assigned at the end of the Spring semester.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 947S
LAW 950S Community Lawyering Clinic I 5.0-6.0 Credits
The clinic offers students the unique opportunity to employ a variety of strategies including litigation, legal reform, community education, media advocacy, and even international advocacy to support the mobilization efforts of community groups working on the ground to achieve social justice. During the second semester, students, in collaboration with community leaders and guided by their ground-level work in the first semester, will design and implement projects aimed at addressing the systemic challenges facing the community, such as improving access to justice. The goal of the clinic is to build students’ capacity as lawyers, leaders, advocates, policy analysts, and community organizers, while at the same time empowering and serving the community.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is LAW.
LAW 951S Community Lawyering Clinic II 5.0-6.0 Credits
This is a continuation of LAW 950S. Students must enroll in both semesters of this year-long clinic.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is LAW.
Prerequisites: LAW 950S
LAW 960S CPRL: Structural Change in Public Education Seminar 5.0 Credits
This course is for students participating in the intensive semester program at Columbia University's Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL). Students must apply through CPRL. This course represents the seminar portion of the experience.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 961S CPRL: Skills Training 2.0 Credits
This course is for students participating in the intensive semester program at Columbia University's Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL). Students must apply through CPRL. This course represents the skills training portion of the experience.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 962S CPRL: Education Research Project 6.0 Credits
This course is for students participating in the intensive semester program at Columbia University's Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL). Students must apply through CPRL. This course represents the professional consulting experience portion of the experience.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 970S Introduction to United States Legal Systems 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course is an introduction to legal and ethical principles driving the U.S. legal system in the context of the history and jurisprudence of American law. It is designed to familiarize the student with the relevant and governing legal principles which are used in American jurisprudence. It will combine both an inquiry into these matters, and a more detailed study of legal issues, through special, current topics. The course seeks to develop a professional level of understanding in the student of a comprehensive approach to legal issues and the relevance of that methodology to professional ethics and life of the law in the United States.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is AMLP.
LAW 971S English for International Lawyers: Working with Legal Texts 1.0-3.0 Credit
This course is designed to provide non-native English speakers with an introduction to working with legal texts to strengthen written and verbal communication skills.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is AMLP.
LAW 981S Litigation Technology 2.0-3.0 Credits
This course will primarily focus on teaching students how to master pre-trial and trial advocacy skills through the use of the latest litigation technology.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 982S Jury Selection 2.0 Credits
This course will primarily focus on the substantive law relating to jury selection and the strategic skills that students will need to master the art of jury selection. Students will learn both the Federal and PA statutes that govern jury selection as well as analyzing the leading case law relating to the constitutionality of jury selection. Students will also watch skilled lawyers and judges conduct voir dire and practice the skill themselves.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 998S Thesis I –Scholarly Legal Writing: Planning and Preparation 3.0 Credits
This course will introduce you to research and writing techniques commonly used in legal scholarly writing. Specifically, this course will help you identify and develop an original thesis topic and will provide you with the foundation needed to draft, edit, and present an original scholarly work of publishable quality in Thesis II.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
LAW 999S Thesis II – Scholarly Legal Writing: Writing, Refining, and Presentation 3.0 Credits
Following Thesis I, this course will provide faculty-guided oversight and mentorship for the drafting, editing, and presentation of an original piece of publishable-quality legal scholarship akin to a law review article. Students will confer with a faculty advisor weekly, either live or via real-time video conference, submit interim drafts as assigned, and receive meaningful faculty feedback. Students will submit a final scholarly paper and present it to colleagues in a workshop format.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: LAW 998S
LAW I599S Independent Study in LAW 1.0-6.0 Credit
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 6 credits
LAW I699S Independent Study in LAW 1.0-6.0 Credit
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 6 credits
LAW I799S Independent Study in LAW 1.0-6.0 Credit
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 6 credits
LAW I899S Independent Study in LAW 1.0-6.0 Credit
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 6 credits
LAW I999S Independent Study in LAW 1.0-6.0 Credit
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 6 credits
LAW T580S Special Topics in LAW 1.0-5.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
LAW T680S Special Topics in LAW 1.0-8.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
LAW T780S Special Topics in LAW 1.0-5.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
LAW T880S Special Topics in LAW 1.0-5.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
LAW T980S Special Topics in LAW 1.0-6.0 Credit
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit