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3.00 Credits
The problem of doing business abroad considered from the standpoint of the regulations of foreign trade and direct investment.
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3.00 Credits
History of anti-poverty programs, the constitutional requirements for such programs. Legal and administrative characteristics of major American incomemaintenance programs. Topics include the structure of programs, discretion, the protections of clients, social reform groups, and welfare reform. Prerequisite: LAWW 5114.
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3.00 Credits
This course involves an introductory survey of topics in intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, patent, and unfair competition issues. If time permits, the course may also cover certain aspects of e-commerce.
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3.00 Credits
Explores methods utilized in the legal profession for resolving disputes. Students develop skills by participating in simulation exercises designed to identify and apply processes. Class readings/discussion on theory and practice will be followed by student simulations. Designed for second and third year law students.
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3.00 Credits
Students receive clinical legal experiences in federal courts and before federal administrative agencies. Although the particular experiences vary, Chapter 7 (no asset) bankruptcies and farm foreclosures are often emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Students will integrate, extend, and refine their legal knowledge and lawyering skills through representation of clients in civil cases pending before Arkansas Circuit and Chancery Courts, federal bankruptcy or administrative cases pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and Administrative Law Judges, and prosecution of criminal misdemeanor cases. Students are responsible for all aspects of representation including interviewing, counseling, negotiation, pleading and discovery practice, and trial advocacy. This course offers students a practice experience similar to that experienced by many lawyers practicing in small to medium sized firms in Arkansas and other states in the region. Prerequisite: Unless waived by the instructor, a cumulative GPA of 2.00; successful completion of 48 semester hours of offerings, including LAWW 4103, LAWW 4203, LAWW 4173, LAWW 6093, and LAWW 5013; and qualifying for Rule XV practice.
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3.00 Credits
Students receive clinical legal experience counseling and representing non-profit organizations serving Northwest Arkansas in a wide range of non-litigation business law matters. Services include startup, incorporation, obtaining federal and state tax exemptions, change of business form, purchase and lease of real and personal property, employment and labor law issues, and general contract negotiation, drafting and execution. In addition, students prepare and participate as presenters in a workshop on matters of general interest to non-profit organizations. Legal Clinic Faculty supervise and review the student attorney's work, and provide personal feedback to the individual student attorneys. Prerequisite: Qualification for Rule XV practice.
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3.00 Credits
Covers public land use controls such as zoning, subdivision regulations, and eminent domain (including private property rights, takings, and inverse condemnation). Heavy emphasis is placed on planning at state and local levels.
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3.00 Credits
This clinic works in conjunction with the Innocence Project, Arkansas to provide pro bono representation to individuals committed to the Arkansas Department of Corrections where available evidence establishes proof of the client's actual innocence. Students are responsible for all aspects of the representation including: case review, investigation, development of lay and expert testimony, pleading, briefing, discovery, and assistance in court proceedings. The Innocence Project, Arkansas is an Arkansas non-profit corporation. Students must be Rule XV eligible and have taken Trial Advocacy. The Innocence Project Clinic is a 3 credit course.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of English and American legal institutions and doctrines. Emphasis on early American (colonial) and 19th Century developments in the law.
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