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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Discussion-2 hours. A consideration of select legal problems arising from international business transactions. Topics include the international sales contract, letters of credit, transfers of technology, regulation of bribery, repatriation of profits, and national efforts to control imports.
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4.00 Credits
Discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 215 or consent of instructor. The legal rules and concepts applicable to nonprofit organizations. Limited enrollment.
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2.00 Credits
Discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite: course 215 (may be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor. State and local laws applicable to nonprofit organizations, i.e., public interest, cultural, religious, educational, and other not-for-profit entities. Federal tax exemptions of nonprofits, state and local laws impacting nonprofits with respect to incorporation or charitable trust formation, operation and governance, dissolution, fiduciary obligations of trustees and officers and directors, management and investment obligations vis-Ã -vis trust assets, cy pres, rights of members of social clubs, trade associations and labor unions, enforcement of obligations and rights by the attorney general and others, and regulation of charitable solicitation. Topics may include local property tax and other tax exemptions, nonprofit accounting issues public/private partnerships and Federal antitrust and constitutional constraints.
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2.00 Credits
Discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite: course 215 or consent of instructor; course 220 recommended. Conceptual basis and substantive law criteria for the federal and state income tax exemption of nonprofit organizations and those particular circumstances and activities which will result in income taxation or financial sanction, including qualifications for exempt status, the nondistribution constraint, the inurement and private benefit concepts, limitations on campaign activities, permissible lobbying expenditures, the unrelated business income tax, the deduction for charitable contributions, intermediate sanctions, the differences between private foundations and public charities, special excise taxes, the exemption application process and reporting and disclosure requirements. Topics may include nonprofit accounting issues, local property tax and other local tax exemptions, and public/private partnerships.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion-3 hours. An introduction to the legal regulation of the family.
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2.00 Credits
Discussion-2 hours. The legal practice and policy relating to aging individuals and an older society. Examination of the roots of legal ethics and the role of the lawyer as professional problem solver and advisor, and the uses of law in relationships between people over life's course. The traditional divisions of tort, contract and property and examination of issues such as age discrimination in employment, eligibility for public benefits, long-term care, housing options of the elderly, health care, guardianship, health care decision making for the incapacitated client, disability law issues, property management, euthanasia, elder abuse, neglect and crime, generational justice, the conflicting values of autonomy versus protections, and a host of other matters. Studentled discussions of interdisciplinary assigned readings and guest lecturers.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion-3 hours. Torts not covered in the firstyear torts course. Defamation, privacy, misrepresentation, misuse of legal procedure, and business torts. Nuisance and related environmental torts. The intersection between statutory remedies and common law torts.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion-3 hours. Provides a broad survey of intellectual property law.
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2.00 Credits
Discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite: course 274 or 296 or 209A or consent of instructor. International aspects of copyright, patent and trademark law, including a look at basic international instruments such as the Paris Convention, the Berne Convention, and Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights of the World Trade Organization. Topics include approaches to patent protection for pharmaceuticals and agricultural products in developing nations, and copyright protection in a digital world.
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2.00 Credits
Discussion-2 hours This course provides a broad survey of the field of intellectual property. Areas covered will include trademarks, patents, trade secrets, idea protection, unfair competition, and copyright.
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