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Permanent Intra-Session. This course is intended to assist student learn, apply, and develop the following four discovery methods: (1) interrogatories; (2) requests for production of documents; (3) requests for admissions; and (4) depositions upon oral examination. Students will review the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure governing these 4 discovery methods, draft (and respond to) interrogatories, requests for production of documents, and requests for admissions, and participate in taking and defending a deposition. Additional topics to be covered include alternative ways to resolve discovery disputes, such as drafting meet and confer letters, motions to compel, and protective orders. This skills course is intended for first year students who will be paired up into 2 groups: counsel for the plaintiff and counsel for the defendant. The class requires no special substantive knowledge beyond basic concepts of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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Students will develop basic mediation skills through simulated exercises conducted in virtual online environments designed to expose them to the different roles lawyers can play in mediation as well as what parties may experience in resolving disputes in mediation. Additionally, they will experience and evaluate skills and parameters unique to online mediation, including voice- and text-based communication, interfacing through avatars and video-communication, multi-language translation and cross-cultural communication, designing forums and virtual meeting places to facilitate the mediation process. Professional and ethical issues such as confidentiality, rules on multi-jurisdictional practice, and the debate over uniform standards of practice for mediators will also be considered. Finally, we will reflect on the suitability of virtual and online mediation for resolving different disputes, including those involving global and cross-cultural dimensions as well as those with important social justice dimensions affecting individuals and communities in many places around the world.
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The United States spends twice as much on health care as any other wealthy country, yet our life expectancy is 30th in the world and our infant mortality is 26th. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, 20 years of research shows that there is much more to our health than bad habits, health care or unlucky genes. It is social conditions--the circumstances into which we are born, live and work¿more than any other factor, that affect our chances for a healthy life or an early death. These social conditions include being born white or a person-of-color and the experience of racism. This course explores how race, class and other social inequalities contribute to health inequalities and the role of the law in eliminating health inequalities. Credit Type A.
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This course will examine the movement in the American legal academic community towards the achievement of racial diversity through the implementation of pipeline programs. The course will start out with an analysis of the leading cases and legislation in the area of race and education law from Plessy v. Ferguson to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The students will read and discuss legal scholarship and studies from the Law School Admissions Council, the American Bar Association and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund which define what pipeline programs are and why they are needed. The students will then read and examine teaching materials from the two pipeline programs: Legal Outreach, a twenty-five year old program based in New York City, and Street Law, a national program founded at Georgetown University in 1972, comparing the use of mediation theory and the mock trial as pipeline teaching tools. Credit Type C.
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This course is a comprehensive survey of adoption law that will present relevant issues from consent of parents through post-adoption confidentiality issues. The course is designed to present Adoption Law from the perspective of balancing the rights and interests of the Natural Parent, Adopting Parent & Child. The course will also consider current issues in International Adoption and Invitro-fertilization. We will address both the broad Constitutional issues and specific practice-related information. By tackling real-practice issues that arise in Adoption, students will learn how to address ethical, moral & practical problems in ways that promote the well-being and legal interests of all involved. Credit Type B.
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A survey of the ownership, use and leasing of oil and gas. Topics include: basic legal concepts of ownership of oil and gas resources; conveying oil and gas rights; essential clauses of oil and gas leases; and royalty issues. Credit Type A.
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This course will analyze the death penalty as public policy and as it is implemented, historically and to the present day. The class will explore the intersection between objective legal analysis and subjective human emotion. Materials include case law, supplemental readings, Turow¿s Ultimate Punishment, and a panel discussion. Prerequisite: Criminal Law. Credity Type A.
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This course is designed to provide the students with an historical overview of copyright law as it particularly relates to the music industry. In this course, the students will: (a) be introduced to the complex legal and policy issues surrounding copyright infringement in the specific context of digital music sampling; (b) engage in an in-depth discussion of various provisions of the Copyright Act that examine (i) the scope of copyright protection for digital music samples, and (ii) when the use of digital music samples without consent of the owner constitutes copyright infringement; (c) analyze the major agreements and licenses that are negotiated by artists and record labels with respect to digital music samples; and (d) critically examine the few district and appellate court cases on the subject of digital music sampling and assess whether and how Congress and/or the Supreme Court should resolve the many current open issues on the subject of digital music sampling. Credit Type A.
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This course goes beyond the traditional professional responsibility course to give students a greater opportunity to learn and reflect upon common Professional Responsibility and professionalism problems, provide specific information about Ohio¿s Disciplinary system, introduce the differences between ethical misconduct and legal malpractice, and learn how to prevent common ethical problems. The course will explain in detail Ohio¿s disciplinary process, will contextualize ethical issues by examining real problems that most commonly occur in the practice of law and will challenge the students to identify real solutions for those problems. Students will develop their lawyering skills by learning how to incorporate ¿best practices¿ into their eventual legal practice which will serve as prevention tools for common ethical misconduct. Credit Type A.
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This intra-session is designed to provide students with an introduction to nonprofit organizations. Areas of concentration include the composition of the nonprofit sector, nonprofit corporations, governance in a nonprofit organization, obtaining and maintaining tax exempt status, and legal regulation of fundraising. Open to fourth, fifth, and sixth semester students who have completed Business Associations (Law 6801).
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