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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Intellectual property is a legal tool that helps protect and facilitate the commercialization of human innovation, such as creative works, inventions, and proprietary and/or competitive business information. This course generally exposes students to current and potential intellectual property issues facing society and business. It is a survey of the different intellectual property mechanisms, such as patents trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other related state law doctrines. For Advocacy Track and General Practice Track students only. Credit Type A.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores both private and governmental control and management of the environment with primary emphasis given to the problems of pollution. After an introduction to both the common law and regulatory approaches to pollution control, the course examines specific problem areas, which may include air and water pollution, solid and hazardous waste treatment and disposal, environmental issues in property and business transactions, and the tension between regulating private property and the constitutional regulatory takings doctrine. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
An in-depth study of selected issues raised by widespread use of electronic information systems and computer networks such as the Internet. Issues might include data privacy, database access, access to governmental information, governmental access to private information, privacy, electronic publishing, electronic carriers, transborder data flow, protecting electronic commerce from fraud or theft. No prior knowledge of the Internet or of computers is required. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
A survey of legal issues relating to electronic commerce, including issues such as electronic contracts, digital signatures, authentication of electronic documents, online payments, digital cash, security for electronic payments, encryption, proposed UCC Article 2B, taxation of online commerce, export controls and transnational data flow, electronic fraud, and jurisdiction. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
Teaching assistants work with the Appellate Practice & Procedure instructors, as needed, to research the problems for the Appellate Practice & Procedure course, provide guidance to students in their research, writing, and oral arguments, and serve as judges during the oral advocacy portion of the course. Teaching assistants are selected by the professor in charge of the Appellate Practice & Procedure course. Teaching assistants are awarded credit on a credit/no credit basis. Credit Type C.
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2.00 Credits
This course will study the evolving relationships between employers and employees in the nonunion settings. The course highlights various state and federal regulatory aspects of the employment relationships as well as common law developments as they relate to topics such as screening and hiring of employees, termination of employees, wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment, and occupational safety and health. Credit Type A.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore many of the legal, business and policy issues which a lawyer encounters in the music, film, television, and sports industries. Some of the topics that the course will cover are: intellectual property issues in the entertainment industry; conflict of interest and other legal ethics issues; contractual rights and relations among entertainment industry workers in television, motion pictures, and recordings, including agency and management agreements; analysis of the economic structure of the entertainment industry; basics of film and television practice including financing, production and distribution arrangements and agreements; a survey of the various unions and guilds having jurisdiction over the various personnel in the entertainment industry, including the Writers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, American Federation of Musicians and Actors Equity. Credit Type A.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the legal regulation of quality of, access to, and financing of health care. Subjects addressed will include medical malpractice, patient rights, licensure, and bioethical policy. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
Elements of the insurance contract, nature and form, insurable interests, insurance agents and brokers, consideration, representations and warranties, rights and obligations of the parties, waiver and estoppel, subrogation and remedies. Special emphasis is placed on life, fire, and casualty insurance. Credit Type A.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to international law as applied between independent nations and in American courts. Included are: the sources, development, authority, and application of international law; the laws of recognition, and of jurisdiction over land, sea, and air; and the making, interpretation, enforcement, and termination of treaties. The role of the United Nations and the International Court of Justice also are studied. Credit Type A.
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