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4.00 Credits
This course concentrates on varying topics in criminal law and procedure. Each semester, the course will focus in depth on one or more issues of state and/or federal criminal law. One or more simulated cases will be used to provide the students with practical, hands-on experience with this type of case. Each student will be asked to represent the government or the defendant from arrest through final disposition, including any sentencing procedure. Emphasis will be placed on the pretrial process, including arraignments, grand jury proceedings, discovery, suppression hearings, and plea negotiations. At the option of the professor, students may be required to participate in two simulations, one in which he or she acts as prosecutor and one in which he or she acts as defense counsel.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores varying substantive areas involving large-scale litigation, such as antitrust law, environmental law, and mass torts. Each semester, the course will focus in depth on a particular substantive area, and the student will be asked to represent a party in a dispute relating to that area. The student will be asked to represent a hypothetical client from the initial interview through the final resolution of the dispute. Areas of emphasis include organization of voluminous discovery; pleadings; measurement of damages; settlement techniques; use of discovery; use of pleadings and briefs; trial approach and techniques.
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4.00 Credits
This course includes a collaborative venture, the Cybercrimes Course Collaboration (the lab), conducted in conjunction with UD¿s Criminal Justice Program. In the lab portion of the course, law students will engage in intensive legal research and production of an in-depth paper relating to the investigation and prosecution of cybercrime. Students will be developing professional skills of legal writing for non-lawyers, including law enforcement personnel; collaboration with others involved in the investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes; and rigorous legal research and writing. Under the guidance and supervision of the professor, the students enrolled in the course would research discrete state law governing the following issues: (i) the investigation of cybercrimes, which would include computer search and seizure, electronic wiretapping and eavesdropping, transborder and network investigations; (ii) the prosecution of cybercrime, which would focus on specialized cybercrime offenses like hacking and on how more generic offenses, such as theft, can be used to prosecute cybercriminals; and (iii) digital evidence, which would focus on how traditional evidentiary rules such as hearsay and the best evidence rule are applied to digital evidence. Working with the professor, the students would use their research to create deskbooks or guides to state law on various issues. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
The four credit Tort Litigation Capstone course provides students with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned throughout their first two years of law school in a realistic law firm setting. Students will process a simulated tort case from initial client interview through pleadings, discovery, mediation and culminating in a full trial. Clients and lay witnesses will be played by professional actors, and experts will be played by actual experts. The goal of the course is to duplicate, as much as possible, what a lawyer may face as a new associate in a law firm. There will be numerous writing assignments which will fulfill the School of Law¿s upper-level writing requirement. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
This course builds on the knowledge obtained in the required Commercial Transactions course and allows further study of Articles 2, 3, 4, and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Students will be asked to represent a hypothetical small business owner in various commercial transactions such as contracts, leases, and financing arrangements. In planning such transactions, students will research the applicable law, advise their clients, and prepare the documents and filings necessary to implement each transaction.
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4.00 Credits
Integration and application of corporate law, partnership law, tax law, and nonlegal business concepts in the organization, operation, and reorganization of various types of small business entities. The use of limited liability companies will be emphasized. Students will be asked to represent a hypothetical client seeking to organize and operate a small business. Preparation and revision of various documents will be a central component of this course, with focus on drafting techniques. Prerequisites: Business Organizations. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines legal and business issues common to commercial real estate transactions and utilizes a problem oriented approach with an emphasis on practice oriented skills. The course is comprised of four basic parts: acquisition, finance, construction, and leasing. Each of the four parts will include written assignments as a means for the students to synthesize what they have learned and to apply this knowledge in a manner similar to how attorneys operate when handling commercial real estate transactions. Prerequisites: Real Property I and II. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the federal income, gift, and estate tax consequences and non-tax legal aspects of inter vivos and testamentary gratuitous transfers and of planning for hypothetical clients in order to meet tax and non-tax objectives. Drafting various document clauses for instruments to implement clients' estate plans. Arrangements that will be studied include irrevocable trusts, powers of appointment for property management, and powers of selected creditors' rights. Prerequisites: Individual Income Tax, Wills & Trusts. Credit Type A.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course builds upon legal concepts mastered in the basic course in Family Law and provides students with an opportunity to explore, in depth, selected topics in domestic relations law and practice. The topics covered may include: the attempt to structure the consequences of marriage and divorce by means of pre- and post-martial agreements; domestic relations litigation; post-divorce enforcement and modification of economic and child custody orders; and the unique ethical issues encountered in a domestic relations practice. Students will be asked to represent one or more hypothetical clients. In the course of this representation, they will be required to draft documents, engage in motion practice, appear at hearings, represent clients in negotiations or mediations, etc. Prerequisites: Individual Income Tax, Family Law. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
Study of rules of procedure for practice in the Patent and Trademark Office and of problems arising in patent practice, including: patent drafting, patent litigation, and counseling technology-based businesses. Students will be asked to represent one or more hypothetical clients. Prerequisites: Hard Science Background, Intellectual Property Law. Credit Type A.
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