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3.00 Credits
Description: PREREQUISITE: Law and Medicine (7040) OR Bioethics and the Law (7119) Bioethics:Selected Topics (6025) IS NOT a prerequisite for this course 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: This seminar examines how the law treats, and should treat, problems associated with risk. Risk -- that is, the possibility of a loss, harm, or injury -- is pervasive in life, and accordingly risk-related issues arise frequently in the law, in a tremendous variety of contexts, including environmental law, torts, contract, tax, and insurance. The seminar explores how different disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and economics analyze and understand risk. It then examines different applications of risk- related legal concepts, in order to apply and to test different theories and understandings of risk, to allow comparisons among differing areas of the law, to investigate how differences in context affect how the law treats risk, and to make some trans-substantive generalizations. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Continuing Studies
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2.00 Credits
Description: 2.00credit(s)
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3.00 Credits
Description: RESTRICTIONS ON ENROLLMENT: Students with an undergraduate major in Accounting or current JD/MBA students are not permitted to enroll in this class. This course provides those entering the legal profession with the fundamental knowledge of financial accounting and reporting needed to address the increasingly complex transactions that characterize the global and technology focused economics of the 21st century. This course is unique in that a "contracting perspective" will drive topical selection and content delivery. Students will be introduced to contemporary accounting issues as they relate to a firm's contractual obligations. Such an approach is particularly appropriate for law students, since today's organizations are simply a "nexus" of contracts. Firms engage in contracts with investors (shareholders and creditors), employees, managers, suppliers, customers, regulators, and a variety of other parties. Accounting information is used by all of these parties to monitor contract compliance. Therefore, a contractual contest is ideal for motivating the importance of financial accounting and reporting to law students. Technology has automated data processing in most firms and reduced the need for non-accountants to fully understand how transactions are captured and processed by a system. Therefore, this course will not teach bookkeeping or transaction processing. Instead, students will develop an appreciation for the increasing amount of judgment inherent in the accounting and financial reporting process as they struggle with asset valuation issues, income recognition questions, and financial disclosure problems. Contemporary issues such as earnings management, incentives, and ethics (both accounting and legal) will be integrated into the course where appropriate. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: The bulk of the modern practice of law is the practice of administrative law, the body of substantive and procedural law developed over the last century to remedy perceived inadequacies in traditional legal and judicial process. Through a close study of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, which provides the overall statutory structure of the modern administrative state, and the controlling precedent interpreting it, the course will develop familiarity with the fundamental administrative procedures of "rulemaking" and "adjudication." The course will emphasize both the practical functioning of administrative agencies in the web of government and the constitutional and other structural limits on the administrative state. The course will emphasize the ways in which agencies are different from courts and legislatures but, at least potentially, not subversive of the rule-of-law ideal. The course will develop multiple critical perspectives on the history, philosophy, and direction of the regulatory state in a constitutional democracy. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: An introduction to the law American courts apply to maritime transactions and events. Admiralty law, while important for its substantive coverage, has also proven instructive for American lawyers generally because it is not based on the Common Law, but on the traditions of the sea combined with the forms of Roman or Civil Law. Specific topics to be considered include: jurisdiction, maritime liens, the carriage of goods by sea, salvage, general average, collision, seamen's remedies, limitation of liability, the role of state law, and special problems when the defendant is a government. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: A study of the procedural operation of the Criminal Justice system. Topics considered will include: right to counsel, grand jury, pretrial release, preliminary hearing, prosecutorial discretion, speedy trial, discovery, guilty pleas, some issues that arise at trial, and double jeopardy. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: A course designed to help students improve their writing and editing skills. The course includes instruction and numerous written exercises as well as small group sessions and individual consultations with the instructor. The course does not overlap significantly with the first year Legal Writing course and is not a remedial course. This course does not satisfy the Practical Writing Requirement. For more information, please see Professor Sirico. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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