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2.00 Credits
Description: The course focuses on the more complex aspects of criminal litigation, such as prosecutorial discretion, negotiations and plea bargaining, pre-trial discovery, and sentencing, all in the context of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and constitutional and statutory law. The course examines these aspects from the point of view of the prosecution and the defense. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School Prerequisites:
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course treats the regulation of competition under the federal antitrust laws and the economic reasoning underlying such regulation. Topics include price-fixing and horizontal restraints, oligopoly and facilitating practices, restraints through government, monopoly and monopolization, vertical restraints and mergers. Final examination. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: This course teaches practical aspects of litigation strategy, emphasizing pretrial and courtroom-related technologies. Students learn the current state of the rapidly-evolving law of discovery relating to electronically stored and electronically generated information. Students also will apply skills in civil procedure, legal research, evidence and advocacy in a course focused on the ethical, procedural, evidentiary and systemic effects of technological legal innovations such as: imaging and database software which organizes, manages and retrieves evidence, documents, pleadings, and litigation research. electronic/Internet communication and research tools document drafting software remote witness testimony electronic trial presentation tools, including computer computer-based evidence display, re-creation, and simulation multimedia court records. The course will showcase litigation technology both in light of the problems it presents and the advantages it offers, and will provide students with hands-on use of computer technology in a simulated case. This course is not a computer programming, software training or law office management course. Students are expected to possess only basic word processing and electronic research skills. Prior completion of Evidence is suggested, but not required. Students will complete a series exercises involving the progress of a simulated litigation. Subject to change, grades are based upon a combination of class participation, a final presentation, and a take-home, open materials final exam. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course considers problems arising from transactions or events involving elements in more than one jurisdiction; the choice of applicable law; multi-state problems in the field of torts, contracts, domestic relations, property, and procedure; constitutional and theoretical issues underlying choice of law; jurisdiction and recognition of judgments. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: This course considers the various techniques available to resolve disputes among parties, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, litigation and hybrid alternatives of these. The course will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques as applied to particular situations, drawing on the theoretical and jurisprudential materials in the field. Attention will also be given to the role of the lawyer in counseling resort to one or more of the various processes, and in designing pre-dispute resolutions systems. The role of the courts and government agencies in creating mandatory, or controlling, dispute resolution systems through statute, regulation or court rule is also examined. The dispute resolution process will be applied in different areas including business, contract and tort law, family law, community problems, and administrative and government regulatory law. Practitioners from government and private practice will discuss their use of dispute resolution in their work. In addition, there will be discussion of the policy and ethical problems presented for the parties, their lawyers, professional intermediaries, and society through resort to these processes. All students will participate in a limited number of simulated dispute resolution exercises and preparation of a dispute resolution document during the course of the semester. Students will be evaluated on the basis of class participation and a final examination. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: The course surveys various civil laws governing employee benefit plans including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code and other federal laws. Topics include ERISA coverage, preemption, fiduciary responsibility, COBRA and the interrelationship of other federal and state laws. The Internal Revenue Code requirements relating to retirement- type plans (i.e., pension, profit sharing, and stock bonus plans) will be covered, including eligibility and vesting requirements, nondiscrimination concepts, integration of plan benefits with Social Security, 401(k) plans and ESOPs, and executive compensation is also covered. In addition, the course includes an examination of the civil enforcement provisions of ERISA. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will take both practical and theoretical approaches to the law of employment discrimination, focusing in particular on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The course begins by examining the analytical framework of claims available under the anti- discrimination statutes with a focus on sex, race, and age discrimination. Additional special topics such as discrimination based on national origin, religion, and sexual orientation as well as sexual harassment will also be covered. The course will also address the structure of claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is a survey of federal environmental law. It is divided into six parts: 1. Initial Concepts. This part of the course will introduce some recurring issues in environmental law and some of the different perspectives from which environmental issues are examined. The themes developed in this part will help provide a framework for thinking about the concepts and materials explored in the remainder of the course. 2. Background Principles. This part will examine certain general principles of constitutional and administrative law that are critical in environmental litigation, focusing on the application of those principles in environmental cases. 3. Air Pollution. Beginning with this part, remainder of the course will focus on the major federal environmental statutes. This part will look at the Clean Air Act. 4. Water Pollution. This part of the course will examime the Clean Air Act. 5. Hazardous Waste. This part will examine the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which regulates the treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as Superfund, which regulates the cleanup of sites contaminated by hazardous wastes. 6. Environmental Information. This part will focus on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: For more than 50 years, Europe has been engaged in a political experiment that rivals the creation and early years of the United States. Starting as a community of six western European states who agreed to pool their sovereignty in the coal and steel sectors, it has transformed itself progressively over the years into a membership of 27 member-States that embraces to varying degrees virtually all areas of economic and political activity. This integration process has been supported, indeed, led in many respects, by the European Courts, with a succession of groundbreaking decisions reaching back to the early 1960s and continuing with increasing frequency as the Union gains more substance. In this course we will examine the fundamentals of EU law using the draft text of an upcoming second edition of Dinnage and Murphy, "The Constitutional Law of the European Union" (May 2008). This work uses a constitutional platform to gain insight into the structure and functioning of the Union. It is divided into six parts. In Part I, there are survey materials designed to enable a general overview of the subject. Part II addresses various aspects of the EU as an autonomous legal system including primacy of EU law, forms of legislation and its relationship with international law. In Part III, we examine the division of competences between the Union and the Member-States, including such matters as the internal market, intellectual property, competition (antitrust) policy, taxation and financial controls, and the conduct of foreign relations. Part IV contains materials dealing with the branches of EU governance, with particular emphasis on the administration of competition policy and the growth of European rights of action in the couts of the Member- States. Part V is dedicated to Fundamental Rights, including EU Citizenship and due process. Finally, Part VI looks to the future and includes details of the Lisbon Treaty and other innovations. Participants can expect to finish this course feeling that they have a sound grasp of the constitutional and procedural aspects of the EU, which will be invaluable in particular for those planning a career in international business transactions and regulation. Others may enjoy it for its intrinsic interest, recognizing that the unique features of the EU system have secured peace and prosperity for Europeans in a way that seemed inconceivable at the end of the World War II. Assessment is by way of a take-home examination. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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4.00 Credits
Description: This course examines the rules of evidence applicable to the trial of civil and criminal cases, their purposes and practical application. Topics include real and demonstrative evidence, relevance, impeachment and cross- examination, hearsay, presumptions, expert and opinion testimony, scientific evidence, and privileged communications. 4.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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