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2.00 Credits
Description: This course expands upon the research strategies and resources covered in the basic first year Legal Research class. By exploring standard and specialized legal and non legal sources, students will refine their ability to develop efficient and effective research strategies that are tailored to their information needs. Areas of research to be covered include, among others, administrative law, along with practice- oriented materials such as formbooks looseleafs and PBIs. In addition, students will be introduced to non-legal areas of research incorporating business and medical research sources. Grading will be based on performance on three projects interspersed throughout the semester. There will be no final examination for this course. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: PREREQUISITES: Constitutional Law I (1000), Constitutional Law II (1001) 3L ONLY Class This course will introduce students to comparative law theory and practice; focus on the role of constitutional courts in differing governmental structures across the world with emphases on the West (the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, the EU and selected EU nations) and the Middle East; and analyze differing models for the constitutional guarantees of individual rights. In addition, it will examine the structural and functional aspects of constitutionalism, including constitutional drafting, interpretation, change and development, with a special emphasis on contemporary uses of constitutional development as an aspect of Western nation-building. Finally, the course will encourage students to critically examine the work of scholars (in law and other disciplines) on constitutional imaginaries. Evaluation will be by a take-home examination and class participation (which will include a requirement that students regularly submit and respond to one-page critical reflections on assigned readings). 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: The course will focus on scientific expertise in litigation, and will include attention both to depositions and to examination/cross-examination in the courtroom. Some estimate that 75% of civil trials involve experts, and the average number of experts in such trials is four. The course will begin with consideration of the Daubert Trilogy and revised Federal Rule of Evidence 702, and will consider the analytical errors that followed as courts applied these precedents. It will emphasize forensic pathology and toxicology, as well as forensic psychiatry or psychology, as well as the history of fingerprint identification and DNA, and highlight the fact that while the hard sciences are often presumed to avoid the methodological and moral problems of the social sciences, they do not necessarily avoid these problems. The course will blend the theoretical and practical. Against a sophisticated theoretical background that will draw on interdisciplinary insights from the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, the course will also offer an intensely practical focus in terms of recent case law, class presentations by scientists and practicing attorneys, and exercises involving depositions and cross-examination. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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4.00 Credits
Description: This introductory course involves the study of the law affecting the American business organization, including partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. Specifically, it examines the problems connected with organizing and funding a new corporation, the control and management of the corporation, the duties of directors, officers and controlling shareholders, liability for breach of these duties, and mergers and acquisitions. The course also examines the special problems of the closely-held (non-public) corporation, as well as the impact of the federal securities laws on large publicly-held corporations, including proxy regulation. 4.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: Telecommunications is a dynamic industry that is key to today's knowledge economy. Telecommunications touches every aspect of modern life, and its influence will only broaden as our dependence on broadband technologies and the internet increase. This course examines the statutory, Administrative and constitutional foundations for the regulation of voice, video and data communications, including the regulation of traditional telecommunications services, Cable TV, and the Internet and Advanced (Broadband) Services. The course covers the historical development of related laws and the major issues currently being debated in several key areas of telecommunications regulation. Students will also have the opportuninty to gain practical experience in writing memoranda and making oral arguments on a current topic in telecommunication law. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: The damages course covers the goals of damages; the principles of measurement (e.g., reliance and expectancy); consequential damages (e.g., general and special); limitations (e.g., liquidated damages, avoidable consequences, scope of liability, certainty requirement); damages in the context of specific subject areas, such as breach of contract, torts, and intellectual property disputes; punitive damages; attorneys fees and costs; interest (e.g., compensatory and moratory interest); and damages in foreign currency. It also examines the various methods for computing damages (such as the discounted cash flow method and the replacement value method) and issues revolving around valuing a case for settlement purposes. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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2.00 Credits
Description: U.S. Patent laws provide unique and exciting opportunities for litigators. The information covered in this course will be essential for those interested in patent litigation, it will also be beneficial for students interested in patents practice at any stage, as it will provide an understanding of the litigation process and the intense scrutiny a clients patent portfolio may undergo should it end up in litigation. Students will be exposed to a brief overview of the patent process and patent terminology and then will move through material covering the stages of litigation from pretrial, through; pleadings and the various aspects of trial including both the claimant's and the defendant's options. The course will be graded based upon 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: This course introduces the substance and process of Jewish law, and examines basic jurisprudential questions from the perspective of the Jewish tradition. By delving into another system of law, students will be able to place current debates in American law with wider philosophical, religious and historical context. The readings, assembled by the instructor, bring together primary and secondary sources from the Jewish, Christian and American traditions. Prior course work in jurisprudence, legal theory or legal history is recommended but not required. Evaluation will be based on several response papers throughout the semester. 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 treats the application of microeconomic reasoning to legal rules and problems, including the laws affecting property, contracts and torts. Additional topics include the economics of government regulation, antitrust, and selected issues in corporate law and the securities laws. No prior knowledge of economics required. Final examination. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: The major corporate scandals that shocked the business world over the past several years have raised many questions. Among the most troubling for the legal profession is: Where were the lawyers And, how did corporate lawyers from elite firms and top law schools end up in federal prison This course will draw on the lessons of these scandals, putting the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the literature of professional ethics into context and provide a backdrop for students to wrestle with the challenging issues they can expect to encounter in a business practice. It does not repeat or replace the basic Legal Profession course, nor is that course a prerequisite. Rather, Ethics in Corporate and Business Legal Practice uses as a point of entry the day to day practice tasks a business lawyer handles, addressing the ethical issues raised not only by the subject matter, but also (and equally important) by the very structure of the representation. This course will explore these complex matters, beginning with examination of the structure of businesses and how in-house business legal departments are organized, how they operate, and the ways in which in- house counsel may provide a combination of legal and business advice. It will also examine the structure and relationships within private firm business departments, and their relationship to corporate and business clients. Against this background, the course will analyze problems that arise in the context of specific kinds of projects that lawyers (whether in-house or in firm practice) representing corporations and businesses handle, including for example issues relating to incorporation, securities, regulatory counseling and compliance transactions, civil litigation, internal investigations, criminal defense of corporations and businesses, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder litigation, and other matters. The class will be organized around work flow focusing on the particular kinds of work lawyers do, and how ethical issues arise in each type of project. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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