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3.00 Credits
Description: Consideration of various legal, ethical, and policy aspects of health care, including informed consent, reproduction, organ transplantation, end-of-life care, and genetics. Each student will have an option to take a final exam or to write a substantial paper to satisfy the course requirements, though the course does not satisfy the research paper requirement. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School Must be enrolled in one of the following Colleges: Law Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors: Law
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3.00 Credits
Description: This hands-on course will provide students with a valuable opportunity to refine their practical lawyering skills and to prepare for the bar examination. It will review several substantive law areas in order to assist the students to refine their abilities to integrate doctrine from different subject areas, and will help students develop a broad range of practical and analytical skills necessary to succeed on the bar exam and to make the transition into legal practice. 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: 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 will provide an overview of the legal treatment given to race in the United States. The class will consider the legal and historical experiences of the five major racial groups in this country: African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latinos/as, Native Americans, and White Americans. Students will have the opportunity to study and assess a variety of issues, including: (1) the meanings of race and racism, as well as their manifestations in the law (2) the relationships among race, citizenship and the construction of our political community; (3) the development of legal doctrines pertaining to race, with a specific emphasis on doctrines of equality; and (4) the relevance of race in a post-Civil Rights world. Some of the specific topics we will consider are slavery, immigration, and conquest/colonization; Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement; the importance of race in writing the Constitution; the process through which various groups of Europeans became White; affirmative action; voting rights; and finally, reparations for previously-interned Japanese-Americans and the question of reparations for the descendants of African slaves. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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3.00 Credits
Description: Prerequisites: Business Organizations ((7110) and at least one other of the following courses; Corporate Finance (7064), Mergers and Acquisitions (7093), or Securities Act of 1933 (7075) Participants will be expected to have a sound grounding in the fiduciary duties of boards of directors and other corporate constituents when considering or faced with an acquisition transaction. The focus of the course will be to address issues a publicly held target corporation should consider when made the subject of an unsolicited acquisition proposal or a proxy contest for control of the board of directors, as well as designing a protective defensive screen in advance of any such offer. The course will examine in detail defenses available to the target, as well as techniques, tactics and strategies available both to the hostile bidder or dissident stockholder and to the target. It will also explore the give and take mechanics and interplay between these tactics for success and defenses against them. Students will review in detail actual transactions, including SEC filings applicable to those transactions. Throughout the seminar Delaware and Pennsylvania corporate law will be compared in order to illustrate opposing legal principles applicable to such contests for corporate control. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School Prerequisites: LAW 7075 or LAW 7093 or LAW 7064 and ( LAW 7110)
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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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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is offered in two variations: either as a 2 credit research paper course that satisfies the scholarly writing requirement, or as a traditional 2 credit course without a writing component. Student opting for the research paper course should register for 6055, and those choosing the standard lecture course should register for 7126. Two conflicting stories are told about law. On the one hand it reflects the accumulated wisdom of the ages. It is the basis and foundation of our legal and political heritage that has been accepted for generations. A more updated account reaches similar conclusions in terms of settled expectations, predictability of outcomes, separation of powers, and institutional constraints facing the courts. This celebration of tradition however is balanced by a tale of the law's flexibility. Here, the law is elastic and ever changing, constantly updating itself to reflect contemporary norms. This tension between stability and change however, is not unique to the law. Numerous religious traditions maintain a similar dialectic. On the one hand, sacred teachings and canonical texts are understood by believers to represent timeless truths. Yet to remain relevant, the religious tradition must take emerging social understandings into account, modifying its doctrines and teachings accordingly. Religious systems, like law, employ a number of hermeneutic and rhetorical devices designed to reconcile static precedents with dynamic interpretation. This course sits at the intersection of legal history, law and religion comparative law and legal theory. Its goals are to explore the form and content of the law's intellectual tradition through its own resources but also with an eye towards analogous uses of tradition within religious discourse. Further questions can be addressed to Professor Saiman. 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 examines federal public land and natural resources law. Historically, natural resources played a foundational role in the growth of the Nation and its economy. The laws governing the use and disposition of natural resources were profoundly important in establishing private rights in public resources and fueling economic growth and development. Natural resources on public lands, including mineral and energy (oil and gas) resources as well as timber and grazing rights, remain important to the national economy. The 29% of the United States that is held as public land, by agencies as diverse as the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management among others, has become increasingly important to Americans as park and wilderness resources. The public lands are now valued for recreational opportunities ranging from backpacking to nowmobiling, as well as the value of the lands as scenic resources, wilderness, and wildlife habitat. As these interests have gained hold, lawmakers and legal institutions increasingly have had to grapple with the often-conflicting public and private rights in lands and resources. In addition, resource conservation legal frameworks have evolved beyond "natural" resources to include the recognition of public rights in the preservation of cultural and historic resources. And conservation frameworks are being applied to private lands in the form of conservation easements. The course first examines the origins and history of public land and natural resources law. It then explores the the statutes and regulatory regimes that govern a variety of resources including mineral and energy resources, wildlife and parks, timber and grazing, wilderness and cultural resources. Students learn the governing statutes for these resources - for example the National Park Service Organic Act, the National Forest Management Act, and the Endangered Species Act- with a particular focus on how the courts resolve disputes in these areas. Emphasis is placed on ongoing legal disputes, including natural resources cases currently in the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals. 2.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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4.00 Credits
Description: 4.00credit(s) Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School Prerequisites: Law School level LAW 7024
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3.00 Credits
Description: Villanova Summer Rome Program Course 3.00credit(s) Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law School
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