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2.00 Credits
The financial services industry is now commonly viewed as including a number of discrete categories: consumer finance (credit cards, personal loans, and transaction processing); mortgage banking; commercial finance; investment banking; merchant banking/venture capital; insurance underwriting and agency; and asset management (brokerage, investment advice, investment companies, trust activities, and pension plan management and administration). Seminar will review and discuss the robust regulatory scheme for mutual funds; the investment management aspects of the federal bank regulatory system; and the treatment of common problems for financial institutions managing assets under multiple regulatory formats. Instructor: Lybecker
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2.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on biographical and autobiographical writings in a historical examination of the role of the individual in the American legal process. We will seek to understand how specific African Americans (as lawyers, judges, and litigants) made a difference -- how their lives serve as a "mirror to America" -- and also to understand the ways personal experience informs individual perspective on the law and justice. Faculty: E. Higginbotham
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2.00 Credits
Focus on various changes in criminal justice policy that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s (for example, changes in sentencing law and policy, increased incarceration rates, and the ''war on drugs'') and identification of the factors that brought about those changes. To what degree were these changes responses to changes in the rates and types of crimes experienced in the United States? To what degree were these changes prompted by political campaigns and strategies, or by a media produced sense of crisis? Readings include legal materials which will probe and analyze statutory and administrative changes, as well as interdisciplinary readings. Each student will prepare a research paper. Instructor: Beale
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1.00 Credits
This advanced research seminar will introduce students to concepts of tax research and will provide an in-depth look at the sournces of tax authorities, and how to find them. Faculty. Most
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1.00 Credits
Among Japan's many environmental disasters, Minamata stands out. Minamata disease, a disease caused by mercury poisoning brought on by the intensive industrial activities of a chemical company and its disregard of the surrounding environment and communities, represents a tragic by product of Japan's push for industrial development. The events in Minamata have deeply affected the course of development for Japanese environmental law and policy ever since. This course intends to present and analyze the three distinctive approaches taken in response to the Japanese environmental tragedy, namely, litigation, administrative relief, and political settlement. Faculty: Fujikura 1 credit.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will examine the questions of how judges behave and why -- the factors that determine judicial behavior. In conducting this examination, we will draw from a wide variety of scholarship on the question of judicial behavior, including political science, economics, sociology, and law. We will look at a wide variety of court systems, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, the state courts of last resort, and the appellate courts of other countries. This is a year long course.Instructor: Gulati, Knight, Levi
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2.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on contemporary applications of the law of fraud and fiduciary obligation, including situations in which an actor deceives the beneficiary of a fiduciary obligations owed by the actor. Faculty. DeMott 2 credits
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2.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on the process of international law as it relates to the environment, and on the implications for international law generally that follow from the legal political advances of environmental lawmaking. The seminar will examine samples of the environmental issues that have provoked international lawmaking regarding freshwater oceans, the atmosphere, and biodiversity (including endangered species and habitats). Attention will be paid to the interplay of international law including human rights, law of war and international trade law. Instructor: Lathrop
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2.00 Credits
This course will explore several foundational topics in U.S. Constitutional theory. Those topics include the nature, and limits of constitutional reasoning, theories of constitutional interpretation, the role of non-judicial actors in determining constitutional meaning, the politics of constitutional adjudication, and mechanisms of constitutional change. Instructor: N. Siegel and Young
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on the regulation of business in Latin America, and the most important differences between Civil Law tradition, and the Common Law. The course covers some of the main issues that may arise in the practice of law dealing with Latin America. Instructor: Kielmanovich
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