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2.00 Credits
This course covers the legal frameworks and detailed technical issues related to value-added taxes (VAT) and sales tax systems. Comparisons are drawn between the VAT and sales taxes, and among the tax legislation provisions used in various countries. Aside from the basic tax structures, the course also highlights innovations in VATs and the treatment of special sectors such as the real property, financial, agriculture and public interest sectors. Approaches for dealing with the application of VATs and sales taxes in the context of federations and common markets are also considered. Insturctor: Turnier
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2.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on the process of imposing sentences in criminal cases, administering punishment, and attempting rehabilitation of convicted criminals. The course will first provide background regarding the purposes of punishment and the history of mandatory sentences, presumptive sentences, and sentencing guidelines, and focus on some of these issues in more detail through the use of a expert guest lecturers and a tour of the Federal Correctional Facility in Butner, NC. Students will be expected to participate meaningfully in the lectures, guest speakers and field trip, and produce a research paper on a related topic. Instructor: Dever
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2.00 Credits
Study of factors (cultural and juristic) in the development of Jewish law, especially in the Talmudic and medieval periods; relationship between ''religious'' and ''civil'' law; the legal codes and the decision-making process of the rabbinic courts. Some legal texts (in translation) will be submitted to intensive examination. Instructor: Golding
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2.00 Credits
Religious practice complicates liberal democratic theory in ways more complex than legal frameworks like "establishment¿ and" free exercise" are able to capture. Illiberal practices, theological justifications, and cultural differences challenge core tenets of liberalism like autonomy, equality, and public reason. These tensions have manifested in a variety of forms across American law and culture, ranging from religious groups that desire to remain insulated from the effects of culture to those that would control the institutions of power in order to transform them. Each of these groups raises legal, philosophical, and theological challenges. This course explores these challenges and the ways in which they unfold within the American democratic
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to legal interviewing and counseling, covering theory and practice of discrete skills. Weekly lectures, video-recorded exercises, self-assessment, and critique by faculty. This is a distance learning class.
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2.00 Credits
This cross-disciplinary course, will read primary texts, and interpretive theory from three different hermeneutical traditions: Islamic Law and Theology, Christian Theology, and the U.S. legal tradition. Instructors: Powell, McClintock, Fulkerson, Moosa
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3.00 Credits
History and schools of Islamic jurisprudence; Islamic legal reasoning; approaches to ethics and procedural justice, the ethical regulation of commerce, including a detailed study of pertinent issues in Islamic law. Also taught as Religion 254. Instructor: Moosa
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3.00 Credits
Students will become experts in the legal, and personal backgrounds of their Justices, and they will write research papers on the jurisprudences of their Justices. Students will also vote on nine cases on the docket during the current Term, and they will write majority, dissenting, and concurring opinions in those cases. Instructor: N. Siegel
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2.00 Credits
This is a continuation of the year long course. Open only to those who are enrolled in 571A. Offered in the Spring. Instructor: N. Siegel
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3.00 Credits
This course will discuss famous trials, and examine how advocates formulate "the story of the case." Each student will choose a case about which to write a term paper involving significant original research and writing. During the writing process, students will meet and confer with the professor to discuss the proposed topic and to review drafts. Class discussion on the chosen topics will be given. The final paper will be a minimum of thirty pages. Instructor: Tigar
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