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3.00 Credits
This seminar will bring together law students with graduate-level composers and musicologists to investigate how copyright law shapes the conditions of creativity in music, and how changes in musical style in turn influence the limits that the law sets on musical creation. Instructors: Boyle, Jenkins, Kelley
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2.00 Credits
An integrated and in-depth look at combination of issues raised by complex mass tort lawsuits; substantive tort law; civil procedure; litigation strategy; lawyer-client relationships; economics of settlement, ethics, judicial role, societal impacts. Exploration of eight to ten celebrated mass tort lawsuits such as Buffalo Creek disaster, asbestos, Dalkon Shield, Agent Orange, Woburn leukemia case, tobacco smoking, silicon breast implants, electromagnetic fields, medical malpractice. Readings will emphasize historical accounts that put litigation in context, as well as judicial opinions and scholarly commentary. Instructor: Wiener
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2.00 Credits
This course will examine central issues in bioethics that have arisen from the development of advanced reproductive technologies. Topics will include the donation or sale of genetic material; posthumous reproduction; genetic enhancement; and fertility tourism. 2 credits. Instructor: Levy
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2.00 Credits
This course will look at the special role international law has for domestic courts, including the question of what effects decisions by the International Court of Justice have, and to what extent domestic courts act as enforcers of international law (the theory of dédoublement fonctionnel). Instructor: Michaels
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will analyze the U.S. Supreme Court's evolving interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause from the time of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment after the Civil War to the race-conscious student assignment cases currently before the Court. Instructor: N. Siegel
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2.00 Credits
This seminar pursues an advanced, integrated analysis of the law, science and economics of societies' efforts to assess and manage risks of harm to human health, safety and the environment. The course will examine the regulation of a wide array of risks, such as those from medical care and drugs, food, automobiles, drinking water, air pollution, energy, global climate change, and terrorism. Across these diverse contexts, the course will explore the treatment of several basic issues confronting any regulatory system: risk assessment, risk management (including the debate over "precaution" versus benefit-cost analysis), risk evaluations by experts vs. the public, and risk-risk tradeoffs. Instructor: Wiener
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2.00 Credits
The seminar focuses on U.S. statutory and case law on human reproduction, critiqued from numerous points of view. We will spend considerable time on contraception and abortion. For context, we will review the history of the ability to control reproduction and attempts to regulate it in Europe and the United States. Legal issues presented by new technologies including cloning, surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering will also be examined. Finally, we will note the global effects of U.S. law and policy and look closely at several examples of other nations' regulation of reproduction. Instructors: Dellinger and Lewandowski
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3.00 Credits
This course will comprehensively examine the regulation of electronic communications in the United States and the constitutional constraints on such regulation. The course will focus on the legal framework for both wired and wireless electronic communications, such as communications via computer networks (e.g., the Internet), telephone, cable, broadcast, and satellite. Instructor: Benjamin
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1.00 - 4.50 Credits
Instructor: Law faculty
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3.00 Credits
Graduate-level course on politics of the United States' four principal racial minority groups Blacks, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans. Importance of race and ethnicity in American politics is also explored. Instructor: McClain
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