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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course is intended to appeal to any student who seeks a judicial clerkship or aspires to be a judge, or simply wants to learn more about how and why judges write judicial opinions. Students will consider the complexities of being on the bench, including judges' relationships with the public, with lawyers, with other judges, and with their clerks. Instructor: Magat
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2.00 Credits
The North Carolina Public Policy Integrated Externship provides Duke Law students with a unique opportunity to learn how state legislation and policy is made by participating in the process itself. The centerpiece of this course is an externship placement with one of the following: the North Carolina General Assembly, an executive branch agency, or a nonprofit working on public policy issues in Raleigh. Students are expected to find their own placement, but faculty are available to assist you to identify opportunities. What you are learning through the externship will be grounded and put in context through a seminar led by Professor Deborah Ross, a member of the NC House of Representatives, that is expected to meet every other week throughout the semester. This is a two-credit course and students will be required to provide at least 50 hours of service to their placement site over the course of the semester. There will not be a final exam, but students will have periodic writing assignments, including a bi-weekly reflection journal. 2 credits. Andrew Foster and Deborah Ross
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2.00 Credits
This advanced writing course will help prepare students for the writing challenges specific to large federal cases. It will be coordinated with the Complex Civil Litigation course taught at the same time. The course will culminate in oral argument on the summary judgment motion, which will be taped and critiqued by other faculty, judges, and/or members of the bar. Coursework will involve initial drafts, instructor feedback, peer review, and final revisions. Instructor: Mullem
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3.00 Credits
This course will combine a traditional seminar on Federalism with a colloquium series in which scholars from Duke, and other Law Schools will present recent works, or works in progress. Instructor. Young
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0.50 Credits
Duke Law School presently offers an excellent class in Accounting for Lawyers. This course is no substitute for that offering. Instead, among the objectives of the course is to raise an interest among students to learn more about accounting and its role in society. At a minimum, this winter term offering aims to acquaint those with NO prior experience with accounting or finance with the rudiments of the basic understanding of accounting and present value calculations.
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0.50 Credits
Students will engage with the basics of capital markets financing. They will examine products related to capital markets as well as recent trends in capital markets financing. Particular attention will be paid to initial public offerings and leveraged financing among other common corporate financing instruments. .
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0.50 Credits
The course will consider various aspects of the phenomena of internal investigations in modern organizations, especially US public companies. We will discuss the constituencies that drive such investigations, the legal and ethical issues presented in advising various stakeholders, the mechanics of conducting investigations, and issues involved in the format, media and audience for rendering the results of investigations. We will also touch on the trend toward export of U.S.-style internal investigations to companies and legal systems outside the U.S.
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0.50 Credits
Students will look at several salient issues that confront in-house counsel. Who is the client? How does one assess risks? How to work with outside counsel? What is the role of Board of Directors? Students will also engage with the key components of Sarbanes Oxley.
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0.50 Credits
Students will learn to prepare organizational documents for business corporations and limited liability companies. Students will prepare articles, bylaws, subscription agreements, and related minutes and correspondence for the organization of a business corporation. Students will review, in detail, the organizational documents of a limited liability company.
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0.50 Credits
Students will learn the basic nuts and bolts of taking and defending depositions: how to prepare for a deposition, how to formulate effective questions, what objections to raise and when, how to handle difficult witnesses, etc. Students will have the opportunity to conduct a simulated deposition and will receive constructive feedback on their performance.
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