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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course will address legal issues of particular interest to the elderly, including Medicare and Medicaid, guardianships, health care decision-making and other issues related to incapacity, long-term care, income benefits and pension issues. Students are encouraged to take Health Law prior to or concurrently with this course.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course covers statute of frauds, the parole evidence rule; performance and breach of contract; excuses for failure to perform; illegality; discharge of duties; third party beneficiaries; assignments.
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3.00 Credits
This is an interdisciplinary seminar in professional and social ethics. Students, faculty and practitioners grapple with the demands of justice, our collective responsibility to shape our common life together to ensure all human beings share in the justice and mercy they deserve. During the Spring 2007 semester, the class will focus on the Urban Family and will cover topics such as the personal and professional experience of family and community life; ethical notions of family life and marriage; social analysis of urban culture and environment as well as legal, political and religious climates that influence families, and shape intervention and prevention strategies and welfare reform.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Pre-requisites:
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the law of commercial paper (checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code; commercial terms, commercial aspects of performance and remedies under Article 2; Negotiable Instruments (Article 3); and Bank Deposits and Collections (Article 4).
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
We will study the laws governing the relationship between debtors and creditors with primary focus on the Bankruptcy Code. This course examines debtor creditor relations in both business and individual settings and includes a study of the causes of financial distress, the goals of debt restructuring and rehabilitation of individual debtors, and the rights of creditors and others affected by the Bankruptcy process.
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1.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
Development and analysis of accident liability systems. Historical roots of common law liability. Strict liability systems, including nuisance, trespass, respondeat superior. Negligence, with attention to standards of conduct, proof of breach, causation, "proximate cause," affirmative defenses and immunities. Functional approach to accident law doctrine. Explanatory structure developed wherein "strict liability, negligence, intentional torts" appear as rough benchmarks along a continuum rather than as warring, alien, liability systems. Damages, liability of owners and occupiers of land, assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and other "intentional torts," liability of suppliers of goods and remote contractors, misrepresentation, and defamation. The explanatory structure of torts is further developed in analyzing legal treatment of various "accident types," with increasing focus upon "legal process" topics, issue characterization, burden allocation, and the relations among tort, contract, and administrative allocation systems.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course satisfies the Professional Skills requirement) This course examines the legal and regulatory environment of professional and amateur sports, with a special focus on labor law issues and negotiation. The lawyer's expanding opportunities and responsibilities are explored in this $60 billion a year industry commanding expertise in numerous and diverse practice areas. A working knowledge of labor and contract law will be established and applied as class projects call students to "represent" sports clients, such as: athletes, teams, coaches, leagues, etc. These class projects will heavily emphasize the students' negotiation skills and comfort with collective bargaining. Although this course is not a seminar, enrollment is limited and students register through the on-line seminar registration process.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Admiralty examines the law governing maritime casualties and transactions. Although the course will prove helpful to someone considering an Admiralty practice, it is intended for all students. It integrates knowledge gained in other courses in the process of studying problems that arise in a maritime context. Admiralty touches upon many substantive areas of law including constitutional law, federal courts, procedure, torts, contracts, property, choice of law, remedies, environmental law, insurance, legislation, secured transactions, products liability. As such, it serves as a broad review course and affords students an opportunity to sample some subjects they may otherwise miss. Admiralty promotes better understanding of law generally by offering students the opportunity to compare Admiralty to land law while focusing on some of the more interesting questions in law as they arise in an Admiralty context.
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