|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
The course concerns the constitutional limitations imposed by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments on police and prosecution during the investigative stages of the criminal process.
-
2.00 Credits
This course will cover constitutional and statutory laws relating to the criminal trial such as pre trial release, the decision to prosecute, preliminary hearing, grand jury, discovery and disclosure, guilty pleas, trial and appeal. NOTE: Criminal Procedure I: Investigation is not a pre-requisite for this course.
-
2.00 Credits
The course will provide an understanding of consumer finance and the laws that regulate consumer finance, including various forms of consumer protection and consumer bankruptcy. It will look closely at automobile loans, first and second home mortgages, credit card lending and payday loans and will examine the effect of consumer bankruptcy and consumer protection laws on each of these types of credit.
-
1.00 Credits
Mini Course This course will meet 2 hours per week for 7 weeks. Dates TBA. The object of this course is to provide a working understanding of the Workers' Compensation Act of Missouri. The course will cover the complete process of a Workers' Compensation case from Report of Injury to settlement or final award. It will also cover the appellate process of a case on appeal. Guest speakers (lawyers and judges) will present different aspects of a Workers' Compensation case. The course will also include a visit to the Workers' Compensation court to witness Mediations and Hearings.
-
0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course looks at constitutional problems raised by the creation of administrative agencies; policy making and investigations by such agencies; administrative jurisdiction; hearings; decisions and enforcement of decisions; role of the courts in reviewing administrative actions will be the focus of this course.
-
2.00 Credits
The vast majority of lawsuits have always been resolved by a method other than trial. The last decades have witnessed the exponential increase of court-sponsored alternative dispute resolution programs, mainly court-ordered mediation and arbitration. This course will survey the more popular methods used to resolve disputes outside of litigation, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, fact-finding summary jury trial and mini-trials. Students will consider the legal and conceptual bases of these processes, and learn the role of the attorney and how these processes work from prominent guest speakers, class discussions, video demonstrations and simulation exercises. The course will place more emphasis on the process and practice of law. The grade will be based upon class participation and a final examination.
-
2.00 Credits
Legal relations between unions and their members, admission, discipline, officers, elections and finances; relationship between parent and local organizations; Landrum Griffin Act; duty of fair representation; union security arrangements; preemption and labor relations; unions and antitrust.
-
2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the litigation of constitutional claims under Section 1983, including the pre-trial, discovery, and litigation issues facing attorneys representing individuals whose First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights have been violated. It will involve an examination of the most important substantive issues extant in civil rights litigation, including the "state action doctrine", the foundation for liability under 42 USC Sec. 1983, the immunities enjoyed by government actors, and the liability of municipalities and other government entities. Open to students who have not taken the Topics in Civil Rights seminar.
-
3.00 Credits
This course will provide an in-depth study of current problems in employment discrimination, including theories of discrimination, order and allocation of the burden of proof and other related issues; emphasis will be on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its amendments, with a brief discussion of other employment discrimination statutes. The grade will be based on a final examination.
-
2.00 - 3.00 Credits
The course in legislation will attempt to cover three interconnected aspects of the process of legislation and legislative interpretation: (1) The legislative process from the point of view of the lawyer who functions as legal advisor to legislators or as lobbyist; (2) The judicial role in enforcing rules governing legislation; and (3) The interpretation of legislation by courts. This third aspect of legislation is, itself, divisible into three parts: (a) The function of legislative interpretation, being an inquiry into the possibility of a rational approach to interpretation of words produced by a collectivity which is not always internally at one with respect to what was accomplished by the legislation, what the point of the legislation was, and whether the legislation should have been adopted at all; (b) The possibility of a coherent and durable approach to legislative interpretation; and (c) The allocation of competence to interpret legislation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|