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3.00 Credits
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This is a year-long course taught in small group sessions emphasizing the development of a variety of concepts, skills and techniques. Emphasis is placed on case analysis and synthesis, effective legal writing style, and use of the law library. At least three principal writing assignments introduce students to preparation of memoranda, appellate briefs and other forms of legal writing. Faculty members confer individually with students on these assignments. Additional shorter writing assignments may also be made. Finally, students are introduced to the use of computer-assisted legal research systems.
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2.00 Credits
In the public law section of this survey course, the course considers the development of the EU, the Commission, the Council, the European Parliament, EC legislation, the Courts of Justice, actions against member states and state intervention in trade. The private law section deals with commercial law, antitrust, securities, banking, patent and trademark, as those topics are dealt with by regulations, directives and decisions under specific treaty provisions. The course will be of interest to students with a broad interest in international law, such as members of the International Law Society, as well as those whose future work will need to contend with the European Union or any of its member states in commerce or public law.
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2.00 Credits
This course will cover various aspects of state and local taxation with emphasis on local taxation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on a fourteen week period. Topics which will be covered include statutory basis of taxation, exemptions, valuation methods and certain policy problems. The text will be supplemented with statutory material and selected cases from Pennsylvania.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
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2.00 Credits
This course will examine the major civil rights statutes that implement the guarantees of the United States Constitution. Since the Civil War era, Congress has adopted significant legislation seeking to ensure that certain fundamental rights are safe-guarded--including the equal protection and due process guarantees; the liberty of contract; the right to own property; and the right to vote. In modern courtrooms, most civil rights litigation is carried out under the banner of one or more of these statutes. Emphasis in this course will be placed on the most heavily utilized civil rights law: Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Acts (violation of civil rights under color of state law); Section 1981 (violation of right to make and enforce contracts); Section 1982 (violation of right to hold and enjoy property); Section 1985(3) (private conspiracies to deny civil rights); and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (violation of right to vote). Although many of the leading cases focus on discrimination based upon race and national origin, the above statutes also spill into countless other types of civil rights violations, including deprivation of First Amendment rights, prisoner civil rights, sex discrimination, and discrimination based upon religious and political beliefs. This course will also examine defenses and immunities available to defendants sued for civil rights violations, including protections afforded members of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches faced with civil rights suits. In a related vein, we will examine the concept of sovereign immunity as it applies to federal, state and local governments. This is not a skills course, but a course that explores federal civil rights statutes in detail. Grades will be based upon a final take-home examination. Co-requisite: Constitutional Law
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2.00 Credits
This course examines the major principles of Roman Private (Civil) Law in the context of having affected the development of the English Common Law and the Civil Codes of Continental Europe.
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3.00 Credits
What does the American Constitution have to do with global warming? The answer to that question would generally be taken to be nothing. Since the threat of global warming lies outside the structure of rights and limits associated with constitutional government, the Constitution and more specifically constitutional law have been silent on the matter. On the other hand, the Constitution was designed to protect people from the consequences of unbridled power, perhaps like the power of modern, liberal, technological civilization to alter the world's climate-as well as settle the world's open spaces, remove the remaining tribal peoples from their homes, homogenize world culture and bring about large-scale extinction of species. The goal of this course is to raise questions about what we think constitutional government is. The Constitution is said to be part of limited government. What is limited government for?
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2.00 Credits
This course combines an overview of selected Federal Statutes and the regulatory process with an introduction to, and analysis of, current global efforts focused on environmental concerns.
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