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2.00 Credits
A detailed study of commercial real estate development and the related topics not covered in the first year course in Property. The course covers, inter alia, the law of brokers, mortgages, real estate tax shelters, condominiums, cooperatives, and complex forms of land transactions and development.
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2.00 Credits
This skills-oriented course focuses on Pennsylvania environmental law and administrative process. Pennsylvania statutes and regulations governing agency adjudication, rulemaking, and regulatory review will be examined with an emphasis on the structure and procedures of the Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Hearing Board. Through multiple case studies, students will be exposed to the nature of environmental law practice within the state. Final grades will be based on a series of practical written assignments. Prerequisite: Introduction to Environmental Law.
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2.00 Credits
This course introduces the students to the nature of complex litigation, including the use of class actions as one of the tools and devices. The course will bring together and implement knowledge gained from the various procedural classes and emphasize the use of complex litigation, discovery devices, and the use of a multi-district panel. The course will emphasize the procedure for trial in complex litigation, including selection of counsel, attorneys fees, and issues of appeal ability. The course will present a unique opportunity to study the blending of procedure and substantive law, such as ERISA, Securities Acts, various discrimination enactments, FLSA, and mass torts. Students will review the substantive law in each of these areas so as to gain an awareness of various statutory rights which can be enforced by litigation, including class actions.
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2.00 Credits
The topics covered in the course (formerly called Women and the Law) change from year to year. For example, the themes of Science, Technology, and Globalization will consider a gender-based critique of the ways in which science and technology are used to shape the laws and public policies that support a global economic and cultural system. Particular issues addressed will include: HIV/AIDS and law and policy approaches to similar public health crises; Employment in the post modern workplace of the global economy, e.g., border maquiladoras, sweatshops, cyber-sweatshops, and minimum wage work; Human reproduction, including policies concerning cloning, access to reproductive technology, and threats to reproductive health; Environmental problems, including the threat of environmental degradation posed by globalization and responses contained in local, national and global environmental policy. Course materials will include reading from law, social sciences, history and literature. A 10-15 page paper will be required.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a survey of various dispute resolution processes, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration and hybrid processes. This 2 credit course is designed for those who anticipate using ADR while representing clients as well as those who are interested in serving as neutrals in one or more ADR processes. While the course will involve discussion of dispute resolution theory, the focus will be on skills training, ethics and the use of ADR problem-solving.
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2.00 Credits
This course will examine the state and federal criminal laws commonly applied to corporations, their officials, public officials and related parties. Aspects of the complex litigation surrounding these investigations and prosecutions will also be considered.
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2.00 Credits
This is a one semester course designed to acquaint the student with the historical development of American Law. This course blends topical and chronological approaches. For the most part, the emphasis is placed on the evolution of the meaning of property, contract, and torts within the American environment and, in particular, as these discrete subjects were influenced by the Industrial Revolution.
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2.00 Credits
This course examines schemes for developing, perfecting, and exploiting rights in business goodwill and works of authorship, through the application of federal trademark and copyright law as well as state statutory and common law.
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2.00 Credits
The course will be divided into three primary areas. Part I will examine the nature, history and development of Jewish law, its sources and application. Part II will focus on the philosophical theories underlying Jewish law with a particular focus on law and morality and law and equity. Part III will focus on specific substantive areas of Jewish law including family law, abortion and other bio-ethics questions, privacy, rights of the handicapped, bankruptcy and capital punishment. The course will not presume any prior experience with Jewish texts and materials. Exam is a take-home exam.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an introduction to the Federal Estate, Gift and Generation-skipping Transfer taxes. The course considers lifetime planning relative to gift giving, inter vivos trusts, and planning for the orderly disposition of a decedent's property at death. The course presents a tax oriented approach to estate planning. The final examination is a take-home exam.
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