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New courses 2014-15
Designing Deals
Patient/Client Care Pretrial Litigation Privacy Professional Responsibility Public Health Law Public Utilities Race & Crime Real Estate Development Real Estate Finance Regulatory Compliance
Taught by Professor Erin Archerd. This course looks at how lawyers can assist entities in forging relationships that create value. Students will examine how parties structure transactions, with the goal of improving their understanding of common deal configurations as well as their ability to anticipate challenges to getting deals done. Through exercises and class presentations, students will learn ways to design creative deal processes and contracts. The class will begin by looking at how negotiators (lawyers, business people, government employees, etc.) create and claim value by strategic agreements, as well as tensions in the deal making process such as agency, asymmetric information, and structural and interpersonal barriers to agreement. The class will focus on real world deals that have taken place over the past few years.
Forensic Mental Health
Sales Secured Transactions Securities Regulation Sentencing Law & Policy Sexual Harassment Sexual Orientation & the Law Sexual Violence & the Law Special Education Advocacy Sports Law State & Local Government State & Local Tax State Constitutional Law Supreme Court Litigation Tax Policy Taxation of Business Enterprises Trademark Transactional Lawyering
Taught by Bob Stinson, J.D., Psy.D. and Delaney Smith, M.D. Mental health issues are present in the legal system in many ways. Students will learn historical and current approaches to issues of involuntary commitment, capacity for treatment, competency to stand trial, and sanity at the time of a crime. Civil rights of those with a mental illness who are involved in the legal system will be discussed. By the completion of this class students should have a basic understanding of the mental health diagnoses most commonly encountered by lawyers, the legal safe guards in place to protect mentally ill individuals who require treatment and those who have been accused of a crime, issues of feigning of mental illness in the legal system, and the how to interact with mental health professionals in legal proceedings.
Law, Lawyers & Social Movements Seminar
Taught by Professor Amna Akbar. This course will examine the relationship between law, lawyers, and social movements, and, will consider the relationship between law, social structures, and social change. Students will examine how legal strategies for social change work to secure rights for marginalized groups, and about how organizing with the law as a reference point can limit and coopt grand visions for social change. Students will examine different roles lawyers play—as supporting cast for political activists, or directly as political activists— and the different tools lawyers use, from the courts, to physical protest, social media, civil disobedience, and legislative reform.
Law and the Presidency
Trial Practice
Taught by Professor Peter Shane. Can the President do that? This course examines the legal scope of the President’s domestic, military and foreign relations powers, as well as the law structuring his relationships to both Congress and the judiciary. Specific topics include judicial review of presidential action, the nondelegation doctrine, executive immunities, executive privilege, impeachment, the President’s role in managing the executive bureaucracy, treaty powers, executive agreements, national security investigations, war powers—and, if time permits—presidential selection.
White Collar Crime Wills, Trusts & Estates Workplace Bias
Oil and Gas Law
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Taught by Professor Gregory Russell. Energy law is booming business in America. This course will study the law governing oil and gas ownership and development. It includes a study of related property law principles, such as the nature of a landowner’s interest in the oil and gas underlying his or her property, the rule of capture, and concepts of subsurface trespass and co-tenancy. Oil and gas leases and an introduction to the regulatory framework that govern the operations of an oil and gas producer are also discussed.