Courses

Focuses on writing briefs and memoranda of law suitable for practice before tribunals such as the International Courts of Justice. Emphasis will be on students writing, legal analysis, and presentationof oral arguments. Instruction identifies how to research and analyze international materials, such as treaties, covenants, and international customary law.

Covers topics related to the legal and public policy implications of innovation, entrepreneurship, and social networks including normative ideals of entrepreneurship, the concept of regional advantage, whether startups should be subsidized and the design of such subsidies, the role of universities in commercializing ideas, impact of the tax code on entrepreneurship, the role of corporate responsibility in startups, and more.

Explores the use of watersheds as geographic and political entities for addressing water-related issues and how laws and institutions facilitate or impede watershed-based problem solving.

Addresses issues in international criminal law in three parts: 1) basic contents of international law, 2) international criminal tribunals that enforce international criminal law, and 3) national efforts to bring international criminal prosecutions. Recommended prereqs., LAWS 6400 and 7440. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law students only.

Explores legal issues that judges, legislators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys confront with the recent explosion in computer related crime. Includes Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, law of electronic surveillance, computer hacking and other computer crimes, encryption, online economic espionage, cyberterrorism, First Amendment in cyberspace, federal and state relations in enforcement of computer crime laws, and civil liberties online.

Studies policy and practice issues rather than case law. Focuses primarily on how American criminal justice is dispensed in cases that do not reach trial, including police behavior, prosecutorial discretion, defense services, bail, plea bargaining, and sentencing.

Introduces the uses and limitations of microeconomic theory for understanding and resolving legal problems. Emphasizes concepts prominent in the law and economics literature such as cost, transaction costs, utility, and rational self interest.

Addresses the extent to which the international community of nations is oil dependent. Assesses the impact and the geopolitical dangers to international relations arising from the expanding demand for scarce oil from developing, as well as developed, economies.

Explores a range of topics surrounding the juxtaposition of computers and law. Most are aware of the impact that law has on computers through the myriad of regulations that govern computers and related technologies. Less well known is the impact that computer technology is having on governance and on the practice of law. Explores both sides of this dynamic interplay between law impacting computing, and computing impacting law.

Starts from the premise that reform of our criminal trial system to make it less complicated, less expensive, and more reliable should be considered. Examines trial systems in other countries and U.S.changes over recent decades. Student papers make and defend proposals for reform.

Focuses on a particular topic in criminal procedure. Topics include the privilege against self-incrimination, juries, and defense and prosecution ethics.

Examines basic regulatory and legal challenges of our information economy and digital age. Emphasizes the "Networked" information industries, the proper role of "Unbundling" policies to advance competition, and how intellectual property and antitrust rules should be developed. Prereq., LAWS 7201, 7241, or 7301. Same as TLEN 5260.

Discusses economics of regulation and matters ranging from neoclassical economic analysis to public choice theory to new institutional economics. Discusses several regulatory domains, including antitrust law, telecommunications regulation, and energy regulation. Highlights both economic and non-economic goals,including universal service, sustainability (e.g., renewable energy), and architecture (e.g., free speech concerns with regard to telecommunications networks). Prereqs., LAWS 6301 or 7201 or 7241 or TLEN 5835. Restricted to Law and TLEN students.

Studies sentencing law against the backdrop of criminal justice policy and concerns of public policy. Covers theories of punishment, the merits of indeterminate sentencing, sentencing guidelines, and nonincarcerative sanctions. Confronts problems of race, class, and other disparities in criminal sentencing.

Explores the laws that regulate the basic technologies of the Internet and the management of information inthe digital age. It examines the most significant statutes, regulations, and common law principles that comprise this emerging legal framework, including the Federal Wiretap Act, the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law students only.

Explores the law and policy of citizenship in the United States, starting with legal questions regarding acquisition and loss of citizenship as well as the consequences of citizenship, but also examines the fundamental premises underlying American citizenship and the concept of citizenship generally.

Explores the constitutional relationships among the three branches of the federal government in the sphere of domestic matters, omitting foreign affairs and war. Develops topics including executive orders, Congressional control of the executive and the courts, appointment and removal of officers, impeachment, executive privilege, use of military tribunals, and the election of 2000. a seminar paper will be required.

Designed for students interested in studying topics related to securities litigation. Covers civil liability under the Securities Act of 1933, proxy fraud, class actions (with special emphasis on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act), market manipulation, SEC enforcement actions, enforcement issues involving attorneys and accountants, criminal enforcement, international securities fraud, and securities arbitration.

Explores rules of law pertaining to the American public health care system and the ethical issues raised by the government's effort to protect the health of the American people. To be held at Health Sciences Campus.

Explores current issues in tax policy. Topics may include the tax legislative process, consumption taxes, taxes and distributive justice, the tax exemption for nonprofits, carbon taxes, corporate taxes and integration, and taxes and entrepreneurship. Prereqs., Federal Income Tax and LAWS 6109. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law students only.

Develops a comprehensive description of dispute; creates a conflict assessment of the stakeholders in and dynamics of dispute; assess obstacles to and opportunities for mediation; recommend strategy for addressing and managing the dispute. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law students only.

Focuses on legal, moral, and economic analyses of problems posed or soon to be posed by advances in biomedical technologies.

Studies ethical and legal regulation of lawyers, auditors, and investment bankers, who have been described as "Gatekeepers" to the investment markets. Considers changes in ethical and legal regulation that can be adopted to restore a sense of integrity for these professionals.

Explores how dignitary interests have influenced the development of and have been incorporated into law, using the common law of torts and the constitutional rights of life and liberty as a general (but not exclusive) focal point of discussion.

Considers both legal and literary depictions of women and their legal and extralegal situations. Topics may include women as mothers, women as sexual beings, women's silence, women's violence and women as criminals, women at work, and women as the "Other" in law and literature.