Courses

    Explores both the kind of law students might decide to practice and the ethical, personal, and professional commitments central to the practice of law. Students who elect to participate in this 1-unit elective are committing to enroll in the fall of the 2nd year in LAWS 6133 for 2 units, focusing on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Covers basic principles of contract liability, offer, acceptance and consideration, statute of frauds, contract remedies, the parole evidence rule, performance of contracts, conditions, effect of changed circumstances, third-party beneficiaries, assignment, and specific performance.

    Explores cutting edge questions around entrepreneurship, including being an entrepreneur, leadership and what makes a great founding team, building and scaling a business, entrepreneurial communities, financing entrepreneurial companies, leadership in government, entrepreneurship and innovation policy. Offered Pass/Fail only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Introduces lawmaking in the modern administrative state. Examines the way Congress and administrative agencies adopt binding rules of law (statutes and regulations, respectively) and the way that implementing institutions--courts and administrative agencies--interpret and apply these laws. Considers the structure of the modern administrative state, the incentives that influence the behavior of the various actors, and the legal rules that help to structure the relationships among Congress, the agencies, and the courts. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Explores the role of framing effects in constructing a legal argument. From an appellate court opinion to closing statement to a jury to a white paper to a regulatory agency to a public campaign for a ballot proposition, the role of an overarching narrative is critical to effective persuasion. Offered Pass/Fail only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Students prepare appellate briefs and related documents and deliver oral arguments before a three-judge court composed of faculty, upper-division students, and practicing attorneys. Practice arguments are videotaped and critiqued.

    Provides an intensive introduction to the resources available for legal research. Students also prepare written material of various kinds designed to develop research skills, legal writing style, and analysis of legal problems. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Studies modern practice in civil suits, including rules governing pleading, joinder of parties, discovery, jurisdiction of courts over the subject matter and parties, right to jury trial, appeals, and res judicata and collateral estoppel, with emphasis on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and their Colorado counterpart. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Studies modern practice in civil suits, including rules governing pleading, joinder of parties, discovery, jurisdiction of courts over the subject matter and parties, right to jury trial, appeals, and res judicata and collateral estoppel, with emphasis on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and their Colorado counterpart.

    An elective that requires fifteen hours observing actual civil proceedings in a courtroom(s), attending a two-hour class meeting every other week, preparing and submitting a journal of recorded observations. Figuring out how to gain access to appropriate proceedings is part of the student's work, although the professor is available for advice and guidance. Course is offered for Pass/Fail only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Studies nonconsensual allocation of losses for civil wrongs, focusing primarily on concepts of negligence and strict liability. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Studies statutory and common law of crimes and defenses, the procedures by which the law makes judgments as to criminality of conduct, the purposes of criminal law, and the constitutional limits upon it.

    An elective that requires fifteen hours observing actual criminal proceedings in a courtroom(s), attending a two-hour class meeting every other week, preparing and submitting a journal of recorded observations. Figuring out how to gain access to appropriate proceedings is part of the student's work, although the professor is available for advice and guidance. Course is offered for Pass/Fail only. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Topics include personal property, estates and interests in land, landlord-tenant, basic land conveyancing, and private land use controls. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Topics include personal property, estates and interests in land, landlord-tenant, basic land conveyancing, and private land use controls.

    Moves students from the brief introduction to legal research offered in the first-year legal writing classes to the sort of problem-centered research students will perform starting in the summer after their first year. Provides students with a conceptual understanding of the organization and connectivity of legal authority and with instruction in research methodology at both the project and resource levels. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1 Law students only.
    An elective that requires fifteen hours observing proceedings before an international tribunal(s), attending a two-hour class meeting every other week, preparing and submitting a journal of recorded observations. The proceedings observed will be available streaming online and the professor will provide information about how to gain access to them. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Deals with the legal status and management of resources on federal lands, including national forests, parks, and BLM lands. Explores federal law, policy, and agency practice affecting the use of mineral, timber, range, water, wildlife, and wilderness resources on public lands. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of LAWS 6112 (minimum grade D-).

    Focuses on legal issues that arise in all phases of real estate transactions, with an emphasis on the role of the lawyer in the business of real estate as well as on the regulation of real estate markets.

    Studies constitutional structure: judicial review, federalism, separation of powers; and constitutional rights of due process and equal protection.

    Emphasizes the fundamentals of the federal income tax system and examines its impact on the individual. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1, 2, or 3 Law students only.
    Examines the structural and historical aspects of the nternational legal system. Examines contemporary attitudes, doctrines, and theories of international law by exploring the fundamental questions since the discipline's inception in the Sixteenth Century. Provides a working familiarity with the origins of Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, International Organizations, International Trade Law, Law and Development, and Conflict of Laws. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Examines the methodology and policies of Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code, dealing with such topics as negotiable instruments, bank deposits, collections, letters of credit, and electronic fund transfers.

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