Courses

    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-).

    Explores the methodology and policies of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, dealing with financing transactions in personal property.

    Examines basic mortgage law, including use of mortgage substitutes (e.g., deeds of trusts and installment land contracts). Covers foreclosure and redemption and related problems; special priority problems in land acquisitions and construction financing; special financing devices, including variable-interest and wraparound mortgages; and problems relating to the transfer of the mortgagor's and mortgagee's respective interests.

    Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Department enforced prereq. or coreq., LAWS 6353. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Focuses on deceptive trade practices and consumer rights. Reviews the law of deception/misrepresentation at common law, and federal and state laws regarding unfair acts and practices. Covers credit practices, environmental and health claims, and telecommunications and privacy. Discusses remedies, including governmental enforcement actions, and individual and class actions.

    Examines distinctions between white collar crime and other types of criminal activity and the needs for and arguments against white collar laws and law enforcement. Studies securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, money laundering, false statements, conspiracy and criminal forfeiture statutes. Includes use of the grand jury, privileges applicable in the corporate setting, immunity,discovery and the impact of parallel civil proceedings. Examines effect of government policy on corporations and their counsel, pre-trial and trial strategy, jury selection, and victim notification and restitution options. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-).
    Focuses primarily on the constitutional limitations applicable to such police investigative techniques as arrest, search, seizure, electronic surveillance, interrogation, and lineup identification. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Studies evidence and procedural issues, discovery (including document management), pretrial preparation, motions, pretrial conferences, and jury selection. Focuses on opening and closing statement strategies, elements of direct and cross-examination, and impeachment; how to present evidence using technology, including presentation software. Students participate in preparing and arguing motions in federal court and may participate in trial proceedings.

    Addresses sentencing process and schemes, direct appeals, probation modification and revocation, parole revocation, pardon and commutation processes, post-conviction litigation and appeal in both state and federal court, federal review of state convictions through habeas and/or the AEDPA, and ethical issues that arise in post-conviction proceedings. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Addresses the non-trial portion of white collar criminal law. Drawing examples and problems from wire fraud, securities fraud, health care, and computer fraud contexts, explores a white collars case's major investigative and charging phases, corporate and organizational issues, as well as pleas and punishment.

    Examines how the institutions, practices, and the very identity of the law are in part affected by the media through which law is apprehended and communicated. Hence the general question posed in this course: To what extent and how are the forms and methods of the new media having an effect on the perception, role, and identity of law? Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
    Emphasizes practice skills in immigration cases. Includes litigation before Federal Immigration judges, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-).
    Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills, advocacy, and evidence presentation. Concludes with full mock trial. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of LAWS 6353 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Studies evidence and procedural issues, discovery (including document management), pretrial preparation, motions, pretrial conferences, and jury selection. Focuses on opening and closing statement strategies, elements of direct and cross-examination, and impeachment; how to present evidence using technology, including presentation software. Students participate in preparing and arguing motions in federal court and may participate in trial proceedings.

    Represents low-income clients in family law cases in local state district court. Students will gain court-based experience in dissolution's and allocations of parental responsibilities. Seminar component includes instruction on substantive family law, related ethical issues, and theoretical backgrounds of poverty lawyering.

    Examines the legal profession as an institution, its history and traditions, and the ethics of the bar with particular emphasis on the professional responsibilities of the lawyer. Discusses the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1, 2, or 3 Law students only.
    Covers intestate succession; family protection; execution of wills; revocation and revival; will contracts and will substitutes; creation of trusts;modification and termination; charitable trusts; fiduciary administration, including probate and contest of wills; and construction problems in estate distribution. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1, 2, or 3 Law students only.
    Addresses legal procedures, pleadings and client advocacy matters involved in the representation of Spanish-speaking clients who have been arrested for criminal offenses and who have been issued a detainer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible immigration removal proceedings. Provides overview of criminal defense concepts, and how criminal defense attorneys must be prepared to competently counsel their clients who are facing removal proceedings in the federal immigration system. Prerequisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Addresses the conflicts that arise when the significant facts of a case are connected with more than one jurisdiction, whether that jurisdiction belongs to a state, the federal government, or a foreign government. The subject is studied in its theoretical and historical context, with special emphasis on the international aspects of extraterritorial jurisdiction.

    Focuses on voir dire, opening statement, direct examination of witnesses, and cross examination. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1, 2, or 3 Law students only.
    Introduces students to the law of natural resources. Examines the legal, historical, political, and intellectual influences that shape resources development and conservation. Same as ENVS 6112. Prerequisites: Restricted to Professional Year 1, 2, or 3 Law students only.
    Continuation of LAWS 5103. Focuses on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Provides the nuts and bolts of the ethical rules needed to begin to explore externships, clinics, pro bono projects and other practice experiences during law school. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of LAWS 5103 (mimimum grade D-). Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.

    Focuses on the basic principles and practices of construction law. Provides an overview of construction industry participants and players (engineers, contractors, insurers, etc.) and discusses and analyzes the various obligations and liabilities of these parties. Covers construction and design contracting, construction claims, professional negligence, construction insurance and suretyship, and ADR in construction. Provides transactional-practice oriented exercises.

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