Introduces undergraduate students to the American legal system and to legal reasoning and argumentation via case studies of prominent litigation. Students will learn basic conceptual building blocks of American law, basic lawyering skills and an understanding of how the American legal system structures and resolves complex disputes.
Explores how entrepreneurship principles apply in a variety of life's contexts, ranging from startup companies to legal practice to developing one's own professional brand. Participants consider whether adoption of entrepreneurial principles - viz., a philosophy of entrepreneurship - is a useful way to approach problem solving, management issues, career strategies and other life challenges.
Aims to teach students the rhetorical principles and writing practices necessary for producing effective business letters, memos, e-mails, reports and collaborative projects in professional contexts. The curriculum is informed by current research in rhetoric and professional writing and is guided by the needs and practices of business, industry and the professions.
Explores the aspects of marijuana's history, pharmacology, potential harms and medical uses needed for intelligent study of governing law. Discusses the Federal statutory law classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 forbidden drug and Colorado's medical and recreational laws permitting marijuana use on specific conditions and the conflicts between the two.
Developing reflective, creative problem solving and ethical legal professionals by touching a core set of issues facing lawyers, including the duty of confidentiality to clients and the hazard of conflicts of interest, providing students with an opportunity to confront these challenges in an interactive and engaged environment. Requisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
Covers basic concepts frequently encountered in the practice of law, such as present value calculations and statistical evidence. Intended especially for students who lack confidence in their math skills and/or who have not previously studied probability or statistics. The emphasis will be on understanding mathematical techniques used by expert witnesses and consultants. Students with an advanced background in math or statistics should not enroll.
Covers three distinct but interwoven topics: substantive law governing marijuana; policy rationales behind and outcomes produced by different approaches to regulating the drug; and the legal authority to regulate the drug. The objective is to prepare to handle legal issues that arise in practice but also to provide informed counsel on proposed an future reforms to the law. Requisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
Explores two related questions: first, what role does regulation play in encouraging (or inhibiting) innovation? Second, what kinds of innovation approaches to regulation itself are being employed or might be employed and how might these strategies improve the environment for private innovation? Requisites: Restricted to Law (LAWS) students only.
Explores the scholarship that has developed around the provision of legal services - or the lack of legal services - for those who cannot afford market prices for attorneys. The seminar will also examine recent efforts to provide empirical support for the range of political claims that are made about access to the legal system.
Provides an overview of the US legal system and will help MSL students begin to 'think like lawyers'. Students will be provided with the necessary vocabulary and skills to use legal resources and legal reasoning in academic and professional environments, including reading and analyzing cases, statues and regulations, doing legal research, and applying existing law to the issue at hand to predict answers to legal questions. Requisites: Restricted to Master of Studies in Law (LAWS-MSL) students only.
