This seminar will focus on the law relating to construction contracts. It will use a textbook and local construction contracts as source materials. The seminar will cover issues relating to …
This course will explore the development of the American administrative state from the nineteenth century through the present. We will engage political and theoretical debates over the bureaucratic state's role, …
This seminar will explore the regulatory and policy lessons to be learned from our experience with the COVID-19 pandemic. We will examine efforts to forestall the next pandemic and how …
This seminar provides an introduction to liberal political thought and then surveys various antiliberal critiques from the political right and the left.
This course gives students those fundamental building blocks that they need to become effective storytellers in their legal writing.
This seminar will examine the contours of the police power, the foundational government power to regulate health, safety, and morals. Particular attention will be paid to the limits placed on …
Students in this course will participate in the Online Workshop on the Computational Analysis of Law (OWCAL). OWCAL is a global workshop that highlight innovate research in empirical legal studies.
After the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, overruling Roe v. Wade, new restrictions on abortion raise a host of questions involving religious freedom. This seminar will survey the First Amendment …
This course will focus on readings from Aristotle, Cicero, and other ancients and modern rhetoric writers, lectures on rhetorical style and substance, review and analysis of video tapes of distinguished …
This seminar provides students with knowledge regarding the history, development and salient legal issues facing tribal nations in the United States.
This course will examine the legal, economic, and political considerations relevant to formulating tax policy.
The course will provide an in-depth look at the roles played by lawyers and investment bankers in advising boards of directors of target and acquirer companies as well as those …
In recent years, there has been growing recognition that the cultivation of mindfulness --- a focused, non-judgmental awareness of the present moment --- can be a powerful tool for enhancing …
This seminar will examine the Supreme Court by intensive study of the Court's most recent Term, October Term 2008, which concludes in June 2009. After a brief introduction to the …
This seminar will explore the legal issues pertaining to animals, the laws that govern their treatment, as well as a number of topics that fall within the general headings "animal …
This course interrogates the role of corporations in frameworks of law and global governance and engages with their contributions, both positive and negative, to the attainment of social priorities.
This course will follow the progression of a tax dispute from the planning stages through to litigation.
This seminar focuses on the intersections of constitutional theory, political history, and democratic legitimacy.
This course will offer students an opportunity to develop and polish an academic paper on a topic concerning law and inequality, with the goal of publishing it as a student …
The concept of dignity plays a role in several legal settings, ranging from antidiscrimination law to the law of "dignitary torts" to administrative cost-benefit analysis. At the same time, there …