This course is a survey of the development of private and public law in twentieth century America. Topics to be covered include jurisprudence, legal education, foreign relations law, the emergence …
This course introduces LLM candidates who have received their law degrees from foreign universities to certain structural and historic aspects of the U.S. legal system.
Feminist jurisprudence is a field in which scholarly activity is rooted in a set of practices designed to excavate and revise the myriad ways in which law conditions the lived …
Course description: This course examines the role of race in the criminal justice system, and the role of law in both causing and countering racial injustice in that system. The …
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the Workplace introduces students to arbitration and mediation processes as used in the union and nonunion workplace.
In this course, students will learn and practice the skills associated with pretrial civil litigation (complaint through summary judgment), particularly focusing on skills and strategies relevant to civil rights litigation …
In this course, students (in multifunctional teams from the Schools of Law, Engineering, and Public Policy) will work on real, national security-related problems facing the U.S. Government. Students will study …
While many courses address the legal aspects of particular corporate law topics, this course will focus on thinking strategically to address business planning issues of start-ups or closely held companies. …
This course focuses on the legal topics and skills required to successfully negotiate and document a public private partnership for a real estate transaction.
This course provides an introduction to privacy law, from its common law foundations to today's complex regulatory landscape. Topics discussed are expected to include the philosophical bases of privacy protection; …
This survey course will introduce students to various areas of Internet law, such as Internet governance, jurisdiction, contracts, trespass and computer fraud, copyright, trademarks and domain names, speech, search engines, …
This class will be a survey of the legal and ethical issues in biotechnology and related emerging technologies. Will include some issues being considered by NIH's NExTRAC.
How do we govern the police? What rules and rights shape police encounters? This course explores the complicated web of federal, state, and local laws that regulate police officers and …
International criminal law studies a grim but important subject: the prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression. In addition, we will study the extraterritorial application of US …
"Constitutional Originalism" examines both theory and practice of an originalist approach to constitutional theory. Combining lecture, discussion, and problems the goal of the course is to equip students to engage …
This class examines exchanges and transactions that are traditionally repugnant, and sometimes illegal. Importantly, what constitutes a repugnant transaction is culturally dependent, changing over time and across cultures. For example, …
"This class will explore the topic of taboo trades (e.g. prostitution, marijuana, paying college athletes) through the production of a weekly podcast in with a guest scholar, lawyer, or regulator. …
This course uses the lens of international debt finance to provide students with an advanced course in securities law, corporate law, and contract law. The course has both a theoretical …
This course will examine the traditional law of trade secrets and the federal statute with the goal of familiarizing students with the theoretical and doctrinal underpinnings of this area of …
This course will help students develop the language skills and knowledge to properly represent monolingual Spanish-speaking clients. Students will study Spanish language legal vocabulary and practice explaining legal concepts to …