This course is designed to provide an extensive overview in Financial Crime risks, including a focus on Financial Crime Compliance and Risk Management within a global banking institution.
This seminar will explore climate change law and policy at the local, state, national and international levels.
This seminar will explore planning techniques and legal issues surrounding protection of landscapes of natural, historical and cultural value and public uses of those landscapes. The seminar will be conducted …
In this seminar, students learn about current research in law-relevant psychology and will apply it to various tasks like: engaging with clients, witnesses, & juries; negotiating; group problem solving; and …
This seminar will examine the rule of law in theory and practice. What is the rule of law and why (if at all) is it valuable? We will take up …
This seminar will explore legal issues from a philosophically informed perspective. The course offers the opportunity for students to interact with prominent scholars, to help shape cutting-edge work, to hone …
This course will explore how economic reasoning informs constitutional and public law processes, including bargaining, voting, delegating, and enforcement. We will consider the incentive effects of legal rules and institutional …
This seminar will examine the extent to which constitutions and constitutionalism reflect the history, traditions, culture, and politics of a particular people. How do countries give voice, in their constitutional …
This course will examine the many occasions when international law influenced events in World War I.
This lecture course covers the development of legal institutions, legal ideas, and legal principles from the medieval period to the 18th century, emphasizing the impact of transformations in politics, society, …
In each meeting, a leading scholar will present a current legal research paper using the methodology of law and economics.
This seminar will explore the history of the juvenile courts, troubling issues within the current juvenile justice system, recent Supreme Court cases regarding juveniles, and advocacy and policy reform currently …
This seminar will consider the theory and practice of such lawsuits before, and now after, the Supreme Court's landmark decisions in Wyeth v. Levine (2009), Plia v. Mensing (2011), and …
This course will focus on federal criminal proceedings and introduce students to the stages of a federal prosecution by following a case from indictment through trial.
This seminar will explore the legal authorities underlying the executive branch's use of economic tools of national security, the role that Congress plays in authorizing and overseeing executive branch actions, …
This seminar course addresses the psychology research regarding behaviors in the criminal justice system -- by police, prosecutors, jurors, judges, and witnesses -- that can result in wrongful convictions.
This seminar is designed to teach the skills required of appellate advocates. We will begin with the necessary steps lawyers must take at the trial level to preserve issues for …
This class explores legal controversies from the period preceding the American Revolution to the ratification and early implementation of the Constitution.
This course will allow students to delve deeper into the theory and practice of representing nonprofit organizations. Throughout the term, students will have the opportunity to supplement their reading with …
Legal practice has always been shaped by technology as lawyers seek out new ways to better meet the needs of their clients at the lowest cost. In this seminar, we …