Economics assumes people are rational, law assumes people are compliant, but is it really so? In recent years both disciplines have come to incorporate more and more research from psychology …
This course will consider artificial intelligence and machine learning from the perspective of law. Students will develop a basic understanding of the computer science underlying both artificial intelligence and machine …
This course covers the law governing domestic and international sales of goods. It also treats legal and institutional rules applicable to important aspects of the transport of goods and payment.
This course introduces law students to the scientific study of violent crime, including factors that give rise to violence and those that may account for the remarkable decline in violence …
The emphasis throughout this course is on the bases for the imposition of liability and the constraints (including constitutional limits) on liability. Separate consideration also is given to categories of …
The economic analysis of law has generated foundational insights and a handful of Nobel prizes. It guides many scholars, judges, practitioners, and policy-makers, and it provides one of the major …
This course focuses on the cross-cutting elements of risk regulation to provide students with a set of general tools and concepts that can inform area-specific advanced courses and be applied …
This course will explore the theoretical foundations of federalism at the time of the American founding and trace its development over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This course will explore the legal and environmental issues in the development of energy resources.
The goal of this class is to introduce students to negotiation theory, with a focus on the collaborative negotiation method used by most successful negotiators today.
In this course, students will learn to read, interpret, draft, aggregate, manipulate, and improve rules embodied in contracts, statutes, treaties, constitutions, customs, sports, and games. We will write, and explore …
Federal law closely regulates employer-provided retirement, health, and welfare benefits. In this course, we will examine key federal statutes for this important and dynamic area of the law.
The lecture will examine the laws, regulations and policies governing wages.
This lecture course will address the rapidly-changing field of computer crime and data privacy, surveying the major domestic authorities in the area, such as the Wiretap Act, the Pen/Trap statute, …
This course closely examines the theories and legal rules behind state and local government authority. Special focus will be put on the ways local law spatially and socially organizes American …
Legislation and Regulation is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the way Congress and administrative agencies adopt binding rules of law (statutes and regulations, …
This course provides an introduction to the laws regulating food safety and food labeling and advertising in the United States. Topics to be addressed include federal regulation of adulterated and …
This course covers technical, ethical, and strategic aspects of eDiscovery, applying practical skills simulations and discussion to prepare law students for litigation practice.
This course is an introduction to the private and public law regimes that govern cross-border business activities and dispute resolution mechanisms. Topics covered will include: cross-border contracting; choice of law …
Roman law developed over the course of more than one thousand years, and it continues to influence contemporary legal systems throughout the world. In this course, we will examine the …