This short course will provide insight into the peculiar issues of the financing of a biotechnology company and will touch on the entrepreneur's evaluation of a scientific opportunity, the business …
This course exposes students to an increasingly-common legal question in the wake of Covid-19: when will parties be excused from performance due either to contractual provisions (e.g. force majeure) or …
This short course will take a deep dive into how key trade secret misappropriation cases have been litigated and their impact on business practices.
The short course is a simulated negotiation of the most significant issues in public company merger agreements. These issues will include financing, private equity structuring issues, regulatory risk allocation, material …
In the 400 years since its first settlement, Virginia has been intimately intertwined with the central themes of American constitutionalism - the idea of rights, the balance between national and …
In this short course, students will learn negotiation theories and techniques, and they will apply them to legal situations.
This short course is designed to help students improve their ability to communicate persuasively in the wide variety of settings in which non-litigators are called upon to speak including client …
This short course will explore some of the troubling issues within the current youth justice system with practical development of advocacy skills.
Students will study international and comparative law approaches to family law. The course will cover the role of the state and religion in marriage, divorce, child custody, relocation and abduction, …
This short course covers prevailing mediation methods along with a survey of case law on legal and ethical issues associated with mediations along with simulated mediation scenarios to develop written …
Twentieth-century European legal theory was dominated by the question of what gives law its validity, whereas American legal theorists have been preoccupied with rather different questions. Yet in Europe and …
This short course will examine the process by which monuments commemorating the Confederacy went up and the legal issues presented by attempts to take them down. The instructors were involved …
The Trial Advocacy College is a week-long course offered each January through the offices of Virginia Continuing Legal Education (CLE). This advocacy skills, hands-on course is the most advanced advocacy …
This course will introduce students to the world of white collar prosecution and defense (federal primarily but not exclusively), from investigation to prosecution, through trial, sentencing, and appeal.
This short intensive course seeks to offer students a highly selective introduction to the legal and political systems of the People's Republic of China.
In this short course, we will focus on two of the formative periods of Jewish law -- biblical law and rabbinic law -- as well as the transition between these …
This course is an introduction to corporate strategy and performance.
In this short course, we will begin traversing the post-Dobbs landscape, with special attention to the difficult questions about access to reproductive care and family support that legislators, law enforcement …
This course examines the effect of various laws and law-like rules on Major League Baseball. Suitable for non-experts and will include (optional) session aimed at bringing them up to speed.
This course will address legal and policy issues related to cryptocurrency. We will study what cryptocurrency is, why people demand it, and what advantages and disadvantages it has compared to …