The Holistic Youth Defense Clinic will provide students an opportunity to practice holistic and zealous lawyering by representing juvenile clients on delinquency matters, as well as related school discipline and special education matters, in order to help keep youth in their homes, schools, and communities with appropriate supports. Law students will have the opportunity to handle cases from the initial intake to the case disposition.

Offered in conjunction with the Legal Aid Justice Center, this is the second semester of a year-long clinic that teaches and develops trial skills using housing law as the substantive background, and eligible students appear and argue in local courts.

This clinic involves instruction and practical training in patent drafting as well as the negotiation and drafting of patent and software license agreements. Topics include the evaluation of inventions and computer software; preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications; dealing with patent examiners; and researching intellectual property issues and technology transfer.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has begun to have profound effects on law and society. Topics will include: algorithmic bias, AI and privacy, tort liability for self-driving cars, autonomous weapon systems and the laws of war, and legal person-hood for artificial intelligences. Introductory classes will include a primer on the present and future of AI technology.

This theory-and-practice seminar explores both the historical and theoretical role of litigation in social movements as well as the nuts and bolts of actually engaging in law reform and impact litigation to effectuate systemic change.

This course is about the federal judicial system and its relationship to various other decision-makers, including Congress and the state courts. We will examine the jurisdiction of the federal courts; the elements of a justiciable case or controversy; the role of state law and so-called "federal common law" in federal courts; implied causes of action; and state sovereign immunity.

This course explores the process of judicial decision-making and how lawyers influence those decisions, and how law clerks aid in the process, with a focus on analytical, writing, and communication skills that aid in the process.

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 designs and evaluate their implications for public and semi-public goods (like civil rights and international cooperation on climate change) and club and private goods (like welfare benefits and the right to immigrate).

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 such questions by reading the philosophical literature on the rule of law and and by looking at case studies of situations where many have seen the rule of law to be under threat.

Many federal defendants are serving sentences in excess of what they would receive for the same offense today, due to errors in the original case, changes in law that were not made retroactive, and/or evolving community standards. Students in this clinic will work to reduce the sentences of indigent federal defendants and gives students a unique opportunity to practice in federal court.