Courses

Description: Basic principles governing the creation, interpretation and enforcement of private agreements. Offer and acceptance, consideration, the effect of changed or unforeseen circumstances, conditions and remedies.

Description: Legal protection afforded in civil proceedings against interference with the security of one's person, property, relations, and other intangible interests. Substantive principles that govern tort claims (ranging from claims for intentional wrongdoing, to negligence claims, to claims that the defendant is strictly liable for harms caused to the plaintiff), and the theoretical bases and practical implications of such claims.

Description: Problems in possession, gifts of personal property, bona fide purchasers of personal property, estates in land, landlord and tenant, the modern land transaction, controlling the use of land, easements, licenses and equitable servitudes and constitutional limitations on the power of government to restrict individual economic liberties.

Description: Substantive criminal law, focusing on the theoretical foundations, general principles, and doctrines that govern the rules of liability and defenses, both in the common law tradition and under the Model Penal Code.

Description: The emphasis of this course is on the development of legal research and writing skills; writing is the lawyer's most commonly used skill, and effective writing rests on effective research. Communicating like a lawyer, however, means not only communicating professionally but also conducting oneself ethically. In addition to providing sustained and intensive instruction on legal research and writing, this course introduces students to many facets of professionalism and to the skills necessary to make ethical and professional choices.

Description: The emphasis of this course is on the development of legal research and writing skills; writing is the lawyer's most commonly used skill, and effective writing rests on effective research. Communicating like a lawyer, however, means not only communicating professionally but also conducting oneself ethically. In addition to providing sustained and intensive instruction on legal research and writing, this course introduces students to many facets of professionalism and to the skills necessary to make ethical and professional choices.

Description: Introduction to federal and state court organization, jurisdiction, and procedure. Emphasis on pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures, including pleading, enforcement of judgements, motion practice, appellate review, and the effects of res judicata and collateral estoppel.

Description: Prepare for legal practice in a global legal environment, including an understanding of how to handle the treaty and foreign law issues that can arise in the practice of virtually every area of law. The sources of international law and the relationship of international law (particularly treaties) to the U.S. legal system. An overview of conflict of law rules, a survey of differences in the major legal systems of the world, and comparative examination of how foreign legal systems regulate other areas of law studied in the first year, such as torts, contracts, property, and civil procedure.

Description: Examines the legal aspects of space security. Content ranges across the spectrum from peace to conflict and covers international law applicable to space situational awareness, sharing of technology, expertise and data, space launch, the space component of ballistic missile defense, space-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and means to counter these systems, space-based Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT), satellite communications, use of the radio-frequency spectrum and electronic warfare, counter-space operations and force application from space. Examines the application of the law of armed conflict to military activities in space. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the intersection of law, strategy and outer space; critically analyze complex problems arising from the application of law to space security; and broadly understand the interests and stakeholders in a variety of contexts associated with strategic space law.

Description: Over the past thirty years, no single factor has impacted global trade regulation more than the rise of China as the largest trading nation on Earth. The current focus on US-China trade relations cannot be fully understood without the context of the recent history of China international economic relations and development, China role at the WTO, China trade relations outside the US, and how the recent tensions came about. Finally, the class will attempt to answer the question on everyone mind, where will we go from here (and will we go together, or on separate paths)? This course is intended to provide students with a practical and case study-based overview of China role in global trade. The course is delivered via a blended learning approach, incorporating online teaching materials and modules.

Description: Provide foundational review of federal appropriation and fiscal law principles. Covers the statutory, regulatory, and policy governing the commitment, obligation, and expenditure of appropriated funds by federal agencies and employees.

Description: Seeks to raise competence in international trade and economic development through an understanding of the role and impact of agriculture and food. Understanding agricultural policy models, the role of intergovernmental organizations, and the growing impact of new impediments to trade such as those manifested in private standards are all key to appreciating today's globalized market for agriculture and food. The food and agriculture area is one that has witnessed dramatic transformation in markets and methods in recent years with retailers gaining an ever greater influence over production and distribution decisions. This development has been concurrent with and in contrast to the growing efforts in Aid for Trade in agriculture, food production and food security when the world's population is approaching 9 billion. Finally, trade in wine presents a microcosm of trade topics, including agriculture, technical barriers to trade (TBT), sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS), intellectual property, national treatment, and cross cultural negotiations, against the backdrop of a comparatively small agricultural sector. Provide students with a practical and case study-based background in global trade in food and agricultural products.

Description: Simulated skills-based course focused on the lifecycle of patent-protected innovation (i.e., pre-patent strategy, patent searching, patent preparation and prosecution, post allowance activities, and general portfolio management). Interact with real or simulated inventors and examiners. Provide an understanding of the nature and operation of patents, hands on experience with patent searching, drafting and prosecution, and an understanding of the strategic use of patents.

Description: Focus on manner in which U.S. publicly traded companies make decisions - particularly interactions between shareholders, the board of directors, top executives, and outside professionals. Overview of current governance and case studies. Discussion on evaluating governance reforms, corporate social responsibility, ethical obligation of attorneys who advise public companies and practice as transactional lawyers.

Description: Provides an overview of Government Contract Law, indentifying key provisions of applicable law, regulations and general federal acquisitions contract principles. Looks at the authority of contracting officers and how authority is delegated and the impact of such delegation. Provide a basic understanding of the phases of the acquisition lifecycle including: pre-award, solicitation, award, and post-award legal issues. Federal government contract funding and fiscal matters, labor, socioeconomic policies and fraud also examined.

Description: A comparison of Chinese law and Culture with American law and culture. Students will spend two weeks in China with instruction from both Chinese and American law professors and visits to Chinese legal institutions. A paper will be required, the nature of which will depend on whether the student is seeking 2 or 3 credit hours.

Description: Introduction to various legal frameworks relating to data- and cybersecurity, such as data breach notification laws regulatory data security requirements such as contained in HIPPA and GLBA, and the patchwork of statute and common law tools available for addressing cybersecurity concerns. Prepares students to interact with professionals in other fields relevant to cybersecurity practice, and broader policy discussions about cybersecurity law and policy.

Description: Selected issues in corporate and securities law. Theories of the corporation, corporate governance, corporate and securities litigation, and small business financing. Students may write papers on any topic within the broad area of corporate and securities law, whether or not listed above, with "corporate" law defined to include non-corporate entities as well.

Description: An overview of the rights and obligations of an unsecured creditor under state law with focus on the rights and obligations of a secured creditor under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Consider relationship between debtor and secured creditor by examining statutory requirements for granting a security interest in personal property and the rights of the secured creditor when the debtor defaults on its obligations. Learn how relationship between debtor and creditor impacts other creditors of the debtor. Study of the filing system used for perfection of security interest and the priority rules for resolving conflicts between the various creditors of a debtor. Learn the fundamental bankruptcy concepts.

Description: Hands-on experience integrating a wide-range of employment and labor law doctrine with practice skills and professional ethics. Students will be divided into attorney teams to represent a particular client in a simulated dispute. The client's student attorney team will decide how to pursue potential claims or how to defend claims brought against the client. Claims may include unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, employment discrimination and sexual harassment charges before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in litigation, arbitration of employee discipline under a collective bargaining agreement, arbitration under non-union employment contracts, defamation, and claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act and ERISA. During the term, students may experience interviewing and counseling clients, filing claims with administrative agencies, conducting research in labor and employment law, drafting pleadings and legal memoranda, negotiations, engaging in discovery, and representing clients in arbitration, mediation and litigation motion practice.

Description: Exploration of issues that arise before, during and after catastrophic disasters. Using real-life case studies, students will assess legal tools for reducing vulnerability, enhancing emergency preparedness and response, and increasing environmental protection.

Description: Actual and potential uses of science in the law. The course primarily focuses on social science but considers general principles that apply to all types of science in the law. Specifically, we will look at the use of social science as fact in litigation (e.g., consumer confusion and civil damages) and as context in litigation (e.g., syndromes and criminal defenses). A secondary objective is to look at how social science can be used to understand the more general function and purpose of the courts and more specifically the application of various legal practices and policies to social problems. Third, the course examines the concept of junk science in the law including the misuse of science in litigation and legislation. Throughout the course, we will consider how empirical research can shed light on matters of importance to the legal system.

Description: Family Mediation is a simulation-based class that meets the Nebraska Supreme Court's Office of Dispute Resolution for an approved 30 training hours requirement to be a Parenting Act mediator under the Nebraska Parenting Act. Issues involving family conflict, focusing on mediating and developing Parenting Plans for parents who are divorcing, separating, or in paternity actions.

Description: Focuses on the framework underlying the recent surge in compliance programs and an overview of the relationship between corporate governance, risk and compliance. Identify common features of a compliance program and examine specific regulations affecting corporate compliance, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC investigations, anti-money laundering, data protection, consumer finance, anti-corruption laws (such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and health care. Discuss the role of a compliance officer and the coordination and integration of counsel and other experts, such as accountants. Exploration of ethical considerations of a compliance program, such as privilege and confidentiality and the role of legal counsel versus the compliance officer, and will emphasize building a culture of compliance in an organization.

Description: Privacy law, already a field of longstanding attention, has grown significantly in importance in our modern information era. Introduction to the laws and regulations that govern information privacy in the United States and around the world and the struggles of protecting individual privacy in the modern era. Considers the Constitutional, common law, and statutory mechanisms that control access to and use of information about individuals; the broad and often conflicting definitions of and principles behind these mechanisms; from self-regulation to criminal law, from states and localities to international treaty. Evaluation by exam or other written assignments.

Description: Addresses the legal concerns and issues facing the rapidly growing subpopulation of older adults. Topics covered in the course will include the legal and social science aspects of: ethical issues related to client legal capacity, health care decision making, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, long-term informal and formal care (including guardianship), financial aspects of aging, ageism, and elder maltreatment.

Description: Issues confronted by the small firm and/or sole practitioner. Firm organization, e.g., partnerships, professional corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships and partnership and shareholder agreements. The role of partners, shareholders, associates and non-lawyer staff, e.g., law clerks paralegals and legal secretaries. Ethical issues involved in the marketing of legal services, firm financial matters and dealing with clients within the organizational structure. Managing the legal product as well as physical resource needs such as traditional libraries through electronic information resources.

Description: Assisting Law professor as a TA

Description: Focus primarily on structure - judicial power, legislative power; executive power, justiciability; federalism and state sovereignty; separation of powers. May include discussion of electoral federalism and the 17th Amendment.

Description: Appellate Practice & Procedure. Explores federal and Nebraska appellate practice, including the mechanics and timing of appeals, with an emphasis on written and oral advocacy. Draft appellate briefs, prepare other appeal-related documents and participate in an oral argument.

Description: Examines the role of storytelling in The Law. Novelists, poets, and playwrights dramatize the law and legal events in ways that the bare fact patterns of case law cannot. Read literature that examines "the law" as an object of fascination and revulsion. Examine legal texts using the tools of literary analysis and explore the literary aspects of the law.

Description: Focused on the legal and policy issues in digital transactions and the various problems with legal advice for the business owner on a variety of topics, including: choice of business model; protecting digital assets; digital contracts; electronic payments; financing intellectual property and other digital assets, consumer protection.

Description: Examines legal doctrine and policy as it relates to the democratic political process. Focuses on the text of the Constitution and of federal legislation that governs voting and the political process, the decisions of the United States Supreme Court interpreting the Constitution and federal statutes, and the federal regulations that impact our democracy. Topics will include: campaign finance, the Voting Rights Act, one person, one vote, racial and partisan gerrymandering, direct democracy, the regulation of political parties, and the Help America Vote Act. Develops an understanding of where the law of our democracy has been, where it is today, and where it might be headed. Grade based on exam.

Description: Comprehensive survey and analysis of the laws governing the entertainment industry, artists, and their representatives. Learn about legal restraints on entertainment, including censorship of sex and violence, defamation, and privacy and publicity rights. Covers intellectual property in entertainment assets: copyright, trademark, artistic credits, and "moral rights." Acquire a working vocabulary of important entertainment transactions, such as publishing agreements, film and television option agreements, and agent and personal management contracts. Includes hands-on analysis of entertainment contracts, especially in the publishing, movie, and television industries.

Description: Historical, political, religious and philosophical roots of international human rights law, its development over the course of the last century and its contemporary role in international affairs. May include: current attempts to strengthen U.N. fact-finding and implementation mechanisms; the relationship between U.N. peacekeeping and peacemaking and international humanitarian law; the activities of regional human rights systems; the effect of the United States' recent signature and ratification of U.N. human rights conventions and the role of such conventions and international human rights law through the criminal process; and military intervention to protect human rights victims, including NATO's intervention in Kosovo.

Description: In-depth study of the construction process as an example of the initiation, administration, and handling of disputes in a relational contract. Topics covered include practice in the art of drafting contracts, analysis of the performance of the contracting parties, and the resolution of disputes between parties.

Description: A selection of substantial income tax, estate tax and other tax-related problems and issues affecting farmers and ranchers.

Description: American constitutional history with a focus on "transformative" moments at which the Constitution and the nature of American politics and government changed. American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Civil War and Reconstruction, and the New Deal. Exploration of the courts and how they stood on history and original intent when they interpret the Constitution.

Description: Advanced course in business law, focusing on the law of not-for-profit businesses. Cover doctrine; learn practice concepts relevant to working as lawyers for nonprofit organizations, and advising nonprofit business clients as outside counsel and inside advisers; become familiar with organization, private governance, and public relations of these entities. Expose students to statutes, case law, regulation and nonprofit entity organization documents. Topics include formation and entity choice; the activities nonprofits can and cannot undertake, including commercial, lobbying, and political activities; fiduciary duties and governance in these entities; forms of fundraising; the investment and use of these entities' funds; and related issues.

Description: An in-depth study of selected current national and state legal issues pertaining to education.

Description: Provides an overview of the U.S. federal taxation of operations that occur within business entities, including within corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations. Topics covered will include entity selection and formation, the taxation of income from operations, and liquidating and non-liquidating distributions.

Description: History of immigration to the United States, federal authority to regulate immigration, immigrant visas, nonimmigrant visas, deportation, political asylum, citizenship, rights of aliens in the United States, and ethical issues for immigration lawyers.

Description: The protection of literary, artistic, musical, and audiovisual works under the laws of copyright and unfair competition. Rights in computer programs, characters, titles, and useful articles. Home recording, photocopying, computer uses/Internet, and public performance.

Description: Negotiable instruments, bank collections, negotiable documents, selected aspects of sales, and products liability.

Description: Control of business activities through the federal antitrust laws. Emphasis on monopolies, joint ventures, pricefixing, boycotts, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing and tying arrangements, territorial restrictions, and mergers.

Description: Introduction to basic accounting principles and the interaction of law and accounting. Gain an understanding of accounting statements, accounting terminology, and accounting issues you are likely to encounter in legal practice. Students who have previously taken an accounting course at any level may not enroll in this course

Description: The family examined as a socio-legal entity with respect to its creation, dissolution, and the problems incident to its continuation, including interspousal rights and duties and the relationship between parents and children.

Description: Basic problems of criminal procedure with emphasis on the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments to the United States Constitution and their impact on the criminal justice system.

Description: Introduction to the law of business associations. Examines the relationships among the various participants in business entities and, to a lesser extent, the relationships between business entities and outsiders.

Description: Origin and growth of the administrative process, the development of administrative law and its impact upon traditional legal institutions, analysis of the types of federal and state administrative tribunals, their powers and functions, and problems of administrative procedure, judicial and other controls upon the administrative process.

Description: Covers the criminal adjudication process from ¿bail to jail¿ -- from the suspect¿s first appearance in court through sentencing and appeal. Topics include right to counsel, pretrial detention and bail, the charging decision, grand juries, discovery, plea bargaining, the right to a speedy trial, jury rights, proof at trial, sentencing, post-conviction review, and double jeopardy. Designed to complement Criminal Procedure, which focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Material may overlap slightly.

Description: Emphasizes family law practice skills such as ethics, interviewing, counseling, negotiations, mediation, drafting, discovery, evaluating property, tax problems, and working with other professionals. Work on a simulated upper middle class divorce case that culminates in negotiating a property settlement agreement and parenting plan.

Description: Corporate mergers and acquisitions, including tender offers. The history of corporate acquisitions, their rationales, the legal duties of the officers and directors involved, different ways to structure a corporate acquisition, issues in negotiation and contracting, and securities law issues.

Description: The structure and content of the federal income tax system, focusing on taxation of individuals. Income, deductions, income splitting, capital gains, and tax accounting. Technical proficiency in solving tax problems and an understanding of the tax policy decisions implicit in the technical rules.

Description: Advanced federal income tax focusing on income taxation of corporations and shareholders.

Description: Intestate succession and related matters, execution of wills, revocation of wills, problems created by the time gap in wills, limitations on the power to devise, construction of wills (mistake and ambiguity), "living wills", durable powers of attorney, health care directives, the elements of trust, formalities in the creation of a trust, the interest of the beneficiary, charitable trusts and problems of trust administration.

Description: Delves in great depth into the relationship between international agreements and the US legal system as well as international law governing treaties. Examines specialty areas of international law as "case studies" including international investment law, international trade law, international family law, international space law, and international human rights law. Mock exercises involve international negotiations, litigation, and interagency meetings. Critically examines recent international law cases within the US Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal.

Description: Builds upon and expands understanding of international and transnational law garnered in the mandatory 1L course.  Examines applicable law for real-world international and transnational problems faced by governments, businesses, human rights and environmental non-governmental organizations, and even individuals, by looking at national (including federal and state), international (including treaty and customary international law), and private (e.g. corporate codes of conduct) rules and how such rules are made and how they interact.  Examines methods of resolving transnational disputes both at the national and international levels and how decisions can be enforced at both the national and international levels.  Several mock exercises involving international negotiations, litigation, and interagency meetings. Spends a session or two critically examining recent international law cases within the US Supreme Court.

Description: Examines the theoretical and scientific underpinnings of environmental policy as well as specific federal laws designed to control water and air pollution or assign liability for toxic cleanups. Issues are viewed from several perspectives, including those of regulated businesses, environmental activists, and government agencies.

Description: Introduction to Environmental Law. Examines the theoretical and scientific underpinnings of environmental policy as well as specific federal laws designed to control water and air pollution or assign liability for toxic cleanups. Issues are viewed from several perspectives, including those of regulated businesses, environmental activists, and government agencies. No prior experience with environmental issues is required. All scientific and regulatory concepts will be presented in a straightforward, understandable manner. Economic and policy options will be identified and related to legislation.

Description: Legal and constitutional concepts involved in choosing the applicable law when the essential facts of a case are not confined to one state or national sovereignty.

Description: Selected topics in tort law. Advanced class in tort law, considering the general legal theory of tort, as well as specific topics not studied in detail during the required first-year torts class. May include tort claims other than the intentional torts, negligence, and products liability--i.e., defamation, nuisance, privacy, abuse of legal process, interference with advantageous relationships, tort claims implied from statutes, the prima facie tort, and others. May also include topics relating to the functioning of tort law in social context--e.g., the efficiency with which tort litigation accomplishes its apparent purpose, alternative legal mechanisms to reduce risk or promote safety, alternative systems of compensating for harms, legislative tort reform initiatives, and others.

Description: Overview of the rights and obligations of an unsecured creditor under state law. Focuses on the rights and obligations of a secured creditor under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Study the relationship between the debtor and the secured creditor and examine the requirements of the taking of a security interest in personal property and the rights of the secured creditor upon default by the debtor. Study of the filing system for perfection of a security interest and the priority rules for resolving conflicts between the secured creditor and a variety of other creditors, including the bankruptcy trustee.

Description: Study of the federal and state statutes and common law doctrines restricting unfair methods of competition in business. Topics include false advertising, trademark law, misappropriation, trade secret law and the right of publicity.

Description: Covers the Federal Rules of Evidence and its application to the courtroom. Uses a problem-based approach and centers around two in-depth case files, which simulate the kind of cases that might appear in any lawyer's office.

Description: Analysis of the employment relationship as it has developed outside of the collective bargaining context. History and current status of the employment relationship, including discharge-of-will, occupational safety and health, minimum wage/maximum hour legislation, unemployment compensation and noncompetition agreements.

Description: Process of planning business transactions that take into account many relevant bodies of law as well as the needs of clients. Learn about the goals and methods of business planning, the role of ethics in providing legal advice, factors that influence the choice of business entity for a venture, legal rules applying to partnerships and limited liability companies ("LLCs"), relevant laws dealing with corporations and securities regulation, laws that pertain to corporate restructurings, and laws applying to the purchase, sale, or merger of corporate businesses.

Description: Emphasizes protected individual civil liberties created by the First Amendment. These are freedom of speech, association and press (and first amendment privacy concerns) as well as the constitutional principles underlying the first amendment's command that the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Includes analysis of the origin and modern applicability of the state action concept in constitutional litigation.

Description: Introduction to the U.S. federal income tax rules that apply to U.S. persons who live or do business abroad, or receive income from foreign sources, and to foreign persons who live or do business in the U.S., or receive income from U.S. sources. Includes a study of the role and effect of U.S. tax treaties. Introduction to the US federal income tax rules that apply to US persons (including corporations, partnerships and individuals) living or doing business abroad or receiving income from foreign sources, and to foreign persons living or doing business in the US or receiving income from US sources. Effect of US tax treaties on these rules.

Description: Introduction to major families of legal systems outside the common law orbit. Emphasis is on Western European and Socialist (Marxist) legal systems; others treated less intensively.

Description: Examination of refugee issues in the context of domestic and international political environments. Topics will include asylum reform, gender-based persecution, persecution of lesbians and gays, deficiencies in international and domestic refugee law and firm resettlement of displaced persons. Study of the interplay among political, social, economic, cultural and psychological phenomena as refugees, governments of host countries and international and nongovernmental organizations interact in the context of ongoing crises around the world. Participate in simulations designed to teach practical skills necessary to an asylum and refugee law practice, including working with translators, interviewing and case advocacy. Asylum cases will serve as the foundation for role play exercises.

Description: Study of the different legal systems of the world and how they relate to one another. Develop a general understanding of the major foreign legal systems and their impact on U.S. law, lawyers and clients. Substantive topics for comparative study may include torts, contracts, civil procedure, criminal procedure, and the protection of human rights. Investigate the potential for identifying general principles of law and ethics common to most legal systems. Acquire skills in thinking critically about comparative law and what light it can shed on the American legal system and possible reforms of it

Description: A study of the law governing the sale and lease of goods with primary emphasis on Article 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code. Among the topics included are: contract formation and modifications; acceptance and rejection of goods; warranties; risk of loss; and remedies for breach of contract, including breach of warranty remedies and some non-UCC remedies in consumer transactions. On selected issues, the Convention on the International Sale of Goods will be examined. Develop contract drafting skills. Enhance ability to read and analyze a statue.

Description: Provides an overview of a number of basic banking issues. Examines the structure of the financial services industry, including the formation and expansion of banks and financial holding companies. Topical issues will include internet banking, lending (including a close look at a number of consumer fair lending laws (TILA, HELC, ECOA, HMDA and RESPA)), securitization of bank loans, securities and insurance (brokerage and underwriting) by banking institutions, international banking and other current issues in banking law. The focus is on federal regulation of banking, although there is an opportunity to compare the state regulation of banking during a conversation with local bankers and a Nebraska banking regulator.

Description: Introduction to one of the fastest growing areas of legal scholarship and practice - the use of empirical techniques in research and litigation. Learning how to be sophisticated and critical consumers of empirical research that lawyers and experts often use to resolve legal cases and controversies, to shape legislation, and to use as argument in public policy debates. Introduction to survey research methodology, designing and conducting experiments, data gathering and analysis through descriptive and inferential statistics. In addition to discussing how to perform these techniques, students read cases and articles in which each of the techniques has played an important role. The course introduces law students to the social sciences through a "hands on" approach. Students will collect and analyze their own data by completing small research projects related to their areas of interest. Class sessions include discussion of social science and legal materials, lectures on the basics of empirical analysis, assistance with analyzing statistical data with computer packages, assistance with interpreting data, and student presentations. Students fulfill the course requirements through writing a paper, participating in class, presenting their research to the class, and completing several exercises. Students will learn to use computer statistical software packages (SPSS) for these exercises.

Description: Under close faculty supervision advise and represent startup business clients in a variety of early-stage legal matters, including entity formation, contract drafting and review, intellectual property protection, real estate, financing, regulatory, compliance and other transactional matters.

Description: Class will cover advanced and contemporary issues in technology governance and regulation. Students read, discuss, and analyze recent scholarship, proposed regulations and legislation, and similar materials relating to contemporary topics; will engage in faculty led discussion of current regulatory and legislative topics relating to technology governance and also learn how to critically read and produce research in these fields.

Description: Class will cover advanced and contemporary issues in technology governance and regulation. Students read, discuss, and analyze recent scholarship, proposed regulations and legislation, and similar materials relating to contemporary topics; engage in faculty led discussion of current regulatory and legislative topics relating to technology governance and also learn how to critically read and produce research in these fields.

Description: Analysis of the role of science in the law. This class will explore issues such as biotechnology, computers, scientific evidence, regulatory approval, antitrust, and environmental law to explore the intersection of science, technology, and the effect on the law and legal decision making.

Description: Focus is on public international air law, with emphasis on the Chicago Convention of 1944 and the International Civil Aviation Organization, the exchange of air traffic rights by way of bilateral air service agreements, criminal air law treaties and selected areas of private international air law including air carrier liability under the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, respectively the Rome Convention alternatively tort law. It will also include the role of the GATS and the EU in aviation law.

Description: Overview of the United States laws of copyright, patent, trade secret and trademark for students of all backgrounds and discussions of the laws and mechanisms to protect intellectual property rights abroad including analysis of all major international treaties and conventions. Covers not only the legal and regulatory schemes but also the policy implications.

Description: The role of gender, race, and class in shaping socio-legal relationships and policies. Selected procedural substantive areas of the law that affect and are affected by gender, race, and class. Employment, property, torts, constitutional law and contractual relationships, and the complex relationship between gender, race, class, and the law.

Description: Seminar examining the intersection of race and the law and, specifically, the role that law has played and continues to play in the oppression, subordination, and promotion of people and groups based on race. We will anchor our studies with a look at the historical periods involving slavery, the Civil War, the First Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the Civil Rights Movement and Second Reconstruction, before examining contemporary issues of race in areas of the law such as land use, education, employment, policing, punishment, and elections

Description: Selected issues of international trade law and policy. Several prominent issues of international trade law and policy, including trade in agricultural goods, new issues facing the international trading system, and other topics selected by students for research papers. Visiting scholars, government officials, or faculty from other departments at the university may make presentations to the seminar.

Description: Analysis of the legal rules and institutions used to address international environmental issues. Includes the sources and nature of international environmental law, extraterritorial application of domestic environmental law, transboundary pollution, sustainable development, protection of the global environment, and the impacts of international trade policy and international development policy on the environment.

Description: General concepts and legal principles relating to construction contracts, including some basic foundation principles such as communication, risk allocation, problem solving, loss and profit sharing, mutual objectives, and dispute resolution. Taught against backdrop of construction law, includes study of legal and equitable issues resulting from the construction relationship and disputes relating to that relationship. May be applicable for employment contracts, interfirm agreements, supply-chain relationships, informal credit contracts, and other settings where contracting is focused on the continued relationship between the parties as opposed to a discrete transaction.

Description: Examination of the principles of regulation and about whether and how regulatory intervention is beneficial to society; the myriad of tensions and contradictions often inherent in regulation; provide critical analytical tools needed in today's legal, political, and business environment.

Description: Individual study under the supervision of a faculty member.

Description: Individual study under the supervision of a faculty member.

Description: Explores government regulation of international trade and the interaction between national and international rules governing trade. Specific topics covered include U.S. constitutional issues regarding the regulation of trade by the U.S. federal and state governments, regulations regarding the importation of goods into the United States (e.g. classifying, valuing and determining the origin of imported goods), barriers to U.S. exports, rules of the GATT and NAFTA that seek to eliminate or limit such barriers, U.S. unfair trade laws (i.e. laws designed to protect U.S. businesses from imports that have an "unfair' advantage) and the institutional and dispute settlement rules of the newly created World Trade Organization (WTO). A visitor from the Washington, D.C., trade policy community may be invited to speak. Past speakers include: U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, Governor Ben Nelson, Congressional Representative Doug Bereuter and the Honorable Abner Mikva. Students who have taken LAW 668G may not enroll in this course.

Description: Examines central jurisprudential questions that arise in the criminal law. The following topics will be considered: (1) the purpose and justification of punishment, especially the legitimate role, if any, for retribution and the expressive function of punishment; (2) the relationship between retribution and revenge; (3) the justification of capital punishment; (4) the relationship among the state, defendants, and victims in the criminal process, including the proper role, if any, of victim impact statements.

Description: Covers both private and public (government regulation) aspects of international business transactions. Specific topics covered include international sales contracts and the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), regulation of foreign investment and Bilateral Investment Treaties, (BITs), private international dispute resolution (including choice of forum and choice of law clauses, international commercial arbitration, and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards), US customs law, responses to fairly and unfairly traded imports, and international bribery and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Description: Investigation of the relationship between children, the family, and the state. Both public and private law considerations with emphasis on the juvenile justice system and general considerations of children's constitutional rights.

Description: Examines those areas of law that impact animal agriculture. Includes coverage of those legal regimes that implement governmental policy concerning animal welfare, animal-based medical research, food safety, consumer information, international trade, and environmental impacts. Also examines the underlying scientific foundation for these policy concerns.

Description: Review and examination of the history of Presidential space policies regarding space commercialization. Exploration of the work of all key federal agencies charged with licensing and regulating the commercial space transportation and satellite industries and the statutes that give these agencies this authority and the rules that the agencies administer and enforce. Students will engage in a simulation of a condensed commercial space business transaction - from business plan to launch.

Description: Be introduced to Spanish-speaking attorneys in many practice areas and community members that work with Spanish-speaking attorneys and their clients. Discuss the needs of Spanish-speaking clients when dealing with county attorneys, public defenders, private practice criminal defense, private practice immigration, private practice injury cases, non-profit legal services, court interpreters and consulate representatives of foreign governments.

Description: Examination of federal laws and regulations that govern food & drug safety, labeling and marketing, shared by federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture. History of federal food safety laws and enforcement, pharmaceutical drug regulation and medical device regulation and compliance.

Description: The inequalities in American society which arise from employment discrimination against minorities and other under-represented groups, how these inequalities are reinforced and at times created by laws, and how law can be used to remedy many of these inequalities.

Description: Covers civil and criminal procedure issues as applied in the online context, along with a range of specific substantive issues such as online contract formation, basic regulation of encryption, the operation and history of Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act, the Electronic Communications Protection Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as the various challenges relating to international jurisdictional disputes and the application of domestic laws to a global internet.

Description: Competition based on a hypothetical space law dispute before the International Court of Justice. Time-intensive competition. Teams write briefs/memorials for both sides and must be prepared to argue both sides.

Description: Two separate components; one involving patent law and one involving international intellectual property. The patent law component looks at some of the central issues of the protection and enforcement of patents with emphasis on the policy issues that arise from patent protection. Focus of the international intellectual property component is on private law. Materials emphasize issues that an American lawyer representing an American company should understand. Relative emphasis between patents and international intellectual property determined each term.

Description: Role of law in controlling, shaping, and responding to scientific and technological developments in the field of medicine and the biological sciences. May include contraception, abortion, sterilization, artificial conception, genetic engineering, the right to refuse treatment, euthanasia, the right to treatment of defective newborns, organ transplantation, and experimentation with human subjects.

Description: Issues in bioethics arise when developments in medicine and the life sciences (the "bio-"in bioethics) have difficult moral implications (the "-ethics" in bioethics). In this course we will touch on several areas of bioethics. Our principal focus will be on issues in death and dying, but we will also take up issues arising in human reproduction.

Description: Examines legal doctrine and policy regarding capital punishment in the United States. Draws heavily but not exclusively on decisions by the US Supreme Court. Topics addressed include: various Constitutional challenges and limitations according to Supreme Court decisions; aggravating and mitigating circumstances; jury selection and qualification; discriminatory application; the use of clinical testimony; and the role of counsel.

Description: Examine legal doctrine and policy regarding capital punishment in the United States, drawing heavily but not exclusively on decisions by the United States Supreme Court. Topics addressed include: various Constitutional challenges and limitations according to Supreme Court decisions; aggravating and mitigating circumstances; jury selection and qualification; discriminatory application; the use of clinical testimony; and the role of counsel. Direct primary attention to the court cases and to the legal doctrine and policy issues arising out of those court cases.

Description: Critical review of the role of gender in shaping socio-legal relationships and policies. Examines selected procedural and substantive areas of the law that affect and are affected by gender. Includes, but are not limited to, employment, property, torts, the Constitution and contractual relationships. Emphasis on the complex relationship between gender, race and class.

Description: Study of public health as an independent field, with emphasis on the law's involvement in implementing public health initiatives, and in setting limits on them.

Description: Supplement students' understanding of tort principles and to acquire a better understanding of how work-place injuries and occupational diseases are handled within the legal system, with particular emphasis on Nebraska law, practice, and procedure. For graduates that might enter into a litigation practice, and for graduates who undertake to provide advice to business clients about insurance coverage and employment law. Obtain a better understanding of the interrelationships between tort law situations and work-place injuries/occupational diseases, including the interplay paid by private health insurers or government insurers such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration. A brief overview of other work-place injury systems such as the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act will be provided. Some practical application related to Nebraska workers' compensation law and suggested pleadings, trial, and settlement practice will be presented.

Description: Examination of the typical provisions found in the legal documents that govern the transfer and financing of real estate and related legal issues with an emphasis on transactional drafting. Covers listing agreements, real estate sales contracts, deeds and deed covenants, title examination and title insurance, mortgage substitutes such as installment sale contracts, and mortgage agreements and deeds of trust. Concludes with an examination of the foreclosure process and alternatives to foreclosure. As part of a realistic real estate transaction simulation exercise represent either the buyer or the seller and negotiate and draft a real estate sales contract and related transactional document.

Description: Varying topics in International Trade

Description: Covers how state and local governments raise revenues and how the U.S. Constitution limits their choices. Look at how the evolution of interstate commerce (and specifically electronic commerce) has impacted state and local governments and how those governments are seeking new ways to finance themselves as well as the structure of state income, sales, and property taxes.

Description: Covers how state and local governments raise revenues and how the U.S. Constitution limits their choices. Look specifically at how the evolution of interstate commerce (and specifically electronic commerce) has impacted state and local governments and how those governments are seeking new ways to finance themselves. Also look at the structure of state income, sales, and property taxes. Focus on interest in public policy, state and local government, or issues of federalism.

Description: Address the impact of law, legal frameworks, and institutions (LFIs) on social and economic development which have significant impacts on development, particularly economic development. Explore the theories and practices pertaining to law and development. Explain how LFIs affect economic development in key areas such as property rights, political governance, regulatory framework for business transactions, industrial promotion, banking and financing, labor, corruption, and international legal frameworks (international economic law and international development law). Examine law and development issues in developing countries as well as developed countries, such as the United States. Knowledge in economics or development study is helpful but NOT required to take this course.

Description: Selected legal issues affecting amateur and professional sports. Topics may include applicability of antitrust, communications, contract, labor, employment, trademark and tax laws to amateur and professional sports; the Division I NCAA governance structure; the relationship between the NCAA and international competition conducted under the auspices of the USOC and national sports governing boards; the ethical and professional aspects of player representation; the extra-governmental regulation of amateur athletics; and negotiations for media sports coverage.

Description: Clinic in which third year law students, under the direct supervision of clinic director, serve as guardian ad litem (GAL) for children involved in child welfare system. Goals: provide students with knowledge, skills and ethical underpinnings necessary to function as effective advocates in a setting involving the legal needs of young children; allow student to obtain certification as approved GALs in the Nebraska court system, making them "practice ready" upon graduation.

Description: Introduction to the basics of legal interviewing (lawyer interaction with a client for the purpose of identifying the client's problem and gathering information on which the solution to that problem can be based) and counseling (a process in which lawyers help clients reach decisions). Course work includes class discussion, reading materials, demonstrations, and role play exercises and interviews.

Description: Introduction to the basic principles of the law of patents in the United States including the history, utility and function of the patent system; statutory and procedural requirements for patentability; recent case law; and patent enforcement mechanisms, remedies and defenses. Foundation in patent law for general legal practice that crosscuts all potential business client interests from individual inventors to small and large companies.

Description: Addresses the conservation and use of public lands (including National Parks, Forests and other federal and state lands), wildlife, cultural and historic properties, and mineral resources. Focused primarily on federal law and its implications for state, tribal and private interests, as played out in the federal courts.

Description: Addresses the conservation and use of public lands (including National Parks, Forests and other federal and state lands), wildlife, cultural and historic properties, and mineral resources. Focused primarily on federal law and its implications for state, tribal and private interests, as played out in the federal courts.

Description: Legal and administrative aspects of the regulation of land use and development, the problems and techniques of urban planning at the various levels of government, and the relationship of private owners and builders to the government policies involved in shaping the physical environment.

Description: The International Mediation Competition involves students competing in teams of three and role playing as mediators, clients, and attorneys in a variety of hypothetical cases. In preparation of the competition, students engage in an eight-week program to learn or refresh the skills associated with the roles of mediator and advocate, applying them to different types of factual disputes. The students are expected to travel to the competition location and compete in the three preliminary rounds, and any additional rounds for which the team qualifies.

Description: Analysis of specific issues in the design and control of market and governmental mechanisms for the diversification of risk.

Description: Introduction of international students to the foundations of the United States legal system, including the federal system; the separation of powers; the functions of the three branches; and the role of the common law. An overview of legal education in the United States, and an introduction to legal research and writing and case analysis.

Description: Survey of major topics at the intersection of law and medicine in America today. Topics will relate to the legal implications of health-care quality and cost, to the legal implications of access to health care, or to issues in the areas of bioethics. Particular focus on the rights of access to health care; to the financing of health care; to the legal implications of the quality of health care; to the laws relating to medical personnel and institutions; to the individual rights of patients; and to the medicolegal issues surrounding morally controversial developments in medicine and the life sciences, such as organ transplantation.

Description: Legal problems and issues of unique importance to lawyers serving the agricultural sector. Representative topics include economic and environmental regulation of agriculture; organizing the farm business; financing agricultural production; marketing agricultural products; and managing agricultural risk.

Description: Agricultural Law addresses two general subjects: (1) the business and economic regulation aspects of the industry and (2) environmental regulation. As for the first general subject, the course deals with the Farm Bill and its administration, restrictions on business entities in farming, land leases and purchases, commercial regulation like Articles 2, 7 and 9 of the UCC, and other subjects that are unique to the agricultural industry. As for the second general subject, the course covers the Clean Water Act and the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill. This course serves as a good introduction to the more general subjects it implicates. You could also use it as a "capstone" to see how the more general subjects you have covered apply in the agricultural industry.

Description: Focus on writing for law practice. Draft and revise several documents; engage in editing, workshopping, and peer critique with intensive feedback from the instructor. Beginnings of a document portfolio to take into first years of law practice.

Description: This course will cover specific laws and regulations, as well as business and policy considerations, that inform efforts to develop rural infrastructure, stimulate jobs, establish community-based financial and non-profit institutions, and encourage rural entrepreneurship. Particular emphasis will be placed on how energy law and policy may be shaping the rural future. This course will also include a comparative element, with literature from the Law and Development movement, international development, and the affordable housing and urban renewal contexts considered in conjunction with current rural development concerns.

Description: Examines the historical, political and philosophical roots of international human rights law, its development over the course of the last century and its contemporary role in international affairs. Specific topics may include the relevance of international human rights law for a practicing U.S. lawyer; the effect of the United States' recent signature and ratification of U.N. human rights conventions; the U.S.'s interaction with international human rights bodies, such as the U.N. Human Rights Committee; customary international human rights law; the rights of women; economic and social rights; religion and human rights; the prohibition of torture and its relationship to efforts to combat terrorism; contemporary measures to enforce international human rights law through the criminal process; the activities of regional human rights systems and their organs, such as the European Court of Human Rights; and the debate on whether there is a global "responsibility to protect" victims of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, including through the use of military intervention.

Description: Being a lawyer involves more skills than just knowing the law. Lawyers ¿ litigators, transactional attorneys, and government attorneys alike ¿ must take a critical look at the issues before making any number of decisions that are not based on substantive law. This ADR class is an introduction to negotiation, mediation, arbitration, collaborative law, facilitation, among other topics. Class discussion will resolve around applying skills learned to hypothetical problems. Students also have an opportunity to practice the skills learned in a number of class simulations.

Description: Offers an in-depth look at the legal and practical issues involved in domestic arbitration, as well as an examination of the skills necessary to be a successful advocate in the arbitral forum. Examines the use of arbitration in a number of different areas, including commercial, consumer, labor, employment, securities, construction, and international disputes.

Description: Study of the process in which a trained neutral third party assists others in resolving a dispute or planning a transaction. Training in basic mediation skills through readings, demonstrations, simulations, and the keeping of a mediation notebook. Topics include the nature of mediation and its relationship to other forms of dispute resolution, the nature of conflict, models and styles of mediation, negotiation theory, communication skills, the interest-based mediation process, the representation of clients in mediation, special issues relating to attorney mediators, and mediators standards and ethics.

Description: Protection of literary, musical, artistic, and audiovisual works under the laws of Copyright and Unfair Competition. Topics include the standards for copyright protection; procedural issues including copyright notice, registration, and duration; rules governing copyright infringement and fair use; and issues arising from digital technologies, including the distribution of copyrighted works over the Internet and the use of technological measures to protect copyrighted works.

Description: Study the law-in-literature and the law-as-literature. Novelists, poets, and playwrights dramatize the law and legal events in ways that the bare fact patterns of case law cannot. Read literature that examines "the law" as an object of fascination and revulsion. Examine the law-as-literature by reading legal texts using the tools of literary analysis and explore the literary aspects of the law.

Description: Study the various causes of poor legal writing-legal writing that is unnecessarily difficult to read-and attempt to understand what constitutes good legal writing, and what makes it work. Practice writing to develop the characteristics of good writing. Focus on developing clarity, coherence, and concision in legal writing. Develop a better understanding of the linguistic causes of good and bad legal writing, and a set of concrete writing tools for the improvement of their own writing.

Description: Selected problems of international and comparative gender issues in foreign legal systems and their impact on US law. Specific documents that may be discussed include the United States Constitution; US Refugee Law; Violence Against Women Act; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; United Nations Charter; International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Convention on the Rights of the Child; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; and the Declaration of the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Description: Introduction to several international law topics of current interest and special importance to the international community, particularly related to transnational criminal activities, terrorism, and international criminal law offenses. Specific topics will include: the conclusion, interpretation and termination of international agreements; state sovereignty over land, sea and air; extraterritorial state criminal jurisdiction; nationality; extradition; international criminal law; war crimes; the International Criminal Court, and; the United Nations Charter regime and related structures, including the ad hoc international criminal tribunals.

Description: Selected problems of international and comparative gender issues in foreign legal systems and their impact on U.S. law. Documents for discussion include the U.S. Constitution; U.S. Refugee Law; Violence Against Women Act; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; United National Charter; International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Convention of the Rights of the Child; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Description: The role that law plays in education in the United States. The rights of students and teachers, special education and disability, school finance, school searches, student discipline, privacy of records, liability of school officials and discrimination based on gender and race. The emerging case law on state constitutional claims of education equity and adequacy.

Description: Examination of refugee issues in the context of domestic and international political environments. Topics include asylum reform, gender-based persecution, persecution of gays and lesbians, deficiencies in international and domestic refugee law, and firm resettlement of displaced persons. Interdisciplinary focus: considers the interplay among political, social, economic, cultural and psychological phenomena as refugees, governments of host countries, and international and non-governmental organizations interact in the context of ongoing crises around the world.

Description: Examines international and U.S. law relevant to the handling of national security matters. Studies the allocation of power under the Constitution between Congress and the President with respect to war powers and assess the role of the courts as a check on the political branches in this area, particularly as it relates to ongoing efforts to fight terrorism. Analyzes the military detention of suspected terrorists and their trial by military commissions. Focuses on international law governing the use of force, conflict management and collective security arrangements. Special attention will be given to the U.N. Charter, the doctrine of self-defense, arguments setting forth justifications for the unilateral use of force, intervention in internal conflicts, and the institutional framework for collective efforts to maintain international peace and security, including peacekeeping operations and peace enforcement actions.

Description: Considers the differing roles of the neutral and the advocate in mediation, focusing on representing clients in all aspects of the mediation process. Represent clients in drafting agreements to mediate, preparing for mediation, attending mediation sessions, and drafting mediation settlements. Covers issues such as confidentiality and ethics. Employs role-play and drafting exercises, in addition to class discussions.

Description: Environmental law in agriculture, the Clean Water Act as it applies to agriculture, the environmental and conservative provisions of the farm program, pesticide regulation and liability, and other areas where environmental concerns and the agriculture industry intersect.

Description: Regulation of brokers and investment advisers by federal securities law: regulation of brokers under the Securities Exchange Act; regulation of investment companies under the Investment Company Act; and regulation of investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act.

Description: Provides an overview of the law and policy governing spectrum management in the United States. Broad coverage includes spectrum allocation and domestic assignment, the FCC/NITA jurisdictional split, and Title III of the Communications Act. Specific coverage includes spectrum auctions, the debate over licensed and unlicensed spectrum use, and issues related to licensing satellite spectrum for use in the U.S.

Description: A social justice critique of free markets. The relationship of legal rules to the distribution of wealth. Introduction of a range of materials and critique the economic theory underlying various approaches to law and economics. Readings will include an interdisciplinary perspective Current topics in economic inequality, e.g., access to credit, housing and others.

Description: Focus on the network and infrastructure layers of the Internet, including the role of the FCC, the Communications and Telecommunications Acts, and specific topics such as robocalls, structural media regulation, net neutrality, and universal service.

Description: Focus on the network and infrastructure layers of the Internet, including the role of the FCC, the Communications and Telecommunications Acts, and specific topics such as robocalls, structural media regulation, net neutrality, and universal service.

Description: Focuses on the tools lawyers utilize when they interpret statutes. Examines various theories and canons of statutory interpretation and to issues of statutory interpretation involving administrative agencies. Provides a comprehensive approach to wrestling with the problems that arise during statutory interpretation.

Description: Major substantive and procedural issues in litigation to protect civil rights. Established theories of liability and defenses, possible new developments in legal doctrine, and pending statutory changes.

Description: Designed to provide a basis understanding of the impact of technology on the practice of law and the benefits and risks associated with using technology in client representation.

Description: Examines the history of tribal gaming, the landmark case of California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 480 U.S. 202 (1987) and the resulting Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). Tribal gaming is regulated by tribal, federal, and state law and is a complex mix of issues: what constitutes a tribe and tribal lands; how do newly acquired lands become Indian Country; what is the role, structure, and authority of the National Indian Gaming Commission; what defines and distinguishes Class I, Class II and Class III gaming; how are tribal - state compacts formed; who may claim a portion of gaming revenues through fees or taxes; and what institutions and political players are crucial to the public debates on tribal and state revenue sharing, tribal economic development, and off-reservation casinos.

Description: 14th Amendment Rights course - substantive and procedural due process; equal protection; incorporation of the Bill of Rights; state action. May include coverage of Second Amendment; and of Section 5 enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment

Description: Following Constitutional Law I's emphasis on the structure of government, Constitutional Law II emphasizes the U.S. Constitution's protections for individual rights and equality. Topics include equal protection; voting rights; substantive and procedural due process; gun rights; incorporation of the Bill of Rights against states and "reverse incorporation" of equal protection against the federal government; Congress' textual powers to "enforce" certain grants of rights; and the state action doctrine. First Amendment rights concerning speech and religion are mostly left to Constitutional Law: First Amendment, a separate course. Constitutional rights involving the criminal process are mostly left to courses such as Criminal Procedure, Criminal Adjudication, and Capital Punishment.

Description: Provides a deeper, more intimate exposure to the material of legal research. Emphasis will be on practical skills and the nature and philosophies of the organization and production of the materials themselves. Gain the ability to analyze any research problem in terms of the types of materials that may be of use in answering the question.

Description: Provides an extensive examination of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Act, U.S. economic embargos and related Executive Orders, as well as discussion of the foreign policy and national security interests influencing US laws, regulations and policy. Particular emphasis will be given to the ongoing efforts to reform the US export control system with regard to spacecraft.

Description: Students, under close faculty supervision, represent tenants in eviction matters and other legal matters related to housing. The course includes a classroom component which focuses on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to represent clients in the areas of eviction defense, enforcement of tenant rights, and housing discrimination, among other housing-related legal issues.

Description: Provides an overview of the relationship between debtors and creditors outside of bankruptcy under state law. Includes an examination of the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act and of consumer and business bankruptcy law. Specifically, Chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 proceedings are discussed. Engage in a client counseling exercise designed to evaluate the client's eligibility for a Chapter 7 proceeding and prepare for electronic filing a Chapter 13 petition for bankruptcy. Prepare a short, client-counseling memorandum for the unit on business bankruptcies related to a motion for relief from the automatic stay. Current policy issues in bankruptcy will be addressed as time permits.

Description: Covers a limited but central topic in the larger field of health-care law - the law bearing on the relationship between a health-care provider and a patient. Survey the legal rights and obligations of patients and their health care providers, individual and institutional. Cover qualification as a health care provider (institutional and individual licensure); the legal doctrines relating to the formation of provider-patient relationship; the locus of decisional authority in the relationship; the provider's fiduciary duties to the patient (to deliver care of professionally acceptable quality [including traditional malpractice law], to avoid conflicts of interest, to respect the patient's privacy and to protect the confidentiality of medical information about the patient); the reciprocal obligation of the patient to take reasonable steps to assure payment and to comply with medical directives; and the legal doctrines relating to the termination of provider-patient relationships. Explore the way provider-patient obligations are affected when the patient also becomes the subject of medical or scientific research.

Description: Scope and content of federal crimes. Fraud and political corruption, drug trafficking, money laundering, organized crime, false statement, obstruction of justice and federal sentencing guidelines.

Description: Examines a variety of negotiation styles and applies these styles in a series of increasingly complex negotiation problems. Negotiation problems will include plea bargains, personal injury cases, commercial negotiations and labor management disputes. Strategic and psychological factors present in negotiation styles will be examined. Improve negotiation performance and broaden the repertoire of strategic and stylistic choices available.

Description: Concentrates on the application of procedural rules to the bringing and defending of civil law suits and on considering the tactical and strategic aspects of litigation. Perform weekly exercises on pleading, motion practice and discovery.

Description: Learn contract drafting and negotiation for transactions

Description: Examination of the basic remedies available to redress legal wrongs: injunctions, damages, and restitution. Among the topics covered are permanent injunctions (including specific performance), provisional injunctions, contempt, contract damages, tort damages (primarily personal injury and property damages), proof requirements, present value adjustments, legal restitution, equitable restitution, equitable defenses, election of remedies, and declaratory relief.

Description: This course will examine the basic structure of American legislative institutions and the process of law-making with emphasis on legislative process and external influences shaping the consideration, composition, enactment and implementation of new laws. The course will draw on real-world, "hot topic" issues for various practical exercises, including the drafting of statutes and written comments for agency and congressional submission. In addition, the course will familiarize students with various kinds of materials, including bills, committee reports, legislative rules, floor debates, and statutes. Collectively, these exercises and readings will allow the class to fully explore and evaluate the legislative process in its various contexts.

Description: Introduction to the fundamental federal income tax rules for general and limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and limited liability companies.

Description: Introduction to the theories and applications of modern corporate finance. Explores a range of topics, including basic finance theories (time value of money, the efficient capital market hypothesis, the capital asset pricing model, standard deviation, etc.), the various forms of corporate finance (common stock, debt, preferred stock, options, etc.), and the documentation associated with financing transactions.

Description: Addresses the national security aspects of space law, including legal issues related to new and emerging space technologies. Includes an examination of key space arms control issues, U.S. national security space strategy, U.S. military space doctrine, the international law framework governing military uses of space and space weapons, significant contemporary challenges and initiatives in the area of national security space law, and efforts to prevent an arms race in outer space and its weaponization.

Description: Provides a basic overview of international space law with primary emphasis on the civilian and commercial dimensions of space law and policy, including civilian government space, satellite launch, satellite navigation, and satellite remote sensing. Topics will include the five major international treaties dealing directly with space and the application of these Cold-War era treaties to modern space activities.

Description: Students write and present a paper addressing an area of interest in commercial or banking law. Increasingly, attorneys are facing new legal dilemmas posed by several developments in commercial practices. Explores several current issues in commercial and banking law. Includes "Technology and the Uniform Commercial Code," "Consumer Protection and the UCC," "Banks and Community Needs" and various issues arising from proposed revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).

Description: Explores structural/organizational issues (e.g., separation of powers, federalism) related to U.S. foreign policy-making as well as U.S. foreign policy in a number of substantive areas. Areas of foreign policy examined include the war on terrorism, international economy policy, and current foreign policy crises.

Description: Study of the federal laws that govern retirement, health care, and other benefit plans sponsored by private employers for their employees. Topics include: employer compliance requirements under the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement income Security Act of 1974, and the Affordable Care Act; the responsibilities of plan fiduciaries; federal claims and remedies available to plan participants; and federal preemption of state laws. Uses an applied problem method of learning and is designed for students who plan to practice in the areas of corporate law, employment litigation, insurance litigation, family law, or estate planning.

Description: The class will have a limited enrollment. Preference given to students who have earned at least 6 credits from the following courses: Civil Rights Litigation, Civil Rights Litigation Seminar, Employment Law, Employment Law Seminar, Labor Law, Labor Law Seminar, Legal Control of Discrimination, Legal Control of Discrimination Seminar, Pension and Employee Benefit Law, Public Employment Law. A modest bridge between classroom instruction in labor and employment law and real world practice in the area. Local practitioners collaborate with faculty member to formulate problems for the class and participate in several class sessions. Students engage in intensive analysis of issues arising out of the problems; they may be asked to prepare and discuss work products that fall anywhere on a continuum between the scholarly (such as law review-type analyses of complex issues) and the intensely practical (such as drafting interrogatories).

Description: Legislative and judicial patterns of the modern labor movement; the objectives of labor combinations; the forms of pressure employed for their realization and prevention; strikes, boycotts, picketing, and lockouts; the legal devices utilized in carving out the permissible bounds of damage suits involving labor activity; the labor injunction; the National Labor Relations Board; the nature of collective bargaining agreements; extra legal procedure for settling labor disputes-the techniques of mediation, conciliation, and arbitration.

Description: Advanced study of United States constitutional law in the litigational context and focused on the power, history, and development of the federal judicial system and the distribution of power between the federal and state systems.

Description: In-depth study of the common law and statutory systems regulating liability for product-caused injuries. Private causes of action are the focus, but they may also be contrasted with administrative regulations which govern the sale and distribution of products.