| | 01 | -T----- | 3:00P-4:24P | Remote / LAW | Dionne Koller Fine | Law Final | 25 | 25 | 14 | | Desc: | This course will meet on Zoom. |
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| | Description: | Law and Economics examines the ways in which various economic theories influence legal policy making, and the equally important ways in which legal institutions and organizations influence economic activity. The course, which requires no previous economic training, focuses on property, tort, contract, intellectual property, litigation, criminal, and regulatory law. We also discuss the scientific status and inherent limitations of economic analysis, and the effect of law on economic rents and inequality. Grading is based both on class participation and on a three-hour final examination. 3 units. |
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| | Description: | Prerequisite: Legal Research Methodologies (LRM I & II), Introduction to U.S. Law and Methods I, or similar course at a previous institution if a transfer student. This course helps law students acquire technology competence and data literacy in the context of social science, quantitative, and empirical research. Ever since the advent of the Brandeis brief, social science, quantitative, and empirical research have been marshalled for effective judicial advocacy. This course surveys and contextualizes past uses of such research and equips students with the ability to locate the same for improved advocacy. Students will become familiar with a wide range of tools, datasets, and techniques, and will be able to use them to marshal evidence for a particular litigation scenario. Additionally, students will learn an analytical framework to identify the insight-needs required for a particular advocacy application. Tools and concepts include: Bloomberg Analytics; Westlaw Analytics; Lex Machina (Lexis); Context (Lexis); network visualization tools; Microsoft Excel; statistical and regression analysis; gerrymandering analytics; census data; geographic information systems; expert witness analytics; empirical analysis of courts; genetic genealogy; and corpus linguistics. Students may take multiple advanced legal research (ALR) courses-either in succession or concurrently. This course, ALR: Analytics, is for those students who want to use analytical concepts for advocacy and to take a deep dive into litigation analytics. By contrast, ALI: General, is for those students who want additional practice with and a deeper understanding of traditional legal research sources. |
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| | Description: | Prerequisite: Legal Research Methodologies (LRM I & II), Introduction to U.S. Law and Methods I, or similar course at a previous institution if a transfer student. This course aims to deepen students' legal research skills by exploring complex and specialized sources essential for legal practice. It provides a refresher and expansion of the core concepts learned in introductory legal research courses. Additionally, it covers advanced topics such as constitutional interpretation through case law and historical documents, legislative history, federal administrative law, presidential/executive documents, and foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL). Students will become adept at using advanced practitioner tools such as Practical Law (Westlaw), Practical Guidance (Lexis+), and transactional resources on Bloomberg Law. Students may take multiple advanced legal research (ALR) courses-either in succession or concurrently. This course, ALI: General, is for those students who want additional practice with and a deeper understanding of traditional legal research sources. By contrast, ALR: Analytics, is for those students who want to use analytical concepts for advocacy and to take a deep dive into litigation analytics. The student's final grade in the course will be based on an anonymously graded final exam. However, poor attendance and unsatisfactory completion of ungraded in-class and out-of-class assignments may result in a reduced grade. |
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| | Description: | This course uses case law and statutory material to explore key elements of the family lawyer's practice: divorce, child custody, and the economic consequences of family dissolution (specifically, division of property, spousal support, and child support), with some attention to related issues of premarital agreements and intimate partner violence. In addition, the course will situate all these topics within a larger framework that considers, for example, religion, gender, economic and other inequalities among families, the "retreat from marriage," and the role of the state in family life. Grades will be based on a two-hour final examination, with additional points available for class participation. Students who have taken Family Law cannot take this course, and students who take this course cannot take Family Law in subsequent semesters. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction. 2 units. |
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| | Description: | Administrative Law is the "Civil Procedure" of the regulatory process. The course deals with laws governing administrative agencies at both the federal and state levels. We examine the procedural mechanisms that agencies use as they draft regulations, disburse welfare benefits, grant licenses, and pursue violators of regulatory statutes. We also study the procedural rights agencies must afford to private parties, and the ways in which administrative officials are supervised by Congress, the White House, and especially the courts. Although the course does not examine in detail the substantive laws administered by the NLRB, EPA, HHS, FCC, etc., it provides the background needed to understand the operations of these and other agencies. Regular attendance and preparation are expected, and sanctions may be imposed upon egregious offenders. Course grade will be based on a timed exam. 3 units. |
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| | Description: | This course will cover a series of topics arising in the comparative study of constitutional systems, with a degree of focus upon constitutional design and political outcomes. Each week, we will cover a different element of the constitution, including: the nature of a constitution, the preconditions for constitutionalism, forms of government, the foundations of judicial power, the role and design of courts, constitutional "borrowing" across regimes, and the evolution of constitutionalism on a global scale. We will discuss judicial methods of interpretation, including proportionality and rights balancing. We will also explore comparative rights jurisprudence in areas including freedom of expression, equality and non-discrimination, religion, privacy and the family. Finally, we will discuss survival of constitutionalism in the face of threats, including democratic backsliding and the challenges posed by climate change. The ultimate aim of the course is to not only to expose students to different approaches to constitutionalism the world over, but also to help them better understand their own constitutional system. Grades will be based on attendance, class participation, and a final exam. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | This course examines legal problems that arise from occurrences transcending state or national boundaries: choice of applicable law, constitutional limitations thereon, jurisdiction of courts, and recognition of foreign judgments. Although the course will emphasize conflicts among the American states, selected international problems will be examined. Conflict of Laws provides an excellent review of a number of substantive courses as well as Civil Procedure because the cases examined in Conflict of Laws cover a variety of different topics including, for example, Torts, Contracts, Property, Insurance, and Family Law. Several contemporary controversies raise issues explored in this course: the effect elsewhere of same-sex marriages validly celebrated in Massachusetts or countries such as Canada, similar issues regarding civil unions and domestic partnerships, the applicability of abortion restrictions across state lines, mass tort actions, and the laws governing "Cyberspace" - to name just a few examples. Regular class attendance and participation are required. The exam will be an open-book, three-hour test. 3 Units. |
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| | Description: | We will study the principles and rules that regulate the presentation of evidence at trial using the Federal Rules of Evidence, involving both lecture and problem solving. Topics covered include relevancy and its limits, various policy and efficiency-based limitations on the receipt of evidence, the rule against hearsay and the more important hearsay exceptions, rules governing the impeachment of witnesses, privilege and expert testimony. Class participation and consistent attendance are required. While not taught as a traditional law school class in that the class does not emphasize case analysis, participation includes both answering questions provided in lecture notes and group (law firm) exercises, which require out of class work. The group (law firm) exercises include a Practice Problem in most lectures which will require a few of the law firms to take assigned roles (Plaintiff, Defendant and Judge) to make an objection to evidence and present testimony and legal arguments about an issue raised from the class materials. There will be a mid-term practice exam made up of 20 multiple-choice questions from a prior final exam which will not count as part of a student's grade and instead is a self-evaluation of a student's understanding of the material studied up to that time. There will be an unscheduled, modified open book final exam which includes both an essay question with multiple prompts and 40 multiple choice questions. ABA Standard 310 requires "not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and two hours of out-of-class student work per week or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time" for each credit hour awarded. This course is designed to meet this requirement, and each student is expected to spend on average no less than two hours of out-of-class time for each one-hour of in-class time, per credit hour. 3 units. |
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| | Description: | This course focuses on the National Labor Relations Act, which governs union organizing, collective bargaining, and the use of economic weapons (strikes, lockouts, pickets, and boycotts) in workplace disputes over wealth distribution, power and voice. The course has an explicit focus on class conflict and the law's role in regulating worker protest: it concerns itself with abuses of employer power, the formation of a social movement (labor unionism) as a response to those abuses, and the law's efforts to protect, channel and constrain collective activities by workers. Attendance and preparation are required. Grades will be based on performance on a timed final exam. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | 01 | --WT--- | 1:00P-2:22P | AB Law Bldg / 203 | Marion Crain | Law Final | 60 | 57 | 0 | | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | [This 1 unit course meets during the January Intersession, Jan. 6-10, 2025.] Drop Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm. This course presents an opportunity to learn about the role race and ethnicity have played in the development of land use laws and the physical manifestation of those laws. In this course, we will explore the law's role in creating, exacerbating, alleviating, and remedying exclusionary and discriminatory tactics through the regulation of land. We will examine ways in which land use laws have helped create structural inequalities based on race and ethnicity. The course is centered on i) exploring ways land use laws have been used to segregate and discriminate and ii) analyzing facially-neutral land use laws that have a disproportionate impact based on race and ethnicity. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to: 1) Explain how the American common, statutory, and constitutional law governing land is affected by, and in turn affects, structural racism; 2) Identify the some of the social impacts associated with objective or facially-neutral legal land use doctrines that have a disproportionate impact; 3) Describe structural racism as embedded in land use laws; and 4) Critically analyze laws and determine whether they are addressing structural racism, exacerbating it, or something else. Grades will be based on several short assignments, class participation, and a final video project. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.]1 unit. |
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| | 01 | MTWRF-- | 9:00A-11:45A | Remote / LAW | Jonathan Rosenbloom | Paper/Project/Take Home | 24 | 24 | 25 | | Desc: | This class will be taught on Zoom during the January Intersession (Jan. 6-10. |
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| | Description: | This course satisfies the J.D. ethics requirement. It is considered a survey ethics course. Students can take only one survey ethics course. Other recently offered survey courses offered include: Lawyer Ethics and Legal Profession. This 2 unit course will provide students with the practical skills necessary to identify ethics issues, both routine and complex, and help them identify the resources available to properly resolve those issues. In addition, the course will focus on professionalism in the practice of law and its importance in improving the public perception of lawyers. Students will benefit from an understanding of the importance of ethics and professionalism to their individual legal careers. While they may ultimately practice law in any number of different work settings and specialize in various substantive practice areas, ethics and professionalism will be a daily part of their practices. The course will therefore begin with an analysis of the legal profession and the interplay between (i) defining minimum standards below which behavior may not fall, (ii) establishing standards of ideal behavior toward which attorneys should aim but cannot realistically expect to reach, and (iii) giving "practical advice" that conforms to the lawyer's ethical responsibility. This analysis will also examine the lawyer's dual and somewhat contradictory role in society (i.e., citizens want lawyers to be understanding and socially responsible, but the same people freely admit that, when they have a problem, they want a lawyer who will play "hardball"). The course will examine, inter alia, specific ethical and professional issues relating to the attorney-client relationship, the duty of loyalty to the client, ethical issues in litigation, conflicts of interest, and advertising and the marketing of legal services. Hypotheticals and problems based on real situations will be used. Grades will be based on class attendance, class participation and a final exam. 2 units. |
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| | Description: | [This 1 unit course meets during the January Intersession, Jan. 6 - 9, 2025. Drop Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 at 5 p.m. This course will examine from a practical perspective the issues and documentation arising in a typical private equity acquisition transaction, using a mixture of lectures, cases and guest speakers. The course will begin with a basic introduction to the private equity industry, including the roles of the various business and legal participants, and will then focus on the structure, negotiation and documentation of a private equity investment transaction. Overall, the course is intended as a survey/introductory course, rather than an in-depth analysis of any particular area of law or type of document. Time will be set aside for discussions about current events and careers in the private equity industry. |
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| | 01 | MTWR--- | 9:00A-12:30P | Remote / LAW | Brian Wolfe | Law Final | 45 | 45 | 30 | | Desc: | This course will meet on Zoom. |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 24. Drop deadline: Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Prerequisite: Negotiation. Students are not eligible to take both this course and any section of Comparative Business Negotiation. The difference between a good attorney and a great one is often a matter of negotiation skills. Whether working in a law office practice, a public institution, or a business enterprise, an attorney's job inevitably involves negotiation. Many of the negotiation skills learned in this class are also applicable to individuals working in non-traditional legal positions (for example, business executives, leaders of non-profit organizations or politicians), as these and other careers frequently require reaching agreements with other parties. Negotiation skills are needed in any situation where the terms of an agreement or contract must be determined (mergers, joint ventures, litigation settlements, partnership agreements, and so forth), and also in the day-to-day work of dealing with clients, partners, employees, judges, legislators, and colleagues. Because negotiation is so integral to what lawyers do, negotiation skills play critical role in determining how successful lawyers are in their work. The premise of this course is that, while attorneys need analytical skills to discover solutions to negotiation problems, bargaining skills are needed for solutions to be accepted by others and implemented. The purpose of this course is to help you become a more skillful negotiator. The course is relevant to a broad range of business and negotiation problems faced by lawyers. A solid grounding in negotiation theory is necessary for the development of negotiation skills. Toward this end, students will study a variety of situations where negotiating skills are important and will develop a set of bargaining tools that will enable them to convert conceptual knowledge into effective action. These tools consist of preparation and at-the-table guidelines that, when practiced regularly, develop into fluid negotiation skills. Because practice is essential for negotiation skills to develop, practice opportunities are offered continually throughout the course. Indeed, at least one practice opportunity will be provided in almost every class, in the form of a negotiation or dispute resolution case that simulates a real-world situation. There are no exams in this course. Rather, you will be graded on the basis of written assignments (including reflection journals and a take-home paper assignment due at the end of the exam period), class participation, performance in negotiations and group projects (if assigned). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 4 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | Prerequisite: None. Students cannot earn credit in both Comparative Business Negotiation and Business Negotiation Theory and Practice. Both J.D. and LL.M. students are welcome to enroll. Negotiation is the most commonly used form of legal dispute resolution and deal making around the world. This course introduces students to the theory and practice of business negotiation in the U.S. and cross-cultural considerations in negotiations through readings, simulations, videos, and group projects/presentations, and provides J.D. and LL. M. students the opportunity to negotiate and learn from students from around the world. The course focuses on understanding negotiation theories and developing negotiation skills necessary to be successful as negotiators and advocates in a variety of domestic and international business settings, including deal making, and internal corporate and employment dispute resolution. Students will study a variety of business situations where negotiating theory and skills are important and will develop a set of bargaining tools that will enable them to convert conceptual knowledge into effective action. These tools consist of preparation and at-the-table guidelines that, when practiced regularly, develop into fluid and intentional negotiation skills, informed by cutting-edge negotiation theories. Because practice is essential for business negotiation skills to develop, practice opportunities are offered continually throughout the course. At least one practice opportunity will be provided in almost every class, in the form of a negotiation or dispute resolution case that simulates a real-world business situation. Students will be graded on multiple short written assignment (reflective journals), class participation, performance in negotiations, and group projects and a final take-home paper, graded anonymously. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | This course covers the rules governing the adjudicative phase of the criminal process. It examines prosecutorial charging decisions and how the judicial system handles criminal cases once formal charges are brought, including the pre-trial, trial, and post-trial stages. Topics include prosecutorial discretion, bail, grand juries and preliminary hearings, the right to counsel, discovery, plea bargaining, the right to a jury trial, jury selection, and sentencing. Throughout the course, we will focus on the doctrines that govern criminal adjudication, while considering policy proposals designed to address structural flaws in the system. Students may take both Criminal Procedure: Investigation and this course. Grades will be based on a final examination and may take class participation, professionalism, and attendance into consideration. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 20. Pre/Co-requisite: Corporations. Note special schedule: this course meets on Mondays from 1:00p-2:52p, and on the following Fridays from 1:00p-2:52p: Jan 17, Jan 24, Jan. 31, Feb. 7 and Feb. 14. Drop Deadline: 9 p.m. on the first day of class. This 2-unit course will offer students an introduction to the structure and negotiation of business mergers and acquisitions. Students who are considering entering into private practice with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions as well as students who are considering practicing in areas of law that are often implicated in merger and acquisitions deals (e.g., real estate, environmental, employee benefits, labor, tax, etc.) should consider taking this course. The course will follow the trajectory of a typical business acquisition transaction, beginning with a letter of intent, confidentiality agreement and due diligence, and progressing to the negotiation and drafting of a definitive purchase agreement. Students will be graded based on weekly written assignments and class participation. Because class participation is such a large component of the course, attendance is extremely important. Written assignments will be graded anonymously; the class participation component will not be graded anonymously. 2 units. |
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| | Description: | This course surveys the law related to consumer transactions. We discuss topics such as solicitations, advertising, consumer privacy, credit reporting, credit discrimination, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, warranties, usury, home purchases, credit cards, automobile transactions, payday loans, credit remedies, debtor rights, and public and private enforcement. Grading is based on both class participation and a three-hour final examination. 3 units |
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| | Description: | [This 1 unit course meets during the January Intersession, Jan. 6-10, 2025.] Drop Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm. This 1 unit Intersession course will provide a substantive overview of ERISA fiduciary law that governs qualified retirement and welfare benefit plans. The sources of fiduciary law such as the ERISA statute, regulations, and Department of Labor guidance will be explained. Emphasis will be placed on the proper identification of fiduciaries, the fiduciary duties of prudence and loyalty, prohibited transactions and major exemptions, personal liability under the law, and the recent regulations regarding disclosure of fees and expenses. Special focus will be given to recent Supreme Court and Circuit Court cases that have significantly changed the ERISA fiduciary landscape. Finally, a brief overview will be provided of typical ERISA litigation that a student is likely to see in their future practices. The course will be relevant for any student interested in employee benefits, employment law, labor law, business law, or securities law as they will leave the course with the proper understanding of how to advise clients in avoiding the major compliance pitfalls of being an ERISA fiduciary. Class attendance is mandatory. Students are expected to thoroughly read any course materials and be well prepared prior to the start of the class. All reading materials will be provided prior to class on Canvas and nothing will need to be purchased. There will be a take-home final exam the following weekend (Jan. 17 - 20). 1 unit. |
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| | 01 | MTWRF-- | 9:00A-11:45A | AB Law Bldg / 404 | Tom Clark | Paper/Project/Take Home | 35 | 16 | 0 | | Desc: | This 1 unit course meets IN PERSON during the January Intersession, Jan. 6-10, 2025. |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 20. This course will introduce students to existing and emerging jurisprudence in areas of sexuality and the law with an emphasis on practical litigation strategy. The course will examine caselaw in the context of current legal debates related to gender, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity in the areas of privacy, equal protection, employment, free speech, education, relationship recognition, parenting, violence and military service, helping students understand how to craft litigation strategy to expand or restrict existing precedent, and to assess the impact of emerging litigation and test cases. The course is directed to students interested in learning about substantive law related to sexuality, gender identity and sexual orientation and to students interested in developing an understanding of public interest and impact lawyering in emerging civil rights arenas. Students will analyze current emerging cases and to assess their impact potential, the application of existing precedent, and the strategic and ethical issues that the cases raise. Class time will include periodic visits by lawyers practicing in topic areas who will help frame the issues and offer practical insight to the practice. Grades are based on class attendance and participation, a final case memorandum (in lieu of final exam) and oral presentation. 3 units.
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| | 01 | --W---- | 3:00P-5:52P | AB Law Bldg / 320 | Denise Lieberman | Paper/Project/Take Home | 20 | 20 | 9 | | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L J.D. students. Students in the First Amendment Clinic represent clients in matters implicating the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly and the right to petition the government. Students will have the opportunity to use and develop legal skills including interviewing and counseling clients; conducting fact investigations and third party interviews; completing legal research on complex issues relating to First Amendment and/or Section 1983 case law; drafting court filings, such as complaints, motions, or other briefs; drafting and responding to discovery requests; planning case strategy; and engaging in written and/or oral advocacy. Students must spend a minimum of 255 total hours on clinic-related matters for 6 credits (about 20 hours/week on average), or, with permission of the instructor, may enroll for 7 credits (298 total hours) or 8 credits (340 total hours). Students must also attend a weekly seminar on Wednesday from 1:00 pm - 2:52 pm. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50). 6 units (8 with permission of instructor). |
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| | Description: | Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. This three-unit course introduces students to the major theoretical and practical issues in the constitutional law of free expression. The course begins with a brief look at theoretical questions. Why does the First Amendment protect expressive freedom? How should we define "the freedom of speech," and how should courts define the limits of the First Amendment's scope? How do different sorts of interactions between government actors and private speakers affect our understanding of the First Amendment's function? With these questions in mind, the course surveys significant problems in First Amendment doctrine. Beginning with the Supreme Court's foundational decisions on advocacy of unlawful action, this survey encompasses such issues as pornography, hate speech, censorship of student expression, campaign finance regulation, and speech on government property. The final portion of the course examines First Amendment rights that may be analytically distinct from the core freedom of speech, including the freedom of the press, freedom of expressive association, and freedom from compelled expression. Students' grades will depend primarily on a 24-hour take-home examination. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 3 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units |
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| | Description: | This course begins with an examination of the drafting and ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments. We then investigate the contemporary scope and meaning of race equality, sex equality, substantive due process, and state action under the Fourteenth Amendment. We will pay particular attention to the development of the Fourteenth Amendment's liberty and equality guarantees and to current controversies including affirmative action, the right to vote, disparate-impact liability, abortion, and LGBT rights. Throughout the course we will interrogate the appropriate role of text, history, structure, precedent, prudence, and ethos in constitutional interpretation. In discussing these topics, we will examine how socio-political change has influenced the resolution of constitutional disputes and how courts and non-judicial actors have constructed constitutional meanings. Grades will be based on class participation and a final exam. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | Drop Deadline: Friday, March 7, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Special meeting dates: this course will meet Friday/Saturday over two weekends (3/21-22, 3/28-29). This 1 unit weekend course, combined with the International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Symposium expected to take place one of the two Fridays scheduled for class, will address contemporary topics in international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. The course will address negotiation, mediation, and preparation before an arbitration is commenced, key topics and issues that regularly arise during an international commercial arbitration, and enforcement of the resulting international arbitral awards after the arbitration. The lectures will explore topics covered during the Symposium, as well as objective of international arbitration, arbitral procedure, drafting and enforcing arbitration agreements, and enforcement of and challenges to international commercial arbitral awards. Attendance at the Symposium and all class sessions is mandatory. There will be a take-home exam that is issued one week after the final lecture. |
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| | 01 | --W-F-- | 10:30A-11:52A | AB Law Bldg / 401 | Marion Crain | Law Final | 90 | 33 | 0 | | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | Drop Deadline: 9 p.m. on the first day of class. Shipowners may petition an admiralty court to limit the total amount of their liability in the event of a maritime casualty, a right given to no other type of defendant. The owners of the Titanic did so, as did the owners of the Deepwater Horizon (to name only two maritime disasters, both of which have been the subject of movies). This course will deal with the reasons why the right exists, why it would be difficult to repeal despite its sometimes distasteful consequences, how it is litigated in the United States, and how it works in the rest of the world, where most countries are party to an international treaty that confers the right on shipowners. Limitation suits are routinely commenced as a means of forum selection after a maritime casualty: a shipowner, the potential liability defendant, may choose the forum in which claims must be brought by filing a limitation suit. The course will also deal with how that forum selection is effective domestically, forcing claimants into federal court, and internationally, forcing claimants to bring their claims in the country of the shipowner's choice. Grades will be based on a take-home exam that will take place the weekend after the course ends. (2/28 - 3/4) |
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| | 01 | --W-F-- | 9:45A-12:00P | Remote / LAW | Martin Davies | Law Final | 20 | 0 | 0 | | Desc: | This class will be taught on Zoom from Feb. 5 - 22, 2025. |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 24. This course will offer practical skills training and techniques for the four phases of trademark practice - acquisition of rights, enforcement of rights, and exploitation and transfer of rights. The course covers the various aspects of trademark law which students typically encounter in a trademark position within a law firm or company, including an initial client interview, selecting appropriate forms of protection and clearance, filing the application (including foreign filing options and strategies), responding to common rejections, opposition and cancellation proceedings, dealing with infringement, including claims, defenses, evidence, remedies, and resolution in both litigation and non-litigation contexts, administrative protection of trademarks, trademarks in mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and licensing. Students enrolling in the course are strongly encouraged to be enrolled in or to have already completed Trademarks & Unfair Competition, though this course is not a pre-requisite. Grades will be based primarily on a final exam and to a lesser extent class participation. 3 units. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 6:30P-7:52P | AB Law Bldg / 403 | Scott Eidson, Caroline Chicoine, Laila Wolfgram | Law Final | 24 | 8 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 20. This course covers evaluation of patentability, application filing deadlines, the drafting of patent claims, and the preparation, filing, and prosecution of patent applications to the issuance of a patent; the ownership of inventions and transfer of patent rights. Activities will include conducting patent searches and preparing patentability opinions; drafting patent applications; preparing responses to office actions; and confronting intellectual property issues related to strategic commercial transactions involving the inventions contained in the patent applications. The course work includes weekly claim drafting assignments, the preparation of a complete patent application and a response to an Office Action, all of which are graded anonymously. The course work also includes a brief law-firm style memo and corresponding oral presentation which, because of the nature of the assignments, are not graded anonymously. A background in engineering or science is highly recommended, although the assignments are selected to be technology neutral. 3 units. |
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| | Description: | This course considers the scope and nature of federal jurisdiction in the United States. We will consider the proper Constitutional role of the federal courts - a topic about which there is tremendous disagreement - in the context of the relationships among the federal courts, Congress, the President, and the state courts. We delve into the nuance and complexity that surround this disagreement, focusing on issues of federalism, separation of powers, and enforcement of federal rights. We examine specific doctrines including but not limited to standing and justiciability, sovereign immunity, abstention, the Supreme Court's power to review state court rulings, and federal civil rights law. The grade will be based on a four hour exam, as well as attendance and preparation. |
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| | Description: | Pre-requisite: Information Privacy Law. This advanced course in Privacy Law offers a more detailed examination of privacy law and privacy theory. It builds on the conceptual, analytical, comparative, and doctrinal skills developed in Information Privacy Law to enable more sustained and expert engagement with the American and European regimes of privacy and data protection law. The course offers a deeper and more specialized examination of both scholarly and practical issues in privacy law, from academic theories of privacy and data protection, to deeper examinations of the EU data protection regime and the GDPR, national security law, American privacy reform at the state and federal levels, the Edward Snowden revelations, and other issues of privacy law of the moment. We will also dive into issues of artificial intelligence related to privacy. This course is intended for students who took Information Privacy Law and who wish to pursue careers in privacy or technology law as well as for those interested in academic theories of privacy-or both, since the emerging global practice of privacy law is one in which lawyers and academics are frequently-and necessarily-in close and fruitful conversation with each other. Attendance and participation are essential. Please note that laptop computers are not permitted in class. Assessment will be on the basis of class participation and a blindly-graded final exam. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 Credits |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 6:00P-7:52P | AB Law Bldg / 306 | James Delworth, Michael Fagan | Law Final | 25 | 25 | 7 | | Desc: | This class meets every Tuesday and every other Thursday. |
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| | 01 | --W---- | 4:00P-5:52P | AB Law Bldg / 203 | Hal Goldsmith, David Harlan, Tom Albus | Law Final | 45 | 45 | 28 | | | |
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| | Description: | Drop Deadline: Feb. 7, 2025 at 5 p.m. This Intensive Weekend Course meets Friday - Sunday, Feb. 21 - 23, 2025. Intellectual property (IP) protection for computer software continues to evolve, with recent case law impacting how software may be protected with copyrights, patents and trade secrets. While software has taken a central role in our information and automation-driven lives, the legal mechanisms that can be used to protect software innovation have not always kept up with this fast-moving technology. Some have argued that certain types of IP, such as patents, are not well-suited to software inventions, while others argue that only the process of granting and enforcing patents needs to be improved. There are many sides to the debate, but in the meantime IP lawyers routinely use existing IP laws to protect their clients' software innovation, while the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) continues to grant software patents, and the courts regularly render decisions on infringement and validity of IP rights for software. The present course will provide an overview and background regarding the legal mechanisms that may be used to protect software, including copyrights, patents and trade secrets. A review of real-world commercialization and disputes involving software patents, copyrights and trade secrets will be presented and discussed, and the students will have an opportunity to analyze and debate practical problems involving IP protection for software. Class attendance is mandatory. The class will be graded on the curve. Students are expected to review the course materials prior to the start of class. There will be a take-home final exam, to be administered the following weekend (Feb. 28 - Mar. 3) by the Registrars Office. |
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| | Description: | This course involves an intensive study of the statutory, regulatory and case law material governing corporate taxation. Topics covered include the tax consequences of corporate organization and capitalization, distributions to shareholders, redemptions of stock, corporate liquidations and taxable dispositions of a corporate business (both stock sales and asset sales). Basic principles governing tax-free corporate acquisitions and divisions will be introduced as time permits. The classical corporate tax regime will be compared with the tax treatment of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and small business corporations (S corporations), and important issues in business tax policy will be examined. Students will work extensively with Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations thereunder. The course will be taught from a casebook and statutory pamphlet, predominately by the problem method. In addition to in-person class sessions there may be a few asynchronous presentations, consisting or prerecorded lectures introducing or summarizing important concepts. Federal Income Taxation is not a formal prerequisite for this course, but students who have not taken the introductory tax course are strongly advised to speak with the professor before the semester begins. International students pursuing an LLM degree should not take this course until they have successfully completed at least seven credits of substantive law coursework from a U.S. law school. Attendance and participation are required, and sanctions will be imposed in cases of serious noncompliance. The course grade will be based on an in-school timed three-hour final examination, with adjustment for attendance and participation in exceptional cases. The format of the exam will be "Closed Software and Open Book". Closed software means that students will not have access to the internet or files on their computers. Open book means that during the exam students will be permitted to consult the casebook, statutory supplement, outline, notes, or other print sources. 3 units. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Mahrya Fulfer Page, Molly Snyder | No Final | 0 | 10 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 12 students. Drop deadline: Monday, January 6, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Prerequisite: Criminal Law. [Note: students cannot take both 'Pretrial: Practice: Criminal' (W74-658Z) and 'Pretrial Practice and Settlement' (W74-658Y).] Course work in Criminal Procedure, Ethics, and Evidence may be helpful if taken before or simultaneously with this course but are not prerequisites. This course will focus on developing the skills necessary for effective prosecution and defense related to criminal charges before trial, from the initial victim, witness, and defendant interviews through plea bargain negotiations. In this course, students will litigate two criminal cases. Successful completion of the written and in-class exercises will require mastery of basic lawyering skills and the ability to analyze factual situations under the appropriate substantive laws. Students must complete legal research throughout the semester to learn and correctly apply governing rules and statutes. There will be weekly reading assignments and regular individual written assignments, including pleadings, discovery requests, and motions. Students will also participate in simulations of the lawyering process in class each week. Attendance and preparation are required. A STUDENT WHO MISSES MORE THAN TWO CLASSES OR WHO MISSES ANY CLASS WITHOUT FIRST INFORMING THE INSTRUCTOR IS SUBJECT TO REQUIRED WITHDRAWAL FROM THE COURSE - this includes partial absences and absences for school activities (e.g., moot court, mock trial, etc.). WITHDRAWAL POLICY: In order to try to avoid the sort of last-minute shuffling that has resulted in interested students being notified of Pretrial openings too late for them readily to change their schedules and enroll, the following policy is in effect: IF YOU ARE ENROLLED IN THIS COURSE AFTER 5 p.m. MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025, YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO DROP THE COURSE. Any student enrolled in Pretrial Practice: Criminal as of the above date will receive a grade for the course and risks receiving a failing grade. The course will be graded on a modified pass/fail basis (HP-3.94, P, LP-2.98, F-2.50). Grades will be based on performance on written assignments and simulations, as well as participation in class discussion. Because written assignments and in-class performance depend upon the particular roles assigned each student, this course will not be graded anonymously. 3 units |
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| | 01 | --W---- | 6:00P-8:52P | AB Law Bldg / 403 | Christopher Hoell, Alexandria Burns | See Department | 24 | 24 | 11 | | | |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 24. Drop deadline: Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, 5 p.m. Prerequisite: Negotiation. This course explores the theory and practice of multi-party dialogue and public policy dispute resolution processes. The course focuses on the development of the theoretical, analytical, and interpersonal skills necessary to be successful as dialogue facilitators, negotiators, and dispute resolution experts in multi-party and public policy conflicts. The course provides concepts and tools that apply to all types of multi-party and public policy dispute resolution, including environmental, land use, collective bargaining, organizational, and community settings. The course is designed to teach students how to manage multi-party conflicts and public policy dispute resolution processes, including diagnostic and process design skills, and acquire negotiation techniques and strategies to resolve disputes in a multi-lateral, multi-issue world. The course develops theoretical and analytical frameworks through case studies and articles, in which students examine and extrapolate lessons from both practitioners, theorists, and public policy experts. The course develops facilitation and dispute resolution skills through video demonstrations and simulation exercises, in which students hone their powers of communication and persuasion, as well as experimenting with tactics and strategies typically used in multi-party dialogue and public policy dispute resolution. Student grades are based on periodic written assignments throughout the semester, preparation for and participation in multiple in-class role play exercises, and a final paper. The periodic assignments are not graded anonymously, as they are used as a method of providing ongoing feedback to students. The final paper is graded anonymously. Students are graded according to the standard numeric grading scale. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limited. This course provides students opportunities to learn international criminal and civil law practice, conflict resolution, legal advocacy, and professional responsibility while externing with international judges; lawyers practicing before international courts and tribunals; and lawyers in government offices, NGO's, legal services providers, or international arbitration and conflict resolution offices such as the UN. Students engage in extensive legal research and fact investigation; draft legal memoranda relevant to cases under submission by the courts and policy reports for government offices; interview clients, witnesses, and relevant constituencies; and participate in negotiations, mediations, hearings, trials, and other proceedings. The course enhances students learning in international and comparative criminal and civil law and practice, conflict resolution theory and practice, client representation and advocacy, and professional responsibility. Students must apply and secure their placements before being accepted. Prior to the beginning of each externship, the supervising faculty member, student, and externship supervisor will negotiate an agreement (learning contract) as to the specific nature of the tasks the student will perform in her/his placement, the number of weeks, and the number of hours to be worked each week. In addition to the individualized learning agreements, the course includes required reading specifically geared to the work of the placement; a required pre-trip orientation; reflective journals submitted weekly by students that are reviewed by the faculty supervisor, who provides feedback to the students; regular contact between the faculty member and field supervisors during the semester; and a ten page paper at the conclusion of the course, in which the student addresses an issue of law, policy, or practice relevant to the placement, in light of the reading material and the student's experiences. Placement offices include international organizations, government offices, and NGO's to which students have applied and been accepted, or placements which our students or faculty have worked before or with supervisors with whom the instructors have professional contacts. Depending on the placement, preference will be given to students who have taken relevant courses (or comparable experience), eg, International Criminal Law, War Crimes Seminar, International Human Rights Law, International Law, and Negotiation and Dispute Resolution courses. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) the semester prior to taking this course and the semester of this course, are not eligible to participate in this course. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission.] 8 units remote; 12 units on-site. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Karen Tokarz, Leila Sadat | Law Final | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Alison Smith | No Final | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | Open to 3L and 2L J.D. students. This externship allows students to spend a semester working under the direction of an approved attorney-supervisor in a government, non-profit, or corporate in-house law office located outside the St. Louis area. This externship offers students a supervised professional experience in a different geographic area while also allowing them to focus on a field of practice that builds on classroom experiences. Through observation, participation, and reflection, students will improve their legal knowledge and professional skills, making possible a more rapid and successful transition to practice in their post-graduate careers. Students who are interested in this externship must complete an application, explaining how the placement fits into the student's overall educational program. Where a placement office has not been previously approved, proposing and obtaining approval of that office is part of the student's post-application obligation. Ultimately, the placement site also has to accept the student as an extern and agree to certain conditions. The School's approval process for a placement office includes a review of the nature of the work the student would perform and of the attorney who would be the student's field supervisor. The office must commit to the educational goals of the externship, to providing the student with relevant work assignments and on-going feedback, and to communicating throughout the placement with the faculty supervisor. In addition to the work commitment at the placement office, students are required to participate in meetings (usually via electronic means) with the faculty supervisor during the placement, to submit reflective journal entries, and to provide regular reports of their hours and activities. There is a mandatory pre-semester orientation. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) the semester prior to taking this course and the semester of this course, are not eligible to participate in the externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission.] This course is graded on a credit/no credit basis. 8 units working remotely; 12 units on-site or hybrid on-site/remote. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Laura Bannish | No Final | 0 | 11 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | Fuel your entrepreneurial spirit and solve real-world challenges - The CELect program, through the Center for Experiential Learning, connects you with the fast-paced, dynamic world of startups, where you'll work directly with emerging ventures to drive growth and innovation. As part of a consulting team, you'll gain hands-on experience tackling business problems, developing market insights, and creating strategies that help startups scale. This is your chance to apply your classroom knowledge in real-world situations while building lasting relationships with entrepreneurs and industry leaders, equipping yourself with the strategic skills needed to lead in today's competitive startup landscape. You'll be part of a student consulting team matched with a startup in either St. Louis or Austin, where you'll work on defined projects that focus on business challenges. In addition to the orientation and concluding sessions, you'll collaborate directly with your client and professor throughout the semester. Typical problems to be addressed include market research and analysis, financial strategy, forecasting, and strategic insights for growth and scaling. You will develop key skills in consulting competencies, interpersonal communication and leadership, project management, critical thinking, data analysis, report writing, and persuasive presentations.
Working in teams of 4 - 6, students work on a consistent but variable schedule based on the needs of their clients over the shortened semester. Open to undergraduates and graduate students. Law Students: Prerequisite/co-requisite: Corporations. As a law student enrolled in CELect, you may not give legal advice to anyone unless you are directly supervised by a licensed attorney who approves of the advice in advance. Additionally, you may not prepare any legal documents except under the direct supervision of a licensed attorney. Giving advice, preparing legal documents, or rendering any legal services would be the unauthorized practice of law unless such services are under the direction and approval of a licensed attorney. Law students CANNOT repeat this course more than once for law school credit. This course is cross-listed with the Business School, B63 MGT 501C. Grading for Law Students is modified pass/fail: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50).
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| | 01 | M------ | 11:30A-12:50P | Bauer / 330 | Kanoff | Presentation | 0 | 15 | 0 | | Desc: | There is no option to enroll in this course as a remote learner as this course will be taught only in person. Students interested in working with St. Louis-area startups enroll in Section 1. Students must attend a kickoff sessions from Jan 8 - Jan 10 with the first meeting on Jan 8 starting at 10:30 am in Simon 100. The final presentation will take place before the completion of Mini A. Application must be completed by Friday, November 1 to be considered for selection. Application link. Dropping this course may have an adverse impact your ability to register for other CEL courses in the future. |
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| 02 | M------ | 11:30A-12:50P | Knight Hall / 301 | Luscri | Presentation | 0 | 18 | 0 | | Desc: | There is no option to enroll in this course as a remote learner as this course will be taught only in person. Students interested in working with Austin start-ups should enroll in Section 2. This course requires students to travel to Austin,Texas from Jan 5 - 8, 2025 for client meetings. There is also a course fee of $750. Application must be completed by Friday, November 1 to be considered for selection.
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L JD students. The Immigration Law Clinic provides real-life lawyering experiences representing clients in immigration proceedings. Students work with clients on immigration matters such as family-reunification, applying for permanent residence, obtaining employment authorization, deportation defense, applications for asylum and other humanitarian relief, appeals, and naturalization. Students represent non-citizen clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. State Department, and at the Executive Office of Immigration Review, including possible appearances before the Immigration Court. The objective of this clinical course is to teach lawyering skills that are essential to the practice of immigration law and transferable to other areas of law. The lawyering skills students will use and develop include: problem solving; legal analysis and reasoning; legal research; factual investigation; client interviewing and counseling; oral and written communication; negotiation; litigation; organization and case management; cross-cultural lawyering; trauma-informed lawyering; and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. A weekly seminar class held on Tuesdays from 1:00 pm - 2:52 pm, a weekly supervision meeting, and regular case-related meetings are required. There will also be a clinic orientation on the weekend prior to the start of classes. Immigration Law or U.S. Refugee & Asylum Law is a pre-/co-requisite for this clinic. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] Students will earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor, depending on workload. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 2 hours of BCCCR instruction.] |
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| | Description: | [This 1 unit course meets during the January Intersession, Jan. 6-10, 2025.] Drop Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 at 5:00 pm. This course provides an introduction to energy law and the history of energy production in the United States. Oil, gas, and coal are the primary fossil fuels and wind, solar, and hydrogen are the renewable energies of greatest interest in the course. Nuclear energy is the wildcard that is more challenging to define. The class covers the principles of state, federal, and international regulations for traditional fossil fuels as well as renewable energy. We will primarily reference oil and gas regulations from traditional producing states, while renewable regulation is more broadly drawn upon from various states. We will follow the progression from contract and real property law as the basis for oil and gas leases to state and federal regulatory regimes for promoting energy production and protecting the environment. International conventions and trends for exploitation and deployment of energy recourse is discussed. We will analyze more recent legislation to promote renewable energy development in the United States and its effectiveness to incentivize the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. There will be a take-home final exam the weekend after the course: Jan. 17 - 20, 2025. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 3 hours of BCCCR instruction.] |
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| | 01 | MTWRF-- | 9:00A-11:45A | AB Law Bldg / 203 | Justin Perryman | Paper/Project/Take Home | 35 | 35 | 1 | | Desc: | This course meets IN PERSON during the January Intersession term (Jan. 6 - 10, 2025). |
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L J.D. students. Students in the externship will be assigned to work in either the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri (EDMO) in downtown St. Louis or the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois (SDIL) in Fairview Heights. Subject to the availability of supervising attorneys, students may elect to work in the Criminal Division, the Civil Division, or a combination of both. Students are required to spend a minimum of 16- 24 hours per week over the 13-week semester working at their assigned office or on externship-related work. Students assigned to the USAO for the SDIL must commit to a minimum of 18 hours per week. For students in the Criminal Division, the course provides opportunities to gain exposure to all facets of criminal investigation and prosecution, including victim/witness interviews, agent meetings, the drafting of charges, discovery, motion practice, and trial and appellate work. Students in the Civil Division assist with a range of activities, including witness interviews, the drafting of pleadings and discovery requests, document analysis, motion practice and depositions, and do appellate work. Students enrolled in this externship will be required to submit to and pass an FBI security clearance, for which they will have to complete extensive paperwork months in advance of the beginning of the semester. Students who have taken Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Corporate & White-Collar Crime, and a course from the ethics curriculum may receive preference. Certification under student practice rules (Rule 13 in Missouri, Rule 711 in Illinois) is not required, but may be useful. Students are financially responsible for their own transportation and parking, as needed. This externship is expected to be in person. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] This course is graded on a credit/no credit basis. 4-6 units |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Merce'de Savala | Law Final | 0 | 4 | 0 | | | |
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| | 09 | TBA | | TBA | Jens Frankenreiter | Paper/Project/Take Home | 0 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| 24 | TBA | | TBA | Brenda Dvoskin | Paper/Project/Take Home | 0 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| 40 | TBA | | TBA | Kim Norwood | Paper/Project/Take Home | 0 | 2 | 0 | | | |
| 49 | TBA | | TBA | Karen Tokarz | Paper/Project/Take Home | 0 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| 62 | TBA | | TBA | Jonathan Smith | Paper/Project/Take Home | 0 | 1 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | This course has controlled registration for all students. Priority is given based on degree requirements. All students who wish to enroll in this course should add themselves to the waitlist. This section is for SW students only. If you are a Law student, please register for W74-699D.
Enrollment limit: 40 (20 Law + 20 SW students). The State Level Lobbying class offers students a practical application of social theories concerning group dynamics and legislative theory that shape the decisions of policymakers that they have learned in the classroom. Students will work in coalitions to produce a strategic plan regarding a local or state agency's legislative agenda. In addition, students will have several opportunities to lobby in Jefferson City, Missouri, meeting with both legislators and lobbyists. There will be a full-day mandatory trip to Jefferson City on Wed, January 31 (snow day = Wed, February 6th); however, the date could change depending on the GA's scheduling. After taking this course, students will have a practical understanding of how to move policy, organize constituents and push for structural change. Pre or corequisite: S15-5012, S15-5039.
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| | 01 | --W---- | 9:00A-12:00P | TBA | Shabsin | Default - none | 0 | 0 | 33 | | Desc: | Mandatory full-day trip to Jefferson City on Wednesday, January 29th. Snow day make-up trip (if no travel on 1/29) is on Wednesday, February 5th.
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| | Description: | The law of unjust enrichment deals with gains-based liability and gains-based recovery. It is often considered a residual category of private law, operating in those cases in which the more established fields of contract, tort, and property fail to provide an adequate solution. Knowledge of unjust enrichment rules and principles is thus necessary for any lawyer working in the areas of private and commercial law. Unjust enrichment doctrine is regularly invoked in a variety of cases: mistaken monetary transfers, rescue cases, services provided with no contract, and wrongfully obtained benefits, among others. Unjust enrichment doctrine is also closely related to concepts of equity, and to attempts to align law with morality, with all dangers and challenges involved. We will engage in a doctrinal and theoretical investigation of all these issues, and will also highlight possible innovations in the law of unjust enrichment, as well as the potential relevance of unjust enrichment doctrine to contemporary problems such as the climate crisis, the spread of fake news, generative AI training, and the opioid pandemic. Grades will be based on a final exam plus participation and attendance. 2 units. |
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L JD students. The Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (IEC) functions as a pro bono law practice working on environmental law, environmental justice, and community health cases, tackling some of the most challenging and important water, air, waste, climate change, and environmental racism problems in the region. Students will engage in complex, multi-party litigation and advocacy as part of an interdisciplinary team. Law students may be partnered with students from the engineering, arts & sciences, medical, public health, business, and/or social work schools. During the course of the semester, students will learn about public interest law while working on behalf of nonprofit organizations and under-represented communities. Previous experience or interest in environmental issues is not required and there are no pre- or co-requisites. Students will work on civil and administrative litigation; advocacy; legislative and regulatory work (through briefs, memoranda, and comment letters); and strategic planning. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] The clinic seminar will be held on Fridays from 10:00 am - 11:52 am. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50). 6 units (8 with permission of instructor). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 3 hours of BCCCR instruction.] |
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| | Description: | This course will be offered during the January intersession: 1/6 - 1/10, 2025. Drop deadline: Tue, Dec. 31 at 5:00 p.m. This course offers an insight into some selected aspects of the law of European Union. The EU is an organization of twenty-seven European States. Although the EU is not a federal state, its powers and institutions go well beyond traditional models of international organizations. In brief, this is a supranational organization situated in "a grey zone" between constitutional and international structures. Its impressive scope of powers (usually shared with member states) ranges from economic, market and monetary integration to the field of 'justice and home affairs' (immigration, anti-terrorism, policing, criminal and civil law coordination) and some common aspects of foreign affairs and defense.
The course is structured into five sessions, each dealing with one aspect of EU law. It examines, first, the historical development and the institutional scheme of the EU. The second session is devoted to the nature of EU law, in particular, the structure and role of the judicial adjudication. The third session deals with the concept of primacy of EU law, and the fourth - with the principle of direct effect of EU law. We will also examine EU relations/tensions with its member-states, particularly, the dialogue between the EU Court of Justice and the national constitutional and supreme courts ). At the final session we will discuss the protection of fundamental rights in EU law, seen in the perspective of the prohibition of discrimination.
Prerequisites: none. Method of evaluation: take-home exam. Credits: 1.0
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L JD students. The Intellectual Property Clinic offers students an experience in the practice of intellectual property law. By assisting the clinic in representing its clients, students in the clinic have the opportunity to continue developing their understanding of intellectual property law and applying that understanding in real-world situations. In addition to helping students increase their familiarity with each of the various regimes of intellectual property law, the clinic also helps students increase their familiarity with how the various regimes of intellectual property law relate to one another. Students enrolled in the clinic have the opportunity to assist the clinic's clients in a variety of intellectual property law matters. For example, some matters might include copyright matters, patent matters, right of publicity matters, trademark matters, and trade secret matters. There are no pre-requisites or co-requisites for enrolling in the clinic. Students are, however, encouraged to have taken or be concurrently taking courses relating to intellectual property. The clinic participates in the Law School Clinic Certification Program of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Clinic students may participate in this program and obtain limited recognition with the USPTO. To participate in the program, students must be eligible to sit for the patent bar exam. Note that students are not required to participate in this USPTO program and are not required to be eligible for the patent bar exam in order to be placed in the clinic. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] Students will earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor, depending on workload. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The Clinic seminar will be held on Wednesdays from 10:00 am - 11:52 am. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50). |
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| | Description: | This three-unit course will be taught by Attorney Jeffrey St. Omer, recently retired partner at Mickes O'toole, LLC and former attorney for the St. Louis Public School District and Kansas City Public School District. The course will examine the "right" to an equal and equitable education in K-12 America and the advancement of education reform options to "level the playing field." We will discuss segregation and race, poverty, the rights of undocumented and English Language Learners, gender bias & discrimination, sexual orientation and gender identity/expression, and students with disabilities. Areas of focus will include student discipline, freedom of expression, and the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will also discuss efforts to reform public schools primarily serving poor students and students of color, and the potential impact of the SFFA v. Harvard decision in the K-12 context. |
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| | Description: | Open to 3L and second-semester 2L J.D. students eligible for Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13 student practice certification. Prosecution Law Clinic students work part-time in the St. Louis County Prosecutor's Office or in the St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office (in the Carnahan Courthouse in downtown St. Louis). Students have the opportunity to handle, or assist experienced prosecutors in handling, the prosecution of state-level crimes in the County or City of St. Louis while also gaining exposure to the legal and ethical problems that prosecutors face in practice. The clinic operates out of the St. Louis County Prosecutors Office (co-directed by Tom Smith who leads the felony team and Brooke Hurst working with the sexual assault/child abuse team) or The City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office (co-directed by Rob Huq the General Felonies Trial Unit Leader and Tanja Engelhardt the Violent Crimes Unit Leader). Students in this clinic can expect to engage in: problem solving; legal analysis and reasoning; legal research; factual investigation; witness interviewing and preparation; oral and written communication; litigation; organization and management of legal work; and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas and the prosecutor's special responsibilities. In addition to case work, students must attend a weekly seminar. Students are required to devote 3.5 hours per week, on average, for every credit hour earned. Students who have completed courses in evidence, pretrial, trial, professional responsibility, and criminal procedure may be given preference. Students are financially responsible for their own transportation and parking, as needed. This externship is expected to be in person. Students may request a preference as to which office they are assigned, but there is no guarantee that the student will be assigned to their preferred office. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The weekly seminar will take place on Thursday from 4:00 pm - 5:52 pm in the City and Tuesday from 10:00 am - 11:52 am in the county. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98) and F 2.50). 6 units (8 with permission of instructor). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] |
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| 02 | ---R--- | 4:00P-5:52P | (None) / | Rob Huq, Tanja Engelhardt | No Final | 0 | 5 | 0 | | Desc: | This section meets off campus at the Circuit Attorney's Office. |
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| | Description: | Open to 3L and 2L J.D. and MSW students. The Civil Rights, Community Justice & Mediation Clinic introduces students to civil rights and dispute resolution law, policy, and practice from a community-based perspective. The Clinic focuses on housing, health, and education discrimination; economic instability; and related civil rights and community issues. For decades, the Clinic has worked closely with Legal Services of Eastern Mo (Neighborhood Advocacy Program, Consumer Program, Education Justice Program, and Youth & Family Advocacy Program), a major St. Louis legal services provider that protects the civil rights of individuals in these client communities. The Clinic also collaborates with US Arbitration & Mediation, other legal services providers, and local government offices. Clinic students engage in individual representation, interviewing, counseling, and representing a minimum of five clients/community projects each during the semester. Clinic students also provide class representation on behalf of these client groups through multiple community lawyering strategies, including impact litigation, legislative drafting and advocacy, media advocacy, policy development, court reform, and community legal education ("street law"). Clinic students also assist with a minimum of five eviction mediations each in St. Louis County Pro-Se Housing Court and in the community, in conjunction with the St. Louis Mediation Project, coordinated by the Clinic for 15 years. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic/externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] Students earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. For 8 credits, students must work a minimum of 340 hours over the course of the semester. A course from the ethics curriculum is a pre- or co-requisite (unless waived by the instructor). The Civil Rights, Community Justice and Mediation Clinic Seminar is on Mondays from 3:00 pm - 4:52 pm. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98) and F (2.50). |
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| | Description: | This course explores sexuality, law, and culture as discourses and as regulatory instruments. Using this lens and emphasizing changing norms over time, we will examine a range of specific topics, including, for example, America's historical slave economy and its impact on sexual values and practices; sexual violence, sex without consent, and efforts to reduce both (on campus, in the home, and elsewhere); the role of religion in regulating sex; different understandings of sexual pleasure and the suppression of pleasure for socially devalued groups (women, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities); the legal and social construction of pregnancy and reproduction; traditional marriage and various alternatives; sexual education and initiation; LGB, intersexual, asexual, and trans identities; sex-offender registries; and sex research. To support this course's explicitly transdisciplinary focus, we will study materials from law, social work, sexology, literature, and popular culture and contrast conventional legal analysis with feminist and other frameworks, including queer theory, social constructionism, intersectional approaches, and symbolic interactionism. Students will have two writing assignments throughout the semester and no final exam. Grades will be based on writing assignments and contributions to the class discussions. Please note: Students will not receive "trigger warnings" in this course. Although many of the readings and class conversations confront challenging issues and may evoke emotional reactions, developing competency to address sensitive topics is one of the learning objectives of this course. Students are welcome to discuss with the professor any particular difficulties or accommodations. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 2 units.
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| | Description: | Open to 3L and 2L J.D. students. Students in this externship work during the semester for a Congressional office, administrative agency, or nongovernmental organization in Washington, D.C. Admission to the externship is by application only and occurs in February of the preceding academic year. Student and instructor collaborate during the semester preceding the student's placement in making office selection/obtaining a position. In Congressional placements, students will perform professional staff work, primarily research and writing on legislation, and observe Congressional hearings, mark-ups and floor debate. A course in legislation is recommended for Congressional placements. Those interested in the work of administrative agencies will be assisted in obtaining a federal administrative agency externship in a subject area that matches the student's interest. The student will perform hands-on professional staff work of the type commonly done in the agency office and observe administrators making decisions about rule making, advising the public, and handling court and administrative cases. The Administrative Law course is recommended for administrative agency placements. Students are also encouraged to take, as preparation, courses in the subject area of the agency in which they will be placed. Placements in nongovernmental organizations will also be available to interested students. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) the semester prior to taking this course and the semester of this course, are not eligible to participate in this externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission.] This course is graded on a credit/no credit basis. 8 units remote; 12 units on-site. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Emily Gardner | No Final | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | This externship is only offered in the spring 2025. Open to 3L and second-semester 2L J.D. students eligible for Missouri Supreme Court Rule 13 student practice certification. This externship provides real life lawyering experience with the criminal justice system at the state trial level, and students will work under the supervision of the faculty member teaching this course. The student's primary experience will be to serve as a Rule 13 certified attorney with the St. Louis County office of the Missouri Public Defender, the second largest criminal defense office in the state. The goal is for each student to: (1) conduct at least two, and hopefully more, preliminary hearings in felony cases; (2) conduct bond reduction negotiations and, when necessary, hearings for persons awaiting trial; (3) participate in multiple aspects of pending felony cases, such as brainstorming the theory of defense; researching and writing motions, briefs, and/or jury instructions; interviewing possible defense experts; preparing deposition questions for prosecution witnesses; and, if possible, (4) sit second-chair or third-chair in a felony trial . In addition, students may observe depositions and the entering of guilty pleas and participate in probation revocation hearings. The lawyering skills students will use and develop include: problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, factual investigation, client interviewing and counseling, communication skills, negotiation, litigation skills, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. Because different types of hearings take place in the morning while other hearings take place in the afternoons, each student should have at least two mornings (8:45 - 12:30) and two afternoons (1:15 - 5:00) Mondays through Thursday free to be in the externship. Students will have periodic meetings with the faculty supervisor. Students who have completed Evidence, Pretrial, Trial, a course from the ethics curriculum, and Criminal Procedure may receive preference. Students are financially responsible for their own transportation and parking, as needed. This externship is expected to be in person. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will earn 6 credits for the externship. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis. Note: credit for this course will be Non-Law Classroom Units. Credits from this externship course count toward the 19 maximum credits a J.D. student can take in non-law classes and law classes without a classroom component. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | (None) / | Robert Kuehn | No Final | 0 | 3 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L J.D. students. This externship enables students to work part-time in the St. Louis metro area for course credit, developing substantive legal skills under the supervision of licensed attorneys in government, nonprofit, and corporate legal departments. Skills and areas of focus will vary by placement; externs will gain experience with the civil, criminal, transactional, or regulatory work of their supervising attorneys. Students must participate in the placement process, attend an orientation, complete reflective journal assignments, maintain time sheets, and meet regularly with their assigned course instructor. Students are financially responsible for their own transportation and parking, as needed. This externship is expected to be in person. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. Once students have accepted an externship placement, students may drop the externship course only with the instructor's permission. Students may enroll for 3-6 credits: 128 total hours for 3 credits (about 10 hours/week); 170 hours for 4 credits (about 13 hours/week); 213 for 5 credits (about 16 hours/week); and 255 for 6 credits (about 20 hours/week). This course is graded on a credit/no credit basis. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Merce'de Savala, Margaret Samadi, Carmen Ubarri | No Final | 0 | 30 | 0 | | | |
| 02 | TBA | | (None) / | Emily Gardner | No Final | 0 | 5 | 0 | | | |
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| | Description: | Open to 3L and 2L J.D. students. In the Appellate Clinic, students brief and argue cases in the United States Courts of Appeals. The Appellate Clinic primarily represents clients in pro bono, court-appointed cases involving civil rights or criminal appeals, but the Clinic can handle all manner of federal appeals. Students work on all aspects of the appeal. This includes regular client interaction, intensive analysis of the record, substantial legal research, and drafting, revising, and finalizing appellate briefs. In most cases, one student will also have an opportunity to present oral argument to the court. And in addition to the Clinic's primary casework, students may have an opportunity to draft an appellate amicus brief. The Appellate Clinic also involves a weekly classroom seminar in which students learn various aspects of appellate practice, including advanced writing techniques, best practices for case management, federal appellate procedure, judicial decision-making, and Supreme Court practice. Towards the end of the semester, all students will present moot oral arguments during the classroom seminar. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] Students will earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor depending on workload. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester; 7 credits (298 total hours) or 8 credits (340 total hours). The Appellate Clinic Seminar is on Wednesdays from 10:00 am - 11:52 am. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50). |
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| | Description: | Open to 2L and 3L J.D. students. This clinical practicum provides students with instruction in the laws and policies governing post-conviction relief in capital and life without parole cases coupled with lawyering experience in handling ongoing cases in Missouri and other capital jurisdictions. During class sessions (on days/times to be arranged during semester, some virtual and some in-person), the course will examine legal and policy issues involved in capital post-conviction litigation. The readings and class discussion will provide not just the doctrine in post-conviction cases, but also address the ways lawyers can use their skills to challenge convictions and sentences. Doctrinal and practical facets to be covered in the classroom portion are expected to include: death penalty constitutionality; overview of law and procedure in state courts; "evolving standards of decency" and exclusion of intellectually disabled and juveniles; the roles of juries; entitlement to the effective assistance of counsel; state post-conviction procedure; and federal habeas corpus relief. The majority of the student's course time will be spent working with the instructors, practicing attorneys in the field, on post-conviction cases. This hands-on legal work will provide students with the opportunity to develop lawyering skills such as interviewing, fact development and analysis, problem solving, legal research and writing, organization and management of legal work, and professionalism. In addition to the reading and classroom portion of the course, students are expected to work a minimum of 16 hours each week on their assigned cases for a total of about 20 hours per week. There are no pre-/co-requisites but Criminal Procedure is recommended. Students are financially responsible for their own transportation and parking, as needed. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any law clinic or externship without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024.] For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98) and F (2.50). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 3 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 6 units |
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| | Description: | Open to 3L and 2L J.D. students. The Veterans Law Clinic assists veterans who cannot otherwise afford the services of an attorney in requesting upgrades of veterans' discharge characterization and correction of veterans' military records. Representation may include written and oral advocacy before discharge review boards and boards for correction of military records. Because this is a new clinic, the scope of representation and types of legal issues addressed for veteran clients may shift based upon the clients' needs. Students can expect to conduct legal research, analyze administrative regulations, interview clients and witnesses, collect evidence, build a client's case file, engage in oral and written advocacy, and draft pleadings. There are no prerequisites. In addition to individual supervision meetings, students must attend a weekly seminar. [Note: Students are prohibited from taking more than one clinic/externship/supervised practicum in the same semester. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a clinic/externship. The clinics/externships have a different drop deadline than other law school courses. Students will not be allowed to drop any law clinic without good cause and the instructor's permission after May 10, 2024. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The weekly seminar will take place on Thursday from 10:00 am - 11:52 am.] Students will earn 6 credits for the clinic, although a student may earn up to 8 credits with permission of the professor depending on workload. For 6 credits, students must work a minimum of 255 hours over the course of the semester. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98) and F (2.50). |
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| | Description: | Each semester, a team of three or four selected law students teach under law faculty supervision a three-credit undergraduate course in Law, Gender & Justice, listed in the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. Responsibilities for each team and its members include selecting a book for the course, planning coverage for the semester, developing a syllabus, preparing for and teaching a three-hour class each week, constructing and grading a midterm and final exam, being accessible to the undergraduate students, working with the faculty supervisor (in meetings and class visits), and writing a final memorandum about the experience. Interested students apply during spring of the preceding academic year, and faculty members select the instructors from the many applicants. Taking this course does not preclude taking a clinic or externship during the same semester, but students should be sensitive to the time commitments that teaching entails. The law student instructors each receive three credits (graded Credit/No Credit) toward the J.D., but these credits do not count toward the 67 required Law Classroom Units. |
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| | Description: | Each semester, several law students selected as Marshall Brennan fellows teach, under faculty supervision, a high school course in constitutional law, with a particular emphasis on the First and Fourth Amendments. Fellows are paired with other law students and teach at public high schools in the St. Louis Public School System and the University City school district. Fellows' responsibilities include planning coverage for the semester, developing lesson plans and curricula, preparing for and teaching approximately three hours of class each week, constructing and grading exams, being accessible to the high school students, preparing for and attending weekly hour-long meetings with the faculty supervisor, logging hours spent on teaching and preparation, and writing regular reflections about the experience. Interested students apply during spring of the preceding academic year, and fellows are selected from the many applicants. Taking this course does not preclude taking a clinic or externship during the same semester, but students should be sensitive to the time commitments that teaching entails. Marshall Brennan fellows each receive 2-3 credits toward the J.D., but these credits do not count toward the 67 required Law Classroom Units. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in this course. The course will be graded on a modified pass/fail basis (HP-3.94, P, LP-2.98, F-2.50). [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 24.This course will focus on the role of the lawyer in the earliest stages of client relationships, disputes, and deal negotiations in both domestic and international business settings. The course is intended to develop listening, writing, and negotiating skills in rising attorneys in the context of business, including exchanges with clients, opposing parties and counsel. As the course progresses, dynamics typical to real-world practice will be introduced. Early-stage communications (like emails and letters) are crucial but often overlooked tools of factual development for the lawyer. Well-crafted early-stage communications can help the lawyer build the proper foundation for favorable resolution and bargaining advantages. In turn, communications that are not carefully drafted or drafted without strategic thought and process can often restrict or undermine positive outcomes. Since many, if not most, real-world disputes and transactional advantages are typically resolved at these early stages, how well the lawyer can perform in these early-stage communications and negotiations will often determine the ultimate quality and value of the resolution for the client. A major portion of the semester will involve the negotiation of a major domestic or international transaction from inception to at least letter of intent. This course will provide students with both conceptual frameworks and practice experiences that will enhance their understanding and ability to participate successfully in early business lawyering in a combination of six core skills: 1) theoretical understanding and structural framework; 2) interpersonal skills and awareness, including listening and other soft skills and "lawyering as a team" skills; 3) planning and strategy; 4) preliminary exchanges and correspondence; 5) discussion and negotiation; and 6) reflection, evaluation and adjustment. Grades will be based on a combination of written assignments, class participation, performance in class simulations, and group projects. Grading will not be anonymous. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 4 hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units. |
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| | Description: | NOTE: Drop deadline for this course is 9 p.m. on the first day of class. This course meets on Wednesdays from Jan. 18 - Mar. 1. This course traces the law and policy supporting the rails-to-trails conservancy movement in the United States. The course focuses on the law & litigation, significant history and development, legislative, federal & state agency actions, current policy, and development issues. Students will learn how the rails-to-trails movement started, including how congressional action in 1983 greatly accelerated the trail build. The class will explore the two US Supreme Court cases that frame this area of law, including landowner property rights and responsibilities. Students will be assessed based on relevant writing exercises primarily related to possible litigation issues, role plays, and class discussion. This course is not graded anonymously. Attendance at class sessions is required unless prior approval is given by the instructor. The course is graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50). 1 unit. |
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| | Description: | Disputes and dispute resolution frequently involve cross-cultural conflict. Effective dispute resolution methods involve additional elements than those used in intra-culture adjudicatory and consensual dispute resolution processes. Through a harmonic integration of legal, sociological, psychological, and neurological concepts and findings, this course is designed to equip students with valuable tools that will allow them to choose suitable dispute resolution methods and strategies for resolving cross-cultural controversies and managing legal conflicts involving individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds, including but not limited to gender, religion, national origin, and race. The course is designed to enhance negotiation and dispute resolution skills by increasing cultural intelligence (CQ) and bias awareness for lawyers and other professionals who will be involved in diverse conflict resolution scenarios, whether as parties, business representatives, attorneys, negotiators, facilitators, or adjudicators. The course includes assigned readings, simulations, and a project related to cross-cultural dispute resolution. [BCCCR Requirement: this course contains 5 or more hours of BCCCR instruction.] 3 units |
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| | 01 | -T----- | 3:00P-3:58P | Remote / LAW | Meghan Boone | Law Final | 25 | 25 | 9 | | Desc: | This course will meet on Zoom. |
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| | Description: | Enrollment limit: 15. Drop Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 at 5 pm. Special Meeting Pattern: this course meets Monday (1/6), Wednesday (1/8), and Friday (1/10) during intersession (from 9:30 - 11:30 AM) and then for 4 Wednesdays (1/22, 2/5, 2/12, and 2/19) from 8:30 - 10:22 AM. This is a skills-intensive course that will teach the principles and techniques for drafting contemporary commercial contracts. Throughout the course, students will engage in a series of drafting exercises with supervision and feedback from the instructor. The course will help you understand the basics of effective drafting, including the structure of agreements, how to translate a business deal into contract provisions, how to draft clearly and unambiguously, and how to negotiate contract terms effectively. While the course will address key concepts covered during first-year Contracts, the primary emphasis is on developing skills that will allow you to convert these concepts into sophisticated commercial agreements. The course will meet seven times during the spring semester in two-hour sessions (the first two sessions will occur during intersession). Grades will be based on the drafting exercises and participation. Due to the small size of the course, and the ongoing feedback that will be provided on the exercises, grading will not be done anonymously. 1 credit. |
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| | 01 | --W---- | 8:30A-10:22A | AB Law Bldg / 320 | Michael Gallagher | Paper/Project/Take Home | 15 | 15 | 11 | | Desc: | This course meets IN PERSON on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during Law Intersession (1/6, 1/8, 1/10) from 9:30-11:30 AM.. It then meets IN PERSON for four Wednesday sessions (1/22, 2/5, 2/12 and 2/19) from 8:30 - 10:22 AM. |
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| | Description: | This survey course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s regulation of food, drugs, devices, and related products, which together comprise approximately 25% of the U.S. consumer economy. This course will also explore topics including but not limited to the scope of FDA's jurisdiction; the relationship between FDA, the executive branch as a whole, Congress, and the courts; how FDA interacts with non-governmental stakeholders; and how FDA addresses emerging technologies. This course will cover topics that are common to all of the product areas that FDA regulates as well as product-specific legal and policy questions, such as issues relating to protecting consumers against unsafe of mislabeled food, expediting approval of certain drug products, regulating complex new medical technologies, and other contemporary legal and policy topics. The course grade will be based primarily on a final examination. 3.0 units. |
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| | Description: | Special Meeting Dates: This course will meet 7 times during the semester (1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25, 3/25, 4/1, 4/15). Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been developing since the 1950s, recent AI advancements are forcing society to confront new legal challenges across multiple domains. Akin to the mainstream adoption of the internet in the 1990s, another revolutionary technology, the rise of AI has exposed society's vulnerabilities to bad actors as well as problematic outputs, warranting responses from both the private and public sectors. The course will begin with an introduction to AI concepts and their core benefits, followed by an exploration of critical issues and risks at the intersection of AI and society. It will also examine the laws, regulations, and policies shaping response to these challenges in the US and abroad. Key topics will include intellectual property, privacy and data, cybersecurity, and risk management for responsible AI. Grades will be based on a final exam plus participation. No prior technical knowledge is required. 1 credit |
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| | 01 | -T----- | 6:00P-7:52P | AB Law Bldg / 203 | Tearra Vaughn | Law Final | 30 | 30 | 32 | | Desc: | This course will meet 7 times during the semester: 1/14, 1/28, 2/11, 2/25, 3/25, 4/1, 4/15. |
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