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LAW ONLINE (W80) (Dept. Info)

Introduction to U.S. Law and Methods

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This course is designed to introduce distinctive aspects of the U.S. legal system. The goal is to learn how law is found, made and changed in the U.S., rather than to focus on any particular area of law. The objective is to learn largely through assuming the role of a lawyer resolving a practical client problem with U.S. legal sources, methods and institutions. The course is organized by various sources of law: common law; statutes and regulations; constitutional law and case law; and interpreting and applied enacted law. In addition, the jury trial and the importance of procedure are covered. In each subject, the class formulates what appears to be distinctive in the U.S. system.

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Leigh Greenhaw, Michael Koby

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Legal Writing & Analysis

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This skills course introduces students to a variety of concepts related to the practice of law, including: gathering information and working with clients; researching and finding answers to legal questions by locating, reviewing, and synthesizing pertinent authority; performing a predictive legal analysis by employing analogical reasoning techniques; providing effective advice in a structured piece of professional legal writing; negotiating a settlement of a dispute with opposing counsel; working with legal forms and transactional documents; and performing a thorough critique of a third party's legal writing. Students will learn these concepts through a combination of live and asynchronous coursework, and students will also learn how to locate, update, and evaluate varied sources of law through complementary exercises in a major legal research platform. In addition to responding to written prompts in the asynchronous lecture series, students will complete four major assignments in the course: the aforementioned research module; a predictive research memorandum; a transactional document (settlement agreement); and a group presentation of a legal writing critique. The class will be graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50).

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Jeff Drobish

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This course is designed to introduce foreign-trained lawyers to U.S. contracts. The course will be run using the Socratic method. Students are expected to participate in class discussions and will be called on at random. In addition to learning principles behind U.S. theories of contractual obligation, the course is intended to provide instruction in "how to succeed" in a US law school class. Each week will include one session per week of detailed review of the week in class, focusing on strengthening academic skills necessary for effective participation and course management.

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Gerrit DeGeest

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Professional Responsibility

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This course is part of the Online LLM curriculum. The goal of this course is to help students understand and resolve the ethical dilemmas that practicing lawyers face in the United States. Among the subjects that the course will examine are the nature and types of lawyer regulation, client-attorney relationships, confidentiality rules, conflicts of interest, duties to courts, adversaries and third parties, client solicitation and billing, and access to legal services. The course will use as its foundational rules the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct and will also consider ethical duties arising under common law and other sources of authority. Most of the classes will focus on the skills of identifying and solving the ethical dilemmas lawyers face in practice and on the professional values of providing competent legal representation, improving the legal profession, and promoting justice and fairness. Regular class attendance and participation are required.

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Alan Pratzel

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Business Associations

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This course is a survey of the law of business associations, emphasizing corporations and issues and problems relating to corporate governance. The course will cover publicly and closely held corporations, the organization of business associations, the distribution of power and control between management and shareholders, with focus on the fiduciary duties of directors and officers. In this regard we will explore the developing notions of fiduciary duties to shareholders and other stakeholders. The course will explore the rapidly evolving nationalization of corporate governance standards and its implications. The Course will further focus on practical application of the material by applying the fundamentals of corporate organization through collaborative class exercises. Students may use laptops during this class. The final grade will be based on a final examination, although the professor reserves the right to consider class participation.

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Stephen Haller

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The course will emphasize learning the skills of negotiation by simulations, lectures, and exercises in which students will negotiate and watch their classmates and experts negotiate. Class members will conduct at least three negotiations during the course - a sales contract, a retainer agreement between an attorney and a client, and a complex multi-party dispute. In addition to the simulations and discussion of the readings, there will be instruction on drafting agreements and individualized advice about further steps to improve negotiation skills.

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Juan Del Valle Arellano

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An examination of real and personal property, the estate concept, some of the problems of landlord and tenant law, future interests, easements and legal principles of property law as they apply to the use of property in our society.

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Donna Peel

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Constitutional Law

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This course will examine federalism issues under the Constitution, including judicial review, the commerce clause, separation of powers, and intergovernmental immunity. We will address fundamental questions such as the nature of a constitution, the foundations of judicial power, the forms of judicial review, the role of courts in different types of political systems, the institutional design of constitutional courts, and the evolution of constitutionalism on a global scale. We will pay particular attention to the development of the Fourteenth Amendment's liberty and equality guarantees, and discuss the appropriate roles of text, structure, history, and prudence in constitutional interpretation. In discussing these questions, we will examine how political and social change has influenced the resolution of constitutional disputes and how non-judicial actors, as well as courts, have constructed constitutional meanings.

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Salvatore Gianino

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This course will be an exploration of the law of torts. We will analyze arguments for and against holding persons liable for intentional acts, negligent acts, injuries to the person, and injuries to property. We will critically examine the theories of intentional torts, negligence, strict liability, vicarious liability, and other doctrines, studying the rules and principles that govern these areas of the law. The class will be graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50).

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Joel Christensen

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Corporate Compliance

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What causes companies to break the law? How do we incentivize them not to? Who should we blame when they do? These are the core questions of corporate compliance and the focus of this class. Rather than reading several court decisions, this class will work primarily from case studies of recent compliance failures. Our goal will be to study what went wrong at the company level and whether the relevant laws are effectively designed to prevent the misconduct. We will also cover theories of regulatory enforcement and punishment. This course will be interesting for those considering compliance positions as well as those interested in regulatory agency and corporate defense practice.

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Brian Santo

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Legal Research Demystified

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Legal Research Demystified builds upon the practical legal research skills introduced to you in your Legal Research and Writing course. This is an advanced legal research course. In this one credit course you will receive the opportunity to gain an in-depth working knowledge of legal research methods and resources. The primary goal is to enable students, both now and later in their professional lives, to map out a coherent plan of action when asked to research a topic previously unfamiliar to them. Each week, we will examine different research topics through the lens of a legal practitioner. You will learn how to navigate the modern legal landscape and how to best utilize AI-powered practice tools in Westlaw, Lexis+ and Bloomberg Law. You will also learn how to identify free legal resources on the internet and get introduced to valuable timesaving and cost-effective research strategies. The course is graded on a credit/no credit basis. Prerequisite: Legal Research and Writing

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Tove Klovning

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Mediation and Arbitration

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Prerequisite: Negotiations. This course will focus on two of the main alternative dispute resolution methods used in the United States and in international scenarios when approaching conflict. The first part will concentrate on arbitration, delivering a full overview of the nature, process, and enforcement of this dispute resolution method, emphasizing in key points related to successful arbitration clauses both locally and internationally. The second part of the course will address mediation, providing training to students that will be representing clients, negotiating on their behalf or acting as mediators, important tools to seek for relationship-structuring agreements as an alternative to litigation. In the two sections students will have the opportunity to understand basic concepts and test them via practical exercises.

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Juan Del Valle

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Tax Supervised Research

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The class will be graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50).

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Stephen Haller

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This externship course offers students an opportunity to learn advocacy and litigation skills working under the supervision of field supervisors in government law offices or legal departments of non-profits/corporations. Students have the opportunity to engage in various phases of lawyering practice, including interviewing, counseling, investigation, drafting, negotiation, litigation, and settlement. Depending upon the placement, externs work on civil, criminal, lawmaking, or policymaking matters. Students also meet regularly in small groups and individually with the instructor. Students who are not in good standing (for either academic or disciplinary reasons) are not eligible to participate in a externship. The externships have a different drop deadline than other Law School courses. A student will not be allowed to drop any externship without good cause and the instructor's permission. The class will be graded on a modified pass/fail basis: HP (3.94), P, LP (2.98), F (2.50).

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International Taxation

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The course is intended to provide students with a thorough knowledge of and deep insight into contract law problems and solutions in an international perspective; specific attention will be given to the distribution contract, given its importance and its wide use in international relations. This course consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the analysis and comparison of the most used contractual clauses in the different legal systems; in this context the principles governing the choice of the law applicable to the contract, as well as the issues related to jurisdiction, will also be examined. The second part favors a practical approach: students will negotiate and draft an international distribution contract, applying the principles that have been highlighted and analyzed in the first part. During the course it will also be highlighted the way in which the major differences between the common law systems and the civil law systems affect the formation, the application and the consequences of the non-application of the international contract.

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Tax-Exempt Organizations

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***COURSE IS ONLY OFFERED TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE MLS/LL.M TAX PROGRAMS This class will analyze tax aspects of tax exempt organizations and is designed to cover issues that attorneys in a tax related practice may encounter. This class covers several tax-related issues applicable to organizations exempt under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, including issues related to the organization, qualification, and governance of tax-exempt organizations. The course will also cover tax-related issues applicable to public charities, including classification, lobbying and political campaign activities, private inurement and excess benefit, and unrelated business income. In addition, the course will cover tax-related issues applicable to private foundations, including self-dealing, minimum distribution requirements, excess business holdings, jeopardizing investments, and taxable expenditures. Finally, the course will analyze the income and estate tax planning issues that arise when forming a tax exempt entity, including a study of the formation of Charitable Remainder Trusts, Pooled Income Funds, Gifts of a Remainder Interest in a Personal Residence, Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Lead Trusts, Private Non-Operating Foundations, Private Operating Foundations, and Supporting Organizations. Included in this analysis are issues that arise when drafting the documents.

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Keith Kehrer

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Tax Research and Writing

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***COURSE IS ONLY OFFERED TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE MLS/LL.M TAX PROGRAMS This course is intended to assist students in expanding and refining their legal research and writing skills, focusing on sources and forms of legal presentation characteristic of U.S. tax practice. In addition to techniques for effectively organizing and constructing persuasive tax-related legal arguments, the class will cover research strategies, the range and types - as well as the optimal uses - of primary and secondary tax resources (electronic and otherwise), and hierarchies of administrative and judicial tax precedent. The course will include a series of sequential writing and research exercise assignments designed to enable students to gain experience applying the principles discussed in lectures and live class sessions.

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Eunkyong Choi

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