( * required course )

Accounting & Finance from a Lawyers Perspective
9200:621, three credits
Prerequisite: cannot have more than six hours of undergraduate accounting. An introduction to accounting, financial statement analysis, the time value of money, valuation, and auditing from a lawyer's perspective.

Administration of Criminal Justice
9200:622, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Administration of criminal justice relating processes of criminal law to objectives of criminal correction. Effects of federal constitutional provisions on criminal procedure.

Administrative Law
9200:623, three credits
Prerequisite: None. An examination of the role and operation of government agencies, including the procedures agencies are required to follow, public participation and hearing requirements, and the standards and mechanisms governing judicial review of agency decisions.

Advanced Legal Research *
9200:618, one credit
Prerequisites: 619, 620. The purpose of this course is to further develop the legal research skills of law students beyond basic legal research to prepare them for the practice of law, by covering legal research materials in greater depth and by introducing students to specialized legal sources.

Advocacy Teams
9200:694, 695; one or two credits, credit/non-credit
Prerequisite: None. Practice training in legal advocacy. Each person enrolled for credit will be required, at a minimum, to do substantial research on the problem and participate in practice rounds for oral presentations. The faculty advisor of the relevant team will decide whether the team will receive 1 or 2 credits, with final approval residing in the Director of Competitions. Total credits for courses Advocacy Teams (694 and 695) not to exceed four (4) credit hours.

Alternative Dispute Resolution
9200:642 two-three credits
Prerequisite: None. A survey of the alternatives to litigation available for resolving disputes.

Antitrust Law
9200:625, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Fundamentals of antitrust; questions of evidence in price fixing and boycotts under the Sherman Act, resale restrictions and tie-ins, scope of antitrust law and certain exemptions.

Appellate Advocacy
9200:689, one credit
Prerequisite: 688. Development of skills in written legal analysis through performance of drafting assignments, including preparation of a written exposition on a proposed solution to a drafting problem. Required course for all students.

Bankruptcy Law
9200:635, three credits
Recommended: 629. Provisional remedies and enforcement of judgments. Fraudulent conveyances. General assignments for benefit of creditors. Creditor's agreements. Bankruptcy.

Basic Business Associations
9200:626, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Vicarious liability. Employment relationships and scope. Authority and apparent authority. Misrepresentation by an agent. Undisclosed principal. Ratification. Elements of partnership and other unincorporated business associations.

Civil Procedure I, II *
9200:601, 602; three credits each
Personal and subject matter jurisdiction; venue; ascertaining the applicable law; rulemaking; pleading; motions; joinder of claims and parties; discovery; pretrial; trial; judgments; appellate review; res judicata and collateral estoppel.

Clinical Seminar I, II
9200:696, 697; two or three credits each
Prerequisites: Successful completion of 28 credit hours and permission of Clinical coordinator. Application of legal knowledge to practical problems in supervised public law office contexts. May be taken independently of 697. Credit for 696, 697 not to exceed six (6) credits and may not be repeated.

Commercial Paper, Sales & Lease Transactions
9200:627, three credits
Prerequisite: 629. The Law of Negotiable Instruments and Bank Collections under Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the law of sales under Article 2, and UCITA.

Comparative Intellectual Property Law
9200:715, approved but not yet offered two or three credits
Study of the major differences among nations in intellectual property laws.

Computer Law
9200:711, two or three credits
Study of various forms of intellectual property protection for computer programs and computer related inventions.

Conflict of Laws
9200:631, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Problems of application of private law in jural relations containing one or more foreign law elements. Jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments.

Constitutional Law I *
9200:603, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Governmental authority and its distribution under the Constitution with an introduction to individual rights and liberties.

Constitutional Law II *
9200:604, three credits
Prerequisite: 603. Continuation of 603. Rights, privileges and immunities under the Constitution.

Contracts I, II
9200:605,606; two or three credits each
Nature and purpose of contract law. Formation. Consideration. Contractual alternatives. Reality of consent. Capacity. Statute of Frauds. Construction. Breach and associated remedies. Resolution of disputes. Discharge of obligations. Third party interests.

Copyright Law
9200:703, three credits
A study of the law and policy protecting intellectual property through copyright, and enforcing the licensing of copyrights.

Corporate Taxation
9200:641, three credits
Prerequisite: 640. Survey of federal income tax law applicable to corporations.

Corporations
9200:633, three credits
Prerequisite: None. An introduction to the law relating to the typical American enterprise. Principal emphasis is on financing, control, management and regulation of corporations, both publicly owned and closely held.

Criminal Law *
9200:607, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Nature and source of criminal liability studied in light of modern developments. The act. Mental conditions requisite to criminal responsibility. Specific crimes and defenses thereto.

Current Policy Issues Affecting Intellectual Property Law
9200:714, two or three credits
Study of current policy issues affecting intellectual property law and practice.

Cyberlaw
9200:710, two or three credits
Exploration of legal issues raised by the Internet, broadcast regulation, and competition policy.

Employment Discrimination
9200:637, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Legal developments, primarily federal, affecting discrimination in employment.

Employment Law
9200:651, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Developments in employment law: legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, and changes in the social and economic structure of the workplace.

Entertainment Law
9200:611, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Covers the law and business of the entertainment industries. It also examines recent national and international developments and trends in the entertainment industries.

Environmental Law
9200:661, three credits
Prerequisite: None. An examination of major federal environmental statutes and pollution control programs, common law remedies for environmental damage, and policy issues involved in decisions concerning the environment.

Estate and Gift Taxation
9200:639, three credits
Prerequisite: None. A survey of federal estate and gift taxation; relation between federal income tax and federal taxes on gratuitous transfers; the place of federal taxes in estate planning.

Evidence *
9200:608, three credits
Prerequisite: None. Covers basic evidence law with emphasis on the Federal Rules of Evidence and state rules patterned thereon.

Expert Evidence
9200:687, three credits
Prerequisite: 608. Designed to give the student extensive practice in solving difficult evidence problems in order to supplement the instructions given in the basic Evidence course.

( * required course )