Upper Division/Second & Third Year Courses

Course #	Course Name and Description	Credits	Semester	Faculty
630	Negotiation The course will emphasize learning the skills of negotiation by simulations in which students will negotiate and watch their classmates negotiate. Class members will conduct three negotiations during the weekend – a simple sales contract, a retainer agreement between an attorney and a client, and a complex multi-party dispute. There will be class all day on Saturday, and a class session on Sunday afternoon. The first negotiation will commence immediately at the start of class, so prompt attendance is vital to credit in the course. Some negotiations will be videotaped for review in class. Students who attend all class sessions, participate in good faith in the simulations, and do the readings will receive a pass for the course.	1	Fall, Spring	Kent Syverud
690	Legal Communications & Research III: Writing for Trial and Appellate Judges This course introduces the writing process that judges and law clerks use to complete their work. By the end of the course, students should be comfortable drafting appellate court opinions, and drafting trial court orders.	2	Fall, Spring	Aliza M. Milner
690	Legal Communications & Research III: Writing in Criminal Litigation The course is designed to have students write the most common types of papers encountered in a simple federal criminal prosecution. Each student will start out as an Assistant United States Attorney investigating a crime that has come to the attention of the U.S. Attorneys Office. The course will develop from an initial agent interview, through the application for a wire intercept and search warrant, and then a charging instrument. The students will be assigned to represent the defendant. Each student will prepare a memorandum in support of a motion to suppress and will also draft proposed jury instructions and a defendants motion for a new trial. Each student will argue a motion against a student representing the other side.	2	Fall, Spring	Kathleen M. O'Connor
690	Legal Communications & Research III: Research and Rhetoric This course is designed for students who experienced difficulty during their first semester of the legal research and writing program. The course will focus on personalized instruction, tailored to the individual needs of each student. The course is designed to ensure that enrollees become proficient in the field of legal analysis and legal writing. The course will reintroduce students to fundamental legal analysis and legal writing skills, closely monitor student progress, and consistently reinforce course subject matter and materials.	2	Fall, Spring	Richard S. Risman
690	Legal Communications & Research III: Transactional Drafting The course provides students with an introduction to contract concepts, terminology and drafting. Over the course of the semester, students will revise and/or draft various contracts such as attorney retainer agreements, leases and service contracts. Students also negotiate and draft an agreement for the purchase/sale of a business. In addition, students conduct legal research and draft a predictive memo based on their research.	2	Fall, Spring	Elizabeth A. August L'94
690	Legal Communications & Research III: Writing in Pretrail Litigation The course is designed to have students write the most common types of pleadings, discovery requests and responses and motion papers encountered in a simple federal court civil litigation. At the beginning of the semester, students will be presented with the most basic facts of the case, and will be divided into two-lawyer teams. Each team will represent either the plaintiff or the defendant. During the course of the semester, the teams will develop additional facts through client interviews and discovery. The course will culminate with the preparation of memos in support of and in opposition to summary judgment based on the facts developed in discovery. Each team will argue the motion against the opposing team. The course is intended to expose students to the types of writing and thinking they will have to engage in during a real litigation, as well as exposing them to non-writing litigation skills. Students will also learn how to work as a team with another lawyer and how to relate to opposing counsel.	2	Fall, Spring	Andrew S. Greenberg L'89
699	Constitutional Law II A continuation of Constitutional Law I (LAW 602) for second and third-year law students. This course covers Individual Rights, that is, Due Process, Equal protection and the First Amendment, including freedom of speech, the press and of religion.	3	Fall, Spring	Rakesh K. Anand, Keith J. Bybee, Gary T. Kelder, C. Cora True-Frost G'01, L'01
700	National Security Law The legal framework for the use of force abroad; incorporated international law as national security law; intelligence collection and covert operations; citizen access to national security information; government controls on national security information.	3	Fall	William C. Banks, Nathan A. Sales
701	Accounting for Lawyers Principles of financial accounting applied to business entities, proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; accounting for and tax implications of business organizations; and problems with estates and trusts. Irregular course offering.	2	Fall
702	Administrative Law Nature and function of the administrative process; procedural constraints on administrative investigation, adjudication, and rule making; and judicial review of agency action.	3	Fall, Spring	Andrew T. Kim, Nathan A. Sales
703	Pension & Employee Benefit Law Tax and other consequences of various plans of deferred compensation for executives and other employees	2	Spring	Sharon A. McAuliffe G'79, L'92
704	Commercial Transactions Commercial practices under the Uniform Commercial Code, particularly sales, commercial paper and bank collections, letters of credit, bulk transfers, and secured transactions; business background, planning, and counseling.	4	Fall, Spring	A. Joseph Warburton
705	Comparative Law This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the legal systems of the civil law, with a focus on continental Europe. Many characteristic features of the Civil Law -- the absence of a jury, the relative lack of reliance on judicial precedents, the emphasis on codification -- have their origin in ancient and medieval times. Our course will therefore trace a historical review of European legal history and the civil law, beginning with Roman law, proceeding through medieval times and the early modern era of the 18th and 19th centuries, to the modern period of international law. We will focus on the emergence of the three most influential modern systems, those of France, Germany, and Italy. We will examine the civil codes, the nature of continental adjudication, the	3	Spring	Antonio Gidi
706	Conflict of Laws Legal rules applicable to disputes with contacts to more than one state or country; the historical development of such rules; and their application in contract, tort, property, and other cases.	3	Spring	Margaret M. Harding
708	Constitutional Criminal Procedure - Investigative Constitutional and statutory requirements for investigative procedures in criminal cases. Topics include searches, seizures, lineups, confessions, and electronic surveillance.	3	Fall, Spring	Lauryn P. Gouldin, Gary T. Kelder
709	Capital Habeas Defense Practicum This course provides students with an overview of the substantive and procedural law involved in capital post-conviction litigation. Topics include an overview of some of the constitutional principles governing the imposition of the death penalty, the exclusion of intellectually disabled defendants from death-eligibility, effective assistance of counsel in capital cases, and certain aspects of state post-conviction and federal habeas corpus procedure. This course has a heavy experiential component in which students focus on developing lawyering skills needed for effective post-conviction capital litigation, including legal research and writing and effective courtroom advocacy.	1	Fall
710	Law and Sexuality This course will focus on how the law regulates sexuality. In particular, it will examine the role of legal institutions, legislation, rules, and standards in regulating, controlling, forming, and conforming sexuality. The aim is to critically analyze and historically contextualize the political, moral, economic, and ideological factors that produce the norms regarding sexuality, while also properly comprehending the key concepts of gender, identity, body, and sexual practices. The core of the class will relate to contemporary legal controversies concerning sexual orientation and gender identity. The course will also focus on broader issues relating to sexuality and liberty. Broadly speaking, this course explores how law seeks to regulate the expression of sex and gender, the conduct of sexual intimacies, and access to state-granted benefits. Students may use this course to satisfy the upper-level writing requirement. Students who do not need to satisfy the upper-level writing requirement may elect to take a final examination instead of writing a research paper.	2	Fall	Kelly K. Curtis
712	Business Associations This is a business organizations course covering both unincorporated businesses and corporations. The first half of the course pertains to small business forms: partnerships, LLCs, and close corporations. The balance covers public corporations, including regulation under securities laws.	4	Fall, Spring	Robert Ashford, Christian C. Day, Gregory L. Germain
714	Deposition Practice This course is designed for students who intend to engage in a heavy civil litigation practice. The course focuses on the skills, techniques, tactics, strategies and ethical considerations of witness preparation for depositions and the taking and defending of depositions under federal and state rules of civil procedure.	2	Fall
715	Wills and Trusts Law governing interstate succession; execution and revocation of wills; inter vivos will substitutes; the creation, nature, and revocation of trusts; fiduciary administration.	3	Fall, Spring	Kevin Noble Maillard, LaVonda N. Reed, Terry L. Turnipseed
716	Environmental Law Pollution control and toxic substance regulation; the ends and means of environmental protection; the institutional responsibilities of legislatures, agencies, and courts. This course will introduce students to the major federal laws aimed at protecting the natural/human environments as well as the range of approaches to addressing environmental harms.	3	Spring	David M. Driesen, Danielle Stokes
717	Estate & Gift Taxation Taxation of transfers during life and death. Planning and alternative modes of disposition.	3	Fall	Robert G. Nassau
718	Evidence Procedural and substantive rules of evidence, judicial notice, presumptions and burdens of proof, rules governing the receipt of oral and documentary evidence,impeachment, direct and cross-examination, competency, hearsay, privileges, and the best evidence rules.	4	Fall, Spring	Sanjay K. Chhablani, Lauryn P. Gouldin, Gary T. Kelder, William C. Snyder
719	Mediation Skills This applied learning skills-based course explores the stages of mediation in a variety of substantive law areas, including personal injury, landlord/tenant, commercial and contract disputes, labor relations, consumer claims, and court-annexed processes. Mediation preparation, strategies, competencies, and ethics are examined and practiced through individual and team advocacy simulations from the perspectives of client, attorney and neutral. Drafting of essential settlement and related documents is also a primary focus of the class.	2	Fall
720	Family Law State regulation of family relations; family autonomy; marital and nonmarital contracts; adoption. Issues in divorce, separation agreements, spousal and child support, property division, and child custody.	3	Fall, Spring	Kevin Noble Maillard
721	Federal Courts Essential functions of federal courts. Relationships between federal courts and the other branches of the federal government, the states, and the individual.	3	Spring	Lisa Dolak L'88
722	Federal Income Taxation I: Indivdual A study of the structure and underlying principles of the U.S. Federal income tax system, including an introduction to tax planning. This course devotes substantial class time to the fundamentals of statutory interpretation, including: agency adjudications, judicial review of agency action, statutory interpretation techniques and methodologies and legislative history.	3	Fall	Robert G. Nassau
723	Federal Income Taxation II - Taxation of Business Transactions Income tax problems of the corporation and its shareholders, emphasizing corporate organization, distributions, redemptions, liquidations, reorganizations, collapsible corporations, and S corporations. Prerequisite is Federal Income Taxation I.	3	Spring	Robert G. Nassau
724	Veterans Law This course examines the substantive, administrative, and procedural process of claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Students will learn how to write regulations, understand the notice and comment procedures for proposed regulations, and write informal and formal briefs to the agency and courts. Students will have the opportunity to advocate for a mock veteran, third party, and VA interests. The course will devote substantial class time in covering fundamentals of administrative law, including agency rulemaking process, agency adjudication, and judicial review.	3	Fall
725	Distressed Dealmaking Distressed Dealmaking is designed to provide students with a real world, hands-on understanding of the issues involved in a major corporate restructuring. In considering the perspectives of all stakeholders and the management of a business in financial distress, the course will explore ¿ through cases lived by the professor (including Toys R Us, BCBG, Gymboree, the Atlantis Bahamas and others) ¿ the delicate balance of legal knowledge, business acumen and crisis management skills necessary to maximize the value of the corporation. Students will participate in a simulated presentation to a board of directors to better understand the complexities of a corporate reorganization process.	1	Fall
726	Intellectual Property Survey of the foundations of copyright, patent, unfair competition, and trade law. For students who wish to concentrate in intellectual property or who want a basic course as preparation for business planning or litigation practice. Co-requisite for Copyright--Literary and Artistic Works and for Copyright Protection of New Technologies. Patents course and Unfair Competition may be taken as co-requisites.	3	Fall	Laura G. Lape
727	International Business Transactions This course provides an introduction to the transactional, regulatory, and litigation aspects of international business involving at least one private party. Major areas of substantive coverage include international sales of goods (with special focus on the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods), licensing of technology, foreign direct investment, contract and tort liability in the United States and abroad, and the law proscribing corruption in cross-border transactions. We will also cover subsidiary litigation and regulatory topics, such as choice-of-law analysis, international commercial arbitration, international civil litigation in U.S. courts (focusing on jurisdiction and other procedural threshold issues), U.S. regulation of foreign investment and export controls, and intellectual property protection	3	Spring
728	International Law This course introduces students to the basic subjects, processes, and problems of contemporary public international law. We begin by exploring the sources of public international law; the traditional role of states in international law formation; and the growing role of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and subnational municipalities in transnational legal processes. Our attention then turns to the relationship between international law and U.S. law, including the principles that govern (and impede) the application of international law in U.S. courts. Rather than attempt to canvass the myriad subfields that comprise contemporary public international law, we devote sustained attention to a selection from among the following subjects: principles of jurisdiction, international regulatory regimes and globalization, state claims to natural resources, the law of war, and international human rights. With this foundation in place, the course concludes with an invitation to grapple with several perennial critiques of the international legal system.	3	Spring	C. Cora True-Frost G'01, L'01
729	Homeland Security Law & Policy This course introduces students to the legal framework and underlying principles in the developing field of homeland security law. While national security is hierarchical, secretive and strategic, homeland security is collaborative, transparent and operational. This is a simulation-based course with a focus on administrative law processes in critical infrastructure protection, emergency management, border control, and counterterrorism efforts.	3	Fall
730	Labor and Employment Law Organization and representation of employees, union collective action; collective bargaining, including the administration and enforcement of collective agreements.	3	Spring
731	Selecting Your Jury Students will be instructed on the procedures and laws governing jury selection in a criminal case, see jury selection modeled for them, and will also participate in simulated jury selection exercises under the supervision of experienced trial attorneys. An emphasis will be placed on identifying a theory of the case and identifying potential jurors who can be persuaded to accept the case theory. Other topics to be addressed include but are not limited to preparation, organization, interacting with the judge and opposing counsel, the role of the client, and overcoming objections.	1	Fall
732	Housing Law This course examines housing law through the lenses of federal and state law. Topics will include: The Fair Housing Act, housing affordability, smart cities, gentrification, exclusionary and inclusionary zoning, federal housing policy, community development and investment, and housing discrimination.	3	Fall
735	Federal Criminal Law Examines substantive Federal criminal law, including the following topics: The Federal Role in Enforcement Against Crime, The Consequences of Jurisdictional Overlap, Fraud and Political Corruption, Mail Fraud, The Hobbs Act, Official Bribery and Gratuities, Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering, Currency Reporting Offenses, Group and Organizational Crime (including RICO), Anti-Terrorism Enforcement, The Criminal Civil Rights Statutes, The Federal False Statement Statutes, Obstruction of Justice, Sentencing Guidelines, and Forfeiture.	3	Fall	William C. Snyder
742	Entertainment Law Will simulate actual entertainment law practice and will emphasize the process by which contracts are developed and entered into so as to make use of copyrighted properties. The student will be required to draw upon and further develop multiple legal skills, particularly substantive analysis, drafting, analysis of and otherwise dealing with "paper" from the other side, practical research, formulation of advice, and participation in various kinds of oral discussions.	3	Fall	Laura G. Lape
743	New York Civil Practice Civil practice law and rules and interpretive cases and other aspects of civil litigation in New York.	3	Fall	Hon. Deborah H. Karalunas L'82, Thomas E. Myers
744	Perspectives on Terrorism This unique, interdisciplinary course provides insight into the dynamics of terrorism and counterterrorism. Specializations are offered in four areas: law, politics, history, and communications. Law and other graduate students my register in any of the four departments, with the permission of the instructor. Although some class sessions will include discipline-specific discussions in small groups, participants will also converge in a large classroom for presentations, discussions and examinations of fundamental problems associated with terrorism.	3	Spring
745	Negotiation Skills Negotiation Skills will introduce students to the tools they need for effective negotiation. This course will focus on the three stages of negotiation: preparation, negotiation and post negotiation self -assessment. Students will negotiation numerous times during the semester and will receive feedback on their negotiations.	2	Fall
746	Professional Responsibility Relationship of the lawyer to the profession, community, client, and society. ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and American Lawyer's Code of Conduct.	3	Fall, Spring	Rakesh K. Anand, Robert Ashford, Mary Helen McNeal
747	Real Estate Transactions Standard residential and commercial real estate transactions, including consideration of brokerage arrangements, contracts of sale, methods of financing, methods of title protection, mortgage markets, construction loans, and permanent financing.	3	Fall	Robin Paul Malloy
748	Sports Law This course will examine various areas of the law as they relate to sports (both professional sports and intercollegiate sports), including such areas as contract law, antitrust law, labor law, law regulating player agents, gender discrimination law, and personal injury law.	3	Fall
749	Religious Faith, Secular Nationalism and the Practice of Law This course will explore the relationship between an individual’s religious beliefs and the practice of law, and will be centered around the important body of literature of the religious lawyering movement. Initially, the course will take up the fundamental question of whether one can be religious and be a lawyer. In this context, the course will explore the extent to which a secular disposition about law – for example, that law is America’s civil religion or an expression of American nationalism – precludes a space for faith in the practice of law. Subsequently, the course will examine how religious beliefs might be integrated into the practice of law, and what practicing as a religious lawyer might look like.	2	Spring	Rakesh K. Anand
750	Securities Regulations Securities Act of 1933: regulation of the distribution of securities, including the registration process, exempt securities, exempt transactions, enforcement, and liabilities; Securities Exchange Act of 1934: regulation of trading in securities and related market activities, including tender offers, proxy solicitations, market manipulation, disclosure requirements, insider trading, and express and implied civil liabilities.	3	Spring	Margaret M. Harding
752	Antitrust Law This is a survey of federal antitrust law and policy under the Sherman, Clayton, and FTC Acts. It takes an historic, layered approach, building on the four eras of antitrust enforcement: The Foundation Period (1890-1914); The Rule of Reason Period (1915-1939); The Per Se Rule and Focus on Market Structure (1940-1974); The Modern Era (1975—Present). The course covers basic economic theory of the free-market; the Rule of Reason and per se offenses; price fixing, market division, and boycotts; trade association behavior; monopoly and attempts to monopolize; mergers and joint ventures; vertical restraints like resale price maintenance; exclusive dealing and tie-in agreements; selected exemptions from antitrust liability.	3	Fall	Christian C. Day
754	Trial Practice Courtroom techniques and tactics drawing on substantive and procedural law and evidence courses. Students prepare and conduct trial exercises under direction of instructor.	3	Fall, Spring	Hon. Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Donald J. Martin '66, L'68, Lee S. Michaels L'67, Richard R. Southwick L'83
755	Trademarks & Unfair Competition A practical review of current intellectual property issues relating to trademarks, trade dress, false advertising, internet and the First Amendment, and rights of publicity. The course features mock courtroom presentations by experienced litigators and guest presentations by practitioners in the field.	3	Spring
757	Mergers & Acquisitions This course is for students with a strong interest in capital markets, public corporations, and modern corporate practice. Topics covered include source of gains in business combinations, duties and risks of sellers, buyers' risks in acquisitions, and securities laws.	3	Spring	Robert Ashford, Christian C. Day
759	Computer Crimes This course is organized around three questions: 1) what conduct involving a computer is prohibited by criminal law? 2) What legal rules govern the collection of digital evidence in criminal investigations? 3) What powers do state, national, and foreign governments have to investigate and prosecute computer crimes? More specifically, topics will include computer hacking, computer viruses, encryption, online undercover operations, the Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, the law of Internet surveillance, laws governing access to e-mail, forum-shopping, jurisdiction, national security, and federal & state relations and international cooperation in the enforcement of computer crime laws. Special attention will be paid to cyber terrorism. No advanced knowledge of computers and the Internet is required or assumed.	3	Spring	William C. Snyder
760	Patent Prosecution This course is designed primarily for students who plan to practice in the area of Patent Law before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) which permits only registered patent attorneys and agents to represent clients in the prosecution of patent applications. The course will cover the process of procuring a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The course will also enhance students' understanding of the legal standards for patentability (building upon the principles explored in Patents and Trade Secrets), will familiarize students with the PTO's elaborate rules of practice in patent cases, and will provide students with practice applying these standards and rules to facts and situations encountered in basic patent prosecution practice. Patents and Trade Secrets is a prerequisite to this course.	3	Spring	David L. Nocilly L'00
761	Appellate Advocacy Skills Development of skills used in the appellate process, including postjudgment practice, creation of the record, finding error, brief writing, and oral argument structure, emphasizing written skills. Required for second-year students seeking Moot Court Board membership.	3	Fall
762	Employment Discrimination Discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, age, and disability. Consideration of constitutional, statutory, and other remedies.	3	Fall
763	Disability Law This course introduces students to federal laws prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities, focusing primarily on the American Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAA). The goal of this course is to provide students with a legal, conceptual, and practical understanding of the legal rights of people with disabilities, forms of discrimination that occur on the basis of disability, and the protections against such discrimination that currently exist under federal law. Because the focus of this course is on a federal statute and its implementing regulations, we will devote substantial class time to discussions about statutory interpretation, including the various canons and approaches to statutory interpretation, judicial review of agency action, the role of agency decision making and the rulemaking process, and the role of legislative history in judicial decision-making.	3	Fall	Arlene S. Kanter
764	Bankruptcy Law: Creditors Rights and Debtor Protection This course will cover state law remedies (how to collect a judgment), the rights of secured and unsecured creditors under state law and in bankruptcy, and the protections available to individuals and businesses in bankruptcy. The course will devote substantive class time to covering the fundamentals of statutory interpretation, including statutory interpretation techniques and methodologies, canons of statutory interpretation, and the role of legislative history in statutory interpretation.	4	Spring	Gregory L. Germain
765	Patents and Trade Secrets This course examines the U.S. patent system and focuses on issues of patentability, validity, and infringement. The protection and enforcement of trade secrets are also covered.	3	Fall	Lisa Dolak L'88
766	Lawsuit Lawsuit emulates, as realistically as possible, a lawsuit from start to finish. Students will represent either the plaintiff or the defendant. The case begins when your client walks into your office. For the plaintiff, you must decide which claims to make. For the defense, it is your job to figure out how to defend your client against that claim, or what counter-claims you should bring. The class ends with a final trial. In between, you will represent your client at every stage of the litigation - from drafting the initial complaint and answer, filing discovery demands, answering interrogatories, conducting a deposition and participating in settlement discussions. Student teams are supervised and classes are taught by the course's co-instructors. Guest lecturers from the SUCOL faculty will also help teach students specific advocacy focused skill sets in preparation for the litigation's various stages. In doing so, Lawsuit utilizes the collective expertise and experience of the SUCOL faculty to help best prepare students for the world of litigation. The course is a year long and consists of three experiential credits for each semester.	3	Fall, Spring	Todd A. Berger
768	Copyright-Literary & Artistic Works Advanced copyright course. In-depth exploration of a number of copyright-law areas in music, fine arts, and film and issues on the boundaries of copyright law. Includes fair use, work for hire in both industry and academia, compensation for ideas, moral rights, right of publicity, the impact of new technologies on research, data bases and fact-based works, infringement on unpublished works, and international copyright protection.	3	Spring	Laura G. Lape
769	Advanced Trial Practice Advanced training in direct and cross-examination, witness interviewing and preparation, negotiation techniques, voir dire and jury preparation, final arguments, discovery, pretrial and trial motions, pretrial conferences, jury trial techniques, and posttrial procedure.	2		John G. Duncan L'75, Domenic F. Trunfio
770	Compliance Law This course examines the rules and standards that govern the burgeoning subject of compliance and risk management. It will examine questions of governance: boards of directors, executives and third party vendors. It will examine the compliance function, organized by the nature of the enforcer: managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistleblowers, gatekeeper and plaintiffs; attorneys. It will also examine particular areas of law: information security, off-label drugs, foreign corrupt practices, money laundering, sexual harassment, etc.	3	Fall, Spring	Patrick J. Rao
771	Voting Rights This course examines past and current developments in voting rights law. Topics include: the right to vote, the Voting Rights Act, laws that govern the political process, political representation, gerrymandering, election administration, political parties, ballot initiatives, and campaign finance.	3	Fall	Kristen Barnes
772	Alternative Dispute Resolutions An introduction to the spectrum of processes other than courtroom litigation that are available for resolving disputes. This includes such "pure" processes as negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, and such "hybrid" processes as the Mini-Trial and the Summary Jury Trial.	3	Spring	Margaret M. Harding
773	Not-for-Profit Organizations Law A study of the Federal and State laws (corporate, tax, administrative) governing and regulating not-for profit organizations, the case law related to those laws and the policy considerations underlying those laws. Among the many organizations to be considered are: charitable, educational and religious organizations; social clubs; civic and business leagues;; and State and local Governments. The course will also examine the application of these laws in modern legal practice.	2	Spring	Deborah Kenn
774	Asian Americans & the Law In this seminar we examine Asian American legal history and contemporary issues within historical context; and refine research, writing, presentation, and discussion skills. We cover topics and cases such as the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, US v. Wong Kim Ark, Japanese American incarceration during World War II, the model assimilated minority myth and the bamboo ceiling, Asian Americans in the legal profession, and countering anti-Asian pandemic harassment. Students select cutting edge research topics. Substantial research papers and a class presentation are required. This course satisfies the upper level writing requirement.	3	Spring	Mary Szto
775	Internet Law A survey of legal issues relating to computers and computer networks, including electronic commerce, the protection and enforcement of proprietary rights in software and electronic works, privacy and security, and content regulation. This course also explores the evidentiary use of computer records and other emerging issues in computer law.	3	Fall	George R. McGuire '91, L'96
776	Investigating and Reopening Civil Rights Murder Cases This three-credit course is the result of SUCOL's effort to re-open the 1964 murder investigation of Frank Morris, a 51 year old African American business owner in Ferriday, Louisiana. Mr. Morris was pushed at gunpoint back into his burning store by suspected members of the Ku Klux Klan. He died four days later of burns over 100 % of his body. Although the FBI identified witnesses who pointed to two local law enforcement agents, no charges or indictments followed and the case was dropped. Seventy-five such cases have been identified by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice with the assistance of the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Urban League. Students will each be assigned a different case to work up as a possible one to encourage the FBI to reopen. They will prepare chronologies, potential witness books, assess evidence and draft working memos of law on issues related to bringing this case to prosecution. Course projects will require consideration of a variety of legal issues, including state/federal jurisdiction, federal laws on civil rights crimes, statutes of limitations/speedy trial/double jeopardy, immunity, federal investigative and prosecutorial efforts, state and local prosecutions, and evidence.	3	Spring	Paula C. Johnson
777	Elder Law This course will address ethical issues related to the competency assessment of elder clients. Income maintenance, including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, and other public and private pensions as well as Medicare and Medicaid will be considered. Guardianship, long-term care, and estate planning will be considered as well. Additional topics may include employment discrimination, housing, health care decision making, and elder abuse.	3	Fall	Nina A. Kohn
778	International Human Rights Seminar After introducing human rights law in the context of a case study on the death penalty, this course examines international human rights law from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The course is designed to provide students with an informed and critical perspective on international instruments, intergovernmental organizations, and domestic legal arrangements articulating and implementing human rights. Topics will include the historic origins of modern human rights law; the content of and connections between civil, political, social, and economic rights; relationships between human rights law, international criminal law, and the law of armed conflict; transnational strategies associated with implementation and enforcement of human rights law; the importance of soft law; and international responses to mass atrocities.	3	Fall	C. Cora True-Frost G'01, L'01
780	Adoption Law Legal theories involved in adoption law, the attorney's role in adoption practice, and the various legal documents involved.	3	Spring
782	Political Advocacy in Disability Rights The course provides students with an introduction to strategies for advocating equality, inclusion and belonging for people with disabilities in the United States. Students will gain a basic understanding of the Americans with Disabilities Act and how the law can be used to promote disability rights, using non-litigation strategies. Also covered are the principles of Structured Negotiation. Over the course of the semester students will develop a plan of action in collaboration with members of the disability community in Central New York.	2	Fall	Michael A. Schwartz
784	Employment Law This course provides a survey of the common law and statutory principles relating to modern employment. Among the topics we will cover: the nature of the employment relationship, the at-will rule and its limitations, layoffs and unemployment insurance, employee mobility issues (e.g., covenants not-to-compete), employee privacy, family leave, worker safety and wage and hour law. This course is intended to provide an overview and survey of the field and there is some overlap with topics traditionally covered in Employment Discrimination and Labor Law courses. While we will touch on some issues ordinarily covered in those courses, we will not do so in the depth they are given when taught in distinct 3 or 4 credit courses. During the semester, I hope to be able to provide those students who are interested with the opportunity to represent a claimant in an unemployment insurance administrative hearing under my supervision. Assisting a claimant in an unemployment insurance case provides students with the opportunity to learn about employment law in a very practical way.	3	Spring	James M. Williams
785	Advanced Torts This course will explore the substantive laws of products liability, medical malpractice, workplace injuries, defamation and invasions of privacy; through use of case studies will develop action plans, draft pleadings, and other mechanisms used in tort litigation.	3	Fall	Hon. John C. Cherundolo '70, G'72, L'73
786	Real Estate Law for Business This course is designed for students interested in the legal environment of real estate transactions. It is open to graduate level and professional students who are not in the J.D. program, and who do not possess a J.D. from a U.S. law school. The class meets simultaneously with the Real Estate Transactions class that is open to JD students (Law # 747). While both courses cover the same material; the focus of assignments and the grading rubric are different. For students in Real Estate Law for Business there is no presumption of knowledge regarding the foundations in property and contract law. The assignments and grading focus on acquiring a working knowledge of the legal environment in which real estate development takes place. In contrast, the real estate transactions class is an advanced law course that presumes knowledge of common law property and contracts as covered in detail in the first year of law school. Real Estate Law for Business will not have a final examination, and grading will be based on several paper assignments and a term project. (Registration note: all JD students will be registered for Real Estate Transactions #747; all non-JD students will be registered for Real Estate Business Law #786.)	3	Fall	Robin Paul Malloy
787	Children and the Law Parent-child, child-state relationships. Education, health, welfare, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and representation of children will be covered in this course.	3	Fall
788	Immigration Law This course offers an introduction to the laws, practices, and policies governing the ability of non-United States citizens to enter and remain in the United States either temporarily or permanently. The topics of study include the rights of non-U.S. citizens, the bases upon which the United States admits non-U.S. citizens either temporarily or permanently and the procedures for admission, the bases upon which non-U.S. citizens may be removed from the U.S. and the procedures for removal, the principles and policies behind the current and past system of immigration law, the complex and intricate statutory and regulatory framework governing immigration, and the roles and powers of the different branches of government in the development and implementation of immigration law and policy. The material in this course will implicate and develop your understanding of other areas of law, including administrative law, international law, and constitutional law.	3	Spring	Andrew T. Kim
790	Counterterrorism and the Law This course will concern U.S. and international law responses to terrorism. The course will include a brief overview and history of terrorism. Topics will include legal definitions of terrorism, investigation and intelligence collection in the U.S. and abroad, apprehension of terrorists across borders, immigration and border controls, prosecution of terrorists, sanctions against terrorism and its supporters (including reprisal, assassination, asset freeze and forfeiture), crisis and consequence management in the event of terrorist attacks (including martial law and detention, domestic use of the military, catastrophic emergency measures, hostage and rescue operations), and law reform issues.	3	Spring	William C. Snyder
792	Privacy Law As information technology advances, so do concerns about the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information. As a consequence of the digital revolution, the field of privacy law has grown exponentially in the past two decades. This course focuses on the concept of information privacy generally and examines its tension with other competing values and interests, including free speech, national security, law enforcement, public health, and commercial interests. The course includes units on information privacy issues that arise in: media, law enforcement, national security, health records, government records, financial information; consumer data; and employment information. The course will also include a unit on international privacy law approaches (including, in particular, the E.U. Data Protection Directive).	3	Fall	Lauryn P. Gouldin
794	Regulatory Law & Policy An advanced exploration of regulatory decision making, focusing on the reasons for and methods used in implementing regulation; how policy and politics impact on regulatory decisions and relate to the legal authority of agencies; case studies of regulatory programs, their successes, and failures. Course requirements include one or more research papers that will meet the College of Law writing requirement. Administrative Law or Public Administration and Law are prerequisites for this course. This one-semester course is a J.D./M.P.A. program requirement.	3	Spring	C. Cora True-Frost G'01, L'01
796	Constitutional Criminal Procedures - Adjudicative Constitutional and statutory requirements for adjudicative procedures in criminal cases. Topics include accusatory instruments, bail, discovery, guilty pleas, double jeopardy, speedy trial, fair trial, jury trial, assistance of counsel, and confrontation.	3	Fall, Spring	Todd A. Berger, Sanjay K. Chhablani
800	Foundational Skills - Attorney Licensing The course will provide an understanding of the bar review and bar exam process as well as the skills necessary to be successful in the licensing process . A significant portion of the course will be spent discussing how to approach and do well on practice bar exam questions, including essays, performance tests and multiple choice questions. Time will be spent discussing how to learn from bar review outlines and lectures, and how to conduct a self-assessment to understand personal study habits and adjustments which must be made prior to the review of bar-tested subjects. The course will also cover specific topics and skills to help students understand how to manage their attitude, stress, and study time.	2	Fall, Spring	Richard S. Risman, Courtney Abbott Hill L'09
803	Law Practice Management Law Practice Management comprehensively examines all aspects of the formation, management, development and growth of a law firm. The course will focus primarily on solo practitioners and small partnerships. The course will explore forms of partnership, licensing requirements, insurance, human resources and employment practices, accounting and finance, IT, marketing and business development, and dissolution.	3	Fall, Spring	Michael A. Bottar L'03
805	International Commercial Arbitration The course will start by laying out the differences between domestic and international arbitrations, and between commercial and investor-state (or other international public law) arbitrations. It will then move into a detailed study of international commercial arbitration’s legal framework, beginning with the arbitration laws of various jurisdictions, moving through arbitration clause drafting, and all phases of arbitration proceedings, concluding with enforcement of arbitral awards in court. In addition to doctrinal knowledge, students will begin to acquire the practical skills needed to draft and negotiate arbitration agreements, to compel or resist arbitration of a dispute, to represent clients in arbitration, and to seek or oppose enforcement of an award.	3	Fall
806	Legal Interviewing and Counseling Legal Interviewing and Counseling is a practical skills course that will introduce students to the theory and practice of legal interviewing and counseling. The class will include interviewing clients to identify and obtain relevant facts and evaluate the information obtained; attorney-client communication skills; identifying client's legal needs and objectives; assisting clients in evaluating options, weighing consequences, and decision making. Classes will include interactive discussion, and interviewing and counseling simulations.	3	Fall
807	Constitutional Civil Rights Litigation Constitutional civil rights litigation deals with constitutional theory and interpretation, emphasizing practical aspects and procedural tactics inherent in suing or defending a civil rights claim in federal court. The course covers who are proper defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, what kind of constitutional violation must be shown, how causation works for constitutional torts, immunity and other defenses that have been read into the statute, how damages are assessed, and when successful plaintiffs can recover attorneys’ fees.	3	Spring
809	Advanced Disability Law & Policy This is a one semester applied learning course. The goal of this course is to expose students to disability law and policy as applied to real situations. Each student will work on a project that has originated from a request from a "real client" or client organizations, such as the National Council on Disability, the World Bank, Mental Disability Rights International, or other organizations that work with and for people with disabilities.	3	Spring	Arlene S. Kanter
811	General Counsel This applied learning course is designed to expose students to a number of areas of practice that are common for house counsel. Students will work individually and in teams and undertake simulations in litigation management, agreement negotiation and drafting, employment problems, and intellectual property practice. Students will learn how lawyers handle complex problems in such diverse areas and may conduct research, draft agreements and file memoranda, conduct interviews, and negotiate to resolve the issues found in practical exercises that will be the backbone of the course.	3	Spring	Patrick J. Rao
814	Technology Transactions Law This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the technical, business, and legal factors involved in bringing new technologies to market. Fall semester covers basic intellectual property law, securities and debt finance related to intellectual property, monetizing intellectual property, employment law pertaining to ownership of intellectual property, covenants not to compete, licensing basics, antitrust restraint of trade and monopolization. Spring semester covers design patent, design copyright, trade dress, trade secrets, licensing negotiation, antitrust treatment of mergers, and patent assertion entities. At the conclusion of each semester, students will have a broad knowledge of technology innovation law and practice.	3	Fall, Spring	Shubha Ghosh
815	Innovation Law Practicum This applied learning course allows students interested in the areas of intellectual property and business law to apply their knowledge to actual new technology. Students work in supervised teams consulting with companies, entrepreneurs or universities that are seeking to commercialize new technologies. The finished product includes a report and presentation that cover such things as: analyzing the technology, investigating intellectual property protection, examining the market landscape, identifying any regulatory concerns, and exploring opportunities for funding or licensing. Instructor guides the issue-spotting and provides feedback on reports through the individual team supervisors: Professor of Practice Jack Rudnick and adjunct professors Dean Bell, Dominick Danna, Brian Gerling, and Hoda Rifai-Bashjawish.	3	Fall, Spring	M. Jack Rudnick L'73
816	Commercial Real Estate Practice This applied learning course will build on the fundamentals of the Real Estate Transactions I course, and will focus on the development of a regional shopping mall which will provide a framework for the course outline. The course will not only provide ways to convey many of the concepts found in this type of real estate, but will also provide the basis to explore the relationship between the real estate concepts and the business framework of which they become a part. Case law will be utilized to supplement certain interpretations of Real Property Law. Real Estate Transactions I is a prerequisite for this course.	2	Spring	Marc A. Malfitano '74, L'77
818	End of Life Planning: Advance Directives & Community Legal Education This course will address NY health care advance directives and will include and experiential component conducted in collaboration with Luvenia Cowart, Professor of Practice in Public Health, and Dr. Maria Brown, Research Professor in Social Work, both of Falk College. The legal services will be offered in conjunction with Professor Cowart and Dr. Brown's "Healthy Living" program, which provides services to predominantly African American caregivers of people with dementia. This grant-funded initiative provides education, wellness activities, information and referral, and other services to caregivers in central Syracuse. Students will learn the substantive law relevant for advising clients, in this case typically the caregivers, on preparing health care directives, provide a community education presentation on these issues, and assist caregiver participants in a "limited legal assistance" capacity in completing these documents.	1	Fall	Mary Helen McNeal
819	Family Law Mediation and Collaborative Law This Course will focus on alternative dispute resolution in the family law area. Students will study mediation and collaborative law through written materials and mock exercises. The ethical issues involved in these forms of ADR will also be addressed.	3	Fall
822	Nat’l Security/Terrorism Center The National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center serves as a working research laboratory for law and other graduate students interested in national security and counterterrorism issues. Students will work in teams on research projects assigned by the director. Typically, the projects will involve assessments of legal and law-related issues of concern to federal, state, and local government officials in responding to national security and terrorism threats. Other projects may examine private sector security concerns.	3	Spring	William C. Banks
824	Advising the Startup I This course is the first part of a two part year-long sequence on legal issues arising from start-up companies as they develop and move towards an initial public offering. This first part covers the legal issues arising from protection on inventions and creations through intellectual property law, choice of business entity, basic securities law, contracts, employment law, licensing, and antitrust. The course is designed for students across disciplines (law, business, engineering, information science, public policy) who are interested in the legal foundations for start-ups and entrepreneurship. For JD students, pursuing LAW 815 and the Technology Commercialization track, the two-semester sequence of LAW 824 and LAW 825 replaces and expands upon the previous LAW 814 and is strongly recommended for LAW 815 and technology commercialization career. JD students must take both LAW 824 and LAW 825; non-JD students can take either or both semesters. Writing credit is available for law students.	3	Fall	Shubha Ghosh
825	Advising the Startup II This course is the second part of a two part year-long sequence on legal issues arising from start-up companies as they develop and move towards an initial public offering. This second part covers the legal issues arising from protection of design through intellectual property law, licensing drafting, exhaustion of intellectual property rights, FDA regulation introduction, Telecom and Internet regulation introduction, and the relationship between antitrust and regulation. This course is designed for students across disciplines (law, business, engineering, information science, public policy) who are interested in the legal foundations for start-ups and entrepreneurship. For JD students pursuing LAW 815 and the Technology Commercialization track, the two-semester sequence of LAW 824 and LAW 825 replaces and expands upon the previous LAW 814 and is strongly recommended for LAW 815 and a technology commercialization career. JD students must take both LAW 824 and 825; non-JD students can take either or both semesters. Writing credit available for law students.	3	Spring	Shubha Ghosh
826	Emerging Technology & the Practice of Law This class will provide students with an understanding and the fundamentals of emerging technologies and how they intersect with the legal profession. The class is being offered in partnership with the NewYork State Bar Association. It will be held every other week. Tentative topics include the practice of law and: artificial intelligence, block chain and cybercurrency, legal analytics, privacy, algorithms and oppression, privacy, social media ethics, drones and autonomous vehicles, among other topics.	2	Fall
827	Corporate Financing Transactions This course teaches corporate finance by guiding students through all aspects and phases of a syndicated commercial loan transaction. Students will examine the design, negotiation, finance, and implementation of a real-world deal, from both a law and business perspective. In addition to teaching the substantive law and principles of finance, the course also teaches essential deal skills and provides students with practical insights (from an experienced senior lawyer) that will enable them to be effective transactional lawyers and bankers. This course is cross-listed with the Whitman School of Management and will contain a combination of JD and MBA students.	2	Spring	A. Joseph Warburton
828	Advanced Criminal Evidence The course will cover Federal and New York rules of evidence, and constitutional rules pertaining to the rights to confront and present a defense, in connection with a range of issues typically arising in criminal cases. Weekly assignments will be designed to simulate work that would be performed in a prosecutor's or defender's office. They will include motions in liminie and supporting memoranda, inter-office trial preparation memoranda, and both trial court and appellate advocacy of evidentiary issues. The course is a limited enrollment course and the grade will be based exclusively on written and oral advocacy.	3	Fall
829	Criminal Justice Reform Seminar Across the country, fiscal pressures, political changes, and a growing embrace of evidence-based approaches to policymaking have created a momentum around criminal justice reform. These reform efforts seem especially promising because of their interdisciplinary roots and their bipartisan support. While some data points - like drops in prison populations and declining arrest rates - demonstrate the these initial efforts are having an incremental impact, more transformative reforms are needed. The seminar will address criminal justice reform broadly, covering a range of criminal justice reform topics including, for example, prosecutorial discretion, right to counsel, sentencing and punishment, reentry, mental health issues, risk assessment, juvenile rights, plea bargaining, privatization, and comparative international criminal justice reform. The course will include special focus on three particular areas of criminal justice reform that are currently capturing significant attention in the criminal justice community: (i) policing, (ii) pretrial detention and bail reform, and (iii) the opioid crisis. Students taking this course will learn about these topics through in-class guess speakers, assigned readings, and their own outside research. Students will assemble a final report focusing on criminal justice reform topics. The final projects are expected to include practical blue prints for federal, state, or local policymakers. In developing their own writing projects for the course, students will have the option of working alone (to satisfy the College of Law Writing Requirement) or collaborating with others to develop reports on the aforementioned topics.	3	Fall
831	Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar The 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees is over 60 years old. The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution stands at over 40 million and is unlikely to diminish. Against this background, international debates continue regarding the nature of the protection that refugees should be granted, the role of the international community, and the obligations of receiving countries towards refugees. This course aims to introduce students, through comparative legal studies, to how the 1951 Refugee Convention has developed. The module covers the international legal framework for refugee protection, its main challenges and shortcomings, by referring to how international, regional, and national courts interpret and implement refugee and asylum law. Main areas of discussion will include international criteria for the attainment, exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, the development of the non-refoulement principle, and the changing role of UNHCR, as well as how the EU, the AU and OAS employ the term 'refugee' while also noting how states react to those decisions.	3	Fall
832	Cyber Security Law & Policy The 2009 White House Cyberspace Policy Review states: The United States needs to conduct a national dialogue on cybersecurity to ensure an integrated approach toward the Nation's need for security and the national commitment to privacy rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and law. This three-credit, one-semester seminar intends to be part of that dialog. Some cyber security law already exists. Other laws of long standing present issues of applicability or adaptability to the cyber realm. Many proposals remain in Congressional committees, such as bills that would mandate security measures for all entities receiving federal money, establish a federal certification for technicians serving computer networks of entities receiving federal money, and provide the President with authority to "pull the plug" on national Internet connectivity in times of emergency. This course is premised on the belief that much policy and law to implement it will be made in the next few years to institute a national policy to protect U.S. interests in cyberspace. The seminar uses an interdisciplinary approach, but no special background or prerequisites are required.	3	Fall	William C. Snyder
835	Feminist Jurisprudence This course examines the historical and contemporary treatment of women under the Constitution, statutes, and common law. Students will examine how the legal system has constructed and applied notions of gender and gender equality. It will introduce students to significant contemporary legal scholarship on the status of women in modern America, and will explore how gender affects legal relationships and status. Feminist jurisprudence, or feminist theory, will be applied to doctrinal legal issues. Satisfies the upper-level writing requirement.	3	Fall	Kelly K. Curtis
836	Class Actions: Complex Litigation Class action is the most controversial procedural device. After studying the technical issues (prerequisites, certification, notice, opt out, settlement, res judicata) and its specific applications (consumer, antitrust, security, discrimination, mass tort) in concrete cases (tobacco, asbestos, Wal-Mart), you will be able to better understand the political and social implications behind class actions. Although class actions may bring social change and right injustices, it may also be improperly used to harass and blackmail defendants into settling non-meritorious claims. The course also deals with non-class aggregation, like joinder, impleader, interpleader, intervention, consolidation, transfers, and bankruptcy. It is also an excellent opportunity to review civil procedure concepts.	3	Spring	Antonio Gidi
837	European Union Law This course will introduce students to the European Union, its legal system and legal doctrines. Topics covered include the European Union and its principal institutions, the constitutional framework of the European Union, the operation of the Court of Justice of the European Union, legislative procedure, the internal market, and fundamental rights.	2	Fall
838	Binary Economics and Property Rights This Seminar may be taken in two ways: (1) as a two-semester, three-credit seminar that may satisfy the writing requirement with instructor permission or (2) as a one–semester, two-credit seminar (in the Fall Semester only) that does not Satisfy the Writing Requirement. The seminar does not require prior exposure to economics or an above average mathematical aptitude. The seminar explores the relationship among the following subjects: capitalism, property rights, economics, democracy, professional responsibility, and skills of advocacy. It examines (and provides a conceptual alternative to) the mainstream economic theories that provide the foundation important private, business, and public decision-making that dominate political and economic discourse nationally and globally. It provides an alternative economic policy for those who believe that “too much government is the problem” and those who believe that “more government is a necessary part of the solution.” Particular attention will be given to fuller-employment and growth consequences of broadening capital acquisition with the earnings of capital. There are no pre-requisites for this Seminar except an open mind and a willingness to explore these subjects from a foundation grounded in professional responsibility. The seminar will provide important understanding regarding (1) legal, economic, and political controversy regarding the regulation and protection of property rights, (2) corporations, corporate finance, fiduciary duties and social responsibility, (3) private and governmental economic policy, (4) the principles of private property, (5) the requisites of a robust democracy, (6) the economic and property rights organization of society and ways to improve it, and (7) the relationship between economic theory and various conceptions of economic justice.	3	Spring	Robert Ashford
840	Laws of Armed Conflict Mankind has attempted to regulate the horror of war for centuries. This seminar will review those attempts, focusing on the modern era. Particular attention will be paid to recent challenges related to the war on terror and the ramifications for future enforcement of these key principles. Any student interested in practicing national security law or going into international criminal justice must have a clear understanding of the law of armed conflict. This seminar will assist in that understanding. The student will have the opportunity to be involved in several practical exercises that will reinforce their learning and write a paper on various cutting edge issues, of their choosing, related to the law of armed conflict.	3	Fall
847	Introduction to American Legal Thought This course will explore a variety of contemporary schools of legal thought, with an emphasis on their understanding of the nature of law and, where applicable, the appropriate objectives of law and law reform. The course will begin with an overview of the historical roots of today's thinking, exploring Langdell's orthodoxy, Oliver Wendell Holmes reaction thereto, and the highly influential legal realists. The course will then turn to its more central focus: the legal process school and the contemporary progeny of legal realism (e.g., law and economics, critical legal studies, law and feminism). The course will also expose students to a powerful new alternative to these popular schools of thought, namely the cultural study of law.	2	Fall
862	Public Health Law This course deals with the law which empowers, tailors and limits federal, state and local governmental efforts to enhance and protect the health of the general population. It will make use of case studies of government educational and regulatory efforts in several areas of historic and very current controversy to examine issues which commonly arise with that law.	3	Spring	Peter A. Bell
864	Estate Planning This course will explore estate planning from two perspectives. First, it will deal with the substantive aspects of estate and gift tax and property law (including joint interests, life insurance and retirement plan proceeds) which must be considered in developing an estate plan. Wills, trusts and other planning techniques will be considered in detail. Second, the practical aspects of dealing with estate planning clients will be considered in depth, including how to explain difficult technical matters to the client, how to present documents to clients in an understandable format, and issues of ethics and professionalism. Short drafting and writing exercises as well as a substantial paper, consisting of a package of client memoranda and documents, will be required.	3	Fall	Terry L. Turnipseed
866	Banking Law Federal and state laws and regulations affecting banks in the United States.	3	Fall
868	Smart Grid:Sec. Prov. & Ecn. This highly interdisciplinary, team-taught course covers the fundamental engineering, economic, and legal principles underlying the smart grid. It focuses on building the skills needed to design and test the protocols, policies, and specifications for enabling technologies that will guarantee the security and integrity of the smart grid while preserving personal privacy and providing maximum market flexibility with minimal need for new regulation. Students who complete the course will be able to integrate four perspectives—technology, security, economics, and law—allowing them to lead the development of the next generation electric grid.	3	Spring	Keli Perrin L'04
870	Corporate Finance Seminar This seminar will study of the basis for financial decisions of corporations and the shareholders, including an introduction to basic techniques of investment decisions, valuation and financial structure. We will concentrate on valuing the firm and its securities and senior securities (bonds, debentures and notes). Interest and time permitting, we will explore capital structure and leverage and possibly do some work in mergers and acquisitions. Pre/co requisites: Business Associations	2	Fall
880	Race and the Law Race and the Law is a 3-credit graduate law discussion class critically examining the ways laws and courts address issues of race and construct race relations in the United States. Primary readings are historical and modern legal cases, the U.S. constitution, relevant U.S. statutes, and interdisciplinary scholarship on race and law. This course studies the history of treatment of African-Americans, Native peoples, Latinos, Asians and White people in American law before we look at particular topic areas and contemporary legal analyses. Topics may include equality doctrine, education and segregation, civil rights (e.g., housing, employment, public accommodations, and legal responses to civil rights organizing), criminal laws, policing and profiling, and prisons, sexuality and family, immigration, and existing and potential legal remedies. Weekly reading assignments, periodic online exercises, and active, engaged class discussions of assigned materials are critical components of the course. Students are required to write a 10-12 page analytical paper on one of the topics covered in the course and based on course materials and readings. Students may also be required to facilitate a class discussion on reading assignments and create a research bibliography. This law school course is open to non-law graduate students on a limited basis. Non-law students are required to get permission of the professor before enrolling in this law school class.	3	Spring	Paula C. Johnson
882	The Law and Practice of Electronic Discovery The advent of the digital age has changed the way lawyers exchange information in litigation. Whether it be on computers, cell phones, tablets, data management portals, or social media, the key documents and information necessary to litigate are stored electronically, posing never before seen challenges for today’s lawyer. Whether advising a client of litigation holds and data retention policies, propounding or responding to discovery demands, preparing for and taking depositions, or engaging in motion practice on evidentiary issues, understanding technology is paramount to the modern day litigator. In this course you will be that lawyer. Employed as an associate at a fictional law firm, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of electronic discovery in two cases, from the initial client interviews, through and including depositions and trial preparation. Taught by a lawyer with experience as an associate and partner at large law firms in New York City and Boston, boutique practices, a federal clerkship, and as in-house counsel, this course offers a great opportunity to learn both the law, and the requisite skills to be a successful lawyer in the digital age.	3	Fall
883	Central Challenges in National Security Using a series of case study modules that jump off the front page, the course examines critically the hardest U.S. national security law and policy challenges of the decades ahead. The case studies range from decisions to intervene and what laws apply if we do intervene in humanitarian crises, insurrections, or civil wars, and what laws should govern when we are involved; dealing with the Arab Spring; dealing with Iran and North Korea related to nuclear weapons; anticipating and controlling new technologies in warfare and surveillance; managing civil/military relations in protecting the homeland; countering the cyber threats to our infrastructure and cyber attacks waged by nation states, such as China and Russia; managing public health as a national security issue; resource depletion and global warming as a national security issue. Students will learn to integrate legal and policy analyses, and will gain lessons in how policy is made and implemented with significant legal guidance. Students will present analyses of case studies to the class, and will write briefing memoranda concerning some of the case study modules.	3	Fall	William C. Banks
884	Advanced Litigation Skills Trial work is a relatively modest fraction of a litigator's life. Yet most law schools routinely offer trial advocacy courses, and largely ignore the other practical forms and occasions for litigation advocacy. This is a one-semester program where aspiring litigators would confront the more typical litigation problems that would combine and hone their training in legal writing and written advocacy, civil and criminal procedure, and privilege and other issues arising in the course of discovery, motion practice, negotiation and oral advocacy. This experiential course would accomplish this through a series of classroom simulations and written homework assignments that required the students to address a series of typical litigation problems.	3	Fall
889	International Human Rights and Comparative Disability Law Seminar This course introduces students to recent developments in international human rights and comparative disability law, including an analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD was entered into force in 2008 as the first treaty to protect the rights of people with disabilities under international law. This course is for law students and other graduate students who are interested in disability rights and international human rights law, generally. The course uses disability as a case study for the study of the development of international human rights protections for certain groups; the adoption, monitoring, and implementation of UN treaties; the role of regional human rights tribunals in enforcing human rights protections for people with disabilities; and the relationship between international human rights laws and domestic disability-related laws in selected countries.	3	Fall	Arlene S. Kanter
891	Climate Change: Science, Perception, and Policy Climate change (global warming) is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. This course introduces students to the challenges posed by climate change through a unique multi-disciplinary exploration of the scientific, economic, policy, communicative, and even philosophical dimensions of the issue. The course will cover topics such as the current state of scientific knowledge about climate change, the role of the media in shaping public opinion on the issue, competing discourses of climate change, risk and uncertainty in decision-making, costs and benefits of different types of policies, the Kyoto protocol and other policy initiatives, actions being taken to address the issue, and the ethical dimensions of the choices facing humanity. Faculty from SU and ESF in law, economics/public administration, earth science, and environmental studies will co-teach this course and bring to students a unique dialog that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Moreover, emphasis will be placed on drawing out the general lessons obtained from a multi-disciplinary approach to climate change: many of the insights will be applicable to other complex, highly technical environmental problems. This course is intended to bring together students from a diverse range of backgrounds and does not have specific prerequisites.	3	Fall	David M. Driesen
899	Atrocity Law and Policy: Practicing before International Criminal Tribunals International criminal law is a new discipline within the legal profession. Over the past 12 years, the discipline has developed at an exponential rate. Cutting edge rulings and decisions are setting the cornerstones in international criminal law for years to come. It is a rare opportunity for teachers, students, practitioners, and policy makers to be present at the beginnings of a new area of the law. Rarer still is the opportunity for students to be able to take a seminar from one of the senior international practitioners in the field, using his work as the basis for this seminar. Drawing upon unique experiences in West Africa, a great deal of the new ideas and fresh thinking began with our work as the Chief Prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, called the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The seminar will use, as a case study, the entire creative process in West Africa of establishing the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; from planning, preparation, and executing the many tasks necessary to prosecute war criminals in a forgotten and tragic land. Using real world and contemporary cases, vignettes, and scenarios this 2 credit hour seminar will give students a rare opportunity, to study and do research with the practitioner who created the entire prosecutorial plan to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity that resulted in the murder, rape, maiming, and mutilation of over 1.2 million human beings.	2	Fall
901	Washington Lawyer Seminar Client problems brought to a good D.C. attorney are almost always solved through a combination of legislative pressure, executive branch pressure, and perhaps ultimately litigation against either another party and/or an agency of the executive branch. Very often the best solutions to these problems are forged behind the scenes, the opposite of the way lawyers in other jurisdictions often serve their clients interests. This seminar will feature influential and successful D.C. attorneys and distinguished guest lecturers to discuss one or more client problems brought to them and how they went about a solution. Each week, students will go through a real case study problem set that the guest lecturer encountered in his or her practice, whether in government, a nonprofit, a corporation, or a law firm. After establishing a fact pattern, students will discuss the various options for solving the legal problem. Finally, students will hear from the guest lecturer how he or she actually attacked the legal problem, and the outcome if known. Students will also discuss projects that they have been working on along with any issues that may have arisen.	2	Fall, Spring	Terry L. Turnipseed
902	Syracuse Law in D.C. Program Placement The Syracuse Law Semester in D.C. Program will provide an elite professional and educational experience in a job market in which many of our students aspire to pursue careers. This externship experience provides students with an incredible opportunity to be exposed to the legal market of D.C., one that is unlike many others. With placements ranging from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the U.S. Department of Justice, NASA, Securities Exchange Commission, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Senate and House offices, the D.C. Public Defender Service, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and a host of other non-profit, federal military, federal government, hill, political party, judicial and law firm placements, the options are premier and vast. Currently, there are over 65 placements for students to choose from. Students will be expected to work a minimum of 35 hours per week in their placement, with attendance at the weekly seminar and post-seminar networking events. The networking events allow students to build a professional network of contacts in the D.C. market.	12	Fall, Spring	Terry L. Turnipseed
903	Criminal Defense Law Clinic Student attorneys represent clients charged with misdemeanors and violations in Syracuse City Court. They engage in extensive fact investigation, interviewing, client counseling, and plea negotiations, and appear regularly in local courts. They also assist clients with civil matters related to the pending criminal charges.	6	Fall, Spring	Todd A. Berger
909	Bankruptcy Clinic The pro bono bankruptcy clinic consists of a clinic open to second and third year students, and a pro bono volunteer program open to first year students. The upper division clinic students will representing an indigent client in filing a bankruptcy case, and will be in charge of the team supervising the first year student volunteers. The clinic students will be responsible for obtaining from the clients all of the information required by the Bankruptcy Code for filing a bankruptcy case, organizing that information, drafting the petition and schedules, and representing the client at the official meeting of creditors. Students will also address any legal issues that arise in the case. The class component will involve formal training basic consumer bankruptcy law and practice, and an open discussion of issues that arise in the cases.	1	Fall	Gregory L. Germain
910	Law in London: Clinical Internship Students will spend the first week of the seven week program attending lectures by authorities in English law. This introduction to the English Legal System will prepare the students for their internships by providing an overview of the fundamental tenets of English law, with an emphasis on English legal institutions, court structure, the legal profession, and adjudicative procedure in both civil and criminal cases. Classes during this first week will meet for a minimum of 15 hours and will be supplemented by visits to one of the Inns of Court and the Houses of Parliament and by a guided tour of Legal London. Following this first week of classes, students will undertake six-week internships with barristers, solicitors, public agencies or other legal organizations, under the supervision of Syracuse University College of Law faculty. Internships are full-time jobs, and students are expected to work the normal hours at their placements.. During this six-week period these internship experiences are augmented by once-a-week, two-hour evening seminars conducted by the program faculty and cooperating English practitioners.	6	Summer	Christian C. Day
912	Elder Law Clinic This clinical course will focus on representation of the elderly in a variety of substantive areas, with initial focus on administrative proceedings regarding public benefits, especially Medicaid. Students will have substantial opportunities to interview and counsel clients, conduct fact investigation, grapple with thorny ethical issues unique to elderly clients, and advocate for clients in a variety of settings, including in administrative proceedings. Students will have primary responsibility for their cases, under the guidance of the faculty member. There may be opportunities for collaboration with medical staff from the SUNY Upstate Geriatric Clinic and other professionals working with the elderly.	6	Fall, Spring	Mary Helen McNeal
914	Low Income Taxpayer Clinic The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic offers legal assistance to low income taxpayers who have controversies with the I.R.S. The controversies may include collection, examination, appeals or Tax Court matters. Student attorneys will also be involved in community outreach and education regarding income tax matters.	3	Fall, Spring	Robert G. Nassau
920	Externship The Externship Program provides students with the opportunity to work with lawyers. The Program consists of a two credit seminar that meets once a week which discusses lawyering as a profession and a 2 or 3 credit externship placement where students work under the supervision of a lawyer in offices throughout Upstate NY.	2	Fall, Spring
921	Externship Placement This is a 2 or 3 credit externship placement where students work under the supervision of a lawyer in offices throughout Upstate NY.	2-3	Fall, Spring
922	Securities Arbitration Clinic Provides legal assistance to small investors who have lost some or all of their investments as a result of improper conduct on the part of stockbrokers, investment advisors, securities firms, and mutual funds. Students enrolled in the SAC provide representation to eligible investors who are required to use the arbitration process for the resolution of their disputes.	6	Fall, Spring	Gary J. Pieples
923	Disability Rights Clinic The Disability Rights Clinic is dedicated to providing representation to individuals and groups in our community who are unable to secure representation elsewhere. One reason DRC clients are unable to find other lawyers to represent them is due to their lack of financial resources. In our community, as elsewhere, the vast majority of lawyers provide legal assistance only to those who can afford to pay for their services. And in recent years, federal funding, the major source of funding for legal services for people with low or no incomes, has been reduced dramatically. A second reason DRC clients are unable to find lawyers elsewhere relates to the types of cases they may have which may involve controversial issues or conflicts of interest for other lawyers. DRC student attorneys practice in federal and state courts, and before administrative agencies in a broad range of civil rights matters, including race, gender, age and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, prisoners rights, immigration, accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and employment matters.	6	Fall, Spring	Michael A. Schwartz
925	Social and Economic Justice in South Africa The week-long visit to South Africa will study the constitutional, economic, and social history of South Africa as it has moved from apartheid to a multi-racial republic. Students will visit the Constitutional Court; government agencies including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration; several townships and municipalities; and a historically Black and historically White University. The students will meet with Constitutional Court justices, government officials, and University faculty involved in social and economic justice issues and learn about the entrenched systemic poverty, racism, and injustice that is the legacy of apartheid, and the efforts including legislation, policies, and programs to reverse the effects of apartheid. Students will earn one credit. The grading will be based upon an 8-10 page paper researched before, during, and after the trip to South Africa. Papers may involve topics guided by the Constitutional Court justices regarding topics presently before the Court, or topics chosen by the students involving issues of community economic development law, constitutional law, and comparative law. There will be two one-hour class sessions scheduled before the trip and two one-hour class sessions scheduled after the trip. Applications for this course must be completed and approved before registration.	1	Spring	Deborah Kenn
926	Veterans Legal Clinic The Veterans Legal Clinic offers legal assistance to veterans on discharge upgrade cases and benefits claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Students will have substantial opportunities to interview and counsel clients, conduct fact investigation, and advocate for veterans in a variety of settings. Students will assist veterans in navigating the process of applying for disability benefits, appealing decisions at the local level, and providing assistance all the way up to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in Washington, D.C. Students will have primary responsibility on their cases, under the guidance of a faculty member. In addition to case work, students will learn about military culture and the military discharge process. Students will understand the intricacies of VA administrative law process, including the impact of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury on these cases. Students will also focus on the policies behind the regulations set forth by the VA and how those intersect with the statutes set out by Congress.	6	Fall, Spring
930	Pro Bono Scholars Seminar The Pro Bono Scholar seminar is a forum that facilitates discussions related to lawyering as a profession and where issues particular to the student’s placement experience are addressed. It is a forum to discuss the role of lawyers in our justice system; the responsibilities lawyers have in obtaining access to this system and the practical implications of upholding the ethical standards demanded by the profession. Students will discuss the stresses particular to this profession, and explore the emotional commitment the profession demands.	2	Spring	Terry L. Turnipseed
931	Pro Bono Scholars Program Externship Students in their final year of law school to devote their last semester of study to performing pro bono service for the poor through an approved externship, legal services provider, law firm or corporation. Placements are available in Central New York and Washington, DC. Only students selected by the Pro Bono Scholars Program committee and approved the New York Court of Appeals may register for the course. Students accepted for the Program will spend 12 weeks working fulltime in a placement beginning in March. Students will also have a seminar component, Pro Bono Scholars Seminar, for which they will earn two credits.	10	Spring	Terry L. Turnipseed
951	Journal of International Law and Commerce Please contact the Office of Student Life for more information.	1-3	Fall, Spring
952	Law Review Please contact the Office of Student Life for more information.	1-3	Fall, Spring	Robin Paul Malloy
953	Moot Court Please contact the Office of Student Life for more information.	1-2	Fall, Spring
955	Community Development Law Clinic The Community Development Law Clinic is one of only a handful of law school clinics nationwide which provide students the opportunity to represent not-for-profit housing and community organizations involved in affordable housing development and community economic development for people with low incomes. The Community Development Law Clinic was founded in 1988 with a grant from the United States Department of Education Clinical Legal Experience Program. Since 1989, Associate Professor Deborah Kenn has directed the Community Development Law Clinic, which upon the conclusion of the United States Department of Education grant in 1992, has been funded in full by the College of Law.	6	Fall, Spring	Deborah Kenn, Jessica R. Murray
956	Journal of Science and Technology Law Please contact the Office of Student Life for more information.	1-2	Fall, Spring	Lisa Dolak L'88
957	Childrens Rights and Family Law Clinic This combined clinical offering is designed for students interested in developing legal skills in the area of children's rights and in handling various civil cases. Students will assist in cases pertaining to education, school disciplinary hearings, suspension hearings, children's access to public education and public housing. Students will also represent clients in court and in negotiations to enforce child and spousal support and on divorce and custody cases. Representation of the clients includes interviewing witnesses, gathering evidence, negotiation settlements, appearing in court, and conducting hearings and trials. During the seminar, students will discuss the fundamentals of interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and written and oral advocacy as well as the substantive areas of family and public interest law, public assistance, and social security.	6	Fall, Spring	Suzette M. Melendez
959	Advanced Legal Research Advanced Legal Research expands upon the foundation of research skills acquired in the first year. The course addresses effective research methods and strategies, examines the structural and theoretical underpinnings of traditional and automated research systems, and explores specialized areas of research (such as legislative history, administrative law, and non-legal resources). Students will have ample opportunities to refine research techniques through hands-on practice sessions in the law library.	2	Fall	Christine M. Demetros, Jan Fleckenstein G'84, G'86, L'11
960	NIABA Journal Please contact the Office of Student Life for more information	1-2	Fall, Spring	Robin Paul Malloy
975	Law of the Global Commons: Law of the Sea, Space Law, and Cyberlaw Law of the Global Commons is a national security and international law-based course that will address emerging legal and policy challenges within the maritime, space, and cyber domains. The course will begin with an overview of international law and the literature on collective action and tragedy of the commons before moving to a substantive discussion of each domain. First, within law of the sea, we will discuss the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the current challenges facing the world’s oceans, which constitute 70% of the earth’s surface. How is climate change impacting the ocean? What is the future for Arctic governance and the South China Sea? Second, within space law, we will discuss the Outer Space Treaty, its follow-on agreements, and the emergence of private space exploration. Where are the gaps in space law? Is this a domain for international collaboration or confrontation? Third, we will address the cyber domain, with a focus on the ongoing cybersecurity challenges facing the United States and the rest of the world.	3	Fall	Mark Nevitt
980	Impunity Watch Please contact the Office of Student Life for more information	2	Fall, Spring

Upper Division/Second & Third Year Courses

Upper Division/Second & Third Year Courses

630

Negotiation

690

Legal Communications & Research III: Writing for Trial and Appellate Judges

690

Legal Communications & Research III: Writing in Criminal Litigation

690

Legal Communications & Research III: Research and Rhetoric

690

Legal Communications & Research III: Transactional Drafting

690

Legal Communications & Research III: Writing in Pretrail Litigation

699

Constitutional Law II

700

National Security Law

701

Accounting for Lawyers

702

Administrative Law

703

Pension & Employee Benefit Law

704

Commercial Transactions

705

Comparative Law

706

Conflict of Laws

708

Constitutional Criminal Procedure - Investigative

709

Capital Habeas Defense Practicum

710

Law and Sexuality

712

Business Associations

714

Deposition Practice

715

Wills and Trusts

716

Environmental Law

717

Estate & Gift Taxation

718

Evidence

719

Mediation Skills

720

Family Law

721

Federal Courts

722

Federal Income Taxation I: Indivdual

723

Federal Income Taxation II - Taxation of Business Transactions

724

Veterans Law

725

Distressed Dealmaking

726

Intellectual Property

727

International Business Transactions

728

International Law

729

Homeland Security Law & Policy

730

Labor and Employment Law

731

Selecting Your Jury

732

Housing Law

735

Federal Criminal Law

742

Entertainment Law