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Prerequisite: This is a JD 1L only offering. Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course offers a rigorous introduction to the field of cyberlaw. We will…

Prerequisites: Negotiation Workshop Exam Type: No Exam All lawyers work in environments that present opportunities to work with multiple parties – whether across the table,…

Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…

There is perhaps no other area of law that has been more profoundly altered in the last few years than immigration. The field has seen…

Exam type: One-Day Take-Home This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine how Congress and executive agencies adopt…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this seminar we will examine the ways in which the rhetorical and communications principles of framing and narrative…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course aims to provide students with a broad overview of the problems that confront businesses as they…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Environmental justice has taken center stage as a social, political, and legal issue in recent years, and one cannot…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam More than 6 million Americans are under “correctional supervision” in the United States, which incarcerates people at a rate…

Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course covers legal regulation of advertising in the United States, with some comparison to other countries. Private…

Prerequisites: None. The course is an optional co-requisite for students enrolled in the Safety Net Project of the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic at…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Short Format Takehome This course is one of two basic courses in Constitutional Law. We will study the Freedom of Speech…

Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course concerns the legal protection afforded in civil proceedings against interference by others with security of one’s person, property…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course will examine international arrangements for the regulation of finance. Arrangements covered include the International Monetary Fund, the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This course examines the rules pertaining to collateral used to secure debt arising from a sale or a loan.

Prerequisites: A prior course or other background in copyright law would be useful but is not required. Exam Type: No Exam This course explores a…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home This course focuses on neder. The term is most often translated as vow, though as we will see, the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Law enforcement in the United States plays a critical, often life-altering role in its citizenry’s life. More than 19,000…

Prerequisite: None Exam: Short Format Takehome According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was the clause allocating authority over money.   Over…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Paper in lieu of exam
After periods of widespread conflict or repression, the regular justice system of a…

Prerequisites: Prior exposure to asylum or immigration law is helpful but not required. Exam Type: No Exam.
The final grade will be based primarily…

Exam Type: Short Format Takehome This is a course that will offer to students legal cultural literacy in common law contracts.

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type:One-Day Take-home This course will explore the role of race and ethnicity in American legal jurisprudence and history. Areas of focus will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What is a Constitution? Why, and under what circumstances, do people make them? What about the United States and…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam; Paper in lieu of examination The world’s economic and political order reels under mounting challenges: the global financial crisis, the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop will explore the process and many forms of writing about law for non-specialist audiences. From the blog…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course is taught from a book written by B-school professors for B-school students. It is entirely self-contained: there…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home The subject of this course is the criminal process “from bail to jail.” We will address some of the…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Anyday Takehome This course provides an introduction to quantitative concepts and methods that are increasingly important for lawyers. We will explore…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam; Paper in lieu of examination A study of approaches in the philosophical traditions of the West and the East…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the discussion, and…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The principal controversy in modern statutory construction is the debate between purposivists and textualists. But these opponents in fact…

Exam type: Short Format Takehome Legislation and Regulation is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the way Congress and…

Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines. Topics include…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam; Paper in lieu of examination An exploration of the past and future agenda of progressives, whether self-described as liberals or…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines innovation law and policy in the context of drugs and devices regulated by the Food &…

Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines. Topics…

Exam Type: One Day Take-home This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines.

Exam Type: Short Format Takehome In this class, we will develop a conception of constitutional interpretation that explains — and maybe justifies — the Court’s…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course will address what courts do for litigants seeking to vinidcate their legal rights. Topics include damages,…

Pre/Co-requisites: Negotiation Workshop Exam Type: No Exam Money and other quantifiable outcomes grab our attention, and are the simplest yardstick by which negotiation outcomes are…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

A research paper will be required rather than a final examination.
This seminar is designed for students…

Prerequisites: No prerequisites, but a corporations course is strongly advised. Exam Type: In Class This course addresses the fundamentals of financial economics and reviews applications…

Exam Type: Short Format Takehome This course examines the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility, the significance of act, intent, causation and…

Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course will introduce students to the federal Lanham Act and related common law doctrines designed to protect…