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LAW 222: Legal Research: Advanced

Open to Law and Stanford graduate students. Preparation for research in practice and clerkships. Emphasis is on cost-effective research, legislative analysis, administrative law research, and open-access resources. How to evaluate sources and use them effectively, expand skills in primary and secondary U.S. legal sources, develop skills for effective online research, and use non-legal information resources. Final project.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Lomio, J. (PI); Wayne, E. (PI); Wilko, K. (PI); Wilson, G. (PI)

LAW 227: The Political Economy of Energy Policy

Theories of political economy that explain policy choices and behavior in energy markets in the U.S. and overseas. Topics include: collective action and public choice; state behavior and sovereignty; international political economy; behavior of complex organizations; monopoly and regulation. Case study applications, such as U.S. policy on ethanol, safety regulation at nuclear power plants, and international collective efforts to manage global warming. Prerequisite: familiarity with energy systems and policies.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Victor, D. (PI)

LAW 233: Antitrust

Legal and economic concepts of competition and monopoly; policy and judicial interpretations of the Sherman and Clayton acts and their applications to business practices and industrial structure. Ethical considerations.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Koob, C. (PI)

LAW 236: Art and the Law

International law and the fate of works of art in wartime. International trade in stolen and illegally exported art and antiquities. Artist rights such as moral right, copyright, and resale right. Artistic freedom and its limits. Artist relationships with dealers, commissions, live-work space, toxic hazards, taxes, estate planning, and legal services . The collector. Counterfeit art. The legal character and obligations of museums, and their trustees, directors, and staff. The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.
| Units: 3

LAW 238: Administrative Law

Administrative agencies interpret statutes, promulgate regulations, and adjudicate disputes, thereby affecting employment, food and drug safety, the environment, energy markets, telecommunications, and immigration. Surveys the law of the administrative state, considering rationales for delegation to administrative agencies, procedural and substantive constraints of agency decision-making, and the judicial review of agency actions.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Ho, D. (PI)

LAW 243: Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics

Linear and nonlinear regression, covariance structures, panel data, qualitative variable models, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, time series, Bayesian model averaging and variable selection. Bayesian methodology including Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, hierarchical models, model checking, mixture models, empirical Bayes approaches, approximations, and computational issues and foundations. Prerequisite: graduate-level econometrics or equivalent.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2-6
Instructors: ; Strnad, J. (PI)

LAW 248: Corporate Reorganization

Reorganization of a fictitious, financially distressed company under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, including: out-of-court workout; chapter 11 filing; chapter 11 operating issues; and the negotiation, formulation, and confirmation of a plan of reorganization. Developments in actual pending chapter 11 cases, through media reports.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Ray, S. (PI)

LAW 262: Corporate Finance I

For those with little background in finance; not open to J.D. or M.B.A. students. Financial concepts and analytical tools needed to make financial decisions and value securities. Capital structures, the design of corporate securities, corporate transactions, executive compensation, and bankruptcy proceedings. Focus is on problem solving.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | Repeatable 1 times (up to 4 units total)
Instructors: ; Ishii, J. (PI)

LAW 269: Foreign Affairs and the Constitution

Focus is on issues of separation of powers and federalism. Topics such as the treaty power, war powers, and customary international law. Current controversies, including those arising from the war on terrorism, Supreme Court cases related to the death penalty and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the Alien Tort Claims Act, and international trade agreements such as the WTO and NAFTA. Recommended: LAW 283.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Martinez, J. (PI)

LAW 277: Economic Analysis of Law

(Same as PUBLPOL 202B.) Core course for Public Policy master's students. How legal rules and institutions can correct market failures.The economic function of contracts; role of legal remedies to resolve disputes when contracts fail. The choice between encouraging private parties to initiate legal actions to correct externalities and governmental actors such as regulatory authorities. Economics of litigation; how private incentives to bring lawsuits differ from the social value of litigation. Economic motives to commit crimes; optimal governmental response to crime. Prerequisites: intermediate-level microeconomics; some calculus.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Polinsky, A. (PI)

LAW 283: Federal Courts

The role of the federal courts in the American system of federalism and separation of powers, and their role in the development of substantive federal law and constitutional rights. Historical context, especially the social, political, and legal movements, in response to which the federal courts have developed. Traditional aspects of federal court jurisprudence. Interdisciplinary readings.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Spaulding, N. (PI)

LAW 285: International Trade Regulation

Law and policy of the WTO system and related national laws. Topics include the relationship between international and domestic law, the international dispute resolution system, legal restrictions on traditional barriers to trade, nondiscrimination obligations in international trade, trade and the environment, technical barriers to trade, safeguards and adjustment mechanisms, antidumping and countervailing duty law, and trade services.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Sykes, A. (PI)

LAW 288: Governance and Ethics: Anti-Corruption Law, Compliance and Enforcement

Laws and regulations in the U.S. governing ethical conduct of public and industry officials and the extent to which they reflect the moral values of the community and the principles central to a democratic government. Alternative approaches to ethical conduct based on principles and values rather than compliance. Emerging global ethical and governance standards, reporting principles, and their application to emerging markets. How cultural, religious, and moral differences might impact the effectiveness of these standards.
| Units: 3

LAW 291: Evidence, Advanced

Goal is to develop witness interrogation skills. Direct and cross examination of lay and expert witnesses, introduction of documentary evidence, and use of illustrative evidence in California and federal courts. The art of examining friendly and hostile witnesses. Enrollment limited to six. Prerequisite: 290, application
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Mendez, M. (PI)

LAW 293: Family Law

Rules regarding the making and breaking of legally recognized relationships, especially those between marital partners and parents and children. Focus is on the institution of marriage.
Last offered: Winter 2008 | Units: 3

LAW 304: Law and the Rhetorical Tradition

(Same as PWR 194.) The rhetorical underpinnings of legal argument. Elements of the rhetorical tradition; how to analyze written and oral legal and non-legal texts with an eye to the use and function of rhetorical principles. How form and content are mutually constitutive. Understanding of rhetoric as readers and interpreters of legal texts and development of skills as writers and speakers.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Sassoubre, T. (PI)

LAW 307: Gender, Law, and Public Policy

Open to non-Law students with consent of instructor. Topics include equal protection standards, employment, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, pornography, sexual orientation, feminist legal theory, and the family. (Semester schedule.)
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Rhode, D. (PI)

LAW 308: Cultural Heritage Law and Policy

Preference to students who have taken LAW 236 or comparable preparation. Seminar. Focus is on national and international attention to law and policy concerning works of art, antiques, architectural monuments, archives, and intangible cultural heritage. Research paper.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Merryman, J. (PI)

LAW 311: Comparative Law

Issues of convergence of national legal systems, and American exceptionalism. Sources include contemporary Western European legal systems. Legal education, the role of judges and judging, the function and meaning of codes versus precedent, private law/public law distinction, constitutional courts, judicial review, and approaches to contract. Public law questions on racial equality and affirmative action, gender equality and sexual harassment, citizenship, and church and state.
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Kessler, A. (PI)

LAW 318: History of American Law

(Same as HISTORY 352B). Modern history of American law, legal thought, legal institutions and the legal profession. Topics include law and regulation of corporate organizations and labor relations in the age of enterprise, law of race relations in the South and North, development of classical legalism, critiques of classical legalism, modern administrative state, organized legal profession, New Deal legal thought and legislation, legal order of the 50s, expansion of enterprise liability, civil rights movements from 1940, rights revolution of the Warren Court and Great Society. (Semester schedule.)
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Gordon, R. (PI)

LAW 321: Patent Prosecution

(Same as ME 238.) Stages of the patent application process: identifying, capturing, and evaluating inventions; performing a patentability investigation, analyzing the documents, and the scope of the patent protection; composing claims that broadly cover the invention; creating a specification that supports the claims; filing a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and analyzing an office action and preparing an appropriate response. Current rules and case law. Strategic decisions within each stage, such as: how a patent application advances the patent portfolio; and in what countries a patent application should be filed.
Terms: Win | Units: 1
Instructors: ; Schox, J. (PI)

LAW 322: Patent Litigation Workshop

Simulations of the strategy and pretrial preparation of a patent lawsuit. Materials include information typical to a patent lawsuit: a patent, file history, prior art, and information regarding the accused product. Students represent either the patentee or the accused infringer. Students plan litigation strategy, meet with and advise a client, conduct written discovery, take and defend depositions, and brief and argue claim construction and motions for summary judgment. Some knowledge of patent law is presumed. Pre- or corequisite: LAW 326.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Galloway, M. (PI)

LAW 325: Comparative and International Employment Discrimination

Comparison of laws prohibiting employment discrimination in the U.S. with those of other countries. Differences between regimes in social context; how differing histories, demographics, economic institutions, and political commitments have produced various approaches to employment discrimination. How and why laws prohibiting discrimination have become widespread, looking to international and local influences. Prerequisite: LAW 349 or consent of instructor.
| Units: 3

LAW 326: Intellectual Property: Patents

Major aspects of patent law, primarily as applied in the US; patentability, including novelty, nonobviousness, enablement, infringement, and remedies. Focus is on essential legal principles and a policy analysis of the patent system. Goal is to provide background for non-patent specialists and those planning a career in the field.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Lemley, M. (PI); Sheeler, P. (GP)

LAW 330: International Human Rights

Contemporary system of international human rights, including civil, political, social, and economic rights. Women's and children's rights, indigenous rights, rights to democratic governance, and rights to cultural practices that differ from Western notions of human rights. Structure and role of international, regional and domestic bodies that report and adjudicate human rights claims. Normative justifications for human rights, and the challenges to these justifications posed by arguments for cultural relativism, and the forces of globalization. Recommended: international public law or equivalent.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Stacy, H. (PI)

LAW 332: International Development

Current research. How political institutions determine economic policy choices, and economic structures affect political processes. Bridges theory and practice to investigate micro- and macro-level political and economic processes shaping the prospects for development. Case studies on market function, why seemingly inefficient institutions survive, and why governments adopt policies detrimental to development. Topics include: the political economy of corruption, the role of foreign aid, the efficacy of governance reforms, and the relationship between democracy and development.
| Units: 3

LAW 333: Judgment and Decision Making

(Same as PUBLPOL 205A, IPS 207A.) Theories and research on heuristics and biases in human inference, judgement, and decision making. Experimental and theoretical work in prospect theory emphasizing loss and risk aversion. Support theory. Challenges that psychology offers to the rationalist expected utility model; attempts to meet this challenge through integration with modern behavioral economics. Decision making biases and phenomena of special relevance to public policy such as group polarization, group think, and collective action. Prerequisites.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Brest, P. (PI)

LAW 343: Scientific Evidence and Expert Testimony: Patent Litigation

How to explain science to judge and jury; how litigators determine which legal issues to argue. Patent and expert testimony law. Student teams choose patents for final simulation projects, prepare claim charts, devise a design-around, and present oral arguments.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Morris, R. (PI)

LAW 344: Law and Economics Seminar I

Current research by lawyers and economists on topics in law and economics. Guest speakers. Topics may include contribution among antitrust defendants, the philosophical foundations of the economic analysis of law, compensation for government regulations and takings, liability rules for controlling accidents, and the corporate tax treatment of nonprofit institutions. Prerequisite: LAW 275 or introductory microeconomics course.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 6 units total)
Instructors: ; Polinsky, A. (PI)

LAW 344: Law and Economics Seminar II

Current research by lawyers and economists on topics in law and economics. Guest speakers from other universities present current research. Topics include contribution among antitrust defendants, the philosophical foundations of the economic analysis of law, compensation for government regulations and takings, liability rules for controlling accidents, and the corporate tax treatment of nonprofit institutions.
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Polinsky, A. (PI)

LAW 345: Law and Culture in American Fiction

How literary texts register changes in property law, the law of contracts, intellectual property and legal constructions of race, gender, and privacy, as they relate to the maintenance of personal identity, community stability, and linguistic meaning. A novel or story is paired with relevant legal and historical readings, considering the points of contact between literary narrative and narrative in law. Authors include James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Sherman Alexie.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Sassoubre, T. (PI)

LAW 347: Law and Culture in American Film

Representations of law in 20th-century American film, particularly Westerns, gangster films, and courtroom dramas. Themes include the asymmetry of law and justice, the relationship between law and social change, the public and private identities of lawyers, anxiety that the rule of law fails individuals and minorities, and the disciplinary modes of law and culture. Convergence of narrative, visual, aural, and dramatic practices in legal proceedings and cinematic productions.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Sassoubre, T. (PI)

LAW 356: Dispute Resolution in International Economic Law

(Same as POLISCI 404.) Topics include: theoretical work on international trade and investment disputes; empirical work on WTO dispute resolution and the efficacy of developing country participation; and legal analysis of current, prominent disputes in the WTO and under international investment treaties.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 1 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 2 units total)
Instructors: ; Goldstein, J. (PI); Sykes, A. (PI)

LAW 359: Tax Policy

Issues in tax policy, progressivity, income versus consumption tax, property tax and school finance, tax simplification, tax compliance and tax shelters. Possible tax initiatives of the new administration in Washington.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Bankman, J. (PI)

LAW 361: Economic and Social Organization of the Legal Profession

(Same as SOC 133/333.) Seminar. Emphasis is on the labor market for large-firm lawyers, including the market for entry-level lawyers, attorney retention and promotion practices, lateral hiring of partners, and increased use of forms of employment such as the non-equity form of partnership. Race and gender discrimination and occupational segregation; market-based pressure tactics for organizational reform. Student groups collect and analyze data about the profession and its markets. Multimedia tools for analysis and for producing workplace reforms.
| Units: 3

LAW 362: Foundations of Statistical Inference

(Same as IPS 205C, PUBLPOL 203C.) Statistical background and introduction to regression. Topics include hypothesis testing, linear regression, nearest-neighbors regression, and other statistical concepts. Hands-on empirical analysis via computer exercises using statistical packages; how to analyze empirical studies, conduct empirical research, and cross-examine or work with statistical experts.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Strnad, J. (PI)

LAW 366: Principles of Research Design and Analysis: Tools

(Same as PUBLPOL 203B, IPS 205B.) Review of statistical background material. Statistical research for public policy analysis, including multiple regression analysis, multilevel modeling, and Bayesian analysis. Policy analysis in government, research institutes, and academia, complex empirical issues in litigation, investment banking, consulting and finance. Topics include hypothesis testing, regression specification, logistic regression, probit, serial correlation, errors in variables, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations, generalized linear models, simulation, causal inference, and missing data imputation. Empirical analysis via computer exercises using popular statistical packages. Prerequisite: basic statistics.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Strnad, J. (PI)

LAW 367: Principles of Research Design and Analysis: Advanced Mathematical & Computational Methods

Adjunct to 366 for students who wish to work at a deeper mathematical level. Corequisite: 366.
Terms: Win | Units: 1
Instructors: ; Strnad, J. (PI)

LAW 368: Law and the Biosciences: Neuroscience

(Same as HRP 211.) Legal, social, and ethical issues arising from advances in neuroscience, including effects upon law and society through improvements in predicting illnesses and behaviors, reading minds through neuroimaging, understanding responsibility and consciousness, treating criminal behavior, and cognitive enhancement. May be repeated for credit. (Semester schedule.)
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Greely, H. (PI)

LAW 372: Legal History Workshop

(Same as HISTORY 307A.) Faculty and students from the Law school and the History department discuss research in the field of legal history. Guest speakers. Secondary literature relevant to the speaker's research.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Kessler, A. (PI)

LAW 383: Research Design for Public Policy Analysis

(Same as IPS 205A, PUBLPOL 203A.) Translate the questions of policy controversies to questions that are susceptible to empirical research. How to select the most appropriate research strategy for different types of questions. Requirements for designing sample surveys, case studies, and experiments, and methods for conducting interviews with individuals and groups, observational studies and textual analysis. Final paper is a research design for investigating a policy question of the student's choice.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Hensler, D. (PI)

LAW 407: International Deal Making: Legal and Business Aspects

The application of legal and business knowledge to real world international transactions. Topics include deal structuring, identifying and resolving legal and business concerns, negotiations, documentation, deal closing, legal issues in cross-border transactions, importance of legal documents in business transactions, and the role of the legal advisor. Case studies. Students strategize, structure, and negotiate real world, substantive, international business deals.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Franklin, L. (PI)

LAW 409: Introduction to Intellectual Property

Patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Commonalities and differences among systems of intellectual property protection.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Lemley, M. (PI)

LAW 440: Biotechnology Law and Policy

Legal and policy issues raised by the biotechnology industry. Issues include patenting, corporate organization and financing, conflicts of interest, regulatory approvals, health care financing issues, and tort liability. Prospects for and implications of the biotechnology revolution. Organized around hypothetical problems. Undergraduates require consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2006 | Units: 2

LAW 447: Communications Law

Comprehensive overview of current communications law as it has emerged over the past 100 years, in the form of industry-specific laws and through related areas of law such as antitrust and first amendment law. Existing pressures on the system, available solutions, and the broader economic and political implications of the legal and technical choices that communications law is facing today. Focus is on the U.S.; attention to developments elsewhere.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; van Schewick, B. (PI)

LAW 458: FDA's Regulation of Health Care

(Same as HRP 209.) Open to law or medical students; graduate students by consent of instructor. Focus on the FDA's regulation of drugs, biologics, medical devices, nutritional supplements, and its jurisdiction over food, legal, social, and eithical issues arising from advances in the biosciences.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Greely, H. (PI)

LAW 467: Quantitative Methods: Finance

The time value of money. Present and future value analysis; discounting; net present value; IRR; bond valuations; and a critique of other project valuation methods. Diversification, the risk-return trade-off, portfolio performance measurement, and market efficiency. Arbitrage and tax considerations. Emphasis is on applications in legal settings.
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Siciliano, D. (PI)

LAW 468: Statistical Inference in Law

Tools, concepts, and framework to become consumers of quantitative evidence and social science. Case law as a springboard for considering quantitative evidence.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Ho, D. (PI)

LAW 470: Originalism's Alternatives

Competing methods for interpreting constitutional text. Alternatives within originalist methodology and alternatives to originalism, such as common-law reasoning, moral readings, democratic themes, foreign sources, and judicial minimalism. Focus on judicial decision making. Justifications for treating ancient constitutional text as law, the formal amendment process, defenses of judicial review, and influences on judicial behavior aside from interpretive method.
| Units: 2

LAW 471: Constitutional Law II: Free Speech

Speech, press, and associational rights under the First Amendment. Focus is on case law; attention to normative theory, emerging controversies, and empirical questions. Topics include sedition and suspected sleeper cells, government secrets and journalist privileges, personal privacy and reputational injury, communications network access and FCC indecency regulation, racist and sexist speech and associations, commercial advertising and trade secret protection, campaign financing, and Internet regulation.
| Units: 3

LAW 483: Deal Litigation Seminar

Practical and doctrinal perspective on mergers and acquisitions litigation. Case studies from practice in the Delaware courts where much contemporary deal litigation occurs; students apply cases and legal principles in practical situations that may arise in a transactional litigation practice. The litigator's role in the transactional setting. Prerequisite: familiarity with basic corporate law principles.
Last offered: Winter 2008 | Units: 2

LAW 513: California Climate Change Law and Policy

Same as EARTHSYS 233, EARTHSYS 133. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the clean cars and trucks bill, and the greenhouse gas emissions performance standard. Complementary and subsidiary regulations such as the renewable portfolio standard, the low Carbon fuel standard, land use law, and energy efficiency and decoupling. Focus is on the draft scoping plan to outline California's policies for economy-wide reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The Western Climate Initiative. History, details, and current status of California's efforts.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Grenfell, K. (PI)

LAW 514: The California Coast: Science, Policy, and Law

(Same as EARTHSYS 175, EARTHSYS 275, CEE 175A, CEE 275A.) Interdisciplinary. The legal, science, and policy dimensions of managing California's coastal resources. Coastal land use and marine resource decision making. The physics, chemistry, and biology of the coastal zone, tools for exploring data from the coastal ocean, and the institutional framework that shapes public and private decision making. Field work: how experts from different disciplines work to resolve coastal policy questions.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Boehm, A. (PI); Caldwell, M. (PI); Sivas, D. (PI)

LAW 539: Law and Policy of the European Union

(Same as IPS 232.) European legal and institutional integration, the nature and sources of EU law, the evolution of the single market, and the building of a supranational judicial system. General principles of EU law, the scope of Community powers and their application in the national legal systems of the member states, EU legislation and adjudication, the four freedoms of the single market, corporate and competition policy, and human rights law. U.S.-EU trade and anti-trust issues, cooperation in defense, development assistance, promotion of democracy, and relations in the context of the new challenges to global governance.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Magen, A. (PI); Morningstar, R. (PI)

LAW 549: Chinese Legal System: Introduction to the

Legal institutions, major areas of substantive and procedural law, and the gap between law on the books and in action. Topics include the World Trade Organization, the Communist Party's recognition of private property, and reforms of financial system and human rights protection mechanisms.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Gechlik, M. (PI)

LAW 550: Uses of Policy Analysis in the Law

Uses of policy analysis in substantive and procedural law reform and the practical and political constraints that limit its usefulness. Case study approach, including examples of policy analyses that played a role in recent policy debates, in the legislative arena, and in key court decisions. Previous topics include capital punishment, school vouchers, class actions, racial profiling, three-strikes laws, gun control, and gays in the military. Final paper. Prerequisite: LAW 383.
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Hensler, D. (PI)

LAW 565: Immigration Law: Current Constitutional and Civil Rights Issues

Issues related to the constitutional and civil rights of immigrants. Focus is on the statutory framework regulating the admission of non-citizens and the constitutional principles that govern immigration law and policy. Issues may include restrictions on federal court jurisdiction over immigration matters, detention of non-citizens, public and private discrimination on the basis of alienage, labor and workplace rights of immigrant workers, refugee and asylum law, post 9/11 issues, local and state laws targeting immigrants, and matters pending in the Supreme Court. Guest lecturers.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Guttentag, L. (PI)

LAW 569: Religion and the Constitution

(Same as POLISCI 336T.) Issues of religious toleration in political theory and in American constitutional law. Topics include: whether religion merits the special constitutional solicitude provided by the First Amendment's religion clauses; religion as distinct from culture, morality, and philosophy as understood for constitutional purposes; the tensions between ensuring free exercise and avoiding religious establishment; cases for and against free exercise exemptions; and whether the religion clauses can be understood as serving a single fundamental value such as liberty, equality, or neutrality. Readings from political and constitutional theory including Bodin, Locke, Madison, Jefferson, Rawls, Nussbaum, McConnell, Okin, Choper, Hamburger, and constitutional cases.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Cohen, J. (PI); Sullivan, K. (PI)

LAW 576: Sexual Orientation and The Law

How the law addresses contested contemporary issues concerning sexual orientation. Constitutional, criminal, family, and anti-discrimination law. Regulation of sexual conduct, discrimination in the military and Boy Scouts, the law concerning sexual minorities as parents, conflicts between sexual and religious freedom, and the role of direct democracy in shaping sexual orientation law. Debate over same-sex marriage. Emerging sexual identities such as transsexuality and intersexuality. Interdisciplinary focus on how social, cultural and political forces shape, and are shaped by, legal doctrine. How gender structures sexual orientation debates.
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Schacter, J. (PI)

LAW 581: Workshop in Sociology of Law

(Same as SOC 338.) Required for joint degree J.D./Ph.D. students in Sociology in the first three years of program; open to Ph.D. students in Sociology and related disciplines. Empirical, sociological study of law and legal institutions. Topics such as the relation of law to inequality and stratification, social movements, organizations and institutions, political sociology and state development, and the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution processes. Research presentations. Career development issues. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2008 | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable 1 times (up to 3 units total)

LAW 585: Introduction to Transnational Law

International aspects of modern legal practice. Public and private international law, and comparative law. Case studies focus on human rights, environment, trade, and commercial law. National sovereignty in the era of globalization, the democratic deficit of international institutions, theories about why nations obey or disobey international law, how nations internalize or reject international norms, how international institutions interact with national legal systems, and the role of non-state actors in the international system.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Martinez, J. (PI)

LAW 599: Climate Change Workshop

Students prepare papers to be used as technical support for problems that arise in the negotiations for the new global climate change agreement. Examples of paper subjects include analyzing the performance of proposed financial mechanisms in support of climate favoring technologies, the roles of intellectual property in facilitating or impeding technology diffusion, and the effectiveness of existing or past efforts to influence technology innovation at national or international levels. Focus is on output to those questions framed by the negotiation issues where bottlenecks may be avoided through improved technical support. (Semester schedule)
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 3 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 6 units total)
Instructors: ; Heller, T. (PI)

LAW 603: Environmental Law and Policy

Federal environmental laws, regulatory structures. and environmental policies. The property law roots of environmental law and current primary analytical frameworks of use in understanding environmental law and policy. Federal statutes including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, Superfund (CERCLA), and the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act. Case studies from environmental cases and controversies.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | Repeatable 1 times (up to 3 units total)
Instructors: ; Wara, M. (PI)

LAW 604: Environmental Law Workshop: Clean Technology

Current research and work in environmental and natural resources field focused on clean technologies. Academics, policy makers, and business leaders from various disciplines present current research or work. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 5 units total)
Instructors: ; Caldwell, M. (PI); Thompson, B. (PI)

LAW 608: Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers

(Same as IPER 335, OIT 338.) Core course for joint J.D. or M.B.A. and M.S. in Environment and Resources. How to apply scientific understanding to business operations, strategy, and the design of market-based environmental policy. Fundamentals of earth systems and environmental science. Spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Plambeck, E. (PI); Daily, G. (SI); Masters, G. (SI); Palumbi, S. (SI); McCarthy, B. (GP)

LAW 611: International Conflict Resolution Colloquium

(Same as PSYCH 283, POLISCI 403.) Sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Conflict, negotiation, and dispute resolution with emphasis on conflicts and disputes with an international dimension, including conflicts involving states, peoples, and political factions such as the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Guest speakers. Issues including international law, psychology, and political science, economics, anthropology, and criminology.
Terms: Win | Units: 1
Instructors: ; Holloway, D. (PI); Ross, L. (PI); Weiner, A. (PI)

LAW 615: Negotiation

Tools and concepts for analyzing and preparing for negotiations. Role play. Issues of representation, ethics, and the place of negotiation in the legal system. Autumn section 615-04; Winter section 615-01. (Semester schedule.)
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 4
Instructors: ; Avila, S. (PI); Becker, J. (PI); Johnson, D. (PI); Kennedy, J. (PI); Netsch, L. (PI); Notini, J. (PI); Rossiter, M. (PI)

LAW 643: Medical-Legal Issues in Children's Health

(Same as PEDS 211.) Collaboration of medical and legal fields, such as between future physicians and attorneys, to improve health outcomes for low-income children. Focus is on the effects of poverty on children's health. Topics such as asthma, immigration, and health insurance. Service learning including intake interviews with patient families and analysis of their medical-legal issues. Group project on local or state medical-legal policy issue. Final paper.
Terms: Win | Units: 4
Instructors: ; Rodgers, M. (PI); Weintraub, D. (PI)

LAW 656: International Conflict: Management and Resolution

(Same as IPS 250, POLISCI 210R/310R, PSYCH 383.) Interdisciplinary. Theoretical insights and practical experience in resolving inter-group and international conflicts. Sources include social psychology, political science, game theory, and international law. Personal, strategic, and structural barriers to solutions. How to develop a vision of a mutually bearable shared future, trust in the enemy, and acceptance of loss that a negotiated settlement may produce. Spoilers who seek to sabotage agreements. Advantages and disadvantages of unilateral versus reciprocal measures. Themes from the Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN).
Terms: Win | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Holloway, D. (PI); Ross, L. (PI); Weiner, A. (PI)

LAW 671: Critical Theory

Developments in critical theory as it relates to law and jurisprudence. The critical tradition in Western philosophy including thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Jean Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. Influence of this critical tradition in American legal theory, tracing the critical turn through the Americal legal realists, critical legal studies, and the emergence of identity-based critical movements such as critical race theory, critical feminist theory, and critical approaches to sexual orientation.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Ford, R. (PI)

LAW 246: Creating the American Republic (POLISCI 321)

Concepts and developments in the late 18th-century invention of American constitutionalism; the politics of constitution making and ratifying; emergence of theories of constitutional interpretation including originalism; early notions of judicial review. Primary and secondary sources.
| Units: 5
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