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This course covers the major doctrines and decisions interpreting the provisions of the First Amendment affecting religion, especially the free exercise and establishment clauses. Special emphasis is placed on the historical, philosophical, and theological roots of first amendment principles, and it also studies the briefs and arguments in a case currently in litigation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
McConnell, M. (PI)
LAW 603: Environmental Law and Policy
This introductory course focuses on the key federal environmental laws, regulatory structures and environmental policies in the United States. The course begins with a discussion of the property law roots of environmental law and the current primary analytical frameworks of use in understanding environmental law and policy. Substantively, the course focuess on federal statutes including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act. A central teaching element of the course is the use of case studies drawn from actual environmental cases and controversies. As a result, substantial student participation is expected and class participation constitutes twenty percent (20%) of the overall grade for the course. A primary goal of the course is to have the student develop an understanding of environmental law and policy in its legal, technical and historical context. In addition, the course includes discussion of developing areas of environmental law and policy most notably efforts to address climate change.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Wara, M. (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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 3 units total)
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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 5 units total)
LAW 606: Supreme Court Simulation Seminar
This seminar provides students with the opportunity to analyze, argue, hear oral arguments and draft opinions in cases that are currently pending before the Supreme Court of the United States. The students in the seminar are divided into two courts. One of these courts sits five times and the other sits four times. During each sitting, the court hears arguments in a case currently pending before the Supreme Court. The cases chosen will provide a mix of constitutional and statutory issues, as well as a mix between criminal and civil cases. Each student is assigned the role of a particular Justice for the entire quarter. Each student¿s task while sitting on cases is to do his or her best to understand that particular justice, based on that justice¿s prior opinions and judicial philosophy. In this sense, the seminar is intended to help promote insight into the role of judicial personality and philosophy within the decisional process. The weekly seminars proceed as follows: In preparation for each week¿s session, all students (whether they are the two students arguing that week, the nine students judging that week, or the seven students observing that week) read the lower court¿s decisions, the briefs (the party briefs and selected amicus briefs) and the major precedents implicated. During the first portion of each week¿s session (approximately one hour), two of the students (who are members of the Court that is not sitting that week) present oral arguments to the nine ¿justices¿ sitting that week. The arguments will be based on the briefs that were actually filed in the case. During the second segment of each week¿s session (approximately 45 minutes), the ¿justices¿ who are sitting that week will ¿conference¿ the case while the other non-sitting students, students who argued, instructors and guests observe. Again, each student will be in the role of a particular justice. At the end of the ¿conference¿ the opinion-writing will be assigned to one ¿justice¿ in the majority and one ¿justice¿ in the dissent. During the final portion of each session (approximately one hour), the instructors, guests and students engage in a broad discussion of what they just observed. This may include analysis of the briefing, discussion about the oral argument, reflections on the ¿conference¿ and, more generally, a discussion about the case and its significance. After each class, the student assigned to draft the majority opinion will have two weeks to circulate a draft to the ¿Court.¿ The student writing the dissent will then have two weeks to circulate his or her opinion. The other sitting ¿justices¿ can join one of these opinions, request some changes as a condition of joining, or decide to write separately. Over the course of the quarter, then, each student argues one case, sits on four or five cases, and drafts at least one opinion.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Marshall, L. (PI)
LAW 608: Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers
(Same as E-
IPER 338 and
OIT 338). This is the primary core course for the joint professional degree programs that combine the MBA, JD or MD with the MS in Environment and Resources. It is challenging but doable for students without an undergraduate degree in science or engineering. Students will learn the fundamental science of ecosystems, climate and energy systems, by building policy- and decision-support models for managing these systems.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
LAW 609: The Democratization of Credit
This seminar course explores the effects of the deregulation of the consumer credit industry and the current "credit crisis." The class studies several topics that are covered in a payment systems course or a consumer law course, such as credit cards, usury, predatory lending, and the Truth in Lending Act. The focus is on the intersection of the economic, social, and political consequences of the law's current approach to consumer credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Twomey, T. (PI)
LAW 610: Trial Advocacy Workshop
This lawyering skills course gives students an orientation to and constant practice in most basic pretrial and trial advocacy skills areas. Topics include: taking and defending depositions, motion practice, trial evidence, including admission of trial exhibits in evidence and use of prior witness statements to refresh and impeach a witness, jury selection and voire dire, opening statements, examination of witnesses (direct and cross-examination), and closing arguments. Students will try a full jury case through to verdict with use of jurors and before a real judge in the Superior Court in Palo Alto at the end of the course. Students will also have a chance to watch the jurors deliberate and talk with them after their verdict. The course takes place during eight weeks of the Autumn Quarter with two classes (one lecture and one workshop) per week on most weeks from 4:15-9:00 (these can occur on either M, T, W, or Th), plus one Saturday workshop and the final weekend of jury trials, in late November. The format for each topic begins with a lecture/discussion featuring video vignettes of various techniques and a live demonstration by an expert trial lawyer. Following the discussion portion of each topic are small group sessions during which each student practices the skills involved. Constructive feedback is given after each exercise by two of our faculty of very experienced Bay Area litigators and judges. Most exercises are also videotaped for further one-on-one critique by another faculty member. The course ends with full jury trials. The central philosophy of the workshop is that skills are best acquired in an experiential manner by seeing and doing. Frequent short, well-defined exercises followed by immediate constructive feedback in a non-competitive, non-threatening atmosphere provide the core of the program.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Hallahan, T. (PI)
;
Kobrick, J. (PI)
LAW 611: International Conflict Resolution Colloquium
(Same as
POLISCI 403 and
PSYCH 283). This interdisciplinary colloquium explores conflict, negotiation, and dispute resolution with particular emphasis on conflicts and disputes with an international dimension, including conflicts involving states, peoples, and political factions (notably, in the Middle East and Northern Ireland). The course is sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Each week features a lecture by a different speaker; lecturers include SCICN faculty and affiliated scholars, guest lecturers, and experienced practitioners from around the world. The course addresses the relevant issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including international law, psychology, and political science, but also economics, anthropology, and criminology.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
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