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The Youth and Education Law Project: Advanced provides an opportunity for students who have already successfully completed the Youth and Education Law Project to continue their advocacy work and/or to pursue a discrete project related to educational equity advocacy. Examples of projects include policy research on specific topics (e.g., the provision of mental health services to youth with disabilities in the schools, the impact of school discipline policies on youth of color, or equal educational opportunities for English Language Learners); investigation and preparation for impact litigation; and community education and outreach on a specific education-related issue. All projects will be jointly designed by the instructor and the advanced student. Advanced students also continue to participate in the Clinic's discussion of cases during case rounds.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2-7
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Koski, W. (PI)
LAW 663: International Human Rights and Development Clinic: Advanced
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-7
Instructors:
Janus, K. (PI)
LAW 664: Advanced Legal Writing: Drafting Business Transactions
This course is designed to give students practical preparation in drafting and analyzing contracts and managing business transactions. It should especially appeal to students interested in working in a law firm and practicing transactional law (be it corporate, intellectual property, environmental, real estate, etc.). It will also appeal to those interested in business litigation who would like to gain some basics in contract analysis and those curious about the work of transactional lawyers. The course offers a wide range of realistic legal writing and drafting problems--completed both inside and outside of class. These drafting assignments will help students improve their writing, drafting and editing skills and develop their sensitivity to the expectations of the attorneys and clients for whom they will be working. In the course, students will learn the foundational tools necessary to analyze a variety of business agreements. Students will learn how to write clear, effective, plain language contracts. Students will also be exposed to other transactional writing and learn how to manage complex business transactions.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Bautista, M. (PI)
LAW 665: Advanced Legal Writing: Legislative Drafting and Analysis
This course is designed to submerse students in the practical and theoretical work of drafting and analyzing legislation. The course is divided into three segments. In the first segment, students are exposed to the procedures and political dynamics of our legislative process, with guest lectures supplementing academic writings. The second part of the course focuses on the art of statutory interpretation in understanding the text and reviews the use of legislative history and canons of construction. In the final part of the course, students draft legislation through realistic legal writing and drafting problems: most collaborative. The course should appeal to a wide range of students: those interested in working in American representational government on any level--staffer, lobbyist, representative; those that will interpret statutes in their practice areas--UCC, bankruptcy code, corporations code, etc.; or, those that desire to litigate matters in the courts, but who would also like to understand how to effect change if the court process are insufficient to meet their client's needs.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Bautista, M. (PI)
LAW 670: White Collar Crime
This course explores the law of economic and political crimes associated with the rubic "white collar crime." Key topics are: bribery and gratuities, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, extortion, securities fraud, racketeering, and money laundering, along with quasi-criminal laws on forfeiture of assets. The course covers specific statutes (mostly federal) in considerable detail, while also speculating about the jurisprudence underlying these crimes, and related issues of prosecutorial discretion and attorney ethics.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Mills, D. (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.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 671: Critical Theory
This course will review the most important developments in critical theory as it relates to law and jurisprudence. It will begin with a brief review of the critical tradition in Western philosophy including thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Jean Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault. We will then look at the influence of this critical tradition in American legal theory, tracing the critical turn through the American 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: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Ford, R. (PI)
LAW 701: SPILS Law and Society Seminar
This seminar is restricted to students who are in the SPILS program. The seminar deals with the relationship between legal systems and the societies in which they are embedded. The materials are drawn from studies of many different societies. Among the issues dealt with are: What influence does culture have on the operation of legal systems? What are the social forces which produce particular forms of law? What impact do legal interventions have on society and on human behavior?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Friedman, L. (PI)
;
Perez-Perdomo, J. (PI)
LAW 703: Corporate Governance and Practice Seminar
The seminar on corporate governance meets over the course of the academic year and forms the core of the LL.M. Program in Corporate Governance & Practice LL.M. In the Autumn quarter, the seminar will provide an in-depth look into series of corporate law and governance topics. The Autumn quarter is intended to be taken in conjunction with Corporations. Attendance and active participation are important to the success of the seminar and an important factor in the overall grade. Students are expected to have carefully read and reviewed assigned materials in advance of each session. Students will be required to submit a weekly reflection paper (2 to 3 pages in length) that evaluates, critiques, and discusses some or all of the key topics reviewed in the previous week's session.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Crawford, J. (PI)
LAW 704: Law, Science, and Technology Colloquium
The colloquium is a weekly overview and discussion of selected issues in Law, Science and Technology, presentations of research and papers by faculty, visiting scholars, and outside guest speakers. This course is required for students in the Law, Science and Technology LL.M. program.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Simon, B. (PI)
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