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LAW 357: Ancient Greek Law and Justice

The development and practice of law and legal procedure in the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the well documented case of classical Athens. Constitutional, criminal, and civil law, approached through analysis of actual laws and speeches by litigants in Athenian courtrooms. Review of a growing scholarship juxtaposing Greek law to other prominent legal traditions and exploring the role of law in Greek social relations, economics, and literature, and its relationship to Greek conceptions of justice. Elements used in grading: Attendance, Participation, Memo, Paper. Cross-listed with Classics ( CLASSICS 378) and Political Science ( POLISCI 337L).
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: Ober, J. (PI)

LAW 358: Advanced Antitrust: Litigating an Antitrust Case

We will examine in depth four pivotal antitrust cases: Polygram Holdings, Microsoft, Leegin and Oracle. We will study the record created in the lower courts and then analyze how the court came to the conclusions it did. Students will write an amicus brief and argue a motion for preliminary injunction or an appeal.
Last offered: Spring 2013

LAW 359: Tax Policy

This course will explore various tax policy issues. In past years, the issues we've explored have included the carbon tax, health care, social security, consumption tax, tax compliance, tax shelters and school financing. Special Instructions: Grades will be based on either (A) class participation and memos responding to the discussion questions for any three of the sessions or (B) class participation and a research paper on a topic of your choosing (subject to instructor approval). Option B is Research (R) credit. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Elements used in grading: Class Participation, attendance and written assignments.
Terms: Win | Units: 2

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.
Last offered: Winter 2009

LAW 360: Advanced Empirical Methods

This course will examine topics in the empirical evaluation of law and policy for those who have already been exposed to basic statistics and regression. The course will begin with a discussion of problems of causal inference that have plagued some traditional statistical approaches and then examine the virtues and limitations associated with some more advanced techniques, such as regression discontinuity analyses and instrumental variables estimation. The course is designed to move students towards a publishable empirical research project. Given the constraints of the quarter system, the product is more likely to end with a detailed project design rather than a fully implemented study. nnSuccessful completion of the course requires regular attendance, and: (I) Careful reading of the course assignments coupled with frequent one page written assignments on the reading; (2) A PowerPoint presentation to the class discussing a major paper; and (3) A detailed project design using one of the empirical approaches discussed in the class. nnElements used in grading: Attendance, written assignments, class-room presentation and paper.
Last offered: Winter 2014

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.

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.
Last offered: Autumn 2008

LAW 363: History of the Common Law in England and America

The right to a trial by jury, the presumption of public access to criminal proceedings, and citizenship by birth rather than blood, all enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, ultimately derive from English common law. American private law-including contracts, torts, and property-is indebted to the same heritage. This course will examine the history and theory of the common law with the aim of demonstrating its continuing relevance.nThree principal strands will run through the class. The first will trace the substantive and procedural evolution of the common law from its early English roots and writs to its role in the American legal system today. Another thread will emphasize conceptions of the common law, including both historical accounts derived from the writings of Sir Edward Coke, Matthew Hale, Jeremy Bentham, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and more recent theoretical contributions by Guido Calabresi and Ronald Dworkin, among others. Finally, the course will examine certain central institutions of the common law, including the judge who follows precedent and the jury, and compare common law modes of adjudication with the alternative methods employed by the Chancellor in equity and judges in the civil law system. Source materials will include historical cases and documents as well as some secondary articles.nSpecial Instructions: Grades will be based on class participation and (1) the final exam or (2) a long independent research paper for Research (R) credit. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor.nElements used in grading: Class Participation, assignments, final exam or final paper. This course is cross-listed with Hist 131B.
Last offered: Spring 2014

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.
Last offered: Winter 2009

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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
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