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This seminar examines the way literary texts register changes in property law, the law of contracts, intellectual property and legal constructions of race, gender, and privacy, especially as they relate to the maintenance of personal identity, community stability, and linguistic meaning. The terms and stakes of these relationships will inform our readings of the texts themselves, as well as our understanding of their representations of law. The writers whose work we will consider include James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Henry James, Nella Larsen, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Sherman Alexie. Each week, a novel or story will be paired with relevant legal and historical readings. We will also consider the points of contact between literary narrative and narrative in law. English Department cognate course. Special instructions: Course requirements include class attendance and participation, three short response papers, and two longer papers. For Research "R" credit, students may petition to complete one long paper based on independent research. 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, written assignments and final paper. Automatic grading penalty waived for writers.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Sassoubre, T. (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.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 347: Law and Culture in American Film
In this course we will attend to representations of law in 20th century American film - particularly Westerns, gangster films, and courtroom dramas. The themes we will address 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 both law and culture. We will also attend to the convergence of narrative, visual, aural, and dramatic practices in legal proceedings and cinematic productions.nSpecial instructions: Course requirements include class attendance and participation, three short response papers, and two longer papers. For Research "R" credit, students must complete one long paper based on independent research. 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, attendance, assignments, final paper.nAutomatic grading penalty waived for writers. This course is open to first year Law School students. Writing (W) credit is for 3Ls only.
Last offered: Winter 2014
LAW 348: Health Law: Finance and Insurance
This course provides the legal, institutional, and economic background necessary to understand the financing and production of health services in the U.S. We will discuss the Affordable Care Act , health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance, the uninsured), the approval process and IP protection for pharmaceuticals, and antitrust policy. We may discuss obesity and wellness, regulation of fraud and abuse, and medical malpractice. The syllabus for this course can be found at
https://syllabus.stanford.edu. Elements used in grading: Participation, attendance, class presentation, and final exam. Cross-listed with Graduate School of Business (
MGTECON 331), Health Research & Policy (
HRP 391) & Public Policy (
PUBLPOL 231).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Bundorf, M. (PI)
;
Kessler, D. (PI)
LAW 349: Employment Discrimination
This course will examine legal responses to the barriers to workplace equality that are faced by minority groups. The course will survey the relevant doctrine, focusing primarily on federal employment discrimination statutes, but also addressing more expansive antidiscrimination protections under some state statutes, and local ordinances. Covered topics include sexual and racial harassment, sexual orientation discrimination, and affirmative interventions aimed at increasing the minority group and/or female representation in certain job categories or segments of the labor market. In addition to surveying the doctrine as it stands and as it has developed over time, we will also explore the doctrinal and conceptual difficulties inherent in identifying invidious discrimination and in devising appropriate remedies. Elements used in grading: Class participation and exam.
Last offered: Spring 2015
LAW 351: Corporate Income Taxation
This course is an intensive introduction to the federal income taxation of large American business corporations. As a result, it does not touch on the taxation of partnerships or S corporations, which are the tax-preferred forms for many privately-held business enterprises and investment funds. The course reviews the tax considerations relevant to each stage in the life cycle of a corporation, but emphasizes business acquisitions and divestitures. The instructor makes special efforts to relate classroom topics to current public deals, to show how tax law develops through complex interactions among Congress, administrative agencies, courts and taxpayers, and to demonstrate how lawyers (in this case, tax lawyers) add value for their clients in structuring transactions. Class participation is expected, but except in extraordinary cases will not be graded. Basic Tax or permission of the instructor is a prerequisite. The student's final grade will be based on a final exam, although class participation in rare cases may improve a student's grade. Elements used in grading: Final Exam.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Kleinbard, E. (PI)
LAW 352: International Tax
This course examines the United States federal income taxation of international operations and transactions, including international joint ventures and M&A transactions. Income source, foreign tax credits and Subpart F are important. International transfer pricing rules also will be addressed. Elements used in grading: Final Exam.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Forst, D. (PI)
;
Halpern, A. (PI)
LAW 353: Corporate Acquisitions
This course examines the corporate acquisitions from a transactional and financial perspective. It begins with a review of a corporate acquisition agreement, the document at the center of a friendly transaction. We then consider a variety of explanations for how corporate acquisitions may promise to create value, and think about why they often fail to meet that expectation. In doing so, we will review the basics of accounting for acquisitions and their tax treatment. From there we move on to the corporate law side of acquisitions - the different forms the transaction can take, the rules governing hostile transactions, freezeouts of minority shareholders, and proxy fights. Elements used in grading: Final exam.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Gilson, R. (PI)
LAW 355: Taxation I
This course provides an overview of the federal income tax. Elements use in grading: Class participation and final exam.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Bankman, J. (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.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
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