printer friendly pageLAW 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
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.
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)
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