2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
Browse
by subject...
    Schedule
view...
 

1 - 10 of 336 results for: LAW

LAW 201: Civil Procedure I

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. This course is a study of the process of civil litigation from the commencement of a lawsuit through final judgment under modern statutes and rules of court, with emphasis on the federal rules of civil procedure.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4

LAW 203: Constitutional Law

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. This course offers an introduction to American constitutional law. In addition to examining questions of interpretive method, the course focuses on the powers of the federal government and the allocation of decisionmaking authority among government institutions, including both federalism and separation of powers.
Terms: Win | Units: 3

LAW 205: Contracts

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It provides exposure to basic contract law. The course will identify the scope and purpose of the legal protection accorded to interests predicated on contract and will focus on problems of contract formation, interpretation, performance, and remedies for breach.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4

LAW 207: Criminal Law

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It examines the traditional general issues in the substantive criminal law, including the purposes of punishment, the requirements of act and mental state, complicity, causation, justification, and excuse. It stresses the difficulty of converting moral judgments of blameworthiness and psychological questions about deterrence into coherent positive law, the relationship between statutory criminal law, and its common law and normative bases.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4

LAW 217: Property

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It deals with possession and ownership of land and with the incidents thereof, including private and public restrictions on its use and development, nuisance, trespass, concurrent interests, landlord and tenant, and eminent domain.
Terms: Win | Units: 4

LAW 218: JSD Research Colloquium

Required for and limited to JSD candidates. The objective of the colloquium is to assist students in developing their dissertation research proposals. Weekly colloquium sessions will include a mix of lectures and discussions on selected methodological topics, relevant to the candidates' dissertation research; guest lectures by empirical legal research scholars; presentations by and discussions with more advanced doctoral candidates; and presentations by the first year JSD candidates.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 0 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 0 units total)
Instructors: Hensler, D. (PI)

LAW 219: Legal Research and Writing

This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. Students work under the close supervision of a legal research and writing instructor, learning the techniques of legal library research, writing legal memoranda, drafting documents, preparing an appellate brief, and arguing orally before a moot court.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2

LAW 221: Intellectual Property: Commercial Law

This seminar, co-taught by eBay's first In-House Counsel and former Director of Law & Public Policy, Brad Handler, examines the ways in which intellectual property rights are asserted, exchanged, protected, and respected, both in theory and in practice. Special attention is devoted to the regulatory and strategic considerations involved in the business and legal decisions implicating intellectual property. See SLS Registrar's website for prerequisites.
Terms: Win | Units: 3

LAW 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.
Last offered: Winter 2009

LAW 222: Advanced Legal Research

The course is designed to prepare law students for research in practice and clerkships. The course will review who produces legal authority and how this material is organized, published, indexed and kept current. Objectives for the course: 1) to show students how to evaluate legal research sources and use them effectively, with particular emphasis on cost-effective research 2) to expand skills in primary and secondary US legal sources 3) to introduce students to the array of non-legal information resources that could be useful to legal practice. Since learning legal research requires a hands-on approach, students are required to complete homework assignments and in-class exercises. Each student is also required to analyze a recent California Supreme Court opinion.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Filter Results:
term offered
updating results...
teaching presence
updating results...
number of units
updating results...
time offered
updating results...
days
updating results...
UG Requirements (GERs)
updating results...
component
updating results...
career
updating results...
© Stanford University | Terms of Use | Copyright Complaints