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This survey course will provide a foundation in immigration law, the system of admission and removal, and constitutional principles relating to immigration. While surveying the laws and norms governing immigration and the regulation of non-citizens, we will explore their application to selected current topics by drawing on the instructor's extensive experience litigating civil rights cases on behalf of non-citizens. These current topics may include: detention of immigrants; state and local laws relating to immigrants; extraterritorial application of the Constitution; and the intersection of immigration and criminal law, including criminal grounds of deportability, immigration-related crimes, and Fourth Amendment issues arising in immigration enforcement. No prior course or background in immigration law is required, but familiarity with basic constitutional law and criminal procedure will be helpful. Elements used in grading: Class participation and attendance (20%), final exam (limited open book) (80%).

This seminar will focus on how the law regulates sexuality. We will approach the material as an exercise in advanced constitutional law, exploring how courts have used--or might use--federal or state constitutional provisions to address issues regarding a wide array of issues involving sexuality. The core of the class will relate to contemporary controversies concerning sexual orientation and gender identity (including, for example, regulation of sexual conduct, defining sexual identity, the Boy Scouts' policy, marriage and parenting rights of same-sex couples, among others). But we will also discuss other issues, including controversies about sex education and polygamy. We will maintain an interdisciplinary focus throughout as we consider how social, cultural, and political forces shape, and are shaped by, legal doctrine. Special attention will be paid to the unfolding debate on same-sex marriage as a case study in the contested role of courts as engines of social change. All students taking the seminar for 2 credits will write a final research paper of approximately 18 pages (for R credit). Students who wish to write a longer R paper (approx. 26 pages) may enroll in the seminar for 3 credits. Elements used in grading: Class participation and final paper.

How the law addresses contested contemporary issues concerning sexual orientation. Constitutional, criminal, family, and anti-discrimination law. Regulation of sexual conduct, discrimination in the military and Boy Scouts, the law concerning sexual minorities as parents, conflicts between sexual and religious freedom, and the role of direct democracy in shaping sexual orientation law. Debate over same-sex marriage. Emerging sexual identities such as transsexuality and intersexuality. Interdisciplinary focus on how social, cultural and political forces shape, and are shaped by, legal doctrine. How gender structures sexual orientation debates.

This course is intended to give students a basic understanding of the themes in the legal regulation of elections and politics. We will cover all the major Supreme Court cases on topics of voting rights, reapportionment/redistricting, ballot access, regulation of political parties, campaign finance, and the 2000 presidential election controversy. The course pays particular attention to competing political philosophies and empirical assumptions that underlie the Court's reasoning while still focusing on the cases as litigation tools used to serve political ends. Elements used in grading: Class participation and exam. Cross-listed with Communication ( COMM 361) and Political Science ( POLISCI 327C).

(Same as SOC 338.) Required for joint degree J.D./Ph.D. students in Sociology in the first three years of program; open to Ph.D. students in Sociology and related disciplines. Empirical, sociological study of law and legal institutions. Topics such as the relation of law to inequality and stratification, social movements, organizations and institutions, political sociology and state development, and the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution processes. Research presentations. Career development issues. May be repeated for credit.

International investment law and arbitration is one of the fastest-developing areas of international law. It is an area that combines elements of treaty and customary international law, public policy, and private dispute resolution. In the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of bilateral investment treaties and other agreements with investment-related provisions, followed by a sharp rise in the number of disputes between private investors and sovereign states under those specialized legal regimes. In particular, investment arbitration under the auspices of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) is booming, with some 419 arbitration and conciliation proceedings instituted under the ICSID Convention and Additional Facility Rules as of 31 December 2012. Due to the widespread geographical participation of states and private investors in investment arbitration, involving significant amounts of money in every conceivable investment sector-from oil, gas & mining, construction, transportation to the financial sector-the particularities and dynamics of investment treaty law and arbitration are becoming increasingly important to foreign investors, sovereign states, and the global economy that is increasingly fueled by foreign investment. The rise of international investment law and arbitration has also bred a new and exciting practice area in global law firms, where teams of lawyers act on behalf of investors against sovereign states, or defending sovereign states against investor claims, before international arbitral tribunals. This course will cover four broad areas: (I) the historic, theoretical and policy grounds underpinning international investment law; (II) the substantive obligations and standards governing the investor-state relationship; (III) the growth of investor-state arbitration and its impact on international law; and (IV) the wider issues of fairness and functionality of investment treaty law and investor-state dispute resolution. The course uses materials from international investment treaty texts, case law, and commentaries to enable students to evaluate and apply legal doctrine to future situations. As international investment law and investment arbitration is a dynamic, unsettled, and controversial body of law, this course will highlight different and sometimes conflicting interpretations and decisions in the area, and invite students to analyze, discuss, and form their own views on key issues. Elements used in grading: Class participation and final paper.

International aspects of modern legal practice. Public and private international law, and comparative law. Case studies focus on human rights, environment, trade, and commercial law. National sovereignty in the era of globalization, the democratic deficit of international institutions, theories about why nations obey or disobey international law, how nations internalize or reject international norms, how international institutions interact with national legal systems, and the role of non-state actors in the international system.

Topics include marriage, divorce, inheritance, ritual, war, rebellion, abortion, and relations with non-Muslims. The course begins with the premodern period, in which jurists were organized in legal traditions called ¿schools of law.¿ After examining the nature and functions of these institutions, we turn to the present era to study the relationship between customary law, state law, and the Islamic legal heritage in Egypt and Indonesia. The course explores Muslim laws and legal institutions and the factors that have shaped them, including social values and customs, politics, legal precedents, and textual interpretation. Elements used in grading: Participation & final paper. Cross-listed with Religious Studies ( RELIGST 201/301).

This seminar covers various legal and business aspects of professional sports, the Olympics and college athletics. Topics covered may include antitrust law, labor law, collective bargaining, torts, contracts, agency, constitutional law, administrative law and intellectual property. Class lecture and discussion will be supplemented with speakers from the sports industry, with an emphasis on current and future sports law issues. Students who have taken Labor Law ( Law 301) will be given priority. Special Instructions: Any student may write a paper in lieu of the final exam with consent of instructor. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from the exam section (01) to the paper section (02) with consent of the instructor. Elements used in grading: attendance, participation, one-day take-home exam or final paper. CONSENT APPLICATION: To apply for this course, students must complete and e-mail the Consent Application Form available on the SLS Registrar's Office website (see Registration and Selection of Classes for Stanford Law Students) to the instructor. See Consent Application Form for submission deadline.