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This course will explore the basic concepts in antitrust and competition. We will examine cartels, monopolization, vertical restraints and mergers.
Terms: Spr
| 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 236: Art and the Law
Course topics include: The fate of works of art in wartime; plunder and destruction as war crimes; restitution and reparations in kind; the international trade in stolen and illegally exported art and antiquities; the artist's rights in the work of art--moral right, copyright and resale right; the artist and the state--artistic freedom and the First Amendment, government patronage and support; the artist's life--artist and dealer, artist and museum, commissions, live-work space, toxic hazards, taxes, estate planning, legal services for artists; the collector--dealing with dealers and auction houses, consumer protection, counterfeit art, experts, theft, artnapping and insurance, taxes and charitable gifts; museums--the legal character and obligations of museums; trustees, directors and staff; conflicts of interests, deaccessioning, the problem of the insolvent museum. And so on.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Merryman, J. (PI)
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 238: Administrative Law
Administrative agencies interpret statutes, promulgate regulations, and adjudicate disputes, thereby affecting vast areas of life -- from employment to food and drug safety, from the environment to energy markets, and from telecommunications to immigration. This course 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: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Engstrom, D. (PI)
;
Ho, D. (PI)
LAW 239: Law and Creativity: Fiction and Nonfiction
Practicing law is very much a creative enterprise. Effective advocates and counselors provide innovative and thoughtful solutions to complex problems. But there often isn't enough attention devoted in law school either to thinking creatively or to reflecting in a creative way on the issues students confront inside and outside the classroom. This course response to this gap by building a bridge between law and the arts, with the goal of helping students hone their ability to think creatively and use disciplined imagination. Law & Creativity meets twice a week and has dual components designed to inform one another. The first session is structured as a seminar in which students gather to examine and discuss creative treatments of legal and professional issues in a variety of media (including film, fiction, and nonfiction). The second session follows the creative-writing workshop model in which students submit their own fiction and creative nonfiction pieces for group discussion. Through the workshop process, students develop the skills necessary to constructively critique and workshop one another's work, and learn a variety of techniques for improving their own creative writing.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Canales, V. (PI)
;
Horack, S. (PI)
LAW 240: Bankruptcy
This course concerns the law and finance of corporate bankruptcy with an emphasis on reorganization. The course reviews the fundamentals of debt contracting, including the role of events of default, debt priority and security interests. The course examines various aspects of the bankruptcy process: including the automatic stay, the avoidance of prebankruptcy transactions (e.g., fraudulent conveyances and preferences), the treatment of executory contracts, the debtor's governance structure during bankruptcy, the financing of operations and investments in bankruptcy, sales of assets during bankruptcy, and the process of negotiating, voting, and ultimately confirming a plan of reorganization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Triantis, G. (PI)
LAW 242: Corporations
This course is an introduction to the basic legal rules and principles governing the relations among managers, investors, and creditors in the business enterprise. The course is the foundation for advanced business courses. We focus on problems that arise because a firm's managers and owners have conflicting interests. We examine the costs associated with this conflict and how markets, legal rules and contracts might reduce them. Agency and partnership law are covered briefly, but we emphasize the financing, control, and conflicts of publicly held corporations. Special Instructions: Exposure to Quantitative Methods: Finance (
Law 467) and Quantitative Methods: Statistical Inference (
Law 468) will be helpful in this course and for a number of advanced courses in the law and business concentration and is strongly recommended.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Daines, R. (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.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
LAW 243: Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics
This course examines econometrics from a Bayesian perspective including linear and nonlinear regression, covariance structures, panel data, qualitative variable models, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, time series, Bayesian model averaging and variable selection. It explores Bayesian methodology including Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, hierarchical models, model checking, mixture models, empirical Bayes approaches, approximations, and computational issues and gives some attention to foundations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-6
Instructors:
Strnad, J. (PI)
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