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(Same as SOC 133/333.) Seminar. Emphasis is on the labor market for large-firm lawyers, including the market for entry-level lawyers, attorney retention and promotion practices, lateral hiring of partners, and increased use of forms of employment such as the non-equity form of partnership. Race and gender discrimination and occupational segregation; market-based pressure tactics for organizational reform. Student groups collect and analyze data about the profession and its markets. Multimedia tools for analysis and for producing workplace reforms.

(Same as IPS 205C, PUBLPOL 203C.) Statistical background and introduction to regression. Topics include hypothesis testing, linear regression, nearest-neighbors regression, and other statistical concepts. Hands-on empirical analysis via computer exercises using statistical packages; how to analyze empirical studies, conduct empirical research, and cross-examine or work with statistical experts.

(Same as PUBLPOL 203B, IPS 205B.) Review of statistical background material. Statistical research for public policy analysis, including multiple regression analysis, multilevel modeling, and Bayesian analysis. Policy analysis in government, research institutes, and academia, complex empirical issues in litigation, investment banking, consulting and finance. Topics include hypothesis testing, regression specification, logistic regression, probit, serial correlation, errors in variables, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations, generalized linear models, simulation, causal inference, and missing data imputation. Empirical analysis via computer exercises using popular statistical packages. Prerequisite: basic statistics.

Adjunct to 366 for students who wish to work at a deeper mathematical level. Corequisite: 366.

(Same as HRP 211.) Legal, social, and ethical issues arising from advances in neuroscience, including effects upon law and society through improvements in predicting illnesses and behaviors, reading minds through neuroimaging, understanding responsibility and consciousness, treating criminal behavior, and cognitive enhancement. May be repeated for credit. (Semester schedule.)

(Same as HISTORY 307A.) Faculty and students from the Law school and the History department discuss research in the field of legal history. Guest speakers. Secondary literature relevant to the speaker's research.

(Same as IPS 205A, PUBLPOL 203A.) Translate the questions of policy controversies to questions that are susceptible to empirical research. How to select the most appropriate research strategy for different types of questions. Requirements for designing sample surveys, case studies, and experiments, and methods for conducting interviews with individuals and groups, observational studies and textual analysis. Final paper is a research design for investigating a policy question of the student's choice.

Directed Research is an extraordinary opportunity for students beyond the first-year to research problems in any field of law. Directed research credit may not be awarded for work that duplicates the work of a course, clinic, or externship for which the student has registered. Directed research credit may be awarded for work that expands on work initially assigned in, or conceived during, a course, clinic, or externship, but only if the continued work represents a meaningful and substantial contribution to the already existing project, significantly beyond mere editing or polishing. If a student seeks to continue or expand on work that the student initiated previously (whether for a course, clinic, externship, or otherwise) a student must (1) share the initial work with the professor supervising the directed research, to the extent that work is non-privileged, and (2) obtain permission for the expansion from the instructor or supervisor who supervised the initial project. The final product must be embodied in a paper or other form of written work involving a substantial independent effort on the part of the student. A student must submit a detailed petition of at least 250 words, approved by the sponsoring faculty member, outlining his or her proposed project and demonstrating that the research is likely to result in a significant scholarly contribution. A student may petition for "Directed Research: Curricular Development" when the work involves assisting a Law School faculty member in developing concepts or materials for new and innovative law school courses. Both the supervising faculty member and the Associate Dean for Curriculum must approve petition for "Directed Research: Curricular Development." Students must meet with the instructor frequently for the purposes of report and guidance. Unit credit and grading basis (H/P/R/F or MP/R/F) is by arrangement up to the allowable limit. Students whose projects warrant more than four units should consider a Senior Thesis or the Research Track (See SLS Student Handbook for requirements and limitations). With the approval of the instructor, successful completion of a directed research project of two units or more may satisfy the JD writing requirement to the extent of one research writing course (R course). See Directed Research under Curricular Options in the SLS Student Handbook for requirements and limitations. Directed Research petitions are available on the Law School Registrar's Office website (see Forms and Petitions). Elements used in grading: Paper and as agreed to by instructor.

An opportunity for third-year students to engage in original research and to prepare a substantial written-work product on the scale of a law review article. The thesis topic should be chosen no later than two weeks after the beginning of the seventh term of law study and may be chosen during the sixth term. The topic is subject to the approval of the thesis supervisor, who may be any member of the Law School faculty under whose direction the student wishes to write the thesis and who is willing to assume the responsibility therefor. An oral defense of the thesis before members of the faculty, including the thesis supervisor, will be conducted late in the student's ninth academic term. Acceptance of the thesis for credit requires the approval of the thesis supervisor and one or more other members of the faculty who will be selected by the supervisor. Satisfactory completion of the senior thesis will satisfy graduation requirements to the extent of (a) 5 - 8 units of credit and (b) two research courses. The exact requirements for a senior thesis are in the discretion of the supervising faculty member. Unit credit and grading basis (H/P/R/F or MP/R/F) is by arrangement up to the allowable limit. Special Instructions: Two Research credits are possible. Elements used in grading: Paper and as agreed to by instructor.