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The application of legal and business knowledge to real world international transactions. Topics include deal structuring, identifying and resolving legal and business concerns, negotiations, documentation, deal closing, legal issues in cross-border transactions, importance of legal documents in business transactions, and the role of the legal advisor. Case studies. Students strategize, structure, and negotiate real world, substantive, international business deals.

Patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Commonalities and differences among systems of intellectual property protection.

Directed professional writing projects involve professional writing, such as motions, briefs, proposed legislation, and congressional testimony, undertaken with the assistance of --- and in collaboration with --- a faculty member. Directed professional writing credit is designed to allow a student, or a small group of students working together, to receive academic credit for their work tackling real-world problems. Only projects supervised by a member of the faculty (tenured, tenure-track, senior lecturer, or professor from practice) may qualify for Directed Professional Writing credit. It will not necessarily be appropriate to require each member of the team to write the number of pages that would be required for an individual directed research project earning the number of units that each team member will earn for the team project. The page length guidelines applicable to individual papers may be considered in determining the appropriate page length, but the faculty supervisor has discretion to make the final page-length determination. 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. A petition will not be approved for work assigned or performed in a course, clinic, or externship for which the student has or will receive credit. Directed Professional Writing petitions are available on the Law School Registrar's Office website (see Forms and Petitions). Elements used in grading: As agreed to by instructor.

Legal and policy issues raised by the biotechnology industry. Issues include patenting, corporate organization and financing, conflicts of interest, regulatory approvals, health care financing issues, and tort liability. Prospects for and implications of the biotechnology revolution. Organized around hypothetical problems. Undergraduates require consent of instructor.

Comprehensive overview of current communications law as it has emerged over the past 100 years, in the form of industry-specific laws and through related areas of law such as antitrust and first amendment law. Existing pressures on the system, available solutions, and the broader economic and political implications of the legal and technical choices that communications law is facing today. Focus is on the U.S.; attention to developments elsewhere.

(Same as HRP 209.) Open to law or medical students; graduate students by consent of instructor. Focus on the FDA's regulation of drugs, biologics, medical devices, nutritional supplements, and its jurisdiction over food, legal, social, and eithical issues arising from advances in the biosciences.

The time value of money. Present and future value analysis; discounting; net present value; IRR; bond valuations; and a critique of other project valuation methods. Diversification, the risk-return trade-off, portfolio performance measurement, and market efficiency. Arbitrage and tax considerations. Emphasis is on applications in legal settings.

Tools, concepts, and framework to become consumers of quantitative evidence and social science. Case law as a springboard for considering quantitative evidence.

Competing methods for interpreting constitutional text. Alternatives within originalist methodology and alternatives to originalism, such as common-law reasoning, moral readings, democratic themes, foreign sources, and judicial minimalism. Focus on judicial decision making. Justifications for treating ancient constitutional text as law, the formal amendment process, defenses of judicial review, and influences on judicial behavior aside from interpretive method.