LAW 599: Climate Change Workshop
Students prepare papers to be used as technical support for problems that arise in the negotiations for the new global climate change agreement. Examples of paper subjects include analyzing the performance of proposed financial mechanisms in support of climate favoring technologies, the roles of intellectual property in facilitating or impeding technology diffusion, and the effectiveness of existing or past efforts to influence technology innovation at national or international levels. Focus is on output to those questions framed by the negotiation issues where bottlenecks may be avoided through improved technical support. (Semester schedule)
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
LAW 603: Environmental Law and Policy
Federal environmental laws, regulatory structures. and environmental policies. The property law roots of environmental law and current primary analytical frameworks of use in understanding environmental law and policy. Federal statutes including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, Superfund (CERCLA), and the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act. Case studies from environmental cases and controversies.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 3 units total)
LAW 604: Environmental Law Workshop: Clean Technology
Current research and work in environmental and natural resources field focused on clean technologies. Academics, policy makers, and business leaders from various disciplines present current research or work. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 5 units total)
LAW 608: Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers
(Same as
IPER 335,
OIT 338.) Core course for joint J.D. or M.B.A. and M.S. in Environment and Resources. How to apply scientific understanding to business operations, strategy, and the design of market-based environmental policy. Fundamentals of earth systems and environmental science. Spreadsheet modeling, optimization, and Monte Carlo simulation.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 3
LAW 611: International Conflict Resolution Colloquium
(Same as
PSYCH 283,
POLISCI 403.) Sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Conflict, negotiation, and dispute resolution with emphasis on conflicts and disputes with an international dimension, including conflicts involving states, peoples, and political factions such as the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Guest speakers. Issues including international law, psychology, and political science, economics, anthropology, and criminology.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 1
LAW 615: Negotiation
Tools and concepts for analyzing and preparing for negotiations. Role play. Issues of representation, ethics, and the place of negotiation in the legal system. Autumn section 615-04; Winter section 615-01. (Semester schedule.)
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4
LAW 656: International Conflict: Management and Resolution
(Same as
IPS 250,
POLISCI 210R/310R,
PSYCH 383.) Interdisciplinary. Theoretical insights and practical experience in resolving inter-group and international conflicts. Sources include social psychology, political science, game theory, and international law. Personal, strategic, and structural barriers to solutions. How to develop a vision of a mutually bearable shared future, trust in the enemy, and acceptance of loss that a negotiated settlement may produce. Spoilers who seek to sabotage agreements. Advantages and disadvantages of unilateral versus reciprocal measures. Themes from the Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN).
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 2
LAW 671: Critical Theory
Developments in critical theory as it relates to law and jurisprudence. The critical tradition in Western philosophy including thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Jean Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. Influence of this critical tradition in American legal theory, tracing the critical turn through the Americal legal realists, critical legal studies, and the emergence of identity-based critical movements such as critical race theory, critical feminist theory, and critical approaches to sexual orientation.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 3
LAW 801: TGR: Project
Last offered: Summer 2017
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 0 units total)
LAW 802: TGR: Dissertation
TGR: Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Ablavsky, G. (PI)
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Chacon, J. (PI)
;
Donohue, J. (PI)
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Engstrom, D. (PI)
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Fisher, G. (PI)
;
Greely, H. (PI)
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Hensler, D. (PI)
;
Honigsberg, C. (PI)
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Kessler, A. (PI)
;
Klausner, M. (PI)
;
Lemley, M. (PI)
;
McConnell, M. (PI)
;
Milhaupt, C. (PI)
;
Nyarko, J. (PI)
;
Sinnar, S. (PI)
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Sykes, A. (PI)
;
Thompson, B. (PI)
;
Weisberg, R. (PI)
;
Zambrano, D. (PI)