Course Descriptions

A

Administrative Process
Reviews the powers and procedures of federal, state and local administrative bodies as they affect private parties, including administrative jurisdiction, adjudication, rulemaking, methods of decision, rules of evidence and judicial review.

Adoption Law
This course will explore issues related to adoption law. The course content will include the historical background of the American law of adoption, adoption procedure, parental consent to adoption, voluntary and involuntary termination of parental rights, choosing adoptive families; the Indian Child Welfare Act, race and secual orientation issues in adoption, international and interstate adoption, and wrongful adoptions.

Advanced Antitrust Issues
Deals in depth with several areas not covered by the basic course in antitrust: mergers and joint ventures; the Robinson-Patman Act; international antitrust; and the relationship between patent and copyright, on the one hand, and the antitrust laws, on the other. Students are provided with problems from current antitrust cases in these areas and are asked to analyze and argue these problems in class.

Advanced Civil Procedure
This course will explore topics beyond the introductory civil procedure course including class actions, mass torts, multi-party litigation and other problems associated with complex litigation.

Advanced Criminal Procedure: Pre-Trial
Offers an in-depth analysis of the decision to prosecute, restraints and prerogatives in the acquisition and use of evidence of criminal conduct, the law of arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, pretrial detention, preliminary hearings, pretrial motions, plea bargaining and other selected topics related to the pretrial phase of criminal prosecutions.

Advanced Criminal Procedure: Trial
Analyzes the important phases of the criminal trial, including jury selection, opening and closing statements, presentation of witnesses, defense issues, assitance of counsel, guilty pleas, double jeopardy, jury instructions, sentencing and ethical issues.

Advanced Domestic and International Trademark Practice
Designed to provide a more practical perspective and application of the doctrines covered in the initial Trademarks and Copyright course. It also incorporates a focus on international trademark practice, licensing, ADR and trademark ethics.

Advanced Illinois Criminal Procedure
This course is an elective, upper level class, which provides students with a particular interest in the substantive prohibitions, as well as affirmative defenses, reflected in the Illinois penal code and case law. It is intended to complement the basic substantive Criminal Law course, which focuses on basic elements of of crimes and defenses, by an in-depth exploration of offenses and grounds for exculpation not generally studied in the basic course.

Advanced Issues in Divorce Practice
Covers advanced financial issues including pensions, contingent stock options, property transmutation as well as more complicated considerations of child custody and support in both interstate and international contexts. The course covers substantive law and engages the students in a practical application of the law such as a negotiation or a drafting exercise.

Advanced Labor Law
An advanced inquiry into private sector collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act. Particular emphasis is placed on strikes, boycotts, picketing, enforcement of collective bargaining agreements, antitrust , preemption, regulation of unions, and the relationship between the individual and the union.

Advanced Mediation
This course builds on the skills learned through the simulated experience of the basic Mediation course by providing an opportunity for students to gain actual experience mediating disputes. The course includes three components: weekly class sessions; field work experience in mediation; and specialized training. Prerequisite: Mediation or Permission of Instructor

Advanced Patent Law
Required for a Certificate in Intellectual Property with a Patent Speciality. Provides a more practical perspective and application of the doctrines covered in the basic Patent Law course. Among the topics covered are patent searches, claim drafting, re-examination and re-issue considerations, design patents, international patents, and licensing.

Animal Rights
This course will offer a comprehensive examination of the rights afforded to animals as well as a look at the application and enforcement of those rights. Topics will include a history of animal rights, legislation, case law, ethics, lobbying and a discussion of issues confronting major lobbying and activist organizations. Constitutional, land use planning, international and environmental law issues will also be presented. The course will be taught through lecture and extensive class discussion including case and regulation analysis.

Antitrust
Studies the basic federal antitrust statutes which proscribe monopolization, conspiracies to restrain trade, and mergers that unduly tend to concentrate markets. This course also entails a working knowledge of American economic history, familiarity with simple rules of applied microeconomics, and a grasp of strategic commercial behavior.

Appellate Technique
Teaches both substantive law relating to appellate practice as well as skills training in appellate advocacy, focusing on: the ability to effectively analyze legal problems, efficiently perform legal research, collect and sort facts, write effectively and orally communicate effectively and persuasively.

Arbitration of International Commercial Dispute
This course is designed to teach students the necessary skills to become effective advocates in the international arbitration process. The course analyzes international arbitration and the substantive law of the international sales of goods. At the end of this course students will have the opportunity to compete for a position on teams representing the College of Law at the Vis International Competitions held each spring in Vienna of Hong Kong.

Art and the Law
Focuses on issues concerning legal issues and the arts. Includes the international regimes for copyright protection, comparison of different national copyright systems, and definition and treatment of artists' (moral) rights in their works. Ethical and legal aspects of international trade in art objects and antiquities, national and international attempts to control such trade, and issues involved in protection of cultural property and cultural resource management, as well a conflicts of law in the recovery of stolen art works.

Assisted Reproduction
This course will explore the legal and ethical issues involved in assisted reproduction. Technological developments in reproduction have raised a host of legal and ethical concerns such as funding for stem cell research, payment to gamete donors, custody or ownership of frozen embryos and human cloning. This course will explore the full range of issues including parentage, repro-genetics, privacy, informed consent, and access to treatment.

Asylum and Refugee Policy
Examines the substantive asylum law based on the Refugee Act of 1980 and the United States response to refugees within the context of the United Nations Convention and the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

B

Banking Law
Studies the American system of banking as a regulated industry. Regulation and traditional banking activities are studied as well as formation of banks, bank holding companies, trust powers, bank antitrust problems, federal insurance and international banking problems.

Bankruptcy
A survey of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, including the trustee's power of avoidance, Chapter 13, debtor's right to discharge, federal tax liens and priorities.

Biotechnology Patent Strategies for the New Millennium
Designed for students with an interest in the biotechnology aspects of patent law. Covers enablement, utility, claim drafting, means plus function language, obviousness, and the patentability of necleicacid sequence and expressed sequence stages.

Business and Commercial Law Journal
Members of the editorial board must enroll in this course for credit. Students enrolled are expected to perform editorial tasks assigned by the editor-in-chief.

Business Organizations
Provides a basic introduction to the modern American business corporation. Major subject areas covered include the steps required for organizing a corporation, the nature of the corporate entity concept, control and management of the corporation, fiduciary duties of directors and controlling shareholders and an introduction to federal securities law and partnership and agency law.

Business Planning
Combines advanced work in business organizations, securities law and federal taxation in the context of business planning and counseling.

C

Child Protection, Abuse & Neglect
This course deals with the legal processes for dealing with child abuse and neglect.

Civil Procedure
Required for JD. A basic survey of the fundamental principles which control the allocation and use of judicial power in the American legal system. The principle areas of inquiry include subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, phases of a law suit, problems of diversity jurisdiction and former adjudication. 4 credit hours.

Civil Rights
Analyzes selected topics in the civil rights field, with emphasis on the reconstruction amendments to the Constitution and equal protection. Statutory issues will be discussed. Different topics will be chosen for in-depth treatment, such as voting rights, housing, criminal justice administration and education.

Classroom Component
All students who are enrolled in the Program (LAW 524) for the first time must also enroll for this graded classroom component. In this class, students will be asked to reflect upon their experience as externs and create a written daily journal of those reflections. Open only to students enrolled in LAW 524.

Commercial Arbitration
This course is designed to teach students the necessary skills to become effective advocates in the commercial arbitration process. Students develop arbitration skills through role-play exercises, including actual advocacy in simulated arbitrations. Additionally, the course teaches the jurisprudence of commercial arbitration, the evolution of the case law in the field and where arbitration fits within the spectrum of dispute resolution processes. The course also teaches students to critically evaluate the ethical and professional issues in the field of arbitration.

Commercial Paper
Focuses on the law of negotiable instruments (principally Articles Three and Four of the Uniform Commercial Code). Emphasis is placed on negotiability, transfer, the legal effect of endorsement, indo course doctrine, value, maturity and good faith, real and personal defenses forgery.

Comparative Law
A general introduction to the civil law tradition on which the majority of the world's legal systems are based. The course also focuses on the legal system of a specific country or region which differs from the United States.

Complex Civil Litigation
Analyzes selected topics in state and federal civil litigation. Topics include (but are not limited to) the history of the writ system, pretrial practice, trial practice, appellate practice and special problems of complex litigation.

Conflict of Laws
Studies the major methodologies and frameworks for the resolution of choice of law problems and jurisdictional conflicts within the federal system.

Constitutional Process I
Required for JD students. Analyzes the judicial process in constitutional cases, focusing primarily upon the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Emphasis is given to the nature of judicial review, the distribution of governmental power in our federal system and individual liberties. Topics include the separation of powers, the federal and state commerce authority, due process of law, equal protection of law, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

Constitutional Process II
Required for JD students. Analyzes the judicial process in constitutional cases, focusing primarily upon the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Emphasis is given to the nature of judicial review, the distribution of governmental power in our federal system and individual liberties. Topics include the separation of powers, the federal and state commerce authority, due process of law, equal protection of law, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

Consumer Protection
Surveys the common law and state and federal statutes which protect consumers in various aspects of sales and credit transactions. The course begins with inducements (advertising and marketing techniques), explores financing the deal (credit regulation), substantive contract terms (unconscionability, warranties, and interest rates) and post-transaction problems (debt collection).

Contracts I
Required for JD. Covers offer and acceptance, consideration, remedies, third party beneficiaries, conditions, anticipatory breach, impossibility and frustration, the Statute of Frauds, discharge and illegality. Common law principles and applicable portions of the Uniform Commercial Code are studied.

Contracts II
Required for JD. Covers offer and acceptance, consideration, remedies, third party beneficiaries, conditions, anticipatory breach, impossibility and frustration, the Statute of Frauds, discharge and illegality. Common law principles and applicable portions of the Uniform Commercial Code are studied.

Corporate Finance
Provides a basic analysis of corporate capital structures, dividends and retained earnings, federal policies promoting disclosure and prohibiting fraud and mergers and acquisitions

Corporate Reorganization
Survey of methods of reorganizing corporate enterprise. Cognate issues in the fields of taxation, securities regulation, and bankruptcy are also discussed.

Criminal Juvenile Justice
This course will deal with the legal processes for dealing with juvenile crimes and status offenses.

Criminal Law
Required for JD students. Provides a survey of the substantive law of crimes, including a study of specific crimes and emphasis on the purposes of punishment and elements of criminal liability, including vicarious liability and defenses.

Criminal Procedure
Required for JD students. A survey of the administration of criminal justice, with an emphasis on pretrial procedure. Primary focus is placed upon search and seizure and Miranda. Some attention is given to post-convictions and remedies

Cyberlaw
Explores issues of cyberlaw, one of the fastest growing areas of intellectual property. The subject matter spans trademark law, copyright, proprietary rights, and First Amendment issues.

Disability Law
Surveys American law as it relates to people with disabilities. Primary focus is on discrimination in employment, government services, public accommodations run by private entities, and housing. Also, the course covers topics such as law of guardianship and income support programs. International perspectives will be included.

Dispute Resolution
Gives students the means to evaluate critically dispute resolution processes as a basis for counseling clients in the selection of and participation in a process appropriate for the resolution of a particular dispute. Students, who are divided into teams of two, alternating the roles of attorney and client, attempt to resolve a complex civil case utilizing three dispute resolution processes: pre-trial conference, medication and arbitration. Each team works with two associates from a financial consulting or an accounting firm who are their expert witnesses preparing for and participating in these processes. Lawyers, professional mediators and professional arbitrators act as the neutrals in the three processes. From year to year, different substantive areas are the focus of the problem and Intellectual Property is one of the problems.

Domestic Violence
Examines the psychological and political aspects of domestic violence, cross cultural issues, immigration and human rights issues, restraining orders, police response, the police and judicial response, custody issues, child abuse, ADR, marital rape, medical response and welfare issues, and battered women as defendants

E

Economic Justice, Identities & Markets
This course will explore how the law and the marketplace create and preserve economic inequality according to race, gender, sexual orientation, and other identity categories while maintaining a stance of neutrality. The class will critically analyze the inter-relatedness of law, markets, and identity using frame-works from classic market theory, law and economics, critical race theory, feminist legal theory, queer theory, and critical legal studies. The course objective is to provide critical analytic skills to students to develop contemporary critiques of classic market and legal structures for the purpose of aiding subordinated communities in the pursuit of economic justice. By so doing, students should be able to negotiate more effectively, the societal tension between efficiency and equality in the law and in the marketplace. The course and casebook are designed to provide materials for students and teachers who do not have formal training of economics, but who are interested in cross-cuting issues of discrimination and unequal wealth that results from the history of cumulative and synergistic discrimination.

Elder Law
Deals with the new specialty of elder law. Considering today's demographics, many attorneys will require a knowledge of the unique problems of the aging population. Through statutes, cases and research, students will understand the lawyer's role in counseling the elderly, assess the legal needs of an elderly client and provide counsel as to the available options.

Electronic Commerce
This course explores legal aspects of commercial transactions involving the internet. It covers topics such as internet sales, taxation, contracting, and advertising. The course complements the Cyberlaw course and students may take either course independently or take both courses as a two-course sequence.

Employee Benefits
Employee Benefits covers the creation and operation of retirement plans under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as well as medical and other welfare benefit plans for employees.

Employment Discrimination
This course covers the most important Federal laws dealing with discrimination in employment and emphasizes Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The course is designed to develop an understanding and recognition of racism and sexism in the context of employment.

Entertainment Law
Focuses on various aspects of entertainment law practice including performance contracts, managers and agents, recording and publishing agreements and music licensing.

Environmental Law
A survey of federal and state remedies for the protection of the environment.

Estate & Gift Taxation
Deals with the effect of federal estate and gift taxes on transfers made during life and at death. The gift tax sections of the Internal Revenue Code and the marital deduction are studied in detail. Required for LLM in Taxation students unless equivalent taken when earned JD degree.

Evidence
A survey of the rules governing the presentation, admission and exclusion of facts in civil and criminal judicial proceedings, including rules of competency, relevancy, privilege and hearsay.

F

Federal Courts
Studies the problems, conflicts and accommodations in jurisdiction, procedure and review peculiar to the dual system of federal and state courts.

Federal Criminal Law
Examines criminal enforcement resources, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, mail fraud, drug enforcement, criminal tax issues, criminal civil rights, obstruction of justice, fugitive felons and other aspects of federal criminal system.

Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure
Explores the history and application of the writ of habeas corpus. The "Great Writ" came to our country by way of English Common Law, and is given explicit recognition in the United States Constitution. It remains a protection for individual rights in criminal cases. Because habeas corpus petition constitute a significant portion of the caseload of district courts, this course may be of interest to students pursing federal clerkship opportunities.

Federal Income Taxation
Provides a study of tax law as it relates to the individual. Emphasis is placed on statutory materials, regulations, rulings and judicial decisions. Special consideration is given to the concept of gross income, adjusted gross income, deductions and gains. .

Federal Income Taxation and Policy
Examines economic and government policy context out of which tax laws arise and ethical issues in tax practice as well as substantive tax law. Designed for those who have never studied taxation. Examines how Congress uses its revenue power to shape the economy as a whole and to implement its philosophy of taxation.

Feminist Jurisprudence
This course examines various feminist legal theories and their impact on the philosophy of law. After introductory materials addressing equaity theory and constitutional standards, the class will apply feminist legal theories to different substantive areas, especially violence against women.

Field Placement (Extern) Program Non-Classroom
The Field Placement (Extern) Program is designed to give upper level students practical experience with a public agency or member of the judiciary. Upper-level law students (those with 54+ credit hours but a GPA lower than 2.5) or students who have at least 43 credit hours and a GPA of at least 3.0, may request a waiver of the credit/GPA requirements from the Extern Committee.

Financial Accounting for Lawyers
Provides a survey of accounting principles and issues relevant to the practice of law, including accounting methods and procedures, accounting issues in business, corporate and tax law and the use of accounting data in financial analysis and business planning. This course is closed to students who have completed more than one accounting course at the undergraduate level.

Foreign Study Abroad: Dublin Ireland General Information
Students enrolled in the DePaul University/University College Dublin Cooperative enroll in University College Dublin law courses under this number. The exact content depends upon the course in which the student is enrolled. 2 or 3 credit per course. Maximum of 12 credits per semester.

Forensic Evidence
An examination of the technical and legal aspects of scientific aids in the trial of civil and criminal cases. Demonstrations by scientific experts are used to provide the students with concrete knowledge of the problems involved.

G

Genetics and the Law
Explore new medical and genetic techniques and the legal and ethical controversies they have engendered such as the fetus as a source of cells and tissues for transplantation, prenatal diagnosis, fetal therapy and surgery, managing severely affected newborns, genetic biotechnology, genetic screening in the workplace.

Guided Research for JD Students Non-Classroom
Students who have earned at least a 2.0 g.p.a. after the completion of at least thirty-one credit hours may engage in assigned research under the direction and supervision of a full-time faculty member.

H

Health Care Contracts
This course covers a variety of contractual issues related to health care: employment agreements, staff privileges, fraud and abuse provisions of the Medicare Act, breach of contract resulting from treatment, disputes over fees, waiver of liability, the use of independent contractors, and the validity of contracts for exclusive services and preferential fee structures for insurers.

Health Care Fraud and Abuse
Will afford the opportunity to study the now-fundamental compliance issues in health care law: anti-kickback/fraud and abuse statutes and regulations. The focus addresses certain regulations of substantive law as the Federal Government continues to promulgate regulation for the health care industry and as those regulations become more complex, and many regulations stem from similar sources.

Health Care Law and Regulations
An overview of the common law, statutory and regulatory law impacting the health care industry. Among subjects covered are: corporate organizations, tax exemption, medicare, antitrust, medicare fraud and abuse, physician recruitment, integrated delivery systems, corporate compliance and HIPAA.

Health Care Privacy Law
Will cover the health care privacy laws as they exist and the Federal Government will be implementing and enforcing HIPAA regulations beginning in October 2002. This area of the law is cutting-edge and affects every aspect of the health care industry and of legal practice in health law and other areas.

Health Policy and the Law
Designed to introduce students to a broad variety of policy issues affecting health care, and briefly touches on economics, sociology, antitrust, tort law, administrative law and important questions of national health policy.

Housing Law
Highlights events that shaped urban America. Covers exclusionary zoning, institutional housing discrimination, fair share issues , fair housing laws, urban decline, linkage, community empowerment, tax increment financing, and other programs.

Human Rights Practicum
A three week program for functional Spanish speaking students in Mexico where students develop their "legal" Spanish and learn about the inter-American and Mexican legal systems.

I

Illinois Civil Procedure
An analysis of the Illinois Civil Practice Act and the rules of the Illinois Supreme Court which apply to litigation, emphasizing the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Immigration Law and Policy
Gives the students an understanding of the complexities of current US. immigration law and policy and the opportunity to develop and complete a research project on a related topic. Topics of discussion include: current legislative proposals, sources of immigration power, role of the federal courts, family immigration, grounds of exclusion, deportation, Mexican community concerns, asylum and refugee problems and citizenship.

Independent Study Non-Classroom
Students who have earned at least a 30 g.p.a. after completion of at fourty credits may undertake independent study under the supervision of a full-time faculty member. The student must produce an in-depth research paper of publishable quality not substantially covered by a currently offered course Fulfills the Seminar requirements.

Independent Study: Taxation Non-Classroom
Students whose records indicate their ability to undertake independent research may be allowed up to two credit hours upon completion of a paper of publishable quality. Permission to enroll must be obtained, in advance, from the Director of the Graduate Tax Program.

Individual Employment Rights
Issues in workplaces that are not governed by collective bargaining, such as hiring, wrongful termination, workplace privacy and defamation, protection against harassment, employees' legal obligations to employers.

Insurance Law
Provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of insurance law, including: a review of how the business of insurance has developed to meet contemporary business and consumer needs; the significance of insurance in modern business; and the importance of insurance and insurance law in the practice of law. Reviews the ways in which legislators, regulators and the courts have intervened in the operations of the insurance marketplace; the purposes of such interventions, and whether such purposes have been served.

Intellectual Property for Corporate Transactional Lawyers
For students interested primarily in a corporate practice. Focuses on issues a corporate practitioner should be award of regarding transactions involving the transfer of intellectual property assets or technology, such as the sale and licensing of intellectual property generally, licensing software, Internet law, advertising clearance and litigation.

Intellectual Property Survey
Surveys the legal interests recognized by American law in intellectual and artistic creations. Legal problems involved in the economic exploitation of intellectual and artistic property rights also are discussed.

Intellectual Property: Trademarks & Copyrights
Examines federal applications of trademark and copyright law, including subject matter, infringement and remedies. The relevant state law analogues such as unfair competition and trademark dilution also are covered. Examines proprietary rights such as the right of publicity and moral rights. Protection for computer programs, as well as art, literature and music are covered.

International Aviation Law & Policy
This course will explore the laws, regulations, and policy choices affecting the complex world of global air transport. The course will consider topics relating to aviation safety and security, capital investment, labor relations, airport ownership and operations, economic regulation and deregulation, and the airline/passenger relationship (including issues of tort liability). Assessment will be by a final examination.

International Business Transactions
Examines the foreign law aspects of establishing American business abroad, including international investment and finance relations, and problems posed by treaty, convention and trade practice between the United States and foreign countries.

International Environmental Law
Deals with the dimensions of international law which affect environmental protection and the use of resources.

International Human Rights Law and Policy Colloquium
This course will consist of a series workshop activities in international human rights law and policy. The course has two integrated components. The first component comprises of presentations by invited scholars and leaders in the field of human rights law and policy. The second component will be related discussions of assigned materials and written commentaries prepared by students.

International Intellectual Property
Examines the growing importance of intellectual property in the international context. Covers the scope of protection granted trademarks, copyrights and patents in foreign jurisdictions so that effective comparisons can be made between foreign and domestic law. Explores the scope and substance of international treaties. Strategies for obtaining cost effective intellectual property protection in the global economy will be examined.

International Moot Court Competition Non-Classroom
Students who have participated in the intramural competition may try out for the International Moot Court Team and must register if selected. The competitions are an advanced problem-oriented study of appellate brief writing and oral advocacy.

International Protection of Human Rights I
Surveys and analyzes the legal aspects of protecting human rights through international action. Relevant treaties, conventions and international practices are discussed.

International Protection of Human Rights II
Designed to provide advanced study of the substantive norms and remedial procedures of regional human rights systems. It examines the human rights situations in developing countries, as well as socio-political and economic contexts. rights situations in selected countries in the Americas, as well as their historical and socioeconomic contexts. To the extend feasible, classroom study is coordinated with supervised student work on ongoing pro bono rights matters.

International Sales
This course deals with the law pertaining to sales of goods between parties residing in the United States and those abroad. These transactions are increasingly subject to a growing body of private international law, specifically the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Although the course will largely focus on the CISG, attention will also be paid to transactions where that treaty does not apply.

International Trade and Finance Markets
An introduction to the regulatory structure of global economic relations, focusing on the theoretical and substantive foundations of multilateral systems such as IMF, GATT, NAFTA and the European common market.

International Trade Law
An introduction to the regulatory structure of global economic relations, focusing on the theoretical and substantive foundations of multilateral systems such as the IMF, GATT, NAFTA and the European common market. The course also analyzes the legal and constitutional framework for the treatment of international trade questions in the US, the European Union and Japan, and explores how this framework accommodates selected issues of global trade policy.

J

Jewish Law
This course will introduce students to the structure and methodology of Jewish law. It will examine how substantive Jewish law principles are employed to resolve difficult social and ethical issues in a variety of legal contexts, and consider the extent to which such processes may inform a thoughtful dialogue regarding resolution of similar questions in secular society.

Journal of Arts & Entertainment Law
Members of the editorial board may enroll in this course for credit. Students enrolled are expected to perform editorial tasks assigned by the editor-in-chief and are expected to supervise the student writing staff. Non-classroom

Journal of Health Care Law Editorial Board Non-Classroom
A student may enroll for two units of credit per semester up to a total of six units of credit. A student is expected to work for four semesters on the publication, but may enroll for credit in any three of the four semesters in which he or she works on the Journal. per semester.

Journal of Sports Law and Contemporary Problems Non-Classroom
Addresses issues regarding athletes, student-athletes and the overall climate in professional and amateur sports. The Journal will endeavor into matters of sports and culture, sports and society, sports and academics and sports and the law.

Jurisprudence
Focuses on the natural law theory, its history, development and influence on legal thought. A survey is made of classical and modern writing followed by a special examination of selected areas and of contemporary legal problems in such areas as abortion, death penalty and race relations.

Justice System Reforms After Conflict: El Salvador, A Case Study
Will explore the justice system in El Salvador. Will introduce the judicial reforms instituted in response to the Peace Accords as well as the political, social and economic problems that led to the conflict and the attempts to remedy some of these problems through law. The course includes a cone week visit to El Salvador. Students will be required to write a paper that explores a particular legal issue to El Salvador.

L

Labor & Employment Arbitration
Students participate in a collective bargaining project involving contract drafting and negotiation, with settlement required prior to a predetermined strike deadline. They also arbitrate a grievance arising under their executed agreements. The course materials deal with bargaining strategy and game theory, arbitration process and procedure, and the subject matter of collective bargaining agreements; seniority, management rights, union security, wages, vacations, holidays, discharge and discipline In addition, students will make use of tools of labor law research in drafting an arbitration brief.

Labor Law
Focuses on the evolution of American law pertaining to private sector collective bargaining, covering the National Labor Relations Act in depth. The course emphasizes organizational and bargaining rights, employer unfair labor practices and the duty of fair representation.

Labor Relations in the Public Sector
Explores the existence and extent of public and quasi-public employment rights to engage in concerted activities, to be represented by unions and to bargain collectively. Attention is given to the context and implementation of federal, state and local legislation and ordinances and various executive orders. Emphasis is given to the various dispute resolution and impasse resolution machinery developed in the public sector, including mediation, fact-finding, voluntary arbitration and mandatory arbitration.

LARC Teaching Assistant
Legal Analysis Research & Communication (LARC) Teaching Assistants (TAs) will work with LARC instructors. LARC TAs will work with LARC instructors to ensure a productive learning environment for students. TAs will work with one instructor for the two-semester LARC course. TAs attend LARC class, hold office hours and conferences with students, conduct research, mark ungraded assignmenets and perform other related tasks. TAs meet as a group, from time to time, with the LARC Director to ensure consistent delivery of information and advice to students.

LARC Teaching Assistant
Legal Analysis Research & Communication (LARC) Teaching Assistants (TAs) will work with LARC instructors to ensure a productive learning environment for students. TAs will work with one instructor for the two-semester LARC course. TAs attend LARC class, hold office hours and conferences with students, conduct research, mark ungraded assignmenets and perform other related tasks. TAs meet as a group, from time to time, with the LARC Director to ensure consistent delivery of information and advice to students.

Law & Strategic Security
Strategic security refers to international and domestic threats that significantly impact global stability and order. The challenges to strategic security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, tryanny, terrorism, mass human rights violations and pandemic disease. Legal issues are increasingly relevant to those security challenges: how and why should military force be used? What is the appropriate role of international organizations and national governments in addressing security concerns? Who should be accountable for security-related decisions whether at the international or national level? The specific issues and materials that comprise this course will evolve to keep current the major strategic security concerns. The course will familiarize students with how legal reasoning and doctrine affect the most important official decisions and provide crucial pathways for achieving peace and security.

Law and Popular Culture
Provides an opportunity to explore the image of the lawyer (law student and judge) in American culture through an examination of written texts and films. Explores the treatment of a single legal event, the trial of Leopold and Loeb for the murder of Bobby Franks, in three films representing distinct approaches to the underlying subject matter as well as to film making. The second half includes student presentations examining the treatment of law or the legal profession in popular literature, film, art, television, or other media of popular culture.

Law and the Family Unit
Provides an introduction to the creation and governance of family relationships, including such topics as marriage, adoption, neglect, conciliation, parentage proceedings, child custody problems, domestic violence, duty to support and property rights vis-a-vis members of the family unit.

Law and the Mass Media
Focuses on media law that affects journalism regulation of the media business. Topics include media and first amendment theory; prior restraint, regulation of media business, obscenity, commercial speech, private actions against the media, defamation, privacy and copyright, news-gathering, subpoenas and searches, access to information, and access to judicial proceedings, and broadcasting (content regulation and cable and new technology).

Law of the European Union
This course will cover the institutions and the highlights of the substantive law of the European Community, the largest single trading bloc in the world.

Law Review Editorial Board Non-Classroom
Members of the editorial board enroll for credit. Students perform editorial tasks assigned by the editor-in-chief. Evaluation is pass/fail

Legal Analysis & Research Communication I (LARC)
Required for JD. Designed to develop the first-year student's professional writing skills by involving students in a structured analysis of good and bad legal writing, as well as applying the principles and methods of legal analysis to specific writing tasks. Lectures on research tools, including an explanation of the major legal publications and their uses are also provided. Emphasis is given to research techniques and legal citation form.

Legal Analysis & Research Communication II (LARC)
Required for JD. Lecture on legal research skills, primary legal publications, research techniques, and legal citation form.

Legal Analysis Research & Communication III
Builds upon the research and writing skills established in the first-year required classes. Focuses on appellate brief writing and oral advocacy skills

Legal Aspects of Medical Ethics
This course explores the interaction of law and ethics in providing the policy and moral limits of medical practice and bio-medical activities. Examines the field of bioethics and ethical theories. Deals with current controversies such as reproduction, neo-natal treatment, withholding and withdrawing treatment and terminating life; withholding treatment from handicapped newborns; and the rationing of medical care.

Legal Clinic I General Information
The Legal Clinic is comprised of several modules - Asylum and Refugee Law and Policy; Civil Rights, Criminal Appeals, Death Penalty, Family Law and Technology and Intellectual Property.

Legal Clinic II General Information
Students work in one of the clinic modules under the supervision of a clinical attorney concentrating on real life problems with real clients and organizations.

Legal Clinic III
This clinic will offer a select number of students a leadership role within Legal Clinic I and Legal Clinic II. Responsibilities will be based on experience and activities will include involvement in litigation. Students will work under the supervision of licensed attorneys.

Legal Profession
Required for all JD students. Explores the role of the legal profession in American society. Legal education, admission to the bar, organization of the practicing bar, discipline, unauthorized practice, group legal services and other current problems are discussed.

Legislative Process
Surveys the legal aspects of the legislative process such as legislative structure, role of statutes, committees, access to information, enactment process, campaign finance, lobbying, speech and debate clauses, and legislative compromise.

Litigation Lab
Classes of 10 students, with a supervising professor, will meet each week with a different practicing attorney to work together on an active case problem. The projects might involve working out a closing argument, preparing a witness, creating exhibits or trying to solve other litigation problems. The attorneys who come in will be paying a fee to work with the students and get their ideas. This is a great way to continue to use and develop the litigation skills learned in prior evidence or trial advocacy classes and to meet and work with practicing lawyers. Strong communication skills and full participation in each class is essential. There will be a variety of readings and some written analyses of the projects and issues raised. Since these are pending cases, strict confidentiality is required.

Litigation Strategy Child Protection
This course covers advocacy exercises in the representation of children at trial and in trial preparation. Examines procedure and policy in relation to minors. Students address issues involving children, including domestic relations, neglect and abuse, decision concerning medical treatment, guardianship, and adoption.

Litigation Strategy Intellectual Property
Explores trial advocacy strategies with a focus on intellectual property. Students will develop basic trial advocacy skills in the context of problems exploring the different intellectual property regimes.

Litigation Strategy: Pre-Trial Civil
Offers a comprehensive treatment of the key problems encountered in the pre-trial stages of civil litigation, including drafting of the complaint, case planning, interrogatories and other written discovery and pre-trial orders. Students conduct simulated pretrial motions, client interviews, fact investigations, counseling, negotiating, and settlement sessions. Simulated depositions and motions argument, as well as simulated pretrial conferences, are conducted during class session.

Litigation Strategy: Pre-Trial Criminal
Offers comprehensive treatment of the key problems encountered in the pretrial stages of the criminal case, including fact investigation, motions to suppress evidence, plea negotiations, preliminary hearings, arraignment, and pretrial conferences. Students conduct simulated pretrial motions, client interviews, fact investigations, counseling, negotiating and settlement sessions. Simulated depositions and motions are argued, as well as simulated pretrial conferences, are conducted during class.

Litigation Strategy: Intellectual Property Intellectual Property
Explores trial advocacy strategies with a focus on intellectual property. Students will develop basic trial advocacy skills in the context of problems exploring the different intellectual property regimes.

Litigation Strategy: Marital Dissolution
Examines the procedure in marital dissolution cases, including general trial techniques, prove up, temporary restraining orders, orders of protection, temporary maintenance and child support, custody, removal, appraisal and attorney's fees.

Marital Dissolution Process
Covers those topics relating to the dissolution of marriage, including judicial jurisdiction in dissolution and custody cases, regulation of marriage, annulment, bases for dissolution, spousal support, equitable division of property, child custody and support.

Masters Essay Non-Classroom
Required for all LL.M. in Health Care Law degree. Not open to Juris Doctor students or Health Law certificate students. This is a research paper of publishable quality dealing with a current subject in health law. It may focus on any or all aspects of the problem chosen including the legal, ethical and medical or scientific dimension of the problem. Students are expected to refine their subject into a topic which can be managed within the parameter of the paper, complete a search of existing resources, outline and complete successive drafts of the paper under the supervision of a faculty member.

Mediation
Designed for students who seek to understand the application of the zealous representation standard within the mediation process. The course provides students with a basis to evaluate critically when and how to represent clients in mediation. They experience the mediation process through classroom simulations as mediators, attorneys and clients. Through simulated teaching methology, students focus on effective advocacy in mediation.

Medical Malpractice
This course is a survey of medical malpractice law and medical negligence. There will be some emphasis on medical malpractice law in Illinois. topics discussed include evolution of medical malpractice, theories and causes of action (including but not limited to parties, negligence, battery, informed consent, respondent superior, apparent agency, res ipsa, hospital corporate negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress), proximate causation and statute of limitations.

Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law
This course deals with how mental disability affects the legal rights and liabilities of persons in the criminal justice system. Among the issues considered are the insanity defense, alternative criminal accountability concepts, fitness to stand trial, and various provisions for the treatment of sex offenders and prisoners.

Mental Health Law
Examines significant issues in law and psychiatry and involves in-depth research and writing. Subjects include regulation of mental health professionals, malpractice, informed consent, confidentiality, incompetence, guardianship, commitment and mental health issues related to criminal law.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Aspects of business entities involved in a merger, consolidation, acquisition and other forms of combination. Examines business, financial, personal and real property, employment relations, labor, taxation, and environmental issues. Also analyzes the tax consequences of the particular form of combination.

Music Law
This course deals with issues relating to the organization and operation of the music industry. The course covers the principal statutes governing the industry and considers issues relating to the interests of both artists and recording companies

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National Moot Court Competition Non-Classroom
Students who have previously participated in the Intramural competition are eligible to try out for one of the National Moot Court Teams. Students who are selected must register for the course. The competitions are an advanced problem-oriented study of appellate brief writing and oral advocacy.

Negotiations
Analyzes and uses problem solving to explore the use of negotiation techniques in the legal setting.

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Partnership Taxation
Covers the tax consequences of the formation, operation and liquidation of partnerships, including tax shelters, passive loss rules and newly emerging uses of partnerships.

Patent Law
Designed for three types of students: those who intend to practice in the area of patent law specifically; those who plan to enter into a generalized intellectual property practice; and those whose primary area of interest is antitrust law. Students explore concepts and selected problems in patent law. Emphasis is placed on the policies underlying patent law.specifically and intellectual property generally. Covers the entire gamut of patent law, including subject matter, requirements for patentability, infringement, and remedies. In addition, trade secrets and preemption are covered.

Poverty Law
Provides an overview of poverty law and the legal problems encountered by the poor in our society. The course considers legislative and administrative representation as methods of poverty advocacy, as well as the current trend away from constitutional litigation and toward state responsibility. It considers the legal developments in poverty law including housing, education, family and public benefits.

Practice Skills Advanced Legal Research
The purpose of this course is to strengthen students' research and legal analysis skills. The course will build upon students' knowledge of basic source materials, will introduce new sources and techniques of research, and will explore how to apply this knowledge to specific legal problems. Also, the relative advantages and cost effectiveness of manual versus electronic research will be explored and compared.

Practice Skills Legal Writing
Explores sophisticated research techniques and provides an intensive experience in both persuasive and objective formats. Includes significant writing and revision experiences plus tutorials.

Predatory Lending
This course will examine the origins and dimensions of predatory lending, defined as mortgage loan origination fraud and foreclosure rescue fraud. Emphasis will be given to the development of the sub-prime mortgage market, facets of predatory lending and various methods to curb it. This course will include background lectures and discussion, case study and analysis, and written and oral advocacy exercises related to actual cases.

Product Liability: Litigation
Analyzes in depth the investigative and legal steps necessary to prepare a product liability case for trial, training in database management, as applied to the creation of microcomputer litigation assistance systems.

Product Liability: Theory
Analyzes the various legal doctrines which impose liability upon the manufacturer or seller of a defective product. The problems involved in prosecuting an action based on product liability are discussed.

Property
Required for JD. Basic concepts of the law of property are covered through a survey of the holding of wealth and transactions in the family and commercial context, with the attendant public policy limitations on owner control. Specific topics include: concepts of ownership and possession; the divisibility of title; present and future interests; bailments; the landlord-tenant relation; interests in the land of another; recording; gifts; contracts of sale; land financing; public and private control of land use.

Public Health Law
Examines past and present aspects of the law about the public health by identifying governmental entities involved and reviewing areas of public health policy law, common law and regulation on a federal and state level.

Public International Law
Covers the general principles of international relations, including such topics as what is a state, the elements of state responsibility, jurisdiction and nationality, the Law of War, the United Nations and certain international organizations.

Public Policy, Business & Legal Environment of Governmental Relations
Course meets for 9 weeks. Exposes students to deal making both in the public and private sectors so they are prepared to work as a governmental relations persons in a corporation or law firm, as a legislative assistant for an elected representative or a congressional committee.

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Race, Racism and U.S. Law
Examines the judiciary's approach to racial discrimination from the Colonial period through the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. It will include an analysis of the post-Brown status of racial subordination in the legal system and consider recent scholarly critiques of the law's limitations in effecting racial justice. Employs an interdisciplinary approach and covers the experiences of American Indians, African Americans, Asian Americans and Chicanos. Through an integrated analysis of the groups' legal histories, the class will foster a comprehensive understanding of race and racism as foundational elements in United States law.

Real Estate Transactions
Explores the basic concepts and documents involved in the inter vivos transfer, financing, development and use of real property. Topics covered include: brokers' agreements, condominiums, title assurance, land trusts and closings.

Remedies
Studies the interplay and choice of remedies (legal and equitable) available in the principal types of contract and tort actions. Damages, the object of an award in contract and in tort, limitations on recovery, the elements of damages, specific performance of contracts, specific relief in tort, injunctions and the specific limitations on their availability, restitution, constructive trusts and equitable liens are included.

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Sales
A survey of the law of sales (principally Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code) and related Uniform Commercial Code provisions. Emphasis is placed on core concepts, including warranty, buyer and seller remedies and risk of loss.

School Law
Designed to explore some of the principal legal problems arising out of the American educational system. The right to an education, the rights and duties of teachers, and the responsibilities of students and academic freedom are some of the issues discussed.

Secured Transactions
Covers the law of personal property security (principally Articles Nine and Seven of the Uniform Commercial Code) and consumer financing arrangements. Emphasis is given to transactional planning of consumer, equipment, inventory, accounts and warehouse financing arrangements, and the priorities of conflicting legal interests. Provisions of the Federal Consumer Credit Code, usury laws and the Fair Credit Reporting Act are discussed.

Securities Fraud
Examines litigation of securities fraud by private plaintiffs including shareholder class actions. Also reviews the role of SEC enforcement actions and criminal liability as a means to address this issue. Topics will include Sec. 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act & Rule 10b-5; proxy fraud; tender offer fraud; and the impact of the Sarbanes Oxley Act.

Securities Regulation
Deals with federal and state regulation of the distribution and transaction of investment securities. Problems related to the nature and extent of investor protection under securities legislation are studied.

Senior Seminar General
The senior seminar is to develop a student's research, analytical and writing abilities by exploring in-depth a specific narrow legal subject. The theme may be selected from a broad range of topics but must be narrower than a traditional law school course. This theme will be addressed in a seminar setting with a maximum enrollment of 20 students.

Sentencing
This course will focus on the theories and practices behind criminal sentencing. Depending on the size of the class, two students each week will particiate in a mock sentencing argument. The course will encourage attendance at sentencing hearings in both state and federal court.

Sexual Orientation and the Law
An examination of the legal issues raised by sexual orientation. Beginning with prosecution of sodomy and legal discrimination, including exclusion from military service, and anti-civil rights initiatives. The struggle for gay lesbian rights will be examined in the context of employment, schools, and domestic relations.

Special Topics in Law European Law
This is a 1 credit hour minicourse which is taught one hour a day for two weeks. The topic changes each year but always focuses on an aspect of European community law.

Sports Law
A study of the application of various legal doctrines to a broad range of sports-related activities. The course focuses upon many of the legal issues arising in professional sports, including the impact of the antitrust and labor laws and representation of the professional athlete.

State and Local Government Law
Analyzes the legal principles which determine the role that the local government unit plays in the American system of government. Powers of local government to regulate the activities of the individual are discussed in detail.

State Constitutional Law
This course will begin with an overview of the history, evolution and functions of state constitutions. It will cover state constitutions in the federal system, including federal control over the substance of state constitutions and the relationship between the state and federal constitutions. Problems of interpretation and revisions of state constitutions will be considered. Examines the expansion and contraction of state constitutional rights. The recognition of individual liberties, such as the rights of privacy and association, will be covered, in addition to selected topics of state constitutional law, such as public education and local government plus separation of powers.

Street Law
Students will teach about the law and the legal system in Chicago area high schools. Students attend a weekly seminar and teach in the high schools two times a week. In the spring semester, students often are involved in preparing high school students for mock trial competition. Trial practice advisable but not required.

Summer Legal Studies in Costa Rica
The program links basic principles of international law with an overview of the Inter-American Human Rights System and with special focus on how human rights ideas, advocacy, and activist strategies have transformed Latin American society and politics. The program facilitates student engagement with important regional human rights advocates and includes visits to key institutions such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Summer Legal Studies Program at Beijing
This program focuses on the legal principles related to international transactions in the Asia-Pacific area and will provide a comprehensive overview of China's legal system. 4 weeks of study in Beijing, China. 3 courses

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Tax Accounting
Required for LLM in Taxation. Covers the income tax rules concerning the choice and utilization of tax accounting periods and methods, the determination of inventory values and reporting of gain on the installment basis. Also covers the mitigation rules and the tax benefit rule.

Tax Exempt Organizations
Covers qualification as section 501(c) charitable organizations, rules governing conduct of commercial and political activities of charities, unrelated business income and private foundations.

Tax of Merger, Acquisitions & Joint Ventures
Provides an introductory overview of the primary considerations involved in structuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Topics covered can include: taxable acquisitions; tax-free reorganizations; tax-free spin offs; and tax issues relating to forming, operating and exiting a joint venture. This course will be taught from a tranactional point of view and will assume participants have a fundamental working knowledge of U.S. tax law.

Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
Required for Certificate in Taxation. Addresses basic tax considerations in the formation, operation and liquidation of corporations. Among the areas covered are the organization of corporations, Subchapter S corporations, property and stock dividends, 306 stock, stock redemption's, liquidations, collapsible corporations, corporate divisions and corporate reorganizations.

Taxation of Structured Real Estate Transactions
This course will provide an introductory overview of the primary tax considerations involved in structured real estate transactions, including: an analysis of the effect of income taxes on real estate transactions; a comparison of the various structurs used for the ownership and development of real estate; a review of section 1031 like-kind exchange driven real estate syndications; alterntive financing techniques such as sale-leaseback trnsactions; REITS; and inbound and outbound real estate investments.

Telecommunications Law & Policy
Focuses on the regulation of radio and television broadcasting laws as well as the regulation of cable and new satellite technology. A segment on telephone regulation is included. Also contains an entertainment law component focusing on the relationship between movie companies and other program providers and major distributors such as cable and broadcast stations. Some attention to copyright law for movies and other programs by cable systems and satellite distributors.

The Law of Film and TV Production and Distribution
This course will take students through the principal steps of actual production and distribution of Film/Television properities and will examine the legal issues presented at each stage of production and distribution.

Theater Law
Will explore the mounting of a theatrical production from its contractual inception to its final public performance. Will review the historical developments of copyright law, international treaties and rights to publicity and privacy as they pertain to Theater as a legal entity. The course will introduce students to particular areas of contract and agency law that influence Theater and its development in America. The course will address employment issues, immigration issues and the role of unions in Theater. Current issues of theatrical law will be discussed as they arise.

Tort Law
Required for JD. Provides an introduction to the basic theories underlying the American common law system of compensation for injuries to person and property. The major topics covered are intentional torts, negligence, strict liability and damages.

Trademark & Unfair Competition Law
This course will be a substantive and procedural discussion of the creation and enforcement of trademark rights and the rights conferred by statutory and common law under the general rubric of unfair competition law. Topics may include trademark law (including dilution), misappropriation of trade values and trade secrets, regulation of false and deceptive advertising, interference with contracts and trade relations and the right of publicitiy.

Trial Advocacy I
Examines fundamental trial techniques. Students are expected to perform simulated courtroom exercises in voir dire, opening statements, direct and cross-examination, introduction of exhibits, closing arguments, objections and trial motions. Students are also required to prepare trial books and exhibits and to participate in a simulated bench trial.

Trial Advocacy II
Covers advanced exercises in the mechanics of trial and trial preparation. Students develop case plans and proof analyses consistent with the theory of the case. During the trial of several simulated cases including a jury trial, students address such complex trail problems as: evidence retrieval in complex litigation, examination of medical and forensic expert witnesses, argument of motions during trial and instructions conferences. Students conduct detailed witness preparation exercises and voire dire. There is a review of litigation technology and use of videotaping of student performances.

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When Justice Fails
This course is designed to examine the circumstances in which the judicial system is likely to fail to serve the interests of justice. The course begins with an examination of the ideas and historical events that have led us to expect that our courts will operate in a neutral and fair manner. At the same time, some consideration is given to when the system is unlikely to operation in this manner. the bulk of the course will be spent in examining five famous trials in which justice appears to have failed.

Wills & Trusts
A study of trusts, wills and fiduciary administration, including laws of succession, will revocation, trust powers and problems of testamentary and inter vivos gratuitous transfers.