
You are strongly encouraged to review the Course Selection Guide and all course updates before finalizing your second- and third-year course selections. Pay close attention to the descriptions. Courses offered in more than one section may have separate descriptions that reflect the different emphasis of the instructors who are teaching the course.
Course Definitions (may appear at end of course description)
- “Prerequisite”
Indicates that students must have taken and already completed the specified prerequisite course stated in order to elect the course. - “Corequisite”
Indicates that the student must take the specified prerequisite course in order to elect the course, but may take the specified course concurrently. - “Limited”
Indicates limited enrollment for this course. Students should pay careful attention to this notation when numbering their course preferences (all seminars have limited enrollment). - “Restriction”
Indicates that the course may not be taken if the student has also taken or will take other specified courses. - “Notes”
Will call your attention to classes that satisfy the Experiential Learning requirement or do not offer the CR/NC/H grading option. Most seminars offer an opportunity to satisfy the Upper-class Writing Requirement, while most courses do not. Exceptions to the above will be noted in the course and/or seminar description.
Course Indicators (letters in parentheses)
- (S) in the title field indicates a seminar.
- (C) indicates a clinical program course to which you must apply and be accepted before registering.
- (BK) indicates an LLM course in Banking and Financial Law.
Registration for Banking courses is on a space available basis and is not available through WebReg. Exams for Banking courses are administered by the Graduate Program for Banking and Financial Law. Credit and grades are automatically counted toward the law school JD requirements and GPA. For more information or to register, visit their office in Room 1005, call 617-353-3023 or email banklaw@bu.edu. - (TX) indicates an LLM course in Taxation.
Registration for Taxation courses is on a space available basis and is not available through WebReg. Exams for Taxation courses are administered by the Graduate Tax Program. Credit and grades are automatically counted toward the law school JD requirements and GPA. For more information or to register, visit their office in Room 1005, call 617-353-3105 or email gradtax@bu.edu.
Course Descriptions
Please click on any of the following courses and/or seminars to receive more detailed information, including descriptions and meeting times. Credit and grades in courses cross-listed for other schools and colleges (e.g. GSM, MET, SPH) do not count toward the law school GPA.
Administrative Law: LAW JD 801
4 credits
This course will examine the nature and functions of federal administrative agencies and the legal controls on agency action. Agency action is situated and examined in its political and legal contexts. Topics include the status of administrative agencies in the constitutional framework of separation of powers including the non-delegation doctrine, the President's appointment and removal powers in light of the unitary executive, the constitutionality of the legislative and line-item vetoes, the constitutionality of agency adjudication, and the constitutional (and political) status of independent agencies; agency rulemaking and adjudication including the choice of procedural model and the procedural requirements of the rulemaking model; and the availability, timing and scope of judicial review of agency action including standing to seek judicial review and exceptions to the availability of judicial review. The course also examines different methods of policy analysis such as regulatory impact analysis and cost-benefit analysis. Additional topics include discriminatory enforcement, regulatory delay, judicial imposition of procedural constraints on agencies, the implication of private rights of action from regulatory statutes and the availability citizens' suits. Some attention may be paid to differences between state and federal separation of powers doctrines.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 801 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:45 am | 12:45 pm | 4 | Jack M. Beermann | LAW | 103 |
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Tue,Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Gary S. Lawson | NIP | 320 |
Advanced Legal Research: LAW JD 879
2 credits
In this class students will be exposed to how legal research functions in practice. The research projects will be designed to highlight major legal research tools in both online and print formats. The projects will feature tasks such locating court documents, doing a legislative history, finding agency regulations and guidance, doing state specific research with practice series, researching an unfamiliar area of the law using secondary sources, as well as learning to use Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law in a cost effective manner. Most classes will have an assignment and some will be longer projects such as a client letter, a research memo for a supervisor and all will include a research log. There will be an exam where the students must do several short research assignments with a research log. The objective of the class is for students to become comfortable completing simple and complex research in a work setting. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 879 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 2 | Brian Flaherty | LAW | 414 |
Advanced Legal Writing (S): LAW JD 874
3 credits
The purpose of this seminar is to provide students with the opportunity to improve their writing, editing and communication skills. Students will prepare a variety of practice related documents based on a single fact pattern. Some legal research will be necessary, but the emphasis will be on writing, not on research. Students will also have the opportunity to edit other students' papers, with the goal of improving their own writing skills. Actors will perform a scenario for the class, from which students will extract the pertinent facts. From this fact pattern, students will draft an inter office memo, a letter or memo to a non lawyer client, and a trial or appellate brief. Students will also engage in simulated client interviewing and counseling sessions, as well as a simulated meeting with a supervisor. Students will be graded on the basis of their written work, editing work on their classmate's papers and on their classroom performance. There will be no final exam. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 874 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Constance A. Browne | LAW | 209 |
Advanced Legal Writing for LLM Students: The Essentials of Bar Exam Writing and Beyond (S): LAW AM 707
3 credits
This seminar focuses on developing the critical lawyering skills needed to succeed on the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) of the Uniform Bar Exam -- and to succeed in the practice of law: the ability to analyze and apply relevant law to specific factual situations to perform a lawyering task in writing. As with the MPT, students will be assigned lawyering tasks, which may include writing a memorandum to a supervising attorney, a client letter, a persuasive memorandum or brief, a statement of facts, a contract provision, a settlement proposal, and the like. Students will work from source files containing facts and other material, and will receive a collection of legal sources with sufficient substantive information to complete the task. The class does not teach research skills or substantive law. Rather, it focuses on developing analytical and writing skills in the American legal tradition. The class will also expose students to specific writing approaches, outlining and issue spotting techniques, and time management strategies. Enrollment is limited to 14 foreign-trained lawyers enrolled in the American Law Program. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 707 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Richard A. Sugarman | LAW | 420 |
Affordable Housing Law (S): LAW JD 935
3 credits
The seminar will combine a focus on: 1) public policy issues related to the goals of creation of affordable housing in the context of community revitalization; and 2) real-world implementation strategies that have been successfully used to achieve these goals. Analyzing the roles of government agencies, non-profit organizations, neighborhood groups, and private businesses will be a key part of the seminar. In lieu of a traditional exam or term paper, students will engage in field research and investigation of real community projects as part of semester long case studies, where they will work with lawyers, government officials, developers and grass-roots advocates involved with the projects. The relative utility of traditional legal techniques (such as land use planning devices, zoning, easements, revolving trusts, leasehold covenants and financing) will be carefully analyzed; the policies and impact of federal, state and local laws, including federal and state affordable housing financing programs and the Community Preservation Act in Massachusetts, will be examined; and possible new approaches will be considered. By incorporating real-world projects into the seminar, it is hoped that the interface of law, economics, planning, design, and construction disciplines will enable the problems to be analyzed from a variety of perspectives reflecting a client's and a community's practical concerns. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 935 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Ilana Quirk | NIP | 320 |
Ajlm/Ed Board: LAW JD 753
Var credits
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Ajlm/Member: LAW JD 752
Var credits
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Alternative Business Entities: LAW JD 860
2 credits
Alternative business entities -- particularly LLCs and partnerships -- have become entities of choice, and many more LLCs are now organized than corporations incorporated (especially in Delaware). The course will address choice of entity decisions, examine the differences and similarities among alternative business entities, and consider questions involving management, fiduciary and other duties, obligations to non-owners and economic issues. RECOMMENDED COURSE: Corporations.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 860 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 2 | Jim Wheaton | NIP | 320 |
Alternative Dispute Resolution: LAW JD 881
3 credits
The goal of this course is to improve students' ability to resolve disputes and to productively engage in conflict. In this highly interactive class, students will examine a variety of dispute resolution processes, other than traditional court adjudication, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, dispute system design and restorative justice. Over the course of the semester, students will engage in a series of exercises (i.e., role-plays) through which they can develop and hone their skills and approaches to dispute resolution. Discussion and short lectures will accompany the exercises, as appropriate. There will be short written assignments as well as a longer paper due at the end of the semester. No final exam. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 20 students. NOTE: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. RESTRICTION: Students may not enroll in both Alternative Dispute Resolution and Negotiation (JD921).
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 881 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:15 pm | 3:45 pm | 3 | Mark Bamford | NIP | 320 |
Alternative Dispute Resolution for LLMs (S): LAW AM 955
3 credits
The goal of this course is to improve the ability of internationally-trained LL.M. students to resolve disputes and to productively engage in conflict. In this highly interactive class, students will examine a variety of dispute resolution processes, other than traditional court adjudication, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, dispute system design and restorative justice. Over the course of the semester, students will engage in a series of exercises (i.e., role-plays) through which they can develop and hone their skills and approaches to dispute resolution. Discussion and short lectures will accompany the exercises, as appropriate. There will be a series of short written assignments (2-3 pages). No final exam. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 18 students.
FALL 2020: LAW AM 955 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Arthur Pressman | NIP | 320 |
American Constitutional History (S): LAW JD 912
3 credits
This seminar will investigate constitutional history, from the years leading to the American Revolution through the early twentieth century, from several different angles, including presidential leadership, legislative mandates, and judicial interpretation. We will also consider popular constitutionalism and how society at large debated and helped to shape constitutional interpretation and development. Topics to be covered will include the constitutional impact of the break with Britain, the Founding of the Republic, Civil War era constitutionalism, the redefinition of American citizenship during Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, constitutional law in the industrial Republic, and changes in the rights of the individual and developments as to federalism during the time period covered in this course. No prior history background is necessary. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is frequently offered in alternating years. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 912 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Christian G. Samito | LAW | 212 |
American Indian Law (S): LAW JD 920
3 credits
This course will explore the Constitutional and statutory law related to American Indians, Indian reservations, and tribal governments. The course will examine the historical foundations of Indian law and the current legal structures that govern criminal and civil jurisdiction, natural resources, and cultural preservation. Significant time will be spent on issues surrounding tribal sovereignty, traditional cultural practices, and self-determination crosscutting different areas of Indian law. Students will gain an understanding of the basis for modern Indian law and the complex legal issues facing native communities in the United States and abroad today. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 920 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Kate Weinograd | LAW | 413 |
American Legal History: LAW JD 804
3 credits
Selected topics in 19th- and 20th-century U.S. legal history. We will first explore the role of the legal profession in four public controversies: the authority of English common law after the American Revolution, slavery and racism, women's rights, and organized labor. We will then turn our attention to various methodologies for interpreting legal change: formalism, realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, and feminist jurisprudence. Readings (which will be plentiful) are drawn from primary sources (cases, speeches, and treatises) and secondary literature (articles and books). Students can either write a research paper or complete a take-home examination. Research papers may, but need not, fulfill the Writing Requirement.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 804 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 11:00 am | 12:25 pm | 3 | David J. Seipp | LAW | 413 |
Antitrust and High Tech Markets (S): LAW JD 671
3 credits
In the United States and around the world, there is an intense debate about the proper role of antitrust as applied to technology industries. This course will examine some of the key questions involved in that debate including the role of network effects, Big Data, attention competition, and multi-sided platforms in antitrust legal analysis and innovation policy more broadly. We'll study these issues not just through a legal lens but also with a focus on economics and policy, and with the aid of cases from the start of the computing age (AT&T, IBM), the seminal case of US v Microsoft, and more recent inquiries involving firms such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the Upper-class Writing Requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 671 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Nikhil Shanbhag | LAW | 102 |
Antitrust Law: LAW JD 838
4 credits
As explained by the Supreme Court, U.S. antitrust law is designed to be a comprehensive charter of economic liberty aimed at preserving free and unfettered competition as the rule of trade. It rests on the premise that the unrestrained interaction of competitive forces will yield the best allocation of our economic resources, the lowest prices, the highest quality and the greatest material progress, while at the same time providing an environment conductive to the preservation of our democratic political and social institutions. Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. United States, 356 U.S. 1, 4 (1958). This course introduces students to the complex set of laws that govern business competition in the United States, the principles underlying antitrust law enforcement and the current debate about the appropriate limits of antitrust law and whether to amend existing law. In addition to case law, we will cover federal enforcement agency policy guidelines and statements and basic economic principles used by the enforcement agencies and courts in administering the law.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 838 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Deborah Garza | NIP | 320 |
Appellate Advocacy Program Director: LAW JD 901
3 credits
This class is restricted to third-year students who applied and were accepted as directors of the BU Law Moot Court programs (Stone and Albers). NOTE: This class may be used to satisfy the Upper-class Writing requirement.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 901 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Robert Volk |
Art Law: Law, Art & Artifacts (S): LAW JD 995
3 credits
This seminar will consider selected legal issues concerning unique art objects and artifacts. The problems that lawyers face when they deal with art cut across traditional legal boundaries. The seminar will explore the sometimes conflicting rights and interests of artists, collectors, dealers, museums and the public, from the perspective of the lawyers who advise them and of the law makers to whom they sometimes appeal. A paper is required. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the instructor. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 995 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Alan L. Feld | NIP | 320 |
Banking Structure and Regulation: LAW BK 925
2 credits
This course provides an introduction to and overview of the banking and financial services industry under US law and where US laws intersect with international banking supervision structures and principles. The course focuses on US banking structures and regulations, with an emphasis on the public or regulatory policies behind the laws and regulations. Recent US legislation in the Dodd-Frank Act and recent international reform initiatives such as Basel III receive close scrutiny. The course addresses a range of safety and soundness rules, permissible activity issues, chartering and merger activity procedures and capital and liquidity requirements. The course also addresses administrative procedures including bank examination and supervision, the regulatory supervisory process and bank enforcement actions. Students are asked to do significant reading and to participate in classroom discussion about course subject matter and to be aware of current developments in the financial services industry. This is a required course for all students studying for the degree of Master of Laws in Banking and Financial Law.
FALL 2020: LAW BK 925 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 2 | Alvarez | NIP | 320 |
Bankruptcy: LAW BK 933
2 credits
This course examines bankruptcy and related state law from the point of view of secured and unsecured creditors. The course begins with survey of individual state law collection remedies and non-bankruptcy composition and liquidation schemes. The balance (and bulk) of the course focuses on the rights, obligations and procedures created by federal bankruptcy law. Topics addressed include: the automatic stay, the use and protection of collateral during the pendency of a bankruptcy case, the avoidance of pre- bankruptcy transfers as preferences and fraudulent transfers, the treatment of executory contracts and unexpired leases, debtor-in- possession financing, asset sales and the negotiation and confirmation of a plan of reorganization that is binding on all creditors. Finally, the course will discuss recent !? bankruptcy reform!? legislation, which affects both corporate and consumer bankruptcies.
FALL 2020: LAW BK 933 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Francis C. Morrissey | LAW | 212 |
Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights: LAW JD 803
4 credits
This course focuses on corporate reorganization and corporate finance. We will study the legal requirements for reorganization plans under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, as well as the use of going concern sales outside of Chapter 11. We will study important doctrinal issues relating to reorganization of corporate groups, including substantive consolidation and equitable subordination. We will investigate avoidance actions in bankruptcy, including preferences and fraudulent conveyance, and the treatment of pre-bankruptcy contracts. Other topics include the financing of corporate debtors in bankruptcy and workouts and duties to creditors outside of bankruptcy. Finally, we will also introduce and ultimately master some basic tools of corporate finance--present value, expected value, and risk and diversification. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. PREREQUISITE: Business Fundamentals. COREQUISITE: Corporations.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 803 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Frederick Tung | LAW | 102 |
Bar Exam Skills: LAW JD 608
1 credits
This course trains students on the test-taking and study skills that are critical to students' success on the bar exam. This course consists of eight in-person classes, weekly homework assignments and in-class final exam. This course teaches students how to approach the types of questions they are likely to encounter on the Uniform Bar Exam. This course utilizes practice materials provided by Kaplan, one of the largest bar exam test prep companies in the country. This course will also provide students with individualized feedback and a personalized study plan for the bar exam. Course enrollment is limited to two sections with twenty students in each section. This course is designed to provide students with an early start to their bar exam preparation, as opposed to an alternative to taking a full bar review program. THIS COURSE IS RESTRICTED to 3L students who have submitted a written application that is approved by the instructor, Nick Horan. The application for enrollment will be emailed directly to all 3L students. GRADING NOTICE: This course will not offer the CR/NC/H option. Meeting dates will be 2/18/2021 to 4/15/2021.
Bench-to-Bedside: Translating Biomedical Innovation from the Laboratory to the Marketplace : LAW LA 997
3 credits
The subject of the course is the translation of medical technologies into new products and services for the healthcare system. The course begins with a rigorous study of intellectual property, licensing and the core aspects of planning, creating, funding and building new entrepreneurial ventures. Concepts and tools are presented for assessing new technologies and their potential to be the basis for a new entrepreneurial venture. Comparisons will be made of how technologies can be sourced and commercialized out of three very different environments: universities, national laboratories and corporate laboratories. Cross-disciplinary teams of students will be formed which will evaluate translational research projects currently being developed at Boston University and their potential for transformation into a start-up company to commercialize the technology, providing a unique linkage between the scientific research activities of the university and the professional schools. Each week there will be a case study which will discuss examples of both success and failure in technology commercialization. Some of these case studies examine Boston University life sciences spin-out companies, and the founders and CEO?s of these ventures will share their experiences with the class. NOTE: This course meets at the School of Management and will be treated as a non-law course on the law transcript. The course and grade will appear on the transcript, however the grade is not factored into the law g.p.a.
FALL 2020: LAW LA 997 A1 , Sep 14th to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 9:15 pm | 3 | Nijhawan | HAR | 412 |
Business Fundamentals: LAW JD 605
0 credits
Introduction to Business Fundamentals is an online, self-paced, asynchronous program forming a required part of the JD curriculum. The curriculum consists of modules covering business basics, corporate finance and financial accounting, including the following subjects: capital markets; the basics of financial reporting; balance sheets; income statements and cash flow; business forms and organizations; financing organizations; discounting; and calculating risk, return and valuation. Assessment is based on multiple choice exams. Students may opt-out of the course if they score an 84% or better on the pre-course exam. A score of 70% or better on the post-course exam, following successful completion of the course, is necessary to meet the requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course awards no credits and is graded P/F. It is a graduation requirement for JD students. Students may enroll in the program for the fall, spring or summer semesters, but should complete the course by the conclusion of the fall semester of the 3L year.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 605 OL , Sep 1st to Jan 8th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 0 | David I. Walker |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 0 | David I. Walker |
Business Immigration: LAW JD 807
2 credits
This course will provide an overview of business immigration law, with a particular focus on how various federal administrative agencies are engaged in shaping a complex, multidisciplinary immigration law ecosystem for employers. In addition to a substantive overview of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa classifications throughout the course, we will explore how immigration laws are informed by, and overlap with, other key areas such as corporate and securities law, employment and labor law and tax law. Topics will include entity formation of new businesses; visa challenges in entrepreneurship; immigration obstacles faced by multinational businesses; immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions; the intersection of business immigration with employment laws; enforcement trends targeted at employers; and the role of the IRS and tax laws in business immigration. We will also briefly review administrative law basics, explore the parameters of executive power in shaping business immigration law, and examine the plenary power of the President over immigration. Throughout the course, we will discuss how debates about outsourcing, unemployment and national security, among others, inform a complex national discussion about business immigration. We will also identify, examine and discuss core professional responsibility issues that arise in business immigration practice. There are no prerequisites for this course. There is no writing requirement, but there will be weekly quizzes and a final examination. Class attendance and participation are essential.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 807 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 2 | Douglas Hauer | LAW | 103 |
Business Succession Planning: LAW TX 969
2 credits
This course will cover the practical, tax, financial, accounting and ethical considerations in succession planning for the family business owner. It will propose strategies to deal with the psychological hurdles and pitfalls business owners face when doing this planning, such as giving up control or equity in the business during their lives and determining equitable ways to treat children actively involved in the business and children who will not participate in operating the family business. It will compare the various vehicles used in succession planning and discuss the different levels of protection and the fiduciary standards between using a trust, business entity and private trust company to encourage entrepreneurship. It will discuss ways to separate the business's control and equity for purposes of doing lifetime planning for the business owner as well as for benefiting children both inside and outside of the business. It will compare the typical estate planning strategies for family business owners, including life insurance trusts, buy-sell agreements, GRATs, sales to grantor trusts and freeze partnerships. It will also cover the ethical issues involved when working with business owners in their succession planning, including identifying who your client is, navigating conflicts when doing planning with the business in trusts or otherwise and provide best practice and practical tips for advisors to avoid these ethical dilemmas. The materials will also deal with passing on an operating business to key employees while retaining a portion to pass on to one's children. The materials will cover income tax planning that can be used when a senior family member intends to sell the family business for cash while still alive, when an earnout is part of the sale, the pre-sale due diligence a business owner should undertake before the business is offered for sale, and how the income tax costs in a lifetime sale can be reduced by integrating lifetime charitable planning. Prerequisites: TX901, TX902, TX930, TX933, TX904
Cannabis Law Externship: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 669
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. The Cannabis Law Externship Seminar (Externship Seminar) will be a tethered externship seminar. It will be open to a small (4-6) cohort of students who have secured cannabis law related externships The Externship Seminar will be a one credit experiential class with co-requirements of the Cannabis Law Seminar and a cannabis law field placement. The Externship Seminar will integrate the Cannabis Law course material and the assignments that students are working on at their placements, tethering the two experiences. The course will focus on the practice of law as it relates to the emerging area of cannabis law, legal ethics and professional responsibility within the field of cannabis law, students' professional development, and access to justice. COREQUISITE: Cannabis Law Seminar (JD 668) NOTE: Credits earned for the Cannabis Externship Fieldwork may be counted towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning Requirement.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 669 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Cannabis Law Externship: Seminar (C): LAW JD 668
1 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. The Cannabis Law Externship Seminar (Externship Seminar) will be a tethered externship seminar. It will be open to a small (4-6) cohort of students who have secured cannabis law related externships The Externship Seminar will be a one credit experiential class with co-requirements of the Cannabis Law Seminar and a cannabis law field placement. The Externship Seminar will integrate the Cannabis Law course material and the assignments that students are working on at their placements, tethering the two experiences. The course will focus on the practice of law as it relates to the emerging area of cannabis law, legal ethics and professional responsibility within the field of cannabis law, students' professional development, and access to justice. COREQUISITE: Cannabis Law Fieldwork (JD 669) NOTE: Credits earned for the Cannabis Externship Seminar may be counted towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning Requirement.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 668 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 1 | Jay D. Wexler |
Central Banks, Commercial Banks, and Financial Markets: LAW BK 983
2 credits
This course introduces lawyers to the economics of financial markets and institutions. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of commercial banks, the Federal Reserve System, and monetary policy. Other topics include the characteristics of financial instruments (such as Treasury securities, corporate stocks and bonds, and secondary market mortgage-backed securities), how they are priced in the market, the factors determining the level and shape of the Treasury yield curve, and the relationship between commercial banking and the growth of the over-the-counter derivatives market. Course grades will be based on midterm and final examinations, and on written assignments.
FALL 2020: LAW BK 983 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Mark K. W. Gim | LAW | 605 |
Civil Litigation and Justice Program (C): LAW JD 861
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Civil Litigation and Justice Program. Student in the Civil Litigation and Justice Program handle their own caseloads, representing indigent clients in civil cases under the supervision of clinical faculty. Students may participate in the Program for either a full year (the Individual Rights Litigation Clinic (IRL) or Access to Justice Clinic (A2J)) or for one semester (the Employment Rights Clinic (ERC)). Students participating in IRL or A2J work on cases in areas such as domestic relations, eviction defense, employment law and Social Security appeals. Students in the ERC represent clients in unemployment compensation cases, with a possibility of working on wage and hour disputes, discrimination/sexual harassment cases, and Family Medical Leave Act cases. PRE/CO-REQUISITES: Evidence. NOTE: The Civil Litigation and Justice Program counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 861 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Naomi M. MannJade Brown |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton |
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Civil Litigation and Justice Program: A2J Skills & Professional Responsibility: LAW JD 963
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Access to Justice Clinic of the Civil Litigation and Justice Program. This seminar examines the larger societal context of students' fieldwork representing poverty-law clients in family, housing, employment, and disability cases. Students will actively analyze and address the intersections of the legal system with the multiple systemic barriers their clients face (e.g., gender, race, class, disability). In addition to the skills and legal knowledge relevant to representation of clinic clients, seminar discussions and projects will focus on proposed solutions to the systemic challenges faced by those clients, and situate them within current theories of law as a tool for social justice. NOTE: This course counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. This class may be used to satisfy the Professional Responsibility requirement, in which case credits for the class may not be counted towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 963 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 3 | Naomi M. MannJade Brown | LAW | 413 |
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Pretrial Advocacy/Pro Resp.: LAW JD 973
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Civil Litigation and Justice Program. Pretrial Advocacy is the companion fall classroom component for students in the Civil Litigation and Justice Program IRL and fall ERC clinics. Pretrial Advocacy is taught in groups of roughly 14 students with two clinical professors per group. Classes are devoted to learning the theories of practice for use in the field, reinforced by activities and simulations in which students practice skills through role play. NOTE: Students who enroll in this component of the clinic may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement or the Professional Responsibility requirement. It may not be used to satisfy more than one requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 973 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton | LAW | 605 |
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Tue | 4:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton | LAW | 417 |
Civil Litigation and Justice Program: Trial Advocacy: LAW JD 974
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Civil Litigation and Justice Program. Trial Advocacy is the companion spring classroom component for students in the Civil Litigation and Justice Program IRL and spring ERC clinics. Trial Advocacy is taught in groups of roughly 14 students with two clinical professors per group. Classes are devoted to learning the theories of practice for use in the field, reinforced by activities and simulations in which students practice skills through role play. NOTE: This course does not count towards the Professional Responsibility requirement. NOTE: This course counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 974 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Mary C. ConnaughtonConstance A. Browne | LAW | 605 |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Constance A. BrowneMary C. Connaughton | LAW | 605 |
Civil Litigation: A2J Skills II: LAW JD 965
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Access to Justice Clinic of the Civil Litigation and Justice Program. This seminar continues the coursework of the fall semester in examining the larger societal context of students' fieldwork representing poverty-law clients in family, housing, employment, and disability cases. Students will actively analyze and address the intersections of the legal system with the multiple systemic barriers their clients face (e.g., gender, race, class, disability). In addition to the skills and legal knowledge relevant to representation of clinic clients, seminar discussions and projects will focus on proposed solutions to the systemic challenges faced by those clients, and situate them within current theories of law as a tool for social justice. NOTE: This course counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 965 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Naomi M. MannJade Brown | LAW | 413 |
Civil Procedure for LLMs: LAW AM 708
2 credits
This class introduces internationally-trained LLM students to the rules, standards, and values that govern the procedures used in civil cases in the federal district courts of the United States. Drawing from constitutional and statutory texts, and focusing on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the class covers such civil litigation issues as: jurisdiction, choice of law, venue, pleadings, discovery, pre-trial motions, trial through judgment, joinder of parties and claims, and finality of judgments. The course will meet 1/13/2020-2/26/2020. A final exam will be scheduled for a Friday afternoon prior to spring break (date/time TBD).
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 708 A1 , Mar 1st to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 2 | Gustavo Ribeiro | NIP | 320 |
Civil Rights Litigation: LAW JD 877
4 credits
This course is about civil and criminal enforcement of constitutional rights and other federal rights against government officials. The primary focus is on civil rights litigation in federal courts against state officials under the civil rights statutes passed in the wake of the civil war, including 42 U.S.C. ? ?1983, 1981, 1982 and 1985 on the civil side and 18, U.S.C. ?? 242 and 249 on the criminal side. The criminal segment of the course will be taught by an Assistant United States Attorney in charge of the Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit and the Civil Rights Enforcement Team in the District of Massachusetts. Criminal issues include prosecutions of police officers for violating the civil rights of arrestees and hate crimes. On the civil side, we will examine the rights that give rise to civil rights action and, to a lesser extent, the scope of those rights. The kinds of cases include police brutality, unlawful searches and seizures and discrimination in government jobs. The issues that arise include many statutory questions, such as identification of proper parties to 1983 actions, and judge-make defenses, such as official and state immunities from damages actions and injunctive suits. We will also look at federalism and eleventh amendment limitations on congressional power and federal court remedial power in 1983 actions, although coverage of these issues will not be as thorough as in Federal Courts. The standards for holding local governments liable for damages will also be examined. Our major foray into the substance of constitutional rights will be with regard to the role of state remedies and defendant's state of mind for fourteenth amendment procedural due process violations. We will also look at substantive constitutional rights such as police brutality, medical care for prisoners and detainees, high speed police chases and other similar areas. There will also be some coverage of remedies against federal officials directly under the constitution and remedies against private individuals for civil rights violations. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 877 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 4 | Jack M. BeermannS. Theodore Merritt | LAW | 103 |
Civil Trial Advocacy for LLMs (S): LAW AM 894
3 credits
If you want to develop the advocacy skills of a US trial lawyer, watching re- runs of Boston Legal or The Practice won't be enough. You need hands-on training. This course introduces LLM students to the structure of the jury trial process in the United States and the core skills used by trial lawyers. The seminar will give students first-hand exposure to the full range of trial advocacy skills, from opening statements to closing arguments, including conducting direct and cross examination of witnesses, making and meeting objections, introducing documents and discovery into evidence, and using hypothetical questions with expert witnesses. Throughout the term, students will try their hands at using these skills through simulated exercises and role plays. At the end of the semester, each student will perform as counsel in a simulated "mock" civil trial before a jury. Limited to 12 LL.M. in American Law Program students. A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
Client Counseling (S): LAW JD 862
2 credits
This seminar will provide students with the real-world skills necessary to effectively counsel their clients. We will discuss the differences in counseling clients when their legal matters are complex or simple, sensitive or uncontroversial, and high-risk or low-stakes. Finally, we will examine client counseling at several stages of the attorney-client relationship, including the initial client meeting, client and witness interviews, preparing the client to be deposed or testify, and strategically guiding the client's decision-making as the matter evolves. Students will not only study methods of effective client counseling; they will practice what they learn by conducting mock interviews and collaborating with their classmates/co-counsels to rehearse optimal client counseling techniques. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 16 students. NOTES: This seminar does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 862 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Ryan Nelson | LAW | 212 |
Climate Change Law and Policy (S): LAW JD 796
3 credits
Climate change is the most important environmental issue of this century. It has generated major law and policy over the last several years, both in the United States and internationally, and presents significant legal and policy issues that remain unresolved. This seminar will examine the legal tools available to address climate change and possibilities for future action, as well as related challenges in light of the current political landscape. The seminar first will consider the international context and review the history of climate change efforts on a global scale, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement. It will then focus on currently available U.S. authorities, including the Clean Air Act and executive branch powers, and on state and local efforts. Because there is no statute that addresses climate change head-on, the seminar will consider the challenges presented when a major policy concern is advanced in the absence of a firm statutory foundation. Climate change also raises important issues of human rights, environmental justice, and international and intergenerational equity, which will be examined. Finally, the seminar will look to the future and pose questions concerning expectations for international cooperation and possible developments in U.S. law and policy. There are no prerequisites. The grade will be based on class participation and papers. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 796 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
Climate Risk & Financial Institutions: Submerging Markets (S): LAW JD 767
3 credits
This seminar will explore how the law shapes the assessment of, and response to, the financial risks of climate change. We'll look, for example, at how misaligned incentives for risk-taking (such as between a developer and a house buyer, or between a corporation and its insurer) lead to overdevelopment in flood plains and areas with high wildfire risk. After an introduction to the economics of climate change, we'll turn to questions like: What role do securities regulators, insurance commissioners, and central bankers play in the transition to a greener economy? What does "ESG" investing mean and does it do anything? Are markets foreseeing both physical risks and transition risks (i.e., stranded assets)? Our approach will consider the political economy of risk bearing, and investigate dynamics like the influence of credit ratings agencies on local government investment in sea-level rise adaptation. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 767 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Madison Condon | LAW | 101 |
Commercial Lending: LAW BK 991
2 credits
This course studies the legal problems involved in negotiating and documenting various types of commercial lending transactions ranging from short-term unsecured loans to secured and long-term financings. The process is followed from the initial identification of a lending opportunity to pre- commitment correspondence and commitment letters, through to the key documents required at closing. The major aspects of a loan agreement, including definitional provisions, representations and warranties, lending provisions, pricing, affirmative and negative covenants, and events of defaults are studied in detail in an effort to insure that each student understands the mechanics of a commercial loan agreement. Security interests in real estate and personal property are addressed. Loan syndications and the loan markets are examined. Issues relating to guaranties and subordination agreements are considered. Overviews of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and lender liability are provided. Provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act relating to financing transactions, legal lending limits, margin requirements, and usury are considered. A lecture and discussion format is employed. Reading assignments include relevant court decisions, articles, and actual transaction documents.
FALL 2020: LAW BK 991 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Brian Carroll | LAW | 605 |
Comparative Constitutional Law (S): LAW JD 993
3 credits
The seminar will explore American and Israeli constitutional and political design through a comparative lens. It will use constitutional design and fundamental constitutional principles obtaining in the U.S.A. as a platform against which Israel's constitutional system will be compared and examined. Students will get an understanding of different approaches to the implementation of political power in democratic regimes and be encouraged to assess the costs and benefits of each system. Issues to be covered include constitutional design, national identity, separation of powers, judicial review and the rule of law, political and civil rights, immigration and citizenship, national security, establishment of religion and the right to free exercise of religion. The American constitution, Israeli basic laws, American and Israeli statutory law as well as court cases will be read and compared. Secondary materials drawn from the literature of law and political science will also be assigned. Knowledge of Hebrew is not necessary. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 993 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Pnina Lahav | NIP | 320 |
Comparative Income Taxation: LAW TX 957
2 credits
This course considers different solutions adopted by nine industrialized countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to common problems in income tax design. It responds to the need for a broader understanding of the way that tax matters are handled in different countries as business transactions become increasingly global. The course presents a policy-focused overview of variant tax treatments in individual, business (corporate and partnership) and cross-border transactions. The intent is not to develop an expertise in any one, or any group of tax systems, but rather to provide a comparative knowledge base upon which a further, in-depth inquiry can be based. Course Structure: This course follows an assigned text. After the opening class the course is structured in three equal (four-class) segments on (1) Individual, (2) Business and (3) International tax topics. An effort will be made when appropriate to update the materials in the text, allowing us to discuss some current problems.
Online section not open to JD students.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 957 A1 , Sep 4th to Nov 27th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 10:00 am | 12:00 pm | 2 | Richard T. Ainsworth | NIP | 320 |
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Comparative VAT: LAW TX 952
2 credits
This course considers the details of the world's leading Value Added Tax system, the E.U. VAT. Students should expect to acquire a good grounding in the major legal instruments of the community (regulations, directions and decisions) which have binding effect on the member states as well as the recommendations and opinions which do not. Case law will be considered primarily from the leading decisions of the European Court Justice, although an occasional decision or two from domestic courts will be included. Major developments in the E.U. VAT are expected to be covered, including: (1) the adoption of the "reverse charge" mechanism as a response to widespread carousel fraud, (2) the inclusion of a transfer pricing regime under Rationalization Directive, and (3) proposals for major changes in the place of supply rules in services and intangibles. There are no pre-requisites for this course.
Compassionate Release Practicum (C): LAW JD 685
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied and been accepted to the Compassionate Release Practicum. In April of 2018, Massachusetts joined 44 states and the federal government in providing a statutory mechanism by which terminally ill and/or permanently incapacitated inmates could be released on so-called medical parole. The new statute was a result of ongoing compromises as part of the omnibus criminal justice reform bill, and pending constitutional litigation which became moot. To date only one person has been released. The intent of the practicum is to engage students both in direct representation of inmates not otherwise entitled to counsel, and in brainstorming and developing solutions in this new and rapidly developing area of law. Students will learn about legislative history and lobbying, about statutory construction, FOIA, and about the constitutional underpinnings of compassionate release. Students will learn and demonstrate drafting, client counseling and negotiation skills. This practicum can be taken for one (50 hours) or two (100 hours) graded credits. Students will write a total of twenty pages, which likely will include a petition for release, and a superior court complaint and motion for judgment on the pleadings. Students will in addition write two journal reflections. There will be a weekly one hour seminar at a time arranged with the students. The final grade is based on class participation, revised writing and journal reflections. NOTE: The Compassionate Release Practicum counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 685 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | Var | Jeffrey Harris | LAW | 101 |
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Mon | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | Var | Jeffrey Harris | LAW | 101 |
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Mon | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | Var | Jeffrey Harris | LAW | 101 |
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Mon | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | Var | Jeffrey Harris | LAW | 101 |
Compliance and Risk Management in Global Commerce: LAW JD 918
4 credits
This course provides a deep dive into compliance with international and U.S. laws and regulations governing global commerce and risk management. The need for compliance professionals across the globe has never been greater. We will study export and import controls, Anti-Money Laundering and sanctions regimes, and examine the requirements for a best-in-class compliance program. The course will highlight compliance obligations of global corporations and financial institutions, starting with senior management commitment. The laws and regulations in scope will include the US Export Administration Regulations, EU ICP Guidance, Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC sanctions regulations, and the European Union Fourth Anti- Money Laundering Directive, among others. The course will provide techniques for mitigating legal, compliance and regulatory risk in global commerce, and will also highlight practical applications in the real world. Students will learn how to assess and mitigate specific compliance risks. Each student will be required to do significant reading and participate in classroom discussions, as well as develop and present portions of a sound compliance program. All students will learn to communicate compliance requirements to clients clearly and succinctly and establish relationships with U.S. agencies and enforcement authorities. Experts from across the globe will provide additional color and commentary. Students will learn how to a) assess and mitigate specific compliance risks, b) communicate compliance requirements to clients clearly and succinctly, and c) establish positive relationships with U.S. agencies and enforcement authorities.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 918 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Laura AtleeLynne Federman | LAW | 101 |
Compliance in Financial Services Companies: LAW JD 683
2 credits
This course will take students through the compliance mechanisms within financial organizations putting regulatory requirements into practice. The purpose of the class is to offer a fundamental preparation to the lawyer in a financial institution's legal department or a separate compliance department. This course covers the following: * The history of compliance * The interaction between business processes, legal requirements, and compliance. * The profession of financial compliance * The interaction of conflicts, risks and ethics * The roles of the Chief Compliance Officer, the Auditor, the Legal Officer and the interaction among them * Defining best practice, business process, risk assessment and controls and their interactions within financial institutions * A broad outline of regulations applicable to financial institutions * Data privacy and information security compliance * Interacting with regulators, enforcement agencies and investigations * Business ethics and culture in financial institutions. The course will use an exam as the final assessment. A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of the course, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the course. Students who waitlist for the course are required to attend the first class meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 683 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Cornelius | LAW | 102 |
Compliance Policy Clinic: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 823
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to 1) students who have formally applied and been accepted to the Compliance Policy Clinic, a 6-credit, one-semester clinic; and 2) with instructor permission, students who have already completed one 6-credit semester in the Compliance Policy Clinic. The Compliance Policy Clinic prepares students to be effective compliance lawyers and leaders in the rapidly-expanding field of compliance lawyering: working across disciplines to translate complex, shifting legal requirements into effective systems that protect highly-regulated institutions from legal liability, reputational damage, and operational risk. The Clinic is designed to develop core skills and capacities that are transferrable across compliance practice contexts and substantive areas of law. Students lead the Clinic's work with private-sector, public-sector, and NGO partners/clients across a range of fields and industries as well as on systems-level projects in global anti- corruption law and other compliance topics with broad social impact. PRE/CO- REQUISITE: Introduction to Risk Management and Compliance. Additional courses that may be helpful to take before or at the same time as the Clinic: Corporations, Administrative Law, Professional Responsibility. NOTE: The Compliance Policy Clinic counts towards the 6-credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 823 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Danielle Pelfrey Duryea |
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Compliance Policy Clinic: Seminar: LAW JD 729
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied and been accepted to the Compliance Policy Clinic. The Clinic is designed to develop core skills and capacities that are transferrable across compliance practice contexts and substantive areas of law. Clinic students hone research, analysis, writing, fact investigation, interviewing, presentation, counseling, project management, and interprofessional collaboration skills while deeply engaging issues of ethics, culture, risk management, and enforcement. PRE/CO-REQUISITE: Introduction to Risk Management and Compliance. Additional courses that may be helpful to take before or at the same time as the Clinic: Corporations, Administrative Law, Professional Responsibility. NOTE: The Compliance Policy Clinic counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning Requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 729 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 9:00 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Danielle Pelfrey Duryea | LAW | 101 |
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Tue,Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Danielle Pelfrey Duryea | LAW | 101 |
Compliance Programs: LAW BK 931
2 credits
The course is a survey of the key areas of compliance. The course will examine implementing and maintaining a compliance program. Topic areas to be covered include: U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; the Office of Foreign Assets Control; Bank Secrecy Act; Privacy; Investigations; Whistleblower Rates; Information Reporting/Disclosure; Insider Trading Policies; Code of Ethics; Audit; Conflict of Interest; Management Reporting; Internal Reporting/E- Discovery/Record Retention.
FALL 2020: LAW BK 931 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Stephen Cesso | LAW | 605 |
Consolidated Corporations: LAW TX 932
2 credits
Survey of the U.S. income taxation of corporations filing consolidated tax returns. Provides a general understanding of the consolidated return regulations and enables students to identify tax issues involving corporations filing or wishing to file consolidated returns. The application of the consolidated return regulations to complex business transactions is considered. Prerequisites: Federal Income Taxation I, Federal Income Taxation II, and Introduction to Corporate Tax, or equivalent experience.
Consumer Debt Practicum: LAW JD 705
2 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied and been accepted to the Consumer Debt Practicum. Students in the Practicum provide pro bono representation to low income defendants in small claims court on credit card collection matters. Students engage in client interviewing and counseling, negotiation, and oral advocacy including small claims trials, under the supervision of the clinic instructors. Students must be available to be at court on Thursday mornings until 1 pm. In addition, there is a weekly meeting that covers substantive topics and skills development in areas related to the clinic work such as consumer law including Truth in Lending, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Massachusetts Consumer Cost Credit Act. NOTE: The Consumer Debt Practicum counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 705 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:45 pm | 6:15 pm | 2 | Colin HarnsgateTallulah Knopp | NIP | 320 |
Consumer Financial Services: LAW BK 995
2 credits
This class presents an overview of the laws relating to traditional and innovative consumer financial products and services, including the impact of the new consumer protection provisions of the Dodd-Frank banking law on creditors and consumers. The course focuses on federal consumer financial laws governing installment, revolving, and real estate lending, credit and debit cards; and ATM networks, point of sale payment systems, home banking, stored value and prepaid cards; and other deposit and loan products and services. The course examines the design of retail financial products and considers operational issues, the regulatory framework, and consumer protection laws including The Consumer Financial Protection Act, Truth in Lending, Equal Credit Opportunity, Community Reinvestment Acts, and federal and state laws governing fair credit reporting, trade practices, usury, electronic funds transfers, and funds availability.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 995 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Craig W. Kaylor | NIP | 320 |
Contract Drafting: LAW JD 788
3 credits
This course is the foundational skills course within the Transactional Law Program. It teaches students basic principles and skills of drafting and analyzing commercial and transaction agreements, with a focus on recognizing, and addressing through contractual provisions, key business issues in transactions. Although the course will be of particular interest to students interested in a corporate or transactional law practice, since most practicing attorneys will need to work with contracts at some point in their career, the concepts and skills which the course conveys are applicable to virtually all practice areas and specialties. While the course utilizes lectures to introduce various contract concepts and techniques essential for drafting and reviewing commercial and transaction agreements, it requires that students complete in-class exercises and extensive homework assignments as a means of building basic drafting skills and a solid understanding of the structure and operation of contractual provisions in a business transaction. Grades will be based on the graded assignments, good faith completion of ungraded assignments, and class participation. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list for a section are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 788 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Elizabeth Brody Gluck | NIP | 320 |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | John F. Cohan | LAW | 418 |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Thomas P. Harrison | LAW | 418 |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Yael D. DeCapo | LAW | 204 |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | William J. Squires | NIP | 320 |
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Thu | 10:45 am | 12:45 pm | 3 | Cecily Banks | LAW | 204 |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Neal S. Winneg | LAW | 410 |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Carla Moynihan | LAW | 410 |
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Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Cecily Banks | LAW | 420 |
Contracts for LLMs: LAW AM 812
4 credits
This course will use the case method to examine legal and equitable remedies for enforcing contracts, determining what promises are enforceable, elements of assent, standards of fairness and restrictions on bargaining process, and tests for performance and breach. Designed for students preparing to sit for the bar, this course will focus on those areas emphasized on the multi-state, New York, and Massachusetts bar exams. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW AM 812 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Stephen M. Donweber | LAW | 605 |
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Tue,Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | Maria O’Brien | NIP | 320 |
Copyright Law: LAW JD 929
3 credits
This course will give you an introduction to copyright law, including a foundation in the theories underlying copyright law, an understanding of the current contours of copyright protection, the basic elements of proving infringement, the fair use defense and familiarity with related forms of liability such as secondary and vicarious liability. Each class meeting will consist of a discussion of the reading and application of it to new situations. We will also be working through problems from the casebook in teams at different points in the semester. Grading is based on a final exam that will consist of a combination of short answer questions and longer essay questions as well as an assessment of your class participation.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 929 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 11:00 am | 12:25 pm | 3 | Jessica Silbey | LAW | 413 |
Corporate Counsel Externship Fieldwork: LAW JD 954
Var credits
This CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This is the companion fieldwork component for students enrolled in the Corporate Counsel Externship: Seminar. Students will work at legal offices of for-profit and nonprofit companies in unpaid or paid placements. Students will receive 3-9 variable P/F credits for working at their placements. Each credit requires 50 hours of work over the course of the 13-week semester (averaging 4 hours per week). COREQUISITE: Corporate Counsel Externship Seminar (JD 896). NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement.
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Corporate Counsel Externship Seminar: LAW JD 896
2 credits
This CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This is a 2-credit graded seminar for those students doing fieldwork in Corporate Counsel offices that meets every week for 1.5 hours. The seminar will cover a range of topics and competencies essential to the day-to-day role of a lawyer in the corporate counsel offices of for-profit and nonprofit companies, such as: understanding the modern and future role of corporate counsel offices, on a global scale; exercising executive leadership; representing a business entity through its constituents; becoming both a trusted legal advisor and strategic business partner to the corporate client; upholding confidentiality and ethical standards; learning the client's business; understanding the role of regulatory compliance; communicating effectively in a business setting; managing priorities and crises; collaborating with multi-disciplined teams; and solving problems with workable solutions that enable the client's objectives. To maximize the students' growth over the semester, the seminar will also teach students how lawyers learn from practice, build strong supervisory and mentorship relationships, build cultural competence, reflect and self-assess, and set and measure progress on professional development goals. Students will write reflective papers, make oral presentations, and complete other work as required by the instructor. COREQUISITE: Corporate Counsel Externship Fieldwork (JD 954). NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 896 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:45 pm | 6:15 pm | 2 | Cecily Banks | LAW | 102 |
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Tue | 4:45 pm | 6:15 pm | 2 | Cecily Banks | LAW | 211 |
Corporate Finance: LAW JD 985
3 credits
This course covers the foundations of corporate finance. It starts with the concepts of time value of money, discounting, and present value. With that background it then considers the major financial decisions made by corporate managers. Topics include the valuation of financial assets and liabilities, criteria for making investment decisions, business valuation, relationships between risk and return, portfolio theory, market efficiency, capital structure choice, and cost of capital. NOTE: Professor Marks's section will require Business Fundamentals as a pre-requisite and Corporations as a pre or co-requisite.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 985 B1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:15 pm | 3:40 pm | 3 | Stephen G. Marks | NIP | 320 |
Corporate Governance (S): LAW JD 941
3 credits
Public corporations play a central role in the U.S. economy and society. The impact of these corporations depends in large part on how they are governed. This course will explore the central issues in the governance of these corporations. These include for whose benefit corporations are operated; the balance of authority between managers and shareholders; how different governance structures affect the short-term and long-term value of the corporation; the effects of hedge funds and other shareholder activists; and the social and environmental responsibility of corporations. The course will examine the key constituencies in these debates: managers, directors, and investors, especially institutional investors like mutual funds, pension funds, and hedge funds. The course will consider the objectives and the behavior of each of these groups, and the laws and practices that shape their actions. There will be no exam. Instead, students will be assessed on a course paper and their class participation. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. PREREQUISITE/COREQUISITE: Corporations (may be waived with instructor's permission). ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who waitlist for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 941 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Scott HirstStaff | LAW | 413 |
Corporate Governance Practice: LAW JD 808
3 credits
This is an experiential course. The focus will be to prepare students with practical knowledge and skills to counsel public corporations on corporate governance matters. Assignments will simulate those expected of a junior lawyer in a law firm or in-house counsel. We will cover key concepts in corporate governance, including the legal framework and the roles of different players such as Boards of Directors, management and shareholders. We will focus on recent experiences of U.S. public corporations and current developments in the field. Students will work on developing practical lawyering skills such as drafting and making oral presentations. We will also engage in role-playing exercises and mock negotiations. We will have governance experts representing multiple constituencies as guest instructors. There will be no exam. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students. PREREQUISITE/COREQUISITE: Corporations. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 808 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Susan Permut | NIP | 320 |
Corporate Reorganizations: LAW TX 924
2 credits
Income tax considerations relating to corporate tax free reorganizations including: review of the requirements for tax free treatment of acquisitive and time permitting divisive reorganizations; review of the tax treatment to all relevant parties to the transaction; consideration of special problems associated with certain types of reorganizations. Prerequisite: Introduction to Corporate Tax. Note: Limited enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 924 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Wayne E. Smith | LAW | 101 |
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Corporations: LAW JD 816
4 credits
Course about the legal structure and characteristics of business corporations. Topics include the promotion and formation of corporations; the distribution of power between management and shareholders; the limitations on management powers imposed by state law fiduciary duties and federal securities laws; shareholder derivative suits; capital structure and financing of corporations; and fundamental changes in corporate structure, such as mergers and sales of assets. The course serves as a prerequisite to advanced courses. PREREQUISITE: Business Fundamentals. GRADING NOTICE: The CR/NC/H option is only offered in Professor Marks's & Professor Hirst's sections.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 816 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Scott Hirst | LAW | 414 |
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Mon,Wed | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | Stephen G. Marks | NIP | 320 |
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Tue,Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | David I. Walker | NIP | 320 |
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Tue,Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | David I. Walker | NIP | 320 |
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Tue,Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Frederick Tung | LAW | 410 |
Corporations for LLMs: LAW AM 815
4 credits
Course about the legal structure and characteristics of business corporations. Topics include the promotion and formation of corporations; the distribution of power between management and shareholders; the limitations on management powers imposed by state law fiduciary duties and federal securities laws; shareholder derivative suits; capital structure and financing of corporations; and fundamental changes in corporate structure, such as mergers and sales of assets. The course serves as a PREREQUISITE to advanced courses. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 815 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | Kevin Wall | LAW | 209 |
Criminal Justice Externship: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 994
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who are officially registered for The Criminal System: Theory & Practice (JD987). Externship placements will all be local and part-time. Placement opportunities include the Suffolk DA Office - Superior Court units, Prisoners Legal Services, CPCS, and the MA Parole Board. The Office of Experiential Programs will help students identify and apply to suitable field placements. Students receive 2-6 variable P/F credits for their fieldwork, as determined in consultation with their placement supervisors. Each credit requires 50 hours of work over the course of the 13-week semester (averaging 4 hours per week). NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: The Criminal System: Theory & Practice (JD 987).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 994 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Criminal Motion Practice and Advocacy: LAW JD 768
3 credits
Advocacy courses in law school tend to focus on the traditional Trial Advocacy model (opening statements, direct and cross examinations, and closing arguments) or post-trial Appellate Advocacy. The vast majority of cases, however, never reach trial. Criminal Motion Practice and Advocacy will look comprehensively at the pre-trial motions that comprise the bulk of criminal litigation. Students will have the opportunity to research, write, and argue their own pretrial motions against opposing counsel. The course will travel chronologically through the life of a criminal case, beginning at arraignment and focusing on the art of motions practice. In class exercises will include arguments for Motions to Suppress searches and seizures based on search warrants, as well as Motion to Suppress hearings with live witness testimony and examination. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. PREREQUISITE: Criminal Procedure. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list for a section are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 768 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 9:00 pm | 3 | Michael Vitali | LAW | 602 |
Criminal Procedure: Adjudicatory Process: LAW JD 820
3 credits
This course examines the procedures and institutions involved in adjudicating the fate of an accused after arrest. Topics include such matters as the right to counsel, charging by grand jury and otherwise, prosecutorial discretion and plea bargaining, discovery, double jeopardy, trial practice (including the right to a jury trial, the right to confront witnesses, the meaning of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt", etc.), evolving practices in sentencing, and criminal appeals. RESTRICTIONS: Enrollment is limited to students who have not taken and are not currently enrolled in Rossman's Criminal Procedure (JD 819). Students who have taken or who are enrolled in Maclin's Criminal Procedure (JD 821) are permitted to take this course. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 820 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:45 am | 12:10 pm | 3 | Gerald F. Leonard | LAW | 414 |
Criminal Procedure: Comprehensive: LAW JD 819
4 credits
This course examines basic issues in criminal procedure that cut across the investigative and adjudicative stages. We will consider how the Constitution shapes the criminal justice system in the courtroom in areas such as the concepts of the presumption of innocence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the right to counsel, grand jury requests for the production of evidence, plea bargaining and the application of the Exclusionary Rule seeking to suppress evidence the police obtained in violation of the Constitution. We will also study the limits the Constitution places on the power of the police in the areas of interrogation, searches, seizures of property and stop and arrest, paying particular attention to the issue of racial profiling. RESTRICTION: Students may not enroll in this section and Criminal Procedure (JD821) or Criminal Procedure: Adjudicatory (JD820).
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 819 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Isaac Borenstein | NIP | 320 |
Criminal Procedure: Constitutional: LAW JD 821
4 credits
This course covers search and seizure, the privilege against self-incrimination, confessions and the rights to counsel during custodial police interrogation. In general the course will examine the constitutional law in cases arising out of the conflict between police practices and the Bill of Rights. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. RESTRICTION: Students may not enroll in this section and Criminal Procedure (JD819).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 821 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Wed,Thu | 9:00 am | 10:15 am | 4 | Tracey Maclin | NIP | 320 |
Criminal Tax: LAW TX 981
2 credits
This Course will cover the legal, evidentiary, and procedural challenges presented in the prosecution of criminal tax cases. Class discussion will cover basic criminal tax violations found in United States Code Title 26 and a selection of federal crimes found in Title 18. The Course will also cover: IRS and Department of Justice, Tax Division practice and procedure; IRS audit, appeal and collection procedure and parallel civil and criminal tax procedures; the various methods of proof used by the IRS in investigating and prosecuting criminal tax fraud cases; federal grand jury practice; financial records search warrants; federal conspiracy and money laundering offenses; testimonial and document production immunity; foreign evidence processes, including select portions of the Title III of the USA PATRIOT ACT (also known as the International Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001; and application of criminal tax offenses to terrorism financing cases.
Criminal Trial Advocacy: LAW JD 981
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Criminal Law Clinical Program. This course meets in the spring and is mandatory for all 2L students in the Criminal Law Clinical Program. Criminal Trial Advocacy focuses on teaching courtroom skills in the context of criminal trial litigation. NOTE: The Criminal Law Clinical Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 981 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 414 |
Fri | 10:30 am | 1:30 pm | 3 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 413 |
Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 512 |
Fri | 10:30 am | 1:30 pm | 3 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 512 |
Criminal Trial Practice I (C): LAW JD 982
5 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Criminal Law Clinical Program. Criminal Trial Practice I is mandatory for students in their first semester of the Program. 2Ls take the course fall or spring, as determined in consultation with the Director of the Criminal Law Clinical Program upon acceptance to the Program. 3Ls take the course in the fall. The course consists of a fieldwork and classroom component. The classroom component provides students with an introduction to Massachusetts criminal procedure and basic instruction in lawyering skills such as case planning and investigation. For their fieldwork, students are assigned to cases handled by senior members of the Program and conduct tasks out of court such as legal research, fact investigation, witness interviews and preparation. Students spend one morning a week Monday through Thursday in court observing and second-seating the cases they have helped to prepare. NOTE: The Criminal Law Clinical Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 982 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 5 | David RossmanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 410 |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 5 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 414 |
Fri | 10:30 am | 1:30 pm | 5 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 413 |
Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 5 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 512 |
Fri | 10:30 am | 1:30 pm | 5 | Wendy KaplanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 512 |
Criminal Trial Practice II/Defenders (C): LAW JD 898
8 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Criminal Law Clinical Program. Criminal Trial Practice II is for students in their second semester of the Program who have been assigned to the Defender section. Students represent indigent defendants charged with criminal offenses in either the Boston Municipal Court or the Boston Juvenile Court. Students gain exposure to lawyering experiences such as investigation, interviewing, counseling and trial advocacy with a primary emphasis on the development of trial skills. Students spend the first part of the semester acting as defense counsel in misdemeanor cases of increasing complexity. Later in the semester, representation in felony cases is possible, as well as exposure to a number of other aspects of the criminal justice system. Students must be available to be in court two days a week, from Monday through Thursday. PREREQS: Evidence; Trial Advocacy or Criminal Trial Advocacy; Criminal Procedure (Comprehensive, Investigatory, or Adjudicatory). NOTE: The Criminal Law Clinical Program counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 898 A1 , Sep 4th to Dec 4th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 10:30 am | 12:30 pm | 8 | Wendy KaplanDavid Rossman | LAW | 420 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 8 | Wendy KaplanTracy Walts | LAW | 414 |
Criminal Trial Practice II/Prosecutors (C): LAW JD 899
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Criminal Law Clinical Program. Criminal Trial Practice II is for students in their second semester of the Program who have been assigned to the Prosecutor section. Students act as prosecutors in the Quincy District Court on behalf of the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office, handling felony and misdemeanor cases of increasing complexity under the supervision of the clinical professor. Students are exposed to a wide variety of experiences, including investigation, interviewing, and trial advocacy. Students handle pretrial matters, litigate evidentiary hearings, and are assigned to conduct every phase of jury or bench trials. Students collaborate but serve as the lead prosecutors on their own cases. Case assignments are based upon an individual assessment of a student's progress and demonstrated competence. Students in the Prosecutor Clinic may choose to enroll for 5 or 8 credits. Those receiving 5 credits must be available to be in court one full day and one additional morning per week on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday. Those receiving 8 credits must be available two full days per week on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday. PREREQS: Evidence; Trial Advocacy or Criminal Trial Advocacy; Criminal Procedure (Comprehensive, Investigatory, or Adjudicatory). NOTE: The Criminal Law Clinical Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 899 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 4th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 10:30 am | 12:30 pm | Var | David RossmanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 420 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 10:30 am | 12:30 pm | Var | David RossmanBrian A. Wilson | LAW | 420 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | Var | Brian A. Wilson | LAW | 512 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | Var | Brian A. Wilson | LAW | 512 |
Critical Civil Procedure: LAW JD 765
3 credits
Many of our most famous--and infamous--cases are procedural. Because procedural rules allow, or restrict, access to justice, procedure is a central pressure point in the struggle to eradicate structural inequality and oppression through the courts. This seminar will focus on the ways in which aspects of civil procedure decrease or perpetuate structural inequality for marginalized communities, especially regarding issues such as race, sex, gender, disability, nationality/immigration status, sexual orientation, and religion. We will read short, provocative essays to analyze which communities do, and do not, get a fair opportunity to have their claim or defense heard in court. From a critical perspective, we will engage in a discourse about the procedural, structural limitations on social justice. Another goal of this seminar is to explore a more complex view of our professional roles as attorneys. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 765 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Portia Pedro | NIP | 320 |
Critical Perspectives in International Law (S): LAW JD 679
3 credits
This course is designed for students who have already had some exposure to public international law, whether in the context of a law degree or in some other context. The course aims to deepen students' engagement with this field of law and to enrich their capacity for critical analysis and theoretical enquiry. The primary purpose of the course is to challenge conventional approaches to international legal study through an intensely theoretical and conceptual immersion into international law as a set of discourses, approaches and practices. While we will discuss international legal doctrine, standards and sources, the focus of the course will be on frames and contemporary contexts that reveal the nature of international law as a project. Subfields of and critical approaches to international law (e.g., Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), postcolonial theory and feminist approaches) as well as writings from the social sciences and humanities will be read in the course. This course will be assessed with short weekly reflection papers (40%), one final essay (50%), and class participation (10%). **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 679 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 10:45 am | 12:45 pm | 3 | Bruce-Jones | LAW | 203 |
Critical Perspectives on Transgender Law (S): LAW JD 915
3 credits
How does American law treat transgender, genderfluid, nonbinary, agender, and gender‐nonconforming people? What assumptions about gender operate in legal doctrines, and how do these assumptions interact with the lives of transgender people, especially those at the intersection of multiple axes of oppression? This seminar will discuss contemporary cases involving transgender rights, as well as historical cases where the rights of transgender litigants were directly or indirectly contested. Readings will incorporate case law, sociological perspectives, and direct first‐person narratives. By looking at law through the lens of transgender experiences, the class will critique legal assumptions about gender and reflect upon how law as a whole could be made less cis‐normative. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 915 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Remy Green | NIP | 320 |
Critical Race Theory Colloquium(S): LAW JD 731
3 credits
The Critical Race Theory Colloquium employs a workshop-format that enables students to engage leading scholars in the field of Critical Race Theory. The first session will involve a general overview of Critical Race Theory. During six of the remaining meetings, an invited scholar will present a work-in-progress for discussion. Students will write a short reaction paper for each of the works presented. The student papers will be given to workshop presenters before each workshop. Final grades depend on the reaction papers, class participation, and attendance. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 731 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Jonathan Feingold | LAW | 211 |
Cybersecurity Law: LAW JD 792
3 credits
This course will consider legal and policy challenges arising from rapidly evolving threats in cyberspace. It will define an array of cyber threats, and consider the ways in which they impact a range of governmental and non-governmental actors and entities. It will identify the domestic and international legal frameworks that regulate conduct in cyberspace--including laws related to cybercrime, cyberespionage, and cyberwar--and examine substantive and institutional questions such as: What existing principles limit cyber threats? What are the norms emerging through state practice? How should we fill in the gaps? Who should make these decisions? How should they be enforced? The course will explore these questions within the context of broader policy debates about Internet governance and the role of governmental and non-governmental actors in defending against cyber threats; state restrictions on civil rights and liberties in defending against cyber threats; allocation of decision-making among (and within) the branches for U.S. cybersecurity; and issues of secrecy and accountability. The objective of this course is to deepen our understanding of the existing threats and protections in cyberspace, the regulatory challenges that exist, and the institutions that should address them. No technical knowledge is required. Familiarity with public international law, administrative law and criminal procedure is helpful, but not necessary. International law concepts will be introduced as necessary. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 792 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 4th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu,Fri | 10:45 am | 12:15 pm | 3 | Ahmed Ghappour | NIP | 320 |
Disability Law (S): LAW JD 749
3 credits
This seminar surveys the evolution of federal law as it relates to people with disabilities. We will cover disability discrimination in the areas of employment, education (elementary and secondary), government services, public accommodations run by private entities, and housing. In exploring these areas we will examine relevant case law and statutes (i.e. the ADA and its amendments, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the IDEA, and the Fair Housing Act) and their implementing regulations and guidance. In addition to studying legal authorities, we will engage in practical classroom exercises and hear from attorneys practicing in disability law-related settings. Readings will be assigned from Colker & Grossman, The Law of Disability Discrimination (8th ed. 2013); Colker & Grossman, The Law of Disability Discrimination Handbook: Statutes and Regulatory Guidance (8th ed. 2013)(also available online), and supplemental material. Grades will be based on class participation and a final paper. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 749 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Gregory DorchakAbra Francois | LAW | 209 |
Drugs, Devices, and Diagnostics: New Challenges, Strategies, and Execution: QST HM 717
3 credits
This course will examine issues and opportunities in life sciences focused on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices sectors and the life sciences service industry supporting these sectors, through the eyes of the CEO. The course will investigate who manages these companies and what are the strategies that are used to build successful enterprises. Students will be introduced to individuals and institutions at every stage of the development cycle from idea generation and start-up fundraising to manufacturing, commercialization and global expansion. We will specifically look at key elements of strategy and the execution by examining companies, that have either succeeded or failed, by discussing the pros and cons of different approaches and teasing out the lessons one can derive from leaders in the field and case studies examining their approaches.
REMINDER: This is a QST course. Students cannot register through WebReg. Students who register for the class and want law credit must add the course to their law transcript by completing an add form at the Law Registrar's Office before the end of the add/drop period for that semester.
FALL 2020: QST HM 717 E1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 10th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 9:15 pm | 3 | Philip | HAR | 210 |
Economics of Intellectual Property Law (S): LAW JD 900
3 credits
This seminar will explore the economics of intellectual property law. There are no prerequisites. The readings for the seminar will consist of Cass and Hylton, Laws of Creation (2013), and several cases and articles. The seminar will emphasize understanding the policy justifications for the major doctrines in intellectual property. The topics studies will include patent law, copyright law, trademark law, trade secret law, and the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
Education Law and Policy (S): LAW JD 777
3 credits
This seminar considers the legal and policy framework of K-12 public education. During the first two-thirds of the meetings, we will study the historical development of public education; school desegregation and resegregation; school finance; federalism, localism, and accountability efforts; achievement gap and equity reforms such as school choice, charters, and vouchers; single-sex public education and other identity-based public schooling; commitments to students with disabilities; and bullying. For the final third of the course, students will work in pairs to develop a topic for further research, evaluation, and problem-solving, and present their work in person and in writing to the class. Students will leave this course with a foundation in substantive education law and policy, and develop and practice the following skills: oral communication, written communication, law and policy analysis, and collaboration. This is a reading and writing intensive course. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 777 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Katharine B. Silbaugh | LAW | 410 |
Effective & Ethical Depositions (S): LAW JD 958
3 credits
The purpose of this seminar is to teach students how to take and defend effective and ethical depositions. The course involves both a simulated deposition component and a professional responsibility component. Simulated Deposition Course Component: Students will be divided into firms representing either the Plaintiff or the Defendants in a gender discrimination and defamation case brought by an attorney who has been denied partnership. The students will prepare and perform depositions of lay and expert witnesses and gather experience with obtaining and developing facts, preserving testimony, and the uses of depositions. Professional Responsibility Course Component: The simulated context offers the opportunity to explore several professional responsibility issues that arise naturally in deposition practice. These issues emerge largely because of the dual professional roles of an attorney: zealous representative and officer of the court. Some of the more timely issues involve proper witness preparation, improper witness coaching, inadvertent waiver of privilege, and abusive tactics. Writing and Performance Requirements: Each week students will write a short one or two page comment on the professional responsibility issues raised in class. At the end of the course, students will perform a videotaped deposition rather than take a final written exam. NOTE: This class may be used to satisfy the Professional Responsibility requirement, credits toward Experiential Learning requirement, or the upper-class writing requirement. This class may not be used to satisfy more than one requirement. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students per section. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 958 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Constance A. Browne | LAW | 410 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Constance A. Browne | LAW | 410 |
Effective In-House Legal Counsel (S): LAW AM 893
3 credits
This course will introduce internationally-trained LLM students to the roles and responsibilities of in-house legal counsel. Students will investigate the skills and characteristics that contribute to successful and effective practice as an in-house counsel and explore the similarities and differences between in- house legal practice and outside legal practice. Topics covered during the course will include: the relationship between in-house counsel and his/her client; in-house counsel's role in adding value to his/her organization; advising and counseling clients; fact gathering and investigation; managing an in-house legal practice; selecting and managing outside counsel; and the ethical challenges of in-house counsel. This will be a hands-on course focused on practice skills development. In role plays, students will step into the shoes of in-house counsel to address a variety of situations in which an in- house counsel would be expected to act. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 893 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Nancy Conlin | NIP | 320 |
Effective Writing (LLM): The Lawyer's Craft (S): LAW AM 706
3 credits
There is no such thing as a good lawyer who is not also a good writer. Whether you are writing a court document, a legal development update, a settlement agreement, or a simple internal email to colleagues, your ability to make proper decisions about tone, style, language and organization will play a big role in your effectiveness as a practitioner and overall professional identity. This seminar will focus on the best practices for effective writing across a broad range of legal communications. Weekly assignments will build upon -- but not overlap with -- the fall semester Legal Research and Writing seminar's assignments. Students will be exposed to a range of writing styles and approaches suitable for different audiences. Assignments will focus on the craft of writing and effective expression, not on substantive legal issues or legal research and may include such work products as lawyer-to-lawyer letters, informal client advisories, internal communications and official submissions to government agencies. Students will receive direct individual feedback on their assignments. Enrollment is limited to 14 LLM in American Law Program students who are not enrolled in Professor Sugarman's "Advanced Legal Writing for LLMs: The Essentials for Bar Exam Writing and Beyond."
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 706 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | John E. LaPlante | LAW | 204 |
Elder Law: LAW TX 977
2 credits
Understanding the differences between Medicare and Medicaid. Exploring the operation of a Durable Power of Attorney and a Health Care Proxy in connection with the admission of a loved one to a nursing home. A walk through the Federal and corresponding Massachusetts Medicaid Regulations as they relate to: understanding what is a countable and non countable asset for Medicaid eligibility purposes: exploring the five year look back period versus the period of ineligibility resulting from disqualifying transfers along with related exceptions to these rules; discuss real estate as a countable and non countable asset including the different treatment of a primary residence, vacation home and rental properties along with ways to convert these countable assets to non countable assets; last minute planning techniques with annuities and personal care contracts; understanding the drafting and operation of Medicaid Irrevocable Trusts including a complete analysis of the Income, Gift and Estate Tax consequences of using these trusts from Grantor Trust rules to step up in basis, use of life estates along with real life fact patterns that explain the planning opportunities and related pitfalls to be avoided.
Employment Discrimination and Employment Law: LAW JD 865
4 credits
The course focuses on race, sex, age, and disability employment discrimination prohibitions. Affirmative action, religious discrimination, constitutional protections of public sector workers, anti‑retaliation and whistleblower laws, common law protection against arbitrary dismissals, the FMLA, and the FSLA are also covered. Important procedural issues, including arbitration, also are treated. RESTRICTION: Students who previously enrolled in Employment Discrimination (JD 853) may not register for this course. Students who previously enrolled in Employment Law (JD 834) may register for this course.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 865 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Michael C. Harper | NIP | 320 |
English Legal History: LAW JD 942
3 credits
This course will cover the history of the common law in England from the late twelfth century to the time of the American Revolution. We will study the development of the legal profession, its doctrines, and its techniques in five areas: procedure, criminal law, property, contract, and tort. The readings emphasize primary sources, and students will give presentations in teams on historical documents handed out in class. Students can either write a research paper or complete a take-home examination. Research papers may, but need not fulfill the Writing Requirement. OFFERING PATTERN: This class not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 942 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 11:00 am | 12:25 pm | 3 | David J. Seipp | LAW | 101 |
Entertainment Law (S): LAW JD 905
3 credits
This seminar will focus on the varied legal doctrines that influence both the business and practice of Entertainment Law. Some of the primary topics include issues involving publicity rights and the use and control of image, celebrity and promotion issues, defamation and free speech, invasion of privacy, copyright including infringement and dispute and other general contractual relations surrounding the entertainment field. The course will also explore the practical aspects of entertainment law such as complicated litigation issues involving jurisdictional and venue concerns, client counseling and negotiations and other ethical concerns raised in the course of representation of your client. This course will not focus on sports entertainment or any other specific labor-related organizations. There will be no final exam. Grades will be based upon papers and class participation. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 18 students. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 905 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Jerrold G. Neeff | LAW | 212 |
Environmental Law: LAW JD 833
4 credits
This is an introductory survey course in environmental law. Topics include clean air, clean water, hazardous waste regulation and cleanup, and the protection of endangered species. Administrative Law is recommended but not required as a prerequisite.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 833 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Madison CondonStaff | LAW | 212 |
Environmental Law Practicum (C): LAW JD 766
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Environmental Law Practicum. Students receive credit for completing environmental law-related legal projects for a regional or national environmental law organization, such as the Conservation Law Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Projects will vary in scope and content based on student interest and the needs of the partnering organization. Project topics include clean energy, clean water, and environmental justice, which concerns the intersection of civil rights, fundamental fairness, and environmental policy. Students may also have the opportunity to work on litigation-related matters. Throughout the semester, students will work both under the supervision of an attorney at the partner organization and under the supervision of Professor Pam Hill. Practicum students must attend at least six class meetings with Professor Hill. Students receive either 1, 2 or 3 graded credits depending on the nature of the project and the anticipated workload. NOTE: This clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 766 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 7:00 pm | 8:00 pm | Var | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 7:00 pm | 8:00 pm | Var | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 7:00 pm | 8:00 pm | Var | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 5:30 pm | 6:30 pm | Var | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 5:30 pm | 6:30 pm | Var | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 5:30 pm | 6:30 pm | Var | Pamela Hill | NIP | 320 |
ERISA Regulation of Retirement Plans: LAW TX 905
2 credits
Regulation of pension and profit sharing plans by the Internal Revenue Code and Employee Retirement Income Security Act, with particular attention to rules applicable to tax-qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, including rules governing the structure of benefits and taxation of contributions and distributions.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 905 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Russell A. Gaudreau | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Gaudreau |
Estate and Gift Taxation: LAW TX 904
2 credits
Principle issues of estate and gift taxation. Topics include the definition of taxable gifts and exclusions and deductions; determination of the taxable estate of a decedent including problems with lifetime transfers; valuation issues; deductions from the taxable estate with special emphasis on property passing to a spouse; and transfers with retained interests. Reference is made throughout to planning issues relating to estate and gift taxation and is designed to give both a requisite background for those intending additional study of estate planning and a comfortable familiarity with the subject for those going on to other tax fields.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 904 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Harry S. Miller | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Miller |
Estate Planning: LAW TX 935
2 credits
This course will examine in depth the theoretical and practical aspects of a variety of estate planning strategies currently being used in the real world. The primary focus of the course will be on federal income, estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer tax issues which arise in the estate planning context, although other planning issues, including professional ethics, will also be considered. The course will use case studies of specific tax driven planning strategies, including grantor trusts, marital deduction trusts, post-mortem planning, and planning for incapacity. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I and Estate and Gift Tax
FALL 2020: LAW TX 935 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Melissa Langa | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | LangaMattson |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Monaghan | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Imelda Monaghan |
Estate Planning and Drafting: LAW TX 975
2 credits
This course will focus on the tools and techniques used in drafting estate planning documents. The objective will be to provide students with a hands- on opportunity to understand what it means to design and implement an estate plan in order to achieve a client's dispositive wishes while factoring in transfer taxes, probate, trust administration, choice of fiduciaries and other important considerations. We will work through planning situations from the ground up and evaluate both the technical and practical aspects of what goes into drafting an effective estate plan. Prerequisites: Estate Planning LAW TX 935 and Estate and Gift Taxation LAW TX 904
Estate Planning- Advanced: LAW TX 934
2 credits
This course picks up the estate planning course (TX 935) leaves off. We will survey several "cutting edge" estate planning techniques-techniques that permit the transfer of large amounts of wealth at little or no gift tax or estate tax cost. We will zero in on valuation rules that apply to the estate tax and gift tax; we will discuss what to look for in appraisals; we will examine, in depth, the current status of planning involving family partnerships and LLCs; we will examine the rules that apply to GRATs, installment sales to "defective" grantor trusts, and how to structure transfers using these techniques; we will review the biases built into the actuarial valuation rules that the Internal Revenue Service requires us to apply; we will examine the effects of the UPC, the Uniform Trust Code, and will consider "decanting"; we will discuss some of the psychological aspects of estate planning including issues presented by parents' fears of making their children too wealthy too soon; and we will discuss trust design and the choice of trustees. There is no final exam but students will be required to write a 10 -- 15 page term paper. In addition there will be several quizzes throughout the semester. Prerequisite: Estate Planning and Estate and Gift Tax Recommended: Taxation of Trusts and Fiduciaries
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 934 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Thomas E. PeckhamTara Wilson | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | PeckhamStaff |
Ethical Issues in Medicine and Public Health: SPH LW 725
4 credits
This course reviews the nature and scope of moral dilemmas and problematic decision making in public health, medicine, and health care. After a survey of ethical theory, the course focuses on a broad range of ethical concerns raised by the theory and practice of public health and medicine: the nature of health, disease and illness, health promotion and disease prevention; rights, access, and the limits of health care; the physician-patient relationship; truthtelling and confidentiality. Through a series of case studies, the course examines specific topics: the bioethics movement and its critiques; human experimentation; the role of institutional review boards; the concept and exercise of informed, voluntary consent; abortion, reproduction, genetic counseling and screening; euthanasia, death and dying; ethics committees; and international and cross-cultural perspectives.
REMINDER: This is a SPH course. Students cannot register through WebReg. Students who register for the class and want law credit must add the course to their law transcript by completing an add form at the Law Registrar's Office before the end of the add/drop period for that semester.
European Union Law: LAW JD 880
3 credits
This seminar is divided in two parts. During the first half of the semester, readings and discussions will introduce students to the following general topics of EU Law: Historical and economic foundations of the Treaty of Rome (EEC 1957); institutional and constitutional structure of the EU; the internal market and its four freedoms (goods, services, people and capital); competition law; human rights protection in the EU legal system; US-EU trade relations; and the main EU crises of the 21st century: sovereign debt, immigration, Brexit, authoritarian back-sliding, the social state and COVID-19. In the second half of the semester, in consultation with the instructor, each student will identify a topic of inquiry based on current developments and engage in supervised individual research. Students' presentations of their work in progress will be grouped into coherent themes and supplemented by background readings and guest lectures as appropriate. Grading will be based on students' presentations, final papers, and short writing assignments. This LAW seminar meets with CAS IR 500 F1 and is open to law students, graduate students in International Relations, and, with the instructor's permission, advanced European Studies majors.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 880 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Daniela Caruso | NIP | 320 |
Evidence: LAW JD 829
3 credits
This course will examine the rules and doctrines of Evidence Law with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence and pertinent constitutional law. We will cover hearsay and its exceptions, relevance, prejudice, character evidence, impeachment, and other central subjects. Emphasis will be on the practical application, the policies and purposes, and theoretical considerations of Evidence Law. This course utilizes a problem-based approach to learning and encourages critical analysis of how Evidence Law impacts equity and justice. Assessment for the course will be based upon a bar-style multiple-choice midterm examination, multiple-choice final examination, and policy paper. If a student's score on the midterm examination is lower than their score on the final examination, the midterm score will not be counted in the final grade. Thus, while the midterm examination can help a student's overall grade it cannot hurt it. This course satisfies BU Law clinics' evidence prerequisite/co-requisite requirement.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 829 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 9:00 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Jasmine Gonzales Rose |
Evidence: LAW JD 831
4 credits
Practical and theoretical aspects of the rules of evidence. The purpose and policies underlying the evidentiary rules are stressed throughout in order to make the rules meaningful, predictable, and functional both for students interested in trial practice and for students who anticipate engaging in a more diversified practice. In addition to covering the substantive rules of evidence, the course demonstrates the significance of evidence as a tactical device at the trial and as a vital skill for the office lawyer.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 831 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu,Sat | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Gary S. Lawson | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:45 am | 12:45 pm | 4 | Stephen M. Donweber | LAW | 103 |
Evidence for LLMs: LAW AM 703
2 credits
This course provides LL.M. students with an overview of the substantive rules governing the admissibility or exclusion of evidence at trial. Subjects include competency of witnesses, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, the rule against hearsay and its exceptions, expert and lay opinion testimony, privileged communications, relevancy, procedural considerations, judicial notice, burden of proof, presumptions, form and type of objections, authentication, the best evidence rule and the use of demonstrative and scientific evidence. The course is designed to give students a fundamental understanding of evidentiary rules in anticipation of taking a US bar exam.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 703 A1 , Mar 1st to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Heidi Brieger |
Executive Compensation: LAW TX 925
2 credits
Study of the tax and ERISA aspects of various forms of executive compensation. Topics include traditional fringe benefits and deferred compensation arrangements, incentive and non-qualified stock option and restricted stock plans, stock appreciation rights, excess benefit arrangements, rabbi trusts, golden parachute agreements, split-dollar insurance arrangements, and special issues for tax-exempt organizations.
Exempt Organizations: LAW TX 926
2 credits
This course examines the formation, organization, operation and tax aspects of tax-exempt entities including charitable organizations, private foundations and various other tax-exempt entities such as healthcare organizations, social clubs, business leagues, trade associations, fraternal organizations and arts organizations. The course will analyze the following topics: the rationale for federal tax-exempt status; general considerations in organizing tax-exempt entities, including selection of appropriate form and methods of obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status; distinctions between non-profit and tax exempt status; income taxation of exempt organizations; structuring relationships with nonprofit affiliates and for profit business organizations; liability and responsibility of agents, officers and directors; prohibited transactions; the taxation of unrelated business taxable income; private benefit/private inurement; intermediate sanctions; fundraising; political activities; and considerations in acquisitions, mergers and liquidations of exempt organizations. Pre or Co-Requisite: Federal Income Tax I
Family Law: LAW JD 814
Var credits
McClain: This course offers a survey of family law, including case law, statutory law, and the role of constitutional rights in limiting governmental regulation of the family. This course will introduce students to family law as a dynamic field of law concerning a basic social institution: the family. Family law is a foundational course relevant to many areas of law practice. Students will gain knowledge about how family law intersects with many other fields of law, such as contracts, constitutional law, conflicts of laws, criminal law, property, tax, torts, and trusts and estates, as well as how social science informs family law. This course will also consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families and areas of family law doctrine and practice. The course will focus on marriage (including the recognition of same-sex marriage), nonmarital families, divorce, pathways to becoming a parent, and the parent-child relationship. Topics include defining and regulating marriage; formal marriage; common law marriage; nonmarital couples, cohabitation, and alternatives to marriage (such as domestic partnerships); common law incidents of marriage and transformation of the common law; domestic violence; traditional and "no fault" divorce; property division; spousal support; child support; child custody; and regulating parenthood. Students will be introduced to the role of negotiation, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution in the practice of family law. There will be a final examination. The teaching method is a combination of lecture and class discussion, along with in-class small group problem-solving exercises. Silbaugh: This survey course will provide an introduction to the legal regulation of the family. The course will focus on the legal regulation and response to both adult and adult-child relationships. Topics covered will include: cohabitation; marriage; civil union; divorce and dissolution of relationships; the financial consequences of divorce including property division and alimony; premarital agreements; the laws governing non-marital relationships; family mediation; child custody, visitation, and parenting plans; child support; paternity; assisted reproductive technologies; and adoption. The course will also cover the interaction between families and the state in related areas of law including employment law and education law. There will be a final examination as well as in-class drafting and negotiation exercises. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 814 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Linda C. McClain | NIP | 320 |
Federal Courts: LAW JD 836
4 credits
A basic survey course covering the federal courts, their place in the structure of American government, their relations with the Legislative and Executive branches and with the states, and their adjudication of federal-question cases concerning constitutional and civil rights, federal social welfare programs, and business regulation. This course builds on first-year courses in Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure and complements upperclass courses on modern public law and legal institutions: e.g., Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Environmental Law, Labor Law, and Conflict of Laws. Topics include the separation of federal legislative and judicial powers, Congress' authority to prescribe the federal courts' jurisdiction and to assign adjudicatory duties to other bodies (e.g., "legislative" courts and agencies), standing to litigate in federal court, conflicts between federal and state courts, the states' immunity from private lawsuits, the Supreme Court's authority to review state court judgments, and "abstention" doctrines governing the exercise of federal judicial power. We will explore theoretical and policy questions--asking not only what federal-courts law is at the moment, but also what it should be. Yet we will organize our discussions around practical lawyering in the federal courts--identifying and analyzing the constitutional, statutory, and judge-made hurdles that litigants must clear to obtain a decision on the merits of a federal question. Especially recommended for students who plan to practice with firms that represent clients subject to federal regulation, to pursue careers with federal or state agencies and departments, or to handle constitutional, civil rights, or other public interest litigation.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 836 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 10:45 am | 12:45 pm | 4 | Larry YackleLarry Yackle | NIP | 320 |
Federal Income Taxation I: LAW TX 901
2 credits
This course presents a general introduction to the fundamentals of federal income tax, emphasizing issues common to individual taxpayers (but not including the federal income tax aspects of the acquisition, ownership, and disposition of property, which are the subject of Federal Income Taxation II). Topics include an overview of the federal tax system; gross income, inclusions, and exclusions; identity of the proper taxpayer; concepts and categories of deductions; and basic timing principles.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 901 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Charles W. Maurer | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Maurer |
Federal Income Taxation II: LAW TX 902
2 credits
Federal income tax aspects of the acquisition, ownership, and disposition of property. Topics include: 1.Realization and recognition, 2.Basis and amount realized, 3.The effects of debt (including its cancellation), 4.Depreciation and amortization, 5.At risk, not for profit, and passive activity loss deductibility limitations, 6.Capital gains and losses, related party transactions, quasi-capital assets and depreciation recapture, and 7.Deferred payment transactions (original issue discount and installment sales). Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 902 A1 , Sep 3rd to Nov 26th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Charles A. Wry | LAW | 211 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Wry |
Financial Crisis to Fintech: LAW BK 971
Var credits
This course provides the student with a perspective on the origins of the financial crisis of 2007-2009, the response to that crisis, and the financial reform responses to the crisis be they legislative, regulatory of market- driven. The course has three parts: the Buildup, the Eye-of-the Storm, and the Response. In the first part, the causes of this and other financial crises are explored including the housing bubble, the development of the "shadow" financial system, new financial instruments, regulatory gaps and deregulation, monetary policies, compensation practices, accounting deficiencies, governance breakdowns, and more. In the second part, policy responses to the crisis are detailed such as: central bank liquidity facilities, government investment programs such as TARP, fiscal stimulus, stress-testing, enforcement actions and the lack thereof, and global coordination of responses. Finally, the course will take an analytical view of the reforms prompted by the crisis. These include various systemic risk measures, guidance from the G-20 and Bank Stability Board, Basel III, the treatment of home/host country issues, and the current state-of-play of the regulation of the derivatives marketplace. A discussion format is employed to the extent feasible, and problems and illustrations are used to focus and encourage class participation.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 971 A1 , Jan 22nd to Apr 16th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 9:00 am | 11:00 am | Var | Cornelius K. HurleyThomas Curry | NIP | 320 |
Financial Regulation: LAW JD 864
3 credits
This course will survey the regulatory architecture of major U.S. financial institutions, including commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies. Understanding the regulatory framework surrounding financial institutions requires situating them within a rapidly evolving political, technological and global context. The course will explore various regulatory mechanisms, such as bank supervision, security disclosures, fiduciary duties, consumer protections, capital requirements, and risk monitoring. The design of these complex governance tools has important implications for the health and stability of the economy, and thus for society. Attendance at the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law's three-day program, "Financial Services Basics," is highly recommended. PREREQUISITE: Business Fundamentals. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 864 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 4:30 pm | 5:55 pm | 3 | Rory Van Loo | LAW | 102 |
Financial Reporting for Lawyers: LAW JD 872
2 credits
Understanding financial statements and reports. The objective of the course is that students will be able to read and understand the four financial statements and the 10-k annual report. Emphasis is placed on understanding the nature and meaning of the reports, as well as the relationship to the underlying transactions. Other topics include: basic accounting principles, US GAAP versus IFRS, financial statement analysis, the relationship of the financial statement information to covenant documents, and accounting gamesmanship. RESTRICTION: Not open to students who have had more than one three-hour college course, or its equivalent, in accounting. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 872 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:30 pm | 6:30 pm | 2 | Donald Andrade | LAW | 103 |
First Amendment: LAW JD 839
3 credits
This course will examine the free speech, free exercise and establishment clauses of the First Amendment. About two-thirds of the course will focus on speech, including such topics as political speech (including campaign finance regulation), commercial speech, and expression in the public forum. The final one-third of the course will focus on religion, including such topics as freedom of religious practice, religion in schools, and religious displays and symbols.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 839 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:45 am | 12:15 pm | 3 | Jay D. Wexler | LAW | 212 |
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law (S): LAW JD 802
3 credits
This seminar examines the Food and Drug Administration as an administrative agency combining law and science to regulate activities affecting public health and safety. Topics include testing and approval of pharmaceuticals and medical devices; food safety and nutritional policy; biologics and biotechnology regulation; cosmetic regulation; pricing of and reimbursement for drugs and devices; global aspects of pharmaceutical regulation, US and foreign patent issues, and FDA practice and procedure; jurisdiction and enforcement. A writing project involving research on food and drug issues will be required. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. RECOMMENDED COURSES: Intellectual Property, Administrative Law & Health Law. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 802 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Frances H. Miller | NIP | 320 |
Fundamentals of U.S. Constitutional Law for LLM Students: LAW AM 709
2 credits
This class provides an introductory level survey of U.S. constitutional law. Topics will include: the Constitution's impact on fundamental concepts of criminal and civil law; the delineation of spheres of power between the branches of the national government; the role of the judiciary and other institutions in interpreting and applying the Constitution; individual rights; substantive due process; theories of constitutional interpretation; and the practice and meaning of judicial review in a political democracy. Enrollment is limited to LLM students who obtained their law degree outside the U.S. and to students not currently enrolled in the JD four-credit constitutional law class.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 709 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Christian G. Samito | LAW | 103 |
Gender Equality Law: LAW JD 914
3 credits
This survey course provides an overview of the law concerning gender discrimination and gender equality. It will provide students with a foundation for understanding and evaluating how gender shapes and informs the law and how legal doctrine in a number of specific areas responds to problems of sex or gender discrimination. The course will address both the historical role of law in creating and maintaining forms of gender discrimination in basic social institutions and the efforts of activists, lawyers, and legal scholars to challenge such discrimination and secure equality through law. The course will introduce a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of gender and equality, as well as many substantive areas of law that implicate sex and gender. The course uses legal cases across a wide variety of subject matter areas in order to develop those theoretical frameworks, including constitutional law, employment discrimination law, family law, criminal law, education law, reproductive rights and justice, poverty law, and immigration. Those cases will include classic sex discrimination cases challenging the unequal treatment of women as well as newer cases challenging discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation as discrimination based on "sex." Through a series of "Putting Theory into Practice" problems, students will be able to test the application of such theoretical frameworks about gender and the law in numerous real-life situations, ranging from sports, the military, schools and campus life, television programming, assisted reproductive technology, parenting, the Affordable Care Act, and legal practice. Students will gain understanding of how the study of gender discrimination and equality enriches the study of law more generally. The course will also be a helpful building block for a variety of legal career paths. Student evaluation will be based on a final examination, short written responses to several "Putting Theory into Practice" problems, and class participation.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 914 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 11:00 am | 12:25 pm | 3 | Linda C. McClain | NIP | 320 |
Gender, Law and Policy (S): LAW JD 966
3 credits
This seminar provides students a chance to study contemporary issues of gender, law, and policy through the format of a series of presentations of works-in-progress by legal scholars actively engaged in new and important research on such issues. Many legal and social problems implicate gender and gender equality. Gender remains a significant category of analysis in numerous substantive areas of law. Gender equality is also a commitment of domestic law and international human rights law, but gender inequality persists. Gender scholars highlight the need for an intersectional approach to gender, even as some scholars question the continuing use of gender and other identity categories in law and policy. In alternating weeks, when there is no outside speaker, the instructor and students will discuss the paper that to be delivered the following week, as well as relevant background reading. Topics vary from year to year, depending on the speakers, but have included: anti-discrimination law, criminal law, elder law, employment law (including sexual harassment law), First Amendment (speech and religion), gender identity issues (including transgender rights), health law, international human rights, the intersection of race and gender, law and sexuality, masculinity studies, privacy law, regulation of family, marriage, and parenthood, reproductive justice and reproductive rights, and gender-based violence. Confirmed speakers for Fall 2020 are: Dean Onwauchi-Willig (BU Law) and Professors Paisley Currah (Brooklyn College), Maya Manian (Howard University), Kaipo Matsumura (Arizona State University), Serena Mayeri (University of Pennsylvania), Natalia Nanasi (SMU), and Catherine Powell (Fordham). Most of these presentations will be through Zoom. Students will write a short reflection paper on each scholarly paper and one longer paper (10-12 pages) about one of the seven works. Interested faculty are invited to attend sessions when speakers present their work. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 966 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:30 pm | 6:30 pm | 3 | Linda C. McClainStaff | NIP | 320 |
Government Regulation of Insurance: LAW BK 990
2 credits
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better known as health care reform, is the most important and controversial piece of federal social legislation of this generation. It is also basically an insurance regulatory statute. PPACA establishes a new and complex set of rules governing the operation of the health insurance industry, provides consumers with important rights with respect to access to medical care and imposes obligations with respect to health insurance on both businesses and individuals. The course will look at PPACA and the issues that surrounded its enactment--issues which continue to fuel debate over whether it should modified or repealed. This will be done as part of an examination of the regulatory rules that govern all of insurance industry?s products (annuities, auto, home owners? product liability, life insurance, etc). The course also takes a look at the insurance industry?s structure and financial performance and at the competitive interactions between the insurance, banking and securities industries. The impact on the industry of the financial crisis of 2008 and the resulting Dodd-Frank reform legislation will be reviewed. Not offered Fall 2020.
Health and Human Rights: SPH LW 740
4 credits
This course focuses on health and it is closely linked to the realization of human rights. Preventable illness, infant mortality, and premature death, for example, are closely tied to societal discrimination and violation of human rights. This course explores the relationship between human rights and health by examining relevant international declarations in historical context, exploring the meaning of "human rights" and "health," and analyzing specific case studies that illuminate the problems, prospects, and potential methods of promoting health by promoting human rights on the national and international levels.
REMINDER: This is a SPH course. Students cannot register through WebReg. Students who register for the class and want law credit must add the course to their law transcript by completing an add form at the Law Registrar's Office before the end of the add/drop period for that semester.
FALL 2020: SPH LW 740 A1 , Sep 4th to Dec 11th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 10:00 am | 12:50 pm | 4 | GrodinGeorge J. Annas | INS | 206 |
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Tue | 2:00 pm | 4:50 pm | 4 | George J. Annas | INS | 112 |
Health Care Decisions & Bioethics: LAW JD 727
3 credits
This course will cover issues that arise in clinical healthcare settings, primarily involving who decides and on what basis. Topics include: informed consent and materiality; competence and capacity to give consent; surrogates, advanced directives, physicians orders, and powers of attorney; end-of-life decision making, including withholding/removing treatment, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide; clinical ethics committees; patient confidentiality and duties to disclose; human subjects research and institutional review boards; physician conflicts of interest; pre-approval access to drugs; and rationing of scarce healthcare resources.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 727 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 9:00 am | 10:25 am | 3 | Christopher Robertson | NIP | 320 |
Health Care Fraud and Abuse (S): LAW JD 726
3 credits
This seminar will use a practical, case-study approach to some of the issues arising in the complex world of health care enforcement and compliance. With emphasis on the procedural mechanisms of the False Claims Act and the substantive law of the Anti-Kickback Act, the Stark I and II laws, the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, and the government's remedial authorities, the seminar will explore how prosecutors, defense attorneys, whistleblowers, and compliance officials inside health care companies approach their work and advise their clients. The seminar will explore the relationships between regulated industries (e.g., pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors, medical device companies) and government insurance programs (e.g., Medicaid and Medicare), why these relationships generate billions of dollars every year in fraud, and how the interested constituencies are approaching these issues. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 726 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Erica HitchingsRobert M. Thomas | NIP | 320 |
Health Care Transactions (S): LAW JD 998
3 credits
Partners, associates and general counsel from leading firms will discuss the deals they were personally involved in. After an introduction to joint venture theory and the regulatory context of health care, everyone in the class examines 2 transactions: a physician recruiting agreement and an ambulatory surgery center JV. The remainder of the course will involve 5 -- 6 complex health care transactions, using actual documents from recent deals. The transactions run the gamut from hospital M&A to biotech licenses. For the transaction you select, you will work in teams to analyze the deal, and will present your conclusions to the lawyers who closed it. Your final project will be a negotiation or drafting assignment drawn from class materials. PREREQUISITES: The course does not have pre-requisites, but Corporations and Health Care are suggested; if you select the biotech transactions, IP and FDA are suggested. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 998 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Dianne McCarthyDavid S. Szabo | LAW | 413 |
Health Law: LAW JD 856
4 credits
This four-credit course focuses on the business side of health care, including health care insurance regulation and laws designed to increase the quality and lower the cost of health care. Topics include managed care regulation, institutional liability for medical malpractice and other forms of negligence, professional and facilities regulation, the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, corporate form, medical staff organization, referral fee laws, and antitrust law related to health care providers. The course is designed to develop a solid doctrinal foundation on today's most relevant areas of health law and to develop a strong ability to view the doctrine and policy through the lens of economics with a particular focus on law as both the cause of and solution to health care and health care insurance market imperfections.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 856 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Christopher Robertson | NIP | 320 |
Health Law Externship: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 762
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Office of Experiential Education to enroll. Students receive credit for working at a public agency, a non-profit, or a private health care organization. Placements may be paid or unpaid. Prior to the beginning of the semester, the course instructor works with students to identify suitable field placements depending on each student's individual interests and career goals. Once possible placements are identified, students are responsible for applying and being accepted to those organizations. Students receive 3-9 variable P/F credits for their fieldwork, as determined in consultation with their placement supervisors. Each credit requires 50 hours of work over the course of the 13-week semester (averaging 4 hours per week). NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Health Law Externship: Seminar (JD 764).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 762 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Health Law Externship: Seminar: LAW JD 764
1 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Office of Experiential Education to enroll. This is the companion academic component for students enrolled in the Health Law Externship: Fieldwork course. The one-hour weekly seminar examines various health law issues as well as the challenges of working in a health care environment. The seminar requires students to write a paper and make a class presentation. In addition, each student submits reflective memoranda chronicling their educational experience and reactions to the practice of law observed at the field placements. NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Health Law Externship Program: Fieldwork (JD 762). GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 764 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | 1 | Dianne McCarthy | LAW | 203 |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 1 | Dianne McCarthy | LAW | 413 |
Health Law Research: LAW JD 717
1 credits
Health law encompasses the engagement of the legal system with a large and dynamic segment of the U.S. economy. In this class, students will gain a familiarity with how to navigate the statutory and regulatory framework of health law, how to evaluate resources, and how complex and multi-part search strategies may be applied to research problems. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of databases beyond Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg, and of current awareness sources. Classes will combine instruction and hands-on exercises using print, electronic, and web-based resources. Students will be evaluated on several grounds, including class participation, regular assignments, and a short paper and presentation. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. NOTE: Students may not add this course after the first class has been held. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment. Meeting Dates: (2/23/2021-4/13/2021).
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 717 A1 , Feb 23rd to Apr 13th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 1 | Jenna Fegreus | NIP | 320 |
Health Sector Consulting: QST HM 840
3 credits
This is an applied consulting project course that aims to develop reflexive practitioners who can elicit client requirements, translate requirements into a problem statement and develop actionable solutions that meet client needs. The course uses a mix of case studies, individual memos and team project deliverables to systematically apply skills developed over the course of the MBA to solve real-world health sector problems. Students work on the consulting assignment in teams of up to four students based on having a shared interest in a prospective consulting project. These projects are curated in partnership with sponsor organizations to be executable within the framework of an academic semester. Projects in the past have ranged from improving the departmental revenue cycle within an academic medical center, developing an international pricing strategy for the introduction of a new product by a pharmaceutical company, to improving safety culture at a large hospital. These projects all have active involvement of the project sponsors who provide access to their organizations and provide ongoing feedback over the lifecycle of the consulting engagement.
REMINDER: This is a QST course. Students cannot register through WebReg. Students who register for the class and want law credit must add the course to their law transcript by completing an add form at the Law Registrar's Office before the end of the add/drop period for that semester.
SPRG 2021: QST HM 840 E1 , Jan 28th to Apr 29th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 9:15 pm | 3 | Srinivasan | HAR | 418 |
Hedge Funds: LAW BK 934
2 credits
Assets being managed by hedge funds have grown significantly during the past 10 years. As a result, managers of hedge funds have been the focus of increased scrutiny by investors, the press and regulatory authorities. This course will cover the regulations (and exemptions) applicable to hedge funds and their managers, including under the Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. We will focus on the formation and operation of U.S. and offshore hedge funds, including structure, disclosure, risks and economic and liquidity terms. This will include a detailed review of hedge fund offering documents. We will discuss the many issues being considered by hedge fund managers and regulators, including valuation, conflicts of interest, insider trading and compliance.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 934 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Miriam Gross | NIP | 320 |
Homicide Investigations and Trials: Theory and Practice (S): LAW JD 950
3 credits
This seminar will focus upon the substantive law of homicide, as well as the practical aspects of actual homicide investigations and trials: crime scene interpretation; DNA analysis; autopsies and related forensic evidence; expert testimony, particularly in the area of psychiatry and criminal responsibility; jury considerations; ethical concerns; and the role of the media. Students will have the opportunity to study actual murder cases, visit local crime laboratories and courtrooms, and learn prosecution, defense, and judicial perspectives on various contemporary issues arising in murder investigations and trials. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with the approval of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who waitlist for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 950 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Christina Pujals Ronan | LAW | 212 |
Hospital Law: LAW JD 913
2 credits
This course focuses on the highly regulated industry of health care, but with attention to the law applicable to hospitals and health systems. The course will review Federal and State statutes, regulations, as well as case law relevant to hospital organization, responsibilities and liability, credentialing, fraud and abuse laws and compliance oversight. The course is intended to develop competencies in understanding health care and health care insurance laws and regulations as they pertain to hospitals, developing familiarity with the reimbursement (particularly Medicare & Medicaid), regulatory compliance and enforcement issues facing hospital counsel. In addition, it is expected that students will demonstrate legal analysis and reasoning, problem-solving and communications skills required for work in a hospital/health care setting. Through understanding core health care law principles, students will learn the foundational legal, structural and business aspects of the modern hospital complex. Understanding how hospitals fit into the broader health care environment of payors, physicians, patients, regulators and other health care providers, law students will be able to appreciate the challenging dynamics affecting the health care system and the role of the hospital, often at the hub of activity, both in terms of current practice, but also health care delivery system reform. After completing the class, students will have been exposed to the key health care-related legal issues facing hospitals that hospital counsel and other health care lawyers need to know. Additionally, recognition of these stressors will be important training for lawyers in other disciplines interacting with hospitals, such as labor and employment law, intellectual property, antitrust, criminal defense, environmental, corporate, employee benefits, tax, etc. Course materials include a case book, primary source documentation, and guest lectures from in-house and outside counsel representing hospitals.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 913 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 5:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 2 | James BryantLarry Vernaglia | LAW | 209 |
Human Rights in Europe (S): LAW JD 845
3 credits
This seminar provides students with a broad introduction to cases, institutions and dilemmas in the field of human rights in the European context. This course is designed for students who have already had some exposure to human rights law, whether in the context of a law degree or in some other context. The course aims to deepen students' engagement with this field of law and to enrich their capacity for critical analysis and theoretical enquiry. The seminar begins with an introduction to key concepts in human rights, including universalism, cultural relativism and the historical development of human rights in modern Europe. It examines human rights law-making in European (regional) institutional frameworks of the European Union and the Council of Europe, before moving on to examine several national contexts. The remaining sessions of the seminar examine human rights issues by way of illustrative groups of cases and supported by secondary literature that examines the social, economic and political contexts in which these cases are set. The issues covered in these cases in context include, e.g., asylum, race, sexuality, protections against torture and inhumane treatment, the right to life, the right to manifest religious belief, the right to education, and the right to family life. While human rights advocacy generally adopts a universalist, pro-rights posture, this course seeks to complicate the idea of the benevolence of rights by critically engaging with human rights law in context. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 845 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Bruce-Jones | LAW | 209 |
Human Trafficking Clinic: Adv. Advocacy Seminar (S): LAW JD 817
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program. In this seminar, students will further develop their trial advocacy and client counseling skills by participating in multiple simulations and a mock hearing. They will learn about comparative models to address human trafficking, and the challenges of a criminal justice framework to solving complex social problems. The course will focus on the lawyer's role in anti-trafficking work, given: (1) converging areas of law; (2) the emerging multi-disciplinary nature of legal work; and (3) tensions among the role of the client as both victim and defendant. Courses will focus on further developing students' competencies in the following areas: (1) strategic planning and decision-making; (2) client interviewing and counseling; (3) trial advocacy; (4) leadership and innovation; and (5) professional responsibility. Classes will focus on a wide range of topics, including: (1) oral advocacy; (2) direct and cross examination; (3) accompaniment and survivor-led advocacy; (4) legal advocacy and brief writing; (4) legislative advocacy; and (5) developing professional roles and self-care. NOTE: The Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 817 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Julie A. Dahlstrom | LAW | 418 |
Ilj/Editor: LAW JD 757
Var credits
FALL 2020: LAW JD 757 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Ilj/Member: LAW JD 756
Var credits
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Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 859
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program. Students have three fieldwork options: (1) concentration in immigrants' rights; (2) concentration in human trafficking; or (3) work on both types of cases. Students focusing on immigrants' rights will represent adult and children asylum seekers and other vulnerable noncitizens with the opportunity to litigate an immigration case in the Boston Immigration Court. Students focusing on anti-trafficking work will represent survivors of labor and sex trafficking in a wide range of civil matters and engage in policy-related work to address gaps in the local and national landscape. Students focusing on both immigrants' rights and human trafficking will represent immigrant clients and survivors of human trafficking in a range of civil matters. All students will have the opportunity to engage in immigrants' rights and human trafficking work through "Know-Your-Rights" visits at the local jail/detention center and by conducting intake at the Family Justice Center for human trafficking survivors. Students, working in pairs, assume the primary responsibility for multiple clients' complex cases, from start to finish. Students conduct client interviews, track down witnesses, speak with experts, develop documentary, testimonial and expert evidence, and write legal briefs. The clinical supervisors prepare students for their cases through weekly supervision meetings, mid-semester and final individual meetings, and mock hearings, as appropriate. NOTE: The Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. PRE/CO-REQUISITE: Evidence. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 859 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program: Core Lawyering Skills (C) : LAW JD 882
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program. The seminar is the fall companion course for students enrolled in the Program. It provides a practice-oriented introduction to advocacy on behalf of indigent clients, including noncitizens and survivors of human trafficking. Students will develop a wide range of competencies with classes focusing topics including: (1) client interviewing and counseling; (2) case planning; (3) legal research and writing; (4) cultural competency; (5) legal story-telling and developing a theory of the case; (6) affidavit writing; (7) vicarious and secondary trauma; and (8) professional responsibility. Students will participate in class simulations, present in case rounds, and actively engage in facilitated discussions. There also will be two boot camp classes for students with specialized training in the following areas: (1) immigration law with a focus on asylum law and representing vulnerable noncitizens; and (2) human trafficking law with a focus on the protection framework in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and multi-disciplinary lawyering. NOTE: The Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 882 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Julie A. DahlstromSarah R. Sherman-Stokes | LAW | 605 |
Immigrants' Rights Clinic: Adv. Advocacy & Trial Theory (C): LAW JD 888
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program. In this seminar, students will further develop their trial advocacy skills by participating in multiple mock hearings and portions of simulated trials. In particular, this course will focus on developing students' competencies in the following topics: (1) witness preparation, including working with lay and expert witnesses; (2) oral advocacy, including direct/cross examination and opening and closing statements; (3) factual and legal research; (4) cross-cultural lawyering and implicit bias; (5) legal advocacy and brief writing; (6) basic negotiation; and (7) developing professional roles and identities. Students will also be introduced to the intersections between criminal and immigration law, and to law and organizing in the immigration context. NOTE: The Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 888 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes | LAW | 101 |
Immigration Enforcement & Asylum at the US-Mexico Border (S): LAW JD 715
3 credits
This seminar provides a detailed examination of immigration enforcement, asylum and relevant law and policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as the disproportionate impact of these laws and policies on noncitizens and communities of color. Recent years have shown increased attention to migration and enforcement at the southern border, as well as increased violence directed at persons seeking to cross the border. But enforcement and violence at the border are not new, and must be understood in the context of both U.S. and international law and policy. This seminar will engage critically with the history, politics and law of southern border enforcement and U.S. immigration and asylum policy, and ask students to contend with what an alternate border policy might look like, as well as with the limits of the law in protecting migrants and asylum seekers. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with permission of the instructor. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.**
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 715 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes | NIP | 320 |
Immigration Law: LAW JD 968
3 credits
This class will cover the immigration laws of the United States, including the administrative and regulatory framework of the United States agencies charged with enforcing U.S. immigration laws. The topics covered by this course include the power of the Congress to regulate immigration; the effect of politics on immigration policy; nonimmigrant and immigrant visa classifications; the law of asylum; the intersection of immigration law and criminal law; grounds of removal from the United States; relief from deportation, immigration court representation and access to justice; and the law of naturalization and derived citizenship. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 968 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 11:00 am | 12:30 pm | 3 | Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes | LAW | 410 |
Inbound International Taxation: LAW TX 953
2 credits
This course will cover the U.S. tax rules applicable to taxation of income from U.S. (and sometimes foreign) sources received by corporations and individuals that are non-residents of the United States. In some cases, such income will be derived from passive investments and be in the form of dividends, interest, rents, or royalties. In other cases, the income will arise from active business activities. The course will address the concept of residence and entity classification, the U.S. source of income rules, the U.S. withholding tax rules (including the obligations of withholding agents) with respect to non-business income, the types of activities that can generate a "trade or business" (tax nexus) in the U.S., the U.S. rules for determining income effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business and thus taxable in the U.S., the branch profits tax, FIRPTA (foreign investment in U.S. real property) and the U.S. rules applicable to financing U.S. operations owned by non-U.S. taxpayers Finally, we will address the impact of tax treaties on the taxation of income of non-residents. This course will be of interest to students who will represent foreign resident taxpayers with economic operations in the United States. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I; Recommended: Tax Aspects of International Business
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 953 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Douglas S. Stransky | LAW | 101 |
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Independent Proposal Externship: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 709
Var credits
This CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This is a 2-credit graded seminar that meets every week for 1.5 hours for those students doing fieldwork in small and medium-sized law offices. This seminar focuses on a range of topics unique to legal practice in small and medium-sized law firms, with a particular emphasis on developing the skills necessary for successful lawyering in this setting. Students will gain a foundational knowledge of smaller firms and learn how to cultivate mentors, seek and respond to feedback, obtain challenging assignments, and measure progress on professional development goals. Students will write reflective papers, make oral presentations, and complete other work as required by the instructor. NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Independent Proposal Externship: Paper (JD 710).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 709 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Independent Proposal Externship: Paper (C): LAW JD 710
2 credits
This CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. Students receive credit for an externship done in conjunction with an independent study project. Qualifying placements include the legal departments of non-profits, government agencies, private companies, or law firms. Placements may be paid or unpaid. Students may find their own placements that must be approved by the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office, or the Office has resources to help students identify and apply to suitable field placements based on their interests and career goals. Students receive 3-9 variable P/F credits for their fieldwork, as determined in consultation with their placement supervisors. Each credit requires 50 hours of work over the course of the 13-week semester (averaging 4 hours per week). NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: INDEPENDENT PROPOSAL EXTERNSHIP: FIELDWORK (LAW JD 709).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 710 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Kathleen Devlin Joyce |
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Information Privacy Law: LAW JD 956
3 credits
The collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data has become increasingly important throughout society, from commerce to government and from health care to finance. For good reason, we call this the Information Age. Recall the countless high-profile privacy and data security controversies you have heard about in the last year: location tracking; inaccurate credit reports causing lost jobs; data breaches, hacking and identity theft; and government surveillance. Law has responded with a dizzying array of new rules -- and a rapidly growing area of professional specialization for attorneys. This course serves as an introduction to the emerging law of data privacy. By the end, you will be well grounded in many challenges facing any enterprise, public or private, that collects, processes, uses, and stores personal information. In addition to knowledge of constitutional, statutory, and common law rules as well as federal and state enforcement activity, we will learn about the policy questions that arise in this dynamic area, the legally relevant questions to ask when assessing information practices, and some of the many nonlegal models of information governance. You will gain a basic understanding of data privacy regulation in other countries, particularly the European Union. All students will benefit from more sophisticated knowledge about an issue that appears in the news every single day. But there are significant professional payoffs too. Major law firms have organized entire practice areas devoted to privacy and data protection law. In the last seven years the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), a key trade association in this space, more than tripled in size to 12,000 members. These trends mean that law school graduates will have increasing job opportunities in data privacy and security law. Meanwhile, in many other practice areas -- such as securities, labor and employment, health, advertising, and the list goes on -- familiarity with privacy and security law has become a major asset. Plus, the issues are fascinating and fun. If nothing else, you can have great conversations at parties.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 956 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 4:30 pm | 6:00 pm | 3 | Woodrow Hartzog | LAW | 212 |
Information Risk Management (S): LAW JD 934
2 credits
Businesses and organizations handle information every day to conduct business, process transactions, and deliver goods and services. They do so in the context of legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations relating to their possession and use of this information. In the age of "Big Data" and "Advanced Persistent Threats," these entities can no longer focus solely on developing and implementing procedures to govern information processing. Instead, they must implement governance that allows for the optimization of risk while facilitating core management decision making in order to create real value. This is the new world of "knowledge governance." Legal counsel must ensure compliance with the legal and core requirements for security, privacy and data breach prevention, in a way that aligns with the strategic objectives of their firm. Designing a robust compliance program is a critical part of this task, but the big-data environment requires skills that go beyond devising a formal compliance program. In particular, lawyers operating in this environment must consider the value of data and information, understand the nature of their organization's collection, use, and disclosure of that data, and appreciate the relationship between risk optimization and their organization's strategic objectives. This course will explore the lawyer's role in devising and implementing a policy and culture of knowledge governance within a firm. It will focus on information, especially personal information. It will introduce students to the core principles of information risk management -- the privacy attributes of collection, use, and disclosure married with the security concepts of confidentiality, integrity, and availability -- while providing a framework for governance around information risk management. This course will also serve in part as preparation for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 934 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Kenneth P. Mortensen | NIP | 320 |
Insurance Law: LAW JD 850
3 credits
The presence or absence of insurance is in many instances the single most important determinant of whether and how a tort or contracts action is litigated. This course focuses on both individual and commercial forms of insurance coverage. Students are introduced to the key insurance concepts of risk management, including the transfer, pooling and allocation of covered risks. Problems of contract interpretation, imperfect information, adverse selection and discrimination will be treated at length. Additionally, the class will take up issues particular to property, life, health, disability, liability and auto insurance. Finally, some time will be devoted to the state regulatory regimes designed to ensure solvency and profitability, and to the secondary market (i.e. reinsurance, and surplus and excess lines). A final exam is required.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 850 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 10:45 am | 12:15 pm | 3 | Maria O’Brien | NIP | 320 |
Int'l Human Rights Clinic: Human Rights Advocacy (S): LAW JD 843
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the International Human Rights Clinic. This is the companion spring classroom component for students in the Clinic. The course focuses on further developing skills in the context of the substantive law and mechanisms of the Inter-American Human Rights system. Classes will cover: interviewing and counseling institutional (non-governmental organizations) clients; designing and implementing human rights field research; ethical pitfalls and professional 'best practices' in human rights collaborations with international networks; advocacy within the Inter-American machinery; and simulations using comparative and foreign human rights problems. The classes will be a combination of readings and discussion; simulations; student presentations; short papers and case rounds to discuss project work; and group and individual feedback on project development. NOTE: This course counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 843 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Susan M. AkramStaff | LAW | 417 |
Int'l Immigration and Refugee Law & Policy (S): LAW JD 747
3 credits
We will address major themes and controversies in international immigration and refugee law and policy, including: Is there a need for international immigration law, and how is international immigration law beneficial for the facilitation of global mobility and the protection of the rights of migrants? What are some of the challenges that international migration poses to sovereign states? How is International immigration shaped by colonialism and neo-colonialism, household decision making processes, changes in national and international labor markets, and other factors? What are some of the structural forces creating inequality in access to global migration? What are the international agencies dealing with international migration? What are the main categories of migrants, how are their rights protected under international law and what is the relationship between them? What is the definition of refugee in international law? How should responsibility for international migrants be shared internationally? Classes will look into these questions through examining legal doctrine and theory and through examining case studies from different countries, including, but not limited to, the United States.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 747 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Tally Kritzman-Amir | LAW | 418 |
Intellectual Property: LAW JD 857
4 credits
Meurer: This course explores how the law deals with the products of creative activity. The range of subject matter is large, embracing things as different as mechanical inventions and melodies; baubles and boat designs; catalogues, computers and cartoons. Among the areas of potential coverage are federal copyright law, federal trademark law, state law theories of unfair competition, trade secret law, patent law, state rights of publicity, and misappropriation. Also considered will be whether federal law should preempt the efforts of state judges and legislatures to regulate intellectual products. Silbey: In our modern information economy, the law of intellectual property has taken on enormous importance to both creators and users. This course introduces students to the principles of trade secret, patent, copyright, and trademark law, and explores the ways in which those principles are shifting and adapting in response to new technology. The course is open to all upper level students, without prerequisite. No scientific or technical background is required.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 857 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | Freilich | LAW | 212 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | Michael J. Meurer | LAW | 103 |
Intellectual Property Law Research: LAW JD 733
1 credits
This course begins with an overview of basic legal research skills, processes, and resources using intellectual property subject matter. The course then proceeds to specific research strategies in copyright, patents, and trademark law, providing students an increased understanding of advanced legal research skills using: secondary sources, legislative history, administrative materials, and more. Students will gain an even deeper understanding of the context and framework of legal resources and how they are applied to real-world research from practitioner guest lecturers. Classes combine instruction and hands-on exercises, with an emphasis on exposure to databases beyond Lexis and Westlaw. Students are evaluated on weekly research assignments and a final research project. PREREQUISITE: Intellectual Property. NOTE: Students may not add this course after the first class is held. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6-credit Experiential Learning requirement. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 15 students. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: Students who fail to attend the first class or obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students on the waitlist are required to attend the first class meeting for enrollment eligibility.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 733 A1 , Jan 13th to Feb 24th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 1 | Shira Megerman | LAW | 413 |
Intellectual Property Rights and Commerce in the Global Cloud: LAW AM 978
2 credits
This course, open to LLM in American Law and LLM in Intellectual Property Law students, will help participants appreciate and understand how the Internet or "Cloud" has introduced into everyday life an ever-expanding and evolving range of proprietary claims on digital information and its communication. We will cover the role of traditional industrial property (patents and trademarks) and of authors' rights (copyrights), as well as of internationally expanding rights in "confidential" information (trade secrets) -- which are amplified by the primacy of online "contracts" and licensing. We will also explore the extended range of quasi-proprietary interests such as privacy, publicity and "freedom of speech" and regulating factors such as consumer protection, e-commerce, competition and telecommunications policies (standards, Internet governance, Net Neutrality). While the subject matter will be examined in systemic appreciation from the perspective of U.S. and international transactions and enforcement, foreign-trained students will be encouraged to share insights on the national laws of their home countries. Grades will be based on a take-home final examination with a reasonable choice of covered subject matter, along with consideration of class participation. PREREQUISITE: None, as the course is directed to systemic understanding, but exposure to any of the mentioned subject matter would be helpful.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 978 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Stephen Y. Chow | NIP | 320 |
Intellectual Property Workshop (S): LAW JD 776
3 credits
This seminar examines topics from the frontiers of intellectual property law ("IP" law). The class provides students with the opportunity to meet and interact with cutting-edge IP scholars who will be invited to speak. Students will read the speakers' research and works in progress, critique those writings in papers and/or in oral give-and-take discussions with the authors, and will be provided additional reading as appropriate. The goals of this seminar workshop are three: for students to deepen their substantive knowledge of IP law, for students to increase their abilities to participate in scholarly debate and potentially publish their own work, and for established scholars to improve their papers through the input of the workshop group. Ideally, students should have taken or be concurrently enrolled in a course in IP, Copyright, Patent, or Trademark. Students who have not taken such a course (or who are not enrolled currently in such a course) must obtain the permission of the instructor. The seminar offers a variety of writing options. Papers of suitable depth and scope are potentially capable of fulfilling both the IPIL Concentration writing requirement and the JD Upper Class Writing Requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 776 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Michael J. Meurer | LAW | 414 |
International Business Agreements: Negotiating, Structuring and Drafting (S): LAW JD 959
3 credits
This seminar will provide an overview of the private dimensions of negotiating and drafting international business agreements, and specifically on the contractual aspects. Students will gain hands on experience in structuring, drafting and analyzing various international business agreements and documents including global joint venture agreements and privatization provisions, sales, distribution and franchise agreements, international development agreements, share purchase agreements, letters of intent and technology licensing agreements. The design of the class will assist students in identifying critical legal issues and techniques likely to affect the outcome of international business negotiations including protecting against political, economic and legal risks. Emphasis will be placed on the important differences between international and domestic agreements from the American law perspective. Grades will be based on class participation and a final research paper. At the option of the student a final examination can be taken in lieu of a research paper. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 959 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Virginia Greiman | LAW | 414 |
International Business Arbitration (S): LAW JD 980
3 credits
Legal dimensions of resolution of cross-border economic disputes through binding arbitration. Treaty framework for determining validity of arbitration agreement and for recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, in particular 1958 New York (UN) Convention and 1965 Washington (World Bank) Convention. Comparative approach, including reference to French, English, Swiss, and United States approaches to arbitration law, as well as the United States (UNCITRAL) Model Act. Investor-State proceedings pursuant to free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties. Influence of major arbitration rules, including ICC, LCIA, AAA and ICSID. Exploration of special issues arising from intellectual property arbitration and expropriation claims, including Act of State and sovereign immunity. Introduction to debate on "delocalized" arbitration, the role of the arbitral seat and the enforceability of awards annulled at the place of proceedings. Arbitral awards as a contribution to lex mercatoria and the "soft law" of dispute resolution. Comparison of business arbitration with issues related to consumer, employment and class action proceedings in the United States. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 980 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | William W. Park | NIP | 320 |
International Business Transactions: LAW JD 842
3 credits
This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the law--domestic, foreign, and international--governing international business transactions. With the significant growth in international commerce and trade, and the forces of economic and social globalization, lawyers will increasingly confront international legal issues during their professional careers. This course will focus on the legal problems encountered in business ventures that cross national borders. Topics may include formation of contracts, choice of law, financing the international sale of goods through letters of credit, sales and distribution agreements, licensing and contract manufacturing, joint venture agreements, foreign investment, international dispute settlement, and global compliance issues. This course explores one or more of these topics with contract drafting and negotiation exercises. NOTE: While prior background in international law is not required, it is strongly recommended.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 842 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 10:40 am | 1:40 pm | 3 | Maya Steinitz | NIP | 320 |
International Criminal Law (S): LAW JD 996
3 credits
This seminar will focus chiefly on the crimes for which individuals incur criminal liability directly under contemporary international law. We will cover, in particular, (i) what crimes qualify as international in this sense, general principles of international criminal jurisdiction and immunities, and the historical evolution of the field from its genesis after World War I to Nuremberg to the permanent International Criminal Court established in 2002; (ii) treaty provisions, statutes, and tribunal jurisprudence defining the nature and scope of liability for core international crimes, viz., genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; (iii) modern debates over other, and at times more controversial, international crimes, such as torture and CIDT, as well as the crime of aggression; (iv) the minimal requirements and forms of individual criminal responsibility under international law; and (v) selected special topics, including the principle of legality, head of state immunity, and crimes of sexual violence. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students will be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with this seminar after consultation with the instructor. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 996 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu,Fri | 10:45 am | 12:10 pm | 3 | Ioannis Kalpouzos | LAW | 414 |
International Development and Project Finance (S): LAW JD 936
3 credits
Capital-intensive public and private development projects throughout the world, including large-scale infrastructure, transportation, energy, agriculture, technology and environmental projects depend upon project financing as the primary funding mechanism. Understanding and resolving the political, legal and financial risks associated with the planning and implementation of these projects, and often in emerging and unstable economies, is the critical first step in developing project finance opportunities. The seminar will combine theory and practice and focus on the negotiation and structure of actual project finance and concession agreements and transactions and the minimization of exposures and risks associated with these transactions. Each step of the project finance process will be analyzed, including the rationale and sources for the project finance, the legal framework for the project finance, the organizational and governance structure, risk allocation and mitigation and dispute resolution. An interdisciplinary analysis from the legal, finance and public perspective will be used to assess the views that investors, lenders, designers, contractors, governmental participants, citizens and other stakeholders bring to an infrastructure project. Several of the world's largest and most complex civil engineering and infrastructure mega projects including the English Chunnel, the Chad Cameroon Pipeline, the Dabhol Power Project and Boston's Central Artery Tunnel Project will serve as models for analysis of project finance and risk. A final research paper will be required in lieu of an examination. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 936 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Virginia Greiman | LAW | 211 |
International Due Diligence for LLMs: LAW AM 785
2 credits
Corporate law associates are often assigned "due diligence" projects in connection with transactional deals. They are asked to review a target's records and identify "anything that looks suspicious." Where to begin? This is a practical skills course that will assist LLM in American Law Program students in understanding international compliance and risk due diligence in cross- border transactions. Students will learn to identify and investigate the myriad "red flags" that can signal a target company's non-compliance with US laws governing global trade and anti-corruption. Through case studies and hands-on exercises and assignments, students will develop the lawyering skills needed to assess a target company's control framework (compliance programs), identify potential red flags of non-compliance, and advise management on the risks posed by a potential transaction. The focus will be on the compliance obligations of multinational enterprises pursuant to anti-corruption rules (primarily, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and U.S. trade sanctions (OFAC). Students may not also take "Compliance and Risk Management in Global Commerce." (JD 918)
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 785 A1 , Jan 11th to Feb 24th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Justin Rosen | NIP | 320 |
International Estate Planning: LAW TX 958
2 credits
The course will cover international estate planning from two perspectives: (1) U.S. citizens residing outside of the U.S. or owning assets located outside of the U.S.; and (2) foreign citizens residing in the U.S. or transferring assets in or to the U.S. U.S. gift and estate tax laws applicable to both situations will be studied in depth in a practice-oriented manner. Planning techniques and vehicles utilized in international estate planning will be explored, in particular trusts and the special U.S. income tax rules applicable to foreign trusts with U.S. beneficiaries and off-shore U.S.-grantor trusts. The impact of non-U.S. transfer taxes and tax treaties will be considered, as well as non-tax foreign laws impacting on international estate planning. The course will also cover the U.S. tax and estate planning issues applicable to "mixed marriages" where one spouse is a U.S. citizen and the other is a non-U.S. citizen, and multi-jurisdiction situations of gifts or bequests from non-U.S. donors or decedents to U.S. beneficiaries. Finally, the course will also consider cultural and ethical issues peculiar to the area of international estate planning. Prerequisite or corequisite: Estate and Gift Tax, Estate Planning
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 958 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Harry S. Miller | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Harry S. Miller |
International Human Rights : LAW JD 991
3 credits
This is an introductory course to international human rights law. The course will introduce students to the concepts of human rights, and the legal texts that have codified and provided content to those concepts in the last seventy years. The course aims to work at three levels: to examine the role of human rights (law) in history and politics; to analyze the doctrine of international human rights law; to introduce key areas of current and future human rights practice. We will accordingly look at the historical evolution and political role of human rights law, and ask whether there is such a thing as universal human rights, or whether the concepts are dependent on specific regions, cultures and political systems. We will look at the key institutions and mechanisms, at the global and regional level, for the monitoring and enforcement of human rights law. We will analyze the law on specific rights (for example the right to life, the prohibition of torture, the right to self-determination) as well as in specific contexts and themes (for example human rights and climate change; business and human rights) to understand the reach and function of human rights law in the international system. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 991 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 4:30 pm | 6:00 pm | 3 | Ioannis Kalpouzos | LAW | 414 |
International Human Rights Clinic (C): LAW JD 975
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the International Human Rights Clinic. Students in the Clinic work on policy issues on behalf of institutional clients that represent refugees, forced migrants, immigrants, and stateless persons. Students work on long-term human rights projects such as: working with NGOs in advocacy in the UN human rights system or in regional organs (e.g. Inter-American and European human rights bodies); advocating for durable solutions to statelessness and citizenship deprivation in the Middle East; and organizing workshops and presentations to major stakeholders around the world. Students conduct legal and factual research and outreach to partners and project strategy development, and prepare written reports and submissions to international and regional agencies. The clinic fieldwork may include international travel. PRE/CO-REQUISITE: International Human Rights (LAW JD 991). NOTE: The International Human Rights Clinic counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 975 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Susan M. AkramStaff |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 3 | Susan M. AkramStaff |
International Human Rights Clinic: Skills Seminar: LAW JD 840
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the International Human Rights Clinic. This course is the companion fall classroom component for students enrolled in the Clinic and provides an introduction to essential lawyering skills, with a focus on those relevant to the practice of human rights law. The goal of the course is to help students develop a wide range of competencies, including written and oral communication and advocacy, legal research, factual investigation, witness interviewing, professional responsibility, and strategic thinking and problem-solving. NOTE: This course counts towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 840 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Susan M. Akram | LAW | 420 |
International Information Reporting and Withholding: LAW TX 919
2 credits
International information reporting and withholding are the future of tax work. They are a source of revenue for the IRS through penalties and a source of anxiety for many tax practitioners, especially with the expanded reporting requirements newly enacted as part of the TCJA. A strong grounding in international information compliance and withholding transactions can benefit every practitioner from the estate planner to the corporate tax advisor. This course will cover the reporting requirements for US taxpayers who hold non-US assets, and the withholding requirements when US payors make payments to non-US persons. Students will become familiar with the various forms associated with different assets, such as the Foreign Bank Account Report ("FBAR") which is used to report foreign assets. We will cover how and when to file, the basics of how to prepare the form, and the penalties for noncompliance. The course will comprehensively cover informational reporting forms to report all foreign assets including closely held business interests, foreign trusts, and the receipt of gifts from non-US persons. We will discuss how the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA") created a worldwide network of information about non-US assets, and what individuals and fiduciaries need to know to remain compliant. Finally, in addition to covering the reporting associated with non-US ties, we will discuss withholding under Chapter 3 of the Internal Revenue Code and identify when and how to withhold US tax from payments to non-US entities and non-US persons.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 919 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Ruth MattsonRita Ryan | LAW | 204 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Ruth MattsonRita Ryan |
International Law: LAW JD 927
4 credits
This course will offer a basic survey of contemporary international law. It will teach students the minimum that every lawyer should know about the major issues of public international law and policy that influence current events and modern legal practice. It will also provide a foundation for those interested in further study of particular topics covered. We will consider both the historical "law of nations" and post-World War II developments, which have shifted the fulcrum of the system from an exclusive focus on the rights and duties of states inter se to a broader focus on all the diverse participants in the contemporary international legal process: not only states but intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, insurgents, multinational business enterprises, terrorist and criminal associations, and individuals. Specific topics will include: (i) the history, nature, sources and efficacy of international law; (ii) the establishment, transformation and termination of states and other actors, including international institutions and, in particular, the United Nations; (iii) the domestic incorporation of international law, with a focus on key concepts of U.S. foreign relations law; (iv) the allocation among states of jurisdiction to prescribe and apply law, as well as jurisdictional immunities; (v) human rights, the laws of war, and international criminal law; (vi) the allocation of control over and regulation of the resources of the planet, including the law of the sea, territory, the environment, and the global economy; and (vii) the use of force. The role of power in the international legal system will be candidly acknowledged--and the problems and opportunities it presents explored. Current international events will be woven into the curriculum as appropriate. Examination. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 927 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 4th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed,Fri | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 4 | Tally Kritzman-Amir | LAW | 414 |
International Law Research: LAW JD 707
1 credits
An important component of understanding international law is mastering all the diverse sources of this area of law. Students will learn to navigate the international system as well as the relevant primary sources of law. Students will learn research strategies and skills for locating treaties, decisions of international tribunals, documents of international organizations and other sources of state practice. Among the organizations the course will discuss the United Nations, the OAS, the EU and the WTO. In addition, students will be introduced to strategies for researching the law of foreign jurisdictions. Students will gain hands-on experience in answering legal research questions in the area of international and comparative law. Classes will combine instruction and hands-on exercises using major print, electronic, and web based resources for international law research. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment. Meeting dates: (10/9/2020-11/20/2020)
FALL 2020: LAW JD 707 A1 , Oct 8th to Nov 19th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 1 | Amelia Landenberger | LAW | 414 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 1:00 pm | 3:00 pm | 1 | Amelia Landenberger | LAW | 414 |
International Mergers and Acquisitions: LAW AM 982
3 credits
This course will give students a detailed introduction to the knowledge and skills necessary for an international M&A lawyer to guide clients through a typical cross-border M&A transaction. The course will have two distinct parts: (1) a deep dive into the key M&A contractual language (and underlying theories) that get negotiated in most transactions (including purchase price adjustments, indemnities, covenants, representations and warranties, and other key terms) and (2) navigating through each step in the deal process (including initial term sheet negotiations, due diligence, regulatory and third-party approvals, definitive agreement negotiations, closing mechanics, and other key steps). There will be an emphasis on underlying business principles that are common across different jurisdictions (e.g. U.S., U.K/Australia, EU/civil law countries, Africa, India, China, Japan, Asia-Pacific and other jurisdictions). Students will engage in case study hypotheticals involving real-life deals, which will be used to demonstrate the strengths and weakness of common strategies employed by law firm, in- house and other transactional lawyers. PRE- or CO-REQUISITE: CORPORATIONS. This course is open to LLM in American Law Program students.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 982 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 9:30 pm | 3 | Sidd Pattanayak | LAW | 103 |
International Trade Regulation (S): LAW JD 858
3 credits
The first half of this seminar surveys the origins and development of the WTO, with emphasis on the WTO legal process and its interaction with U.S. trade agencies. It explores the philosophical underpinnings of free trade and its impact on developed, developing, and least developed countries. Each session compares U.S. and EU approaches to trade regulation. Meanwhile, in consultation with the instructor and Law Library staff, students develop individual research projects and produce thick outlines. The second half of the semester is devoted to students' presentations of their work in progress. A polished paper is expected of each student by the end of the exam period. Shorter response papers may also be required. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 858 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 9:00 am | 10:25 am | 3 | Thrasher | LAW | 101 |
Intro to Analytic Methods for Lawyers: LAW JD 997
2 credits
Lawyers in almost every area of practice (litigation, corporate, government, public interest) deal routinely with problems that are usefully illuminated by basic business and economic concepts. This course is designed to teach the most important analytical methods to law students, in a manner that will be fully accessible to those with no prior quantitative training or background in the subjects covered. Using text, classroom activities, and written exercises, we will explore how these tools may be used to analyze concrete problems that arise in a wide range of legal practice settings. Covered topics will include: decision analysis, games and information; contracting; accounting; finance; microeconomics; law and economics; and statistics. GRADING NOTICE: This course will not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 997 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 2 | Frederick Tung | LAW | 410 |
Introduction to American Law: LAW AM 700
2 credits
The class covers the basic structure and function of US legal institutions: the congress, the president, and regulatory agencies, and, especially, the federal courts. It examines the role of state law and state courts in the American system of federalism. The course also studies the American judicial processes of constitutional analyses, interpretation of statues, and development of common law. Some attention is paid to court procedures, including trial by jury. Finally, students study a few topics that are illustrative of the treatment of individual rights in American law, such as freedom of speech, anti-discrimination law, and protection of private property. The class grants two credits towards the American Law degree.
FALL 2020: LAW AM 700 A1 , Sep 1st to Nov 10th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 103 |
Fri | 1:30 pm | 3:00 pm | 2 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 103 |
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Fri | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 2 | Stephen M. Donweber | LAW | 103 |
Tue | 11:15 am | 12:45 pm | 2 | Stephen M. Donweber | LAW | 102 |
Introduction to Corporate Tax: LAW TX 933
2 credits
Income tax considerations relating to transfers of assets and liabilities to a corporation (during incorporation and otherwise), non-liquidating distributions, stock redemptions, related party stock purchases and corporate liquidations. Includes an overview of the treatment of a corporate shareholder versus other shareholders. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I and II
FALL 2020: LAW TX 933 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Wayne E. Smith | LAW | 414 |
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Introduction to Federal Income Taxation: LAW JD 889
4 credits
The income tax is a pervasive feature of life in the United States and lawyers encounter tax issues in virtually every field of practice. This course introduces students to the fundamental principles of the federal income tax, and its impact on a wide range of matters, including employment, tort claims, divorce, retirement, and especially business activities and investments of all types. Topics include: the concept of income, determination of gross income, allowance of deductions and the determination of taxable income, identification of the taxpayer, taxable periods and timing, the determination of gain or loss (including realization and recognition) from dealings in property, the concept of income tax basis, and the process of change in the tax law. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 889 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 4th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 11:00 am | 12:15 pm | 4 | Alan L. Feld | NIP | 320 |
Fri | 11:00 am | 12:15 pm | 4 | Alan L. Feld | NIP | 320 |
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Tue,Thu | 9:00 am | 10:30 am | 4 | David I. WalkerDavid I. Walker | NIP | 320 |
Fri | 9:00 am | 10:20 am | 4 | David I. WalkerDavid I. Walker | NIP | 320 |
Introduction to Project Finance: LAW BK 957
2 credits
This course focuses on the structure, documentation and negotiation of a typical project finance transaction. The class will explore legal, financial, and policy problems involved in investing in domestic and cross- border power and infrastructure projects. We will focus on strategies and techniques of structuring and financing such investments, and will touch upon the legal and regulatory environment for investment, and in the context of foreign investment, the role of political risk management and the implications of treaties, conventions, and other relevant law. Selected domestic and cross- border investment transactions, both actual and hypothetical, will be used to illustrate recurring issues. This course may contain a graded group drafting component where students draft and negotiate a loan agreement.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 957 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 9:00 am | 11:00 am | 2 | Kathleen M. PhelpsThomas Murley | LAW | 204 |
Introduction to Risk Management and Compliance: LAW JD 778
4 credits
Spanning the range of industries from health care to financial services to manufacturing and beyond, compliance is the fast-growing practice of managing the full range of legal risk within highly-regulated organizations. At the complex intersection of law, business operations, reputation, and ethics, compliance lawyers practice "preventive law" to protect companies against corporate criminal and civil liability. We will discuss how to identify and evaluate an organization's legal risks and and work in multidisciplinary teams to develop effective strategies to prevent wrongdoing (and detect violations when they do occur). Among other topics, we will look at the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and enforcement guidance from the Department of Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission to see how compliance has become a key mechanism of corporate accountability in the U.S. and globally.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 778 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 9th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 10:45 am | 12:45 pm | 4 | Donald Griffith | LAW | 209 |
Wed | 11:45 am | 1:45 pm | 4 | Donald Griffith | LAW | 209 |
Introduction to the American Legal System: LAW BK 912
2 credits
This course focuses principally on three areas: (1) the use of case law as a primary source of American law, including analysis of cases, reasoning from prior cases, the evolution of case law, and the case method of teaching; (2) the structure of the American legal system and selected elements of Constitutional law, such as allocation of powers among the three branches of government, the relationship between federal and state courts, due process of law, equal protection, and other key concepts; and (3) a brief introduction to particular private law subjects such as contracts, intellectual property, criminal procedure and torts. The goal is to provide insight into the methods used by American lawyers in dealing with legal questions and an introduction to the structural and substantive legal framework within which American lawyers operate. This course is no longer a required course for students who did not obtain their first law degree at a law school in the United States. However, foreign-educated students planning to sit for a bar examination in the United States, especially the New York State Bar Examination, must take this course, which is only offered in the fall semester.
Introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code: Sale of Goods and Secured Transactions: LAW AM 814
2 credits
This is a six-week class intended to provide international LLM students with an introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), the model code developed for the purpose of harmonizing the varied commercial and contract laws in the United States. The course will begin with an overall survey of the UCC, including its purpose and coverage. Students will then focus on two important articles of the code -- Article 2 and Article 9. Article 2 governs the sale of goods by merchants or professional sellers and addresses such matters as offer and acceptance, consideration and contract formation, modification, repudiation, breach of contracts, and the "battle of the forms." Article 9 governs secured transactions -- business transactions in which a debtor grants a security interest in personal property to a creditor in order to ensure repayment of a debt. This article addresses such issues as creating and giving notice of a security interest in property, and resolving conflicts among creditors claiming interests in the same property. The class will use a variety of learning methodologies, including readings, lectures, small group discussions, and role-plays. The class has no pre-requisites. Enrollment is limited to 40 LLM in American Law Program students. Students may not also enroll in LAW BK 972 or LAW JD 805.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 814 A1 , Mar 1st to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 2 | Donna Palermino | LAW | 209 |
IP and the Life Sciences: LAW JD 674
3 credits
This course will explore legal doctrines in intellectual property--particularly patent law--that shape innovation, research, and development in the life sciences. Students will be introduced to laws that influence decision makers in the life sciences and participate in a series of exercises to apply legal doctrines and understand the incentives and outcomes produced by the existing legal framework. Course topics include selecting drug candidates, IP licensing, material transfer agreements, how firms use IP to protect pharmaceuticals, the optimal timing of patent protection, building patent portfolios, regulatory exclusivity, Hatch-Waxman litigation (litigation between brand-name and generic drug companies), and generic drug development. The course will be a combination of lecture and in-class problem-solving exercises. There are no prerequisites for this class. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 674 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Freilich | LAW | 211 |
IP Licensing in the Global Marketplace for LLMs (S): LAW AM 795
3 credits
This course focuses on the major legal and practical issues related to intellectual property licenses in the global marketplace. Taught from the US practitioner's perspective, the class is specifically designed for foreign- trained lawyers who want to learn how to leverage intangible assets through intellectual property licensing transactions. We will cover patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret license agreements in a range of industries. Topics will include the scope and limitations of different licensing arrangements; crafting and interpreting licensing contract language; the relationship between licenses and transactions involving tangible assets; and licensing enforcement. We will explore the similarities and differences in licensing in the media, entertainment and technology industries; as well as licensing law and practice in foreign jurisdictions. In-class exercises and role plays will help students develop the practical skills needed to successfully draft and negotiate intellectual property licenses. PRE-REQUISITES (unless otherwise waived by the professor): Contracts; and either Intellectual Property (fall survey class) or the fall seminar, The Practice of U.S. Copyright and Trademark Law: Media and Entertainment Transactions. Enrollment is limited to 18 LLM in Intellectual Property Law and LLM in American Law students. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 795 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Daniel Lev | LAW | 212 |
Judicial Externship Seminar : LAW JD 734
1 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This is the companion academic component for students simultaneously enrolled in the Judicial Externship: Fieldwork course. The seminar focuses on teaching the substance and skills related to being a successful judicial extern. Topics include judicial ethics, legal research, judicial process, opinion drafting, judicial selection and recusal, and judicial decision-making. Students keep reflective journals chronicling their educational experience and reactions to the practice of law observed at the field placement. Please note that the course is scheduled to meet for seven two-hour class sessions, every other week. NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Judicial Externship: Fieldwork (JD 735). GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 734 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 1 | Henry | LAW | 410 |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 1 | Anuj Khetarpal | LAW | 102 |
Judicial Externship: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 735
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. Students receive credit for working in chambers for a judge in the state or federal court system. The assignments handled by an extern are similar to those handled during a post-graduate clerkship. Students may find their own judicial placements that must be approved by the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office, or the Office will match the student with a judge. Students receive 4-9 variable P/F credits for their fieldwork, as determined in consultation with their placement supervisors. Each credit requires 50 hours of work over the course of the 13-week semester (averaging 4 hours per week). NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Judicial Externship: Seminar (JD 734).
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Judicial Writing (S): LAW JD 711
2 credits
This course will focus on writing styles and formats unique to the judicial process, such as the bench memo and appellate majority and dissenting opinion. Classes will provide a general overview of the opinion writing function with emphasis on topics such as opinion structure, judicial writing style, the relationship between style and substance, the use of narrative and rhetorical techniques, and ethical considerations in opinion writing. Through a series of writing assignments and in-class exercises, students will learn to how to diagnose and revise difficult and unclear writing, acquire techniques for writing more economically, precisely and unambiguously, and hone their skills in structuring and organizing, analyzing, and writing persuasively. In analyzing judicial opinions and writing from the perspective of a judge rather than an advocate, students will gain a deeper understanding of the judicial process and will become better critical readers and users of judicial opinions. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 711 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:00 pm | 2 | Leslie F. Su | NIP | 320 |
Jurisprudence: Contemporary Controversies Over Law & Morality (S): LAW JD 835
3 credits
This seminar will examine some classic issues of jurisprudence as they arise in contemporary controversies over law and morality. Topics will include the following: * The legal enforcement of morals. In Lawrence v. Texas, which recognized a right of gays and lesbians to intimate association, Justice Scalia protested in dissent that the case "effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation." Is Scalia right that there is really no distinction between homosexual intimate association and, to quote Scalia's list, "fornication, bigamy, adultery, adult incest, bestiality, and obscenity"? What are the proper limits on moral disapproval as a justification for traditional "morals legislation"? * Government's role in promoting public values: conflicts between liberty and equality. To what extent may government inculcate civic virtues and promote public values? We will focus on conflicts between personal liberty (including religious liberty) and the use of antidiscrimination law to secure the status of equal citizenship for gays and lesbians. For example, should laws recognizing same-sex marriage grant religious exemptions to town clerks and business people who morally disapprove of such marriage? * Grounds for justifying rights: protecting freedom to choose versus promoting moral goods. What are the best grounds for justifying rights in circumstances of moral disagreement? For example, should we justify a right to same-sex marriage on the ground that government should respect people's freedom to choose whom to marry? Or instead on the ground that protecting such a right promotes moral goods (the same moral goods that opposite-sex marriage furthers): commitment, intimacy, fidelity, and the like. * Rights, responsibilities, and regulation. To what extent does the protection of rights preclude governmental encouragement of responsible exercise of rights or regulation to protect others from harm? We will examine such issues in the context of reproductive freedom and the individual right to bear arms. * Originalisms versus moral readings of the Constitution. To what extent does constitutional interpretation involve determining the original meaning of the Constitution as a matter of historical fact (originalisms) versus making moral and philosophic judgments about the best understanding of our constitutional commitments (moral readings)? We will explore the emergence of "new originalisms" that aim to justify certain controversial rights that conventional originalists like Justice Scalia have rejected. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 835 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | James E. Fleming | NIP | 320 |
Juvenile Delinquency (S): LAW JD 824
3 credits
The American juvenile justice system was established over one hundred years ago to address the problem of young offenders. This course examines the historical, social and legal foundations for our current system. We will examine the issue of "rights" as applied to children and look at the effects of ideology and politics on the current juvenile justice system. How have assumptions of childhood and responsibility changed? Has the juvenile court been "criminalized" with the introduction of due process rights for children? Under what circumstances are children treated as adult offenders? Selected issues for inquiry include: police interrogation of juveniles; school safety and zero tolerance policies; adjudicative competency; anti-youth crime policies; conditions of incarceration; and changes brought about by elimination of mandatory juvenile life without parole. We will examine these issues through use of court cases, law review articles, governmental and private organizational position papers, and legislative history. Using the Massachusetts model, one of the early and often emulated juvenile systems, we will examine the changes in the prosecution and incarceration of juveniles over the past century. As we consider the overarching issue of whether it makes sense to maintain a separate justice system for juveniles, we will compare our system to those of other nations. We will visit the Boston Juvenile Court to observe a delinquency session and speak with court personnel. Students are expected to attend each class prepared to discuss the assigned readings. Course requirements include a 15-20 page final paper, a class presentation based on the paper topic or related class readings, and several assigned reading response papers over the course of the semester. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 824 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Wendy Kaplan | NIP | 320 |
Land Use: LAW JD 855
3 credits
The built environment around us is not inevitable or by accident. It is the outcome of a series of legal and political choices about how people should live together; about how to regulate and control the future use of the property around them. These choices result in a legal regime that, at once, is enormously complex, implicates the most basic questions of equity and constitutional freedoms, and affects people in every aspect of their daily lives. This course will examine land use from a legal, historical, theoretical, and, most important, practical perspective. Students will be introduced to a brief history of land use controls in the United States. The course will then cover the basic aspects of land use law: Euclidean zoning, special use permits, variances, vested rights and preexisting uses, exactions, exclusionary and inclusionary zoning, subdivision control, wetlands control, and legal challenges to zoning decisions. The course will also look at more recent trends and issues in land use law, such as smart growth and transit-oriented development, form-based zoning, marijuana regulations, short-term rentals, climate change resilience, and increased federal control of local land use. Finally, the course will examine the constitutional limits of land use regulation under the Fifth Amendment. Students will undertake practical exercises to introduce them to how land use lawyers practice. They will attend a zoning board hearing and report on it; they will analyze a client's proposal to determine what zoning relief is necessary; they will attend a zoning trial or appeal. The course will cover general zoning principles applicable nationally but will focus on Massachusetts law for the practical exercises. The class will require student participation in discussion. The only prerequisite is completion of first-year Property. Students will produce a brief paper on the zoning board meeting they attend and a final paper, and be asked to comment on the trial or hearing they attend. Grading will be based on class participation, the zoning exercise, the comments, and the two papers.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 855 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 9:30 pm | 3 | Robert Foster | NIP | 320 |
LatinXs and the Law (S): LAW JD 830
3 credits
This course will explore the legal treatment of Latinx people in the United States. Central to this examination will be: (1) the legal and social construction of race and racism as it pertains to Latinxs; (2) the racialized legal history of diverse ethnic groups including Chicanxs, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, and others; (3) constitutional and statutory civil rights law governing and impacting substantive areas such as education, employment, voting, public accommodations, speech, and immigration; and (4) the relationship between race, language, and notions of citizenship. A pervasive theme throughout the course will be the significance of race in the current era. This inquiry will be analyzed under modern civil rights perspectives of Traditionalism (e.g., advocating for colorblindness and "reverse" racism claims); Reformism (e.g., supporting modest reforms like limited affirmative action); and most pronouncedly Critical Race Theory (e.g., recognizing continued systemic subordination and envisioning structural reforms to increase racial justice). Students will produce and present an original research paper. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 830 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Jasmine Gonzales Rose | NIP | 320 |
Law & Economics Workshop (S): LAW JD 940
3 credits
The Law and Economics Seminar is a research workshop. Class sessions will alternate between (1) lectures on selected topics in microeconomic theory and empirical methods, including methodology commonly used in law and economics scholarship, and (2) presentations of working papers by outside speakers (typically faculty members from other institutions). The specific legal topics considered will vary depending on the interests of the speakers, but all paper presentations will focus on application of economics concepts and tools to legal and regulatory issues. Students are responsible for preparing short memoranda that respond to the presented papers. Final grades depend on attendance and participation. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 940 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Kathryn Zeiler | LAW | 101 |
Law & Regulation of Cannabis (S): LAW JD 969
3 credits
This seminar will examine the burgeoning field of law surrounding the use, sale, and production of cannabis. Possible topics include federal versus state power to regulate cannabis, the substantive criminal laws regarding cannabis, and a variety of other issues such as banking, tax, and environmental laws that impact the cannabis industry in the United States. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 969 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:30 pm | 6:30 pm | 3 | Jay D. Wexler | LAW | 102 |
Law & Structural Social Change (S): LAW JD 951
3 credits
This seminar is an introduction to comparative law's themes and methods. Accordingly, the seminar is organized in two parts. The readings selected for the first part present theoretical articulations and practical applications of the main methodological approaches relied upon by comparative lawyers. Participants will become acquainted with the "mechanics", as well as the broader implications, of the various ways of comparing: functionalism, structuralism, culturalism, postmodern neo-culturalism and critical comparative law. The materials discussed in the second part explore how these different methodologies play out in recent and heated comparative law debates. Participants will be asked to reflect over the common law-civil law dichotomy and its implications for the debate over the European Civil Code as well as for projects of harmonization, such as the World Bank's "Legal Origins" study; the circulation of legal rules and institutions and the export of constitutional models in Eastern Europe and Iraq; the ambiguous relation between US and European legal cultures and the debate over different ideas of "privacy"; the "West" and the "Orient" in family law reform. NOTE: Students who previously enrolled in Comparative Law may not register for this class. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 951 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Anna di Robilant | LAW | 212 |
Law and Sports (S): LAW JD 886
3 credits
This seminar will survey a range of legal issues presented by sports in America. There are no pre-requisites. However, students should be prepared to learn and apply basic principles of antitrust law and labor law. Intellectual property law, constitutional law, administrative law, anti-discrimination law, contract law and tort law also will be applied. Topics will include the regulation of the professional sports labor market. The course also will treat the regulation of agent representation of athletes, the regulation of sports franchises and sports leagues, and the regulation of intercollegiate sports, with special attention to the NCAA. Grades will be based on client-directed writing and on oral class participation, including an advocacy presentation. Some students may satisfy the Upperclass Writing Requirement. There is no examination. OFFERING PATTERN: This class not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 886 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Michael C. Harper | NIP | 320 |
Law and War: Contemporary Issues (S): LAW JD 797
3 credits
Does law continue to operate in times of war? This seminar will examine the knotty legal questions underlying current wartime debates, with a primary focus on modern conflicts facing the United States in the post-9/11 era. A complex architecture of international and domestic law governs states and state actors during wartime. Evolving threats, new technologies, and domestic politics have tested these legal frameworks, and the domestic and international laws of war continue to adapt to challenges to their relevance and viability. Topics for discussion may include, among others: Guantanamo detention, targeted killing and drones, interrogation and torture, humanitarian intervention in conflicts like those in Libya and Syria, and the scope of the U.S. President's constitutional and statutory authority to wage war. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. RECOMMENDED COURSE: International Law. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 797 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Ioannis Kalpouzos | LAW | 413 |
Law for Algorithms (S): LAW JD 673
3 credits
Algorithms - those information-processing machines designed by humans - reach ever more deeply into our lives, creating alternate and sometimes enhanced manifestations of social and biological processes. In doing so, algorithms yield powerful levers for good and ill amidst a sea of unforeseen consequences. This cross-cutting and interdisciplinary course investigates several aspects of algorithms and their impact on society and law. Specifically, the course connects concepts of proof, verifiability, privacy, security, trust, and randomness in computer science with legal concepts of autonomy, consent, governance, and liability, and examines interests at the evolving intersection of technology and the law. Grades will be based on a combination of short weekly reflection papers and a final project, to be completed collaboratively in mixed teams of law and computer science students. This seminar will include attendees from the computer science faculty, students and scholars based at Boston University and UC Berkeley. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 673 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Andrew SellarsCanetti | LAW | 211 |
Law of Consumer Markets (S): LAW JD 904
3 credits
Understanding the laws governing consumer transactions is relevant not only to our daily lives but also to many careers in the law. Why do consumer laws matter for societal issues such as racial and income inequality? How can government agencies best promote compliance while minimizing burden to businesses? How should leaders of consumer corporations navigate a heavier regulatory era? This seminar will examine consumer laws from three main perspectives: the businesses that must comply with regulations; the agencies--such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission--that write or enforce rules; and the consumers who purchase over $10 trillion in goods and services annually. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with this seminar. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 904 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Rory Van Loo | LAW | 420 |
LAW Review/Ed B: LAW JD 751
Var credits
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LAW Review/Memb: LAW JD 750
Var credits
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Lawyering Fellows: LAW JD 986
2 credits
This class is restricted to students who have applied and been accepted as Lawyering Fellows. Accepted students must register for both the fall and spring sections of the class.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 986 A1 , Sep 4th to Dec 4th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | 2 | Robert Volk | LAW | 212 |
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Fri | 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | 2 | Robert Volk |
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Fri | 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | 2 | Robert Volk |
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Fri | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | 2 | Robert Volk | LAW | 212 |
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Fri | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | 2 | Robert Volk | LAW | 212 |
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Fri | 2:30 pm | 3:30 pm | 2 | Robert Volk | LAW | 212 |
Learning From Practice Externship (C): LAW JD 809
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. Students receive credit for working in the legal department of a non-profit, government agency, judicial placement, private company, or at a law firm. Placements may be paid or unpaid. Students may find their own placements that must be approved by the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office, or the Office has resources to help students identify and apply to suitable field placements based on their interests and career goals. NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Learning from Practice: Seminar (JD 771).
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Learning From Practice Externship: Seminar: LAW JD 771
1 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This is the companion academic component for students enrolled in the Learning from Practice: Fieldwork course. This one-hour weekly seminar focuses on the ways in which lawyers develop skills on the job, and identifies best practice for professional development, mentoring, networking, communication, and interacting with clients and the media. The course also examines issues involving diversity, work-life balance, and ethical considerations. The seminar requires students to make a class presentation and keep a reflective journal chronicling their educational experience and reactions to the practice of law observed at the field placement. NOTE: Students who enroll in this externship may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Learning from Practice Externship (JD 809). GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 771 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 1 | Jennifer Serafyn | LAW | 414 |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 1 | Jennifer Serafyn | NIP | 320 |
Legal Interviewing & Client Counseling for LLMs: LAW AM 892
3 credits
This is a practical skills seminar designed to introduce LLM students to the theory and practice of legal interviewing and client counseling. Through a combination of classroom discussion, readings, reflective writing, simulations and role-plays, students will learn the skills and techniques lawyers use to help clients make sound decisions. These include: identifying and obtaining relevant facts; effectively formulating questions; actively listening; identifying legal problems; clarifying client needs and objectives; formulating potential strategies; assisting clients in evaluating options; and communicating difficult information to clients, in litigation and transactional contexts. This course will provide opportunities for experiential learning, allowing students to develop and practice interviewing and counseling in real- world contexts. Enrollment limited to 18. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 892 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Jerrold G. Neeff | NIP | 320 |
Legal Writing for Civil Litigation (S): LAW JD 712
3 credits
This class is designed to give students experience in legal writing civil litigation. Over the course of the semester, students will work on the various stages of a federal court litigation from pre-complaint investigation through dispositive motions. There will opportunities to draft a variety of litigation documents, including complaints, discovery, motions, and memos. Students will complete multiple drafts of key documents and will meet individually with the instructor to discuss the drafts. Students will focus on using the facts to tell their clients' story and making persuasive, winning arguments. In class, students will discuss a range of strategic questions including developing viable causes of action, identifying critical facts, and using written discovery to obtain information. Additionally, students will participate in-class exercises designed to improve the students' skills in writing, fact-gathering and argument. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 712 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Edward J. DeAngelo | LAW | 413 |
Legislative Policy & Drafting: Clinic Option (C): LAW JD 786
6 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinic. Students learn about the law-making process through coursework and hands-on experience working with a client seeking to advance a bill or project through the state legislature. Students work on several projects during the semester that highlight different aspects of the legislative process, allowing students to relate and test the theories discussed in class to real life situations. The in-class seminar covers subjects that affect the legislative process including: constitutional interpretation by legislatures, theories of representation, legislative organization and rules, lobbying, legislative oversight powers, and legislature-executive agency relationships. The clinic instructor works with students to select projects in the students' specific areas of interest, if any. In particular, students interested in business and tax, environment law, or health law, may specialize in those areas for the full semester. NOTE: This clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 786 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 410 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 410 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 410 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 410 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 420 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 420 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 420 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Sean J. Kealy | LAW | 420 |
Life Cycle of a Business Venture: LAW TX 918
2 credits
The federal income tax laws significantly affect the way a business venture proceeds through the various stages of its life cycle. This course will explore the federal income tax aspects of: i) choosing the proper form of entity (typically, C corporation, S corporation or LLC) to carry on a business, ii) forming the entity that will carry on the business and issuing equity interests (and rights to acquire equity interests) in the entity to founders and other service providers, iii)financing the entity with debt and equity, iv) reporting the results of the entity's operations, v) purchasing and leasing assets, vi) buying out owners, vii) selling the business. Co- and prerequisites: Federal Income Taxation I, Federal Income Taxation II, Introduction to Corporate Tax and Partnership Tax I.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 918 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Joseph E. Hunt IV | LAW | 101 |
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Local Government Law: LAW JD 800
2 credits
Local governments are considered the closest and most responsive form of government to the people. They are designed to create cities and towns that reflect the ideal of the residents' view of the ideal community. When all local government entities are taken into consideration, there are approximately 89,000 local government units in the country - including counties, municipalities, townships, special districts and school districts. Where do they get their powers? What are the limits? What should be the limits? This course provides a study of the law governing the powers and duties of local governments, mainly municipal corporations such as cities and towns. We look at the sources of municipal powers, the limits on those powers, the relationship between municipalities and the state including the relationship between state and local law, and the formation and expansion of municipalities. An important subject of study involves looking at various models of the relationship between the municipality and the state including home rule. We will also look at some issues in municipal finance and zoning power. Where possible, this course will focus on the intersection of local government law and important current events both locally and nationally. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 800 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 5:00 pm | 7:00 pm | 2 | Robert A. DiAdamo | LAW | 211 |
Mediation: Theory & Practice (S): LAW JD 826
3 credits
This course will cover the theory and practice of mediation as a mode of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) used in various legal contexts. We will start by mastering the basic concepts and techniques of facilitated negotiations, and work our way, using simulations and role plays, through successively more difficult mediation scenarios. These scenarios will be set in various legal context such as commercial, family, criminal, and international disputes. Students will experience playing the role of a party to a mediation, an attorney representing a party in mediation, and a mediator. The primary methods of learning is in-class simulations and out-of-class preparation. There is a significant component of independent research. Evaluation will be based on a mid-term exam, weekly journal entries, and participation. Because this course is experiential, students are required to attend all sessions and to participate actively. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who waitlist for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 826 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 10:50 am | 1:50 pm | 3 | Maya Steinitz | NIP | 320 |
Mental Health Law, Policy & Ethics: SPH LW 854
4 credits
This seminar tackles some of the most complex issues in mental health, such as involuntary confinement, adolescent disorders and decision-making, deinstitutionalization, the right to treatment and the right to refuse treatment, criminalization, substance use disorders, medicalization and the meaning of mental illness, forced treatments, discrimination, confidentiality, research, and professional ethics. The course will focus primarily on legal cases, utilizing these as case studies to explore the intersection of law, policy, and ethics to determine the manner in which we attempt to understand and regulate in the area of mental health.
REMINDER: This is a SPH course. Students cannot register through WebReg. Students who register for the class and want law credit must add the course to their law transcript by completing an add form at the Law Registrar's Office before the end of the add/drop period for that semester.
SPRG 2021: SPH LW 854 A1 , Jan 28th to Apr 29th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:00 pm | 4:50 pm | 4 | Ulrich | INS | 109AB |
Mergers and Acquisitions: LAW BK 988
2 credits
This course deals with key issues that arise in bank mergers and acquisitions. Business and transactional topics include: merger and acquisition strategies, deal structure and pricing, hostile takeovers and defenses, duties of directors, disclosure obligations, due diligence, mergers of equals, social issues, tax considerations, and accounting issues. Regulatory topics include: federal and state approval processes, regulatory considerations in the structuring of transactions, antitrust considerations, interstate banking issues, the Community Reinvestment Act, thrift and other nonbank acquisitions, Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company Act issues, and cross- industry transactions.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 988 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Kevin J. Handly | NIP | 320 |
Mergers and Acquisitions: LAW JD 988
3 credits
This course will cover the principal legal, tax and business issues of mergers and acquisitions. PREREQUISITE: Business Fundamentals and Corporations, or permission of instructor.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 988 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 11:00 am | 12:25 pm | 3 | Stephen G. Marks | NIP | 320 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:30 pm | 3:55 pm | 3 | Scott Hirst | LAW | 413 |
Microfinance and Development: LAW BK 935
2 credits
This course provides an introduction to the field of microfinance, particularly its rapid evolution and role in economic development. Students will learn key concepts including the study of lending methodologies, products available to micro-entrepreneurs and the legal challenges, public policy considerations, and risks faced by investors, technical experts and financial providers. This course will also examine financial practices in the developing world such as payment and remittance systems, which allow foreign nationals to transfer funds internationally within and outside traditional banking systems.
Mutual Funds (Investment Companies): LAW JD 852
3 credits
With more than $20 trillion in assets under management, registered investment companies (commonly referred to as mutual funds) perform a vital role in collecting and deploying capital within the U.S. financial system. This course is designed to familiarize students with the legal and regulatory framework within which investment companies and their service providers operate. The course will focus primarily on the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and related regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and will explore how these statutes, in combination with other laws, govern the creation, structure, distribution and on-going operations of mutual funds and related financial products and services. The course will examine the special role performed by the SEC in regulating the investment management industry and the responsibilities of legal counsel in practicing before the SEC.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 852 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 10:45 am | 12:10 pm | 3 | Philip H. Newman | NIP | 320 |
Negotiation: LAW JD 921
3 credits
The goal of this course is to improve your effectiveness as a negotiator. In this highly interactive class, students will examine negotiation from a variety of perspectives and learn specific negotiation strategies and tactics. Over the course of the semester, students will engage in a series of negotiation exercises (i.e., role plays) through which they can develop and hone their negotiation skills and approaches. Discussion and short lectures will accompany the role-plays, as appropriate. There will be short written assignments as well as a longer paper due at the end of the semester. No final exam. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 20 students. NOTE: This class counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. RESTRICTION: Students may not enroll in both Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (JD881).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 921 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:15 pm | 3:45 pm | 3 | Mark Bamford | LAW | 410 |
Negotiation for LLMs (S): LAW AM 891
3 credits
Whether you are a litigator, dealmaker or in-house counsel, your performance will turn in large part on your ability to negotiate effectively. The goal of this course is to improve your effectiveness as a negotiator. Students will engage in a series of negotiation exercises (i.e., role plays) through which they can develop and hone their skills and approaches to negotiation. Discussion and short lectures will accompany the role-plays, as appropriate. There will be short written assignments (3-5 pages) as well as a longer paper (12-15 pages) due at the end of the semester. No final exam. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. RESTRICTION: Students may not enroll in Negotiation for LLMs (JD891) and Negotiation (JD921) and Alternative Dispute Resolution (JD881). **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
NY Pro Bono Scholars: Directed Study: LAW JD 744
2 credits
This CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This is the companion academic component for students enrolled in the Pro Bono Scholars Program: Fieldwork course. Students work with a faculty supervisor in designing their own reading list, writing a 15-20 page research paper, and submitting seven 4-6 page bi-weekly journals. COREQUISITE: NY Pro Bono Scholars Program: Fieldwork (JD 743).
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 744 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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NY Pro Bono Scholars: Fieldwork: LAW JD 743
10 credits
This CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. Through the Pro Bono Scholars Program, students spend their spring 3L semester working full-time for credit at a government agency or non-profit providing direct legal services to indigent clients. Participating students sit for the February New York bar exam, and begin their fieldwork the week after. Students passing the bar exam and completing other NY bar and BU Law graduation requirements are admitted to the NY bar in late June. NOTE: Students who enroll in this program may count the credits toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: NY Pro Bono Scholars Program: Directed Study (JD 744).
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 743 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Outbound International Tax: LAW TX 939
2 credits
The current international tax environment can be fairly described as verging on chaos, with considerable pressure on the traditional approach sharing international tax revenues amount countries based on residence of the taxpayer or source of revenues. This course will examine the important areas relating to the U.S. taxation of U.S. corporations' foreign operations in the context of these international developments. This course is designed for those students who are interested in practicing in the international tax area or who are interested in exploring in considerable detail one of the Internal Revenue Code's more complex statutory regimes. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) promulgated some of the most significant changes in US international tax rules in history, including those of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. For purposes of this course, the most relevant change was the creation of an annual US tax charge on US corporations under the rules relating to GILTI (Global Intangible Low Taxed Income) and its sister provision, FDII (Foreign Derived Intangible Income). Factoring in changes from the TCJA, this course will involve an in-depth analysis of the rules relating to the foreign tax credit, including the increasingly-important source-of- income and allocation-of-deduction rules, the calculation of the deemed paid credit, the various foreign tax credit limitations, and the look-through and foreign-loss rules. We will address the anti-deferral provisions under Subpart F of the IRC, including the revised definitions of U.S. shareholder and controlled foreign corporation, the determination of the various types of subpart F inclusions, and the effect of partnership and disregarded entities on the application of these rules. We will then address the GILTI provisions and their interaction with both the subpart F and foreign tax credit provisions. Finally, we will consider the FDII rules and compare these rules to the GILTI provisions. This course should place the students on a solid path to a career in international tax in these very interesting times. Pre or co-requisite: Tax Aspects of International Business (recommended)
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 939 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Brainard L. PattonJoshua Leclair | NIP | 320 |
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Partnership Tax I: LAW TX 930
2 credits
Presents an overview of subchapter K and the federal income tax treatment of partnerships and other entities, such as limited liability companies;. Topics include tax classification of a partnership versus a corporation or trust; considerations in choice of entity;basic partnership accounting and capital accounts, partnership formation and acquisition of partnership interests for property or services; determination of basis;basic rules allocations of income and loss ; taxation of normal partnership operations; distributions of cash and property; transactions between partners and partnership, including sales of partnership interests. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I and II, Introduction to Corporate Tax
FALL 2020: LAW TX 930 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Leo J. Cushing | LAW | 414 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Leo J. Cushing |
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Tue | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Patricia J. Jabar | NIP | 320 |
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Patent Law: LAW JD 870
3 credits
The basic questions in patent law are: why should society permit the grant of an exclusive property right in information relating to an invention? Who should be given the right? What is the scope of the right? How should the right be enforced? What disclosure duties should be placed on the patent holder? We will concentrate on these legal issues without getting mired in discussions of the technical details of particular inventions. Students without a technical background are welcome and encouraged to enroll.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 870 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 8:45 am | 10:15 am | 3 | Michael J. Meurer | LAW | 103 |
Persuasive Writing (S): LAW JD 713
3 credits
This seminar will focus on improving students' persuasive writing skills through a series of assignments and in-class exercises. Students will draft a variety of documents designed to persuade, including a statement of the facts and memos in support of motions. Some legal research will be necessary for these assignments, but the emphasis will be on writing, not on research. Students will complete multiple drafts of these documents, meet individually with the instructor to discuss the drafts, and engage in peer editing of their classmates' papers to improve their own writing skills. The class will also include discussions of persuasive writing strategies, comparisons of examples of good and bad persuasive writing, and in-class writing exercises. Students will be graded on the basis of their written work, their peer editing work, and on their classroom participation. There will be no final exam. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 14 students. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 713 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Holly Jane Caldwell | LAW | 420 |
Pilj/Editor: LAW JD 761
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FALL 2020: LAW JD 761 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Pilj/Member: LAW JD 760
Var credits
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Pooled Funds and Investor Protection: LAW BK 950
2 credits
Pooled investment funds, such as pension plans and mutual funds, are an important part of the global financial services industry. This course is designed as a survey of pooled funds and seeks to introduce students to the common regulatory themes that are found across pooled fund types, and to identify the unique approaches to regulation applicable to the various pooled fund types studied. The course undertakes an analysis of the legal, regulatory and fiduciary standards that apply to trustees, managers, advisers, and sponsors of collective investment vehicles. The course focuses on the concept of fiduciary duty as the basis of all trusted relationships, and examines selected problems of investor and beneficiary protection in the fields of private and public pension plans and mutual funds. It studies in detail two U.S. federal statutes as examples of legal techniques used to mitigate those risks- -ERISA and the Investment Company Act of 1940 (including fiduciary duties, the role of the fund board and management fees). The class then studies pooled investment funds and investment trusts in the E.U., the U.K. and other countries, focusing on the perceived risks and protective measures reflected in their legal and regulatory systems.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 950 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Stuart E. Fross | NIP | 320 |
Practice of US Copyright and Trademark Law: Media & Entertainment Transactions (S): LAW AM 911
3 credits
This seminar will provide foreign-trained lawyers with a practical overview of American intellectual property concepts in copyright and trademark as well as rights of privacy and confidentiality in their application and negotiation strategies in media and entertainment transactions. The course will study and analyze contracting/licensing from both a commercial and content creators' perspective. Focused on media and entertainment transactions, students will review, analyze, negotiate and draft agreements among which may include brand sponsorship, trademark licensing and product placement, content distribution, personal services for talent, such as music and TV/video production, and licensing music and clearance of rights for film and TV. Students will receive exposure to how the protection of intangible assets can further a variety of business strategies, as well as the client counseling issues to consider. International comparative analyses of concepts and strategies will be presented where applicable. Students will be evaluated based on their class participation and performance on drafting assignments, negotiation exercises and a final capstone project. Co-Requisites: Contracts; a survey IP class and/or prior exposure to copyright and trademark concepts is highly recommended. Limited to 18 LLM students. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW AM 911 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Patti Jones | LAW | 101 |
Privacy, Security & Technology (S): LAW JD 849
3 credits
This seminar explores how modern technology disrupts many of the customs and principles upon which our laws and institutions for national security have evolved. The advancement of modern technology is changing the nature of how we perceive and defend against security threats across all domains. Attacks can be launched in ways that national borders and other conventional defenses cannot easily stop, and the proliferation of privacy enhancing cryptographic tools provides virtual refuge for threat actors to congregate, coordinate and conspire. At the same time, the state has mobilized the use of new technologies--expanding, and indeed, redefining, surveillance capabilities--to predict, prevent and defend against threats in the modern era. This class will focus on a series of historical and contemporary challenges posed by a range of technologies to the government's administration of security and justice, and the solutions implemented or proposed by the state in response. The objective is to contextualize and deepen our understanding of the substantive and institutional questions that arise from the modern day "going dark" problem, in order to facilitate sound policy and good politics in areas that are devoid of law. Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to: the use of cryptographic tools to evade government surveillance; government proposals for "backdoor" access to people's devices and data; the use of government hacking as a surveillance tool; and the use of machine learning to predict and prevent threat incidents. No technical knowledge is required. NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 849 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Ahmed Ghappour | NIP | 320 |
Private Equity and Venture Capital Transactions (S) : LAW JD 931
3 credits
This seminar introduces students to the business and legal issues prevalent in private equity and venture capital deals and highlights the significant role that lawyers play in effecting these transactions. The seminar will begin with an overview of the private equity and venture capital industries, an introduction to investment transactions and will proceed through all aspects of the life of an investment from inception to exit. It will address how investment funds are formed and the legal and financial considerations present when those funds invest in private companies. We will examine deal terms and structures, pricing and corporate finance issues, and the management of deal risk. It will also highlight the due diligence process, stockholder relationships, fiduciary duties and securities laws considerations, and liquidity events. Theoretical readings will be balanced against practical articles and commentary, recent court decisions and model deal documents. The seminar will be highlighted by guest lectures by private equity and venture capital investment professionals. Grades will be based on a final exam, short pre-class exercises and class participation. PREREQUISITE: Corporations (May be waived with an instructor's permission.) NOTES: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 931 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Michael J. KendallCaitlin Tompkins | LAW | 414 |
Professional Responsibility: LAW BK 941
2 credits
This course will provide an overview of a lawyer's professional and ethical obligations under United States law. It will examine the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility and the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers as they apply to the practicing lawyer. The course explores ethical issues, and tensions and dilemmas that arise in the practice of law, particularly in the representation of financial institutions. Students will have the chance to examine these issues through discussions of current events affecting the financial services industry.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 941 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Maggie Weir | NIP | 320 |
Professional Responsibility: LAW JD 984
3 credits
This course offers an approach to the lawyer's responsibilities to clients, the profession, and the public. Topics addressed will be problems of disclosure, conflict of interest, advertising, adversary tactics, competence, attorney fees, and fiduciary duties. NOTE: This course satisfies the upper-class Professional Responsibility requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 984 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 5th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu,Sat | 2:30 pm | 3:55 pm | 3 | Stephen M. Donweber | LAW | 211 |
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Mon,Wed | 2:15 pm | 3:40 pm | 3 | Stephen M. Donweber | LAW | 103 |
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Tue,Thu | 11:00 am | 12:25 pm | 3 | Nancy J. Moore | NIP | 320 |
Professional Responsibility for Business Lawyers (S): LAW JD 972
3 credits
A survey of the laws and ethical rules that govern and regulate lawyers in corporate and transactional practice. Topics may include client identification in forming and dissolving business entities, representing close corporations and partnerships, investing in clients (including taking stock in lieu of legal fees), negotiation, representing public companies, the role of in-house counsel, conflicts of interest, and the future of regulating legal services in the US and globally. Students will write a 20 page research paper and give a brief oral presentation of their topic. NOTE: This class may be used to satisfy the Professional Responsibility requirement or the upper-class writing requirement (limited). This class may not be used to satisfy more than one requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 972 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Nancy J. Moore | NIP | 320 |
Professional Responsibility for Criminal Practice: LAW JD 923
3 credits
The course is designed to cover substantial instruction in the rules of professional conduct, and the values and responsibilities of the legal profession and its members, with a particular emphasis as the rules apply to criminal practice. This class is open to all students but Criminal Clinic students are given priority in enrollment. NOTE: This course satisfies the Professional Responsibility requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 923 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 5:00 pm | 7:00 pm | 3 | Stuart Hurowitz | LAW | 211 |
Professional Responsibility for International LLMs: LAW AM 701
2 credits
This course offers an approach to the lawyer's responsibilities to clients, the profession, and the public. Topics addressed will be problems of disclosure, conflict of interest, advertising, adversary tactics, competence, attorney fees, and fiduciary duties. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 701 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Douglas Hauer | LAW | 103 |
Project Management: LAW LA 994
3 credits
The course examines the concepts and applied techniques for cost effective management of both long-term development programs and projects. Project management principles and methodology are provided with special focus on planning, controlling, and coordinating individual and group efforts. Key topics of focus include overview of modern project management, organization strategy and project selection, defining a project and developing a project plan and scheduling resources, project risk analysis, work breakdown structures, and project networks. MS Project will be introduced in this course to provide hands-on practical skills with the above topics. Mastery of key tools and concepts introduced in this course provides a significant competitive advantage in the marketplace. NOTE: This course meets at the School of Management and will be treated as a non-law course on the law transcript. The course and grade will appear on the transcript, however the grade is not factored into the law g.p.a.
Property for LLMs: LAW AM 702
2 credits
This course exposes LL.M. students to the basic principles of real property law, including possession, ownership, rights in land, conveyances, estates, future interests, real estate contracts, easements, land use disputes, landlord-tenant issues, and land use controls, among others. The course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the essential doctrines of real property law for LL.M. students interested in taking a U.S. bar exam.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 702 A1 , Jan 11th to Feb 24th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 2 | Gustavo Ribeiro | NIP | 320 |
Public Health Law (S): LAW JD 926
3 credits
Public health is transforming from state programs that prevent disease in populations (e.g., vaccination, newborn screening) to federal and international efforts to broadly promote a population and individual "right to health." This seminar explores contemporary examples of public health problems such as firearms regulation, obesity, and reproductive health. The course offers a framework for identifying and controlling health risks drawing on principles and theories of law, assessment of risk, policy evaluation, and empirical evidence. We will consider the scope of laws at the state and federal levels that regulate personal behaviors, products, and commercial activities. Students will analyze different legal strategies that can be used to influence public health such as governmental nudges through funding, criminal and civil prohibitions, data collection and privacy, marketing restrictions, and taxation. A research paper to develop a legal strategy that addresses a contemporary public health problem is required. (A limited number of law students may satisfy the BUSL upper-class writing requirement in this seminar after discussion with the instructor.) GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 926 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Nicole Huberfeld | LAW | 101 |
Public Interest Law (S): LAW JD 875
3 credits
Public interest legal practice takes many forms. It can involve government agencies, non-profit organizations, private law firms doing pro bono work, public defender's office, labor unions, and inter-governmental organizations, among others. It can take the form of litigation, transactional work, policy-related work, or legislative advocacy. Also, attorneys adopt varied models of public interest lawyering, including approaches known as community lawyering, cause lawyering, and movement lawyering. This seminar engages through readings, guest speakers, and class discussion to examine the various approaches to public interest lawyering. Students will explore how to define the "public interest" and learn different models for public interest lawyering. Students also will gain familiarity with the different substantive areas of public interest law, organizational settings for public interest practice, and modes of public interest advocacy. Many class sessions will include a guest faculty member or a guest attorney who will present a sample of their public interest work in connection with class themes. There will also be time dedicated to discussing speaker presentations. Students will be required to submit short reaction papers to the readings and presentations and perform an in-class oral presentation based on class themes. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 875 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Julie A. DahlstromGoodwin | LAW | 605 |
Queerness & the Law (S): LAW JD 917
3 credits
This course explores the interactions between gender, sexual orientation, and the law in the United States, historically and contemporaneously. Over the course of the semester, students will gain a critical understanding of how doctrines of positive rights, conduct, privacy, and equal protection have shaped views on gender and sexual orientation across time, and how the latter have likewise shaped the former. Looking through the lens of modern legislation, litigation, and the lived experiences of LGBTQ people in the United States, students will develop their own theories of law regarding gender and sexual orientation--theories of law that will hopefully be applicable throughout their careers as legal professionals.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 917 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 10:45 am | 1:45 pm | 3 | Heron Greenesmith | NIP | 320 |
Regulation of the Immigrant Experience (S): LAW JD 948
3 credits
Recent census data informs us that there are approximately 40 million immigrants living in the United States. About 11 million of these immigrants are undocumented or otherwise in the country illegally. The rest of the country remains divided on their feelings regarding the immigrant population, with about half believing that immigrants "strengthen the country because of their hard work and talent, while 41% [believe them to be] a burden because they take jobs, health care and housing." (Information in this paragraph obtained from Most Illegal Immigrants Should Be Allowed to Stay, but Citizenship is More Divisive (Pew Research Ctr., Washington, D.C.), Mar. 28, 2013.) This course will investigate the life of an immigrant in American society from a legal perspective. Students will learn how immigrants, both documented and undocumented, interact with various sections of the American system. The goal is to assess various ways in which an individual's immigration status affects access to important rights and benefits accorded to citizens and analyze the legal rationale for existing limitations. We will examine these issues through the use of law review articles, court cases, existing and proposed legislation, newspaper articles, empirical studies, and governmental and private organizational position papers. Topics may include an investigation of an immigrant's access and limitations in primary and secondary education, public benefits, the court system, employment, voting, as well as modes of immigration policing by both federal immigration authorities and state police. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 16 students. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students may be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
Remedies (S): LAW JD 720
3 credits
The study of law largely involves understanding the substantive scopes of rights and of prohibitions, but, both for the bar examination and for practice, it is essential to understand what the potential solutions are for a wronged person or entity. Remedies is devoted to the latter inquiry. In this course, we will explore the legal powers and limits for righting those who have been wronged and for preventing future wrongs. This seminar includes both public law and private law remedies with a particular focus on social justice and remedial topics that are generally not covered within the 1L curriculum or other required courses. In addition to helping to prepare students for bar examinations (which often test for remedies in civil procedure, contracts, property, and torts), examining remedial principles in this course will be useful to those encountering remedies problems in litigation across substantive fields. This course also covers historically-important and current, hot topics such as reparations, public law injunctions against governmental defendants (so-called "nationwide" or "universal" injunctions), and court-debt related remedies (such as litigation challenging drivers' license suspensions due to nonpayment of fines). NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 720 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:30 pm | 3:55 pm | 3 | Portia Pedro | NIP | 320 |
Research and Writing Seminar for LLMs: LAW AM 704
2 credits
This two-credit Legal Research and Writing seminar is required for LL.M. students in the American Law program and optional for students in the LL.M. programs in Banking and Financial Law and Taxation. It is specifically designed to introduce foreign lawyers to the basic principles of American legal writing. In small class settings and individual conferences, students receive guidance on drafting and editing memoranda and agreements. Their work is critiqued and rewritten. The research component of the seminar trains students to locate cases, statutes and secondary material through indexing systems and the latest computer technology. Research assignments are integrated into writing assignments -- exposing students to the methods of US legal analyses -- so that by the end of the term, students obtain the skills needed to write memoranda appropriate for submission to US law firms.
FALL 2020: LAW AM 704 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 9:00 am | 10:15 am | 2 | Nadine Nasser Donovan | LAW | 204 |
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Mon | 6:45 pm | 8:00 pm | 2 | Kevin Lownds | LAW | 204 |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 7:45 pm | 2 | Richard A. Sugarman | LAW | 410 |
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Thu | 6:45 pm | 8:00 pm | 2 | Jarboe | LAW | 413 |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 7:45 pm | 2 | Eva M. Zelnick | LAW | 203 |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 7:45 pm | 2 | Edward J. DeAngelo | LAW | 420 |
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Wed | 5:00 pm | 6:15 pm | 2 | Jin-Ho King | LAW | 414 |
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Wed | 11:00 am | 12:15 pm | 2 | Christina R. Schaper | LAW | 204 |
Review Bank/Ed: LAW JD 755
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Review Bank/Mem: LAW JD 754
Var credits
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Sci Tech/Editor: LAW JD 759
Var credits
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Sci Tech/Member: LAW JD 758
Var credits
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Secured Transactions: LAW BK 972
2 credits
Secured Transactions explores the "how-to's" of asset-based lending and, particularly, the way in which a lender or seller of commercial goods on credit protects its rights in the debtor's collateral under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The subject matter is approached from the perspective of practice skills in representing a lender and a commercial debtor. Students are responsible for case and problem recitation, as well as problem solving in a team environment. 2 credits.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 972 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 9:00 am | 11:00 am | 2 | Michael Refolo | LAW | 204 |
Secured Transactions: LAW JD 805
4 credits
Many commercial and consumer financing transactions involve the creation of security interests in the borrower's personal property that are akin to mortgages of real property. (Indeed, much commercial activity involves the grant of a UCC Article 9 security interest, and the economic system depends on Article 9 to provide much of the law against which modern commerce takes place.) In a secured transaction, in the event of the borrower's default, the lender can foreclose on the collateral subject to the security interest to help liquidate the debt. While simple to describe, secured transactions and the rules that govern them can be complex. This course covers the basic secured transaction governed by Article 9 of the UCC. Topics covered will include creation and perfection of security interests, priority contests, and default. The course is an excellent precursor to Bankruptcy and often helpful when sitting for the bar exam. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 805 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | Maureen A. O’Rourke | LAW | 414 |
Securities Regulation: LAW BK 955
2 credits
A survey and analysis of key problems arising under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules promulgated thereunder. These problems include the form and content of registration statements under the 1933 Act, liabilities of persons designated in Section 11 and 12 of the 1933 Act, the form and content of a typical Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement, processing a registration statement, exemptions under the 1933 Act, the underwriter's liability, the control person's "distribution;" regulation of securities exchanges and broker- dealers, manipulation, stabilization, and "Hot Issues;" tender offers; and civil liabilities under rule 10b-5, section 14(a), and Section 16(b) of the 1934 Act.
FALL 2020: LAW BK 955 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | H. Norman Knickle | NIP | 320 |
Securities Regulation: LAW JD 883
4 credits
This course offers an introduction to federal securities regulation under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We will examine how the securities laws shape the process by which companies raise capital through IPOs, public offerings, and private placements. We will also focus on the mandatory disclosure regime for publicly traded companies and the related topics of securities fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, and shareholder voting. We will study core concepts such as the definition of a security and materiality. Finally, we will spend significant time examining the role of the SEC and private shareholder litigation in policing the securities laws. PREREQUISITE/COREQUISITE: Business Fundamentals is a prerequisite; Corporations is a corequisite.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 883 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | David H. Webber | NIP | 320 |
Securitization: LAW BK 987
2 credits
Securitization and structured finance together constitute one of the most dynamic segments of the financial markets. Securitization involves the creation and issuance of securities backed by one or more assets which generate cash flows sufficient to fund the securities. Structured finance includes securitization as well as transactions in which securities are not issued, but which involve the often complex structuring of cash flows to achieve a desired tax, accounting or financial objective. These transactions often cut across many areas of legal specialization, including bank and thrift regulation, securities regulation, taxation, bankruptcy and insolvency, fiduciary law, real estate law and environmental law. This course examines a series of actual transactions to explore the sometimes contradictory ways that these various legal constructs impinge upon the structuring transactions. Examples include single-family mortgage pools, trade receivable securitizations and commercial mortgage securitizations. This course also explores some of the more cutting-edge securitizations of exotic asset classes such as legal fees, intellectual property and renewable energy assets.
SPRG 2021: LAW BK 987 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Steven B. LevineRonald S. Borod | NIP | 320 |
Semester-in-Practice: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 739
10 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This course is the fieldwork component of the Semester-in-Practice Program. Students spend a semester working full-time for credit in non-profits, government agencies, courts, private companies, or law firms. Placements may be paid or unpaid. Students may find their own placements that must be approved by the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office, or the Office has resources to help students identify and apply to suitable field placements based on their interests and career goals. NOTE: Students who enroll in the Semester-in-Practice Program may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Semester-in-Practice: Seminar (JD 740).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 739 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 10 | Staff |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 10 |
Semester-in-Practice: Seminar: LAW JD 740
2 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Clinical and Experiential Programs Office to enroll. This course is the seminar component of the Semester-in-Practice Program. Students will take the course online or on campus course (depending on the location of their placement). Topics covered in class will include legal ethics and professional responsibility, professional development, access to justice, cross-cultural lawyering, and the changing role of the legal professional. Students will have weekly readings and be expected to write weekly reflective memoranda. They will also give a presentation and prepare a final 10-12 page paper. NOTE: Students enrolled in this course may count the credits towards the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. COREQUISITE: Semester-in-Practice: Fieldwork (JD 739).
FALL 2020: LAW JD 740 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Kathleen Devlin Joyce |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Staff |
Seminar on Current Developments & Issues of Financial Services Regulation: LAW BK 960
2 credits
This course provides an opportunity for students to conduct in-depth research and to improve their writing skills on current structural and/for regulatory issues in the financial services area. This class meets weekly to discuss financial services developments on topics and to review the topic proposal and outlines of class participants. Each student prepares a paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor, and then leads a class discussion of the financial services issues addresses by the paper he or she prepares. Students edit one another's drafts and participate in critiques during class sessions. A text and other materials are used in discussions of effective legal writing. The seminar may satisfy a concentration requirement depending on the subject of the paper. It is open to a limited number of second- semester students with permission of the instructor.
Sex Crimes (S): LAW JD 947
3 credits
Over the last few decades, the public has become increasingly concerned about sexual crimes. In addition to harsher punishments, several civil, collateral consequences have become common such as indefinite commitment and registration. This class will explore how sexual offenses are dealt with in the criminal justice system and the underlying reasoning for the heightened attention, including morality, statistical data, and psychological/scientific evidence. We will discuss the limitations, if any, that govern collateral consequences such as indefinite civil commitment and registration (e.g. Constitutional restrictions, scientific uncertainty). The class aims to challenge preconceived notions of sex crimes and sex offenders through case law, guest speakers, academic literature, and real life scenarios. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. PRACTICUM OPTION: A limited number of students may apply to enroll in the Sex Crimes Practicum (JD962). **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 947 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Eric Tennen | LAW | 102 |
Sex Crimes Practicum: LAW JD 962
Var credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have applied to and been accepted to the Sex Crimes Practicum. Students receive credit for completing a sex-crimes related project -- either litigation or policy-oriented -- as a supplement to the Sex Crimes seminar. Projects will vary in scope and content based on student interest and the number of students enrolled. Project topics include sex crime policy, the identification and tracking of constitutional challenges to civil laws, and work on pending cases such as registration hearing, civil commitment trials, or criminal appeals. Throughout the semester, students will work under the supervision of Professor Eric Tennen. Practicum students must attend six class meetings with Professor Tennen. Students receive either 1 or 2 graded credits depending on the nature of the project and the anticipated workload. NOTE: This clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. PRE-/CO-REQUISITE: Sex Crimes (JD 947), or equivalent work experience or academic foundation, determined on a case-by-case basis by the instructor. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 962 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 5:00 pm | 6:00 pm | Var | Eric Tennen | LAW | 102 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 5:00 pm | 6:00 pm | Var | Eric Tennen | LAW | 102 |
Starting New Ventures: QST SI 852
3 credits
This course focuses on the process of identifying and obtaining the necessary resources to launch an entrepreneurial venture through the development of a business plan. A well-written business plan will communicate the business concept in a way that attracts the various resource providers necessary for the venture's success. Students will individually develop a business concept and prepare and present a professional business plan.
REMINDER: This is a QST course. Students cannot register through WebReg. Students who register for the class and want law credit must add the course to their law transcript by completing an add form at the Law Registrar's Office before the end of the add/drop period for that semester.
FALL 2020: QST SI 852 E1 , Sep 14th to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 9:15 pm | 3 | Mashiter | HAR | 222 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 9:15 pm | 3 | Marton | NIP | 320 |
Startup Law Clinic (C): LAW JD 724
6 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Startup Law Clinic. The Startup Law Clinic is a full-year clinic that provides students the opportunity to perform work for real clients on a variety of matters typically encountered by entrepreneurs in launching new business ventures, such as choice of entity, capital structure, equity allocation and compensation, intellectual property ownership and licensing, financing and employment arrangements. Students will also learn, through their first-hand client work, the ethical rules of professional responsibility regarding entity representation, including identification of the client, identifying potential conflicts of interest, and advising clients and associated persons as to the nature and implications of the attorney-client relationship. In addition to their fieldwork, students attend a weekly seminar that develops concepts and skills to support their fieldwork. The seminar features substantive lectures, student-led discussions and guest speakers, and students present and discuss their ongoing client matters. The clinic meets for two semesters, with more advanced seminar topics and increased responsibility for cases occurring in the spring semester. PRE/CO-REQUISITE: Corporations. Students are also strongly encouraged to take Contract Drafting and some intellectual property coursework (the IP survey course and/or other subject-matter-specific courses). NOTE: This clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 724 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Jim WheatonSamuel Taylor | LAW | 414 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 6 | Jim WheatonSamuel Taylor | LAW | 414 |
State and Local Taxation: LAW TX 928
2 credits
The course will expose students to the major types of United States state and local taxes,including personal income taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, and corporate taxes.We will explore the structure of each of these types of taxes, how the taxes are implemented in various jurisdictions, and some of the significant issues that arise in applying the taxes. We will also cover some special issues arising from the multi- jurisdictional nature of state and local taxation, and the principal aspects of United States federal law, both statutory and constitutional, that shape and constrain state tax systems. We will consider the application of basic state tax concepts to current issues facing state tax administrators and practitioners, including tax-advantaged business structures, and some of the legislative responses to such issues.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 928 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm | 2 | Staff | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Matthew D. Schnall | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Matthew D. Schnall |
Supervised Research & Writing: LAW JD 841
Var credits
Upper-class students may pursue a special research interest under the guidance of a full time faculty member, and earn one or two semester credits for a Supervised Research and Writing project (also known as an Independent Study). The study must involve a substantial investment of time and effort, and result in significant written work that reflects a high standard of legal scholarship. The student's final grade will be based solely upon written work submitted, and will be included in the student's average. NOTE: Students must register for Supervised Research and Writing directly with the Registrar's Office. You may not register via the Student Link.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 841 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | Var | Linda C. McClain |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | Var | Danielle Pelfrey Duryea |
Supreme Court 2020 Term: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Habeas Cases (S): LAW JD 903
3 credits
This course will focus on criminal procedure and criminal law cases that are currently on the docket of the Supreme Court. Each week, the class will read a substantial amount of materials in preparation for one case, including its lower court opinion, the briefs from each party, two sets of amicus briefs, and a Supreme Court opinion drafted by a member of the class. Students will also be expected to read the most significant Supreme Court precedents involving each case. Prior to each class session, each student will be responsible for writing a 3-5 page memo critiquing the readings of the week. Students will also be responsible for drafting one 20-25 page Supreme Court opinion to be distributed to and discussed by the class. Criminal Procedure is not a prerequisite for this course. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 903 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Tracey Maclin | NIP | 320 |
Tax Accounting for Financial Statements: LAW TX 978
2 credits
TX978 is an introductory course in the reporting of income taxes on financial statements under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). This course covers financial reporting rules that every tax attorney needs to know to be conversant with business clients and other tax professionals. Subjects include deferred taxes, valuation allowance, uncertain tax positions, effective tax rate, and permanent reinvestment of subsidiary earnings.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 978 A1 , Aug 31st to Nov 30th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Phillip G. RoshakChristina Rice | LAW | 211 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Phillip G. RoshakChristina Rice |
Tax and Technology: LAW TX 968
2 credits
This course examines the convergence of technology solutions, in support of taxation, from two different angles: corporations and government. The course will also compare and contrast these movements in America with other countries, as US-headquartered companies expanding abroad face new realities, unfamiliar tax structures and increasingly complex regulatory environments; and legal and tax professionals must be prepared for these challenges. Rather than focus on technology per se, analyzing computer programming language and codes, the bias of this course is the real-life business perspective of technology when applied to taxation and fiscal policy. This course gives students exclusive access to tax software actually used by multinational corporations to determine indirect taxes in the US and nearly 200 other countries and foreign tax jurisdictions. This access will allow students to simulate domestic/international transactions and analyze their tax implications while becoming familiar with the mechanics of an Enterprise-class tax automation solution.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 968 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Camilo Martinez | LAW | 101 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Martinez |
Tax Aspects of Buying and Selling a Business: LAW TX 920
2 credits
A comprehensive course on how business owners can buy and sell businesses with a minimum tax cost and maximum after-tax return. The strategies for selling a business are often implemented from the moment the business entity is originally formed. The course will examine the crucial strategies, from choice of entity, to conducting ongoing operations, to the correct way to change or restructure existing C corporations, S corporations and other entities. The course will also examine the best way to structure a sale of a particular business, based on both the form of legal entity and on the specific facts in a case. For example, the course will compare a sale of stock to a sale of assets; will compare a sale for cash to a tax free transaction or part-cash, part-stock transaction; and compare the differences between a sale with immediate payment versus a possible installment sale. Prerequisites: Federal Income Taxation I and Federal Income Taxation II.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 920 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Joseph B. DarbySimona Altshuler | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Joseph B. DarbyStaff |
Tax Aspects of International Business: LAW TX 906
2 credits
Tax aspects of international business transactions, both "inbound" and "outbound", with particular attention to fiscal jurisdiction, the foreign tax credit, allocation of income among affiliated companies, treaties, anti-abuse measures aimed at tax haven operations, information reporting and foreign investment in U.S. securities and real estate. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 906 A1 , Aug 31st to Nov 30th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | William W. Park | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Park |
Tax Aspects of International Business & Finance: LAW JD 781
2 credits
Tax aspects of international business transactions, both "inbound" and "outbound", with particular attention to fiscal jurisdiction, the foreign tax credit, allocation of income among affiliated companies, treaties, anti-abuse measures aimed at tax haven operations, information reporting and foreign investment in U.S. securities and real estate. Attention to changes following the 2017 IRC amendments. PREREQUISITE/COREQUISITE: INTRODUCTION TO FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION is a recommended prerequisite, but required at least as a corequisite. GRADING NOTICE: This class does not offer the CR/NC/H option. NOTE: This course (and the final exam) is administered through the Graduate Tax Program (Room 1005). This section is for pre-registration purposes only. Students will be transferred to the Tax section (TX906) of the course during the summer.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 781 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | William W. Park |
Tax Court Practice: LAW TX 956
2 credits
This course focuses how to effectively represent taxpayers before the United States Tax Court. The course begins with an introduction to the history, organization and jurisdiction of the Tax Court. Students will examine the procedural and strategic decisions arising in litigation of federal tax controversies before the Tax Court. The matters covered in the class include: choice of forum, pleadings, discovery, motions practice, pre-trial procedures, stipulations, settlement negotiations, trial procedures, trial, post-trial briefs and procedures, opinions, decisions and appeal.
Tax Fraud and Technology: LAW TX 996
2 credits
This course undertakes a detailed examination of technology-based responses (blockchain, crypto-tax-currency, real-time transactional data collection, artificial intelligence [AI] applications) to technology-facilitated tax frauds (Zappers, Phantomware, SSaaS, the Dark Cloud and missing traders). It is valuable for both state and local as well as international practitioners, and will readily compliment criminal tax studies. This course will direct the student to consider how the sweep of technological developments in indirect taxation (digital invoices, encrypted transactional records, real-time data transmission to tax authorities, and inter- jurisdictional exchanges of digital tax data) will change/ is changing not only the collection and reporting of indirect taxes (VAT, RST, and various excise taxes) but will impact both the collection and reporting of direct taxes (personal and corporate income taxes), but also the treaties that facilitate international tax cooperation and coordination. Students should expect to be able to not only understand current technology-based tax frauds, but also be able to anticipate both the next generation of frauds, and the government's technology-based detection methods and countermeasures. Students should be able to see this as an iterative process where a technology-based fraud application is met by a government countermeasure only to find that criminal elements are fast advancing new technologies to be met yet again by more advanced government countermeasures. Public and private blockchain storage of tax data, and proposals for crypto-tax-currency based tax systems will be examined. Because this course works in a highly fluid tax/technology space the specific topics considered may not remain the same from year-to-year. This edition will examine the tax issues embedded in the technology of (1) sales suppression -- Zappers, Phantomware, SSaaS, and the Dark Cloud; (2) Missing Trader frauds -- notably frauds in CO2 permits, VOIP; and (3) excise tax avoidance -- notably frauds involved in cigarette smuggling and legalized marijuana. Both traditional organized criminal activity as well as terrorist funding activity will be explored.
Tax Law of Accounting Methods: LAW TX 913
2 credits
Examination of a broad range of subjects related to accounting methods and periods. Topics include principles of income recognition, prepaid income, claim of right, cash equivalency, and constructive receipt, special methods involving long-term contracts, depreciation, timing of deductions, estimated expenses, prepaid expense, expense versus capitalization, and conformity between tax and financial accounting. Prerequisite or corequisite: Federal Income Taxation I.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 913 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Phillip G. RoshakChristina Rice | LAW | 101 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Phillip G. RoshakStaff |
Tax Law Research: LAW TX 985
Var credits
Tax Law research is among the most complicated areas of the law to research. Statutes, regulations and agency issuances interact to create a thickly layered set of legal precedents. This class will explore the resources a tax professional would use to perform his or her research from legislative history to private letter rulings. Students will become familiar with the research platforms outside of Lexis and Westlaw that are commonly used in practice. Students will get practice in using many of the most heavily used practice materials. Classes will combine instruction and hands-on exercises using the major print and electronic resources available for tax law research. Students will be required to complete an assignment for each class.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 985 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 2:00 pm | 4:00 pm | Var | Stefanie B. Weigmann | LAW | 101 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | Var | Staff |
Tax Practice & Procedure: LAW TX 907
2 credits
Structure of the U.S. tax system; administration of the Internal Revenue Code by the Internal Revenue Service; ethics of tax practice and the regulation of tax practitioners; study of the administrative processing of tax returns; handling of audits, statutes of limitations, assessment of deficiencies and penalties, claims for refund, hearings before the Appeals Office, closing agreement, tax liens, tax collection procedures and civil and criminal aspects of tax fraud. Introduction to aspects of litigation in the Federal District Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and U.S. Tax Court.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 907 A1 , Aug 31st to Nov 30th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Sean McMahon | LAW | 102 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | McMahon |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Mark J. DeFrancisco | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Mark J. DeFrancisco |
Tax Seminar: LAW TX 982
Var credits
This course provides an opportunity for students to conduct in-depth research and to improve their writing skills on current issues in taxation. This class meets weekly to discuss tax law developments globally at the State & Local, US Federal and International topics and to review the topic proposal and outlines of class participants.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 982 A1 , Jan 22nd to Apr 16th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 11:00 am | 1:00 pm | Var | Richard T. Ainsworth | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 11:00 am | 1:00 pm | Var | Richard T. Ainsworth | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | Var | Ainsworth |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | Var | Richard T. Ainsworth |
Taxation and Regulation of Cryptocurrency: LAW TX 989
2 credits
This course is designed to provide an introductory understanding of the theory and principles by which decentralized digital currencies - cryptocurrencies - operate, within both a practical and legal framework. The course can be broken down into three broad topics: (1) An examination of the concept of money, currency, and legal tender; (2) An introduction to the history of decentralized digital currencies, including the logic of a peer- to-peer payment system, the decentralized governance of cryptocurrency solutions, an analysis of the problems that cryptocurrencies are intended to resolve, and a high-level understanding of the blockchain; and (3) An in- depth examination and analysis of the current state of regulatory and tax treatment of various cryptocurrency transactions in the United States and in international jurisdictions.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 989 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | John A. BecciaRobert Bench | LAW | 414 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | John A. BecciaRobert Bench |
Taxation of Bankruptcies and Workouts: LAW TX 936
2 credits
Study of the tax and opportunities arising in bankruptcy and nonbankruptcy workouts of individuals, partnerships, and corporations. Topics include cancellation of indebtedness income from the reduction or renegotiation of debt, gain or loss recognition on foreclosures and similar property transfers, restrictions on net operating loss carryovers, special tax consequences of the restructuring of partnership debt and equity, the taxation of the bankruptcy estate and its owners and creditors, and trust fund tax penalties on officers, directors, and other individuals. Prerequisites or corequisites: Introduction to Corporate Tax and Partnership Tax I.
Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders: LAW JD 887
3 credits
Federal income tax considerations have major implications for planning in the corporate area. This course focuses on income tax issues in transactions between corporations and shareholders, including distributions, exchanges, reorganizations and capital contributions. PREREQUISITE: Introduction to Federal Income Taxation. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 887 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 10:45 am | 12:15 pm | 3 | Alan L. Feld | NIP | 320 |
Taxation of Financial Products: Policy and Theory: LAW TX 917
2 credits
This course explores the financial characteristics and income taxation of financial instruments, with an emphasis on both policy and theory. We start with the building blocks of debt and equity, move on to the "derivatives" level of options and notional principal contracts (swaps), and conclude with exotica such as currency products. In each instance we will first look at the financial characteristics of the security (after the fashion of an MBA offering in corporate finance), and then study the tax rules governing each class of instrument. Because discounting (net present value) and "pay off" diagrams are so central to an understanding of financial instruments, the course incorporates a rigorous study of these mathematical tools. Also, when studying the tax rules applicable to financial products, we focus on the fundamental building blocks of taxation -- amount, timing, character, and source -- to reveal underlying policy and theory tensions that go to the very root of our income taxation system. The course is intended to complement TX 949 Taxation of Financial Products: Principles and Application, and may be taken either prior or subsequent to that class or on a stand alone basis. Pre or Co-requisite: Federal Income Taxation I and II.
Online section not open to JD students.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 917 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Ameek A. Ponda | LAW | 204 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Ameek A. Ponda |
Taxation of Intellectual Property: LAW TX 955
2 credits
Intellectual property- from sophisticated aerospace technology to computer software and web applications to music and video rights- is one of the most important, challenging, and sophisticated areas of modern commerce. However, because the IP revolution has occurred in only the last 25 years, many of the traditional principles of income taxation are not easily applied to IP assets. This course will explore the tax aspects of creating intellectual property, buying intellectual property, exploiting IP through leases and licenses, and strategies for selling valuable IP rights with the best tax results. The course will also explore important international tax issues, including the so called "migration" of IP offshore, cost-sharing arrangements, and other mechanisms that seek to "locate" IP and the associated tax liabilities in tax-favorable jurisdictions. The course will teach the tax differences between copyrighting and patenting a software program, the right and wrong ways to license and sell a trademark, and the mechanisms for turning a "license" into a "sale" and thereby converting ordinary income into capitol gains.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 955 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Joseph B. Darby | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Darby |
Taxation of S-Corporations: LAW TX 984
2 credits
This course undertakes a detailed examination of Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations using a contextual approach so that students will be able to identify opportunities and pitfalls in the use of S Corporations. This will be accomplished through a combination of reading the Internal Revenue Code, regulations and other authorities relating to Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations. Use of S corporations in a multinational setting will also be considered. The course will emphasize, teach, expect, and measure the internalization of professional responsibilities in tax practice to clients using actual judicial decisions as well as hypothetical case studies. The inherit tension resulting from duties to clients and duties to the tax system is explored. We will also explore the various settings in which choice of entity for business operations will be a consideration and the utility of such choices for tax and non-tax purposes. Students will practice analytical and writing skills through written assignments. Since a contextual approach is used, it is expected that students will acquire knowledge of substantive tax law in addition to an understanding of ethical and legal responsibilities in federal tax practice.
Taxation of Trusts and Fiduciaries: LAW TX 937
2 credits
Income tax consequences arising upon the death of a decedent and special income tax treatments of estates, trusts, and fiduciaries. Topics include determination of gross income and allocation between the decedent and the estate or trust; special problems with income in respect of a decedent; separate and conduit taxation of estates and trusts; allocation of tax attributes between an estate or trust and its beneficiaries; grantor trust rules, and other topics. Prerequisite: Federal Income Taxation I.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 937 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Jeremiah W. Doyle | LAW | 211 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Jeremiah W. Doyle |
Technology Law Clinic: Fieldwork (C): LAW JD 725
4 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Technology Law Clinic. In the Clinic, students will represent MIT and BU students who are working on innovative research and ventures, counseling clients on issues including data privacy, intellectual property, computer crimes, cybersecurity, media law, and regulatory compliance. Students draft and negotiate agreements, design compliance programs, advise on the legality of innovative products and services, respond to cease-and-desist threats, and help clients anticipate and prepare for legal disputes, including pre-litigation support. Limited opportunities in litigation may be available. PRE/CO-REQUISITE: a course in one of the following three areas: (1) intellectual property (either an IP survey course or other core IP course such as patent, copyright, or trademark); (2) privacy law (including Privacy (JD 822)); or (3) cybersecurity. NOTE: The Technology Law Clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 725 A1 , Aug 31st to Dec 7th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 4 | Andrew Sellars |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 4 | Andrew SellarsTiffany Li |
Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic: Seminar 1: LAW JD 866
2 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Technology Law Clinic. This is the fall classroom component to the Technology Law Clinic. The seminar introduces students to the lawyering skills relevant to a modern technology law practice, including effective counseling of innovation clients The seminar also introduces a variety of legal issues that arise in research and innovation environments, including advanced topics in intellectual property, computer crimes, and data privacy. NOTE: The Technology Law Clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 866 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 2 | Andrew SellarsJocelyn Hanamirian | LAW | 211 |
Technology Law Clinic: Seminar 2: LAW JD 869
2 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Technology Law Clinic. This is the spring classroom component to the Technology Law Clinic. The seminar expands upon the lawyering skills and substantive legal discussions from the first semester, and will focus on questions of national policy as they relate to technology, including national control over technical information, academic privacy and freedom, and emerging cybersecurity regulation. NOTE: The Technology Law Clinic counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 869 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 2 | Andrew SellarsJocelyn Hanamirian | LAW | 605 |
The Criminal System: Theory and Practice (S): LAW JD 987
3 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have received permission from the Office of Experiential Education to enroll. This seminar will combine an externship field placement for each student with critical analysis of selected issues in the practice of American criminal justice. Students will combine reading and research on the American system of criminalization with their own careful reflections on their experiences in their crime-related externships. Crime related externships may include: Suffolk County DA's Office, Superior Court Units; CPCS, Superior Court Units; Prisoners Legal Services, and Boston Police Department. The weekly subject matter of the seminar will depend in part on the precise externship placements of the students but will likely include a selection from the following list: the practice of misdemeanor courts; the practice realities of indigent defense; racial dimensions of policing, prosecution, and incarceration; family and community impact of criminal justice policies and practices; the capacity of the poor to find justice in the criminal system; police violence and culture; plea bargaining; prosecutorial discretion; police discretion; drug law and policy; the experience of incarceration (including prisoners' rights, solitary confinement, prison violence, and other matters); alternatives to prison, and other topics. We will also look at comparisons with criminal justice systems in other countries and avenues for reform. Students will make presentations to the group and execute substantial written assignments. LIMITED WRITING REQUIREMENT OPTION: A limited number of students will be permitted to satisfy the upper-class writing requirement with this seminar after consultation with the instructor. NOTE: This class may be used for credits toward Experiential Learning requirement or the upper-class writing requirement. This class may not be used to satisfy more than one requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who waitlist for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 987 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Gerald F. Leonard | LAW | 418 |
Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants: LAW JD 793
2 credits
This course will examine the theory, practice, and interrelationship of trade secret law and the law of restrictive covenants, including laws governing the use and enforceability of noncompetition agreements. We will explore what a trade secret is, what it is not, how it differs from other types of intellectual property, and how something secret can constitute protectable property. We will investigate how trade secrets can be misappropriated, including misappropriation through one's memory; whether and in what circumstances trade secrets will be protected, including through the use of noncompetition agreements, nondisclosure agreements, and other restrictive covenants; the other purposes served by those agreements; and the strengths and weaknesses of the various laws governing the protection of trade secrets and the use of restrictive covenants. Depending on class interest and time, we may discuss related issues such as the current debate over the use of noncompete agreements and their putative effects on innovation. OFFERING PATTERN: This class is not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 793 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Russell BeckHannah Joseph | NIP | 320 |
Trademark and Unfair Competition: LAW JD 780
3 credits
This course will examine the precepts of trademark and unfair competition law. We will investigate issues of ownership, protectability, and infringement in the context of words, symbols, slogans, product design and trade dress. The course also will handle related issues, depending on class interest, such as: trademark's common law roots, false and comparative advertising, parody, the right of publicity, the First Amendment, a comparison of how copyright and trademark treat 'functional' designs, the influence of misappropriation law and fears of free riding, and the challenge of applying trademark laws in the Internet context. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 780 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon,Wed | 2:30 pm | 3:55 pm | 3 | Stacey Dogan | LAW | 605 |
Transaction Law Research: LAW JD 718
2 credits
Most students will end up practicing transactional law which presents unique legal research challenges. Students will learn to navigate the statutory and regulatory frameworks of transactional areas of the law like tax, banking, securities and other practice areas. They will research agency guidance, use specialized practice materials and search for filings and company information, among other research tasks. Legal information and technologies in these area are constantly changing and new lawyers should be familiar with the most recent research techniques and tools. Classes will combine instruction and hands-on exercises using major print, electronic, and web based resources for securities law research. Students will be required to complete several assignments using electronic and print resources and put together a final client presentation on a transaction.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 718 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 2 | Brian FlahertyStefanie B. Weigmann | LAW | 209 |
Transaction Simulation (LLM): Forming and Financing a Start-Up Business: LAW AM 787
3 credits
This course is a semester-long transaction simulation offered exclusively for LLM in American Law Program and LLM in Intellectual Property Law students. The simulated transaction is the formation and initial financing of a privately- held company in the software industry. The course will expose LLM students to the principal issues involved in counseling U.S.-based entrepreneurs as to their emerging businesses, including choice of entity and entity formation, equity compensation for founders and employees, intellectual property protection of company assets, capital raising through preferred stock financing, and negotiation of financing-related contracts based on industry- standard models. Through in-class discussions, homework assignments and graded writing assignments, students will simulate the work of both junior and senior practicing attorneys who counsel start-ups and their founders and investors. Students will review sample agreements related to start-up businesses such as formation and financing documents, draft and revise such agreements and conduct negotiations for the financing of an emerging business. While the simulation is based on a start-up transaction, many of the principles and concepts will be applicable to a broader range of business deals. The course grade will be based on homework assignments, class participation and graded writing assignments. CLASS SIZE: Limited to 12 students. PREREQUISITE(S): Contracts and Corporations, unless otherwise waived by the instructor. Prior work experience in transactional business law is neither required nor expected. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option.
SPRG 2021: LAW AM 787 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Benjamin A. Howe | NIP | 320 |
Transaction Simulation: Acquisition of Urban Real Estate for Major Commercial Re-Development: LAW JD 774
3 credits
This course is one of the semester-long transaction simulations offered as part of the School's Transactional Law Program and satisfies the Transaction Simulation requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. The simulated transaction involves the sale of an urban site in Cambridge, MA comprised of buildings currently or previously occupied by commercial tenants which is to be re-developed into a high-end mixed-use multi-family and retail building. The course is intended to expose students to various transactional, regulatory and other issues faced, and lawyering tasks undertaken, by both junior and more senior attorneys in this type of transaction, and to enable students, in performing these tasks, to develop important practice skills in the area of commercial real estate. The class will be divided into teams at various stages of the transaction, with each team representing the buyer or the seller, regarding the acquisition of the property, or the local developer or capital partner regarding forming the venture that will acquire this property. Students will perform the key analytical, drafting and other legal tasks required to effectively represent their respective clients during various stages of the transaction from inception through closing. Throughout the semester students will be able to interact with a variety of real estate developers and experts. The course grade will be based on periodic drafting, negotiating and other written assignments (both in-class and homework), contributions to team efforts, and individual class participation. CLASS SIZE: Limited to 12 students. NOTES: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. The class will also satisfy the Transaction Simulation requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 774 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 3 | Lawrence UchillKathleen Burgener | NIP | 320 |
Transaction Simulation: IP Counsel for New Music Streaming Service: LAW JD 787
3 credits
This course is one of the semester-long transaction simulations offered as part of BU Law's Transactional Law Program. The course will cover matters and transactions engaged in by a startup company (the "Company") seeking to disrupt the music industry with a new music streaming platform. During this course, students will play the role of a transactional intellectual property attorney, advising the Company on several key strategic intellectual property decisions and matters in connection with launching its music streaming service. Some of these lawyering tasks will be foundational, such as advising the Company in selecting a strong trademark and deciding which open source software to use as the base of its otherwise proprietary software. Other tasks will focus on the legal viability of the Company's business model, including advising the Company on intellectual property licenses it will need to stream music and obtain data about artists. Later in the semester, students will work on a proposed equity investment in the Company, representing either the Company or the investor. The course also addresses various ethical issues that may arise in connection with these types of matters and transactions and in transactional practice generally. PREREQUISITE: IP Survey Course OR at least two of the following courses; Patent Law, Copyright Law, or Trademark Law. COREQUISITE: Contract Drafting. NOTES: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. The class will also satisfy the Transaction Simulation requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 787 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 10:40 am | 12:40 pm | 3 | Samuel Taylor | LAW | 418 |
Transaction Simulation: Auction and Sale of a Private Company : LAW JD 773
3 credits
This course is one of the semester-long transaction simulations offered as part of the School's Transactional Law Program and satisfies the Transaction Simulation Requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. The simulated transaction is the auction and sale of a privately-held company in the single-cup coffee brewing industry. The course exposes students to the primary tasks undertaken by both junior and more senior attorneys in a private company auction and sale, and in doing so builds skills students will need as they enter transactional practice. Students will perform analytical, drafting and other legal tasks during each stage of the transaction from inception through closing, including revising and negotiating final terms of a merger agreement for the proposed transaction and preparing the related disclosure schedules. Much of the course work will be done in teams representing the company being sold or a potential purchaser of that company. The course grade will be based on drafting assignments, contributions to team efforts such as in-class presentations and negotiation sessions, and individual class participation. CLASS SIZE: Limited to 12 students. PREREQUISITE: Contract Drafting. NOTES: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. The class will also satisfy the Transaction Simulation requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 773 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Kent A. CoitAlan MacEwan | NIP | 320 |
Transaction Simulation: Follow-On Venture Capital Financing: LAW JD 844
3 credits
This course is one of the semester-long transaction simulations offered as part of the School's Transactional Law Program. The simulated transaction is a venture capital financing for a privately-held company in the biotechnology industry. The transaction will be an "insider-led," "down-round," "follow-on" financing -- meaning the company's existing institutional shareholders will purchase the majority of new shares to be issued in the new financing round at a lower price per share than the price per share in the company's previous round of financing. The course exposes students to the principal issues involved with guiding a client through a financing, one of the most important transactions for a private company, and in doing so builds skills students will need as they enter transactional practice. Students will undertake the key legal tasks typically performed by both junior and senior attorneys in connection with this type of transaction, including analyzing legal issues, advising clients and drafting and negotiating agreements, including preferred stock terms and key provisions of a stock purchase agreement and investor rights agreement. Much of the course work will be done in teams representing the company or the investors, with students having the opportunity to play the role of company counsel and investor counsel. The course grade will be based on drafting assignments, contributions to team efforts such as in-class presentations and negotiation sessions, and individual class participation. CLASS SIZE: Limited to 12 students. NOTES: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. The course will also satisfy the Transaction Simulation requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 844 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 3 | Joshua FoxAlex Civetta | NIP | 320 |
Transaction Simulation: Forming & Financing a Start-Up Business: LAW JD 789
3 credits
This course is one of the semester-long transaction simulations offered as part of the School's Transactional Law Program. The simulated transaction is the formation and initial financing of a privately-held company in the software industry. The transaction will expose students to the principal issues in counseling entrepreneurs as to their emerging businesses, including key elements such as entity creation, duties of management and control among owners, equity compensation, intellectual property protection, capital raising through preferred stock financing, and financing-related contracts based on industry-standard models. Through in-class discussions and graded homework assignments, students will simulate the work of practicing attorneys (both junior and senior) who counsel start-ups and their founders on a day-to-day basis. The course grade will be based on three drafting homework assignments, contributions in class, and a group project focused on a self-selected current topic. CLASS SIZE: Limited to 12 students. PREREQUISITE: Corporations. NOTES: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. The class will also satisfy the Transaction Simulation requirement of the Transactional Practice Concentration. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, will be administratively dropped from the class. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first meeting to be considered for enrollment.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 789 A1 , Jan 21st to Apr 22nd 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 3 | Courtney HetrickJay Sullivan | LAW | 410 |
Transfer Pricing and Supply Chains: LAW TX 979
2 credits
This course will focus on advanced transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings (including supply chain redesigns and intangible property movements). Students will have the opportunity to experience applying the concepts of Section 482, GILTI/BEAT/FDII (new TCJA provisions) and the OECD's BEPS initiative in international tax planning for complex cross- border operations. Through case studies and small group projects, we will bring legal, accounting, and economic disciplines together to discuss practical tax challenges faced by multinational enterprises in the evolving international tax framework.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 979 A1 , Jan 19th to Apr 20th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 6:30 pm | 8:30 pm | 2 | Candice KingAndrew Shact | LAW | 211 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Candice KingStaff |
Transnational Lending: LAW BK 958
2 credits
This course examines legal issues arising in debt financing provided by financial institutions in international markets. The structure of transnational loan agreements, guarantees, letters of credit, participation and loan sales transactions, and basic instruments and documents common to trade financing are examined. The nature of the documentation and techniques used in such transactions, as well as regulatory patterns, legal problems and international law reform efforts, are studied. The course also covers issues related to the syndication of debt financing transactions, governing law, and creditor remedies.
Trial Advocacy: LAW JD 894
3 credits
This course introduces the student to the structure of the trial process and the skills used by trial lawyers. The topics covered range from opening statements to closing arguments, including conducting direct and cross-examination of witnesses, making and meeting objections, introducing documents and discovery into evidence, and using hypothetical questions with expert witnesses. Students must perform simulated exercises and will try one or more civil or criminal cases before a jury. Visit the web for more information on the instructors. PREREQUISITE: EVIDENCE. Students taking TRIAL ADVOCACY in the second semester of their third year may take EVIDENCE as a COREQUISITE. Students who have taken a trial advocacy course as part of a clinic may not subsequently enroll in Trial Advocacy. ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 12 students. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. NOTE: This course counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement. ** A student who fails either to attend the initial meeting of a section of Trial Advocacy, or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the registrar, WILL BE administratively dropped from the section. Students who are on a wait list for a section are required to attend the first section meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 894 A1 , Sep 2nd to Dec 2nd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 6:00 pm | 8:50 pm | 3 | Angel Kelley | LAW | 602 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:30 pm | 7:20 pm | 3 | F. Dennis Saylor | NIP | 320 |
Trusts, Wills & Basic Estate Planning: LAW JD 871
4 credits
Seipp: This course explores the basic law surrounding the disposition of property at death: (1) overview of the estate planning process and the policy considerations regarding inheritance law; (2) the process by which property is distributed in the absence of a will (intestacy); (3) the law of wills, examining formal requirements for the execution of a valid will, revocation, challenges to a will, and construction; (4) will substitutes and planning for incapacity; (5) the law of trusts, including revocable and pour-over trusts, creditor and beneficiary rights, and spendthrift trusts; (6) powers of appointment, perpetuities, and brief coverage of charitable trusts. This course does not address in detail tax-motivated estate planning. Hurwitz: This course explores the basic law surrounding the disposition of property at death: (1) overview of the estate planning process and the policy considerations regarding inheritance law; (2) the process by which property is distributed in the absence of a will (intestacy); (3) the law of wills, examining challenges to a will, formal requirements for the execution of a valid will, revocation, and construction; (4) will substitutes and planning for incapacity; (5) the law of trusts, including revocable and pour-over trusts, and creditor and beneficiary rights; (6) brief coverage of powers of appointment, perpetuities, spendthrift, and charitable trusts. This course does not address in detail tax-motivated estate planning.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 871 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue,Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 4 | David J. Seipp | LAW | 103 |
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Tue,Thu | 8:30 am | 10:30 am | 4 | Ilana Hurwitz | NIP | 320 |
US and International Tax Policy: LAW TX 987
2 credits
Understanding the policy drivers that underlie the formation of tax rules is a valuable asset for a tax advisor. Knowledge of the technical rules can become dated as laws and regulations change, but a sophistication about the policy drivers will remain relevant throughout a tax career. This course will help a student to develop instincts about how the rules are most likely to work, and to evolve. In most cases, there are limited policy design choices available to legislators, and an observer can see repeating patterns in history and across various countries. This course, with an emphasis on debate and discussion, will provide an overview of the policy objectives and the political drivers that commonly shape the formation of tax laws. There are no prerequisites for this course.
SPRG 2021: LAW TX 987 A1 , Jan 25th to Apr 12th 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Norman Richter | LAW | 211 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Norman Richter |
US Transfer Pricing: LAW TX 951
2 credits
This course examines the US transfer pricing system. A close reading of the Code and regulations will be expected as well as a detailed consideration of the major transfer pricing decisions. There is no other assigned text. The theme of this course is to bring students to an understanding of how the law has developed in this area focusing closely on the interplay between case law and regulatory enactments. Students should expect to encounter a reasonable amount of supporting economic and accounting analysis as they work their way through the course, and come to an appreciation of how this area of the tax law relies considerably on the blending of these three analytical perspectives.
FALL 2020: LAW TX 951 A1 , Sep 4th to Nov 27th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Fri | 12:10 pm | 2:10 pm | 2 | Richard T. Ainsworth | NIP | 320 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Richard T. Ainsworth |
Venture Capital Financing: LAW BK 908
1 credits
This one-credit course will provide an introduction to the legal and economic aspects of venture capital financing transactions with the goal of familiarizing students with the legal agreements used to document these transactions. Through a combination of lectures and in-class exercises, the course will cover the entire life cycle of an investment, focusing on the function of the most common transaction documents, the economic and/or legal purpose of the provisions contained within these documents and alternative approaches to address specific situations. Not offered Spring 2021.
Whistleblower Law & Practice (S): LAW JD 919
3 credits
This course will examine federal (and some state) laws that protect and incentivize whistleblowers to provide information and assist in the enforcement of laws prohibiting fraud and misfeasance in both the public and private sectors. There are two types of whistleblower laws, and the seminar will cover both: 1) laws which protect whistleblowers inside and outside of government from retaliation by employers for having engaged in protected activity (e.g., the government employee who filed the anonymous complaint that led to President Trump's impeachment) and 2) laws which provide financial incentives to whistleblowers for reporting fraud against the government, or fraud in the securities and commodities markets. The course will examine the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (WPA) and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA), the primary tools that protect whistleblowers inside of government from speaking up about government malfeasance. We will use as a specific case study the government whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment of the President, and the President's attempts to force disclosure of his/her identity. We will also study the policies of the Securities & Exchange Commission, which provide that the Commission considers retaliation against complainants to be a matter of enforcement priority and which prohibit the use of releases of liability or waivers of rights to whistleblowing activity in employment severance and termination agreements. In the second category, the course will include a study of the federal False Claims Act - the Government's primary law enforcement mechanism for prosecuting financial frauds against the Government and its unique "qui tam" provisions which authorize private citizens to participate in that effort and offer a reward for successfully pursuing a case on the Government's behalf. The False Claims Act was substantially revised in 1986 to address modern problems of fraud against the Government. Since 1986, the Government has recovered over $50 billion as a result of cases initiated by private citizens. The course will also study the SEC and CFTC whistleblower programs, established through the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. Current trends and developing case law in these programs will be examined, and we will undertake a detailed comparison of these models to the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions. Finally, we will look at the Internal Revenue Code's reward system for reporting tax fraud -- and why it has not fared as well as the SEC and CFTC programs. In addition, each student will write a paper based on a personal interview with one or more whistleblowers who have gone through the experience and/or whistleblower attorneys who have a substantial practice in this area. The course will be taught predominantly through simulated problems, based on composites of actual cases. By using these simulated problems, students will gain professional practice skills, including drafting, negotiating, and client representation. Students will work on a final project or paper, involving analyzing and proposing solutions to a current policy issue, or analyzing an actual whistleblower case. NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 919 A1 , Sep 3rd to Dec 3rd 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Thu | 2:10 pm | 4:10 pm | 3 | Robert M. Thomas | LAW | 413 |
White Collar Crime: LAW JD 854
3 credits
The purpose of this Course is to teach present-day white collar crime practice. The course will review: (i) the theoretical bases of modern white collar criminal prosecution; (ii) the major statutes used by prosecutors, including mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, bribery and extortion, obstruction of justice, perjury, and RICO; and (iii) the procedural aspects of white collar crime such as grand jury, attorney/client privilege, and sentencing. Students will learn the prosecutorial and defense techniques employed in significant recent white collar cases. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be familiar with the statutes, procedures, and legal analyses employed by prosecutors and private lawyers in white collar criminal practice. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. OFFERING PATTERN: This class not offered every year. Students are advised to take this into account when planning their long-term schedule.
SPRG 2021: LAW JD 854 A1 , Jan 20th to Apr 21st 2021Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Wed | 4:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 3 | David D’AddioSeth Kosto | LAW | 102 |
World of Limited Liability Companies: LAW TX 991
2 credits
LLCs have become the most popular entity for businesses. They are used in estate planning, joint ventures by large corporations, investment vehicles, small businesses, mergers and acquisitions, international transactions, operating businesses and individuals. This is a hands on course with lots of problem solving, drafting suggestions and practical approaches to dealing with these LLCs (emphasis on Subchapter K) within whatever tax discipline you practice. Prerequisite: Partnership Tax I
Writing for Tax Practice: LAW TX 992
2 credits
This course will focus on teaching students how to write client letters, internal memoranda, responses to IRS IDRs, and other documents common in tax practice. Students will be required to do multiple drafts of each assignment to allow for feedback and improvement on student writing. Additionally, there will be an emphasis on understanding the different audiences for each assignment (client, tax partner, government authority, etc.) and the relevant considerations in writing to each audience. Students will also be required to research and write the client letter and supporting memorandum in response to the problem set issued by the ABA Law Student Tax Challenge (submission to the competition is optional).
FALL 2020: LAW TX 992 A1 , Aug 31st to Nov 30th 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Mon | 4:20 pm | 6:20 pm | 2 | Kevin Wall | LAW | 101 |
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ARR | TBD | TBD | 2 | Kevin Wall |
Wrongful Convictions Practicum: LAW JD 902
2 credits
THIS CLASS IS RESTRICTED to students who have formally applied to and been accepted to the Wrongful Convictions Practicum. Students work on cases from prisoners claiming an unjust result after either trial or plea. Practicum students represent incarcerated clients and handle multiple aspects of post- conviction litigation. Students review attorneys' files, pleadings, transcripts of trials and other court proceedings, and judicial decisions with the goal of identifying potential areas of investigation and legal research that may lead to a motion for a new trial or other post-conviction relief for an incarcerated client. Students will also meet with these clients and potentially with witnesses. Issues covered in a given case may include jury contamination, Fourth Amendment violations, and issues of mental health and constitutional limitations on sentencing. In addition to this case field work, students meet in weekly seminars with the practicum instructor. NOTE: The Wrongful Convictions Practicum counts toward the 6 credit Experiential Learning requirement.
FALL 2020: LAW JD 902 A1 , Sep 1st to Dec 1st 2020Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 2 | Ira Gant | NIP | 320 |
Days | Start | End | Credits | Instructors | Bldg | Room |
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Tue | 6:30 pm | 7:30 pm | 2 | Ira Gant | NIP | 320 |