Course Descriptions

The Colorado Law courses and seminars listed below have been taught in the last three academic years, however, they are not always offered every year. Frequently, faculty develop new seminars to reflect current developments in the law and in their research interests; these seminars may be offered only periodically. The listed courses are taught regularly. Consult "Planned Course Offering Schedule" to determine the next term a course will be taught. Go to "Calendars and Schedules" to find a list of the courses and seminars being offered in the current academic term.

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E-discovery - LAWS 6170
Exposes students to the legal and practical challenges presented by e-discovery and how electronically stored information shapes litigation and the pretrial process. The progression of class topics will roughly parallel the pretrial process, starting with the challenges of electronically stored information that exist even before the litigation commences. Students will leave with an understanding of how electronically stored information can impact or be incorporated into an overall discovery strategy and how such issues complicate a lawyer’s ethical and professional obligations.

Economic Analysis of Law - LAWS 6318
Introduces the basic elements of economic theory and their application to legal problems. Emphasizes demand and utility, cost, and optimality.

Education and the Constitution - LAWS 8285
Teaches the substantive constitutional law governing public education. Students will teach constitutional materials to high school students in the local Denver Metro area high schools. Interested students must apply, and requires a commitment to a full-year curriculum. Encourages individual development as teachers, writers, and critical thinkers, and provides an opportunity to grow as colleagues and teammates.

For information on how to become a Marshall-Brennan Teaching Fellow please see this page.

Education Law - LAWS 7055
Considers issues raised by the interaction of law and education. Issues may include the legitimacy of compulsory schooling, alternatives to public schools, socialization and discipline in the schools, and questions of equal educational opportunities.

Election Law - LAWS 7325
Examines the rapidly evolving field of election law: The right to vote, voting procedures, redistricting, candidate selection, campaign finance laws, and direct democracy. Emphasizes federal law, including applicable constitutional jurisprudence.

Employ Benefits & Comp Law - LAWS 6551
Examines past and present employee benefits and compensation practices among private and public employers. Covers ERISA and defined benefit, defined contribution, and welfare benefit plans; equity awards granted by corporations; equity awards granted by LLCs and partnerships; nonqualified deferred compensation and Section 409A of the IRC; golden parachutes and Sections 280G and 4999 of the IRC.

Employment Discrimination - LAWS 7541
Examines statutory and constitutional prohibitions of discrimination in employment on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, national origin, and disability.

Employment Law - LAWS 6521
The course examines the rights and obligations of employers and employees. It is a far broader course than Employment Discrimination but covers discrimination only minimally. The wide range of topics includes: the status and decline of the employer’s traditional right to terminate employees “at will”; employees’ rights to sue for termination against public policy or under various statues, such as whistleblower and discrimination laws; minimum/overtime wage claims; public employees’ constitutional First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Due Process rights; the enforceability as of employment handbooks, letters, and oral communications; employees’ rights to family/medical leave; and various employee/employer rights and obligations – for example, privacy rights, defamation, and non-competition/non-solicitation agreements; employers’ mandatory arbitration policies for employee claims; unemployment insurance; and workplace health and safety regulation.

Energy Insecurity and Sustainable Energy - LAWS 7132
This course will examine how national security deals not only with armed aggression and the ability to thwart military invasions or subversion, but also includes critical threats to vital national and international support systems such as the economy, energy and the environment.

Energy Justice - LAWS 7232
Establishes why nearly a third of the world populated by the energy oppressed poor, presents a major national and international “legislative” or socio political problem calling for answers from governments and civil societies in the developed and developing world. Explains and elucidates the concept of energy justice, its jurisprudential heritage, and its meaning and relevance in contemporary society. Case studies present problem solving frameworks spanning the political, social, behavioral, engineering, natural sciences, and law.

Energy Law and Regulation - LAWS 6722
This course provides an introduction to energy law and regulation in the United States. It covers basic principles of rate regulation and public utilities, the division of jurisdiction between federal and state governments, and the key federal statutes and regulatory regimes governing natural gas, electricity, and nuclear power. Much of the course will focus on the basic federal frameworks for natural gas and electricity regulation, with an emphasis on understanding the messy and uneven transition to wholesale competition in these sectors and, in the electricity context, the experience with state restructuring and retail competition. The course will also introduce students to the distinctive federal regime governing nuclear power. The last part of the course will address new challenges confronting electricity regulation (and energy law generally) as a result of emerging mandates for renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions. This course does not cover traditional oil and gas law.

Entrep Innovation & Public Pol - LAWS 5201
Explores cutting edge questions around entrepreneurship, including being an entrepreneur, leadership and what makes a great founding team, building and scaling a business, entrepreneurial communities, financing entrepreneurial companies, leadership in government, entrepreneurship and innovation policy.

Entrepreneurial Finance - MBAX 6110
Addresses a variety of topics including financial valuation, various sources of funds, structures and legal issues in arranging financing, the private and public venture capital markets, and preparation for, and execution of, an initial public securities offering. Prereq., MBAC 6020. PREREQ MBAC 6020.

Entrepreneurial Law Clinic - LAWS 7619
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (“Clinic”) students provide legal services to clients in connection with the founding and/or development of a small business. The Clinic exposes students to legal issues often faced by young entities, such as entity formation, financing, employment agreements, and exit strategies. Typical tasks include incorporation of entities, registering LLCs, and drafting employment and intellectual property agreements.

As a prerequisite, a student must take two of the following courses: Agency Partnership and the LLC, Corporations, Securities, Advanced Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, Accounting Issues for Lawyers, Patent Law, Trademark and Unfair Competition, Copyright, Telecommunications Law, and/or International Business Transactions.

In addition to work on behalf of clients, each week students are required to complete assigned readings on a topic salient to entrepreneurial law. Writing is also a required part of this Clinic. Students draft documents on behalf of clients and such written work is graded. Additionally, each student is expected to complete a paper and make a class presentation concerning a business problem addressed for a Clinic client. Finally, each student also completes a short paper relating to a due diligence exercise.

Environmental Decision-Making - LAWS 7222
Explores the foundational issues the underlie agency decision-making, including environmental ethics, cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, constitutional law, and administrative law. Compares and contrasts National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act and the Endangered Species Act.

Environmental Law - LAWS 7202
Examination and analysis of important federal pollution control statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, Solid Waste Act, and Superfund. Related economic theory, ethics and policy issues are considered.

Environmental Litigation - LAWS 7212
Examines the litigation strategies and procedures used to enforce and defend against enforcement under environmental protection statutes, such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conversation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, and the Toxic Substances Control Act. Covers civil enforcement, and citizen's suits.

Environmental Philosophy and Law - LAWS 8222
Investigates the changing philosophical underpinnings of U.S. environmental law and policy and how philosophy and legal institutions interact.

Estate Planning - LAWS 7217
Deals with the practical application of estate planning principles to a broad array of client situations, some of which present federal wealth transfer taxation issues. Topics include planning for young adults, individuals contemplating marriage, unmarried couples, couples with children, gifts to grandchildren, asset protection, perpetual trusts, charitable gifts, and an overview of estate administration. MANDATORY PREREQUISITES: Federal Estate and Gift Tax. Suggested prerequisites: Income Taxation.

Evidence - LAWS 6353
A study of the methods and forms of proof in litigation, including detailed consideration of hearsay, impeachment of witnesses, relevancy, character evidence, authentication, best evidence, and privileges.

Evidence and Trial Practice - LAWS 6363
Studies methods and forms of proof in litigation, including detailed consideration of hearsay, impeachment of witnesses, relevancy and certain restrictions on authentication and best evidence doctrines, and privileges. Applies rules and doctrine of evidence in simulated trial settings. Combined Evidence and Trial Practice course. Satisfies the trial practice requirement and counts two hours toward the 14 credit hour maximum in clinical hours. MAY NOT GET CREDIT FOR BOTH TRIAL ADVOCACY (LAWS 6109), EVIDENCE (LAWS 6353), AND THIS COURSE (LAWS 6363).

Extern Program - LAWS 7939
Extern credit may be earned for uncompensated work for a sponsor, which may be any lawyer, judge, or organization that employs lawyers or judges, and is approved by the Academic and Student Affairs Committee. Work is done under the direction of a field instructor, who shall be a lawyer or judge at the sponsor, and of a member of the law faculty. A substantial writing component is required. Fifty hours of working time per credit hour is required. A minimum of 1 and a maximum of 4 credit hours may be earned. Classified as practice credit.

Family Law - LAWS 7105
This course will address the legal rules regulating the family, examining in detail the rules of marriage and divorce. The course will focus in particular on how these rules differ depending on whether the family is wealthy or poor, traditional or nontraditional, self-supporting or receiving public aid. This course will cut across traditional law school disciplines, such as civil, criminal, and constitutional law. We will consider some of the following important and complex questions: What is a "family"? This theme will arise throughout the course as we examine how the definition of "family" varies according to the context, reflecting society's values and policy goals. How does, and how should, family law address nontraditional families? How do race, gender, and class affect family law?

Family Law Clinic - LAWS 6099
Represents low-income clients in family law cases in local state district court. Students will gain court-based experience in dissolutions and allocations of parental responsibilities. Seminar component includes instruction on substantive family law, related ethical issues, and theoretical backgrounds of poverty lawyering. Students must enroll for both semesters of the Clinic. No prerequisites required.

Federal Courts - LAWS 7003
Structure and jurisdiction of the federal courts, with particular emphasis on problems of federalism and separation of powers and their relationship to resolution of substantive disputes. Invaluable for students planning a federal court practice or clerkship.

Federal Estate and Gift Tax - LAWS 7207
Analysis of federal estate and gift taxation of inter vivos and testamentary transfers; introduction to the income taxation of estates and trusts; elementary estate planning.

Federal Litigation – Everyting But the Trial - LAWS 6373
Litigates through all pretrial phases as plaintiff's counsel, a mock federal case: an employee's challenge to compensation and termination, with possible claims including breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, violation of wage payment statutory and regulatory requirements, and fraudulent inducement to contract. Prereq., LAWS 6353.

Federal Tax Politics - LAWS 6138
Studies the tax system as the nexus of politics and economics. Examines how various interests and entities use the many tools of political power to shape the tax system. Intended for those interested in politics and legislation, rather than for the tax specialists.

Financial Decision-Making - LAWS 6328
Applies concepts, ideas, insights, and principles of modern finance to real-world situations that lawyers will face in many areas of law. Analyzes present discounted value (time value of money), risk versus return, asset diversification, portfolio theory, efficient markets hypothesis, arbitrage, financial options, real options, financial signals, human capital, behavioral finance, socially responsible investing, neurofinance, happiness finance, and financial bubbles and crashes.

First Amendment - LAWS 7015
Examines speech and religion clauses of the First Amendment. Includes the philosophical foundation of free expression; analytical problems in First Amendment jurisprudence; and the relationships between free exercise of religion and the separation of church and state.

FIRST YEAR BLOCK COURSE - LAWS 9999

Food Law - LAWS 6515
Provides a general overview of the laws, regulations, history, and policies that govern food regulation in the United States within the context of risk regulation. Includes regulatory compliance, administrative procedure, WTO litigation on food issues, private certification programs, products liability litigation, food and color additive approval, nutritional labels, urban agriculture and consumer choice. Considers legal, scientific, economic, and ethical principles of food regulation.

Food Law and Policy - LAWS 8545
Introduces students to the laws and regulations that govern our food supply. The focus is federal law provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with additional readings, videos and speakers. Topics to be covered include legal definitions for food, rules on food labeling, standards for food safety, biotechnology, international trade, organic and environmental regulation, hunger, farmer’s markets and obesity.

Foundations of Natural Resources Law and Policy - LAWS 6112
Introduces students to the law of natural resources. Examines the legal, historical, political, and intellectual influences that shape natural resources development and conservation.

Framing and Legal Narrative - LAWS 5211
Explores the role of framing effects in constructing a legal argument. From an appellate court opinion to closing statement to a jury to a white paper to a regulatory agency to a public campaign for a ballot proposition, the role of an overarching narrative is critical to effective persuasion.

Gender Law - LAWS 8765
Examines the relationship of law and gender in criminal law, education law, and constitutional law, using feminist theoretical perspectives as the organizing principle. Each perspective is applied to cases and materials on such topics as violence against women, prostitution, pornography, and discrimination in education and athletics.

Gender, Law and Public Policy - LAWS 7775
Examines the relationship of law and gender in criminal law, and constitutional law, using feminist theoretical perspectives as the organizing principle. Each perspective is applied to cases and materials on such topics as violence against women, prostitution, pornography, and discrimination in education and athletics.

Government Regulation of Business - LAWS 7221
This course surveys the legal, economic and policy framework that governs American business. In doing so, it examines the core principles that guide our economy and, against the backdrop of the proposition that non-regulated markets are generally preferred, introduces a number or areas of regulation, including antitrust, securities, environmental, patents, health-care, advertising/information and consumer protection. We will critically examine economic rationales, legal ground rules and regulatory models. One objective will be to gain a good understanding of how government intervention has actually played out in selected markets. We will also examine markets that, though once regulated, have since been deregulated.

Health Law I: Finance, Administration and Organization of Health Care - LAWS 7425
This course examines the law that controls access to health care, the cost of health care and the quality of health care delivered in the United States. Employing health economics as an overarching paradigm, the course surveys a wide range of law including the federal law that prohibits patient dumping, managed care liability, restraints of trade and fraud; regulatory law that controls federal financing programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; and state laws that control private insurance financing, for-profit conversions and unfair trade practices. There are no pre-requisites or caps in this class. Grading is based upon a 3-hour examination and class participation.

Health Law II: Medical Malpractice Litigation - LAWS 7405
Explores (1) the law controlling ethical issues that arise during the delivery of medical care, (2) the substantive law of medical malpractice and tort reform aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of medical malpractice verdicts, and (3) the practical aspects of litigating a medical malpractice case. Cross-listed at the Health Sciences Center; will include field trips there.

Healthcare Systems - HLTH 6010
University of Colorado at Denver School of Business and Health Sciences Center. Introduces the structure and function of the medical care delivery system. Includes basic concepts and measures of health, disease, quality, values, needs and utilization; issues in health care manpower, institutions and system organization; general issues in policy, reimbursement and regulation; broad community and organizational considerations in medical care organizations. The student is introduced to the principles of epidemiology and environmental health and demonstrates the application of epidemiology concepts to planning for the healthcare service needs of a population.

Higher Education and the Law - LAWS 8755
Examines the goals, governance, norms, and ideals of American institutions of higher education, and how those policies are shaped by the legal system. Examines the legal relationship between institutions of higher education and its various constituents: faculty, presidents, governing boards, students, alumni, and staff. Spans several traditional doctrinal categories, including contract, torts, employment law, constitutional law, intellectual property, tax, and antitrust.

Immigration and Citizenship Law - LAWS 7065
Covers legal issues pertaining to noncitizens of the United States, especially their right to enter and remain as immigrants and nonimmigrants. Specific topics include admission and exclusion, deportation, and refugees and political asylum. This course approaches these topics from various perspectives, including constitutional law, statutory interpretation, planning, ethics, history, and policy.

Immigration Law and Immigrants' Rights - LAWS 7615
Addresses four broad questions: Who is a citizen of the United States? Who else can come to this country? When and why can noncitizens be forced to leave? Who has the authority to answer these questions? These questions prompt us to examine the history of U.S. immigration, the constitutional-statutory-regulatory framework that governs immigration and citizenship law, and the federal agencies that administer it. Also addresses contemporary challenges to, and assertions of, immigrants’ rights.

Income Taxation - LAWS 6007
Explores the federal income taxation of individuals and is the introductory course for most taxation courses at the Law School . Studies the Internal Revenue Code, regulations and rulings issued by the Treasury and the IRS, and judicial opinions.

Independent Legal Research - LAWS 7846
Independent study and preparation of a research paper under supervision of a faculty member. The student must produce a research paper at least equivalent to a seminar research paper. The normal expectation is that a draft will be submitted, subjected to critique by the faculty member, and redrafted. Specific permission of the supervising faculty member is required before registering. Available during or after the fifth semester of law school. Two credits may be earned by doing two projects, each for one hour of credit, under the supervision of different faculty and involving different areas of law.

Independent Legal Research: Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy - LAWS 7916
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.

Independent Legal Research: Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy - LAWS 7926
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.

Independent Legal Research: Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law - LAWS 7936
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.

Independent Legal Research: Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law - LAWS 7946
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.

Independent Legal Research: Law Review - LAWS 7896
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the University of Colorado Law Review.

Independent Legal Research: Law Review - LAWS 7906
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the University of Colorado Law Review.

Information Privacy - LAWS 8361
Explores the laws that regulate the basic technologies of the Internet and the management of information in the digital age. It examines the most significant statutes, regulations, and common law principles that comprise this emerging legal framework, including the Federal Wiretap Act, the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Intellectual Property Counseling and Prosecution - LAWS 7381
Introduces strategic development and procurement of IP, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Evaluates the latest cases and legal trends from a practical and strategic perspective. Focuses on widely accepted best practices and critical thinking in these areas. Prerequisites: Introduction to Intellectual Property OR Patent Law.

Intensive Intro to Fin Info, Accounting & Law: Accounting Bootcamp - LAWS 6280
Exposes students to the basics of financial accounting and when and how lawyers encounter accounting problems. Students will leave the course with an understanding of the basic framework of accounting, including the double-entry method, balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows. They will also understand basic financial concepts including the time value of money, discount rates, basic methods of business valuation, and risk and diversification concepts. This knowledge is relevant to the practice of law in a wide range of areas, including family law, commercial law, business law, employment law, and tax.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Law and Social Change - LAWS 8505
Introduces legal institutions engaged in social change, from courts, to Congress, to bureaucracies and organizations. Posits tension between tasks of dispute resolution and public policy development and institutional adaptations. Considers the role of public opinion and the classics of legal formalism to more critical accounts. Considers postmodern theory and empirical legal scholarship. Presents alternatives to court-centered approaches to change, including community lawyering and organizing, law and social movements, and legislation.

International Business Transactions - LAWS 7611
Examines the sources of international business law, the relationship between such law and the U.S. legal system, the choice of law in international business disputes, the special issues that arise when doing business with foreign governments, the law governing international sales and the shipment of goods, and international intellectual property protection.

International Crime and Punishment - LAWS 8310
Addresses issues in international criminal law in three parts: 1) basic content of international criminal law such as the law regarding aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, 2) international criminal tribunals that enforce international criminal law, 3) national efforts to bring international criminal prosecutions. Prerequisite, International Law (LAWS 6400); Recommended prior course: International Human Rights (LAWS 7440).

International Criminal Law - LAWS 7320
This course will begin with an overview of the notion of international crimes, the fundamental principles of international criminal law and the sources of that law. Subsequently, the course will focus on the substantive legal elements of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, modes of liability for such international crimes and the growth in international criminal jurisdictions for holding individuals accountable for atrocities. As such, the course will consider the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials in the aftermath of World War II and the proliferation, post-Cold War, of international and “mixed” criminal courts and tribunals for prosecuting atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and East Timor, among other places. In addition to covering the development of substantive international criminal law, the course will trace the development of an international criminal procedure. Specific issues to be explored include the efficacy of international criminal jurisdictions for fighting impunity for international crimes while upholding due process norms; the development of a consistent body of international criminal law jurisprudence; the relationship of international criminal jurisdictions to prosecution of international crimes by national courts; alternative mechanisms for effecting justice for international crimes including truth commissions and awarding reparations; State responsibility for international crimes; and the future of international criminal law.

International Criminal Law: Theory and Practice - LAWS 7100
Exposes students to the rapidly growing body of jurisprudence, both international and national, wherein international humanitarian and human rights law are being applied for the purposes of prosecution, trial and punishment of individuals alleged to be responsible for the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and, more recently terrorism

International Dispute Resolution - LAWS 7310
Examines various mechanisms for the settlement of international disputes, including negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration and adjudication. Focuses on intergovernmental dispute resolution before the International Court of Justice. Recommended: International Law (LAWS 6400).

International Environmental Law - LAWS 6510
Examines international environmental law, including transboundary impacts and global issues. Addresses such issues as intergenerational equities, principles of compensation, and if developing countries should receive special environmental norm consideration.

International Human Rights Law - LAWS 7440
Surveys international human rights both in law and in philosophy, both current and historical. Consists of three parts: (1) the concept and philosophical foundations of human rights; (2) the content of international human rights law; (3) selected rights from a comparative perspective. Strongly recommended prior course: International Law (LAWS 6400).

International Law - LAWS 6400
Examines the nature, structure and sources of international law, the relationship between international law and domestic U.S. law, the role of international organizations such as the United Nations, the methods of resolving international disputes, the bases of international jurisdiction, and select substantive areas of international law that may change from semester to semester.

International Legal Theory: Structure and Critique (1500-1945) - LAWS 6008
This course offers an introduction to the philosophy of international law. It begins with a survey of Aristotelian political theory, and its application in the work of influential scholars of international law, Francisco Vitoria (1483-1546) and Hugo Grotius (1583-1646). After fleshing out this “Scholastic” style of international law, we move to the heart of the course and a study of classical liberal international law. This examination begins with Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), and the inclusion of their ideas in Emerich de Vattel’s (1714-1767) influential Eighteenth Century treatise on international law, and decisions from Justices John Marshall (1755-1835) and Joseph Story (1779-1845). The study of classical liberalism then shifts to its darker sides, and in particular, international law’s deep association with Nineteenth Century imperialism. The course concludes with an introduction to early Twentieth Century perspectives on international law, including post-colonial theory, the rise of international institutions, human rights, and the functionalist critique of the sovereign state. This course is intended as an introduction to the field of international law, and has no pre-requisites.

International Moot Court Competition - LAWS 7406
Open only to students who actively participate in the seminar preparing for the competition, in the preparation of memorials for the competition, and in the practice oral arguments or regional oral arguments.

International Natural Resource Law and Policy - LAWS 6122
Examines the suite of policy issues and Legal ramifications associated with sustainable natural resource development. Examines most recent recent research on the "resource curse" theory. Examines recent policy developments and discussions that have occurred among industry, NGOs, multilateral development agencies and governments. Examines issues related to bribery and corruption in developing country environments, and dispute resolution mechanisms at national and local levels.

International Taxation - LAWS 7617
Deals with the basics of U.S. income taxation of international activities, in the context of U.S. persons doing business abroad and foreign persons doing business in the U.S. The principal focus is on interpretations of the Internal Revenue Code and the U.S. Model Income Tax Treaty. Coverage includes exclusion for foreign earned income, transfer pricing, controlled foreign corporation provisions, foreign tax credit rules, branch profits tax and inbound business structures, and investment in U.S. real estate by foreign investors. Subject to overall class size, four memoranda addressing selected problems of international taxation typically supplant a final examination. Prerequisite: Income Taxation, LAWS 6007.

International Trade Law - LAWS 6410
Examines the law of the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Examines rules restraining national restrictions on trade that addresses tariff and non-tariff barriers, discrimination, regionalism, anti-dumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards. Considers the relationship between trade and other regulatory areas or social values, such as environmental protection, health and safety standards, human rights, intellectual property protection.

Introduction to In-House Practice of Law - LAWS 7629
Explores cutting edge questions around the practice of law as an employee of a business. Demonstrates how the combination of law and business can be valuable to businesses and also innovative, challenging and rewarding to legal professionals. Legal services to corporate America is changing dramatically with more entities relying on in-house counsel, compared to private practitioners, to obtain legal advice and counsel.

Introduction to Intellectual Property Law - LAWS 6301
Provides an overview of our nation's intellectual property laws, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and also discusses other assorted matters related to intellectual property, including licensing, competition policy issues, and remedies.

Introduction to Islamic Law - LAWS 6518
Examines the Formative Era of Islamic Law, through its sources and methodologies. Examines the Established Era of the Schools of Law including differences between Sunni and Shiite Islamic Law. Examines human rights, terrorism, political Islam, women's rights and rights of religious minorities, criminal law, and finance law, and the growing role of fundamentalism in these areas. Examines the relevance of Islam and Islamic Law in today's world.

Introduction to Jewish/Israeli Law - LAWS 6220
Outlines the history and basic principles of Jewish Law, Halakhic system that encompasses Biblical law and the Rabbinic law. Covers Legal Sources of the Jewish laws, interpretation, legislation, custom, precedence and legal reasoning. Explores the study of modern legal system of the state of Israel and examines the problematic nature of the incorporation of the Law of personal status in the Rabbinical and in general courts.

Introduction to United States Legal System/Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing - LAWS 6246
Introduces students without a law degree to the basic structure and content of the United States legal system, examining how the three branches of government at the state and federal levels make law and policy in the United States. The course will provide a basic introductory overview of the following: the various sources of law, including and understanding of how statutes are enacted by legislative institutions; the role of the United States court system in interpreting laws; application of judicial precedent in common-law systems; trial and appellate court procedures; and judicial review standards. The course will also introduce students to the methodology of American law, including legal reasoning, research, and writing, through a variety of in-class and outside research and writing assignments.

IP and Technology Contracting - LAWS 7321
Covers transactions, and often high-tech deals involving intellectual property rights. Studies IP ownership; assignment or rights; commercialization transactions (licensing, distribution, strategic); antitrust; and emerging issues. Gives students essential tools to draft and analyze technology contracts. Prereqs., LAWS 6301 or 7301.

Judicial Opinion Writing - LAWS 6236
Places contemporary American judicial opinion in historical and comparative context. Analyzes individual and institutional writing choices that authors of judicial opinions must make and ethical dilemmas they must confront. Builds upon the first-year legal-writing curriculum. Challenges students to develop and defend their own opinion-writing approaches and styles as well as to write from approaches and in styles that are not their own.

Jurisdiction in Indian Country - LAWS 7745
Examines the current state of the justice system within Indian nations today. Includes understanding the respective roles of tribal and state law enforcement authorities, as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Justice Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Examines relationship between federal and tribal courts; substantive laws; and advocates who appear before them.

Jurisprudence - LAWS 7128
This course addresses a number of fundamental questions, such as: What is law? What should it be? How is it generated? Our readings consist mostly of articles from leading modern/postmodern schools of thought including legal formalism, legal realism, interpretive theory, law and economics, feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, law and literature, and legal aesthetics.

Jurisprudence - LAWS 8128
This seminar addresses a number of fundamental questions, such as: What is law? What should it be? How is it generated? Our readings consist mostly of articles from leading modern/postmodern schools of thought including legal formalism, legal realism, interpretive theory, law and economics, feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, law and literature, and legal aesthetics.

Jury Selection and History - LAWS 7023
Studies the history of the jury from ancient times through the implications of Apprendi, the grand jury from the time of Henry II through modern federal practice, and current jury selection procedures, both federal and Colorado, both civil and criminal. Experienced trial attorneys will work with students to demonstrate jury selection.

Juvenile Justice - LAWS 7115
Juvenile delinquency poses difficult and interesting problems for youth policy and criminal justice policy. This course is devoted exclusively to the misconduct of youths that bring them within the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts. Children's rights as they relate to the processes of investigation and prosecution will be studied. Topics will include history and jurisdiction of juvenile courts; pre-trial procedures and diversion programs; detention; constitutional rights of juveniles; waiver and transfer to the adult system; trial and disposition. Various state juvenile laws, including Colorado, will be compared and contrasted. A goal of this course is to provide practical information as to the appropriate and ethical way of providing effective assistance of counsel to clients in the juvenile court. Knowledge gained from this course will assist students as future lawyers and policy makers to better shape the juvenile court system.

Juvenile Law Clinic - LAWS 7449
This is a year-long course.

Students in the Juvenile Law Clinic represent children and youth who have been abused and neglected or accused of a crime. This year long clinic allows the student to develop significant attorney client relationships, providing the student attorney with the best information to advocate for his clients. The clinic involves clients, when age appropriate, in all legal decisions, and actively encourages client participation in the legal process. Student attorneys represent the whole child, addressing all of the legal needs of the child client. In addition, student attorneys represent school districts as the petitioner in truancy matters, which allows the students ample court experience in presenting a case. The second semester of the clinic continues with an advance trial advocacy focus, culminating in a mock child welfare trial with the juvenile law clinic students of DU law school, judged by local child welfare practitioners. The clinic seminar focuses on the substantive law of child welfare, delinquency, and education law as well as the collateral areas of mental health, immigration, poverty, disability, family law, and alternative dispute resolution. The clinic begins with a three-day orientation seminar before classes begin. This pre-semester class time is deducted from class time during the term.

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