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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. Students gain an understanding of how electronically stored information can impact an overall discovery strategy and how this complicates a lawyer's ethical and professional obligations.
Econ of Am Legal System - LAWS 7318
Explores the economics of the American legal system. Topics include the cost of producing lawyers, the market for legal services, the practical challenges of running small and large law firms and the government's role in making legal services available.
Economic Analysis of Law - LAWS 6318
Introduces the basic elements of economic theory and emphasizes demand and utility, cost and optimality.
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.
Elder Law - LAWS 6525
Designed to provide students with a focused perspective from which to gain a deep understanding of the varied legal issues that arise at the intersection of law and aging. "Elder law" is the legal practice of counseling and representing older persons and their representatives with respect to the legal aspects of health and long-term care planning, public benefits, surrogate decisionmaking, older persons' legal capacity, the conservation, disposition, and administration of older persons' estates, and the implementation of their decisions concerning such matters, as well as the broad ethical issues of representing clients in this field of practice.
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.
Employee Benefits and Compensation 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 Internal Revenue Code; golden parachutes and Sections 280G and 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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 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 and Public Policy - 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 Law Clinic - LAWS 7619
Entrepreneurial Law Clinic ("clinic") student attorneys provide legal services to clients in connection with their start-up businesses. The Clinic focuses upon basic corporate work, commercial contracts, and select intellectual property matters. Typical tasks include: advising clients regarding choice of entity; forming corporations and limited liability companies; drafting shareholder agreements and operating agreements; drafting employment agreements, consulting agreements and intellectual property agreements; counseling clients regarding trademark and other intellectual property strategies and prosecuting patents.
The Clinic acts as a law firm for its clients' business related legal matters. As a prerequisite, a student must take three courses within the areas of corporate law, agency, tax, securities, intellectual property, transactional drafting, or transactional law. Clinic students work in teams of two under the supervision of local attorneys. Each team counsels several clients during the academic year. Students draft documents and memorandum on behalf of their clients. Each week students engage in a roundtable discussion where they present and analyze issues related to their client matters. Student attorneys' work in the Clinic is graded.
In addition to work on behalf of clients, student attorneys read materials on topics salient to entrepreneurial law. On a weekly basis, student attorneys also participate in seminar discussions with local attorneys and entrepreneurs. The seminar component focuses on issues that transactional attorneys frequently address in working with entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Finally, in addition to client work, each student team completes a project that focuses on the local entrepreneurial community. Representative projects include presenting legal issues to underserved entrepreneurs, researching ethical issues related to transactional practice, and drafting agreements for use by professors who teach classes in which startups are formed.
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 Justice and Law - LAWS 7242
Examines issues of unequal environmental protection across various contexts, including air and water pollution, siting of toxic and hazardous waste, noxious land uses, and access to environmental goods such as public lands. The course will explore the role that U.S. law has played in constructing the unequal distribution of environmental harms and benefits. It will then examine efforts within the U.S. to use law and other tactics to redress environmental injustice.
Environmental Law - LAWS 7202
Examines and analyzes federal, state, and tribal regulation of clean air and water, hazardous wastes, toxic substances, and contaminated properties. Considers related environmental justice theory, economic, ethics and policy issues.
Estate and Gift Tax Planning - LAWS 6217
Explores structural and planning aspects of the current federal wealth transfer tax system, including the federal tax code provisions governing estate and gift taxation. Topics may include estate planning for families and married individuals, estate valuation issues, retirement assets and life insurance, charitable giving, and trust and estate administration. Prerequisite: Wills and Trusts (LAWS 6104); Suggested pre-/co-requisite: Income Taxation (LAWS 6007). Students may not receive credit for both Estate and Gift Tax Planning (LAWS 6217) and Estate Planning (LAWS 7217).
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 may 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. Prerequisite: Federal Estate and Gift Tax (LAWS 7207). Suggested prerequisites: Income Taxation (LAWS 6007); Wills and Trusts (LAWS 6104). Students may not receive credit for both Estate Planning (LAWS 7217) and Estate and Gift Tax Planning (LAWS 6217).
Ethical Organizations and Professionals - LAWS 9003
Provides students, particularly those in the Master of Studies in Law (MSL) in Ethics and Compliance program, the opportunity to examine what drives ethical behavior within organizations and the role that ethics and compliance professionals play in promoting ethical behavior. Investigates ethical challenges and decision making, methods to assess ethical organizational culture and qualities of ethical leadership.
Ethics Compliance Capstone - LAWS 7103
Integrates skills and knowledge from the introductory compliance course and other courses in law school compliance curriculum as students develop a compliance program for an institution.
Evidence - LAWS 6353
Studies the 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.
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. This course combines Trial Advocay and Evidence. You CANNOT get credit for LAWS 6363 (Evidence and Trial Practice) and either of the following LAWS 6353 (Evidence) and LAWS 6109 (Trail Advocacy).
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.
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?
Federal Civil Litigation Practice Clinic - LAWS 6069
This is a one semester clinic offered in the fall and spring semesters for 4 credits each semester where students, under the supervision of the clinic director, will represent clients in administrative proceedings before the Federal Immigration Court, the U.S. District Court and in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and federal district court cases involving immigration habeas proceedings, prisoners' civil rights cases challenging the conditions of their confinement and employment discrimination cases. In the classroom component of the clinic, students will learn the three core substantive areas of the law covered in the clinic, and procedural and practice rules, including the federal rules of civil procedure, evidence, and the local rules of court. The course will include mock pre-trial and trial simulations to hone students' trial advocacy skills.
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
Analyzes the federal estate and gift taxation of inter vivos and testamentary transfers, introduces the federal income taxation of estates and trusts, and explores elementary estate planning. Prior or simultaneous enrollments in Income Taxation (LAWS 6007) and Wills and Trusts (LAWS 6104) are helpful, but not required. Students may receive credit for this course and either Estate Planning (LAWS 7217) or Estate and Gift Tax Planning (LAWS 6217).
Federal Income Taxation of Individuals - LAWS 4007
Provides an introduction to federal income taxation of individuals. Enrollment restricted to undergraduates.
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.
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.
Food Law and Practice - LAWS 7520
Surveys the basic regulatory landscape of food law with insight into critical legal issues facing industry and consumers. Covers federal, state and municipal regulation, litigation, government incentives, international standards and soft-law. Combines doctrinal approaches with simulation and problem solving to introduce systems-level thinking. No prerequisites or prior knowledge is required, though interest in food law and corporate law are helpful.
Foundations of International Legal Thought - LAWS 6008
Provides students with a broad historical and philosophical introduction to international law. Addresses the basic concept of sovereignty as it was understood between 1492 and World War II, in the contexts of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the international legality of the slave trade, relations between the Ottoman Empire and the so-called Great Powers, the Chinese opium wars, and the rise of modern international institutions. In the foundational style of the humanities, this course offers an intellectual context for LAWS 6400 and the rest of the international law curriculum.
Foundations of Legal Research - LAWS 5646
Designed to move students from the brief introduction to legal research offered in the first-year legal writing classes to the problem-centered research students will perform starting in the summer after their first year. Provides students with a conceptual understanding of the organization and connectivity of legal authority and with instruction in research methodology at both the project and resource levels. Uses pass/grading.
Foundations of Natural Resources Law - 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. Uses pass/grading.
Global Law and Global Governance - LAWS 6540
Addresses contemporary theories of globalization. We will explore questions such as: What is globalization, and in particular, what is the globalization of law? What is the extent of legal globalization, and how can we know? Are global law and global governance good things? How are these categories any different from what has traditionally been called 'international law'? Our search for answers will be guided by a selection of recent books from theorists of globalization and global governance, such as David Held, Immanuel Wallerstein, and David Kennedy.
Health Care Compliance - LAWS 7426
Introduces students to the primary laws and regulations that govern serious medicare and medicaid fraud and abuse. Major topics include: The Anti-Kickback Statutes; the Civil False Claims Act and its qui tam provision, the Stark Self-Referral laws, and criminal health care fraud statutes.
Health Law and Policy - LAWS 7425
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.
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
Examines the fundamental concepts underlying the federal income taxation of individuals and businesses. Topics may include the scope and timing of income, personal and business deductions from income, the taxation of families, and the tax treatment of certain property transactions. Serves as the introductory course for most taxation courses at the Law School.
Independent Legal Research - LAWS 7846
Involves independent study and preparation of a research paper under faculty supervision. Students produce a research paper equivalent to a seminar research paper. A draft is submitted, subjected to critique by the faculty member, and redrafted. Available during or after the fifth semester of law school. Instructor consent required.
Indigenous Peoples In International Law - LAWS 7715
Studies developments in the substance and procedure of international human rights law pertaining to indigenous peoples, examining these developments through varying perspectives, doctrinal and political, pragmatic and critical. Students will become familiar with indigenous peoples' involvement in the human rights movement both before and after WWII, and corresponding developments in the United Nations, Organization of American States, and other institutions.
Information Privacy and Cybersecurity - LAWS 6361
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 practices that comprise this emerging legal framework.
Insurance Law - LAWS 7445
Provides a general understanding of the law governing the nature of insurance transactions as well as the nature of insurance, fundamental assumptions, regulating the insurance relationship, life insurance transactions, automobile insurance, and tort of bad faith.
Intellectual Property Counseling and Licensing - 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; time value of money; discount rates; basic methods of business valuation; and risk and diversification concepts.
Interactive Programming For Lawyers - LAWS 6826
Teaches students how to develop simple computer applications that would help in the practice of law and the delivery of legal services, using a drag-n-drop application development platform. Students will learn programming logic and principles of user-centric design. No programming experience is required. Includes substantial legal research and analysis.
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 Dispute Settlement - 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.
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.
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 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
Explores the United States income taxation of international activities, principally U.S. persons doing business abroad and foreign persons doing business in the United States. This course focuses on the Internal Revenue Code as well as tax treaties. 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.
Internet and Media Law - LAWS 7005
Provides a survey of common, statutory, and regulatory law as applied to the media, including the internet. Topics include: the law as it affects the gathering of news; publisher liability online and offline; First Amendment issues; and related regulation of the internet and computer technologies.
Intro To US Legal Practice: Legal Writing, Research and Analysis - LAWS 9246
Assist LL.M. students develop their legal writing skills as well as teach practical skills needed in the U.S. legal environment including locating cases, statutes and other legal source materials, citing legal authority correctly, and checking the validity of case citations.
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
Develops student understanding of the internal working of Islamic law at its theoretical roots. Analyzes the various methodologies that are represented in Islamic legal literature, heling to enable the students to identify modern manifestations of these methodologies in contemporary Muslim discourses. Contextualizes the subject of Islamic law within various governmental and constitutional structures, beginning with the classical period, continuing through colonialism and reaching into the present day.
Introduction to Law and Literature - LAWS 4458
Explores the intersection between law and literature and will provide an opportunity to think about the law by reading engaging works of fiction and non-fiction, viewing important films and examining the law from a humanistic and philosophical perspective.
Introduction to U.S. Law for Undergraduate Student - LAWS 4075
Introduces undergraduate students to the American legal system and to legal reasoning and argumentation via case studies of prominent litigation. Students will learn basic conceptual building blocks of American law, basic lawyering skills and an understanding of how the American legal system structures and resolves complex disputes.
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.
Introduction To US Law For LLM Students - LAWS 9025
Reviews the fundamentals of the U.S. legal system, including an overview of the U.S. Constitution, federalism, the structure and function of courts, sources of legal authority, and common-law methodology. Restricted to students in the LLM program
Introduction to US Law For MSL Students - LAWS 9005
Provides an overview of the US legal system and will help MSL students begin to 'think like lawyers'. Students will be provided with the necessary vocabulary and skills to use legal resources and legal reasoning in academic and professional environments, including reading and analyzing cases, statues and regulations, doing legal research, and applying existing law to the issue at hand to predict answers to legal questions.
Investigations - LAWS 9223
Learn how to assess allegations of employee wrongdoing and recognize situations in which internal investigations are appropriate. They will learn how to develop an investigation plan and will be introduced to the primary steps in an investigation including the following: initiating an investigation, locating and gathering evidence, conducting interviews, analyzing evidence, articulating conclusions and drafting investigative reports.
Journal: CO Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review - LAWS 7916
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.
Journal: CO Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review - LAWS 7926
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.
Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal - LAWS 7946
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law.
Journal: University of Colorado Law Review - LAWS 7896
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the University of Colorado Law Review.
Journal: University of Colorado Law Review - LAWS 7906
Participation in the research, writing, and editing activities involved in publishing the University of Colorado Law Review.
Judicial Opinion Writing - LAWS 6236
Considers the contemporary American judicial opinion in historical and comparative context. Examines institutional constraints and emerging challenges to judicial decision-making. Analyzes individual opinion authors' writing styles. Builds upon the first-year legal-writing curriculum. Challenges students to develop a personal style and approach to writing and editing opinions.
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.
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 & Family 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.
Juvenile Justice - LAWS 7115
Covers how the judicial system deals with minors accused of crimes, and the collateral consequences for youth in the educational and child welfare systems.