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Accounting Issues for Lawyers - LAWS 6281
Studies accounting and auditing problems in the form they are placed before the lawyer, including a succinct study of basic bookkeeping, in-depth legal analysis of the major current problems of financial accounting, and consideration of the conduct of the financial affairs of business. 3 credits, letter graded.

Administrative Law - LAWS 7205
Covers practices and procedures of administrative agencies and limitations thereon, including the Federal Administrative Procedure Act, and the relationship between courts and agencies. 3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Appellate Advocacy - LAWS 6213
Advanced study and practice of written and oral appellate advocacy. Builds on the first-year advocacy course, but provides more advanced techniques for brief writing, and preparing for and conducting oral argument. Students are required to write an appellate brief and participate in several oral arguments, and receive detailed, one-on-one critiques of work product. 2 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Applied Compliance - LAWS 9221
Enables students to discover what is takes to transform a company's compliance program beyond a "paper program." The class will explore the elements of a strong, effective and mature Compliance program. Taught by an experienced compliance professional with the support of several expert guests, the class will investigate how the best Compliance programs augment compliance policies with processes, controls and continuous monitoring. 2 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Clinical Practicum - LAWS 7019
Enables a clinical student an optional 1-5 credits to complete advanced legal work in the Clinical Education Program. A student may participate in an advanced clinical practicum in connection with any existing clinical offering that the student already has successfully completed. A student must have the permission of the appropriate clinical faculty member, and must complete all of the advanced legal work under that faculty member's supervision. For each credit taken, a clinical student must complete a minimum of 50 hours of legal work, all of which shall be graded pass/graded. A clinical student may complete 1-5 credits of work over the course of no more than three semesters. A clinical student may earn no more than 5 credits total over the student's law school career. 1-5 credits, pass-graded.

Advanced Deals Lab: Advanced Real Estate Transactions - LAWS 7004
Using documents from actual real estate transactions, this course will focus on the drafting and negotiation skills required for the successful practice of real estate transaction law. Students will negotiate and draft actual real estate transactional documents. Requies prereq of LAWS 6004. 3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Environmental Law: Air Pollution - LAWS 7512
Provides an examination of efforts to regulate air pollution in the United States under the Clean Air Act. Covers key provisions, basic approach of cooperative federalism, role of science and risk assessment establishing health-based standards, implications of instrument choice and regulatory design on innovation and economic growth, development of 'first generation' climate policies, and new approaches to compliance and enforcement. 2 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Evidence: Forensic Science and the Criminal Courts - LAWS 7333
Explores the admissibility of forensic science opinion and expert testimony, its use as evidence at a trial, and the challenges that such evidence may pose for the courts and the entire criminal justice system in the future. 2 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Legal Negotiation - LAWS 7709
Deepens students' understanding of the economic, psychological, cultural, and critical literatures related to legal negotiation and bargaining, provides students an advanced set of negotiations, experiences and simulations that introduce new dynamics and problems not dealt wit in the core course, and deepens students' self-understanding and ability to learn from experience. Requires prereq of LAWS 7409. 3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Legal Research - LAWS 6856
Offers an in-depth look at research resources and methods. Includes sources from the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of federal and state government; research in topical areas such as environmental law, taxation, and international law; and extensive coverage of secondary and nonlaw resources. Covers both print and electronic sources. Students will have several assignments and a final project. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Legal Research and Analysis - LAWS 6886
Develops students' ability to think critically about and solve current legal problems. Evaluates the benefits and detriments of both print and on-line legal resources, and how to create an efficient research plan. Formulates and applies research strategies to real-world legal problems, and uses legal analysis to refine and improve research results. Note: students who have taken LAWS 6856 may not enroll in this course. 3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Legal Research and Writing for Practice - LAWS 6896
Advances and improves legal research and writing skills learned in first year. Proposes variety of assignment types across substantive and procedural areas to prepare for experiences as summer associates or new attorneys. 3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Legal Writing - LAWS 6226
Builds on skills learned in the first-year legal writing course to improve written legal analysis. Students will complete multiple written assignments and will receive individual feedback on their work. Sections vary significantly depending on the professor; please check the Legal Writing page of the Colorado Law website to read each professor's course description. 1-3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Oil & Gas Law - LAWS 7302
Covers the history of oil and gas conservation and its regulation, proration and allowable regulation, compulsory pooling and unitization, permitting and environment regulation, and the interplay between federal, state and local regulation. Requires prereq of LAWS 7102. 2 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Torts - LAWS 7475
Studies selected tort actions and theories. Topics covered may include "Dignitary torts" (e.g., defamation, privacy, etc.), business torts, and product liability. Offered in alternate years. 2 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Transactional Drafting - LAWS 7071
Provides students with the opportunity to further develop skills gained in LAWS 7051 and put them to use in simulations and business contexts across various areas of practice. Students will be asked to draft industry specific contract provisions, revise existing contracts, counsel and negotiate on behalf of clients and work through ethical dilemmas encountered by transactional attorneys. Requires prereq of LAWS 7051. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Advanced Trial Advocacy - LAWS 7159
Offers an advanced course covering trial practice elements. Open only to students who have taken LAWS 6109. 2 credits, pass-graded.

Advanced Water Law - LAWS 7312
Builds on the study of basic water law principles for those interested in practicing in this field. Explores in more detail the highly developed legal and administrative system of water law in Colorado and other states, including the use of special courts to adjudicate the existence of water rights and approve changes of use. Requires prereq of LAWS 6302. 2 credits, letter graded.

Agency, Partnership and the LLC - LAWS 6201
Surveys agency law whose principles are important in many other areas of law. Studies the legal organizations commonly used by small businesses: partnerships and limited liability companies (LLCs). Students who take this course cannot also receive course credit for Business Associations (LAWS 7621). 3 credits, letter graded.

American Indian Law Clinic - LAWS 7309
Offers a clinical education course involving participation in the representation and advocacy of Indian causes -- land or water claims, Indian religious freedom, job or other discrimination based on race and issues implicating tribal sovereignty. 2-4 credits, letter graded.

American Indian Law I - LAWS 7725
Investigates the federal statutory, decisional and constitutional law that bears upon American Indians, tribal governments and Indian reservation transactions. 3 credits, letter graded.

American Indian Law II - LAWS 7735
Investigates the legal history and current legal status of Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Addresses other current topics such as tribal water rights, tribal fishing and hunting rights, tribal justice systems, religious freedom, and tribal natural resource and environmental management. Requires prereq of LAWS 7725. 3 credits, letter graded.

American Legal History - LAWS 7155
Explores the history of American law from the Constitution to the twenty-first century Global War on Terror. It covers topics including the law of slavery and freedom, the development of civil rights law, business regulation and deregulation, the origins of the administrative state, and the rise of the conservative legal movement. Throughout, the course emphasizes the ways that political and economic change shapes the law and the practical effect law has on social movements. 3 credits, letter graded.

Analytical Strategies - LAWS 7350
Develops analytical, writing and problem-solving skills necessary to pass the bar exam and succeed in practice. Designed for third-year law students in their final semester. Students will improve their techniques for analyzing, organizing and writing responses to essay and performance test questions through frequent written exercises and individual feedback on those exercises. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Anti-money Laundering Law - LAWS 6801
Explores domestic and foreign laws against money laundering, including know your customer and bank secrecy rules. 1 credit, letter graded.

Antitrust - LAWS 7201
Studies American competition policy: collaborations among competitors, including agreements on price and boycotts, definition of agreement, monopolization, vertical restraints such as resale price maintenance and territorial confinement of dealers. 3 credits, letter graded.

Appellate Advocacy Competition - LAWS 7529
Gives students the opportunity to participate in an intermural appellate advocacy competition, in which a brief must be filed and reviewed, critiqued, and deemed credit-worthy by a member of the faculty. (Law School Rule 3-2-9 (b) should be consulted prior to enrollment.) 1 credit, pass-graded.

Appellate Advocacy Practicum - LAWS 7029
Offers the opportunity to represent parties in federal and state civil appeals. Students draft opening briefs in the fall semester, and draft reply briefs and appear fororal argument in the spring. Prior appellate advocacy experience will be helpful. Enrollment is limited to six students. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. 3 credits, letter graded.

Applied Evidence - LAWS 6383
Provides the opportunity to improve the legal writing and analytical skills by practicing written analysis based on the law of Evidence. Professors Griffin and Bloom designed materials specifically for this course, which is designed to be taken concurrently with Professor Bloom's Evidence class. Student receive individual feedback on every exercise and assignment. 1 credit, letter graded.

Arbitration - LAWS 7751
Discusses the nature of arbitration, enforcement of arbitration agreements and awards, complexities of multi-party arbitrations, fairness and efficiency of the arbitral process and other issues related to arbitration's prevalence in contexts ranging from corporate to consumer and employment disputes. 3 credits, letter graded.

Argument and Persuasion in American Law - LAWS 4808
Explore the role of lawyers and their craft the art of persuasion in winning cases, shaping legislation, and influencing public policy and the development of social issues. Students will learn how lawyers and other legal actors use the techniques of persuasion to achieve desired results in courts, legislatures, and American society more generally. The course will study the rhetorical and narrative theories and techniques employed by lawyers, and will consider both historical and contemporary examples of great legal advocates at work in a variety of contexts. In the end, students will have a deeper understanding of the art of advocacy, and will be able to practice that art to advantage. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Artificial Intelligence and the Law - LAWS 6631
This course will investigate emerging legal frameworks being created to address the uses of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across society, by private parties and public actors alike. Students will survey laws from the United States, as well as other countries. They will discuss how AI is shaping the practice of law itself. The course draws a thread through many practice areas to ask: what are the consistent challenges of regulating AI systems. 3 credits, letter graded.

Bankruptcy - LAWS 7021
Bankruptcy is the field of law that governs economic failure, and oftentimes, economic revival. The course includes both consumer and corporate bankruptcy, and for each of these areas, we will learn liquidation, and reorganization. Students will gain a strong understanding of Chapters 7, 11 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. 3-4 credits, letter graded.

Barristers Council - LAWS 7116
1 credit, pass-graded.

Bioethics and Law - LAWS 7415
2 credits, letter graded.

Business and Human Rights - LAWS 7421
Examine the role of international human rights law in regulating or influencing businesses enterprises, along with relevant policy considerations. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Business Associations - LAWS 7621
Covers the law of agency, partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations. It includes principles of agency, formation and operation of business entities, fiduciary duties of the actors in business entities, and the relevant federal and state laws related to those entities. Students who take this course cannot also receive course credit for Corporations (LAWS 6211) or Agency, Partnerships (LAWS 6201). 4 credits, letter graded.

Business Planning - LAWS 7211
Focuses on the development and use of concepts derived from a number of legal areas in the context of business planning and counseling. Topics such as formation of business entities, sale of a business, recapitalization, division, reorganization and dissolution are considered. Requires prereq of LAWS 6007. Recommended prereq or coreq of LAWS 6201 or 6211. 3 credits, letter graded.

Business Transactions - LAWS 7601
Provides a practical understanding of how to apply the law in both transactional and litigation settings. Gives an interdisciplinary look at how various areas of the law are brought together in common factual settings. Teaches students to negotiate, document and close the acquisition of a business covering the areas of practice of corporate, contracts, real property, secured transactions and bankruptcy law. Tests, in a litigation setting, the decisions made during the acquisition stage. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Capital Punishment in America - LAWS 6528
Surveys the history and current status of capital punishment in the United States, with a critical examination of arguments both for and against the death penalty. 3 credits, letter graded.

Civil Practice Clinic I - LAWS 6009
Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. 4 credits, letter graded.

Civil Practice Clinic II - LAWS 6019
Emphasizes procedural and practical remedies and defenses available in civil litigation. Assigns civil cases related to the course material. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Pre or co-req of LAWS 6353. 4 credits, letter graded.

Civil Procedure - LAWS 5303
Studies modern practice in civil suits, including rules governing pleading, joinder of parties, discovery, jurisdiction of courts over the subject matter and parties, right to jury trial, appeals, and res judicata and collateral estoppel, with emphasis on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and their Colorado counterpart. 4 credits, letter graded.

Civil Rights - LAWS 7025
Presents a comprehensive study of federal civil rights statutes briefly reviewed in other courses (e.g., Constitutional Law or Federal Courts). Studies federal civil rights statutes, their judicial application,and their interrelationships as a discretely significant body of law of increasing theoretical interest and practical importance. 3 credits, letter graded.

Climate Action Planning - LAWS 7252
Understanding the process of climate action planning (CAP) is essential to both environmental and business lawyers. We will develop practical CAP skills, including: emissions accounting; target setting; emissions reduction strategies; and financial planning. Case studies this year will focus on food systems and soil health. Our learning will be fun, applied, and collaborative. All welcome to enroll (no background in environmental or business law required). 3 credits, letter graded.

Climate Change Law and Policy - LAWS 6712
Examines the science of climate change and the broader role of science in public policymaking. Reviews the changing legal landscape to abate greenhouse gas emissions and key issues in policy design. Reviews the Supreme Court's April 2, 2007, decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, overturning EPA's refusal to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from motor vehicle tailpipes and the aftermath in the courts, Executive Branch and Congress. 3 credits, letter graded.

Climate Justice - LAWS 6702
Introduces the field of climate justice and seeks to identify legal and policy tools for advancing fair outcomes in climate change decision making. Climate justice is concerned with the intersection of race and/or indignity, poverty, and climate change. 1 credit, letter graded.

Colorado Environmental Law Journal - LAWS 7916
Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Environmental Law Journal. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. 1 credit, pass-graded.

Colorado Environmental Law Journal - LAWS 7926
Gives students the opportunity to participate in the research, writing and editing activities involved in publishing the Colorado Environmental Law Journal. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.

Colorado Legal Research - LAWS 6866
Surveys resources and methods to effectively research Colorado law. Covers primary and secondary resources including Colorado statutes, cases and digests, regulations, and constitution and practice materials. Covers how to research Colorado municipal law and other Colorado topics. 1 credit, letter graded.

Colorado Workers Compensation Theory and Practice - LAWS 6541
Introduces the legal theories that underlie the no-fault compensation system, its historical evolution, policy conundrums and ethical quandaries. Teaches the application of the procedural rules most frequently utilized in administrative setting. Studies the Workers' Compensation Act, the Workers' Compensation Rules of Procedure and the Office of Administrative Courts Rules of Procedure. 2 credits, letter graded.

Communications For Compliance Professionals - LAWS 9226
Develops the tools students will need to thrive in the law school's MSL program. Deepens students' understanding of the United States legal system and develops their ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in writing and orally to their intended audience, and research, organize and explain their ideas clearly, using appropriate writing conventions. 1-3 credits, letter graded.

Community Collaboration Law Lab - LAWS 6209
Provide legal and policy advice, guidance and representation related to sustainable development with a focus on fostering social enterprise, healthy communities and poverty reduction. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. 4 credits, letter graded.

Comparative Family Law - LAWS 7145
Examines and critiques law, legal institutions and traditions of the country of focus and the US as they affect children, families, and work. Enhances research and writing skills, including field and international research. Contributes to host country through scholarship and service. Increases cultural competence through active engagement with peers and with social justice issues in another country. Includes required field study component and service learning project over spring break. 3 credits, letter graded.

Comparative Law on Indigenous Peoples - LAWS 7640
This course examines and compares the treatment of Indigenous peoples by the legal systems of a sampling of countries in the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere. The course will also compare the foreign legal regimes examined to relevant United States law and to international standards, with the aim of critically assessing the comparative adequacy of U.S. law in this context and exploring potential reforms in U.S. law that might be informed by legal developments in other countries. Students will gain knowledge of the similarities and differences in the foundational characteristics of diverse legal systems and of their histories and political contexts. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Complex Civil Litigation - LAWS 7303
Covers civil procedure in modern complex multiparty suits, including class actions in such settings as employment discrimination and mass torts, and problems in discovery, joinder, res judicata, collateral estoppel and judicial management in such suits. 3 credits, letter graded.

Compliance - LAWS 6221
Covers requirements for corporate compliance programs and key components of them, including the role of audit committee, internal audit and ethics and compliance. Looks closely at different compliance regimes, including Sarbanes Oxley, the privacy and security components of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the evolution of other data privacy standards and the anti-corruption standards of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act. 3 credits, letter graded.

Computer Crime - LAWS 6321
Explores legal issues that judges, legislators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys confront as they respond to recent explosions in computer-related crime. Includes the Fourth Amendment in cyberspace, the law of electronic surveillance, computer hacking and other computer crimes, encryption, online economic espionage, cyberterrorism, First Amendment in cyberspace, federal/state relations in enforcement of computer crime laws, and civil liberties online. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Conflict of Laws - LAWS 6108
Addresses the conflicts that arise when the significant facts of a case are connected with more than one jurisdiction, whether that jurisdiction belongs to a state, the federal government, or a foreign government. The subject is studied in its theoretical and historical context, with special emphasis on the international aspects of extraterritorial jurisdiction. 3 credits, letter graded.

Constitutional Law - LAWS 6005
Studies constitutional structure: judicial review, federalism, separation of powers; and constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. 4 credits, letter graded.

Constitutional Law: Founding Principles and Current Debates - LAWS 4005
Explores the principles underlying the United States Constitution and offers an introduction to the powers of the three branches of the federal government and the interrelationship of state and national governments. Includes an introduction to the individual rights protected by the Bill of Rights and the operation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses. 3 credits, letter graded.

Construction Law - LAWS 6114
Focuses on the basic principles and practices of construction law. Provides an overview of construction industry participants and players (engineers, contractors, insurers) and discusses and analyzes the various obligations and liabilities of these parties. Covers construction and design contracting, construction claims, professional negligence, construction insurance and suretyship and ADR in construction. Provides transactional-practice oriented exercises. 2 credits, letter graded.

Consumer Protection Laws and Policies - LAWS 6031
Focuses on deceptive trade practices and consumer rights. Reviews the law of deception/misrepresentation at common law, and federal and state laws regarding unfair acts and practices. Covers credit practices, environmental and health claims, and telecommunications and privacy. Discusses remedies, including governmental enforcement actions, and individual and class actions. 2 credits, letter graded.

Contracts - LAWS 5121
Covers basic principles of contract liability; offer and acceptance; consideration; statute of frauds; contract remedies; the parol evidence rule; performance of contracts; conditions; effect of changed circumstances; and other issues related to contract formation and enforcement. 4 credits, letter graded.

Copyright - LAWS 7301
Examines state and federal laws relating to the protection of works of authorship ranging from traditional works to computer programs. Studies the1976 Copyright Act as well as relevant earlier acts. Gives attention to state laws, such as interference with contractual relations, the right of publicity, moral right, protection of ideas and misappropriation of trade values, that supplement federal copyright. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Corporate Taxation - LAWS 6157
Examines the federal income taxation of ?subchapter C? corporations and their shareholders. Topics may include choice of entity, operations, distributions, redemptions, formations, liquidations, taxable asset and stock acquisitions, and tax-free reorganizations (that is, mergers and acquisitions). Degree credit not granted for this course and ACCT 6450. Requies prereqs of LAWS 6007. 3 credits, letter graded.

Corporate Transactions in Health Law - LAWS 7565
Introduces key corporate and regulatory issues impacting the delivery of health care. Focus will be transactional, with students gaining an understanding of basic corporate law and regulatory principles, and then learning to integrate core federal and state laws into choice and use of corporate structures and operational strategies. 3 credits, letter graded.

Corporations - LAWS 6211
Covers formation of corporations and their management; relations among shareholders, officers and directors; the impact of federal legislation on directors' duties; the special problems of closed corporations. Students who take this course cannot also receive course credit for Business Associations (LAWS 7621). 3-4 credits, letter graded.

Courtroom Observation Civil - LAWS 5323
An elective that requires 15 hours observing actual civil proceedings in a courtroom, attending a two-hour class meeting every other week, preparing and submitting a journal of recorded observations. Figuring out how to gain access to appropriate proceedings is part of the student's work, although the professor is available for advice and guidance. 1 credit, pass-graded.

Courtroom Observation Criminal - LAWS 5513
An elective that requires 15 hours observing actual criminal proceedings in a courtroom, attending a two-hour class meeting every other week, preparing and submitting a journal of recorded observations. Figuring out how to gain access to appropriate proceedings is part of the student's work, although the professor is available for advice and guidance. 1 credit, pass-graded.

Courtroom Observation International - LAWS 5803
An elective that requires fifteen hours observing proceedings before an international tribunal(s), attending a two-hour class meeting every other week, preparing and submitting a journal of recorded observations. The proceedings observed will be available streaming online and the professor will provide information about how to gain access to them. 1 credit, letter graded.

Creditors' Remedies and Debtors' Protections - LAWS 7011
Examines typical state rights and procedures for the enforcement of claims and federal and state law limitations providing protection to debtors in the process. Includes prejudgment remedies, statutory and equitable remedies, fraudulent conveyance principles and exemptions and other judicial protections afforded debtors. 3 credits, letter graded.

Criminal and Immigration Defense Clinic - LAWS 6029
Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. 4 credits, letter graded.

Criminal Defense Clinic - LAWS 6079
Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills, advocacy and evidence presentation. Concludes with full mock trial. 4 credits, letter graded.

Criminal Defense Clinic II - LAWS 6039
Provides thorough grounding in problems of criminal defense. Students defend indigent misdemeanants in Boulder courts. Develops working knowledge of courtroom skills. Requires pre or coreq of LAWS 6353. 4 credits, letter graded.

Criminal Justice Policy and Practice - LAWS 7315
Focuses on policy and practice issues rather than case law. Examines how American criminal justice is (and has been) dispensed in the vast majority of cases that never reach trial. Devotes attention to systemic issues rather than case-specific problems. Studies policy behavior, prosecutorial charging and bargaining discretion, the provision of defense services, bail and preventive detention, plea negotiation, and sentencing---aspects of the criminal process that affect huge volumes of cases and require thought in global terms. 3 credits, letter graded.

Criminal Law - LAWS 5503
Studies statutory and common law of crimes and defenses, the procedures by which the law makes judgments as to criminality of conduct, the purposes of criminal law, and the constitutional limits upon it. 4 credits, letter graded.

Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process - LAWS 7045
Focuses primarily on criminal procedure at and after trial. Looks at bail, prosecutorial discretion, discovery, plea bargaining, speedy trial, jury trial, the right to counsel at trial, double jeopardy, appeal and federal habeas corpus. 3 credits, letter graded.

Criminal Procedure: Investigative Phase - LAWS 6045
Focuses primarily on the constitutional limitations applicable to such police investigative techniques as arrest, search, seizure, electronic surveillance, interrogation and lineup identification. 3 credits, letter graded.

Cultural Property Law - LAWS 6602
Concerns domestic and International regulation of property that expresses group identity and experience. Organized around traditional categories of property (real, personal and intellectual), covers historic preservation, archeological resources, art and museum law, with attention to indigenous people's advocacy on burial sites, traditional lands, ceremonies, music, symbols, ethnobotany, genetic information and language. May satisfy upper-level writing requirement. 3 credits, letter graded.

Cybersecurity - LAWS 7361
Introduces students to 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. 2 credits, letter graded.

Deals: Engineering Financial Transactions - LAWS 7101
Explores the business lawyer's role in creating valueby helping clients identify, assess and manage business risks through efficient contract design while achieving the optimal legal, tax or regulatory treatment for the deal. Includes case studies of actual transactions. 4 credits, letter graded.

Deposition Skills - LAWS 6119
Provides valuable skills to assume active roles in the deposition process. Explores why and when to take depositions; drafting and objecting to deposition notices for individual deponents, non-party witnesses and corporate designees; drafting successful outlines, proper questions and objections; using exhibits; furthering case theory, making and using stipulations; using depositions in pretrial motions and at trial. 1 credit, pass-graded.

Disability Rights - LAWS 6555
Explores the theories of disability, including whether disability is the product of society/social construction or medicine. The course will then explore some of the major federal protections for disability, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment and public accommodations, and the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act. 2-3 credits, letter graded.

Dispute Resolution Digital Age - LAWS 7461
Explores the need for expanded and equalized access to remedies in consumer cases, and how the internet opens doors to online dispute resolution ("ODR") systems that utilize cost-effective negotiation, mediation, and arbitration processes for resolving complaints. This course will look at the various systems currently used by major companies, as well as the rules and treaty developments in global markets. 1 credit, letter graded.

Domestic Violence - LAWS 7513
Explores the law, policy, history and theory of domestic violence. Examines the limits of legal methods and remedies for holding batterers accountable and keeping victims safe; the dynamics of abusive relationships; the history of the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence; the defenses available to battered persons who kill their abusers; the legal paradigm of the sympathetic victim; psychological and feminist theories about abusive relationships; civil rights and tort liability for batterers and third parties; and the intersection of domestic violence with international human rights. 3 credits, letter graded.

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