Course Description Archive
Archive of courses offered previously at Emory Law
*Course availability is subject to change.
3/21/2018
LAW 847, 06A. Advanced Civil Trial Practice
Class Number: 4898
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wellon, Robert
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class Work & Mock Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation techniques and skills first encountered in the Trial Techniques Program. Using a simulated case file in an employment case, the class will help develop the skills, strategies, and tactics necessary to be effective courtroom advocates. The course will employ lecture, demonstrations, movie and videotape simulations as well as regular participation by the students and constructive criticism and helpful hints from the course instructors, who are all very experienced litigators and judges. Invited guests who litigate regularly in this area of practice will also participate. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be explored. The course will conclude with student teams conducting a trial in a real courtroom setting, which is now planned for November 17th where participation is mandatory.
*Last Updated Fall 2015
LAW 617A. Advanced Commercial Real Estate
Class Number: 4954
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Minkin, David
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-Home Exam
Description: What does a commercial real estate attorney really do every day? What does he or she think about and what is the relationship between the attorney and his or her client? What are the attorney's responsibilities to accomplish the client's goals? This course will explore those questions and related issues in the context of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. During the course, the students will be introduced to many of the essential elements of
Attendance Policy: Attendance is expected at every class unless the student has talked with professor beforehand.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 657, 02A. Advanced Legal Research
ACCELERATED CLASS (Check OPUS for Dates)
2 Sections:
Class Number: 4940 (Secondary Sources-1st 7 weeks)
Class Number: 5135 (Statutory Rsch.-2nd 7 weeks)
Credits: 1 hour (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Reid, Richelle & Prof. Flick, Amy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, Research Homework Exercises, & Final Research Project
Mastery of Secondary Sources Description: Mastery of Secondary Sources in Legal Research is a practical, skills-based course designed to improve information literacy and prepare students for practice or future study. Through practical applications, including in-class exercises, homework exercises, and a final research project, students will become familiar with critical principles, strategies, and best practices for identifying and using secondary sources for effective and efficient legal research. Topics for class sessions will include research strategy and documentation, advanced search techniques, legal periodicals, interdisciplinary databases, legal encyclopedia, treatises, legal news and current awareness, transactional law and litigation sources, formbooks, and select state materials.
Attendance Policy: This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation and hands-on practice
Mastery of Statutory Research Description: Mastery of Statutory Legal Research is a practical, skills-based course designed to improve information literacy and prepare students for practice or future study. Through practical applications, including in-class exercises, homework exercises, and a final research project, students will become familiar with the principles, strategies, and best practices for doing statutory research. Topics for class sessions will include research strategy and documentation, advanced search techniques, codes, session laws, and legislative history. The course will focus primarily on federal statutory research but will include one class session devoted to state statutory research.
Attendance Policy: This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the second seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation and hands-on practice
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 648, 04A. Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
Class Number: 4910 (Main Class Only; Lab times/dates will be scheduled at a later date, for now, enroll in the lab placeholder- LB1-5088)
Credits: 2 hours (Pass/Fail Only)
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell, Tim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam.
Description: The basic content of the course is reflected in its required text: S. Armstrong & T. Terrell, Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Writing and Editing (PLI 3d ed., 2008). A frequent misconception about this course is that it is merely an extension of your experience in ILA. It is not. It will instead often challenge you to reconsider approaches to writing guidance that you have may previously encounter.
The course consists of two components. First, everyone enrolled will meet once a week on Monday afternoon for 1 1/2 hours, and that time will be consumed by lecture and review of numerous writing examples at every level of a document from overall structure to sentences and word choice. Second, all students will be assigned to a small-group discussion section, administered by a teaching assistant who is a third-year who took this course last year. Those sessions will meet once a week for an hour, during which the course materials, and additional examples, will be discussed, and editing exercises will be assigned.
Although this is a writing course, it is unusual in that its emphasis will be on editing rather than original drafting. One of the keys to becoming a good writer is understanding how readers (for purposes of this course, that means you) react to documents written by others. That experience then yields important insights regarding the defects in one's own prose, and how to cure them efficiently. To this end, the course will begin with some examination of deeper theories of communication, which will, in turn, allow the course to focus on fundamental writing principles rather than narrower rules or tips. The course will also analyze writing challenges from the top down: We will begin with issues of overall
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 605 Alternative Dispute Resolution
3 Sections:
Law 605, 04A; Class Number: 4886 (Armstrong Section)
Law 605, 05A; Class Number: 4887 (Experiential Learning Approved)
Law 605, GRD. JM/LLM only; Class Number: 5005 (Experiential Learning Approved)
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Allgood, John & Armstrong, Phil
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Team Projects; Attendance; & Take-home Final Exam (Armstrong & Allgood)
Enrollment: LLM and JM students are better placed in the JM class rather than the JD class.
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with an emphasis on mediation. Course objectives are: 1) to develop both a theoretical and a practical understanding of available options and strategies for using them effectively in a legal practice; 2) to understand the ethical and legal implications of ADR; and 3) to develop a proficiency in dispute resolution processes other than litigation, including direct negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
An overview of negotiation, mediation and arbitration as applicable in U.S. (not international) forums under Uniform Mediation Act, GODR, Federal Arbitration Act, GAC and related state and federal statutes, rules and regs. Discussion of techniques and applicable requirements for court-annexed and private ADR under applicable statutes, provider rules, court rules and related regulations. Class meet two times a week and include team projects and role plays applying techniques in each process discussed.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Class Number: 5113
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Romig, Jennifer & Prof. Chapman, Ben
Prerequisite: ILARC & ILA; or the equivalent 1L legal writing course for transfer JDs
Grading Criteria: Students will be graded on a combination of short assignments and quizzes, collaborative presentations with assigned groups, and their individual final blog designed around a topic they develop throughout the course. Because up to 30 percent of the grade may be based on collaborative work graded collectively for each group, this course is subject to a recommended but not mandatory mean.
Description: Many lawyers write for the public in client alerts and blogs, as well as shorter social media posts. This class introduces the theory, skills, and tools needed for legal blogging. Guest speakers will address specialized topics such as legal ethics and the use of images in social media. For their work in the course, students will write a series of blog posts about a topic they choose and discuss with the professors. The final project and the majority of each student’s grade is a final capstone blog consisting of a design theme, posts totaling approximately 4000 words, images to complement the text, and other blogging features. Students also present on various blogging topics in assigned groups. Prior technical knowledge of blogging software is not required – students will learn to use WordPress, a leading blogging platform.
*Last Updated Fall 2016
LAW 560 American Legal Writing, Analysis, & Research I
2 Sections:
Law 560, GRD1. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I; Class Number: 4947
Law 560, GRD2. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I; Class Number: 4978
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework & Final Memo
Enrollment: Enrollment is restricted to LLM students who received their first law degree from a law school/faculty in a country other than the United States; must contact the professor for approval to enroll.
Description: This course introduces students to the concepts of legal analysis and the techniques and strategies for legal research, as well as the requirements and analytical structures for legal writing in the American common law legal system.
Attendance Policy: Two or more unexcused absences can result in your grade being lowered.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 560B, GRD. American Legal Writing, Analysis, & Research II
Class Number: 4984
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: ALWAR I
Grading Criteria: Coursework & Final Brief
Enrollment: This class requires permission from Dean Jessica Dworkin.
Description: This course continues the study of legal analysis, research, and writing for practice in the American common law system. The topics covered include client letters, pleadings, and persuasive writing, along with enhanced instruction covering legal citation and advanced legal research sources and techniques.
Attendance Policy: Two or more unexcused absences can lead to your grade being lowered.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 590, 000. Analysis, Research, and Communications for Non-Lawyers (JM)
Class Number: 4982 (Experiential Learning Approved)
Class Number: XXXX (Online Only Section)
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Daspit, Nancy & Christian, Elizabeth; and Prof. Romig, Jennifer (Online Section)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework, Participation, Final Paper (Writing Part), & Take-home Final (Research Part).
Enrollment: This course is for in-residence JM students, and the JM director/administrator usually registers them.
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce objective legal analyses.
Attendance Policy: Two or more unexcused absences could result in your grade being lowered.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 716, 10A. Bankruptcy
Class Number: 4885
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pardo, Rafael
Prerequisite: Contracts & Property (concurrent enrollment NOT allowed)
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: An introduction to the law of bankruptcy. Covers issues relating to eligibility for bankruptcy relief; commencement of a bankruptcy case; property of the bankruptcy estate; the automatic stay and relief therefrom; use, sale, and lease of property of the estate; property that an individual may exempt from the bankruptcy estate; creditor claims against the bankruptcy estate; plan confirmation; and the discharge of debts. This course is a general survey course reviewing the basics of Chapter 7 cases (liquidations), Chapter 13 cases (adjustment of debts of an individual with regular income), and Chapter 11 cases (reorganization).
Attendance Policy: I expect you to attend class regularly. If you miss more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the regularly scheduled class sessions, you will be withdrawn from the course. Please note that a canceled class session will not constitute an absence for purposes of the attendance policy.
In furtherance of my expectations and requirements regarding class attendance, an attendance sheet will be made available at the podium before the start of each class session. Should you arrive late, please sign the attendance sheet at the end of class. It is your responsibility to sign the attendance sheet (i.e., someone else may not sign on your behalf). Failure to do so will constitute an absence.
Should you forget to sign the attendance sheet, I will consider updating my records to reflect your attendance in class only if you send me an e-mail on the same day as the class session for which you forgot to sign the attendance sheet. The e-mail must (1) state that you forgot to sign the attendance sheet that day and (2) request that I update my attendance records.
It is incumbent upon you to keep track of your absences throughout the semester. I will not tally them until the semester has ended. Unless you expressly request to know whether you are in jeopardy of violating the attendance policy, no warning will be forthcoming.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 635D, 000. Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Class Number: 4937
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Reba, Stephen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Group work (based on
Enrollment: Must obtain professor's permission
Description: In the Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic, students engage in post-conviction representation of Georgia inmates who are incarcerated for crimes they allegedly committed as children. Focusing on direct appeals and habeas corpus litigation, students spend their time researching, writing, and preparing for hearings. Grading is based on the student's individual performance and attendance is required at weekly meetings, which are set according to the students’ class schedules court litigation attacking inmates' convictions and sentences. Students should have an interest in criminal procedure, juvenile law, and/or social justice.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Class Number: 4880
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Preferred, but not required course work- "Child Welfare Law and Policy, Kids in Conflict, and Family Law II or similar."
Grading Criteria: Assessment of individual student performance and overall contribution to the clinic based on a set of established criteria that include demonstrated competencies in the areas of judgment, thoroughness of research and analysis, written and oral communication, project management, and professional responsibility.
Enrollment: Interested students must apply directly with the professor
Description: The Barton Clinic is an in-house policy clinic dedicated to providing research, training, and support to the public, the child advocacy community, leadership of state child-serving agencies, and elected officials in Georgia. Students in the clinic work in teams to conduct extensive research, gather data and stakeholder perspectives, analyze law-making authority, identify options for changing policy, plan strategies, and assist organizational clients in efforts to improve the juvenile court, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems. Approximately 9 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Attendance Policy: Students selected for enrollment in the policy clinic receive 3 hours of graded credit for the fulfillment of 150 hours of work. Accordingly, students commit to 11-12 clinic hours per week, which are established at the outset of the semester. Adjustments to the weekly routine are to be requested in advance whenever possible, and hours missed must be made up. Students submit weekly time sheets accounting for their activities and hours, and students must complete the full 14-week semester.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic website: http://www.bartoncenter.net
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 500X. Business Associations
Class Numbers: (001) 4939; (002) 5015Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Shepherd, George & Prof. Georgiev, George
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Homework Exercises & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of foundational concepts in
Attendance policy: Per ABA Rules, "regular and punctual attendance" is required.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 762-12A. Business and Tax Law Research
Class Numbers: 6130Credits: 1 hour (Experiential Learning Approved) Accelerated Class- 2nd Half of Sem- 7 wks.
Instructor(s): Prof. Deese, Abigail
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Final Project
Enrollment: Limited to 14 students!
Description: Business and Tax Law Research is a practical, skills-based course designed to provide students with a firm understanding of the relevant legal materials for corporate/business and tax practice and to develop skills for finding and using those sources. Attention will also be paid to key practice materials and on developing research strategies for new attorneys.
Attendance Policy: This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the second seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation and hands-on practice are essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Last Updated Fall 2018
Note: THIS PRACTICUM WILL REQUIRE A YEAR-LONG (two semester) COMMITMENT
Class Number: 5140
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Enrollment: Interested students must submit a letter of interest & resume to Josh Moore, Office of the Georgia Capital Defender at jmoore@gacapdef.org
Description: This is a three-hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third-year law students from Emory & Georgia State will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients' cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages are to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on making the case for life. That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
Class Number: 5032
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Dr. Liwanga, Roger-Claude
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, participation, written and oral assignments; & Final Paper.
Description: Despite the proliferation of international human instruments on the protection of children, there are several million children worldwide who are subjected to hazardous labor, sexual exploitation, trafficking, female genital mutilation and/or illegal judicial detention. The course will: examine the legal framework on child protection; explore the different factors challenging the child’s rights protection; analyze child vulnerability cases; and evaluate the needs of children exposed to exploitation. The course will also critically examine the policies and strategies that aim to create a protective environment for children at the international, federal and state levels. The course will start with an introduction to the concept of child protection and its scope. Different violations of children’s rights, including child labor, child trafficking, child sexual exploitation, child soldiering, child persecution and child illegal detention will be covered as well.
The course will consist of lectures and/or practically oriented seminars during which students will work on case resolution and presentation of their results. There will be specialized guest speakers during the course who will expand on the various aspects and dilemmas in responding to children’s rights violations. Students will acquire an in-depth theoretical knowledge enabling them to understand the importance of child protection rights. At the end of the course, students will equally be able to critically evaluate the comprehensiveness of the existing child protection laws and propose policies improving the mechanisms of child protection. The course will also be useful for students desiring to work for State child protective services or international organizations and/or non-governmental organizations protecting vulnerable populations and providing humanitarian assistance in
Students are expected to attend every class (with notification to instructor beforehand for an excused absence) and required to come to class prepared to discuss the day’s readings. Attendance will be recorded on daily sign-in sheets. Two unexcused absences per semester are permitted; additional absences may affect the absentee’s grade. Class participation counts for 15% of the final grade. One written assignment (approximately 2000 words in length plus footnotes
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 635, 02A. Child Welfare Law and Policy
Class Number: 4919
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Participation, & Written assignments (see below).
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child welfare system and the primary federal legislation that impacts how states fund and deliver child welfare services. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, and a range of analytical writing assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
Course Objectives:
• Develop an understanding of the legal principles and policy considerations underlying federal and state responses to child abuse and neglect
• Cultivate an appreciation for the impact of policy on legal practice
• Apply core advocacy skills to address social problems through public policy reform
Course Materials:
• Weekly readings on Canvas course page
Format:
• Weekly lectures and class discussions, guest lecturers, direct engagement with community partners and issue-affected constituencies
Attendance Policy:
As a collective undertaking to learn and teach together, your attendance, advance preparation and active participation in every class is essential and expected. Attendance will be taken at every class meeting. Unexcused absences, repeated tardiness, or coming to class unprepared will negatively impact your grade.
Accommodations and Excused Absences:
Students requesting classroom accommodations relating to special needs or seeking excused absences for religious holidays or illnesses should notify me by email in a timely manner before the expected absence or need arises. If illness or accident prevents advance notice, students should notify me as soon as possible after the absence.
Course Requirements and Grading:
There is no final exam for this class. Instead, grading is based on participation in weekly classroom discussions and a combination of assignments intended to encourage critical thinking about child welfare policy issues and to develop and demonstrate specific advocacy skills. As an extension of the Barton Center’s clinical offerings, the work in this class incorporates a focus on experiential learning; i.e., “learning through doing.” Grades are based on mastery and thoughtful integration of class concepts, careful preparation, and engaged effort. Specifically, your grade will be based on:
- Participation (10% of grade): Every student is expected to come prepared for each class and engage in class discussions and related activities.
- Briefing Book (60% of
grade , broken down as indicated next to each component) - Storybook (15%): Each student team will develop a briefing document of no more than 5 pages recounting the stories of people affected by the issues represented in their assigned bill.
- White Paper (20%): Each student team will jointly prepare a research and policy brief of no more than 10 pages providing an in-depth analysis of the assigned bill, reasoned on the basis of law, social science research, policy arguments, and relevant data, and asserting an advocacy position in support of or opposition to passage.
- Congressional Testimony (15%): Each student individually will prepare
formal written remarks of no more than 3 pages thatrepresents your record of testimony to Congress in support or opposition of your assigned bill. - Op-Ed (10%): Each student individually will write an op-ed piece of publishable quality, sharing information about and opinions on his or her assigned advocacy issue in 750 words or less.
*Your complete submission is due on the final day of classes.
*Each student must submit an entire portfolio containing all components (team- and individually-prepared on the Formatting requirements:
* All written work should be in Calibri 12pt font with 1.15 spacing and normal margins.
• Final Presentation: “Present and Defend” (30% of grade): Each student team will deliver a 20-minute oral presentation on their advocacy projects over the course of the final two classes of the semester. The allotted time includes 5 minutes dedicatedfor responding to class questions.
Unexcused late submissions will be panelized at the rate of one-half letter grade deduction per half-day. After 5 days, the assignment will no longer be accepted. If you are unable to complete an assignment on time due to an extenuating circumstance, please speak to me as soon as possible.
Guest lecturers are invited to present on specific topics. Regular presenters include current and former juvenile court judges, children's lawyers, state agency administrators, and current and former youth in foster care advocating for system change.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 610. Complex Litigation
Class Number: 5114
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Freer, Richard
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of the metamorphosis of litigation from the simple two-party model to multi-party, multi-claim litigation increasingly prevalent today, including the causes of this change and ability of the legal system to resolve such disputes. The course centers on a detailed study of the class action device, including jurisdictional and due process implications. Also included is the study of the problem of duplicative state and federal litigation, judicial control of complex cases, including multi-district litigation procedures and the case management movement, discovery (including international and e-discovery), and problems relating to preclusion in complex cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 5034
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Cloud, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Participation, & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
Attendance and preparation are required. Each student is permitted three absences and two unprepared classes.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 675, 04A. Constitutional Litigation
Class Number: 4896
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Weber Jr., Gerald
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Coursework, Attendance/Participation, & Paper
Description: Constitutional Litigation will explore the substantive, ethical and strategic issues involved in litigating civil rights actions. This course will allow students to both learn basic principles of governmental liability/defenses and apply their knowledge of torts, constitutional law and civil procedure in a litigation setting.
Students are expected to attend class and to be prepared to take an active part in class discussions of assigned materials. Students will have two projects for the semester which will involve filing and
No independent research will be required for projects, and students will utilize cases cited in the readings along with a list of supplementary cases.
(1) Students will draft a complaint and explanation of decisions made in drafting their complaint. This project will account for 50% of the student's grade. Ten pages double-spaced maximum for Complaint and eight pages double spaced for an explanation of decisions.
(2) Students will draft a short brief supporting or opposing summary judgment or a preliminary injunction. This project will account for 40% of the student's grade. Ten pages double-spaced maximum.
The remaining 10% of the student's grade will be tied to participation in class discussions. Class attendance is expected, and one unexcused class absence is permitted before a class participation reduction in score may occur.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 959. Courtroom Persuasion & Drama I
2 Sections:
Law 959, 02A; Class Number: 4882
Law 959, 02B; Class Number: 4881
Credits: 1 hour (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Participation, Coursework, Attendance, & Final Exam (during the regularly scheduled class time)
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students; Only 3Ls!
Description: This course applies theater arts techniques to the practical development of persuasive presentation skills in any high-pressure setting, especially the courtroom.
Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity and physical and vocal technique. Small class size encourages frequent opportunities for “on your feet” practice as applied to elements of a trial.
Held in the Law School courtroom, the class provides the optimal simulation of a real-life experience. Assignments and in-class exercises are designed to help students learn how to appear and feel confident; project their voice and use
Attendance: Only two absences are permitted. For each absence, a student must submit a written summary of what was learned in class.
Accelerated schedule. Class meets for 75 minutes once a week for 10 weeks followed by an in-class final on the 11th class.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 622B. Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
Class Number: 5115
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine, Kay
Prerequisite: Criminal Law
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Participation, 6-8 Page Paper, & Modified Open-Book Scheduled Final Exam.
Description: In contrast to a more conventional criminal procedure course, we will examine how lawyers and judges actually behave in the criminal courts throughout the United States. Topics include the doctrinal and practical dimensions of discovery, pre-trial detention, jury selection, prosecutorial charging and bargaining, ineffective assistance of counsel, double jeopardy, and speedy trial issues. Perhaps most importantly, we learn about the realities of our overburdened criminal justice system and discuss how prosecutors and defenders can operate within that system without sacrificing the rights of victims or defendants in the name of expediency.
Attendance Policy: This class has a strict attendance policy. Students can miss 3 classes without penalty; at the 4th absence, the grade will be reduced by 1/3 of a step. At the 7th absence, the student will be dropped from the rolls. Excused and unexcused absences are treated the same.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 767, 09A. Cross-Examination Techniques
Class Number: 5116
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Costa, Jason
Prerequisite: Evidence (concurrently ok)
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, Coursework, & Final Presentation
Description: This course is designed to conduct an exhaustive exploration of the science and art of cross-examination with extensive in-class exploration and performance of advanced cross-examination techniques. In addition to performance, students will critique and analyze the cross-examinations of their peers and example cross-examinations from high-profile cases.
Attendance Policy: Because of the experiential nature of this course, attendance, punctuality, and participation are required for all class meetings and activities. Excessive absences will result in a grade reduction.
*Last Updated Fall 2015
LAW 897. Directed Research
Class Number: Varies
Credits: 1-2 hours
Instructor(s): Multiple (Adjunct & Assistant Professors must have full-time professors co-sponsor)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Based on supervising faculty's evaluations of Paper
Description: Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 -age paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30-page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the Students-Only web page »
LAW 659M, 04A. Doing Deals: Commercial Lending Transactions
Class Number: 4935
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Gooch, Kevin
Prerequisite: Business Associations, Contract Drafting (concurrently NOT okay), and Deal Skills (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the
Description: This course is designed to give the student an opportunity to (i) explore in depth a variety of secured transactions, recognizing the contrast to unsecured transactions, and the creditor's rights, remedies, and benefits thereunder, (ii) understand the nature and corresponding requirements of secured transactions, including knowledge of, and familiarity with applicable regulations, statutes and rules, and (iii) engage, as counsel, in the representation of secured creditor(s) or borrower(s) in an actual secured transaction from beginning to end throughout the semester.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659P, 05A. Doing Deals: Complex Restructuring and Distressed Acquisitions in Chapter 11
Class Number: 4905
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Marsh, Gary
Prerequisite: Bankruptcy (concurrently okay) and Contract Drafting (concurrently NOT okay) Prerequisite. Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: Transactional Certificate Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the
Description: This course will take students down the path of a complicated corporate restructuring and/or sale. During class time, students will learn the key features of a modern corporate restructuring and distressed sale, using a hypothetical company for illustrations. Students will also be asked to prepare and present in class one or more summaries/presentations regarding hot topics in the bankruptcy and restructuring world. Outside of class, students will assume the roles of various parties to the restructuring, such as debtor, lenders, key suppliers, key customers, private equity sponsor, and the like. The students will be asked by their "clients" (the instructors) to negotiate transaction terms and to draft definitive documents for various parts of the restructuring. The students will also be asked to prepare various bankruptcy-related transactional documents and pleadings, leading to a contested, bankruptcy court sale of the hypothetical company at the end of the course. Students will be assessed based
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659A. Doing Deals: Contract Drafting
Class Numbers: See OPUS for specific section numbers
Credits: 3 Hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Payne, Sue; & Adjunct Professors
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent okay)
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students per section (Only 9 seats available during initial registration period)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students have priority, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659B. Doing Deals: Deal Skills
Class Numbers: 04A- 4888; 04B- 4934; 04C- 4944; 04D- 5016
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Koops, Katherine; Adjunct Professors
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay)
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students per section
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students have priority, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: Deal Skills builds on the skills and concepts learned in Contract Drafting and emphasizes the skills and thought processes involved in, and required by, the practice of transactional law. The course introduces students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, such as M&A deals, license agreements, commercial real estate transactions, financing transactions, and other typical transactions. Students learn to interview, counsel, and communicate with simulated clients; conduct various types of due diligence; translate a business deal into contract provisions; understand basic transaction structure, finance, and risk reduction techniques; and negotiate and collaboratively draft an agreement for a simulated transaction. Classes involve both individual and group work, with in-class exercises, role-plays and oral reports supported by lecture and weekly homework assignments. The course grade is based on homework, class participation, a negotiation project, and a comprehensive individual project.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659F, 06A. Doing Deals: General Counsel
Class Number: 4941
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Notte, Gregg
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrently NOT okay), Contract Drafting (concurrently NOT okay), and Deal Skills (concurrently okay).
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the
Description: In this course, students will develop transactional skills, with emphasis on possible differences in roles of in-house counsel and outside counsel in the context of a hypothetical transaction that will be the focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, a letter of intent, an employment agreement, a Master Services Agreement, and a Stock Purchase Agreement.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659I, 001. Doing Deals: International Capital Transactions
Class Number: 5062
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Nate
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay); Deal Skills (concurrent ok). Recommended Prerequisites/Co-requisites: Securities Regulation & Corporate Finance.
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the
Description: This course simulates the work that would be done by a law firm associate raising capital in a large international transaction. Topics will include associate etiquette and success skills; deal structuring; U.S. federal securities law registration requirements and exemptions (with a focus on Rule 144A and Regulation S); due diligence; the purpose and content of various sections of an Offering Memorandum; provisions of the securities purchase agreement; addressing aspects of local law in foreign jurisdictions; comfort letters; opinion practice; the closing process; and ethics and professionalism issues relating to international deals. Student performance will be assessed based on class participation, in-class exercises, written homework assignments and a final project.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659N, 04A. Doing Deals: Intellectual Property Transactions
Class Number: 4920
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Lytle-Perry, Courtney
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting (concurrently NOT okay) and Deal Skills (Deal Skills concurrently ok)
Grading Criteria: Exercises, Class Participation, & Final Paper/Presentation
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the
Description: This course is designed to offer students with an interest in intellectual property the opportunity to explore a limited number of current and cutting-edge intellectual property topics in depth and to experience first-hand how these legal concepts would manifest in a transactional practice setting. Students will complete a variety of in-class and homework assignments typical of those encountered in a transactional IP practice, from contract negotiation and drafting to strategic analysis and client interaction. - The course is intended for students with an interest in this subject area; no specific prior IP courses are required, but if a student has not taken any other IP offerings, please contact the instructor for suggestions of materials to review over the summer. Grading is a combination of small projects, class participation, and a final paper/presentation. There is no exam. Students taking this course as a Capstone Course will complete some additional requirements over the course of the semester. Due to the nature of this course, regular attendance is mandatory!
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 659D, 04A. Doing Deals: Private Equity
Class Number: 4897
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Profs. Crowley, Kevin & Furman, Kathryn
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrently NOT okay), Contract Drafting (concurrently NOT okay), Deal Skills (concurrently okay). Recommended Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corporate Finance, Accounting in Action or Analytical Methods.
Grading Criteria: Several group and individual assignments; Mid-term; & Scheduled Final Exam
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the
Description: The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students will work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified, sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to tackle and resolve difficult deal issues and complete successful deals. Students will be divided into teams of lawyers and business people to review, consider and negotiate actual transaction documents. The issues presented will include often-contested key economic and legal deal terms, as well as common ethical dilemmas.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 808. The U.S. Legal System's Response to Domestic Violence
Class Number: 5126
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Stolarski, Jennifer
Prerequisite: Evidence (concurrently ok)
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Meritorious Class Participation, 3 Reflection Essays; Modified Open-book Take-Home Final Exam
Description: This course will examine the evolution of laws and policies addressing domestic violence and how the justice system in the U.S. responds to this complex legal and social problem. While the course will lean more heavily towards criminal law, it will also explore some key areas of civil law that impact a survivor's ability to safely end an abusive relationship. Topics may include but are not limited to: the dynamics of abuse; how the experience of abuse and the legal system's response to it are shaped by cross-cultural factors; the impact of domestic violence on children and the use of children as witnesses; civil protective orders, divorce and child custody; housing, employment and immigration issues; criminal charging decisions and evidence-based prosecution techniques; the use of expert witnesses; and victims who are charged as criminal defendants. This will be an interactive course with classroom discussions, guest speakers and opportunities for skill-based exercises to reinforce keys points of learning. Materials and discussions will draw from legal, sociological, and public policy lenses. Though students with an interest in criminal and family law will be particularly interested in these topics, the course is designed to equip students with a broad base of knowledge needed to identify, evaluate and responsibly respond to the issues of domestic violence that they are likely to encounter as practicing lawyers, regardless of the area of specialty they may choose to enter.
Attendance Policy and Class Participation: Consistent attendance and meritorious class participation are required and count towards the final grade. Students are allowed to miss two classes over the course of the semester (whether excused or unexcused) without penalty. Additional absences will lead to a grade reduction of one-third step. If a student misses more than seven classes during the semester, the student will be dropped from the class.
To provide some real-life perspective on matters discussed in class, students will, based on their own selections, observe a session of DV Court or go on a police ride-a-long.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 745. DUI Trials
Class Number: 4952
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Tatum, Melissa
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation and Final Trial Simulation
Description: One of the most complicated and technical cases to try in criminal law is a DUI charge. Learning how to present or defend a DUI can equip a new litigator with techniques that will benefit students seeking practice in all areas of criminal litigation. Students will review DUI statutes and case law and prepare case files for motions and trial. Opening statements, direct and cross -examinations, and closing argument will be discussed and practiced. The introduction of scientific evidence, expert testimony, and preparing your witness for trial will be explored. Motions will be prepared and decided. Students will prepare and present their final case in a trial setting at the end of the semester.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 879L. E-Discovery & Litigation Technology
Accelerated Course (Check OPUS for dates)
Class Number: 5035
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Grounds, Alison
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Coursework
Description: eDiscovery & Legal Technology is a Pass/Fall Course based on attendance, participation & assignments. A practical course focusing on all phases of eDiscovery in litigation or investigations including applicable legal standards and technical tools/processes for preservation, identification, analysis, and production of electronically stored information (ESI). Taught by eDiscovery partner and guest lecture experts in the field. Hands-on coursework including drafting discovery documents, using Relativity software, and conducting a 26(f) meet and confer.
Attendance Policy: Must attend the required number of classes to pass.
Special outside speakers including technologists, practicing attorneys and clients with expertise in eDiscovery and technology. May have unique meetings patters depending on availability.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 662, 04A. Education Law & Policy
Class Number: 5037
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Presentations, & Papers
Description: This course will survey constitutional, statutory and policy issues affecting children in our public elementary and secondary schools. An emphasis will be placed on issues that impact the children most at risk for educational failure and that contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. Topics will include the right to an education, school discipline, special education, alternative educational programs, No Child Left Behind and high-stakes testing, the Every Student Succeeds Act, the rights of homeless youth and youth in foster care, and laws designed to address bullying in our schools.
Attendance and class participation count for 15% of the final grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 669X, 06A. Employment Discrimination Lab
Class Number: 4904
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Shultz, Chad
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Written work.
Enrollment: Limited to 8 students! JD Students Preferred.
Description: Employment Discrimination Lab consists of participation in class and 3 written assignments. The class walks a student through the handling of a discrimination case from meeting the mock client(s), writing a demand letter orWe have a small class so each student can fully participate in all activities, e.g. taking a deposition, arguing a motion, and participating in a jury trial.
We meet every other week from 6:15 to 8:15 PM. We meet 7 times, so Attendance is expected! The last class is a jury trial. The class is very interactive and practical. responding, discussing discovery, taking a deposition, writing a summary judgment brief or responding, and participating in a mock jury trial.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
COURSE REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE TURNER ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC. THIS COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE WRITING REQUIREMENT.
Class Number: 4884
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldstein, Mindy & Prof. Horder, Rick
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Writing Assignments, Simulations, & Classroom Participation
Description: The Environmental Advocacy workshop will include reading assignments, written exercises, seminar-like discussion, and simulations with an emphasis on legal practice. The course will develop students' abilities to function as successful environmental advocates in the context of client interviews, administrative proceedings, negotiations, and litigation. Other issues covered include advocating environmental protection.
Attendance: Students are expected to attend class and actively participate. Unexcused absences make it difficult for a student to participate in class and may be reflected in their classroom participation grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 620. European Union Law I: Constitutional and Institutional Issues
Class Number: 4980
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mickevicius, Henrikas & Prof. Tulibacka, Magdalena
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Open-book Scheduled Final Exam (60%), Participation (30%), & Attendance (10%)
Description: The European Union – the world's largest economy and trading block – is an important source of unique policies and legal norms. These policies and norms are affecting trade and investment relationships globally. The overlapping geopolitical concerns and shared values make the European Union one of the United States' most important partners economically, politically, and socially. U.S. lawyers, public servants, and activists are consequently being called upon to engage with (and understand) European legal principles and practices to an ever-growing degree. With this in mind, the course will examine the theoretical fundamentals of the EU legal system and their practical applications, with the particular emphasis on the differences and commonalities with the U.S. system. We will begin by reviewing the history of the European Communities and the genesis of the European Union. This will be followed by an analysis of the constitutional framework of the EU, including its political and legal nature, its aims and guiding values, membership, and the division of powers between the EU and the Member States. The institutional makeup and the allocation of powers across the major institutions, sources, and forms of EU law and lawmaking will be examined. We will also cover developments in the protection of fundamental rights, EU citizenship and the structure and role of the EU judicial system. Building on the latter, we will then turn to the EU common market and examine the main principles governing the free flow of goods, services, establishments, capital and persons within the EU. We will conclude with the Union’s model of judicial review and the complex interaction between the EU and national legal systems in enforcing EU law.
Classes will combine lectures and interactive sessions where students will explore the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts of the EU Member States, analyze hypothetical cases, solve problems, and assess relevant political and legal developments.
ATTENDANCE IS COMPULSORY
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 632X. Evidence
2 Sections:
Law 632X, 12A; Class Number: 4921
Law 632X, 13A; Class Number: 4953
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Seaman, Julie & Prof. Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions, burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege. Must be taken in the second year.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 632C. Expert Witness Examination
Class Number: 5118
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Sheffield, Jason
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Participation, Written Brief, & Improvement of Witness Examinations.
Description: This course is designed to teach the preparation, research, ethical considerations, and trial techniques necessary in order to effectively present expert witnesses in a criminal case. Although the focus will be on criminal cases, the skills taught in this class will also apply to civil cases. Most of the classes will involve the students conducting direct and cross-examinations of expert witnesses. Designed in a case-simulation format, the course will enable the students to develop substantive knowledge of criminal law and procedures, develop case theory and expert witness testimony, write and present a Daubert motion, and finally, conduct full direct and cross-examinations of experts. The course will also develop students’ aptitude with the advocacy techniques necessary to prosecute or defend criminal cases. Students will have multiple opportunities to perform in class and will receive extensive individual feedback from experienced lawyers.
*Last Updated Fall 2015
LAW 870. Externship Program
Class Number: Multiple- See OPUS
Credits: Varies (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Multiple
Selection: Application process submitted to Prof. Shalf, Sarah
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Fieldwork
Description: Step outside the classroom and learn to practice law from experienced attorneys. Take the skills and principles you learn in the classroom and learn how they apply in practice. Emory Law's General Externship Program provides work experience in different types of practice (all sectors except law firms) so you can determine which suits you best and develop relationships that will continue as you begin your legal career. Students are supported in their placements by a weekly class meeting with other students in similar placements, taught by faculty with practice experience in that area, in which students have the opportunity to learn legal and professional skills they need to succeed in the externship, receive mentoring independent of their on-site supervisors, and to step back and reflect on their experience and what they are learning from it.
Our Small Firm Externship Program provides students especially interested in the small law firm practice setting with experience in specially-selected small law firms. The firms' attorneys participate with the students in our weekly class meeting, which focuses on the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a small firm practice setting.
Students apply for externships via Symplicity in the semester prior to the externship and all placements must be preapproved. Available placements for the General program are listed on the Emory Law website, law.emory.edu/externships, and the currently participating Small Firms are listed here: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/small-firm-externship-applicant-law-firm-ranking/
Warning: No student is allowed to be enrolled in more than one clinic, practicum, or externship in a single semester without the prior approval of the directors of both programs.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 643, 12A. Family Law II
Class Number: 4942
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Family Law II examines the legal constructs and social contexts that have informed the contemporary understanding of who can be a family and on what terms. Students will engage with the policies and laws that influence the modern definition of families, including the role of the state, parentage realities post-marriage equality, family creation through adoption and assisted reproductive technologies, and children’s rights in a variety of circumstances.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 626. Federal Indian Law
Class Number: 5004
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Saunooke, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Paper
Description: This course offers an overview of 1. Federal Indian Law and Policy; 2. Examination of the history, interaction, and development of federal and state law as applied to Native Americans, including policy and cases as well as personal experiences of the course instructor.; 3. The Course is graded primarily on the paper presented at the end of the semester but participation and attendance, including a trip to Cherokee, NC to visit the Cherokee Tribal Court also impacts the grade.; and 4. Attendance may impact the grade if a student attends less than 80% of the lectures.
With over 30 years of experience representing Tribal members and Tribal governments, the class offers more than simply read and review of the course material. Examination of complex legal issues impacting jurisdiction, criminal law, family law, environmental law and other areas from the perspective of the Native American. The opportunity to visit a Tribal court and examine how it operates including interviews with attorneys and judges within the reservation. Issues from racial considerations to the impact of Indian gaming are explored through a variety of media. A unique opportunity to learn and understand first nations and their impact on our current judicial system.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 680, 04A. Food & Drug Law
Class Number: 4943
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kitchens, Bill
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Food and drug law involves the statutory and regulatory framework governing the development and marketing of food, drugs, medical devices, biologics, tobacco products, and cosmetics. This introductory course serves as a starting point for understanding how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempts both to protect the public health and foster our national desire and need for innovation in science, the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biologics, and medical devices, and the safety of our food supply. In particular, the course will study how FDA and the courts have enforced and interpreted the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to implement a regulatory system for a wide range of products that affect our daily lives. Dialogue and questions on how food and drug law has confronted and adapted to scientific and technological progress, public health challenges, constitutional controversies, and policy-based perspectives will be encouraged. Additionally, the course covers such contemporary issues as food safety; balancing the benefits and risks of certain drugs, devices and biological products and how best to communicate that information to healthcare professionals and consumers; expediting approval of drugs designed for life-threatening diseases; clinical trials for experimental products; and regulation of biotechnology, such as tissue engineering and gene therapy. Other specific topics
Participation Policy: I expect students to attend class regularly and to be prepared for each class. Preparation involves reading the assigned material, thinking about it, relating it to what you already know, and anticipating issues that will arise in class discussions. My expectation for your being "present and prepared" does not imply that I expect you to be "present and brilliant" on all occasions. If you stumble over the answer to a question, I will NOT deem you unprepared unless your response demonstrates that you simply have not done the assigned reading. Although your final exam is graded anonymously, class participation may be a factor in the determination of your final grade. Intelligent and valuable class participation may result in a higher grade (e.g. B to B+). Examples of poor class participation are limited engagement in class discussions or absence from more than 25% of the course classes without a reasonable justification. Poor class participation may result in a one increment decrease in your grade if your grade on the final examination is on the borderline.
A detailed course syllabus and class schedule, including the assigned reading for each class, will be provided at the beginning of the semester. At times we may depart from this schedule to consider relevant topical issues (e.g., new ways FDA can strengthen its oversight of opioids) or realignment of our priorities.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Class Number: 4893
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Aronson, Mort
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Team Presentations, & Scheduled Final Exam
Enrollment Limit: Limited to 25 students!
Description: Legal and business considerations, including the pros and cons of franchising; the franchising role in the economy; the franchiser/franchisee relationship; disclosure requirements; relevant state and federal laws; essential elements in representing franchisors and franchisees; basic terms and issues with franchise agreements; legislative issues; trademark issues; encroachment issues; system expansion issues; franchisee associations; new techniques in franchising; e.g. area development agreements, sub-franchising, niche franchising, master franchise agreements; international franchising; the role of alternate dispute resolution in franchising; product quality issues; legislative issues. Case studies of important franchise companies will be read and evaluated including Holiday Inns, McDonald's, Century 21, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts. Prominent legal political and business franchising representatives will be guest speakers, students will be divided into teams for oral and written presentation that will account for 20% of their grade.
Note if a student misses more than 2 classes without the professor's permission, you will fail or be withdrawn from the course.
*Last Updated Fall 2018.
Class Number: 4961
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Introductory study of the general structure of the federal income tax; nature of gross income, exclusions, and deductions; the income tax consequences of property transactions; the nature of capital gains and losses; basis and non-recognition. Regular attendance and satisfactory participation as "class expert" are essential to receiving a passing grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 890, 04A. Fundamentals of Innovation I
OPEN TO TI
ClassNumber: 4891
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Group projects, Participation, & Deliverables
Description: Fundamentals of Innovation I is the first of a two-course sequence on various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process. Issues explored will include patterns of technological change, identifying market and technological opportunities, competitive market analysis, the process of technology commercialization, intellectual property protection, and methods of valuing new technology.
Attendance Policy - We have an attendance sheet where we record attendance.
This course is a part of a cross-institutional program and we have students from Georgia Tech who will take this course. Therefore, we will need to course to start at
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 736B. Global Public Health Law
Class Number: 4987
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brady, Rita-Marie JD, MPH
Prerequisite: None, but International Law & Public Health Law are encouraged.
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Paper
Description: Global Public Health Law will use foundational legal principles of international and domestic law as well as international regulatory frameworks, guidelines, and their respective actors and apply them to global public health issues. This will be accomplished using interactive case studies and simulations that require multi-disciplinary classroom interaction, skill sets, source materials, and perspectives. Specific topics of focus may
Attendance Policy: Note: 20% of the student’s grade will be based on class participation which includes: regular attendance (missing three or more classes would constitute irregular attendance); in-class case studies/simulations (students are expected to notify the instructor if they will be absent on the case study days identified in the syllabus).
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 657D. Health Law Research
Class Number: 5119
Credits: 1 hour (Experiential Learning Approved) Accelerated Class- 1st 7 weeks
Instructor(s): Prof. Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Final Project
Description: Health Law Research is a practical, skills-based course designed to provide students with a firm understanding of the fundamental structure of the legislation and regulations that govern health law and to develop skills for finding and using those sources. Attention will also be paid to secondary sources, understanding the structure of medical literature, and practical tips for new health law attorneys.
Attendance Policy: This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation and hands-on practice
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 690B. Human Rights Advocacy
Class Number: 5013
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisite: Int'l Human Rights or International Law Course (Courses
Grading Criteria: Participation, Coursework, 2 Drafts of Paper, & Final Paper (25-30 pages).
Enrollment: Limited to 4 students only!
Description: Human Rights Advocacy Course Description: Human rights organizations and human rights lawyers play essential roles in protecting and promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy, both at home and abroad. They expose injustices and demand accountability for them; they pressure governments to fulfill their democratic and human rights obligations, and they help the voiceless reclaim their voice. This course is designed to build the skills of the budding human rights lawyer to achieve these goals. It will start with a brief overview of international human rights law and then will be divided between lectures focusing on skills development, examining the anatomy of a human rights campaign, and highlighting the ethical dilemmas and barriers to change human rights lawyers regularly face. To reinforce these lessons, each student will be assigned a research project on an issue supplied by human rights organizations from across the globe. Past participating organizations included Human Rights Watch, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Women’s Law Centre (South Africa) and The Carter Center.
The course is 3 credits and is limited to 8 students. It will require either several short written projects or one larger research report for an organization (35%), including a first and second draft (15% and 20%, respectively), along with an annotated outline (15%) and a draft introduction (5%). Class participation counts for 5% of the grade.
Attendance is mandatory except with prior permission from the professor. Each unexcused absence will result in a deduction of 2% of the student’s grade.
Depending on project needs, students will receive special training. Last year's special training for the whole class included how to interview persons affected by human rights violations and how to
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 731. Immigration Law
Class Number: 4996
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kuck, Charles
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will explore the legal, historical, and policy perspectives that shape U.S. law governing immigration and citizenship. We will examine the constitutional and international law foundations underlying immigration regulation, the history of immigration law in the U.S., the source and scope of congressional and executive branch power in the realm of immigration, and the role of the judiciary in making and interpreting immigration law. In the course of that exploration, we will address citizenship and naturalization, the admission and removal of immigrants and nonimmigrants, and the issues of undocumented immigration and national security. We will also analyze the impact of immigration in other areas, including employment, criminal law, family unification, international human rights law, and discrimination.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 609L. International Commercial Arbitration
Class Number: 4956
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Reetz, Ryan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Joint Class Exercises & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A consideration of arbitration as a dispute resolution process in the domain of international commerce. Analyzes the composition and the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, the procedure followed by arbitrators, effective advocacy in the arbitral context, recognition, and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and other related issues. In order to understand the arbitral process, the class will examine numerous key stages of an arbitration from drafting the arbitration agreement (start) to enforcement of the award (finish). We will use a hypothetical case to explore the issues and other challenges that arbitrators and counsel must confront throughout the life of the process. This class will be very hands-on and practical. Participation is important and there will be role-playing. As international commercial arbitration cannot exist in a legal vacuum, we will also consider the legal framework that governs it in various civil law and common law countries.
Attendance policy: No separate policy in addition to the ABA standard requiring regular class attendance for course credit.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 690A. International Human Rights Law Practicum
Class Number: 5060
Credit: 3 Hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Mickevicius, Henrikas
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Human Rights Law (concurrent ok)
Grading Criteria: Substantive Projects & Short-term tasks via Assignments (70%) & Attendance/Participation (30%). No Final Exam
Enrollment: Enrollment is limited to 6 students and subject to instructor’s approval, please email the professor at henrikas.mickevicius@emory.edu. Candidates will need to demonstrate a serious commitment to human rights work and an ability to take initiative, work independently, and use discretion. Work on reports alleging Enforced Disappearances "EDs" is subject to a confidentiality agreement. Knowledge of an official U.N. language, other than English, is preferred.
Description: The International Human Rights Law Practicum offers students a one-of-a-kind experiential education opportunity to deepen their knowledge of international human rights law, policies and enforcement mechanisms. The Practicum allows students to act as junior lawyers in collaboration with and under the direct supervision of an Adjunct Professor Henrikas Mickevicius, who has over 35 years of experience in national and international law practice and is a member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). A signature element of the Practicum is support for the mandate of the WGEID.
Students will work on substantive projects and short-term tasks. Weekly 2-hour companion seminars, taught by Prof. Mickevicius, will familiarize them with the relevant legal frameworks—hard and soft law instruments, mechanisms, venues, procedures and case-law—and the skills they will need to employ to carry out practical assignments. Students will present and reflect on their findings and receive specific feedback from their instructor and classmates, to progress in their work. The instructional part of the seminar will be coordinated with professors teaching doctrinal human rights courses.
The Practicum accounts for a minimum of 150 work hours per semester, including mandatory weekly seminars, and assignments and projects. Assignments will constitute 70% of the final grade, and seminar attendance and participation 30%. There will be no final exam for this course.
Resources permitting, students may be invited to attend and present their work at the official WGEID sessions and occasionally to accompany the instructor to other events, such as presentations of WGEID work and thematic reports in international fora.
*Updated as of Fall 2018
LAW 676C, 02A. International Humanitarian Law Clinic
Class Number: 4879
Credit: 3 Hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Transitional Justice; or National Security Law, either may be taken concurrently
Grading Criteria: Clinic work, Participation, & Presentations
Enrollment: By application to the professor
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counter-terrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries, and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank.
The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 732, 10A. International Law
Class Number: 4900
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam.
Description: Introduction to the law, methodology, and institutions of modern public international law. Among the topics covered are the principles and sources of international law, adjudication and enforcement of international law, peaceful settlement of disputes, the law of statehood, sovereign and diplomatic immunity, treaties, the domestic application of international law, the law of international organizations, settlement of disputes, limits on the use of force, human rights, humanitarian law, and the law of the sea.
Attendance Policy: Regular attendance is required. Missing five classes without prior notification to the Instructor or genuine emergency will result in a reduction of one tier in the final grade (e.g. from A-minus to B plus). Additional unexcused absences will result in further reduction of the final grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Law 639. Introduction to International Tax
Class Number: 5121
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Harvel, Brian & Prof. Kaywood, Sam
Prerequisite: Federal Income Tax: Corporations highly recommended
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Students will gain an introductory understanding of International Tax, which will include how and when a foreign person is subject to tax in the US, how and when a US person is subject to tax in the US on foreign income, and the impact of tax treaties and tax reform.
Attendance is not required but is encouraged.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 631A, 06A. Internet Law
Class Number: 4906
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Nodine, Larry
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright, or Trademark strongly recommended as a significant portion of the class will employ these principles. Co-requisites okay.
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: In this course, we will cover jurisdiction over activities on the internet, Internet governance, enforceability of "click to proceed" contracts, domain name disputes, right to privacy, net neutrality and liability of intermediaries like ISPs and websites like eBay and Facebook. Interactive lecture format.
We occasionally invite guest speakers who have special expertise to address the class. For example, I am an arbitrator for domain name disputes administered by WIPO in Geneva. Several former students of this class have worked as case managers at WIPO and they have sometimes Skyped in to discuss their experience.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS & JM STUDENTS
2 Sections:
Class Number: 4963
Class Number: 4948 (Online Section- OJM Only)
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mathews, Jennifer (Online Section) & Prof. Koster, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
OJM Description: This course covers the Constitutional principles and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. It examines the structure of the U.S. judicial system and basic principles of legal reasoning. The course also incorporates a series of guest lectures in the primary areas of first-year legal study (contracts, torts, etc.).
LLM Description: This course covers the constitutional principles, history, and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. Designed for lawyers trained outside of the United States, the course introduces basic principles of federalism, common-law reasoning, and an overview of the primary areas of first-year legal study
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 670, 10A. Jurisprudence
Class Number: 5009
Credits: 3 hours *Cross-listed with Theology (ES 687) & Philosophy Department
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell, Tim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Mid-term Essay & Take-home Final Exam Essay
Description: This course is about normative disagreement: disputes about values and systems of values, and in the political realm, quarrels over rights and duties. But the course is not, as you might expect, about how to avoid or resolve discord and conflict, and thus bring us together in harmony around a shared sense of justice. Instead, it will celebrate our contentious spirit, demonstrating that controversies about how we should govern ourselves are in fact inevitable, unavoidable, and never-ending.
But this is not bad news. Disagreement is not, as most seem to assume, inexorably disagreeable. In fact, for lawyers, it should be appreciated, perhaps even celebrated, for fun and profit.
And this good news is not nearly as cynical as it might appear. Law itself, after all, is a monument to the inability of people to get along productively without limits and direction. But this course goes deeper, as it explores the next disconcerting step: What happens when we also disagree about the limits and directions themselves that are supposed to help us avoid disputes in the first place (and settle them once they arise), that is, when we disagree about the nature of legal guidance itself? In the toughest cases you will face, the dispute will actually go underneath traditional elements of
The course will consist of two overlapping pieces. The first will examine the foundations of legal reasoning in challenging, controversial circumstances (the focus will be on Terrell, The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning, Carolina Academic Press, 2016). Because those fundamentals inevitably involve normative values, the second part of the course will explore various philosophical perspectives within
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 783. The Jurisprudence of Human Rights: Law, Morality, & Religion
Class Number: 5162
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Perry, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-home Final Exam
Description: The course will begin with a brief overview of the international human rights system. Then the course will proceed to address two sets of fundamental questions:
1. What exactly are "human rights"? What human rights are "moral" rights--and what human rights are "legal" rights?
2. What reason (or reasons) does one have--if indeed one has any reason--to take human rights seriously? A religious reason? But many are not religious believers. A nonreligious reason? What nonreligious reason?
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 699C. Juvenile Defender Clinic
Class Number: 4892
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: Evidence is a co-requisite. Criminal procedure and kids in conflict with the law, juvenile law or family law 2 are strongly encouraged, and priority will be given to those students who have taken these courses.
Grading Criteria: Skills-based client representation
Description: The Juvenile Defender Clinic is an in-house legal clinic dedicated to providing holistic legal representation for children charged with delinquency and status offenses. Student attorneys represent clients in juvenile court and provide legal advocacy in school discipline, special education, and mental health matters when such advocacy is derivative of a client's juvenile court case.
Under the supervision of the clinic's director, student attorneys are responsible for handling all aspects of client representation. While in the clinic, JDC students will: establish an attorney-client relationship with their client(s); direct case strategy determinations; investigate allegations; interview witnesses; negotiate dispositions and plea agreements; prepare and litigate motions, and try cases.
Attendance Policy: Students must be present for all office hours and the weekly clinic meetings.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 651. Labor Law
Class Number: 4957
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wilson, Brent
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Class Participation; & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Focuses primarily on Representation Case and Unfair Labor Practice Case Rules, Procedures and Cases of the National Labor Relations Board and Federal Courts. Discussion of developments under the Obama NLRB and recent reversals and expected developments from the Trump NLRB. Historical matters regarding the Labor Movement in the U.S. Coverage also will include other matters such as union campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations and arbitration, and a brief comparison of the National Labor Relations Act and the NLRB to the Railway Labor Act and the National Mediation Board.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 870K. Landlord-Tenant Mediation Practicum I
Class Number: 5141
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Powell, Bonnie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Participation, & Journals
Enrollment: Application process submitted thru Symplicity
Description: See Below, and note that this a year-long course, you will need to re-enroll in the Spring.
Landlord-Tenant Mediation Practicum students will mediate landlord/tenant disputes, including cases handled in the Magistrate and State courts; particularly small claim civil issues such as disputes between landlords and tenants. Assuming an agreement is reached during mediation, students will be responsible for drafting a detailed settlement agreement.
Students work under the supervision of an attorney mediating cases that deal with numerous issues of law within the court system. Prior to mediating, students will receive 28 hours of civil mediation training and will be registered as neutrals with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.
Class and
All students who receive and accept an offer to participate in the clinic must complete a criminal background check application within 30 days of accepting the offer. Students must pass the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution criminal background check to participate in the clinic.
There will be mandatory mediation training in August. Exact dates will be confirmed by the end of April.
All students will receive a certificate of attendance upon completing the 28-hour general civil mediation training. Attendance is required for each day of training. If you are unable to complete training, please do not interview for or accept an offer from this clinic.
Your training, as well as your background check and registration with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, will be paid for by the Fulton County ADR Board and will be active for a period of 15 months.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Class Number: 5163
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Volokh, Sasha
Prerequisite: None (Although a comfort level w/high school level Algebra is a big plus).
Grading Criteria: Several problem sets (quantitative problems and short essays) over the course of the semester; no final exam; nothing due after the last day of classes
Description: This course surveys the law and economics of antitrust, with a brief foray into regulated industries. We will cover competition, monopoly, oligopoly, public enterprises, penalties, market structure, empirical methods, vertical
If you have some background in economics, so much the better. If you don’t, don’t worry: It’s not required for this class. We’ll learn all the economics we need to know on the fly. There will be plenty of math, but the math we’ll be doing in class won’t be highly technical. The most important thing will be to understand the intuition, understand some simple graphs, and do some basic algebra and numerical problems.
No attendance policy
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 708. Law and Religion: Theories, Methods, and Approaches
Class Number: 4991
Credits: 3 hours *Course is cross-listed with Candler School of Theology as ES 680.
Instructor(s): Prof. Allard, Silas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Papers, & Final Project
Enrollment: 12 slots are reserved for Journal of Law and Religion students, and 5 slots are reserved for students cross-registered from Candler School of Theology.
Description: Interdisciplinary scholarship is often lauded for challenging assumptions, contributing new perspectives, and leading to groundbreaking new insights that would not be possible without crossing disciplinary borders. While there are certainly benefits to interdisciplinary scholarship, such approaches also pose a unique set of challenges. The success of interdisciplinary scholarship depends on the scholar’s ability to communicate to audiences who often use different nomenclature, evidence, and analytical methods. A failure to appreciate these challenges can lead to attempts at interdisciplinary scholarship that are reductive, one-sided, vague, or confused.
In this course, students will survey the interdisciplinary field of law and religion. The course will begin by discussing the nature of the field known as law and religion. What areas of inquiry constitute this field? What do we mean when we talk about “law” and “religion”? The course will then cover different substantive areas and methodological approaches by reading, analyzing, and critiquing examples of law and religion scholarship from leading scholars. Students will be asked to think about the choices that scholars make: What is the relationship of law and religion in this example of scholarship? What does the scholar draw on as evidence for her argument? How does the scholar construct his argument? How does the scholar think about law? How does the scholar think about religion? These and other questions will help students understand how different approaches function; what they can achieve; what they cannot achieve; and why a scholar would choose a certain approach. By the conclusion of the course, students will (1) understand the scope and subjects covered by the field of law and religion, (2) develop an understanding of different methodological approaches to the study of law and religion, and (3) be prepared to use different methodological approaches in their own writing. This course is recommended for students in advance of a significant writing project in law and religion, including a journal comment, major seminar paper, or thesis.
Class Attendance:
Regular class attendance is expected. A student may be absent from one class period without penalty. Further absences will reduce the student’s class participation grade by a full letter grade per absence. Class participation is 5% of the final grade. Excused absences are generally not given, so students should plan their absence accordingly. Chronic tardiness will also impact the student’s class participation grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 715. Law & The Unconscious Mind
Class Number: 5127
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Duncan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: How can prison be irresistibly alluring, and what does this allure imply for the purposes of punishment? How does the character of the one-time criminal differ from that of the career offender? How does stealing gratify both the wish to be dependent and the wish to be “macho” and aggressive? Why are metaphors of soft, wet dirt (such as slime and scum) commonly used for criminals, and why is this usage not really as negative as it seems? Why might the world be a poorer place without criminals? These are some of the intriguing questions that will be explored in this class. In addition, the course provides a basic understanding of psychoanalysis, including infantile sexuality, the unconscious, and the defense mechanisms, such as denial, repression, undoing, and splitting. The class format will consist of lecture, discussion, movies, and (a few) games.
*Last Updated Fall 2014
LAW 628B. Law,Sustainability, and Development
Class Number: 5019
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Samandari, Atieno
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, Reflections, & Take-home Final Exam
Description:This course examines the role of law and the legal system in economic and social development, with a focus on emerging markets and developing countries. It will explore how law, in its various forms, may bring about or impede development, however, defined, and how development may affect or change the legal system of the country concerned. International organizations, foreign aid agencies, and local and international nongovernmental organizations have become extraordinarily active in this field, spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The conceptions of development that underlie those efforts are diverse – development may be seen as growth or improvement in, among other things, income, education, health, and human rights. We will take a similarly expansive view of “law,” recognizing that in many contexts it blurs into politics, governance, and social custom. The course will seek to challenge conventional approaches to law and development and enhance the appreciation of the point of view of developing countries and marginalized communities regarding development.
The course will begin by interrogating the concept of ‘development’ and some of the problems that it encompasses. We will then explore the role of law and how/whether it may be used as an effective instrument for developing and implementing solutions to development problems. The course will cover a broad (but by no means exhaustive) set of issues in law and development and will take a critical perspective and include growing awareness of the importance of sustainability in development.
Attendance policy: Attendance is mandatory for all classes. Students are permitted two excused absences. Additional absences will negatively impact the student's final grade
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 747, 02A/02B. Legal Profession
2 Sections:
Class Number: 4949 (Elliott) *Only JD students may take this section
Class Number: 5111 (Koster) *Only JM/LLM students may take this section
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott, James & Prof. Koster, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, Team Projects, & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism. Attendance is considered in the final grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 661. Natural Resources Law
Class Number: 5122
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Robert, Gilbert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Written Assignments & Participation
Description: Natural resource management presents extremely difficult and contentious issues of law and public policy. This courses will encourage discussion on these issues while providing an overview of relevant programs and laws that govern the use and protection of natural resource systems. Special attention will be given to wetlands and coastal regulation, transportation and water resource development, energy, and pollution control.
Attendance Policy: While there is no formal attendance policy, participation is part of the final grade. Students will find it difficult to participate if they are not in attendance.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 656. Negotiations
3 Sections:
Law 656, 06A; Class Number: 4894 (Athans- Experiential Learning Approved)
Law 656, 06B; Class Number: 4895 (Eldridge- Experiential Learning Approved)
Law 656, 06C; Class Number: 5014 (Perry)
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Athans, Michael; (Lytle) Perry, Courtney; & Eldridge, David/Eileen Rumfelt
Prerequisite: None
Note: THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OR BUSINESS SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS!
Athans Grading Criteria: Attendance, Participation, Coursework, Journals, & Final Paper. No Exam
Athans Description: The Negotiations course is a skills training class to address negotiation theory and practice. The students participate in simulations every week after the first, and attendance is required, with one absence permitted without impacting the final grade. There are written submissions in the form of 2-page journals for each class and a final paper in the 10-12 page range.
There is a different topic every week, and students will try to implement the information learned that week to build on their negotiation and problem-solving strategy skills.
Eldridge GradingCriteria: Participation, attendance, and performance in negotiation simulations. In-Class Exam, during regularly scheduled class.
EldridgeDescription: The name of the course is "Negotiations". This course covers negotiation theory and strategy and provides weekly opportunities for participation in negotiation simulation exercises. The grading criteria for this course includes participation, attendance, and quality of performance in negotiation simulations. Due to the hands-on nature of this course, class attendance is mandatory: however, one absence is allowed (with prior notice to Professors if at all possible); any additional absences will result in a zero for that day’s class participation grade.
The course is fun and informative, and
Perry GradingCriteria: Ask Professor
Perry Description: Ask Professor
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 754, 001. Patent Law
Class Number: 4994
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Holbrook, Tim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Quizzes, & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course begins with a discussion of the theoretical justifications for patents. It then explains the nature of the patent document itself. Next, the course will explore the core patentability requirements of patentable subject matter, utility, novelty, non-obviousness, and adequate disclosure. Included in this coverage are the new provisions
Attendance Policy: Class attendance and participation
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 755, 06A. Pretrial Litigation
Class Number: 4890
Credits: 4 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Profs. Geary, Don; Bessen, Diane; Hydrick, Stacey; & Lott, Rhani
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, and Oral & Written Assignments.
Enrollment: Third Years Students Only
Description: This is a civil case litigation skills/simulation course. Students will work as two-person teams forming a law firm. Students will draft pleadings, draft written discovery, and conduct evidentiary and motions hearings.
Course Outcomes:
• Students will integrate doctrine, theory, and skills by preparing for and conducting evidentiary and pretrial hearings. Students will have multiple opportunities for performance.
• Students will integrate doctrine, theory, and skills by preparing and conducting legal research and drafting pretrial motions.
• Students will formulate discovery requests in different ways in order to achieve specific results.
• Students will participate in self and peer evaluation of pretrial litigation methods and skills.
• Students will discuss the effects of legal ethics and standards of professionalism on pretrial practice.
Attendance is mandatory other than excused absences.
Course faculty members provide guidance and instruction in their roles as teachers, judges and senior partners, with students taking primary responsibility for client representation and strategic decisions with regard to case direction. Actors who are very familiar with their parts and who remain "in character" appear in some roles as parties and witnesses while students in the course serve alternately as counsel and witness in others. The cases culminate in major motion hearings. The faculty members present regular lectures and demonstrations about various aspects of pretrial practice which are presented hand-in-hand with the developing procedures and technology affecting the practice of law. Attendance is required for the lectures, but primarily the student teams work independently. Every student performance, written and oral, is observed, critiqued and graded by the faculty. There are no written examinations. There are submissions of written materials and use of technology through audio-visual presentations at motions hearings, etc. Students are graded on their class performances, written work product, and development as "practicing attorneys." Former students have described this course as a great source for practical experience with regard to client relations, litigation strategy, and discovery tactics -- all guided by esteemed faculty from the bench and practicing bar. Many students use their course case materials, experiences, and notes as a practice resource after they enter the practice of law. The course provides students an interesting and exciting window on the actual practice of law.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Law 739. Roman Law
Class Number: 5123
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Domingo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Paper
Description: In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables (451 BC) and Justinian's massive Corpus Iuris Civilis (530 AD), the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of antiquity. Roman law is still at the heart of the civil law tradition of the European Continent and some of its former colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and it was instrumental in the development of international law, the church’s canon law, and the common law tradition. The Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules and mechanisms that are still applied in the most Western legal systems.
Specifically designed for American law students without a civil law or canon law background, this course introduces the Roman legal system in its social, political, and economic context. The course will cover the fundamental topics of private law (persons, property and inheritance, and obligations); the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages; and the current impact of Roman law in the era of globalization. No knowledge of Roman history or of Latin is required, and all materials will be in English translation.
Attendance Policy: Regular and punctual class attendance is required. The 80% rule is applied. Attendance records will be based on sign-in sheets that will be circulated during each class.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of the course on Roman law students will be able to: (i) demonstrate basic understanding of the foundations of Roman law from a comparative perspective; (ii) analyze and critically evaluate Roman legal concepts and rules covered in the course; (iii) present arguments based on Roman law sources in a well-structured manner (iv) exhibit a working knowledge of Property law, the law of succession, and the law of obligations (contracts and delicts); and (v) analyze the techniques of the Roman law of litigation.
Final Examination:
- The final examination for the course on
Roman law will consist of an original research paper (i.e. expanded essay) or a written answer to any of the hypos we will discuss during the course. The title of the paper or the selection of the hypo must be approved by the instructor in advance. - The paper requires the writer to analyze a perspective or to argue a point. The paper should be about 4,000 words long. It should
contain: an abstract,a main text, and some concluding reflections. The style should be similar to that of an op-ed for the New York Times. The answer to one of the hypos should be about 2,000 words long and should contain quotations related to the Corpusiuris or Roman legal sources. - The deadline for submission of the research paper or the answer to the selected hypo is 5:00 p.m.,November 28, 2018.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Law 667A. Securities: Enforcement Procedures & Issues
Class Number: 5043
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Jospin, Walter & Prof. Lipson, Aaron.
Prerequisite: LAW500 (Business Associations); or LAW667 (Securities Regulation); or LAW673 (Securities: Brokers/Dealers); or LAW683 (White Collar Crime); or LAW875 (Advanced Issues in White Collar Crime).
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-home Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Description: This course will examine the enforcement of the federal securities laws from the perspectives of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) staff, the Department of Justice, and defense counsel. An important focus of the course will be discussing the relevant statutes, regulations, case law, and other legal principles, and applying them to practical situations that arise in securities enforcement investigations. The required weekly reading will consist of securities enforcement cases, statutes, regulations, and other relevant documents. Given the highly evolving subject matter, many classes will include a short discussion of recent developments. As events occur during the semester, we may supplement or replace the reading materials described below with additional materials. We also will invite guest instructors with relevant government and private practice experience to address specific topics. Additionally, at points throughout the semester, we will have “practical” classes that will involve workshops in which students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of the course material in simulated real-world settings.
Attendance Policy: As class will meet only once per week, absent exceptional circumstances, students may miss no more than two classes during the semester. Additionally, attendance at the first class is mandatory.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 667: Securities Regulation
Class Number: 6211
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Rosario, Sean
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: A study of federal and state regulation of the issue, distribution, and transfer of securities. Explores the availability of exemptions from registration and the duties of participants in these securities transactions to comply with anti-fraud regulations. Some time is spent on the growing literature appraising securities regulation.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
LAW 752-CRSL. Special Topics: African Feminism(s), Gender, and Health Development
Class Number: 5461 *Cross-listed with Laney Graduate School WGS 385
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fasanmi, Abidemi
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Presentation, Critical Reflection Paper, Weekly Response Essay Posts, and a Final Paper
Enrollment: Limited to 8 Students!
Description: This course examines women’s health in Africa through an interdisciplinary perspective. We will explore African feminism(s), using the concept of socialization as it pertains to gender and sexuality, culture, human rights & gender-based violence, health, empowerment, social justice and development in Africa. We will also examine the complexity of transnational women’s health programs with the aim of analyzing the gaps, the successes, and the pitfalls. We will examine women’s bodies as objects of bio-political resistance especially with regard to sexual and reproductive health. Throughout the course, we will employ a comparative approach in bringing into
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Note: OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Class Number: 4899
Credits: 3 Hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, & Papers
Description: Special Topics in Technology Commercialization I is a capstone course designed to acquaint students with many of the legal issues associated with starting a new business enterprise. The course will follow a traditional case law format with occasional guest speakers for content related to new ventures. Students will learn current case law that highlights the legal principles involving parties and situations facing startups. These include a choice of entity, financing arrangements, selection of a company name and trademark, protecting the intellectual property of the new company, supply chain management, business operational agreements.
Attendance Policy - Attendance sheet in Fall 2018
This is course is open to Georgia Tech students so I need it to start at either or
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 719, 001. Trademark Law
Class Number: 4997
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Bagley, Margo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectability of marks, including words, symbols, and 'trade dress'; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and 'cybersquatting'; and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.
Attendance: Class attendance and preparation are both mandatory, and I reserve the right to take attendance, as well as
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 724. Transitional Justice
Class Number: 5001
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 2 Short Paper (20% each of final grade) & Take-home Final exam (60% of final grade)
Description: This course explores the legal issues and real-life challenges in countries emerging from dictatorship, repression and armed conflict. Students will examine key transitional justice principles and debates, the workings of multiple transitional justice mechanisms, and the dilemmas arising in societies transitioning from conflict and repression.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 671A. Trial Practice Workshop
2 Sections:
Class Number: 5112
Class Number: 5113 (Mock Trial Section)
Credits: 2 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Norman, Justin; Prof. Lott, Rhani; ADA Gardner, Lindsay; ADA Hylton, Simone
Prerequisite: None, but Evidence recommended (concurrently ok).
Enrollment: Two Sections, the second section is reserved for Mock Trial Members and has a cap of 12-16 students, and the first section is open to everyone else but limited to 24 students.
Grading Criteria: Attendance/Participation, Trial Notebook, & Final Trial Assignment
Description: This course is meant to be a pre-cursor to Trial Techniques and is a more hands-on approach to concepts that will be discussed generally in Trial Techniques, for those who have already completed Trial Techniques, this course will focus more on various trial advocacy styles and techniques.
The course will cover the following areas: housekeeping matters, motions in limine, opening statements, direct and cross-examinations, how to object & respond to objections, the introduction of evidence, impeachment, and closing arguments.
You are presumed to have read each day's assignments before attending the lecture, but please note the readings are meant to supplement your understanding of the materials covered in class and the course will not be based on the textbook.
In this class, emphasis will be placed on the demonstration of techniques rather than substantive law. As is true for practicing trial attorneys, preparation and organization are the keys to success.
There will be a final trial but your grade will also be dependent on your performance and participation throughout the semester, and students will be expected to perform/act out a scenario when called upon.
Please note that for the final trial assignment: You are expected to be able to perform your opening statement and closing argument without reading them. In other words, NO NOTES. You will participate as an advocate, witness and possibly a juror.
At the end of this course, you should be able to accomplish three objectives:
- Understand the purpose and techniques involved in all components of a civil and/or criminal trial as evidenced by successfully trying a case at the end of this course;
- Exhibit a working knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence by demonstrating, in class, the ability to correctly and timely make and defend evidentiary objections during an opening statement, direct examination, cross-examination or closing argument; and
- Reveal an understanding of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct by conducting all aspects of a trial in a respectful, ethical manner on both the plaintiff/prosecution side as well as the defense side of a case.
Attendance Policy: Attendance/Participation is critical for success in this course as it only meets once a week, students expecting to receive a passing grade may miss no more than 2 classes.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 674, 08A. Trusts and Estates
Class Number: 4878
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: Property
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Study of the law of intestate succession, limitations on testamentary powers, formalities necessary for executing or revoking wills and trusts, incorporation by reference and the doctrine of independent legal significance, problems of construction and interpretation of wills, trusts, and will substitutes, plus limited study of the use of future interests in trust and powers of appointment.
Regular attendance and satisfactory participation as "class expert" are essential to receiving a passing grade.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 697C. Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Class Number: 4901
Credits: 3 hours (Experiential Learning Approved)
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (concurrently ok)
Grading Criteria: Legal work & Participation
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the Clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket – fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities—are among the most critical issues for our city, state, region, and nation. The Clinic’s students benefit and learn from immersion in these real-world complex environmental representations.
Attendance Policy: Students are required to work in the Clinic 150 hours/semester.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 685A. Veterans Benefits Law
Class Number: 4958
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Early, Drew
Prerequisite: None, but Administrative Law is recommended
Grading Criteria: Class Participation (20%) & Scheduled Final Exam (80%)
Description: This course introduces students to the body of administrative law and associated rules that govern the administration of veterans' benefits, both through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the relevant courts. It teaches the law and procedure applicable to claims by veterans and their families at all stages of the Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication process: initial fact-finding
by VA regional offices, appellate claims to the Board of Veterans Appeals, and appellate review by the United States Court of Veterans Claims. In addition to instruction in relevant doctrine and policy exposure, students will engage in exercises directed to the basics of the disability rating process, to establishing the service connection to a disability, and to discharge review. Students will also be exposed to typical claims issues raised in veterans' cases handled by the Emory Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans. Law students interested in administrative law, personal injury, and civil litigation will benefit from this course, as will students interested in public service, who will be better prepared to serve as pro bono counsel to veterans in the future. This field will be one of growing importance, as the war in Afghanistan winds down and the military continues to shrink.
Attendance Policy: Mandatory attendance with one excused absence as 25% of the final grade is class participation.
Textbook: Veterans Law Cases and Theory by Prof James Ridgway of GMU (who is also the senior staff attorney at VA's Board of Veterans Appeals).
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 683. White Collar Crime Workshop
Class Number: 5049
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Grubman, Scott
Prerequisite: Having taken or simultaneously taking either White Collar Crimes or (Constitutional) Criminal Procedure. There is no requirement that both be taken.
Grading Criteria: Classwork
Description: This course addresses the practical application of concepts learned in the White Collar Crimes course. During the workshop, students will be given information detailing allegations of a federal health care criminal case and Qui Tam action. Students will assess the case for possible violations of federal mail fraud, conspiracy, and false claim statutes. Students will draft a Qui Tam complaint, represent a party in the ensuing litigation (which will not involve a trial), and arrive at a resolution of the criminal case. The course will explore "true to life" aspects of federal criminal corporate litigation from both prosecution and defense perspectives.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 821. SEMINAR: Corporate Governance
Class Number: 5161
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Georgiev, George
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: BA or an equivalent introductory course in corporate law
Grading Criteria: Participation, 3 Short Papers, & 1 Final Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those pre-selected, remaining seats will NOT be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: Corporate governance is in a state of tremendous flux as a result of the global financial crisis of 2008-09, the corporate accounting scandals of the early 2000s, heightened public scrutiny of corporate conduct, and the rise of shareholder activism. This seminar will provide an overview of the main academic theories of corporate governance and examine some of the ongoing debates about the efficacy and adequacy of recent reforms, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, and related SEC rulemaking. Possible topics
Scheduling: Students should be available to present their papers (or serve as discussants of others' papers) during an all-day research symposium. This symposium will be held on Saturday, November 10, in lieu of several regularly scheduled class meetings at the end of the semester.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 810. SEMINAR: Hate Speech & Free Speech
Class Number: 5124
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Seaman, Julie
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those preselected initially, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: Regulation of hate speech and other expressions that implicates equality values often comes into conflict with the First Amendment. Recent events on university campuses, including at Emory, demonstrate the complexities that arise when listeners claim that others’ expression impacts their feelings of safety and inclusion. This seminar broadly considers the intersection between these two fundamental constitutional values of freedom of expression and anti-discrimination. Students will examine these issues from a variety of perspectives, including legal, comparative and interdisciplinary materials. The basic constitutional law course is a prerequisite; prior coursework on freedom of speech is helpful but not strictly required.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 816. SEMINAR: International and Comparative Patent Law
Class Number: 5160
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Bagley, Margo
Pre-selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: IP Survey, or Patent Law, concurrent enrollment is permissible. Relevant patent experience may be deemed a substitute with permission from Professor Bagley
Grading Criteria: Participation, Coursework, & Final Paper
Enrollment: Must obtain Professor's permission to be enrolled.
Description: This course will provide an introduction to key aspects of U.S., international, and comparative patent law and the myriad policies at play in ongoing global patent harmonization conflicts. The value of patents is increasing in many areas while at the same time the scope of
Against the backdrop of the U.S patent system, we also will consider the importance of regional patent systems such as the European Patent Convention, as well as features of other major patent players such as India, Japan, and China, and emerging issues on the continent of Africa. A discussion of current issues such as access to medicines, protection of traditional knowledge, multinational patent litigation, and the patenting of controversial inventions will be an integral part of the course.
Attendance: Class attendance and preparation are both mandatory, and I reserve the right to take attendance, as well as the quality of classroom participation, into account in assigning final grades for the semester. This course is a seminar which only meets once per week; thus any student missing more than two (2) regularly scheduled class sessions, without a compelling justification for being absent (such as being sick or having an interview) is subject to being dropped from the course.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 844. SEMINAR: Judicial Behavior
Class Number: 5011
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Discussions & Final Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those pre-selected, remaining seats will NOT be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: How do judges decide cases? Some argue that judges primarily rely on legal factors to make their decisions, while others contend that judges decide cases in order to advance their own policy preferences. More recent studies of judicial behavior have concluded that judges may also be influenced by an aversion to reversal, an attempt to reduce their workload, and efforts to stay on the bench or attain a promotion. An understanding of judicial behavior is critical in policy debates about judicial selection methods, recusal rules, campaign finance reform, removal standards, and many other procedural rules and institutional norms. It is also an important factor in predicting litigation outcomes. In this class, we will explore theories of judicial behavior, examine the empirical evidence about how judges decide cases, and discuss the policy implications arising from the evidence. While some experience with empirical analysis would be helpful, it is not required.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Class Number: 5061
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vertinsky, Liza
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Class Exercises, Oral Presentation, & Final Seminar Research Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those preselected initially, any remaining students will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: Medicines are an integral part of healthcare in the modern world. They save lives, promote health, and play critical roles in preventing and responding to epidemic diseases. Access to essential medicines is a hotly contested issue both within the U.S. and internationally. Law can be used as a tool to improve access, either directly through measures that require or facilitate provisions of essential medicines or indirectly through the creation of incentives for research and development of new medicines. Law can also serve as a barrier to access. This course examines the roles that law plays or could play, in accessing essential medicines. It will begin with an overview of the relevant legal framework and a study of the recommendations made by several recent United Nations reports focused on issues of access. It will then move to a series of topics and case studies that address different aspects of the access to medicines debate.
Attendance policy: Attendance: Class will begin and end on time. Attendance and preparation for
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 838. SEMINAR: Products Liability
Class Number: 4960
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vandall, Frank
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: Products Liability (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those preselected initially, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: This seminar provides an opportunity for a student to write a paper on a developing aspect of products liability theory. Topics considered and materials will vary from year to year. The course in Products Liability is recommended, but not required.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 746A. SEMINAR: Professional Negligence
Class Number: 4959
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof.
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those preselected initially, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: This seminar will explore the liability of professionals for negligent conduct. It will cover professionals such as physicians, psychologists, dentists, and others whose actions risk bodily injury. It will also cover those whose professional activities risk property and economic losses, such as engineers, architects, lawyers, and accountants. The legal field of focus is the liability in the borderland between torts and contracts. The seminar will also engage the form and structure of business torts that are neglected in the curriculum, yet loom large in commercial practice.
Particularly with respect
Materials will be distributed and discussion expected. Students will be required to prepare a paper that can be in satisfaction of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will orally present a final draft paper in class. This will form part of the final grade. In
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 802. SEMINAR: Tax Policy
Class Number: 5125
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Pre-Selection:https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: Federal Income Tax: Individual or Fundamentals of Income Taxation (concurrently ok).
Grading Criteria: Participation, Reflection Papers & Final Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those pre-selected, no Open Enrollment seats for this course
Description: The Tax Policy Seminar will analyze the role that tax policy plays in increasing the racial wealth gap in America. Attendance is required for each scheduled class. Throughout the semester, students will be responsible for submitting 1-2 page weekly reflection pieces, selecting a paper topic, submitting an introduction, and a draft paper. The final paper will be due at the end of the exam period. Class grades will be based upon the quality of class participation, completed assignments, and the final paper. The final paper can take the form of a law review-type paper or a white paper advocating for a policy change.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
LAW 823, 001. SEMINAR: The Family, the State & Vulnerability
Class Number: 5000
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dinner, Deborah
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Attendance, Weekly Critical Response Papers, Verbal Presentation, & Seminar Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those pre-selected, remaining seats will NOT be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: This seminar investigates the historical relationship between family forms, the U.S. welfare state, and human vulnerability. The seminar takes as a starting point for
In the last half-century, this welfare state has both transformed and contracted. This seminar investigates how the dynamic U.S. welfare state both reflected and shaped family forms across historical periods. It examines the legal and political debates by which families made new demands on the welfare state and the ways in which employers, insurance companies, and local, state, and federal authorities responded. The seminar analyzes how ideas about gender, race, sexuality, and class intersected in the formation of welfare policy.
The seminar addresses both private family law—which is adjudicated in courts and affects mostly middle-class families—and public family law—which is created and enforced by administrative agencies and affects mostly poor families. Students participating in the seminar will gain a deeper historical understanding of the laws and social policies regulating contemporary American families.
Each week, there will be both assigned and recommended readings. The majority of the class will be responsible only for the assigned readings. Each student will be responsible for the recommended readings in addition to the assigned readings, once during the semester. That week, you will make a ten to a twelve-minute presentation describing and critiquing the arguments of the recommended readings and relating them to the week’s overarching themes. The purpose of this structure is to enable everyone in the course to build a knowledge base broader than what individuals have time build on their own.
A second objective of the course is to improve students’ writing skills. This seminar satisfies the law school’s writing requirement. There will be both shorter response papers and a final writing assignment in the course.
*Last Updated Fall 2018
Class Number: 5052
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vertinsky, Liza
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2018-seminar-preselection-form/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Class Exercises, Oral Presentation, & a Final Seminar Paper
Enrollment: Limited to those preselected initially, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Description: What is the current debate over the role of patents in promoting or impeding economic development and global health, and how will it evolve? How are international patent standards and norms shaped by this debate? What role can and should U.S. patent policy play in addressing issues of global development and health? This seminar will begin with a survey of the basic framework governing international standards for patent protection and enforcement. We will then examine the ways in which patents and patent law impact global economic development and health. The seminar will include the study of alternative methodologies for understanding and
Attendance Policy: Class will begin and end on time. Attendance and preparation for
*Last Updated Fall 2018
The following courses are being offered in Spring 2018, please note this list is subject to change.
Updated as of 1/3/2018
Class Number: 3787; Catalog Number- LAW 679, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Costa, Jason
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment: Limited to 10 Students ONLY.
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises; Court performance; & Periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third-year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and under-served populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering from drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions. But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways.
First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe real criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will interact with actual clients in real court proceedings (jail interviews, bond hearings, etc.). Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement with the State Court Division of the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office as it would cause a professional conflict.
*Last Updated Spring 2017.
Administrative Law
Class Number: 5269; Catalog Number- LAW 701
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Arthur, Thomas
Prerequisite: Legislation & Regulation
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Exam
Description: Most areas of contemporary legal practice require lawyers to work with administrative agencies and a large body of law concerning such agencies. This course is a study of how agencies are empowered, the procedures and modes through which agencies carry out their tasks, and legal constraints on these agencies. Topics include constitutional limits on Congress' power to delegate legislative and judicial power to agencies; procedures imposed upon agency adjudication and lawmaking by the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, and other statutes; the scope of judicial review of agency decisions, including the methods by which courts restrict and control agency discretion, and the limitations on the availability of federal judicial review of federal agency actions. In addition, the course will explore several recent "regulatory reform" initiatives.
Class Number: 3788; Catalog Number- LAW 852, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Rubin, Robert & Prof. Brickman, Jeff
Prerequisites: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Participation; Motion/Brief; and Mock Trial.
Description: The course is designed to teach trial techniques, criminal procedure, and ethics. Most of the classes will involve the students conducting various types of hearings and arguments. Designed in a case-simulation format, the course will enable the students to develop substantive knowledge of criminal law and procedures, develop case theory and witness testimony, draft pretrial motions, and finally conduct a full jury trial. The course will also build on the skills learned in Trial Techniques and develop students' facility with the advocacy techniques necessary to prosecute or defend criminal cases. Students will have multiple opportunities to perform in class and will receive extensive individual feedback from experienced lawyers. Further, several classes will involve discussions with guest speakers on ethics, investigation, and forensics.
Students will be graded on their performance in class during the semester, on a written brief, and on their performance in the mock trial at the end of the semester. Grades will be based on how well the students conduct the hearings and trials, i.e., formulation of examination questions, understanding of the theory of examination, ability to frame legal arguments and make objections, and presentation. Students will also be required to draft a motion and brief and will be graded on the quality of the legal writing.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3690; Catalog Number- LAW 657, 12A
Class Number: 5358; Class Number- LAW 657E, GRAD This is an online section and is only open to JM students.
Accelerated Class: 1st seven weeks of semester (January 2018 – February 2018)
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Christian, Elizabeth & Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (GRAD only)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Enrollment: Limited to 20 students! (On-Campus Section)
Description: An examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through lectures and practical application with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as advanced research techniques, case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research.
This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Online Description: TBA
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3705; Catalog Number- LAW 755A, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elmore, Marvin & Prof. Goheen, Barry
Prerequisite: Federal Courts; Civil Procedure
Grading Criteria: Ask Professors
Description: Advanced Pre-Trial Litigation is for students who have taken Civil Procedure, and Federal Courts, and are ready for an advanced strategy practicum that prepares them for the complexities of modern litigation practice.
The Legal Strategy part of the course teaches students to consider the theoretical aspects of strategy and methods for working through a strategy problem, and then apply those theories and methods to practical problems. The problems involve a small business that encounters a series of situations requiring advice with respect to strategy.
In the second part of the course, the students will learn about negotiation theory and strategy and apply these techniques to the negotiation of an e-discovery dispute. Discovery of electronic materials, usually in digital format, creates some especially difficult, time-sensitive responsibilities for lawyers. Practicing successful methods for dealing with these responsibilities in a learning-by-doing setting provides an opportunity to adapt these methods to the individual lawyer’s own situation and style.
This is “entry-level” subject matter in the sense that it does not purport to cover all the specialized aspects of e-discovery, particularly those faced by very large companies or by companies with unusual records retention practices. The purpose of this part of the course is to provide lawyers with a general methodology that will, in most cases, prevent sanctions against the client and the lawyer, while being responsive under the rules to e-discovery requests and minimizing unnecessary business interruption. However, no general method can protect against every mistake or every type of intentional wrongdoing. And no general method can minimize business interruptions in every situation.
This course is structured around the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. States may have more or less restrictive requirements, but the federal rules provide a useful general benchmark, and many state jurisdictions follow them.
E-discovery problems arise in two distinct phases:
- Preservation, production, and use of e-discovery; and
- Prosecuting or defending against challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery.
These are quite different areas and require different skills. For this reason, we have developed two separate sections on e-discovery. The first part focuses on preservation, production, and use of e-discovery and seeks to develop the skills for interviewing, negotiating, and organizing your electronic discovery. A second part focuses on challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery and seeks to develop the skills for preparing, arguing, and defending against typical motions for protective orders, motions to compel and motions for sanctions.
The e-discovery problems also develop skills in counseling clients, negotiating with opposing lawyers and dealing successfully with vendors. These skills are directed at the first-in-time problems of e-discovery – getting it right at the start and preventing disputes or adverse decisions. The course adapts established learning-by-doing teaching materials on interviewing and counseling, and on negotiation, for the special e-discovery setting. The case law applies primarily to the second area of e-discovery: prosecuting and defending against challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery.
Finally, in part three of the course, we will deal with the strategy and law of class action lawsuits. This part of the course will teach you how to make the decision whether to file a class action lawsuit or go it alone. It will also examine how to think about your defense options: whether to agree to a class action for settlement purposes, fight class certification, or negotiate some variation between these two extremes,(including an overview of multidistrict litigation options). This part of the course will also refine your understanding the law and procedure (including appellate review) related to class certifications.
*Last Updated Spring 2016Class Number: 3691; Catalog Number- LAW 605, 04A (Allgood)
Class Number: 3748; Catalog Number- LAW 605, 02A (Armstrong)
Class Number: 3797; Catalog Number- LAW 605, GRAD (Allgood)
COURSES ARE NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN BUSINESS SCHOOL OR LAW SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Allgood, John & Prof. Armstrong, Phillip
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
- Team Role Plays and Take Home Exam (Allgood)
- Take Home Exam (Armstrong)
Enrollment: 14
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR] with an emphasis on negotiation, mediation, and arbitration processes. Course objectives include an overview of these processes as a complement to litigation as well as the study of and training in the skill sets used in each of the ADR processes by advocates as well as neutrals.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3789; Catalog Number- LAW 851, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Romig, Jennifer & Prof. Chapman, Ben
Prerequisite: LAW 535A (Introduction to Legal Analysis, Research, and Communications) and LAW 535B (Introduction to Legal Advocacy) or the equivalent 1L legal writing course for transfer JDs
Grading Criteria: Students will be graded on a combination of short assignments and quizzes, collaborative presentations with assigned groups, and their individual final blog designed around a topic they develop throughout the course. Because up to 30 percent of the grade may be based on collaborative work graded collectively for each group, this course is subject to a recommended but not mandatory mean.
Description: Many lawyers write for the public in client alerts and blogs, as well as shorter social media posts. This class introduces the theory, skills, and tools needed for legal blogging. Guest speakers will address specialized topics such as legal ethics and the use of images in social media. For their work in the course, students will write a series of blog posts about a topic they choose and discuss with the professors. The final project and the majority of each student’s grade is a final capstone blog consisting of a design theme, posts totaling approximately 4000 words, images to complement the text, and other blogging features. Students also present on various blogging topics in assigned groups. Prior technical knowledge of blogging software is not required – students will learn to use WordPress, a leading blogging platform.
*Last Updated Fall 2016
Class Number: 3843; Catalog Number- LAW 655A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Cleaver, Kathleen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; In-class oral presentation; Memo; & a Research paper.
Description: This course examines the evolution of U.S. citizenship as interpreted by courts and statutes during the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention given to the impact of historical events that constructed the way race was conceived of within the United States.
During the workshop we will study and discuss the Civil War amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 19th century civil rights legislation, restrictions imposed on Asian immigration, the citizenship of native peoples, the incorporation of Mexican territory and the citizenship of Mexicans, issues of equal protection, and the modern civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1964.
This course will also consist of a four-session film component, which will be arranged based on the convenience of the students enrolled.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3774; Catalog Number- LAW 560, LLM1
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course introduces students to the concepts of legal analysis and the techniques and strategies for legal research, as well as the requirements and analytical structures for legal writing in the American common law legal system.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3818; Catalog Number- LAW 560B, GRAD
NOTE: This class is open only to foreign-educated LLMs only
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course continues the study of legal analysis, research, and writing for practice in the American common law system. The topics covered include client letters, pleadings, and persuasive writing, along with enhanced instruction covering legal citation and advanced legal research sources and techniques.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3785; Catalog Number- LAW 734, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course explores the application to the practice of law of analytical methods of the social sciences and business profession. It will introduce essential concepts from economics, accounting, finance, statistics, and game theory to prepare students for legal practice in the modern world. These tools can be tremendously important and useful; not knowing something about them can be a serious detriment to the effective practice of law. Always, our focus will be on the application of analytical methods to real legal problems, such as the appropriate measure of damages or when to settle a case -- not becoming adept at complicated calculations. Our primary goal: to recognize when an analytical method would be useful in a legal situation and to develop a rough idea of how to use that method. Students are not expected to have any prior training or experience.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3783; Catalog Number- LAW 702, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Arthur, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Federal regulation of competitive practices under the Sherman, Clayton, and Federal Trade Commission Acts. The course covers such antitrust problems as joint activities by direct competitors, including cartel price fixing, market division and boycott arrangements and productive joint ventures; monopolization by single firms; restraints imposed by manufacturers on their distributors; and mergers.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Analysis, Research, and Communication ("ARC")
Note: LAW 590E is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Class Number: 3817; Catalog Number- LAW 590, GRAD (JM & LLMs w/approval)
Class Number: 5303 & 5365; Catalog Number- LAW 590E (Online JM format Students Only)
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit Nancy (590 & 590E) & Prof. Glon, Christina (590)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular Assignments & Final Project
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce objective legal analyses.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Banking Law
Class Number: 3845; Catalog Number- LAW 604
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott, Jim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will examine the nature, content, and scope of the rules regulating the banking industry in light of economic and social purposes. The course will also look briefly at the history of the U. S. banking industry and will emphasize the economic and business aspects of the individual bank and of the industry as a whole.
*Last updated Fall 2015
Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Class Number: 3756; Catalog Number- 635D
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Reba, Stephen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: Students in the Appeal for Youth Clinic provide a holistic appellate representation of youthful offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. By increasing the number of appeals from adjudications of delinquency, we hope to end the unwritten policies and practices that result in youths being committed to juvenile detention facilities. Similarly, by providing post-conviction representation to youths who were tried and convicted as adults, we hope to decrease the number of youthful offenders who languish in Georgia's prisons.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Barton Legislative Advocacy Clinic
Class Number: 3693; Catalog Number- LAW 635C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in the two-credit class: Child Welfare Law & Policy. This requirement may be waived for students with demonstrable prior experience in child advocacy, including the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program.
Grading Criteria: Assessment of individual student performance and overall contribution to the clinic; Assigned projects; and Project teams based on a set of established criteria
Description: The Barton Clinic is an in-house policy clinic dedicated to providing research, training, and support to the public, the child advocacy community, leadership of state child-serving agencies, and elected officials in Georgia. Students in the clinic hone their advocacy skills by interacting with legislators and elected officials around current statutory and system reforms spearheaded by Barton and its community partners. They attend legislative sessions, create advocacy resources, and provide legislative testimony in support of initiatives. They live the life of a lobbyist, experiencing first-hand the realities of relationship-building and compromise that are hallmarks of the legislative process. Students also provide technical assistance to legislators and other stakeholders in assessing the merits and legality of various proposals. Approximately 9 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Applications are accepted prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic website: http://law.emory.edu/academics/clinics/barton-public-policy-and-legislative-advocacy-clinic.html
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3769; Catalog Number- LAW 630, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Aronson, Morton
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 25 students!
Description: This course focuses on client development and retention. Business and Strategic Lawyering is the big picture of law. It is the development and understanding of legal, business, political social and other considerations with a goal to implementing strategic legal, business and other actions to obtain the best results. The constantly changing fields of science, technology, and globalization and their legal, business, political and social consequences make the strategic merging of proactive business strategies and legal considerations necessary for optimizing results. Both lawyers and business executives need to act proactively to protect clients and shareholder interests through effective strategic legal and business risk management structures and processes within the larger strategic business context. The course will include prominent guest lecturers from the legal and business communities.
This course will also consider and evaluate law firm management procedures and techniques to maximize on revenues as well as more effectively serving business clients. In the innovative driven technological economy we are living today, strategic lawyering has become an imperative for both lawyers and business executives.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
- Class Number: 3762; Catalog Number- LAW 500X, 001 (Kang)
- Class Number: 3865; Catalog Number- LAW 500X, 002 (Shepherd)
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kang, Michael & Prof. Shepherd, George
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course surveys formation, organization, financing, management, and dissolution of sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. The course includes fundamental rights and responsibilities of owners, managers, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises. This course includes consideration of major federal securities laws governing insider trading and other fraudulent practices under Rule 10b-5 and section 16(b).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 5271; Catalog Number- LAW 876, 00B
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kuck, Charles
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Immigration law is one of the most divisive and complex areas in American law and a source of major policy debate. This course will introduce students to substantive legal concepts and procedures underlying the practice of immigration law in the United States, with emphasis on employment and investment based immigration. The course aims to provide an understanding of immigration statutes, regulations, and processes; analyzing administrative and judicial decisions and agency practices, as well as to placing our current immigration laws and system in their historical, social, and political contexts. A critical component of the course is the practical application of the immigration laws, concepts and procedures learned. The course includes review of admission issues, employment-eligibility verification compliance, employer sanctions, nonimmigrant and immigrant visa classifications and procedures (e.g., B, F, E, J, L, TN, H, O and P Visas, Labor Certification, I-140 Petitions, EB-5 Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing), advanced immigration concepts (e.g., H-1B Portability, Green Card Portability, Visa Retrogression), and practical solutions and strategies for handling immigration-related issues in the workplace.
Class Number: 5292; Catalog Number- LAW 623, 00F
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Domingo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-Home Final Exam
Description: Canon Law, the law of the Roman Catholic Church, stands at the origin of the Western Legal Tradition and is one of the chief sources of legal concepts and principles we take for granted today. This course will explore the theological and historical background of Canon Law, as well as contemporary Canon Law practice and principles set out in 1983 Code of Canon Law, the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, and post-1983 legislation. The course will cover such topics as marriage and family life; clerical conduct and misconduct; church governance at the universal, intermediary, and local levels; the interwoven roles of the papacy, bishops, synod of bishops, college of cardinals, and Roman Curia; and some controverted questions concerning the rights and obligations of ordained diocesan clerics. The topics and themes of the course will be adjusted to meet the needs and interests of students. The readings will include primary and secondary sources.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3292; Catalog Number- Law 658, 03A
NOTE: Interested students must submit a letter of interest & resume to Josh Moore, Office of the Georgia Capital Defender at jmoore@gacapdef.org
Credit: 3 Hours (pass/fail)
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three-hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third-year law students from Emory & Georgia State will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients' cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages are to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on making the case for life. That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
Catalyzing Social Impacts *Cross-listed with BUS 336/BUS 535
Class Number: 3827; Catalog Number- LAW 880B, GBS
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Roberts, Peter; Prof. Martin, Randy; Prof. Segall, Lynne (Goizueta Business School); and Prof. Shalf, Sarah; Prof. Woodward, Jeff; & Prof. Norman, Justin (Emory Law School)
Prerequisite: None
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/preselection-for-catalyzing-social-impact/
Enrollment: Open to 2Ls, 3Ls and LLMs by application/permission only; Limited to 8 Students!
Grading Criteria: Class Participation; Team meetings; & Team Project
Description: This course is a team-project-based course. Students will be presented with a research question by a live client (nonprofit or socially conscious for-profit) regarding the feasibility of a concept to create, modify or expand their organization's work in some way. Past projects include: developing a method of deploying an interactive diabetes prevention education program in Atlanta high schools; developing the requirements and qualifications for a subsidized health benefits/education program for local organic farmers who are primarily within the Medicaid gap; locating feasible sites in Atlanta for a sustainable composting business; and determining the best method of exporting a public defender training organization's methods into other public defender systems.
Students from the law school, school of business (MBA) and Masters of Development Practice programs will work together to develop a statement of work, will collaboratively do legal and nonlegal (i.e., market, subject-matter, demographic, etc.) research, discuss and strategize that research with the team and client, and develop one or more feasible approaches to the issue presented. The projects will proceed in stages, with a different student leading each stage, and a presentation to the class and clients at the end of each stage. Grades will be based on the assessment of the final group product as well as peer assessment of each team member's contribution.
Enrollment will be between 6 and 8 students, depending on project availability and MBA enrollment. The first 6 students who are selected will be enrolled between the first and second phases of preregistration. Additional students may be waitlisted briefly pending confirmation of projects and total enrollment, with enrollment to be finalized in early-mid November.
There will be a mandatory business school boot camp the weekend of Jan. 6-9 that you must attend if you enroll in the course. We may have additional meetings between November and mid-January, either with the other students or just with the law students, to plan for and get students prepared for participation in the course.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3741; Catalog Number- LAW 635, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. THIS COURSE QUALIFIES AS A PRE-REQUISITE OR CO-REQUISITE FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE BARTON PUBLIC POLICY OR LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY CLINIC.
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Participation; & Written Assignments
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child welfare system and the primary federal legislation that impacts how states fund and deliver child welfare services. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, and a range of analytical writing assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Civil Trial Practice: Family Law
Class Number: 3744; Catalog Number- LAW 958, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wellon, Robert; Prof. Kessler, Randall; & Prof. Durrence, Amy
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course Work; Pretrial Conference; & Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation skills introduced in last year’s Trial Techniques Program, this course will enhance students’ trial proficiency by emphasizing lecture, demonstrations, as well as regular classroom participation through the NITA-inspired learn-by-doing approach. Students will receive guidance from a highly experienced panel of instructors comprised of well-respected judges and trial lawyers. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be presented by providers of litigation support. The case file is built around a divorce trial, with issues of custody, alimony and support, the division of property, and an interesting twist on adultery and its impact. There are no family law pre-requisites for this course, as the primary focus will be developing and refining trial skills which will translate into any litigation. Some emphasis will be placed on the substantive law of domestic relations to establish the issues to be tried, but the real goal of the course is to further enhance the development of true trial lawyers. Other components of the course will feature jury selection by a nationally known jury consultant and pretrial conferences in anticipation of preparing for trial. Throughout the course, knowledge of evidence and its proper application will be emphasized, along with effective and practical techniques of delivery and examination. At the conclusion of the semester, a full trial will be conducted by student trial teams to a live jury in a real courtroom setting at the DeKalb County Courthouse with actual trial judges presiding. This is an essential course for students interested in honing and further enhancing their abilities in a courtroom, and for others simply interested in expanding their knowledge and skills in the burgeoning area of family law. The course has been expanded to three hours in recognition of the value of the course and the time and specialized attention required to prepare law students to move immediately into trial work upon graduation.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Climate Change
Class Number: 5299; Catalog Number- LAW 624L, 00A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Purdom, Rebecca
Prerequisite: Ask Prof.
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: Ask Prof.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3801; Catalog Number- LAW 770, 04A
Credit: 2-3 Hours (optional 3rd credit for JD students only who write research papers)
Selection: Non-law students (up to an additional 5) are welcome with permission from the instructor. For more information contact Professor Dudziak at mary.dudziak@emory.edu
Instructor(s): Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Research Paper
Enrollment: Limited to 10 law students! (No preselection for law students, enrollment is first-come-first-serve)
Description: This course is a law and graduate seminar held in conjunction with the Colloquium on War and Security in Law, Culture, and Society. The course approaches the study of law, war, and national security as inherently interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. We will read and discuss books and articles on war, national security, and the role of law. Outside speakers will occasionally present works in progress.
Course requirements: Students will read and comment on papers by outside speakers, read and discuss course readings, and write a 20-page paper. Law students who enroll for an additional credit (for a total of 3 credits) will instead write a research paper of at least 30 pages. The 30-page research paper, which can satisfy the law school writing requirement, will involve more extensive research, and students will be required to complete additional assignments, including a first draft.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3802; Catalog Number- LAW 612, 001
Class Number: 5505; Catalog Number- LAW 612, GRAD; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Hay, Peter & Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (GRAD)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam or In-class Exam; Early delivery option for take-home.
Description: The first-year Contracts course typically is too compressed to deal in any depth with Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) which, in some form, is now the law in all States and applies to contracts for the sale of goods in excess of $500. This course covers Article 2 in depth and adds some treatment of documentary transactions (bills of lading and letters of credit). The Convention on the International Sales of Goods (CISG) was ratified by the United States and, as federal law, therefore supersedes the UCC, whenever its provisions cover an issue. The course, therefore, supplements UCC study with all relevant provisions of the CISG. – The course is offered in the form of a workshop in which issues like contract formation, formalities, conditions, breach, remedies are studied in a problem-solving format: Code (or CISG) law is applied to solve hypothetical cases, with court decisions serving as authoritative tools for the interpretation of the statutory language. The study of Art. 2 is a very desirable completion of one’s understanding of Contract law.
Online Description: TBA
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Comparative Law and Religion (Lab)
Class Number: 6274; Catalog Number- LAW 894, CSLR
**ACCELERATED COURSE- January 29-February 2, 2018 and February 19-23, 2018**
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder, Mark
Prerequisite: Law & Religion
Enrollment: Limited to 25 Students!
Grading Criteria: One short paper each week; Pass/Fail
Description: An in-depth look at comparative law and religion from two angles. Week 1: Religious Law; Week 2: International Law and Religion.
Students in the practicum will be working on two cases: a) Posner v. Debeneim out of California, a secular inheritance case that actually hinges on Jewish contract law, family law, and parental obligations. Second, they will be working with the professor on United Poultry Concerns v. Chabad of Irvine, in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, another civil case that turns on Jewish ritual, and in which, we will file an expert amicus brief. Professor Lifshitz and Professor Goldfeder are still fine-tuning the exact material but Professor Lifshitz's week-long part of the course will provide students with a background law and religion perspective from a religious law (in this case Jewish law) standpoint which will help the practicum students put these two cases in context.
Lastly, we are also going to be looking at the different ways similar cases are handled in courts and jurisdictions around the world. Roznai's part of the course will take off from where Lifshitz left off and explore how even "religious law" is handled contextually. This will set up another important part of the practicum which deals with how to practically argue religion cases without religion. We will focus on the American arguments of ceremonial deism and religious speech and the rest of Roznai's lessons will look at how other countries in Europe and Asia make similar sorts of arguments by framing things as "religious culture" instead of religion. Again this will put our Establishment jurisprudence in a much broader context.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3745; Catalog Number- LAW 610, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Freer, Richard
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of the metamorphosis of litigation from the simple two-party model to multi-party, multi-claim litigation increasingly prevalent today, including the causes of this change and ability of the legal system to resolve such disputes. The course centers on a detailed study of the class action device, including jurisdictional and due process implications. Also included is the study of the problem of duplicative state and federal litigation, judicial control of complex cases, including multi-district litigation procedures and the case management movement, discovery (including international and e-discovery), and problems relating to preclusion in complex cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Conflict of Laws
Class Number: 3803; Catalog Number- LAW 709, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Hay, Peter
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: When a case has interstate or international aspects – for instance: place of contracting and performance differ, a tort has cross-border effects, one party seeks an ex parte divorce or maintenance or child custody modification in another state or country, or an intestate decedent leaves property in different places -, the first question that rises: which court or courts have jurisdiction? Second, the court that does entertain the case must then decide which law to apply. (The anticipated answer to this question may influence the plaintiff’s choice of court in the first place). Third, if a successful plaintiff finds no assets locally, s/he needs to get the judgment recognized and enforced in a state or country where the debtor-defendant does have assets. – The course offers a good review of important aspects of civil procedure and treats choice of the applicable law and judgment recognition in depth. The focus is on interstate conflicts cases but the course also contains comparative and international material in all of its parts.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations
ClassNumber: 5357; Catalog Number- LAW 622A, 001
Class Number: 3841; Catalog Number- LAW 622A, GRAD; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Cloud, Morgan & Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (GRAD)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
Online Description: TBA
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3873; Catalog Number- LAW 698L
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Perry, Michael
Prerequisite: None (1Ls who have not taken Con Law, please contact instructor 1st)
Grading Criteria: Course Participation and Take-home Exam
Description: In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of the United States has resolved, on the basis of the Constitution of the United States, several greatly contested "rights" controversies—controversies concerning, e.g., gun control, capital punishment, race-based affirmative action, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and, most recently, same-sex marriage. In this course, we will study those (and other) controversies and evaluate the Supreme Court’s decisions. A principal, recurring issue throughout the course: In resolving such controversies, what role should the Supreme Court play: how large a role, or how small? The final exam will be of the “take home” variety.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3749; Catalog Number- LAW 710, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Beck, Joseph
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Copyright law protects original works, such as books, music, paintings, photographs, architectural works, and software. This course examines copyright law, including what works are eligible for copyright protection, what rights are afforded to copyright owners of particular original works, and how copyright responds to technological developments. The course also explores copyright infringement, various defenses to infringement (such as fair use), and remedies. The class will also explore the theories that justify copyright protection in the US, in contrast to other jurisdictions, and the persuasiveness of such theories.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Corporate Finance
Class Number: 3804; Catalog Number- LAW 712, 12A
Class Number: 5360; Catalog Number- LAW 712, GRAD; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Shepherd, George & Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (GRAD)
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of the financial and economic theory underlying legal doctrines in corporate finance, and the relationship between these doctrines. Focuses on decisions about "value" in the context of such areas as bankruptcy reorganization, dissenters' appraisal rights, and public utility regulation. Problems of capital structure and the duties of directors to various classes of claimants are studied in light of decisions about dividend policy and reinvestment. Includes a brief review of modern portfolio theory.
Online Description: TBA
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3733; Catalog Number- LAW 959, 01A
Class Number: 3747; Catalog Number- LAW 959, 02A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Classwork & In-class Final Exam
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students!
Note: Class openonly to 3Ls
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Students reflected on what they gained from taking this class:
"I think what is most drastically different is how much more professional I came across later in the semester." -Ben S.
"The largest benefit I drew from our class was the ability to stand comfortably in front of a group of people." -Diana S.
"The most valuable aspect is practice, practice, practice, especially when combined with live and individualized feedback. I can make presentations with significantly less internal anxiety than before, and with more organization and the outward appearance of credibility." -Andrew R.
"This class taught me that putting work into your speaking style can really pay off! I also found the freedom during this class to try some experiments with my speaking technique, including not memorizing a script and moving about my space." -Alan W.
Class Number: 3886; Catalog Number- LAW 960
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I
Grading Criteria: Participation & Group Assignment
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students!
Description: This follow-up course to Courtroom Persuasion Drama I applies theater arts techniques to the practical development of persuasive presentation skills in any high-pressure setting, especially the courtroom.
In this advanced class, you will build on performance skills learned in Courtroom Persuasion Drama I in order to present a more compelling and persuasive case story. You will gain practical experience applying skills and techniques of communication and storytelling learned in CPDI to the components of a trial from initial interview through closing arguments.
You can expect to increase your creativity in storytelling through improvisation; develop visualization by increasing awareness of and sensitivity to images in written language; feel confident in your own unique style of communication.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Criminal Law Defenses
Class Number: 5300; Catalog Number- LAW 700C, 00D
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Berne, Steven
Prerequisite: Criminal Law & Evidence
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam Period
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students!
Description: This class will enable the students to effectively advocate and persuade others of the veracity of particular criminal defenses. Emphasis will be placed on several current and controversial defenses, including "stand your ground" self-defense and opioid addiction. Students will watch video content, listen to podcasts and read news articles. There will be an in-class discussion of these defenses as applied to ongoing criminal cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Criminal Competency and Responsibility Practicum
Class Number: 3867; Catalog Number- LAW 622E
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Deets, Annie
Prerequisite: Criminal Law; Constitutional Law; & Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System.
Grading Criteria: Participation; Court Performance; & Experiential Reaction Papers
Enrollment: Limited to 8 Students! (Contact Professor for Permission)
Description: The Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System Workshop provides an experiential learning component to second and third-year law students who have previously taken Law 622D. Students will have the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in the context of criminal cases involving issues of competency or criminal responsibility in Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom advocacy skills. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which mental health cases fit or rather do not fit within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system and the practical implication of raising issues of mental health issues of competency, criminal responsibility or even offering evidence of mental health as mitigation. This class will have a classroom component but will also extend beyond that into the real and very complex practice of criminal law involving mental health issues. Students will conduct mock competency and mock responsibility trials. Students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local mental health service providers, interacting with the NICK Project (a collaboration between the DeKalb Public Defender’s Office, Atlanta Legal Aid, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities) and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Student will also review actual competency evaluations and will conduct interviews with actual defendants, participate in discharge planning with social workers and community service providers, observe actual competency evaluations, and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, motions hearing, competency hearings, pleas.)
Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please Note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office, as it would cause a professional conflict.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the secure Directed Research web page »
Class Number: 3735; Catalog Number- LAW 659E, 09A
Class Number: 3881; Catalog Number- LAW 659E, 09B
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Course Work
STUDENTS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY TAKEN ACCOUNTING OR FINANCE COURSES ARE NOW PERMITTED TO TAKE THIS CLASS ON A PASS/FAIL BASIS ONLY WHICH WILL TAKE UP THREE OF THEIR SIX PASS/FAIL HOURS.
Description: This course is designed for those liberal arts majors who know nothing about accounting and finance. Students will learn about the fundamental financial statement concepts. Then the course will turn to the study of how lawyers use those concepts in practice.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3736; Catalog Number- LAW 659G, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott, James & Prof. Taylor
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (concurrent okay); Contract Drafting; & Deal Skills (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Midterm; Participation; & Drafting of Documents
Enrollment: 18
Description: This course will concentrate on sales, finance, and leasing of commercial real estate. It will require significant amounts of time devoted to the financial analysis of real estate projects and to negotiating and drafting of documents. It is designed specifically to include JD, LLM, and MBA students. Workgroups will consist of JD, LLM, and MBA students working together as lawyer and client to analyze, negotiate and document the acquisition and subsequent leasing of a shopping center. The text for the course is a business school real estate finance text. Legal materials will be made available as handouts. A basic knowledge of Excel will be helpful but not required.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
- Class Number: 3766; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 04A
- Class Number: 3763; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 04B
- Class Number: 3764; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 04C
- Class Number: 3777; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 04D
- Class Number: 3765; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 04E
- Class Number: 3786; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 09A
- Class Number: 3779; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, 09B
- Class Number: 3878; Catalog Number- LAW 659A, MCL
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (highly recommended as prerequisite, but can be taken concurrently)
Grading Criteria: Homework & Final Assignment
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students per section!
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3737; Catalog Number- LAW 659H, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. New, Randy & Prof. Mazzone, Dominic
Prerequisite: Business Associations; Contract Drafting; & Deal Skills (concurrent not ok for any)
Grading Criteria: Written Problems & Class Participation
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Description: The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the first year of general corporate practice, whether in an in-house, law firm or solo practice setting. This course will provide students with broad exposure to a variety of corporate problems, including contract negotiation and drafting typical of current corporate practice, complex corporate structuring issues, joint ventures, and non-litigation corporate dispute resolution. The course exercises will involve questions of corporate, tax, employment, and debtor-creditor law. Although prior coursework in these areas is not required, it is preferable to have some interest in and familiarity with these areas.
Because student participation is essential for the success of this practice-simulation course, attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade. This course also requires collaborative work with other students and meetings with the adjunct faculty. You will be required to schedule several meetings in addition to regular class time. In addition, any students on the wait list for this class must attend the first class meeting, which sets the stage for the first several weeks of assignments.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
- Class Number: 3738; Catalog Number- LAW 659B, 04A
- Class Number: 3742; Catalog Number- LAW 659B, 04B
- Class Number: 3879; Catalog Number- LAW 659B, 04C
- Class Number: 3753; Catalog Number- LAW 659B, 04D
- Class Number: 3754; Catalog Number- LAW 659B, 04E
- Class Number: 3755; Catalog Number- LAW 659B, 04F
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting (required – concurrent not okay); Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Homework, Participation/Professionalism; Negotiation Project; & Comprehensive Individual Project
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Description: Deal Skills builds on the skills and concepts learned in Contract Drafting and emphasizes the skills and thought processes involved in, and required by, the practice of transactional law. The course introduces students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, such as M&A deals, license agreements, commercial real estate transactions, financing transactions, and other typical transactions. Students learn to interview, counsel, and communicate with simulated clients; conduct various types of due diligence; translate a business deal into contract provisions; understand basic transaction structure, finance, and risk reduction techniques; and negotiate and collaboratively draft an agreement for a simulated transaction. Classes involve both individual and group work, with in-class exercises, role-plays and oral reports supported by lecture and weekly homework assignments.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3750; Catalog Number- LAW 659J, 05A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations; Contract Drafting; & Deal Skills (concurrent not okay for any)
Grading Criteria: Participation in Simulated Transaction; Written Assignments; & Participation (NO EXAM)
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students!
Description: This class is designed to provide law school students who intend to practice transactional law with some of the basic practical skills required to counsel companies with respect to business combinations. The focus of the course will be to identify and discuss the factors involved in a typical business combination, the roles of the parties and the relevant documents. The course is intended to ease the transition from law school to junior transactional associate.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3887; Catalog Number- LAW 880
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Ellis, Jeremy & Prof. Harrison, Chason
Prerequisite: Approved by Faculty Advisor (via tryout)
Grading Criteria: Participation (Graded on Pass/Fail Basis)
Description: Team members prepare for oral negotiations, practice negotiation techniques, and draft transactional documents under the direction of one or more faculty advisors for regional, and potentially national competitions. A student selected to compete is eligible for credit in the semester in which the competition is held. The faculty advisor(s) will approve course registration and assign a grade.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5398; Catalog Number- LAW 659R, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBD
Prerequisite: Business Associations & Contract Drafting. Deal Skills is a recommended prerequisite but may be taken concurrently (or waived by the professor based on relevant experience or other factors).
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises; homework assignments; A comprehensive individual project; & A prospectus summary project. There will not be a final exam!
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Description: This course will simulate the structuring, formation, and regulatory work that would be performed by a junior associate or in-house counsel representing public investment companies, private investment funds, or other pooled investment vehicles. The course will focus primarily on the regulation of investment companies subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940 and its companion statute, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; however, significant attention will be given to alternative investment vehicles, such as hedge funds, venture capital funds, private equity funds, real estate partnerships, and other private investment vehicles. Students will gain experience in analyzing securities laws and regulations that govern a fund’s structure and operations; structuring public and private offerings; reviewing and drafting various documents included in a fund offering, and considering ethical issues that may arise.
These issues will be addressed through a combination of lectures, in-class exercises, homework assignments, a comprehensive individual project, and a prospectus summary project. There will not be a final exam. Prerequisites are Business Associations and Doing Deals: Contract Drafting. Doing Deals: Deal Skills is a recommended prerequisite but may be taken concurrently (or waived by the professor based on relevant experience or other factors).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3739; Catalog Number- LAW 659C, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBD
Prerequisite: Business Associations; Contract Drafting; & Deal Skills (concurrent not okay for any)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Description: This course will study the business and legal issues in venture capital transactions. The course will be taught primarily through simulations.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3784; Catalog Number- LAW 669, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dinner, Deborah
Prerequisite: Standard First-Year Courses (including Con Law)
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: An introduction to the principal federal employment discrimination statutes, with limited attention to state analogues. The course will focus primarily on the prohibitions on race and sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. We will also examine constitutional law when relevant to the interpretation of statutory prohibitions on discrimination.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3746; Catalog Number- LAW 669X, 06A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Shultz, Chad & Prof. King, Fred
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination or Employment Law
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: Limited to 8 students!
Description: The class will work through an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King Jr., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 5332; Catalog Number- LAW 694, 00D
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Volokh, Alexander
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: English legal history began around the year 600, when King Aethelberht of Kent promulgated his famous legal code: "If a person strikes off a thumb, 20 shillings. If a thumbnail becomes off, let him pay 3 shillings. If a person strikes off a forefinger, let him pay 9 shillings. If a person strikes off a middle finger, let him pay 4 shillings. . . ." From Aethelberht to modern-day workers compensation codes (in Georgia, $60,000 for the loss of a hand) is but a brief step. But in between, we get to cover Domesday Book, Magna Carta, the dissolution of the monasteries, the Instrument of Government, and the Bill of Rights.
More precisely: this course is a survey of the law of England between, approximately, the years 600 and 1800. Why study English legal history? There are at least two possible reasons: (1) to know "how we got here from there" and thus to better understand our modern legal system, or (2) to understand the period on its own terms, that is, to see what it was like to be a lawyer in the 14th century. I'm personally partial to approach (2), but there will be plenty for those who favor approach (1) as well.
We'll cover some private law, some criminal law, and some constitutional law (and we'll discuss why it's correct to talk of "constitutional law" when a country has no written constitution). I anticipate that we'll spend less time on criminal law than on private or con law. The theme of private law is that our law of property, torts, and contracts is largely the result of unplanned accidents, lawyers seeing how far they could stretch existing legal remedies to cover situations they were never designed for. The theme of con law is that we have our democratic representative institutions thanks to irresponsible, high-spending kings: the more irresponsible the king, the more often he would call an assembly to ask for more money. Little by little, the legal system will come to resemble what we learned as 1Ls.
The readings will be a mix of primary sources (in modern English translation) and secondary sources. No knowledge of foreign languages or English history is required or assumed.
*Last Updated Spring 2018.
Class Number: 3694; Catalog Number- Law 720, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Sanders, Scott
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property; Trademark Law; or Copyright Law (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will provide an overview of the rapidly developing body of law associated with the entertainment industries concentrating in the areas of music publishing and commercial recording, live performance, literary publishing and motion pictures. The course will focus on a study of entertainment law cases, aspects of copyright law, personal rights, and negotiation of entertainment agreements.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Environmental Law
Class Number: 3853; Catalog Number- LAW 624X
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Legislation & Regulation
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will focus on legal strategies to regulate and remedy environmental harms. The course is designed to prepare transactional lawyers, regulatory lawyers, and litigators, specifically including students interested in specializing in environmental law for corporate compliance, the government, or public interest. A major goal of the course is to introduce students to the analytical skills necessary to understand and work in environmental and many other predominantly statutory and regulatory fields. The course will therefore frequently involve analysis of methods of interpretation of statutes and regulations and analysis of the central role of administrative agencies in environmental law. The course will focus on various federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; Endangered Species Act; and National Environmental Policy Act.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3695; Catalog Number- LAW 916, 02A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: Trusts & Estates (There are no tax course prerequisites for Estate Planning)
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Selected problems in estate analysis and planning involving drafting of wills and trusts utilizing future interests, class gifts, powers of appointment, generation-skipping arrangements, and qualification for the marital deduction. Consideration of planning for business interests, insurance, and employee benefits also is included.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3809; Catalog Number- LAW 620L, 001
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mickevicius, Henrikas & Prof. Tulibacka, Magdalena
Prerequisite: EU Law I recommended
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: The course examines fundamental areas of substantive law of the European Union, with particular emphasis on their practical application and on their links and parallels with U.S. law. The students will examine some of the most important recent cases decided by the Court of Justice of the EU involving U.S. corporations, including Google Spain v. Costeja on ‘the right to be forgotten’, and Microsoft v Commission concerning Microsoft’s abuse of its dominant position in the EU market. They will be able to identify and critically assess the EU approach to a number of legal and economic concepts and rules, including market integration, equality, products liability and antitrust law.
The course commences with examining the EU personal data protection regime and the right to be forgotten as defined in case of Google Spain v. Costeja. It will continue with an examination of the law and legal practice related to the European single market: free movement of persons, including the evolving concept of EU citizenship; goods; establishments and services; and capital.
A number of hours will be devoted to the complex EU antitrust law, its enforcement, and its relationship to the U.S. antitrust rules. The analysis of the European Union’s market legislation and legal practice will be completed by a class on EU consumer law, which in many ways differs from the U.S. approach to consumer protection.
Further, the students will scrutinize the European Product Liability Directive and its parallels with the U.S. products liability law.
Finally, the course will examine substantive and procedural aspects of the EU criminal law and other issues within the rapidly developing area of freedom, security, and justice, and discuss the emerging areas of the EU civil procedure, including class actions and ADR. Lectures and discussions will draw parallels with the U.S. federal and State systems.
Most classes will consist of a lecture part and an interactive seminar part where students will deal with the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, hypothetical cases, resolve legal problems and discuss ideas.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3751; Catalog Number- LAW 632X, 04A (Morrison)
Class Number: 5230; Catalog Number- LAW 632X, 04B (Goldfeder)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder, Mark & Prof. Morrison, Caren (Visiting Professor- GSU Law)
Prerequisite: Must be a second-year JD (or AJD) student; LLMs are eligible as well.
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions, and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege.
Externship Program
Catalog Number- Law 870I-Advanced; Law 870D- Civil Litigation; Law 870F- Corporate Counsel; Law 870H-Criminal Defense; Law 870C- Govt. Counsel; Law 870E- Judicial; Law 870J- Legislative Policy; Law 870G- Prosecution; Law 870A- Public Interest; Law 870L- Small Firm.
Credits: Varies
Instructor(s): Multiple
Selection: Application process submitted to Prof. Sarah Shalf (The Deadline has now passed, and if interested must contact Prof. Shalf)
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Fieldwork
Description: Step outside the classroom and learn to practice law from experienced attorneys. Take the skills and principles you learn in the classroom and learn how they apply in practice. Emory Law's General Externship Program provides work experience in different types of practice (all sectors except law firms) so you can determine which suits you best and develop relationships that will continue as you begin your legal career. Students are supported in their placements by a weekly class meeting with other students in similar placements, taught by faculty with practice experience in that area, in which students have the opportunity to learn legal and professional skills they need to succeed in the externship, receive mentoring independent of their on-site supervisors, and to step back and reflect on their experience and what they are learning from it.
Our Small Firm Externship Program provides students especially interested in the small law firm practice setting with experience in specially-selected small law firms. The firms' attorneys participate with the students in our weekly class meeting, which focuses on the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a small firm practice setting.
Students apply for externships via Symplicity in the semester prior to the externship and all placements must be preapproved. Available placements for the General program are listed on the Emory Law website, http://law.emory.edu/academics/academic-programs/externships/externship-search.html, and the currently-participating Small Firms are listed here: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/small-firm-externship-applicant-law-firm-ranking/
Warning: No student is allowed to be enrolled in more than one clinic or externship classes (except fieldwork) in a semester.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3740; Catalog Number- LAW 633, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will address the problems, policies, and laws related to the formation and dissolution of the marital relationship. Among the topic covered will be marriage, divorce, child custody and other related topics.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Federal Income Tax: Corporations
Class Number: 3696; Catalog Number- LAW 642, 10A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fowler, Lynn
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Survey of the general structure of taxation of corporations. Considers the tax issues arising from the formation, operation, liquidation, and reorganization of corporations. An important course for anyone interested in transactional law.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Class Number: 3790; Catalog Number- LAW 640L, 08A
Credit: 4 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: An introduction to federal income taxation with an emphasis on determination of income subject to taxation, which expenses are allowable deductions and whether certain income is excluded from taxation, along with the proper time for reporting items of income and deductions and which proper taxpayer should pay the tax.
NOTE: Students who have previously taken Fundamentals of Income Tax (the 3 credit course with Professor Pennell) may not take this class.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3697; Catalog Number- LAW 942, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Beaudrot, Charles
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Three Quizzes & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course teaches the key principles of the taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, LLCs and other entities taxed under Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code and those who own interests in such entities. We will look at tax issues in the formation, financing, and operation of these entities in order to understand the effect the tax rules have on financial returns and choices in investment structures. This is an important class for those interested in venture capital, private equity, real estate, or international business transactions where the rules of partnership taxation are of great importance.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Introduction to Financial Compliance
Class Number: 3885; Catalog Number- LAW 759
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Clemmons, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation (35%); & Scheduled Final Exam (65%).
Description: This course is intended for students with an interest in financial institutions and regulatory compliance, specifically those thinking about working in big law or in-house at a fintech start-up company, looking to effect change in financial services policies and regulations, or planning to work in consulting, compliance, or risk with a consulting firm. Financial services regulatory compliance related to consumer protection is experiencing a boom. Many attorneys and professionals are unprepared to understand the enforcement of the rules and supervision of institutions under state regulators’, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s authority, as these agencies work across many industries and institutions, including banks, credit unions, mortgage companies; student loan companies; auto lenders; payday loan lenders; fintech companies, etc. This course will introduce students to financial services regulatory compliance, and students will familiarize themselves with regulations and trends in financial services. Students will interpret regulations, review cases, and balance real-world business considerations, including financial and reputational consequences, in order to tackle real legal issues and challenges. The course will include guest speakers from regulatory agencies, practicing attorneys, and other subject matter experts (SMEs) with advanced degrees and/or relevant compliance work experience.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
First Amendment
Class Number: 3830; Catalog Number- LAW 601C, GRAD: This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: This is an online course is about the history, theory, and law of free speech. The law has two components, a set of substantive standards and a set of procedural standards. (Given the high value assigned to free-speech, for it the courts have developed especially protective procedural standards.) In terms of substance, First-Amendment based law has developed differently in different contexts, such as sedition, crime-facilitating speech, defamation, pornography, public education, and commercial speech. We will study free speech in these and other contexts. Also, free speech varies according to the medium, oral, print, or electronic, and we will consider speech in these different mediums.
*Last Updated Fall 2014
Foreign and Comparative Law Research
**Accelerated Class- Second-half of semester
Class Number: 5510; Catalog Number- LAW 761C
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Flick, Amy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research practice Exercises & Final Research Project
Description: Foreign & Comparative Law Research will introduce specialized techniques for research in the legal materials of other countries. Students will become familiar with research in foreign and comparative law through lectures and practical application through in-class research exercises, homework exercises, and a final research project on a subject area of the law of another country. Topics for class sessions will include types of primary resources for other countries, comparative works and subject compilations, translations and use of legal resources in foreign languages, and research in the materials of select countries, both common law jurisdictions (United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia), and civil law jurisdictions (France and Mexico). This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the second seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
*Last Updated Spring 2018Class Number: 3805; Catalog Number- LAW 602, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: In-Class Final Exam
Description: This course examines the law that regulates the conduct of American foreign relations. Topics include the distribution of foreign affairs powers between the three branches of the federal government, the war power, the treaty power, the status of international law in U.S. courts, the validity of executive agreements, the preemption of state foreign affairs activities, and the political question and other doctrines regulating judicial review in foreign affairs cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3698; Catalog Number- LAW 890A, 04A
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: Fundamentals of Innovation II is the second of the two-course sequence on various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process. Issues explored will include patterns of technological change, identifying market and technological opportunities, competitive market analysis, the process of technology commercialization, intellectual property protection, and methods of valuing new technology.
The fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in-depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3775; Catalog Number- LAW 736, 12A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Satz, Ani
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Healthcare is one of the largest sectors of the economy, and the practice of health law is growing. This course is an introduction to regulatory health law as well as some prominent medical controversies. The course will address selected topics in health law related to issues of quality, access, cost, and choice. Possible topics include: regulation of physicians and healthcare institutions, confidentiality, informed consent, individual and institutional obligations to provide care, discrimination in access to care, ERISA preemption and regulation, public and private health insurance structures and some of the major statutes that govern them, fraud and abuse, government powers in public health emergencies, genetic discrimination and eugenics, assisted suicide, and human and nonhuman animal experimentation for medical purposes.
Health Policy: Obamacare v. Trumpcare
Class Number: 5392; Catalog Number- LAW 736L, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Sage, Bill
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Proctored Final Exam
Description: Healthcare represents approximately one-sixth of the American economy, as skilled personnel provide life-saving services using advanced technology. But the fairness and efficiency of the healthcare system remain controversial. Enacted a century after universal health coverage was first proposed in the United States, the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) intensified public policy debate rather than resolving it. After years of sustained opposition, the Republican party now seeks to “repeal” and “replace” Obamacare after its victory in the 2016 national elections. But why? And how?
This course considers some of the toughest problems in current health law and policy. Which countries have the best healthcare systems, and why? What roles should government play in health care, and what roles should it avoid? Does the U.S. make too many social problems into medical ones, or too few? What is the best way to support the cost of care for those who are too sick or too poor to afford it themselves? How can we spend less on health care and get more for our money? To what degree should the future health care system be controlled by physicians? How can individuals and communities become healthier? How can racial disparities in health care and health be reduced? How can the health care system best serve an aging population? What policies would most effectively further innovation? Finally, how has law defined these problems and how can legal change facilitate their solution?
Because the course meets in one long bloc each week, we will regularly include interactive components, small-group work, etc. We will also alternate each week between a "macro" level issue such as expanding health coverage or reducing aggregate spending, and a "micro" level issue such as redressing medical errors that cause patient injury or ameliorating social determinants that impair health for individuals and families.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Higher Education Law
Class Number: 3807; Catalog Number- LAW 665, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fowler, Paul PhD
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Case Briefs; Class Presentation; Outline Paper; and Case Study/Scheduled Final Exam.
Description: The course has been designed to expose the student to a range of administrative challenges at the postsecondary level that entails legal and ethical implications. The course experiences should ultimately help current and prospective administrators to envision the legal dimensions of collegiate-level decision processes. Topics to be covered will be the basis from which higher education law originates, current (case, state and regulatory) law, as well as risk management and liability issues for higher education – all contextualized to current pressing issues facing higher education today.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Income Taxation of Trusts, Estates, Grantors, and Beneficiaries
Class Number: 5336; Catalog Number- Law 911, 00A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite. Highly recommended is concurrent or prior enrollment in the basic Income Taxation course and prior completion of Trusts & Estates
Grading Criteria: In-class Midterms & Scheduled Final Exam.
Description: The income taxation of trusts, estates, grantors, and beneficiaries (Internal Revenue Code Subchapter J) affects virtually every fiduciary entity and imposes the highest income tax rates in America. This course focuses on the basic application of Sub J to garden-variety trusts and estates and explores the grantor trust rules that trump those basic rules. We will attend to specifics of planning with “intentionally defective grantor trusts,” postmortem income tax planning, dealing with income in respect of a decedent, charitable trusts, foreign trusts, Subchapter S and Electing Small Business Trusts, and state income taxation of trusts that straddle state borders.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3825; Catalog Number- LAW 608, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Holbrook, Tim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam (Multiple Choice)
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to patent, trademark, copyright law, and trade secrets. The course will explore the policy and legal foundations for these areas of law and the scope of protection which each affords. The eligible subject matter, requirements for protection, and means of enforcement of each regime will be examined and compared. The framework for the administrative procedures which support the patent and trademark systems will also be discussed.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Intellectual Property Litigation Practicum
Class Number: 5397; Catalog Number- LAW 608D, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Rothman, Joel; Prof. Schneider, Jerold; & Prof. Kunin, Larry
Prerequisite: 3Ls only! IP Survey and Evidence are prerequisites. Copyright, Trademark or Patent are strongly suggested.
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/ip-lit-practicum/
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation & Groupwork (Pass/Fail)
Description: In this practicum, you will assist experienced intellectual property counsel in the representation of real “live” clients in copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent infringement litigation.
You will learn, through classroom instruction, the role the litigator plays in representing clients in intellectual property matters at all phases from the sending of demand letters to the filing of complaints, answering or moving to dismiss, filing for or defending against preliminary injunction/temporary restraining order proceedings, seeking or defending against discovery requests, choosing and presenting or opposing experts, filing or defending against motions for judgment on the pleadings or summary judgment, trial preparation, trial and appeal.
You will be assigned at least one actual plaintiff’s case of copyright infringement to handle from start to finish. You will also assist in the prosecution or defense of patent, copyright, trademark or trade secrets cases depending upon the availability of those cases at that time.
The skills you gain will help you decide whether litigation generally, and intellectual property litigation specifically, interests you, and will be useful in either a litigation or transactional practice regardless of the subject matter.
The practicum will include classroom instruction and simulation during class, as well as assignments to be completed for each class to improve proficiency with real-world litigation documents.
Students will accumulate at least 150 hours of total time, between class time, class preparation, and working on assignments outside of class.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3850; Catalog Number- LAW 730, GRAD; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: This online course will be a survey of practical issues that arise in cross-border transactions, including both outbound and inbound (from a US perspective) trade and investment transactions. We will discuss issues that affect transactions involving international trading of goods, project development, and acquisitions. Topics will include letters of credit, international trade terms such as INCOTERMS, joint venture agreements, and international transfer of technology. We will also cover some selected aspects of government regulation of international trade and investment.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3822; Catalog Number- LAW 690L, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam or Take-home Final Paper
Description: This course focuses on international concerns for the upholding of human rights standards in legal systems of the world. It defines the concept of human rights and distinguishes different categories of human rights that have developed over the years, namely (a) natural rights of the individual; (b) civil and political rights; (c) economic, social and cultural rights; and (d) solidarity rights. General problems relating to the theoretical basis of human rights will come under the spotlight in this section, including the universality and relativity of human rights, and the right to self-determination of peoples.
The course further deals with mechanisms for the protection and promotion of international human rights at three distinct levels: (a) globally, under auspices of the United Nations Organization, with emphasis on the binding effect of the human rights standards enunciated in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promotion and protection of those rights by the Human Rights Council, and the proclamation and enforcement of certain categories of rights in virtue of international conventions and covenants sponsored by the United Nations; (b) regionally, in Europe under auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the Helsinki Accord, in the Americas under auspices of the Organization of American States; and in Africa under auspices of the African Union; and (c) thematically, under auspices of specialized agencies such as the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNESCO.
When dealing with the promotion and protection of human rights under auspices of the United Nations, special attention will be given to the question whether or not the provisions in the U.N. Charter dealing with human rights are self-executing in the United States, and decisions of the Human Rights Council dealing with, for example, the defamation of a religion, and human rights violations committed by Israel in the West Bank and in Gaza. We have also singled out particular rights and freedoms for closer scrutiny, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion or belief, and the international protection of rights of the child.
The section on the Council of Europe pays special attention to the doctrine of a margin of appreciation developed by the European Court of Human Rights, which affords to High Contracting Parties a first bite at the cherry to decide whether circumstances exist in their respective countries that would warrant limitations to be imposed on particular rights or freedoms enunciated in the European Convention for the Protection of Basic Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and to the doctrine of positive obligations, which places on High Contracting Parties a duty to protect persons under their jurisdiction against violations of their rights by the State and by non-State actors. It further focuses on a selection of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, such as those relating to torture, sexual orientation, and extradition constraints (the latter involving the United States).
The section on the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights singles out decisions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights that condemned the United States for not observing basic principles of the Inter-American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man of 1948, for example ones that dealt with racial discrimination in the sentencing of convicted criminals, the death penalty, abortions, and non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
The latter set of cases will also bring into contention three judgments of the International Court of Justice condemning the United States for non-compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and responses from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Germany to those judgments. The enforcement of international human rights in federal courts of the United States in cases such as Medéllin v.
Texas and in virtue of the Alien Torts Statute and Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 10 of the U.S. Constitution places the Vienna Convention judgments in a broader perspective.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
International Human Rights Law Practicum
Class Number: 5402; Catalog Number- LAW 690A
Credit: 3 hours
Prerequisite: International Human Rights Law (concurrent ok)
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/international-human-rights-practicum-preselection/
Grading Criteria: Substantive Projects & Short-term tasks via Assignments (70%) & Attendance/Participation (30%). No Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 4-6 Students!
Description: The Practicum will offer students a one-of-a-kind experiential education opportunity to deepen their knowledge of international human rights law, policies and enforcement mechanisms. The Practicum allows students to act essentially as junior lawyers in collaboration with and under the direct supervision of an Adjunct Professor Henrikas Mickevicius, who has over 35 years of experience in national and international law practice and is a member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). A signature element of the Practicum will be support for the mandate of the WGEID.
Students will work on substantive projects and short-term tasks related to the WGEID. Weekly 2-hour companion seminars, taught by Prof. Mickevicius, will familiarize them with the relevant legal frameworks—hard and soft law instruments, mechanisms, venues, procedures and case-law—and the skills they will need to employ to carry out assignments. Students will present and reflect on their findings and receive specific feedback from their instructor and classmates, to progress in their work. The instructional part of the seminar and related readings will be coordinated with professors teaching doctrinal human rights courses.
The course accounts for a minimum of 150 work hours per semester, including the weekly seminars, as well as preparation for those seminars, and assignments and projects. Assignments will constitute 70% of the final grade, and seminar attendance and participation 30%. There will be no final exam for this course.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3752; Catalog Number- LAW 676, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam or Take-home Final Paper
Description: September 11th, the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and the status of Afghani captives being held at Guantanamo Bay; the testing and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction; the violent conflict in Israel and Palestine, and in Libya; and attempts to establish an Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are all matters that come within the range of international humanitarian law: the law of armed conflict. International humanitarian law applies to and in times of armed conflict and differentiates between international armed conflicts and armed conflicts not of an international character. The war in Bosnia/Herzegovina and jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) illustrate the complexities attending that distinction. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Hamdan Case that the “war against terror” is an armed conflict not of an international character because it is not a war between States. This view is at odds with the jurisprudence of the ICTY and the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is also extremely difficult to establish precisely under what conditions an internal uprising would be considered an armed conflict for the purposes of international humanitarian law.
The rules of international humanitarian law fall into two main categories:
(a) the ius ad bellum (the law relating to armed conflict): under what circumstances is the taking up of arms to resolve an international or internal dispute legitimate, and when would it constitute the international crime of aggression?
(b) the ius in bello (the law applying in times of war), which comprises two main subject matters:
The rules regulating the means and methods of conducting hostilities (what weapons may be used, and what persons or objects may be targeted);
How must belligerent parties treat persons and objects not engaged in, or used for, actual combat, such as the wounded or sick members of the armed forces in the field; the wounded, sick or shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea; prisoners of war; and civilians.
Under (a), the course will explore the legitimacy of, for example, wars of liberation, the right to self-defense, and humanitarian intervention, with special emphasis on the war in Iraq, the Israeli offensive in Gaza, the use of armed force in Libya, and the current bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. Under (b)(i), questions such as the legality of the threat or use of a wide spectrum of armament, ranging from dumdum bullets to nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons, as well as legitimate/illegitimate targets of an armed attack, will be considered. Under (b)(ii), matters such as the treatment of prisoners of war and of the wounded and sick soldiers, and the protection of civilians and civilian objects, including cultural property, in times of war will come under the spotlight.
Particular problems that have emerged from recent judgments of the ICC and of the Supreme Court of Israel include the conscription and enlistment, and the use in actual combat, of children under the age of 15 years, and the use of a human shield to protect legitimate military targets from an armed attack.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3732; Catalog Number- LAW 676C, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Transitional Justice; National Security Law
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance, please note that this class cannot be taken on a pass/fail basis!
Enrollment: By application, contact Professor Blank
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counter-terrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries, and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank.
The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3699; Catalog Number- LAW 732, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. An-Na’im, Abdullah
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Mid-Course Paper & Scheduled Final Exam. Regular attendance is required. Missing five classes without prior notification to the Instructor or genuine emergency will result in a reduction of one tier in the final grade (e.g. from A minus to B plus). Additional unexcused absences will result in further reduction of the final grade. A class will be devoted to discussion of the themes and issues for the one mid-course paper.
Description: This course introduces students to an accurate overview of principles of Public International Law while adding a critical, post-colonial global south perspective. We will also discuss some of the challenges raised by structural and institutional limitations of the current “state-centric” system. Underlying questions include: What were the context and assumptions underpinning the formation, structure, and content of International Law in the 19th and first half of the 20th century? Have things really changed or are they simply “old wine in new bottles”? Is present International Law really international, and what impact, if any does this distinction have? What are some of the implications of the recent transformations in the actors and processes involved in the rule of law in international relations?
Required Readings: Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Steven R. Ratner and David Wippman, INTERNATIONAL LAW: NORMS, ACTORS, PROCESS, 4th Ed. (Wolters Kluwer, 2015).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS & JM STUDENTS
Class Number: 3794; Catalog Number- LAW 570A
Class Number: 5363; Catalog Number- LAW 570E, 001 (Mathews); This is an online course, only open to online format JM students.
Class Number: 5364; Catalog Number- LAW 570E, 002 (Goldfeder); This is an online course, only open to online format JM students.
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Koster, Paul (570A); Prof. Mathews, Jennifer & Prof. Goldfeder, Mark (570E)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & In-Class Final Exam
570A Description: This course covers the constitutional principles and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. The course examines the basic principles of legal reasoning and provides an overview of the primary areas of first-year legal study.
570E Description: TBA
*Last Updated Spring 2018.
Introduction to Law & Economics
Class Number: 3773; Catalog Number- LAW 628Y, 08A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 80 Students!
Description: This course introduces students to the economic analysis of the law. Because economics provides a tool for studying how legal rules affect the way people behave, understanding economic analysis of legal problems has become an important part of a lawyer's education. The ability to predict the effects of legal rules helps the practicing lawyer furnish advice and make arguments before courts. It is also a prerequisite for the evaluation of legal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, the economic approach has grown in importance in academia as well as in legal and judicial practice. The course will explore several economic methods and concepts and apply them to illuminate and critique familiar areas of law, including criminal law, torts, contracts, property, and civil procedure. There are no prerequisites for this course; a background in economics is not necessary (or even very helpful).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Introduction to Legal Advocacy (ILA) formerly LWRAP II
Catalog Number- LAW 535B
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carroll, Lesley; Prof. Kirk, Aaron; Prof. Mathews, Jennifer; Prof. Parrish, Robert; Prof. Romig, Jennifer; Prof. Schwartz, Julie; Prof. Pinder, Kamina; & Prof. Koster, Paul
Prerequisite: ILARC (or an equivalent course)
Grading Criteria: Class assignments
Enrollment: This course is limited to first-year students and transfer students who need the course to graduate
Description: This course builds on skills presented in ILARC and introduces students to the process of effectively employing persuasive strategies in both written and oral formats.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Islamic Banking & Finance
Class Number: 5395; Catalog Number: LAW 627F, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Bambach, Lee Ann
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-home Final Exam
Description: Islamic finance is one of the fastest growing sectors of the international finance market, growing at the rate of over 10% annually and expected to top $3 trillion in assets by 2020. No longer limited to the Middle East or Southeast Asia, there is growing interest in this market on the part of non-Muslim customers, investors, and financial institutions, and and sharia-compliant financial services and products are currently offered more than 70 countries, including in the U.K. and the U.S. Yet in spite of its dynamic growth and future potential, the Islamic financial industry remains relatively unknown in the United States.
This course is designed as an intensive basic introduction to Islamic (or sharia-compliant) banking and financing. It will explore the hows and whys behind the industry, its ethical and legal underpinnings, and how it interacts with the U.S. and other legal systems. No previous familiarity with the field is necessary and there are no course prerequisites. All readings will be in English.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3814; Catalog Number- LAW 627, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. An-Na’im, Abdullah
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: This course is evaluated exclusively through three 1500 word papers, submitted via email to eibridg@emory.edu, by the dates topics indicated in the Course Outline. Attendance is required. Missing five classes without the approval of Instructor will be penalized in the final grade. Additional grade penalty will be imposed for missing more than five classes.
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the nature, sources, and techniques of Sharia. The term Sharia is used instead of Islamic Law to avoid implying that it is the law in the sense of the positive law of the state, which this course will argue is a misconception.
This course will discuss the main concepts, principles, and rules of Sharia in a range of themes of modern legal systems, namely, the fields of property and transactions, family law, criminal law, constitutional law and inter-communal (international) law and human rights.
The course will also examine the issue of Jihad under Shari‘a and its implications to modern international relations.
The last part of the course will examine the relationship between Shari‘a and the legal systems of a range of modern Muslim-majority countries, selected from Otto, SHARIA INCORPORATED (2011).
Required Texts:
- An-Na‘im, ISLAMIC COURSE MATERIALS 2016, Emory Law School Copy Center
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im, TOWARD AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION (Syracuse University Press, 1990)
- Jan Michiel Otto, Editor, SHARIA INCORPORATED (Leiden University Press Academic), 2011.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3771; Catalog Number- LAW 664, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper or Take-Home Exam
Description: This course will survey the principles Jewish (or Talmudic) law uses to address difficult legal issues and will compare these principles to those that guide legal discussions in America. In particular, this course will focus on issues raised by advances in medical technology such as surrogate motherhood, artificial insemination, and organ transplant. Through discussion of these difficult topics many areas of Jewish law will be surveyed.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Juvenile Defender Clinic
Class Number: 3700; Catalog Number- LAW 699C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: Priority will be given to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in: Kids in Conflict with the Law; Juvenile Law or Family Law 2; Criminal Procedure; and Evidence.
GradingCriteria: Based on individual student performance
Description: The Juvenile Defender Clinic is an in-house legal clinic dedicated to providing holistic legal representation for children charged with delinquency and status offenses. Student attorneys represent clients in juvenile court and provide legal advocacy, in school discipline, special education and mental health matters, when such advocacy is derivative of a client's juvenile court case.
Under the supervision of the clinic's director, Randee Waldman, student attorneys are responsible for handling all aspects of client representation. While in the clinic, JDC students will: Establish an attorney-client relationship with their client(s); Direct case strategy determinations; Investigate allegations; Interview witnesses; Negotiate dispositions and plea agreements; Prepare and litigate motions and try cases.
Students are also encouraged to engage in research and participate in juvenile justice policy development.
Note: Applications are accepted via Symplicity or e-mail to professor Waldman prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
*Last updated Spring 2018
Kids in Conflict with the Law
Class Number: 5337; Catalog Number- LAW 699, 00D
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Grades will be based upon (i) a short reaction paper; (ii) an in-class advocacy exercise; & (iii) a final research paper.
Description: The 2-credit course is a detailed study of the juvenile delinquency system. This course will trace the trajectory of juvenile justice in the United States over the course of the last century, from its birth as a separate system in the early 1900s, through the due process revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread punitive reforms of the 1990s, to the recent rulings on the juvenile death penalty and juvenile life without parole. It will explore critical issues such as search, seizure, and interrogation of minors; waiver from juvenile to adult court; the unique procedural mechanisms of juvenile courts; sentencing and confinement; and implications of emerging scientific research on adolescent development. Finally, the course will also explore the relationship between the juvenile delinquency and school systems. Classes will consist of lecture, discussion, and advocacy exercises. This course is open to all 2Ls and 3Ls, and is recommended either prior to or concurrently with entry into the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic.
Landlord-Tenant Mediation Practicum II
Class Number: 5362; Catalog Number- 870K, 002
Credit: 3 hours (each semester)
Instructor(s): Prof. Powell, Bonnie
Selection: Application process submitted thru Symplicity (Deadline has already passed as this is a year-long course)
Description: Landlord-Tenant Mediation Workshop students will mediate landlord/tenant disputes, including cases handled by the Magistrate and State courts; particularly small claim civil issues such as disputes between landlords and tenants. Assuming an agreement is reached during mediation, students will be responsible for drafting a detailed settlement agreement.
Students work under the supervision of an attorney mediating cases that deal with numerous issues of law within the court system. Prior to mediating, students will receive 28 hours of civil mediation training and will be registered as neutrals with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.
Required Mediation Training
Training is provided by the program and will occur the first or second week in August; attendance for the entire 28 hours of training is mandatory. Training dates will be confirmed no later than June 1.
These hours may be used later in the semester to compensate for any necessary time away. For example, if a student has to leave at 5:00 pm for an evening class, 30/45 minutes of training can be used as a filler.
For those who need a more flexible schedule, there is also now a partnership with Dekalb County so students can mediate there as well. The hours there are a bit different and has more flexibility.
Enrollment
This is a full academic year, two-semester workshop. Students must enroll in both the fall and spring semesters. Second and third-year students may apply. An in-person interview will be scheduled with the supervising attorney.
- Application Period: Resumes can be submitted through Symplicity at the same time externships accept resumes.
- Required Background Check: Upon acceptance, a criminal background check by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution will be conducted.
Class Times
- Students must be available to go to court from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 12:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
- Weekly seminar sessions will take place at the courthouse during the semester.
*Last Updated Fall 2016
Law and Religion Practicum
ClassNumber: 5583; Catalog Number- 708, PRAC
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder, Mark
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Professor
Description: Ask Professor
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3704; Catalog Number- LAW 736A, 04A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kocher, Paula; Prof. Ghosh, Sudevi, & Prof. Baker, Glenn
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Based on a combination of attendance, classroom participation, and take-home exam/paper
Description: Law and public health are tightly intertwined. Law students can benefit from an improved understanding of the legal principles and laws underlying the complex and cross-disciplinary field of public health practice in the United States. This course surveys law as it defines public health and is used by local, state, and federal government agencies as a tool to address contemporary public health problems in the United States. The course features a cross-disciplinary emphasis on the link between both the law and science of public health practice. The course specifically addresses foundational sources for public health law in the United States, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and case law. In addition, this course provides an examination of controlling law and emerging legal issues associated with selected topics drawn from bioterrorism, natural disasters, and other public health emergencies; public health surveillance and outbreak investigations; public health research and health information; special populations (including, for example, persons with mental disabilities, prisoners, children, and homeless populations); and key public health topical areas, such as vaccination; food-borne diseases; tobacco use-related problems; and injuries. Topics are covered through a combination of lecture and classroom discussion of assigned readings. Readings are assigned from the required text, selected cases, and articles published in the medical, public health, and other scientific literature. In addition to the listed course instructors, other instructors will include a rich array of expert guest lecturers from the practice community.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3883; Catalog Number- LAW 613A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fraher, Richard
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Participation; & a Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will provide students with a foundational understanding of the public laws and regulations that structure the check and wire systems in the U.S. and the federal laws and regulations that overlay the automated clearing house network and the card networks that are structured by private sector rules that bind participants by agreement. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with Uniform Commercial Code Articles 3, 4, Regulation CC, UCC Article 4A, Regulation E, and the basics of the compliance regime established by the Bank Secrecy Act and the regulations of the Office of Foreign Asset Controls as they apply to payments. This legal learning will be placed in the context of the rapid pace of technological innovation, globalization, and the policy issues surrounding the transformation of payments systems.
Required Books & Materials: Ronald Mann, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions, 6th ed. (2016); any recent edition of Selected Commercial Transactions, ed. Chomsky, Kunz, Schiltz, and Tabb; online materials as specified.
- Class Number: 3813; Catalog Number- LAW 747, 12B (Terrell)
- Class Number: 3701; Catalog Number- LAW 747, 12A (Goldfeder)
STUDENTS CONSIDERING A LITIGATION FIELD PLACEMENT IN THEIR THIRD YEAR ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO TAKE LEGAL PROFESSION IN THEIR SECOND YEAR.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell, Tim & Prof. Goldfeder, Mark
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: The rules and principles of professional ethics, other regulatory constraints on lawyers, the elements of malpractice liability and the values of professionalism. Study of the rules (primarily the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and professionalism.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Legal Profession: Comparing Lawyers & Physicians
*Note: This course will satisfy the Legal Profession Requirement for Graduation
Class Number: 5394; Catalog Number- LAW 747L, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Sage, Bill
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Description: Modern professionals perform their duties in a rapidly changing world, subject to forces such as corporatization, consumerism, globalization, and the information revolution. This course takes a comparative approach to the professional responsibilities of American lawyers by contrasting legal and medical professionalism. After developing a theoretical framework for analyzing professional practice, the course explores the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications for both lawyers and physicians of organizational structures, scope of practice, compensation, representation and advocacy, confidentiality and communication with clients and patients, conflict of interest, access to professional services, competition involving professions, and professional malpractice and misconduct. The course will include study of the rules governing both professions (e.g., the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Media Law
Class Number: 3816; Catalog Number- LAW 722, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Counts, Cynthia
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance & Participation (10%); Scheduled Final Exam or Writing Assignment(s) (90%).
Description: This class will explore legal issues that are particularly relevant to newspapers, radio and television stations, web operators, and bloggers. Topics include tort liability for defamation and invasion of privacy, prior restraint the right of the media and public to access government documents, right of the public to attend government proceedings and access to information, the protection of confidential sources, and use of copyrighted material in news broadcasts The course will also examine the legality of undercover reporting and the use of hidden cameras. The class will analyze and discuss the practical implications and these principles in real-world First Amendment and media cases that were recently litigated. In class discussions, students will identify, analyze, and critique the constitution, statutory, and common-law legal doctrines that apply to media law cases, and we will study how those doctrines originated, have evolved, and will continue to change. Among other things, students will analyze and discuss in depth key cases that show how the law and protections for the media have developed and will gain a greater understanding of how the law impacts news reporting today. In addition to the assigned reading, we will discuss current media and First Amendment cases that are raised in the news throughout the course of the semester. Your grade will be determined based on class participation and a take-home final exam which could be om the form of a writing assignment, such as drafting a memorandum of law in support of a motion.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Mediation Advocacy
Note: **Short Course** Four weeks, Starting week of 1/10, with two 3-hour sessions each week, and one additional Friday afternoon session, during the four weeks.
Class Number: 3854; Catalog Number- LAW 606
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Gmurzyńska, Ewa
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation (50%); & Take-home Exam (50%)
Description: Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method that has become an essential part of legal systems. Its institutionalization, as well as widespread application - particularly in many civil cases - requires lawyers to have a practical and theoretical understanding of it. In Georgia, like a number of other states and federal courts, many cases are required to go to mediation before they go to trial. Mediation is also becoming a popular tool to resolve disputes in other countries, as well as in the international arena, particularly in commercial disputes, and thus it is becoming a universal method for the resolution of many types of conflicts. Mediation is also an important part of effective legal representation - requiring a problem-solving approach to conflicts.
The course will make students familiar with US mediation rules and processes, as well as the international legal framework and law of mediation, including in the European Union. Students will study mediation from a comparative perspective, including differences between court proceedings, arbitration, negotiation, and mediation, and with regard to the distinct role of a mediator, as opposed to a judge or arbitrator. The course will explore the mediation process from different perspectives - particularly parties, advocates, and mediators. During the course, students will discuss the use of mediation by lawyers, as well as the role of lawyers in mediation. Emphasis will be put on effective advocacy in mediation. Students will have an opportunity to practice effective communication skills and mediation role-playing. Teaching techniques including class discussion, presentation of video clips, skills exercises, and mediation role-playing will be utilized, which will require active participation by students.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Mergers & Acquisitions
Class Number: 3829; Catalog Number- LAW 636A, GRAD; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: Mergers and Acquisitions is an essential course for students who are interested in the corporate law field. The course explores legal issues related to mergers and acquisitions. Topics covered include acquisition structures and mechanics, shareholder voting and appraisal rights, board fiduciary duties, federal securities laws requirements, anti-takeover defenses, tax issues, and antitrust considerations.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3791; Catalog Number- LAW 652, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course surveys the framework of domestic and international laws that authorize and restrain the pursuit of the U.S. government’s national security policies. Central issues include the sources, foundation and structure of national security law; the participants in the national security system, their constitutional roles, and the nature of power-sharing among branches of government; and the law applicable to specific national security issues such as the use of military force, the activities of the intelligence community, and counter-terrorism activities.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
National Security Law Workshop
Class Number: 5826; Catalog Number- LAW 652B, 002
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisite: TBA
Enrollment: Limited to 6 Students! Must apply/seek permission from Professor
Grading Criteria: See Professor
Description: See Professor
*Last Updated Fall 2017
National Security: Counterterrorism
Class Number: 3904; Catalog Number- LAW 652A, OGP; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: National Security: Counterterrorism is an in-depth look at counterterrorism in the United States. Examines the competing conceptions and definitions of terrorism at the national level and the institutions and processes designed to execute the national security on terrorism. Includes the study of the balance between national security interests and civil liberties found in the following topical areas: relevant Supreme Court decisions, legislative provisions in response to acts of terrorism, operational counter-terrorism considerations (including targeted killing), intelligence gathering (including interrogations), policy recommendations, the use of military tribunals or civil courts in trying suspected terrorists, the emerging law regarding enemy combatants and their detention, and the arguable need for new self-defense doctrines at the global level.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
- Class Number: 3702; Catalog Number- LAW 656, 06A (Athans)
- Class Number: 3703; Catalog Number- LAW 656, 06B (Eldridge)
- Class Number: 3819; Catalog Number- LAW 656, 06C (Lytle-Perry)
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Athans, Michael; Prof. Eldridge, David; & Prof. Lytle-Perry, Courtney
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
Note: COURSE NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE LAW SCHOOL OR NEGOTIATIONS IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes proceeded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include the development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 5399; Catalog Number- LAW 757, 001
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole & Dr. Guldberg, Robert
Prerequisite: IP Survey or Patent Law (prereq or concurrently); Patent Bar Admission Preferred
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/preselection-for-pro-bono-in-practice/
Enrollment: Limited to 4 Students!
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof. Morris
Description: This course is a collaboration with Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience (“IBB”) at Georgia Tech and it is a practicum course designed to acquaint students with many of the legal issues associated with obtaining an invention disclosure from inventors and preparing patent applications. These legal issues include novelty & non-obviousness requirements under the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, understanding inventorship, the drafting of an invention disclosure and the inputs to prepare a patent application. The course will also provide students with a lawyering experiences working with inventors seeking assistance in preparing a patent application. Emory Law students will be paired with academic research teams from IBB who are preparing invention disclosures based on recent research results. The students and researchers will learn how the provisional patent application process can be applied to the researcher's results. The objective is to give participants an introduction to the legal problems they are likely to encounter during an invention disclosure discussion either as lawyers working with inventors as clients or in-house lawyers for an enterprise. Students will develop the client communication and interviewing skills during the invention disclosure process. At the conclusion of the course, students will be expected to produce a legal memo that the inventors can use in their respective intellectual property right pursuits. These memos will be confidential to the Emory and Georgia Tech institutions.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Patent Practice and Procedure
Class Number: 5338; Catalog Number- LAW 756, 00B
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kirsch, Gregory
Prerequisite: IP & Patent Law
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: This course introduces the students to the fundamentals of patent practice before the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO), by focusing on the drafting of patent claims, patent specifications and responses and amendments to Office Actions, as well as undertaking patent clearance studies. In addition to learning such skills, students will become familiar with the U.S. patent statutes, USPTO regulations, case law and customs and practice relating to drafting and pursuing patent applications to issuance through the Patent Office.
The course has two primary components: (1) lectures that introduce the students to the subject matter to be studied, and (2) practical skills-oriented homework and in-class exercises that will allow the students to hone their patent practice skills.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Practical Lawyering Skills: Pro Bono in Practice Practicum
Class Number: 5778; Catalog Number- LAW 630A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Babcock, Sarah
Prerequisite: Evidence (concurrently ok) & must become certified under Student Practice Act.
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/preselection-for-pro-bono-in-practice/
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Grading Criteria: See description below, second paragraph.
Description: This practicum will introduce students to the concept of using pro bono work to develop skills that can be leveraged for success in the private law firm context. Students will experience pro bono work as a “win-win” – they will see the impact for the clients served, and they will develop skills through the course and its' live lawyering experiences that will assist them in all areas of their future practice. The first section of the course will cover some of the ethical and professional reasons supporting pro bono work, as well as the “business case” for pro bono and common criticisms of modern pro bono practice. In the second section of the course, students will learn about the daily realities of poverty and the challenges those realities present to attorneys representing low-income clients, will develop their own “Best Practices for Pro Bono Practice,” and will use simulations to learn client management, communication, counseling, and interviewing skills. Finally, the last section of the course will include a mock client interview and two mock trials – eviction defense and temporary protective order (TPO) – in preparation for each student’s pro bono representation of an actual client in one of those areas (under supervision of an attorney).
This is a two-credit course, graded pass/fail. Evaluation will be based on each student’s “Best Practices for Pro Bono Practice,” in-class reflective activities, the live lawyering experiences (relying in part on evaluation submitted by the supervising attorneys), and a reflective essay on those experiences.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Religion, Culture, and Law in Comparative Practice
Class Number: 3810; Catalog Number- LAW 711, 001
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Short Weekly Assignments & 24-hour Take-home Final Exam
Description: Debates rage worldwide over what role religion and culture should play in law and governance and whether granting them a role conflicts with democratic principles. Increasingly, religious and ethnic groups are demanding that religious and cultural practices form the basis of the legal system or, at the very least, a separate legal system governing only their members. Western policymakers are finding it difficult to respond to these claims. While they see them as possibly antithetical to the principles of tolerance and equality built into liberal democratic theory, there is something uncomfortable about rejecting these demands when they come from a majority of a population or from a minority group that has suffered severe discrimination. This course will explore the issues that arise in the debates about the appropriate role for religion and culture in democratic governance. It will examine different models for incorporating religion and culture into law as well as at models that wholly reject this incorporation using case studies from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Remedies
Class Number: 5339; Catalog Number- LAW 741, 00D
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Partlett, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Rights in tort, contract, and constitutional law are enforced in court. Whether the remedies that enforce rights are part of the substantive right or supplementary to it, remedies are theoretical and practically essential in understanding, and being fully equipped to practice in, both private and public law. This course will cover legal and equitable remedies. Restitution and monetary damages (including the "rightful position" principle, consequential damages, and damages for dignitary and constitutional harms) form the core, while injunctions – preventive, reparative, and structural – supplement remedies with which students will be familiar from courses in torts, contracts, property, and constitutional law. Other topics will include declarative judgments, contempt, and attorneys' fees, which are necessary to understanding the power of the courts to deliver justice. Reference will be made to the scope of self-help and apology, and similar non-monetary relief.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Secured Transactions
Class Number: 3795; Catalog Number- LAW 713, 10A
Class Number: 5361; Catalog Number- LAW 713, GRAD; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours (1 hour- GRAD)
Instructor: Prof. Pardo, Rafael & Ahdieh, Robert (GRAD Section)
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will examine the law relating to the creation, perfection, and enforcement of security interests in personal property. Reading and class discussion will center on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and will include an introduction to the intersection of Article 9 with the federal bankruptcy laws, the creation and status of non-UCC liens on personal property (by operation of law or by execution of a judgment, e.g.), and non-UCC enforcement mechanisms, such as foreclosure, repossession, and garnishment. Attention will also be paid to the business context within which Article 9 operates, ie, debt financing.
(GRAD) Description: Secured Transactions is a study of personal and commercial financing by loans and credit sales under agreements creating security interests in the debtors’ personal property (Article 9 of the UCC and relevant provisions of the Bankruptcy Code).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3792; Catalog Number- LAW 673, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Terry, Bob
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course is intended to be a follow-up course to the Securities Regulation course, which covers registration of new securities issues, disclosure and anti-fraud issues, and the coverage of securities laws. This course approaches securities regulation of the standpoint of the intermediaries between the issuers and purchaser, broker-dealers, and investment advisers. It is intended to provide an academic foundation of relevant law, as well as practical information also relevant to a law practice in the area.
Much of the course will focus on the regulatory scheme and activities of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory body which is the principal day-to-day regulator of the broker-dealer industry. FINRA is the entity with which most broker-dealers and their counsel will typically interact with regard to most regulatory matters.
In addition, the course will look at investment advisers, a rapidly growing piece of the securities industry. An investment adviser is regulated either by the SEC or by state regulators, depending upon its size. Investment advisers are subject to a completely separate regulatory regime, although there are many examples of overlap with broker-dealer regulatory issues since many firms, or their affiliates, are dually registered.
The interplay between the two regulatory schemes has been the focus of much discussion and legislative and regulatory activity over the past fifteen years, including several parts of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Finally, the course will provide insight into practical considerations of regulatory interaction, in both routine settings as well as enforcement matters.
In addition to private practice, graduating students with an interest in securities might find opportunities with brokerage firms, regulators, and public corporations. The combination of the Securities Regulation course and this course should provide graduating students a thorough overview of most of the issues they might see if they enter into a securities-related practice.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3729; Catalog Number- LAW 892, 04A
Note: OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: Special Topics in Technology Commercialization provides students with an opportunity to apply what has been learned in the Fundamentals of Innovation I and II courses. Students will work in the teams formed during the first year to continue work on the PhD team member’s technology. Students will also work on a project with the Advanced Technology Development Center (commonly known as ATDC) or Venture Lab.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3862; Catalog Number- LAW 696; This is an online course and is only open to JM students.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: Sports Law considers issues in both intercollegiate and professional sports with an emphasis on constitutional law; tort and criminal law; antitrust, labor law, and other issues of law in the field of sports, such as considerations of Title IX, drug testing, violence, and the role of agents.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3772; Catalog Number- LAW 641, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Craft, Shannon (Loechel)
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading: Mid-Semester Paper & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will focus on the resolution of federal tax controversies through both administrative procedures and litigation. Specifically, we will consider filing requirements, audit procedures, administrative appeals, deficiencies, assessments, including termination and jeopardy assessments, penalties, interest, and the statute of limitations. Additionally, we will take a practical approach to problems and considerations arising in the litigation of cases before the U.S. Tax Court, District Court, and the Court of Federal Claims, including jurisdictional, procedural, and evidentiary issues. We will examine the choice of forum, pleadings, discovery, privileges, and tax trial practice. Finally, we will discuss summons enforcement litigation, civil collection, levy and distraint, and the tax lien and its priorities.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
The Professional Narrative in Practice
Class Number: 3833; Catalog Number- LAW 574X, SP18
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Soto, Ragi & Prof. Yates, Greg
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 50 Students! Department Consent Needed!
Grading Criteria: Participation; Assignments; & Final Assignment
Description: Professional Narrative in Practice will help students develop their professional "story" through the creation of job search materials, graded exercises, and small-group interaction in class. In addition, the course will include a large component aimed at assisting students with an international background or interest and will address the cultural challenges of searching for a job and practicing law in a foreign country. The course will be open to students who have secured (or are actively pursuing) a position as a law clerk, legal intern, or summer associate in a country other than their home country. This course will require that students complete a legal internship and a submit a post-internship personal assessment and evaluation. Students are eligible for one pass/fail credit.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Topics and Strategies in Civil Litigation
Class Number: 5396; Catalog Number- LAW 750, 001
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: Ask Prof.
Grading Criteria: Ask Prof.
Description: Ask Prof.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Transnational Criminal Litigation Practice
Class Number: 3877; Catalog Number- LAW 732C
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ramirez, Shannon & Prof. Pearce, Brian
Prerequisite: None. (Criminal Law is highly recommended)
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Paper
Description: Transnational criminal litigation describes the intersection of two or more domestic criminal justice systems across international borders—unlike international crime, which refers to wrongs that are criminalized under international law and sometimes tried by international tribunals, whether or not they are also criminalized in states’ domestic laws.We will examine the fundamental concepts and principles of domestic criminal law in the United States occurring across national boundaries and apply this knowledge to current problems.Topics covered include:extradition and rendition,extraterritorial application of the United States criminal law on matters such as public corruption and human trafficking, cross-border evidence-gathering, counterterrorism, special jurisdiction treaties, and immunities.This practical course will enable you to respond to issues in the news today, such as Turkey’s request to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen or Julian Assange’s fear of rendition and prosecution for the activities of WikiLeaks.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Trial Techniques
Class Number: 3734; Catalog Number- LAW 671
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ginsberg, Mike and Prof. Lott, Rhani
Note: This course is required for all 2L Students. Also, students will meet with their teams/groups on the following dates: February 2, February 23, March 2, and March 23 from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. DO NOT register for a conflicting class!
Description: The Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program is a required course that focuses on integrating knowledge of substantive evidence with practical trial skills through a "learn-by-doing” format. Trial experience is supplemented by a textbook, lectures, and discussions. Students will develop theories for particular witness examinations, decide on appropriate approaches to bring out the facts consistent with their theories, prepare witnesses, and conduct direct and cross-examinations using current courtroom technology in the use of exhibits.
The program consists of two sessions:
- Spring Semester: Friday afternoon preparatory workshops at downtown Atlanta law firms and public law offices. Students work closely with experienced trial lawyers in groups as small as six to eight students per trial instructor.
- May Session (May 5-11): Emory Law hosts 80 nationally known trial lawyers, judges, and trial teachers who bring their different styles and regional perspectives to aid in students’ growth and development as advocates, resulting in an 8 to 1 student/trial instructor ratio. The May session includes seven days of intensive workshops on trial techniques, during which each student will conduct a Daubert Hearing and try a jury trial.
Pedagogical Goals
- Integrate case analysis and relevance to provide an improved understanding of each and their critical relationship to one another.
- Teach hearsay and character evidence concepts in the context of direct and cross-examination.
- Provide practice at building evidentiary foundations, authenticating exhibits, and making and refuting objections to better understand the Federal Rules of Evidence on original writings, authentication, relevance, and hearsay and to help bring about a better chain of custody foundations.
- Develop a greater sensitivity for the understanding of audience and the relationship to the development of theories and themes through jury voir dire exercises.
- Strengthen the art of persuasiveness in the presentation of evidence through exercises that familiarize and build confidence in the use of technology to display exhibits.
Absences
Attendance throughout the program is MANDATORY and program sessions cannot be missed without an excused absence. Excused absences will not be granted for the hearing or trial day during the May session, May 8 and 11, as you must serve on those days either as trial counsel or as a witness. An excused absence cannot exceed more than 4 hours of class time (either one spring semester workshop or half a day during the intensive May session).Any unexcused absence or more than one excused absence may result in students receiving a grade of incomplete in the program and repetition of all or a portion of the program may be required the following year.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Class Number: 3731; Catalog Number- LAW 697C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (Prerequisite or Co-requisite)
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance on various projects assigned.
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket – fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities—are among the most critical issues for our state, region, and nation. The Clinic’s students benefit and learn from immersion in these real-world complex environmental representations.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Water Resources Law
Class Number: 5345; Catalog Number- LAW 617
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Thompson, Andrew & Prof. Moore, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Take-home projects; & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will explore various themes common in the practice of environmental and natural resources law, including administrative and civil litigation, permitting, and regulatory development, focusing in the area of water as a resource and water pollution control. The class will cover concepts in the traditional riparian and prior appropriation rights; the federal Clean Water Act permitting program; drinking water, coastal and wetland protection programs; transboundary water disputes; as well as the environmental and natural resource problems concerning water quality protection. Both the statutory language and theoretical application of the issues will be explored with a particular emphasis on the litigation of water issues.
Judicial Opinion Writing: Writing for the Judicial Chambers
Class Number: 3820; Catalog Number- LAW 649
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Parrish, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper (Does not satisfy Writing Requirement)
Description: This course will introduce students to the process and practicalities of writing within the context of serving as an appellate court judicial clerk. The course will explore many topics through assigned readings and class discussion including: the shifting tone from that of an advocate to that of a decision maker; how the drafting and editing responsibilities are divided between judge and clerk; the ways in which race, gender, religion, past legal background affect judicial decision making; as well as the nuts and bolts of the judicial opinion writing process.
Students will apply what is learned in class to write three pieces during the semester—all within the context of working within an appellate judicial chamber. During the course of the semester, students will write a bench memo, a majority opinion, and a dissenting opinion, which shall be based on the briefs and record in an assigned case. Thus, those seeking to learn more about the work of judicial clerks or interested in pursuing a clerkship after graduation will get a working familiarity of the unique work and experience of writing within a judicial chamber.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
SEMINAR: Animal Law
Class Number: 5340; Catalog Number- LAW 837
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Satz, Ani
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Enrollment: 16
Description: Animal law is a burgeoning field. Over 135 law schools in North America offer courses in animal law, six specialty journals are devoted to the topic, and at least one poll indicates a career in the area is in the top seven of all desired careers. Whether it is our clothing, food, household products, companions, or back yards, our daily lives are touched by animals. Nonhuman animals are considered property under law, and a sprawling body of federal and state civil and criminal law regulates human use of them.
This seminar will explore our legal and ethical obligations to nonhuman animals, focusing on domestic animals. Selected topics may include: conceptions of animals, standing, companion animal abuse, breed discrimination, exotic pets and public health, veterinary malpractice, farm animals, hunted and poached animals, exhibited animals, service and emotional support animals, police and military dogs, exhibited and entertainment animals, laboratory animals, animals used for fiber and medicine, animals and religious freedom, and animal trusts and custody.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 3856; Catalog Number- LAW 811
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Grading Criteria: Participation & Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Prerequisite: Completion of 1st Year of law school
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Enrollment: Limited to 15 Students!
Description: Critical Race Theory centers race and racism at the center of American law. This class will examine racial biases in judicial decisions, particularly those covered in the first year of law school: Torts; Contracts; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Law; Property; and Civil Procedure. Each student participant will be required to take the Implicit Association Test on Race prior to the first class.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Seminar: Criminalization of Poverty
Class Number: 5393; Catalog Number- LAW 834
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Fred
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies UpperLevel Writing Requirement)
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Description: This seminar will explore lawsuits in which the core claim is that a plaintiff's lack of wealth is the cause of her detention or punishment. Students will read pleadings, opinions, and supporting materials from cases challenging: (1) rigid bail schedules; (2) aggressive collection of fees and fines; and (3) regimes in which a core actor purportedly has a pecuniary interest in a plaintiff's incarceration, punishment, or conviction. The seminar will expose students to a mix of substantive and procedural law. Substantively, students will learn about the ways that wealth classifications interact with the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses. Procedurally, students will gain exposure to doctrines such as abstention, qualified immunity, sovereign immunity, and Section 1983.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
SEMINAR: Equality and the 14th Amendment
Class Number: 5304; Catalog Number- LAW 825
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Woodhouse, Barbara
Pre-requisite: Constitutional Law
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Final Research Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Description: This seminar will explore the history of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, and how changing political and social understandings of equality have shaped U.S. constitutional doctrine, and have played out in contemporary law and society. We will discuss assigned historical, legal and social science readings and students will research and present a paper on topic of their choice implicating issues of equality and exploring the persistence and effects of inequality. Papers will be eligible for writing credit.
SEMINAR: Family Law- From Partners to Parents
Class Number: 5342; Catalog Number- LAW 823, 00E
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fineman, Martha
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Grading: Paper (Satisfies UpperLevel Writing Requirement)
Description: This seminar will explore the trends in family law governing marriage and parenthood over the past several decades. During the latter part of the 20th century, substantial changes in behavior have occurred, reflecting attitudinal shifts about women’s equality, sex and sexuality, and the importance and permanence of the marriage bond. Often identified as battlegrounds in the “cultural wars,” these are areas where the law has scrambled to adjust to evolving expectations and emerging notions of equity and equality. We will look at “traditional” marriage, challenges from those excluded from marriage, the “breakdown” of marriage, and alternatives to formal marriage, such as contract and non-marital cohabitation. Laws governing the parent-child relationship have also changed in response to or as part of the disruption of the traditional family model. The very idea of absolute parental rights has been questioned as the child has partially emerged from the cloak of family privacy and is seen as an independent rights holder in some circumstances. The seminar will also consider how new technologies and altered attitudes about assisted reproduction have presented unique challenges for the law in regard to who is or how one becomes a parent.
SEMINAR: First Amendment- Free Speech
Class Number: 5443; Catalog Number- LAW 814, 02A
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kang, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Grading: Participation & Written Papers (Satisfies UpperLevel Writing Requirement)
Enrollment: Limited to 14 Students!
Description: Ask Prof.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
SEMINAR: International Environmental Law
ClassNumber: 5343; Catalog Number- LAW 843, 00F
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Samandari, Atieno
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Grading Criteria: Participation & Seminar Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Enrollment: Limited to 16 Students!
Description: This seminar will examine the development of international environmental law (IEL), focusing on the major areas of global environmental protection including climate change and biodiversity loss. The course will analyze the theoretical underpinnings of the regime, including sustainable development, the “polluter pays” principle, precaution, and vulnerability among others and also examine social justice aspects of environmental interventions. The aim will be to understand the current trajectory of international environmental law and discuss possible frontier approaches that can advance global cooperation for conserving and protecting Earth’s environment.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
SEMINAR: Law and Vulnerability
Class Number: 5344; Catalog Number- LAW 833, 00D
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fineman, Martha & Prof. Samandari, Atieno
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Enrollment: Limited to 16 students!
Description: This seminar explores the relationship between law and vulnerability from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. The course is anchored in the understanding that fundamental to our shared humanity is our shared vulnerability, which is universal and constant and inherent in the human condition. It will offer students an opportunity to engage with multiple perspectives on vulnerability, with an emphasis on law, justice, state policy and legislative ethics. While vulnerability can never be eliminated, society through its institutions confers certain "assets" or resources, such as wealth, health, education, family relationships, and marketable skills on individuals and groups. These assets give individuals "resilience" in the face of their vulnerability. This seminar will explore how a society now is structured, however, certain individuals and groups operate from positions of entrenched advantage or privilege, while others are disadvantaged in ways that seem to be invisible as we engage in law and policy discussions.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
SEMINAR: Markets for Law
Class Number: 3806; Catalog Number- LAW 824, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Enrollment: Limted to 14 students!
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement).
Description: This seminar – which may be of particular appeal to students interested corporate and securities law, environmental law, health law, family law, and other areas characterized by a mix of federal and state law – will explore the unusual dynamic that emerges when multiple jurisdictions compete to produce legal rules. By contrast with our conventional notions of how law is created, the development of law in these settings takes place through a “market” of sorts. As one writer has described it, the law is a “product” in these settings: a good to be priced, bought, and sold. Corporate law – given the centrality of jurisdictional competition to understanding and practicing it today – will serve as our case study. Through relevant readings and your papers’ analysis of jurisdictional competition in your own areas of interest, however – from environmental law to family law, health law to banking law, and criminal law to corporate/securities law – we will seek to understand the nature and the wisdom of markets for law more generally.
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Number: 5341; Catalog Number- LAW 806A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Prerequisite: None
Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-spring-2018-seminar-preselection/
Enrollment: Limited to 14 Students!
Description: For many years now, the international community of states has attempted to place an embargo on the use of force as a means of settling international disputes. Article 2(3) of the Charter of the United Nations thus provides: “All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.” The UN Charter authorized military action in two instances only, namely (a) if the Security Council authorizes an armed intervention as a means of counteracting a situation that constitutes a threat to the peace, a breach of the peace, or an act of aggression (art. 42), and (b) as a matter of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations (art. 51). This raises the question whether or not the UN Charter deals comprehensively with instances of armed conflicts that would be lawful under contemporary rules of international humanitarian law.
The United Nations itself recognized armed interventions not mentioned in the UN Charter, for example in the Uniting for Peace Resolution of 1950 affording to the General Assembly the competence to authorize military action to counteract a breach of the peace or an act of aggression, by supporting wars of liberation against colonial rule, foreign occupation, or a racist regime, and by extending the provisions of Article 51 to legalize pre-emptive self-defense action. There is furthermore overwhelming support for upholding the legality of humanitarian intervention to protect a population from acts of supreme repression by their own government. Currently, the ISIS crisis has prompted the development of an emerging norm of jus ad bellum which contemplates the legality of an armed intervention against perpetrators of terrorism if the Government of the State from which those acts of terror violence are being launched is either unwilling or unable to counteract the atrocities.
In laboring the above principles of law, reference will be made to (a) armed interventions authorized by the Security Council (the Korean War, Operation Desert Storm and airstrikes in Libya,); instances of humanitarian interventions (NATO airstrikes in Serbia, and military interventions in Syria contemplated by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States following the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Government against rebel groups in that country); and acts of aggression committed by the United States (in Nicaragua in the 1980’s pursuant to the Reagan Doctrine, and the Gulf War of 2003), and by the Russian Federation (in Georgia and in Ukraine).
A special emphasis of the seminar is the current state of affairs relating to the prosecution of the crime of aggression in the International Criminal Court.
Students are required to submit a 30-page essay on an approved topic within the confines of the seminar focus. The final draft must be handed in on before April 11.
Textbook: Johan D. van der Vyver, Acts of Aggression and Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression (2015).
*Last Updated Spring 2018
Class Nbr. | Section | Course | Instructor | Room | Mtg. Days | Begins | Ends |
5118 | LAW 505 0AB | Civil Procedure | Freer | 1C | M / W | 8:30 AM | 10:30 AM |
5110 | LAW 505 0CD | Civil Procedure | Schapiro | 1D | M / W / TH | 8:45 AM | 10:15 AM |
5117 | LAW 505 0EF | Civil Procedure | Shepherd | 1D | M / W / F | 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
5067 | LAW 520 0AB | Contracts | Georgiev | 1E | T / TH | 10:40 AM | 12:40 PM |
5109 | LAW 520 0EF | Contracts | Pardo | 1E | T / TH | 8:30 AM | 10:30 AM |
5068 | LAW 520 0CD | Contracts | Ruskola | 1E | T / TH | 2:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
5250 | LAW 520A GRAD | Contracts I | Pinder | 1E | M / W | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5071 | LAW 535A CARR | ILARC | Carroll | 5E | T | 12:00 PM | 1:15 PM |
5071 | LAW 535A CARR | ILARC | Carroll | 5E | TH | 12;15 PM | 1:30 PM |
5069 | LAW 535A KIRK | ILARC | Kirk | 5E | T / F | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
5199 | LAW 535A KOS | ILARC | Koster | 1E | T / TH | 4:45 PM | 6:00 PM |
5074 | LAW 535A MATH | ILARC | Mathews | 5B | M / W / F | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
5070 | LAW 535A PARR | ILARC | Parrish | 1B | M / W | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
5073 | LAW 535A PIND | ILARC | Pinder | 5E | M / W / F | 10:45 AM | 12:00 PM |
5072 | LAW 535A ROMI | ILARC | Romig | 1E | M / W /F | 10:45 AM | 12:00 PM |
5075 | LAW 535A SCHW | ILARC | Schwartz | 5E | T | 10:30 AM | 11:45 AM |
5075 | LAW 535A SCHW | ILARC | Schwartz | 5B | F | 10:30 AM | 11:45 AM |
5113 | LAW 510 0EF | Legislation/Regulation | Ahdieh | 1C | T / TH | 2:15 PM | 3:45 PM |
5114 | LAW 510 0CD | Legislation/Regulation | Volokh | 1C | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM |
5186 | LAW 510 GRAD | Legislation/Regulation | Koster | 1E | T / TH | 6:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
5112 | LAW 510 OAB | Legislation/Regulation | Volokh | 1D | M / W | 3:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
5066 | LAW 550 0CD | Torts | Partlett | 1C | M / W / TH | 10:35 AM | 11:50 AM |
5116 | LAW 550 0EF | Torts | Satz | 1C | T / TH | 12:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
5115 | LAW 550 0AB | Torts | Vandall | 1D | M / T / TH | 2:00 PM | 3:15 PM |
Class Nbr. | Section | Course | Instructor | Room | Mtg. Days | Begins | Ends |
5102 | LAW 679 04A | Access to Justice W/S | Costa | 1F | M | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5159 | LAW 617A 000 | Adv. Commercial Real Estate | Minkin | 5D | M | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5143 | LAW 657 02A | Advanced Legal Research (10/10 - 11/21) | Reid | 5G | T | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5098 | LAW 847 06A | Adv'd Civil Trial Practice | Wellon | 1F | W | 6:30 PM | 8:30 PM |
5111 | LAW 648 04A | Adv'd Legal Writing & Editing | Terrell | Tull | M | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
Adv'd Legal Writing & Editing labs (see OPUS) | |||||||
5085 | LAW 605 04A | Alternative Dispute Resolution | Armstrong | 5A | M | 3:30 PM | 6:30 PM |
5086 | LAW 605 05A | Alternative Dispute Resolution | Allgood | 5A | T / TH | 4:30 PM | 6:00 PM |
5224 | LAW 605 GRAD | Alternative Dispute Resolution | Allgood | 5A | T / TH | 6:30 PM | 8:00 PM |
5150 | LAW 560 GRD1 | ALWAR I | Daspit | 5B | T / TH | 9:30 AM | 10:45 AM |
5185 | LAW 560 GRD2 | ALWAR I | Daspit | 5C | W | 2:30 PM | 3:45 PM |
5185 | LAW 560 GRD2 | ALWAR I | Daspit | 5C | F | 12:30 PM | 1:45 PM |
5195 | LAW 560B GRD | ALWAR II | Daspit | 5A | F | 9:30 AM | 10:45 AM |
5192 | LAW 590 000 | ARC | Daspit/Christian | 5C | W | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5084 | LAW 716 10A | Bankruptcy | Pardo | 5F | T / TH | 11:15AM | 12:45PM |
5142 | LAW 500X 001 | Business Associations | Freer | 1D | T / TH | 12:00PM | 1:30 PM |
5240 | LAW 500X 002 | Business Associations | Georgiev | 1D | T / TH | 3:30 PM | 5:00 PM |
5125 | LAW 658 000 | Capital Defender Workshop | Moore | Off Campus | |||
5749 | LAW 698B 000 | Child Protection/Intl.Human Rr | Liwanga | 1A | T / W | 3:00 PM | 4:30 PM |
5120 | LAW 635 02A | Child Welfare Law and Policy | Carter | 5C | M | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5209 | LAW 615 000 | Chinese Law | Ruskola | 5G | W | 3:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
5123 | LAW 860A 02A | Colloquium Series Workshop | Levine | 5A | TH | 1:30 PM | 2:30 PM |
5784 | LAW 707 000 | Comparative Law | Ruskola | 5A | W | 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
5096 | LAW 675 04A | Constitutional Lit | Weber | 1C | T | 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
5755 | LAW 622A 02A | Const'lCrim.Proc:Investigation | Levine | 1D | T / TH | 10:15 AM | 11:45 AM |
5080 | LAW 959 02A | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I | Metzger | 1F | M | 10:30 AM | 11:45 AM |
5079 | LAW 959 02B | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I | Metzger | 1F | M | 2:00 PM | 3:15 PM |
5750 | LAW 622X 000 | Crim. Pretrial Motions Prac. | Krepp | 1F | M | 6:30 PM | 9:30 PM |
5105 | LAW 659P 05A | Doing Deals: Complex Restruct. | Gordon/Marsh | 5B | TH | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5108 | LAW 659A 04A | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Babcock | 1B | TH | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5088 | LAW 659A 04B | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Klemperer | 1B | T | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5124 | LAW 659A 04D | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Fang | 1C | W | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5133 | LAW 659A 04F | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Koops | 5D | TH | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5134 | LAW 659A 04G | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Richards | 5E | TH | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5135 | LAW 659A 04H | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Fox | 5F | W | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5138 | LAW 659A 04I | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Payne | 5G | TH | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5139 | LAW 659A 04J | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Brown,James (Cancelled) | Cancelled | T | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5148 | LAW 659A 04K | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Avery | 5J | W | 9:00AM | 12:00PM |
5132 | LAW 659A 04L | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Segal | 5J | TH | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5178 | LAW 659A 04M | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Lewis | 5K | TH | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5196 | LAW 659A 04N | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Linder | 5K | T | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5141 | LAW 659A 09A | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Reagains | G114A | M | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5200 | LAW 659A 09B | Doing Deals: Contract Drafting | Parkinson | 5G | M | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5087 | LAW 659B 04A | Doing Deals: Deal Skills | Duma/McMorries | 1E | M | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5136 | LAW 659B 04B | Doing Deals: Deal Skills | Kolodkin | 5D | T | 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5147 | LAW 659B 04C | Doing Deals: Deal Skills | Alperin/Connell | 5E | M | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5245 | LAW 659B 04D | Doing Deals: Deal Skills | Blanchard/Sloman | 5G | T | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5144 | LAW 659F 06A | Doing Deals: General Counsel | Notte | 5E | T | 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
5809 | LAW 659I 001 | Doing Deals: Intl Cap. Transactions | Smith | G575 | M | 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
5121 | LAW 659N 04A | Doing Deals: IP Transactions | Perry,Courtney | 5D | T | 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
5097 | LAW 659D 04A | Doing Deals: Private Equity | Crowley | GBS234 | T | 4:00 PM | 6:15 PM |
5137 | LAW 659M 04A | Doing Deals:Comm'l Lend. Trans | Gooch | G114A | W | 4:15 PM | 7:15 PM |
5157 | LAW 745 000 | DUI Trials | Healy | 1F | TH | 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
5757 | LAW 574A 000 | Economics of Legal Practice (8/21 - 9/29) | Everett | 1C | F | 9:30 AM | 12:30 PM |
5756 | LAW 879L 000 | eDiscovery and Litigation Tech (8/21 - 10/20) | Grounds | 5D | F | 9:30 AM | 12:30 PM |
5758 | LAW 662 000 | Education Law and Policy | Waldman | 5F | M | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5104 | LAW 669X 06A | Employ Discrim Lab (alternate wks.) | Shultz | G114A | TH | 6:15 PM | 8:15 PM |
5156 | LAW 668 000 | Employment Law (ADDED 6/16) | Weirich | 5C | M / W | 4:30 PM | 5:55 PM |
5083 | LAW 697 04A | Environmental Advocacy W/S | Horder | 5G | TH | 4:15 PM | 6:15 PM |
5189 | LAW 620 000 | European Union Law | Mickevicius/Tulibacka | 5C | TH | 2:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
5122 | LAW 632X 12A | Evidence | Shepherd | 1C | T / TH | 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM |
5158 | LAW 632X 13A | Evidence | Zwier | 5F | M / W / F | 10:30 AM | 11:30 AM |
5168 | LAW 870I 000 | EXTERN: Advanced | Amidon | 5D | W | 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
5782 | LAW 870I 001 | EXTERN: Advanced | Amidon | 5D | W | 6:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
5128 | LAW 870D 000 | EXTERN: Civil Litigation | Shalf | 5C | F | 8:30 AM | 9:30 AM |
5130 | LAW 870F 000 | EXTERN: Corporate Counsel | Nash,Aimee | 5K | W | 8:30 AM | 9:30 AM |
5783 | LAW 870F 001 | EXTERN: Corporate Counsel | Cavitt | 5C | TH | 6:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
5153 | LAW 870H 000 | EXTERN: Criminal Defense | Kleinrock | 5J | W | 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5127 | LAW 870C 000 | EXTERN: Govt Counsel | Amidon | 5D | W | 5:15 PM | 6:15 PM |
5129 | LAW 870E 000 | EXTERN: Judicial | Hirokawa | 1F | T | 8:30 AM | 9:30 AM |
5131 | LAW 870G 000 | EXTERN: Prosecution | Hames | NDB155 | T | 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5126 | LAW 870A 000 | EXTERN: Public Interest | Cadenhead | NDB109 | T | 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5787 | LAW 870L 000 | EXTERN: Small Firm | Shalf | 5D | W | 8:30 AM | 9:30 AM |
5759 | LAW 633 10A | Family Law | Broyde | 5F | T / TH | 2:45 PM | 4:15 PM |
5145 | LAW 643 12A | Family Law II | Broyde | 1B | T / TH | 9:30 AM | 11:00 PM |
5760 | LAW 642X 002 | Fed.Inc.Tax:Corporations | Brown,Dorothy | 5F | T / TH | 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
5191 | LAW 721 000 | Federal Courts | Smith,Fred | 5B | M / T / W | 2:35 PM | 3:35 PM |
5223 | LAW 626 000 | Federal Indian Law | Saunooke | 5A | M / T | 9:00 AM | 10:30AM |
5227 | LAW 760 000 | Federal Prosecution Practice | Grimberg | 5E | W | 6:30 PM | 9:30 PM |
5761 | LAW 601B 001 | First Amendment:Rel.Freedom | Witte Jr. | 5C | T / TH | 10:20 AM | 11:50 AM |
5146 | LAW 680 04A | Food And Drug Law | Kitchens | 1F | T / TH | 10:00 AM | 11:30 AM |
5093 | LAW 650 04A | Franchise Law | Aronson | 1B | W | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5065 | LAW 870K 000 | (Fulton) Landlord Tenant Mediation Practicum | Powell | Off Campus | See Prof. | ||
5167 | LAW 640X 000 | Fundamentals of Income Taxation | Pennell | 5F | M / W | 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM |
5090 | LAW 890 04A | Fundamentals of Innov. I | Morris | 5C | M | 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
5793 | LAW 711L 000 | Global Law | Domingo Osle | 1E | W | 5:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
5198 | LAW 736B 000 | Global Public Health Law | Brady | 5C | T | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5235 | LAW 690B 000 | Human Rights Advocacy | Ludsin | 5K | T / TH | 9:30 AM | 11:00 AM |
5210 | LAW 731 001 | Immigration Law | Kuck | 5C | W | 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
5816 | LAW 672A 000 | Info Privacy & Security Law | Keating | 1B | W | 6:15 PM | 8:15 PM |
5081 | LAW 653 10A | International Criminal Law | Van der Vyver | 5B | T / TH | 10:45 AM | 12:15 PM |
5100 | LAW 732 10A | International Law | Van der Vyver | 1B | T / TH | 2:40 PM | 4:10 PM |
5107 | LAW 631A 06A | Internet Law | Nodine | 5F | T | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5161 | LAW 609L 000 | Int'l Commercial Arbitration | Reetz | 1C | M | 4:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
5077 | LAW 676C 000 | Int'l Humanitarian Law Clinic | Blank | 5D | W | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5794 | LAW 690A 000 | Int'l Human Rights Law Practice | Mickevicius | 5D | T | 8:30 AM | 10:30 AM |
5169 | LAW 570A LLM | Intro to Am Legal System | Koster | 1B | F | 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
5151 | LAW 570A OJM | Intro to Am Legal System | Ahdieh | 1F | T | 4:15 PM | 6:15 PM |
6404 | LAW 627 CRLT | Islamic Law | Pill | RARB421 | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:20 PM |
5229 | LAW 670 10A | Jurisprudence | Terrell | 1B | M / W | 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
5162 | LAW 651 000 | Labor Law | Wilson | 1D | W | 6:30 PM | 8:30 PM |
5766 | LAW 695 000 | Land Use | Pennington | 5J | T | 5:45 PM | 7:45 PM |
5065 | LAW 870K 000 | Landlord Tenant Mediation Practicum | Powell | Off Campus | See Prof. | ||
5768 | LAW 708B 000 | Law & Religion Practicum | Goldfeder | 1A | M | 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
5202 | LAW 708 000 | Law and Religion | Allard | 5D | TH | 12:30 PM | 3:30 PM |
5249 | LAW 628B 000 | Law, Sustainability & Develop. | Samandari | 5C/1F | M / W | 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
5788 | LAW 576 000 | Leadership for Lawyers (8/21 - 10/2) | Blake | 5E (every other week) | W | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5788 | LAW 576 000 | Leadership for Lawyers (8/21 - 10/2) | Blake | Tull (every other week) | W | 12:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
5152 | LAW 747 02A | Legal Profession | Elliott | 1E | T / TH | 12:45 PM | 2:15 PM |
5193 | LAW 622D 000 | Mental Health Issues in Crim. Justice | Deets | 1D | M | 5:45 PM | 7:45 PM |
5094 | LAW 656 06A | Negotiations | Athans/Rogers,Kathy | 1D | T | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5095 | LAW 656 06B | Negotiations | Eldridge | 5B | T | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5239 | LAW 656 06C | Negotiations | Perry,Courtney | 5D | T | 7:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
5208 | LAW 754 001 | Patent Law | Bagley | 5C | M / W | 8:30 AM | 10:00 AM |
5089 | LAW 755 06A | Pretrial Litigation | Lott/Graves/Besson/Hydrick | 5B | M / W | 4:30 PM | 6:30 PM |
5231 | LAW 616 000 | Real Estate Finance | Alexander | 1E | M / W | 8:45 AM | 10:15 AM |
5789 | LAW 616 001 | Real Estate Finance | Hughes | 5B | T / TH /F | 12:30 PM | 1:30 PM |
5770 | LAW 667A 000 | Securities Enforcement Process | Jospin/Lipson | 1B | M | 3:45 PM | 5:45 PM |
5214 | LAW 825 001 | SEM: Equality at Emory | Dudziak | 5A | T | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5777 | LAW 819 002 | SEM: Human Rights | An-Na'im | 5J | M | 9:00 AM | 11:00 AM |
5232 | LAW 844 000 | SEM: Judicial Behavior | Shepherd,Joanna | 5J | T | 11:30 AM | 1:30 PM |
5778 | LAW 804 02A | SEM: Law And Literature | Duncan | 5J | T | 2:30 PM | 4:30 PM |
5795 | LAW 830 000 | SEM: Law and Policy | Vertinsky | G114A | M | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5166 | LAW 838 000 | SEM: Products Liability | Vandall | 5J | W | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5164 | LAW 746A 000 | SEM: Professional Negligence | Partlett | 5F | M | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5216 | LAW 823 001 | SEM: The Family, State & Vulnerability | Dinner | 5A | W | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5779 | LAW 826 000 | SEM: The Role of Patents | Vertinsky | 5D | M | 10:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
5233 | LAW 842 000 | SEM: Adv'd Intn'l Negotiations | Zwier | 5J | M | 3:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5160 | LAW 817 000 | SEM:Implement US Int'l Law | Van der Vyver | 5D | M | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5771 | LAW 725A 000 | Sentencing Practice | Marbutt | 1F | T | 6:15 PM | 9:15 PM |
5099 | LAW 891 04A | Special Topics/Technology I | Morris | 5A | W | 4:30 PM | 7:30 PM |
5772 | LAW 879K 12A | Technology in Legal Practice (8/21 - 9/29) | Glon | 5G | T | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
5215 | LAW 601 001 | The First Amendment | Perry,Michael | 1B | T / TH | 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
5773 | LAW 710X 000 | Trade Secrets | Holbrook | 1B | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
5211 | LAW 719 001 | Trademark Law | Bagley | 5B | M / W | 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM |
5220 | LAW 724 000 | Transitional Justice | Blank | 5C | T / TH | 12:15 PM | 1:45 PM |
5221 | LAW 724A 001 | Transitional Justice Practicum | Ludsin | 1A | W | 8:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
5774 | LAW 671A NORM | Trial Practice Workshop | Norman | 5K | W | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
5076 | LAW 674 08A | Trusts And Estates | Pennell | 5F | T / TH | 8:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
5163 | LAW 685A 000 | Veterans Benefits Law | Early | 5K | M | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
5775 | LAW 683 000 | White Collar Crime | Cloud | 1B | T / TH | 11:15 AM | 12:45 PM |
5776 | LAW 683X 000 | White Collar Crime Workshop | Templer | 5K | W | 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 9:00 AM | Regular Exam room | TOEFL/IELT Room | 2:00 PM | Regular Exam room | TOEFL/IELT Room |
Tuesday 12/5 | Food & Drug Law- Kitchens | 5E | NA | Civ Pro- Freer | 1D/1E | 5B |
Const. Crim. Proc.- Levine | 1B/1C | NA | Civ Pro- Schapiro | 1B/1C | 5A | |
Intl Crim Law- Van der Vyver | 5C | 5D | Civ Pro- Shepherd | 5E/5F | 5D | |
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Wednesday 12/6 | Fund. Income Tax- Pennell | 5B | 5A | Evidence- Zwier | 1E | 1A |
Patent Law- Bagley | 5C | NA | Immigration Law- Kuck | 1D | 1B | |
Real Estate Fin.- Alexander/Hughes | 1E/1D | NA | Trademarks- Bagley | 1C | 1F | |
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Thursday 12/7 | Legal Profession- Elliott | 1C/1D | 1B | Leg/Reg- Ahdieh | 5B/5C | 5D |
Fed. Inc. Tax. Corps.- Brown | 5B | NA | Leg/Reg- Koster (Grad Sections) | 1F | 1A | |
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Family Law II- Broyde | 1B | NA | White Collar Crime- Cloud | 1C | NA | |
Trust & Estates- Pennell | 1F | NA |
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Tuesday 12/12 | Int絡l Com絡l Arbitration- Reetz | 1B | NA | Contracts- Georgiev | 1B/1C | 5K |
Vet.絡 Benefits Law- Early | 1C | NA | Contracts- Pardo | 5E/5F | 5C | |
Business Associations- Freer | 1E | 1F | Contracts- Ruskola | 1E/1F | 5D | |
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Wednesday 12/13 | Int絡l Law- Van der Vyver | 1D | 1A | DD: Private Equity- Crowley | 1B | NA |
Bus. Associations- Georgiev | 1C | 1B | EU Law I- Mickevicius | 1F | NA | |
Family Law I- Broyde | 1E | 1F |
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Thursday 12/14 | Internet Law- Nodine | 5E | NA | Torts- Partlett | 1D/1E | 1A |
Land Use- Pennington | 5F | NA | Torts- Satz | 5E/5F | 5A | |
Sentencing Pract.- Marbutt | 5A | NA | Torts- Vandall | 1B/1C | 1F | |
Franchise Law - Aronson | 5C | NA | Trade Secrets- Holbrook | 5C/5D | 5B | |
Employment Law- Weirich | 5B | NA |
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Class Nbr. | Section | Course | Instructor | Room | Mtg. | Begins | Ends |
3326 | LAW 530 AE | Constitutional Law I | Smith | 1C | T / TH | 10:30 AM | 12:30 PM |
3325 | LAW 530 CD | Constitutional Law I | Seaman | 1E | T / TH | 2:45 PM | 4:45 PM |
3324 | LAW 530 BF | Constitutional Law I | Seaman | 1E | T / TH | 10:30 AM | 12:30 PM |
3329 | LAW 525 AC | Criminal Law | Cloud | 1E | T / TH | 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
3328 | LAW 525 BF | Criminal Law | Duncan | 1C | T / TH | 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
3327 | LAW 525 DE | Criminal Law | Witte | 1D | T / TH | 8:45 AM | 10:15 AM |
3316 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Romig | 5E (W)/5F (F) | W / F | 10:45 AM | 12:00 PM |
3320 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Schwartz | 1E | M / W | 9:15 AM | 10:30 AM |
3314 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Carroll | 5E | M / F | 10:30 AM | 11:45 AM |
3315 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Mathews | 1D | M / W | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
3319 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Parris | 1B | M / W | 10:45 AM | 11:45 AM |
3462 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Pinder | 5C | M / W / F | 10:30 AM | 11:45 AM |
3317 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Kirk | 1E | M / W | 10:45 AM | 12:00 PM |
3318 | LAW 535B | Intro to Legal Advocacy | Koster | 5C | M/W | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
3321 | LAW 545 AF | Property | Dinner | 1C | T / TH / F | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
3323 | LAW 545 BC | Property | Alexander | 1E | T / TH / F | 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM |
3322 | LAW 545 DE | Property | Hughes | 1D | T / TH / F | 1:00 PM | 2:15 PM |
3366 | LAW 500X 04A | Business Associations | Kang | 1E | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
5604 | LAW 500X 002 | Business Associations | Georgiev | 1D | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
3439 | LAW 709 12A | Conflict of Laws | Hay | 5C | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
5588 | LAW 624X 000 | Environmental Law | Goldstein | 5E | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
3341 | LAW 633 10A | Family Law | Broyde | 1C | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
3483 | LAW 608 001 | Intellectual Property Survey | Bagley | 5F | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
3299 | LAW 732 04A | International Law | An-Naim | 5B | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
3378 | LAW 628Y 08A | Intro to Law & Econ | Shepherd | 1B | M / W | 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
CLASS NBR. | COURSE NBR. | COURSE NAME | PROFESSOR | ROOM | DAYS | BEGINS | ENDS |
5703 | LAW 825A | 14th Amendment: Hist. Persp. | Dinner | 5F | T / W | 3:45PM | 5:15PM |
3395 | LAW 679 | Access to Justice W/S | Costa | 1F | M | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
5699 | LAW 842A | Adv. Intnl Negotiations | Balian / Crick | 5G | M | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3290 | LAW 657 | Adv.Legal Rsch | Reid | 5K | TH | 1:30PM | 3:30PM |
3306 | LAW 755A | Advanced Pretrial Lit | Elmore / Goheen | 1F | T | 5:30PM | 8:30PM |
3396 | LAW 852 | Adv'd Criminal Trial Advocacy | Rubin / Brickman | 5B | T (ONLY) | 6:15PM | 9:15PM |
3351 | LAW 605 | Alternative Dispute Resolution | Armstrong | 1C | M | 3:45PM | 6:45PM |
3291 | LAW 605 | Alternative Dispute Resolution | Allgood | 5A | T / TH | 4:30PM | 6:00PM |
3407 | LAW 605 | Alt. Dispute Resolution (GRAD) | Allgood | 5A | T / TH | 6:30PM | 8:00PM |
3397 | LAW 851 | ALW: Blog & Social Media | Romig | 5K | T / TH | 10:15AM | 11:45AM |
3379 | LAW 560 | ALWAR I | Daspit | 5B | T / TH | 2:00PM | 3:15PM |
3470 | LAW 560B | ALWAR II | Daspit | 1B | F | 10:30AM | 11:45AM |
5578 | LAW 655A | Am. Leg Hist-Citizen&Race Wrkshp | Cleaver | 5E | T | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3393 | LAW 734 | Analytical Methods/Lawyers | Shepherd | 5F | M / W | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
3390 | LAW 702 | Antitrust | Arthur | 1B | T / TH | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
3469 | LAW 590 | ARC | Daspit | 5B | W | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3464 | LAW 621 | Art&Law:Lit.&Justice | Felman | Calloway TBA | M | 4:00PM | 7:00PM |
5579 | LAW 691 | Asylum Law | Kuck | 1F | W | 10:00AM | 12:00PM |
5580 | LAW 604 | Banking Law | Elliott | 5B | T / TH | 12:15PM | 1:45PM |
3374 | LAW 630 | Busn.&Strategic Lawyering | Aronson | 1B | W | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3366 | LAW 500X | Business Associations | Kang | 1E | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
5604 | LAW 500X | Business Associations | Georgiev | 1D | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
3486 | LAW 880B | Catalyzing Social Impacts | Roberts / Shalf | GBS 238 | M / W | 2:30PM | 3:45PM |
3343 | LAW 635 | Child Welfare Law & Policy | Carter | NDB_109 | M | 2:00PM | 4:00PM |
3346 | LAW 958 | Civil Trial Pract: Family Law | Wellon / Kessler | 1F | W | 6:00PM | 9:00PM |
5581 | LAW 860A | Colloquium Series Workshop | Levine | 1C | TH | 3:30PM | 4:30PM |
3437 | LAW 770 | Colloq Sr Wrkshp: (SEM opt) | Dudziak | 5J | M | 4:30PM | 6:30PM |
3438 | LAW 612 | Commercial Law/Sales | Hay | 5A | T / TH | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
5574 | LAW 689 | Comparative Con Law | Klymovych | 5G | M / W | 8:30AM | 10:00AM |
5575 | LAW 707 | Comparative Law | Ludsin | 5G | T / TH | 10:00AM | 11:30AM |
3347 | LAW 610 | Complex Litigation | Freer | 1D | T / TH | 2:30PM | 4:00PM |
3439 | LAW 709 | Conflict of Laws | Hay | 5C | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
5700 | LAW 698L | Const.Rights/Const.Controversies | Perry, M | 5E | T / TH | 12:45PM | 2:15PM |
5576 | LAW 622A | Const'lCrim.Proc: | Levine | 5F | T / TH | 10:45AM | 12:15PM |
3476 | LAW 520A | Contracts | Tabak | 5C | T / TH | 12:30PM | 2:00PM |
3352 | LAW 710 | Copyright Law | Holbrook | 5C | T / TH | 9:00AM | 10:30AM |
3440 | LAW 712 | Corporate Finance | Shepherd | 5F | T / TH | 8:30AM | 10:00AM |
3350 | LAW 959 | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I | Metzger | 1F | M | 10:30AM | 11:45AM |
3334 | LAW 959 | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I | Metzger | 1F | M | 2:00PM | 3:15PM |
5777 | LAW 960 | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama II | Metzger | 1F | TH | 10:30AM | 11:45AM |
5577 | LAW 622X | Crim. Pretrial Motions Prac. | Krepp | 1F | M | 6:30PM | 9:30PM |
5694 | LAW 622E | Crim. Competency/Responsibility | Deets | 1B | M | 5:30PM | 7:30PM |
5778 | LAW 880 | DD:Transaction Neg. Team | Ellis / Harrison | 5A | W | 7:30PM | 9:30PM |
3336 | LAW 659E | DD: Accounting in Action | TBA | 5A | T | 1:00PM | 4:00PM |
5767 | LAW 659E | DD: Accounting in Action | TBA | 5E | T | 9:00AM | 12:00PM |
3337 | LAW 659G | DD: Commercial Real Estate | Elliott / Taylor | 5A | W | 3:30PM | 6:30PM |
3370 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | G114 | T | 1:00PM | 4:00PM |
3367 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | G114 | W | 9:00AM | 12:00PM |
3368 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | 5J | TH | 1:00PM | 4:00PM |
3385 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | G114 | T | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3383 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | 5J | W | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3394 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | 5A | M | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3369 | LAW 659A | DD: Contract Drafting | TBA | G114 | TH | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3338 | LAW 659H | DD: Corporate Practice | TBA | 5K | M | 6:00PM | 9:00PM |
3339 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | 5C | M | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3344 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | 5D | TH | 1:00PM | 4:00PM |
3359 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | 5G | W | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3358 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | 5J | T | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
5764 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | NDB_111 | M | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3371 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | NDB_111 | T | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3357 | LAW 659B | DD: Deal Skills | TBA | 5E | W | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
5698 | LAW 659I | DD: Intnl Securities | TBA | 1C | TH | 6:00PM | 9:00PM |
3353 | LAW 659J | DD: Merger&Acquisitions | TBA | 5G | T | 5:00PM | 8:00PM |
3340 | LAW 659C | DD: Venture Capital | TBA | 1E | W | 4:15PM | 7:15PM |
3373 | LAW 662 | Ed Law & Policy | Waldman | NDB_155 | T | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3392 | LAW 669 | Employment Discrimination | Weirich | 5B | M / W | 10:15AM | 12:00PM |
3349 | LAW 669X | Employ. Discriminiation Lab | Shultz / King | 5K | TH | 4:30PM | 5:30PM |
5587 | LAW 660 | Energy Law | Crofton | 5B | M | 4:15PM | 6:15PM |
3294 | LAW 720 | Entertainment Law | Sanders | 1B | T / TH | 4:30PM | 6:00PM |
5588 | LAW 624X | Environmental Law | Goldstein | 5E | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
3295 | LAW 916 | Estate Planning | Pennell | 5E | F | 8:30AM | 10:30AM |
3466 | LAW 700 | Ethics of Criminal Justice Practice | Tatum | 5G | T | 2:45PM | 4:45PM |
3455 | LAW 620L | European Union Law II | Mickevicius / Tulibacka | G114 | TH | 2:00PM | 4:00PM |
3354 | LAW 632X | Evidence | Morrison | 1C | M / W | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
3386 | LAW 870I | EXTERN: Advanced | Amidon | 1D (G114) | W | 6:30PM | 7:30PM |
3363 | LAW 870D | EXTERN: Civil Litigation | Shalf | 5C | F | 8:30AM | 9:30AM |
5906 | LAW 870F 00P2 | EXTERN: Corp. Counsel | Nash, Aimee | 5A | TH | 8:30AM | 9:30AM |
3365 | LAW 870F | EXTERN: Corp. Counsel | Cavitt | 5K | TH | 6:30PM | 7:30PM |
3382 | LAW 870H | EXTERN: Criminal Defense | Kleinrock | 5D | W | 5:00PM | 6:00PM |
3362 | LAW 870C | EXTERN: Govmnt Counsel | Amidon | G114 | W | 5:00PM | 6:00PM |
3364 | LAW 870E | EXTERN: Judicial | Hirokawa | 5B | T | 8:30AM | 9:30AM |
3384 | LAW 870G | EXTERN: Prosecution | Hames | 5B | TH | 5:00PM | 6:00PM |
3361 | LAW 870A | EXTERN: Public Interest | Cadenhead | NDB_109 | T | 5:00PM | 6:00PM |
5766 | LAW 870B | EXTERN: Public Policy & Leg | Barrocas | 5K | TH | 9:00AM | 10:00AM |
5589 | LAW 870L | EXTERN: Small Firm | Shalf | 5A | W | 8:30AM | 9:30AM |
3341 | LAW 633 | Family Law | Broyde | 1C | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
3296 | LAW 642 | Fed Inc. Tax: Corporations | Fowler | 5E | TH | 10:30AM | 12:30PM |
3398 | LAW 640L | Fed Inc. Tax: Individual | Brown | 5F | T / TH | 1:00PM | 3:00PM |
3297 | LAW 942 | Fed Inc. Tax: Partnerships | Beaudrot | 5E | M | 6:30PM | 8:30PM |
3442 | LAW 602 | Foreign Relations Law | Dudziak | 5J | T / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
3501 | LAW 574B | Fund. of Client Value | Walton | 5B | F / SAT. | 9:30AM | 12:30PM |
3298 | LAW 890A | Fund. of Innovation II | Morris | 1E | M | 4:00PM | 7:00PM |
5695 | LAW 574C | Future of Legal Profession | Trotter | 5D | T / TH | 9:45AM | 11:15AM |
3380 | LAW 736 | Health Law | Blakely / Grubman | 5C | T / TH | 10:45AM | 12:15PM |
3451 | LAW 665 | Higher Ed. Law | Fowler | 5E | TH | 4:30PM | 7:30PM |
5586 | LAW 645 | Hist Church/State Relatn In West | Witte Jr. | 1D | T / TH | 11:15AM | 12:45PM |
5697 | LAW 624C | Human Sex Trafficking | Racine / Harris | 5K | T | 6:00PM | 9:00PM |
5696 | LAW 657A | Intel. Prop. Legal Rsch | Christian | 5K | TH | 1:30PM | 3:30PM |
3483 | LAW 608 | Intel. Prop. Survey | Bagley | 5F | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
5585 | LAW 730 | Int'l. Bus Transactions | Dean | 1C | M / W | 9:00AM | 10:30AM |
3477 | LAW 690L | Int'l. Human Rights | Van der Vyver | 5C | T / TH | 2:15PM | 3:45PM |
3355 | LAW 676 | Int'l. Humanitarian Law | Van der Vyver | 5A | M / W | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
3333 | LAW 676C | Int'l. Human Law Clinic | Blank | 5D | T | 2:00PM | 4:00PM |
3299 | LAW 732 | International Law | An-Naim | 5B | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
3403 | LAW 570A | Intro. to Am. Legal Sys. | Mathews | 5F | T | 4:15PM | 6:15PM |
3378 | LAW 628Y | Intro. to Law & Econ. | Shepherd | 1B | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
5772 | LAW 759 | Intro. to Fin. Compliance | Clemons | 5C | T | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3465 | LAW 627 | Islamic Law | An-Naim | 5J | M / W | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
3376 | LAW 664 | Jewish Law | Broyde | 5D | M / W | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
5771 | LAW 844A | Judicial Decision Making | Nash | 5K | M / W | 2:00PM | 3:30PM |
5582 | LAW 628A | Law & Econ. of Antitrust | Volokh | 1B | T / TH | 12:15PM | 1:45PM |
5769 | LAW 645B | Law & Protestantism | Witte Jr. | TBA | TBA | 12:00PM | 2:00PM |
5583 | LAW 708 | Law & Religion Practicum | Goldfeder | CSLR Conf. Rm | M | 2:45PM | 5:45PM |
3304 | LAW 736A | Law in Public Health | Kocher / Ghosh | 1D | T | 4:15PM | 6:15PM |
5770 | LAW 613A | Law of Payment Sys. | Fraher | 5E | M | 3:45PM | 5:45PM |
5584 | LAW 576 | Leadership for Lawyers | Toppings | 1D | F | 9:00AM | 12:00PM |
3301 | LAW 747 | Legal Profession | Terrell | 1D | M / W | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
3463 | LAW 747 | Legal Profession | Goldfeder | 1C | T / W | 4:00PM | 5:30PM |
3468 | LAW 722 | Media Law | Counts | 1E | T | 5:00PM | 8:00PM |
5590 | LAW 606 | Mediation Advcy | Gmurzynska | 1F | T / TH | 2:00PM | 5:00PM |
3399 | LAW 652 | National Security Law | Blank | 5B | T / TH | 10:30AM | 12:00PM |
5701 | LAW 657B | Natl Sec Leg Rsch | Glon | 5K | T | 1:30PM | 3:30PM |
3302 | LAW 656 | Negotiations | Athans / Rogers | 1B | T | 6:15PM | 8:15PM |
3472 | LAW 656 | Negotiations | Lytle | 1D | T | 6:30PM | 8:30PM |
3303 | LAW 656 | Negotiations | Eldridge / Rumfelt | 5C | T | 6:30PM | 8:30PM |
6018 | LAW 754A | Patent Litigation | Holbrook | 5E | T / TH | 2:30PM | 4:00PM |
5591 | LAW 672 | Privacy Law | Cloud III / Konsynski | GBUS_201 | 3:00PM | 6:00PM | |
3457 | LAW 711 | Relgn, Cult & Law | Ludsin | 5G | TH | 2:30PM | 4:30PM |
3479 | LAW 739 | Roman Law | Domingo Osle | 5F | TH | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3480 | LAW 667 | Securities Regulations | Shepherd | 5F | M / W | 8:30AM | 10:00AM |
3400 | LAW 673 | Securities: Brokers/Dealers | Terry | 5F | M / W | 6:00PM | 7:30PM |
5592 | LAW 811 | SEM: Critical Race Theory | Brown | 5D | TH | 4:00PM | 6:00PM |
3460 | LAW 807 | SEM: Due Process | Smith, Jr. | 5C | W | 3:45PM | 5:45PM |
6518 | LAW 813 | SEM: Gender & Sexuality | Marvel | 5D | W | 2:00PM | 4:00PM |
5595 | LAW 816 | SEM: Intnl Patent Law & Pol.: | Bagley | 5K | T | 3:45PM | 5:45PM |
3448 | LAW 824 | SEM: Markets for Law | Ahdieh | 5A | M | 2:00PM | 3:55PM |
5593 | LAW 805 | SEM: Money in Politics | Kang | 5K | W | 3:45PM | 5:45PM |
5702 | LAW 806A | SEM: The Right to go to War | Van der Vyver | 5G | M | 2:00PM | 4:00PM |
3330 | LAW 892 | Special Topics/Technology II | Morris | 5A | F | 8:30AM | 11:30AM |
5779 | LAW 977 | Special Trial Courts | Shomade | 1F | W | 2:00PM | 5:00PM |
3452 | LAW 657F | State Law Legal Rsch | Sneed | 5K | T | 1:30PM | 3:30PM |
3377 | LAW 641 | Tax Controversies | Craft | 1C | T | 6:30PM | 8:30PM |
5596 | LAW 601 | The First Amendment | Arthur | 1B | T / TH | 2:30PM | 4:00PM |
3498 | LAW 574 | The Professional Narrative | Carlson | 5F | F | 2:30PM | 5:30PM |
5597 | LAW 766 | Trademarks | Davis | 5E | T | 6:30PM | 8:30PM |
5768 | LAW 732B | Transnational Civil Litigation | Nash | 5K | M / W | 10:45AM | 11:45AM |
5704 | LAW 732C | Transnational Crim. Litigation | Maloy / Ramirez | 5D | T | 5:00PM | 7:00PM |
5605 | LAW 926 | Wealth Transfer Tax | Pennell | 5E | M / W | 8:30AM | 10:30AM |
6077 | LAW 710A | Winning Litigation Strategies - The Copyright Example | Beck | 1D | M | 4:30Pm | 6:30PM |
3475 | LAW 649 | Writing for Judicial Chambers | Parrish | 5J | TH | 10:30AM | 12:30PM |
Date | 9:00 AM Exams | Room | ET Room | 2:00 PM Exams | Room | ET Room |
Wed. April 19 | Securities Regulation | 1E | 1B | Fed. Inc. Tax: P’ship | 5E | NA |
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Thu. April 20 | Analytical Methods | 5F | 1A | Complex Lit | 5F | 1A |
Business & Strategic Law. | 1F | NA | First Amendment | 5E | NA | |
Int’l Humanitarian Law | 5A | NA | Foreign Relations | 5J | NA | |
Legal Profession (Terrell) | 1E | 1D | Fourteenth Amendment | 5K | NA | |
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Fri. April 21 | Banking Law | 1B | 1F | Criminal Law (Cloud) | 1B/1C | 1F |
Fed. Inc. Tax: Indiv. | 1D | 1A | Criminal Law (Duncan) | 1D/1E | 5J | |
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Mon. April 24 | MAKE UP DAY |
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Tue. April 25 | Copyright Law | 1D | 1A | Constitutional Law (Seaman OBF) | 1C/1D | 1B |
Corporate Finance | 1E | 1F | Constitutional Law (Seaman OCD) | 1E | 1B | |
Employment Discrimination | 1B | NA | Constitutional Law (Smith) | 5B/E/F | 5A | |
Evidence | 1C | NA | Energy Law | 5C | 5D | |
Winning Litigation Strategies | 5E | NA |
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Wed. April 26 | Antitrust | 1C | 1B | Entertainment Law | 5B | 5A |
Const’l Crim. Proc. | 1E | NA | European Union Law II | 5K | NA | |
Nat’l Security Law | 1D | NA | Financial Compliance | 5C | 5D | |
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Bus. Associations (Georgiev) | 1E | 5B | Family Law | 1C/1D | 5F | |
Bus. Associations (Kang) | 1C/1D | 5A | Intellectual Property | 1E | 5E | |
Environmental Law | 1B | NA | Intro. to Law & Econ. | 5B/C | 5A | |
42:International Law | 5F | NA | Transnat’l Civil Lit. | 1B | 1A | |
Fri. April 28 | MAKE UP DAY |
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*Course availability is subject to change.
LAW 679, 04A. Access to Justice Practicum
Class Number: 5102
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Costa, Jason
Prerequisite: Criminal Law
Enrollment: Limited to 10 Students!
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises, Court performance, & Periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third-year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and under-served populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants -suffering from drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions. But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways. First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews with actual defendants (either in or out of custody) and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and even possibly motions and trials). Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement with the State Court Division of the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney¿s Office as it would cause a professional conflict.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 847, 06A. Advanced Civil Trial Practice
Class Number: 5098
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wellon, Robert
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class Work & Mock Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation techniques and skills first encountered in the Trial Techniques Program. Using a simulated case file in an employment case, the class will help develop the skills, strategies, and tactics necessary to be effective courtroom advocates. The course will employ lecture, demonstrations, movie and videotape simulations as well as regular participation by the students and constructive criticism and helpful hints from the course instructors, who are all very experienced litigators and judges. Invited guests who litigate regularly in this area of practice will also participate. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be explored. The course will conclude with student teams conducting a trial in a real courtroom setting, which is now planned for November 17th where participation is mandatory.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
LAW 617A. Advanced Commercial Real Estate
Class Number: 5159
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Minkin, David
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Classwork & Take-Home Exam
Description: What does a commercial real estate attorney really do every day? What does he or she think about and what is the relationship between the attorney and his or her client? What are the attorney's responsibilities to accomplish the client's goals? This course will explore those questions and related issues in the context of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. During the course, the students will be introduced to many of the essential elements of commercial real estate, including development concepts, purchase and sale of real estate, equity financing, debt financing, leasing, operational issues with large retail developments, and financial restructuring issues. Course materials will include Harvard Business School cases applicable to commercial real estate issues, from documentation applicable to many areas of commercial real estate, and relevant articles.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 657, 02A. Advanced Legal Research
ACCELERATED CLASS (Check OPUS for Dates)
Class Number: 5143
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Reid, Richelle
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This course is an examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through a mixture of lectures and practical applications with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research. This practical, skills-based course is designed to help prepare students for practice or future study. This new half-semester format makes class time especially important. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Missing more than one class period may jeopardize a student’s academic standing and will negatively affect the course grade.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 648, 04A. Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
Class Number: 5111 (Main Class Only; Lab times/dates will be scheduled at a later date, for now, enroll in the lab placeholder- LB2)
Credits: 2 hours (Pass/Fail Only)
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell, Tim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam.
Description: The basic content of the course is reflected in its required text: S. Armstrong & T. Terrell, Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Writing and Editing (PLI 3d ed., 2008). A frequent misconception about this course is that it is merely an extension of your experience in ILA. It is not. It will instead often challenge you to reconsider approaches to writing guidance that you have may previously encounter.
The course consists of two components. First, everyone enrolled will meet once a week on Monday afternoon for 1 1/2 hours, and that time will be consumed by lecture and review of numerous writing examples at every level of a document from overall structure to sentences and word choice. Second, all students will be assigned to a small-group discussion section, administered by a teaching assistant who is a third-year who took this course last year. Those sessions will meet once a week for an hour, during which the course materials, and additional examples, will be discussed, and editing exercises will be assigned.
Although this is a writing course, it is unusual in that its emphasis will be on editing rather than original drafting. One of the keys to becoming a good writer is understanding how readers (for purposes of this course, that means you) react to documents written by others. That experience then yields important insights regarding the defects in one's own prose, and how to cure them efficiently. To this end, the course will begin with some examination of deeper theories of communication, which will, in turn, allow the course to focus on fundamental writing principles rather than narrower rules or tips. The course will also analyze writing challenges from the top down: We will begin with issues of overall macro structure and organization and work down toward micro details. This class will not count towards satisfying your Upper-Level Writing Requirement.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 605 Alternative Dispute Resolution
3 Sections:
Law 605, 04A. Alternative Dispute Resolution; Class Number: 5085
Law 605, 05A. Alternative Dispute Resolution; Class Number: 5086
Law 605, GRD. Alternative Dispute Resolution (JM/LLM only); Class Number: 5224
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Allgood, John & Armstrong, Phil
Prerequisite: None
Note: Students who have taken Negotiations either in the Law School or Business School cannot take this course!
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam (Armstrong & Allgood)
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with an emphasis on mediation. Course objectives are: 1) to develop both a theoretical and a practical understanding of available options and strategies for using them effectively in a legal practice; 2) to understand the ethical and legal implications of ADR; and 3) to develop a proficiency in dispute resolution processes other than litigation, including direct negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
LAW 560 American Legal Writing, Analysis, & Research I
2 Sections:
Law 560, GRD1. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I; Class Number: 5150
Law 560, GRD2. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I; Class Number: 5185
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course introduces students to the concepts of legal analysis and the techniques and strategies for legal research, as well as the requirements and analytical structures for legal writing in the American common law legal system.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 560B, GRD. American Legal Writing, Analysis, & Research II
Class Number: 5195
NOTE: This class is open only to foreign-educated LLMs only
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course continues the study of legal analysis, research, and writing for practice in the American common law system. The topics covered include client letters, pleadings, and persuasive writing, along with enhanced instruction covering legal citation and advanced legal research sources and techniques.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 590, 000. Analysis, Research, and Communications for Non-Lawyers (JM)
Class Number: 5192
Class Number: 5754 (Online Only Section)
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Daspit, Nancy & Christian, Elizabeth; and Prof. Romig, Jennifer (Online Section)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular Assignments & Final Project
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce objective legal analyses.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 716, 10A. Bankruptcy
Class Number: 5084
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pardo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: An introduction to the law of bankruptcy. Covers issues relating to eligibility for bankruptcy; commencement of a bankruptcy case; administration of the bankruptcy estate; automatic stay and relief; use, sale or lease of property of the estate; assumption and rejection of executory contracts and leases; avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent transfer litigation; appointment of trustees and examiners; and confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan. This course is a general survey course reviewing the basics of Chapter 7 liquidations, Chapter 13 wage-earner reorganizations, and Chapter 11 business reorganizations.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
LAW 635D, 000. Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Class Number: 5140
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Reba, Stephen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Group work (based on individual student)
Description: Students in the Appeal for Youth Clinic represent inmates serving lengthy sentences in Georgia's prisons for offenses they allegedly committed as children. Students engage in habeas corpus and trial court litigation attacking inmates' convictions and sentences. Students should have an interest in criminal procedure, juvenile law, and/or social justice.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Class Number: 5078
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in the two-credit class: Child Welfare Law & Policy. This requirement may be waived for students with demonstrable prior experience in child advocacy, including the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program.
Grading Criteria: Assessment of individual student performance and overall contribution to the clinic; Assigned projects; and Project teams based on a set of established criteria
Description: The Barton Clinic is an in-house policy clinic dedicated to providing research, training, and support to the public, the child advocacy community, leadership of state child-serving agencies, and elected officials in Georgia. Students in the clinic work in teams to conduct extensive research, gather data and stakeholder perspective, analyze law-making authority, identify options for changing policy, plan strategies, and assist organizational clients in efforts to improve the juvenile court, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems. Approximately 9 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Applications are accepted prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic website: http://www.bartoncenter.net
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 500X. Business Associations
Class Numbers: (001) 5142; (002) 5240 Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Freer, Rich & Georgiev, George
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: A study of basic concepts in agency, partnership (general and limited), and corporation law. Topics include choice of business form, formation, organization, financing, and dissolution, as well as the fundamental rights and responsibilities of, and the allocation of power between, the business entity, its owners, management, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
NOTE: Interested students must submit a letter of interest & resume to Josh Moore, Office of the Georgia Capital Defender at jmoore@gacapdef.org
THIS PRACTICUM WILL REQUIRE A YEAR-LONG (two semester) COMMITMENT
Class Number: 5125
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three-hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third-year law students from Emory & Georgia State will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients' cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages are to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on making the case for life. That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Class Number: 5749
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Dr. Liwanga, Roger-Claude
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, participation, written and oral assignments; and Final Paper.
Description: Despite the proliferation of international human instruments on the protection of children, there are several million children worldwide who are subjected to hazardous labor, sexual exploitation, trafficking, female genital mutilation and/or illegal judicial detention. The course will: examine the legal framework on child protection; explore the different factors challenging the child's rights protection; analyze child vulnerability cases; and evaluate the needs of children exposed to exploitation. The course will also critically examine the policies and strategies that aim to create a protective environment for children at the international, federal and state levels. The course will start with an introduction to the concept of child protection and its scope. Different violations of children's rights, including child labor, child trafficking, child sexual exploitation, child soldiering, child persecution and child illegal detention will be covered as well.
The course will consist of lectures and/or practically oriented seminars during which students will work on case resolution and presentation of their results. There will be specialized guest speakers during the course who will expand on the various aspects and dilemmas in responding to children's rights violations. Students will acquire an in-depth theoretical knowledge enabling them to understand the importance of child protection rights. At the end of the course, students will equally be able to critically evaluate the comprehensiveness of the existing child protection laws and propose policies improving the mechanisms of child protection. The course will also be useful for students desiring to work for State child protective services or international organizations and/or non-governmental organizations protecting vulnerable populations and providing humanitarian assistance in natural disasters and post-conflict settings.
Students are expected to attend every class (with notification to instructor beforehand for an excused absence) and required to come to class prepared to discuss the day's readings. Attendance will be recorded on daily sign-in sheets. Class participation counts for 15% of the final grade. One written assignment (approximately 2000 words in length plus footnotes in the correct citation form) counting for 25% of the overall total will be required. Additionally, an oral presentation on key concepts discussed during the course counting for 20% of the overall total will be demanded. Finally, students will submit a long essay (about 4000 words in length plus footnotes in the correct citation form) counting for 40% of the course grade, which will be in lieu of an exam.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 635, 02A. Child Welfare Law and Policy
Class Number: 5120
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Attendance, Participation, & Written and Oral assignments
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child protection system, including the emergence of the juvenile court, and critical issues such as the legal representation of children, impact litigation and limits on governmental authority. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, analytical writing and skills-based exercises, including legislative drafting and oral advocacy assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 615, 000. Chinese Law
Class Number: 5209
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ruskola, Teemu
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
Description: This course is an introduction to the comparative study of Chinese law and legal thought. It starts by analyzing the tradition of imperial Chinese law and its theoretical foundations and then turns to early twentieth-century law reforms and the introduction of socialist law and jurisprudence. The course ends with the study of post-Mao law reforms and their implications for the future of Chinese law. In addition to its substantive focus, the course considers methodological problems involved in the study of law across cultures. Some of the general themes that run throughout the course include the following: To what extent is the law a useful analytical category in Sino-American comparison? How is law related to capitalism and socialism, and to culture and socio-economic organization more generally? How and why has Chinese law changed over time? What happens when "Eastern" and "Western" legal cultures come in contact with each other?
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 860A, 02A. Colloquium Series Workshop
Class Number: 5123
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine, Kay
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-colloquium-workshop-preselection-fall-2017/
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 6 students only!
Grading Criteria: Weekly Papers
Description: Would you like a close-up look at the world of legal scholarship and the exchange of scholarly ideas? Are you seeking more engagement with the Emory Law faculty outside of the traditional classroom setting? Do you want to become a stronger writer? Have you ever thought you might want to become a law professor? If so, consider applying to the Colloquium Series Workshop (CSW).
Components of CSW: Students who participate in this two unit workshop attend two meetings each week: the weekly faculty colloquium, which meets on Wednesdays over the lunch hour (and includes lunch) and a one-hour class session run by Professor Kay Levine, on Thursdays. During each of these one-hour sessions, students discuss the colloquium work as a piece of scholarship (and as a piece of persuasive writing), critique the author's presentation, and review materials relating to the production of scholarship and the legal academic job market. In advance of the weekly meeting, students write short reaction papers on each colloquium piece.
The CSW will be graded on a pass/fail basis, but with high attendance and participation standards set for what constitutes a passing grade. Do not apply for this class if you have other commitments during the lunch hour on Wednesdays (even only sporadic). Enrollment Students enroll in the CSW in accordance with the same procedures used for seminars (advance application during the pre-selection process). However, enrollment is limited to six students each semester, instead of the usual 15. On the pre-selection form please indicate the basis of your interest in the CSW and your prior experience with scholarship in an academic setting (law or otherwise).
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 707. Comparative Law
Class Number: 5784
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ruskola, Teemu
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Weekly reflection papers; & Take-home Final Exam.
Description: This course is an introduction to the comparative study of the social, cultural, and intellectual phenomenon to which usually refer by shorthand as “law.” Among other things, we will consider the basic jurisprudential differences between Anglo-American common law and continental civil law. However, going beyond this traditional comparative framework, we will expand our focus geographically, outside the West, as well as historically, to analyze a variety of jurisprudential concepts in different periods. Among other things, we will examine the jurisprudential foundations of various types of religious law and international law.
Although the course will cover a wide range of topics, geographic areas, and time periods, its two main underlying themes will be the analysis of methodological problems in the cross-cultural and trans-temporal study of legal concepts. Drawing on comparative jurisprudence, legal history, legal anthropology, and other areas of inquiry, the questions that we will attempt to answer include the following: What is law? Is it universally present in all societies? Who gets to decide who was has law, and what are the normative implications of having, or not having, it? Is law a useful analytical category in cross-cultural comparison? How is law related to other aspects of culture and socio-economic organization? How does law construct national subjects, racial subjects, and gendered subjects? How and why does law change through time? What happens when the legal institutions of different cultural groups come in contact with each other? What happens when multiple legal orders coexist within one society?
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Class Number: 5755
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine, Kay
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 80 Students!
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
LAW 675, 04A. Constitutional Litigation
Class Number: 5096
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Weber Jr., Gerald
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Assigned Papers
Description: An exploration of the substantive, ethical and strategic issues involved in litigating civil rights actions. This course will allow students to both learn basic principles of governmental liability/defenses and apply their knowledge of torts, constitutional law and civil procedure in a litigation setting.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 959. Courtroom Persuasion & Drama I
2 Sections:
Law 959, 02A; Class Number: 5080
Law 959, 02B; Class Number: 5079
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students!
Grading Criteria: Class work & Final Exam (during regularly scheduled class time)
Note:Class is open only to 3Ls!
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Students reflected on what they gained from taking this class:
"I think what is most drastically different is how much more professional I came across later in the semester."
-Ben S.
"The largest benefit I drew from our class was the ability to stand comfortably in front of a group of people."
-Diana S.
"The most valuable aspect is practice, practice, practice, especially when combined with live and individualized feedback. I can make presentations with significantly less internal anxiety than before, and with more organization and the outward appearance of credibility." -Andrew R.
"This class taught me that putting work into your speaking style can really pay off! I also found the freedom during this class to try some experiments with my speaking technique, including not memorizing a script and moving about my space." -Alan W.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 622X. Criminal Pretrial Motions
Class Number: 5750
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Krepp, Thomas
Prerequisite: Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations (can be taken concurrently)
Grading Criteria: In-class Oral Advocacy Assignments, Written Advocacy Assignments, & Participation.
Description: This workshop will provide practical skills training in the area of pre-trial criminal litigation for a small number of students. Class will meet once a week for approximately 3 hours, and will generally consist of each student performing an oral advocacy assignment. In addition, written advocacy assignments will be due from time to time. The emphasis of the class will be on building off of the students' substantive knowledge of criminal procedure by learning how it is applied to "real world" pre-trial criminal litigation.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 897. Directed Research
Class Number: Varies
Credits: 1-2 hours
Instructor(s): Multiple (Adjunct & Assistant Professors must have full-time professors co-sponsor)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Based on supervising faculty's evaluations of Paper
Description: Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 -age paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30-page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the Students-Only web page »
LAW 659M, 04A. Doing Deals: Commercial Lending Transactions
Class Number: 5137
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the pre-reqs
Prerequisite: Business Associations, Contract Drafting, and Deal Skills (concurrent okay w/ Deal Skills Only)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This Course is designed to give the student an opportunity to (i) explore in depth a variety of secured transactions, recognizing the contrast to unsecured transactions, and the Creditor's rights, remedies, and benefits thereunder, (ii) understand the nature and corresponding requirements of secured transactions, including knowledge of, and familiarity with applicable regulations, statutes and rules, and (iii) engage, as counsel, in the representation of a secured Credit(s) or borrower(s), in an actual secured transaction from beginning to end (the "Secured Transaction") throughout the semester.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659P, 05A. Doing Deals: Complex Restructuring and Distressed Acquisitions in Chapter 11
Class Number: 5105
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Payne, Sue; Adjunct professor
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the pre-reqs
Prerequisite: Bankruptcy and Contract Drafting Prerequisite. For Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Bankruptcy, Contract Drafting, and Deal Skills. Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Participation (10-20%), In-class Presentations (20-30%), Out-of-class Projects (transaction documents, memos, legal briefs, etc.) (20-30%), Final Pleadings and Argument for the sale hearing (20-30%).
Description: This course will take students down the path of a complicated corporate restructuring and/or sale. During class time, students will learn the key features of a modern corporate restructuring and distressed sale, using a hypothetical company for illustrations. Students will also be asked to prepare and present in class one or more summaries/presentations regarding hot topics in the bankruptcy and restructuring world. Outside of class, students will assume the roles of various parties to the restructuring, such as debtor, lenders, key suppliers, key customers, private equity sponsor, and the like. The students will be asked by their "clients" (the instructors) to negotiate transaction terms and to draft definitive documents for various parts of the restructuring. The students will also be asked to prepare various bankruptcy-related transactional documents and pleadings, leading to a contested, bankruptcy court sale of the hypothetical company at the end of the course.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659A. Doing Deals: Contract Drafting
Class Numbers: 04A- 5108; 04B- 5088; 04D- 5124; 04F- 5133; 04G- 5134; 04H- 5135; 04I- 5138; 04J- 5139; 04K- 5148; 04L- 5132; 04M- 5178; 04N- 5196; 09A- 5141; 09B- 5200
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Payne, Sue; & Adjunct Professors
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students have priority, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent okay)
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students per section (Only 9 seats available during initial registration)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659B. Doing Deals: Deal Skills
Class Numbers: 04A- 5087; 04B- 5136; 04C- 5147; 04D- 5245
Note: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Koops, Katherine & Adjunct Professors
Selection: Transactional Certificate Students have priority, any remaining seats will be made available during Open Enrollment.
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay)
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students per section
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: Deal Skills builds on the skills and concepts learned in Contract Drafting and emphasizes the skills and thought processes involved in, and required by, the practice of transactional law. The course introduces students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, such as M&A deals, license agreements, commercial real estate transactions, financing transactions, and other typical transactions. Students learn to interview, counsel, and communicate with simulated clients; conduct various types of due diligence; translate a business deal into contract provisions; understand basic transaction structure, finance, and risk reduction techniques; and negotiate and collaboratively draft an agreement for a simulated transaction. Classes involve both individual and group work, with in-class exercises, role-plays and oral reports supported by lecture and weekly homework assignments. The course grade is based on homework, class participation, a negotiation project, and a comprehensive individual project.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659F, 06A. Doing Deals: General Counsel
Class Number: 5144
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Adjunct Professor
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the pre-reqs may try to enroll during Open Enrollment.
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay). Prerequisite Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Business Associations, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills (concurrent okay only w/Deal Skills).
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: In this course, students will develop transactional skills, with emphasis on possible differences in roles of in-house counsel and outside counsel in the context of a hypothetical transaction that will be the focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, a letter of intent, an employment agreement, a Master Services Agreement, and a Stock Purchase Agreement.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659I. Doing Deals: International Capital Transactions
Class Number: 5809
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Nate
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the pre-reqs may try to enroll during Open Enrollment.
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay); Deal Skills (concurrent ok). Recommended Prerequisites/Co-requisites: Securities Regulation & Corporate Finance.
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation in Simulated Transactions; Written Assignments; & Participation. No Exam.
Description: This course simulates the work that would be done by a law firm associate raising capital in a large international transaction. Topics will include associate etiquette and success skills; deal structuring; U.S. federal securities law registration requirements and exemptions (with a focus on Rule 144A and Regulation S); due diligence; the purpose and content of various sections of an Offering Memorandum; provisions of the securities purchase agreement; addressing aspects of local law in foreign jurisdictions; comfort letters; opinion practice; the closing process; and ethics and professionalism issues relating to international deals. Student performance will be assessed based on class participation, in-class exercises, written homework assignments and a final project.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659N, 04A. Doing Deals: Intellectual Property Transactions
Class Number: 5121
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Lytle-Perry, Courtney
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the pre-reqs may try to enroll during Open Enrollment.
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting and Deal Skills (Deal Skills taken concurrently ok)
Grading Criteria: Exercises, Class Participation, & Final Paper/Presentation
Description: This course is designed to offer students with an interest in intellectual property the opportunity to explore a limited number of current and cutting edge intellectual property topics in depth and to experience first-hand how these legal concepts would manifest in a transactional practice setting. Students will complete a variety of in-class and homework assignments typical of those encountered in a transactional IP practice, from contract negotiation and drafting to strategic analysis and client interaction. - The course is intended for students with an interest in this subject area; no specific prior IP courses are required, but if a student has not taken any other IP offerings, please contact the instructor for suggestions of materials to review over the summer. Grading is a combination of small projects, class participation, and a final paper/presentation. There is no exam. Students taking this course as a Capstone Course will complete some additional requirements over the course of the semester. Due of the nature of this course, regular attendance is mandatory!
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 659D, 04A. Doing Deals: Private Equity
Class Number: 5097
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Crowley, Kevin; & Furman, Kathryn
Selection: Transactional Students will receive an email informing them how/when to enroll. Non-transactional certificate students who meet the pre-reqs may try to enroll during Open Enrollment.
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT ok), Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT ok), Deal Skills, Corporate Finance, Accounting in Action or Analytical Methods
Grading Criteria: Several group and individual assignments; Mid-term; & Final Exam
Description: The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students will work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified, sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to tackle and resolve difficult deal issues and complete successful deals. Students will be divided into teams of lawyers and business people to review, consider and negotiate actual transaction documents. The issues presented will include often-contested key economic and legal deal terms, as well as common ethical dilemmas.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 745. DUI Trials
Class Number: 5157
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Healy, Drew
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation and Final Trial Simulation
Description: One of the most complicated and technical cases to try in criminal law is a DUI charge. Learning how to present or defend a DUI can equip a new litigator with techniques that will benefit students seeking practice in all areas of criminal litigation. Students will review DUI statutes and case law and prepare case files for motions and trial. Opening statements, direct and cross -examinations, and closing argument will be discussed and practiced. The introduction of scientific evidence, expert testimony, and preparing your witness for trial will be explored. Motions will be prepared and decided. Students will prepare and present their final case in a trial setting at the end of the semester.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 879L. E-Discovery & Litigation Technology
Accelerated Course (Check OPUS for dates)
Class Number: 5756
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Grounds, Alison
Prerequisite: Civil Procedure
Grading Criteria: Class attendance, active class participation, reading assignments, timely submission of take-home assignments, and the quality of such assignments. Additionally, students will be grouped into teams to collaborate on in-class exercises.
Description: Lawyers must understand and use technology to stay relevant and meet client needs in the era of Big Data. This course is designed to help law school students understand the crucial role that eDiscovery plays in litigation and governmental investigations as well as the type of skills needed to practice law in today’s digital age. The law and technology relevant to eDiscovery are constantly changing. This course focuses on how courts, practicing lawyers, and clients address discovery challenges related to electronically stored information. Understanding the basics of electronically stored information including both the technology and the applicable law is critical whether you want to work as a litigator, in-house counsel, or in a governmental agency.
The primary focus of this course is on the substantive law associated with electronic discovery and the technical aspects of preserving, retrieving, protecting, analyzing, and producing electronic data. This course is interactive and collaborative in nature and will be taught by a leading eDiscovery lawyer and will include guest speakers from the litigation technology community, such as computer forensics experts, software specialists, and other practicing eDiscovery lawyers. Topics of discussion will include: the effect of electronically stored information on litigation, data preservation, and "litigation holds," an overview of the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, spoliation, and sanctions related to data and production, technology-assisted review, and ethical issues related to lawyers and technology.
Course Objectives:
This course is designed to accomplish three primary objectives:
- Provide students with a strong foundation in the substantive law of eDiscovery;
- Provide students with a collaborative and ¿hands on¿ experience in various eDiscovery phases and tasks including drafting litigation holds, conducting client interviews to determine the technology needs of the case, using databases to analyzed client data, and applying the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to electronically stored information;
- Introduce students to the ethical and professional responsibility issues that arise in this field and the related sanctions that can be imposed on clients and lawyers.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 574A. The Economics of Law Firm Practice
Accelerated Course (Check OPUS for dates)
Class Number: 5757
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Everett, Stephanie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-home Final Short Paper
Description: This practice-oriented course introduces students to the typical structure of law firms, how they profit, and how they market themselves. Students will study the factors that determine law firm profitability for both large and small firms. Through case studies and hands-on exercises, students will come to understand variables of utilization and realization, the use of standard and alternative billing practices, the role of staff leverage, and how their contribution as junior attorneys can positively impact the firm. In addition, the class will discuss the economic forces impacting law firms today, how firms are responding, and how firms are branding themselves to beat the competition.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 662, 04A. Education Law & Policy
Class Number: 5758
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises and final paper
Description: This course will survey constitutional, statutory and policy issues affecting children in our public elementary and secondary schools. An emphasis will be placed on issues that impact the children most at risk for educational failure and that contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. Topics will include the right to an education, school discipline, special education, alternative educational programs, No Child Left Behind and high-stakes testing, the rights of homeless youth and youth in foster care, and laws designed to address bullying in our schools.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 669X, 06A. Employment Discrimination Lab
Class Number: 5104
Credit: 1 Hour (This class meets for 2 hours every other week. The dates will be announced during the first week of class.)
Instructor(s): Prof. Shultz, Chad
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination or Employment Law
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: Limited to 8 students! JD Students Preferred.
Description: The class will work through an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are led by Chad Shultz, but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (Defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you to prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Law 668X, 000. Employment Law
Class Number: XXXX
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Weirich, Geoff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This three-hour course (similar to the previously offered two-hour course) will cover many of the major legal aspects of the employment relationship not treated in Labor Law. We will examine legal principles applicable to the hiring process, the key terms and conditions of employment (including wages, hours, employee benefits, and workplace conduct), employment discrimination (a brief survey, not intended as a substitute for the separate course on that subject), occupational safety and health, employment termination (including termination for cause and through force reduction), and post-employment issues (restrictive covenants and trade secrets, unemployment insurance, and post-employment benefits).
*Updated as of Fall 2017
COURSE REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE TURNER ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC. THIS COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE WRITING REQUIREMENT.
Class Number: 5083
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Goldstein, Mindy & Horder, Rick
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Workshop Projects, Simulations, & Classroom Participation
Description: The Environmental Advocacy workshop will include reading assignments, written exercises, seminar-like discussion, and simulations with an emphasis on legal practice. The course will develop students' abilities to function as successful environmental advocates in the context of client interviews, administrative proceedings, negotiations, and litigation. Other issues covered include advocating environmental protection.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 620. European Union Law I
Class Number: 5189
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mickevicius, Henrikas & Prof. Tulibacka, Magdalena
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam (60%), Short assignments (30%), & Participation (10%)
Description: The largest trade and investment relationship in the world, overlapping geopolitical concerns, and crucial shared values make the European Union one of the United States most important partners economically, politically, and socially. Lawyers, public servants, and activists are consequently being called upon to engage (and understand) European legal principles and practices to an ever-growing degree. With that in mind, this course will examine the theoretical fundamentals of the EU legal system and their practical applications. We will begin by reviewing the history of the European Communities and the genesis of the European Union. This will be followed by an analysis of the constitutional framework of the EU, including its political and legal nature, its aims and guiding values, membership and the division of powers between the EU and the Member States, institutional makeup and the allocation of powers across its major institutions, sources and forms of EU law, lawmaking, recent developments in the protection of fundamental rights, and the structure and role of the EU judicial system. Building on the latter, we will then turn to the EU model of judicial review and the complex interaction between the EU and national legal systems in enforcing EU law.
Classes will combine lectures and interactive sessions where students will explore the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts of Member States, analyze hypothetical cases, solve problems, and assess relevant political and legal developments.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 632X. Evidence
2 Sections:
Law 632X, 12A; Class Number: 5122
Law 632X, 13A; Class Number: 5158
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Shepherd, George & Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege. Must be taken in the second year.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
LAW 870. Externship Program
Class Number: Multiple
Credits: Varies
Instructor(s): Multiple
Selection: Application process submitted to Prof. Shalf, Sarah
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Fieldwork
Description: Step outside the classroom and learn to practice law from experienced attorneys. Take the skills and principles you learn in the classroom and learn how they apply in practice. Emory Law's General Externship Program provides work experience in different types of practice (all sectors except law firms) so you can determine which suits you best and develop relationships that will continue as you begin your legal career. Students are supported in their placements by a weekly class meeting with other students in similar placements, taught by faculty with practice experience in that area, in which students have the opportunity to learn legal and professional skills they need to succeed in the externship, receive mentoring independent of their on-site supervisors, and to step back and reflect on their experience and what they are learning from it.
Our Small Firm Externship Program provides students especially interested in the small law firm practice setting with experience in specially-selected small law firms. The firms' attorneys participate with the students in our weekly class meeting, which focuses on the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a small firm practice setting.
Students apply for externships via Symplicity in the semester prior to the externship and all placements must be preapproved. Available placements for the General program are listed on the Emory Law website, law.emory.edu/externships, and the currently participating Small Firms are listed here: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/small-firm-externship-applicant-law-firm-ranking/
Warning: No student is allowed to be enrolled in more than one clinic, practicum, or externship in a single semester without the prior approval of the directors of both programs.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 633, 10A. Family Law I
Class Number: 5759
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course will address the problems, policies, and laws related to the formation and dissolution of the marital relationship. Among the topic covered will be marriage, divorce, child custody and other related topics.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 643, 12A. Family Law II
Class Number: 5145
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Deals with the problems, policies, and laws related to the dissolution of children and parents. Juvenile Law will also be considered.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 721, 000. Federal Courts
Class Number: 5191
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Fred
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course deals with the allocation of judicial business between the state and federal courts, as well as the jurisdictional tensions that arise from a dual judicial system. In addition, the course considers the relationship between the federal judiciary and Congress, particularly as it implicates legislature's power to structure and limit the federal courts' subject matter jurisdiction. This is a very practical course, as well as one that implicates important theoretical issues about decision-making institutions under our federal system of government.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
LAW 642X. Federal Income Tax: Corporations
Class Number: 5760
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax or Fed. Income Tax: Individual
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Survey of the general structure of taxation of corporations. Considers the tax issues arising from the formation, operation, liquidation, and reorganization of corporations. An important course for anyone interested in transactional law.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 626. Federal Indian Law
Class Number: 5223
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Saunooke, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description: This course offers an overview of federal Indian law and policy, including historical developments related to federal treaties with Indian tribes and the Indian Termination Act. We will discuss current law and policy regarding Indian self-determination, gaming, sovereign and constitutional issues, and the varied and complex jurisdictional considerations involving criminal and civil laws that impact, affect, and otherwise intertwine Indian tribes, states, and the federal government.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
LAW 760, 06A. Federal Prosecution Practice
Class Number: 5227
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Grimberg, Steven
Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure & Evidence recommended, but not required
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises; Take-home Written Assignments; & Take-home Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 14 students only!
Description: This class will explore the powers, principles, and responsibilities that come with serving as a federal prosecutor. Class segments will focus on the day-to-day responsibilities of federal prosecutors throughout the various stages of the criminal justice system. We will discuss the motivating factors that guide federal prosecution decisions in light of legal, policy, practical and ethical considerations. The class will involve a mix of lecture and "learn by doing" exercises that will be geared towards developing your analytical, oral and written advocacy skills.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 601B, 001. The First Amendment: Religious Liberty
Class Number: 5761
Credits: 3 Hours + Optional 1-hour lab
Instructor(s): Prof. Witte Jr., John *Cross-Listed with School of Theology ES 684 000.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam.
Description: Religious liberty is one of the hallmarks of modern constitutional democracies, though it has come under considerable attack in recent years. This course analyzes the historical formation and current interpretation of the religious liberty guarantees of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Part I of the course explores the original meaning of the First Amendment guarantees of no establishment and free exercise of religion viewed in colonial and broader Western context. Part II analyzes the guarantees of free exercise and expression of religion guaranteed by First Amendment free exercise and free speech clauses and recent complementary statutes. Topics include religious liberty claims to polygamy, proselytism, Sabbath day observance, religious worship, ritual, and dress, and claims by religious individuals and groups to exemptions from general laws. It also includes the heated clashes between religious liberty and sexual liberty claims. Part III traces the requirements of no establishment of religion, particularly in cases concerning the role of religion in public education, the place of government in religious education, and the place of religious symbols and ceremonies in public and political life. Part IV analyzes the complex relationships between religious organizations and government. Topics include tax funding and exemptions for religious groups, the powers and limits of religious organizations to resolve their own internal disputes over polity and property, and their power to discipline their leaders and members for their beliefs, moral behavior, or sexual orientation.
The readings will consist of selected United States Supreme Court cases and a textbook, John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2016).
There will be a final take-home examination, handed out the last class of the semester. The exam will offer a choice of three or four questions that explore different major course themes; students will pick one question and prepare a 3000-word answer based on their course notes and readings. The course can be taken for graded or pass/fail credit. The course has no prerequisites and does not presuppose detailed knowledge of American history or constitutional law.
1 Additional Hour Lab Option: This course offers a supplemental 1 credit hour laboratory, only for those enrolled in the Religious Liberty course, on litigating religious liberty claims. The lab will meet in 3-4 sessions during the semester for a total of 14 hours. Each session will be co-taught by Prof. Witte and an expert who has successfully litigated religious liberty claims in federal court under the First Amendment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One session will also be dedicated to litigating religious liberty in the European Court of Human Rights.
Students in this course are welcome to take a supplemental one-credit hour lab, which will focus on how to litigate religious freedom cases in federal courts, before religious tribunals, and in the European Court of Human Rights. We will meet for three evenings the week of October 23-27, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. for hands-on instruction by leading religious liberty advocates. In addition, we will meet for a one-hour colloquium, on Wednesday, October 25, 12:15 pm, during the Law School’s open community hour. I’ll have food and drink available for each of these sessions.
Registered lab students are asked to participate in all sessions that week, and to submit a 1000-word take-home paper assignment, due on or before noon Friday,December 22, 2017; it will be graded on a pass/fail basis.
We will discuss the mechanics and final schedule for this lab during our first class; thereafter the Registrar will invite you to register for the lab if you are interested.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 680, 04A. Food & Drug Law
Class Number: 5146
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kitchens, Bill
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Food and drug law involves the statutory and regulatory framework governing the development and marketing of food, drugs, medical devices, biologicals, tobacco products, and cosmetics. This introductory course serves as a starting point for understanding how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempts both to protect the public health and foster our national desire and need for innovation in science, medicine and the safety of our food supply. In particular, the course will study how FDA and the courts have enforced and interpreted the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to implement a regulatory system for a wide range of products that affect our daily lives. Dialogue and questions on how food and drug law has confronted and adapted to scientific and technological progress, public health challenges, constitutional controversies, and policy-based perspectives will be encouraged. Additionally, the course covers such contemporary issues as food safety; balancing the benefits and risks of certain drugs, devices and biological products and how best to communicate that information to healthcare professionals and consumers; expediting approval of drugs designed for life-threatening diseases; clinical trials for experimental products; and regulation of biotechnology, such as tissue engineering and gene therapy. Other specific topics include: regulation of food labeling and sanitation; regulation of dietary supplements; administrative rulemaking; advertising and promotion controls; preemption of state laws; and strategies for handling government investigations and enforcement actions.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
Class Number: 5093
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Aronson, Mort
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Legal and business considerations, including the pros and cons of franchising; the franchising role in the economy; the franchiser/franchisee relationship; disclosure requirements; relevant state and federal laws; essential elements in representing franchisors and franchisees; basic terms and issues with franchise agreements; legislative issues; trademark issues; encroachment issues; system expansion issues; franchisee associations; new techniques in franchising; e.g. area development agreements, sub-franchising, niche franchising, master franchise agreements; international franchising; the role of alternate dispute resolution in franchising; product quality issues; legislative issues. Case studies of important franchise companies will be read and evaluated including Holiday Inns, McDonald's, Century 21, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts. Prominent legal political and business franchising representatives will be guest speakers.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
Class Number: 5167
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Final Exam
Description: Introductory study of the general structure of the federal income tax; nature of gross income, exclusions, and deductions; the income tax consequences of property transactions; the nature of capital gains and losses; basis and non-recognition.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 890. Fundamentals of Innovation I
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED!
ClassNumber: 5090
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: Team projects, Team evaluations, Individual work product, Class attendance, and Participation.
Description: Innovation and technological change are critical to wealth creation in today’s global economy. However, the process that often begins in the research lab traveling a path towards product development, market development, product commercialization and life cycle management is uncertain and typically difficult. More often than not, ideas will “die the good death” well before given the opportunity to develop into profitable markets. Fundamentals of Innovation I is first of a two-course sequence on the various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process within the context of technology commercialization. In the Fall semester, the course is focused on 1) helping students develop an understanding of innovation basics including the overall innovation process and roles and skills of various key players; 2) discussing patterns of technology change and alternate management processes for each; 3) organizing the innovation team and developing frameworks that foster team creativity; 4) understanding forms and protections afforded Intellectual Property; and 5) discussing early stage approaches to product definition (working models to engineering prototypes) and preliminary market definition.
The Fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in-depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 711L. Global Law
Class Number: 5793
Credits: 2 Hours; *Course is cross-listed with Candler School of Theology as ES 698 002.
Instructor(s): Prof. Domingo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation and Reaction Paper
Description: In recent years, the idea of a new 'global law' has gained remarkable relevance in legal theory. The common contemporary goal of addressing globally the problems afflicting humanity is not just an option but a moral and political duty with important legal implications. Global issues such as international terrorism, arms trafficking, wars, hunger and poverty, immigration, political and economic corruption, and environmental challenges cannot be adequately addressed by lone national governments or by an international community of states in which self-interest trumps the global common good.
The course explores new ideas and normative and institutional issues raised by the globalization of the law. Specifically, the course will examine contemporary debates about global justice and law through a close reading of the leading writings by John Rawls, Harold Bermann, Benedick Kingsbury, Thomas Pogge, Jeremy Waldron, and Neil Walker, among others.
*Last Updated Fall 2017
LAW 736B. Global Public Health Law
Class Number: 5198
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brady, Rita-Marie JD, MPH
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Paper
Description: This course will use foundational legal principles of international and domestic law, as well as international regulatory frameworks, guidelines, and their respective actors, and apply them to global public health issues. This will be accomplished using interactive case studies and simulations that require multi-disciplinary classroom interaction, skill sets, source materials, and perspectives to look at the cross-border perspectives and permeability that shape global public health law. Specific topics of focus will include (but are not limited to): infectious disease, environmental health, public health emergencies, human rights and health, injury, and tobacco control. Guest speakers/presenters will be incorporated, and the format will include subject lectures, followed by either small or large group break-out discussions with a focus on multi-disciplinary interaction and actors.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 690B. Human Rights Advocacy
Class Number: 5235
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisite: Human Rights or International Law Course (must verify you meet before attempting to enroll, those who do not and try to enroll will be subsequently dropped)
Grading Criteria: Research reports, Class participation, & Presentations
Enrollment: Limited to 8 students only!
Description: Human rights organizations and human rights lawyers play essential roles in protecting and promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy, both at home and abroad. They expose injustices and demand accountability for them; they pressure governments to fulfill their democratic and human rights obligations, and often they give voice to the voiceless and marginalized. This course will start with a brief overview of international human rights law and then will be divided between lectures focusing on developing the skills of budding human rights lawyers, examining the anatomy of a human rights campaign, and highlighting the ethical dilemmas and barriers to change human rights lawyers regularly face. To reinforce these lessons, each student will be assigned a research project on an issue supplied by human rights organizations from across the globe. Past participating organizations included The Southern Poverty Law Center, The Carter Center, The Women’s Legal Centre (South Africa), the Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka) and the US Human Rights Network.
The course is 3 credits and will require either several short written projects or one larger research report for an organization (65%), along with a series of project-related small assignments to show the student's progress and focused on building skills (35%). It will be limited to 8 students who have completed an international law or human rights law course.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 731. Immigration Law
Class Number: 5210
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kuck, Charles
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will explore the legal, historical, and policy perspectives that shape U.S. law governing immigration and citizenship. We will examine the constitutional and international law foundations underlying immigration regulation, the history of immigration law in the U.S., the source and scope of congressional and executive branch power in the realm of immigration, and the role of the judiciary in making and interpreting immigration law. In the course of that exploration, we will address citizenship and naturalization, the admission and removal of immigrants and nonimmigrants, and the issues of undocumented immigration and national security. We will also analyze the impact of immigration in other areas, including employment, criminal law, family unification, international human rights law, and discrimination.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 672A. Information Privacy & Security Law
Class Number: 5816
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Keating, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
Description: New and innovative technologies collect and analyze data in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. Data security breaches of enormous scale capture national headlines. Disclosures by Edward Snowden, Wikileaks, and other sources reveal widespread governmental surveillance using ubiquitous consumer technologies. The European Court of Justice, in litigation initiated by activist Max Schrems, invalidates the Safe Harbor Program ¿ the pillar of international data transfers from the European Union to the US.
Information Privacy and Security Law will focus on the primary legal and policy issues confronting practitioners in the area of information privacy and security today. The developments outlined above have challenged existing legal frameworks and have led to an array of new laws and regulations. Privacy and security has, accordingly, seen explosive growth as a practice area in the legal profession. The course will take a practical, as-applied approach but will also explore the theoretical underpinnings and policy objectives of today¿s web of privacy and security laws and regulations.
The class will be taught by David Keating (95L), co-leader of the Privacy and Security Practice at Alston & Bird, who has focused in the area since 2000. Guest lectures are planned by leading practitioners in the specialized areas of cyber security and European Union data protection.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 609L. International Commercial Arbitration
Class Number: 5161
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Reetz, Ryan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Final Exam
Description: A consideration of arbitration as a dispute resolution process in the domain of international commerce. Analyzes the composition and the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, the procedure followed by arbitrators, effective advocacy in the arbitral context, recognition, and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and other related issues. In order to understand the arbitral process, the class will examine numerous key stages of an arbitration from drafting the arbitration agreement (start) to enforcement of the award (finish). We will use a hypothetical case to explore the issues and other challenges that arbitrators and counsel must confront throughout the life of the process. This class will be very hands-on and practical. Participation is important and there will be role-playing. As international commercial arbitration cannot exist in a legal vacuum, we will also consider the legal framework that governs it in various civil law and common law countries.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 653, 10A. International Criminal Law
Class Number: 5081
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Paper
Description: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its very first judgment. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was convicted of the war crime of conscripting or enlisting persons under the age of fifteen years into the armed forces of a militant group and using such persons to participate actively in hostilities. Lubanga was the founder and leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots responsible for the violence that erupted in 2002 in Ituri, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups. The situation in Ituri was referred to the ICC by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Lubanga Case, several complicated issues came up in the course of the pre-trial proceedings, which commenced when a warrant for the arrest of Lubanga was issued by a Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC on February 10, 2006: Was the conflict in Ituri an international armed conflict or one not of an international character? Is there a difference between the enlistment or conscription of child soldiers if committed in an international armed conflict or in an armed conflict, not of an international character, respectively? What degree of knowledge (mens rea) is required on the part of the perpetrator in regard to the age of a person enlisted or conscripted into the armed forces or used to participate actively in the hostilities? What is the meaning of using a child soldier "to participate actively in hostilities"? The trial and tribulations that attended the pre-trail proceedings in the Lubanga Case also included interesting issues of criminal procedure: The duty of the Prosecutor to obtain evidence for the defense; the effect of (non-) compliance with municipal (Congolese) laws in regard to searches and seizures; requirements to be satisfied for a person to qualify as a "victim" and the right of victims to express their "views and concerns" in the investigation stage of the proceedings.
These problems and questions are some of the substantive issues included in International Criminal Law. The focus of the course is on the structures and proceedings of the ICC. The ICC Statute was adopted by a Diplomatic Conference of Diplomatic Plenipotentiaries on an International Criminal Court, which was held in Rome on June 15 through July 17, 1998. Following 60 ratifications of the ICC Statute, the ICC became a reality on July 1, 2002, with its seat in The Hague in the Netherlands. To date, the ICC Statute has been ratified by 122 States. Earlier, the Security Council of the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and subsequently offered its support for a Special Court to prosecute international crimes committed in Sierra Leone (SCSL), and for judicial chambers to bring perpetrators of international crimes in East Timor and Cambodia to justice. The jurisprudence of the ICTY, ICTR, and SCSL, as well as cases decided by the NurembergTribunals, are included in the course.
The course also includes an overview of the history of the establishment of the international tribunals; and as far as the ICC is concerned, its subject-matter, territorial, personal and temporal jurisdiction; the composition of the ICC and its organs; trigger mechanisms for prosecutions in the ICC (the U.N. Security Council, States Parties, and the Prosecutor conducting investigations proprio motu); and the rules of admissibility of a case (the principle of complementarity). When dealing with the definitions of crimes within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression), we shall single out certain crimes for closer scrutiny, for example the crime of genocide, gender-specific crimes, child soldiers, torture, environmental malpractice, resettlement of populations in occupied territories, and terrorism. In dealing with the rules of procedure and evidence to be applied in the ICC, special attention will be given to international principles of criminal justice that are at odds with the American criminal law and criminal procedure, for example the concept of mens rea, the presumption of innocence, the rule against double jeopardy, the protection of victims, and sentencing factors. Special attention will also be given to the ongoing conflict between the African Union and the ICC over the indictment of President Al Bashir of Sudan and President Kenyatta and Deputy President Ruto of Kenya to stand trial in the ICC centered upon the (non-) applicability of sovereign immunity of a sitting head of state. The United States was one of seven States that voted against approval of the ICC Statute. The course includes concerns of the United States and others (including Israel, India, and some Arab States) that prompted a negative vote or abstention. President Clinton did sign the ICC Statute. The Bush administration, on the other hand, adopted a particular hostile attitude toward the ICC, for example by cancelling the American signature of the ICC Statute, enacting the Military Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, and imposing sanctions against States that refused to enter into bilateral agreements with the United States that would preclude them from surrendering American nationals for prosecution in the ICC. In 2009, the Obama administration re-engaged with The ICC and the United States is currently a "co-operating non-party State".
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
LAW 690A. International Human Rights Law Practicum
Class Number: 5794
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mickevicius, Henrikas
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Human Rights Law (concurrent ok)
Grading Criteria: Substantive Projects & Short-term tasks via Assignments (70%) & Attendance/Participation (30%). No Final Exam
Enrollment: Enrollment is subject to instructor’s approval, please email the professor at henrikas.mickevicius@emory.edu. Candidates will need to demonstrate a serious commitment to human rights work and an ability to take initiative, work independently, and use discretion. Work on reports alleging Enforced Disappearances "EDs" is subject to a confidentiality agreement. Knowledge of an official U.N. language, other than English, is preferred.
Description: The Practicum will offer students a one-of-a-kind experiential education opportunity to deepen their knowledge of international human rights law, policies and enforcement mechanisms. The Practicum allows students to act essentially as junior lawyers in collaboration with and under the direct supervision of an Adjunct Professor Henrikas Mickevicius, who has over 35 years of experience in national and international law practice and is a member of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). A signature element of the Practicum will be support for the mandate of the WGEID.
Students will work on substantive projects and short-term tasks related to the WGEID. Weekly 2-hour companion seminars, taught by Prof. Mickevicius, will familiarize them with the relevant legal frameworks—hard and soft law instruments, mechanisms, venues, procedures and case-law—and the skills they will need to employ to carry out assignments. Students will present and reflect on their findings and receive specific feedback from their instructor and classmates, to progress in their work. The instructional part of the seminar and related readings will be coordinated with professors teaching doctrinal human rights courses.
The course accounts for a minimum of 150 work hours per semester, including the weekly seminars, as well as preparation for those seminars, and assignments and projects. Assignments will constitute 70% of the final grade, and seminar attendance and participation 30%. There will be no final exam for this course.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 676C, 02A. International Humanitarian Law Clinic
Class Number: 5077
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Transitional Justice; National Security Law
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Enrollment: By application
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counter-terrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries, and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank.
The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Law 732. International Law
Class Number: 5100
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Introduction to the law, methodology, and institutions of modern public international law. Among the topics covered are sources of international law jurisdiction, sovereign and diplomatic immunity, treaties, the domestic application of international law, the law of international organizations, settlement of disputes, limits on the use of force, human rights, and the law of the sea.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
LAW 631A, 06A. Internet Law
Class Number: 5107
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Nodine, Larry
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright, or Trademark strongly recommended as a significant portion of the class will employ these principles. Co-requisites okay.
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Final Exam
Description: In this course, we will wrestle with some of the most fascinating emerging issues in our evolving cyber-society. We will begin by considering jurisdiction over Internet disputes. We will then turn to intellectual property topics, including trademarks (whether "keyword buys" constitute infringement; domain name disputes) and copyright (music downloading and hyperlinking). There will be a special focus on the arbitration procedures for resolving domain name disputes (the "UDRP") and the liability of intermediaries like eBay or YouTube for user infringement. The Course will also explore the right to privacy in cyberspace.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS & JM STUDENTS
2 Sections:
Class Number: 5169
Class Number: 5151 (Online Section- JM Only)
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mathews, Jennifer (Online Section) & Prof. Price, Polly
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
JM Description: This course covers the Constitutional principles and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. It examines the structure of the U.S. judicial system and basic principles of legal reasoning. The course also incorporates a series of guest lectures in the primary areas of first-year legal study (contracts, torts, etc.).
LLM Description: This course covers the constitutional principles, history, and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. Designed for lawyers trained outside of the United States, the course introduces basic principles of federalism, common-law reasoning, and an overview of the primary areas of first-year legal study
*Updated as of Fall 2017
NOTE: This course is cross-listed with the Candler School of Theology (WR 685 & Jewish Law- WR 672). The class will meet at the Candler School in Room RARB 421.
Class Number: 6404
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pill, Shlomo
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 5 students!
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam or Paper
Description: Islamic law is a central feature in the lives of hundreds of millions of observant Muslims throughout the world. Since the advent of Islam in the 7th century, observant Muslims have sought to live their lives in accordance with the Shari’a, God’s will for the Muslim community, and have developed a complex, nuanced, and diverse body of legal rules, principles, and teachings that are understood to embody the divine will. This course gives students a foundational understanding of this important field by exploring the historical development, conceptual framework, substantive doctrines, and main contemporary issues of Islamic law. This course will focus especially on understanding the central role that human interpretation and analysis has played and continues to play in the formulation of Islamic legal doctrine on the basis of the primary sources of Islamic revelation.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 670, 10A. Jurisprudence
Class Number: 5229
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell, Tim. **Crosslisted with Theology and the Philosophy Department**
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Mid-term Essay & Take-home Final Exam Essay
Description: This course is about normative disagreement: disputes about values and systems of values, and in the political realm, quarrels over rights and duties. But the course is not, as you might expect, about how to avoid or resolve discord and conflict, and thus bring us together in harmony around a shared sense of justice. Instead, it will celebrate our contentious spirit, demonstrating that controversies about how we should govern ourselves are in fact inevitable, unavoidable, and never-ending.
But this is not bad news. Disagreement is not, as most seem to assume, inexorably disagreeable. In fact, for lawyers, it should be appreciated, perhaps even celebrated, for fun and profit.
And this good news is not nearly as cynical as it might appear. Law itself, after all, is a monument to the inability of people to get along productively without limits and direction. But this course goes deeper, as it explores the next disconcerting step: What happens when we also disagree about the limits and directions themselves that are supposed to help us avoid disputes in the first place (and settle them once they arise), that is, when we disagree about the nature of legal guidance itself? In the toughest cases you will face, the dispute will actually go underneath traditional elements of law, like court decisions and statutes, to the values that give these sources authoritative life. Confronting those questions is indeed advanced legal reasoning, it requires a "philosophy of law", that somehow makes one legal argument stronger than another. That level of the legal game is "jurisprudence."
The course will consist of two overlapping pieces. The first will examine the foundations of legal reasoning in challenging, controversial circumstances (the focus will be on Terrell, The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning, Carolina Academic Press, 2016). Because those fundamentals inevitably involve normative values, the second part of the course will explore various philosophical perspectives within political and legal theory (e.g., John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Drucilla Cornell, and others).
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 699C. Juvenile Defender Clinic
Class Number: 5092
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: Priority will be given to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in: Kids in Conflict with the Law, Juvenile Law or Family Law 2; Criminal Procedure; and Evidence.
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Description: The Juvenile Defender Clinic is an in-house legal clinic dedicated to providing holistic legal representation for children charged with delinquency and status offenses. Student attorneys represent clients in juvenile court and provide legal advocacy in school discipline, special education, and mental health matters when such advocacy is derivative of a client's juvenile court case.
Under the supervision of the clinic's director, Randee Waldman, student attorneys are responsible for handling all aspects of client representation. While in the clinic, JDC students will: Establish an attorney-client relationship with their client(s); Direct case strategy determinations; Investigate allegations; Interview witnesses; Negotiate dispositions and plea agreements; Prepare and litigate motions and try cases.
Students are also encouraged to engage in research and participate in juvenile justice policy development.
Applications are accepted via Symplicity or e-mail to professor Waldman prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
*Updated as of Fall 2017.
LAW 651. Labor Law
Class Number: 5162
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wilson, Brent
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Class Participation; & Final Exam
Description: Focuses primarily on Representation Case and Unfair Labor Practice Case Rules, Procedures and Cases of the National Labor Relations Board and Federal Courts…Discussion of developments under the Obama NLRB and prospects under a Trump NLRB. Historical matters regarding the Labor Movement in the U.S. Coverage also will include other matters such as union campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations and arbitration, and a brief comparison of the National Labor Relations Act and the NLRB to the Railway Labor Act and the National Mediation Board.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 695. Land Use
Class Number: 5766
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennington, Jennifer
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Final Exam
Description: This course will explore the legal principles underlying the public regulation of private land use, from traditional judicial doctrines, such as nuisance and eminent domain, through statutory comprehensive planning regimes. We will also cover traditional zoning and planning issues, such as nonconforming uses, variances and special exceptions. The course will introduce students to the content and controversies of land use and environmental laws.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 870K. Landlord-Tenant Mediation Practicum I
Class Number: 5065
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Powell, Bonnie
Selection: Application process submitted thru Symplicity
Description: See Below.
Landlord-Tenant Mediation Practicum students will mediate landlord/tenant disputes, including cases handled in the Magistrate and State courts; particularly small claim civil issues such as disputes between landlords and tenants. Assuming an agreement is reached during mediation, students will be responsible for drafting a detailed settlement agreement.
Students work under the supervision of an attorney mediating cases that deal with numerous issues of law within the court system. Prior to mediating, students will receive 28 hours of civil mediation training and will be registered as neutrals with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.
Required Mediation Training
Training is provided by the program and will occur the first or second week in August; attendance for the entire 28 hours of training is mandatory. Training dates will be confirmed no later than June 1.
These hours may be used later in the semester to compensate for any necessary time away. For example, if a student has to leave at 5:00 pm for an evening class, 30/45 minutes of training can be used as a filler.
For those who need a more flexible schedule, there is also now a partnership with Dekalb County so students can mediate there as well. The hours there are a bit different and has more flexibility.
Enrollment
This is a full academic year, two-semester practicum. Students must enroll in both the fall and spring semesters. Second- and third-year students may apply. An in-person interview will be scheduled with the supervising attorney.
- Application Period: Resumes can be submitted through Symplicity at the same time externships accept resumes.
- Required Background Check: Upon acceptance, a criminal background check by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution will be conducted.
Class Times
- Students must be available to go to court from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 12:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
- Weekly seminar sessions will take place at the courthouse during the semester.
*Updated as of Spring 2017
LAW 708. Law and Religion: Theories, Methods, and Approaches
Class Number: 5202
Credits: 3 hours; *Course is cross-listed with Candler School of Theology as ES 680 000.
Instructor(s): Prof. Allard, Silas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Presentation; Critical Analysis Papers; & Final Project
Description: Interdisciplinary scholarship is often lauded for challenging assumptions, contributing new perspectives, and leading to groundbreaking new insights that would not be possible without crossing disciplinary borders. While there are certainly benefits to interdisciplinary scholarship, such approaches also pose a unique set of challenges. The success of interdisciplinary scholarship depends on the scholar¿s ability to communicate to audiences who often use different nomenclature, evidence, and analytical methods. A failure to appreciate these challenges can lead to attempts at interdisciplinary scholarship that are reductive, one-sided, vague, or confused.
In this course, students will survey the interdisciplinary field of law and religion. The course will begin by discussing the nature of the field known as law and religion. What areas of inquiry constitute this field? What do we mean when we talk about ¿law¿ and ¿religion¿? The course will then cover different substantive areas and methodological approaches by reading, analyzing, and critiquing examples of law and religion scholarship from leading scholars. Students will be asked to think about the choices that scholars make: What is the relationship of law and religion in this example of scholarship? What does the scholar draw on as evidence for her argument? How does the scholar construct his argument? How does the scholar think about law? How does the scholar think about religion? These and other questions will help students understand how different approaches function; what they can achieve; what they cannot achieve; and why a scholar would choose a certain approach. By the conclusion of the course, students will (1) understand the scope and subjects covered by the field of law and religion, (2) develop an understanding of different methodological approaches to the study of law and religion, and (3) be prepared to use different methodological approaches in their own writing. This course is recommended for students in advance of a significant writing project in law and religion, including a journal comment, major seminar paper, or thesis.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 708B. Law & Religion Practicum
Class Number: 5768
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder, Mark
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Must obtain professor's permission prior to enrolling!
Grading Criteria: Participation; Project Work; & Paper
Description: The Law and Religion Practicum provides students with the chance to be actively involved in the practice of law and religion in different settings, both nationally and internationally. They will have the chance to work with real clients and deal with important issues, all under the careful supervision of established law and religion practitioners. Students will work on amicus briefs in courts around the country, including the Supreme Court, and around the world. Every brief will be written in conjunction with other supervising attorneys that have years of law and religion experience. Attorneys from think tanks including the American Center for Law and Justice, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Liberty Counsel, as well as firms including the Lambros Law Firm and the Schoen Law Firm have all worked with the practicum in the past.
*Updated as of Spring 2017
LAW 628B. Law,Sustainability, and Development
Class Number: 5249
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Samandari, Atieno
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
Description:This course examines the role of law and the legal system in economic and social development, with a focus on developing countries and emerging markets. It will explore how law, in its various forms, may bring about or impede development, however, defined, and how development may affect or change the legal system of the country concerned. International organizations, foreign aid agencies, and local and international nongovernmental organizations have become extraordinarily active in this field, spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The conceptions of development that underlie those efforts are diverse & development may be seen as growth or improvement in, among other things, income, education, health, and human rights. We will take a similarly expansive view of the law, recognizing that in many contexts it blurs into politics, governance, and social custom. The course will seek to challenge conventional approaches to law and development and enhance the appreciation of the point of view of developing countries and marginalized communities regarding development.
The course will begin by interrogating the concept of 'development' and some of the problems that it encompasses. We will then explore the role of law and how/whether it may be used as an effective instrument for developing and implementing solutions to development problems. The course will cover a broad (but by no means exhaustive) set of issues in law and development and will take a critical perspective and include growing awareness of the importance of sustainability in development.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 576. Leadership for Lawyers: An Introduction
Accelerated Course (Check OPUS for Dates)
Class Number: 5788
Credits: 1 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blake, Frank
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Assigned Readings; Brief Papers; & Class Participation
Enrollment: Limited to 40 Students
Description: This course is designed to help law students think about and analyze key aspects of effective leadership. Whether in public, private or public interest settings, lawyers often lack an awareness of basic concepts of effective leadership. This course will introduce students to leadership theories, including Intrinsic Leadership, Transactional Leadership, and Servant Leadership. It will also focus on key aspects of effective leadership from setting a strategy and vision to decision-making and leading teams. The course aims to help students understand the organizations they will work in and apply leadership theories to their own experiences.
This course consists of two parts: lecture and discussion. For the lecture portion, students will meet on 8/30; 9/13; & 9/29 in Tull Auditorium from 12-2pm. For the discussion portion, students will meet on 8/23; 9/6; 9/20; & 10/4 in Room 575 from 2-4pm (Subject to Change).
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 747. Legal Profession
Class Number: 5152
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Elliott, James
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism.
*Updated as of Fall 2014
LAW 622D. Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System
Class Number: 5193
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Deets, Annie
Prerequisite: Criminal Law & Constitutional Law
Grading Criteria: Class Participation; Short papers; Group Project; & Final Paper
Description: Mentally disabled individuals often find themselves entangled in the criminal justice system due to a lack of resources and support in the community. Our jails and prisons have become warehouses for those suffering from mental disability. It has been estimated that over half of those individuals in our jails and prisons suffer from some kind of mental disability.
This course is designed to provide law students with a working knowledge of the major areas of mental health in the context of the criminal justice system. This course will explore the impact and interaction of mental disability and criminal law. Topics will include: mental illnesses: comparison and contrasts between clinical and legal definitions; functional implications of mental disorders; criminal forensic evaluations; competence to stand trial; insanity and related defenses; disposition of those adjudicated incompetent or not guilty by reason of insanity; competence to be executed; involuntary hospitalization; involuntary treatment; right to treatment; right to refuse treatment; ethical considerations in representing this population; rights of criminally and civilly committed persons; and diversion treatment courts.
This course is intended to be interactive and while the core of the course is pre-determined, some of the content will be adapted to address interests and needs of students. The structure of most sessions will begin with case presentations highlighting the day's topic, followed by a didactic portion from the instructor, ending with an interactive discussion between class members and invited panelists. The class will also observe mental health issues in the criminal justice system first hand by visiting local jails and courts. Grades will be based on class participation, a 3-5 page paper, a group presentation, and a 15-20 page policy paper objectively weighing and assessing the tensions between individual rights and community public safety concerns and to conclude with reform proposals consistent with established legal principles directed at reconciling the tensions. The subject of the paper shall be focused on one of three areas examined by the course.
1) Examining the Mental Health Care in the Jail, Prison, and Mental Health Hospitals
2) Competency, Insanity and Mens Rea Reexamined
3) Traditional Punishment and Diversion Treatment Alternatives to Punishment - Social Morality, Public Safety, and Recidivism Examined
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 652B. National Security Law Workshop
Class Number: 5996
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisite: TBA
Enrollment: Limited to 6 Students! Must apply/seek permission from Professor
Grading Criteria: See Professor
Description: See Professor
LAW 656. Negotiations
3 Sections:
Law 656, 06A; Class Number: 5094
Law 656, 06B; Class Number: 5095
Law 656, 06C; Class Number: 5239
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Athans, Michael; (Lytle) Perry, Courtney; & Eldridge, David/Eileen Rumfelt
Prerequisite: None
Note: THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OR BUSINESS SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS!
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation & Written assignment. No Exam
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes preceded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include the development of a negotiation strategy, and a reflective written memorandum is required.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 754, 10A. Patent Law
Class Number: 5208
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Bagley, Margo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Exam
Description: This course will cover the core topics of U.S. patent law such as patentability, including novelty, non-obviousness, and enablement; infringement; and remedies. The course will examine how patents are used as a business tool to commercialize new technologies and innovations. The course will also review the major aspects of patent reform as codified under the America Invents Act. The course is designed to provide a solid background for on-patent specialists and for those planning a career in the field. No technical background is required. There is no prerequisite for this course.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 755, 06A. Pretrial Litigation
Class Number: 5089
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Geary, Don; Bessen, Diane; Hydrick, Stacey; & Lott, Rhani
Prerequisite: Third Years Students Only
Grading Criteria: Written work and Oral performance
Description: This is a civil case litigation skills/simulation course. The students work as two-person teams forming a law firm under the direct supervision of a "senior partner". ("Senior Partners" are adjunct professors who are local premiere attorneys in active practice or judges currently on the trial/appellate bench.) The students, aided and guided by their senior partner, represent their clients essentially as they would in actual cases, and learn the basics of preparing a case from investigation and initiation through discovery, making a record to support or defend a substantive motion-- the culminating exercise for the course. An actual client, played by a person from outside of the course, is assigned to each firm. The student lawyers conduct intake interviews of their clients and witnesses then proceed to represent them. At all stages of the process, students receive active input from and evaluation by the distinguished slate of adjunct professors. The students determine what type of legal action to take, and will draft pleadings, conduct informal witness interviews, draft written discovery and take and defend depositions.
Course faculty members provide guidance and instruction in their roles as teachers, judges and senior partners, with students taking primary responsibility for client representation and strategic decisions with regard to case direction. Actors who are very familiar with their parts and who remain "in character" appear in some roles as parties and witnesses while students in the course serve alternately as counsel and witness in others. The cases culminate in major motion hearings. The faculty members present regular lectures and demonstrations about various aspects of pretrial practice which are presented hand-in-hand with the developing procedures and technology affecting the practice of law. Attendance is required for the lectures, but primarily the student teams work independently. Every student performance, written and oral, is observed, critiqued and graded by the faculty. There are no written examinations. There are submissions of written materials and use of technology through audio-visual presentations at motions hearings, etc. Students are graded on their class performances, written work product, and development as "practicing attorneys." Former students have described this course as a great source for practical experience with regard to client relations, litigation strategy, and discovery tactics -- all guided by esteemed faculty from the bench and practicing bar. Many students use their course case materials, experiences, and notes as a practice resource after they enter the practice of law. The course provides students an interesting and exciting window on the actual practice of law.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Law 616, 12A. Real Estate Finance
2 Sections:
Class Number: (000) 5231; (001) 5789
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Alexander, Frank & Prof. Hughes, Jr., James
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course first examines in detail the elements of basic real estate conveyances including the sales contract, instruments of conveyance and title assurance (recording acts, title insurance, warranties). The second half of the course is devoted to alternative methods of financing a real estate acquisition including various mortgage instruments, transfers of mortgaged property, and foreclosure questions.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Law 667A. Securities: Enforcement Procedures & Issues
Class Number: 5770
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Jospin, Walter & Prof. Lipson, Aaron.
Prerequisite: BA; Securities Regulation or Securities: Brokers/Dealers; or White Collar Crime or Advanced Issues in White Collar Crime.
Grading Criteria: Participation (25-50%) & Take-home Final Exam (50-75%)
Description: This course will examine the enforcement of the federal securities laws from the perspectives of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) staff, the Department of Justice, and defense counsel. An important focus of the course will be discussing the relevant statutes, regulations, case law, and other legal principles, and applying them to practical situations that arise in securities enforcement investigations. The required weekly reading will consist of securities enforcement cases, statutes, regulations, and other relevant documents. Given the highly evolving subject matter, many classes will include a short discussion of recent developments. As events occur during the semester, we may supplement or replace the reading materials described below with additional materials. We also will invite guest instructors with relevant government and private practice experience to address specific topics. Additionally, at points throughout the semester, we will have “practical” classes that will involve workshops in which students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of the course material in simulated real-world settings.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 725A. Sentencing Practice
Class Number: 5771
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Marbutt, Jason
Prerequisite: Criminal Law & Evidence (prereq & co-req ok)
Enrollment: Limited to 14 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Exam
Description: The vast majority of cases do not end in a trial; they end by plea. The vast majority of trials do not end in acquittals; they end in convictions. What happens next?
The purpose of this class is to examine the sentencing process. The class will be 70% experiential learning, and 30% legal knowledge. We will discuss the basic legal framework for a sentencing hearing, and we will engage in a series of mock-sentencing hearings. The fact patterns are based on real-world cases that are challenging – ethically, legally, morally, and emotionally.
Students will take on the role of prosecution or defense (and witnesses as needed). They will present their case to a Judge, including questioning witnesses and arguing for an appropriate sentence. We will have guest speakers to help guide us through the issues of the case, and we will have class discussions about, “What’s it worth?” The guest speakers will be professionals who dealt with the real-world case that our fact patterns are based on.
The ultimate goal is for each student to have a better understanding of the factors that influence sentencing while gaining skill in articulating those factors to others.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Note: OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Class Number: 5099
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Innovation I & II
Grading Criteria: Participation & Written Assignments
Description: Special Topics in Technology Commercialization is a capstone course designed to allow the students to apply what they learned in their first year of TI:GER. Students will work individually and in groups to deliver project plans for two or three special projects. Class lectures will include sophisticated agreements in technology commercialization, business entity options for startups, venture financing, deal due diligence, and regulatory frameworks.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 879K, 12A. Technology in the Legal Practice
Accelerated Course (Check OPUS for Dates)
Class Number: 5772
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper (Final)
Enrollment: Limited to 20 Students!
Description: Technology in Legal Practice will provide students with an introduction to concepts and resources relevant to technology and its effect on the practice of law beyond traditional legal research. Areas of coverage will include law practice management, e-discovery, competitive intelligence, and other current awareness issues. Class discussions and readings will be augmented by guest speakers from the legal community. This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the second seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
*Updated as of Spring 2016
LAW 601. The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech
Class Number: 5215
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Perry, Michael
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
Description: No right entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States is more important than freedom of speech. In this course, we will study the principal freedom-of-speech cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court’s decisions regarding freedom of speech are rarely unanimous and often quite controversial.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 710X. Trade Secrets
Class Number: 5773
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Holbrook, Tim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Multiple-choice Quizzes & Final Exam
Description: Trade Secrets sit at the intersection of intellectual property law, contracts, and employment law. Ironically, one of the most famous trade secrets exists here in Atlanta -- the formula for Coca-Cola. Trade secrets They are an important tool in any company's set for protecting their pecuniary information and innovation. The class will explore the trade-off between trade secrecy and patent protection, what subject matter can be protected through trade secrecy, what steps need to be taken to protect information as a trade secret, and how a company enforces trade secrets. Historically trade secrets were creatures of state law, but Congress enacted federal-level protection in 2016, which the class will also explore.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 719. Trademark Law
Class Number: 5211
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Bagley, Margo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectability of marks, including words, symbols, and 'trade dress'; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and 'cybersquatting'; and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 724. Transitional Justice
Class Number: 5220
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 2 assignments (20% each of final grade) & Take-home Final exam (60% of final grade)
Description: This course explores the legal issues and real-life challenges in countries emerging from dictatorship, repression and armed conflict. Students will examine key transitional justice principles and debates, the workings of multiple transitional justice mechanisms, and the dilemmas arising in societies transitioning from conflict and repression.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 724A. Transitional Justice Practicum
Class Number: 5221
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisite: Transitional Justice Course (co-req ok)
Enrollment: Limited to 4 students only! (Must be enrolled/already taken Transitional Justice Course)
Grading Criteria: Short written projects/Large research report (65%) & Small assignments (35%)
Description: This course is designed to be an add-on practicum to Prof. Laurie Blank's Transitional Justice course. It will offer students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they will receive from their doctrinal course to real world situations that human rights NGOs and think tanks are trying to address. The practicum not only will enhance students' understanding of the transitional justice issues but offers them the opportunity to build their essential research, writing and analytical skills. The practicum also will allow students the chance to network with organizations working on the cutting edge of this field. The course format includes a mix of lectures focused on building necessary skills, meetings to collaborate on and workshop projects and individual research time with the professor focused on their particular research project.
The course will be two credits and will require either several short written projects or one larger research report for an organization (65%), along with a serious of project-related small assignments to show the student's progress (35%). It will be limited to 4 students who have taken or are enrolled in the Transitional Justice course.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 671A. Trial Practice Workshop
Class Number: 5774
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Norman, Justin
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 12 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation; Trial Notebook; & Final Assignment
Description: This course is meant to be a pre-cursor to Trial Techniques and is a more hands-on approach to concepts that will be discussed in Trial Techniques. The course will cover the following areas: housekeeping matters, motions in limine, opening statements, direct and cross-examinations, how to object & respond to objections, the introduction of evidence, impeachment, and closing arguments. You are presumed to have read each day's assignments before attending the lecture.
In this class, emphasis will be placed on the demonstration of techniques rather than substantive law. As is true for practicing trial attorneys, preparation and organization are the keys to success. There will be a final assignment but your grade will also be dependent on your performance and participation throughout the semester, and students will be expected to perform/act out a scenario when called upon. Please note that for the final assignment: You are expected to be able to perform your opening statement and closing argument without reading them. In other words, NO NOTES. You will participate as an advocate, witness and possibly a juror.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course, you should be able to accomplish three objectives:
- Understand the purpose and techniques involved in all components of a civil and/or criminal trial as evidenced by successfully trying a case at the end of this course;
- Exhibit a working knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence by demonstrating, in class, the ability to correctly and timely make and defend evidentiary objections during an opening statement, direct examination, cross-examination or closing argument; and
- Reveal an understanding of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct by conducting all aspects of a trial in a respectful, ethical manner on both the plaintiff/prosecution side as well as the defense side of a case.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 674. Trusts and Estates
Class Number: 5076
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Final Exam
Description: Study of the law of intestate succession, limitations on testamentary powers, formalities necessary for executing or revoking wills and trusts, incorporation by reference and the doctrine of independent legal significance, problems of construction and interpretation of wills, trusts, and will substitutes, plus limited study of the use of future interests in trust and powers of appointment.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 697C. Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Class Number: 5101
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (prerequisite OR co-requisite)
Grading Criteria: Group assignments (based on individual work)
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities are among the most critical issues for our state, region, and nation. The Clinic's students benefit and learn from immersion in these real world, complex environmental representations.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 685A. Veterans Benefits Law
Class Number: 5163
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Early, Drew
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation (20%) & Final Exam (80%)
Description: This course introduces students to the body of administrative law and associated rules that govern the administration of veterans' benefits, both through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the relevant courts. It teaches the law and procedure applicable to claims by veterans and their families at all stages of the Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication process: initial fact-finding by VA regional offices, appellate claims to the Board of Veterans Appeals, and appellate review by the United States Court of Veterans Claims. In addition to instruction in relevant doctrine and policy exposure, students will engage in exercises directed to the basics of the disability rating process, to establishing the service connection to a disability, and to discharge review. Students will also be exposed to typical claims issues raised in veterans' cases handled by the Emory Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans. Law students interested in administrative law, personal injury, and civil litigation will benefit from this course, as will students interested in public service, who will be better prepared to serve as pro bono counsel to veterans in the future. This field will be one of growing importance, as the war in Afghanistan winds down and the military continues to shrink.
Textbook: Veterans Law Cases and Theory by Prof James Ridgway of GMU (who is also the senior staff attorney at VA's Board of Veterans Appeals).
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 683. White Collar Crime
Class Number: 5775
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Cloud, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course examines how corporations, their officers, directors, employees, and agents can violate the criminal law. The course includes analysis of the responsibilities and potential liabilities of lawyers representing organizational clients.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 683X. White Collar Crimes Workshop
Class Number: 5776
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Templer, Nicolette
Prerequisite: Having taken or simultaneously taking either White Collar Crimes or (Constitutional) Criminal Procedure. There is no requirement that both be taken.
Grading Criteria: Classwork
Description: This course addresses the practical application of concepts learned in the White Collar Crimes course. During the workshop, students will be given information detailing allegations of a federal health care criminal case and Qui Tam action. Students will assess the case for possible violations of federal mail fraud, conspiracy, and false claim statutes. Students will draft a Qui Tam complaint, represent a party in the ensuing litigation (which will not involve a trial), and arrive at a resolution of the criminal case. The course will explore "true to life" aspects of federal criminal corporate litigation from both prosecution and defense perspectives.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 842. SEMINAR: Advanced International Negotiations
Class Number: 5233
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Balian, Hrair & Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: None (Negotiations or ADR recommended co-req)
Enrollment: Limited to 16 Students!
Grading Criteria: Participation (30%) & Paper (70%)
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in two-party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: selected issues in Middle East Peace; the civil war in Syria, and Sudan, and the territorial dispute between Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
Our text will be “Talking With Evil: Principled Pragmatism on an International Stage”, by Paul J. Zwier: which deals with research on the wide array of potential approaches to international conflict resolution. The focus in the fall will be TCCs work in Syria, as well as Palestine/Israel, and also the conflict in South Sudan. Reading material is also selected from institutions involved in conflict resolution negotiations, including The Carter Center, the Geneva-based Center for Humanitarian Dialogue and the Stockholm-based International IDEA. These materials, along with simulations that we will be using will be provided electronically.
The student’s grade will be based on both a research paper and class participation. Students will also engage in "learning-by-doing" simulations designed to raise advanced negotiation topics and skills.
Assigned Reading Materials:
(1) Zwier, Talking With Evil: Principled Pragmatism on an International Stage.
(2) Additional internet-based reading material will be provided in due course.
(3) Simulation Materials: Simulation material will be sent electronically in advance for each week’s class. Please read these materials before coming to class so that you are prepared to participate in the simulation.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 819. SEMINAR: Decolonizing Human Rights
Class Number: 5777
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. An-Na'im, Abdullahi (Abduh)
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: Public International Law
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students!
Grading Criteria: Participation & 3 Papers
Description: This Seminar examines the claim that the present state-centric regime for the protection of human rights is a product of a liberal colonialization of the concept and mechanisms of the universality of these rights. The Seminar will examine the performance, possibilities, and limitations of the present United Nations¿ and Regional systems for the protection of human rights, including the role of non-governmental organizations. The Seminar will also explore alternative people-centered approaches to the implementation of human rights, from the local to the global and back, which may be more consistent with the claim of universality of human rights. All aspects of the themes and issues raised in this Seminar are to be considered in the context of economic injustice, political instability, marginalization and daily insecurity for the vast majority of humanity everywhere, in so-called developed as well as developing countries.
Part I of the Seminar will be a critical review of human rights law and practice under international law, exploring the structural obstacles facing the protection of human rights under the present state-centric system. This section will also offer a tentative exploration of indigenous approaches to specification and implementation of universal human rights norms.
In Part II students will present the tentative concept and analysis of their final Seminar paper, whether in fulfillment of Emory Law School writing requirement or not. Early-presentations will facilitate feedback and revisions, when appropriate.
Part III will resume discussion of the theoretical and practical challenges facing the present system and viability of alternative approaches.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 825. SEMINAR: Equality at Emory
Class Number: 5214
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Final Research Paper
Description: This seminar will explore the civil rights history of Emory Law School and Emory University. Readings will cover the history of inclusion and exclusion at Emory and in higher education generally on the basis of race, gender, religion, disability, immigration status, and LGBTQ identity. Students will do historical research, using local archives and oral history interviews, and will write research papers that illuminate an aspect of law school or university civil rights history. Although students will have different topics, the class will work together as a research team, sharing insights and research strategies.
The class will learn how to do historical research in law school and university archives, and how to conduct an oral history interview. These research skills are related to law practice for discovery in litigation and other areas.
Professor Dudziak is an expert in the history of civil rights, foreign relations and constitutional law. Her books include Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. She teaches constitutional law, foreign relations law and courses on the history of the war powers. Before moving to Emory in 2012, she also regularly taught courses in civil rights and constitutional history.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 817. SEMINAR: Implementation of International Law in the United States
Class Number: 5160
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An overview of American foreign policy, highlighting among other things what has come to be known as American exceptionalism and contrasting that with the post-World-War I American policy of isolationism, the promotion of American interests in international law, and a shift in American foreign policy brought about by the Obama administration; The prosecution of offenses against the law of nations in the United States, with special emphasis on Article VI, Clause [2], and Article 1, Section (8), Clause [10], of the Constitution, and with special reference to the prosecution of torture and genocide in the United States; Non-ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with special emphasis on the influence of religious groups that oppose the ratification on biblical grounds, and the role of federalism (the rights of the child are almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of states) that may preclude the federal authorities from ratifying the Convention; The United States and the jurisprudence of international tribunals, with special emphasis on reluctance of the United States to submit itself to the jurisdiction of such tribunals, the Nicaragua Case in which the International Court of Justice in the 1980s condemned the United States for its assistance to the Contras, and the fairly recent judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medelln v. Texas, as well as decisions of the American Commission on Human Rights relating to non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (by not always informing an alien detainee of his or her right to consular assistance); The International Criminal Court (ICC), with special emphasis on the positive role played by the United States in the drafting of the ICC Statute, hostility of the Bush administration toward the ICC, and re-engagement by the Obama administration with the ICC in 2009 to become a cooperating non-party State; and how this is to be reconciled with the American Servicemembers Protection Act, which in essence prohibits the United States from cooperating in any way with the ICC.
Military Interventions by the United States, with special reference to provisions in the U.N. Charter that instruct Member States not to settle their international disputed through the taking up of arms, questions as to legality under the norms of international humanitarian law of anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian interventions, and wars of liberation, the Reagan Doctrine, and the recent armed interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
LAW 844. SEMINAR: Judicial Behavior
Class Number: 5232
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Response papers & Final Paper
Description: How do judges decide cases? Some argue that judges primarily rely on legal factors to make their decisions, while others contend that judges decide cases in order to advance their own policy preferences. More recent studies of judicial behavior have concluded that judges may also be influenced by an aversion to reversal, an attempt to reduce their workload, and efforts to stay on the bench or attain a promotion. An understanding of judicial behavior is critical in policy debates about judicial selection methods, recusal rules, campaign finance reform, removal standards, and many other procedural rules and institutional norms. It is also an important factor in predicting litigation outcomes. In this class, we will explore theories of judicial behavior, examine the empirical evidence about how judges decide cases, and discuss the policy implications arising from the evidence. While some experience with empirical analysis would be helpful, it is not required.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 804, 02A. SEMINAR: Law & Literature
Class Number: 5778
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Duncan, Martha Grace
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 15 students!
Grading Criteria: Participation & a Research paper.
Description: This seminar will examine the portrayal of law, crime, and punishment in novels and plays. Among other works, the class will read and discuss Agamemnon, by Aeschylus; The Crucible, by Arthur Miller; Chronicle of a Death Foretold (by Gabriel Garcia Marquez); Fuenteovejuna (a Golden-Age Spanish play by Lope de Vega); The Stranger, by Camus; and Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Class Number: 5795
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vertinsky, Liza
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Short reaction papers; Presentation; & a Research Paper
Description: Medicines are an integral part of healthcare in the modern world. They save lives, promote health, and play critical roles in preventing and responding to epidemic diseases. Access to essential medicines is a hotly contested issue both within the U.S. and internationally. Law can be used as a tool to improve access, either directly through measures that require or facilitate provisions of essential medicines or indirectly through the creation of incentives for research and development of new medicines. Law can also serve as a barrier to access. This course examines the roles that law plays or could play, in accessing essential medicines. It will begin with an overview of the relevant legal framework and a study of the recommendations made by a 2016 United Nations Access to Medicines Report. It will then move to a series of topics and case studies that address different aspects of the access to medicines debate.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 838. SEMINAR: Products Liability
Class Number: 5166
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vandall, Frank
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: Products Liability (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar provides an opportunity for a student to write a paper on a developing aspect of products liability theory. Topics considered and materials will vary from year to year. The course in Products Liability is recommended, but not required.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
LAW 746A. SEMINAR: Professional Negligence
Class Number: 5164
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Partlett, David
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar will explore the liability of professionals for negligent conduct. It will cover professionals such as physicians, psychologists, dentists, and others whose actions risk bodily injury. It will also cover those whose professional activities risk property and economic losses, such as engineers, architects, lawyers, and accountants. The legal field of focus is the liability in the borderland between torts and contracts. The seminar will also engage the form and structure of business torts that are neglected in the curriculum, yet loom large in commercial practice.
Particularly with respect of medical malpractice, compensation schemes to replace or supplement liability rules continue to be proposed. Their merits and demerits will be discussed. The seminar will also consider such fundamental issues as causation and remedies, where the liability of professionals is in question.
Materials will be distributed and discussion expected. Students will be required to prepare a paper that can be in satisfaction of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will orally present a final draft paper in class. This will form part of the final grade. In selection of the topic and in working through drafts, students will work closely with me.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
LAW 823, 001. SEMINAR: The Family, the State & Vulnerability
Class Number: 5216
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dinner, Deborah
Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Weekly reading; Class Participation; Short critical response papers; Oral presentation; & 30-page research paper.
Description: This seminar investigates the historical relationship between family forms, the U.S. welfare state, and human vulnerability. The seminar takes as a starting point for analysis the concept of universal human vulnerability, which derives from both our biological nature and from our social relationships. The family has long served as a societal mechanism for managing individuals’ vulnerability. Shifts in the nature of American capitalism, however, have at times undermined the capacity for families to serve this function. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, a hybrid, public-private welfare state developed to respond to human vulnerability. In the last half century, this welfare state has both transformed and contracted.
This seminar investigates how the dynamic U.S. welfare state both reflected and shaped family forms across historical periods. It examines the legal and political debates by which families made new demands on the welfare state and the ways in which employers, insurance companies, and local, state, and federal authorities responded. The seminar analyzes how ideas about gender, race, sexuality, and class intersected in the formation of welfare policy. The seminar addresses both private family law—which is adjudicated in courts and affects mostly middle-class families—and public family law—which is created and enforced by administrative agencies and affects mostly poor families. Students participating in the seminar will gain a deeper historical understanding of the laws and social policies regulating contemporary American families. The seminar requires weekly critical response papers of 250-500 words, two 15-minute presentations, and a 30-page research paper.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
Class Number: 5779
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vertinsky, Liza
Pre-Selection: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2017-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Short reaction papers; Presentation; & a Research Paper
Description: What is the current debate over the role of patents in promoting or impeding economic development and global health, and how will it evolve? How are international patent standards and norms shaped by this debate? What role can and should U.S. patent policy play in addressing issues of global development and health? This seminar will begin with a survey of the basic framework governing international standards for patent protection and enforcement. We will then examine the ways in which patents and patent law impact global economic development and health. The seminar will include the study of alternative methodologies for understanding and evaluating patent systems and their role in development and health as well as concrete case studies that question the current patent system and its impact. Students will be asked to develop and contribute their own views on the role(s) that patent policy should, could, or should not play in advancing global economic development and global health.
*Updated as of Fall 2017
The following courses are being offered in Spring 2017.
Class Number: 3395; Catalog Number- Law 679, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Costa, Jason F.
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment: Limited to 10 Students ONLY.
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises; Court performance; & Periodic reaction papers
Description:Access to Justice provides second and third-year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and under-served populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering from drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions. But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways.
First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe real criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will interact with actual clients in real court proceedings (jail interviews, bond hearings, etc.). Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement with the State Court Division of the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office as it would cause a professional conflict.
*Last Updated Spring 2017.
Class Number: 3396; Catalog Number- Law 852, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Rubin, Jeff & Prof. Brickman, Robert
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Motion/Brief; and Mock Trial.
Description: The course is designed to teach trial techniques, criminal procedure and ethics. Most of the classes will involve the students conducting various types of hearings and arguments. Designed in a case-simulation format, the course will enable the students to develop substantive knowledge of criminal law and procedures, develop case theory and witness testimony, draft pretrial motions, and finally conduct a full jury trial. The course will also build on the skills learned in Trial Techniques and develop students' facility with the advocacy techniques necessary to prosecute or defend criminal cases. Students will have multiple opportunities to perform in class and will receive extensive individual feedback from experienced lawyers. Further, several classes will involve discussions with guest speakers on ethics, investigation, and forensics.
Students will be graded on their performance in class during the semester, on a written brief, and on their performance in the mock trial at the end of the semester. Grades will be based on how well the students conduct the hearings and trials, i.e., formulation of examination questions, understanding of the theory of examination, ability to frame legal arguments and make objections, and presentation. Students will also be required to draft a motion and brief and will be graded on the quality of the legal writing.
*Last Update Spring 2016
Advanced International Negotiations
Class Number: 5699; Catalog Number- Law 842A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Balian, Hrair & Prof. Crick, Tom
Pre-selection form:
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in the two-party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: Border Dispute between Bolivia, Chile and Peru: Selected issue in Middle East Peace-- the “Right of Return”, compensation if right of return cannot be exercised, and “Water Rights” ; Sudan – CPA and Darfur; the Dayton Peace Accords. As basic understandings of dispute and conflict resolution techniques will have been covered in the prerequisite courses, we will consider an number of interdisciplinary readings including readings from Deutsch and Coleman’s Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Theory and Practice, Roger Fisher’s Coping with International Conflict, Mnookin’s Beyond Winning and Kremenyuk’s International Negotiations, which deal with research on the wide array of potential approaches to conflict resolution. (See syllabus.) The student’s paper will be based either on 1) an in-depth analysis of one of the class simulations, with a focus on the legitimacy (international law support) of any proposed solution, or 2)on the history, law, methods, practice and theory of an international dispute chosen in consultation with the professor.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3290; Catalog Number- Law 657, 12A
Accelerated Class: 1st seven weeks of semester (January 2017 – February 2017)
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Reid, Richelle
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Enrollment: 20
Description: An examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through lectures and practical application with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as advanced research techniques, case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research.
This will be a one-credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3397; Catalog Number- Law 851, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Romig & Prof. Chapman
Prerequisite: Law535A (Introduction to Legal Analysis, Research, and Communications) and Law 535B (Introduction to Legal Advocacy) or the equivalent 1L legal writing course for transfer JDs
Grading Criteria: Students will be graded on a combination of short assignments and quizzes, collaborative presentations with assigned groups, and their individual final blog designed around a topic they develop throughout the course. Because up to 30 percent of the grade may be based on collaborative work graded collectively for each group, this course is subject to a recommended but not mandatory mean.
Description: Many lawyers write for the public in client alerts and blogs, as well as shorter social media posts. This class introduces the theory, skills, and tools needed for legal blogging. Guest speakers will address specialized topics such as legal ethics and the use of images in social media. For their work in the course, students will write a series of blog posts about a topic they choose and discuss with the professors. The final project and the majority of each student’s grade is a final capstone blog consisting of a design theme, posts totaling approximately 4000 words, images to complement the text, and other blogging features. Students also present on various blogging topics in assigned groups. Prior technical knowledge of blogging software is not required – students will learn to use WordPress, a leading blogging platform.
*Last Updated Fall 2016
Class Number: 3306; Catalog Number- Law 755A, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elmore, Marvin & Prof. Goheen, Barry
Prerequisite: Federal Courts; Civil Procedure
Grading Criteria:
Description: Advanced Pre-Trial Litigation is for students who have taken Civil Procedure, and Federal Courts, and are ready for an advanced strategy practicum that prepares them for the complexities of modern litigation practice.
The Legal Strategy part of the course teaches students to consider the theoretical aspects of strategy and methods for working through a strategy problem, and then apply those theories and methods to practical problems. The problems involve a small business that encounters a series of situations requiring advice with respect to strategy.
In the second part of the course, the students will learn about negotiation theory and strategy and apply these techniques to the negotiation of an e-discovery dispute. Discovery of electronic materials, usually in digital format, creates some especially difficult, time-sensitive responsibilities for lawyers. Practicing successful methods for dealing with these responsibilities in a learning-by-doing setting provides an opportunity to adapt these methods to the individual lawyer’s own situation and style.
This is “entry-level” subject matter in the sense that it does not purport to cover all the specialized aspects of e-discovery, particularly those faced by very large companies or by companies with unusual records retention practices. The purpose of this part of the course is to provide lawyers with a general methodology that will, in most cases, prevent sanctions against the client and the lawyer, while being responsive under the rules to e-discovery requests and minimizing unnecessary business interruption. However, no general method can protect against every mistake or every type of intentional wrongdoing. And no general method can minimize business interruptions in every situation.
This course is structured around the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. States may have more or less restrictive requirements, but the federal rules provide a useful general benchmark, and many state jurisdictions follow them.
E-discovery problems arise in two distinct phases:
- Preservation, production, and use of e-discovery; and
- Prosecuting or defending against challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery.
These are quite different areas and require different skills. For this reason, we have developed two separate sections on e-discovery. The first part focuses on preservation, production, and use of e-discovery and seeks to develop the skills for interviewing, negotiating, and organizing your electronic discovery. A second part focuses on challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery and seeks to develop the skills for preparing, arguing, and defending against typical motions for protective orders, motions to compel and motions for sanctions.
The e-discovery problems also develop skills in counseling clients, negotiating with opposing lawyers, and dealing successfully with vendors. These skills are directed at the first-in-time problems of e-discovery – getting it right at the start and preventing disputes or adverse decisions. The course adapts established learning-by-doing teaching materials on interviewing and counseling, and on negotiation, for the special e-discovery setting. The case law applies primarily to the second area of e-discovery: prosecuting and defending against challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery.
Finally, in part three of the course, we will deal with the strategy and law of class action law suits. This part of the course will teach you how to make the decision whether to file a class action lawsuit or go it alone. It will also examine how to think about your defense options: whether to agree to a class action for settlement purposes, fight class certification, or negotiate some variation between these two extremes,(including an overview of multidistrict litigation options). This part of the course will also refine your understanding the law and procedure (including appellate review) related to class certifications.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3291; Catalog Number- Law 605, 04A (Allgood)
Class Number: 3351; Catalog Number- Law 605, 02A (Armstrong)
Class Number: 3407; Catalog Number- Law 605, GRAD (Allgood)
COURSES NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN BUSINESS SCHOOL OR LAW SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Allgood & Prof. Armstrong
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
- Team Role Plays and Take Home Exam (Allgood)
- Take Home Exam (Armstrong)
Enrollment: 14
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR] with an emphasis on negotiation, mediation and arbitration processes. Course objectives include an overview of these processes as a complement to litigation as well as the study of and training in the skill sets used in each of the ADR processes by advocates as well as neutrals.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5578; Catalog Number- Law 655A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Cleaver, Kathleen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; In-class oral presentation; Memo; and a Research paper.
Description: This course examines the evolution of U.S. citizenship as interpreted by courts and statutes during the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention given to the impact of historical events that constructed the way race was conceived of within the United States.
During the workshop we will study and discuss the Civil War amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 19th century civil rights legislation, restrictions imposed on Asian immigration, the citizenship of native peoples, the incorporation of Mexican territory and the citizenship of Mexicans, issues of equal protection, and the modern civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1964.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3379; Catalog Number- Law 560, LLM1
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course introduces students to the concepts for legal analysis and the techniques and strategies for legal research, as well as the requirements and analytical structures for legal writing in the American common law legal system.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3470; Catalog Number- Law 560B, GRAD
NOTE: This class is open only to foreign-educated LLMs only
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course continues the study of legal analysis, research, and writing for practice in the American common law system. The topics covered include client letters, pleadings, and persuasive writing, along with enhanced instruction covering legal citation and advanced legal research sources and techniques.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Analysis, Research, and Communication (ARC)
Class Number: 3469; Catalog Number- Law 590, GRAD
Credit: 2 hours
Instructors: Prof. Daspit Nancy & Prof. Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular Assignments & Final Project
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce objective legal analyses.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3393; Catalog Number- Law 734, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Enrollment: 80
Description: This course explores the application to the practice of law of analytical methods of the social sciences and business profession. It will introduce essential concepts from economics, accounting, finance, statistics, and game theory to prepare students for legal practice in the modern world. These tools can be tremendously important and useful; not knowing something about them can be a serious detriment to the effective practice of law. Always, our focus will be on the application of analytical methods to real legal problems, such as the appropriate measure of damages or when to settle a case -- not becoming adept at complicated calculations. Our primary goal: to recognize when an analytical method would be useful in a legal situation and to develop a rough idea of how to use that method. Students are not expected to have any prior training or experience.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3390; Catalog Number- Law 702, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Arthur, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Federal regulation of competitive practices under the Sherman, Clayton, and Federal Trade Commission Acts. The course covers such antitrust problems as joint activities by direct competitors, including cartel price fixing, market division and boycott arrangements and productive joint ventures; monopolization by single firms; restraints imposed by manufacturers on their distributors; and mergers.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Art and Acts of Justice (Literature, Psychoanalysis, & Law)
Class Number: 3464; Catalog Number- Law 621, CPLT *Cross-listed course
Delayed Start Date: January 2017* Starts a week later so it can coincide with the start of Laney Graduate School.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Felman, Soshana
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Class participation; Short papers; Reading responses; and Oral presentation.
Description:A study of scenes of judgment in literature, art, and philosophy, focusing on literature’s specific ways of dealing with injustice (and with trauma) in various literary, psychoanalytic, political and legal circumstances. We will examine both (great) literary texts and actual trials, dramas of great literary writers brought to court because of their innovative work, perceived as having pushed the boundaries of the accepted social standards. We will try to understand: What does literature mean, and why is it important, why does it matter? Why does a path-breaking work of art provoke each time not just a controversy but a larger cultural crisis? Topics under discussion include the interaction between justice, truth, desire, censorship, testimony, injury, memory, exile, and cross-cultural, global exchanges.
**Last Updated Spring 2016
Asylum Law
Class Number: 5579; Catalog Number- Law 691, 06A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kuck, Charles
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Exam
Description: This course will cover what happens once a non-citizen has been charged and placed in immigration removal proceedings (formerly called deportation proceedings). The student will study each step of the proceeding, with the choices that the client and her representative must make in an effort to avoid removal: responding to the charges and putting the government to its proof; determining the client’s immigration history; determining the client’s eligibility for any relief from removal; preparing a winning case on paper; preparing the client and other witnesses to testify what options are available for appeal and the requirements for filing a motion to reopen. We will also cover federal court litigation of immigration cases. The course will cover the legal standards and the preparation of the following applications for relief cancellation of removal, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) , 212 (c), LPR and non-LPR cancellation of removal, and affirmative asylum relief, along with withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Given that recent developments have greatly increased the complexity of asylum law, the course will cover this area in depth. The course will also briefly cover adjustment of status and voluntary departure, as well as the admission process. The course will not emphasize courtroom skills; however, we plan to arrange a visit to the class from an Immigration Judge or ICE Assistant Chief Counsel. In addition, members of the class are welcome to arrange with me an opportunity to attend hearings in Immigration Court at any time during the semester. In addition, the skills necessary to prepare court cases will be emphasized throughout the course, with class discussion and scenarios
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Banking Law
Class Number: 5580; Catalog Number- Law 604
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Elliott, Jim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will examine the nature, content, and scope of the rules regulating the banking industry in light of economic and social purposes. The course will also look briefly at the history of the U. S. banking industry and will emphasize the economic and business aspects of the individual bank and of the industry as a whole.
*Last updated Fall 2015
Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Class Number: 3360; Catalog Number- 635D
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Reba, Stephen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: Students in the Appeal for Youth Clinic provide holistic appellate representation of youthful offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. By increasing the number of appeals from adjudications of delinquency, we hope to end the unwritten policies and practices that result in youths being committed to juvenile detention facilities. Similarly, by providing post-conviction representation to youths who were tried and convicted as adults, we hope to decrease the number of youthful offenders who languish in Georgia's prisons.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Barton Child Law & Legislative Advocacy Clinic
Class Number: 3293; Catalog Number- Law 635C
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in the two-credit class, Child Welfare Law & Policy. This requirement may be waived for students with demonstrable prior experience in child advocacy, including the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program.
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: The Barton Policy and Legislative Advocacy Clinic is an in-house legal clinic committed to evidence-based reforms to improve outcomes for children and families involved in the juvenile court, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems. Students enrolled in the clinic conduct research and engage in advocacy to promote policies to advance the legal rights and interests of children. Specifically, students will participate in the legislative session, complete research for publication, participate in local and statewide advocacy events, and help inform the discussion of juvenile law with their own ideas or projects. Approximately 6-9 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Applications are accepted prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, list of 2 references, the name of his/her ILARC Instructor, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic website, http://www.childwelfare.net
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3374; Catalog Number- Law 630, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Aronson, Morton
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 25 students!
Description: This course focuses on client development and retention. Business and Strategic Lawyering is the big picture of law. It is the development and understanding of legal, business, political social and other considerations with a goal to implementing strategic legal, business and other actions to obtain the best results. The constantly changing fields of science, technology and globalization and their legal, business, political and social consequences make the strategic merging of proactive business strategies and legal considerations necessary for optimizing results. Both lawyers and business executives need to act proactively to protect clients and shareholder interests through effective strategic legal and business risk management structures and processes within the larger strategic business context. The course will include prominent guest lecturers from the legal and business communities.
This course will also consider and evaluate law firm management procedures and techniques to maximize on revenues as well as more effectively serving business clients. In the innovative driven technological economy we are living today, strategic lawyering has become an imperative for both lawyers and business executives.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
- Class Number: 5604; Catalog Number- Law 500, 002 (Georgiev)
- Class Number: 3366; Catalog Number- Law 500X, 04A (Kang)
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Georgiev, George & Prof. Kang, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course surveys formation, organization, financing, management, and dissolution of sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. The course includes fundamental rights and responsibilities of owners, managers, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises. This course includes consideration of major federal securities laws governing insider trading and other fraudulent practices under Rule 10b-5 and section 16(b).
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3292; Catalog Number- Law 658, 03A
SELECTION: INTERESTED STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT A LETTER OF INTEREST & RESUME TO JOSH MOORE, OFFICE OF THE GEORGIA CAPITAL DEFENDER (PHONE: 404.736.5151; FAX: 404.739.5155)
Credit: 3 Hours (pass/fail)
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three-hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third-year law students from Emory, Georgia State, UGA, and Mercer will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients’ cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic—as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages—is to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on “making the case for life.” That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
The course component of this clinic will meet for 2 hours each week at the offices of the Capital Defender in downtown Atlanta. In addition to attending class, students will work on client matters for 10 hours each week. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis only, and students who express willingness to commit for 2 semesters will be given preference at the Pre-selection stage. Please indicate on your application whether you have taken any criminal procedure course(s) or the capital punishment course.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Catalyzing Social Impacts *Cross-listed with BUS 336/BUS 535
Class Number: 3486; Course Number- Law 880B, GBS
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Roberts, Peter (Goizueta Business School)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: See Professor.
Description: In this project-based course, students gain experience analyzing and then developing solutions to the complex challenges faced by organizations that aspire to have meaningful social impacts. While conducting structured research that addresses the real-world issues faced by our clients, students gain exposure to the many experiments and ideas that relate to their assigned projects. They then apply this new knowledge, along with the skills that they are developing in law school, and working with Goizueta MBA students, to generate solutions that address our clients’ issues. In this way, we are also able to make tangible contributions to the lives that are touched by our impact-oriented clients.
Open to 2Ls, 3Ls and LLMs by application/permission only.
https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/preselection-for-catalyzing-social-impact/
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3343; Catalog Number- Law 635, 02A
THIS COURSE QUALIFIES AS A PRE-REQUISITE OR CO-REQUISITE FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE BARTON PUBLIC POLICY OR LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY CLINIC.
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Grading is based on participation and a combination of in-class exercises and written assignments designed to encourage critical thinking about child welfare policy and to develop specific advocacy skills.
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child protection system, including the emergence of the juvenile court, and critical issues such as the legal representation of children, impact litigation and limits on governmental authority. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, analytical writing and skills-based exercises, including legislative drafting and oral advocacy assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Civil Trial Practice: Family Law
Class Number: 3346; Course Number- Law 958, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Wellon, Robert & Kessler, Randall
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course Work; Pretrial Conference; & Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation skills introduced in last year’s Trial Techniques Program, this course will enhance students’ trial proficiency by emphasizing lecture, demonstrations, as well as regular classroom participation through the NITA-inspired learn-by-doing approach. Students will receive guidance from a highly experienced panel of instructors comprised of well-respected judges and trial lawyers. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be presented by providers of litigation support. The case file is built around a divorce trial, with issues of custody, alimony and support, the division of property, and an interesting twist on adultery and its impact. There are no family law pre-requisites for this course, as the primary focus will be developing and refining trial skills which will translate into any litigation. Some emphasis will be placed on the substantive law of domestic relations to establish the issues to be tried, but the real goal of the course is to further enhance the development of true trial lawyers. Other components of the course will feature jury selection by a nationally known jury consultant and pretrial conferences in anticipation of preparing for trial. Throughout the course, knowledge of evidence and its proper application will be emphasized, along with effective and practical techniques of delivery and examination. At the conclusion of the semester, a full trial will be conducted by student trial teams to a live jury in a real courtroom setting at the DeKalb County Courthouse with actual trial judges presiding. This is an essential course for students interested in honing and further enhancing their abilities in a courtroom, and for others simply interested in expanding their knowledge and skills in the burgeoning area of family law. The course has been expanded to three hours in recognition of the value of the course and the time and specialized attention required to prepare law students to move immediately into trial work upon graduation.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Colloquium Series Workshop
Class Number 5581; Law 860A, 02A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine, Kay
Pre-selection form:
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 6 students only!
Grading Criteria: Weekly Papers
Description: Would you like a close-up look at the world of legal scholarship and the exchange of scholarly ideas? Are you seeking more engagement with the Emory Law faculty outside of the traditional classroom setting? Do you want to become a stronger writer? Have you ever thought you might want to become a law professor? If so, consider applying to the Colloquium Series Workshop (CSW).
Components of CSW: Students who participate in this two unit workshop attend two meetings each week: the weekly faculty colloquium, which meets on Wednesdays over the lunch hour (and includes lunch) and a one-hour class session run by Professor Kay Levine, on Thursday afternoons. During each of these one-hour sessions, students discuss the colloquium work as a piece of scholarship (and as a piece of persuasive writing), critique the author's presentation, and review materials relating to the production of scholarship and the legal academic job market. In advance of the weekly meeting, students write short reaction papers on each colloquium piece.
The CSW will be graded on a pass/fail basis, but with high attendance and participation standards set for what constitutes a passing grade. Do not apply for this class if you have other commitments during the lunch hour on Wednesdays (even only sporadic). Enrollment Students enroll in the CSW in accordance with the same procedures used for seminars (advance application during the pre-selection process). However, enrollment is limited to six students each semester, instead of the usual 15. On the pre-selection form please indicate the basis of your interest in the CSW and your prior experience with scholarship in an academic setting (law or otherwise).
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3437; Catalog Number- Law 770, 04A
Credit: 2-3 Hours (optional 3rd credit for law students who write research papers)
Selection: Pre-selection (up to 10 law students). Non-law students (up to an additional 5) are welcome with permission from the instructor. For information contact Professor Dudziak at mary.dudziak@emory.edu.
Instructor: Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Research Paper
Description: This course is a law and graduate seminar held in conjunction with the Colloquium on War and Security in Law, Culture, and Society. The course approaches the study of law, war, and national security as inherently interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. We will read and discuss books and articles on war, national security, and the role of law. Outside speakers will occasionally present works in progress.
Course requirements: Students will read and comment on papers by outside speakers, read and discuss course readings, and write a 20-page paper. Law students who enroll for an additional credit (for a total of 3 credits) will instead write a research paper of at least 30 pages. The 30-page research paper, which can satisfy the law school writing requirement, will involve more extensive research, and students will be required to complete additional assignments, including a first draft.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3438; Catalog Number- Law 612
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Hay, Peter
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam or In-class Exam; Early delivery option for take-home.
Description: The first-year Contracts course typically is too compressed to deal in any depth with Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) which, in some form, is now the law in all States and applies to contracts for the sale of goods in excess of $500. This course covers Article 2 in depth and adds some treatment of documentary transactions (bills of lading and letters of credit). The Convention on the International Sales of Goods (CISG) was ratified by the United States and, as federal law, therefore supersedes the UCC, whenever its provisions cover an issue. The course, therefore, supplements UCC study with all relevant provisions of the CISG. – The course is offered in the form of a workshop in which issues like contract formation, formalities, conditions, breach, remedies are studied in a problem-solving format: Code (or CISG) law is applied to solve hypothetical cases, with court decisions serving as authoritative tools for the interpretation of the statutory language. The study of Art. 2 is a very desirable completion of one’s understanding of Contract law.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Comparative Constitutional Law
Class Number: 5574; Catalog Number- Law 689
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Klymovych, Oksana
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 2-Short Papers (40%); Participation (20%); & Scheduled Final Exam (40%).
Description: This course is focused on comparative legal analysis as the important tool available to the lawyers in the modern world that enables them to fulfill professional duties of protecting client’s interests while dealing with constitutional matters. The classroom work includes the analysis of different constitutional models, such as UK, EU (and it’s member states Germany, France, Poland, etc); India, Canada, and China.
Students will be introduced to the conceptual and theoretical foundations of the constitutional law from comparative perspective. They will examine how different constitutional systems deal with similar situations by focusing on thematic issues and case-law. Students are expected to participate actively in the debates and present relevant opinions on the issues in focus.
Assigned readings include case law and legal research focused on the basic concepts and principles of comparative constitutional law.
Course Materials: The required textbook for the class is Vicki Jackson and Mark Tushnet, Comparative Constitutional Law, 2nd edition (2014). A few supplemental items will be made available on the Blackboard site for this course, at www.classes.emory.edu.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Comparative Law
Class Number: 5575; Catalog Number- Law 707
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation (10%); Discussion Questions (15%); & Final 25-page Paper (75%).
Description: What do (1) corporate counsel advising Walmart on opening stores in India; (2) US government officials helping to write the Iraqi constitution; and (3) Human Rights Watch workers fighting for gender equality in Afghanistan have in common? Each must know the law of the foreign jurisdiction and how it compares either to their own law or to some “ideal.” With so much cross-border activity, even purely “domestic” lawyers now must employ comparative law. This course focuses on the process of comparing law to prepare students to employ it in their own legal practice. It will use examples of substantive legal issues from across the globe to teach students how to compare laws of foreign jurisdictions, taking into consideration culture, economics, and regional law, among other factors that create the similarities and differences between jurisdictions. Along the way, students will gain new insight into their own system of law.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3347; Catalog Number- Law 610, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Freer, Richard
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of the metamorphosis of litigation from the simple two-party model to multi-party, multi-claim litigation increasingly prevalent today, including the causes of this change and ability of the legal system to resolve such disputes. The course centers on a detailed study of the class action device, including jurisdictional and due process implications. Also included is the study of the problem of duplicative state and federal litigation, judicial control of complex cases, including multi-district litigation procedures and the case management movement, discovery (including international and e-discovery), and problems relating to preclusion in complex cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Conflict of Laws
Class Number: 3439; Catalog Number- Law 709, 12A;
Class Number: 5601; Catalog Number- Law 709, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Hay, Peter; Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (online only)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: When a case has interstate or international aspects – for instance: place of contracting and performance differ, a tort has cross-border effects, one party seeks an ex parte divorce or maintenance or child custody modification in another state or country, or an intestate decedent leaves property in different places -, the first question that rises: which court or courts have jurisdiction? Second, the court that does entertain the case must then decide which law to apply. (The anticipated answer to this question may influence the plaintiff’s choice of court in the first place). Third, if a successful plaintiff finds no assets locally, s/he needs to get the judgment recognized and enforced in a state or country where the debtor defendant does have assets. – The course offers a good review of important aspects of civil procedure and treats choice of the applicable law and judgment recognition in depth. The focus is on interstate conflicts cases but the course also contains comparative and international material in all of its parts.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Online Course Description: Conflict of Laws examines the legal problems that arise when an occurrence or a case cuts across state or national boundaries: Jurisdiction of courts, enforceability of foreign judgments, and choice of applicable law. The focus is on the policies, the rules of law, and the constitutional requirements in private interstate law.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations
ClassNumber: 5576; Catalog Number- Law 622A, 000
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine, Kay
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam & Class Participation
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5700; Catalog Number- Law 698L
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Perry, Michael
Prerequisite: None (1Ls who have not taken Con Law, please contact instructor 1st)
Grading Criteria: Course Participation and Take-home Exam
Description: In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of the United States has resolved, on the basis of the Constitution of the United States, several greatly contested "rights" controversies—controversies concerning, e.g., gun control, capital punishment, race-based affirmative action, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and, most recently, same-sex marriage. In this course, we will study those (and other) controversies and evaluate the Supreme Court’s decisions. A principal, recurring issue throughout the course: In resolving such controversies, what role should the Supreme Court play: how large a role, or how small? The final exam will be of the “take home” variety.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3352; Catalog Number- Law 710, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Holbrook, Tim
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Copyright law protects original works, such as books, music, paintings, photographs, architectural works and software. This course examines copyright law, including what works are eligible for copyright protection, what rights are afforded to copyright owners of particular original works, and how copyright responds to technological developments. The course also explores copyright infringement, various defenses to infringement (such as fair use), and remedies. The class will also explore the theories that justify copyright protection in the US, in contrast to other jurisdictions, and the persuasiveness of such theories.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Corporate Finance
Class Number: 3440; Catalog Number- Law 712, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, George
Prerequisites: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of the financial and economic theory underlying legal doctrines in corporate finance, and the relationship between these doctrines. Focuses on decisions about "value" in the context of such areas as bankruptcy reorganization, dissenters' appraisal rights, and public utility regulation. Problems of capital structure and the duties of directors to various classes of claimants are studied in light of decisions about dividend policy and reinvestment. Includes a brief review of modern portfolio theory.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3334; Catalog Number- Law 959, 01A
Class Number: 3350; Catalog Number- Law 959, 02A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques;
Grading Criteria: Class work
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students!
Class open only to 3Ls
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing, and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Students reflected on what they gained from taking this class:
"I think what is most drastically different is how much more professional I came across later in the semester."
-Ben S.
"The largest benefit I drew from our class was the ability to stand comfortably in front of a group of people."
-Diana S.
"The most valuable aspect is practice, practice, practice, especially when combined with live and individualized feedback. I can make presentations with significantly less internal anxiety than before, and with more organization and the outward appearance of credibility." -Andrew R.
"This class taught me that putting work into your speaking style can really pay off! I also found the freedom during this class to try some experiments with my speaking technique, including not memorizing a script and moving about my space." -Alan W.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5777; Catalog Number- Law 960
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor: Prof. Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I
Grading Criteria: Participation & Group Assignment
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students
Description: This follow-up course to Courtroom Persuasion Drama I applies theater arts techniques to the practical development of persuasive presentation skills in any high-pressure setting, especially the courtroom.
In this advanced class, you will build on performance skills learned in Courtroom Persuasion Drama I in order to present a more compelling and persuasive case story. You will gain practical experience applying skills and techniques of communication and storytelling learned in CPDI to the components of a trial from initial interview through closing arguments.
You can expect to increase your creativity in storytelling through improvisation; develop visualization by increasing awareness of and sensitivity to images in written language; feel confident in your own unique style of communication.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Criminal Competency & Responsibility Practicum (Workshop)
Class Number: 5694; Catalog Number- Law 622E
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Deets, Annie
Prerequisite: Criminal Law; Constitutional Law; & Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System.
Grading Criteria: Participation; Court Performance; & Experiential Reaction Papers
Enrollment: Limited to 8 Students!
Description: The Criminal Competency and Responsibility Practicum provides a supplemental class to second and third-year law students who have previously taken Law 622D. Students will have the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in the context of criminal cases involving issues of competency or criminal responsibility in Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom advocacy skills. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which mental health cases fit or rather do not fit within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system and the practical implication of raising issues of mental health issues of competency, criminal responsibility or even offering evidence of mental health as mitigation. This class will have a classroom component but will also extend beyond that into the real and very complex practice of criminal law involving mental health issues. Students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local mental health service providers, interacting with the NICK Project (a collaboration between the DeKalb Public Defender’s Office, Atlanta Legal Aid, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities) and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Student will also review real competency evaluations and will conduct interviews with actual defendants, participate in discharge planning with social workers and community service providers, observe actual competency evaluations, and participate in mock classroom hearings on issues of competency, responsibility, and civil commitment. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, motions hearings, competency hearings, pleas.) Students may have an opportunity to brief and argue motions regarding mental health issues with policy implications. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who are currently interning or doing a field placement the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office, as it would cause a professional conflict.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Criminal Pretrial Motions Practice Workshop
Class Number: 5577; Catalog Number- Law 622X
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Krepp, Thomas
Prerequisite: Completion or co-requisite of the Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations course.
Grading Criteria: In-class oral advocacy assignments; Written advocacy assignments; & Participation.
Description: This workshop will provide practical skills training in the area of pre-trial criminal litigation for a small number of students. Class will meet once a week for approximately 2.5 hours, and will generally consist of each student performing an oral advocacy assignment. In addition, written advocacy assignments will be due from time to time. The emphasis of the class will be on building off of the students' substantive knowledge of criminal procedure by learning how it is applied to "real world" pre-trial criminal litigation.
*Last Updated Fall 2015
Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the secure Directed Research web page »
Class Number: 3336; Catalog Number- Law 659E, 09A
Class Number: 5767; Catalog Number- Law 659E, 09B
STUDENTS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY TAKEN ACCOUNTING OR FINANCE COURSES ARE NOW PERMITTED TO TAKE THIS CLASS ON A PASS/FAIL BASIS ONLY WHICH WILL TAKE UP THREE OF THEIR SIX PASS/FAIL HOURS.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: This course is designed for those liberal arts majors who know nothing about accounting and finance. Students will learn about the fundamental financial statement concepts. Then the course will turn to the study of how lawyers use those concepts in practice.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3337; Catalog Number- Law 659G, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott & Prof. Taylor
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (concurrent okay) and Contract Drafting
Grading Criteria: Midterm; Participation; & Drafting of Documents
Enrollment: 18
Description: This course will concentrate on sales, finance and leasing of commercial real estate. It will require significant amounts of time devoted to financial analysis of real estate projects and to negotiating and drafting of documents. It is designed specifically to include JD, LLM, and MBA students. Work groups will consist of JD, LLM, and MBA students working together as lawyer and client to analyze, negotiate and document the acquisition and subsequent leasing of a shopping center. The text for the course is a business school real estate finance text. Legal materials will be made available as handouts. A basic knowledge of Excel will be helpful but not required.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
- Class Number: 3394; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 09A
- Class Number: 3385; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 09B
- Class Number: 5763; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 09C
- Class Number: 3370; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04A
- Class Number: 3367; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04B
- Class Number: 3368; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04C
- Class Number: 3383; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04D
- Class Number: 3369; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04E
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (highly recommended as prerequisite, but can be taken concurrently)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3338; Catalog Number- Law 659H, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. New, Randy & Prof. Mazzone, Dominic
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Written Problems and Class Participation
Enrollment: 12
Description: The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the first year of general corporate practice, whether in an in-house, law firm or solo practice setting. This course will provide students with broad exposure to a variety of corporate problems, including contract negotiation and drafting typical of current corporate practice, complex corporate structuring issues, joint ventures, and non-litigation corporate dispute resolution. The course exercises will involve questions of corporate, tax, employment, and debtor-creditor law. Although prior course work in these areas is not required, it is preferable to have some interest in and familiarity with these areas.
Because student participation is essential for the success of this practice-simulation course, attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade. This course also requires collaborative work with other students and meetings with the adjunct faculty. You will be required to schedule several meetings in addition to regular class time. In addition, any students on the wait list for this class must attend the first class meeting, which sets the stage for the first several weeks of assignments.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
- Class Number: 3339; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04A
- Class Number: 3344; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04B
- Class Number: 3357; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04D
- Class Number: 3358; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04E
- Class Number: 3359; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04F
- Class Number: 3371; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04G
- Class Number: 5674; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04C
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting (required – concurrent not okay); Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: Deal Skills builds on the skills and concepts learned in Contract Drafting and emphasizes the skills and thought processes involved in, and required by, the practice of transactional law. The course introduces students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, such as M&A deals, license agreements, commercial real estate transactions, financing transactions, and other typical transactions. Students learn to interview, counsel, and communicate with simulated clients; conduct various types of due diligence; translate a business deal into contract provisions; understand basic transaction structure, finance, and risk reduction techniques; and negotiate and collaboratively draft an agreement for a simulated transaction. Classes involve both individual and group work, with in-class exercises, role-plays and oral reports supported by lecture and weekly homework assignments. The course grade is based on homework, class participation, a negotiation project, and a comprehensive individual project.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5698; Catalog Number- Law 659I
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Nate
Prerequisite: Business Associations; Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Doing Deals: Deal Skills (concurrent not okay). Recommended prerequisites or co-requisites: Securities Regulation; Corporate Finance.
Grading Criteria: Participation in Simulated Transaction; Written Assignments; & Participation (NO EXAM)
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course simulates the work that would be done by a law firm associate for an unregistered international securities offering pursuant to the exemptions provided by Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Topics will include U.S. federal securities law registration requirements and exemptions (with a focus on Rule 144A and Regulation S); due diligence for a securities offering; the purpose and content of various sections of an Offering Memorandum; provisions of the securities purchase agreement; addressing aspects of local law in foreign jurisdictions; comfort letters; opinion practice; the closing process; and ethics and professionalism issues relating to securities offerings. Student performance will be assessed based on class participation, in-class exercises, written homework assignments, and a take-home exam.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3353; Catalog Number- Law 659J, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent not okay); Contract Drafting; Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Participation in Simulated Transaction; Written Assignments; & Participation (NO EXAM)
Enrollment: 12
Description: This class is designed to provide law school students who intend to practice transactional law with some of the basic practical skills required to counsel companies with respect to business combinations. The focus of the course will be to identify and discuss the factors involved in a typical business combination, the roles of the parties and the relevant documents. The course is intended to ease the transition from law school to junior transactional associate.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 5779; Catalog Number- Law 880
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Profs. Ellis, Jeremy & Harrison, Chason
Prerequisite: Approved by Faculty Advisor (via tryout)
Grading Criteria: Participation (Graded on Pass/Fail Basis)
Description: Team members prepare for oral negotiations, practice negotiation techniques, and draft transactional documents under the direction of one or more faculty advisors for regional, and potentially national competitions. A student selected to compete is eligible for credit in the semester in which the competition is held. The faculty advisor(s) will approve course registration and assign a grade.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3340; Catalog Number- Law 659C, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBD
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting, Deal Skills,
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course will study the business and legal issues in venture capital transactions. The course will be taught primarily through simulations.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3373; Catalog Number- Law 662, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises and Final paper
Description: This course will survey constitutional, statutory and policy issues affecting children in our public elementary and secondary schools. An emphasis will be placed on issues that impact the children most at risk for educational failure and that contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. Topics will include the right to an education, school discipline, special education, alternative educational programs, No Child Left Behind and high-stakes testing, the rights of homeless youth and youth in foster care, and laws designed to address bullying in our schools.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3392; Catalog Number- Law 669, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Weirich, Geoff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will focus on the development of law and policy under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Note: This class will meet every other M/W through and including 4/17. Classes will not meet on: 1/9, 1/11, 1/16 (MLK Day), 2/13, 2/15, 2/27 and 3/1.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3349; Catalog Number- Law 669X, 06A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Profs. Shultz, Chad & Prof. King, Fred
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination or Employment Law
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: (cap of 8 students)
Description: The class will work through an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King Jr., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Energy Law
Class Number: 5587; Catalog Number- Law 660, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Crofton, Peter
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: The course examines state, federal and international regulation of energy markets and the development, production and distribution of energy. The course will emphasize the interrelation of energy policy with other legal and economic policy areas.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Class Number: 3294; Catalog Number- Law 720, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Sanders, Scott
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, or Trademark Law, or Copyright Law (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will provide an overview of the rapidly developing body of law associated with the entertainment industries concentrating in the areas of music publishing and commercial recording, live performance, literary publishing and motion pictures. The course will focus on a study of entertainment law cases, aspects of copyright law, personal rights, and negotiation of entertainment agreements.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Environmental Law
Class Number: 5588; Catalog Number- 624X
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Legislation & Regulation
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam; & Participation
Description: This course will focus on legal strategies to regulate and remedy environmental harms. The course is designed to prepare transactional lawyers, regulatory lawyers, government counsel and litigators, as well as students interested in specializing in environmental law. A major goal of the course is to introduce students to the analytical skills necessary to understand and work in this and many other predominantly statutory and regulatory fields. The course will therefore frequently involve analysis of methods of interpretation of statutes and regulations and analysis of the central role of administrative agencies in environmental law. The course will focus on various federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
*Last Updated Fall 2015
Class Number: 3295; Catalog Number- Law 916, 02A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: Trusts & Estates (There are no tax course prerequisites for Estate Planning)
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description: Selected problems in estate analysis and planning involving drafting of wills and trusts utilizing future interests, class gifts, powers of appointment, generation-skipping arrangements, and qualification for the marital deduction. Consideration of planning for business interests, insurance, and employee benefits also is included.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3466; Catalog Number- Law 700
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Tatum, Melissa
Prerequisite: Must be a 2L or 3L.
Grading Criteria: Participation & In-class Exam
Description: This course is designed to allow students to apply ethical rules in a criminal law context. To learn, through interpretation and practical application of the Model Code of Conduct, how trial attorneys navigate ethics and professionalism in a courtroom setting. Special issues and obligations of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges will be reviewed and discussed.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3455; Catalog Number- Law 620L, 001
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructors: Prof. Mickevicius & Prof. Tulibacka
Prerequisite: EU Law I recommended
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam & Participation
Description: The course examines fundamental areas of substantive law of the European Union, with particular emphasis on their practical application and on their links and parallels with U.S. law. The students will examine some of the most important recent cases decided by the Court of Justice of the EU involving U.S. corporations, including Google Spain v. Costeja on ‘the right to be forgotten’, and Microsoft v Commission concerning Microsoft’s abuse of its dominant position in the EU market. They will be able to identify and critically assess the EU approach to a number of legal and economic concepts and rules, including market integration, equality, products liability and antitrust law.
The course commences with examining the EU personal data protection regime and the right to be forgotten as defined in case of Google Spain v. Costeja. It will continue with an examination of the law and legal practice related to the European single market: free movement of persons, including the evolving concept of EU citizenship; goods; establishments and services; and capital.
A number of hours will be devoted to the complex EU antitrust law, its enforcement, and its relationship to the U.S. antitrust rules. The analysis of the European Union’s market legislation and legal practice will be completed by a class on EU consumer law, which in many ways differs from the U.S. approach to consumer protection.
Further, the students will scrutinize the European Product Liability Directive and its parallels with the U.S. products liability law.
Finally, the course will examine substantive and procedural aspects of the EU criminal law and other issues within the rapidly developing area of freedom, security, and justice, and discuss the emerging areas of the EU civil procedure, including class actions and ADR. Lectures and discussions will draw parallels with the U.S. federal and State systems.
Most classes will consist of a lecture part and an interactive seminar part where students will deal with the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, hypothetical cases, resolve legal problems, and discuss ideas.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3354; Catalog Number- Law 632X, 04A
MUST BE TAKEN IN THE SECOND YEAR
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Morrison, Caren (Visiting Professor- GSU Law)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege.
Externship Program
Catalog Number- Law 870I-Advanced; Law 870D- Civil Litigation; Law 870F- Corporate Counsel; Law 870H-Criminal Defense; Law 870C- Govt. Counsel; Law 870E- Judicial; Law 870J- Legislative Policy; Law 870G- Prosecution; Law 870A- Public Interest; Law 870L- Small Firm.
Credits: Varies
Instructor(s): Multiple
Selection: Application process submitted to Prof. Sarah Shalf
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Fieldwork
Description: Step outside the classroom and learn to practice law from experienced attorneys. Take the skills and principles you learn in the classroom and learn how they apply in practice. Emory Law's General Externship Program provides work experience in different types of practice (all sectors except law firms) so you can determine which suits you best and develop relationships that will continue as you begin your legal career. Students are supported in their placements by a weekly class meeting with other students in similar placements, taught by faculty with practice experience in that area, in which students have the opportunity to learn legal and professional skills they need to succeed in the externship, receive mentoring independent of their on-site supervisors, and to step back and reflect on their experience and what they are learning from it.
Our Small Firm Externship Program provides students specially interested in the small law firm practice setting with experience in specially-selected small law firms. The firms' attorneys participate with the students in our weekly class meeting, which focuses on the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a small firm practice setting.
Students apply for externships via Symplicity in the semester prior to the externship and all placements must be preapproved. Available placements for the General program are listed on the Emory Law website, http://law.emory.edu/academics/academic-programs/externships/externship-search.html, and the currently-participating Small Firms are listed here: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/small-firm-externship-applicant-law-firm-ranking/
Warning: No student is allowed to be enrolled in more than one clinic, workshop, or externship classes (except fieldwork) in a semester.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3341; Catalog Number- Law 633, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will address the problems, policies, and laws related to the formation and dissolution of the marital relationship. Among the topic covered will be marriage, divorce, child custody and other related topics.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Federal Income Tax: Corporations
Class Number: 3296; Catalog Number- Law 642, 10A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Fowler, Lynn
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Survey of the general structure of taxation of corporations. Considers the tax issues arising from the formation, operation, liquidation, and reorganization of corporations. An important course for anyone interested in transactional law.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Class Number: 3398; Catalog Number- Law 640L, 08A
Credit: 4 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: An introduction to federal income taxation with an emphasis on determination of income subject to taxation, which expenses are allowable deductions and whether certain income is excluded from taxation, along with the proper time for reporting items of income and deductions and which proper taxpayer should pay the tax.
NOTE: Students who have previously taken Fundamentals of Income Tax (the 3 credit course with Professor Pennell) may not take this class.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3297; Catalog Number- Law 942, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Beaudrot, Charles
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines the taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, and LLCs. We will look at the formation, financing, and operation of these entities to understand the impact the tax rules have on financial returns and investment structures. This is an essential class for those interested in venture capital, private equity, real estate, or international business transactions.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Introduction to Financial Compliance
Class Number: 5772; Catalog Number- Law 759
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Clemmons, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation (15%); & Scheduled Final Exam (85%).
Description: This course is intended for students with an interest in financial institutions and regulatory compliance, specifically those thinking about practicing in this area and who wish to prepare for jobs in the field. While corporations and industries have long faced regulatory burdens, the world of regulatory compliance by financial services companies as it relates to consumer protection is new within the last few years, is experiencing a boom, but is here to stay. Many attorneys and professionals are unprepared to understand these new rules as the CFPB works across many industries and institutions, including banks, credit unions, mortgage companies, student loan companies, auto lenders, payday loan lenders, etc. This course or program will give students a basic introduction into financial services regulatory compliance, which will be invaluable as a niche area of law. Students will familiarize themselves with basic regulations and trends in financial compliance. The course will include guest speakers from regulatory agencies, practicing attorneys, and other subject matter experts (SMEs) with advanced degrees and/or relevant compliance work experience.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3442; Catalog Number- Law 602, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines the law that regulates the conduct of American foreign relations. Topics include the distribution of foreign affairs powers between the three branches of the federal government, the war power, the treaty power, the status of international law in U.S. courts, the validity of executive agreements, the preemption of state foreign affairs activities, and the political question and other doctrines regulating judicial review in foreign affairs cases.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Fulton Landlord-Tenant Workshop II
Class Number: 5995; Catalog Number- 870N
Credit: 3 hours (each semester)
Instructor(s): Prof. Powell, Bonnie
Selection: Application process submitted thru Symplicity
Description: See Below.
Landlord-Tenant Mediation Workshop students will mediate landlord/tenant disputes, including cases handled by the Magistrate and State courts; particularly small claim civil issues such as disputes between landlords and tenants. Assuming an agreement is reached during mediation, students will be responsible for drafting a detailed settlement agreement.
Students work under the supervision of an attorney mediating cases that deal with numerous issues of law within the court system. Prior to mediating, students will receive 28 hours of civil mediation training and will be registered as neutrals with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.
Required Mediation Training
Training is provided by the program and will occur the first or second week in August; attendance for the entire 28 hours of training is mandatory. Training dates will be confirmed no later than June 1.
These hours may be used later in the semester to compensate for any necessary time away. For example, if a student has to leave at 5:00 pm for an evening class, 30/45 minutes of training can be used as a filler.
For those who need a more flexible schedule, there is also now a partnership with Dekalb County so students can mediate there as well. The hours there are a bit different and has more flexibility.
Enrollment
This is a full academic year, two-semester workshop. Students must enroll in both the fall and spring semesters. Second and third-year students may apply. An in-person interview will be scheduled with the supervising attorney.
- Application Period: Resumes can be submitted through Symplicity at the same time externships accept resumes.
- Required Background Check: Upon acceptance, a criminal background check by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution will be conducted.
Class Times
- Students must be available to go to court from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 12:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
- Weekly seminar sessions will take place at the courthouse during the semester.
*Last Updated Fall 2016
Fundamentals of Client Value
Class Number: 3501; Catalog Number- 574B
Credit: 1 hour*
Instructor(s): Prof. Walton, Steve (Goizueta Business School)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: The expectations that clients have of their legal advisors have fundamentally changed. Whether it is a large corporate client or a person wanting to incorporate a new business, cost, speed, accuracy, flexibility and a host of other criteria now define what “successful” legal work looks like. In the language of business, the fundamentals of client value have shifted. This shift is incredibly disruptive to the organization and delivery of legal work. This course explores the idea of client value, how to better understand your particular client’s value, and how to begin to put in place capabilities and procedures to best deliver on client value. We will draw from the disciplines of strategy, marketing and operations to develop a practical framework to help you better drive client value.
*Please Note: The class will meet on the following days/times: February 17, 18, & 24 from 9:30am-12:30pm; and February 25 from 1:15pm-4:45pm.
*Last Updated Spring 2017.
Class Number: 3298; Catalog Number- Law 890A, 04A
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: Fundamentals of Innovation II is the second of the two-course sequence on various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process. Issues explored will include patterns of technological change, identifying market and technological opportunities, competitive market analysis, the process of technology commercialization, intellectual property protection, and methods of valuing new technology.
The fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in-depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
The Future of the Legal Profession
Class Number: 5695; Catalog Number- Law 574C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Trotter, Mike
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course will examine:
- Predictions concerning the future of the legal profession in America.
- Why have many of the predicted changes in the functioning of our legal system failed to occur, and what changes have actually occurred?
- Actions being taken by American law firms to become more cost-effective legal service providers.
- Developments in other countries focusing on the UK’s Legal Services Act of 2007 (dealing with the practice of law in England and Wales).
- The development of Alternative Legal Service Providers in the United States.
- The expanding use of unlicensed personnel to provide legal services.
- How can legal services be more cost-effectively provided within our existing legal system?
- How can our legal system be modified to function more cost-effectively?
- Possible dispute resolution reforms?
- Restructuring the American legal system?
- Legal education?
- Looking forward
The course will also examine key developments in the practice of law that have enabled the growth in size and scope of law firms over the second half of the 20th Century, including:
- Reductions in the financial risks of practicing law.
- The reduction of restraints on the marketing of legal services.
- The lateral movement of lawyers among law firms and law departments.
- The pricing of legal services based on time spent.
- The increased use of personnel leverage – including utilization of unlicensed personnel to support the provision of, or to provide, legal services, and
- Advances in technology applicable to legal services.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3380; Catalog Number- Law 736, 12A (Blakely/Grubman)
Class Number: 3405; Catalog Number- Law 736, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 hours
Instructors: Profs. Blakely, Jennifer; Grubman, Scott; & Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (online only)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: Healthcare is one of the largest sectors of the economy, and the practice of health law is growing. This course is an introduction to regulatory health law. The course will address select topics in health law related to issues of quality, access, cost, and fraud and abuse. Possible topics include: regulation of physicians and health care institutions; confidentiality; informed consent; individual and institutional obligations to provide care; discrimination in access to care; ERISA preemption and regulation; public and private health insurance structures and some of the major statutes that govern them; government powers in public health emergencies; fraud and abuse laws; and the government’s role in healthcare.
Note: The online section will meet on Mondays & Wednesdays from 6:00pm to 7:15pm ET.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Healthcare Compliance
Class Number: 3488; Catalog Number- Law 740, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 hours
Instructors: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (online only)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: Healthcare Compliance provides an understanding of the complexities of the healthcare compliance process from practical, business, and legal perspectives. Students will become familiar with the components of an effective compliance plan and program as well as the issues that arise in the implementation and administration of a compliance plan. Discover the many roles the compliance staff fulfill in encouraging compliance with laws, regulations, and ethical principles, and gain familiarity with some of the more significant issues that arise when allegations of noncompliance come to the attention of the federal and state governments.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Legal Issues in Higher Education
Class Number: 3451; Catalog Number- Law 665, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Fowler, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Case Briefs; Class Presentation; Outline Paper; and Case Study/Final Exam.
Description: The course has been designed to expose the student to a range of administrative challenges at the postsecondary level that entails legal and ethical implications. The course experiences should ultimately help current and prospective administrators to envision the legal dimensions of collegiate-level decision processes. Among the topics to be discussed will be the basis from which higher education law originates, current (case, state and regulatory) law, as well as risk management and liability issues for higher education.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
History of Church & State Relations in the West
Class Number: 5586; Catalog Number- Law 645
Credit: 3 hours (plus 1-hour optional lab)
Instructor: Prof. Witte, John Jr.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-home Exam
Description: This course will explore the interaction between religious and political authorities and institutions from the time of the Roman Empire until the American founding era. We shall analyze the variety of constitutional and other legal arrangements developed to facilitate the separation, cooperation, and mutual protection of churches and states. We shall analyze the gradual development of religious rights and liberties in the Western legal tradition, but also the systematic and oft-brutal denial of these rights to Jews, heretics, and other religious outsiders. And we shall analyze the competition among different models of church and state that emerged repeatedly in the West, and the remarkable change introduced by the First Amendment command to disestablish religion and to protect the free exercise rights of all.
The course will focus on four periods: (1) the 4th and 5th century Roman Empire and the establishment of Christianity by Roman law, and the firm new state prohibitions on Judaism and heresy; (2) the High Middle Ages of the 11th to 13th centuries and the rise of papal and clerical power and religious establishment by the church’s canon law; (3) the Protestant Reformation movements of the sixteenth century, and the fresh rise of new religious establishments by state civil law as well as new forms of separation of church and state; and (4) the American colonial experience of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the gradual rise of constitutional principles of religious liberty that culminated in the First Amendment and state constitutions.
One Credit Hour Lab Option. Students in this course are welcome to take a supplemental one-credit hour lab focused on “Law and Protestantism,” offered in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017. The lab consists of 12 hours of lectures and discussion as follows:
· Two evening lectures in February and March by Professor Witte, followed by a question/answer period
· Attendance at 8 hours of sessions of a major international conference on “The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation” to be held at Emory on April 3-4, 2017.
Students will write a separate pass/fail paper of 1000 words for this one credit lab.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Human Sex Trafficking
Class Number: 5697; Catalog Number- Law 624C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): ADAs. Racine, Dalia & Harris, Destiny
Prerequisite: Evidence
Enrollment: Limited to 14 students only!
Grading Criteria: Participation; CSEC/HT terms Presentation; Class Assignments; and A Final Trial Notebook.
Description: This course will explore two significant issues in the United States today: commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC) and human trafficking (HT). We have four principal objectives: to provide an introduction to CSEC/HT; to explain the legal definitions and processes involved in investigating and litigating CSEC/HT cases; to offer an understanding of the various dimensions of CSEC/HT through use of a thorough case study; to enable students to develop trial preparation techniques.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Insurance Law
Class Number: 5598; Catalog Number- Law 613, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: Insurance Law is designed to introduce students to the basic principles governing the creation, sale and enforcement of the most common forms of insurance in the U.S. Students will be introduced to the following insurance lines: personal liability, professional liability, commercial general liability, homeowners, automobile, life and casualty and health. The peculiarities of each line will be discussed as well as the problems common to all lines: moral hazard, adverse selection, and outright fraud. The social function of insurance, as well as, historical anomalies are covered in order to give the student the broadest possible exposure to the issues lawyers confront regularly in this area of practice.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3483; Catalog Number- Law 608, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Bagley, Margo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to patent, trademark, and copyright law. The course will explore the policy and legal foundations for these areas of law and the scope of protection which each affords. The requirements for protection will be examined and compared. The framework for the administrative procedures which support the patent and trademark systems will also be discussed. In part, the course will direct attention to questions about the legitimacy of these forms of property and appropriateness of protection. The course will also explore intellectual property transactions and the ways in which they shape and facilitate the distribution, commercialization, and use of ideas, creative expression, technologies, and information.
Intellectual Property Legal Research
**ACCELERATED COURSE
Class Number: 5696; Catalog Number- Law 657A
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor: Prof. Christian, Elizabeth
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class participation; Small research assignments; & A Final Project.
Description: Intellectual Property Law Research will introduce research methods and resources for intellectual property law research. Students will become familiar with intellectual property law research through lectures and by practical applications through in-class exercises, research homework exercises, and a final project. Topics will include research in the areas of patents, copyrights, and trademarks with an emphasis on practicing law in these areas.
Intellectual Property Law Research will be a 1 credit, graded course, meeting once a week for a two-hour time period using the accelerated class model.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5585; Catalog Number- Law 730, 02A (Dean)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dean, Peter
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will be a survey of practical issues that arise in cross-border transactions, including both outbound and inbound (from a US perspective) trade and investment transactions. We will discuss issues that affect transactions involving international trading of goods, project development and acquisitions. Topics will include letters of credit, international trade terms such as INCOTERMS, joint venture agreements, and international transfer of technology. We will also cover some selected aspects of government regulation of international trade and investment.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3477; Catalog Number- Law 690L, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam or Take-home Paper
Description: This course focuses on international concerns for the upholding of human rights standards in legal systems of the world. It defines the concept of human rights, and distinguishes different categories of human rights that have developed over the years, namely (a) natural rights of the individual; (b) civil and political rights; (c) economic, social and cultural rights; and (d) solidarity rights. General problems relating to the theoretical basis of human rights will come under the spotlight in this section, including the universality and relativity of human rights, and the right to self-determination of peoples.
The course further deals with mechanisms for the protection and promotion of international human rights at three distinct levels: (a) globally, under auspices of the United Nations Organization, with emphasis on the binding effect of the human rights standards enunciated in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promotion and protection of those rights by the Human Rights Council, and the proclamation and enforcement of certain categories of rights in virtue of international conventions and covenants sponsored by the United Nations; (b) regionally, in Europe under auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the Helsinki Accord, in the Americas under auspices of the Organization of American States; and in Africa under auspices of the African Union; and (c) thematically, under auspices of specialized agencies such as the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNESCO.
When dealing with the promotion and protection of human rights under auspices of the United Nations, special attention will be given to the question whether or not the provisions in the U.N. Charter dealing with human rights are self-executing in the United States, and decisions of the Human Rights Council dealing with, for example, the defamation of a religion, and human rights violations committed by Israel in the West Bank and in Gaza. We have also singled out particular rights and freedoms for closer scrutiny, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion or belief, and the international protection of rights of the child.
The section on the Council of Europe pays special attention to the doctrine of a margin of appreciation developed by the European Court of Human Rights, which affords to High Contracting Parties a first bite at the cherry to decide whether circumstances exist in their respective countries that would warrant limitations to be imposed on particular rights or freedoms enunciated in the European Convention for the Protection of Basic Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and to the doctrine of positive obligations, which places on High Contracting Parties a duty to protect persons under their jurisdiction against violations of their rights by the State and by non-State actors. It further focuses on a selection of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, such as those relating to torture, sexual orientation, and extradition constraints (the latter involving the United States).
The section on the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights singles out decisions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights that condemned the United States for not observing basic principles of the Inter-American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man of 1948, for example ones that dealt with racial discrimination in the sentencing of convicted criminals, the death penalty, abortions, and non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
The latter set of cases will also bring into contention three judgments of the International Court of Justice condemning the United States for non-compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and responses from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Germany to those judgments. The enforcement of international human rights in federal courts of the United States in cases such as Medéllin v.
Texas and in virtue of the Alien Torts Statute and Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 10 of the U.S. Constitution places the Vienna Convention judgments in a broader perspective.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3355; Catalog Number- Law 676, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam or Take-home Paper
Description: September 11th, the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and the status of Afghani captives being held at Guantanamo Bay; the testing and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction; the violent conflict in Israel and Palestine, and in Libya; and attempts to establish an Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are all matters that come within the range of international humanitarian law: the law of armed conflict. International humanitarian law applies to and in times of armed conflict and differentiates between international armed conflicts and armed conflicts not of an international character. The war in Bosnia/Herzegovina and jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) illustrate the complexities attending that distinction. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Hamdan Case that the “war against terror” is an armed conflict not of an international character because it is not a war between States. This view is at odds with the jurisprudence of the ICTY and the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is also extremely difficult to establish precisely under what conditions an internal uprising would be considered an armed conflict for the purposes of international humanitarian law.
The rules of international humanitarian law fall into two main categories:
(a) the ius ad bellum (the law relating to armed conflict): under what circumstances is the taking up of arms to resolve an international or internal dispute legitimate, and when would it constitute the international crime of aggression?
(b) the ius in bello (the law applying in times of war), which comprises two main subject matters:
The rules regulating the means and methods of conducting hostilities (what weapons may be used, and what persons or objects may be targeted);
How must belligerent parties treat persons and objects not engaged in, or used for, actual combat, such as the wounded or sick members of the armed forces in the field; the wounded, sick or shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea; prisoners of war; and civilians.
Under (a), the course will explore the legitimacy of, for example, wars of liberation, the right to self-defense, and humanitarian intervention, with special emphasis on the war in Iraq, the Israeli offensive in Gaza, the use of armed force in Libya, and the current bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. Under (b)(i), questions such as the legality of the threat or use of a wide spectrum of armament, ranging from dumdum bullets to nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons, as well as legitimate/illegitimate targets of an armed attack, will be considered. Under (b)(ii), matters such as the treatment of prisoners of war and of the wounded and sick soldiers, and the protection of civilians and civilian objects, including cultural property, in times of war will come under the spotlight.
Particular problems that have emerged from recent judgments of the ICC and of the Supreme Court of Israel include the conscription and enlistment, and the use in actual combat, of children under the age of 15 years, and the use of a human shield to protect legitimate military targets from an armed attack.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3333; Catalog Number- Law 676C, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Transitional Justice; National Security Law
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Enrollment: By application
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counter-terrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries, and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank.
The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3299; Catalog Number- Law 732, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. An-Na’im, Abdullah
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the general principles of Public International Law from a critical contemporary perspective, and to discuss the challenges to the structural and institutional limitations of that state-centric legal order in its global political context. The underlying theme will also include the implications of global transformations in the actors and processes of the rule of law in international relations.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
International Sales & Commercial Arbitration
Class Number: 6599; Catalog Number- Law 609A, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: International Sales and Commercial Arbitration provides an overview of the law governing international sales of goods and international commercial arbitration, focusing primarily on the U.N. Convention on the International Sale of Goods, the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, and the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS & JM STUDENTS
Class Number: 3403; Catalog Number- Law 570A
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
JM Description: This course covers the Constitutional principles and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. It examines the structure of the U.S. judicial system and basic principles of legal reasoning. The course also incorporates a series of guest lectures in the primary areas of first-year legal study (contracts, torts, etc.).
LLM Description: This course covers the constitutional principles, history, and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. Designed for lawyers trained outside of the United States, the course introduces basic principles of federalism, common-law reasoning, and an overview of the primary areas of first-year legal study.
*Last Updated Fall 2016.
Introduction to Law & Economics
Class Number: 3378; Catalog Number- Law 628Y, 08A
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Enrollment: 80
Description: This course introduces students to the economic analysis of the law. Because economics provides a tool for studying how legal rules affect the way people behave, understanding economic analysis of legal problems has become an important part of a lawyer's education. The ability to predict the effects of legal rules helps the practicing lawyer furnish advice and make arguments before courts. It is also a prerequisite for the evaluation of legal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, the economic approach has grown in importance in academia as well as in legal and judicial practice. The course will explore several economic methods and concepts and apply them to illuminate and critique familiar areas of law, including criminal law, torts, contracts, property, and civil procedure. There are no prerequisites for this course; a background in economics is not necessary (or even very helpful).
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Introduction to Legal Advocacy (ILA) formerly LWRAP II
Catalog Number- Law 535B,
Credits: 2 hours
Instructors: Profs. Carroll, Kirk, Mathews, Parrish, Romig, Schwartz, Pinder, Koster
Prerequisite: ILARC (or an equivalent course)
Grading Criteria: Class assignments
Description: This course builds on skills presented in ILARC and introduces students to the process of effectively employing persuasive strategies in both written and oral formats.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3465; Catalog Number- Law 627, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. An-Na’im, Abdullah
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Three 1500 - 2000 word papers, due by 5:00 pm, Fridays Jan 27, Feb 24 and March 31. Attendance is required. Missing five classes without the consent of the Instructor will be penalized in the final grade. An additional grade penalty will be imposed for missing more than five classes.
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the nature, sources and techniques of Islamic Law (Shari‘a- which is the normative system of Islam- the term Islamic Law is misleading), and its main concepts, principles, and rules. Class discussions will also focus on the relationship between Shari‘a and modern legal systems, as well as its social and cultural impact on present Islamic societies.
Following a discussion of the nature, sources and early development of Shari‘a, we will review the main substantive aspects of this jurisprudential tradition in the fields of property and transactions, family law, criminal law, constitutional law and inter-communal (i.e. international) law. The last part of the course will examine the relationship between Shari‘a and the legal systems of the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan as case studies. We will also discuss recent “Arab Spring” constitutional developments in Tunisia and Morocco.
Required Texts:
- An-Na‘im, ISLAMIC COURSE MATERIALS 2016, Emory Law School Copy Center
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im, TOWARD AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION (Syracuse University Press, 1990)
- Jan Michiel Otto, Editor, SHARIA INCORPORATED (Leiden University Press Academic), 2011.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3376; Catalog Number- Law 664, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper or Take-Home Exam
Description: This course will survey the principles Jewish (or Talmudic) law uses to address difficult legal issues and will compare these principles to those that guide legal discussions in America. In particular, this course will focus on issues raised by advances in medical technology such as surrogate motherhood, artificial insemination, and organ transplant. Through discussion of these difficult topics many areas of Jewish law will be surveyed.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Judicial Behavior: Judicial Decision Making
Class Number: 5771; Catalog Number- Law 844A
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Nash, Johnathan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Take-home Final Exam
Description: What decides legal cases? One obvious answer, and a lawyer’s reflexive answer is, the law. Social scientists, however, have sought to explain judicial decisionmaking by reference to a variety of non-legal factors, including judges' personal characteristics, their caseloads, and their relationships with each other. The social scientific study of courts raises a host of interesting questions. For example, on the Supreme Court, does it matter which Justice is assigned to write the opinion, or will the majority (or the whole Court) bargain to the same outcome anyway? If opinion assignment matters to outcomes, how might judges' choices about the division of labor influence the content of the law? How do higher courts ensure that lower courts comply with their decisions? This course that will examine these questions and many like them. This course will marry the relevant social science literature and the questions it raises to a set of normative problems within the law itself. There will be a take-home final examination for this course.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Juvenile Defender Clinic
Class Number: 3300; Catalog Number- Law 699C
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: Priority will be given to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in: Kids in Conflict with the Law; Juvenile Law or Family Law 2; Criminal Procedure; and Evidence.
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Description: The Juvenile Defender Clinic is an in-house legal clinic dedicated to providing holistic legal representation for children charged with delinquency and status offenses. Student attorneys represent clients in juvenile court and provide legal advocacy, in school discipline, special education and mental health matters, when such advocacy is derivative of a client's juvenile court case.
Under the supervision of the clinic's director, Randee Waldman, student attorneys are responsible for handling all aspects of client representation. While in the clinic, JDC students will: Establish an attorney-client relationship with their client(s); Direct case strategy determinations; Investigate allegations; Interview witnesses; Negotiate dispositions and plea agreements; Prepare and litigate motions, and Try cases.
Students are also encouraged to engage in research and participate in juvenile justice policy development.
Applications are accepted via Symplicity or e-mail to professor Waldman prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
*Last updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5582; Catalog Number- Law 628A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Volokh, A.
Prerequisite: None (Although a comfort level w/high school level Algebra is a big plus).
Grading Criteria: Several problem sets (quantitative problems and short essays) over the course of the semester; no final exam; nothing due after the last day of classes
Description: This course surveys the law and economics of antitrust, with a brief foray into regulated industries. We will cover competition, monopoly, oligopoly, public enterprises, penalties, market structure, empirical methods, vertical intrabrand restraints, horizontal mergers, dominant-firm exclusionary conduct, and concerted exclusionary conduct.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Law & Protestantism
Class Number: 5769; Catalog Number- Law 645B
Credit: 1 Hour
Note: The timing of the class which will be announced at the beginning of the semester. Two noon-time lectures on Mondays or Wednesday (late February and early March) during the M/W (12-2) community activities hour, and participation in the conference April 3 and 4.
Instructor(s): Prof. Witte, John
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 1000-word essay (Pass/Fail)
Description: This course is built around the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It focuses on the legal and political consequences of the revolutionary religious changes born of the sixteenth-century Reformation, which broke into Lutheran, Anglican, Calvinist, and Anabaptist branches. Each of these four Protestant movements helped to introduce striking new forms of legal theory and constitutional order, new platforms of rights and liberties, and new laws of marriage and family life, schooling and education, charity and social welfare. Many of these legal and political reforms introduced during the Reformation remained at the core of the Western legal tradition until well into the twentieth century.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Law and Religion Practicum
ClassNumber: 5583; Catalog Number- 708, PRAC
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder, Mark
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Professor
Description: Ask Professor
*Last Updated Spring
Class Number: 3304; Catalog Number- Law 736A, 04A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kocher, Prof. Ghosh, & Prof. Hoyt
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Based on a combination of attendance, classroom participation, and take-home exam/paper
Description: Law and public health are tightly intertwined. Law students can benefit from an improved understanding of the legal principles and laws underlying the complex and cross-disciplinary field of public health practice in the United States. This course surveys law as it defines public health and is used by local, state, and federal government agencies as a tool to address contemporary public health problems in the United States. The course features a cross-disciplinary emphasis on the link between both the law and science of public health practice. The course specifically addresses foundational sources for public health law in the United States, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and case law. In addition, this course provides an examination of controlling law and emerging legal issues associated with selected topics drawn from bioterrorism, natural disasters, and other public health emergencies; public health surveillance and outbreak investigations; public health research and health information; special populations (including, for example, persons with mental disabilities, prisoners, children, and homeless populations); and key public health topical areas, such as vaccination; food-borne diseases; tobacco use-related problems; and injuries. Topics are covered through a combination of lecture and classroom discussion of assigned readings. Readings are assigned from the required text, selected cases, and articles published in the medical, public health, and other scientific literature. In addition to the listed course instructors, other instructors will include a rich array of expert guest lecturers from the practice community.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Leadership for Lawyers
**ACCELERATED COURSE
Class Number: 5584; Catalog Number- 576, SHRT
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Topping, Peter
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Professor
Description: Ask Professor
*Last Updated Spring
- Class Number: 3301; Catalog Number- Law 747, 12A (Terrell)
- Class Number: 363; Catalog Number- Law 747, 12B (Goldfeder)
STUDENTS CONSIDERING A LITIGATION FIELD PLACEMENT IN THEIR THIRD YEAR ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO TAKE LEGAL PROFESSION IN THEIR SECOND YEAR.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Terrell, Tim & Prof. Goldfeder, Mark
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: The rules and principles of professional ethics, other regulatory constraints on lawyers, the elements of malpractice liability and the values of professionalism.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Media Law
Class Number: 3468; Catalog Number- Law 722, 001
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Counts, Cynthia
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance & Participation (10%); Final Exam or Writing Assignment(s) (90%).
Description: This class will explore legal issues that are particularly relevant to newspapers, radio and television stations, web operators, and bloggers. Topics include tort liability for defamation and invasion of privacy, prior restraint, the right of the media and public to access government documents, the protection of confidential sources, intellectual property protection for media content, and use of copyrighted material in news broadcasts. The course will also examine the legality of undercover reporting, deception, and the use of hidden cameras. The class will analyze and discuss the practical implications of these principles in real-world First Amendment and media cases that were recently litigated. In class discussions, students will identify, analyze, and critique the constitutional, statutory, and common-law legal doctrines that apply to media law cases, and we will study how those doctrines originated, have evolved, and will continue to change. Among other things, students will analyze and discuss in depth key cases that show how the law and protections for the media have developed and will gain a greater understanding of how the law impacts news reporting today. In addition to the assigned reading, we will discuss current media and First Amendment cases that are raised in the news throughout the course of the semester. Your grade will be determined based on participation and a take-home final exam or writing assignment, such as a motion for summary judgment in favor of a reporter and media company.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Mediation Advocacy
Note: **Short Course** Four weeks, Starting week of 1/9, with two 3-hour sessions each week, and one additional Friday afternoon session, during the four weeks.
Class Number: 5590; Catalog Number- Law 606
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Gmurzyńska, Ewa
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation (50%); & Take-home Exam (50%).
Description:Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method that has become an essential part of legal systems. Its institutionalization, as well as widespread application - particularly in many civil cases - requires lawyers to have a practical and theoretical understanding of it. In Georgia, like a number of other states and federal courts, many cases are required to go to mediation before they go to trial. Mediation is also becoming a popular tool to resolve disputes in other countries, as well as in the international arena, particular in commercial disputes, and thus it is becoming a universal method for the resolution of many types of conflicts. Mediation is also an important part of effective legal representation - requiring a problem-solving approach to conflicts.
The course will make students familiar with US mediation rules and processes, as well as the international legal framework and law of mediation, including in the European Union. Students will study mediation from a comparative perspective, including differences between court proceedings, arbitration, negotiation, and mediation, and with regard to the distinct role of a mediator, as opposed to a judge or arbitrator. The course will explore the mediation process from different perspectives - particularly parties, advocates, and mediators. During the course, students will discuss the use of mediation by lawyers, as well as the role of lawyers in mediation. Emphasis will be put on effective advocacy in mediation. Students will have an opportunity to practice effective communication skills and mediation role-playing. Teaching techniques including class discussion, presentation of video clips, skills exercises, and mediation role-playing will be utilized, which will require active participation by students.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Mergers & Acquisitions
Class Number: 3490; Catalog Number- Law 636A, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: Mergers and Acquisitions is an essential course for students who are interested in the corporate law field. The course explores legal issues related to mergers and acquisitions. Topics covered include acquisition structures and mechanics, shareholder voting and appraisal rights, board fiduciary duties, federal securities laws requirements, anti-takeover defenses, tax issues, and antitrust considerations.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3399; Catalog Number- Law 652, 10A
Class Number: 5602; Catalog Number- Law 652, GRAD ((Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Profs. Blank, Laurie & Ahdieh, Robert (Online)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course surveys the framework of domestic and international laws that authorize and restrain the pursuit of the U.S. government’s national security policies. Central issues include the sources, foundation and structure of national security law; the participants in the national security system, their constitutional roles, and the nature of power sharing among branches of government; and the law applicable to specific national security issues such as the use of military force, the activities of the intelligence community, and counter-terrorism activities.
Online Description: National Security: Counterterrorism is an in-depth look at counterterrorism in the United States. Examines the competing conceptions and definitions of terrorism at the national level and the institutions and processes designed to execute the national security on terrorism. Includes the study of the balance between national security interests and civil liberties found in the following topical areas: relevant Supreme Court decisions, legislative provisions in response to acts of terrorism, operational counter-terrorism considerations (including targeted killing), intelligence gathering (including interrogations), policy recommendations, the use of military tribunals or civil courts in trying suspected terrorists, the emerging law regarding enemy combatants and their detention, and the arguable need for new self-defense doctrines at the global level.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
National Security Law Research
**ACCELERATED COURSE MEETS IN SECOND HALF OF SEMESTER
Class Number: 5701; Catalog Number- Law 657B
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor: Prof. Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation & Final Project.
Enrollment: 16 students
Description: National Security Law Research will offer an introduction to a few of the many statutes, agencies and regulations that operate to secure and protect our homeland. Using statutes such as the Homeland Security Act or the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, this class will examine how statutes and regulations work together to detect and prevent threats to the United States through agencies such as the CIA, the DOJ, the Treasury, and the DHS. Research exercises will be designed to help cultivate a thorough understanding of the interplay between statutes and regulations as well as allow students to develop appropriate research strategies for a variety of homeland security issues
National Security Law Research will be a 1 credit, graded course, meeting once a week for a two-hour time period using the accelerated class model.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
- Class Number: 3302; Law 656, 06A (Athans)
- Class Number: 3303; Law 656, 06B (Eldridge)
- Class Number: 3472; Law 656, 06C (Lytle-Perry)
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Athans, Prof. Eldridge, & Prof. Lytle-Perry
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
Note: COURSE NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE LAW SCHOOL OR NEGOTIATIONS IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes proceeded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 6018; Catalog Number- Law 754A, 003
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Holbrook, Tim
Prerequisite: Patent Law or IP
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course explores the strategies and contours of patent litigation in federal district court chronologically, starting with jurisdiction, strategic decisions in where to file, and choice of law. The class will then proceed through the filing of the complaint, discovery, and motions practice. The course then explores advanced issues in proving patent infringement, including divided infringement, ANDA litigation, and extraterritorial infringement. WE will explore advanced issues of proving invalidity , along with other defenses, such as inequitable conduct and patent misuse. There will also be an introduction to the America Invents Act provisions and discussions of alternative venues, such as the International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Students will work in groups of 3-4 students to prepare homework assignments. Each group will also argue either a Markman hearing or a summary judgment hearing based on the problem in the book. There will also be a final, written in-class exam.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Personal Income Tax
Class Number: 3485; Catalog Number- Law 640X (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Professor
Description: Personal Income Tax is a study of the federal law governing the taxation of individuals. Students will learn the definition of income, the assignment of income, and what rates apply in a variety of tax scenarios facing individuals.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Privacy Law: Data & Drones in the Digital Age
Class Number: 5591; Catalog Number- Law 672, CRSL
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Cloud, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: No Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 11 students!
Description: The course will examine U.S. law governing informational and spatial privacy rights, including any restrictions they impose upon actions by both government and private actors. The course will focus on three general topics: (1) Constitutional and statutory rules defining the scope of the legal right to privacy in the United States, focusing upon the Fourth Amendment and the concept of the reasonable expectation of privacy, and upon federal laws regulating access to electronic created, stored, and transmitted data. (2) How contemporary commercial activities affect individuals’ privacy rights and expectations. (3) The commercial impetus for the expansive use of emerging drone technologies, the impact of this development upon notions of spatial privacy, and constitutional and statutory that may serve to regulate the use of these new systems.
Three examples of the specific topics covered in the course are: (1) Government efforts to gather both the metadata and the contents of electronic messages, including phone calls, emails, and text messages. The NSA programs revealed by Edward Snowden are will be included in these materials. (2) Corporate efforts to gather data about users, to mine that data for commercially useful information, and to sell it to other entities. How companies like Facebook and Google gather and profit from the user data they gather will part of this discussion. (3) Private sector responses to government requests (or demands) for voluntary data sharing. Apple’s refusal to provide the FBI with its encryption keys, and the major telecom companies’ active participation in NSA data gathering, exemplify this topic.
*Note Class meets on Wednesdays from 3:00pm to 6:00pm in the Goizueta School of Business, see OPUS for exact location.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Professional Narrative in Practice
Class Number: 3498; Catalog Number- Law 574X
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor: Prof. Carlson, Sarah
Prerequisite: Instructor/Department Consent
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: Professional Narrative in Practice will help students develop their professional "story" through the creation of job search materials, graded exercises, and small-group interaction in class. In addition, the course will include a large component aimed at assisting students with an international background or interest, and will address the cultural challenges of searching for a job and practicing law in a foreign country. The course will be open to students who have secured (or are actively pursuing) a position as a law clerk, legal intern, or summer associate in a country other than their home country. This course will require that students complete a legal internship and a submit a post-internship personal assessment and evaluation. Students are eligible for one pass/fail credit.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Religion, Culture and Law in Comparative Practice
Class Number: 3457; Catalog Number- Law 711, 001
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisites: None
Grading: Take-home Exam & Short Weekly Assignments
Description: Debates rage worldwide over what role religion and culture should play in law and governance and whether granting them a role conflicts with democratic principles. Increasingly, religious and ethnic groups are demanding that religious and cultural practices form the basis of the legal system or, at the very least, a separate legal system governing only their members. Western policymakers are finding it difficult to respond to these claims. While they see them as possibly antithetical to the principles of tolerance and equality built into liberal democratic theory, there is something uncomfortable about rejecting these demands when they come from a majority of a population or from a minority group that has suffered severe discrimination. This course will explore the issues that arise in the debates about the appropriate role for religion and culture in democratic governance. It will examine different models for incorporating religion and culture into law as well as at models that wholly reject this incorporation using case studies from the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Roman Law
Class Number: 3479; Catalog Number- Law 739, 001
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Domingo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description: In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables (451 BC) and Justinian's massive Corpus Iuris Civilis (530 AD), the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of antiquity. Roman law is still at the heart of the civil law tradition of the European Continent and some of its former colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and it was instrumental in the development of international law, the church’s canon law, and the common law tradition. The Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules, and mechanisms that are still applied in the most Western legal systems.
Specifically designed for American law students without a civil law or canon law background, this course introduces the Roman legal system in its social, political, and economic context. The course will cover the fundamental topics of private law (persons, property and inheritance, and obligations); the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages; and the current impact of Roman law in the era of globalization. No knowledge of Roman history or of Latin is required, and all materials will be in English translation.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3404; Catalog Number- Law 713, GRAD (Online Only Available to JM & LLM w/approval Students)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description:Secured Transactions is a study of personal and commercial financing by loans and credit sales under agreements creating security interests in the debtors’ personal property (Article 9 of the UCC and relevant provisions of the Bankruptcy Code).
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3400; Catalog Number- Law 673, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Terry, Bob
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Ask Professor
Description: This course is intended to be a follow-up course to the Securities Regulation course, which covers registration of new securities issues, disclosure and anti-fraud issues, and the coverage of securities laws. This course approaches securities regulation of the standpoint of the intermediaries between the issuers and purchaser, broker-dealers, and investment advisers. It is intended to provide an academic foundation of relevant law, as well as practical information also relevant to a law practice in the area.
Much of the course will focus on the regulatory scheme and activities of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory body which is the principal day-to-day regulator of the broker-dealer industry. FINRA is the entity with which most broker-dealers and their counsel will typically interact with regard to most regulatory matters.
In addition, the course will look at investment advisers, a rapidly growing piece of the securities industry. An investment adviser is regulated either by the SEC or by state regulators, depending upon its size. Investment advisers are subject to a completely separate regulatory regime, although there are many examples of overlap with broker-dealer regulatory issues since many firms, or their affiliates, are dually registered.
The interplay between the two regulatory schemes has been the focus of much discussion and legislative and regulatory activity over the past fifteen years, including several parts of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Finally, the course will provide insight into practical considerations of regulatory interaction, in both routine settings as well as enforcement matters.
In addition to private practice, graduating students with an interest in securities might find opportunities with brokerage firms, regulators, and public corporations. The combination of the Securities Regulation course and this course should provide graduating students a thorough overview of most of the issues they might see if they enter into a securities-related practice.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 3480; Catalog Number- Law 667, 001
Class Number: 5603; Catalog Number- Law 667, GRAD (Online Only Available to JM & LLM w/approval Students)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, George; & Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (Online only)
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: A study of federal and state regulation of the issue, distribution, and transfer of securities. Explores the availability of exemptions from registration and the duties of participants in these securities transactions to comply with anti-fraud regulations. Some time is spent on the growing literature appraising securities regulation.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Online Description: Securities Regulation examines how the stock market and other securities markets are regulated in the United States. The primary focus is on the Securities Act of 1933 and, to a lesser extent, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course covers how companies raise capital through IPOs and other offerings, including private placements, and the complicated regulatory framework that applies to this important engine of corporate and economic growth. The course takes an in-depth look at insider trading rules while evaluating the disclosure requirements that apply when companies decide to sell stock or debt, or to go public. Appropriate for aspiring corporate litigators and transactional corporate lawyers and anyone interested in learning about the federal regulation of securities.
*Lat Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3330; Catalog Number- Law 892, 04A
Note: OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: Special Topics in Technology Commercialization provides students with an opportunity to apply what has been learned in the Fundamentals of Innovation I and II courses. Students will work in the teams formed during the first year to continue work on the PhD team member’s technology. Students will also work on a project with the Advanced Technology Development Center (commonly known as ATDC) or Venture Lab.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Specialized Trial Courts & Other Alternatives to Traditional Criminal Justice
Class Number: 5779; Catalog Number- Law 977
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shomade, Salmon
Prerequisite: None (Must be 2L or 3L).
Grading Criteria: Class Participation (40%); & Take-home Final (60%).
Description: This course is about specialized or problem-solving courts such as drug courts, mental health courts, domestic violence courts, and community courts. The course will trace the genesis of traditional trial courts, explore the evolution of specialized trial courts, and examine the major differences between the traditional and specialized courts. Given their popularity and influence, drug courts will be fully studied and special attention paid to their origins, development, dominance, and how these courts might be changing the criminal justice landscape. The course will also assess how other alternatives to traditional criminal courts might or might not be changing the U.S. criminal justice overall. Toward the end of the semester, students will get the opportunity to speculate on the future of the U.S. criminal justice system and design potential changes for improving it.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5600; Catalog Number- Law 696 (Online Only Available to JM/ & LLM w/approval Students)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: Sports Law considers issues in both intercollegiate and professional sports with an emphasis on constitutional law; tort and criminal law; antitrust, labor law, and other issues of law in the field of sports, such as considerations of Title IX, drug testing, violence, and the role of agents.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
State Law Legal Research
Class Number: 3452; Catalog Number- Law 657F
Credit: 1 hour
Note: ACCELERATED COURSE- First half of the semester (January 2017- February 2017)
Instructor: Prof. Sneed, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Homework Assignments; & a Final Project
Description: The concept for this class is to focus on 3-4 of the states to which the majority of our students locate to practice, with Georgia, New York, Florida, Washington D.C. (and the states surroundings the District) and California being the primary focus. The methods for researching primary law (cases, statutes, and regulations) for each state would be discussed, along with an examination of the secondary sources and governmental resources unique to each jurisdiction. The class would feature in-class activities, homework assignments re-enforcing the research skills examined in class and a final project comparing jurisdictions.
State Law Legal Research will be a 1 credit, graded course, meeting once a week for a two-hour time period using the accelerated class model.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3377; Catalog Number- Law 641, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Craft, Shannon (Loechel)
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading: Paper & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course will focus on the resolution of federal tax controversies through both administrative procedures and litigation. Specifically, we will consider filing requirements, audit procedures, administrative appeals, deficiencies, assessments, including termination and jeopardy assessments, penalties, interest, and the statute of limitations. Additionally, we will take a practical approach to problems and considerations arising in the litigation of cases before the U.S. Tax Court, District Court, and the Court of Federal Claims, including jurisdictional, procedural, and evidentiary issues. We will examine the choice of forum, pleadings, discovery, privileges, and tax trial practice. Finally, we will discuss summons enforcement litigation, civil collection, levy and distraint, and the tax lien and its priorities.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
The First Amendment
Class Number: 5596; Catalog Number- Law 601;
Class Number: 3493; Catalog Number- Law 601C, GRAD (Ahdieh-Online/JM & LLM w/approval Students Only)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Arthur, Tom; Prof. Ahdieh, Robert (online only)
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course presents a broad overview of the theory and doctrine of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. After beginning with the seminal opinions of Justices Holmes and Brandeis that launched modern American free speech jurisprudence, we will consider contemporary free speech doctrine including the Court's “categorical” approach, content and viewpoint discrimination, levels of scrutiny, speech compulsions, and expressive association. Specific areas of study will include incitement, threats, obscenity, commercial speech, defamation, restrictions on student speech, and campaign finance regulation, among others.
*Last Updated 2017
Online Description: First Amendment examines the legal doctrines, theories, and arguments arising out of the free speech and religion clauses of the First Amendment. The course is designed to be an intersession/accelerated and includes synchronous, interactive classes, online quizzes, and discussion boards, as well as several documentaries that Professor Metzloff produced about leading First Amendment cases, which students will watch on their own. The class will meet Tuesday, January 3 thru Saturday, January 7 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm ET.
Online GradingCriteria: Final Exam on January 9th.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
The Fourteenth Amendment in Historical Perspective
Class Number: 5703; Catalog Number- Law 825A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Dinner, Deborah
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I preferred
Enrollment: Limited to 50 Students!
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course investigates the scope and meaning of race equality, sex equality, and implied fundamental rights under the Reconstruction Amendments. We pay particular attention to the historical development of the Fourteenth Amendment’s liberty and equality guarantees and to contemporary constitutional controversies including affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and abortion. We ask normative questions regarding constitutional doctrine: For example, which forms of discrimination does, or should, “equal protection” prohibit? Another category of questions focus on interpretive methods: What is the appropriate role of text, structure, history, and policy in constitutional interpretation? In discussing these questions, we examine how political and social change has influenced the resolution of constitutional disputes and how non-judicial actors, as well as courts, have constructed constitutional meanings.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
The Law of Payment Systems
Class Number: 5770; Catalog Number- Law 613A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Fraher, Richard
Prerequisite: None (Contracts & Secured Transactions Recommended).
Grading Criteria: Attendance/Participation & Take-home Final Exam
Description: This course will provide students with a foundational understanding of the public laws and regulations that structure the check and wire systems in the U.S. and the federal laws and regulations that overlay the automated clearing house network and the card networks that are structured by private sector rules that bind participants by agreement. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with Uniform Commercial Code Articles 3, 4, Regulation CC, UCC Article 4A, Regulation E, and the basics of the compliance regime established by the Bank Secrecy Act and the regulations of the Office of Foreign Asset Controls as they apply to payments. This legal learning will be placed in the context of the rapid pace of technological innovation, globalization, and the policy issues surrounding the transformation of payments systems.
Required Books & Materials: Ronald Mann, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions, 6th ed. (2016); any recent edition of Selected Commercial Transactions, ed. Chomsky, Kunz, Schiltz, and Tabb; online materials as specified.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
The Professional Narrative in Practice
Class Number: 3498; Catalog Number- Law 574X
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor: Prof. Carlson, Sarah
Prerequisite: Instructor/Department Consent
Grading Criteria: Ask Professor
Description: Professional Narrative in Practice will help students develop their professional "story" through the creation of job search materials, graded exercises, and small-group interaction in class. In addition, the course will include a large component aimed at assisting students with an international background or interest, and will address the cultural challenges of searching for a job and practicing law in a foreign country. The course will be open to students who have secured (or are actively pursuing) a position as a law clerk, legal intern, or summer associate in a country other than their home country. This course will require that students complete a legal internship and a submit a post-internship personal assessment and evaluation. Students are eligible for one pass/fail credit
*Last Updated 2017
Trademarks
Class Number: 5597; Catalog Number- Law 766
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Davis, Ted
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectability of marks, including words, symbols, and “trade dress”; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and “cybersquatting”; and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.
*Last Updated Fall 2015
Transnational Civil Litigation
Class Number: 5768; Catalog Number- LAW 732B
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Nash, Johnathan
Prerequisite: Civil Procedure
Grading Criteria: Participation & Scheduled Final Exam
Description: This course examines certain aspects of the conduct of international cases in national courts. Primary emphasis is on the conduct of transnational litigation in U.S. courts. Topics include jurisdictional issues and choice-of-law in suits involving foreign parties, suits against foreign states, and the enforcement of foreign judgments.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Transnational Criminal Litigation Practice
Class Number: 5704; Catalog Number- Law 732C
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Maloy, Bruce & Ramirez, Shannon
Prerequisite: None. (Criminal Law is highly recommended)
Grading Criteria: Participation; Collaborative Class Presentation; & Final Paper
Description: Transnational criminal procedure describes the intersection of two or more domestic criminal justice systems across international borders—unlike international crime, which refers to wrongs that are criminalized under international law and sometimes tried by international tribunals, whether or not they are also criminalized in states’ domestic laws.We will examine the fundamental concepts and principles of domestic criminal law in the United States occurring across national boundaries and apply this knowledge to current problems.Topics covered include:extradition and rendition,extraterritorial application of the United States criminal law on matters such as public corruption and human trafficking, cross-border evidence-gathering, counterterrorism, special jurisdiction treaties, and immunities.This practical course will enable you to respond to issues in the news today, such as Turkey’s request to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen or Julian Assange’s fear of rendition and prosecution for the activities of WikiLeaks.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 3335; Catalog Number- Law 671
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Jones, Lindsay and Lott, Rhani
Note: This course is required for all 2L Students. Also, students will meet with their teams/groups on the following dates: Jan. 20; Feb. 3, 10, 17; & Mar. 3 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. Do NOT register for a conflicting class!
Description: The Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program is a required course that introduces students to the evidence issues, ethical dilemmas, and presentation skills essential in the trial of a case. The course has two parts. Part I is designed to integrate the required Evidence class with trial skills. This Spring semester we will look to bring about this integration of evidence and trial techniques by scheduling workshops:
The first workshop, we will conduct a workshop on Case Analysis and Relevance. Your assignment is to have read the first of two assigned simulated jury cases file thoroughly, and the assigned chapters from the Prof. Zwier’s Trial Advocacy: Normative Approach, Lecture Notes & Readings in advance of the workshop.
The second workshop topic will be Direct and Cross, Hearsay and Character Evidence (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). We will conduct a workshop on Direct and Cross examinations, in which student will examine an assigned witness(s) from a simulated case file. You will be assigned to represent either the plaintiff or defendant and accordingly will be required to prepare either a direct or a cross examination of the assigned witness (es).
The third workshop topic will be on Persuasive and Evidentiary Foundations for Exhibits (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). We will conduct a drill on Exhibit Foundations, using specially prepared exhibit problems from the simulated case file. You will be assigned to represent either the plaintiff or defendant and accordingly will be required to prepare relevant exhibit exercises.
The fourth workshop topic will be Jury Selection (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). You will engage in a jury selection exercise for the simulated case file. Again, you will be assigned to conduct voir dire for your client as plaintiff's or defendant's counsel. You will also be assigned to play the role of a prospective juror for purposes of the workshop.
The fifth workshop topic will be Technology in the Courtroom (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). You will be asked to utilize the evidence camera and computer display technology using specially prepared exhibits from the simulated case file. You will present on the strengths and weakness from your perspective as plaintiff's or defense counsel, as well as outline and explain your legal strategy, to your client or supervising attorney.
These spring workshops will be conducted by some of Atlanta's finest trial lawyers and evidence teachers. As a result of our bringing them in, you will get an opportunity to work closely with these lawyers (in groups as small as 6-8 students) and not only get their insights about the marriage of practice and theory, but also have a chance to demonstrate your oral advocacy skills to them.
Please note: Two provisions significantly impact the application of these taxes. One is “portability” of a decedent’s estate tax exclusion, and the other is the exclusion itself — which is $5.34 million per taxpayer in 2014 ($10.68 million per married couple) and slated to rise to $5.43 million in 2015 (also double that amount for a married couple). These changes limit application of the wealth transfer taxes to a small segment of the decedent population. As a result, you should enroll only if you intend to become an estate planner for such high net worth clients.
In addition, we have been able to partner with downtown Atlanta law firms and law offices to provide you the opportunity to learn on location at their offices. As a result, when you register you will be able to sign up in groups of 24 at either:
- Alston & Bird Federal Public Defender's Office Jones Day
- Kilpatrick Townsend King & Spalding McKenna Long & Aldridge Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Troutman Sanders US Attorney's Office
- DeKalb County Public Defender's Office
- Harrison & Ford
You will meet at these offices for certain scheduled workshops. (The opening lecture/demonstration will be held at the law school in Tull Auditorium). For those of you who wish to work with general practitioners from small to medium sized firms and/or with state and federal court judges, you should sign up for the General Practitioner section. This group will be limited to 26 students and will meet in breakout groups of 13 or workshop exercises at the law school.
This year the May program session will run between the last examinations make up day and graduation. The May session presents an intensive week of day long learn-by-doing workshops that build upon the earlier spring semester workshops. The May session will be facilitated by 60 trial attorneys and judges from across the country supplemented by 20 local trial attorneys and judges. Students will conduct bench trials on the case file assigned to them over the spring semester. The program will culminate with students conducting jury trials.
*Because the program starts right after final exams, do not schedule a take-home exam if it will interfere with the start of the program.
To alleviate any conflicts that may arise, the ABA allows you to miss 2 classes (4 hours) in any two-hour course, unexcused. As a result you will be allowed to miss either one Friday afternoon workshop, or one half day of the intensive May session. You must submit a written notice (an email will suffice) for any anticipated absence to your team leader and the KEPTT Administrative Director. You will not be allowed to miss either of the trial days, as you must serve on those days either as trial counsel, or as a witness. All requests for an excused absence must be personally delivered in writing to the KEPTT Administrative Director.
There is a $145 mandatory course materials fee. You will receive two case files, both in electronic and hard copy form, an electronic copy of Prof. Zwier’s Trial Advocacy: Normative Approach, Lecture Notes & Readings, and a digital video chip. Hard copies of the course materials file will be distributed in advance of the first class meeting at copy center. An electronic copy of the course materials will also be made available on the course Blackboard site.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Class Number: 3332; Catalog Number- Law 697C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (Prerequisite or Co-requisite)
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance on various projects assigned.
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket – fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities—are among the most critical issues for our state, region, and nation. The Clinic’s students benefit and learn from immersion in these real world complex environmental representations.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Winning Litigation Strategies-- The Copyright Example
Class Number: 6077; Catalog Number- Law 710A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Beck, Joe
Prerequisite: None (Not recommended for those who have taken Copyright w/Beck)
Grading Criteria: Scheduled Final Exam
Description: In this course, Professor Beck will discuss actual strategies for winning (and losing) cases on the behalf of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Adam Sandler/Sony Pictures/Judd Apatow, Outkast, Houghton Mifflin, 2 Live Crew, Da Brat, Lil Bow Wow, Jermaine Dupri, Google, and AT&T, among others. Professor Beck’s opponents in those cases were some of the top lawyers in the country, including Floyd Abrams, Johnnie Cochran, and Marty Garbus. NOTE: Copyright Law is not a prerequisite for the course. But if you have taken Copyright Law already, the course would not be appropriate for you.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Class Number: 5605; Catalog Number- Law 926
Credit: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Three (3) Take-home Exams
Description: An introduction to the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, with some consideration of their impact on estate-planning techniques, especially inter-spousal and inter-generational transfers made outright or by will or trust.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Judicial Opinion Writing: Writing for the Judicial Chambers
Class Number: 3475; Catalog Number- Law 649
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Parrish, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course will introduce students to the process and practicalities of writing within the context of serving as an appellate court judicial clerk. The course will explore many topics through assigned readings and class discussion including: the shifting tone from that of an advocate to that of a decision maker; how the drafting and editing responsibilities are divided between judge and clerk; the ways in which race, gender, religion, past legal background affect judicial decision making; as well as the nuts and bolts of the judicial opinion writing process.
Students will apply what is learned in class to write three pieces during the semester—all within the context of working within an appellate judicial chamber. During the course of the semester, students will write a bench memo, a majority opinion, and a dissenting opinion, which shall be based on the briefs and record in an assigned case. Thus, those seeking to learn more about the work of judicial clerks or interested in pursuing a clerkship after graduation will get a working familiarity of the unique work and experience of writing within a judicial chamber.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 5592; Catalog Number- Law 811
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Pre-selection form:
Grading Criteria: Participation & Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement).
Prerequisites: Completion of 1st Year of law school
Enrollment: 15
Description: Critical Race Theory centers race and racism at the center of American law. This class will examine racial biases in judicial decisions, particularly those covered in the first year of law school: Torts; Contracts; Criminal Procedure; Criminal Law; Property; and Civil Procedure. Each student participant will be required to take the Implicit Association Test on Race prior to the first class.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Seminar: Due Process
Class Number: 3460; Catalog Number- Law 807
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Fred
Prerequisite: None
Grading: Paper (Satisfies UpperLevel Writing Requirement)
Description: This course will engage in an in-depth treatment of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clauses. Topics include: the original intended scopes of these two clauses; the evolution of procedural and substantive due process; and contemporary legal settings in which these amendments hold force. Underlying constitutional themes will include access to courts; fairness; accuracy; finality; representative government; separation of powers; and federalism.
*Last Updated Spring 2016
Class Number: 5595; Catalog Number- Law 816
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Bagley, Margo
Pre-selection: See Website
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Short response papers & Research Paper
Enrollment: 14
Desccription: This course will provide an introduction to key aspects of U.S., international, and comparative patent law and the myriad policies at play in ongoing global patent harmonization conflicts. The value of patents is increasing in many areas while at the same time the scope of patent-eligible subject matter is in flux. We will explore the impact of these forces in the creation and implementation of international agreements concerning patents, such as the Paris Convention, Patent Cooperation Treaty, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, and various bilateral agreements.
Against the backdrop of the U.S patent system, we also will consider the importance of regional patent systems such as the European Patent Convention, as well as features of other major patent players such as India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and China. A discussion of current issues such as access to medicines, protection of traditional knowledge, multinational patent litigation, and the patenting of controversial inventions will be an integral part of the course.
*Last Updated Spring 2017
Seminar: Markets for Law
Class Number: 3448; Catalog Number- Law 824, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Pre-selection form:
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: 14
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement).
Description: This seminar – which may be of particular appeal to students interested corporate and securities law, environmental law, health law, family law, and other areas characterized by a mix of federal and state law – will explore the unusual dynamic that emerges when multiple jurisdictions compete to produce legal rules. By contrast with our conventional notions of how law is created, the development of law in these settings takes place through a “market” of sorts. As one writer has described it, the law is a “product” in these settings: a good to be priced, bought, and sold. Corporate law – given the centrality of jurisdictional competition to understanding and practicing it today – will serve as our case study. Through relevant readings and your papers’ analysis of jurisdictional competition in your own areas of interest, however – from environmental law to family law, health law to banking law, and criminal law to corporate/securities law – we will seek to understand the nature and the wisdom of markets for law more generally.
*Last Updated Fall 2016.
Seminar: Money in Politics
Class Number: 5593; Catalog Number- Law 805
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Kang, Michael
Pre-selection form:
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: 14
Grading: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Description: The plan for the course is to explore normative concerns about the influence of money in American government and democratic politics. We will track these concerns across a number of domains, including campaign finance law, lobbying regulation, bribery, pay to play rules, and judicial elections, and explore critical responses and policy alternatives. We will draw on legal and political science scholarship, as well as currently pending court cases and contemporary accounts of money in politics. The course will incorporate outside speakers from academia or legal practice, as feasible, as well. Grading will be based on class participation and course papers. Election Law is not a prerequisite.
*Last Updated Spring 2015
Class Number: 5702; Catalog Number- Law 806A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Pre-selection form:
Grading Criteria: Paper (Satisfies Upper-Level Writing Requirement)
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: 14
Description: See Professor
*Last Updated
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8:00-10:15 a.m. | Civil Procedure OBC; Freer 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1C Civil Procedure ODF; Schapiro 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Crewson 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5E Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Parrish 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1B | Contracts OBE; Pardo 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Torts OAC; Satz 8:30-10:15 a.m. 1C
| Civil Procedure OBC; Freer 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1C Civil Procedure ODF; Schapiro 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Crewson 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5E Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Parrish 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1B | Civil Procedure ODF; Schapiro 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Contracts OBE; Pardo 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Torts OAC; Satz 8:30-10:15 a.m. 1C | Contracts OBE; Pardo 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Legislation/Regulation OAD; Ahdieh 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1C Legislation/Regulation OEF; Price 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Mathews 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5E | Civil Procedure OAE; Shepherd G 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1D Legislation/Regulation OBC; Nash 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Carroll 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Schwartz 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1B | Legislation/Regulation OAD; Ahdieh 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1C Legislation/Regulation OEF; Price 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Mathews 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5E | Civil Procedure OAE; Shepherd G 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1D Legislation/Regulation OBC; Nash 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C | Civil Procedure OAE; Shepherd G 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1D Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Carroll 10:30-11:45 a.m.. 5C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Mathews 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5E Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Romig 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Schwartz 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1B |
| 12:15-1:45 p.m. | Community Activities | Contracts OAD; Pardo 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1C Contracts OCF; Vertinsky 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1D | Community Activities | Contracts OAD; Pardo 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1C Contracts OCF; Vertinsky 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1D | Contracts OAD; Pardo 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1C Contracts OCF; Vertinsky 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1D |
| 2:00-4:00 p.m. | Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Kirk 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1B Torts OBF; Vandall 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C Torts ODE; Zwier 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D | Torts OBF; Vandall 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C Torts ODE; Zwier 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D | Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Kirk 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1B Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Romig 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C | Torts OBF; Vandall 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C Torts ODE; Zwier 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D | |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. | Intro Lgl Anyls, Rsrch & Comm; Thornton 4:00-5:00 p.m. 5B | Intro Lgl Anyls, Rsrch & Comm; Thornton 4:00-5:00 p.m. 5B |
ILARC Sections by Professor
Carroll – D4, D5, F4, F5, F6, F7
Crewson - A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3
Parrish - E4, E5, E6, E7, A4, A5
Mathews – B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3
Kirk – A6, A7, C4, C5, C6, C7
Romig – B4, B5, B6, B7, D6, D7
Schwartz – D1, D2, D3, F1, F2, F3
Thornton – AJD students
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8:00-10:15 a.m. | Business Associations; Shepherd, G 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1E Evidence; Seaman 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Trusts & Estates; Pennell 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5C | American Legl Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section A Daspit 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5B International Law Van der Vyver 8:45-10:15 p.m. 5C Legal Profession Hughes 9:15-10:15 a.m. 1E Remedies; Partlett 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1B | Business Associations; Shepherd, G 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1E Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Avery 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A Evidence; Seaman 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Trusts & Estates; Pennell 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5C | American Legl Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section A Daspit 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5B International Law Van der Vyver 8:45-10:15 p.m. 5C Legal Profession Hughes 9:15-10:15 a.m. 1E Remedies; Partlett 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1B
| EXTERNSHIP: Civil Litigation; Shalf 8:30-9:30 a.m. 5B EXTERNSHIP: Judicial; Hirokawa 8:30-9:30 p.m. 5C Legal Profession; Hughes 9:30-10:30 a.m. 1E Professional Narrative; Carlson (10/16 - 11/6) 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 5F |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Administrative Law; Volokh 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C Bankruptcy; Pardo 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Federal Courts; Smith 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1B Int'l Trade Law & Policy; 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Legal Profession; Terrell 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E
| Banking Law Elliott 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Comparative & Intl Family Law; Woodhouse 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m 5A Const'l Crim. Proc: Investigation; Cloud 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E Intellectual Property; Schaetzel 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B | Administrative Law; Volokh 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C Bankruptcy; Pardo 10:30-12:00 a.m. 5G Federal Courts; Smith 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m 1B Int'l Trade Law & Policy; 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Legal Profession; Terrell 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m 1E | Banking Law; Elliott 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E Comparative & Intl Family Law; Woodhouse 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A Const'l Crim. Proc: Investigation; Cloud 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E European Union Law I; Mickevicius 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. 5D Intellectual Property; Schaetzel 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B | Law & Religion: Theories, Methods, andApproaches; Allard 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 5B |
| 12:15-1:45 p.m. | Community Activities | English Legal History; Volokh 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C Family Law II; Broyde 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1B Fundamentals of Income Taxation; Pennell 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1E Juvenile Law; Duncan 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B | Community Activities | English Legal History; Volokh 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C Family Law II; Broyde 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1B Fundamentals of Income Taxation; Pennell 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1E Juvenile Law; Duncan 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B | International Humanitarian Law Clinic; Blank 12:00-2:00 p.m. 5E |
| 2:00-4:00 p.m. | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I; Metzger 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1F Human Rights Advocacy; Ludsin 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G SEM: The Role of Patents; Vertinsky 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5D SEM: Implement US International Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5K | Advanced Legal Research (8/17-10/2); Christian 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5C American Legal Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section B; Daspit 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5F Capital Defender Workshop; Moore, J 3:30-5:30 p.m. Off Campus Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I; Metzger 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1F Cross Exam. Techniques; McCoyd 2:00-5:00 p.m. 5E Environmental Law; Nash 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1B Evidence; Goldfeder 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1E Foreign & Intl Legal Research (10/5-11/23); Flick 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5C International Criminal Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5B SEM: Professional Negligence; Partlett 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A | Access to Justice Workshop; Costa 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1F Am Legl Writ, Analys & Rsch II; Daspit 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5B Human Rights Advocacy; Ludsin 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G Law and Technology; Goldfeder 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1D SEM: Int'l Env Law & Vulnerability; Fineman/Samandari 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5D SEM: Law & Social Movements; Dinner 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A SEM: Products & Liability; Vandall 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5K | American Legal Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section B; Daspit 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5F Business & Tax Legal Research (8/17-10/2); Sneed 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5G Colloquium Series Workshop; Levine 2:00-3:00 p.m. 5K Environmental Law; Nash 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1B Evidence; Goldfeder 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1E Health Law Research (10/5-11/23); Glon 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5G International Criminal Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5B Mental Health Issues in Crim. Justice Sys.; Jones 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1F SEM: Children's Rights; Woodhouse 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A
| Intro to Am. Legal System LLM; Price 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1E |
4:15-6:00 p.m. and 6:15-9:45 p.m. | ADR; Armstrong 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1B Adv. Commercial Real Estate; Minkin 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1E Adv. Evidence; McCoyd 6:15-7:45 p.m. 5F Adv. Legal Writing & Editing; Terrell 4:15-4:15-6:15 p.m. Tull Criminal Pretrial Motions Practice; Grimberg, 6:15-9:15 p.m. 1F Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5A Doing Deals: Deal Skills; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1D Doing Deals: Deal Skills; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1C Employment Law; Weirich 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5E Fundamentals of Innovation I; TBA 4:30-7:15 p.m. 5C Intl Commercial Arbitration; Reetz, 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Intro to American Legal System JM; Mathews 4:00-5:45 p.m. 5E Legislation/Regulation LLM/JM; Price 6:00-7:00 p.m. N112 Negotiations; Athans/Perry 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5B Pretrial Litigation; McCoyd 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5F Veterans Benefits Law; Early 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5B | ADR; Allgood 5:30-7:00 p.m. 5D Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5F Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. G114A Doing Deals: Deal Skills; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1C Doing Deals: General Counsel; Notte 6:15-9:15 p.m. 5B Doing Deals: IP Transactions; Perry 4:30-7:30 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Private Equity; Crowley 4:00-6:15 p.m. B231 (Goizueta) Employment Discrim Lab; King/Shultz 6:15-8:15 p.m. 1F EXTERNSHIP: Criminal Defense; TBA 5:00-6:00 p.m. N111 EXTERNSHIP: Public Interest; TBA 5:00-6:00 p.m. N109 Food and Drug Law; Kitchens 4:30-6:00 p.m. 1B Global Public Health Law; Brady 4:00-6:00 p.m. 1D Internet Law; Nodine 6:15-8:15 p.m. 1D Negotiations; Eldridge 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5C Sentencing Practice; Marbutt 6:15-9:15 p.m. 1B
| Adv. Evidence; McCoyd 6:15-7:45 p.m. 5F Adv. Civil Trial Practice; Wellon 6:30-8:30 p.m. 1F Analys, Rsch & Comms for non-lawyers JM; TBA 4:15-6:00 p.m. N155 Constitutional Lit; Weber 4:30-7:30 p.m. 5C Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5A Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. G114A Doing Deals: Commercial Lending Transactions; Powell 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1D Environmental Advocacy Workshop; Horder 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5D Expert Witness Examination; Sheffield 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5E EXTERNSHIP: Government Counsel; TBA 5:15-6:15 p.m. N109 EXTERNSHIP: Advance; TBA 6:30-7:30 p.m. N109 EXTERNSHIP: Prosecution; TBA 5:00-6:00 p.m. N111 Franchise Law; Aronson 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1B Kids in Conflict with Law; Waldman 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1E Labor Law; Wilson 6:30-8:30 p.m. 5B Legislation/Regulation LLM-JM; Price 6:00-7:00 p.m. N155 Pretrial Litigation; McCoyd 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5F SEM: Adv. International Negotiations; Zwier/Balian 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5K Special Topics/Technology 1; TBA 4:30-7:15 p.m. 1C Trademarks; Davis 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5B White Collar Crime Workshop; Templer 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1F
| ADR; Allgood 5:30-7:00 p.m. 5D Doing Deals: Complex Restruct.; Gordon/Marsh 5:00-8:00 p.m. 5A Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5C Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1D Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1E Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K DUI Trials; Tatum 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1F EXTERNSHIP: Corporate Counsel; TBA 6:15-7:15 p.m. 5F EXTERNSHIP: Small Firm; TBA 6:15-7:15 p.m. 5B Food and Drug Law; Kitchens 4:30-6:00 p.m. 1B Land Use; Pennington 5:00-7:00 p.m. 1C Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law Jones 6:00-8:00 p.m. 5F |
Effective August 11, 2015. Schedule and classroom locations are subject to change. Exam classroom assignments in parantheses.
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| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Evidence (4875); McCoyd Business Associations (4861); Freer Constitutional Law I (BE); Seaman Family Law (4860); Broyde International Law (4818); An-Naim Intro to Legal Advocacy (D4-5, F4-7); Carroll Intro to Legal Advocacy (D1-3, F1-3); Schwartz Intro to Legal Advocacy (AJD); Thornton Intro to Legal Advocacy (A6-7, C4-7); Kirk Intro to Legal Advocacy (B1-3, C1-3); Mathews Intro to Law & Econ (4904); Shepherd, J. Intro to Legal Advocacy (B4-7, D6-7); Romig Constitutional Law I (AC); Smith, Jr. | Intro to Legal Advocacy (A1-3, E1-3); Harris Intro to Legal Advocacy (E4-7, A4-5); Parrish Property (BD); Dinner Property (CF); Alexander Constitutional Law I (BE); Seaman Criminal Law (AD); Duncan Health Law (4957); Satz Administrative Law (4805); Arthur Property (AE); Hughes Jr. Criminal Law (BC); Cloud III Constitutional Law I (DF); Shanor Intellectual Property (Survey) (6169); Vertinsky 1:30 PM-2:55 PM Criminal Law (EF); Levine Business Associations (4887); Kang Constitutional Law I (AC); Smith, Jr. Employment Discrimination (4925); Shanor | Evidence (4875); McCoyd Business Associations (4861); Freer Property (BD); Dinner Family Law (4860); Broyde International Law (4818); An-Naim Intro to Legal Advocacy (D4-5, F4-7); Carroll Intro to Legal Advocacy (D1-3, F1-3); Schwartz Intro to Legal Advocacy (AJD); Thornton Intro to Legal Advocacy (A6-7, C4-7); Kirk Intro to Legal Advocacy (B1-3, C1-3); Mathews Intro to Law & Econ (4904); Shepherd, J. Intro to Legal Advocacy (B4-7, D6-7); Romig Constitutional Law I (AC); Smith, Jr. | Intro to Legal Advocacy (A1-3, E1-3); Harris Intro to Legal Advocacy (E4-7, A4-5); Parrish Property (BD);Dinner Property (CF); Alexander Constitutional Law I (BE); Seaman Criminal Law (AD); Duncan Health Law (4957); Satz Administrative Law (4805); Arthur Property (AE); Hughes Jr. Criminal Law (BC); Cloud III Constitutional Law I (DF); Shanor Intellectual Property (Survey) (6169); Vertinsky Criminal Law (EF); Levine Business Associations (4887); Kang Employment Discrimination (4925); Shanor | Property (CF); Alexander Property (AE); Hughes Jr. Constitutional Law I (DF); Shanor |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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Evidence (4875); McCoyd Business Associations (4861); Freer International Human Rights (5825); Van der Vyver Secured Transactions (4877); Pardo Security Regulations (5868); Shepherd, G. SEM: Privacy, Reputation, & Economic Interests in Tort Law (5306); Partlett Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I (4871); Metzger Analytical Methods/Lawyers (4926); Shepherd, J. Family Law (4860); Broyde International Law (4818); An-Naim National Security Law (4944); Blank Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I (4853); Metzger Complex Litigation (4867); Freer Intro to Law & Econ (4904); Shepherd, J. Jewish Law (4901); Broyde Child Welfare Law and Policy (4862); Carter SEM: Legality of Armed Interventions (5304); Van der Vyver Catalyzing Social Impacts (6179); Roberts SEM: Advanced Int'l Negotiations; Zwier Law & Economic Development (5295); Lee Islamic Law (5377); An-Naim Alternative Dispute Resolution (4872); Armstrong Alternative Dispute Resolution (4808); Allgood Art & Acts of Justice (5376); Felman Roman Law (5827); Domingo Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (4888); TBA Doing Deals: Deal Skills (4863); TBA Doing Deals: Deal Skills (4878); TBA Fund of Innov II (4816); Morris Copyright Law (4873); Beck Colloquium Series Workshop: War & Security in Law, Culture, and Society (5020); Dudziak Income Taxations of Trusts, Estates, Grantors, & Beneficiaries (5826); Pennell Contracts-LLM and JM (5824); Lee EXTERN: Criminal Defense (4911); Kleinrock Doing Deals: Corporate Practice (4857); New Negotiations (5523); Perry Advanced Issues in White Collar Crime (5018); Maloy Criminal Tax (5521); Grimberg | Patent Law (5027); Morris ALW: Blogging & SM (4935); Romig International Humanitarian Law (4876); Van der Vyver Doing Deals: Accounting in Action (4855); TBA Am. Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I -GRAD (4905); Daspit Conflict of Law (5022); Hay Sports & Marketing Law (4824); Linsky Health Law (4907); Satz Legal Profession (4820); Elliott Jury Selection (5379); McCoyd Administrative Law (4805); Arthur Criminal Proc: Adjudication (4922); Levine Federal Income Tax: Individual (4941); Brown SEM: Due Process (5305); Smith, Jr. Human Rights: Introduction & Selected Topics (4894); Perry Law of International Organizations (5301); Tkeshelashvili Commercial Sales (5021); Hay Intellectual Property Survey (6169); Vertinsky Religion, Culture & Law in Comparative Practice (5302); Ludsin Antitrust (4920); Arthur First Amendment/Free Speech (5522); Seaman International Business Transactions CANCELLED SEM: Markets for Law (5032); Ahdieh Business Associations (4887); Kang Foreign Relations Law (5025); Dudziak Legal Profession (5308); Goldfeder White Collar Crime (5989); Cloud III Advanced Legal Research (4807); Christian Technology in Legal Practice (4910); Glon Intro to American Legal System (4954); Mathews Employment Discrimination (4925); Shanor International PatentLaw (5299); Bagley Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (4889); TBA Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (4912); TBA Doing Deals: Deal Skills (4879); TBA Doing Deals: Deal Skills (4880); TBA Entertainment Law (4812); Sanders Law in Public Health (4823); Kocher Tax Controversies (4903); Loechel Water Resource Law (5028); Moore EXTERN: Prosecution (4913); Hames EXTERN: Small Firm (6098); Nydick Alternative Dispute Resolution-LLM/JM (4960); Allgood Doing Deals: Mergers & Acquisitions (4874);TBA Media Law (5380); Counts Advanced Pretrial Lit (4825); Elmore EXTERN: Public Interest (4882); Segal American Legal History - Citizenship & Race Workshop (6096); Cleaver Employment Discriminiation Lab (4870); King Jr Securities: Brokers/Dealers (4946);Terry Negotiations (4822); Eldridge Negotiations (4821); Athans | Evidence (4875); McCoyd EXTERN: Judicial (4885); Hirokawa Business Associations (4861); Freer International Human Rights (5825); Van der Vyver Secured Transactions (4877); Pardo Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (4890); TBA Security Regulations (5868); Shepherd, G. Business Immigration Law (5019); Kuck Analytical Methods/Lawyers (4926); Shepherd, J. Family Law (4860); Broyde International Law (4818); An-Naim National Security Law (4944); Blank Complex Litigation (4867); Freer Intro to Law & Econ (4904); Shepherd, J. Jewish Law (4901); Broyde International Humanitarian Law Clinic (4852); Blank Catalyzing Social Impacts (6179); Roberts ALWAR II - GRAD(5383); Daspit Foreign Relations Law (5025); Dudziak Ethics of Criminal Justice Practice (5378); Tatum Law & Economic Development (5295); Lee Islamic Law (5377); An-Naim Doing Deals: Commercial Real Estate (4856); Elliott Alternative Dispute Resolution (4808); Allgood SEM: Corporate Governance (5822); Kang Patent Litigation (5027); Kodish Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (4891); TBA Doing Deals: Deal Skills (4892); TBA Doing Deals: Deal Skills (4858); TBA Doing Deals: Venture Capital (4859); TBA Special Topics/Technology II (4849); Morris Copyright Law (4873); Beck Education Law and Policy (4896); Waldman Federal Income Tax: Partnerships (4815); Beaudrot Contracts-LLM and JM (5824); Lee EXTERN: Advanced (4915); Amidon Business & Strategic Lawyering (4897); Aronson EXTERN: Legislative Policy (4951); Barrocas EXTERN: Government Counsel (4883); Amidon Civil Trial Pract: Family Law (4866); Wellon Asset Forfeiture (5294); Krepp | Patent Law (5027); Morris Estate Planning (4813); Pennell ALW: Blogging & SM (4935); Romig Corporate Finance (5023); Shepherd International Humanitarian Law (4876); Van der Vyver Am. Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I - GRAD (4905); Daspit Conflict of Law (5022); Hay Health Law (4907); Satz Legal Profession (4820); Elliott European Union Law II (5300); Mickevicius Federal Income Tax: Corporations (4814); Fowler Administrative Law (4805); Arthur Criminal Proc: Adjudication (4922); Levine Federal Income Tax: Individual (4941); Brown Human Rights: Introduction & Selected Topics (4894); Perry SEM: Animal Law; Satz Law of International Organizations (5301); Tkeshelashvili Commercial Sales (5021); Hay Intellectual Property Survey (6169); Vertinsky Antitrust (4920); Arthur First Amendment/Free Speech (5522); Seaman International Business Transactions CANCELLED Business Associations (4887); Kang Legal Profession (5308); Goldfeder White Collar Crime (5989); Cloud III Access to Justice W/S (4933); Costa Bankruptcy Law Research (5298); Flick State Law Legal Research (5297); Sneed SEM: Arbitration Law in Religion (5821); Broyde Employment Discrimination (4925); Shanor ARC - GRAD (5382); Daspit Litigation Analytics (6097); Albertelli Patent Practice & Procedures (5303); Kirsch Doing Deals: Negotiated Corporate Transactions (4869); TBA Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (4891); TBA Litigating ID Issues (5026); McCoyd Entertainment Law (4812); Sanders Higher Education (5296); Fowler Alternative Dispute Resolution-LLM/JM (4960); Allgood Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (MCL); TBA EXTERN: Corporate Counsel (4886); Cavitt International PatentLaw (5299); Bagley Securities: Brokers/Dealers (4946); Terry Customs Laws & Admin (5024); Pike Advanced Criminal Trial Skills (4934); Rubin | EXTERN: Civil Litigation (4884); Shalf Corporate Finance (5023); Shepherd Writing for Judicial Chambers (5823); Parrish International PatentLaw (5299); Bagley |
| Date | 9:00 a.m. Exams | 2:00 p.m. Exams |
| Wednesday 4/20/2016 | Corporate Finance 1B/1C Legal Professions - Elliott 1E Criminal Proc: Adjudication 5C Fed Income Tax: Individual 5F | Property - Alexander 1D/1E Property-Hughes 1B/1C Property-Dinner 5A/5B/5C/5D Patent Law 5J International Human Law 5E |
| Thursday 4/21/2016 | Complex Litigation 1E/1F Foreign Relations Law 5J Copyright Law 1D | Fed Income Tax: Partnerships 1B Business & Strategic Lawyering 1C Income Tax: Trusts, Estates 1D (5PM START) |
| Friday 4/22/2016 | Analytical Methods/Lawyers 1C National Security Law 1D | Constitutional Law - Shanor 1A/1B/1C Constitutional Law - Seaman 1D/1E Constitutional Law - Smith 5B/5C/5F |
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| Monday, 4/25/2016 | Health Law 5B Administrative Law 5E Intellectual Property 5C Business Associations - Kang 1D/1E Employee Discrimination 1C Contract - Lee 5F | Business Associations - Freer 1C/1D Evidence 5E/5F International Human Rights 1B Secured Transactions 5B/5C Securities Regulation 1E |
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Updated as of 3/18/2016.
*Course availability is subject to change.
Law 679, 04A. Access to Justice Workshop
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Costa
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises, Court performance, & Periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and under-served populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering with drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions. But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways. First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews with actual defendants (either in or out of custody) and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and even possibly motions and trials). Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement with the State Court Division of the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office as it would cause a professional conflict.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
Law 701, 02A. Administrative Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Volokh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Much of the law we live under is made and then applied by administrative agencies. Administrative law is a study of how this law is made and then applied. Specific topics include the constitutional standards under which legislative and judicial power is transferred to agencies; the procedures that control agency lawmaking and adjudication, and the availability and scope of judicial review of agency action.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
Law 619. Adoption
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Woodhouse
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises & Final Paper.
Description: This course will explore the laws, policies and procedures governing the creation of child/parent relationships through adoption. Among the topics to be covered are regulation of domestic and international adoptions by statutes, treaties and agreements, the rights of birth parents, adoptive parents and children, adoption of children with special needs, single parent, stepparent and kinship adoption, parental vetoes, voluntary consent and involuntary termination of rights, adoption across ethnic, racial and tribal boundaries, the role of adoption in LGBT families, open adoption and the opening of adoption records. We will also explore the historical roots of adoption, and developmental, cultural, religious and social science insights into adoption law and policy. Methods of teaching include lecture, discussion, media and in-class exercises.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 847, 06A. Advanced Civil Trial Practice
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wellon
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class Work & Mock Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation techniques and skills first encountered in the Trial Techniques Program. Using a simulated case file in an employment case, the class will help develop the skills, strategies and tactics necessary to be effective courtroom advocates. The course will employ lecture, demonstrations, movie and video-tape simulations as well as regular participation by the students and constructive criticism and helpful hints from the course instructors, who are all very experienced litigators and judges. Invited guests who litigate regularly in this area of practice will also participate. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be explored. The course will conclude with student teams conducting a trial in a real courtroom setting, which is now planned for November 17th where participation is mandatory.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
Law 617A, 000. Advanced Commercial Real Estate
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Minkin
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Take-Home Exam and Class work
Description: What does a commercial real estate attorney really do every day? What does he or she think about and what is the relationship between the attorney and his or her client? What are the attorney’s responsibilities to accomplish the client’s goals? This course will explore those questions and related issues in the context of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. During the course the students will be introduced to many of the essential elements of commercial real estate, including development concepts, purchase and sale of real estate, equity financing, debt financing, leasing, operational issues with large retail developments, and financial restructuring issues. Course materials will include Harvard Business School cases applicable to commercial real estate issues, form documentation applicable to many areas of commercial real estate, and relevant articles.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
Law 632A, 04A. Advanced Evidence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Geary; Lott; & McCoyd
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Critiqued classroom exercises & In-class exam (last day of class)
Description: The objective of this course is to explore and develop selected complex evidentiary issues that are not covered by the basic Evidence course. The objective will be accomplished through the use of both lecture and simulations that present these issues in the context of complex civil and criminal litigation scenarios. While learning to analyze sophisticated evidentiary issues, students will also be able to expand the basic trial skills they acquired in Trial Advocacy. The faculty will lead participants through the quagmire of the Federal Rules of Evidence. This course offers participants the necessary skills to work through evidentiary issues with greater accuracy and confidence; ensure baseline relevancy issues are met, to affirm that probative value outweighs unfair prejudice; analyze quickly whether character evidence, including prior bad acts, is admissible; describe when habit and custom evidence may be admitted; utilize appropriate impeachment objections after analyzing the rules regarding bias, capacity and prior inconsistent statements; and, outline an analytical scheme for hearsay objections and the exceptions.
The course is designed for law students who have at the minimum taken a basic course in evidence.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 657, 02A. Advanced Legal Research
ACCELERATED CLASS: August 15, 2016-September 26, 2016
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Reid, Richelle
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This course is an examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through a mixture of lectures and practical applications with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research. This practical, skills-based course is designed to help prepare students for practice or future study. This new half-semester format makes class time especially important. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Missing more than one class period may jeopardize a student’s academic standing and will negatively affect the course grade.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
Law 648, 04A. Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
Credits: 2 hours (Pass/Fail Only)
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam (take-home).
Description: The basic content of the course is reflected in its required text: S. Armstrong & T. Terrell, Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Writing and Editing (PLI 3d ed., 2008). A frequent misconception about this course is that it is merely an extension of your experience in LWRAP. It is not. It will instead often challenge you to reconsider approaches to writing guidance that you have may previously encountered.
The course consists of two components. First, everyone enrolled will meet once a week on Monday afternoon for 1 ½ hours, and that time will be consumed by lecture and review of numerous writing examples at every level of a document – from overall structure to sentences and word choice. Second, all students will be assigned to a small-group discussion section, administered by a “teaching assistant” who is a third-year who took this course last year. Those sessions will meet once a week for an hour, during which the course’s materials, and additional examples, will be discussed, and editing exercises will be assigned.
Although this is a “writing” course, it is unusual in that its emphasis will be on “editing” rather than original drafting. One of the keys to becoming a good writer is understanding how readers (for purposes of this course, that means you) react to documents written by others. That experience then yields important insights regarding the defects in one’s own prose, and how to cure them efficiently. To this end, the course will begin with some examination of deeper theories of communication, which will in turn allow the course to focus on fundamental writing “principles” rather than narrower “rules” or “tips.” The course will also analyze writing challenges from the “top down:” We will begin with issues of overall “macro” structure and organization and work down toward “micro” details. This class will not count towards satisfying your Upper Level Writing Requirement.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
3 Sections:
Law 605, 04A. Alternative Dispute Resolution
Law 605, 05A. Alternative Dispute Resolution
Law 605, GRD. Alternative Dispute Resolution (JM/LLM only)
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Allgood or Armstrong
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take Home (Armstrong & Allgood)
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with an emphasis on mediation. Course objectives are: 1) to develop both a theoretical and a practical understanding of available options and strategies for using them effectively in a legal practice; 2) to understand the ethical and legal implications of ADR; and 3) to develop a proficiency in dispute resolution processes other than litigation, including direct negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
2 Sections:
Law 560, 001. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I
Law 560, 002. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course introduces students to the concepts for legal analysis and the techniques and strategies for legal research, as well as the requirements and analytical structures for legal writing in the American common law legal system.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 560B, 000. American Legal Writing, Analysis, & Research II
NOTE: This class is open only to foreign-educated LLMs only
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This course continues the study of legal analysis, research, and writing for practice in the American common law system. The topics covered include client letters, pleadings, and persuasive writing, along with enhanced instruction covering legal citation and advanced legal research sources and techniques.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 590, 000. Analysis, Research and Communications for Non-Lawyers (JM)
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Daspit & Glon
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular Assignments & Final Project
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce objective legal analyses.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 716, 10A. Bankruptcy
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pardo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: An introduction to the law of bankruptcy. Covers issues relating to eligibility for bankruptcy; commencement of a bankruptcy case; administration of the bankruptcy estate; automatic stay and relief; use, sale or lease of property of the estate; assumption and rejection of executory contracts and leases; avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent transfer litigation; appointment of trustees and examiners; and confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan. This course is a general survey course reviewing the basics of Chapter 7 liquidations, Chapter 13 wage-earner reorganizations and Chapter 11 business reorganizations.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 635D, 000. Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Reba
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Group work (based on individual student)
Description: Students in the Appeal for Youth Clinic represent inmates serving lengthy sentences in Georgia’s prisons for offenses they allegedly committed as children. Students engage in habeas corpus and trial court litigation attacking inmates' convictions and sentences. Students should have an interest in criminal procedure, juvenile law, and/or social justice.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter
Prerequisite: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in the two-credit class: Child Welfare Law & Policy. This requirement may be waived for students with demonstrable prior experience in child advocacy, including the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program.
Grading Criteria: Group work (based on individual student)
Description: The Barton Clinic is an in-house legal policy clinic dedicated to providing research, training, and support to the public, the child advocacy community, and the legislature in Georgia. Students work on issues before the state legislature, complete research for publication, participate in local and statewide advocacy events, and help inform the discussion on child welfare issues with their own ideas or projects. Approximately 4-8 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Applications are accepted prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, list of 2 references, the name of his/her LWRAP Instructor, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic web site: http://www.childwelfare.net
*Updated as of Fall 2015
ACCELERATED CLASS: OCTOBER 3, 2016-NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Sneed
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Description: The purpose of Business and Tax Legal Research is to provide students with an introduction to business and tax related materials and advanced training on the finding and utilization of these materials for legal research purposes. Topics covered will include business forms, business filings and SEC research, and primary and secondary sources for tax issues.
This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. G. Shepherd & Freer
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: A study of basic concepts in agency, partnership (general and limited), and corporation law. Topics include choice of business form, formation, organization, financing, and dissolution, as well as the fundamental rights and responsibilities of, and the allocation of power between, the business entity, its owners, management, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
NOTE: Interested students must submit a letter of interest & resume to Josh Moore, Office of the Georgia Capital Defender jmoore@gacapdef.org »
NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP WILL REQUIRE A YEAR-LONG (two semester) COMMITMENT
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third year law students from Emory, Georgia State, UGA, and Mercer will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients’ cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic—as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages—is to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on “making the case for life.” That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
*Updated as of Fall 2015
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Attendance, court visit, participation, written and oral assignments
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child protection system, including the emergence of the juvenile court, and critical issues such as legal representation of children, impact litigation and limits on governmental authority. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, analytical writing and skills-based exercises, including legislative drafting and oral advocacy assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 615, 000. Chinese Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ruskola
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam (take-home).
Description: This course is an introduction to the comparative study of Chinese law and legal thought. It starts by analyzing the tradition of imperial Chinese law and its theoretical foundations, and then turns to early twentieth-century law reforms and the introduction of socialist law and jurisprudence. The course ends with the study of post-Mao law reforms and their implications for the future of Chinese law. In addition to its substantive focus, the course considers methodological problems involved in the study of law across cultures. Some of the general themes that run throughout the course include the following: To what extent is law a useful analytical category in Sino-American comparison? How is law related to capitalism and socialism, and to culture and socio-economic organization more generally? How and why has Chinese law changed over time? What happens when “Eastern” and “Western” legal cultures come in contact with each other?
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 860A, 02A. Colloquium Series Workshop
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-colloquium-workshop-preselection-fall-2016/
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: Limited to 6 students only!
Grading Criteria: Weekly Papers
Description: Would you like a close-up look at the world of legal scholarship and the exchange of scholarly ideas? Are you seeking more engagement with the Emory Law faculty outside of the traditional classroom setting? Do you want to become a stronger writer? Have you ever thought you might want to become a law professor? If so, consider applying to the Colloquium Series Workshop (CSW).
Components of CSW: Students who participate in this two unit workshop attend two meetings each week: the weekly faculty colloquium, which meets on Wednesdays over the lunch hour (and includes lunch) and a one-hour class session run by Professor Kay Levine, on Friday mornings. During each of these one hour sessions, students discuss the colloquium work as a piece of scholarship (and as piece of persuasive writing), critique the author's presentation, and review materials relating to the production of scholarship and the legal academic job market. In advance of the weekly meeting, students write short reaction papers to each colloquium piece.
The CSW will be graded on a pass/fail basis, but with high attendance and participation standards set for what constitutes a passing grade. Do not apply for this class if you have other commitments during the lunch hour on Wednesdays (even only sporadic). Enrollment Students enroll in the CSW in accordance with the same procedures used for seminars (advance application during the pre-selection process). However, enrollment is limited to six students each semester, instead of the usual 15. On the pre-selection form please indicate the basis of your interest in the CSW and your prior experience with scholarship in an academic setting (law or otherwise).
*Updated as of 3/29/2016
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Cloud
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam & Class Participation
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Weber Jr.
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: An exploration of the substantive, ethical and strategic issues involved in litigating civil rights actions. This course will allow students to both learn basic principles of governmental liability/defenses and apply their knowledge of torts, constitutional law and civil procedure in a litigation setting.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
2 Sections:
Law 959, 02A
Law 959, 02B
Courtroom Persuasion & Drama I
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class work & Final Exam (during regularly scheduled class-time)
Strictly limited to 12 students
Class open only to 3Ls
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors, and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Students reflected on what they gained from taking this class:
"I think what is most drastically different is how much more professional I came across later in the semester."
-Ben S.
"The largest benefit I drew from our class was the ability to stand comfortably in front of a group of people."
-Diana S.
"The most valuable aspect is practice, practice, practice, especially when combined with live and individualized feedback. I can make presentations with significantly less internal anxiety than before, and with more organization and the outward appearance of credibility." -Andrew R.
"This class taught me that putting work into your speaking style can really pay off! I also found the freedom during this class to try some experiments with my speaking technique, including not memorizing a script and moving about my space." -Alan W.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Law 622B. Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine
Prerequisite: Criminal Law
Grading Criteria: Final Exam; 6-8 page paper; meritorious class participation.
Enrollment: Limited to 24 only!
Description: This course will examine how lawyers and judges behave in the criminal courts throughout the United States, as well as the legal doctrines implicated by their behavior. Topics include discovery, pre-trial detention, jury selection, prosecutorial charging and bargaining, ineffective assistance of counsel, double jeopardy, and speedy trial issues. Readings address material from law, sociology, history, and public policy. Students should note that this class has a strong sociology focus; it is not predominantly doctrinal.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Lott & McCoyd
Prerequisite: Evidence and Trial Techniques required
Grading Criteria: Course work; in-classroom exercises; In-class exam (last day of class)
Enrollment: Limited to 40 students!
Description: This course is designed to conduct an exhaustive examination of the science and art of cross examination with extensive in class exploration and performance of advanced cross examination techniques.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 897
Law 897A
Law 898
Directed Research
Credits: 1-2 hours
Instructor(s): Multiple
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Based on supervising faculty's evaluations of Paper
Description: Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the Students-Only web page »
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-transactional-law-capstone-courses-20162017/
Prerequisite: Business Associations, Contract Drafting, and Deal Skills (concurrent not okay)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This Course is designed to give the student an opportunity to (i) explore in depth a variety of secured transactions, recognizing the contrast to unsecured transactions, and the Credit(s)ors rights, remedies and benefits thereunder, (ii) understand the nature and corresponding requirements of secured transactions, including knowledge of, and familiarity with applicable regulations, statutes and rules, and (iii) engage, as counsel, in the representation of a “secured Credit(s)or” or “borrower”, in an actual secured transaction from beginning to end (the “Secured Transaction”) throughout the semester.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 659P, 05A. Doing Deals: Complex Restructuring and Distressed Acquisitions in Chapter 11
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Payne; Adjunct professor
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-transactional-law-capstone-courses-20162017/
Prerequisite: Bankruptcy and Contract Drafting Prerequisite-Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Bankruptcy, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills. Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Class participation (10-20%), in-class presentations (20-30%), out-of-class projects (transaction documents, memos, legal briefs, etc.) (20-30%), final pleadings and argument for the sale hearing (20-30%).
Description: This course will take students down the path of a complicated corporate restructuring and/or sale. During class time, students will learn the key features of a modern corporate restructuring and distressed sale, using a hypothetical company for illustrations. Students will also be asked to prepare and present in class one or more summaries/presentations regarding hot topics in the bankruptcy and restructuring world. Outside of class, students will assume the roles of various parties to the restructuring, such as debtor, lenders, key suppliers, key customers, private equity sponsor, and the like. The students will be asked by their “clients” (the instructors) to negotiate transaction terms and to draft definitive documents for various parts of the restructuring. The students will also be asked to prepare various bankruptcy-related transactional documents and pleadings, leading to a contested, bankruptcy court sale of the hypothetical company at the end of the course.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 659A, 04A. Doing Deals: Contract Drafting
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-doing-dealscontract-drafting/
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: Students enrolled in Contract Drafting will learn how to analyze and draft contemporary commercial agreements. While this course is of particular interest to students pursuing careers in transactional law, it is also useful to those who want to be litigators.
In this experiential course, students will learn to do the following: identify the business purpose of each contract concept; translate the business deal into contract concepts; draft each of a contract’s parts; draft with clarity and without ambiguity; add value to a deal; work through the drafting process; and analyze, review, and comment on a contract. Students will also discuss ethical and professional issues confronting contract drafters.
Through simulations, students will receive substantial experience reasonably similar to the experience of a lawyer drafting a contract for a client.
The course grade will be based on specific drafting assignments and class participation. The course will include multiple opportunities for student performance, feedback from the professor, and self-evaluation.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 659B. Doing Deals: Deal Skills
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Payne & Adjunct Professors
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-doing-dealsdeal-skills/
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: Deal Skills introduces students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions. Among the topics covered are client counseling and communication techniques; translation of a business deal into contract provisions; due diligence review of contracts and corporate records; transaction structure; actions by corporations and limited liability companies; basic financing issues; indemnification and other risk reduction techniques; transactional negotiations; and ethics and professionalism issues arising in a transactional context.
This experiential course will be conducted through in-class exercises, role-plays, oral reports, and lectures and will also include out-of-class drafting, due diligence, negotiation and other projects.
Through simulations, students will receive substantial experience reasonably similar to the experience of a lawyer working on a transaction.
The course grade will be based on homework (including a comprehensive individual project), a negotiation project, and class participation. The course will include multiple opportunities for student performance, feedback from the professor, and self-evaluation.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 659F, 06A. Doing Deals: General Counsel
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-transactional-law-capstone-courses-20162017/
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay) Prerequisite – Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Business Associations, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills (concurrent NOT okay).
Grading Criteria: Course work
Description: In this course, students will develop transactional skills, with emphasis on possible differences in roles of in-house counsel and outside counsel in the context of a hypothetical transaction that will be focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, a letter of intent, an employment agreement, a Master Services Agreement, and a Stock Purchase Agreement.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 659N, 04A. Doing Deals: Intellectual Property Transactions
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Payne; Adjunct Professor
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-transactional-law-capstone-courses-20162017/
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting and Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Exercises, Class Participation, & Final Paper/Presentation
Description: This course is designed to offer students with an interest in intellectual property the opportunity to explore a limited number of current and cutting edge intellectual property topics in depth and to experience first-hand how these legal concepts would manifest in a transactional practice setting. Students will complete a variety of in-class and homework assignments typical of those encountered in a transactional IP practice, from contract negotiation and drafting to strategic analysis and client interaction. - The course is intended for students with an interest in this subject area; no specific prior IP courses are required, but if a student has not taken any other IP offerings, please contact the instructor for suggestions of materials to review over the summer. Grading is a combination of small projects, class participation, and a final paper/presentation. There is no exam. Students taking this course as a Capstone Course will complete some additional requirements over the course of the semester. Due of the nature of this course, regular attendance is mandatory!
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 659D, 04A. Doing Deals: Private Equity
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Crowley, Kevin; Furman, Kathryn
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-transactional-law-capstone-courses-20162017/
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting, Deal Skills, Corporate Finance, Accounting in Action or Analytical Methods
Grading Criteria: Several group and individual assignments; Mid-term; & Final Exam
Description: The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students will work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified, sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to tackle and resolve difficult deal issues and complete successful deals. Students will be divided into teams of lawyers and business people to review, consider and negotiate actual transaction documents. The issues presented will include often-contested key economic and legal deal terms, as well as common ethical dilemmas.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 808. Domestic Violence: U.S. Legal System's Response
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Stolarski
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Meritorious Class Participation; Reflection Essay; Modified Open-book In-class Final Exam
Enrollment: Limited to 16 students
Description: This course will examine the evolution of laws and policies addressing domestic violence and how the justice system in the U.S. responds to this complex legal and social problem. While the course will lean more heavily towards criminal law, it will also explore some key areas of civil law that impact a survivor's ability to safely end an abusive relationship. Topics will include but are not limited to: the dynamics of abuse; how the experience of abuse and the legal system's response to it are shaped by cross-cultural factors; the impact of domestic violence on children and the use of children as witnesses; civil protective orders, divorce and child custody; housing, employment and immigration issues; criminal charging decisions and evidence-based prosecution techniques; the use of expert witnesses; and victims who are charged as criminal defendants. This will be an interactive course with classroom discussions, guest speakers and opportunities for skill-based exercises to reinforce keys points of learning. Materials and discussions will draw from legal, sociological, and public policy lenses. Though students with an interest in criminal and family law will be particularly interested in these topics, the course is designed to equip students with a broad base of knowledge needed to identify, evaluate and responsibly respond to the issues of domestic violence that they are likely to encounter as practicing lawyers, regardless of the area of specialty they may choose to enter.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Tatum
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Participation and Final Trial Simulation
Description: One of the most complicated and technical cases to try in criminal law is a DUI charge. Learning how to present or defend a DUI can equip a new litigator with techniques that will benefit students seeking practice in all areas of criminal litigation. Students will review DUI statutes and case law and prepare simulation cases for motions and trial. Opening arguments, direct, cross, and closing argument will be discussed and practiced. Introduction of scientific evidence, expert testimony, and preparing your witness for trial will be explored. Motions will be prepared and decided. Students will prepare and present their final case in a trial setting at the end of the semester.
*Updatd as of Fall 2015
Law 611, 000. Election Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kang
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course provides an introduction to the law of the democratic political process. The course will cover a wide range of topics, including the right to vote, reapportionment and redistricting, partisan and racial gerrymandering, the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance, the role of political parties, direct democracy, and Bush v. Gore. The course will examine the principles underlying the design of our political institutions and legal frameworks, as well as the practical implications of those choices, drawing on political science and developments in contemporary politics.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
4870; Catalog Number- Law 669X, 06A
Credit: 1 Hour (This class meets for 2 hours every other week. The dates will be announced during the first week of class.)
Instructor(s): Prof. Shultz & Prof. King
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination or Employment Law
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: (cap of 8 students)
Description: The class will work though an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King Jr., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
3 Sections:
Law 668, 000. Employment Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Weirich
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This two-hour course will cover many of the major legal aspects of the employment relationship not treated in Labor Law. We will examine legal principles applicable to the hiring process, the key terms and conditions of employment (including wages, hours, employee benefits, and workplace conduct), employment discrimination (a brief survey, not intended as a substitute for the separate course on that subject), occupational safety and health, employment termination (including termination for cause and through force reduction), and post-employment issues (restrictive covenants and trade secrets, unemployment insurance, and post-employment benefits).
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
COURSE REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE TURNER ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC. THIS COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE WRITING REQUIREMENT.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Goldstein & Horder, Rick
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Workshop Projects, Simulations, and Classroom Participation
Description: The Environmental Advocacy workshop will include reading assignments, written exercises, seminar-like discussion, and simulations with an emphasis on legal practice. The course will develop students' abilities to function as successful environmental advocates in the context of client interviews, administrative proceedings, negotiations, and litigation. Other issues covered include advocating environmental protection.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 620, 000. European Union Law I
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mickevicius & Prof. Tulibacka
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam (60%), Short assignments (30%), Participation (10%)
Description: The largest trade and investment relationship in the world, overlapping geopolitical concerns, and crucial shared values make the European Union one of the United States most important partners economically, politically, and socially. Lawyers, public servants, and activists are consequently being called upon to engage (and understand) European legal principles and practices to an ever-growing degree. With that in mind, this course will examine the theoretical fundamentals of the EU legal system and their practical applications. We will begin by reviewing the history of the European Communities and the genesis of the European Union. This will be followed by an analysis of the constitutional framework of the EU, including its political and legal nature, its aims and guiding values, membership and the division of powers between the EU and the Member States, institutional makeup and the allocation of powers across its major institutions, sources and forms of EU law, lawmaking, recent developments in the protection of fundamental rights, and the structure and role of the EU judicial system. Building on the latter, we will then turn to the EU model of judicial review and the complex interaction between the EU and national legal systems in enforcing EU law.
Classes will combine lectures and interactive sessions where students will explore the caselaw of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts of Member States, analyze hypothetical cases, solve problems, and assess relevant political and legal developments.
Law 632X, 12A
Law 632X, 13A
Evidence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Goldfeder & Seaman
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege. Must be taken in the second year.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Law 678. The Evolution of the Legal Practice & Law Practice Economics, 1945-2015
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Trotter, Mike
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final exam (take-home).
Description: This course will examine the major changes that have occurred since the end of World War II in how legal services are provided in the United States, why these changes have occurred, and their effect on lawyers, law firms, law departments, and on clients and others in need of legal services. The important changes to be examined include:
1)Growth in the need for legal services.
2)Increases in the number of lawyers in the United States relative to its population.
3)Changes in the size and operations of law firms and law departments, and their relationship to one another.
4)The economics of providing legal services, and the compensation of legal service providers.
5)The personnel composition of law firms and law departments including the increased utilization of unlicensed billable personnel to support the delivery of legal services.
6)The regulation and ethical requirements of legal service providers.
7)The commoditization of some legal services.
8)The impact of technology on the provision of legal services.
9)The education and training of lawyers.
10)Relationships of lawyers with their clients.
11)The diversity of service provider personnel.
12)Issues relating to Alternative Legal Service Providers and limited license personnel.
This course will provide a foundation for the examination of the future challenges and prospects of the legal profession.
“Classes will start the week of September 12, 2016, and will meet twice a week for the remaining 10 weeks of the semester.”
*Updated as of 8/17/2016
Law 870. Externship Program
Credits: Varies
Instructor(s): Multiple
Selection: Application process submitted to Prof. Shalf
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Fieldwork
Description: Step outside the classroom and learn to practice law from experienced attorneys. Take the skills and principles you learn in the classroom and learn how they apply in practice. Emory Law's General Externship Program provides work experience in different types of practice (all sectors except law firms) so you can determine which suits you best and develop relationships that will continue as you begin your legal career. Students are supported in their placements by a weekly class meeting with other students in similar placements, taught by faculty with practice experience in that area, in which students have the opportunity to learn legal and professional skills they need to succeed in the externship, receive mentoring independent of their on-site supervisors, and to step back and reflect on their experience and what they are learning from it.
Our Small Firm Externship Program provides students specially interested in the small law firm practice setting with experience in specially-selected small law firms. The firms' attorneys participate with the students in our weekly class meeting, which focuses on the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a small firm practice setting.
Students apply for externships via Symplicity in the semester prior to the externship and all placements must be preapproved. Available placements for the General program are listed on the Emory Law website, http://law.emory.edu/academics/academic-programs/externships/externship-search.html, and the currently-participating Small Firms are listed here: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/small-firm-externship-applicant-law-firm-ranking/
Warning: No student is allowed to be enrolled in more than one clinic, workshop, or externship classes (except fieldwork) in a semester.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 870K. Landlord-Tenant Mediation Workshop
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Powell, Bonnie
Selection: Application process submitted to Prof. Shalf
Description: See Below.
Landlord-Tenant Mediation Workshop students will mediate landlord/tenant disputes, including cases handled in the Magistrate and State courts; particularly small claim civil issues such as disputes between landlords and tenants. Assuming an agreement is reached during mediation, students will be responsible for drafting a detailed settlement agreement.
Students work under the supervision of an attorney mediating cases that deal with numerous issues of law within the court system. Prior to mediating, students will receive 28 hours of civil mediation training and will be registered as neutrals with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.
Required Mediation Training
Training is provided by the program and will occur the first or second week in August; attendance for the entire 28 hours of training is mandatory. Training dates will be confirmed no later than June 1.
These hours may be used later in the semester to compensate for any necessary time away. For example if a student has to leave at 5:00 pm for an evening class, 30/45 minutes of training can be used as a filler.
For those who need a more flexible schedule, there is also now a partnership with Dekalb County so students can mediate there as well. The hours there are a bit different and has more flexibility.
Enrollment
This is a full academic year, two-semester workshop. Students must enroll in both the fall and spring semesters. Second- and third-year students may apply. An in-person interview will be scheduled with the supervising attorney.
- Application Period: Resumes can be submitted through Symplicity at the same time externships accept resumes.
- Required Background Check: Upon acceptance, a criminal background check by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution will be conducted.
Class Times
- Students must be available to go to court from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 12:45 to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
- Weekly seminar sessions will take place at the courthouse during the semester.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Deals with the problems, policies, and laws related to the dissolution of children and parents. Juvenile Law will also be considered.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Smith, Fred
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course deals with the allocation of judicial business between the state and federal courts, as well as the jurisdictional tensions that arise from a dual judicial system. In addition, the course considers the relationship between the federal judiciary and Congress, particularly as it implicates legislature's power to structure and limit the federal courts' subject matter jurisdiction. This is a very practical course, as well as one that implicates important theoretical issues about decision-making institutions under our federal system of government.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 626. Federal Indian Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Saunooke, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description: This course offers an overview of federal Indian law and policy, including historical developments related to federal treaties with Indian tribes and the Indian Termination Act. We will discuss current law and policy regarding Indian self-determination, gaming, sovereign and constitutional issues, and the varied and complex jurisdictional considerations involving criminal and civil laws that impact, affect, and otherwise intertwine Indian tribes, states and the federal government.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 760, 06A. Federal Prosecution Practice
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Grimberg
Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure & Evidence recommended, but not required
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises and Take-home Written Assignments; Take-home Final
Enrollment: Limited to 14 students only
Description: This class will explore the powers, principles, and responsibilities that come with serving as a federal prosecutor. Class segments will focus on the day-to-day responsibilities of federal prosecutors throughout the various stages of the criminal justice system. We will discuss the motivating factors that guide federal prosecution decisions in light of legal, policy, practical and ethical considerations. The class will involve a mix of lecture and “learn by doing” exercises that will be geared towards developing your analytical, oral and written advocacy skills.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Law 601, 001. The First Amendment: Religious Liberty
Credits: 3 Credits (1 Additional Credit- Lab Option)
Instructor(s): Prof. Witte **Cross-Listed with School of Theology**
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final exam (take-home).
Description: Religious liberty is one of the hallmarks of modern constitutional democracies, though it has come under considerable attack in recent years. This course analyzes the historical formation and current interpretation of the religious liberty guarantees of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Part I of the course explores the original meaning of the First Amendment guarantees of no establishment and free exercise of religion viewed in colonial and broader Western context. Part II analyzes the guarantees of free exercise and expression of religion guaranteed by First Amendment free exercise and free speech clauses and recent complementary statutes. Topics include religious liberty claims to polygamy, proselytism, Sabbath day observance, religious worship, ritual, and dress, and claims by religious individuals and groups to exemptions from general laws. Part III traces the requirements of no establishment of religion, particularly in cases concerning the role of religion in public education, the place of government in religious education, and the place of religious symbols and ceremonies in public and political life. Part IV analyzes the complex relationships between religious organizations and government. Topics include tax funding and exemptions for religious groups, the powers and limits of religious organizations to resolve their own internal disputes over polity and property, and their power to discipline their leaders and members for their beliefs, moral behavior, or sexual orientation.
The readings will consist of selected United States Supreme Court cases and a textbook, John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols, Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2016).
There will be a final take home examination, handed out the last class of the semester. The exam will offer a choice of three or four questions that explore different major course themes; students will pick one question and prepare a 3000 word answer based on their course notes and readings. The course can be taken for graded or pass/fail credit. The course has no prerequisites, and does not presuppose detailed knowledge of American history or constitutional law.
1 Additional Hour Lab Option: This course offers a supplemental 1 credit hour laboratory comparing United States Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights cases on religious freedom. This lab consists of 14 hours of lectures and discussion in November, led by Professor Witte and Visiting Professor Andrea Pin of the University of Padua.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kitchens
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Food and drug law involves the statutory and regulatory framework governing the development and marketing of food, drugs, medical devices, biological products, and cosmetics. This introductory course serves as a starting point for understanding how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempts both to protect the public health and foster our national desire and need for innovation in science, medicine and the safety of our food supply. In particular, the course will study how FDA and the courts have enforced and interpreted the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to implement a regulatory system for a wide range of products that affect our daily lives. Dialogue and questions on how food and drug law has confronted and adapted to scientific and technological progress, public health challenges, constitutional controversies, and policy-based perspectives will be encouraged. Additionally, the course covers such contemporary issues as food safety; balancing the benefits and risks of certain drugs, devices and biological products and how best to communicate that information to healthcare professionals and consumers; expediting approval of drugs designed for life-threatening diseases; clinical trials for experimental products; and regulation of biotechnology, such as tissue engineering and gene therapy. Other specific topics include: regulation of food labeling and sanitation; regulation of dietary supplements; administrative rulemaking; advertising and promotion controls; preemption of state laws; and strategies for handling government investigations and enforcement actions.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Aronson
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Legal and business considerations, including the pros and cons of franchising; the franchising role in the economy; the franchiser/franchisee relationship; disclosure requirements; relevant state and federal laws; essential elements in representing franchisers and franchisees; basic terms and issues with franchise agreements; legislative issues; trademark issues; encroachment issues; system expansion issues; franchisee associations; new techniques in franchising; e.g. area development agreements, sub-franchising, niche franchising, master franchise agreements; international franchising; the role of alternate dispute resolution in franchising; product quality issues; legislative issues. Case studies of important franchise companies will be read and evaluated including Holiday Inns, McDonald's, Century 21, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts. Prominent legal political and business franchising representatives will be guest speakers.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Final Exam
Description: Introductory study of the general structure of the federal income tax; nature of gross income, exclusions, and deductions; the income tax consequences of property transactions; the nature of capital gains and losses; basis and non-recognition.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 736B, 000. Global Public Health Law
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brady, Rita-Marie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation, Pre-assigned case study presentation, and Final Paper
Description:As events of the past year have demonstrated, diseases are permeable and public health issues do not arise neatly within borders. This course will use foundational legal principles of international and domestic law, as well as international regulatory frameworks, guidelines, and their respective actors, and apply them to global public health issues. This will be accomplished using interactive case studies and simulations that require multi-disciplinary classroom interaction, skill sets, source materials, and perspectives. Specific topics of focus will include (but not be limited to): infectious disease (particularly lessons learned from Ebola in 2014), environmental health, humanitarian law and public health emergencies, human rights and health, injury, and tobacco control. Guest speakers/presenters may be incorporated, but the format will focus on short foundational lectures, followed by either small-group case study break-outs and/or large group (in most instances pre-assigned) case study presentations, with a focus on multi-disciplinary interaction and actors.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
ACCELERATED CLASS OCTOBER 3, 2016-NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Glon
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: No Exam; Research Assignments
Description: Health law encompasses a wide variety of topics ranging from Medicare to patient care, insurance companies to health care reform, big pharm to worker’s compensation, and medical malpractice to bioethics. Additionally, health law is governed by statutes, regulations and case law, and many health laws have produced a vast amount of legislative history materials. The field of health law research is robust and the class touches on best practices for researching topics such as:
- Health Care Legislation and Regulations
- Patient Care, Representing Physicians, and Regulations of Hospitals,
- Medical Malpractice litigation
- Medicare and Medicaid Issues, and
- Elder Law, End of Life Decisions, and Bioethics.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 690B, 000. Human Rights Advocacy
Requires department consent. Please click here to indicate your interest in the course and verify that you have met the course prerequisite.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin
Prerequisite: Human Rights or International Law Course
Grading Criteria: Research reports, Class participation, Presentations
Enrollment: Limited to 8 students only
Description: Human rights organizations and human rights lawyers play essential roles in protecting and promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy, both at home and abroad. They expose injustices and demand accountability for them; they pressure governments to fulfill their democratic and human rights obligations; and often they give voice to the voiceless and marginalized. This course will start with a brief overview of international human rights law and then will be divided between lectures focusing on developing the skills of budding human rights lawyers, examining the anatomy of a human rights campaign, and highlighting the ethical dilemmas and barriers to change human rights lawyers regularly face. To reinforce these lessons, each student will be assigned a research project on an issue supplied by human rights organizations from across the globe. Last year's participating organizations included CARE, The Carter Center, The Women’s Legal Centre (South Africa), the Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka) and the US Human Rights Network.
The course is 3 credits and will require either several short written projects or one larger research report for an organization (75%), along with a series of project-related small assignments to show the student's progress (25%). It will be limited to 8 students who have completed an international law or human rights law course.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 731, 000. Immigration Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. McGrath, Kerry
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
Description: A study of the immigration, nationality, and naturalization laws of the United States; discussion of policy issues relating to migration, refugees, asylum, deportation, English-only movements, and citizenship issues.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Reetz
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam; Class Participation
Description: A consideration of arbitration as a dispute resolution process in the domain of international commerce. Analyzes the composition and the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, the procedure followed by arbitrators, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and other related issues. In order to understand the arbitral process, the class will systematically go though an arbitration from drafting the arbitration agreement (start) to enforcement of the award (finish). We will discuss ad hoc and institutional arbitration by the use of a hypothetical case. This class will be very hands on and practical. Participation is important and there will be role-play. As international commercial arbitration cannot exist in a legal vacuum, we will also consider relevant laws in various civil law and common law countries.
*Updated as of Fall 2014
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Paper
Description: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its very first judgment. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was convicted of the war crime of conscripting or enlisting persons under the age of fifteen years into the armed forces of a militant group, and using such persons to participate actively in hostilities. Lubanga was the founder and leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots responsible for violence that erupted in 2002 in Ituri, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups. The situation in Ituri was referred to the ICC by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Lubanga Case, several complicated issues came up in the course of the pre-trial proceedings, which commenced when a warrant for the arrest of Lubanga was issued by a Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC in February 10, 2006: Was the conflict in Ituri an international armed conflict or one not of an international character? Is there a difference between the enlistment or conscription of child soldiers if committed in an international armed conflict or in an armed conflict not of an international character, respectively? What degree of knowledge (mens rea) is required on the part of the perpetrator in regard to the age of a person enlisted or conscripted into the armed forces or used to participate actively in the hostilities? What is the meaning of using a child soldier “to participate actively in hostilities”? The trial and tribulations that attended the pre-trail proceedings in the Lubanga Case also included interesting issues of criminal procedure: The duty of the Prosecutor to obtain evidence for the defense; the effect of (non-) compliance with municipal (Congolese) laws in regard to searches and seizures; requirements to be satisfied for a person to qualify as a “victim” and the right of victims to express their “views and concerns” in the investigation stage of the proceedings.
These problems and questions are some of the substantive issues included in International Criminal Law. The focus of the course is on the structures and proceedings of the ICC. The ICC Statute was adopted by a Diplomatic Conference of Diplomatic Plenipotentiaries on an International Criminal Court, which was held in Rome on June 15 through July 17, 1998. Following 60 ratifications of the ICC Statute, the ICC became a reality on July 1, 2002 with its seat in The Hague in the Netherlands. To date, the ICC Statute has been ratified by 122 States. Earlier, the Security Council of the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and subsequently offered its support for a Special Court to prosecute international crimes committed in Sierra Leone (SCSL), and for judicial chambers to bring perpetrators of international crimes in East Timor and Cambodia to justice. Jurisprudence of the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL, as well as cases decided by the NurembergTribunals, are included in the course.
The course also includes an overview of the history of the establishment of the international tribunals; and as far as the ICC is concerned, its subject-matter, territorial, personal and temporal jurisdiction; the composition of the ICC and its organs; trigger mechanisms for prosecutions in the ICC (the U.N. Security Council, States Parties, and the Prosecutor conducting investigations proprio motu); and the rules of admissibility of a case (the principle of complementarity). When dealing with the definitions of crimes within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression), we shall single out certain crimes for closer scrutiny, for example the crime of genocide, gender-specific crimes, child soldiers, torture, environmental malpractice, resettlement of populations in occupied territories, and terrorism. In dealing with the rules of procedure and evidence to be applied in the ICC, special attention will be given to international principles of criminal justice that are at odds with the American criminal law and criminal procedure, for example the concept of mens rea, the presumption of innocence, the rule against double jeopardy, the protection of victims, and sentencing factors. Special attention will also be given to the ongoing conflict between the African Union and the ICC over the indictment of President Al Bashir of Sudan and President Kenyatta and Deput President Ruto of Kenya to stand trial in the ICC centered upon the (non-) applicability of sovereign immunity of a sitting head of state. The United States was one of seven States that voted against approval of the ICC Statute. The course includes concerns of the United States and others (including Israel, India, and some Arab States) that prompted a negative vote or abstention. President Clinton did sign the ICC Statute. The Bush administration, on the other hand, adopted a particular hostile attitude toward the ICC, for example by cancelling the American signature of the ICC Statute, enacting the Military Service members Protection Act of 2002, and imposing sanctions against States that refused to enter into bilateral agreements with the United States that would preclude them from surrendering American nationals for prosecution in the ICC. In 2009, the Obama administration re-engaged with The ICC and the United States is currently a “co-operating non-party State”.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights, Counter-terrorism Law
Grading Criteria: Group discussions & Assignments (based on individual student work)
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counter-terrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank. The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Introduction to the law, methodology, and institutions of modern public international law. Among the topics covered are sources of international law jurisdiction, sovereign and diplomatic immunity, treaties, the domestic application of international law, the law of international organizations, settlement of disputes, limits on the use of force, human rights, and the law of the sea.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 738. International Law & Ethics
Credits: 3 hours
Instructors: Prof. Holzgrefe, Jeff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Essays, Class Participation
Description: In today's increasingly globalized world, international law is more important than ever. The goal of this course is to introduce students to this body of law and to examine it critically from the perspectives of legal positivism, realism and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include: the subjects and sources of international law; international law enforcement (domestic incorporation, international courts, universal jurisdiction, sovereign immunity and armed force); the law of armed conflict (self-defense, preventive war, humanitarian intervention, guerrilla warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism, perfidy, defensive armed reprisals); and collective and human rights (self-determination and secession, forced migration and asylum, subsistence and economic development, and the global environment).
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
ACCELERATED CLASS AUGUST 15, 2016-SEPTEMBER 26, 2016.
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Flick
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Description: The course will introduce specialized techniques for research with international legal materials. Students will become familiar with international legal research sources through lectures and by practical application through in-class exercises and a final research project. Topics will include public international law resources, including U.S. and multilateral treaties, international courts, and customary law sources; documents of the United Nations, the European Union, and other inter-governmental organizations; resources on international human rights; an overview of legal materials for common law systems (the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia) and civil law systems (France and Latin America); and a look at issues that arise in international law research, including availability, translations, and Internet resources. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 639, 000. International Tax
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Harvel, Brian; Harty, Scott; & Kaywood, Sam
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax (concurrent NOT okay)
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: With improved communications and transportation "making the world smaller", it is becoming increasingly difficult to find businesses that do not engage in some form of international commerce. International Taxation is a course aimed at the tax consequences of international transactions. The class will not be targeted solely at those who would be tax lawyers. Those who anticipate a commercial practice after law school should find value in this course. It is difficult to be an effective business lawyer without some understanding of the tax laws. The course focuses on the application of the federal income tax and tax treaties to nonresident aliens and foreign corporations and to United States citizens, residents and corporations, investing funds abroad or conducting business with foreign persons.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Nodine
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright, or Trademark strongly recommended as a significant portion of the class will employ these principles. Co-requisites okay.
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Final Exam
Description: In this course we will wrestle with some of the most fascinating emerging issues in our evolving cyber-society. We will begin by considering jurisdiction over Internet disputes. We will then turn to intellectual property topics, including trademarks (whether "keyword buys" constitute infringement; domain name disputes) and copyright (music downloading and hyper-linking). There will be special focus on arbitration procedures for resolving domain name disputes (the “UDRP”) and the liability of intermediaries like eBay or YouTube for user infringement. The Course will also explore the right to privacy in cyberspace.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS & JM STUDENTS
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
JM Description: This course covers the Constitutional principles and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. It examines the structure of the U.S. judicial system and basic principles of legal reasoning. The course also incorporates a series of guest lectures in the primary areas of first-year legal study (contracts, torts, etc.).
LLM Description: This course covers the constitutional principles, history, and governmental structures that shape the American legal system. Designed for lawyers trained outside of the United States, the course introduces basic principles of federalism, common-law reasoning, and an overview of the primary areas of first-year legal study
*Updated as of 06/27/2016.
Law 670, 10A. Jurisprudence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Terrell. **Crosslisted with Theology and the Philosophy Department**
Prequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Mid-term Essay & Final Exam Essay (take-home)
Description: This course is about normative disagreement: disputes about values and systems of values, and in the political realm, quarrels over rights and duties. But the course is not, as you might expect, about how to avoid or resolve discord and conflict, and thus bring us together in harmony around a shared sense of justice. Instead, it will celebrate our contentious spirit, demonstrating that controversies about how we should govern ourselves are in fact inevitable, unavoidable, and never-ending.
But this is not bad news. Disagreement is not, as most seem to assume, inexorably disagreeable. In fact, for lawyers, it should be appreciated, perhaps even celebrated, for fun and profit.
And this good news is not nearly as cynical as it might appear. Law itself, after all, is a monument to the inability of people to get along productively without limits and direction. But this course goes deeper, as it explores the next disconcerting step: What happens when we also disagree about the limits and directions themselves that are supposed to help us avoid disputes in the first place (and settle them once they arise) – that is, when we disagree about the nature of legal guidance itself? In the toughest cases you will face, the dispute will actually go underneath traditional elements of law, like court decisions and statutes, to the values that give these sources authoritative life. Confronting those questions is indeed advanced legal reasoning – it requires a “philosophy of law” that somehow makes one legal argument stronger than another. That level of the legal game is “jurisprudence.”
The course will consist of two overlapping pieces. The first will examine the foundations of legal reasoning in challenging, controversial circumstances (the focus will be on Terrell, The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning, Carolina Academic Press, 2016). Because those fundamentals inevitably involve normative values, the second part of the course will explore various philosophical perspectives within political and legal theory (e.g., John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Drucilla Cornell, and others).
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 699C, 000. Juvenile Defender Clinic
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman
Prerequisite: Priority will be given to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in: Kids in Conflict with the Law, Juvenile Law or Family Law 2; Criminal Procedure; and Evidence.
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Description: The Juvenile Defender Clinic is an in-house legal clinic dedicated to providing holistic legal representation for children charged with delinquency and status offenses. Student attorneys represent clients in juvenile court and provide legal advocacy in school discipline, special education and mental health matters, when such advocacy is derivative of a client's juvenile court case.
Under the supervision of the clinic's director, Randee Waldman, student attorneys are responsible for handling all aspects of client representation. While in the clinic, JDC students will: Establish an attorney-client relationship with their client(s); Direct case strategy determinations; Investigate allegations; Interview witnesses; Negotiate dispositions and plea agreements; Prepare and litigate motions, and Try cases.
Students are also encouraged to engage in research and participate in juvenile justice policy development.
Applications are accepted via Symplicity or e-mail to professor Waldman prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Grades will be based upon (i) a short reaction paper, (ii) an in-class advocacy exercise and (iii) a final research paper.
Description: The 2-credit course is a detailed study of the juvenile delinquency system. This course will trace the trajectory of juvenile justice in the United States over the course of the last century, from its birth as a separate system in the early 1900s, through the due process revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread punitive reforms of the 1990s, to the recent rulings on the juvenile death penalty. It will explore critical issues such as search, seizure, and interrogation of minors; waiver from juvenile to adult court; the unique procedural mechanisms of juvenile courts; sentencing and confinement; and implications of emerging scientific research on adolescent development. Finally, the course will also explore the relationship between the juvenile delinquency and school systems. Classes will consist of lecture, discussion, and advocacy exercises. This course is open to all 2Ls and 3Ls, and is a pre- or co-requisite for entry into the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wilson
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Focuses primarily on the National Labor Relations Act and its interpretation, including the prospect of reform legislation. Coverage also will include other matters such as regulation of globalization and preemption, and brief comparisons of the NLRA to the Railway Labor Act.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 708,000. Law and Religion: Theories, Methods, and Approaches
Credits: 2-4 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Allard
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Weekly reflections; 2 short papers; In-class presentation; Exam type - Paper
Description: Interdisciplinary scholarship is often lauded for challenging assumptions, contributing new perspectives, and leading to groundbreaking new insights that would not be possible without crossing disciplinary borders. While there are certainly benefits to interdisciplinary scholarship, such approaches also pose a unique set of challenges. The success of interdisciplinary scholarship depends on the scholar’s ability to communicate to audiences who often use different nomenclature, evidence, and analytical methods. A failure to appreciate these challenges can lead to attempts at interdisciplinary scholarship that are reductive, one-sided, vague, or confused.
In this course, students will survey the interdisciplinary field of law and religion. The course will begin by discussing the nature of the field known as law and religion. What areas of inquiry constitute this field? What do we mean when we talk about “law” and “religion”? The course will then cover different substantive areas and methodological approaches by reading, analyzing, and critiquing examples of law and religion scholarship from leading scholars. Students will be asked to think about the choices that scholars make: What is the relationship of law and religion in this example of scholarship? What does the scholar draw on as evidence for her argument? How does the scholar construct his argument? How does the scholar think about law? How does the scholar think about religion? These and other questions will help students understand how different approaches function; what they can achieve; what they cannot achieve; and why a scholar would choose a certain approach. By the conclusion of the course, students will (1) understand the scope and subjects covered by the field of law and religion, (2) develop an understanding of different methodological approaches to the study of law and religion, and (3) be prepared to use different methodological approaches in their own writing. This course is recommended for students in advance of a significant writing project in law and religion, including a journal comment, major seminar paper, or thesis.
Course requirements include weekly reflections on the readings, an in-class presentation, and two 10-15 page papers. There are no prerequisites for this course.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
628B. Law,Sustainability, and Development
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Atieno Samandari
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description:This course examines the role of law and the legal system in economic and social development, with a focus on developing countries and emerging markets. It will explore how law, in its various forms, may bring about or impede development, however defined, and how development may affect or change the legal system of the country concerned. International organizations, foreign aid agencies, and local and international nongovernmental organizations have become extraordinarily active in this field, spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The conceptions of development that underlie those efforts are diverse – development may be seen as growth or improvement in, among other things, income, education, health, and human rights. We will take a similarly expansive view of “law,” recognizing that in many contexts it blurs into politics, governance, and social custom. The course will seek to challenge conventional approaches to law and development and enhance the appreciation of the point of view of developing countries and marginalized communities regarding development.
The course will begin by interrogating the concept of ‘development’ and some of the problems that it encompasses. We will then explore the role of law and how/whether it may be used as an effective instrument for developing and implementing solutions to development problems. The course will cover a broad (but by no means exhaustive) set of issues in law and development and will take a critical perspective and include growing awareness of the importance of sustainability in development.
Law 715, 000. Law & The Unconscious Mind
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Duncan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: How can prison be irresistibly alluring, and what does this allure imply for the purposes of punishment? How does the character of the one-time criminal differ from that of the career offender? How does stealing gratify both the wish to be dependent and the wish to be “macho” and aggressive? Why are metaphors of soft, wet dirt (such as slime and scum) commonly used for criminals, and why is this usage not really as negative as it seems? Why might the world be a poorer place without criminals? These are some of the intriguing questions that will be explored in this class. In addition, the course provides a basic understanding of psychoanalysis, including infantile sexuality, the unconscious, and the defense mechanisms, such as denial, repression, undoing, and splitting. The class format will consist of lecture, discussion, movies, and (a few) games.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Law 747, 02A.
Law 747, 08A.
Legal Profession
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Elliott & Hughes Jr.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Deets
Prerequisite: Criminal Law and Constitutional Law
Grading Criteria: Class Participation; Short papers; Group Project; Final Paper
Description: See below.
Appropriateness or need for the course:
The proposed workshop offers a substantive knowledge and practical skills professional development opportunity that is immediately meaningful to students planning to assume entry-level positions in the public criminal justice system as prosecutors or defense attorneys upon graduating from law school. Current estimates indicate that mental illness among those incarcerated is steadily increasing. These estimates suggest that 45% of federal offenders, 56% state offenders, and 64% jail inmates suffer from some form of mental illness. Despite the prevalence of the intersection between mental illness and the criminal justice system, there is little to no educational opportunity to study the phenomena in the law school’s current curriculum.
Curricular fit or overlap with other courses:
The proposed workshop is unique from any current course offering expanding on the foundational Criminal Law course; however, it fits within the law school’s existing recognition of the need to support specialized criminal justice curriculum offerings, such as in the offerings covering juvenile law and white-collar crimes. The Access to Justice Workshop which I developed a few years back and is now taught by an Emory alum, examines the critical importance of legal representation for the poor in the early stages of criminal prosecution. The new proposed workshop will supplement these subspecialty areas within the study of the criminal justice system in a distinguishable, but equally important way.
Sequencing of this course with others:
The proposed workshop may be grouped with the development of essential substantive criminal law specialty offerings, such as juvenile law, access to justice for the indigent, and white collar crimes, however, it is not particularly subject to being sequenced, except perhaps as being considered as a factor in a student’s externship placement within a public defender’s office during their third year.
Pre-requisites and co-requisites:
Criminal Law and Constitutional Law
Target students:
Target students are third-year students interested in public criminal law, nonprofit public policy advocacy, and generally students interested in public interest and the civil rights of marginalized individuals.
Anticipated student enrollment numbers:
The enrollment goal for the proposed course is 16 to 24 students.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 661 000, Natural Resources Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor: TBD
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 4 short papers will be assigned throughout the class and grade will be based on those assignments; no exam
Description: Natural resource management presents extremely difficult and contentious issues of law and public policy. This courses will encourage discussion on these issues, while providing an overview of relevant programs and laws that govern the use and protection of natural resource systems. Special attention will be given to wetlands and coastal regulation, transportation and water resource development, energy, and pollution control.
3 Sections:
Law 656, 06A.
Law 656, 06B(2).
Negotiations
THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OR BUSINESS SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Athans; Lytle; & Eldridge
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes preceded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 754, 10A. Patent Law
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Holbrook
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Final Exam.
Description: This course will cover the core topics of U.S. patent law such as patentability, including novelty, non-obviousness, and enablement; infringement; and remedies. The course will examine how patents are used as a business tool to commercialize new technologies and innovations. The course will also review the major aspects of patent reform as codified under the America Invents Act. The course is designed to provide a solid background for on-patent specialists and for those planning a career in the field. No technical background is required. There is no prerequisite for this course.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Geary; Lott; & McCoyd
Prerequisite: Third Years (Second Years with documented litigation or evidence course experience)
Grading Criteria: Written work and Oral performance
Description: This is a civil case litigation skills/simulation course. The students work as two person teams forming a law firm under the direct supervision of a "senior partner". ("Senior Partners" are adjunct professors who are local premiere attorneys in active practice or judges currently on the trial/appellate bench.) The student’s, aided and guided by their senior partner, represent their clients essentially as they would in actual cases, and learn the basics of preparing a case from investigation and initiation through discovery, making a record to support or defend a substantive motion-- the culminating exercise for the course. An actual client, played by a person from outside of the course, is assigned to each firm. The student lawyers conduct intake interviews of their clients and witnesses then proceed to represent them. At all stages of the process, students receive active input from and evaluation by the distinguished slate of adjunct professors. The students determine what type of legal action to take, and will draft pleadings, conduct informal witness interviews, draft written discovery and take and defend depositions.
Course faculty members provide guidance and instruction in their roles as teachers, judges and senior partners, with students taking primary responsibility for client representation and strategic decisions with regard to case direction. Actors who are very familiar with their parts and who remain "in character" appear in some roles as parties and witnesses while students in the course serve alternately as counsel and witness in others. The cases culminate in major motion hearings. The faculty members present regular lectures and demonstrations about various aspects of pretrial practice which are presented hand-in-hand with the developing procedures and technology affecting the practice of law. Attendance is required for the lectures, but primarily the student teams work independently. Every student performance, written and oral, is observed, critiqued and graded by the faculty. There are no written examinations. There are submissions of written materials and use of technology through audio visual presentations at motions hearings, etc. Students are graded on their class performances, written work product and development as "practicing attorneys." Former students have described this course as a great source for practical experience with regard to client relations, litigation strategy and discovery tactics -- all guided by esteemed faculty from the bench and practicing bar. Many students use their course case materials, experiences and notes as a practice resource after they enter the practice of law. The course provides students an interesting and exciting window on the actual practice of law.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 616, 12A. Real Estate Finance
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Alexander
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course first examines in detail the elements of basic real estate conveyances including the sales contract, instruments of conveyance and title assurance (recording acts, title insurance, warranties). The second half of the course is devoted to alternative methods of financing a real estate acquisition including various mortgage instruments, transfers of mortgaged property, and foreclosure questions.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Morris
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: This course will cover special topics in technology.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Bagley, Margo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectibility of marks, including words, symbols, and “trade dress”; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and “cybersquatting”; and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.
*Updated as of Fall 2014.
Law 724. Transitional Justice
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s):Prof. Blank
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 2 assignments (20% each of final grade) & Final exam (take home) (60% of final grade)
Description: This course explores the legal issues and real-life challenges in countries emerging from dictatorship, repression and armed conflict. Students will examine key transitional justice principles and debates, the workings of multiple transitional justice mechanisms, and the dilemmas arising in societies transitioning from conflict and repression.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 724A. Transitional Justice Practicum
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin
Prerequisite: Transitional Justice Course (co-req ok)
Enrollment: Limited to 4 students only! (must be Transitional Justice Course)
Grading Criteria: Short written projects/Large research report (75%) & small assignments (25%)
Description: This course is designed to be an add-on practicum to Prof. Laurie Blank's Transitional Justice course. It will offer students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they will receive from their doctrinal course to real world situations that human rights NGOs and think tanks are trying to address. The practicum not only will enhance students' understanding of the transitional justice issues but offers them the opportunity to build their essential research and writing skills. The practicum also will allow students the chance to network with organizations working on the cutting edge of this field. The course format includes a mix of lectures focused on building necessary skills, meetings to collaborate on and workshop projects and individual research time with the professor focused on their particular research project.
The course will be two credits and will require either several short written projects or one larger research report for an organization (75%), along with a serious of project-related small assignments to show the student's progress (25%). It will be limited to 4 students enrolled in the Transitional Justice course.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Midterm & Final Exam
Description: Study of the law of intestate succession, limitations on testamentary powers, formalities necessary for executing or revoking wills and trusts, incorporation by reference and the doctrine of independent legal significance, problems of construction and interpretation of wills, trusts, and will substitutes, plus limited study of the use of future interests in trust and powers of appointment.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldstein
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (prerequisite OR co-requisite)
Grading Criteria: Group assignments (based on individual work)
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities are among the most critical issues for our state, region, and nation. The Clinic's students benefit and learn from immersion in these real world, complex environmental representations.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 685A. Veterans Benefits Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Early
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation (10%) & Final Exam (90%)
Description: This course introduces students to the body of administrative rules that govern the administration of veterans’ benefits, both through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the relevant courts. It teaches the law and procedure applicable to claims by veterans and their families at all stages of the Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication process: initial fact-finding by VA regional offices, appellate claims to the Board of Veterans Appeals, and appellate review by the United States Court of Veterans Claims. In addition to instruction in relevant doctrine and policy exposure, students will engage in exercises directed to the basics of the disability rating process, to establishing the service connection to a disability, and to discharge review. Students will also be exposed to typical claims issues raised in veterans’ cases handled by the Emory Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans. Law students interested in administrative law, personal injury, and civil litigation will benefit from this course, as will students interested in public service, who will be better prepared to serve as pro bono counsel to veterans in the future. This field will be one of growing importance, as the war in Afghanistan winds down and the military continues to shrink.
Textbook: Veterans Law Cases and Theory by Prof James Ridgway of GMU (who is also the senior staff attorney at VA’s Board of Veterans Appeals).
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 842, 000. SEM: Advance International Negotiations
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Balian & Zwier
Prerequisite: None (Negotiations or ADR recommended co-req)
Grading Criteria: Simulations; Class participation; & Paper
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in two-party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: selected issues in Middle East Peace, including the territorial dispute over the Golan Heights and the Right of Return for refugees in the Palestinian context; the border dispute between Bolivia, Chile, and Peru; Sudan and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement; the Dayton Peace Accords for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kosovo final status negotiations; and post-conflict rule of law building in Liberia. Our text will be Talking With Evil: Principled Pragmatism on an International Stage, by Paul J. Zwier: which deal with research on the wide array of potential approaches to international conflict resolution. You can pick up a copy of this book at the copy center. The cost will be $30.00. Reading material is also selected from institutions involved in conflict resolution negotiations, including the Geneva-based Center for Humanitarian Dialogue and the Stockholm-based International IDEA. These materials, along with simulations that we will be using will be provided electronically.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Seminar: 840, 000. Children's Rights
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Woodhouse
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Participation; Presentation; & Final Paper
Description: The goal of this seminar is to engage students in in-depth analysis, research and writing about the rights of children and youth. Children's Rights encompasses a broad range of issues, including constitutional and developmental frameworks, international human rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, economic and social rights of children, rights of minors accused of crimes, free speech, religious and reproductive rights of minors, including LGBTQ minors and minors with disabilities, rights of identity for immigrant children, adopted children and children conceived through alternative reproductive technologies, rights of children in out of home care, children's educational and disability rights, rights of children during conflict and wartime, children as refugees and workers, children as victims of domestic violence, trauma and abuse, and children's rights to agency and participation as members of the social and political community. In each of these areas, consideration of class, race and gender are ever present.
While we will utilize black letter law and court cases in our discussions and research, the contributions of disciplines other than law are critical to our understanding of children's rights (e.g., child development, psychology, social work, pediatrics, neurology, ethnography, economics). In addition, valuable work is being done by various organizations and NGOs active in advocating for children, furthering child-centered research and developing successful strategies or programs, at local, state, national and international levels. These resources will play a large role in your study of children's rights.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 809, Section 04A. SEM: Comparative Constitutional Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. An-na'im
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper & Class Participation
Description: The first part of this seminar will discuss concepts and mechanisms of constitutionalism, including comparative governance systems and models of normative and legal ordering of societies. The second part of the Seminar will focus on issues of law and religion in comparative perspectives. Issues to be covered include the relationship of religion, state, politics and law in a range of constitutional models, freedom of religion and belief and its relationship to other fundamental human rights, and competing models of the public role of religion.
Final grade will be basedon:
10% for class participation
30% for one paper on a topic to be specified in the Seminar Outline,
60% for a final paper on a topic agreed with instructor
Students who wish to use this Seminar for satisfying their writing requirement will submit a single final paper on a topic agreed with the instructor.
Students taking this option must submit:
-Substantial (app. 20 page) draft by Monday 31st October 2016,
-Final version of their paper by Wednesday 30th November 2016.
The final papers must satisfy the length and format specifications of writing requirement papers, as set by the Registrar of Emory Law School.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Law 821: SEM: Corporate Governance
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Georgiev, George
Prerequisite: Business Associations or equivalent
Grading Criteria: Research paper; Presentation; & Class participation.
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Description: Corporate governance is in a state of tremendous flux as a result of the global financial crisis of 2008-09, the corporate accounting scandals of the early 2000s, heightened public scrutiny of corporate conduct, and the rise of shareholder activism. This seminar will provide an overview of the main academic theories of corporate governance and examine some of the ongoing debates about the efficacy and adequacy of recent reforms, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, and related SEC rulemaking. Topics include: the structure and composition of the board of directors, executive compensation, shareholder activism, the role of proxy advisory firms, the financial crisis, corporate social responsibility, and the nexus between SEC disclosure obligations and corporate governance practices.
Prof. Georgiev is joining Emory from UCLA School of Law. The seminar will require class participation, occasional short response papers on the reading assignments, a research paper, and a class presentation. The seminar will satisfy the writing requirement for JD students.
Law 825. SEM: Equality at Emory
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dudziak
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Final Research Paper
Description: This seminar will explore the civil rights history of Emory Law School and Emory University. Readings will cover the history of inclusion and exclusion in higher education on the basis of race, gender, religion, disability, immigration status, and LGBTQ identity. Students will do historical research, using local archives and interviews, and will write research papers that illuminate an aspect of law school or university civil rights history. Although students will have different topics, the class will work together as a research team, sharing insights and research strategies.
Professor Dudziak is an expert in the history of civil rights, foreign relations and constitutional law. Her books include Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Before moving to Emory in 2012, she regularly taught course in civil rights history and individual constitutional rights.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
SEM: 823, 001. The Family, the State & Vulnerability
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dinner
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Weekly reading; Class Participation; Short critical response papers; Oral presentation; & 30-page research paper.
Description: “Public” family law—welfare state policies and agencies—as well as “private” family law—marriage and divorce adjudication—regulate families. Public and private family law reinforce normative conceptions of the ideal family, privileging some “real” families and disadvantage others. Social insurance mechanisms such as survivors’ pensions; welfare entitlements such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families; tax laws; and private family law mechanisms such as child support all shape family forms. Recent years have seen both change and continuity in legal regulation. Today, same-sex marriage has bestowed rights and obligations upon many gay families. Other families, however, negotiate human dependency and responsibility largely outside the bounds of formal legal recognition.
This seminar uses history and theory to examine the changing legal regulation of the family via both public and private family law. The seminar takes as a starting point for analysis the concept of universal human vulnerability. The family serves both as a site of human beings’ experience of vulnerability and as a societal mechanism for responding to individuals’ vulnerability. As the nature of American capitalism evolved over the course of the twentieth century, families and the state adapted to the ways in which a dynamic economy affected the vulnerability and resilience of families. We will evaluate the efficacy of various legal responses. The seminar will require weekly reading, active participation, short critical response papers to the reading, an oral presentation to the class, and a thirty-page research paper. The seminar will satisfy the writing requirement for graduation.
*Updated as of 3/22/2016.
Law 810. SEM: Hate Speech & Free Speech
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Seaman
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: Regulation of hate speech and other expression that implicates equality values often comes into conflict with the First Amendment. Recent events on university campuses, including at Emory, demonstrate the complexities that arise when listeners claim that others’ expression impacts their feelings of safety and inclusion. This seminar broadly considers the intersection between these two fundamental constitutional values of freedom of expression and antidiscrimination. Students will examine these issues from a variety of perspectives, including legal, comparative and interdisciplinary materials. The basic constitutional law course is a prerequisite; prior coursework on freedom of speech is helpful but not strictly required.
Law 819, 000. SEM Human Rights: Law, Medicine, & Human Rights
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Perry & Prof. Joel Zivot of Emory's School of Medicine
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description:This seminar will address several difficult, controversial topics, each of which (a) lies at the interface of law and medical science and (b) implicates one or more recognized human rights. The topics to be addressed include torture, capital punishment, and physician-assisted suicide. Every member of the seminar will be asked to write a paper, and the grade for the seminar will be based mainly on the paper. The seminar will be co-taught by Professor Joel Zivot of Emory's School of Medicine and Professor Michael Perry of Emory's School of Law.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 817, 000. SEM: Implementation of International Law in the US.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An overview of American foreign policy, highlighting among other things what has come to be known as American exceptionalism and contrasting that with the post-World-War I American policy of isolationism, the promotion of American interests in international law, and a shift in American foreign policy brought about by the Obama administration; The prosecution of offences against the law of nations in the United States, with special emphasis on Article VI, Clause [2], and Article 1, Section (8), Clause [10], of the Constitution, and with special reference to the prosecution of torture and genocide in the United States; Non-ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with special emphasis on the influence of religious groups that oppose the ratification on biblical grounds, and the role of federalism (the rights of the child are almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of states) that may preclude the federal authorities from ratifying the Convention; The United States and the jurisprudence of international tribunals, with special emphasis on reluctance of the United States to submit itself to the jurisdiction of such tribunals, the Nicaragua Case in which the International Court of Justice in the 1980s condemned the United States for its assistance to the Contras, and the fairly recent judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medelln v. Texas, as well as decisions of the American Commission on Human Rights relating to non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (by not always informing an alien detainee of his or her right to consular assistance); The International Criminal Court (ICC), with special emphasis on the positive role played by the United States in the drafting of the ICC Statute, hostility of the Bush administration toward the ICC, and re-engagement by the Obama administration with the ICC in 2009 to become a cooperating non-party State; and how this is to be reconciled with the American Servicemembers Protection Act, which in essence prohibits the United States from cooperating in any way with the ICC.
Military Interventions by the United States, with special reference to provisions in the U.N. Charter that instruct Member States not to settle their international disputed through the taking up of arms, questions as to legality under the norms of international humanitarian law of anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian interventions, and wars of liberation, the Reagan Doctrine, and the recent armed interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 843, 000. SEM: International Environmental Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fineman
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar will examine the development of international environmental law (IEL), focusing on the major areas of global environmental protection including climate change and biodiversity. The course will trace the stages in the evolution of IEL and explore the development of the theoretical underpinnings of the regime, including sustainable development, the “polluter pays” principle, precaution and vulnerability among others. The aim of the course is to understand the current trajectory of the development of international environmental law and discuss possible frontier approaches that can advance global cooperation for conserving and protecting Earth’s environment.
Overarching themes that will recur in the seminar include ecological limitations versus economic development; North-South politics; international regulation versus State sovereignty; and maintaining the status quo versus the need for reform and the implementation of solutions.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 844, 000. SEM: Judicial Behavior
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. J. Shepherd
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Response papers & Final Paper
Description: How do judges decide cases? Some argue that judges primarily rely on legal factors to make their decisions, while others contend that judges decide cases in order to advance their own policy preferences. More recent studies of judicial behavior have concluded that judges may also be influenced by an aversion to reversal, an attempt to reduce their workload, and efforts to stay on the bench or attain an promotion. An understanding of judicial behavior is critical in policy debates about judicial selection methods, recusal rules, campaign finance reform, removal standards, and many other procedural rules and institutional norms. It is also an important factor in predicting litigation outcomes. In this class, we will explore theories of judicial behavior, examine the empirical evidence about how judges decide cases, and discuss the policy implications arising from the evidence. While some experience with empirical analysis would be helpful, it is not required.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016
Seminar: 833. Law and Vulnerability
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Fineman & Samandari
Grading Criteria: Paper
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment: Limited to 16!
Description: This seminar explores the relationship between law and vulnerability from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. The course is anchored in the understanding that fundamental to our shared humanity is our shared vulnerability, which is universal and constant and inherent in the human condition. It will offer students an opportunity to engage with multiple perspectives on vulnerability, with an emphasis on law, justice, state policy and legislative ethics. While vulnerability can never be eliminated, society through its institutions confers certain "assets" or resources, such as wealth, health, education, family relationships, and marketable skills on individuals and groups. These assets give individuals "resilience" in the face of their vulnerability. This seminar will explore how as society now is structured, however, certain individuals and groups operate from positions of entrenched advantage or privilege, while others are disadvantaged in ways that seem to be invisible as we engage in law and policy discussions.
*Updated as of 3/18/2016.
Law 838, 000. SEM: Products Liability
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Vandall
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: Products Liability (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar provides an opportunity for a student to write a paper on a developing aspect of products liability theory. Topics considered and materials will vary from year to year. The course in Products Liability is recommended, but not required.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
Law 746A, 000. SEM: Professional Negligence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Partlett
Selection: Pre-selection form: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/lsr-fall-2016-seminar-preselection/
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar will explore the liability of professionals for negligent conduct. It will cover professionals such as physicians, psychologists, dentists, and others whose actions risk bodily injury. It will also cover those whose professional activities risk property and economic losses, such as engineers, architects, lawyers, and accountants. The legal field of focus is liability in the borderland between torts and contracts. The seminar will also engage the form and structure of business torts that are neglected in the curriculum, yet loom large in commercial practice.
Particularly with respect of medical malpractice, compensation schemes to replace or supplement liability rules continue to be proposed. Their merits and demerits will be discussed. The seminar will also consider such fundamental issues as causation and remedies, where the liability of professionals is in question.
Materials will be distributed and discussion expected. Students will be required to prepare a paper that can be in satisfaction of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will orally present a final draft paper in class. This will form part of the final grade. In selection of the topic and in working through drafts, students will work closely with me.
*Updated as of Fall 2015.
The following courses are being offered in Spring 2016.
Class Number: 4933; Catalog Number- Law 679, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Costa, Jason F.
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises, court performance, periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and under-served populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering with drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions
But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways. First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews with actual defendants (either in or out of custody) and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and even possibly motions and trials).
Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple days will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement with the State Court Division of the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office as it would cause a professional conflict.
Administrative Law
Class Number: 4805; Catalog Number- Law 701, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Arthur, Thomas
Prerequisite: Legislation & Regulation.
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: Most areas of contemporary legal practice require lawyers to work with administrative agencies and a large body of law concerning such agencies. This course is a study of how agencies are empowered, the procedures and modes through which agencies carry out their tasks, and legal constraints on these agencies. Topics include constitutional limits on Congress' power to delegate legislative and judicial power to agencies; procedures imposed upon agency adjudication and lawmaking by the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, and other statutes; the scope of judicial review of agency decisions, including the methods by which courts restrict and control agency discretion, and the limitations on the availability of federal judicial review of federal agency actions. In addition, the course will explore several recent "regulatory reform" initiatives.
Class Number: 4934; Catalog Number- Law 852 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Rubin & Prof. Brickman
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Motion/Brief; and Mock Trial.
Description: The course is designed to teach trial techniques, criminal procedure and ethics. Most of the classes will involve the students conducting various types of hearings and arguments. Designed in a case-simulation format, the course will enable the students to develop substantive knowledge of criminal law and procedures, develop case theory and witness testimony, draft pretrial motions, and finally conduct a full jury trial. The course will also build on the skills learned in Trial Techniques and develop students' facility with the advocacy techniques necessary to prosecute or defend criminal cases. Students will have multiple opportunities to perform in class and will receive extensive individual feedback from experienced lawyers. Further, several classes will involve discussions with guest speakers on ethics, investigation and forensics.
Students will be graded on their performance in class during the semester, on a written brief, and on their performance in the mock trial at the end of the semester. Grades will be based on how well the students conduct the hearings and trials, i.e., formulation of examination questions, understanding of theory of examination, ability to frame legal arguments and make objections, and presentation. Students will also be required to draft a motion and brief, and will be graded on the quality of the legal writing.
Class Number: 5018; Catalog Number- Law 875
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Maloy, Bruce
Prerequisites: Criminal Law
Grading Criteria:
Description: In the 21st century, white collar criminal cases – including business frauds, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, tax evasion, healthcare fraud, and criminal violations of the securities statutes – have become increasingly complex, forcing lawyers to confront issues like the waiver of a corporation’s attorney-client privilege, joint defense agreements, defense witness immunity, and parallel investigations by enforcement agencies and global settlements. White collar criminal lawyers also need to know how to deal with internal investigations, whistle blowers, wiretaps and search warrants. This class aims to introduce students to the governing law and practice in this field, with a particular focus on how to defend clients accused of white collar crimes in the US and in multinational investigations.
Class Number: 4807; Catalog Number- Law 657, 12A
Accelerated Class: January 4, 2016 – February 15, 2016
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Christian, Elizabeth
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Enrollment: 20
Description: An examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through lectures and practical application with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as advanced research techniques, case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research.
This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Class Number: 4935; Catalog Number- Law 851, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Romig & Prof. Chapman
Prerequisite: LWRAP I
Grading Criteria: Students will write approximately eight blog posts of 600-800 words each, and will comment on other students’ work posted on the course blog. Satisfactory peer review of selected assignments and the final project will also be required. This work is ungraded but required for passing the course, and will form the basis for the final capstone blog project.
The final grade will be calculated as follows: 10 percent of the grade will be based on a short small-group presentation on an assigned topic about blogging (examples: strong lead paragraphs, use of headings, humor, links and citations).
The other 90 percent will be based on the capstone blog project, in which students will create blogs representing themselves and their law-related interests. Each student will create his or her own blog that includes at least five posts revised from the student’s earlier posts in the course, and two additional posts that the student creates. These posts should represent the student’s legal research and analytical abilities, reader-focused organization and reader-friendly concise writing, unique yet still professional voice, and writing proficiency with grammar and punctuation. The goal is to create a blog that the student can use after the class to explore his or her law-related interests and represent those interests to potential employers. The student will have the ability to limit blog access to class members only. Prior technical knowledge of blogging software is not required – students will learn to use WordPress, a leading blogging platform.
Description: This course is an experiential course that will teach skills that are crucial for every young litigator or any lawyer who might end up in court. We will discuss many of the typical pre-trial motions filed when defending a civil case and will address litigation strategy. Specifically, the class will work through a medical malpractice case, and the students will write three briefs: (1) a brief in support of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim; (2) a brief in response to a motion to compel discovery; and (3) a brief in support of a motion for summary judgment. We anticipate the students will also do an oral argument on the motion for summary judgment. The assignments will be “closed universe” assignments, meaning that the students will not need to do independent research. Out of class reading, other than authorities for the briefs, will be limited; the students will learn to write briefs by writing them. The students will not take a separate final exam. The only prerequisites for this course are those in the first year curriculum. Students do not need to take Pre-Trial Litigation before taking this class.
Class Number: 4825; Catalog Number- Law 755A, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elmore & Prof. Goheen
Prerequisite: Federal Courts; Civil Procedure
Description: Advanced Pre-Trial Litigation is for students who have taken Civil Procedure, and Federal Courts, and are ready for an advanced strategy practicum that prepares them for the complexities of modern litigation practice.
The Legal Strategy part of the course teaches students to consider the theoretical aspects of strategy and methods for working through a strategy problem, and then apply those theories and methods to practical problems. The problems involve a small business that encounters a series of situations requiring advice with respect to strategy.
In the second part of the course, the students will learn about negotiation theory and strategy and apply these techniques to the negotiation of an e-discovery dispute. Discovery of electronic materials, usually in digital format, creates some especially difficult, time-sensitive responsibilities for lawyers. Practicing successful methods for dealing with these responsibilities in a learning-by-doing setting provides an opportunity to adapt these methods to the individual lawyer’s own situation and style.
This is “entry-level” subject matter in the sense that it does not purport to cover all the specialized aspects of e-discovery, particularly those faced by very large companies or by companies with unusual records retention practices. The purpose of this part of the course is to provide lawyers with a general methodology that will, in most cases, prevent sanctions against the client and the lawyer, while being responsive under the rules to e-discovery requests and minimizing unnecessary business interruption. However, no general method can protect against every mistake or every type of intentional wrongdoing. And no general method can minimize business interruptions in every situation.
This course is structured around the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. States may have more or less restrictive requirements, but the federal rules provide a useful general benchmark, and many state jurisdictions follow them.
E-discovery problems arise in two distinct phases:
- Preservation, production, and use of e-discovery; and
- Prosecuting or defending against challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery.
These are quite different areas and require different skills. For this reason, we have developed two separate sections on e-discovery. The first part focuses on preservation, production, and use of e-discovery and seeks to develop the skills for interviewing, negotiating, and organizing your electronic discovery. A second part focuses on challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery and seeks to develop the skills for preparing, arguing, and defending against typical motions for protective orders, motions to compel and motions for sanctions.
The e-discovery problems also develop skills in counseling clients, negotiating with opposing lawyers, and dealing successfully with vendors. These skills are directed at the first-in-time problems of e-discovery – getting it right at the start and preventing disputes or adverse decisions. The course adapts established learning-by-doing teaching materials on interviewing and counseling, and on negotiation, for the special e-discovery setting. The case law applies primarily to the second area of e-discovery: prosecuting and defending against challenges to the sufficiency of e-discovery.
Finally, in part three of the course we will deal with the strategy and law of class action law suits. This part of the course will teach you how to make the decision whether to file a class action law suit, or go it alone. It will also examine how to think about your defense options: whether to agree to a class action for settlement purposes, fight class certification, or negotiate some variation between these two extremes,(including an overview of multidistrict litigation options). This part of the course will also refine your understanding the law and procedure (including appellate review) related to class certifications.
Class Number: 4808; Catalog Number- Law 605, 04A (Allgood)
Class Number: 4872; Catalog Number- Law 605, 02A (Armstrong)
Class Number: 4960; Catalog Number- Law 605, GRAD (Allgood)
COURSES NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN BUSINESS SCHOOL OR LAW SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Allgood & Prof. Armstrong
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
- Team Role Plays and Final Objective Exam (Allgood)
- Take Home (Armstrong)
Enrollment: 20
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR] with an emphasis on negotiation, mediation and arbitration processes. Course objectives include an overview of these processes as a complement to litigation as well as study of and training in the skill sets used in each of the ADR processes by advocates as well as neutrals.
Class Number: 6096; Catalog Number- Law 644
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Cleaver, Kathleen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; In-class oral presentation; memo; and research paper.
Description: This course examines the evolution of U.S. citizenship as interpreted by courts and statutes during the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention given to the impact of historical events that constructed the way race was conceived of within the United States.
During the workshop we will study and discuss the Civil War amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 19th century civil rights legislation, restrictions imposed on Asian immigration, the citizenship of native peoples, the incorporation of Mexican territory and the citizenship of Mexicans, issues of equal protection, and the modern civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1964.
Class Number: 4905; Catalog Number- Law 560, LLM1
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An introduction to law and sources of law, legal bibliography and research techniques and strategies, the analysis of problems in legal terms, the writing of an office memorandum of law.
Class Number: 5383; Catalog Number- Law 560B, GRAD
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credit: 1 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: The objective of this course is to explore and develop American legal writing, analysis and research areas that are not covered by the introduction course.
Analysis, Research, and Communication (ARC)
Class Number: 5382; Catalog Number- Law 590, GRAD
Credit: 2 hours
Instructors: Prof. Daspit & Prof. Glon
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular Assignments / Final Project
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce persuasive arguments as well as informative legal explanations.
Class Number: 4926; Catalog Number- Law 734, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Enrollment: 80
Description: This course explores the application to the practice of law of analytical methods of the social sciences and business profession. It will introduce essential concepts from economics, accounting, finance, statistics, and game theory to prepare students for legal practice in the modern world. These tools can be tremendously important and useful; not knowing something about them can be a serious detriment to the effective practice of law. Always, our focus will be on the application of analytical methods to real legal problems, such as the appropriate measure of damages or when to settle a case -- not becoming adept at complicated calculations. Our primary goal: to recognize when an analytical method would be useful in a legal situation and to develop a rough idea of how to use that method. Students are not expected to have any prior training or experience.
Class Number: 4920; Catalog Number- Law 702, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Arthur, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Federal regulation of competitive practices under the Sherman, Clayton, and Federal Trade Commission Acts. The course covers such antitrust problems as joint activities by direct competitors, including cartel price fixing, market division and boycott arrangements and productive joint ventures; monopolization by single firms; restraints imposed by manufacturers on their distributors; and mergers.
Art and Acts of Justice (Literature, Psychoanalysis, & Law)
Class Number: 5376; Catalog Number- Law 621, CPLT *Cross-listed course
Starts: January 11, 2016*
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Felman, Soshana
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Class participation; Short papers; Reading responses; and Oral presentation.
Description:A study of scenes of judgment in literature, art and philosophy, focusing on literature’s specific ways of dealing with injustice (and with trauma) in various literary, psychoanalytic, political and legal circumstances. We will examine both (great) literary texts and actual trials, dramas of great literary writers brought to court because of their innovative work, perceived as having pushed the boundaries of the accepted social standards. We will try to understand: What does literature mean, and why is it important, why does it matter? Why does a path-breaking work of art provoke each time not just a controversy but a larger cultural crisis? Topics under discussion include the interaction between justice, truth, desire, censorship, testimony, injury, memory, exile, and cross-cultural, global exchanges.
*Starts a week later so it can coincide with the start of Laney Graduate School.
Asset Forfeiture and the Bank Secrecy Act
Class Number: 5294; Catalog Number- Law 603
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Krepp, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class participation and take home examination
Enrollment: 14 students
Description: This class will explore asset forfeiture, the process by which federal law enforcement seizes and forfeits property linked to criminal activity. This is a unique area of the law that touches upon various aspects of criminal law, civil law, regulatory compliance, and financial laws. The class delves into the policy, legal, and ethical issues surrounding the federal forfeiture statutes. The class will also explore the Bank Secrecy Act, which is closely linked to asset forfeiture, and requires financial institutions to detect and report criminal activity. The course should be of interest to students interested in federal criminal and civil practice as well as those students interested in regulatory compliance and the representation of financial institutions.
Bankruptcy Law Research
Class Number: 5298; Catalog Number- Law 657E
ACCELERATED COURSE: Starts week of February 15, 2016-March 28, 2016.
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor: Prof. Flick, Amy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Exercises and Research Project
Description: The course will introduce research methods and resources for bankruptcy law research. Students will become familiar with bankruptcy research through lectures and by practical application through in-class exercises, research homework exercises, and a final project researching a single large case. Topics will include research in the Bankruptcy Code and Rules, legislative history, bankruptcy case law resources, specialized bankruptcy treatises and databases, dockets, and reorganization plans. Tools used in bankruptcy practice will be introduced, including electronic case filing, docket tracking, and case management software.
Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Class Number: 4881; Catalog Number- 635D
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Reba, Stephen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: Students in the Appeal for Youth Clinic provide holistic appellate representation of youthful offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. By increasing the number of appeals from adjudications of delinquency, we hope to end the unwritten policies and practices that result in youths being committed to juvenile detention facilities. Similarly, by providing post-conviction representation to youths who were tried and convicted as adults, we hope to decrease the number of youthful offenders who languish in Georgia's prisons.
Barton Policy & Legislative Advocacy Clinic
Class Number: 4810; Catalog Number- Law 635C
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in the two-credit class, Child Welfare Law & Policy. This requirement may be waived for students with demonstrable prior experience in child advocacy, including the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program.
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: The Barton Policy and Legislative Advocacy Clinic is an in-house legal clinic committed to evidence-based reforms to improve outcomes for children and families involved in the juvenile court, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems. Students enrolled in the clinic conduct research and engage in advocacy to promote policies to advance the legal rights and interests of children. Specifically, students will participate in the legislative session, complete research for publication, participate in local and statewide advocacy events, and help inform the discussion of juvenile law with their own ideas or projects. Approximately 6-9 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Applications are accepted prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, list of 2 references, the name of his/her LWRAP Instructor, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic web site, http://www.childwelfare.net »
Class Number: 4897; Catalog Number- Law 630, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Aronson, Morton
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: This course focuses on client development and retention. Business and Strategic Lawyering is the big picture of law. It is the development and understanding of legal, business, political social and other considerations with a goal to implementing strategic legal, business and other actions to obtain the best results. The constantly changing fields of science, technology and globalization and their legal, business, political and social consequences make the strategic merging of proactive business strategies and legal considerations necessary for optimizing results. Both lawyers and business executives need to act proactively to protect clients and shareholder interests through effective strategic legal and business risk management structures and processes within the larger strategic business context. The course will include prominent guest lecturers from the legal and business communities.
This course will also consider and evaluate law firm management procedures and techniques to maximize on revenues as well as more effectively serving business clients. In the innovative driven technological economy we are living today, strategic lawyering has become an imperative for both lawyers and business executives.
- Class Number: 4861; Catalog Number- Law 500, 08A (Freer): Credit 4 hours
- Class Number: 4887; Catalog Number- Law 500X, 04A (Kang): Credit 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Freer & Prof. Kang
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course surveys formation, organization, financing, management, and dissolution of sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. The course includes fundamental rights and responsibilities of owners, managers, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises. This course includes consideration of major federal securities laws governing insider trading and other fraudulent practices under Rule 10b-5 and section 16(b).
Advanced Immigration Law – Business, Employment and Investment Immigration
Class Number: 5019; Catalog Number- Law 876
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Kuck, Charles
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: 3-hour final exam (MC, Short Answer, Essay)
Description:Immigration law is one of the most divisive and complex areas in American law, and a source of major policy debate. This course will introduce students to substantive legal concepts and procedures underlying the practice of immigration law in the United States, with emphasis on employment and investment based immigration. The course aims to provide an understanding of immigration statutes, regulations and processes, analyzing administrative and judicial decisions and agency practices, as well as to placing our current immigration laws and system in their historical, social, and political contexts. A critical component of the course is the practical application of the immigration laws, concepts and procedures learned. The course includes review of admission issues, employment-eligibility verification compliance, employer sanctions, nonimmigrant and immigrant visa classifications and procedures (e.g., B, F, E, J, L, TN, H, O and P Visas, Labor Certification, I-140 Petitions, EB-5 Adjustment of Status, Consular Processing), advanced immigration concepts (e.g., H-1B Portability, Green Card Portability, Visa Retrogression), and practical solutions and strategies for handling immigration-related issues in the workplace.
Class Number: 4809; Catalog Number- Law 658, 03A
SELECTION: INTERESTED STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT A LETTER OF INTEREST & RESUME TO JOSH MOORE, OFFICE OF THE GEORGIA CAPITAL DEFENDER (PHONE: 404.736.5151; FAX: 404.739.5155)
Credit: 3 Hours (pass/fail)
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third year law students from Emory, Georgia State, UGA, and Mercer will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients’ cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic—as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages—is to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on “making the case for life.” That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
The course component of this clinic will meet for 2 hours each week at the offices of the Capital Defender in downtown Atlanta. In addition to attending class, students will work on client matters for 10 hours each week. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis only, and students who express willingness to commit for 2 semesters will be given preference at the Pre-selection stage. Please indicate on your application whether you have taken any criminal procedure course(s) or the capital punishment course.
Catalyzing Social Impacts *Cross-listed with BUS 336/BUS 535
Class Number: ; Course Number- Law
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Roberts, Peter (Goizueta Busincess School)
Prerequisite:
Grading Criteria:
Description: In this project-based course, students gain experience analyzing and then developing solutions to the complex challenges faced by organizations that aspire to have meaningful social impacts. While conducting structured research that addresses the real-world issues faced by our clients, students gain exposure to the many experiments and ideas that relate to their assigned projects. They then apply this new knowledge, along with the skills that they are developing in law school, and working with Goizueta MBA students, to generate solutions that address our clients’ issues. In this way, we are also able to make tangible contributions to the lives that are touched by our impact-oriented clients.
Open to 2Ls, 3Ls and LLMs by application/permission only.
https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/preselection-for-catalyzing-social-impact/
Class Number: 4862; Catalog Number- Law 635, 02A
THIS COURSE QUALIFIES AS A PRE-REQUISITE OR CO-REQUISITE FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE BARTON PUBLIC POLICY OR LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY CLINIC.
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carter, Melissa.
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Grading is based on participation and a combination of in-class exercises and written assignments designed to encourage critical thinking about child welfare policy and to develop specific advocacy skills.
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child protection system, including the emergence of the juvenile court, and critical issues such as legal representation of children, impact litigation and limits on governmental authority. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, analytical writing and skills-based exercises, including legislative drafting and oral advocacy assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
Civil Trial Practice: Family Law
Class Number: 4866; Course Number- Law 958, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Wellon, Robert
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course Work, Pretrial Conference and Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation skills introduced in last year’s Trial Techniques Program, this course will enhance students’ trial proficiency by emphasizing lecture, demonstrations, as well as regular classroom participation through the NITA-inspired learn-by-doing approach. Students will receive guidance from a highly experienced panel of instructors comprised of well-respected judges and trial lawyers. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be presented by providers of litigation support. The case file is built around a divorce trial, with issues of custody, alimony and support, division of property, and an interesting twist on adultery and its impact. There are no family law pre-requisites for this course, as the primary focus will be developing and refining trial skills which will translate into any litigation. Some emphasis will be placed on the substantive law of domestic relations to establish the issues to be tried, but the real goal of the course is to further enhance the development of true trial lawyers. Other components of the course will feature jury selection by a nationally known jury consultant, and pretrial conferences in anticipation of preparing for trial. Throughout the course, knowledge of evidence and its proper application will be emphasized, along with effective and practical techniques of delivery and examination. At the conclusion of the semester, a full trial will be conducted by student trial teams to a live jury in a real courtroom setting at the DeKalb County Courthouse with actual trial judges presiding. This is an essential course for students interested in honing and further enhancing their abilities in a courtroom, and for others simply interested in expanding their knowledge and skills in the burgeoning area of family law. The course has been expanded to three hours in recognition of the value of the course and the time and specialized attention required to prepare law students to move immediately into trial work upon graduation.
Class Number: 5020; Catalog Number- Law 770, 04A
Credit: 2-3 Hours (optional 3rd credit for law students who write research papers)
Selection: Pre-selection (up to 10 law students)
Instructor: Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Work & Research Paper.
Description: This course is a law and graduate seminar held in conjunction with the Colloquium on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society. The colloquium approaches the study of law and war, and of national security, as inherently interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Each year the colloquium will focus on a particular theme, and will feature new work by scholars across a range of fields. Outside speakers will present works in progress. During weeks when there is no guest presenter, students will read and discuss books and articles on war, national security, and the role of law.
Course requirements: Students enrolled will be required to read and comment on papers by outside speakers, to read and discuss course readings, and to write a 20 page paper. Law students who enroll for an additional credit (for a total of 3 credits) will write a research paper of at least 30 pages instead of a 20 page paper. The 30 page research paper will involve more extensive research, and students will be required to complete additional assignments (paper topic essay and first draft), and will likely have an opportunity to present their research to the seminar.
The colloquium theme for Spring 2016: Soldiers and Civilians.
We will read and discuss works related to the experience of soldiers and civilians with war in the 20th century and after, including the history of U.S. military service, the draft and the all-volunteer armed services; the way casualties – military and civilian – have affected war politics and policy; civilian casualties and the concept of “collateral damage;” veterans, including disabled veterans.
Class Number: 5021; Catalog Number- Law 612
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Hay, Peter
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam or In-class Exam; Early delivery option for take-home.
Description: The first-year Contracts course typically is too compressed to deal in any depth with Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) which, in some form, is now the law in all States and applies to contracts for the sale of goods in excess of $500. This course covers Article 2 in depth and adds some treatment of documentary transactions (bills of lading and letters of credit). The Convention on the International Sales of Goods (CISG) was ratified by the United States and, as federal law, therefore supersedes the UCC, whenever its provisions cover an issue. The course therefore supplements UCC study with all relevant provisions of the CISG. – The course is offered in the form of a workshop in which issues like contract formation, formalities, conditions, breach, remedies are studied in a problem-solving format: Code (or CISG) law is applied to solve hypothetical cases, with court decisions serving as authoritative tools for the interpretation of the statutory language. The study of Art. 2 is a very desirable completion of one’s understanding of Contract law.
Class Number: 4867; Catalog Number- Law 610, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Freer, Richard
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: A study of the metamorphosis of litigation from the simple two-party model to multi-party, multi-claim litigation increasingly prevalent today, including the causes of this change and ability of the legal system to resolve such disputes. The course centers on a detailed study of the class action device, including jurisdictional and due process implications. Also included is the study of the problem of duplicative state and federal litigation, judicial control of complex cases, including multi-district litigation procedures and the case management movement, discovery (including international and e-discovery), and problems relating to preclusion in complex cases.
Conflict of Laws
Class Number: 5022; Catalog Number- Law 709, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Hay, Peter
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: When a case has interstate or international aspects – for instance: place of contracting and performance differ, a tort has cross-border effects, one party seeks an ex parte divorce or maintenance or child custody modification in another state or country, or an intestate decedent leaves property in different places -, the first question that rises: which court or courts have jurisdiction? Second, the court that does entertain the case must then decide which law to apply. (The anticipated answer to this question may influence the plaintiff’s choice of court in the first place). Third, if a successful plaintiff find no assets locally, s/he needs to get the judgment recognized and enforced in a state or country where the debtor defendant does have assets. – The course offers a good review of important aspects of civil procedure and treats choice of the applicable law and judgment recognition in depth. The focus is on interstate conflicts cases but the course also contains comparative and international material in all of its parts.
Class Number: 4873; Catalog Number- Law 710, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Beck, Joseph
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: Copyright law offers protection for original works including music, paintings, photographs, sculpture, movies, books, plays, fabric , architectural works, software and visual art. This course examines copyright law and its ability to respond to recent developments in technology. Course topics include the exclusive rights a copyright confers; infringement; defenses, including "fair use"; and remedies. There is also discussion of copyright litigation strategies and tactics employed by Professor Beck on behalf of his clients in the course of his private practice; in that sense, the class aims to be relatively pragmatic rather than theoretical.
Corporate Finance
Class Number: 5023; Catalog Number- Law 712, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, George
Prerequisites: Business Associations
Grading Criteria:
Description: A study of financial and economic theory underlying legal doctrines in corporate finance, and the relationship between these doctrines. Focuses on decisions about "value" in the context of such areas as bankruptcy reorganization, dissenters' appraisal rights, and public utility regulation. Problems of capital structure and the duties of directors to various classes of claimants are studied in light of decisions about dividend policy and reinvestment. Includes a brief review of modern portfolio theory.
Class Number: 4853; Catalog Number- Law 959, 10A
Class Number: 4871; Catalog Number- Law 959, 02A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor: Prof. Metzger, Jane
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques;
Grading Criteria: Class work
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students
Class open only to 3Ls
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors, and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Students reflected on what they gained from taking this class:
"I think what is most drastically different is how much more professional I came across later in the semester."
-Ben S.
"The largest benefit I drew from our class was the ability to stand comfortably in front of a group of people."
-Diana S.
"The most valuable aspect is practice, practice, practice, especially when combined with live and individualized feedback. I can make presentations with significantly less internal anxiety than before, and with more organization and the outward appearance of credibility." -Andrew R.
"This class taught me that putting work into your speaking style can really pay off! I also found the freedom during this class to try some experiments with my speaking technique, including not memorizing a script and moving about my space." -Alan W.
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
Class Number: 4922; Catalog Number- Law 622B, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Levine
Prerequisite: Criminal Law
Grading Criteria: Modified open book, in-class final exam; 6-8 page paper; meritorious class participation.
Enrollment: 24
Description: This course will examine how lawyers and judges behave in the criminal courts throughout the United States, as well as the legal doctrines implicated by their behavior. Topics include discovery, pre-trial detention, jury selection, prosecutorial charging and bargaining, ineffective assistance of counsel, double jeopardy, and speedy trial issues. Readings address material from law, sociology, history, and public policy. Students should note that this class has a strong sociology focus; it is not predominantly doctrinal.
CRIMINAL TAX CONTROVERSIES
Class Number: 5521; Catalog Number- Law 641A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Grimberg, Steven
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Written assignments and classroom exercises
Enrollment: 14
Description: This class will provide practical skills training in criminal tax and tax-related controversies, including tax evasion, tax fraud, money laundering and identity theft. The class will involve a mix of lecture and “learn by doing” exercises that will be geared towards developing your analytical, oral and written advocacy skills. No prior course work in tax, evidence, or criminal procedure is required, but some basics in these areas will be covered.
Class Number: 5024; Catalog Number- Law 688
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pike, Damon
Prerequisites: None (Although Admin. Law would be helpful)
Grading Criteria: Participation; Take-home paper; and In-class Exam
Description: As the world’s largest economy, the United States imports and exports more merchandise than any other country. “Customs Law” covers the “nuts and bolts” of laws administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”), the agency charged with regulating imports into the U.S. and collecting duties (including antidumping and countervailing duties), import fees, and related taxes.
Custom laws and regulations center on the tariff classification of merchandise under the Harmonized System (as set forth in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S.), the valuation of goods under the GATT (now WTO) Valuation Agreement, and the rules (both preferential and non-preferential) for determining “country of origin.” The course covers the entry and record-keeping process for imports, intellectual property enforcement at the border, CBP’s penalty regime, the use of preferential trade programs (specifically examining the North American Free Trade Agreement and its attendant Rules of Origin and Regional Value Content calculations), duty drawback, foreign trade zones, and other duty-reduction mechanisms. The course provides a detailed analysis of income tax transfer pricing rules in relation to customs valuation including post-importation adjustments, royalties, and other intangibles. Finally, the text covers the regulation of trade in art, antiquities, and cultural property. Finally, “Customs Law” covers the system of judicial review by the U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the secure Directed Research web page »
Class Number: 4855; Catalog Number- Law 659E, 09A
STUDENTS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY TAKEN ACCOUNTING OR FINANCE COURSES ARE NOW PERMITTED TO TAKE THIS CLASS ON A PASS/FAIL BASIS ONLY WHICH WILL TAKE UP THREE OF THEIR SIX PASS/FAIL HOURS.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: This course is designed for those liberal arts majors who know nothing about accounting and finance. Students will learn about the fundamental financial statement concepts. Then the course will turn to the study of how lawyers use those concepts in practice.
Class Number: 4856; Catalog Number- Law 659G, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott & Prof. Taylor
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (concurrent okay) and Contract Drafting
Grading Criteria: Midterm, Class Participation, Drafting of Documents
Enrollment: 20
Description: This course will concentrate on sales, finance and leasing of commercial real estate. It will require significant amounts of time devoted to financial analysis of real estate projects and to negotiating and drafting of documents. It is designed specifically to include JD, LLM, and MBA students. Work groups will consist of JD, LLM, and MBA students working together as lawyer and client to analyze, negotiate and document the acquisition and subsequent leasing of a shopng center. The text for the course is a business school real estate finance text. Legal materials will be made available as handouts. A basic knowledge of Excel will be helpful but not required.
- Class Number: 4932; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 09A
- Class Number: 4914; Catalog Number- Law 659A, MCL
- Class Number: 4891; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04A
- Class Number: 4888; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04B
- Class Number: 4889; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04C
- Class Number: 4912; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04D
- Class Number: 4890; Catalog Number- Law 659A, 04E
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (highly recommended as prerequisite, but can be taken concurrently)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
Class Number: 4857; Catalog Number- Law 659H, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. New & Prof. Mazzone
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Written Problems and Class Participation
Enrollment: 12
Description: The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the first year of general corporate practice, whether in an in-house, law firm, or solo practice setting. This course will provide students with broad exposure to a variety of corporate problems, including contract negotiation and drafting typical of current corporate practice, complex corporate structuring issues, joint ventures, and non-litigation corporate dispute resolution. The course exercises will involve questions of corporate, tax, employment, and debtor-creditor law. Although prior course work in these areas is not required, it is preferable to have some interest in and familiarity with these areas.
Because student participation is essential for the success of this practice-simulation course, attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade. This course also requires collaborative work with other students and meetings with the adjunct faculty. You will be required to schedule several meetings in addition to regular class time. In addition, any students on the wait list for this class must attend the first class meeting, which sets the stage for the first several weeks of assignments.
- Class Number: 4858; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04A
- Class Number: 4863; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04B
- Class Number: 4878; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04D
- Class Number: 4879; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04E
- Class Number: 4880; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04F
- Class Number: 4892; Catalog Number- Law 659B, 04G
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting (required – concurrent not okay); Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: Deal Skills will introduce students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, whether a multi-billion dollar M&A deal, a license agreement, a commercial real estate transaction or a financing transaction. Among the topics to be covered are the lawyer’s role as the translator of the business deal into contract concepts, client interviewing and communication, negotiation, due diligence, corporate actions and records, indemnities, transaction management, closings, and ethical issues. The course will be conducted through workshop exercises, in-class role-plays, and lecture, and will also include out-of-class due diligence, negotiation and other exercises.
Class Number: 4874; Catalog Number- Law 659J, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent not okay); Contract Drafting; Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Participation in Simulated Transaction, Written Assignments and Class Participation (NO EXAM)
Enrollment: 12
Description: This class is designed to provide law school students who intend to practice transactional law with some of the basic practical skills required to counsel companies with respect to business combinations. The focus of the course will be to identify and discuss the factors involved in a typical business combination, the roles of the parties and the relevant documents. The course is intended to ease the transition from law school to junior transactional associate.
Class Number: 4869; Catalog Number- Law 659K, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent not okay); Contract Drafting; Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Course Work and Class Participation
Enrollment: 12
Description: This class will enable the students to develop the types of skills needed for success in a transactional based law practice. Emphasis will be placed on the development of interviewing, drafting, and negotiation skills. The students will work through a hypothetical transaction that will be focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, letter of intent, development and review of a due diligence data room and will culminate in the drafting and negotiation of a final purchase agreement.
Class Number: 4859; Catalog Number- Law 659C, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBD
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting, Deal Skills,
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course will study the business and legal issues in venture capital transactions. The course will be taught primarily through simulations.
Class Number: 4896; Catalog Number- Law 662, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises and final paper
Description: This course will survey constitutional, statutory and policy issues affecting children in our public elementary and secondary schools. An emphasis will be placed on issues that impact the children most at risk for educational failure and that contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. Topics will include the right to an education, school discipline, special education, alternative educational programs, No Child Left Behind and high stakes testing, the rights of homeless youth and youth in foster care, and laws designed to address bullying in our schools.
Class Number: 4925; Catalog Number- Law 669, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shanor, Charlie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: This course will focus on development of law and policy under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Class Number: 4870; Catalog Number- Law 669X, 06A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Shultz & Prof. King
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination or Employment Law
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: (cap of 8 students)
Description: The class will work though an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King Jr., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
Class Number: 4812; Catalog Number- Law 720, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Sanders, Scott
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, or Trademark Law, or Copyright Law (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will provide an overview of the rapidly developing body of law associated with the entertainment industries concentrating in the areas of music publishing and commercial recording, live performance, literary publishing and motion pictures. The course will focus on a study of entertainment law cases, aspects of copyright law, personal rights and negotiation of entertainment agreements.
Class Number: 4813; Catalog Number- Law 916, 02A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: Trusts & Estates [There are no tax course prerequisites for Estate Planning]
Grading Criteria: Take Home Exam
Description: Selected problems in estate analysis and planning involving drafting of wills and trusts utilizing future interests, class gifts, powers of appointment, generation-skipping arrangements, and qualification for the marital deduction. Consideration of planning for business interests, insurance, and employee benefits also is included.
Class Number: 5378; Catalog Number- Law 700
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Tatum, Melissa
Prerequisite: Must be a 2L or 3L.
Grading Criteria: In-class Final Exam
Description: This course is designed to allow students to apply ethical rules in a criminal law context. To learn, through interpretation and practical application of the Model Code of Conduct, how trial attorneys navigate ethics and professionalism in a courtroom setting. Special issues and obligations of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges will be reviewed and discussed.
Class Number: 5300; Catalog Number- Law 620L
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructors: Prof. Mickevicius & Prof. Tulibacka
Prerequisite: EU Law I recommended
Grading Criteria: Exam, Participation
Description: The course examines fundamental areas of substantive law of the European Union, with particular emphasis on their practical application and on their links and parallels with U.S. law. It will commence with the examination of the law and legal practice related to the European single market: free movement of persons, including the evolving concept of EU citizenship; goods; establishments and services; and capital. A number of hours will be devoted to the complex EU antitrust law, its enforcement, and its relationship to the U.S. antitrust rules. The analysis of the European Union’s market legislation and legal practice will be completed by a class on EU consumer law, which in many ways differs from the U.S. approach to consumer protection.
Further, students will scrutinize the European Product Liability Directive, and its parallels with the U.S. products liability law, followed by the examination of the EU framework for the Environmental protection.
Finally, the course will examine substantive and procedural aspects of the EU criminal law and other issues within the rapidly developing area of freedom, security and justice, and discuss the emerging areas of the EU civil procedure, including collective actions and ADR. Lectures and discussions will draw parallels with the U.S. federal and State systems.
Most classes will consist of a lecture part and an interactive seminar part where students will deal with the judgments of the Court of Justice of European Union, hypothetical cases, resolve legal problems, and discuss ideas.
Class Number: 4875; Catalog Number- Law 632X, 04A
MUST BE TAKEN IN THE SECOND YEAR
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege.
Externships
Class Number: Multiple; Catalog Number- Law 870
Credit: Varies
Program Director: Prof. Shalf, Sarah
Description: Step outside the classroom and learn to practice law from experienced attorneys. Take the skills and principles you learn in the classroom and learn how they apply in practice. Emory Law's General Externship Program provides work experience in different types of practice (all sectors except law firms) so you can determine which suits you best and develop relationships that will continue as you begin your lega career. Students are supported in their placements by a weekly class metting with other students in similar placements, taught by faculty with practice experience in that area, in which students have the opportunity to learn legal and professional skills they need to succeed in the externship, receive mentoring independent of their on-site supervisors, and to step back and reflect on their experience and what they are learning from it.
Our Small Firm Externship Program provides students specially interested in the small law firm practice setting with experience in specially-selected small law firms. The firms' attorneys participate with the students in our weekly class meeting, which focuses on the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a small firm practice setting.
Students apply for externships via Symplicity in the semester prior to the externship and all placements must be preapproved. Available placements for the General program are listed on the Emory Law website, http://law.emory.edu/academics/academic-programs/externships/externship-search.html, and the currently-participating Small Firms are listed here: https://emorylaw.wufoo.com/forms/small-firm-externship-applicant-law-firm-ranking/
Class Number: 4860; Catalog Number- Law 633, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will address the problems, policies, and laws related to the formation and dissolution of the marital relationship. Among the topic covered will be marriage, divorce, child custody and other related topics.
Federal Income Tax: Corporations
Class Number: 4814; Catalog Number- Law 642, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Fowler, Lynn
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: Survey of the general structure of taxation of corporations. Considers the tax issues arising from the formation, operation, liquidation, and reorganization of corporations. An important course for anyone interested in transactional law.
Class Number: 4941; Catalog Number- Law 640L, 08A
Credit: 4 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Brown, Dorothy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: An introduction to federal income taxation with an emphasis on determination of income subject to taxation, which expenses are allowable deductions and whether certain income is excluded from taxation, along with the proper time for reporting items of income and deductions and which proper taxpayer should pay the tax
Class Number: 4815; Catalog Number- Law 942, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Beaudrot, Charles
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course examines the taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, and LLCs. We will look at the formation, financing, and operation of these entities to understand the impact the tax rules have on financial returns and investment structures. This is an essential class for those interested in venture capital, private equity, real estate, or international business transactions.
Class Number: 5025; Catalog Number- Law 602
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Dudziak, Mary
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: In-class Final Exam
Description: This course examines the constitutional and statutory doctrines that regulate the conduct of American foreign relations. The topics include the distribution of foreign affairs powers between the three branches of the federal government, the status of international law in U.S. courts, the scope of the treaty power, the validity of executive agreements, the preemption of state foreign affairs activities, and the political question and other doctrines regulating judicial review in foreign affairs cases.
In Spring 2016, we will focus especially on presidential war power, congressional authorizations for the use of military force, and the balance of constitutional powers on other matters related to war and peace.
Class Number: 4816; Catalog Number- Law 890A, 04A
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Description: Innovation and technological change are critical to wealth creation in today’s global economy. However the process that often begins in the research lab traveling a path towards product development, market development, product commercialization and life cycle management is uncertain and typically difficult. More often than not, ideas will “die the good death” well before given the opportunity to develop into profitable markets. Fundamentals of Innovation I is first of a two-course sequence on the various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process within the context of technology commercialization. In the Fall semester, the course is focused on 1) helping students develop an understanding of innovation basics including the overall innovation process and roles and skills of various key players; 2) discussing patterns of technology change and alternate management processes for each; 3) organizing the innovation team and developing frameworks that foster team creativity; 4) understanding forms and protections afforded Intellectual Property; and 5) discussing early stage approaches to product definition (working models to engineering prototypes) and preliminary market definition.
The fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
Class Number: 4907; Catalog Number- Law 736, 12A (Satz)
Class Number: 4957; Catalog Number- Law 736, 12B (Ahdieh)
Credit: 3 hours
Instructors: Prof. Satz & Prof. Ahdieh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Health care is one of the largest sectors of the economy, and the practice of health law is growing. This course is an introduction to regulatory health law. The course will address select topics in health law, including: regulation of physicians and health care institutions, confidentiality, informed consent, individual and institutional obligations to provide care, discrimination in access to care, public and private health insurance structures, and some of the major statutes that govern health care providers. Health care is heavily regulated and the regulations can become trip-wires for the unwary. The course is intended to teach fundamental skills necessary to be a practicing lawyer who advises health care providers and suppliers. The class will not focus on health policy; health policy will be discussed only as background to understanding the regulatory framework within which a practicing health lawyer advises clients.
Legal Issues in Higher Education
Class Number: 5296; Catalog Number- Law 665
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Fowler, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Case Briefs; Class Presentation; Outline Paper; and Case Study/Final Exam.
Description: The course has been designed to expose the student to a range of administrative challenges at the postsecondary level that entail legal and ethical implications. The course experiences should ultimately help current and prospective administrators to envision the legal dimensions of collegiate-level decision processes. Among the topics to be discussed will be the bases from which higher education law originates, current (case, state and regulatory) law, as well as risk management and liability issues for higher education.
Human Rights: Introduction & Selected Problems
Class Number: 4894; Catalog Number- Law 690, 02A. *Cross-listed with School of Psychology for 2-credits.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Perry, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam.
Description: In spring semester of 2016, the course will focus on poverty as a human rights issue. We will address these questions, among others: Is there a human right—or, more precisely, a set of related human rights—to the basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, and education? If so: What exactly is the right? What role should courts be asked to play, if any, in protecting the right? The final exam will be of the “take home” variety.
Income Taxation of Trusts, Estates, Grantors, and Beneficiaries
Class Number: 5826; Catalog Number- Law 911
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite. Highly recommended is concurrent or prior enrollment in the basic Income Taxation course, and prior completion of Trusts & Estates
Grading Criteria: In-class Midterms & Final Exam.
Description: The income taxation of trusts, estates, grantors, and beneficiaries (Internal Revenue Code Subchapter J) affects virtually every fiduciary entity and imposes the highest income tax rates in America. This course focuses on the basic application of Sub J to garden variety trusts and estates, and explores the grantor trust rules that trump those basic rules. We will attend to specifics of planning with “intentionally defective grantor trusts,” postmortem income tax planning, dealing with income in respect of a decedent, charitable trusts, foreign trusts, Subchapter S and Electing Small Business Trusts, and state income taxation of trusts that straddle state borders.
Class Number: 6169; Catalog Number- Law 608
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Vertinsky, Liza
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class Exam
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to patent, trademark, and copyright law. The course will explore the policy and legal foundations for these areas of law and the scope of protection which each affords. The requirements for protection will be examined and compared. The framework for the administrative procedures which support the patent and trademark systems will also be discussed. In part, the course will direct attention to questions about the legitimacy of these forms of property and appropriateness of protection. The course will also explore intellectual property transactions and the ways in which they shape and facilitate the distribution, commercialization and use of ideas, creative expression, technologies, and information.
Class Number: 4895; Catalog Number- Law 730, 02A (Dean)
Class Number: 4956; Catalog Number- Law 730, 02B (Ahdieh)
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Dean & Prof. Ahdieh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will be a survey of practical issues that arise in cross-border transactions, including both outbound and inbound (from a US perspective) trade and investment transactions. We will discuss issues that affect transactions involving international trading of goods, project development and acquisitions. Topics will include letters of credit, international trade terms such as INCOTERMS, joint venture agreements, and international transfer of technology. We will also cover some selected aspects of government regulation of international trade and investment.
Class Number: 5825; Catalog Number- Law 690L, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam or Essay
Description: This course focuses on international concerns for the upholding of human rights standards in legal systems of the world. It defines the concept of human rights, and distinguishes different categories of human rights that have developed over the years, namely (a) natural rights of the individual; (b) civil and political rights; (c) economic, social and cultural rights; and (d) solidarity rights. General problems relating to the theoretical basis of human rights will come under the spotlight in this section, including the universality and relativity of human rights, and the right to self-determination of peoples.
The course further deals with mechanisms for the protection and promotion of international human rights at three distinct levels: (a) globally, under auspices of the United Nations Organization, with emphasis on the binding effect of the human rights standards enunciated in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promotion and protection of those rights by the Human Rights Council, and the proclamation and enforcement of certain categories of rights in virtue of international conventions and covenants sponsored by the United Nations; (b) regionally, in Europe under auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the Helsinki Accord, in the Americas under auspices of the Organization of American States; and in Africa under auspices of the African Union; and (c) thematically, under auspices of specialized agencies such as the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNESCO.
When dealing with the promotion and protection of human rights under auspices of the United Nations, special attention will be given to the question whether or not the provisions in the U.N. Charter dealing with human rights are self-executing in the United States, and decisions of the Human Rights Council dealing with, for example, the defamation of a religion, and human rights violations committed by Israel in the West Bank and in Gaza. We have also singled out particular rights and freedoms for closer scrutiny, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion or belief, and the international protection of rights of the child.
The section on the Council of Europe pays special attention to the doctrine of a margin of appreciation developed by the European Court of Human Rights, which affords to High Contracting Parties a first bite at the cherry to decide whether circumstances exist in their respective countries that would warrant limitations to be imposed on particular rights or freedoms enunciated in the European Convention for the Protection of Basic Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and to the doctrine of positive obligations, which places on High Contracting Parties a duty to protect persons under their jurisdiction against violations of their rights by the State and by non-State actors. It further focuses on a selection of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, such as those relating to torture, sexual orientation, and extradition constraints (the latter involving the United States).
The section on the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights singles out decisions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights that condemned the United States for not observing basic principles of the Inter-American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man of 1948, for example ones that dealt with racial discrimination in the sentencing of convicted criminals, the death penalty, abortions, and non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
The latter set of cases will also bring into contention three judgments of the International Court of Justice condemning the United States for non-compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and responses of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Germany to those judgments. The enforcement of international human rights in federal courts of the United States in cases such as Medéllin v.
Texas and in virtue of the Alien Torts Statute and Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 10 of the U.S. Constitution places the Vienna Convention judgments in a broader perspective.
Class Number: 4876; Catalog Number- Law 676, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam or essay
Description: September 11th, the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and the status of Afghani captives being held at Guantanamo Bay; the testing and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction; the violent conflict in Israel and Palestine, and in Libya; and attempts to establish an Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are all matters that come within the range of international humanitarian law: the law of armed conflict. International humanitarian law applies to and in times of armed conflict and differentiates between international armed conflicts and armed conflicts not of an international character. The war in Bosnia/Herzegovina and jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) illustrate the complexities attending that distinction. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Hamdan Case that the “war against terror” is an armed conflict not of an international character because it is not a war between States. This view is at odds with jurisprudence of the ICTY and the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is also extremely difficult to establish precisely under what conditions an internal uprising would be considered an armed conflict for the purposes of international humanitarian law.
The rules of international humanitarian law fall into two main categories:
(a) the ius ad bellum (the law relating to armed conflict): under what circumstances is the taking up of arms to resolve an international or internal dispute legitimate, and when would it constitute the international crime of aggression?
(b) the ius in bello (the law applying in times of war), which comprises two main subject-matters:
The rules regulating the means and methods of conducting hostilities (what weapons may be used, and what persons or objects may be targeted);
How must belligerent parties treat persons and objects not engaged in, or used for, actual combat, such as the wounded or sick members of the armed forces in the field; the wounded, sick or shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea; prisoners of war; and civilians.
Under (a), the course will explore the legitimacy of, for example, wars of liberation, the right to self-defense, and humanitarian intervention, with special emphasis on the war in Iraq, the Israeli offensive in Gaza, the use of armed force in Libya, and the current bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. Under (b)(i), questions such as the legality of the threat or use of a wide spectrum of armament, ranging from dumdum bullets to nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons, as well as legitimate/illegitimate targets of an armed attack, will be considered. Under (b)(ii), matters such as the treatment of prisoners of war and of the wounded and sick
soldiers, and the protection of civilians and civilian objects, including cultural property, in times of war will come under the spotlight.
Particular problems that have emerged from recent judgments of the ICC and of the Supreme Court of Israel include the conscription and enlistment, and the use in actual combat, of children under the age of 15 years, and the use of a human shield to protect legitimate military targets from an armed attack.
Class Number: 4852; Catalog Number- Law 676C
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Counter-terrorism Law
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Enrollment: By application
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counter-terrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank. The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
Class Number: 4818; Catalog Number- Law 732, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. An-Na’im, Abdullah
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the general principles of Public International Law from a critical contemporary perspective; and to discuss the challenges to the structural and institutional limitations of that state-centric legal order in its global political context. The underlying theme will also include the implications of global transformations in the actors and processes of the rule of law in international relations.
Class Number: 5299; Catalog Number- Law 754B
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Bagley, Margo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take home exam and short response papers
Description: This course will provide an introduction to key aspects of U.S., international, and comparative patent law and the myriad policies at play in ongoing global patent harmonization conflicts. The value of patents is increasing in many areas while at the same time the scope of patent-eligible subject matter is in flux. We will explore the impact of these forces in the creation and implementation of international agreements concerning patents, such as the Paris Convention, Patent Cooperation Treaty, the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, and various bilateral agreements.
Against the backdrop of the U.S patent system, we also will consider the importance of regional patent systems such as the European Patent Convention, as well as features of other major patent players such as China and Japan, and emerging players such as India, and Brazil. A discussion of current issues such as access to medicines, protection of traditional knowledge, multinational patent litigation, and the patenting of controversial inventions will be an integral part of the course."
Text: Margo A. Bagley, Ruth L. Okediji & Jay A. Erstling, International Patent Law and Policy(West Publishing 2013).
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS AND JM STUDENTS
Class Number: 4954; Catalog Number- Law 570A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructors: Prof. Mathews & Prof. Price
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism.
Introduction to Legal Advocacy (ILA) formerly LWRAP II
Class Number: 4837; Catalog Number- Law 535B, AJD
Credits: 2 hours
Instructors: Profs. Carroll, Kirk, Mathews, Parrish, Romig, Schwartz
Prerequisite: ILARC (or an equivalent course)
Grading Criteria: Class assignments
Description: This course builds on skills presented in ILARC and introduces students to the process of effectively employing persuasive strategies in both written and oral formats.
Class Number: 4904; Catalog Number- Law 628Y, 08A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Enrollment: 80
Description: This course introduces students to the economic analysis of the law. Because economics provides a tool for studying how legal rules affect the way people behave, understanding economic analysis of legal problems has become an important part of a lawyer's education. The ability to predict the effects of legal rules helps the practicing lawyer furnish advice and make arguments before courts. It is also a prerequisite for the evaluation of legal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, the economic approach has grown in importance in academia as well as in legal and judicial practice. The course will explore several economic methods and concepts and apply them to illuminate and critique familiar areas of law, including criminal law, torts, contracts, property, and civil procedure. There are no prerequisites for this course; a background in economics is not necessary (or even very helpful).
Class Number: 5377; Catalog Number- Law 627
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. An-Na’im, Abdullah
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; In-class Final Exam
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the nature, sources and techniques of Islamic Law (Shari‘a- the normative system of Islam), and its main concepts, principles and rules. Class discussions will also focus on the relationship between Shari‘a and modern legal systems, as well as its social and cultural impact on present Islamic societies.
Following a discussion of the nature, sources and early development of Shari‘a, we will review the main substantive aspects of this jurisprudential tradition in the fields of property and transactions, family law, criminal law, constitutional law and inter-communal (international) law. The last part of the course will examine the relationship between Shari‘a and the legal systems of modern states, taking the legal systems of Iran and Pakistan as case studies. We will also discuss recent “Arab Spring” constitutional developments in Tunisia and Morocco.
Class Number: 4901; Catalog Number- Law 664, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper or Take-Home Exam
Description: This course will survey the principles Jewish (or Talmudic) law uses to address difficult legal issues and will compare these principles to those that guide legal discussion in America. In particular, this course will focus on issues raised by advances in medical technology such as surrogate motherhood, artificial insemination, and organ transplant. Through discussion of these difficult topics many areas of Jewish law will be surveyed.
Jury Dynamics/ Jury Selection
Class Number: 5379; Catalog Number- Law 654
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
Description: TBA
Juvenile Defender Clinic
Class Number: 4819; Catalog Number- Law 699C
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: Priority will be given to students who have taken or are currently enrolled in: Kids in Conflict with the Law, Juvenile Law or Family Law 2; Criminal Procedure; and Evidence.
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance
Description: The Juvenile Defender Clinic is an in-house legal clinic dedicated to providing holistic legal representation for children charged with delinquency and status offenses. Student attorneys represent clients in juvenile court and provide legal advocacy in school discipline, special education and mental health matters, when such advocacy is derivative of a client's juvenile court case.
Under the supervision of the clinic's director, Randee Waldman, student attorneys are responsible for handling all aspects of client representation. While in the clinic, JDC students will: Establish an attorney-client relationship with their client(s); Direct case strategy determinations; Investigate allegations; Interview witnesses; Negotiate dispositions and plea agreements; Prepare and litigate motions, and Try cases.
Students are also encouraged to engage in research and participate in juvenile justice policy development.
Applications are accepted via Symplicity or e-mail to professor Waldman prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Class Number: 5295; Catalog Number- Law 628B
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Lee, Steve
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description: Law and development addresses the impact of law, legal frameworks, and institutions (LFIs) on development. LFIs have indeed significant impacts on development, particularly economic development. Recognizing this importance, the post-2015 development initiatives by the United Nations (“Sustainable Development Goals” or “SDGs”) includes rule of law as a development agenda.
The course explores the theories and practices pertaining to law and development. In particular, the course explains how LFIs affect economic development in several key areas relevant to economic development, such as property rights (including intellectual property rights); legal framework for political governance; regulatory framework for business transactions; industrial promotion; taxation; corporate governance; competition law; environment; banking and financing; labor; corruption; criminalization and development; and international legal framework: international economic law and international development law.
Class Number: 4823; Catalog Number- Law 736A, 04A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kocher, Prof. Ghosh, & Prof. Hoyt
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Based on a combination of attendance, classroom participation, and take-home exam/paper
Description: Law and public health are tightly intertwined. Law students can benefit from an improved understanding of the legal principles and laws underlying the complex and cross-disciplinary field of public health practice in the United States. This course surveys law as it defines public health and is used by local, state, and federal government agencies as a tool to address contemporary public health problems in the United States. The course features a cross-disciplinary emphasis on the link between both the law and science of public health practice. The course specifically addresses foundational sources for public health law in the United States, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and case law. In addition, this course provides an examination of controlling law and emerging legal issues associated with selected topics drawn from bioterrorism, natural disasters, and other public health emergencies; public health surveillance and outbreak investigations; public health research and health information; special populations (including, for example, persons with mental disabilities, prisoners, children, and homeless populations); and key public health topical areas, such as vaccination; food-borne diseases; tobacco use-related problems; and injuries. Topics are covered through a combination of lecture and classroom discussion of assigned readings. Readings are assigned from the required text, selected cases, and articles published in the medical, public health, and other scientific literature. In addition to the listed course instructors, other instructors will include a rich array of expert guest lecturers from the practice community.
Class Number: 5301; Catalog Number- Law 735
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Tkeshelashvili, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance; Participation; Essays; and take-home Final Exam.
Description: The course begins with an introductory discussion of relevant principles of international law and overview of the law of international organizations. General principles of the law of international organizations, legal personality and membership issues will be discussed in the first part of the course. In the next part, the system of the United Nations will be introduced and relevant legal and policy issues will be examined. The laws of different international and regional institutions, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU) and the Organization of American States (OAS) will be discussed in the third part of the course. In the next chapter we will overview the international judiciary system, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The critical role which the international non-governmental organizations play in the system of international organizations will be discussed at the end of the course.
Finally, the application of relevant legal, theoretical and policy principles of the law of international organizations on selected topics will be examined. The annexation of Crimea, the Greek Crisis and the global threat of terrorism, climate change and the threat of pandemics such as the Ebola Virus, are proposed cases for seminar type discussions.
- Class Number: 4820; Catalog Number- Law 747, 12A (Elliott)
- Class Number: 5308; Catalog Number- Law 747, 12B (Goldfeder)
STUDENTS CONSIDERING A LITIGATION FIELD PLACEMENT IN THEIR THIRD YEAR ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO TAKE LEGAL PROFESSION.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott & Prof. Goldfeder
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The rules and principles of professional ethics, other regulatory constraints on lawyers, the elements of malpractice liability and the values of professionalism.
Class Number: 6097; Catalog Number- Law 737
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Albertelli, Jim
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
Description: TBA
Litigating Identity in the Age of Scientific Advancement
Class Number: 5026; Catalog Number- Law 877
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria:
Description: Since the early 1990’s the use of DNA evidence has established the innocence of over 300 individuals convicted of crimes that they did not commit, including 18 individuals who served time on death row. In the past few years, advances in the science of determining the origins of fires have led to the release of individuals previously convicted of arson. Currently, the method that most police departments have traditionally utilized in identifying suspects, the “six pack” photo array, is being challenged on scientific grounds as causing an alarmingly high rate of “false positives,” or false identifications of innocent individuals.
This course will review the use of science in litigating the identity of individuals accused of crimes, and the use of science in seeking the exoneration of individuals convicted of crimes.
Media Law
Class Number: 5380; Catalog Number- Law 722
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Counts, Cynthia
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Attendance, preparation and participation: 10%; Final Exam or Writing Assignment(s): 90%
Description: This class will explore legal issues that are particularly relevant to newspapers, radio and television stations, web operators, and bloggers. Topics include tort liability for defamation and invasion of privacy, prior restraint, the right of the media and public to access government documents, the protection of confidential sources, intellectual property protection for media content, and use of copyrighted material in news broadcasts. The course will also examine the legality of undercover reporting, deception, and the use of hidden cameras. The class will analyze and discus the the practical implications of these principles in real-world First Amendment and media cases that were recently litigated. In class discussions, students will identify, analyze, and critique the constitutional, statutory, and common-law legal doctrines that apply to media law cases, and we will study how those doctrines originated, have evolved, and will continue to change. Among other things, students will analyze and discuss in depth key cases that show how the law and protections for the media have developed and will gain a greater understanding of how the law impacts news reporting today. In addition to the assigned reading, we will discuss current media and First Amendment cases that are raised in the news throughout the course of the semester. Your grade will be determined based on participation and a take-home final exam or writing assignment, such as a motion for summary judgment in favor of a reporter and media company.
Class Number: 4944; Catalog Number- Law 652, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Blank, Laurie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
Description: This course surveys the framework of domestic and international laws that authorize and restrain the pursuit of the U.S. government’s national security policies. Central issues include the sources, foundation and structure of national security law; the participants in the national security system, their constitutional roles, and the nature of power sharing among branches of government; and the law applicable to specific national security issues such as the use of military force, the activities of the intelligence community, and counter-terrorism activities.
- Class Number: 4821; Law 656, 06A (Athans)
- Class Number: 4822; Law 656, 06B (Eldridge)
- Class Number: 5523; Law 656, 06C (Lytle-Perry)
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Athans, Prof. Eldridge, & Prof. Lytle-Perry
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
COURSE NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE LAW SCHOOL OR NEGOTIATIONS IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes proceeded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
Patent Law
Class Number: 5027; Catalog Number- Law 754
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: None, but IP highly recommended.
Grading Criteria: Participation; In-class Exam.
Description: This course will cover the core topics of U.S. patent law such as patentability, including novelty, non-obviousness, and enablement; infringement; and remedies. The course will examine how patents are used as a business tool to commercialize new technologies and innovations. The course will also review the major aspects of patent reform as codified under the America Invents Act. The course is designed to provide a solid background for on-patent specialists and for those planning a career in the field. No technical background is required. There is no prerequisite for this course.
Class Number: ; Catalog Number- Law 754A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Kodish
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
Description: This course explores the major issues not only of procedural and substantive law but also strategic considerations facing a lawyer involved in patent litigation. The course will proceed chronologically through a patent infringement case to be filed in a district court, including jurisdiction, venue, pleadings, discovery, experts, trial preparation, proving infringement and defenses at trial, remedies, and post-verdict issues. Students will work in groups to prepare various problems and to present arguments in a claim construction or summary judgment hearing. The course will also explore substantive patent law that is specific to the litigation context, such as patent misuse defenses and the various forms of infringement, such as extraterritorial enforcement of US patents and pharmaceutical litigation over Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs).
Patent Practice & Procedures
Class Number: 5303; Catalog Number- Law 756
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kirsch & Prof. Shortell
Prerequisite: IP and Patent Law.
Grading Criteria:
Description: This course introduces the students to the fundamentals of patent practice before the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO), by focusing on the drafting of patent claims, patent specifications and responses and amendments to Office Actions, as well as undertaking patent clearance studies. In addition to learning such skills, students will become familiar with the U.S. patent statutes, USPTO regulations, case law and customs and practice relating to drafting and pursuing patent applications to issuance through the Patent Office.
The course has two primary components: (1) lectures that introduce the students to the subject matter to be studied, and (2) practical skills-oriented homework and in-class exercises that will allow the students to hone their patent practice skills.
Religion, Culture and Law in Comparative Practice
Class Number: 5302; Catalog Number- Law 711
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor: Prof. Ludsin, Hallie
Prerequisites: None
Grading: Take home exam and short weekly assignments
Description: Debates rage worldwide over what role religion and culture should play in law and governance and whether granting them a role conflicts with democratic principles. Increasingly, religious and ethnic groups are demanding that religious and cultural practices form the basis of the legal system or, at the very least, a separate legal system governing only their members. Western policymakers are finding it difficult to respond to these claims. While they see them as possibly antithetical to the principles of tolerance and equality built into liberal democratic theory, there is something uncomfortable about rejecting these demands when they come from a majority of a population or from a minority group that has suffered severe discrimination. This course will explore the issues that arise in the debates about the appropriate role for religion and culture in democratic governance. It will examine different models for incorporating religion and culture into law as well as at models that wholly reject this incorporation using case studies from the US, Europe, Asia and Africa
Roman Law
Class Number: 5827; Catalog Number- Law 739
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Domingo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Exam
Description: In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables (451 BC) and Justinian's massive Corpus Iuris Civilis (530 AD), the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of antiquity. Roman law is still at the heart of the civil law tradition of the European Continent and some of its former colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and it was instrumental in the development of international law, the church’s canon law, and the common law tradition. The Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules and mechanisms that are still applied in the most Western legal systems.
Specifically designed for American law students without a civil law or canon law background, this course introduces the Roman legal system in its social, political, and economic context. The course will cover the fundamental topics of private law (persons, property and inheritance, and obligations); the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages; and the current impact of Roman law in the era of globalization. No knowledge of Roman history or of Latin is required, and all materials will be in English translation.
Class Number: 4877; Catalog Number- Law 713, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Pardo, Rafael
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will examine the law relating to the creation, perfection, and enforcement of security interests in personal property. Reading and class discussion will center on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and will include an introduction to the intersection of Article 9 with the federal bankruptcy laws, the creation and status of non-UCC liens on personal property (by operation of law or by execution of a judgment, e.g.), and non-UCC enforcement mechanisms, such as foreclosure, repossession, and garnishment. Attention will also be paid to the business context within which Article 9 operates, ie, debt financing.
Class Number: 4946; Catalog Number- Law 673, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Terry, Bob
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
Description: This course is intended to be a follow-up course to the Securities Regulation course, which covers registration of new securities issues, disclosure and anti-fraud issues, and the coverage of securities laws. This course approaches securities regulation of the standpoint of the intermediaries between the issuers and purchaser - broker-dealers and investment advisers. It is intended to provide an academic foundation of relevant law, as well as practical information also relevant to a law practice in the area.
Much of the course will focus on the regulatory scheme and activities of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory body which is the principal day-to-day regulator of the broker-dealer industry. FINRA is the entity with which most broker-dealers and their counsel will typically interact with regard to most regulatory matters.
In addition, the course will look at investment advisers, a rapidly growing piece of the securities industry. An investment adviser is regulated either by the SEC or by state regulators, depending upon its size. Investment advisers are subject to a completely separate regulatory regimen, although there are many examples of overlap with broker-dealer regulatory issues since many firms, or their affiliates, are dually registered.
The interplay between the two regulatory schemes has been the focus of much discussion and legislative and regulatory activity over the past fifteen years, including several parts of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Finally, the course will provide insight into practical considerations of regulatory interaction, in both routine settings as well as enforcement matters.
In addition to private practice, graduating students with an interest in securities might find opportunities with brokerage firms, regulators and public corporations. The combination of the Securities Regulation course and this course should provide graduating students a thorough overview of most of the issues they might see if they enter into a securities-related practice.
Class Number: 5868; Catalog Number- Law 667
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd, George
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria:
Description: A study of federal and state regulation of the issue, distribution, and transfer of securities. Explores the availability of exemptions from registration and the duties of participants in these securities transactions to comply with anti-fraud regulations. Some time is spent on the growing literature appraising securities regulation.
Class Number: 4849; Catalog Number- Law 892
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Morris, Nicole
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: This course will cover special topics in technology commercialization.
Class Number: 4824; Catalog Number- Law 693, 10A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Linsky, Melissa
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class participation, Small Projects, and a Paper
Description: This course will provide a practical overview of the laws governing professional sports and advertising, examining issues relating to the various participants - the fans, the sponsors, the owners, the teams, the leagues, the players and the coaches. Advertising is included in this overview of the laws governing sports because marketing the teams is such an integral part of the operation of a professional sports team and knowledge of the various laws surrounding advertising and promotions would benefit anyone interested in this industry.
Twitter handle for students who register for the class or who are interested in sports law issues to follow: @MsSportsLaw.
State Law Legal Research
Class Number: 5297; Catalog Number- Law 657F
Credit: 1 hour
ACCELERATED COURSE- Starts Week of January 4, 2016- February 15, 2016.
Instructor: Prof. Sneed, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class participation, Small research assignments; and a Final project.
Description: In most legal research classes, the focus is primarily on the resources available for federal law research. However, few attorneys practice only in the realm of federal law. Therefore, a detailed discussion of the varied resources for state law research can be less developed in a new lawyer’s skill set.
The concept for this class would be to focus on the states to which the majority of our students locate to practice, with Georgia, New York, Washington D.C. (and the states surroundings the District), Florida and California being the primary focus. The methods for researching primary law (cases, statutes and regulations) for each state would be discussed, along with an examination of the secondary sources and governmental resources unique to each jurisdiction. The class would feature in-class activities, homework assignments re-enforcing the research skills examined in class and a final project comparing jurisdictions.
Class Number: 4903; Catalog Number- Law 641, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Craft, Shannon (Loechel)
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading: Paper; In-class Exam
Description: This course will focus on the resolution of federal tax controversies through both administrative procedures and litigation. Specifically, we will consider filing requirements, audit procedures, administrative appeals, deficiencies, assessments, including termination and jeopardy assessments, penalties, interest, and the statute of limitations. Additionally, we will take a practical approach to problems and considerations arising in the litigation of cases before the U.S. Tax Court, District Court, and the Court of Federal Claims, including jurisdictional, procedural, and evidentiary issues. We will examine choice of forum, pleadings, discovery, privileges, and tax trial practice. Finally, we will discuss summons enforcement litigation, civil collection, levy and distraint, and the tax lien and its priorities.
Class Number: 4910; Catalog Number- Law 879K, 12A
Accelerated Class: February 15, 2015 – March 28, 2015
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor: Prof. Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper (Final)
Enrollment: 20
Description: Technology in Legal Practice will provide students with an introduction to concepts and resources relevant to technology and its effect on the practice of law beyond traditional legal research. Areas of coverage will include law practice management, e-discovery, competitive intelligence, and other current awareness issues. Class discussions and readings will be augmented by guest speakers from the legal community. This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the second seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Class Number: 5522; Catalog Number- Law 601B
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Seaman, Julie
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: Final Exam
Description: This course presents a broad overview of the theory and doctrine of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. After beginning with the seminal opinions of Justices Holmes and Brandeis that launched modern American free speech jurisprudence, we will consider contemporary free speech doctrine including the Court's “categorical” approach, content and viewpoint discrimination, levels of scrutiny, speech compulsions, and expressive association. Specific areas of study will include incitement, threats, obscenity, commercial speech, defamation, restrictions on student speech, and campaign finance regulation, among others. The course will include discussion of current controversies such as regulation of hate speech and online speech, funeral picketing, and professional-client speech.
Class Number: 4854; Catalog Number- Law 671
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Profs. Zwier, Jones, and Lott.
This course is required for all 2L Students
Description: The Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program is a required course that introduces students to the evidence issues, ethical dilemmas, and presentation skills essential in the trial of a case. The course has two parts. Part I is designed to integrate the required Evidence class with trial skills. This Spring semester we will look to bring about this integration of evidence and trial techniques by scheduling workshops:
The first workshop, we will conduct a workshop on Case Analysis and Relevance. Your assignment is to have read the first of two assigned simulated jury cases file thoroughly, and the assigned chapters from the Prof. Zwier’s Trial Advocacy: Normative Approach, Lecture Notes & Readings in advance of the workshop.
The second workshop topic will be Direct and Cross, Hearsay and Character Evidence (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). We will conduct a workshop on Direct and Cross examinations, in which student will examine an assigned witness(s) from a simulated case file. You will be assigned to represent either the plaintiff or defendant and accordingly will be required to prepare either a direct or a cross examination of the assigned witness (es).
The third workshop topic will be on Persuasive and Evidentiary Foundations for Exhibits (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). We will conduct a drill on Exhibit Foundations, using specially prepared exhibit problems from the simulated case file. You will be assigned to represent either the plaintiff or defendant and accordingly will be required to prepare relevant exhibit exercises.
The fourth workshop topic will be Jury Selection (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). You will engage in a jury selection exercise for the simulated case file. Again, you will be assigned to conduct voir dire for your client as plaintiff's or defendant's counsel. You will also be assigned to play the role of a prospective juror for purposes of the workshop.
The fifth workshop topic will be Technology in the Courtroom (a video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). You will be asked to utilize the evidence camera and computer display technology using specially prepared exhibits from the simulated case file. You will present on the strengths and weakness from your perspective as plaintiff's or defense counsel, as well as outline and explain your legal strategy, to your client or supervising attorney.
These spring workshops will be conducted by some of Atlanta's finest trial lawyers and evidence teachers. As a result of our bringing them in, you will get an opportunity to work closely with these lawyers (in groups as small as 6-8 students) and not only get their insights about the marriage of practice and theory, but also have a chance to demonstrate your oral advocacy skills to them.
Please note: Two provisions significantly impact the application of these taxes. One is “portability” of a decedent’s estate tax exclusion, and the other is the exclusion itself — which is $5.34 million per taxpayer in 2014 ($10.68 million per married couple) and slated to rise to $5.43 million in 2015 (also double that amount for a married couple). These changes limit application of the wealth transfer taxes to a small segment of the decedent population. As a result, you should enroll only if you intend to become an estate planner for such high net worth clients.
In addition, we have been able to partner with downtown Atlanta law firms and law offices to provide you the opportunity to learn on location at their offices. As a result, when you register you will be able to sign up in groups of 24 at either:
- Alston & Bird Federal Public Defender's Office Jones Day
- Kilpatrick Townsend King & Spalding McKenna Long & Aldridge Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Troutman Sanders US Attorney's Office
- DeKalb County Public Defender's Office
- Harrison & Ford
You will meet at these offices for certain scheduled workshops. (The opening lecture/demonstration will be held at the law school in Tull Auditorium). For those of you who wish to work with general practitioners from small to medium sized firms and/or with state and federal court judges, you should sign up for the General Practitioner section. This group will be limited to 26 students and will meet in breakout groups of 13 or workshop exercises at the law school.
This year the May program session will run between the last examinations make up day and graduation. The May session presents an intensive week of day long learn-by-doing workshops that build upon the earlier spring semester workshops. The May session will be facilitated by 60 trial attorneys and judges from across the country supplemented by 20 local trial attorneys and judges. Students will conduct bench trials on the case file assigned to them over the spring semester. The program will culminate with students conducting jury trials.
*Because the program starts right after final exams, do not schedule a take-home exam if it will interfere with the start of the program.
To alleviate any conflicts that may arise, the ABA allows you to miss 2 classes (4 hours) in any two-hour course, unexcused. As a result you will be allowed to miss either one Friday afternoon workshop, or one half day of the intensive May session. You must submit a written notice (an email will suffice) for any anticipated absence to your team leader and the KEPTT Administrative Director. You will not be allowed to miss either of the trial days, as you must serve on those days either as trial counsel, or as a witness. All requests for an excused absence must be personally delivered in writing to the KEPTT Administrative Director.
There is a $145 mandatory course materials fee. You will receive two case files, both in electronic and hard copy form, an electronic copy of Prof. Zwier’s Trial Advocacy: Normative Approach, Lecture Notes & Readings, and a digital video chip. Hard copies of the course materials file will be distributed in advance of the first class meeting at copy center. An electronic copy of the course materials will also be made available on the course Blackboard site.
Turner Environmental Law Clinic
Class Number: 4851; Catalog Number- Law 697C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (Prerequisite or Co-requisite)
Grading Criteria: Based on individual student performance on various projects assigned.
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket – fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities—are among the most critical issues for our state, region, and nation. The Clinic’s students benefit and learn from immersion in these real world, complex environmental representations.
Water Resources Law
Class Number: 5028; Catalog Number- Law 617, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructors: Prof. Thompson & Prof. Moore
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation; Take-home projects; Final Exam
Description: This course will explore various themes common in the practice of environmental and natural resources law, including administrative and civil litigation, permitting, and regulatory development, focusing in the area of water as a resource and water pollution control. The class will cover concepts in the traditional riparian and prior appropriation rights; the federal Clean Water Act permitting program; drinking water, coastal and wetland protection programs; trans boundary water disputes; as well as the environmental and natural resource problems concerning water quality protection. Both the statutory language and theoretical application of the issues will be explored with a particular emphasis on the litigation of water issues.
Class Number: 5989; Catalog Number- Law 683
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Cloud, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Final exam
Description: This course examines how corporations, their officers, directors, employees and agents can violate the criminal law. The course includes analysis of the responsibilities and potential liabilities of lawyers representing organizational clients
Judicial Opinion Writing: Writing for the Judicial Chambers
Class Number: 5823; Catalog Number- Law 649
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Parrish, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description:This course will introduce students to the process and practicalities of writing within the context of serving as an appellate court judicial clerk. The course will explore many topics through assigned readings and class discussion including: the shifting tone from that of an advocate to that of a decision maker; how the drafting and editing responsibilities are divided between judge and clerk; the ways in which race, gender, religion, past legal background affect judicial decision making; as well as the nuts and bolts of the judicial opinion writing process.
Students will apply what is learned in class to write three pieces during the semester—all within the context of working within an appellate judicial chambers. During the course of the semester students will write a bench memo, a majority opinion, and a dissenting opinion, which shall be based on the briefs and record in an assigned case. Thus, those seeking to learn more about the work of judicial clerks or interested in pursuing a clerkship after graduation will get a working familiarity of the unique work and experience of writing within a judicial chambers.
Seminar: Advanced International Negotiations
Class Number: 5030; Catalog Number- Law 842
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Balian, Hrair & Prof. Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in the two party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: Border Dispute between Bolivia, Chile and Peru: Selected issue in Middle East Peace-- the “Right of Return”, compensation if right of return cannot be exercised, and “Water Rights” ; Sudan – CPA and Darfur; the Dayton Peace Accords. As basic understandings of dispute and conflict resolution techniques will have been covered in the prerequisite courses, we will consider an number of interdisciplinary readings including readings from Deutsch and Coleman’s Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Theory and Practice, Roger Fisher’s Coping with International Conflict, Mnookin’s Beyond Winning and Kremenyuk’s International Negotiations, which deal with research on the wide array of potential approaches to conflict resolution. (See syllabus.) The student’s paper will be based either on 1) an in depth analysis of one of the class simulations, with a focus on the legitimacy (international law support) of any proposed solution, or 2)on the history, law, methods, practice and theory of an international dispute chosen in consultation with the professor.
Class Number: 5031; Catalog Number- Law 837, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Satz, Ani
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment: 16
Description: Animal law is a burgeoning field. Over 135 law schools in North America offer courses in animal law, six specialty journals are devoted to the topic, and at least one poll indicates a career in the area is in the top seven of all desired careers. Whether it is our clothing, food, household products, companions, or back yard, our daily lives are touched by animals. Nonhuman animals are considered property under law, and a sprawling body of federal and state civil and criminal law regulates human use of them.
This seminar will explore our legal and ethical obligations to nonhuman animals, focusing on domestic animals. Selected topics may include: conceptions of animals, standing, exotic pets and public health, animals and housing, companion animal abuse, breed discrimination, working animals, factory farming, zoos, animal fighting, animal racing, animals used in T.V. and film, hunting, animal experimentation, animals and religious freedom, veterinary malpractice, and animal trusts and custody.
Seminar: Arbitration Law- Religious Arbitration in America
Class Number: 5821; Catalog Number- Law 815
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper, presentation, and participation.
Description: This course explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and values-oriented communities and seeks to understand four points. First, why are religious communities flocking to such arbitration? Second, why is American law so comfortable with such arbitration and is that wise? Third, what are the proper procedural, jurisdictional and contractual limits of such arbitration? Finally, this course will explore if such arbitration is not only good for the religious community itself, but having many different faith based arbitrations (when properly limited) is good for any vibrant pluralistic democracy inhabited by diverse faith groups.
Seminar: Corporate Governance
Class Number: 5822; Catalog Number- Law 821
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Kang, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: This seminar provides an in-depth, timely study of corporate law and governance from both theoretical and practical perspectives, drawing heavily on academic research about some or all the following issues: theories of the corporation, the role of the board of directors, board composition and structures, institutional investors, shareholder voting and proposals, executive compensation, corporate political spending, the financial crisis, corporate social responsibility, and comparative corporate governance. The seminar will be graded based on class participation and writing.
Seminar: Due Process
Class Number: 5305; Catalog Number- Law 807
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Smith, Fred
Prerequisite: None
Grading: Paper
Description: This course will engage in an in-depth treatment of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clauses. Topics include: the original intended scopes of these two clauses; the evolution of procedural and substantive due process; and contemporary legal settings in which these amendments hold force. Underlying constitutional themes will include access to courts; fairness; accuracy; finality; representative government; separation of powers; and federalism.
Class Number: 5304; Catalog Number- Law 806
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Van der Vyver, Johan
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: 16
Description: For many years now, the international community of states has attempted to place an embargo on the use of force as a means of settling international disputes. Article 2(3) of the Charter of the United Nations thus provides: “All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.” The UN Charter authorized military action in two instances only, namely (a) if the Security Council authorizes an armed intervention as a means of counteracting a situation that constitutes a threat to the peace, a breach of the peace, or an act of aggression (art. 42), and (b) as a matter of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations (art. 51). This raises the question whether or not the UN Charter deals comprehensively with instances of armed conflicts that would be lawful under contemporary rules of international humanitarian law.
The United Nations itself recognized armed interventions not mentioned in the UN Charter, for example in the Uniting for Peace Resolution of 1950 affording to the General Assembly the competence to authorize military action to counteract a breach of the peace or an act of aggression, by supporting wars of liberation against colonial rule, foreign occupation, or a racist regime, and by extending the provisions of Article 51 to legalize pre-emptive self-defense action. There is furthermore overwhelming support for upholding the legality of humanitarian intervention to protect a population from acts of supreme repression by their own government. Currently, the ISIS crisis has prompted the development of an emerging norm of jus ad bellum which contemplates the legality of an armed intervention against perpetrators of terrorism if the Government of the State from which those acts of terror violence are being launched is either unwilling or unable to counteract the atrocities.
In laboring the above principles of law, reference will be made to (a) armed interventions authorized by the Security Council (the Korean War, Operation Desert Storm. Air strikes in Libya, and armed interventions in Mali); instances of humanitarian interventions (NATO air strikes in Serbia, and military interventions in Syria contemplated by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States following the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Government against rebel groups in that country); and acts of aggression committed by the United States (in Nicaragua in the 1980’s pursuant to the Reagan Doctrine, and the Gulf War of 2003) and by the Russian Federation (in Georgia and in Ukraine).
A special emphasis of the seminar is the current state of affairs relating to the prosecution of the crime of aggression in the International Criminal Court.
Class Number: 5032; Catalog Number- Law 824, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Ahdieh, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: This seminar – which may be of particular appeal to students interested corporate and securities law, environmental law, health law, family law, and other areas characterized by a mix of federal and state law – will explore the unusual dynamic that emerges when multiple jurisdictions compete to produce legal rules. By contrast with our conventional notions of how law is created, the development of law in these settings takes place through a “market” of sorts. As one writer has described it, law is a “product” in these settings: a good to be priced, bought, and sold. Corporate law – given the centrality of jurisdictional competition to understanding and practicing it today – will serve as our case study. Through relevant readings and your papers’ analysis of jurisdictional competition in your own areas of interest, however – from environmental law to family law, health law to banking law, and criminal law to corporate/securities law – we will seek to understand the nature and the wisdom of markets for law more generally.
Seminar: Privacy, Reputation, and Economic Interests in Tort Law
Class Number: 5306; Catalog Number- Law 835
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Partlett, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper & Class Presentation
Description: The Seminar will examine two streams of tort law. The first is that encompassed in privacy and defamation. The second are those that concern economic interests. These will include the torts of inducement to breach of contract and misrepresentation both fraudulent and negligent. Both of these are crucial in public policy and in thinking about tort law as it develops in the future. In the first stream free speech is critically implicated. In the second we ask about the extent to which obligations regulate behavior where interests go beyond physical to economic. We will do readings in the first half of the semester and in the second will have class presentations of papers prepared for the seminar.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8:00-10:15 a.m. | Business Associations; Freer 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1E Intellectual Property; Holbrook 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1C Law & Economics; Shepherd, J 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1D | Property OCF (1L Required Course); Alexander 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Property OAE (1L Required Course); Hughes 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1C | Business Associations; Freer 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1E Intellectual Property; Holbrook 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1C Law & Economics; Shepherd, J 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1D | Property OCF (1L Required Course); Alexander 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Property OAE (1L Required Course); Hughes 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1C | Property OAE (1L Required Course); Hughes 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1C Property OCF (1L Required Course); Alexander 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Property OBD (1L Required Course); Terrell 9:00-10:15 a.m. |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Administrative Law; Arthur 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1D American Legal History I; Witte 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Family Law; Broyde 10:30-12:00 a.m. 1E Products Liability; Zwier 10:30-12:00 a.m. 5A | Constitutional Law OAC (1L Required Course); Shanor 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C Criminal Law OEF (1L Required Course); Witte 10:30-12:00 p.m. 1D Property OBD (1L Required Course); Terrell 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1E | Administrative Law; Arthur 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1D American Legal History I; Witte 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Family Law; Broyde 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E Products Liability; Zwier 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A | Constitutional Law OAC (1L Required Course); Shanor 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C Criminal Law OEF (1L Required Course); Witte 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1D Property OBD (1L Required Course); Terrell 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1E | Constitutional Law OBE (1L Required Course); Seaman 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1D Constitutional Law OAC (1L Required Course); Shanor 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C Constitutional Law ODF (1L Required Course); Volokh 10:30-12:00 p.m. 5F |
| 12:15-1:45 p.m. | Community Activities | Constitutional Law ODF; Volokh 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5F Criminal Law OBC; Cloud 12:15-1:45 1C | Community Activities | Constitutional Law ODF; Volokh 12:15-1:45 p.m. Criminal Law OBC; Cloud 12:15-1:45 | LWRAP; Carroll 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C LWRAP; Schwartz 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1C LWRAP; Thornton 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B |
| 2:00-4:00 p.m. | LWRAP; Carroll 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5B LWRAP; Daspit 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1B LWRAP; Kirk 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5C LWRAP; Mathews 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D LWRAP; Romig 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5F LWRAP; Schwartz 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C | Constitutional Law OBE (1L Required Course); Seaman 2:15-3:45 p.m. 1D Criminal Law OAD (1L Required Course); Duncan 2:15-3:45 p.m. 1E | LWRAP; Daspit 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1B LWRAP; Kirk 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5C LWRAP; Mathews 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D LWRAP; Romig 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5F LWRAP; Thornton 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5B | Constitutional Law OBE (1L Required Course); Seaman 2:15-3:45 p.m. 1D Criminal Law OAD (1L Required Course); Duncan 2:15-3:45 p.m. 1E | |
| 4:15-8:00 p.m. | Business Associations; Kang 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1C Evidence; Goldfeder 4:15-6:00 p.m. 1E International Law; An-Na'im 4:15-5:45 p.m. 5F | Business Associations; Kang 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1C Evidence; Goldfeder 4:15-6:00 p.m. 1E International Law; An-Na'im 4:15-5:45 p.m. 5F |
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| 8:30-10:30 a.m. | Business Associations; Freer 8:30-10:15 a.m. 1E Constitutional Law: Religion & State; Goldfeder 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5C Intellectual Property; Holbrook 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1C Law & Economics; Shepherd J, 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1D | Art Law; Moore 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1B Doing Deals: Accounting in Action; MacKay 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5E Externships: Civil Litigation; Shalf 8:30-9:30 a.m. 5A Federal Income Tax: Individuals; Brown 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5B Remedies; Partlett 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1E Wealth Transfer Tax; Pennell 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5D | Business Associations; Freer 8:30-10:15 a.m. 1E Constitutional Law: Religion & State; Goldfeder 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5C Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Avery 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1B Intellectual Property; Holbrook 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1C Law & Economics; Shepherd J, 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1D | Externships: Small Firm; Shalf 8:30-9:30 a.m. 5A Federal Income Tax: Individuals; Brown 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5B Remedies; Partlett 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1E Wealth Transfer Tax; Pennell 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5D |
Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic; Carter 8:30-10:30 a.m. 1B |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Administrative Law; Arthur 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1D American Legal History I; Witte 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Analytical Methods/Lawyers; Shepherd J 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Courtroom Persuasion Drama I; Metzger 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1F Family Law I; Broyde 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E IP Contracting; Vertinsky 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5E National Security Law; Blank 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C Products Liability; Zwier 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A Secured Transactions; Pardo 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C | Advanced Legal Writing: Blogging & Social Media; Romig / Chapman 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1F Antitrust; Arthur 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Criminal Procedure: Adjudication; Levine 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C European Union Law; Mickevicius 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5D Federal Income Tax: Corporations; Fowler 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Sports and Marketing; Altman-Linsky 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. 1B | Administrative Law; Arthur 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1D American Legal History I; Witte 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Analytical Methods/Lawyers; Shepherd J 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Family Law I; Broyde 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E IP Contracting; Vertinsky 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5E National Security Law; Blank 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C Products Liability; Zwier 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A Secured Transactions; Pardo 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C | Advanced Legal Writing: Blogging & Social Media; Romig / Chapman 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1F Antitrust; Arthur 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Criminal Procedure: Adjudication; Levine 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C European Union Law; Mickevicius 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5D | |
| 12:15-1:45 p.m. | Community Activities Hour | Advanced Legal Writing: Moving from Classroom to Workplace; Mathews 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5A Advanced Criminal Trial Practice; McCoyd 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C Business & Tax Legal Research; (Accelerated 1/5-2/16) Sneed 12:00-2:00 p.m. 5D Constitutional Rights / Controversy; Perry 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B Health Law; Bergeson 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5E Jewish Law; Broyde 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1D Legal Profession; Elliott 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1E SEM: Comp Bill of Rights; Van der Vyver 12:00-2:00 p.m. 5K | Community Activities Hour | Advanced Legal Writing: Moving from Classroom to Workplace; Mathews 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5A Advanced Legal Writing: Pretrial Briefs; Carroll / Schwartz 12:00-2:00 p.m. 1B Advanced Criminal Trial Practice; McCoyd 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C Advanced Legal Research; (Accelerated 1/5-2/16) Reid 12:00-2:00 p.m. 1F Constitutional Rights / Controversy; Perry 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B Health Law; Bergeson 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5E Jewish Law; Broyde 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1D Legal Profession; Elliott 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1E Technology in Legal Practice; (Accelerated 2/23-4/13) Glon 12:00-2:00 p.m. 5D
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January 9: Case Analysis January 23: Direct and Cross January 30: Exhibits February 6: Jury Selection February 13: Client Counseling and Case Presentation February 20: Expert Witnesses (optional workshop) May Program: May 2-8, 2015 |
| 2:00-4:00 p.m. | Alternate Dispute Resolution; Armstrong 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5D Child Welfare Law & Policy; Murry 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A Comparative Constitutional Law; Klymovich 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1A Complex Litigation; Freer 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1E Courtroom Persuasion Drama I; Metzger 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1F International Human Rights; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5E SEM: Advanced International Negotiations; Zwier / Crick 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5K SEM: Markets for Law; Ahdieh 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5G | American Legal Writing (LLM); Daspit 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1F Capital Defender Workshop; Moore 3:30-5:30 p.m. (Not on campus) Comparative Law; Ludsin 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1B Doing Deals: Contract Drafting (MCL Only); Carghill 2:00-5:00 p.m. 5E Employment Discrimination; Shanor 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5B Federal Courts; Nash 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5F International Business Transactions; Dean 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1C International Humanitarian Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G SEM: Animal Law; Satz 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5D SEM: Law & Vulnerability; Fineman 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A | Alternate Dispute Resolution; Armstrong 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5D Comparative Constitutional Law; Klymovich 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1A Complex Litigation; Freer 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1E Doing Deals: Commercial Real Estate; Elliott 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A Estate Planning; Pennell 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1C International Humanitarian Law Clinic; Blank 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G International Human Rights; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5E SEM: Law & Literature; Duncan 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5K | Access to Justice; Costa 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1F American Legal Writing (LLM): Daspit 2:00-3:30 p.m 1F Colloquium Series Workshop; Levine 2:00-3:00 p.m. 5E Comparative Law; Ludsin 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1B Employment Discrimination; Shanor 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5B Federal Courts; Nash 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5F International Business Transactions; Dean 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1C International Humanitarian Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G SEM: Disability Law; Satz 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5D SEM: Family Law, Partner to Parent; Fineman 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A | |
| 4:00-9:15 p.m. | AdvancedEvidence; McCoyd 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1B Advanced Pre-Trial Litigation; Elmore 5:15-8:15 p.m. 1F Alternate Dispute Resolution; Allgood 4:15-5:45 p.m. 5A Biography, Autobiography & Scandal; Felman 4:00-7:00 p.m. 5D Business Associations; Kang 4:00-5:30 p.m. 1C Copyright Law; Beck 4:00-5:30 p.m. 5E Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Parkerson 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5C Doing Deals: Deal Skills; Alperin, Connell 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Deal Skills; Hillman, Goodmark 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Doing Deals: Corporate Practice; Rector 6:15-9:15 p.m. 5A Education Law & Policy; Waldman 4:15-6:15 p.m. NDB 155 Energy Law; Crofton 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5B Evidence; Goldfeder 4:15-6:00 p.m. 1E Federal Prosecution Practice; Grimberg 6:15-9:15 p.m. 5E International IP Law; Holz 6:30-8:00 p.m. 1D International Law; An-Na'im 4:15-5:45 p.m. 5F Negotiations; Athans 6:15-8:15 p.m. 1B | Advanced Civil Trial Practice: Medical Malpractice; Graves 6:15-8:15 p.m. 1F Canon Law; Domingo 4:15-6:15 p.m. G114 Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Saudek 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5F Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Tyde 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1A Doing Deals: Deal Skills; Lewinson, Klemperer 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5C Doing Deals: Deal Skills; McMorries, Duma 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5D Doing Deals: Deal Skills; Notte, Bondurant 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Mergers and Acquisitions; Ernst, Hilton 5:00-8:00 p.m. 5K Employment Discrimination Lab; King / Shultz 6:15-7:30 p.m. 1E Entertainment Law; Sanders 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1E Externships: Advanced Amidon / Perry 6:15 - 7:15 p.m 5A Externships: Government Counsel; Amidon / Perry 5:00-6:00 p.m. 5A Externships: Public Interest Segal / Cadenhead 5:00-6:00 p.m. 5E Fundamentals of Innovation II; Rector 4:30-7:30 p.m. 5B Introduction to the American Legal System (JM Only); Mathews 6:30-8:30 p.m. 1B Law in Public Health; Kocher 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1B Negotiations; Eldridge 5:30-7:30 p.m. NDB 155 Privacy Law; Cloud 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1C Securities: Brokers / Dealers; Terry 6:15-7:45 p.m. 5E Tax Controversies; Loechel 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1D | Advanced Evidence; McCoyd 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1B Alternate Dispute Resolution; Allgood 4:15-5:45 p.m. 5A Asylum Law; Kuck 5:00-8:00 p.m. 5C Business & Strategic Lawyering; Aronson 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1D Business Associations; Kang 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1C Civil Trial Practice: Family Law; Wellon 6:15-9:15 p.m. 1F Copyright Law; Beck 4:00-5:30 p.m. 5E Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Payne 4:15-7:15 p.m. G114 Doing Deals: Deal Skills; Hill, Lewis 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Venture Capital; Pannell, Berson 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Evidence; Goldfeder 4:15-6:00 p.m. 1E Externships: Criminal Defense; Kleinrock 6:15-7:15 p.m. 5D Federal Income Tax: Partnership; Beaudrot 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5B Intellectual Property Litigation; North 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1F International IP Law; Holz 6:30-8:00 p.m. 5E International Law; An-Na'im 4:15-5:45 p.m. 5F | Alternate Dispute Resolution (JM); Allgood 5:00-6:15 p.m. 1F Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Segal 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Doing Deals: Negotiated Corporate Transactions; Scott 4:05-6:30 p.m. 1B Entertainment Law; Sanders 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1E Externships: Legislative / Policy; George 5:00-6:00 p.m. 5G Externships: Prosecution; Brickman 5:00-6:00 p.m. 5B Externships: Corporate Counsel; Cavitt 6:15-7:15 p.m. 5F Federal Appellate Practice; Marcovitch 5:00-7:00 p.m. 5C Legal Analysis & Writing for Non-Lawyers; (Accelerated) Kirk 6:30-8:30 p.m. 5D Privacy Law; Cloud 4:15-5:45 p.m. 1C Reg. Healthcare Providers; Miller 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1D Securities: Brokers / Dealers; Terry 6:15-7:45 p.m. 5E SEM: Money in Politics; Kang 4:00-6:00 p.m. 5A |
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The following courses were offered in Spring 2015.
Law 679, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Costa
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises, court performance, periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and underserved populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering with drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions
But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways. First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews with actual defendants (either in or out of custody) and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and even possibly motions and trials).
Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple days will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Administrative Law
Law 701, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Arthur
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Most areas of contemporary legal practice require lawyers to work with administrative agencies and a large body of law concerning such agencies. This course is a study of how agencies are empowered, the procedures and modes through Description: Most areas of contemporary legal practice require lawyers to work with administrative agencies and a large body of law concerning such agencies. This course is a study of how agencies are empowered, the procedures and modes through which agencies carry out their tasks, and legal constraints on these agencies. Topics include constitutional limits on Congress' power to delegate legislative and judicial power to agencies; procedures imposed upon agency adjudication and lawmaking by the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, and other statutes; the scope of judicial review of agency decisions, including the methods by which courts restrict and control agency discretion, and the limitations on the availability of federal judicial review of federal agency actions. In addition, the course will explore several recent "regulatory reform" initiatives.
Law 957, 06A
COURSE NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN CIVIL TRIAL PRACTICE.
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Graves
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course Work, Pretrial Conference and Trial
Description: The course is designed around an advanced litigation problem involving a heart transplant operation that went awry. The course is taught by experienced lawyers, judges, and doctors, includes demonstrations and trial discussions by other well-known lawyers in the field, and a hands-on visit to an operating room in a local hospital with a surgeon and nurse. Classes are generally in the NITA format supplemented by lectures and demonstrations about trial issues and medical/legal procedures. The students actually try the case at the end of the semester in front of a jury and before active trial judges in one of the local Superior Courts.
Law 852, 02A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. McCoyd
Prerequisite: Evidence and Trial Technique
Grading Criteria: Critiqued classroom exercises and a final simulated trial
Enrollment: 20
Description: This workshop will provide build on the trial skills taught in the Kessler Eidson Trial Techniques Program, this course focuses on advanced techniques for opening statements, direct examinations, cross-examinations, and closing arguments in a complex litigation case. The course will draw on both criminal case files to provide a wide range of experience and development for the students. This will be accomplished by utilizing a combination of lectures, simulated courtroom exercises, detailed critiques, and specific recommendations for improvement.
Addressing issues and strategies relevant to the aspiring trial advocate who is dedicated to honing his or her trial skills, the course presentations inspire and educate in critical areas including: persuasion, trial strategy, effective use of trial exhibits, demonstrative evidence and courtroom technology, with attention to the inherent ethical concerns in each area. The course will feature a combination of these presentations, workshop sessions, and a final simulated trial. Workshops will include instruction on developing persuasive case theories, compelling trial themes and effective case characterizations and incorporating these methodologies into direct and cross-examination, objections, opening statements and closing arguments.
Students will learn how to construct and deliver effective opening statements, direct and cross-examinations, and closing arguments, all while consistently incorporating, via lecture and class participation and experience, the key concepts needed to prevail when actually trying cases. Faculty critiques will cover the concepts specific to the exercise the student performed (opening, direct, cross, or closing) and address tactical principles such as utilization of theory and theme, as well as common communication issues including use of voice and movement as tools of effective advocacy.
The course is designed for law students who have at the minimum taken a basic course in evidence, with those who have taken a trial advocacy course and/or have a serious interest in trial practice preferred.
Law 958, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Wellon
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course Work, Pretrial Conference and Trial
Description: Designed to build on the litigation skills introduced in last year’s Trial Techniques Program, this course will enhance students’ trial proficiency by emphasizing lecture, demonstrations, as well as regular classroom participation through the NITA-inspired learn-by-doing approach. Students will receive guidance from a highly experienced panel of instructors comprised of well-respected judges and trial lawyers. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be presented by providers of litigation support. The case file is built around a divorce trial, with issues of custody, alimony and support, division of property, and an interesting twist on adultery and its impact. There are no family law pre-requisites for this course, as the primary focus will be developing and refining trial skills which will translate into any litigation. Some emphasis will be placed on the substantive law of domestic relations to establish the issues to be tried, but the real goal of the course is to further enhance the development of true trial lawyers. Other components of the course will feature jury selection by a nationally known jury consultant, and pretrial conferences in anticipation of preparing for trial. Throughout the course, knowledge of evidence and its proper application will be emphasized, along with effective and practical techniques of delivery and examination. At the conclusion of the semester, a full trial will be conducted by student trial teams to a live jury in a real courtroom setting at the DeKalb County Courthouse with actual trial judges presiding. This is an essential course for students interested in honing and further enhancing their abilities in a courtroom, and for others simply interested in expanding their knowledge and skills in the burgeoning area of family law. The course has been expanded to three hours in recognition of the value of the course and the time and specialized attention required to prepare law students to move immediately into trial work upon graduation.
Law 632A, 04A
Credit: 3 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. McCoyd
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Critiqued classroom exercises and a written final exam
Enrollment: 20
Description: The objective of this course is to explore and develop selected complex evidentiary issues that are not covered by the basic Evidence course. The objective will be accomplished through the use of both lecture and simulations that present these issues in the context of complex civil and criminal litigation scenarios. While learning to analyze sophisticated evidentiary issues, students will also be able to expand the basic trial skills they acquired in Trial Advocacy. The faculty will lead participants through the quagmire of the Federal Rules of Evidence. This course offers participants the necessary skills to work through evidentiary issues with greater accuracy and confidence; ensure baseline relevancy issues are met, to affirm that probative value outweighs unfair prejudice; analyze quickly whether character evidence, including prior bad acts, is admissible; describe when habit and custom evidence may be admitted; utilize appropriate impeachment objections after analyzing the rules regarding bias, capacity and prior inconsistent statements; and, outline an analytical scheme for hearsay objections and the exceptions.
The course is designed for law students who have at the minimum taken a basic course in evidence.
Law 657, 12A
Accelerated Class: January 5, 2015 – February 16, 2015
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Professor Richelle Reid
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Enrollment: 20
Description: An examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through lectures and practical application with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as advanced research techniques, case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research.
This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Law 851, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Romig & Prof. Chapman
Prerequisite: LWRAP I
Grading Criteria: Students will write approximately eight blog posts of 600-800 words each, and will comment on other students’ work posted on the course blog. Satisfactory peer review of selected assignments and the final project will also be required. This work is ungraded but required for passing the course, and will form the basis for the final capstone blog project.
The final grade will be calculated as follows: 10 percent of the grade will be based on a short small-group presentation on an assigned topic about blogging (examples: strong lead paragraphs, use of headings, humor, links and citations).
The other 90 percent will be based on the capstone blog project, in which students will create blogs representing themselves and their law-related interests. Each student will create his or her own blog that includes at least five posts revised from the student’s earlier posts in the course, and two additional posts that the student creates. These posts should represent the student’s legal research and analytical abilities, reader-focused organization and reader-friendly concise writing, unique yet still professional voice, and writing proficiency with grammar and punctuation. The goal is to create a blog that the student can use after the class to explore his or her law-related interests and represent those interests to potential employers. The student will have the ability to limit blog access to class members only. Prior technical knowledge of blogging software is not required – students will learn to use WordPress, a leading blogging platform.
Description: This course is an experiential course that will teach skills that are crucial for every young litigator or any lawyer who might end up in court. We will discuss many of the typical pre-trial motions filed when defending a civil case and will address litigation strategy. Specifically, the class will work through a medical malpractice case, and the students will write three briefs: (1) a brief in support of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim; (2) a brief in response to a motion to compel discovery; and (3) a brief in support of a motion for summary judgment. We anticipate the students will also do an oral argument on the motion for summary judgment. The assignments will be “closed universe” assignments, meaning that the students will not need to do independent research. Out of class reading, other than authorities for the briefs, will be limited; the students will learn to write briefs by writing them. The students will not take a separate final exam. The only prerequisites for this course are those in the first year curriculum. Students do not need to take Pre-Trial Litigation before taking this class.
Law 755A, 05A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elmore
Description: TBA
Law 893, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Mathews
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take Home Exam
Description: This course seeks to develop further two primary skill sets introduced in the first-year LWRAP course: (1) understanding principles of legal information literacy, and (2) recognizing and responding to audience characteristics. The course will help students learn how to apply these skills in the legal workplace by employing an innovative approach of focusing solely on assignments that are short in length or duration or both. These kinds of rapid, succinct analyses are increasingly the bread and butter of real-world legal practice.
About half of the weekly writing assignments in the course will center on more skillful and informed application of principles of legal information literacy (i.e., the set of skills needed to locate, evaluate, and effectively utilize legal authorities). These assignments will focus on issues such as efficiently using a wide variety of free and fee-based on-line legal research tools; tackling unusual legal issues that pose particular research challenges; and effectively screening and organizing relevant authorities. The remaining assignments will focus on shaping documents to respond to and take advantage of particular audience characteristics, whether the demands of a busy judge, the urgency of an assigning attorney, or the sensitivity of a client. These assignments may take the form of preparing a document to be read by two audiences with different interests; producing an overview report that can be absorbed quickly by a busy reader; or an assignment requiring an oral report rather than a written document.
The course will build upon but move beyond the instructional techniques used in the first-year LWRAP course by shifting away from a process-based model (in which students work through a series of incremental assignments as part of the process of drafting, reconsidering, and revising a complete analytical document over a period of weeks). Instead, the course will use focused, tailored assignments, to be submitted under tight deadlines. Students will receive detailed feedback on each assignment, but that feedback will be oriented toward getting students to identify and address practice-related issues in their writing, rather than coaching students through a progressive revision process.
Law 853, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Carroll & Prof. Schwartz
Prerequisite: None
Description: This course is an experiential course that will teach skills that are crucial for every young litigator or any lawyer who might end up in court. We will discuss many of the typical pre-trial motions filed when defending a civil case and will address litigation strategy. Specifically, the class will work through a medical malpractice case, and the students will write three briefs: (1) a brief in support of a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim; (2) a brief in response to a motion to compel discovery; and (3) a brief in support of a motion for summary judgment. We anticipate the students will also do an oral argument on the motion for summary judgment. The assignments will be “closed universe” assignments, meaning that the students will not need to do independent research. Out of class reading, other than authorities for the briefs, will be limited; the students will learn to write briefs by writing them. The students will not take a separate final exam. The only prerequisites for this course are those in the first year curriculum. Students do not need to take Pre-Trial Litigation before taking this class.
Law 605, 04A (Allgood)
Law 605, 02A (Armstrong)
COURSES NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN BUSINESS SCHOOL OR LAW SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS. THIS COURSE WILL BE OFFERED IN THE FALL SEMESTER.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Allgood/Prof. Armstrong
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
- Team Role Plays and Final Objective Exam (Allgood)
- Take Home (Armstrong)
Enrollment: 20
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR] with an emphasis on negotiation, mediation and arbitration processes. Course objectives include an overview of these processes as a complement to litigation as well as study of and training in the skill sets used in each of the ADR processes by advocates as well as neutrals.
Law 655, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Witte
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take Home Exam
Description: This course treats the history of American public, private and penal law from its colonial beginnings through the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
The main aim of this course is to understand the evolution of American law in intellectual, political, social, and economic context. We shall analyze the emerging American legal understandings of authority and power, rights and liberties, individuals and associations. We shall witness the gradual and painful efforts, only partly successful in this period, to include slaves and servants, women and children, natives and immigrants within the ambit of legal protection. And we shall focus on the transformation of constitutional law, criminal law, and private laws of marriage, property, contract, and commerce in the first century after the American Revolution. Much of what we now take for granted in our American legal system today, we shall see, was forged in the remarkable century of legal development between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Part I of this course focuses on the colonial legal system, particularly in Massachusetts and Virginia, viewed against the prevailing law of England and the Continent. Part II deals with the remarkable development of American constitutionalism in the young American nation, at both the state and federal levels. Part III analyzes the transformation of American private law and criminal law in the first half of the nineteenth century. Part IV traces the painful struggle over slavery and abolition, culminating the American Civil War and passage of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Classes will consist of lecture and discussion. There will be a take home examination, handed out the last day of the semester, with a 3000 word answer due the last day of the law school examination period.
Readings will consist of a blend of excerpted primary and secondary sources available in PDF format and on the electronic blackboard maintained for this course.
Law 560, LLM
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Daspit
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An introduction to law and sources of law, legal bibliography and research techniques and strategies, the analysis of problems in legal terms, the writing of an office memorandum of law.
Law 734, 11A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shepherd-Bailey
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Enrollment: 80
Description: This course explores the application to the practice of law of analytical methods of the social sciences and business profession. It will introduce essential concepts from economics, accounting, finance, statistics, and game theory to prepare students for legal practice in the modern world. These tools can be tremendously important and useful; not knowing something about them can be a serious detriment to the effective practice of law. Always, our focus will be on the application of analytical methods to real legal problems, such as the appropriate measure of damages or when to settle a case -- not becoming adept at complicated calculations. Our primary goal: to recognize when an analytical method would be useful in a legal situation and to develop a rough idea of how to use that method. Students are not expected to have any prior training or experience.
Law 702, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Arthur
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Federal regulation of competitive practices under the Sherman, Clayton, and Federal Trade Commission Acts. The course covers such antitrust problems as joint activities by direct competitors, including cartel price fixing, market division and boycott arrangements and productive joint ventures; monopolization by single firms; restraints imposed by manufacturers on their distributors; and mergers.
Law 625, 08A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore
Prerequisite: None
Description: This class will explore and analyze the intersection of law with art and culture. Topics will include censorship, copyright and the Visual Artist Rights Act, contracts, consignment of art acts such as the Georgia Consignment of Art Act, limited edition laws as well as United States, European Union, and international law as they relate to the illicit trade in antiquities, Nazi Era plunder, other art crimes, in addition to other aspects of the law pertaining to art dealers, auction houses, artist's rights, and museums. Additional subjects will include cultural heritage and indigenous cultural issues. Course materials will include readings from Art Law, Cases and Materials (DuBoff, Burr and Murray, 2004). Links to selected legislation, international conventions, agreements, and other resources are provided below. Some of these materials will be optional.
Law 691, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kuck
Description: TBA
Law 618, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Felman
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular attendance; two short papers distributed in the course of the semester; brief oral presentations; weekly one-page reading reports, and active (annotated) preparation of texts for class discussion; ongoing participation.
Enrollment: 10
Description: History has put on trial a series of outstanding thinkers. At the dawn of philosophy, Socrates drinks the cup of poison to which he is condemned by the Athenians, charged with atheism and corruption of the youth. Centuries later, in modernity, a similarly influential teacher, Oscar Wilde, is condemned by the English for his homosexuality, as well as for his provocative artistic views. In France, Flaubert and Baudelaire are both indicted as criminals for their literary works; Emile Zola is condemned for defending a Jew against the state, which has (wrongly) convicted him. Different forms of censorship are instigated by religious institutions, as well as by psychoanalytic ones. The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan – who practices and teaches new techniques—is expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association, and perceives his expulsion as a religious “excommunication” (Luther, Spinoza). Through the examination of a series of historical and literary trials, this course will ask: Why are literary writers, philosophers and creative thinkers, repetitively put on trial, and how do in turn do they put society on trial? Can these trials be viewed as autobiographies of sorts, or as biographies of scandal? What is the role of literature as a political actor in the struggles over ethics and the struggles over meaning? And finally: how does literature become the writing of a destiny, or what can be called “Life-Writing”?
Selected Authors for Spring 2015: Plato (Apology; Crito; Philosophy on trial; Plato’s experience of his mentor’s execution); Oscar Wilde (Sexuality, art, and biography on trial: Wilde’s writings--novel, plays, autobiography, ballad; and Wilde’s biography – in literary memoirs narrated by his friend and colleague, the French writer André Gide); Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary, novel on trial); Charles Baudelaire (Flowers of Evil, poetry on trial: exemplary poems studied); Herman Melville (Billy Budd, one of the richest literary illustrations of “Law in Literature”: a story of Innocence on trial).
Law 630, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Aronson
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Business and Strategic Lawyering is the big picture of law. It is the development and understanding of legal, business, political social and other considerations with a goal to implementing strategic legal, business and other actions to obtain the best results. The constantly changing fields of science, technology and globalization and their legal, business, political and social consequences make the strategic merging of proactive business strategies and legal considerations necessary for optimizing results. Both lawyers and business executives need to act proactively to protect clients and shareholder interests through effective strategic legal and business risk management structures and processes within the larger strategic business context. The course will include prominent guest lecturers from the legal and business communities.
This course will also consider and evaluate law firm management procedures and techniques to maximize on revenues as well as more effectively serving business clients. In the innovative driven technological economy we are living today, strategic lawyering has become an imperative for both lawyers and business executives.
Law 762, 12A
ACCELERATED CLASS: January 5, 2015 – February 16, 2015
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Sneed
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Enrollment: 20
Description: The purpose of Business and Tax Legal Research is to provide students with an introduction to business and tax related materials and advanced training on the finding and utilization of these materials for legal research purposes. Topics covered will include business forms, business filings and SEC research, and primary and secondary sources for tax issues.
This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
- Law 500, 08A (Freer): Credit 4 hours
- Law 500, 04A (Kang): Credit 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Freer (08A); Prof. Kang (04A)
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course surveys formation, organization, financing, management, and dissolution of sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. While covering fundamental rights and responsibilities of owners, managers, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises. This course includes consideration of major federal securities laws governing insider trading and other fraudulent practices under Rule 10b-5 and section 16(b).
Law 623, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Domingo
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-Home Exam
Description: Canon Law, the law of the Catholic Church, stands at the origin of the Western Legal Tradition and is one of the chief sources of legal concepts and principles we take for granted today. This course will explore the theological and historical background of Canon Law, as well as contemporary Canon Law practice and principles set out in 1983 Code of Canon Law and post-1983 legislation. The course will cover such topics as marriage and family life; clerical conduct and misconduct; church governance at the universal, intermediary, and local levels; the interwoven roles of the papacy, bishops, synod of bishops, college of cardinals, and Roman Curia; the division of church power among provinces and regions, metropolitans, particular councils, and local parishes; and some controverted questions concerning the rights and obligations of ordained diocesan clerics. The topics and themes of the course will be adjusted to meet the needs and interests of students. The readings will include primary and secondary sources.
Law 658, 03A
SELECTION: INTERESTED STUDENTS MUST SUBMIT A LETTER OF INTEREST & RESUME TO JOSH MOORE, OFFICE OF THE GEORGIA CAPITAL DEFENDER (PHONE: 404.736.5151; FAX: 404.739.5155)
Credit: 3 Hours (pass/fail)
Instructor(s): Prof. Moore
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third year law students from Emory, Georgia State, UGA, and Mercer will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients’ cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic—as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages—is to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on “making the case for life.” That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
The course component of this clinic will meet for 2 hours each week at the offices of the Capital Defender in downtown Atlanta. In addition to attending class, students will work on client matters for 10 hours each week. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis only, and students who express willingness to commit for 2 semesters will be given preference at the Pre-selection stage. Please indicate on your application whether you have taken any criminal procedure course(s) or the capital punishment course.
Law 635, 02A
THIS COURSE QUALIFIES AS A PRE-REQUISITE OR CO-REQUISITE FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE BARTON PUBLIC POLICY OR LEGISLATIVE CLINIC.
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Murry
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Grades will be based upon advocacy exercises with written and in-class simulation components, a short reaction paper, and participation.
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape policies affecting abused and neglected children, including: the requirements of federal laws and regulations; the perspective of different disciplines working on these issues; public perceptions; and media coverage. The course will cover the role of federal, state, and local agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of abused and neglected children and their families. Students will learn to identify and use resources from other disciplines to supplement their legal skills and will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and administrative policy strategies as a response to child abuse and neglect.
Law 860A, 12A
Credit: 2 Hours
Selection: Pre-selection
Instructor(s): Prof. Levine, Kay
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Work
Enrollment: 6
Description: Would you like a close-up look at the world of legal scholarship and the exchange of scholarly ideas? Are you seeking more engagement with the Emory Law faculty outside of the traditional classroom setting? Do you want to become a stronger writer? Have you ever thought you might want to become a law professor? If so, consider applying to the Colloquium Series Workshop (CSW).
Components: Students who participate in this two unit workshop attend two meetings each week: the weekly faculty colloquium, which meets on Wednesdays over the lunch hour (and includes lunch) and a one-hour class session run by Professor Kay Levine, on Thursday afternoons. During each of these one hour sessions, students discuss the colloquium work as a piece of scholarship (and as piece of persuasive writing), critique the author's presentation, and review materials relating to the production of scholarship and the legal academic job market. In advance of the weekly meeting, students write short reaction papers to each colloquium piece. The CSW will be graded on a pass/fail basis, but with high attendance and participation standards set for what constitutes a passing grade.
Enrollment: Students enroll in the CSW in accordance with the same procedures used for seminars (advance application during the Pre-selection process). However, enrollment is limited to six students each semester, instead of the usual 15. On the Pre-selection form please indicate the basis of your interest in the CSW, and note whether you will be producing a journal comment or other independent scholarly paper during the spring semester.
Law 724, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ludsin
Prerequisite: None
Description: What do (1) corporate counsel advising Walmart on opening stores in India; (2) US government officials helping to write the Iraqi constitution; and (3) Human Rights Watch workers fighting for gender equality in Afghanistan have in common? Each must know the law of the foreign jurisdiction and how it compares either to their own law or to some “ideal.” With so much cross-border activity, even purely “domestic” lawyers now must employ comparative law. This course focuses on the process of comparing law to prepare students to employ it in their own legal practice. It will use examples of substantive legal issues from across the globe to teach students how to compare laws of foreign jurisdictions, taking into consideration culture, economics and regional law, among other factors that create the similarities and differences between jurisdictions. Along the way, students will gain new insight into their own system of law.
Comparative Constitutional Law
Law 707, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Klymovich
Prerequisite: None
Description: TBA
Law 610, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours Instructor(s): Prof. Freer
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A study of the metamorphosis of litigation from the simple two-party model to multi-party, multi-claim litigation increasingly prevalent today, including the causes of this change and ability of the legal system to resolve such disputes. The course centers on a detailed study of the class action device, including jurisdictional and due process implications. Also included is the study of the problem of duplicative state and federal litigation, judicial control of complex cases, including multi-district litigation procedures and the case management movement, discovery, and problems relating to preclusion in complex cases.
Law 646Y, 08A
Credit: 3 Hours
Selection: Open Bidding
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-Home Exam
Description: This course will explore questions arising under the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment as well as religion clauses in representative state constitutions and their colonial antecedents. Consideration will be given to cases concerning religious speech, worship and symbolism in the public square, the public school, and the workplace; government support for, and protection of religious education in public and private schools; tax exemption of religious institutions and properties; treatment of religious claims of Native Americans and various religious minorities; the freedom of religious exemptions and their limits; exercise of and limitations on religious law and discipline, control and disposition of religious property; and other issues.
Classes will consist of lecture and discussion. Students will be given a take-home examination to be distributed to the last day of class and to be returned the last day of the examination period. Enrollment in History of Church-State Relations in the West or American Constitutional Law is NOT a prerequisite to enrollment in this course.
Law 698L; 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Perry
Prerequisite: Non (1L who have not taken Con Law, please contact instructor 1st)
Grading Criteria: Course Participation and Final exam
Description: In the last forty years—the period since the early 1970s—the Supreme Court of the United States has resolved, on the basis of the Constitution of the United States, many contested "rights" controversies that are closely aligned with divisive moral controversies—controversies involving, e.g., capital punishment, abortion, race-based affirmative action, physician-assisted suicide, and, most recently, same-sex marriage. In this course, we will study and evaluate several such controversies. A principal, recurring issue throughout the course: What role should the Supreme Court play—how large a role, or how small—in resolving constitutional controversies that are closely aligned with divisive moral controversies? The final exam will be of the “take home” variety.
Law 710, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Beck
Prerequisites: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Copyright law offers protection for originalworks including music, paintings, photographs, sculpture, movies, books, plays, fabric , architectural works, software and visual art. This course examines copyright law and its ability to respond to recent developments in technology. Course topics include the exclusive rights a copyright confers; infringement; defenses, including "fair use"; and remedies. There is also discussion of copyright litigation strategies and tactics employed by Professor Beck on behalf of his clients in the course of his private practice; in that sense, the class aims to be relatively pragmatic rather than theoretical.
Law 959, 10A
Law 959, 02A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Metzger
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques;
Grading Criteria: Class work
Enrollment: Strictly limited to 12 students
Class open to 2Ls and 3Ls
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors, and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Students reflected on what they gained from taking this class:
"I think what is most drastically different is how much more professional I came across later in the semester."
-Ben S.
"The largest benefit I drew from our class was the ability to stand comfortably in front of a group of people."
-Diana S.
"The most valuable aspect is practice, practice, practice, especially when combined with live and individualized feedback. I can make presentations with significantly less internal anxiety than before, and with more organization and the outward appearance of credibility." -Andrew R.
"This class taught me that putting work into your speaking style can really pay off! I also found the freedom during this class to try some experiments with my speaking technique, including not memorizing a script and moving about my space." -Alan W.
Law 622B, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Levine
Prerequisite: Criminal Law
Grading Criteria: Modified open book, in-class final exam; 6-8 page paper; meritorious class participation.
Enrollment: 30
Description: This course will examine how lawyers and judges behave in the criminal courts throughout the United States, as well as the legal doctrines implicated by their behavior. Topics include discovery, pre-trial detention, jury selection, prosecutorial charging and bargaining, ineffective assistance of counsel, double jeopardy, and speedy trial issues. Readings address material from law, sociology, history, and public policy. Students should note that this class has a strong sociology focus; it is not predominantly doctrinal.
Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the secure Directed Research web page »
Law 659E, 09A
STUDENTS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY TAKEN ACCOUNTING OR FINANCE COURSES ARE NOW PERMITTED TO TAKE THIS CLASS ON A PASS/FAIL BASIS ONLY WHICH WILL TAKE UP THREE OF THEIR SIX PASS/FAIL HOURS.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: This course is designed for those liberal arts majors who know nothing about accounting and finance. Students will learn about the fundamental financial statement concepts. Then the course will turn to the study of how lawyers use those concepts in practice.
Law 659G, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott & Prof. Taylor
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (concurrent okay) and Contract Drafting
Grading Criteria: Midterm, Class Participation, Drafting of Documents
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course will concentrate on sales, finance and leasing of commercial real estate. It will require significant amounts of time devoted to financial analysis of real estate projects and to negotiating and drafting of documents. It is designed specifically to include JD, LLM, and MBA students. Work groups will consist of JD, LLM, and MBA students working together as lawyer and client to analyze, negotiate and document the acquisition and subsequent leasing of a shopng center. The text for the course is a business school real estate finance text. Legal materials will be made available as handouts. A basic knowledge of Excel will be helpful but not required.
- Law 659A, 09A
- Law 659A, 09B
- Law 659A, 04A
- Law 659A, 04B
- Law 659A, 04C
- Law 659A, 04D
- Law 659A, 04E
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (highly recommended as prerequisite)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
Law 659H, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Written Problems and Class Participation
Enrollment: 12
Description: The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the first year of general corporate practice, whether in an in-house, law firm, or solo practice setting. This course will provide students with broad exposure to a variety of corporate problems, including contract negotiation and drafting typical of current corporate practice, complex corporate structuring issues, joint ventures, and non-litigation corporate dispute resolution. The course exercises will involve questions of corporate, tax, employment, and debtor-creditor law. Although prior course work in these areas is not required, it is preferable to have some interest in and familiarity with these areas.
Because student participation is essential for the success of this practice-simulation course, attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade. This course also requires collaborative work with other students and meetings with the adjunct faculty. You will be required to schedule several meetings in addition to regular class time. In addition, any students on the wait list for this class must attend the first class meeting, which sets the stage for the first several weeks of assignments.
- Law 659B, 09A
- Law 659B, 04A
- Law 659B, 04B
- Law 659B, 04C
- Law 659B, 04D
- Law 659B, 04E
- Law 659B, 04F
NOTE: CONTRACT DRAFTING AND DEAL SKILLS WILL BE PREREQUISITES TO ALL DOING DEALS CAPSTONE COURSES
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting (required – concurrent not okay); Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: Deal Skills will introduce students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, whether a multi-billion dollar M&A deal, a license agreement, a commercial real estate transaction or a financing transaction. Among the topics to be covered are the lawyer’s role as the translator of the business deal into contract concepts, client interviewing and communication, negotiation, due diligence, corporate actions and records, indemnities, transaction management, closings, and ethical issues. The course will be conducted through workshop exercises, in-class role-plays, and lecture, and will also include out-of-class due diligence, negotiation and other exercises.
Law 659J, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent not okay); Contract Drafting; Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Participation in Simulated Transaction, Written Assignments and Class Participation (NO EXAM)
Enrollment: 12
Description: This class is designed to provide law school students who intend to practice transactional law with some of the basic practical skills required to counsel companies with respect to business combinations. The focus of the course will be to identify and discuss the factors involved in a typical business combination, the roles of the parties and the relevant documents. The course is intended to ease the transition from law school to junior transactional associate.
Law 659K, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent not okay); Contract Drafting; Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Course Work and Class Participation
Enrollment: 12
Description: This class will enable the students to develop the types of skills needed for success in a transactional based law practice. Emphasis will be placed on the development of interviewing, drafting, and negotiation skills. The students will work through a hypothetical transaction that will be focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, letter of intent, development and review of a due diligence data room and will culminate in the drafting and negotiation of a final purchase agreement.
Law 659C, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBD
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting, Deal Skills,
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Enrollment: 12
Description: This course will study the business and legal issues in venture capital transactions. The course will be taught primarily through simulations.
Law 662, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Waldman
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises and final paper
Description: This course will survey constitutional, statutory and policy issues affecting children in our public elementary and secondary schools. An emphasis will be placed on issues that impact the children most at risk for educational failure and that contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline. Topics will include the right to an education, school discipline, special education, alternative educational programs, No Child Left Behind and high stakes testing, the rights of homeless youth and youth in foster care, and laws designed to address bullying in our schools.
Law 669, 08A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Shanor
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will focus on development of law and policy under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Law 669X, 06A
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Shultz & Prof. King,
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination or Employment Law
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Enrollment: (cap of 8 students)
Description: The class will work though an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
Law 660, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Crofton
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The course examines state, federal and international regulation of energy markets and the development, production and distribution of energy. The course will emphasize the interrelation of energy policy with other legal and economic policy areas.
Law 720, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Sanders
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, or Trademark Law, or Copyright Law (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will provide an overview of the rapidly developing body of law associated with the entertainment industries concentrating in the areas of music publishing and commercial recording, live performance, literary publishing and motion pictures. The course will focus on a study of entertainment law cases, aspects of copyright law, personal rights and negotiation of entertainment agreements.
Law 916, 02A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pennell, Jeff
Prerequisite: Trusts & Estates [There are no tax course prerequisites for Estate Planning]
Grading Criteria: Take Home Exam
Description: Selected problems in estate analysis and planning involving drafting of wills and trusts utilizing future interests, class gifts, powers of appointment, generation-skipping arrangements, and qualification for the marital deduction. Consideration of planning for business interests, insurance, and employee benefits also is included.
Law 620, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Mickevicius
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The largest trade and investment relationship in the world, overlapping geopolitical concerns, and crucial shared values make the European Union one of the United States’ most important partners – economically, politically, and socially. Lawyers, public servants, and activists are consequently being called upon to engage (and understand) European legal principles and practices to an ever-growing degree. With that in mind, this course will examine the theoretical fundamentals of the EU legal system and their practical applications. This begins with the constitutional framework of the EU, including its political and legal nature, its aims and guiding values, membership and the division of powers between the EU and the Members States, institutional makeup and the allocation of powers across its major institutions, and the structure and role of the EU judicial system. Building on the latter, we will then turn to the EU model of judicial review and the complex interaction between the EU and national legal systems in enforcing EU law. Finally, we will consider the body of EU legislation and case law ensuring economic freedom (freedom of movement for goods, establishments, services, workers, and capital) and fair competition – elements of EU business law that are essential to the operation of an effective single market – as well as recent developments in the creation of a unified concept of EU citizenship, and in the protection of individual freedoms within the EU.
Law 632X, 04A
MUST BE TAKEN IN THE SECOND YEAR
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Goldfeder
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege.
Law 633, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will address the problems, policies, and laws related to the formation and dissolution of the marital relationship. Among the topic covered will be marriage, divorce, child custody and other related topics.
Law 614, 05A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Marcovitch, Robert
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: In this class, students will engage in an immersive mock appellate exercise based on the record of a case pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which that Court has agreed to consider en banc. Students will write briefs from the record, participate in mock oral arguments, and write “draft” opinions in the case. If possible, the class will also attend the en banc oral argument of the appeal in the Eleventh Circuit. Lectures will address the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and their practical application, as well as instruction on writing a well-crafted and persuasive appellate brief.
This course is a prerequisite for enrollment in a clinical course to be offered in the Spring 2014 semester in which students will handle actual Eleventh Circuit cases, along with the instructor, under that Court’s third-year practice rule. The Spring 2015 clinical course will be open only to third year students.
Law 721, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Nash
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course deals with the allocation of judicial business between the state and federal courts, as well as the jurisdictional tensions that arise from a dual judicial system. In addition, the course considers the relationship between the federal judiciary and Congress, particularly as it implicates legislature’s power to structure and limit the federal courts’ subject matter jurisdiction. This is a very practical course, as well as one that implicates important theoretical issues about decision-making institutions under our federal system of government.
Federal Income Tax: Corporations
Law 642, 02A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fowler
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax 3 or 4 hours only requisite not co-requisite
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Survey of the general structure of taxation of corporations. Considers the tax issues arising from the formation, operation, liquidation, and reorganization of corporations. An important course for anyone interested in transactional law.
Law 640L, 08A
Credit: 4 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Brown
Law 942, 08A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Beaudrot
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course examines the taxation of partnerships, joint ventures, and LLCs. We will look at the formation, financing, and operation of these entities to understand the impact the tax rules have on financial returns and investment structures. This is an essential class for those interested in venture capital, private equity, real estate, or international business transactions.
Law 760, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Grimberg
Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure recommended, but not required
Grading Criteria: In-class exercises and take-home written assignments
Description: This class will explore the powers, principles, and responsibilities that come with serving as a federal prosecutor. Class segments will focus on the day-to-day responsibilities of federal prosecutors throughout the various stages of the criminal justice system. We will discuss the motivating factors that guide federal prosecution decisions in light of legal, policy, practical and ethical considerations. The class will involve a mix of lecture and “learn by doing” exercises that will be geared towards developing your analytical, oral and written advocacy skills.
Law 890A, 04A
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Rector
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Description: Innovation and technological change are critical to wealth creation in today’s global economy. However the process that often begins in the research lab traveling a path towards product development, market development, product commercialization and life cycle management is uncertain and typically difficult. More often than not, ideas will “die the good death” well before given the opportunity to develop into profitable markets. Fundamentals of Innovation I is first of a two-course sequence on the various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process within the context of technology commercialization. In the Fall semester, the course is focused on 1) helping students develop an understanding of innovation basics including the overall innovation process and roles and skills of various key players; 2) discussing patterns of technology change and alternate management processes for each; 3) organizing the innovation team and developing frameworks that foster team creativity; 4) understanding forms and protections afforded Intellectual Property; and 5) discussing early stage approaches to product definition (working models to engineering prototypes) and preliminary market definition.
The fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
Law 736, 12A
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Bergeson
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Health care is one of the largest sectors of the economy, and the practice of health law is growing. This course is an introduction to regulatory health law. The course will address select topics in health law, including: regulation of physicians and health care institutions, confidentiality, informed consent, individual and institutional obligations to provide care, discrimination in access to care, public and private health insurance structures, and some of the major statutes that govern health care providers. Health care is heavily regulated and the regulations can become trip-wires for the unwary. The course is intended to teach fundamental skills necessary to be a practicing lawyer who advises health care providers and suppliers. The class will not focus on health policy; health policy will be discussed only as background to understanding the regulatory framework within which a practicing health lawyer advises clients.
Law 608, 08A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Holbrook
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
THIS COURSE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR INTERNET LAW AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW AND INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE PATENT LAW SEMINAR.
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to patent, trademark, and copyright law. The course will explore the policy and legal foundations for these areas of law and the scope of protection which each affords. The requirements for protection will be examined and compared. The framework for the administrative procedures, which support the patent and trademark systems, will also be discussed. In part, the course will direct attention to the question as to the legitimacy of these forms of property and appropriateness of protection. What constitutes infringement of intellectual property rights will be discussed. Methods for avoiding infringement and scienter with respect to infringement will also be discussed. Remedies and questions of civil procedure and appellate review will receive brief consideration.
Law 608A, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Vertinsky
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property or Patent or Copyright or Trademark (concurrent okay)
Description: Intellectual property transactions are pervasive in the modern economy, shaping and facilitating the distribution, commercialization and use of ideas, technologies, and information. IP transactions, including licensing and other IP agreements, play an important role in commerce, education, the arts, and a range of other areas involving the creation and use of intangible assets. This class will provide a survey of some of the key laws, cases, and issues relevant to licensing and other forms of IP transactions in the United States. It will cover selected topics in patent, trade secret, copyright and trademark licensing, followed by applied topics such as open source licensing and technology transfer between public and private entities.
Law 608B, 04A
Instructor: Prof. North
Description: In the past, the areas of patent, copyright, and trademark were treated as distinct fields of law. In the modern marketplace, however, products likely involve consideration of all three of these forms of intellectual property protection. For example, the simple, ubiquitous insulating patent sleeve features patented, copyrighted, and trademarked elements. This class focuses the enforcement of IP rights through litigation with an eye to training students how to identify issues that cross these various regimes for a single product or situation. The class will focus on important skills such as drafting of motions, discovery, and expert testimony.
Law 730, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Dean
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will be a survey of practical issues that arise in cross-border transactions, including both outbound and inbound (from a US perspective) trade and investment transactions. We will discuss issues that affect transactions involving international trading of goods, project development and acquisitions. Topics will include letters of credit, international trade terms such as INCOTERMS, joint venture agreements, and international transfer of technology. We will also cover some selected aspects of government regulation of international trade and investment.
Law 690, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam or Essay
Description: This course focuses on international concerns for the upholding of human rights standards in legal systems of the world. It defines the concept of human rights, and distinguishes different categories of human rights that have developed over the years, namely (a) natural rights of the individual; (b) civil and political rights; (c) economic, social and cultural rights; and (d) solidarity rights. General problems relating to the theoretical basis of human rights will come under the spotlight in this section, including the universality and relativity of human rights, and the right to self-determination of peoples.
The course further deals with mechanisms for the protection and promotion of international human rights at three distinct levels: (a) globally, under auspices of the United Nations Organization, with emphasis on the binding effect of the human rights standards enunciated in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promotion and protection of those rights by the Human Rights Council, and the proclamation and enforcement of certain categories of rights in virtue of international conventions and covenants sponsored by the United Nations; (b) regionally, in Europe under auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the Helsinki Accord, in the Americas under auspices of the Organization of American States; and in Africa under auspices of the African Union; and (c) thematically, under auspices of specialized agencies such as the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNESCO.
When dealing with the promotion and protection of human rights under auspices of the United Nations, special attention will be given to the question whether or not the provisions in the U.N. Charter dealing with human rights are self-executing in the United States, and decisions of the Human Rights Council dealing with, for example, the defamation of a religion, and human rights violations committed by Israel in the West Bank and in Gaza. We have also singled out particular rights and freedoms for closer scrutiny, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion or belief, and the international protection of rights of the child.
The section on the Council of Europe pays special attention to the doctrine of a margin of appreciation developed by the European Court of Human Rights, which affords to High Contracting Parties a first bite at the cherry to decide whether circumstances exist in their respective countries that would warrant limitations to be imposed on particular rights or freedoms enunciated in the European Convention for the Protection of Basic Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and to the doctrine of positive obligations, which places on High Contracting Parties a duty to protect persons under their jurisdiction against violations of their rights by the State and by non-State actors. It further focuses on a selection of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, such as those relating to torture, sexual orientation, and extradition constraints (the latter involving the United States).
The section on the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights singles out decisions of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights that condemned the United States for not observing basic principles of the Inter-American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man of 1948, for example ones that dealt with racial discrimination in the sentencing of convicted criminals, the death penalty, abortions, and non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
The latter set of cases will also bring into contention three judgments of the International Court of Justice condemning the United States for non-compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and responses of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Germany to those judgments. The enforcement of international human rights in federal courts of the United States in cases such as Medéllin v.
Texas and in virtue of the Alien Torts Statute and Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 10 of the U.S. Constitution places the Vienna Convention judgments in a broader perspective.
Law 676, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam or essay
Description: September 11th, the war in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and the status of Afghani captives being held at Guantánamo Bay; the testing and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction; the violent conflict in Israel and Palestine, and in Libya; and attempts to establish an Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are all matters that come within the range of international humanitarian law: the law of armed conflict. International humanitarian law applies to and in times of armed conflict and differentiates between international armed conflicts and armed conflicts not of an international character. The war in Bosnia/Herzegovina and jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) illustrate the complexities attending that distinction. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Hamdan Case that the “war against terror” is an armed conflict not of an international character because it is not a war between States. This view is at odds with jurisprudence of the ICTY and the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is also extremely difficult to establish precisely under what conditions an internal uprising would be considered an armed conflict for the purposes of international humanitarian law.
The rules of international humanitarian law fall into two main categories:
(a) the ius ad bellum (the law relating to armed conflict): under what circumstances is the taking up of arms to resolve an international or internal dispute legitimate, and when would it constitute the international crime of aggression?
(b) the ius in bello (the law applying in times of war), which comprises two main subject-matters:
The rules regulating the means and methods of conducting hostilities (what weapons may be used, and what persons or objects may be targeted);
How must belligerent parties treat persons and objects not engaged in, or used for, actual combat, such as the wounded or sick members of the armed forces in the field; the wounded, sick or shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea; prisoners of war; and civilians.
Under (a), the course will explore the legitimacy of, for example, wars of liberation, the right to self-defense, and humanitarian intervention, with special emphasis on the war in Iraq, the Israeli offensive in Gaza, the use of armed force in Libya, and the current bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq. Under (b)(i), questions such as the legality of the threat or use of a wide spectrum of armament, ranging from dumdum bullets to nuclear, bacteriological and chemical weapons, as well as legitimate/illegitimate targets of an armed attack, will be considered. Under (b)(ii), matters such as the treatment of prisoners of war and of the wounded and sick
soldiers, and the protection of civilians and civilian objects, including cultural property, in times of war will come under the spotlight.
Particular problems that have emerged from recent judgments of the ICC and of the Supreme Court of Israel include the conscription and enlistment, and the use in actual combat, of children under the age of 15 years, and the use of a human shield to protect legitimate military targets from an armed attack.
Law 676C, ____
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights; Counterterrorism Law
Grading Criteria: Graded
Enrollment: By application
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counterterrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank. The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
Law 608C
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Holz
Prerequisite: (any of the core IP classes would be sufficient - Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark, or Patent)
Grading: Exam
Description: Intellectual property rights still remain creatures of national law. Historically, though, intellectual property law has been a part of a broader network of treaties and international organizations. In the last 30 years, much of the evolution in intellectual property law has occurred at the international level, driving changes in domestic law due to either treaty obligations or interests in harmonizing the laws of various countries. Countries have also come to realize, somewhat controversially at times, that intellectual property and trade are linked, with intellectual property rights potentially acting as barriers to trade. The creation of the World Trade Organization has now given nations a mechanism to enforce various intellectual property obligations. This course will explore the various treaty regimes that govern intellectual property rights, the international organizations (such as the WTO and the World Intellectual Property Organization) and their involvement in international intellectual property, the use of domestic intellectual property rights extraterritorially, and comparative differences between US and the law of other countries.
Law 732, 04A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. An-Na’im
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the general principles of Public International Law from a critical contemporary perspective; and to discuss the challenges to the structural and institutional limitations of that state-centric legal order in its global political context. The underlying theme will also include the implications of global transformations in the actors and processes of the rule of law in international relations.
Law 664, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Broyde
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper or Take-Home Exam
Description: This course will survey the principles Jewish (or Talmudic) law uses to address difficult legal issues and will compare these principles to those that guide legal discussion in America. In particular, this course will focus on issues raised by advances in medical technology such as surrogate motherhood, artificial insemination, and organ transplant. Through discussion of these difficult topics many areas of Jewish law will be surveyed.
Law 628Y, 09A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. J. Shepherd
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Enrollment: 80
Description: This course introduces students to the economic analysis of the law. Because economics provides a tool for studying how legal rules affect the way people behave, understanding economic analysis of legal problems has become an important part of a lawyer's education. The ability to predict the effects of legal rules helps the practicing lawyer furnish advice and make arguments before courts. It is also a prerequisite for the evaluation of legal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, the economic approach has grown in importance in academia as well as in legal and judicial practice. The course will explore several economic methods and concepts and apply them to illuminate and critique familiar areas of law, including criminal law, torts, contracts, property, and civil procedure. There are no prerequisites for this course; a background in economics is not necessary (or even very helpful).
Law 736A, 04A
Credit: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Kocher
Prerequisite: None
Grading criteria: Attendance, classroom participation, short oral presentation, and take-home exam
Site: Most sessions will meet at Emory Law, but a small number of sessions may be held at CDC headquarters on Clifton Rd)
Description: Law and public health are tightly intertwined. Law students can benefit from an improved understanding of the legal principles and laws underlying the complex and cross-disciplinary field of public health practice in the United States.
This course surveys law as it defines public health and is used by local, state, and federal government agencies as a tool to address contemporary public health problems in the United States. The course features a cross-disciplinary emphasis on the link between both the law and science of public health practice. The course specifically addresses foundational sources for public health law in the United States, including constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and case law. In addition, this course provides an examination of controlling law and emerging legal issues associated with selected topics drawn from bioterrorism, natural disasters, and other public health emergencies; public health surveillance and outbreak investigations; public health research and health information; special populations (including, for example, the aging population, persons with mental disabilities, prisoners, children, and homeless populations); and key public health topical areas, such as environmental issues; vaccination; foodborne diseases; tobacco use-related problems; and injuries.
Law 879, 06A
Accelerated Class: First seven weeks
Selection: Click here for Pre-selection form.
Credit: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Kirk
Prerequisite: None
Description: This course will cover sources and systems of law, the structure and content of legal arguments, and exam preparation and outlining. It will also cover communicating with non-lawyers, basic legal citation, and legal research.
Law 747, 12A
STUDENTS CONSIDERING A LITIGATION FIELD PLACEMENT IN THEIR THIRD YEAR ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO TAKE LEGAL PROFESSION.
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Elliott
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The rules and principles of professional ethics, other regulatory constraints on lawyers, the elements of malpractice liability and the values of professionalism.
Law 652, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Blank
Description: This course surveys the framework of domestic and international laws that authorize and restrain the pursuit of the U.S. government’s national security policies. Central issues include the sources, foundation and structure of national security law; the participants in the national security system, their constitutional roles, and the nature of power sharing among branches of government; and the law applicable to specific national security issues such as the use of military force, the activities of the intelligence community, and counterterrorism activities.
- Law 656, 06A (Athans & Lytle)
- Law 656, 06B (Eldridge)
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Athans/Prof. Eldridge
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
COURSE NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE LAW SCHOOL OR NEGOTIATIONS IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes proceeded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
Law 672, 10A
Credit:
Instructor(s): Prof. Cloud
Grading Criteria: Final exam (essay)
Description: The course will examine U.S. law governing informational and spatial privacy rights, including any restrictions they impose upon invasions by both government and private actors. The course will focus upon three topics. (1) The origins and history of the legal right to privacy in the United States, which was not recognized until the twentieth century. (2) The right to informational privacy for tangible documents, photographs, digital communications, and electronically stored information, regardless of the technologies used to create, transmit, and store the information. (3) The right to spatial privacy from physical trespasses and from a variety intrusions on privacy accomplished by using technological devices, like the use of drones for both visual and photographic information gathering.
Law 663, 10A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Zwier
Prerequisite: Torts
Grading Criteria: Exam
Enrollment: 24
Description: Products Liability is the study of causes of action, defenses, processes and procedures that apply to products that cause injury. A large variation of products are considered including, vehicles, machines, toys, food, clothing, contraceptives, tobacco, lighters, guns, airplanes and pharmaceuticals. Tension in the cases is palpable because most products suits are brought against major American and foreign corporations. The class will also engage in simulations that not only explore the students understanding of products liability law, but will simultaneously seek to develop litigation skills involving negotiations, case development and strategy and advocacy.
Law 744, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Miller
Prerequisite: Health Law (RECOMMENDED)
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Healthcare providers are subject to an array of state and Federal regulation, which regulation is not the result of a comprehensive scheme to implement a coherent policy. The result is a complex set of laws that often reflect the “health care policy of the moment” at the time they were adopted. This course will cover this largely unordered set of laws regulating provider conduct, as follows:
1. Licensure and Other Controls on Physician Practice—(a) state practice of medicine laws and state disciplinary actions; (b) hospital peer review and medical staff disciplinary actions, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act’s effect on peer review & the National Practitioner Data Bank; (c) Medicare regulation of the quality of care; and (d) other federal regulation of physicians.
2. Regulation of Institutional Providers—(a) Medicare
conditions of participation for hospitals and ”deemed status” by virtue of private accreditation; and (b) state “Never Event” statutes.
3. Billing and Reimbursement—(a) regulation of physician Medicare billing practices, including the Resource Based Relative Value Scale methodology, violation of terms of assignment, and billing in excess of the Medicare limiting charge; (b) regulation of hospital billing practices, including the DRG prospective payment system, and cost report and billing certifications; and (c) Medicare’s use of reimbursement rules to improve quality of care, including e-prescribing bonuses & refusal to pay for certain hospital readmissions.
4. Remedial and Prophylactic Statutes—(a) Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback criminal law, including definition of “intent”, safe harbors and advisory opinions; (b) Ethics in Patient Referral Act (Stark II) prohibitions on self-referral; (c) civil and criminal liability for false claims; (d) Medicare/Medicaid Civil Monetary Penalties Law; and (e) exclusion from federal health programs.
The course will begin with a review of the 2010 Health Reform Act and its effect on healthcare providers and patients.
Law 741, 08A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Partlett
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Rights in tort, contract and constitutional law are enforced in court. Whether the remedies that enforce rights are part of the substantive right or supplementary to it, remedies are theoretical and practically essential in understanding, and being fully equipped to practice in, both private and public law. This course will cover legal and equitable remedies. Restitution and monetary damages (including the "rightful position" principle, consequential damages, and damages for dignitary and constitutional harms) form the core, while injunctions – preventive, reparative, and structural – supplement remedies with which students will be familiar from courses in torts, contracts, property, and constitutional law. Other topics will include declarative judgments, contempt, and attorneys' fees, which are necessary to understanding the power of the courts to deliver justice. Reference will be made to the scope of self-help and apology, and similar non-monetary relief.
Law 713, 10A Class Number:
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Pardo
Prerequisite(s): None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will examine the law relating to the creation, perfection, and enforcement of security interests in personal property. Reading and class discussion will center on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and will include an introduction to the intersection of Article 9 with the federal bankruptcy laws, the creation and status of non-UCC liens on personal property (by operation of law or by execution of a judgment, e.g.), and non-UCC enforcement mechanisms, such as foreclosure, repossession, and garnishment. Attention will also be paid to the business context within which Article 9 operates, ie, debt financing.
Law 673, 06A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Terry
Description: This course is intended to be a follow-up course to the Securities Regulation course, which covers registration of new securities issues, disclosure and anti-fraud issues, and the coverage of securities laws. This course approaches securities regulation of the standpoint of the intermediaries between the issuers and purchaser - broker-dealers and investment advisers. It is intended to provide an academic foundation of relevant law, as well as practical information also relevant to a law practice in the area.
Much of the course will focus on the regulatory scheme and activities of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory body which is the principal day-to-day regulator of the broker-dealer industry. FINRA is the entity with which most broker-dealers and their counsel will typically interact with regard to most regulatory matters.
In addition, the course will look at investment advisers, a rapidly growing piece of the securities industry. An investment adviser is regulated either by the SEC or by state regulators, depending upon its size. Investment advisers are subject to a completely separate regulatory regimen, although there are many examples of overlap with broker-dealer regulatory issues since many firms, or their affiliates, are dually registered.
The interplay between the two regulatory schemes has been the focus of much discussion and legislative and regulatory activity over the past fifteen years, including several parts of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Finally, the course will provide insight into practical considerations of regulatory interaction, in both routine settings as well as enforcement matters.
In addition to private practice, graduating students with an interest in securities might find opportunities with brokerage firms, regulators and public corporations. The combination of the Securities Regulation course and this course should provide graduating students a thorough overview of most of the issues they might see if they enter into a securities-related practice.
Law 892, 000
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Rector
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: This course will cover special topics in technology commercialization.
Law 693, 10A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Linsky
Grading Criteria: in-class participation, small projects and a paper
Description: This course will provide a practical overview of the laws governing professional sports and advertising, examining issues relating to the various participants - the fans, the sponsors, the owners, the teams, the leagues, the players and the coaches. Advertising is included in this overview of the laws governing sports because marketing the teams is such an integral part of the operation of a professional sports team and knowledge of the various laws surrounding advertising and promotions would benefit anyone interested in this industry.
Twitter handle for students who register for the class or who are interested in sports law issues to follow: @MsSportsLaw.
Law 641, 04A
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Loechel
Prerequisite(s): Fundamentals of Income Tax
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will focus on the resolution of federal tax controversies through both administrative procedures and litigation. Specifically, we will consider filing requirements, audit procedures, administrative appeals, deficiencies, assessments, including termination and jeopardy assessments, penalties, interest, and the statute of limitations. Additionally, we will take a practical approach to problems and considerations arising in the litigation of cases before the U.S. Tax Court, District Court, and the Court of Federal Claims, including jurisdictional, procedural, and evidentiary issues. We will examine choice of forum, pleadings, discovery, privileges, and tax trial practice. Finally, we will discuss summons enforcement litigation, civil collection, levy and distraint, and the tax lien and its priorities.
Law 879K, 12A
Accelerated Class: February 23, 2015 – April 13, 2015
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Prof. Glon
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Enrollment: 20
Description: Technology in Legal Practice will focus on technology in the practice of law beyond traditional legal research. Areas of coverage will include knowledge management, competitive intelligence, e-discovery and the virtual law practice. Class discussions and readings will be augmented by guest speakers from the legal community. This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the second seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Credit: 2 Hours
COURSE #: 671
This course is required for all 2L Students
Description: The Kessler-Eidson Trial Techniques Program is a required course that introduces students to the evidence issues, ethical dilemmas, and presentation skills essential in the trial of a case. The course has two parts. Part I is designed to integrate the required Evidence class with trial skills. This Spring semester we will look to bring about this integration of evidence and trial techniques by scheduling workshops on the following dates:
January 9, 2015, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. (Tull Auditorium, Lecture Demonstration) We will conduct a workshop on Case Analysis and Relevance. Your assignment is to have read the first of two assigned simulated jury cases file thoroughly, and the assigned chapters from the Prof. Zwier’s Trial Advocacy: Normative Approach, Lecture Notes & Readings in advance of the workshop.
On January 23, 2015, the topic will be Direct and Cross, Hearsay and Character Evidence; 1:00- 4:00 p.m. (1:00 -2:00 p.m. Lecture Demonstration, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. learning-by-doing workshop). (A video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). We will conduct a workshop on Direct and Cross examinations, in which student will examine an assigned witness(s) from a simulated case file. You will be assigned to represent either the plaintiff or defendant and accordingly will be required to prepare either a direct or a cross examination of the assigned witness (es).
On January 30, 2015, the topic and workshop will be on Persuasive and Evidentiary Foundations for Exhibits; 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lecture Demonstration, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. learning-by-doing workshop). (A video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). We will conduct a drill on Exhibit Foundations, using specially prepared exhibit problems from the simulated case file. You will be assigned to represent either the plaintiff or defendant and accordingly will be required to prepare relevant exhibit exercises.
On February 6, 2015, the topic will be Jury Selection, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lecture Demonstration, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. learning-by-doing workshop). (A video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). You will engage in a jury selection exercise for the simulated case file. Again, you will be assigned to conduct voir dire for your client as plaintiff's or defendant's counsel. You will also be assigned to play the role of a prospective juror for purposes of the workshop.
On February 13, 2015, the topic will be Technology in the Courtroom, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. (1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lecture Demonstration, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. learning-by-doing workshop). (A video lecture will be assigned for viewing prior to the workshop). You will be asked to utilize the evidence camera and computer display technology using specially prepared exhibits from the simulated case file. You will present on the strengths and weakness from your perspective as plaintiff's or defense counsel, as well as outline and explain your legal strategy, to your client or supervising attorney.
These spring workshops will be conducted by some of Atlanta's finest trial lawyers and evidence teachers. As a result of our bringing them in, you will get an opportunity to work closely with these lawyers (in groups as small as 6-8 students) and not only get their insights about the marriage of practice and theory, but also have a chance to demonstrate your oral advocacy skills to them.
Please note: Two provisions significantly impact the application of these taxes. One is “portability” of a decedent’s estate tax exclusion, and the other is the exclusion itself — which is $5.34 million per taxpayer in 2014 ($10.68 million per married couple) and slated to rise to $5.43 million in 2015 (also double that amount for a married couple). These changes limit application of the wealth transfer taxes to a small segment of the decedent population. As a result, you should enroll only if you intend to become an estate planner for such high net worth clients.
In addition, we have been able to partner with downtown Atlanta law firms and law offices to provide you the opportunity to learn on location at their offices. As a result, when you register you will be able to sign up in groups of 24 at either:
- Alston & Bird Federal Public Defender's Office Jones Day
- Kilpatrick Townsend King & Spalding McKenna Long & Aldridge Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Troutman Sanders US Attorney's Office
- DeKalb County Public Defender's Office
- Harrison & Ford
You will meet at these offices for the workshops scheduled on January 9, 23, & 30, and February 6, 13, & 20. (The January 9th -- opening lecture/demonstration will be held at the law school in Tull Auditorium). For those of you who wish to work with general practitioners from small to medium sized firms and/or with state and federal court judges, you should sign up for the General Practitioner section. This group will be limited to 26 students and will meet in breakout groups of 13 or workshop exercises at the law school.
This year the May program session will run from May 2, 2015 through May 8, 2015, the days between the last examinations make up day and graduation. The May session presents an intensive week of day long learn-by-doing workshops that build upon the earlier spring semester workshops. The May session will be facilitated by 60 trial attorneys and judges from across the country supplemented by 20 local trial attorneys and judges. On May 6th, students will conduct bench trials on the case file assigned to them over the spring semester. The program will culminate on May 9th with students conducting jury trials.
*Because the program starts right after final exams, do not schedule a take-home exam if it will interfere with the start of the program.
To alleviate any conflicts that may arise, the ABA allows you to miss 2 classes (4 hours) in any two-hour course, unexcused. As a result you will be allowed to miss either one Friday afternoon workshop, or one half day of the intensive May session. You must submit a written notice (an email will suffice) for any anticipated absence to your team leader and the KEPTT Administrative Director. You will not be allowed to miss either of the trial days, as you must serve on those days either as trial counsel, or as a witness. All requests for an excused absence must be personally delivered in writing to the KEPTT Administrative Director.
There is a $145 mandatory course materials fee. You will receive two case files, both in electronic and hard copy form, an electronic copy of Prof. Zwier’s Trial Advocacy: Normative Approach, Lecture Notes & Readings, and a digital video chip. Hard copies of the course materials file will be distributed in advance of the first class meeting at copy center. An electronic copy of the course materials will also be made available on the course Blackboard site.
Law 926, 10A
Credit: 4 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Pennell
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Three Take-Home Exams
Description: An introduction to the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, with some consideration of their impact on estate-planning techniques, especially inter-spousal and inter-generational transfers made outright or by will or trust.
Law 842, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Zwier & Prof. Crick
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisites: Negotiations or ADR (pre or co requisite).
Enrollment: 16
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in the two party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: Border Dispute between Bolivia, Chile and Peru: Selected issue in Middle East Peace-- the “Right of Return”, compensation if right of return cannot be exercised, and “Water Rights” ; Sudan – CPA and Darfur; the Dayton Peace Accords. As basic understandings of dispute and conflict resolution techniques will have been covered in the prerequisite courses, we will use as our text Zwier, PRINCIPLED NEGOTIATION AND MEDIATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA: TALKING WITH EVIL. (Cambridge University Press, 2013). We will also consider an number of interdisciplinary readings including readings from Deutsch and Coleman’s Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Theory and Practice, Roger Fisher’s Coping with International Conflict, Mnookin’s Beyond Winning and Kremenyuk’s International Negotiations, which deal with research on the wide array of potential approaches to conflict resolution. (See syllabus.) The student’s paper will be based either on 1) an in depth analysis of one of the class simulations, with a focus on the legitimacy (international law support) of any proposed solution, or 2)on the history, law, methods, practice and theory of an international dispute chosen in consultation with the professor.
Law 837, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Satz
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment: 16
Description: Animal law is a burgeoning field. Over 135 law schools in North America offer courses in animal law, six specialty journals are devoted to the topic, and at least one poll indicates a career in the area is in the top seven of all desired careers. Whether it is our clothing, food, household products, companions, or back yard, our daily lives are touched by animals. Nonhuman animals are considered property under law, and a sprawling body of federal and state civil and criminal law regulates human use of them.
This seminar will explore our legal and ethical obligations to nonhuman animals, focusing on domestic animals. Selected topics may include: conceptions of animals, standing, exotic pets and public health, animals and housing, companion animal abuse, breed discrimination, working animals, factory farming, zoos, animal fighting, animal racing, animals used in T.V. and film, hunting, animal experimentation, animals and religious freedom, veterinary malpractice, and animal trusts and custody.
Law 827, 12A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Van der Vyver
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: 16
Description: The United States of America was the first country in the world to subject the powers of administration and legislation in the structures of government to an elaborate Bill of Rights. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, enacted in the same period of time, perhaps shared the honor of innovating a constitutional system of human rights protection, but as far as the range of justiciability of constitutional constraints applying to the executive and legislative branches of government are concerned, did not even come close to the American initiative.
In the first half of the twentieth century, a relatively small number of countries followed the American example of adding to their respective constitutions enforceable bills of rights. Those countries included Mexico (1917), the Soviet Union (1924), Ireland (1936), India (1947) and the Federal Republic of Germany (1949). In the second half of the twentieth century, constitutional bills of rights were added to the constitutions of almost all the countries of the world. Notable exceptions in this regard are the United Kingdom and Australia. A bill of rights was included in the Constitution of Swaziland when it became independent in 1968, but that bill of rights was suspended before it even entered into force and was eventually repealed by King Sobhuza II in April of 1973.
The seminar will consider constitution-making, comparing the American experience where the substance of human rights protection evolved “from the bottom up” with the introduction of human rights protection in new democracies “from the top down.” Special attention will be focused, comparatively, on the constitutional protection of group interests in the United States and in countries such as Nigeria, South Africa and Bulgaria; the basic norm of the American system of rights protection and that of countries such as Germany, Canada and South Africa; the principle of constitutionality as perceived in the United States and in countries such as Germany, Ethiopia, Namibia, and South Africa; application criteria applied in the United States and in countries such as France, the Netherlands, Canada, and New Zealand; the protection of economic and social rights as general principles of state policy (Ireland, India, Namibia) and as enforceable rights (Mexico, Germany, South Africa). Norms of constitutional interpretation in the United States and in South Africa, and requirements for constitutional amendment in the United States, India, Germany, Zimbabwe and Namibia, are among the other themes that will be discussed.
Students are required to submit a paper of not less than 30 pages, footnotes and a bibliography excluded, focused on a comparative analysis, with reference the legal systems of different countries, of an approved bill-of rights issue.
Law 801, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Satz
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment: 16
Description: Disability affects over 50 million Americans. Everyone is vulnerable to disability, and most individuals will experience periods of disability in their lifetimes, in particular in later life. Disability law intersects with many areas of law, including the law of employment, health, benefits, insurance, administrative agencies, tort, and the federal constitution, and it involves a unique blend of statutory analysis, common law, and administrative law. Moreover, disability law is of international significance. Forty-six countries have adopted the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a model, and, in 2006, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
This class will explore the legal and social response of the state, private firms, and individuals to disability. The seminar will provide a comprehensive examination of federal disability law in addition to exposure to readings from other disciplines and narratives of individuals living with disabilities. Materials will be organized around selected topics, divided into three parts. The first part of the seminar will discuss the question of what constitutes disability as well as state, private firm, and individual responses to disability. The second part of the seminar will address unemployment, isolation, and other barriers to civic and social participation that endure despite the ADA and its recent amendments. Lastly, the third part of the seminar will discuss contentious social practices that may directly or indirectly impact the legal rights of individuals with disabilities, including beginning and end of life decision-making as well as the use of animals for accommodating disability.
Law 823, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fineman
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: This seminar will explore the trends in family law governing marriage and parenthood over the past several decades. During the latter part of the 20th century substantial changes in behavior have occurred, reflecting attitudinal shifts about women’s equality, sex and sexuality, and the importance and permanence of the marriage bond. Often identified as battlegrounds in the “cultural wars,” these are areas where the law has scrambled to adjust to evolving expectations and emerging notions of equity and equality. We will look at “traditional” marriage, challenges from those excluded from marriage, the “breakdown” of marriage, and alternatives to formal marriage, such as contract and non-marital cohabitation. Laws governing the parent-child relationship have also changed in response to or as part of the disruption of the traditional family model. The very idea of absolute parental rights has been questioned as the child has partially emerged from the cloak of family privacy and is seen as an independent rights holder in some circumstances. The seminar will also consider how new technologies and altered attitudes about assisted reproduction have presented unique challenges for the law in regard to who is or how one becomes a parent.
Law 804, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Martha Grace Duncan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: This seminar will examine the portrayal of law, crime, and punishment in novels and plays. Among other works, the class will read and discuss Agamenmnon, The Crucible, Chronicle of a Death foretold, Antigone, The Scarlet Letter, and possibly Crime and Punishment. We will study these and other classics for the illumination they cast on such issues as the duty to obey, the mind of the outlaw, the female criminal, and the tension between natural and positive law.
Law 833, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Fineman
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisites: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: This seminar explores the relationship between law and vulnerability from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. The course is anchored in the understanding that fundamental to our shared humanity is our shared vulnerability, which is universal and constant and inherent in the human condition. It will offer students an opportunity to engage with multiple perspectives on vulnerability, with an emphasis on law, justice, state policy and legislative ethics. While vulnerability can never be eliminated, society through its institutions confers certain "assets" or resources, such as wealth, health, education, family relationships, and marketable skills on individuals and groups. These assets give individuals "resilience" in the face of their vulnerability. This seminar will explore how as society now is structured, however, certain individuals and groups operate from positions of entrenched advantage or privilege, while others are disadvantaged in ways that seem to be invisible as we engage in law and policy discussions.
Law 824, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Prof. Ahdieh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: This seminar – which may be of particular appeal to students interested corporate and securities law, environmental law, health law, family law, and other areas characterized by a mix of federal and state law – will explore the unusual dynamic that emerges when multiple jurisdictions compete to produce legal rules. By contrast with our conventional notions of how law is created, the development of law in these settings takes place through a “market” of sorts. As one writer has described it, law is a “product” in these settings: a good to be priced, bought, and sold. Corporate law – given the centrality of jurisdictional competition to understanding and practicing it today – will serve as our case study. Through relevant readings and your papers’ analysis of jurisdictional competition in your own areas of interest, however – from environmental law to family law, health law to banking law, and criminal law to corporate/securities law – we will seek to understand the nature and the wisdom of markets for law more generally.
Seminar: Money in Politics
Law 805, 02A
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Kang
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Enrollment: 16
Description: The plan for the course is to explore normative concerns about the influence of money in American government and democratic politics. We will track these concerns across a number of domains, including campaign finance law, lobbying regulation, bribery, pay to play rules, and judicial elections, and explore critical responses and policy alternatives. We will draw on legal and political science scholarship, as well as currently pending court cases and contemporary accounts of money in politics. The course will
incorporate outside speakers from academia or legal practice, as feasible, as well. Grading will be based on class participation and course papers. Election Law is not a prerequisite.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8:00-10:15 a.m. | Civil Procedure OBC; Freer 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1C Civil Procedure ODF; Schapiro 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Crewson 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5E Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Parrish 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1B | Contracts OBE; Pardo 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Torts OAC; Satz 8:30-10:15 a.m. 1C
| Civil Procedure OBC; Freer 8:15-10:15 a.m. 1C Civil Procedure ODF; Schapiro 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Crewson 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5E Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Parrish 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1B | Civil Procedure ODF; Schapiro 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Contracts OBE; Pardo 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D Torts OAC; Satz 8:30-10:15 a.m. 1C | Contracts OBE; Pardo 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1D |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Legislation/Regulation OAD; Ahdieh 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1C Legislation/Regulation OEF; Price 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Mathews 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5E | Civil Procedure OAE; Shepherd G 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1D Legislation/Regulation OBC; Nash 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Carroll 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Schwartz 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1B | Legislation/Regulation OAD; Ahdieh 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1C Legislation/Regulation OEF; Price 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5F Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Mathews 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5E | Civil Procedure OAE; Shepherd G 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1D Legislation/Regulation OBC; Nash 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1C | Civil Procedure OAE; Shepherd G 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1D Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Carroll 10:30-11:45 a.m.. 5C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Mathews 10:30-11:45 a.m. 5E Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Romig 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1C Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Schwartz 10:30-11:45 a.m. 1B |
| 12:15-1:45 p.m. | Community Activities | Contracts OAD; Pardo 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1C Contracts OCF; Vertinsky 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1D | Community Activities | Contracts OAD; Pardo 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1C Contracts OCF; Vertinsky 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1D | Contracts OAD; Pardo 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1C Contracts OCF; Vertinsky 12:15-1:30 p.m. 1D |
| 2:00-4:00 p.m. | Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Kirk 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1B Torts OBF; Vandall 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C Torts ODE; Zwier 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D | Torts OBF; Vandall 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C Torts ODE; Zwier 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D | Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Kirk 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1B Intro Lgl Anlys, Rsrch & Comm; Romig 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C | Torts OBF; Vandall 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1C Torts ODE; Zwier 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1D | |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. | Intro Lgl Anyls, Rsrch & Comm; Thornton 4:00-5:00 p.m. 5B | Intro Lgl Anyls, Rsrch & Comm; Thornton 4:00-5:00 p.m. 5B |
ILARC Sections by Professor
Carroll – D4, D5, F4, F5, F6, F7
Crewson - A1, A2, A3, E1, E2, E3
Parrish - E4, E5, E6, E7, A4, A5
Mathews – B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3
Kirk – A6, A7, C4, C5, C6, C7
Romig – B4, B5, B6, B7, D6, D7
Schwartz – D1, D2, D3, F1, F2, F3
Thornton – AJD students
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8:00-10:15 a.m. | Business Associations; Shepherd, G 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1E Evidence; Seaman 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Trusts & Estates; Pennell 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5C | American Legl Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section A Daspit 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5B International Law Van der Vyver 8:45-10:15 p.m. 5C Legal Profession Hughes 9:15-10:15 a.m. 1E Remedies; Partlett 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1B | Business Associations; Shepherd, G 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1E Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; Avery 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A Evidence; Seaman 8:45-10:15 a.m. 5F Trusts & Estates; Pennell 8:15-10:15 a.m. 5C | American Legl Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section A Daspit 9:00-10:15 a.m. 5B International Law Van der Vyver 8:45-10:15 p.m. 5C Legal Profession Hughes 9:15-10:15 a.m. 1E Remedies; Partlett 8:45-10:15 a.m. 1B
| EXTERNSHIP: Civil Litigation; Shalf 8:30-9:30 a.m. 5B EXTERNSHIP: Judicial; Hirokawa 8:30-9:30 p.m. 5C Legal Profession; Hughes 9:30-10:30 a.m. 1E Professional Narrative; Carlson (10/16 - 11/6) 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 5F |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Administrative Law; Volokh 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C Bankruptcy; Pardo 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Federal Courts; Smith 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1B Int'l Trade Law & Policy; 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Legal Profession; Terrell 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E
| Banking Law Elliott 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5F Comparative & Intl Family Law; Woodhouse 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m 5A Const'l Crim. Proc: Investigation; Cloud 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E Intellectual Property; Schaetzel 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B | Administrative Law; Volokh 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5C Bankruptcy; Pardo 10:30-12:00 a.m. 5G Federal Courts; Smith 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m 1B Int'l Trade Law & Policy; 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B Legal Profession; Terrell 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m 1E | Banking Law; Elliott 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E Comparative & Intl Family Law; Woodhouse 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5A Const'l Crim. Proc: Investigation; Cloud 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 1E European Union Law I; Mickevicius 10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. 5D Intellectual Property; Schaetzel 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 5B | Law & Religion: Theories, Methods, andApproaches; Allard 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 5B |
| 12:15-1:45 p.m. | Community Activities | English Legal History; Volokh 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C Family Law II; Broyde 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1B Fundamentals of Income Taxation; Pennell 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1E Juvenile Law; Duncan 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B | Community Activities | English Legal History; Volokh 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5C Family Law II; Broyde 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1B Fundamentals of Income Taxation; Pennell 12:15-1:45 p.m. 1E Juvenile Law; Duncan 12:15-1:45 p.m. 5B | International Humanitarian Law Clinic; Blank 12:00-2:00 p.m. 5E |
| 2:00-4:00 p.m. | Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I; Metzger 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1F Human Rights Advocacy; Ludsin 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G SEM: The Role of Patents; Vertinsky 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5D SEM: Implement US International Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5K | Advanced Legal Research (8/17-10/2); Christian 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5C American Legal Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section B; Daspit 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5F Capital Defender Workshop; Moore, J 3:30-5:30 p.m. Off Campus Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I; Metzger 2:00-3:15 p.m. 1F Cross Exam. Techniques; McCoyd 2:00-5:00 p.m. 5E Environmental Law; Nash 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1B Evidence; Goldfeder 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1E Foreign & Intl Legal Research (10/5-11/23); Flick 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5C International Criminal Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5B SEM: Professional Negligence; Partlett 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A | Access to Justice Workshop; Costa 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1F Am Legl Writ, Analys & Rsch II; Daspit 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5B Human Rights Advocacy; Ludsin 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5G Law and Technology; Goldfeder 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1D SEM: Int'l Env Law & Vulnerability; Fineman/Samandari 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5D SEM: Law & Social Movements; Dinner 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A SEM: Products & Liability; Vandall 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5K | American Legal Writing, Analys & Rsch I Section B; Daspit 2:00-3:15 p.m. 5F Business & Tax Legal Research (8/17-10/2); Sneed 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5G Colloquium Series Workshop; Levine 2:00-3:00 p.m. 5K Environmental Law; Nash 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1B Evidence; Goldfeder 2:00-3:30 p.m. 1E Health Law Research (10/5-11/23); Glon 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5G International Criminal Law; Van der Vyver 2:00-3:30 p.m. 5B Mental Health Issues in Crim. Justice Sys.; Jones 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1F SEM: Children's Rights; Woodhouse 2:00-4:00 p.m. 5A
| Intro to Am. Legal System LLM; Price 2:00-4:00 p.m. 1E |
4:15-6:00 p.m. and 6:15-9:45 p.m. | ADR; Armstrong 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1B Adv. Commercial Real Estate; Minkin 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1E Adv. Evidence; McCoyd 6:15-7:45 p.m. 5F Adv. Legal Writing & Editing; Terrell 4:15-4:15-6:15 p.m. Tull Criminal Pretrial Motions Practice; Grimberg, 6:15-9:15 p.m. 1F Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5A Doing Deals: Deal Skills; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1D Doing Deals: Deal Skills; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1C Employment Law; Weirich 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5E Fundamentals of Innovation I; TBA 4:30-7:15 p.m. 5C Intl Commercial Arbitration; Reetz, 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Intro to American Legal System JM; Mathews 4:00-5:45 p.m. 5E Legislation/Regulation LLM/JM; Price 6:00-7:00 p.m. N112 Negotiations; Athans/Perry 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5B Pretrial Litigation; McCoyd 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5F Veterans Benefits Law; Early 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5B | ADR; Allgood 5:30-7:00 p.m. 5D Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5K Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5F Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. G114A Doing Deals: Deal Skills; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1C Doing Deals: General Counsel; Notte 6:15-9:15 p.m. 5B Doing Deals: IP Transactions; Perry 4:30-7:30 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Private Equity; Crowley 4:00-6:15 p.m. B231 (Goizueta) Employment Discrim Lab; King/Shultz 6:15-8:15 p.m. 1F EXTERNSHIP: Criminal Defense; TBA 5:00-6:00 p.m. N111 EXTERNSHIP: Public Interest; TBA 5:00-6:00 p.m. N109 Food and Drug Law; Kitchens 4:30-6:00 p.m. 1B Global Public Health Law; Brady 4:00-6:00 p.m. 1D Internet Law; Nodine 6:15-8:15 p.m. 1D Negotiations; Eldridge 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5C Sentencing Practice; Marbutt 6:15-9:15 p.m. 1B
| Adv. Evidence; McCoyd 6:15-7:45 p.m. 5F Adv. Civil Trial Practice; Wellon 6:30-8:30 p.m. 1F Analys, Rsch & Comms for non-lawyers JM; TBA 4:15-6:00 p.m. N155 Constitutional Lit; Weber 4:30-7:30 p.m. 5C Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5G Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. 5A Doing Deals: Contract Drafting; TBA 4:15-7:15 p.m. G114A Doing Deals: Commercial Lending Transactions; Powell 4:15-7:15 p.m. 1D Environmental Advocacy Workshop; Horder 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5D Expert Witness Examination; Sheffield 6:15-8:15 p.m. 5E EXTERNSHIP: Government Counsel; TBA 5:15-6:15 p.m. N109 EXTERNSHIP: Advance; TBA 6:30-7:30 p.m. N109 EXTERNSHIP: Prosecution; TBA 5:00-6:00 p.m. N111 Franchise Law; Aronson 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1B Kids in Conflict with Law; Waldman 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1E Labor Law; Wilson 6:30-8:30 p.m. 5B Legislation/Regulation LLM-JM; Price 6:00-7:00 p.m. N155 Pretrial Litigation; McCoyd 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5F SEM: Adv. International Negotiations; Zwier/Balian 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5K Special Topics/Technology 1; TBA 4:30-7:15 p.m. 1C Trademarks; Davis 4:15-6:15 p.m. 5B White Collar Crime Workshop; Templer 4:15-6:15 p.m. 1F
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679. Access to Justice: Getting into the Courtroom
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Costa, Frank J.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises, court performance, periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and underserved populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering with drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions. But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways. First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews with actual defendants (either in or out of custody) and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and even possibly motions and trials). Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accommodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
Please note: any students who have previously or are currently interning or doing a field placement with the State Court Division of the Law Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender will be ineligible for this course. Additionally, this course cannot be taken concurrently with an internship or field placement in the DeKalb County Solicitors or District Attorney’s Office as it would cause a professional conflict.
701. Administrative Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Volokh, Alexander
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Much of the law we live under is made and then applied by administrative agencies. Administrative law is a study of how this law is made and then applied. Specific topics include the constitutional standards under which legislative and judicial power is transferred to agencies; the procedures that control agency lawmaking and adjudication, and the availability and scope of judicial review of agency action.
847. Advanced Civil Trial Practice, Gender Discrimination
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Wellon, Robert G.
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class Work
Description: Designed to build on the litigation techniques and skills first encountered in the Trial Techniques Program. Using a simulated case file in an employment case, the class will help develop the skills, strategies and tactics necessary to be effective courtroom advocates. The course will employ lecture, demonstrations, movie and video-tape simulations as well as regular participation by the students and constructive criticism and helpful hints from the course instructors, who are all very experienced litigators and judges. Invited guests who litigate regularly in this area of practice will also participate. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be explored. The course will conclude with student teams conducting a trial in a real courtroom setting, which is now planned for November 17th where participation is mandatory.
617A. Advanced Commercial Real Estate
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Minkin, David
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Take-Home Exam and Classwork
Description: What does a commercial real estate attorney really do every day? What does he or she think about and what is the relationship between the attorney and his or her client? What are the attorney’s responsibilities to accomplish the client’s goals? This course will explore those questions and related issues in the context of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. During the course the students will be introduced to many of the essential elements of commercial real estate, including development concepts, purchase and sale of real estate, equity financing, debt financing, leasing, operational issues with large retail developments, and financial restructuring issues. Course materials will include Harvard Business School cases applicable to commercial real estate issues, form documentation applicable to many areas of commercial real estate, and relevant articles.
632A. Advanced Evidence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): McCoyd, Matthew Joseph
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Critiqued classroom exercises and a written final exam
Description: The objective of this course is to explore and develop selected complex evidentiary issues that are not covered by the basic Evidence course. The objective will be accomplished through the use of both lecture and simulations that present these issues in the context of complex civil and criminal litigation scenarios. While learning to analyze sophisticated evidentiary issues, students will also be able to expand the basic trial skills they acquired in Trial Advocacy. The faculty will lead participants through the quagmire of the Federal Rules of Evidence. This course offers participants the necessary skills to work through evidentiary issues with greater accuracy and confidence; ensure baseline relevancy issues are met, to affirm that probative value outweighs unfair prejudice; analyze quickly whether character evidence, including prior bad acts, is admissible; describe when habit and custom evidence may be admitted; utilize appropriate impeachment objections after analyzing the rules regarding bias, capacity and prior inconsistent statements; and, outline an analytical scheme for hearsay objections and the exceptions.
The course is designed for law students who have at the minimum taken a basic course in evidence.
657. Advanced Legal Research
ACCELERATED CLASS: August 17, 2015 – September 28, 2015
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Christian, Elizabeth
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This course is an examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through a mixture of lectures and practical applications with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research. This practical, skills-based course is designed to help prepare students for practice or future study. This new half-semester format makes class time especially important. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Missing more than one class period may jeopardize a student’s academic standing and will negatively affect the course grade.
648. Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Terrell, Timothy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Pass/Fail
Description: The basic content of the course is reflected in its required text: S. Armstrong & T. Terrell, Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Writing and Editing (PLI 3d ed., 2008). A frequent misconception about this course is that it is merely an extension of your experience in LWRAP. It is not. It will instead often challenge you to reconsider approaches to writing guidance that you have may previously encountered.
The course consists of two components. First, everyone enrolled will meet once a week on Monday afternoon for 1 ½ hours, and that time will be consumed by lecture and review of numerous writing examples at every level of a document – from overall structure to sentences and word choice. Second, all students will be assigned to a small-group discussion section, administered by a “teaching assistant” who is a third-year who took this course last year. Those sessions will meet once a week for an hour, during which the course’s materials, and additional examples, will be discussed, and editing exercises will be assigned.
Although this is a “writing” course, it is unusual in that its emphasis will be on “editing” rather than original drafting. One of the keys to becoming a good writer is understanding how readers (for purposes of this course, that means you) react to documents written by others. That experience then yields important insights regarding the defects in one’s own prose, and how to cure them efficiently. To this end, the course will begin with some examination of deeper theories of communication, which will in turn allow the course to focus on fundamental writing “principles” rather than narrower “rules” or “tips.” The course will also analyze writing challenges from the “top down:” We will begin with issues of overall “macro” structure and organization and work down toward “micro” details.
605. Alternative Dispute Resolution
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Allgood, John or Armstrong, Phillip
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take Home (Armstrong) Final Exam (Allgood)
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with an emphasis on mediation. Course objectives are: 1) to develop both a theoretical and a practical understanding of available options and strategies for using them effectively in a legal practice; 2) to understand the ethical and legal implications of ADR; and 3) to develop a proficiency in dispute resolution processes other than litigation, including direct negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
560. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research I
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An introduction to law and sources of law, legal bibliography and research techniques and strategies, the analysis of problems in legal terms, the writing of an office memorandum of law.
560. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research II
NOTE: OPEN ONLY FOR FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: The objective of this course is to explore and develop American legal writing, analysis and research areas that are not covered by the introduction course.
590. Analysis, Researc,h and Communications for Non-Lawyers (JM)
Credits:2 hours
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy and Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Regular Assignments / Final Project
Description: This course will provide an introduction to legal analysis, research and effective legal writing and is a core component of our JM program. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of legal analysis and the structure of legal information. Students will learn how to navigate multiple legal resources to discover legal authority appropriate for different types of legal analysis and communications. Students will learn the concepts of effective legal analysis and will develop the skills necessary to produce persuasive arguments as well as informative legal explanations.
604. Banking Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Elliott, A. J.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will examine the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the banking industry in light of economic and social purposes. The course will also look briefly at the history of the U. S. banking industry and will emphasize the economic and business aspects of the individual bank and of the industry as a whole.
716. Bankruptcy
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pardo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: An introduction to the law of bankruptcy. Covers issues relating to eligibility for bankruptcy; commencement of a bankruptcy case; administration of the bankruptcy estate; automatic stay and relief; use, sale or lease of property of the estate; assumption and rejection of executory contracts and leases; avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent transfer litigation; appointment of trustees and examiners; and confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan. This course is a general survey course reviewing the basics of Chapter 7 liquidations, Chapter 13 wage-earner reorganizations and Chapter 11 business reorganizations.
635D. Barton Appeal for Youth Clinic
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Reba, Stephen
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: Students in the Appeal for Youth Clinic provide holistic appellate representation of youthful offenders in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. By increasing the number of appeals from adjudications of delinquency, we hope to end the unwritten policies and practices that result in youths being committed to juvenile detention facilities. Similarly, by providing post-conviction representation to youths who were tried and convicted as adults, we hope to decrease the number of youthful offenders who languish in Georgia's prisons.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Carter, Melissa D.
Prerequisite: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in the two-credit class, Child Welfare Law & Policy. This requirement may be waived for students with demonstrable prior experience in child advocacy, including the Emory Summer Child Advocacy Program.
Grading Criteria: None (based on individual student)
Description: The Barton Clinic is an in-house legal policy clinic dedicated to providing research, training, and support to the public, the child advocacy community, and the legislature in Georgia. Students work on issues before the state legislature, complete research for publication, participate in local and statewide advocacy events, and help inform the discussion on child welfare issues with their own ideas or projects. Approximately 4-8 law and other graduate students are selected each semester to participate in the clinic.
Applications are accepted prior to pre-registration (watch for notices of the application deadline). Students must submit a resume, a statement of interest, list of 2 references, the name of his/her LWRAP Instructor, an unofficial transcript, and a writing sample.
Detailed course information is on the Clinic web site, http://www.childwelfare.net »
ACCELERATED CLASS: August 17, 2015 – September 28, 2015
Credit: 1 Hour
Instructor(s): Sneed, Thomas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Description: The purpose of Business and Tax Legal Research is to provide students with an introduction to business and tax related materials and advanced training on the finding and utilization of these materials for legal research purposes. Topics covered will include business forms, business filings and SEC research, and primary and secondary sources for tax issues.
This will be a one credit, graded course meeting on an accelerated schedule for the first seven weeks of the semester. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Shepherd, George
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A study of basic concepts in agency, partnership (general and limited), and corporation law. Topics include choice of business form, formation, organization, financing, and dissolution, as well as the fundamental rights and responsibilities of, and the allocation of power between, the business entity, its owners, management, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises.
NOTE: Interested students must submit a letter of interest & resume to Josh Moore, Office of the Georgia Capital Defender jmoore@gacapdef.gov »
NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP WILL REQUIRE A YEAR-LONG (two semester) COMMITMENT
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third year law students from Emory, Georgia State, UGA, and Mercer will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients’ cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic—as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages—is to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on “making the case for life.” That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Attendance, court visit, participation, written and oral assignments
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child protection system, including the emergence of the juvenile court, and critical issues such as legal representation of children, impact litigation and limits on governmental authority. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, analytical writing and skills-based exercises, including legislative drafting and oral advocacy assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
860A. Colloquium Series Workshop
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Levine, Kay L
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Work
Description: Would you like a close-up look at the world of legal scholarship and the exchange of scholarly ideas? Are you seeking more engagement with the Emory Law faculty outside of the traditional classroom setting? Do you want to become a stronger writer? Have you ever thought you might want to become a law professor? If so, consider applying to the Colloquium Series Workshop (CSW). Components of CSW Students who participate in this two unit workshop attend two meetings each week: the weekly faculty colloquium, which meets on Wednesdays over the lunch hour (and includes lunch) and a one-hour class session run by Professor Kay Levine, on Thursday afternoons. During each of these one hour sessions, students discuss the colloquium work as a piece of scholarship (and as piece of persuasive writing), critique the author's presentation, and review materials relating to the production of scholarship and the legal academic job market. In advance of the weekly meeting, students write short reaction papers to each colloquium piece. The CSW will be graded on a pass/fail basis, but with high attendance and participation standards set for what constitutes a passing grade. Do not apply for this class if you have other commitments during the lunch hour on Wednesdays (even only sporadic). Enrollment Students enroll in the CSW in accordance with the same procedures used for seminars (advance application during the pre-selection process). However, enrollment is limited to seven students each semester, instead of the usual 15. On the pre-selection form please indicate the basis of your interest in the CSW and your prior experience with scholarship in an academic setting (law or otherwise).
Credits: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper and In-Class Exercises
Description: Globalization has affected family law in many different ways. Families are far more mobile, and family law cases are far more likely to cross political and cultural boundaries and to involve the laws of several countries. International conventions and human rights instruments play a growing role in the practice and study of family law. Family law is a template for the organization of cultures and societies. By exploring how other nations address issues such as creation and dissolution of intimate relationships, the role of religious and civil authorities in setting family norms, policies on procreation and reproductive technology, women’s and children’s rights and the allocation of rights and responsibilities for dependent family members, we acquire a fuller understanding of our own norms and traditions. This course will involve in-class exercises designed to spotlight critical family law issues in different regions of the world and explore the diversity of approaches to resolving them.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Cloud, Morgan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam Class Participation
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Weber Jr., Gerald R
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: An exploration of the substantive, ethical and strategic issues involved in litigating civil rights actions. This course will allow students to both learn basic principles of governmental liability/defenses and apply their knowledge of torts, constitutional law and civil procedure in a litigation setting.
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class work
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors, and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Grimberg, Steven
Prerequisite: Completion or co-requisite of the Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations course.
Grading Criteria: In-class oral advocacy assignments, written advocacy assignments, and classroom participation.
Description: This workshop will provide practical skills training in the area of pre-trial criminal litigation for a small number of students. Class will meet once a week for approximately 2.5 hours, and will generally consist of each student performing an oral advocacy assignment. In addition, written advocacy assignments will be due from time to time. The emphasis of the class will be on building off of the students' substantive knowledge of criminal procedure by learning how it is applied to "real world" pre-trial criminal litigation.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: Evidence and Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course work; in-classroom exercises
Description: This course is designed to conduct an exhaustive examination of the science and art of cross examination with extensive in class exploration and performance of advanced cross examination techniques.
Directed research is an independent scholarly project of your own design, meant to lead to the production of an original work of scholarship. Once you have secured a faculty advisor and have defined your project, you should download the directed research form (see below). In this form, indicate whether you are seeking one unit (a 15 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.) or two units (a 30 page paper, double spaced, exclusive of endnotes, tables, appendices, etc.).
Complete information and the application form are available on the Students-Only web page »
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Powell, Catherine
Prerequisite: Business Associations, Contract Drafting, and Deal Skills (concurrent not okay)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This Course is designed to give the student an opportunity to (i) explore in depth a variety of secured transactions, recognizing the contrast to unsecured transactions, and the Credit(s)ors rights, remedies and benefits thereunder, (ii) understand the nature and corresponding requirements of secured transactions, including knowledge of, and familiarity with applicable regulations, statutes and rules, and (iii) engage, as counsel, in the representation of a “secured Credit(s)or” or “borrower”, in an actual secured transaction from beginning to end (the “Secured Transaction”) throughout the semester.
659P. Doing Deals: Complex Restructurings and Distressed Acquisitions in Chapter 11
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Gordon, David; Marsh, Gary
Prerequisite: Bankruptcy and Contract Drafting Prerequisite-Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Bankruptcy, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills. Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Class participation (10-20%), in-class presentations (20-30%), out-of-class projects (transaction documents, memos, legal briefs, etc.) (20-30%), final pleadings and argument for the sale hearing (20-30%).
Description: This course will take students down the path of a complicated corporate restructuring and/or sale. During class time, students will learn the key features of a modern corporate restructuring and distressed sale, using a hypothetical company for illustrations. Students will also be asked to prepare and present in class one or more summaries/presentations regarding hot topics in the bankruptcy and restructuring world. Outside of class, students will assume the roles of various parties to the restructuring, such as debtor, lenders, key suppliers, key customers, private equity sponsor, and the like. The students will be asked by their “clients” (the instructors) to negotiate transaction terms and to draft definitive documents for various parts of the restructuring. The students will also be asked to prepare various bankruptcy-related transactional documents and pleadings, leading to a contested, bankruptcy court sale of the hypothetical company at the end of the course.
659A. Doing Deals: Contract Drafting
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (highly recommended as prerequisite)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice.
In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues.
The grade will be based on specific homework assignments and class participation.
659B. Doing Deals: Deal Skills
Credits: 3 hours
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: Deal Skills will introduce students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, whether a multi-billion dollar M&A deal, a license agreement, a commercial real estate transaction, or a financing transaction. Among the topics to be covered are the lawyer's role as the translator of the business deal into contract concepts, client interviewing and communication, negotiation, due diligence, corporate actions and records, indemnities, transaction management, closings, and ethical issues. The course will be conducted through workshop exercises, in-class role-plays, and lectures and will also include out-of-class due diligence, negotiation and other exercises.
659N. Doing Deals: Intellectual Property Transactions
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Lytle, Courtney
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting and Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Exercises, Class Participation, Final Paper/Presentation
Description: This course is designed to offer students with an interest in intellectual property the opportunity to explore a limited number of current and cutting edge intellectual property topics in depth and to experience first-hand how these legal concepts would manifest in a transactional practice setting. Students will complete a variety of in-class and homework assignments typical of those encountered in a transactional IP practice, from contract negotiation and drafting to strategic analysis and client interaction. - The course is intended for students with an interest in this subject area; no specific prior IP courses are required, but if a student has not taken any other IP offerings, please contact the instructor (clytle@emory.edu) for suggestions of materials to review over the summer. Grading is a combination of small projects, class participation, and a final paper/presentation. There is no exam. Students taking this course as a Capstone Course will complete some additional requirements over the course of the semester. Because of the nature of this course, regular attendance is mandatory.
659D. Doing Deals: Private Equity
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Crowley, Kevin; Furman, Kathryn
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting, Deal Skills, Corporate Finance, Accounting in Action or Analytical Methods
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students will work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified, sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to tackle and resolve difficult deal issues and complete successful deals. Students will be divided into teams of lawyers and business people to review, consider and negotiate actual transaction documents. The issues presented will include often-contested key economic and legal deal terms, as well as common ethical dilemmas.
659F. Doing Deals: The General Counsel in Negotiated Transactions
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay) Prerequisite-Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Business Associations, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills (concurrent NOT okay). Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Course work
Description: In this course, students will develop transactional skills, with emphasis on possible differences in roles of in-house counsel and outside counsel in the context of a hypothetical transaction that will be focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, letter of intent, development and review of a due diligence data room and will culminate in the drafting and negotiation of a final purchase agreement.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Tatum, Deborah M.
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Participation and Final Trial Simulation
Description: One of the most complicated and technical cases to try in criminal law is a DUI charge. Learning how to present or defend a DUI can equip a new litigator with techniques that will benefit students seeking practice in all areas of criminal litigation. Students will review DUI statutes and case law and prepare simulation cases for motions and trial. Opening arguments, direct, cross, and closing argument will be discussed and practiced. Introduction of scientific evidence, expert testimony, and preparing your witness for trial will be explored. Motions will be prepared and decided. Students will prepare and present their final case in a trial setting at the end of the semester.
Credits: 2 hour
Instructor(s): King, Carlton & Shultz, Chad
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: The class will work though an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Weirich, Geoff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This two-hour course will cover many of the major legal aspects of the employment relationship not treated in Labor Law. We will examine legal principles applicable to the hiring process, the key terms and conditions of employment (including wages, hours, employee benefits, and workplace conduct), employment discrimination (a brief survey, not intended as a substitute for the separate course on that subject), occupational safety and health, employment termination (including termination for cause and through force reduction), and post-employment issues (restrictive covenants and trade secrets, unemployment insurance, and post-employment benefits).
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Volokh, Alexander
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: English legal history began around the year 600, when King Aethelberht of Kent promulgated his famous legal code: "If a person strikes off a thumb, 20 shillings. If a thumbnail becomes off, let him pay 3 shillings. If a person strikes off a forefinger, let him pay 9 shillings. If a person strikes off a middle finger, let him pay 4 shillings. . . ." From Aethelberht to modern-day workers compensation codes (in Georgia, $60,000 for the loss of a hand) is but a brief step. But in between, we get to cover Domesday Book, Magna Carta, the dissolution of the monasteries, the Instrument of Government, and the Bill of Rights.
More precisely: this course is a survey of the law of England between, approximately, the years 600 and 1800. Why study English legal history? There are at least two possible reasons: (1) to know "how we got here from there" and thus to better understand our modern legal system, or (2) to understand the period on its own terms, that is, to see what it was like to be a lawyer in the 14th century. I'm personally partial to approach (2), but there will be plenty for those who favor approach (1) as well.
We'll cover some private law, some criminal law, and some constitutional law (and we'll discuss why it's correct to talk of "constitutional law" when a country has no written constitution). I anticipate that we'll spend less time on criminal law than on private or con law. The theme of private law is that our law of property, torts, and contracts is largely the result of unplanned accidents, lawyers seeing how far they could stretch existing legal remedies to cover situations they were never designed for. The theme of con law is that we have our democratic representative institutions thanks to irresponsible, high-spending kings: the more irresponsible the king, the more often he would call an assembly to ask for more money. Little by little, the legal system will come to resemble what we learned as 1Ls.
The readings will be a mix of primary sources (in modern English translation) and secondary sources. No knowledge of foreign languages or English history is required or assumed.
COURSE REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE TURNER ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC. THIS COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE WRITING REQUIREMENT.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Horder, Rick
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Workshop Projects, Simulations, and classroom participation
Description: The Environmental Advocacy workshop will include reading assignments, written exercises, seminar-like discussion, and simulations with an emphasis on legal practice. The course will develop students' abilities to function as successful environmental advocates in the context of client interviews, administrative proceedings, negotiations, and litigation. Other issues covered include advocating environmental protection.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Nash, Jonathan
Prerequisite: Legislation & Regulation
Grading Criteria: Exam; Class Participation
Description: This course will focus on legal strategies to regulate and remedy environmental harms. The course is designed to prepare transactional lawyers, regulatory lawyers, government counsel and litigators, as well as students interested in specializing in environmental law. A major goal of the course is to introduce students to the analytical skills necessary to understand and work in this and many other predominantly statutory and regulatory fields. The course will therefore frequently involve analysis of methods of interpretation of statutes and regulations and analysis of the central role of administrative agencies in environmental law. The course will focus on various federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
European Union Law I
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Prof. Mickevicius, Prof. Tulibacka
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam (60%), Short assignments (30%), Participation (10%)
Description: The largest trade and investment relationship in the world, overlapping geopolitical concerns, and crucial shared values make the European Union one of the United States’ most important partners – economically, politically, and socially. Lawyers, public servants, and activists are consequently being called upon to engage (and understand) European legal principles and practices to an ever-growing degree. With that in mind, this course will examine the theoretical fundamentals of the EU legal system and their practical applications. We will begin by reviewing the history of the European Communities and the genesis of the European Union. This will be followed by an analysis of the constitutional framework of the EU, including its political and legal nature, its aims and guiding values, membership and the division of powers between the EU and the Member States, institutional makeup and the allocation of powers across its major institutions, sources and forms of EU law, lawmaking, recent developments in the protection of fundamental rights, and the structure and role of the EU judicial system. Building on the latter, we will then turn to the EU model of judicial review and the complex interaction between the EU and national legal systems in enforcing EU law.
Classes will combine lectures and interactive sessions where students will explore the caselaw of the Court of Justice of the European Union and national courts of Member States, analyze hypothetical cases, solve problems, and assess relevant political and legal developments.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Goldfeder, Mark and Seaman, Julie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege. Must be taken in the second year.
Students will need to obtain the handouts given out the first day of class. Students will also need a copy of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Sheffield, Jason
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Students will be graded on their performance in class during the semester and on a written brief. Grades will be based on how much improvement students show over the course of the semester, and on how well the students conduct the examinations, i.e., form.
Description: This course is designed to teach the preparation, research, ethical considerations, and trial techniques necessary in order to effectively present expert witnesses in a criminal case. Although the focus will be on criminal cases, the skills taught in this class will also apply to civil cases. Most of the classes will involve the students conducting direct and cross-examinations of expert witnesses. Designed in a case-simulation format, the course will enable the students to develop substantive knowledge of criminal law and procedures, develop case theory and expert witness testimony, write and present a Daubert motion, and finally, conduct full direct and cross-examinations of experts. The course will also develop students’ aptitude with the advocacy techniques necessary to prosecute or defend criminal cases. Students will have multiple opportunities to perform in class and will receive extensive individual feed-back from experienced lawyers.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Deals with the problems, policies, and laws related to the dissolution of children and parents. Juvenile Law will also be considered.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Smith, Fred
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course deals with the allocation of judicial business between the state and federal courts, as well as the jurisdictional tensions that arise from a dual judicial system. In addition, the course considers the relationship between the federal judiciary and Congress, particularly as it implicates legislature’s power to structure and limit the federal courts’ subject matter jurisdiction. This is a very practical course, as well as one that implicates important theoretical issues about decision-making institutions under our federal system of government.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Kitchens, William
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Food and drug law involves the statutory and regulatory framework governing the development and marketing of food, drugs, medical devices, biological products, and cosmetics. This introductory course serves as a starting point for understanding how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempts both to protect the public health and foster our national desire and need for innovation in science, medicine and the safety of our food supply. In particular, the course will study how FDA and the courts have enforced and interpreted the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to implement a regulatory system for a wide range of products that affect our daily lives. Dialogue and questions on how food and drug law has confronted and adapted to scientific and technological progress, public health challenges, constitutional controversies, and policy-based perspectives will be encouraged. Additionally, the course covers such contemporary issues as food safety; balancing the benefits and risks of certain drugs, devices and biological products and how best to communicate that information to healthcare professionals and consumers; expediting approval of drugs designed for life-threatening diseases; clinical trials for experimental products; and regulation of biotechnology, such as tissue engineering and gene therapy. Other specific topics include: regulation of food labeling and sanitation; regulation of dietary supplements; administrative rulemaking; advertising and promotion controls; preemption of state laws; and strategies for handling government investigations and enforcement actions.
ACCELERATED CLASS October 5, 2015 – November 23, 2015
Credits: 1 hours
Instructor(s): Flick, Amy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Description: The course will introduce specialized techniques for research with international and foreign legal materials. Students will become familiar with international and foreign legal research sources through lectures and by practical application through in-class exercises and a final research project. Topics will include public international law resources, including U.S. and multilateral treaties, international courts, and customary law sources; documents of the United Nations, the European Union, and other inter-governmental organizations; resources on international human rights; an overview of legal materials for common law systems (the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia) and civil law systems (France and Latin America); and a look at issues that arise in international and foreign law research, including availability, translations, and internet resources. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Aronson, Morton
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Legal and business considerations, including the pros and cons of franchising; the franchising role in the economy; the franchiser/franchisee relationship; disclosure requirements; relevant state and federal laws; essential elements in representing franchisers and franchisees; basic terms and issues with franchise agreements; legislative issues; trademark issues; encroachment issues; system expansion issues; franchisee associations; new techniques in franchising; e.g. area development agreements, sub-franchising, niche franchising, master franchise agreements; international franchising; the role of alternate dispute resolution in franchising; product quality issues; legislative issues. Case studies of important franchise companies will be read and evaluated including Holiday Inns, McDonald's, Century 21, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts. Prominent legal political and business franchising representatives will be guest speakers.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pennell, J.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Introductory study of the general structure of the federal income tax; nature of gross income, exclusions, and deductions; the income tax consequences of property transactions; the nature of capital gains and losses; basis and non-recognition.
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: Team projects, team evaluations, individual work product, class attendance, and participation.
Description: Innovation and technological change are critical to wealth creation in today’s global economy. However the process that often begins in the research lab traveling a path towards product development, market development, product commercialization and life cycle management is uncertain and typically difficult. More often than not, ideas will “die the good death” well before given the opportunity to develop into profitable markets. Fundamentals of Innovation I is first of a two-course sequence on the various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process within the context of technology commercialization. In the Fall semester, the course is focused on 1) helping students develop an understanding of innovation basics including the overall innovation process and roles and skills of various key players; 2) discussing patterns of technology change and alternate management processes for each; 3) organizing the innovation team and developing frameworks that foster team creativity; 4) understanding forms and protections afforded Intellectual Property; and 5) discussing early stage approaches to product definition (working models to engineering prototypes) and preliminary market definition.
The fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed
mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
736B. Global Public Health Law
Credits: 2 Hours
Instructor: Rita-Marie Brady
Grading Criteria: Participation, pre-assigned case study presentation, and final paper
As events of the past year have demonstrated, diseases are permeable and public health issues do not arise neatly within borders. This course will use foundational legal principles of international and domestic law, as well as international regulatory frameworks, guidelines, and their respective actors, and apply them to global public health issues. This will be accomplished using interactive case studies and simulations that require multi-disciplinary classroom interaction, skill sets, source materials, and perspectives. Specific topics of focus will include (but not be limited to): infectious disease (particularly lessons learned from Ebola in 2014), environmental health, humanitarian law and public health emergencies, human rights and health, injury, and tobacco control. Guest speakers/presenters may be incorporated, but the format will focus on short foundational lectures, followed by either small-group case study break-outs and/or large group (in most instances pre-assigned) case study presentations, with a focus on multi-disciplinary interaction and actors.
ACCELERATED CLASS October 5, 2015 – November 23, 2015
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Glon, Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Health law encompasses a wide variety of topics ranging from Medicare to patient care, insurance companies to health care reform, big pharm to worker’s compensation and medical malpractice to bioethics. Additionally, health law is governed by statutes, regulations and case law, and many health laws have produced a vast amount of legislative history materials. The field of health law research is robust and the class would therefore touch on best practices for researching topics including:
- Health Care Legislation, Regulations, and Insurance Laws
- Patient Care, Representing Physicians, and Regulations of Hospitals,
- Medical Malpractice and Understanding Medical Records
- Worker’s Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid
- Pharmaceutical Law and Product Liability
- Elder Law, End of Life Decisions, and Bioethics
690B. Human Rights Advocacy
Requires department consent. Please click hereto indicate your interest in the course and verify that you have met the course prerequisite.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Ludsin, Halle
Prerequisite: Human Rights Course
Grading Criteria: Research reports, class participation, presentations
Description: Human rights organizations and human rights lawyers play essential roles in protecting and promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy, both at home and abroad. They expose injustices and demand accountability for them; they pressure governments to fulfill their democratic and human rights obligations; and often they give voice to the voiceless and marginalized. The first half of this course will introduce students to the human rights framework, although some knowledge of international human rights law is expected, before examining the work of human rights organizations and human rights lawyers. The second half of the course will examine human rights campaigns and tools NGOs and lawyers use to fulfill their roles. It will also consider the ethical issues and the barriers to change that human rights organizations and lawyers regularly confront.
To reinforce what they are learning, each student will be assigned a research project on an issue supplied by human rights organizations from across the globe. An hour of each week’s classes will be dedicated to building the skills students will need to prepare a 25-35 page report on their project. Students will have the opportunity to workshop their projects in the last 6 sessions of the course. At the conclusion of the course, students will be expected to produce a professional report that the human rights organizations can use in their respective campaigns. In some cases, these reports may be published by the organization. Depending on the number of suitable research projects available and the number enrolled, students may need to work in teams of two.
Examples of human rights organizations that could participate in our human rights advocacy project include: The AIDS Law Project (South Africa); The Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa); The Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (West Bank); Al Haq (West Bank); The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Israel); Gisha (Israel); Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka); Human Rights Law Network (India); Southern Center for Human Rights (USA), among others.
THIS COURSE CAN BE A CO-REQUISITE FOR INTERNET LAW AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Curfman, Christopher and Schaetzel, Steve
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to patent, trademark, and copyright law. The course will explore the policy and legal foundations for these areas of law and the scope of protection which each affords. The requirements for protection will be examined and compared. The framework for the administrative procedures, which support the patent and trademark systems, will also be discussed. In part, the course will direct attention to the question as to the legitimacy of these forms of property and appropriateness of protection. What constitutes infringement of intellectual property rights will be discussed. Methods for avoiding infringement and scienter with respect to infringement will also be discussed. Remedies and questions of civil procedure and appellate review will receive brief consideration.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Reetz, Ryan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam; Class Participation
Description: A consideration of arbitration as a dispute resolution process in the domain of international commerce. Analyzes the composition and the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, the procedure followed by arbitrators, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and other related issues. In order to understand the arbitral process, the class will systematically go though an arbitration from drafting the arbitration agreement (start) to enforcement of the award (finish). We will discuss ad hoc and institutional arbitration by the use of a hypothetical case. This class will be very hands on and practical. Participation is important and there will be role-play. As international commercial arbitration cannot exist in a legal vacuum, we will also consider relevant laws in various civil law and common law countries.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its very first judgment. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was convicted of the war crime of conscripting or enlisting persons under the age of fifteen years into the armed forces of a militant group, and using such persons to participate actively in hostilities. Lubanga was the founder and leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots responsible for violence that erupted in 2002 in Ituri, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups. The situation in Ituri was referred to the ICC by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Lubanga Case, several complicated issues came up in the course of the pre-trial proceedings, which commenced when a warrant for the arrest of Lubanga was issued by a Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC in February 10, 2006: Was the conflict in Ituri an international armed conflict or one not of an international character? Is there a difference between the enlistment or conscription of child soldiers if committed in an international armed conflict or in an armed conflict not of an international character, respectively? What degree of knowledge (mens rea) is required on the part of the perpetrator in regard to the age of a person enlisted or conscripted into the armed forces or used to participate actively in the hostilities? What is the meaning of using a child soldier “to participate actively in hostilities”? The trial and tribulations that attended the pre-trail proceedings in the Lubanga Case also included interesting issues of criminal procedure: The duty of the Prosecutor to obtain evidence for the defense; the effect of (non-) compliance with municipal (Congolese) laws in regard to searches and seizures; requirements to be satisfied for a person to qualify as a “victim” and the right of victims to express their “views and concerns” in the investigation stage of the proceedings.
These problems and questions are some of the substantive issues included in International Criminal Law. The focus of the course is on the structures and proceedings of the ICC. The ICC Statute was adopted by a Diplomatic Conference of Diplomatic Plenipotentiaries on an International Criminal Court, which was held in Rome on June 15 through July 17, 1998. Following 60 ratifications of the ICC Statute, the ICC became a reality on July 1, 2002 with its seat in The Hague in the Netherlands. To date, the ICC Statute has been ratified by 122 States. Earlier, the Security Council of the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and subsequently offered its support for a Special Court to prosecute international crimes committed in Sierra Leone (SCSL), and for judicial chambers to bring perpetrators of international crimes in East Timor and Cambodia to justice. Jurisprudence of the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL, as well as cases decided by the NurembergTribunals, are included in the course.
The course also includes an overview of the history of the establishment of the international tribunals; and as far as the ICC is concerned, its subject-matter, territorial, personal and temporal jurisdiction; the composition of the ICC and its organs; trigger mechanisms for prosecutions in the ICC (the U.N. Security Council, States Parties, and the Prosecutor conducting investigations proprio motu); and the rules of admissibility of a case (the principle of complementarity). When dealing with the definitions of crimes within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression), we shall single out certain crimes for closer scrutiny, for example the crime of genocide, gender-specific crimes, child soldiers, torture, environmental malpractice, resettlement of populations in occupied territories, and terrorism. In dealing with the rules of procedure and evidence to be applied in the ICC, special attention will be given to international principles of criminal justice that are at odds with the American criminal law and criminal procedure, for example the concept of mens rea, the presumption of innocence, the rule against double jeopardy, the protection of victims, and sentencing factors. Special attention will also be given to the ongoing conflict between the African Union and the ICC over the indictment of President Al Bashir of Sudan and President Kenyatta and Deput President Ruto of Kenya to stand trial in the ICC centered upon the (non-) applicability of sovereign immunity of a sitting head of state. The United States was one of seven States that voted against approval of the ICC Statute. The course includes concerns of the United States and others (including Israel, India, and some Arab States) that prompted a negative vote or abstention. President Clinton did sign the ICC Statute. The Bush administration, on the other hand, adopted a particular hostile attitude toward the ICC, for example by cancelling the American signature of the ICC Statute, enacting the Military Service members Protection Act of 2002, and imposing sanctions against States that refused to enter into bilateral agreements with the United States that would preclude them from surrendering American nationals for prosecution in the ICC. In 2009, the Obama administration re-engaged with The ICC and the United States is currently a “co-operating non-party State”.
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor(s): Blank, Laurie
Prerequisites/Co-requisites: International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights, Counterterrorism Law
Grading Criteria: Graded
Description: The International Humanitarian Law Clinic provides opportunities for students to do real-world work on issues relating to international law and armed conflict, counterterrorism, national security, transitional justice and accountability for atrocities. Students work directly with organizations, including international tribunals, militaries and non-governmental organizations, under the supervision of the Director of the IHL Clinic, Professor Laurie Blank. The IHL Clinic also includes a weekly class seminar with lecture and discussion introducing students to the foundational framework of and contemporary issues in international humanitarian law (otherwise known as the law of armed conflict).
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Introduction to the law, methodology, and institutions of modern public international law. Among the topics covered are sources of international law jurisdiction, sovereign and diplomatic immunity, treaties, the domestic application of international law, the law of international organizations, settlement of disputes, limits on the use of force, human rights, and the law of the sea.
International Trade Law & Policy
Credits: 3
Grading Criteria: Take Home Exam
The course introduces the legal framework of international trade and the economic and political considerations surrounding international trade. The evolution of a global economy in the post-war period and the historic embarkation of the WTO in 1995 have made the understanding of trade theory and practice, as well as current trade policy issues, essential to one's knowledge of how the U.S. economy operates, how it interacts with other systems, and what will be necessary to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This course will cover the legal framework of international trade, with an emphasis on the WTO system; the evolution of the trading system; current and future trade policy issues; and economic analysis of the international trading system. The course analyzes both international and national systems of trade laws and remedies, as well as their economic impacts.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Nodine, Larry K.
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright, or Trademark strongly recommended as a significant portion of the class will employ these principles. Co-requisites okay.
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: In this course we will wrestle with some of the most fascinating emerging issues in our evolving cyber-society. We will begin by considering jurisdiction over internet disputes. We will then turn to intellectual property topics, including trademarks (whether "keyword buys" constitute infringement; domain name disputes) and copyright (music downloading and hyper-linking). There will be special focus on arbitration procedures for resolving domain name disputes (the “UDRP”) and the liability of intermediaries like eBay or YouTube for user infringement. The Course will also explore the right to privacy in cyberspace.
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS AND JM STUDENTS
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Mathews, Jennifer and Price, Polly
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Duncan, Martha Grace
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course adopts an historical and interdisciplinary approach to the law's treatment of children who are abused, neglected, status offenders, or delinquents. Specifically, the course examines the 19th century model of juvenile justice; the socialized model, which prevailed from 1899 to 1967, and the constitutional model, which characterizes the period from 1967 to the present.
Through cases, descriptive readings, films and guest lectures, we will define these models and analyze the assumptions each makes about the state, the child, and the nature of society.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Grades will be based upon (i) a short reaction paper, (ii) an in-class advocacy exercise and (iii) a final research paper.
Description: The 2-credit course is a detailed study of the juvenile delinquency system. This course will trace the trajectory of juvenile justice in the United States over the course of the last century, from its birth as a separate system in the early 1900s, through the due process revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread punitive reforms of the 1990s, to the recent rulings on the juvenile death penalty. It will explore critical issues such as search, seizure, and interrogation of minors; waiver from juvenile to adult court; the unique procedural mechanisms of juvenile courts; sentencing and confinement; and implications of emerging scientific research on adolescent development. Finally, the course will also explore the relationship between the juvenile delinquency and school systems. Classes will consist of lecture, discussion, and advocacy exercises. This course is open to all 2Ls and 3Ls and is a pre- or co-requisite for entry into the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Wilson, Brent
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Focuses primarily on the National Labor Relations Act and its interpretation, including the prospect of reform legislation. Coverage also will include other matters such as regulation of globalization and preemption, and brief comparisons of the NLRA to the Railway Labor Act.
Credit: 2 Hours
Instructor: Pennington, Jennifer
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam and Class Participation
Description: This course will explore the legal principles underlying the public regulation of private land use, from traditional judicial doctrines, such as nuisance and eminent domain, through statutory comprehensive planning regimes. We will also cover traditional zoning and planning issues, such as nonconforming uses, variances and special exceptions. The course will introduce students to the content and controversies of land use and environmental laws.
708. Law and Religion: Theories, Methods, and Approaches
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Allard, Silas
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Graded or pass/fail; exam type - paper
Description: Interdisciplinary scholarship is often lauded for challenging assumptions, contributing new perspectives, and leading to groundbreaking new insights that would not be possible without crossing disciplinary borders. While there are certainly benefits to interdisciplinary scholarship, such approaches also pose a unique set of challenges. The success of interdisciplinary scholarship depends on the scholar’s ability to communicate to audiences who often use different nomenclature, evidence, and analytical methods. A failure to appreciate these challenges can lead to attempts at interdisciplinary scholarship that are reductive, one-sided, vague, or confused.
In this course, students will survey the interdisciplinary field of law and religion. The course will begin by discussing the nature of the field known as law and religion. What areas of inquiry constitute this field? What do we mean when we talk about “law” and “religion”? The course will then cover different substantive areas and methodological approaches by reading, analyzing, and critiquing examples of law and religion scholarship from leading scholars. Students will be asked to think about the choices that scholars make: What is the relationship of law and religion in this example of scholarship? What does the scholar draw on as evidence for her argument? How does the scholar construct his argument? How does the scholar think about law? How does the scholar think about religion? These and other questions will help students understand how different approaches function; what they can achieve; what they cannot achieve; and why a scholar would choose a certain approach. By the conclusion of the course, students will (1) understand the scope and subjects covered by the field of law and religion, (2) develop an understanding of different methodological approaches to the study of law and religion, and (3) be prepared to use different methodological approaches in their own writing. This course is recommended for students in advance of a significant writing project in law and religion, including a journal comment, major seminar paper, or thesis.
Course requirements include weekly reflections on the readings, an in-class presentation, and two 10-15 page papers. There are no prerequisites for this course.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Goldfeder, Mark A.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria:
Description: Robotic legal personhood in the near future makes sense. Artificial intelligence is already part of our daily lives. Bots are selling stuff on eBay and Amazon, and semiautonomous agents are determining our eligibility for Medicare. Predator drones require less and less supervision, and robotic workers in factories have become more commonplace. Google is testing self-driving cars, and General Motors has announced that it expects semiautonomous vehicles to be on the road by 2020.
This workshop will examine some of the core questions that these changes will inevitably bring. When the robot messes up, as it inevitably will, who exactly is to blame? The programmer who sold the machine? The site owner who had nothing to do with the mechanical failure? The second party, who assumed the risk of dealing with the robot? What happens when a robotic car slams into another vehicle, or even just runs a red light? Together we will move from principles of agency, to contract, to tort law, to criminal law, and finally to family law exploring these and other questions at the intersection of law and technology.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Terrell, Timothy or Hughes Jr., James B
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism.
This course is cross-listed with Laney Graduate School's Department of Philosophy.
PHIL 789-001 - 20th Contemporary Legal Theory
Sullivan, Thurs, 1-4 pm Max: 18
Content: This seminar will focus on developing a theoretical and practical understanding of contemporary legal theory. We will investigate the philosophical underpinnings and consequences for policy and adjudication of several competing approaches to legal theory, such as liberalism, libertarianism, feminism, pragmatism, critical legal studies, and law and economics. What do these theories recommend to judges who interpret laws, legislators who craft laws, and citizens who must abide by them? In the course of our investigations we will pay special attention to the following questions: (1) What is law? (2) What are the proper goals of law? (3) What makes law legitimate? (4) What is the relationship between morality and law? (5) Under what conditions should communities enforce community values upon individuals? (6) Under what conditions should the international community enforce its values upon particular governments? and (7) How would the implementation of particular legal theories function to foster or hinder the development of “individuals” and the larger community?
Text:
(1) Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (978-0674867116); (2) Epstein, Forbidden Grounds (978-0674308091); (3) Balkin, Cultural Software (978-0300084504) (4) MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified (978-0674298743); (5) Calabresi,Tragic Choices (978-0393090857); (6) Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (978-0195112108); (7) Posner, Law, Pragmatism, & Democracy (978-0674018495); (8) Sullivan, Legal Pragmatism (978-0253219060) and (8) Delgado,Critical Race Theory (978-0814721353).
Particulars: Grading - short papers, seminar presentation, term paper.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Jones, Lindsay
Prerequisite: Criminal Law and Constitutional Law
Grading Criteria: Oral presentations
Description: This course is designed to provide law students with a working knowledge of the major areas of mental health in the context of the criminal justice system. This course will explore the impact and interaction of mental disability and criminal law. Topics will include: mental illnesses: comparison and contrasts between clinical and legal definitions; functional implications of mental disorders; criminal forensic evaluations; competence to stand trial; insanity and related defenses; disposition of those adjudicated incompetent or not guilty by reason of insanity; competence to be executed; involuntary hospitalization; involuntary treatment; right to treatment; right to refuse treatment; ethical considerations in representing this population; rights of criminally and civilly committed persons; and diversion treatment courts.
THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OR BUSINESS SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Athans, Michael; Lytle, Courtney; Eldridge,David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes preceded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: Third Years (Second Years with documented litigation or evidence course experience)
Grading Criteria: Written work and oral performance
Description: This is a civil case litigation skills/simulation course. The students work as two person teams forming a law firm under the direct supervision of a "senior partner". ("Senior Partners" are adjunct professors who are local premiere attorneys in active practice or judges currently on the trial/appellate bench.) The student’s, aided and guided by their senior partner, represent their clients essentially as they would in actual cases, and learn the basics of preparing a case from investigation and initiation through discovery, making a record to support or defend a substantive motion-- the culminating exercise for the course. An actual client, played by a person from outside of the course, is assigned to each firm. The student lawyers conduct intake interviews of their clients and witnesses then proceed to represent them. At all stages of the process, students receive active input from and evaluation by the distinguished slate of adjunct professors. The students determine what type of legal action to take, and will draft pleadings, conduct informal witness interviews, draft written discovery and take and defend depositions.
Course faculty members provide guidance and instruction in their roles as teachers, judges and senior partners, with students taking primary responsibility for client representation and strategic decisions with regard to case direction. Actors who are very familiar with their parts and who remain "in character" appear in some roles as parties and witnesses while students in the course serve alternately as counsel and witness in others. The cases culminate in major motion hearings. The faculty members present regular lectures and demonstrations about various aspects of pretrial practice which are presented hand-in-hand with the developing procedures and technology affecting the practice of law. Attendance is required for the lectures, but primarily the student teams work independently. Every student performance, written and oral, is observed, critiqued and graded by the faculty. There are no written examinations. There are submissions of written materials and use of technology through audio visual presentations at motions hearings, etc. Students are graded on their class performances, written work product and development as "practicing attorneys." Former students have described this course as a great source for practical experience with regard to client relations, litigation strategy and discovery tactics -- all guided by esteemed faculty from the bench and practicing bar. Many students use their course case materials, experiences and notes as a practice resource after they enter the practice of law. The course provides students an interesting and exciting window on the actual practice of law.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Partlett, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Rights in tort, contract and constitutional law are enforced in court. Whether the remedies that enforce rights are part of the substantive right or supplementary to it, remedies are theoretical and practically essential in understanding, and being fully equipped to practice in, both private and public law. This course will cover legal and equitable remedies. Restitution and monetary damages (including the "rightful position" principle, consequential damages, and damages for dignitary and constitutional harms) form the core, while injunctions – preventive, reparative, and structural – supplement remedies with which students will be familiar from courses in torts, contracts, property, and constitutional law. Other topics will include declarative judgments, contempt, and attorneys' fees, which are necessary to understanding the power of the courts to deliver justice. Reference will be made to the scope of self-help and apology, and similar non-monetary relief.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Marbutt, Jason
Prerequisite: Crim Law, Evidence (pre-req or co-req)
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Exam
Description: The vast majority of cases do not end in trial; they end by plea. The vast majority of trials do not end in acquittals; they end in convictions. What happens next?
The purpose of this class is to examine the sentencing process. The class will be 70% experiential learning, and 30% legal knowledge. We will discuss the basic legal framework for a sentencing hearing, and we will engage in a series of mock-sentencing hearings. The fact patterns are based on real-world cases that are challenging – ethically, legally, morally, and emotionally.
Students will take on the role of prosecution or defense (and witnesses as needed). They will present their case to a Judge, including questioning witnesses and arguing for an appropriate sentence. We will have guest speakers to help guide us through the issues of the case, and we will have class discussions about, “What’s it worth?” The guest speakers will be professionals who dealt with the real-world case that our fact patterns are based on.
The ultimate goal is for each student to have a better understanding of the factors that influence sentencing, while gaining skill in articulating those factors to others.
This course is crosslisted with the Emory College Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
For more information, visit the program's website.
OPEN TO TI:GER STUDENTS ONLY. PROFESSOR PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: TBA
Description: This course will cover special topics in technology commercialization.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Davis,Theodore
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectibility of marks, including words, symbols, and “trade dress”; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and “cybersquatting”; and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Pennell, J N
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Study of the law of intestate succession, limitations on testamentary powers, formalities necessary for executing or revoking wills, incorporation by reference and the doctrine of independent legal significance, problems of construction of wills, and will substitutes. The course examines formalities for creation and termination of express trusts, with particular consideration of legal doctrines relating to settlor, beneficiary, trustee, and trust property. The course also devotes a limited amount of time to the use of future interests in trust, powers of appointment, and rules restricting perpetuities and accumulations.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Goldstein, Mindy
Prerequisite: Environmental Advocacy (prerequisite OR co-requisite)
Grading Criteria:
Description: The Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides important pro bono legal representation to individuals, community groups, and nonprofit organizations that seek to protect and restore the natural environment for the benefit of the public. Through its work, the clinic offers students an intense, hands-on introduction to environmental law and trains the next generation of environmental attorneys.
Each year, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic provides over 4,000 hours of pro bono legal representation. The key matters occupying our current docket – fighting for clean and sustainable energy; promoting sustainable agriculture and urban farming; and protecting our water, natural resources, and coastal communities—are among the most critical issues for our state, region, and nation. The Clinic’s students benefit and learn from immersion in these real world, complex environmental representations.
685A. Veterans Benefits Laws
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Early, Drew
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course introduces students to the body of administrative rules that govern the administration of veterans’ benefits, both through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the relevant courts. It teaches the law and procedure applicable to claims by veterans and their families at all stages of the Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication process: initial fact-finding by VA regional offices, appellate claims to the Board of Veterans Appeals, and appellate review by the United States Court of Veterans Claims. In addition to instruction in relevant doctrine and policy exposure, students will engage in exercises directed to the basics of the disability rating process, to establishing the service connection to a disability, and to discharge review. Students will also be exposed to typical claims issues raised in veterans’ cases handled by the Emory Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans. Law students interested in administrative law, personal injury, and civil litigation will benefit from this course, as will students interested in public service, who will be better prepared to serve as pro bono counsel to veterans in the future. This field will be one of growing importance, as the war in Afghanistan winds down and the military continues to shrink.
683X. White Collar Crimes Workshop
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Templer, Nicolette
Prerequisite: Having taken or simultaneously taking either White Collar Crimes or (Constitutional) Criminal Procedure. There is no requirement that both be taken.
Grading Criteria: Classwork
Description: This course addresses the practical application of concepts learned in the White Collar Crimes course. During the workshop students will be given information detailing allegations of a federal health care criminal case and Qui Tam action. Students will assess the case for possible violations of federal mail fraud, conspiracy and false claim statues. Students will draft a Qui Tam complaint, represent a party in the ensuing litigation (which will not involve a trial), and arrive at a resolution of the criminal case. The course will explore "true to life" aspects of federal criminal corporate litigation from both prosecution and defense perspectives.
Seminar: 842. Advance International Negotiations
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Balian, Hrair & Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in the two party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: Border Dispute between Bolivia, Chile and Peru: Selected issue in Middle East Peace-- the “Right of Return”, compensation if right of return cannot be exercised, and “Water Rights” ; Sudan – CPA and Darfur; the Dayton Peace Accords. As basic understandings of dispute and conflict resolution techniques will have been covered in the prerequisite courses, we will consider an number of interdisciplinary readings including readings from Deutsch and Coleman’s Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Theory and Practice, Roger Fisher’s Coping with International Conflict, Mnookin’s Beyond Winning and Kremenyuk’s International Negotiations, which deal with research on the wide array of potential approaches to conflict resolution. (See syllabus.) The student’s paper will be based either on 1) an in depth analysis of one of the class simulations, with a focus on the legitimacy (international law support) of any proposed solution, or 2)on the history, law, methods, practice and theory of an international dispute chosen in consultation with the professor.
Seminar: 840. Children’s Rights
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Woodhouse, Barbara
Selection: Preselection
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar will provide a vehicle for exploring cutting edge issues in children’s rights, including philosophies of children’s rights and the role of international treaties in creating new norms.
Topics include treatment of children in family law, labor markets, adoption, education and other areas in which children as a group suffer significant inequalities in countries across the globe. In addition, we will examine the very different track taken by the U.S., which has avoided ratification of human rights documents. We will explore the domestic opposition to formalization of children’s human rights and we will also explore the processes through which rights for children have become incorporated into domestic U.S. law. These processes include the “constitutionalization” of children’s rights through judicial interpretation and the enactment by state and federal legislatures of statutory rights for children, in contexts including education law, health law, disability law and labor law. Students will research and write papers and will present their research as part of the seminar.
Seminar: 817. Implementation of International Law in the US.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An overview of American foreign policy, highlighting among other things what has come to be known as American exceptionalism and contrasting that with the post-World-War I American policy of isolationism, the promotion of American interests in international law, and a shift in American foreign policy brought about by the Obama administration; The prosecution of offences against the law of nations in the United States, with special emphasis on Article VI, Clause [2], and Article 1, Section (8), Clause [10], of the Constitution, and with special reference to the prosecution of torture and genocide in the United States; Non-ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with special emphasis on the influence of religious groups that oppose the ratification on biblical grounds, and the role of federalism (the rights of the child are almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of states) that may preclude the federal authorities from ratifying the Convention; The United States and the jurisprudence of international tribunals, with special emphasis on reluctance of the United States to submit itself to the jurisdiction of such tribunals, the Nicaragua Case in which the International Court of Justice in the 1980’s condemned the United States for its assistance to the Contras, and the fairly recent judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medellín v. Texas, as well as decisions of the American Commission on Human Rights relating to non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (by not always informing an alien detainee of his or her right to consular assistance); The International Criminal Court (ICC), with special emphasis on the positive role played by the United States in the drafting of the ICC Statute, hostility of the Bush administration toward the ICC, and re-engagement by the Obama administration with the ICC in 2009 to become a “cooperating non-party State” and how this is to be reconciled with the American Servicemembers Protection Act, which in essence prohibits the United States from cooperating in any way with the ICC.
Military Interventions by the United States, with special reference to provisions in the U.N. Charter that instruct Member States not to settle their international disputed through the taking up of arms, questions as to legality under the norms of international humanitarian law of anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian interventions, and wars of liberation, the Reagan Doctrine, and the recent armed interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Seminar: 833. International Environmental Law and Vulnerability
Credit: 3 Hours
Instructor(s): Fineman, Martha and Samandari, Atieno
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisites: Paper
Description: The environmental problems increasingly understood and recognized since the late 1960s have been regulated from a set of broad concepts and principles that have been developed and used as the basis of a now mature branch of international law, i.e. international environmental law. Such principles and concepts include precaution, polluter-pays, environmental impact assessment, participation, common but differentiated responsibilities, inter-generational equity, sustainable development and more recently vulnerability. These concepts and principles have provided the basis for the adoption of more specific legal regimes tackling particular problems e.g. marine and freshwater pollution; atmospheric pollution, ozone depletion, climate change; species, habitat and biodiversity protection and chemical and hazardous waste regulation.
This course will examine the foundations (history and principles) of international environmental law and the legal expression of its principles in selected environmental regimes with a focus on the global climate change. The second half of the course will examine the concept of vulnerability in the wake of climate change and interrogate its various dimensions drawing from examples found in both developed and developing countries.
SEMINAR: 829. Law and Social Movements-Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Dinner, Deborah
Grading Criteria: Paper
Prerequisites:
Description: Social movements can use law as a tool to effectuate change, and law may also serve as a barrier to social justice. This course draws upon both history and theory to analyze the relationship between law, social movements, and politics. We focus on historical case studies including the labor, civil rights, feminist, gay rights, and conservative movements in the twentieth-century United States. First, we study how law influences social movements. What are the legal frameworks that have shaped social movements’ identities and goals? How has rights consciousness functioned both to inspire and to constrain social change? Second, we study the impact that social movements have on law. What are the processes by which social movements influence legal reform and social change? What are the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing legal change in courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies? The requirements of the course include weekly critical discussion questions on the reading, four short response papers, one in class presentation, and a final twelve-page memorandum. The objectives of the course include developing substantive historical and theoretical knowledge, honing writing skills, and improving oral presentation skills.
Seminar: 838. Products Liability
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Vandall, Frank
Prerequisite: Products Liability (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar provides an opportunity for a student to write a paper on a developing aspect of products liability theory. Topics considered and materials will vary from year to year. The course in Products Liability is recommended, but not required.
Seminar: 826. Patents and their Role in Global Economic Development and Access to Health
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Vertinsky, Liza
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper, presentation, and participation.
Description: What is the current debate over the role of patents in promoting or impeding economic development, and how will it evolve? How are international patent standards and norms shaped by this debate? What role can and should U.S. patent policy play in addressing issues of global development and access to health technologies? This seminar will begin with a survey of the basic framework governing international standards for patent protection and enforcement. We will then examine the ways in which patents and patent law impact global economic development and global access to health. The seminar will include the study of alternative methodologies for understanding and evaluating patent systems and their role in international development and global health as well as concrete case studies that question the current patent system and its impact. Students will be asked to develop and contribute their own views on the role(s) that patent policy should, could, or should not play in global economic development and global access to health.
Seminar: 746A. Professional Negligence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Partlett, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar will explore the liability of professionals for negligent conduct. It will cover professionals such as physicians, psychologists, dentists, and others whose actions risk bodily injury. It will also cover those whose professional activities risk property and economic losses, such as engineers, architects, lawyers, and accountants. The legal field of focus is liability in the borderland between tort and contract. The seminar will also engage the form and structure of business torts that are neglected in the curriculum, yet loom large in commercial practice.
Particularly with respect of medical malpractice, compensation schemes to replace or supplement liability rules continue to be proposed. Their merits and demerits will be discussed. The seminar will also consider such fundamental issues as causation and remedies, where the liability of professionals is in question.
Materials will be distributed and discussion expected. Students will be required to prepare a paper that can be in satisfaction of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will orally present a final draft paper in class. This will form part of the final grade. In selection of the topic and in working through drafts, students will work closely with me.
Seminar: 842. Advance International Negotiations
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Balian, Hrair & Zwier, Paul
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: After a review of strategies and styles in the two party disputes, this seminar will look at complex multiparty international negotiations, including but not limited to: Border Dispute between Bolivia, Chile and Peru: Selected issue in Middle East Peace-- the “Right of Return”, compensation if right of return cannot be exercised, and “Water Rights” ; Sudan – CPA and Darfur; the Dayton Peace Accords. As basic understandings of dispute and conflict resolution techniques will have been covered in the prerequisite courses, we will consider an number of interdisciplinary readings including readings from Deutsch and Coleman’s Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Theory and Practice, Roger Fisher’s Coping with International Conflict, Mnookin’s Beyond Winning and Kremenyuk’s International Negotiations, which deal with research on the wide array of potential approaches to conflict resolution. (See syllabus.) The student’s paper will be based either on 1) an in depth analysis of one of the class simulations, with a focus on the legitimacy (international law support) of any proposed solution, or 2)on the history, law, methods, practice and theory of an international dispute chosen in consultation with the professor.
Seminar: 841A. Feminist Legal Theory
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Mols, Yvana; Fineman, Martha
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar explores established and emerging feminist critiques of law. It first investigates how evolving feminist perspectives on power and justice translate into legal formulations, and discusses the various models of feminist legal theory. The seminar will then examine debates over gender essentialism and neutrality and the contested centrality of identity categories like class, culture, sexuality, race, ability and their intersectionality. Students will explore how group-based discrimination is structured by institutional barriers to achievement and opportunity, such as classed educational systems, heterosexual kinship formulations, and gendered and racialized caregiving arrangements. Other topics will include: transnational violence against women, transgender challenges to women-only spaces, reproductive rights, disability, intimate labor and vulnerability.
Seminar: 819. Human Rights Perspectives
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): An-Naim, Abdullahi
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This graduate seminar, open to students from the Law School, Graduate School and School of Public Heath, examines the theory and practice of global human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. In addition to issues of the history, origins and legitimacy of universal human rights, the seminar will discuss standards, institutions and processes of implementation. The seminar will also examine human rights across a variety of substantive issues areas, including; conflict, development, globalization, social welfare, public health and rights of women and other vulnerable groups. Evaluation will be based on seminar participation, a series of short thought papers and major research paper. Students will also make brief presentations of their final papers.
Seminar: 817. Implementation of International Law in the U. S.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An overview of American foreign policy, highlighting among other things what has come to be known as American exceptionalism and contrasting that with the post-World-War I American policy of isolationism, the promotion of American interests in international law, and a shift in American foreign policy brought about by the Obama administration; The prosecution of offences against the law of nations in the United States, with special emphasis on Article VI, Clause [2], and Article 1, Section (8), Clause [10], of the Constitution, and with special reference to the prosecution of torture and genocide in the United States; Non-ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with special emphasis on the influence of religious groups that oppose the ratification on biblical grounds, and the role of federalism (the rights of the child are almost exclusively within the jurisdiction of states) that may preclude the federal authorities from ratifying the Convention; The United States and the jurisprudence of international tribunals, with special emphasis on reluctance of the United States to submit itself to the jurisdiction of such tribunals, the Nicaragua Case in which the International Court of Justice in the 1980’s condemned the United States for its assistance to the Contras, and the fairly recent judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medellín v. Texas, as well as decisions of the American Commission on Human Rights relating to non-compliance by the United States with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (by not always informing an alien detainee of his or her right to consular assistance); The International Criminal Court (ICC), with special emphasis on the positive role played by the United States in the drafting of the ICC Statute, hostility of the Bush administration toward the ICC, and re-engagement by the Obama administration with the ICC in 2009 to become a “cooperating non-party State” and how this is to be reconciled with the American Servicemembers Protection Act, which in essence prohibits the United States from cooperating in any way with the ICC.
Military Interventions by the United States, with special reference to provisions in the U.N. Charter that instruct Member States not to settle their international disputed through the taking up of arms, questions as to legality under the norms of international humanitarian law of anticipatory self-defense, humanitarian interventions, and wars of liberation, the Reagan Doctrine, and the recent armed interventions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Seminar: 815A. Legal and Economic Issues in Health Policy
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Shepherd Bailey, Joanna
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: End-of-course written paper, four brief response papers, and class participation.
Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the application of economic theory to the health care market. We will begin the class with a brief introduction to the basics of health economics and the use of empirical methods to isolate the causal effects of laws on individual behavior and health outcomes. We will then explore a host of current issues in health policy including the production and demand for medical care, the effect of insurance coverage on health, models of physician and hospital behavior, issues relating to the pharmaceutical market, the factors contributing to the explosion of healthcare costs in the U.S, and other topics. Health economics concepts will be linked to current policy debates at the state and federal levels. No prior training in economics or statistics is required. Grades will be based on an end-of-course written paper, four brief response papers, and class participation.
Seminar: 746A. Professional Negligence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Partlett, David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar will explore the liability of professionals for negligent conduct. It will cover professionals such as physicians, psychologists, dentists, and others whose actions risk bodily injury. It will also cover those whose professional activities risk property and economic losses, such as engineers, architects, lawyers, and accountants. The legal field of focus is liability in the borderland between tort and contract. The seminar will also engage the form and structure of business torts that are neglected in the curriculum, yet loom large in commercial practice.
Particularly with respect of medical malpractice, compensation schemes to replace or supplement liability rules continue to be proposed. Their merits and demerits will be discussed. The seminar will also consider such fundamental issues as causation and remedies, where the liability of professionals is in question.
Materials will be distributed and discussion expected. Students will be required to prepare a paper that can be in satisfaction of the upper-level writing requirement. Students will orally present a final draft paper in class. This will form part of the final grade. In selection of the topic and in working through drafts, students will work closely with me.
Seminar: 813. Sexuality and Gender
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Marvel, Stewart
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar aims to explore the socially constructed norms and frameworks enabling the legal regulation of human sexuality. The seminar will offer students a comparative law perspective on issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and justice, while providing the critical tools required to evaluate a host of legislative and judicial responses to gender and sexuality. We will look at emerging case law from common and civil law jurisdictions around the world to analyze how certain types of sexual behavior and gender identity are regulated (including freedom of assembly, association and expression, freedom of religion and nondiscrimination, asylum and immigration and universality and equality), while also examining the judicial response to ‘deviant’ sexual bodies in action (including transgender identities, same-sex marriage, new family forms, and the decriminalization of sodomy).
Seminar: 826. Patents and their Role in Global Economic Development and Access to Health
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Vertinsky, Liza
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper, presentation and participation.
Description: What is the current debate over the role of patents in promoting or impeding economic development, and how will it evolve? How are international patent standards and norms shaped by this debate? What role can and should U.S. patent policy play in addressing issues of global development and access to health technologies? This seminar will begin with a survey of the basic framework governing international standards for patent protection and enforcement. We will then examine the ways in which patents and patent law impact global economic development and global access to health. The seminar will include the study of alternative methodologies for understanding and evaluating patent systems and their role in international development and global health as well as concrete case studies that question the current patent system and its impact. Students will be asked to develop and contribute their own views on the role(s) that patent policy should, could, or should not play in global economic development and global access to health.
Seminar: 838. Products Liability
Credits: 3 hours
Selection: Preselection
Instructor: Vandall, Frank
Prerequisite: Products Liability (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: This seminar provides an opportunity for a student to write a paper on a developing aspect of products liability theory. Topics considered and materials will vary from year to year. The course in Products Liability is recommended, but not required.
679. Access to Justice: Getting into the Courtroom
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Costa, F. Jason
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Classroom exercises, court performance, periodic reaction papers
Description: Access to Justice provides second and third year law students the unique opportunity to see how justice is actually administered in criminal cases in actual Georgia Courts and to develop their courtroom oral advocacy skills in a real-world setting. We will examine, through readings and classroom discussion, the ways in which poor and underserved populations access justice within the framework of the traditional criminal justice system, and the increasing role of accountability courts for defendants suffering with drug, alcohol or mental health afflictions. But this class extends far beyond the conventional classroom in three significant ways. First, students will take multiple off-campus trips, including touring the local jail facility and attending actual court sessions to observe criminal case proceedings. Second, students will receive real recent criminal case warrants and police reports and will conduct interviews with actual defendants (either in or out of custody) and participate in mock classroom hearings on these cases. Lastly, where possible, students will represent their clients in actual court proceedings (bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and even possibly motions and trials). Students should plan to be in court one weekday morning every other week throughout the semester, though multiple weekday mornings options will be available each week to accomodate individual student schedules. Students will be graded primarily on their performance in both classroom and courtroom hearings and their participation in classroom discussion, and secondarily on periodic papers analyzing their experiences.
701. Administrative Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Volokh, Alexander
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Much of the law we live under is made and then applied by administrative agencies. Administrative law is a study of how this law is made and then applied. Specific topics include the constitutional standards under which legislative and judicial power is transferred to agencies; the procedures that control agency lawmaking and adjudication, and the availability and scope of judicial review of agency action.
847. Advanced Civil Trial Practice
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Wellon, Robert
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class Work
Description: Designed to build on the litigation techniques and skills first encountered in the Trial Techniques Program. Using a simulated case file in an employment case, the class will help develop the skills, strategies and tactics necessary to be effective courtroom advocates. The course will employ lecture, demonstrations, movie and video-tape simulations as well as regular participation by the students and constructive criticism and helpful hints from the course instructors, who are all very experienced litigators and judges. Invited guests who litigate regularly in this area of practice will also participate. Courtroom technology and visual aids will also be explored. The course will conclude with student teams conducting a trial in a real courtroom setting, which is now planned for November 17th where participation is mandatory.
617A. Advanced Commercial Real Estate
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Minkin, David
Prerequisite: Real Estate Finance (recommended)
Grading Criteria: Take-Home Exam and Classwork
Description: What does a commercial real estate attorney really do every day? What does he or she think about and what is the relationship between the attorney and his or her client? What are the attorney’s responsibilities to accomplish the client’s goals? This course will explore those questions and related issues in the context of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. During the course the students will be introduced to many of the essential elements of commercial real estate, including development concepts, purchase and sale of real estate, equity financing, debt financing, leasing, operational issues with large retail developments, and financial restructuring issues. Course materials will include Harvard Business School cases applicable to commercial real estate issues, form documentation applicable to many areas of commercial real estate, and relevant articles.
657. Advanced Legal Research
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Christian, Elizabeth
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This course is an examination of the legal research methods and sources beyond the basics taught during the first year of law school. Through a mixture of lectures and practical applications with in-class exercises and a final research project, students will become familiar with topics such as case, statute & regulatory research, aids for the practitioner and legislative history research. This practical, skills-based course is designed to help prepare students for practice or future study. This new half-semester format makes class time especially important. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Missing more than one class period may jeopardize a student’s academic standing and will negatively affect the course grade.
648. Advanced Legal Writing & Editing
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Terrell, Timothy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Pass/Fail
Description: The basic content of the course is reflected in its required text: S. Armstrong & T. Terrell, Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer’s Guide to Writing and Editing (PLI 3d ed., 2008). The course will meet once a week on Monday afternoon for one and one half hours, and that time will be consumed by lecture and review of numerous writing examples at every level of a document – from overall structure to sentences and word choice. As in previous years, all students will be assigned to a small-group discussion section, administered by a “teaching assistant” who is a third-year who took this course last year. Those sessions will meet once a week. Although this is a “writing” course, it is unusual in that its emphasis will be on “editing” rather than original drafting. One of the keys to becoming a good writer is understanding how readers – for purposes of this course, you – react to documents written by others, which then yields important insights regarding the defects in one’s own prose, and how to cure them efficiently. To this end, the course will begin with some examination of deeper theories of communication, which will in turn allow the course to focus on fundamental writing “principles” rather than narrower “rules” or “tips.” The course will also analyze writing challenges from the “top down:” We will begin with issues of overall “macro” structure and organization and work down toward “micro” details.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Armstrong, Phillip
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take Home Final Exam
Description: This course will explore Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) with an emphasis on mediation. Course objectives are: 1) to develop both a theoretical and a practical understanding of available options and strategies for using them effectively in a legal practice; 2) to understand the ethical and legal implications of ADR; and 3) to develop a proficiency in dispute resolution processes other than litigation, including direct negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
560. American Legal Writing, Analysis & Research
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Daspit, Nancy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: An introduction to law and sources of law, legal bibliography and research techniques and strategies, the analysis of problems in legal terms, the writing of an office memorandum of law.
604. Banking Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Elliott, A. J.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will examine the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the banking industry in light of economic and social purposes. The course will also look briefly at the history of the U. S. banking industry and will emphasize the economic and business aspects of the individual bank and of the industry as a whole.
716. Bankruptcy
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pardo, Rafael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: An introduction to the law of bankruptcy. Covers issues relating to eligibility for bankruptcy; commencement of a bankruptcy case; administration of the bankruptcy estate; automatic stay and relief; use, sale or lease of property of the estate; assumption and rejection of executory contracts and leases; avoidance actions, including preference and fraudulent transfer litigation; appointment of trustees and examiners; and confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan. This course is a general survey course reviewing the basics of Chapter 7 liquidations, Chapter 13 wage-earner reorganizations and Chapter 11 business reorganizations.
500X. Business Associations
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Shepherd, George
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A study of basic concepts in agency, partnership (general and limited), and corporation law. Topics include choice of business form, formation, organization, financing, and dissolution, as well as the fundamental rights and responsibilities of, and the allocation of power between, the business entity, its owners, management, and other stakeholders. The course also considers the special needs of closely held enterprises, basic issues in corporate finance, and the impact of federal and state laws and regulations governing the formation, management, financing, and dissolution of business enterprises.
658. Capital Defender Workshop
NOTE: Interested students must submit a letter of interest & resume to Josh Moore, Office of the Georgia Capital Defender jmoore@gacapdef.gov
NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP WILL REQUIRE A YEAR-LONG (two semester) COMMITMENT
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Moore, Josh
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Participation
Description: This is a three hour clinical course taught in partnership with the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender, the new state agency responsible for representing all indigent defendants statewide in capital cases at trial and on direct appeal. Second and third year law students from Emory, Georgia State, UGA, and Mercer will assist Capital Defender attorneys in all aspects of preparing their clients’ cases for trial. Students will become involved in fact investigations, witness interviewing, legal research and drafting, and general preparations for trials and sentencing hearings. The great opportunity students have in this clinic—as opposed to clinics that focus on the appeal and post-conviction stages—is to be involved in the effort to save lives on the front end, on “making the case for life.” That means students will focus at least as much on mitigation, fact investigation, and interpersonal skills as on death penalty law and advocacy skills.
635. Child Welfare Law and Policy
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Carter, Melissa
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
Grading Criteria: Attendance, court visit, participation, written and oral assignments
Description: This course will explore the various factors that shape public policy and perception concerning abused and neglected children, including: the constitutional, statutory, and regulatory framework for child protection; varying disciplinary perspectives of professionals working on these issues; and the role and responsibilities of the courts, public agencies and non-governmental organizations in addressing the needs of children and families. Through a practice-focused study, students will examine the evolution of the child protection system, including the emergence of the juvenile court, and critical issues such as legal representation of children, impact litigation and limits on governmental authority. Students will learn to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of legal, legislative, and policy measures as a response to child abuse and neglect and to appreciate the roles of various disciplines in the collaborative field of child advocacy. Through lecture, discussion, analytical writing and skills-based exercises, including legislative drafting and oral advocacy assignments, students will develop a fuller understanding of this specialized area of the law and the companion skills necessary to be an effective advocate.
727. Citizenship and Immigration Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Price, Polly
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will explore United States law governing immigration and citizenship. Through a background of historical and policy perspectives, this course will examine how citizenship is acquired, the constitutional and international law foundations underlying immigration regulation, the role of the federal government in regulating immigration, immigrant and non-immigrant visas, employment-based immigration, inadmissibility and removal, asylum, and immigration law reform.
860A. Colloquium Series Workshop
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Levine, Kay L
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class Work
Description: Would you like a close-up look at the world of legal scholarship and the exchange of scholarly ideas? Are you seeking more engagement with the Emory Law faculty outside of the traditional classroom setting? Do you want to become a stronger writer? Have you ever thought you might want to become a law professor? If so, consider applying to the Colloquium Series Workshop (CSW). Components of CSW Students who participate in this two unit workshop attend two meetings each week: the weekly faculty colloquium, which meets on Wednesdays over the lunch hour (and includes lunch) and a one-hour class session run by Professor Kay Levine, on Thursday afternoons. During each of these one hour sessions, students discuss the colloquium work as a piece of scholarship (and as piece of persuasive writing), critique the author's presentation, and review materials relating to the production of scholarship and the legal academic job market. In advance of the weekly meeting, students write short reaction papers to each colloquium piece. The CSW will be graded on a pass/fail basis, but with high attendance and participation standards set for what constitutes a passing grade. Do not apply for this class if you have other commitments during the lunch hour on Wednesdays (even only sporadic). Enrollment Students enroll in the CSW in accordance with the same procedures used for seminars (advance application during the pre-selection process). However, enrollment is limited to seven students each semester, instead of the usual 15. On the pre-selection form please indicate the basis of your interest in the CSW and your prior experience with scholarship in an academic setting (law or otherwise).
622A. Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Levine, Kay L
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam Class Participation
Description: This course examines the constitutional rules governing criminal investigations, including searches and seizures, the interrogation of witnesses and suspects, and the roles played by prosecutors and defense attorneys during the investigative stages of criminal cases. The course studies the current constitutional rules governing these essential police practices, the development of these rules, and the relevant but conflicting policy arguments favoring efficient law enforcement and individual liberty that arise in these cases.
675. Constitutional Litigation
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Nodine, Larry K.
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright or Trademark strongly recommended as a significant portion of the class will employ these principles. Co-requisites okay.
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: In this course we will wrestle with some of the most fascinating emerging issues in our evolving cyber-society. We will begin by considering jurisdiction over internet disputes. We will then turn to intellectual property topics, including trademarks (whether "keyword buys" constitute infringement; domain name disputes) and copyright (music downloading and hyper-linking). There will be special focus on arbitration procedures for resolving domain name disputes (the “UDRP”) and the liability of intermediaries like eBay or YouTube for user infringement. The Course will also explore the right to privacy in cyberspace.
959. Courtroom Persuasion/Drama I
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Metzger, Janet
Prerequisite: Evidence & Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Class work
Description: This course introduces students to basic acting, directing and writing tools a lawyer needs to motivate and persuade jurors, and applies these tools to courtroom performance. Using lectures, exercises, readings, individual performance and video playback, the course helps students develop concentration, observation skills, storytelling, spontaneity, and physical and vocal technique. Students also gain practical experience applying these tools to the presentation of openings and closings as well as questioning witnesses and jurors.
712. Corporate Finance
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Shepherd, George
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course introduces rudimentary elements of valuation, and examines legal issues relating to dividend policy in close and public corporations, the contracts and the law governing preferred stock and corporate debt, convertible securities, and capital structure.
622X. Criminal Procedure Motions Practice Workshops
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Grimberg, Steven
Prerequisite: Completion of Professor Levine's or Professor Cloud's Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations course, or co-requisite with Professor Levine's Constitutional Criminal Procedure: Investigations course.
Grading Criteria: In-class oral advocacy assignments, written advocacy assignments, and classroom participation.
Description: This workshop will provide practical skills training in the area of pre-trial criminal litigation for a small number of students. Class will meet once a week for approximately 2.5 hours, and will generally consist of each student performing an oral advocacy assignment. In addition, written advocacy assignments will be due from time to time. The emphasis of the class will be on building off of the students' substantive knowledge of criminal procedure by learning how it is applied to "real world" pre-trial criminal litigation.
767. Cross Examination Techniques
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: Evidence and Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Course work; in-classroom exercises
Description: This course is designed to conduct an exhaustive examination of the science and art of cross examination with extensive in class exploration and performance of advanced cross examination techniques.
659M. Doing Deals: Commercial Lending Transactions
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Powell, Catherine
Prerequisite: Business Associations, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills (concurrent not okay)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This Course is designed to give the student an opportunity to (i) explore in depth a variety of secured transactions, recognizing the contrast to unsecured transactions, and the Credit(s)ors rights, remedies and benefits thereunder, (ii) understand the nature and corresponding requirements of secured transactions, including knowledge of, and familiarity with applicable regulations, statutes and rules, and (iii) engage, as counsel, in the representation of a “secured Credit(s)or” or “borrower”, in an actual secured transaction from beginning to end (the “Secured Transaction”) throughout the semester.
659P. Doing Deals: Complex Restructurings and Distressed Acquisitions in Chapter 11
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Gordon, David; Marsh,Gary
Prerequisite: Bankruptcy and Contract Drafting Prerequisite-Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Bankruptcy, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills. Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Class participation (10-20%), in-class presentations (20-30%), out-of-class projects (transaction documents, memos, legal briefs, etc.) (20-30%), final pleadings and argument for the sale hearing (20-30%)
Description: This course will take students down the path of a complicated corporate restructuring and/or sale. During class time, students will learn the key features of a modern corporate restructuring and distressed sale, using a hypothetical company for illustrations. Students will also be asked to prepare and present in class one or more summaries/presentations regarding hot topics in the bankruptcy and restructuring world. Outside of class, students will assume the roles of various parties to the restructuring, such as debtor, lenders, key suppliers, key customers, private equity sponsor, and the like. The students will be asked by their “clients” (the instructors) to negotiate transaction terms and to draft definitive documents for various parts of the restructuring. The students will also be asked to prepare various bankruptcy-related transactional documents and pleadings, leading to a contested, bankruptcy court sale of the hypothetical company at the end of the course.
659P. Doing Deals: Complex Restructurings and Distressed Acquisitions in Chapter 11
Credits: 3 hours
Prerequisite: Business Associations (highly recommended)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: This course teaches students the principles of drafting commercial agreements. Although the course will be of particular interest to students pursuing a corporate or commercial law career, the concepts are applicable to any transactional practice. In this course, students will learn how transactional lawyers translate the business deal into contract provisions, as well as techniques for minimizing ambiguity and drafting with clarity. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on drafting exercises, and extensive homework assignments, students will learn about different types of contracts, other documents used in commercial transactions, and the drafting problems the contracts and documents present. The course will also focus on how a drafter can add value to a deal by finding, analyzing, and resolving business issues. Grades will be based on the graded assignments, good faith completion of the ungraded assignments, and class participation.
659B. Doing Deals: Deal Skills
Credits: 3 hours
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay); Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay)
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: Deal Skills will introduce students to business and legal issues common to commercial transactions, whether a multi-billion dollar M&A deal, a license agreement, a commercial real estate transaction, or a financing transaction. Among the topics to be covered are the lawyer's role as the translator of the business deal into contract concepts, client interviewing and communication, negotiation, due diligence, corporate actions and records, indemnities, transaction management, closings, and ethical issues. The course will be conducted through workshop exercises, in-class role-plays, and lectures and will also include out-of-class due diligence, negotiation and other exercises.
659N. Doing Deals: Intellectual Property Transactions
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Lytle, Courtney
Prerequisite: Contract Drafting and Deal Skills
Grading Criteria: Exercises, Class Participation, Final Paper/Presentation
Description: This course is designed to offer students with an interest in intellectual property the opportunity to explore a limited number of current and cutting edge intellectual property topics in depth and to experience first-hand how these legal concepts would manifest in a transactional practice setting. Students will complete a variety of in-class and homework assignments typical of those encountered in a transactional IP practice, from contract negotiation and drafting to strategic analysis and client interaction. - The course is intended for students with an interest in this subject area; no specific prior IP courses are required, but if a student has not taken any other IP offerings, please contact the instructor (clytle@emory.edu) for suggestions of materials to review over the summer. Grading is a combination of small projects, class participation, and a final paper/presentation. There is no exam. Students taking this course as a Capstone Course will complete some additional requirements over the course of the semester. Because of the nature of this course, regular attendance is mandatory.
659D. Doing Deals: Private Equity
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Crowley, Kevin; Furman, Kathryn
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting, Deal Skills, Corporate Finance, Accounting in Action or Analytical Methods
Grading Criteria: Course Work
Description: The course is designed as a workshop in which law students and business students will work together to structure and negotiate varying aspects of a private equity deal, from the initial term sheet stages, through execution of the purchase agreement, to completion of the financing and closing. Private equity deals that are economically justified, sometimes fail in the transaction negotiation and documentation phase. This course will seek to provide students with the tools necessary to tackle and resolve difficult deal issues and complete successful deals. Students will be divided into teams of lawyers and business people to review, consider and negotiate actual transaction documents. The issues presented will include often-contested key economic and legal deal terms, as well as common ethical dilemmas.
659F. Doing Deals: The General Counsel in Negotiated Transactions
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): TBA
Prerequisite: Business Associations (concurrent NOT okay), Contract Drafting (concurrent NOT okay) Prerequisite-Students seeking Credit(s) for a Capstone Class: Business Associations, Contract Drafting and Deal Skills (concurrent NOT okay). Students will complete some advanced exercises during the course.
Grading Criteria: Course work
Description: In this course, students will develop transactional skills, with emphasis on possible differences in roles of in-house counsel and outside counsel in the context of a hypothetical transaction that will be focal point of the entire semester. The class will be divided between the lawyers representing the buyer and the lawyers representing the seller. Students will interview the Professor (client) throughout the semester and develop goals, strategies, and documents that will meet the needs of the client. The semester will include the drafting and negotiation of a confidentiality agreement, letter of intent, development and review of a due diligence data room and will culminate in the drafting and negotiation of a final purchase agreement.
745. DUI Trials
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Tatum Rife, Melissa
Prerequisite: Evidence, Trial Techniques
Grading Criteria: Participation and Final Trial Simulation
Description: One of the most complicated and technical cases to try in criminal law is a DUI charge. Learning how to present or defend a DUI can equip a new litigator with techniques that will benefit students seeking practice in all areas of criminal litigation. Students will review DUI statutes and case law and prepare simulation cases for motions and trial. Opening arguments, direct, cross, and closing argument will be discussed and practiced. Introduction of scientific evidence, expert testimony, and preparing your witness for trial will be explored. Motions will be prepared and decided. Students will prepare and present their final case in a trial setting at the end of the semester.
611. Election Law: The Law of Democracy
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Kang, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course provides an introduction to the law of the democratic political process. The course will cover a wide range of topics, including the right to vote, reapportionment and redistricting, partisan and racial gerrymandering, the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance, the role of political parties, direct democracy, and Bush v. Gore. The course will examine the principles underlying the design of our political institutions and legal frameworks, as well as the practical implications of those choices, drawing on political science and developments in contemporary politics.
669X. Employment Discrimination Lab
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): King, Carlton & Shultz, Chad
Prerequisite: Employment Discrimination (concurrent okay)
Grading Criteria: Coursework
Description: The class will work though an employment law case from meeting the client to a mock jury trial. The students will be divided into 2 law firms. One firm represents the Plaintiff and the other firm represents the Defendant. The classes are lead by Chad Shultz and Carlton King., but this is an interactive class that encourages group discussion and student participation. The written assignments will include a demand letter (Plaintiff’s firm), a response to the demand letter (defense); summary judgment brief and reply (simplified and limited to no more than 8 pages). Each student will also participate in deposing a witness, argue the motion for summary judgment, and play a role in the trial of the case. This is a hands-on class that will allow you prosecute and defend an employment case from start to finish.
668. Employment Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Weirich, Geoff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This two-hour course will cover many of the major legal aspects of the employment relationship not treated in Labor Law. We will examine legal principles applicable to the hiring process, the key terms and conditions of employment (including wages, hours, employee benefits, and workplace conduct), employment discrimination (a brief survey, not intended as a substitute for the separate course on that subject), occupational safety and health, employment termination (including termination for cause and through force reduction), and post-employment issues (restrictive covenants and trade secrets, unemployment insurance, and post-employment benefits).
697. Environmental Advocacy Workshop
COURSE REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE TURNER ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC. THIS COURSE DOES NOT MEET THE WRITING REQUIREMENT.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Horder, Rick
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Workshop Projects, Simulations, and classroom participation
Description: The Environmental Advocacy workshop will include reading assignments, written exercises, seminar-like discussion, and simulations with an emphasis on legal practice. The course will develop students' abilities to function as successful environmental advocates in the context of client interviews, administrative proceedings, negotiations, and litigation. Other issues covered include advocating environmental protection.
624X. Environmental Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Nash, Jonathan
Prerequisite: Legislation & Regulation
Grading Criteria: Exam; Class Participation
Description: This course will focus on legal strategies to regulate and remedy environmental harms. The course is designed to prepare transactional lawyers, regulatory lawyers, government counsel and litigators, as well as students interested in specializing in environmental law. A major goal of the course is to introduce students to the analytical skills necessary to understand and work in this and many other predominantly statutory and regulatory fields. The course will therefore frequently involve analysis of methods of interpretation of statutes and regulations and analysis of the central role of administrative agencies in environmental law. The course will focus on various federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
632X. Evidence
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Zweir, Paul or Seaman, Julie
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A general consideration of the law of evidence with a focus on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Coverage includes relevance, hearsay, witnesses, presumptions and burdens of proof, writings, scientific and demonstrative evidence, and privilege. Must be taken in the second year.
632C. Expert Witness Examination
Students will need to obtain the handouts given out the first day of class. Students will also need a copy of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Rubin, Robert & Sheffield, Jason
Prerequisite: Evidence
Grading Criteria: Students will be graded on their performance in class during the semester and on a written brief. Grades will be based on how much improvement students show over the course of the semester, and on how well the students conduct the examinations, i.e., form
Description: This course is designed to teach the preparation, research, ethical considerations, and trial techniques necessary in order to effectively present expert witnesses in a criminal case. Although the focus will be on criminal cases, the skills taught in this class will also apply to civil cases. Most of the classes will involve the students conducting direct and cross-examinations of expert witnesses. Designed in a case-simulation format, the course will enable the students to develop substantive knowledge of criminal law and procedures, develop case theory and expert witness testimony, write and present a Daubert motion, and finally, conduct full direct and cross-examinations of experts. The course will also develop students’ aptitude with the advocacy techniques necessary to prosecute or defend criminal cases. Students will have multiple opportunities to perform in class and will receive extensive individual feed-back from experienced lawyers.
643. Family Law II
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Broyde, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Deals with the problems, policies, and laws related to the dissolution of children and parents. Juvenile Law will also be considered.
601B. First Amendment
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Seaman, Julie
Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course is about the history, theory, and law of free speech. The law has two components, a set of substantive standards and a set of procedural standards. (Given the high value assigned to free-speech, for it the courts have developed especially protective procedural standards.) In terms of substance, First-Amendment based law has developed differently in different contexts, such as sedition, crime-facilitating speech, defamation, pornography, public education, and commercial speech. We will study free speech in these and other contexts. Also, free speech varies according to the medium, oral, print, or electronic, and we will consider speech in these different mediums.
680. Food & Drug Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Kitchens, William
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Food and drug law involves the statutory and regulatory framework governing the development and marketing of food, drugs, medical devices, biological products, and cosmetics. This introductory course serves as a starting point for understanding how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempts both to protect the public health and foster our national desire and need for innovation in science, medicine and the safety of our food supply. In particular, the course will study how FDA and the courts have enforced and interpreted the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to implement a regulatory system for a wide range of products that affect our daily lives. Dialogue and questions on how food and drug law has confronted and adapted to scientific and technological progress, public health challenges, constitutional controversies, and policy-based perspectives will be encouraged. Additionally, the course covers such contemporary issues as food safety; balancing the benefits and risks of certain drugs, devices and biological products and how best to communicate that information to healthcare professionals and consumers; expediting approval of drugs designed for life-threatening diseases; clinical trials for experimental products; and regulation of biotechnology, such as tissue engineering and gene therapy. Other specific topics include: regulation of food labeling and sanitation; regulation of dietary supplements; administrative rulemaking; advertising and promotion controls; preemption of state laws; and strategies for handling government investigations and enforcement actions.
761. Foreign and International Legal Research
Credits: 1 hours
Instructor(s): Flick, Amy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Research Problems and Research Project
Description: The course will introduce specialized techniques for research with international and foreign legal materials. Students will become familiar with international and foreign legal research sources through lectures and by practical application through in-class exercises and a final research project. Topics will include public international law resources, including U.S. and multilateral treaties, international courts, and customary law sources; documents of the United Nations, the European Union, and other inter-governmental organizations; resources on international human rights; an overview of legal materials for common law systems (the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia) and civil law systems (France and Latin America); and a look at issues that arise in international and foreign law research, including availability, translations, and internet resources. Because student participation is essential for the learning experience in this course, attendance at each class session is mandatory. Failure to attend will affect the course grade.
650. Franchise Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Aronson, Morton
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Legal and business considerations, including the pros and cons of franchising; the franchising role in the economy; the franchiser/franchisee relationship; disclosure requirements; relevant state and federal laws; essential elements in representing franchisers and franchisees; basic terms and issues with franchise agreements; legislative issues; trademark issues; encroachment issues; system expansion issues; franchisee associations; new techniques in franchising; e.g. area development agreements, sub-franchising, niche franchising, master franchise agreements; international franchising; the role of alternate dispute resolution in franchising; product quality issues; legislative issues. Case studies of important franchise companies will be read and evaluated including Holiday Inns, McDonald's, Century 21, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts. Prominent legal political and business franchising representatives will be guest speakers.
640. Fundamentals of Income Taxation
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Pennell, J.
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Introductory study of the general structure of the federal income tax; nature of gross income, exclusions, and deductions; the income tax consequences of property transactions; the nature of capital gains and losses; basis and non-recognition.
890. Fundamentals of Innovation I
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Rector, Anne
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property
Grading Criteria: Team projects, team evaluations, individual work product, class attendance, and participation.
Description: Innovation and technological change are critical to wealth creation in today’s global economy. However the process that often begins in the research lab traveling a path towards product development, market development, product commercialization and life cycle management is uncertain and typically difficult. More often than not, ideas will “die the good death” well before given the opportunity to develop into profitable markets. Fundamentals of Innovation I is first of a two-course sequence on the various techniques and approaches needed to understand the innovation process within the context of technology commercialization. In the Fall semester, the course is focused on 1) helping students develop an understanding of innovation basics including the overall innovation process and roles and skills of various key players; 2) discussing patterns of technology change and alternate management processes for each; 3) organizing the innovation team and developing frameworks that foster team creativity; 4) understanding forms and protections afforded Intellectual Property; and 5) discussing early stage approaches to product definition (working models to engineering prototypes) and preliminary market definition.
The fall course and the companion course in the spring will provide the academic core to the student’s first year in the Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results (“TI:GER”) program and will be taught as a series of learning modules. Each module and class session is lead by a faculty or guest instructor with in depth experience in that particular technology commercialization topic. Students will take each course as a “community of participants” and will participate on both an individual and team level. Innovation teams that are comprised of the PhD candidates, MBA and JD students, will be formed mid-semester and will participate both in in-class activities and cases, as well as in an “engaged learning” experience intended to simulate the technology commercialization process. The technology/research that will drive the innovation teams will be provided by the PhD candidates and their advisors.
657D. Health Law Research
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Glon,Christina
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Health law encompasses a wide variety of topics ranging from Medicare to patient care, insurance companies to health care reform, big pharm to worker’s compensation and medical malpractice to bioethics. Additionally, health law is governed by statutes, regulations and case law, and many health laws have produced a vast amount of legislative history materials. The field of health law research is robust and the class would therefore touch on best practices for researching topics including:
- Health Care Legislation, Regulations, and Insurance Laws
- Patient Care, Representing Physicians, and Regulations of Hospitals,
- Medical Malpractice and Understanding Medical Records
- Worker’s Compensation, Medicare and Medicaid
- Pharmaceutical Law and Product Liability
- Elder Law, End of Life Decisions, and Bioethics
647. History of Church-State Relations in the West
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor: Witte, John
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take-home Final Exam
Description: This course will explore the interaction between religious and political authorities and institutions from the time of the Roman Empire until the American founding era. We will analyze the variety of constitutional arrangements developed to facilitate the separation, cooperation, and mutual protection of churches and states. We will analyze the gradual development of religious rights and liberties in the Western legal tradition, but also the systematic and oft brutal denial of these rights to Jews, heretics, and other religious outsiders. We will analyze the competition among different models of church and state that emerged repeatedly in the West, and the remarkable change introduced by the First Amendment command to disestablish religion and to protect the free exercise rights of all.
We will read a blend of historical documents and a few introductory historical texts. Our classes will consist of lecture and discussion. Students will be given a take home examination, which will be handed out the last day of class and must be returned by the last day of the examination period.
690A. Human Rights: Selected Topics
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Perry, Michael
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take – Home Exam
Description: The content of this course varies from year to year. In fall semester of 2014, the course will focus both on religious freedom and on moral freedom. Among the issues addressed: What are religious freedom and moral freedom? Should the protection traditionally given to religious freedom also be given to moral freedom? What does the constitutional law of the United States say—and what should it say—about religious freedom and moral freedom? What does the international law of human rights say—and what should it say—about religious freedom and moral freedom? The final exam will be of the “take home” variety.
608. Intellectual Property
THIS COURSE CAN BE A CO-REQUISITE FOR INTERNET LAW AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW.
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Schaetzel, Steve
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course will serve as an introduction to patent, trademark, and copyright law. The course will explore the policy and legal foundations for these areas of law and the scope of protection which each affords. The requirements for protection will be examined and compared. The framework for the administrative procedures, which support the patent and trademark systems, will also be discussed. In part, the course will direct attention to the question as to the legitimacy of these forms of property and appropriateness of protection. What constitutes infringement of intellectual property rights will be discussed. Methods for avoiding infringement and scienter with respect to infringement will also be discussed. Remedies and questions of civil procedure and appellate review will receive brief consideration.
609L. International Commercial Arbitration
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Reetz, Ryan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam; Class Participation
Description: A consideration of arbitration as a dispute resolution process in the domain of international commerce. Analyzes the composition and the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, the procedure followed by arbitrators, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and other related issues. In order to understand the arbitral process, the class will systematically go though an arbitration from drafting the arbitration agreement (start) to enforcement of the award (finish). We will discuss ad hoc and institutional arbitration by the use of a hypothetical case. This class will be very hands on and practical. Participation is important and there will be role-play. As international commercial arbitration cannot exist in a legal vacuum, we will also consider relevant laws in various civil law and common law countries.
653. International Criminal Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered its very first judgment. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was convicted of the war crime of conscripting or enlisting persons under the age of fifteen years into the armed forces of a militant group, and using such persons to participate actively in hostilities. Lubanga was the founder and leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots responsible for violence that erupted in 2002 in Ituri, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups. The situation in Ituri was referred to the ICC by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the Lubanga Case, several complicated issues came up in the course of the pre-trial proceedings, which commenced when a warrant for the arrest of Lubanga was issued by a Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC in February 10, 2006: Was the conflict in Ituri an international armed conflict or one not of an international character? Is there a difference between the enlistment or conscription of child soldiers if committed in an international armed conflict or in an armed conflict not of an international character, respectively? What degree of knowledge (mens rea) is required on the part of the perpetrator in regard to the age of a person enlisted or conscripted into the armed forces or used to participate actively in the hostilities? What is the meaning of using a child soldier “to participate actively in hostilities”? The trial and tribulations that attended the pre-trail proceedings in the Lubanga Case also included interesting issues of criminal procedure: The duty of the Prosecutor to obtain evidence for the defense; the effect of (non-) compliance with municipal (Congolese) laws in regard to searches and seizures; requirements to be satisfied for a person to qualify as a “victim” and the right of victims to express their “views and concerns” in the investigation stage of the proceedings.
These problems and questions are some of the substantive issues included in International Criminal Law. The focus of the course is on the structures and proceedings of the ICC. The ICC Statute was adopted by a Diplomatic Conference of Diplomatic Plenipotentiaries on an International Criminal Court, which was held in Rome on June 15 through July 17, 1998. Following 60 ratifications of the ICC Statute, the ICC became a reality on July 1, 2002 with its seat in The Hague in the Netherlands. To date, the ICC Statute has been ratified by 122 States. Earlier, the Security Council of the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and subsequently offered its support for a Special Court to prosecute international crimes committed in Sierra Leone (SCSL), and for judicial chambers to bring perpetrators of international crimes in East Timor and Cambodia to justice. Jurisprudence of the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL, as well as cases decided by the NurembergTribunals, are included in the course.
The course also includes an overview of the history of the establishment of the international tribunals; and as far as the ICC is concerned, its subject-matter, territorial, personal and temporal jurisdiction; the composition of the ICC and its organs; trigger mechanisms for prosecutions in the ICC (the U.N. Security Council, States Parties, and the Prosecutor conducting investigations proprio motu); and the rules of admissibility of a case (the principle of complementarity). When dealing with the definitions of crimes within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression), we shall single out certain crimes for closer scrutiny, for example the crime of genocide, gender-specific crimes, child soldiers, torture, environmental malpractice, resettlement of populations in occupied territories, and terrorism. In dealing with the rules of procedure and evidence to be applied in the ICC, special attention will be given to international principles of criminal justice that are at odds with the American criminal law and criminal procedure, for example the concept of mens rea, the presumption of innocence, the rule against double jeopardy, the protection of victims, and sentencing factors. Special attention will also be given to the ongoing conflict between the African Union and the ICC over the indictment of President Al Bashir of Sudan and President Kenyatta and Deput President Ruto of Kenya to stand trial in the ICC centered upon the (non-) applicability of sovereign immunity of a sitting head of state. The United States was one of seven States that voted against approval of the ICC Statute. The course includes concerns of the United States and others (including Israel, India, and some Arab States) that prompted a negative vote or abstention. President Clinton did sign the ICC Statute. The Bush administration, on the other hand, adopted a particular hostile attitude toward the ICC, for example by cancelling the American signature of the ICC Statute, enacting the Military Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, and imposing sanctions against States that refused to enter into bilateral agreements with the United States that would preclude them from surrendering American nationals for prosecution in the ICC. In 2009, the Obama administration re-engaged with The ICC and the United States is currently a “co-operating non-party State”.
732. International Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Van der Vyver, Johan
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Introduction to the law, methodology, and institutions of modern public international law. Among the topics covered are sources of international law jurisdiction, sovereign and diplomatic immunity, treaties, the domestic application of international law, the law of international organizations, settlement of disputes, limits on the use of force, human rights, and the law of the sea.
738. International Law and Ethics
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Holzgrefe, Jeff
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Essays, Class Participation
Description: International law and ethics inhabit the same normative space. Both seek to identify the rules that states and their citizens should observe in their international relations. However, international lawyers have traditionally banished ethical analysis from their scholarship and advocacy. Fortunately, in recent years a growing number of international lawyers have taken what has been described as an “ethical turn” by seeking to establish moral yardsticks against which current foreign policy and future international legal reform can be measured. Their project is less to tear down the legal positivist barrier between law and morality than to ask what is a just international system and how the gap between it and the existing one can be narrowed or eliminated. This course has the same end in view. It begins by asking the question “does international law, let alone international ethics, even matter in the seemingly self-interested world of international politics?” It then outlines the sources and subjects of international law as well as the three main traditions of international ethics: realism, legal positivism and liberalism. It then critically examines particular issue areas from each of these ethical perspectives. Specifically, it evaluates group rights like national self-determination, secession and self-defense, human rights such as democratic governance, subsistence, development, and intergenerational equity as well as various philosophical and political challenges to their alleged universality. Finally, it explores conflicts between group and human rights in the context of immigration, warfare and counter-terrorism as well as actual and potential ways of securing their enforcement through domestic and international institutions (courts, tribunals, commissions) and military force (preventive war, reprisals, and humanitarian intervention).
639. International Tax
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Harvel, Brian D.
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Income Tax (concurrent NOT okay)
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: With improved communications and transportation "making the world smaller", it is becoming increasingly difficult to find businesses that do not engage in some form of international commerce. International Taxation is a course aimed at the tax consequences of international transactions. The class will not be targeted solely at those who would be tax lawyers. Those who anticipate a commercial practice after law school should find value in this course. It is difficult to be an effective business lawyer without some understanding of the tax laws. The course focuses on the application of the federal income tax and tax treaties to nonresident aliens and foreign corporations and to United States citizens, residents and corporations, investing funds abroad or conducting business with foreign persons.
631A. Internet Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Nodine, Larry K.
Prerequisite: Intellectual Property, Copyright or Trademark strongly recommended as a significant portion of the class will employ these principles. Co-requisites okay.
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: In this course we will wrestle with some of the most fascinating emerging issues in our evolving cyber-society. We will begin by considering jurisdiction over internet disputes. We will then turn to intellectual property topics, including trademarks (whether "keyword buys" constitute infringement; domain name disputes) and copyright (music downloading and hyper-linking). There will be special focus on arbitration procedures for resolving domain name disputes (the “UDRP”) and the liability of intermediaries like eBay or YouTube for user infringement. The Course will also explore the right to privacy in cyberspace.
570A. Introduction to the American Legal System
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO FOREIGN-EDUCATED LLM STUDENTS AND JM STUDENTS
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s):
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The Introduction to U.S. Law course includes fundamental principles of law, including both statutory and common law; the case method of legal study; an overview of the role of courts in legal development, and the sources of legal authority in the United States. In addition, to ensure that students begin their course work with a solid foundation, the course will introduce the essential concepts in the basic doctrinal areas of the law, including Business Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, and Torts.
708A. Introduction to Law and Religion in Practice
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Goldfeder,Mark
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Paper
Description: The field of law and religion appeals to lawyers who are fiercely committed to the ideals of justice, freedom, and equality. Law and religion specialists can be policy makers, contributing to law reform processes domestically and abroad, and advocates, not only for individuals, but also on behalf of faith-based organizations, social services, educational institutions, and more. They can represent victims of religious persecution, and those seeking asylum in our immigration courts. They may deal with the impact of permitting, licensing, and zoning regulations on religious institutions, as well as tax implications for religious organizations and nonprofits. They might represent their clients in religious arbitrations, mediations, and negotiations, particularly in the area of family law. They are also involved with clergy, social workers, and educators in risk management consultation, procedural structuring, and compliance policies in regard to matters of child abuse prevention, reporting, and protection. This course will introduce students to the practice of law and religion on many different levels.
627. Islamic Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): An-Naim, Abdullahi A
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Take Home Final
Description: The course objective is to introduce students to the nature, sources and techniques of Islamic Law (Shari`a), and its main concepts, principles and rules. Class discussions will also focus on the relationship between Shari`a and modern legal systems, as well as its social and cultural impact on present Islamic societies. Following a discussion of the nature, sources and early development of Shari`a, we will review the main substantive aspects of this legal tradition, namely, property and transactions, family law, criminal law, and constitutional law and inter-communal (international) law. The last part of the course will look at the relationship between Shari`a and the legal systems of modern states, through an examination of the legal systems of Iran and Pakistan.
699. Kids in Conflict with the Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Waldman, Randee
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Grades will be based upon (i) a short reaction paper, (ii) an in-class advocacy exercise and (iii) a final research paper.
Description: The 2-credit course is a detailed study of the juvenile delinquency system. This course will trace the trajectory of juvenile justice in the United States over the course of the last century, from its birth as a separate system in the early 1900s, through the due process revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread punitive reforms of the 1990s, to the recent rulings on the juvenile death penalty. It will explore critical issues such as search, seizure, and interrogation of minors; waiver from juvenile to adult court; the unique procedural mechanisms of juvenile courts; sentencing and confinement; and implications of emerging scientific research on adolescent development. Finally, the course will also explore the relationship between the juvenile delinquency and school systems. Classes will consist of lecture, discussion, and advocacy exercises. This course is open to all 2Ls and 3Ls and is a pre- or co-requisite for entry into the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic.
651. Labor Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Wilson, Brent
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Focuses primarily on the National Labor Relations Act and its interpretation, including the prospect of reform legislation. Coverage also will include other matters such as regulation of globalization and preemption, and brief comparisons of the NLRA to the Railway Labor Act.
715. Law and the Unconscious Mind
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Duncan, Martha Grace
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: How can prison be irresistibly alluring, and what does this allure imply for the purposes of punishment? How does the character of the one-time criminal differ from that of the career offender? How does stealing gratify both the wish to be dependent and the wish to be “macho” and aggressive? Why are metaphors of soft, wet dirt (such as slime and scum) commonly used for criminals, and why is this usage not really as negative as it seems? Why might the world be a poorer place without criminals? These are some of the intriguing questions that will be explored in this class. In addition, the course provides a basic understanding of psychoanalysis, including infantile sexuality, the unconscious, and the defense mechanisms, such as denial, repression, undoing, and splitting. The class format will consist of lecture, discussion, movies, and (a few) games.
879. Legal Analysis and Writing for Non-Lawyers
NOTE: OPEN ONLY TO JM STUDENTS
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Kirk, Aaron
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Memo
Description: This course will cover sources and systems of law, the structure and content of legal arguments, and exam preparation and outlining. It will also cover communicating with non-lawyers, basic legal citation, and legal research.
747. Legal Profession
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Terrell, Timothy or Hughes Jr., James B
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Study of the rules (primarily the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct) and deeper principles that govern the legal profession, including the nature and content of the attorney-client relationship, conflicts of interest, appropriate advocacy, client identity in business contexts, ethics in negotiation, and issues of professionalism.
656. Negotiations
THIS COURSE IS NOT OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION OR BUSINESS SCHOOL NEGOTIATIONS.
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Athans, Michael; Lytle, Courtney or Barwick, Jane; Eldridge,David
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Class preparation/participation and written assignment – No Exam
Description: This hands-on skills course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of negotiating settlements in both a litigation and a transactional context. The objectives of the course will be to develop proficiency in a variety of negotiation techniques as well as a substantive knowledge of the theory and practice, or the art and science of negotiations. Each week during class, students will negotiate fictitious clients' positions, sometimes preceded by a lecture and followed by critique and comparison of results with other students. Each problem will be designed to illustrate particular negotiation strategies as well as highlight selected professional and ethical issues. Preparation for class will include development of a negotiation strategy, reflective written memoranda required.
754. Patent Law
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Holbrook, Timothy
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: The availability and parameters of patent protection are increasing in importance in the information age. The Internet, advances in biotechnology, and divergent court opinions are impacting this area in far-reaching ways. This course provides an overview of patent law for students interested in the area, including those without a technical or scientific background. Topics include patentable subject matter, utility, statutory bars to patentability, novelty, non-obviousness, disclosure and enablement, patent prosecution issues, infringement, remedies and more.
755. Pretrial Litigation
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): McCoyd, Matthew
Prerequisite: Third Years (Second Years with documented litigation or evidence course experience)
Grading Criteria: Written work and oral performance
Description: This is a civil case litigation skills/simulation course. The students work as two person teams forming a law firm under the direct supervision of a "senior partner". ("Senior Partners" are adjunct professors who are local premiere attorneys in active practice or judges currently on the trial/appellate bench.) The student’s, aided and guided by their senior partner, represent their clients essentially as they would in actual cases, and learn the basics of preparing a case from investigation and initiation through discovery, making a record to support or defend a substantive motion-- the culminating exercise for the course. An actual client, played by a person from outside of the course, is assigned to each firm. The student lawyers conduct intake interviews of their clients and witnesses then proceed to represent them. At all stages of the process, students receive active input from and evaluation by the distinguished slate of adjunct professors. The students determine what type of legal action to take, and will draft pleadings, conduct informal witness interviews, draft written discovery and take and defend depositions.
Course faculty members provide guidance and instruction in their roles as teachers, judges and senior partners, with students taking primary responsibility for client representation and strategic decisions with regard to case direction. Actors who are very familiar with their parts and who remain "in character" appear in some roles as parties and witnesses while students in the course serve alternately as counsel and witness in others. The cases culminate in major motion hearings. The faculty members present regular lectures and demonstrations about various aspects of pretrial practice which are presented hand-in-hand with the developing procedures and technology affecting the practice of law. Attendance is required for the lectures, but primarily the student teams work independently. Every student performance, written and oral, is observed, critiqued and graded by the faculty. There are no written examinations. There are submissions of written materials and use of technology through audio visual presentations at motions hearings, etc. Students are graded on their class performances, written work product and development as "practicing attorneys." Former students have described this course as a great source for practical experience with regard to client relations, litigation strategy and discovery tactics -- all guided by esteemed faculty from the bench and practicing bar. Many students use their course case materials, experiences and notes as a practice resource after they enter the practice of law. The course provides students an interesting and exciting window on the actual practice of law.
616. Real Estate Finance
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Alexander, Frank S
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course first examines in detail the elements of basic real estate conveyances including the sales contract, instruments of conveyance and title assurance (recording acts, title insurance, warranties). The second half of the course is devoted to alternative methods of financing a real estate acquisition including various mortgage instruments, transfers of mortgaged property, and foreclosure questions.
667. Securities Regulation
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Velikonja, Urska
Prerequisite: Business Associations
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: A study of the federal regulation of the issue, distribution and transfer of securities. The course studies the process of registering new securities for offer and sale and the development of disclosure standards and accompanying liability rules. The scope of securities regulation is examined, as is the availability of exemptions from the registration requirements.
725. Sentencing Practice
Credits: 3 hours
Instructor(s): Marbutt, Jason
Prerequisite: Crim Law, Evidence (pre-req or co-req)
Grading Criteria: Class Participation & Exam
Description: The vast majority of cases do not end in trial; they end by plea. The vast majority of trials do not end in acquittals; they end in convictions. What happens next?
The purpose of this class is to examine the sentencing process. The class will be 70% experiential learning, and 30% legal knowledge. We will discuss the basic legal framework for a sentencing hearing, and we will engage in a series of mock-sentencing hearings. The fact patterns are based on real-world cases that are challenging – ethically, legally, morally, and emotionally.
Students will take on the role of prosecution or defense (and witnesses as needed). They will present their case to a Judge, including questioning witnesses and arguing for an appropriate sentence. We will have guest speakers to help guide us through the issues of the case, and we will have class discussions about, “What’s it worth?” The guest speakers will be professionals who dealt with the real-world case that our fact patterns are based on.
The ultimate goal is for each student to have a better understanding of the factors that influence sentencing, while gaining skill in articulating those factors to others.
766. Trademark Law
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Davis,Theodore
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectibility of marks, including words, symbols, and “trade dress”; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and “cybersquatting”; and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.
674. Trusts and Estates
Credits: 4 hours
Instructor(s): Pennell, J N
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: Study of the law of intestate succession, limitations on testamentary powers, formalities necessary for executing or revoking wills, incorporation by reference and the doctrine of independent legal significance, problems of construction of wills, and will substitutes. The course examines formalities for creation and termination of express trusts, with particular consideration of legal doctrines relating to settlor, beneficiary, trustee, and trust property. The course also devotes a limited amount of time to the use of future interests in trust, powers of appointment, and rules restricting perpetuities and accumulations.
685A. Veterans Benefits Laws
Credits: 2 hours
Instructor(s): Early, Drew
Prerequisite: None
Grading Criteria: Exam
Description: This course introduces students to the body of administrative rules that govern the administration of veterans’ benefits, both through the Department of Veterans Affairs and the relevant courts. It teaches the law and procedure applicable to claims by veterans and their families at all stages of the Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication process: initial fact-finding by VA regional offices, appellate claims to the Board of Veterans Appeals, and appellate review by the United States Court of Veterans Claims. In addition to instruction in relevant doctrine and policy exposure, students will engage in exercises directed to the basics of the disability rating process, to establishing the service connection to a disability, and to discharge review. Students will also be exposed to typical claims issues raised in veterans’ cases handled by the Emory Law Volunteer Clinic for Veterans. Law students interested in administrative law, personal injury, and civil litigation will benefit from this course, as will students interested in public service, who will be better prepared to serve as pro bono counsel to veterans in the future. This field will be one of growing importance, as the war in Afghanistan winds down and the military continues to shrink.
683X. White Collar Crimes Workshop
Credits: 1 hour
Instructor(s): Templer, Nicolette
Prerequisite: Having taken or simultaneously taking either White Collar Crimes or (Constitutional) Criminal Procedure. There is no requirement that both be taken.
Grading Criteria: Classwork
Description: This course addresses the practical application of concepts learned in the White Collar Crimes course. During the workshop students will be given information detailing allegations of a federal health care criminal case and Qui Tam action. Students will assess the case for possible violations of federal mail fraud, conspiracy and false claim statues. Students will draft a Qui Tam complaint, represent a party in the ensuing litigation (which will not involve a trial), and arrive at a resolution of the criminal case. The course will explore "true to life" aspects of federal criminal corporate litigation from both prosecution and defense perspectives.