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- Course ID:
- 297F
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- Upperclass-only elective
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- Course ID:
- 397F
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- Upperclass-only elective
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- Course ID:
- 296W
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- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Taught by Brian East.
This overview course will principally focus on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the most important federal law prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities. We will discuss the ADA’s place in the disability-rights and disability-justice movements, and its analytical relationship with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and with the antidiscrimination provisions in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. We will also explore the Act’s definition of disability (including the subsequent ADA Amendments Act of 2008), and the provisions outlawing discrimination, and requiring accommodations, by employers (Title I), government services and programs (Title II), and private businesses (Title III). To sample the breadth of the ADA, we will discuss the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision guaranteeing community integration, as well as the ADA’s application in the contexts of, e.g., education, housing, healthcare, the criminal legal and carceral systems, immigration, and technology.
Disability Law
- WED 9:50 – 11:40 am JON 6.257
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Taught by Brian East.
This overview course will principally focus on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the most important federal law prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities. We will discuss the ADA’s place in the disability-rights and disability-justice movements, and its analytical relationship with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and with the antidiscrimination provisions in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. We will also explore the Act’s definition of disability (including the subsequent ADA Amendments Act of 2008), and the provisions outlawing discrimination, and requiring accommodations, by employers (Title I), government services and programs (Title II), and private businesses (Title III). To sample the breadth of the ADA, we will discuss the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision guaranteeing community integration, as well as the ADA’s application in the contexts of, e.g., education, housing, healthcare, the criminal legal and carceral systems, immigration, and technology.
Domestic Violence and the Law
- THU 3:55 – 5:45 pm TNH 3.125
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 289J
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the battered women’s movement and its impact on the legal system’s response to domestic violence. We begin with law and the social context of battering, including how the experience of abuse and the response to abuse is shaped by race, cultural identity, economic status, sexual orientation, and disabilities. Criminal law aspects are addressed within the role of protective orders, prosecution, and defense (including self-defense for victims and ethical representation of batterers). We next view how civil family law recognizes domestic violence in custody, divorce, visitation, and child protection matters. Among other topics, the course will examine specialized areas of the law, which include tort liability for batterers and third parties (police, employers, etc.) and federal remedies under the Violence Against Women Act. The class will discuss emerging issues like violence against women as a human rights violation and evolving sexual assault laws to identify the challenges of theory vs. practice. The focus of the class is to examine current gaps and barriers in the legal response to intimate partner violence and propose systemic change through a social justice lens.
Domestic Violence and the Law
- TUE 4:55 – 7:40 pm JON 5.257
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 389J
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the battered women’s movement and its impact on the legal system’s response to domestic violence. We begin with law and the social context of battering, including how the experience of abuse and the response to abuse is shaped by race, cultural identity, economic status, sexual orientation, and disabilities. Criminal law aspects are addressed within the role of protective orders, prosecution, and defense (including self-defense for victims and ethical representation of batterers). We next view how civil family law recognizes domestic violence in custody, divorce, visitation, and child protection matters. Among other topics, the course will examine specialized areas of the law, which include tort liability for batterers and third parties (police, employers, etc.) and federal remedies under the Violence Against Women Act. The class will discuss emerging issues like violence against women as a human rights violation and evolving sexual assault laws to identify the challenges of theory vs. practice. The focus of the class is to examine current gaps and barriers in the legal response to intimate partner violence and propose systemic change through a social justice lens.
Domestic Violence and the Law
- THU 4:15 – 7:00 pm TNH 3.127
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 389J
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Same as LAW 378J, Domestic Violence and the Law.
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the battered women’s movement and its impact on the legal system’s response to domestic violence. We begin with law and the social context of battering, including how the experience of abuse and the response to abuse is shaped by race, cultural identity, economic status, sexual orientation, and disabilities. Criminal law aspects are addressed within the role of protective orders, prosecution, and defense (including self-defense for victims and ethical representation of batterers). We next view how civil family law recognizes domestic violence in custody, divorce, visitation, and child protection matters. Among other topics, the course will examine specialized areas of the law, which include tort liability for batterers and third parties (police, employers, etc.) and federal remedies under the Violence Against Women Act. The class will discuss emerging issues like violence against women as a human rights violation and evolving sexual assault laws to identify the challenges of theory vs. practice. The focus of the class is to examine current gaps and barriers in the legal response to intimate partner violence and propose systemic change through a social justice lens.
Domestic Violence and the Law
- THU 4:15 – 7:15 pm ONLINE
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 378J
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will be taught entirely online via Zoom.
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the battered women’s movement and its impact on the legal system’s response to domestic violence. We begin with law and the social context of battering, including how the experience of abuse and the response to abuse is shaped by race, cultural identity, economic status, sexual orientation, and disabilities. Criminal law aspects are addressed within the role of protective orders, prosecution, and defense (including self-defense for victims and ethical representation of batterers). We next view how civil family law recognizes domestic violence in custody, divorce, visitation, and child protection matters. Among other topics, the course will examine specialized areas of the law, which include tort liability for batterers and third parties (police, employers, etc.) and federal remedies under the Violence Against Women Act. The class will discuss emerging issues like violence against women as a human rights violation and evolving sexual assault laws to identify the challenges of theory vs. practice. The focus of the class is to examine current gaps and barriers in the legal response to intimate partner violence and propose systemic change through a social justice lens.
Domestic Violence and the Law
- WED 3:45 – 6:25 pm TNH 3.126
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 378J
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
Description
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the battered women’s movement and its impact on the legal system’s response to domestic violence. We begin with law and the social context of battering, including how the experience of abuse and the response to abuse is shaped by race, cultural identity, economic status, sexual orientation, and disabilities. Criminal law aspects are addressed within the role of protective orders, prosecution, and defense (including self-defense for victims and ethical representation of batterers). We next view how civil family law recognizes domestic violence in custody, divorce, visitation, and child protection matters. Among other topics, the course will examine specialized areas of the law, which include tort liability for batterers and third parties (police, employers, etc.) and federal remedies under the Violence Against Women Act. The class will discuss emerging issues like violence against women as a human rights violation and evolving sexual assault laws to identify the challenges of theory vs. practice. The focus of the class is to examine current gaps and barriers in the legal response to intimate partner violence and propose systemic change through a social justice lens.
EU Competition Law
- MON, WED 10:30 – 11:40 am JON 6.203
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 279M
- Short course:
- 1/22/20 — 4/6/20
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
Description
Meets 10:30-11:40am on Mondays and Wednesdays through March 9th plus three additional class meetings, 10:30-11:40am on March 23, March 30 and April 6.
For obvious reasons, this course is less comprehensive than the 4-unit course I teach on U.S. antitrust law—Economic Analysis and the Interpretation of U.S. Antitrust Law. However, it has much in common with its U.S.-antitrust-law counterpart: both courses (1) use economic concepts to elucidate the conduct-coverage of and tests of illegality promulgated by the relevant jurisdiction’s competition/antitrust laws, (2) develop refined conceptual systems that define the various components of the gap between a firm’s price and marginal cost and use those systems to identify legally-appropriate protocols for answering such questions as “have defendants engaged in price-fixing” or “will a proposed horizontal concentration (in U.S. terminology, merger or acquisition) prevent or restrict competition or significantly impede effective competition, (3) develop conceptual systems that can be used to predict the impact of choices on the extent to which product-rivals compete away their potential profits by introducing additional or superior product-variants or distributive outlets or by adding to their capacity or inventory in a specified area of product-space (though the E.U. Competition Law course pays much less attention to this subject than does its U.S.-antitrust-law counterpart), (3) explain why definitions of both classical economic markets and so-called antitrust markets are inevitably arbitrary not just at their peripheries but comprehensively and examines the implications of this reality for the legal appropriateness of market-oriented approaches to predicting the competitive impact of horizontal concentrations, for the claim that one can infer a firm’s “dominance” (and hence its being covered by what is now Article 102 of the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon) from its share of a relevant market, and of various judicial doctrines and European Commission “pronouncements” that declare that the legality of various types of vertical conduct depends on the perpetrator’s market share, and (4) explain the legitimate economic functions of various types of vertical conduct and analyze the conditions that would have to be satisfied for them to have as a (critical) object or effect preventing, restricting or distorting competition or their constituting an exclusionary or exploitative abuse of a dominant position.
The course on E.U. Competition Law differs from its U.S.-antitrust-law counterpart in two important respects: (1) many of the economic analyses it executes (not only its analysis of what I call quality-or-variety-increasing-investment competition) are far less detailed than their counterparts in the U.S.-antitrust-law course and (2) far less attention is devoted to E.U.-court decisions and European Commission “pronouncements” than the U.S.-antitrust-law course pays to U.S.-court decisions and U.S. Antitrust Division/Federal Trade Commission Guidelines. These differences are attributable to the fact that this E.U. Competition Law course is a two-unit rather than a four-unit course.
Economic Efficiency Analysis
- WED, FRI 9:10 – 10:00 am TNH 3.127
- THU 12:40 – 1:30 pm TNH 3.127
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 392E
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will examine the correct (useful) way to define the concept "the impact of a choice on economic efficiency," the economically-efficient approach to take to predicting or postdicting the economic efficiency of any private or governmental choice, the relevance of the economic efficiency of a choice to its justness or moral desirability (rights-considerations aside), and the relevance of the economic efficiency of an interpretation or application of the law to its correctness as a matter of law. The course will also criticize canonical writings that articulate or manifest conclusions on these matters that differ from the Lecturer's. Although several weeks of the course will be devoted to the definitional and relevance issues, the majority of the course will address the economically efficient way to predict or postdict the economic efficiency of a choice in an economy that inevitably contains large numbers of Pareto imperfections of all types and uses resources in a large number of ways. More specifically, the course will consider in detail the negative implications of The General Theory of Second Best for the way in which economists approach economic-efficiency analysis and develop and apply a so-called distortion-analysis approach to economic-efficiency analysis that the Lecturer believes responds defensibly to the interconnections whose importance Second-Best Theory highlights. No background in economics, moral philosophy, or jurisprudence will be presupposed, though students without such backgrounds will have to work harder in the sections of the course to which these fields are relevant. There will be a mid-term as well as a final examination.
Economic Efficiency Analysis
- MON, TUE, WED 10:35 – 11:25 am ONLINE
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 353L
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Prof. keeps own waitlist
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will be taught entirely online via Zoom.
This course will examine the correct (useful) way to define the concept "the impact of a choice on economic efficiency," the economically-efficient approach to take to predicting or postdicting the economic efficiency of any private or governmental choice, the relevance of the economic efficiency of a choice to its justness or moral desirability (rights-considerations aside), and the relevance of the economic efficiency of an interpretation or application of the law to its correctness as a matter of law. The course will also criticize canonical writings that articulate or manifest conclusions on these matters that differ from the Lecturer's. Although several weeks of the course will be devoted to the definitional and relevance issues, the majority of the course will address the economically efficient way to predict or postdict the economic efficiency of a choice in an economy that inevitably contains large numbers of Pareto imperfections of all types and uses resources in a large number of ways. More specifically, the course will consider in detail the negative implications of The General Theory of Second Best for the way in which economists approach economic-efficiency analysis and develop and apply a so-called distortion-analysis approach to economic-efficiency analysis that the Lecturer believes responds defensibly to the interconnections whose importance Second-Best Theory highlights. No background in economics, moral philosophy, or jurisprudence will be presupposed, though students without such backgrounds will have to work harder in the sections of the course to which these fields are relevant. There will be a mid-term as well as a final examination.
Economics of Cybersecurity
- T. Canann
- MON, WED 9:30 – 11:00 am RRH 3.406
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 379M
- Cross-listed with:
- Management Information Systems
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will not use floating mean GPA
Description
This is a Business School course, cross-listed with the Law School. Contact the Business School if you have questions about how the course will be taught.
This course examines the Economics of Cyber Security via the tools found in Game Theory. This course studies economic ideas (the study of scarce resources) to understand the behavioral consequences of policy changes within Cyberspace. We will also analyze policies to determine the extent to which they meet the social goal of efficiency.
Economics of Cyber Security is a very broad field with many researchers from diverse disciplines. The main topics covered in this course will be:
- Vulnerability Disclosure
- Incentive Problems
- Privacy
- Ransomware
- DDOS Attacks
- Cryptocurrencies
At the end of this class you as the student should be able to do the following:
- Understand basic concepts of information security.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic economic modeling and economic thought.
- Clearly define an argument and, using economics, logically defend your argument.
- Read and analyze a journal argument for the way it’s written and its structure (intro, findings, etc.).
Economics of Cybersecurity
- T. Canann
- MON, WED 9:30 – 11:00 am RRH 3.402
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 379M
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will not use floating mean GPA
Description
This course examines the Economics of Cyber Security via the tools found in Game Theory. This course studies economic ideas (the study of scarce resources) to understand the behavioral consequences of policy changes within Cyberspace. We will also analyze policies to determine the extent to which they meet the social goal of efficiency.
This is a graduate level course and will require a great deal of effort on your part. Be sure you are committed to putting in the necessary time to master this material.
Economics of Cyber Security is a very broad field with many researchers from diverse disciplines. The main topics covered in this course will be:
- Vulnerability Disclosure
- Incentive Problems
- Threat Assessment
- Privacy
- Bug Bounty Systems
- DDOS Attacks
- Cryptocurrencies
At the end of this class you as the student should be able to do the following:
- Understand basic concepts of information security.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic economic modeling and economic thought.
- Clearly define an argument and, using economics, logically defend your argument.
- Read and analyze a journal argument for the way it’s written and its structure (intro, findings, etc.).
Elder Law
- TUE 3:55 – 5:45 pm TNH 3.126
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This class is designed to give students a basic understanding of elder law and its increasingly important role in our society. Students will learn how to manage legal issues and family dynamics around care of the elderly, understand the oversized role of financing care, and explore the interplay of elder law with estate planning and governmental benefits programs. Fundamental to the practice of elder law is understanding how to pay for care as well as spotting and addressing abuse of the elderly.
It will be helpful but not necessary to have taken Wills and Estates.
Textbook information:TBD
Elder Law
- THU 2:30 – 4:20 pm JON 6.207
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This class is designed to give students a basic understanding of elder law and its increasingly important role in our society. Students will learn how to manage legal issues and family dynamics around care of the elderly, understand the oversized role of financing care, and explore the interplay of elder law with estate planning and governmental benefits programs. Fundamental to the practice of elder law is understanding how to pay for care as well as spotting and addressing abuse of the elderly.
It will be helpful but not necessary to have taken Wills and Estates.
Textbook information: Elder Law: Practice, Policy, and Problems by Nina Cohn from Aspen Publishing ISBN 978-1-4548-9098-0
Election Law
- MON, TUE 10:30 – 11:45 am TNH 3.140
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 396W
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course explores the law governing politics and elections in the United States. We will examine a variety of topics, including: the Constitution and its protection of the right to vote, reapportionment, the Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering, the constitutional rights of political parties, campaign finance regulation, and election administration. We will also consider the relationship between these topics and partisanship. A serious interest in Constitutional Law is strongly recommended.
Election Law and Policy
- TUE, THU 9:05 – 10:20 am TNH 3.114
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 335F
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will not use floating mean GPA
Description
This course will explore the roles and rights of individual citizens, organizations, political parties and government entities in the American political system. Course topics will include; the right to vote; the right to political expression; the “one person, one vote” principle and reapportionment; associational rights and political organizing; the roles of political parties, corporations and other organizations; election administration (including voter identification and voting technology); and campaign finance. Whenever appropriate, current political events and policy debates will be used to illustrate the legal principles discussed. No background in politics or political science is required.
Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence
- WED 2:30 – 5:10 pm TNH 3.126
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 386N
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This challenging 3-hour course covers the hottest topics in litigation today: electronic discovery and digital evidence. Evidence is information, and nearly all information is created, collected, communicated and stored electronically. Thus, the ability to identify, preserve, interpret, authenticate and challenge electronically stored information is a crucial litigation skill. This course will seek to reconcile the federal rules and e-discovery case law with the sources, forms and methods of information technology and computer forensics. Students will deeply explore information technology, learn to "speak geek" and acquire hands-on, practical training in finding electronic evidence, meeting preservation duties, guarding against spoliation, selecting forms of production, communicating and cooperating with opposing counsel and managing the volume and variety of digital evidence and metadata. With an emphasis on understanding the nuts and bolts of information technology, the course teaches practical considerations, tips and tools as well as pivotal case law that has shaped this area of the law and the electronic discovery industry as a whole. No background in computing or technology is required to succeed. If you have questions about the course to decide if it's for you, I can be reached via email as craig@ball.net or by phone at 713-320-6066.
Evaluation is based on five self-administered, timed quizzes administered via Canvas at roughly two week intervals. There are also weekly written homework exercises and a conventional proctored final.
Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence
- WED 3:45 – 6:30 pm TNH 2.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 386N
- Experiential learning credit:
- 3 hours
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This challenging 3-hour course covers the hottest topics in litigation today: electronic discovery and digital evidence. Evidence is information, and nearly all information is created, collected, communicated and stored electronically. Thus, the ability to identify, preserve, interpret, authenticate and challenge electronically stored information is a crucial litigation skill. This course will seek to reconcile the federal rules and e-discovery case law with the sources, forms and methods of information technology and computer forensics. Students will deeply explore information technology, learn to "speak geek" and acquire hands-on, practical training in finding electronic evidence, meeting preservation duties, guarding against spoliation, selecting forms of production, communicating and cooperating with opposing counsel and managing the volume and variety of digital evidence and metadata. With an emphasis on understanding the nuts and bolts of information technology, the course teaches practical considerations, tips and tools as well as pivotal case law that has shaped this area of the law and the electronic discovery industry as a whole. No background in computing or technology is required to succeed. If you have questions about the course to decide if it's for you, I can be reached via email as craig@ball.net or by phone at 713-320-6066.
Evaluation is based on five self-administered, timed quizzes administered via Canvas at roughly two week intervals. There are also weekly written homework exercises and a conventional proctored final.
Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence
- WED 3:45 – 6:30 pm TNH 2.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 386N
- Experiential learning credit:
- 3 hours
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- 1L and upperclass elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
Same as LAW 335E, Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence.
This challenging 3-hour course covers the hottest topics in litigation today: electronic discovery and digital evidence. Evidence is information, and nearly all information is created, collected, communicated and stored electronically. Thus, the ability to identify, preserve, interpret, authenticate and challenge electronically stored information is a crucial litigation skill. This course will seek to reconcile the federal rules and e-discovery case law with the sources, forms and methods of information technology and computer forensics. Students will deeply explore information technology, learn to "speak geek" and acquire hands-on, practical training in finding electronic evidence, meeting preservation duties, guarding against spoliation, selecting forms of production, communicating and cooperating with opposing counsel and managing the volume and variety of digital evidence and metadata. With an emphasis on understanding the nuts and bolts of information technology, the course teaches practical considerations, tips and tools as well as pivotal case law that has shaped this area of the law and the electronic discovery industry as a whole. No background in computing or technology is required to succeed. If you have questions about the course to decide if it's for you, I can be reached via email as craig@ball.net or by phone at 713-320-6066.
Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence
- WED 2:40 – 5:30 pm TNH 2.138
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 335E
- Experiential learning credit:
- 3 hours
- Cross-listed with:
- Other school
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This course will be taught in person but with the option of remote participation via Zoom. Please note that this course might become online-only in the event that actual in-person attendance during the semester consistently falls below a threshold to be determined in the exercise of reasonable discretion by the instructor and the Student Affairs Office.
This 3-hour course covers the hottest and most challenging topic in litigation today: electronic discovery and digital evidence. Evidence is information, and nearly all information is created, collected, communicated and stored electronically. Thus, the ability to identify, discover, interpret, authenticate and challenge electronically stored information is a crucial litigation skill. This course will seek to reconcile the federal rules and e-discovery case law with the sources, forms and methods of information technology and computer forensics. Students will explore information technology, learn to "speak geek" and acquire hands-on, practical training in finding electronic evidence, meeting preservation duties, guarding against spoliation, selecting forms of production, communicating and cooperating with opposing counsel and managing the volume and variety of digital evidence and metadata. With an emphasis on understanding the nuts and bolts of information technology, the course teaches practical considerations, tips and tools as well as pivotal case law that has shaped this area of the law and the electronic discovery industry as a whole. No background in computing or technology is required to succeed. If you have questions about the course to decide if it's for you, I can be reached via email as craig@ball.net or by phone at 713-320-6066.
Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence
- MON 3:45 – 6:25 pm JON 5.202
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 335E
- Experiential learning credit:
- 3 hours
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
Description
This demanding 3-hour course covers the hottest and most challenging topic in litigation today: electronic discovery and digital evidence. Evidence is information, and nearly all information is created, collected, communicated and stored electronically. Thus, the ability to identify, discover, interpret, authenticate and challenge electronically stored information is a crucial litigation skill. This course will seek to reconcile the federal rules and e-discovery case law with the sources, forms and methods of information technology and computer forensics. Students will explore information technology, learn to "speak geek" and acquire hands-on, practical training in finding electronic evidence, meeting preservation duties, guarding against spoliation, selecting forms of production, communicating and cooperating with opposing counsel and managing the vast volume and variety of digital evidence and metadata. With an emphasis on understanding the nuts and bolts of information technology, the course teaches practical considerations, tips and tools as well as pivotal case law that has shaped this area of the law and the electronic discovery industry as a whole. No background in computing or technology is required to succeed. Please note that this course imposes a significant workload on students taking it for credit. I am happy to discuss the workload with students considering enrollment so that they may assure themselves that the course is a good fit for their temperament and schedule. I can be reached via email as craig@ball.net or by phone at 713-320-6066.
Emerging Issues in Gender Identity, Sexuality, and the Law
- THU 3:55 – 5:45 pm JON 6.207
- SAT 9:00 am – 12:30 pm TNH 3.124
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 296W
- Short course:
- 8/29/24 — 11/14/24
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
- Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
Description
This class meets on Thursdays from August 29 - November 14. It will only meet on one Saturday, November 9.
This class may not be taken if you have already taken LAW 196V, Emerging Issues in Sexuality, Gender Identity and the Law, in Spring 2024.
This course will explore historical and emerging issues in gender identity, sexuality, and the law. We will study and discuss the constitutional, statutory, and common law that impacts the lived experience of LGBTQ+ people and people living at the intersections of LGBTQ+ identities, including people who are living with a disability, people who identify as BIPOC, and undocumented/under-documented immigrants. We will also examine theoretical, philosophical, and practical elements of advocacy strategies employed by and/or on behalf of LGBTQ+ communities and discuss how civil rights organizations are using impact litigation, public policy, and education to secure rights and equality for LGBTQ+ people. As part of the final evaluation, students will be required to participate in a mock litigation exercise that will also include a final paper.
Emerging Issues in Sexuality, Gender Identity and the Law
- FRI 1:05 – 4:15 pm JON 5.206
- SAT 9:00 am – 12:00 pm JON 5.206
Course Information
- Course ID:
- 196V
- Short course:
- 1/16/24 — 2/17/24
Registration Information
- Upperclass-only elective
Description
Co-taught by Maddy Dwertman and Shelly Skeen. This course will have required readings prior to the first in-class meeting. The only days this course will meet in person are: Friday, February 9, Saturday, February 10, Friday, February 16, and Saturday, February 17.
This course explores emerging issues in sexuality, gender identity, and the law. We will study and discuss the constitutional, statutory and common law that impacts the lived experience of LGBTQ+ people and people living at the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities, including people who are living with a disability, people who identify as BIPOC, and undocumented/under-documented immigrants. We will also discuss how civil rights organizations are using impact litigation, public policy and education to ensure equality and access to equal opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in society. The course will conclude with a mock litigation exercise.