Course Schedule

A survey of a range of core legal practice areas, including copyright, trademark, insurance, employment, immigration, contracts (with artists, sponsors, vendors and others), and working with municipalities using the backdrop of a live festival event. Expect guest lecturers from within the industry. 

A survey of a range of core legal practice areas, including copyright, trademark, insurance, employment, immigration, contracts (with artists, sponsors, vendors and others), and working with municipalities using the backdrop of a live festival event. Expect guest lecturers from within the industry. 

Stretching from Texas to California, the U.S.-Mexico border brings together diverse cultural experiences and identities, along with a unique set of legal issues.  This course will provide students with an opportunity to examine these issues from a historical perspective. 

We will begin with the role of conquest – beginning with the Spanish conquest of indigenous peoples, and the subsequent annexation and conquest of the border territories by the United States.

We will then turn to the impact of nationality, national origin, class, ethnicity, race and language on the law affecting border communities, focusing on developments in U.S. immigration, labor and civil rights law, as well as the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.    

The course will end with an examination of major controversies currently affecting the border region, including the militarization of the border zone; the construction of a border “wall;” and the treatment of undocumented immigrants and their children. 

There are no prerequisites.  Each student will prepare and present weekly reaction papers, along with an independent research project.

Although not its official name, this class might be most appropriately called: Analyzing and Participating in a Petroleum Bid Round and Preparing an Exploration Plan. The class is open by application to students enrolled in the McComb’s School of Business MBA program, the Jackson School of Geosciences Master’s Program in Earth Sciences, and to JD and international LLM students in the School of Law. The students will work in teams of four, one from McCombs, one from Jackson, one JD student from Law, and one LLM student from law. The students will learn how to evaluate geologic information made available in a bid round package, analyze the fiscal terms offered by the government, analyze the legal regime, and determine and quantify the risks associated with an investment. Each team will prepare a written report that evaluates risk and designs and proposes a competitive bid, including an exploration plan. Each team also orally presents its report to a team of professors/guest experts who will play the role of an oil company board of directors.

This course will cover a range of poverty law issues, including how poverty is measured, major themes in poverty law, and the most important constitutional law cases. Specific issues will include: welfare, work, housing and land use, health, education, criminalization, and access to justice. We will also spend time on the relationship between market forces and public policy, including an opportunity to apply learnings to a current policy issue.

At the end of the course, students will:

• improve their logical reasoning when faced with alternative fact patterns or rules
• learn the basic substantive material of Poverty Law so that they can bring that knowledge into practice following law school
• be able to put themselves into the shoes of different parties, understanding how parties to a dispute will view things from their unique perspectives 

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.

Introduction to problem-solving through law-practice simulation. Focuses on legal research, writing mechanics, predictive written analysis, and oral presentation of research results.