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Contracts

Unique 29005
4 hours
  • J. Dammann
  • TUE, WED, THU 1:05 – 2:12 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/14/23

Course Information

Course ID:
480H

Registration Information

  • 1L-only required

Description

Methods by which rights and duties of promissory and quasi-promissory origin are created, transferred, limited, discharged, breached, and enforced.

Contracts for Foreign Lawyers

Unique 29519
3 hours
  • K. Haynes
  • MON, WED 2:30 – 3:45 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/9/23

Course Information

Course ID:
395P

Registration Information

  • LLM degree course only
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

 

This course will introduce foreign lawyers in the LLM and exchange program to the common law of Contracts. It will cover the methods by which rights and duties of promissory and quasi-promissory origin are created, transferred, limited, discharged, breached, and enforced.

Corporate Governance

Unique 29240
3 hours
  • W. Cunningham
  • THU 3:30 – 6:30 pm
P/F Allowed (JD only)

Course Information

Course ID:
384G
Cross-listed with:
Marketing

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will not use floating mean GPA

Description

This is a Business School course, cross-listed with the Law School.

The first objective of the course will be to help prepare future corporate and non-profit Directors to fulfill their fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to the organizations that they will serve. We will do this by examining a wide variety of issues that Directors must deal with on a regular basis. These include balancing efforts between establishing quarterly and yearly performance targets and building strong companies that can sustain above-market financial performance in the future. Directors must also manage business and political relationships, initiate and integrate acquisitions, create/change corporate culture, continually align the organization structure to the business strategy, allocate resources for a variety of corporate initiatives, deal with issues of corporate governance, succession planning, executive compensation, and learn to navigate through potential public relations disasters. We will examine as many of these topics as time permits.

The second objective of this course will be to understand the nature and scope of corporate Boards from the perspective of society, social and economic interest and what can be done to prevent some of the more publicized corporate governance failures. We will examine several of the more highly publicized corporate failures as well as what action Congress has taken to address corporate malfeasance, and the recommendations that have been made by social critics. The course is directed primarily at graduate business students and law students who expect to serve either as advisors to Boards of Directors or on Boards of Directors of public companies or non-profit organizations. While most of the course will focus on established public companies, much of the course content will be useful to those individuals who are primarily interested in entrepreneurial organizations, family corporations, or public sector non-profit entities. This course will have three distinct instructional formats. Professor Cunningham will lecture to the class to help provide all of the students with a fundamental knowledge of how Boards of Directors function in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. He will also focus on the different roles the Boards play in both large and small organizations.

The third format of the class will be to invite guest speakers to address the students who are involved in a wide variety of real world governance issues. The guests will be encouraged to provide ample opportunity for questions during their presentations. The individuals that will be invited to speak to the class will include a mix of entrepreneurs, senior executives from major corporations, directors of public and private entities, politicians, leaders of non-profit entities, corporate lawyers and partners of major accounting firms.

Criminal Law I

Unique 29010
4 hours
  • J. Laurin
  • TUE, WED, FRI 9:05 – 10:12 am
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/14/23

Course Information

Course ID:
480J

Registration Information

  • 1L-only required

Description

Promulgation, interpretation, and administration of substantive laws of crime; constitutional limitations and relevant philosophical, sociological, and behavioral science materials.

Criminal Law I

Unique 29015
5 hours
  • D. Jinks
  • MON, TUE, THU 2:30 – 3:37 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/11/23
Midterm

Course Information

Course ID:
580J

Registration Information

  • 1L-only required

Description

Promulgation, interpretation, and administration of substantive laws of crime; constitutional limitations and relevant philosophical, sociological, and behavioral science materials.

Criminal Law I

Unique 29020
5 hours
  • S. Klein
  • MON, TUE, THU 2:30 – 3:37 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/11/23
Other

Course Information

Course ID:
580J

Registration Information

  • 1L-only required

Description

Promulgation, interpretation, and administration of substantive laws of crime; constitutional limitations and relevant philosophical, sociological, and behavioral science materials.

Criminal Law I

Unique 29025
5 hours
  • B. Perez-daple
  • MON, TUE, THU 2:30 – 3:37 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/11/23
Other

Course Information

Course ID:
580J

Registration Information

  • 1L-only required

Description

Promulgation, interpretation, and administration of substantive laws of crime; constitutional limitations and relevant philosophical, sociological, and behavioral science materials.

Criminal Procedure: Investigation

Unique 29225
3 hours
  • G. Strong
  • WED, THU 1:05 – 2:20 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/8/23

Course Information

Course ID:
383D

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Reverse-priority registration
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This course explores constitutional limitations upon the investigation of crime. Its focus is on the law governing searches, seizures, and police interrogation. Topics include the nature of a fourth amendment search; arrest and investigative detention; warrants and exceptions to the warrant requirement; confessions; and the application of the exclusionary rule. Grades will be based upon a three-hour final examination.

Cutting-Edge Constitutional Litigation from the Trial Court to the Supreme Court

Unique 29550
2 hours
  • J. Rowes
  • FRI 9:50 – 11:40 am
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Paper
Other

Course Information

Course ID:
296W
Experiential learning credit:
2 hours

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes will teach students how public-interest lawyers devise and litigate strategic cases designed to set precedent. The class will examine major cases from the perspective of the lawyers who fought the battles, and consider questions like how do you select the right client, identify the right claims, and file in the right jurisdiction. The class will also talk about the right moment in history to bring suit. Students will learn how to use the media effectively. There will be particular emphasis on teaching real-world litigation skills and professional judgment. Each student will write an appellate brief as the final assignment. But to make the brief writing more collaborative, as it is in actual legal practice, students will be asked to submit draft sections throughout the semester and incorporate feedback from the instructor. Although the instructor is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, which has a libertarian orientation, he strongly encourages students of all perspectives to join the class. We will look at cases across the ideological spectrum (and discuss how good constitutional lawyers build alliances across ideological boundaries). There is no exam. Pass/fail allowed.

Cybersecurity Law & Policy

Unique 29395
3 hours
  • D. Springer
  • MON, THU 9:05 – 10:20 am
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Final on 12/9/23

Course Information

Course ID:
389T
Cross-listed with:
Other school

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This course is a deep dive into a broad range of legal and policy issues associated with cybersecurity. It is intended as a comprehensive introduction to the nature and functions of the various government and private-sector actors associated with cybersecurity in the United States, the policy goals they pursue, the issues and challenges they face, and the legal environment in which all of this takes place.

The course is the cornerstone of the Strauss Center's "Integrated Cybersecurity Studies" program, which is a Hewlett Foundation-funded project to increase interdisciplinary education relating to cybersecurity. Anyone interested in the course might also be interested in the Center's "Cyber Fellows" program, which you can explore here. The course also counts as the cornerstone for the LLM program's cybersecurity concentration, as well as for a planned graduate portfolio in cybersecurity studies. 

No technical background is required or assumed. Graduate students from across the campus are encouraged to enroll, too, as you do not have to have prior legal or policy knowledge.  In recent years, the class has drawn a substantial number of law students and LBJ students, as well as cohorts from computer science, engineering, the iSchool, and McCombs.

To get a full sense of the course, check out the free course eBook, which Prof. Chesney wrote specifically for the course. You can find it here (an updated version will be available before the course begins). These materials have been shared and adopted widely around the nation.

Directed Research and Study

Unique 29705
1 hour
Unknown
P/F Allowed (JD only)

Course Information

Course ID:
197L

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will not use floating mean GPA

Description

No description text available.

Directed Research and Study

Unique 29710
2 hours
Unknown
P/F Allowed (JD only)

Course Information

Course ID:
297L

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will not use floating mean GPA

Description

No description text available.

Directed Research and Study

Unique 29715
3 hours
Unknown
P/F Allowed (JD only)

Course Information

Course ID:
397L

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will not use floating mean GPA

Description

No description text available.

Elder Law

Unique 29554
2 hours
  • THU 2:30 – 4:20 pm
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Midterm
Final on 12/9/23

Course Information

Course ID:
296W

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

Taught by Lindsey Drake.

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  

Environmental Law & Natural Resources

Unique 29425
3 hours
  • M. Taylor
  • TUE, WED, THU 1:05 – 1:55 pm
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Final on 12/8/23
Midterm

Course Information

Course ID:
391E-3

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This three credit survey course focuses on the legal issues that pervade the conservation and regulation of public lands, wildlife, fisheries, and wetlands. These issues include, among others, competing claims of the "public interest" versus private property rights; the roles of administrative agencies and the judiciary in environmental decision making; tensions presented by the multiple use/sustainable yield standard in federal law; conflicts among and between local, state, and federal approaches to natural resource regulation; and the opposing goals of resource management espoused by fishermen, farmers, developers, environmentalists, and recreational users. These issues will be developed in the context of the regulatory schemes embodied in the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Clean Water Act and the various statutes that govern federal public lands, such as the Wilderness Act and Federal Land Policy Management Act. The focus of the course is primarily U.S. law; however, it will touch on international law relevant to natural resources and, where appropriate, compare U.S. law to the laws of other countries.

Evidence

Unique 29220
4 hours
  • G. Strong
  • MON, TUE 3:55 – 5:45 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/6/23

Course Information

Course ID:
483

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This course will explore the rules and principles governing the proof of facts in the courtroom, with special focus upon the Federal Rules of Evidence. Planned topics include relevance, hearsay, the Confrontation Clause, character evidence, impeachment and rehabilitation of witnesses, the best evidence rule, lay and expert opinion, and objections practice.

Family Law

Unique 29380
3 hours
  • S. Williams
  • TUE, THU 1:05 – 2:20 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Take-home up to 8 hrs on 12/8/23

Course Information

Course ID:
389C

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This course provides an overview of the legal regulation of intimate relationships. Substantial time is devoted to the incidents of divorce (including property division, spousal support, child support, and custody), and the regulation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. The course will also cover issues related parenthood, alternative reproductive technologies, and same-sex marriage.

Federal Courts

Unique 29340
4 hours
  • T. Grove
  • MON, TUE, WED 10:30 – 11:37 am
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Take-home up to 8 hrs on 12/12/23

Course Information

Course ID:
486

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

Federal Courts is an essential practical tool for future litigators, future government attorneys (at the federal, state, or local level), and future judicial law clerks. It is also a genuinely exciting field of academic study for any law student. 

This course investigates one of the most fascinating and often misunderstood features of American law: how our legal system distributes power within the federal government and between the federal government and the states.  The course also explores whether (and how) individual litigants can turn to the judiciary to enforce rights created by constitutional or statutory law. These fundamental questions are related.  Principles that shape and limit the power of federal courts determine not just how but whether those courts (rather than other participants in our system of government) can resolve disputes, ranging from the relatively mundane to the gravest allegations of injustice.  

These issues raise questions about the role that the federal courts play in our constitutional democracy.  Such issues are of utmost importance today.  Many pressing questions—from the scope of presidential power to the conduct of local police—wind up in federal court.  And these disputes often turn on legal issues that we will explore in this course.

The assigned case book is the tenth edition of Low & Jeffries' The Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (2022).   

Federal Income Taxation

Unique 29485
4 hours
  • R. Peroni
  • MON, TUE, WED 9:05 – 10:12 am
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Final on 12/13/23

Course Information

Course ID:
493Q

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Reverse-priority registration
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

Federal Income Taxation (FIT) presents an overview of the federal income tax, mostly as it applies to individuals. The aim of the course is to present the fundamental principles and policies underlying the federal income tax and to convey the style and flavor of tax law thinking. As a survey, FIT will touch on all the major issues, such as what is gross income, what expenditures are deductible, what is the appropriate taxable unit, what is the function of "basis," and what is the appropriate timing of income and deductions. Specific topics that will be covered in reasonable depth include: the definition of gross income, including the specific inclusion and specific exclusion provisions, business and investment expense deductions, the exclusions for gifts, bequests, and recoveries for personal injuries, income attribution, the taxation of the family (including divorce taxation), the tax treatment of loans, capital expenditures, methods of capital recovery, capital gains and losses, tax-free exchanges, and various tax policy issues (including horizontal and vertical equity, economic efficiency, optimal tax theory, the tax expenditure concept, and a comparison of an income tax base with a cash flow consumption tax base). The grade for this course will be based entirely on a final, open book examination.

Required Textbooks:

(1) Joseph M. Dodge, J. Clifton Fleming, Jr., Francine J. Lipman & Robert J. Peroni, Federal Income Tax: Doctrine, Structure, and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 5th ed. 2019)—ISBN 978-1-5310-1311-0

(2) Federal Income Tax—Code & Regulations—Selected Sections, Robert J. Peroni, Coordinating Editor (Wolters Kluwer/CCH 2023-2024 ed.)

Recommended Textbooks (Optional):

(1) Marvin A. Chirelstein & Lawrence Zelenak, Federal Income Taxation (West Academic/Foundation Press) (Concepts and Insights Series)

(2) Donald B. Tobin & Samuel A. Donaldson, Principles of Federal Income Taxation (West Academic) (Concise Hornbook Series)

Financial Methods for Lawyers

Unique 29450
2 hours
  • S. Morse
  • TUE, THU 10:30 – 11:37 am
P/F Mandatory
Eval:
Other

Course Information

Course ID:
292G
Short course:
8/22/23 — 10/31/23

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective

Description

The class is designed for law students of all interests, including those who are undecided and those who are focused on a particular area such as litigation, public interest law, family law, regulatory work, criminal law, or business law. Financial Methods for Lawyers covers time value of money, expected value decision making, and investment in enterprises. It also covers the basic financial statement components: balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements. The class is only available on a pass/fail basis. It is designated as a skills course. Students earn points toward a passing grade through online quizzes, Excel spreadsheet and other exercises, and regular attendance.

Health Law

Unique 29515
3 hours
  • E. Sepper
  • TUE, THU 1:05 – 2:20 pm
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Final on 12/8/23

Course Information

Course ID:
395E

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This is a survey course covering legal issues in health care delivery, health insurance financing, and the responsibilities of health care professionals to patients. Students will be introduced to the legal and policy considerations that have shaped the relationships between providers (physicians and hospitals), payers (public and private), and patients and how different areas of law have developed when applied to the healthcare industry.  We will consider implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and ongoing reform efforts for healthcare law and policy. In addition to presenting essential material for those intending to represent health care providers and payers, serve as health care regulators and policymakers, or advocate on behalf of individuals, the course offers students of all backgrounds an introduction to the legal governance of one-sixth of the U.S. economy. 

Immigration

Unique 29209
2 hours
  • WED 9:50 – 11:40 am
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Take-home up to 8 hrs on 12/12/23

Course Information

Course ID:
282H

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

Taught by Andrea Meza.

This is a course in the substantive law regulating immigration to the United States and the regulation of non-citizens in the United States. Topics covered include the constitutional basis for regulating immigration, the roles of federal agencies in immigration adjudication, the immigration and removal (deportation) process, entry, relief from removal, general regulation of non-citizens, the refugee and asylum processes, and new developments. Student should expect to participate in in-class discussions and exercises. The final exam will be open book. LLM students will be required to take the exam; there will be no paper option.

 

TEXTBOOKS:

Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States : Selected Statutes, Regulations and Forms 2022 *    Aleinikoff, T., Martin, David, Motomura, Hiroshi, Fullerton, Maryellen, and Stumpf, Juliet    West Academic , edition: 2022    ISBN: 978-1-63659-890-1    

Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy *    Legomsky, Stephen, Thronson, David, Legomsky, Stephen H., and Thronson, David B.    West Academic , edition: 7    ISBN: 978-1-64020-734-9

Insurance

Unique 29470
2 hours
  • R. Avraham
  • TUE, WED 8:05 – 10:12 am
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Paper
Other

Course Information

Course ID:
292V
Short course:
8/22/23 — 9/27/23

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

Insurance is one of the most important tools for the management of risk by both private and public enterprises. Insurance law is a hybrid of contracts and administrative law: parties enter contractual relationships which are regulated by the state. The course introduces students to the core principles and institutions of insurance. We will approach insurance law from a law and economic perspective, aiming to understand how insurance institutions affect economic behavior of insureds, insurers and their lawyers. Broad issues to be covered include fraud, moral hazard, adverse selection and other types of divergence of incentives. We will build on these theoretical issues and attempt to understand the various doctrines developed by common law courts as strategies to deal with these problems. In addition, the course provides knowledge of basic insurance law governing insurance contract formation, the interpretation of insurance contracts, insurance regulation and more, especially in areas such as property, life, health, disability, automobile (including uninsured motorist coverage), professional and liability insurance.

Intellectual Property, Introduction

Unique 29345
4 hours
  • O. Bracha
  • MON, TUE, WED 1:05 – 2:12 pm
P/F Not Allowed
Eval:
Take-home up to 8 hrs on 12/8/23

Course Information

Course ID:
486Q

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Description

This course will survey the fundamentals of the three main federal fields of intellectual property law: copyright, patent, and trademark law. Time permitting, we will also discuss some other subfields, such as trade secret law and publicity rights. In addition to the legal doctrines, the course will examine economic as well as other philosophical justifications in order to allow a better grasp of the current law and possibilities for its reform. Although new technology is not the main focus of the course, the class will examine some of the more important intellectual property issues raised by recent technological developments, especially in the digital and internet environments.

Intensive Litigation Advocacy Skills

Unique 29370
4 hours
  • M. Golden
  • S. Baxter
  • M. Bledsoe
  • J. Ellwanger
  • M. Santos
  • WED 12:00 – 3:00 pm
  • THU 1:05 – 1:55 pm
P/F Allowed (JD only)
Eval:
Other

Course Information

Course ID:
487V
Experiential learning credit:
4 hours

Registration Information

  • Upperclass-only elective
  • Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
  • Prerequisites: Evidence (83), Advocacy Survey (87D)

Description

Anticipating a career in civil or criminal litigation? This class is designed for the advocacy student interested in improving advocacy skills through intensive training exercises and immersion into trial, arbitration and civil litigation skills. In the Intensive Advocacy course, students are divided into small groups and tracts allowing them to focus on the distinct skills for their preferred practice area. The course is almost exclusively experiential (skills based), with students receiving constant feedback in a fun, safe environment. The class provides networking and possible employment opportunities with local attorneys and judges serving as instructors and guests.

This class is restricted to 3Ls only.

Prerequisites: Advocacy Survey and Evidence.

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