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Spring 2020 Courses

Unique #	Class Title	Instructor	Meeting	Credits
TBD	Administrative Law	Adelman, D.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description Administrative agencies make policy, regulate, and adjudicate across issues ranging from natural resource management and environmental protection to public benefits and workplace safety. This course examines the constitutional and statutory framework surrounding the operation and governance of admin... Additional Information Course ID: 461 Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will not use floating mean GPA
TBD	Adv Skills: Criminal Court	Bledsoe, M.	Unknown	1
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This course will take a criminal case from its inception through trial, plea or dismissal. Students will perform skills weekly on different elements of the case such as intake evaluation, pretrial motions, plea negotiations, witness preparation and trial. Ethics will also be included. The course is ... Evaluation Method None Additional Information Course ID: 179P Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Short course
TBD	Advocacy Practice & Theory for the New Millennium	McCormack, T.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This class is limited to 3L students. It is for students who have mastered the basic and advanced advocacy skills and will focus on cutting-edge advocacy theories and techniques. The class combines both discussion and practice sessions focusing on both traditional legal exercises and new non-verbal ... Additional Information Course ID: 476W Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement 4 credits count toward ABA Experiential Learning Requirement
TBD	Advocacy Survey	Gonzalez, D. Lein, D. Golden, M.	Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This class has a mandatory evening skills component (Monday or Wednesday evening). Students must register for both the lecture (376M) and either Monday or Wednesday evening skills portion (176N) of the class. Please note, the evening Skills portion of the class will not begin until week 5 or 6 of th... Evaluation Method Final Additional Information Course ID: 376M Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will use floating mean GPA if applicable Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement
TBD	Advocacy Survey: Skills	Bledsoe, M. Williams, A.	WED 6:00 - 9:00 pm	1
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Additional Information Course ID: 176N Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement
TBD	Advocacy Survey: Skills	Kelly, C. Shepperd, E. Winters, J.	MON 6:00 - 9:00 pm	1
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Additional Information Course ID: 176N Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement
TBD	Alternative Dispute Resolution	Scheske, J.	Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (3 HOUR COURSE) The Alternative Dispute Resolution Survey course is designed to provide a broad-based introduction to negotiation, mediation, and arbitration, for students interested in either advocacy or transactional practices. ADR methods are now more common than ... Evaluation Method Paper Additional Information Course ID: 381R Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will use floating mean GPA if applicable Reversed Priority Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement
TBD	Americans with Disabilities	Cantu, N.	Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This course provides an opportunity to analyze law and policy in the fast- growing area of law concerning people with disabilities. Legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability has produced substantial results in employment, education, housing, health and other fields. Students ... Additional Information Course ID: 348D Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will not use floating mean GPA Cross-listed with other school
TBD	Animal Law	Reveley, D.	Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description Is there a place in the law for the consideration of the interests of animals? Throughout the semester, we will examine the jurisprudential basis and theoretical underpinnings of the current status of animals in our legal system. Students will read a diverse cross-section of legal theory and case la... Additional Information Course ID: 379M Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will not use floating mean GPA
TBD	Antitrust: Economic Analysis/Legal Interpretation	Markovits, R.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description The course begins by explaining why the American antitrust laws' critical expressions -- "restraint of trade," "monopolizes," "decreases competition" -- should be interpreted in ways that make the legality of the various types of business conduct covered by those laws depend on economic analyses of ... Additional Information Course ID: 440M Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will not use floating mean GPA
TBD	Appellate Clerkship Writing	Greenman, J.	Unknown	2
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This pass-fail course teaches students to do the work of an appellate clerk. We will analyze briefs and record excerpts, write sample bench memos, and draft and edit opinions. I expect students to attend every class unless excused. The class is only open to students who have accepted an appellate clerkship or who plan to apply to one. Additional Information Course ID: 232H Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective
TBD	Arbitration: Theory and Practice	Bone, R. Ferreres, V.	Unknown	1
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description In recent decades there has been an explosion of interest in arbitration. The aim of this course is to think deeply about this trend, and in particular about the justifications for arbitration as a method of dispute resolution, its limits, and the principles that govern its practice. We will selec... Evaluation Method Paper Additional Information Course ID: 179M Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
TBD	Business Associations	Dammann, J.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description An introduction to the legal rules and principles, as well as some of the economic factors, that pattern the conduct of productive enterprise in the U.S. The principal focus will be upon the large, publicly traded corporation that dominates much of the U.S. business environment - in particular, its ... Additional Information Course ID: 474K Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will not use floating mean GPA Reversed Priority
TBD	Business Associations	Sokolow, D.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This is the basic introductory course in business organizations. It considers issues relating to the selection of business form (partnership, limited partnership, corporation, and limited liability company), as well as the formation, financing, operation, and control of business entities. Primary em... Evaluation Method Final Additional Information Course ID: 474K Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will use floating mean GPA if applicable Reversed Priority
TBD	Capital Punishment	Steiker, J.	Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This course will examine some general jurisprudential and moral issues related to the American system of capital punishment. The course will focus primarily on the development of the law governing capital punishment in the United States since 1970. Some of the main themes include: the legal structur... Evaluation Method Final Additional Information Course ID: 378R Classification Required: 1L and upperclass elective Will use floating mean GPA if applicable
TBD	Capital Punishment: Advanced	Marcus, J. Schonemann, R.	Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description As the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Cases (2003) state, “the responsibilities of defense counsel in a death penalty case are uniquely demanding, both in the knowledge that counsel must possess and in the skills he or she must master.” This adva... Additional Information Course ID: 379M Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Will not use floating mean GPA
TBD	Civil Procedure	Woolley, P.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description Introduction to the civil adjudicative process, primarily that of the federal courts, including jurisdiction, pleading, dispositive motions, discovery, and trial procedure. Evaluation Method Final Additional Information Course ID: 433 Classification Required: 1L-only required
TBD	Civil Procedure	Silver, C.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description Introduction to the civil adjudicative process, primarily that of the federal courts, including jurisdiction, pleading, dispositive motions, discovery, and trial procedure. Additional Information Course ID: 433 Classification Required: 1L-only required
TBD	Clinic, Advanced		Unknown	2
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Additional Information Course ID: 297W Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic
TBD	Clinic, Advanced		Unknown	3
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Additional Information Course ID: 397W Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic
TBD	Clinic, Advanced		Unknown	1
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Additional Information Course ID: 197W Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic
TBD	Clinic: Actual Innocence	Press, C.	Unknown	6
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description ACTUAL INNOCENCE CLINIC IS A 6-HR. CLINIC. Students screen and investigate claims by inmates that they are actually innocent of the offenses for which they are incarcerated. While investigating cases, students typically interview witnesses, research cases, review trial transcripts, and occasionally ... Additional Information Course ID: 697C Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement 6 credits count toward ABA Experiential Learning Requirement
TBD	Clinic: Capital Punishment	Marcus, J. Schonemann, R. Posel, T.	Unknown	4
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description This clinic provides students with the opportunity to assist in the representation of indigent criminal defendants charged with or convicted of capital offenses. Students work under the supervision of attorneys on death penalty cases at the trial, appellate, and post-conviction stages of the legal p... Additional Information Course ID: 497C Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement 4 credits count toward ABA Experiential Learning Requirement
TBD	Clinic: Children's Rights	Duke, L. Strauch, L.	Unknown	6
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description Students in the Children's Rights Clinic represent allgedly abused or neglected children in Travis County as their attorney ad litem. The cases are brought by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). The state may intervene in a family in a variety of ways, including seeking ... Additional Information Course ID: 697C Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic Professor keeps his/her own waitlist Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement 6 credits count toward ABA Experiential Learning Requirement
TBD	Clinic: Civil Rights	Natarajan, R.	Unknown	6
You are viewing tentative course information. Course details, including instructor, credit hour value and availability are subject to change. Description Students in the Civil Rights Clinic represent low-income clients in civil rights matters, such as due process rights in the criminal justice system, and First and Fourth Amendment rights. Students work on cases and law reform advocacy projects with co-counsel from Texas-based civil rights organizati... Additional Information Course ID: 697C Classification Required: Upperclass-only elective Clinic Satisfies ABA Professional Skills Requirement 6 credits count toward ABA Experiential Learning Requirement