First Year Program
Second and Third Year Program
Professional Responsibility Requirement
Upper Level Writing Requirement
Lawyering Skills Requirement
Perspectives on Law and Justice Requirement
Graduation Requirements
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Principles of Course Selection
Course Descriptions & Registration
FIRST YEAR PROGRAM
First year students are required to take Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Property, Torts, Criminal Law and Legal Reasoning, Research and Writing. These include both traditional courses as well as those emphasizing the sources of law, professional responsibility issues, and lawyering skills.
In the spring semester, first year students choose a three credit elective from a menu of classes that are also available to upper level students. For the 2009-10 academic year these include Evidence, Corporations, Jurisprudence, Legal Interviewing and Counseling, and Advanced Contracts, Sales in Practice.
Civil Procedure
Using the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, this course introduces rules governing the conduct of litigation. After an overview of the entire sequence of events from commencement to final disposition of a lawsuit, specific topics are considered in detail.
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law introduces the concept of judicial review of legislation and executive action. The course also focuses on the express and implied powers of the federal government and the effect of the interstate commerce clause on federal and state power.
Contracts
The concept of what constitutes a contract is followed by detailed study of the various principles that govern the enforcement of contracts. Common law rules are emphasized, but attention is also given to the statutory changes imposed by the Uniform Commercial Code.
Criminal Law
This course examines the elements of crimes, defenses that the accused may assert, and the methods and rationales for punishing criminal conduct. Attention is given to the common law of crime as well as to the Model Penal Code.
Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing
Written expression of legal analysis as well as traditional and computer-assisted legal research techniques are addressed in this course. Assignments include drafts and rewrites of inter-office and advocacy memoranda, which receive intensive faculty feedback. The course is taught in small sections to facilitate teacher-student interaction.
Property
This course examines concepts of property rights as well as principles of personal and real property. The rapidly changing area of landlord/tenant law is reviewed extensively, and conveyancing practices also are studied. During the second semester, the course focuses on the sources of law and the legal process, including legislative and administrative bodies and their relationships to the courts in creating, interpreting, and enforcing the law.
Torts
This course examines non-consensual relations among individuals and emphasizes negligence law, the measure of damages, and newer developments such as products liability.
SECOND AND THIRD YEAR PROGRAM
With the following exceptions, all upper-level courses are electives. All students are required to take Constitutional Law II. All Students must meet an upper level writing requirement.
In addition
Students in the Class of 2010 are required to take a second course in professional responsibility in order to graduate (in addition to their first year ILPR course). It can be taken at any time during the second or third year.
Students in the Class of 2011 and forward, must take the survey class in Professional Responsibility (LL955), a course satisfying the "Perspectives on Law and Justice" requirement, and a course satisfying the Lawyering Skills requirement.
More than 70 courses, are offered each semester. Multiple courses in one or more areas broadens students' knowledge, judgment, and technical skills, ultimately strengthening their abilities as lawyers.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENT
In addition to their first year ILPR course, Students in the Class of 2010 are required to take a second course in professional responsibility in order to graduate. The courses that fulfill the second Professional Responsibility requirement are listed below.
Advanced Immigration Law Clinic
Attorney General Program
Civil Litigation Clinic
Community Enterprise Clinic
Criminal Justice Clinic
Housing Law Clinic
Immigration Clinic
Judge and Community Courts
Judicial Process
Juvenile Rights Advocacy
Legal Ethics Seminar
Moral Responsibility of Lawyers
Professional Responsibility (all sections)
Professional Responsibility: Prosecutorial Ethics
Semester in Practice
Women and the Law Clinic
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2009-2010 Courses that satisfy the
Courses denoted with an asterisk are listed with a 2/3 or 3/4 credit option. Students who opt for the higher number of credits will fulfill the upper level writing requirement. Students who register for any of the asterisked courses at the higher number of credit must complete additional paperwork. Please see Theresa Kachmar, Student Records, Stuart M301.
LL48502 Advanced Legal Writing (Spencer Spring)
LL48503 Advanced Legal Writing and Analysis (Juel Spring)
LL48501 Advanced Legal Writing: Judicial Opinions (Connor Spring)
LL48504 Advanced Legal Writing: Employment Law (Connor Fall)
LL31001 Advising the Business Planner (Yen/Gennari Fall)
LL61001 American Indian Law (Witten Spring)*
LL73501 American Jury (Brassard Spring)
LL34401 American Legal Education (Coquillette Spring)
LL47102 Appellate Advocacy (Daly Spring)
LL47102 Appellate Advocacy (Carey Fall/Spring)
LL39001 Art Law Seminar (Anzalone Spring)
LL85801 Attorney General Clinical Program Seminar (Barnico Fall/Spring)
LL70801 Business Law and Health Care Enterprises (Hashimoto Spring)
LL93201 Comparative Constitutional Law (Perju Spring)*
LL69701 Complex Litigation (Spiegel Fall)
LL82401 Corporate Governance (Jones Spring)
LL39301 Death Penalty Seminar (Dowden Fall)
LL96901 Environmental Law (Plater Fall:4 cr.) **
LL94201 Family Court Practice (Ginsburg Spring)*
LL68401 Family Law Seminar: Child, Parent and State (Katz Spring)
LL68401 Family Law Seminar: Parenting, Custody, Adoption (Katz Fall)
LL40001 Feminist Jurisprudence (Wells Spring)
LL96601 Globalization and International Economic Law Seminar (Garcia Spring)
LL74901 Immigration Law (Kanstroom Fall)*
LL75201 International Aspects U.S. Income Tax (Ault Fall)*
LL62101 International Criminal Tribunals (ICT): Research Project (Kanstroom Fall/Hupper Spring)
LL43601 International Human Rights (Kanstroom Fall)*
LL49601 Judge and Community Courts Seminar (Cratsley/Connors Fall)
LL83801 Judicial Process (Bloom Spring)
LL38801 Juvenile Justice Seminar (Sherman Spring)*
LL67301 Law of War, War Crimes and Genocide (Ryan Spring)
LL51001 London Program Externship (Spiegel Spring)
LL91001 Media Law (Papandrea Spring)
LL92501 Mediation (Gray Fall)
LL92502 Mediation (Gray Spring)
LL63501 National Security Law (Brown Fall)
LL95503 Professional Responsibility (Tremblay Spring)*
LL95801 Regulatory Reform Seminar (Foote Fall)*
LL45901 Semester in Practice Seminar (Wylie/McMorrow- with paper app'd by instructor)
LL80501 Sexuality and the Law (Stowe Fall)
LL78801 Tax III (Advanced Corporate Tax) (Wethly Spring)
LL78001 Tax Policy Workshop (Repetti Spring)
LL41301 The Philadelphia Convention (Bilder Spring)* (CANCELLED)
LL73301 Theory and Practice in Business Decisionmaking (Greenfield Fall)
LL92101 Understanding Urban Ecosystems (Lord Spring)
Competitions (Selection process required)
LL69001 The Conrad B. Duberstein National Bankruptcy Moot Court (Hillinger)
LL69101 Frederick Douglass Moot Court (Beckman)
LL51501 Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court (Bloom)
LL50001 J. Braxton Craven Moot Court (Barnico)
LL98101 Jessup International Moot Court (Carey)
LL61801 National Environmental Law Moot Court (Plater)
LL98201 National Moot Court (Herrmann)
LL44701 Saul Lefkowitz IP Moot Court (Liu)
Publications (Selection process required)
LL79001 3rd World Law Journal (Wylie)
LL98901 Environmental Affairs Law Review (Plater)
LL98701 International and Comparative Law Review (Wylie)
LL99901 Law Review (Wylie)
LL98301 U.C.C. Reporter Digest (Hillinger)
All 2 credit Independent Studies will satisfy the ABA writing requirement if writing a paper of 30 pages or more.
* Students who opt for the higher number of credits will fulfill the upper level writing requirement.
**This course will satisfy the
LAWYERING SKILLS REQUIREMENT
2009-2010 Courses that satisfy the
All Clinics, plus Attorney General Clinic, Semester in Practice, International Criminal Tribunals (ICT), Judge & Community Courts, and London Program externships
Advising the Business Planner
Advanced Contracts: Sales in Practice
Advanced Evidence: Trial Objections
Appellate Advocacy|
Arbitration, Labor and Employment
Business Immigration Law
Deals: The Economic Structure of Transactions
Dispute Negotiation
Estate Planning
Family Court Practice
Technology Transactions and Licensing
Mediation
Trial Practice
Legal Interviewing and Counseling (1L's only)
State and Local Government Law
Real Estate Finance
Lawyering and the Commercial Lease
Tax III (Advanced Corporate Tax)
Partnership Tax
Civil Discovery Practice
Business Negotiation
Venture Capital
Civil Motions Practice
Land Use Planning
Patent Law
Students may also satisfy this requirement by competing in their third year on an intramural Moot Court Team or the National Mock Trial Team.
PERSPECTIVES ON LAW AND JUSTICE REQUIREMENT
2009-2010 Courses that satisfy the
American Legal History (Bilder)
Anglo-American Legal History (Coquillette)
American Legal Theory (Wells)
Authority and Leadership in Professional Life (Sarda)
Beyond National Borders: Globalization, Law and Legal Practice (Wirth/Garcia)
Comparative Constitutional Law (Perju)
Comparative Law (Garcia)
Feminist Jurisprudence (Wells)
Foundations of Western Law (Kohler)
Globalization and International Economic Law (Garcia)
Jurisprudence (FitzGibbon)
International Human Rights (Kanstroom)
Law and Religion (Garvey)
Sexuality and the Law (Stowe)
Tax Policy Workshop (Repetti)
Women and the Law (Karmely)
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Students may enroll in any of the courses listed and described in the course description material, subject to prerequisite requirements for certain upper level courses and some limited enrollment courses.
In the first year, all candidates for the J.D. degree must follow the prescribed course schedule. Students must take 52 credit hours during their second and third years. Each student must take no fewer than 12 and not more than 17 hours each semester. In unusual circumstances, exceptions may be allowed with permission in writing from the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs or his/her designee.
To graduate, students must be in residence, full-time, for 6 semesters and must successfully complete a minimum of 85 credit hours. To be considered a full-time student in residence, a student must register for a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester. After the first year, students are strongly advised to take 26 credit hours per year. This will allow completion of the remaining 52 credits while maintaining a manageable course load in the last two years.
With the following exceptions, all upper-level courses are electives. All students are required to take Constitutional Law II. All Students must meet an upper level writing requirement.
In addition
Students in the Class of 2010 are required to take a second course in professional responsibility in order to graduate (in addition to their first year ILPR course). It can be taken at any time during the second or third year.
Students in the Class of 2011 and forward, must take the survey class in Professional Responsibility (LL955), a course satisfying the "Perspectives on Law and Justice" requirement, and a course satisfying the Lawyering Skills requirement.