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Adjudicative Criminal Procedure

LAW 506

This course will examine legal issues (Constitutional, staturory, court rules) that arise once adversarial criminal proceedings commence-that is, once lawyers become involved in the process. Topics which might be covered include bail, preventive detentiion, the powers of the grand jury and limits of those powers, the prosecutor's charging decision, pleadings and plea bargaining, competency of the defendant to stand trial, discovery, jury selection, examination of witnesses and presentation of evidence, sentencing, and collateral, attack on convictions.

Administrative Law

LAW 501

An examination of the legal limits of state and federal executive action; rule-making; adjudicative and investigative actions of administrative agencies; relevant statutes, such as the Administrative Procedure Act; and the concepts of delegation, ripeness, standing, judicial review, and due process.

Admiralty Law

LAW 502

A survey of the basic principles of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including substantive law areas of carriage of goods, maritime liens, charter parties, collision, general average, salvage, seamen and maritime worker rights, and liability limitations.

Adoption Law Seminar

LAW 311

Readings and discussions on a range of issues raised by the process of adopting children into a family: termination of rights of the birth parents; qualifications to adopt; "private" adoptions and the role of attorneys; transracial adoptions; international adoptions; adoption by gays and lesbians; grandparent adoptions; adoption subsidies; common-law adoptions; alternatives such as foster care and orphanages; etc. A research paper is required.

Advance Intellectual Property Law Seminar

LAW 364

This course is designed to allow students who are already familiar with patent law basics to delve more deeply into practical issues and policy perspectives on patent law through the lens of recent developments. Our readings will be drawn from then-current materials, including materials from pending cases, recently decided cases, and legal scholarship, which may include drafts of unpublished articles. Specific issues to be explored will depend on student input and current events. Seminar participants will be expected to write multiple short response papers during the semester, based on what we read and discuss.

Advanced Antitrust Seminar

LAW 321

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

LAW 622

PRE-REQ: Law (106 & 107) Legal Skills and Law (207 & 208) PRSkills /ICN.

Advanced Civil Procedure

LAW 304

Advanced Constitutional Law

LAW 612

Advanced Constitutional Law

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