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Professional Skills I: Litigation

LAW 207B

Professional Skills I is an upper-level writing course featuring a semester-long simulation in which students represent one client from the beginning to the end of a fictitious lawsuit. Students learn the following real world lawyering skills: substantive knowledge of the law, problem-solving, written and oral communication, legal analysis and reasoning, interviewing, factual investigation, counseling, negotiation, knowledge of the litigation process, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. Students draft, among other documents, a representation letter, a complaint and answer, interrogatories, and a motion for summary judgment.

Professional Skills I: Transactional

LAW 207A

Professional Skills I is an upper-level writing course featuring a semester-long simulation in which students represent one client from the beginning to the end of a fictitious transaction or deal. Students learn the following real world lawyering skills: substantive knowledge of the law, problem-solving, written and oral communication, legal analysis and reasoning, interviewing, factual investigation, counseling, negotiation, knowledge of the transactional process, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. Students draft, among other documents, a representation letter, a letter of intent, an asset purchase and/or licensing agreement, and an employment and/or consulting agreement.

Professional Skills II

LAW 208

Professional Skills II is the fourth semester of legal writing that all students must take in either the fall or spring semester of their graduating year. This upper-level writing course reinforces and strengthens the skills learned in Professional Skills I and prepares students to take the performance test increasingly found on bar examinations. Students use performance tests to learn how to read quickly and critically, to analyze law and facts, to follow direction, and to complete assignments under time constraints. Students develop and enhance the skills necessary to pass the bar exam and to successfully practice law.

Race Mixing & the Law

LAW 351

Whenever race is a factor in American law, it is necessary to consider how to place individuals who are of mixed racial backgrounds. On many occasions, this has caused considerable tension, and continues in some ways to do so today. This course discusses ways in which the law has reacted, from early attempts to control interracial sex and marriage, through discussions of subjects such as Indian Tribal membership, Amerasians today, and questions about immigration, adoption, and child custody across racial lines.

Race, Racism & American Law

LAW 542

This course examines the historical foundations and current development of the concepts of race, racism, discrimination, and multiculturalism in American law, comparing the experiences of various minority groups, including African-Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans, and the intersections among race, class, and sex discrimination. It explores the role of law, especially U.S. constitutional law, in generating and resolving problems of racial equality and liberty related to such topics as education, employment, family relationships, criminal law, and freedom of speech.

Real Property I

LAW 109

This course explores the legal analysis of real property interests; freehold estates and future interests; the landlord and tenant relationship; concurrent land ownership; adverse possession; methods of transferring title to land; recording statutes; easements and profits; covenants running with the land; equitable servitudes; and lateral and subjacent support. Students must enroll with the same professor for Real Property I and II.

Real Property II

LAW 110

Regulatory State

LAW 724

The constant and recurring interactions among individuals in society require legal control. The most frequently used legal instrument for this purpose is regulation. This course will examine the substance and practice of regulation in society drawing on examples from the American and Israeli legal systems. Applying economic thinking and methodology, this course will first explore the normative justifications for legal intervention by the state (i.e., controlling individual behavior). Next, the main legal instruments for such intervention (regulation, taxation, tort liability, and property rights) will be presented and confronted, yielding criteria for choosing the regulatory mechanism over other legal instruments. Lastly, political theories of regulation will be presented, and their legal application will be assessed.

Religion & State: Comparative Perspectives

LAW 936

This course examines the relationship between the state and religion in various legal systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of religion and religious institutions in the legal system and legal structures of the State of Israel. The course will examine how Israel, created as a state for the Jewish people, has handled the tensions between maintaining Israel as a state with a Jewish identity and at the same time a liberal democracy. As we will see, over the past several years once latent disagreements over matters of religion and state have become a major source of political and cultural tensions in Israeli society. The first part of the course will be dedicated to conceptual analysis and presentation of various models for the legal role of religion in various national legal systems, including models found in states based upon Christianity and Islam. In the second part, we will take a closer look at several specific religious disputes arising in Israeli law, including rights of citizenship, family law disputes, and Sabbath and dietary law observance. The course will conclude with a comparison between the arrangements made in Israel and in the United States as to the legal status of religion.

Remedies

LAW 407

An explanation of the availability and limitations of equitable and legal remedies, focusing on injunctions, declaratory judgments, specific performance, reformation, rescission, restitution, enforcement of decrees, and the problems in the merger of law and equities.

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