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Business Association Practicum

LAW 409

This course accompanies the standard 4-unit Business Associations course. We will cover topics in Business Associations that are being covered in the regular class, but will reinforce the doctrines through role-playing, negotiation, and document drafting. In the first unit, the students will participate in selecting the appropriate entity form, structuring the economic interests and managerial control among various owners, considering the lawyer's duties to the entity in dealing with its founders and management, and documenting various approaches to raising capital. The students will prepare a term sheet and a joint venture Operating Agreement. In the second unit, the students will take a client through an equity financing of a corporation with a focus on preferred stock rights. The students will explore the law and documentary approaches to dividend and liquidation rights, conversion and anti-dilution protections, redemptions and voting rights. The students will prepare a term sheet and review and comment on drafts of a charter document and a Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.

Business Associations

LAW 404

An introduction to the laws of business associations. This course examines the legal issues surrounding formation, financing and control of corporations and non-corporate business associations. Formerly offerd as "Corporations".

Business Planning

LAW 509

A study of the legal problems prevalent particularly among small enterprises, with practical application to business formation, capitalization, taxation, securities regulations, distributions, combinations, and liquidations.

Business Transactions: The Art of the Deal

LAW 389

Lawyers often find themselves challenged when faced for the first time with representing clients in commercial transactions, because more often than not, law students have not experienced what a law practice will require of them on a day-to-day basis. This course is designed for students who wish to develop the practical skills necessary to understand, negotiate and prepare contracts, thereby better preparing themselves to meet the demands of parties actually engaged in business deals. Specifically, we will examine, from the perspective of the corporate lawyer, the process by which a company's business is acquired. For this course, the asset class will be a substantial music publishing catalog. We will analyze the transaction from beginning to end, i.e., starting with formation of the entity that will undertake the purchase, and continuing with the Confidentiality Agreement, the Letter of Intent, Due Diligence and the Stock Purchase Agreement, and finishing with an Escrow Agreement. Particular attention will be paid to the development of negotiating strategies, the drafting of pertinent contract provisions, and in-class negotiating sessions. Source materials will include forms of agreements from actual transactions. This course will be designated as a limited enrollment Lawyering Skills class and will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Pre-Requisite: Business Associations

California Civil Procedure

LAW 536

The course will cover the rules relating to jurisdiction, venue, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, arbitrations, trials (both jury and non-jury), and appeals emphasizing the Code of Civil Procedure and practice rules used in California. Preference should be given to students that are at least in their 3rd year.

California Environmental Law Seminar

LAW 507

A Survey of California Environmental Law is a twelve week course designed to introduce students to environmental laws promulgated by and specific to the State of California. Instruction and discussion will be scheduled for the first ten weeks of the course. The latter two weeks of the course will be devoted to student presentation of final papers. Content will be designed to briefly examine each of the following statutory schemes: the California Environmental Quality Act; the California Endangered Species Act; the Porter Cologne Act; the California Clean Air Act; and, the California Coastal Act. Given that each of these statutory schemes is extremely intricate, and given that the course is limited to ten weeks, mastery of the statutory schemes is not expected. Instead, it is anticipated that students will acquire an understanding of the purpose of each Act, the general procedures associated with each Act, and how each Act is used to protect California's environment. Throughout the course, students will be expected to evaluate whether each of the statutory schemes presented achieves the goal and policy of environmental protection.

Capitalism, Environment and the Law

LAW 727

The seminar will explore the tension between the environmental ethos and capitalist ethos. We will start by examining what are the constitutive elements of these competing discourses and explore whether the tension between capitalism and the environment can be resolved through the use of principles such as sustainable development, precautionary action, innovation and growth. In this context we will also explore the transition of Israel from an economy dominated by socialist ideas to a highly capitalistic one and will also examine how this transition was challenged by the tent protest that took place in the summer of 2011. In the second part of the seminar we will examine how the tension between capitalism and the environment is manifested in varied legal topics such as the liability of multinational enterprises, the new corporate social responsibility movement, transnational private regulation, models of civic participation and the climate change negotiations.

Child Custody: Law & Practice

LAW 587

Child Custody: Law and Practice Professor Ken Agran Intersession 2010 When separating or divorcing parents (particularly those with economic resources) disagree regarding the `best interests' of their children, how is the court to decide? Here in California and many other states, attorneys and judges often turn to a custody evaluator a qualified mental health professional for an expert opinion. A custody evaluation may last many weeks or months, and the evaluator's recommendations are often given great deference by the courts. What exactly takes place in a custody evaluation, and what are the relevant legal, psychological, and practical criteria by which decisions are made? Equally important, how can an attorney effectively represent a client faced with a custody evaluation? The course will explore these basic questions in detail. Part of the course will feature examination of relevant statutes, case law, and interdisciplinary articles, while the remainder of the course will feature in-class simulations, role playing exercises, and hypothetical scenarios designed to illuminate the custody evaluation process, and to provide future attorneys with the practical knowledge and skills to properly advise and represent a client through a custody evaluation. Students will be evaluated based on their in-class participation in the discussions, simulations, and exercises, and based on their performance on various writing assignments.

China and International Law

LAW 729

This class examines the attitudes, participation and influence of the People

Chinese Law

LAW 516

This course will explore the modern legal system in China and its origins. Since the reopening of law schools at the end of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970's, the Chinese legal system has developed rapidly. The government has established a Constitution, substantive law, functioning courts and administrative tribunals, law schools, and as of this past year, a unified bar exam of lawyers and judges. The number of lawyers grew from 5500 in 1981 to 114,000 in 1997. In order to understand the nature of this swiftly-evolving legal system, we will consider its origins, key actors and institutiions, and selected substantive areas of law and policy.

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