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Comparative Family Law

LAW 915

This course will be a seminar and will survey and compare various issues in family law in Europe, Asia, Africa with the United States with an emphasis laws governing the formation of the family, traditional and alternative family structures, gender role expectations, same sex unions, marital laws and the division of property at the termination of the marriage.

Comparative Legal Systems: Law and Sexuality

LAW 513

This course is a survey of how different legal systems, secular and religious, construct and regulate various aspects of human sexuality. Among the topics we will discuss are marriage as a socio-legal institution, minority sexualities, sex work and pornography in different countries including the U.S., India, Turkey, Brazil and Israel.

Comparative Legal Systems: Muslim Communities and the Law

LAW 513C

This seminar is a survey of the various ways Muslim communities grapple with the realities of contemporary world. Through an analysis of laws in a variety of countries, the course addresses a range of topics from whether we can speak of a coherent system of law derived from Islam to the complexities of secularism in Muslim-majority countries and issues faced by Muslim communities living as religious minorities in contemporary states.

Comparative Rights of Publicity

LAW 719

Competitive Intellectual Property Appellate Advocacy

LAW 539

Students will participate in an interscholastic intellectual property moot court competition in compliance with the rules and regulations of such competitions. Credit will be offered only for one semester even if work spans more than one semester. Enrollment will be dependent on approval by a faculty advisor and/or adjunct couches. Enrollment will be limited to competing students and the course will be offered only in instances when the school will field a team.

Competitive Trial Advocacy

LAW 583

Students prepare for and compete in inter-school trial advocacy competitions, which include making opening statements and closing arguments, witness examination, trial motions, introducing evidence, and arguing objections. The unique nature of competitive practice empahasize the balance between preparation and improvisation, and between strategy and ethics, as well as the refinement of trial themes and utilization of courtroom technology and presentation techniques. Pre requisite is previous or current enrollent in Law - 567 Trial Advocacy Honors Board (TAHB), and unit assignment will be based on a further interview conducted by the TAHB faculty advisor and adjunct coaches.

Concepts of Liability & Equality in Discrimination Seminar

LAW 976

This course will explore basic problems of equality and liberty faced by the LGBT community. The course will cover various forms of discrimination, including housing and employment discrimination. The course will focus on how various constitutional concepts have been used to challenge various forms of discrimination against the LGBT community.

Conflict of Laws

LAW 514

A review of legal problems with multistate aspects; jurisdiction of courts; constitutional constraints, including due process requirements, and full faith and credit clauses; recognition and enforcement of judgments; and recent developments in choices in law issues.

Constitutional Convention

LAW 546

Although the Constitutional Convention of 1787 met under rules of secrecy, James Madison kept lengthy records of the debates and the voting that took place throughout the meeting. Over the years, his records became available to the public, and other partial records kept contemporaneously by other delegates were also located. These materials have been updated from time to time as new material emerges. We now have a good record of what the Convention considered and decided. During this course, we read these records and discuss how the Convention reached the results it reached. By considering that material, and the possibilities considered but rejected by the Convention, we can have a better understanding of how later Constitutional questions might have been handled, and how the drafters would have wanted them to be handled. Although some of this material may be familiar to you from what you learned in American History classes in high school and college, most of it will be unfamiliar, and there will be many surprises -- some (but not all) of them pleasant.

Constitutional Law I

LAW 202

An examination of the sources and nature of constitutional law and of the judicial functions in constitutional cases; the scope of federal power, the separation of powers, and the federal system; protection of the rights of individuals, due process, equal protection issues; the Bill of Rights; contract impairment; eminent domain; and the privileges and immunities of citizens. Students must sign up with the same professor for Constitutional Law I and II.

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