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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.

Advanced Civil Procedure

LAW 304

Advanced Contracts Seminar

LAW 330

Discussion of a range of Contract issues, in more depth than is possible than in first-year classes, but building on what was learned earlier. The format, and the particular issues dealt with, changes from semester to semester, and are described in more detail prior to the beginning of each semester

Advanced Copyright Law

LAW 720

Prerequisite: Copyright Law (701).

Advanced Externship

LAW 610

ADVANCED EXTERNSHIP: For students who have completed at least one semester of Externship and/the Lawyering Skills course, the Advanced Externship course is a law-related field placement where students perform and observe legal work under the supervision of an attorney or bench officer. For more information about the Externship Program, refer to the Externship Program Policies and Procedures Handbook. PRE-REQ: You must have previously taken LAW 601 Lawyering Skills and an externship. Additional Information: PRE-REQ: You must have previously taken LAW 601 Lawyering Skills .

Advanced Judicial Externship

LAW 610J

FULL-TIME JUDICIAL EXTERNSHIP (ADVANCED): A field placement with the federal or California appellate bench officer where students perform and observe legal work under the supervision of a judicial officer or judicial law clerk. Students must have a cumulative grade point average of 85 or above. First-time externs enroll concurrently in the Lawyering Skills course. For more infromation about the Externship Program, refer to the Externship Program Policies and Procedures Handbook. PRE-REQ: You must have previously taken LAW 601 Lawyering Skills or will take it concurrently.

Advanced Legal Reasoning

LAW 552

This course is the fifth required course to earn a Legal Writing Certificate. It is a capstone honors writing course that builds on the core writing curriculum while challenging students with advanced study in logical and creative thinking, intricate analysis, and sophisticated case synthesis. Prerequisites: (1) a CGPA of 3.0 or above and (2) a 3.0 or above in each Legal Writing I and II and Professional Skills I.

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