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E-Discovery

LAW 412

This course will provide an intensive, practical introduction to electronic discovery. The discovery process has undergone a revolutionary change in the last quarter-century. Today, the vast majority of documents are created, stored and retrieved electronically, and the volume of electronically-stored information (“ESI”) has multiplied exponentially. This explosion in the volume of ESI has raised a host of legal, ethical and technological challenges for both litigators and courts, and has engendered an ever-growing body of e-discovery law. This course will examine many of the pressing legal issues that e-discovery raises, including the creation, preservation and production of ESI; the costs of e-discovery; the risk of spoliation; and the ethical and privilege issues that arise in connection with e-discovery.

Employment Discrimination

LAW 531

A survey of employment discrimination law, including substance and procedure; federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, religion, age or physical disability; and a discussion of disparate impact, treatment theories, and the application of statistical techniques.

Employment Law

LAW 580

A study of employees' legal rights and employers' responsibilities, with primary emphasis on the nonunion workplace. The course will survey a variety of statutes and common law developments that have had a crucial impact on the employment relationship.

Energy Law

LAW LAW 424

This course will focus primarily on the regulation and design of electricity systems – oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, solar, wind, landfill gas, biomass and energy conservation. The course will also examine both the traditional monopoly model of regulation and evolving competitive alternatives. Student will be exposed to energy resource planning, pollution management, rate design, green markets, energy efficiency, demand side management, renewable energy, climate change and carbon management.

Entertainment Law

LAW 704

An examination of the legal aspects of entertainment, including requirements for contracts and agreements between parties involved in the industry.

Environmental Enforcement

LAW 398

This course focuses on the various aspects of environmental practice against the backdrop of environmental enforcement and policy issues. The intention is to provide those students with an interest in environmental law an opportunity to engage in the fundamental principles of environmental enforcement from both the perspective of the complainant as well as the defendant. The course is designed to focus upon developing skills and creative approaches which may be applied to concrete problems within the universe that is environmental enforcement. Reliance will be placed upon classroom discussion, hypothetical fact situations, and role plays in addition to lectures in order to absorb the material which is presented.

Environmental Justice

LAW 621

Students in this course will learn about the development of environmental justice as a goal and as a framework for analyzing and addressing inequalities in environmental conditions among communities. Environmental justice and its relationship to law, politics, economics, science, and ethics, among other areas, will be explored. Student participation in environmental justice projects is encouraged, though not required.

Environmental Law

LAW 574

An introduction to the major issues in environmental law; the role of legislative, administrative, and executive bodies and judicial review; land and resource management; air and water pollution control; pesticide and toxic substance regulation; solid waste policy; and federal and state administrative procedures.

Estate & Gift Taxation

LAW 521

Federal taxation of intervivos transfers, including revocable and incomplete transfers: taxation of property owned at death and gifts in contemplation of death: tax credits, deductions, exemptions, valuation; and procedure and correlation with federal income tax and state inheritance and estate sales.

Estate Planning

LAW 522

An analysis of revocable and irrevocable lifetime trusts as a will supplement; whether and how to avoid probate; life insurance settlement options and employee death benefits; concurrent interests including community property; use of short-term trusts to reduce income tax; marital deduction; selection of fiduciary; and estate planning of intestate property.

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