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| LAW 6000 | Civil Procedure (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course covers the procedures courts use in deciding lawsuits that do not involve criminal misconduct. Much of it is concerned with the process of litigation in trial courts, from the initial documents called pleadings, through the pre-trial process, especially the process of discovery in which parties obtain information from one another, to trial itself. |
| LAW 6001 | Constitutional Law (4) |
| This course is an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines. Judicial review, federalism, congressional powers and limits, the commerce clause, and the 10th Amendment are covered, as are the equal protection and due process clauses. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 6002 | Contracts (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the legal obligations that attach to promises made in a business contract or otherwise, including the remedies that may be available for promises that are not kept. The course examines the legal requirements for enforceable contracts, including consideration, consent and conditions, and the effect of fraud, mistake, unconscionability, and impossibility. |
| LAW 6003 | Criminal Law (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the basic principles of Anglo-American criminal law, including the constituent elements of criminal offenses, the necessary predicates for criminal liability, the major concepts of justification and excuse, and the conditions under which offenders can be liable for attempt. Major emphasis is placed on the structure and interpretation of modern penal codes. |
| LAW 6004 | Legal Research and Writing I (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of the yearlong basic skills course in the first-year curriculum covering fundamental legal research techniques, two styles of legal writing, and oral advocacy. In this first semester, students complete various research and citation exercises and write three office memoranda of increasing length and complexity. |
| LAW 6005 | Legal Research and Writing II (YR) (2) |
| This is the second semester of the yearlong basic skills course in the first-year curriculum covering fundamental legal research techniques, two styles of legal writing, and oral advocacy. In this second semester, students write an appellate brief and present an appellate oral argument before a panel of alumni, faculty, and Dillard Fellows (upperclass teaching assistants). Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 6006 | Property (4) |
| The course is a general introduction to property concepts and different types of property interests, particularly real property. The course surveys present and future estates in land, ownership and concurrent ownership. Leasehold interests, gifts and bequests, covenants and servitudes, conveyancing, various land use restrictions, eminent domain, and intellectual and personal property issues are also considered. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 6007 | Torts (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course examines liability for civil wrongs that do not arise out of contract. It explores three standards of conduct: liability for intentional wrongdoing, negligence, and liability without fault, or strict liability, and other issues associated with civil liability, such as causation, damages, and defenses. Battery, medical malpractice, products liability, and tort reform will also be covered. |
| LAW 6100 | Accounting: Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements (2) |
| This course is the first half of the combined four-credit Accounting/Corporate Finance course. This course provides an understanding of the concepts of financial accounting and published financial statements. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 6101 | Corporate Finance (2) |
| This course is the second half of the combined four-credit Accounting/Corporate Finance course. The central theme is understanding the sources of value for the firm from the perspective of the manager who must make financing choices (sources of funds) and investment choices (uses of funds) to maximize the value of the firm. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 6102 | Administrative Law (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course covers the role of agencies in the constitutional structure and their operations. Topics include the nondelegation doctrine, executive appointment and removal power, the legislative veto as well as the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and other sources of law that regulate and structure the authority of agencies to determine the rights and responsibilities of the public.
Prerequisite: LAW 6001-Constitutional Law Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6103 | Corporations (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course considers the formation and operation of corporations and compares corporations to other business forms. It examines the roles and duties of those who control businesses and the power of investors to influence and litigate against those in control. The course also addresses the special problems of closely held corporations and issues arising out of mergers and attempts to acquire firms. The course uses both new tools derived from the corporate finance and related literature and traditional tools to explore a wide range of phenomena and transactions associated with the modern business enterprise. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6104 | Evidence (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course will cover questions of relevance, hearsay, privilege, and expert testimony, among others, and it will focus largely on problems arising in concrete factual settings, as opposed to traditional case analysis. Major emphasis will be placed on the Federal Rules of Evidence, which now apply in the courts of roughly 40 states as well as the federal system. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6105 | Federal Courts (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is about the federal judicial system and its relationship to various other decision-makers, including Congress and the state courts. We will examine the jurisdiction of the federal courts; the elements of a justiciable case or controversy; the role of state law and so-called "federal common law" in federal courts; implied causes of action; and state sovereign immunity. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6106 | Federal Income Tax (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will concentrate on the provisions that apply to all taxpayers, with particular concern for the taxation of individuals. The course is intended to provide grounding in such fundamental areas as the concept of income, income exclusions and exemptions, non-business deductions, deductions for business expenses, basic tax accounting, assignment of income, and capital gains and losses. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6107 | International Law (2 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the introductory course in public (government-to-government) international law. Topics include the International Court of Justice, the United Nations, recognition and statehood, diplomatic immunity, sovereign immunity, the law of the sea, torture, the Geneva and Hague Conventions, treaties, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6108 | Civil Rights and Antidiscrimination Law (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course probes the fundamental frameworks of civil rights and anti-discrimination law. |
| LAW 6109 | Corporations (Law & Business) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course considers the formation and operation of corporations and will compare corporations to other business forms. It will examine the roles and duties of those who control businesses and the power of investors to influence and litigate against those in control. The course will also address the special problems of closely held corporations and issues arising out of mergers and attempts to acquire firms. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 6112 | Environmental Law (3) |
| In Environmental Law, we address pollution control under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts as well as natural resource protection under the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act. Although the primary focus will be on federal law, we will also explore some local, state and international dimensions. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 6113 | Introduction to Law and Business (2) |
| This class offers an introduction to transactional legal practice at the intersection of law and business. The course topics include initial entity formation, an overview of alternative fundraising transactions, and an examination of several other complex contracting transactions. Both legal and business considerations will be discussed. | |
| LAW 6114 | Comparative Freedom of Speech (2 - 3) |
| This lecture explores the theoretical foundations of freedom of speech and how free expression doctrine has emerged in the United States. Though it focuses mainly on U.S. law, the course also takes a broader global perspective, exploring how and why the U.S. free speech tradition is exceptional (and whether it should be). Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 7001 | Cybersecurity Law and Policy (3) |
| This course examines legal and policy challenges stemming from rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. The objective of the course is to contextualize cybersecurity threats and responses to them in a national and international law framework, while also recognizing the limits of current law, the need for further policy evolution, and the real-world impacts of different legal and policy options. No technical knowledge is required. | |
| LAW 7002 | Agency, Partnership, and LLCs (3 - 4) |
| This course deals with the agency relationship and its consequences, focusing on such topics as contractual authority, vicarious liability, and fiduciary obligation. Using litigated cases, students will learn how to help clients structure their affairs in a manner consistent with their business goals, including minimizing unwanted liability. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7005 | Antitrust (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This class studies American efforts to prevent the private subversion of free competition. In addition to analysis of the statutes and case law, students consider the history of antitrust regulation and the economic assumptions that drive much of its application. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7006 | Constitutional Law II: Poverty (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This lecture course will explore the Supreme Court¿s explorations into providing constitutional protection for poor people during the 1960s and 1970s. It is part doctrinal analysis, part legal history, and part constitutional theory. Course was offered Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7007 | Bankruptcy (3 - 4) |
| This course will explore in detail some of the legal, theoretical, and practical issues raised by a debtor's financial distress. Principal emphasis will be on how the Federal Bankruptcy Code uses or displaces otherwise applicable law as the provider of rules that govern the relationships among debtors, creditors and others. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7009 | Criminal Procedure Survey (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this course, we will explore the constitutional rules that constrain executive actors when they investigate crime and prosecute criminal defendants. Specifically, we study the degree to which the Fourth and Fifth Amendment limit police investigations and the ways in which constitutional guarantees of due process, equal protection, and trial by jury affect criminal prosecutions. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7018 and LAW 7019. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 |
| LAW 7011 | Comparative Constitutional Law (3) |
| The seminar will explore the issues entailed in the drafting and uses of a constitution. To what extent do constitutions reflect universal values (such as human rights), and to what extent are they grounded in the culture and values of a particular people? How much borrowing goes on in the writing of a constitution? Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 | |
| LAW 7012 | Designing Democracy: Participation (3) |
| In this course, students will identify the sources of low turnout and the political participation gap between groups in the United States, examine how the low participation rate and the political participation gap impact democratic development, and develop model legislation designed to address a problem associated with democratic participation that will include explanations for how the proposed legislation will redress the particular problem identified. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| LAW 7014 | Conflict of Laws (2 - 3) |
| This course examines the rules and principles that govern the resolution of multi-jurisdictional conflicts of laws in the United States. The central issue throughout the course is, simply, what law governs a multi-jurisdictional dispute? It considers various theoretical bases for choice of law principles, as well as the principal constitutional limitations on choice of law. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| LAW 7016 | Constitutional History II: The Twentieth Century (3 - 4) |
| This course examines the constitutional history of the twentieth-century United States in the context of social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual developments. | |
| LAW 7017 | Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Religion (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the two clauses in the Bill of Rights which define and safeguard religious freedom - the one barring laws "respecting an establishment of religion" and the other protecting the "free exercise of religion." Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7018 | Criminal Adjudication (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course looks at the way the judicial system operates once criminal charges are filed. Topics include bail and preventive detention, the right to the effective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial discretion and plea bargaining, the right to trial by jury, appeals from criminal convictions, and habeas corpus review. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7019 | Criminal Investigation (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the constitutional jurisprudence that regulates the government's investigation of crime and apprehension of criminal suspects. In particular, the course will focus on the doctrines by which the judiciary polices the police, including the primary remedy (suppression of evidence) for police misconduct. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7020 | Designing Democracy: Representation (3) |
| In this course laboratory, we will address problems of democratic representation. Studies have shown that marginalized groups and members of minority political parties are consistently under-represented in the democratic process. Our goal for this course is to develop model legislation that is responsive to the representation gap in the United States. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7021 | Courts (3) |
| This course takes an interdisciplinary, comparative, and empirical perspective on the design and operation of courts as institutions. | |
| LAW 7022 | Employment Discrimination (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course focuses upon the principal federal statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex, especially Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It also examines the federal constitutional law of racial and sexual discrimination, primarily as it affects judicial interpretation of the preceding statutes. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7023 | Employment Law: Contracts, Torts, and Statutes (3) |
| In contrast to the traditional labor law course, this course is an introduction to the diverse body of law that governs the individual employment relationship. The course examines a selection of the important issues that employment lawyers face in practice. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7024 | Banking and Financial Institutions (3 - 4) |
| This course will examine the regulation of financial institutions, with an emphasis on federal regulation of banking. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7025 | Employment Law: Health and Safety (3) |
| This course examines legal responses to work-related health and safety issues. The worker's compensation system and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) are studied in some detail. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7026 | Sports and Games (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores normative and adjudicative systems associated with sports and games. These topics are intrinsically interesting, and they also cast light on legal norms and practices. |
| LAW 7028 | Interpretation Theory and Methods Lecture (3) |
| The interpretation of legal texts is an important component of a wide variety of legal subjects. This course explores legal theories of interpretation and construction, linguistics, and the philosophy of language. | |
| LAW 7030 | Family Law (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course focuses on the law surrounding intimate relationships between adults. In particular, we will focus on the institution of marriage and its changing scope and social meaning, divorce and its financial consequences, and the parent-child relationship, including establishing parenthood, adoption, child custody, and child support. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7031 | Federal Criminal Law (3) |
| This course explores the scope and structure of federal crimes. The course covers the jurisdiction of the federal government over crime, including constitutional limitations; the emerging law of federal mens rea; four crimes that illustrate the enormous reach of the federal criminal law; and RICO, the most important organized crime statute in history. Broader policy issues are discussed. | |
| LAW 7034 | Food and Drug Law (3) |
| This course considers the Food and Drug Administration as a case study of an administrative agency that must combine law and science to regulate activities affecting public health and safety. | |
| LAW 7035 | Foreign Relations Law (3) |
| This course examines the constitutional and statutory doctrines regulating the conduct of American foreign relations. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7036 | Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice Lecture (3) |
| This course will investigate criminal justice through a critical race theory (CRT) lens. | |
| LAW 7038 | Disability Law (3) |
| This course will examine primarily federal disability laws, and judicial interpretations thereof, in order to understand the theoretical and policy justifications for such laws, their positive impact, and their limitations. Contexts will likely include employment, government services, public accommodations, healthcare, housing, and education. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 7042 | Immigration Law and Policy Lecture (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the substantive provisions of U.S. immigration law and the procedures for deciding immigration-related issues. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7043 | Insurance (3) |
| This course provides a working knowledge of basic insurance law governing insurance contract formation, insurance regulation, property, life, health, disability, and liability insurance, and claims processes. The emphasis throughout is on the link between traditional insurance law doctrine and modern ideas about the functions of private law. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7044 | Survey of Patent, Copyright, Trademark (2 - 4) |
| This is a survey course for students seeking a general introduction to intellectual property as opposed to concentrating on one or more of its special subjects. The main focus will be on Patent, Copyright and Trademark with a brief treatment of Trade Secrets and some common law treatments of intellectual property outside the realm of specially designed property rights. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7045 | Race, Education, and Opportunity (3) |
| From the founding of our nation, law and policy's treatment of race have shaped society. This lecture course examines the influence of race on American society beginning with slavery through modern times, with an influence on how race has shaped education and opportunity. | |
| LAW 7047 | Trademark Law (2 - 4) |
| This course studies the law governing how brands may be legally protected. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2010 | |
| LAW 7049 | Climate Change Law (3) |
| This course is intended to introduce students to the state of U.S. (and, to some degree, international) law with respect to global climate change. Students will also develop a basic understanding of the science behind climate change and the current state of the field. | |
| LAW 7051 | International Business Transactions (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines the law - domestic, foreign, and international - governing international business transactions. Areas may include trade and investment treaties, corporate law and securities regulation, commercial sales, employment discrimination, human rights, anti-corruption, intellectual property, dispute resolution and sovereign debt. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7052 | International Civil Litigation (3) |
| This course examines the distinctive issues that arise when civil litigation takes on an international dimension, including personal jurisdiction, choice of law, enforcement of judgments, sovereign immunity, the developing law of human rights. Arbitration and discovery outside the United States are also considered. | |
| LAW 7054 | Pain and the Law (3) |
| This course will explore the topic of pain as applied to a variety of legal contexts, including the constitutional limits on painful bodily intrusions, the application of tort law in reparations cases, and the use of civil rights litigation to redress pain. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7055 | International Human Rights Law (3) |
| This course focuses on the theory and practice of international human rights law including the basic principles as well as the international mechanisms and institutions established in the past half-century to protect human rights. The difficulties involved in converting those principles into practice and the effectiveness of different ways of using international human rights law to further human rights protection will also be explored. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7058 | LawTech Lecture (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Recently, advances in computational text analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have started to affect not only the range of tools available to lawyers, but also the workings of government agencies and the adjudication of disputes. In this course, we will examine some of these new technologies, how they are being put to use, and the potential upside and downside risks associated with the further automation of legal work. No prior knowledge of coding or computer science is assumed. Course was offered Fall 2024 |
| LAW 7059 | Labor Law (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is designed to provide a general introduction to the practice of law under the National Labor Relations Act from the late 1800s through passage of the Wagner Act (1935) and its modification by the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments. We will review the Act's concept of concerted, protected activity, unfair labor practice or "ULP" and the way ULPs are processed through the Board and courts. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 |
| LAW 7060 | Land Use Law (3) |
| This course will explore the regulation of land use, with an emphasis on the constitutional and environmental dimensions of land use law. The course will begin with the basic elements of the land development and regulation process, including the basics of planning and zoning. We will also address public ownership and private alternatives to regulation. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7062 | Legislation (3 - 4) |
| This course will examine both the theory and the practice of statutory interpretation. We will become familiar with the canons of construction frequently invoked by courts. Finally, we will consider some specialized but important topics in statutory interpretation, such as doctrines of severability and pre-emption. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7064 | Nonprofit Organizations (3) |
| The course surveys the role of nonprofits, reasons for use of the nonprofit form, and the different types of nonprofit organizations, with particular attention to the statutes governing nonprofit corporations. Topics include the formation, dissolution, and governance of nonprofits, state regulation of charitable solicitations, and tax and tax policy issues related to nonprofits. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7066 | Mental Health Law (3) |
| This course will address legal issues regarding the needs and rights of individuals with mental disorders. Topics include the nature and treatment of mental disorders; the right to treatment; civil commitment; competence; informed consent and the right to refuse treatment; the financing of mental health care; protection from discrimination; and the regulation and liability of mental health professionals. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7067 | National Security Law (3) |
| Following the 9/11 attack, one of the fastest growing areas of legal inquiry has been national security law. This course is a comprehensive introduction, blending relevant international and national law. Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7069 | International Sales Law (2) |
| This course concerns the predominant law applicable to international sale of goods contracts, which is the U.N. Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (and UCC Art. 2 where applicable). It also covers payment devices, and why knowledgeable commercial actors employ certain kinds of clauses. No detailed knowledge of Article 2 or other parts of domestic sales law will be required. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 7070 | Presidential Powers (3 - 4) |
| This course will consider a variety of issues involving the application of law to the president's functions. Many such issues are of constitutional stature and fall under the general rubric of separation of powers or checks and balances. Therefore we will necessarily examine as well the powers vested in other branches of government. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7071 | Professional Responsibility (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Professional Responsibility.
Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7071, 7072, 7134, or 7605 if any taken previously. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7072 | Professional Responsibility in Public Interest Law Practice (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will examine selected areas of professional responsibility, including the creation and termination of the attorney-client relationship, the scope of representation, conflicts of interests, confidentiality, and the attorney's ethical obligations during litigation. In addition, the course will address the attorney's relationships with the courts, the organized bar, and the community.
Prerequisite:Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7071, 7072, 7134, or 7605 if any taken previously. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7074 | Professional Sports and the Law (2) |
| The course focuses on the practical application of contract law, antitrust law, and to some extent arbitration and negotiation of disputes and current legal issues relating to the sports industry. Particular attention will be given to professional sports leagues and individual sports, as well as their practical application to the business of sports today.
Prerequisite: 2nd- or 3rd year or LLM status Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7075 | Quantitative Methods (3) |
| This course provides an introduction to the basic mathematical tools that a lawyer needs. The topics covered are drawn principally from probability, statistics, and finance. The course emphasizes the use of statistical and quantitative reasoning in litigation (such as employment discrimination, toxic tort, and voting rights cases) and in policy debates. Course was offered Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7076 | Law and Theories of Justice Lecture (3) |
| This course will offer a systematic overview of major contemporary theories of justice, with a special focus on their concrete implications for areas of legal doctrine. Coverage will include liberal, egalitarian, libertarian, communitarian, critical race theorists, and feminist theories of justice. | |
| LAW 7078 | Remedies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Remedies is a transubstantive course crossing the boundaries both within private law and between private and public law. This course will examine the relationship between liability and remedy across diverse areas of law. While emphasis will be placed on private law remedies, public law remedies will be considered at some depth for purposes of comparison. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7080 | Health Law Survey (3 - 4) |
| This course is designed to provide a survey of the spectrum of topics generally considered part of "health law." It will introduce the various institutions and players involved in health care delivery and the legal relationships between those institutions--at both the state and federal level. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7082 | Secured Transactions (3) |
| This course covers the essential provisions and structure of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The law of secured transactions facilitates the taking of security interests by creditors to secure loans they make to debtors. The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the Code sufficient to enable them to structure secured transactions and litigate secured claims successfully. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7085 | Social Science in Law (3) |
| This course deals with the uses of social science by practitioners and courts. The roots of social science in legal realism are considered, and the basic components of social science methodology are introduced. No background in methodology or statistics is necessary. Both applications in the criminal context and in civil law will be considered. Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7086 | Jurisprudence (3) |
| Jurisprudence Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7087 | Sports Law (3) |
| This course explores the legal rules regulating professional and amateur sports. There is a substantial treatment of both Labor Law and Antitrust regulation, but neither course is a prerequisite. | |
| LAW 7088 | Law and Public Service (3) |
| This course will introduce students to law and public service, broadly defined to include all careers that serve the public interest, from litigating civil rights cases to prosecuting and defending criminal suspects to providing legal services for indigent clients to representing local, state, and federal government agencies to working for an international human rights organization and everything in between. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7089 | Racial Justice and Law (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will examine the response of law to racial issues in a variety of contemporary legal contexts. Topics may include criminal justice, education, employment, interracial relationships and adoption, hate speech, voting. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7707 Race and Law (SC) and LAW 9058 Race and Law Seminar Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7090 | Regulation of the Political Process (3 - 4) |
| A web of constitutional, statutory, and judge-made laws regulate the American political process. This course will examine these laws and their implications for three broad and important issues: participation, aggregation, and governance. Participation involves the right to vote and various restrictions thereon, aggregation involves apportionment and redistricting, and governance involves campaign finance and the role of political parties. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7091 | Water Law and Policy (2 - 3) |
| This course will review state and federal laws governing water and disputes between competing water uses. Topics will include public rights to water and resolving water use disputes; protecting water quality of lakes, rivers, and streams; federal laws affecting the allocation and use of water (the Clean Water Act, the Federal Power Act, the Endangered Species Act) and the law governing interstate water disputes. | |
| LAW 7092 | International Trade Law and Policy (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course introduces the institutions and rules governing international trade. The principal focus is the World Trade Organization and its rules governing tariffs, non-tariff barriers, dumping, subsidies, trade in services, health and safety standards, and intellectual property rights, as well as its international dispute settlement mechanism. The course also covers the U.S. legal framework for international trade relations. |
| LAW 7098 | Public Interest Law and Advocacy Skills (2 - 3) |
| This class will examine and explore those tactics and strategies which public interest lawyers routinely employ, and those obstacles and dilemmas that public interest lawyers must often confront, with a particular focus on the advocacy work that takes place outside of, or in conjunction with, litigation. Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 7099 | Nevada v. Delaware: The New Market for Corporate Law (2 - 3) |
| Delaware courts have issued a line of decisions that sparked public debates and could have significant corporate law implications. This lecture will examine those decisions in-depth. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 7100 | Civil War and the Constitution (3) |
| This course will examine the constitutional history of the United States from 1845 to 1877, paying attention to how the U.S. Constitution shaped the Civil War, and also to how the war left its mark on the Constitution. Cannot enroll if have taken Law 9203 | |
| LAW 7102 | Veterans Law (2) |
| This course introduces students to the administrative law of veterans¿ benefits. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 7103 | Education Law Survey (3 - 4) |
| This course will primarily focus on the ways in which law structures educational opportunity. We will cover the legal and policy issues involved in school desegregation, school finance litigation, school choice, standards and testing (including the No Child Left Behind Act), and special education. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 7105 | Modern Real Estate (3) |
| This course provides an introduction to the basic components of the residential real estate transaction with an emphasis on the listing agreement, the contract of sale, deeds of conveyance, title assurance (public and private), real estate finance, foreclosure and deficiency judgments. | |
| LAW 7106 | Law of the Police I: Rules, Rights and Regulation (3) |
| This course will explore the web of interacting federal, state, and local laws that govern the police and police departments. | |
| LAW 7108 | Real Estate Transactions and Litigation (2 - 3) |
| This course will provide an introduction to real estate transactions and financing, including mortgages, foreclosure, the regulation of mortgage lending, the secondary market for home loans, government intervention in the housing market, and details of land transactions such as contracts of sale, recording, and brokerage agreements. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2012, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 7109 | Contemporary Housing Policy Debates (3) |
| This course explores the history, theory, and practice of community development, its contemporary emphasis on housing law and policy, and the role of law and lawyering within that professionalized field. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2011 | |
| LAW 7111 | Constitutional Law II:Survey of Civil Liberties (3 - 4) |
| This is a survey of individual rights under the Constitution, excluding equal protection and criminal procedure. The allocation of time to subjects will be somewhat uneven, largely reflecting the interests of the casebook editors. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 7112 | Energy Regulation and Policy (2 - 4) |
| This course provides an introduction to energy law and regulation in the United States. It covers the basic principles of public utility regulation; the division of jurisdiction over energy production and use among federal, state, and local governments; and the federal statutes governing natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011 | |
| LAW 7114 | Native American Law (3) |
| This course provides an introduction to Native American law (or 'Federal Indian law' or 'American Indian law'). The subject matter is the legal relationships among Indian nations and the U.S. government, state governments, and individuals. The course will cover both the historical development of Native American law and contemporary issues, including tribal sovereignty, property, natural resources, gaming, and civil and criminal jurisdiction. | |
| LAW 7118 | Transactional Intellectual Property Law (2) |
| This course introduces students to the law, theory and practice of intellectual property transactions. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 7123 | Class Actions and Aggregate Litigation (3) |
| The course will begin by exploring whether the class action device that allows civil claims to be resolved in the aggregate has proved to be effective for deterring illegal activity and compensating those who suffer from it. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 9132 Class Actions and Complex Litigation seminar. | |
| LAW 7125 | Practical Trust and Estate Administration (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course covers advanced and applied topics in estate planning and probate, wealth management, trust and estate administration, and trust, estate, and fiduciary litigation. The course focuses on the role of an attorney as executor or trustee, and the role of an attorney in advising executors, trustees, and beneficiaries. |
| LAW 7126 | Behavioral Science, Psychology, and Law (3) |
| Economics assumes people are rational, law assumes people are compliant, but is it really so? In recent years both disciplines have come to incorporate more and more research from psychology and other social sciences about actual human behavior. We will read research about factors that affect human decision-making and then apply it to substantive and procedural issues in law. | |
| LAW 7127 | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (3) |
| This course will consider artificial intelligence and machine learning from the perspective of law. Students will develop a basic understanding of the computer science underlying both artificial intelligence and machine learning, the ways in which the law is adapting (or failing to adapt) to artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the ways in which these technologies may be used by lawyers and legal researchers. Students need no background in computer science or coding. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2013 | |
| LAW 7128 | Commercial Sales Transactions: Domestic and International (3) |
| This course covers the law governing domestic and international sales of goods. It also treats legal and institutional rules applicable to important aspects of the transport of goods and payment. | |
| LAW 7131 | Criminology (3) |
| This course introduces law students to the scientific study of violent crime, including factors that give rise to violence and those that may account for the remarkable decline in violence in recent years. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| LAW 7133 | Business and Governmental Tort Liability (3) |
| The emphasis throughout this course is on the bases for the imposition of liability and the constraints (including constitutional limits) on liability. Separate consideration also is given to categories of recoverable damages and to the nature and impact of liability insurance. | |
| LAW 7135 | Law and Economics (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The economic analysis of law has generated foundational insights and a handful of Nobel prizes. It guides many scholars, judges, practitioners, and policy-makers, and it provides one of the major theoretical perspectives on the study of law. This course introduces the topic. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 |
| LAW 7136 | Regulatory Law and Policy (3) |
| This course focuses on the cross-cutting elements of risk regulation to provide students with a set of general tools and concepts that can inform area-specific advanced courses and be applied in many different practice settings. This course complements the material covered in Administrative Law. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 7140 | History of American Federalism (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will explore the theoretical foundations of federalism at the time of the American founding and trace its development over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| LAW 7141 | Energy and the Environment (3) |
| This course will explore the legal and environmental issues in the development of energy resources. | |
| LAW 7144 | Negotiation (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The goal of this class is to introduce students to negotiation theory, with a focus on the collaborative negotiation method used by most successful negotiators today. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016 |
| LAW 7145 | Rules (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this course, students will learn to read, interpret, draft, aggregate, manipulate, and improve rules embodied in contracts, statutes, treaties, constitutions, customs, sports, and games. We will write, and explore the implications of, rules in assignments involving individual work, small-group work, and class discussion. Grade depends on exercises and short papers undertaken throughout the semester. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 |
| LAW 7147 | Employee Benefits Law (3) |
| Federal law closely regulates employer-provided retirement, health, and welfare benefits. In this course, we will examine key federal statutes for this important and dynamic area of the law. | |
| LAW 7148 | Employment Law: Wage & Hour Regulation (Lecture) (3) |
| The lecture will examine the laws, regulations and policies governing wages. | |
| LAW 7157 | Urban Law and Policy Lecture (3) |
| This course will examine the legal, economic, and political forces that have shaped American metropolitan areas with particular attention to the policies that have shaped American cities and suburbs. Course was offered Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 7160 | Computer Crime (3) |
| This lecture course will address the rapidly-changing field of computer crime and data privacy, surveying the major domestic authorities in the area, such as the Wiretap Act, the Pen/Trap statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Fourth Amendment, as applied to computers. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 7161 | State and Local Government Law (3) |
| This course closely examines the theories and legal rules behind state and local government authority. Special focus will be put on the ways local law spatially and socially organizes American society, the rules governing intergovernmental conflict and cooperation, and the role of state and local governments in furthering or frustrating democratic participation. | |
| LAW 7163 | Legislation and Regulation (3 - 4) |
| Legislation and Regulation is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the way Congress and administrative agencies adopt binding rules of law (statutes and regulations, respectively) and the way that implementing institutions -- courts and administrative agencies -- interpret and apply these laws. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017 | |
| LAW 7169 | Food Systems Law and Policy (3) |
| This course provides an introduction to the laws regulating food safety and food labeling and advertising in the United States. Topics to be addressed include federal regulation of adulterated and misbranded food products; enforcement and inspections; food recalls and crisis response; and state and local food regulation. | |
| LAW 7170 | Electronic Discovery (2) |
| This course covers technical, ethical, and strategic aspects of eDiscovery, applying practical skills simulations and discussion to prepare law students for litigation practice. | |
| LAW 7174 | Roman Law of Family, Property, and Succession (3) |
| Roman law developed over the course of more than one thousand years, and it continues to influence contemporary legal systems throughout the world. In this course, we will examine the portions of Roman private law that correspond to Anglo-American contract, tort, property, and family law. | |
| LAW 7175 | Law in American History: Twentieth Century (3) |
| This course is a survey of the development of private and public law in twentieth century America. Topics to be covered include jurisprudence, legal education, foreign relations law, the emergence of administrative law, the constitutional dimensions of equal protection, due process, and free speech law, and the relationship of law and politics in America. | |
| LAW 7176 | Introduction to American Law for LLMs (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course introduces LLM candidates who have received their law degrees from foreign universities to certain structural and historic aspects of the U.S. legal system. |
| LAW 7178 | Feminist Jurisprudence (3) |
| Feminist jurisprudence is a field in which scholarly activity is rooted in a set of practices designed to excavate and revise the myriad ways in which law conditions the lived experiences of women, men, and children. In the course, we will study what are understood to be distinct schools of feminist jurisprudence and the forms of practice that each supports. | |
| LAW 7179 | Race and Criminal Justice (3) |
| Course description: This course examines the role of race in the criminal justice system, and the role of law in both causing and countering racial injustice in that system. The course will proceed through each major stage of the criminal justice process -- policing, prosecution, adjudication, and punishment -- identifying important racial issues that arise at each stage and exploring how the law creates and responds to those issues. | |
| LAW 7182 | Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Workplace (2) |
| Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the Workplace introduces students to arbitration and mediation processes as used in the union and nonunion workplace. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2019 | |
| LAW 7183 | Pretrial Litigation Skills: Civil Rights (3) |
| In this course, students will learn and practice the skills associated with pretrial civil litigation (complaint through summary judgment), particularly focusing on skills and strategies relevant to civil rights litigation in federal district courts. | |
| LAW 7184 | Innovating for Defense (3) |
| In this course, students (in multifunctional teams from the Schools of Law, Engineering, and Public Policy) will work on real, national security-related problems facing the U.S. Government. Students will study the structures and processes of the various national security agencies and how those agencies approach the problem of innovation, which for defense institutions is a combined problem of technology, policy, and law. | |
| LAW 7185 | Business Planning (2) |
| While many courses address the legal aspects of particular corporate law topics, this course will focus on thinking strategically to address business planning issues of start-ups or closely held companies. Strategic decisions will include choice of entity and change in entity as growth continues, raising debt/equity capital, and corporate growth opportunities. | |
| LAW 7187 | Law of Public-Private Partnerships (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course focuses on the legal topics and skills required to successfully negotiate and document a public private partnership for a real estate transaction. |
| LAW 7188 | Privacy (3 - 4) |
| This course provides an introduction to privacy law, from its common law foundations to today's complex regulatory landscape. Topics discussed are expected to include the philosophical bases of privacy protection; internet and consumer privacy; health privacy; First Amendment issues; regulation and enforcement, including international approaches; and privacy by design. | |
| LAW 7189 | Internet Law (2 - 3) |
| This survey course will introduce students to various areas of Internet law, such as Internet governance, jurisdiction, contracts, trespass and computer fraud, copyright, trademarks and domain names, speech, search engines, spam, and social media. | |
| LAW 7190 | Aging and the Law Lecture (3) |
| This course will survey significant issues in the law of aging, with special emphasis on intergenerational justice and the public policy challenges presented by an aging population. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| LAW 7192 | Law and Ethics of Biotechnology (3) |
| This class will be a survey of the legal and ethical issues in biotechnology and related emerging technologies. Will include some issues being considered by NIH's NExTRAC. | |
| LAW 7193 | Law of the Police II: Remedies and Reform (2) |
| How do we govern the police? What rules and rights shape police encounters? This course explores the complicated web of federal, state, and local laws that regulate police officers and departments and influence how the police interact with the public. Course was offered Spring 2022, Fall 2020 | |
| LAW 7194 | International Criminal Law (3) |
| International criminal law studies a grim but important subject: the prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression. In addition, we will study the extraterritorial application of US criminal law to address crimes of transnational character. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 7195 | Constitutional Originalism (3) |
| "Constitutional Originalism" examines both theory and practice of an originalist approach to constitutional theory. Combining lecture, discussion, and problems the goal of the course is to equip students to engage in originalist advocacy, judging, and scholarship. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 7196 | Repugnant Transactions (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This class examines exchanges and transactions that are traditionally repugnant, and sometimes illegal. Importantly, what constitutes a repugnant transaction is culturally dependent, changing over time and across cultures. For example, typical repugnant transactions in modern western societies include organs, blood, babies, sexual relations, votes for money, and a wide range of other issues. |
| LAW 7197 | Taboo Trades (2 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | "This class will explore the topic of taboo trades (e.g. prostitution, marijuana, paying college athletes) through the production of a weekly podcast in with a guest scholar, lawyer, or regulator. Students will read relevant work of the guest and develop questions and content for the podcast. Two students will be ""guest producers"" for each podcast and take the lead in selecting questions and materials, and help conduct the interviews." |
| LAW 7199 | International Debt Transactions: Sovereign Debt Crises (4) |
| This course uses the lens of international debt finance to provide students with an advanced course in securities law, corporate law, and contract law. The course has both a theoretical component that involves learning the basics of this multi-trillion dollar market and an experiential one that involves trying to design a debt restructuring plan for the private debt of a country currently in or on the brink of crisis. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 7200 | Trade Secret Law (4) |
| This course will examine the traditional law of trade secrets and the federal statute with the goal of familiarizing students with the theoretical and doctrinal underpinnings of this area of legal practice. | |
| LAW 7201 | Spanish for Lawyers (2) |
| This course will help students develop the language skills and knowledge to properly represent monolingual Spanish-speaking clients. Students will study Spanish language legal vocabulary and practice explaining legal concepts to Spanish speakers. Students will also develop core cultural competency and legal skills. | |
| LAW 7202 | Poverty Law and the Lawyer's Role (3) |
| This class covers major themes in federal poverty law policy and then focuses on national and local policies on specific issues. It will consider the role of lawyers in planning, achieving, and implementing reforms, and particularly the techniques, strategies, challenges, and struggles in ensuring that people living in poverty have access to advocacy. | |
| LAW 7203 | Law and Artificial Intelligence (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) has begun to have profound effects on law and society. Topics will include: algorithmic bias, AI and privacy, tort liability for self-driving cars, autonomous weapon systems and the laws of war, and legal person-hood for artificial intelligences. Introductory classes will include a primer on the present and future of AI technology. |
| LAW 7204 | Barbarian Law (3) |
| In this course, we will study the law codes of the Salian Franks (France), the Lombards (northern Italy), and the Anglo-Saxons (England). We will examine, inter alia, the rules for using fixed payments to buy off the blood feud, the rules for ownership and transfer of property, the rules concerning social status and familial obligations, and the peculiar procedures for deciding lawsuits (trial by ordeal, trial by compurgation, and trial by combat. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 7205 | Second Amendment and Gun Violence Colloquium (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | UVA has initiated a "The Gun Violence Solutions Project" which seeks to harness the intellectual assets of the entire University to develop innovative and effective solutions that will both curb gun violence and pass constitutional scrutiny. This class is designed to be one part of the University's overarching commitment to finding new constitutional methods to decrease gun violence. Course was offered Fall 2024 |
| LAW 7206 | Litigating in Delaware (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This short course will cover Delaware law from litigation lenses. The course will discuss major cases in Delaware courts, pillars of corporate litigation procedure, and recent changes to Delaware law. | |
| LAW 7207 | Constitutional Reform (3) |
| In this course, we will seek to identify problems with American constitutional democracy, and to draft and debate concrete solutions in the form of constitutional amendments: what challenges or problems (if any) does our system of government face that ought to be addressed at the constitutional level, and how should they be addressed? | |
| LAW 7500 | JAG School Course (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | A series of Law courses specific to military application. The series will be designated by different sections of the course. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011 |
| LAW 7501 | Special Topics in Law Short Course (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Various short topics offered at the Law School. Course was offered Spring 2025, January 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, January 2023, Fall 2022, Janiuary 2022 |
| LAW 7502 | Topics in Business Law and Financial Regulation (1 - 3) |
| This is a topics course on issues pertaining to banking law and financial regulation. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 7600 | Admiralty (SC) (1) |
| This short course will examine the basic substantive and procedural doctrines in federal maritime law and compare them to analogous doctrines in other areas of law. Among the topics to be covered are: jurisdiction in admiralty, carriage of goods by sea, collision, personal injury and wrongful death, salvage, and piracy. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2013, January 2012, January 2011, January 2010 | |
| LAW 7602 | Rise of ESG in Corporate Law and Governance (SC) (1) |
| This short course will cover the most current issues with respect to the striking rise of ESG & social responsibility in corporate law and governance. Course was offered January 2023, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7604 | Public Interest Leadership (SC) (1) |
| Most leaders in public interest organizations are elevated to their roles without much formal training in organizational management. New lawyers, especially, often have little insight into how an organization works beyond the narrow work they are assigned to do. Through readings, case studies, active discussion, and in-class exercises and simulations, this course explores a wide range of topics focused on what organizational leadership in these spaces entails. | |
| LAW 7607 | Law Reform and Impact Litigation (SC) (1) |
| Public interest lawyers have long played a critical role supporting and advancing social change in the United States. This course examines the nuts and bolts of engaging in law reform and impact litigation to effectuate systemic change. | |
| LAW 7608 | Plea Bargaining (SC) (1) |
| This short course will focus on plea bargaining and the guilty plea system in modern America. Course was offered Spring 2024, January 2023, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2013, January 2011, January 2010 | |
| LAW 7610 | French Public and Private Law (SC) (1) |
| This short course will study the various sources of French Law, the French Civil Code, the increasing significance of case law and the impact of the European Convention of Human Rights, Towards a European Civil Code, basic principles of contracts and new directions, key notions on torts (recent trends in case law) and modern trends in family law (spouse, so-called Pacs, effects of foreign polygamy and repudiation in France, inheritance). Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, January 2023, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2014, January 2013, January 2012, January 2011, January 2010 | |
| LAW 7611 | The Great Writ (SC) (1) |
| Blackstone described the writ of habeas corpus as "the most celebrated writ in the English law." Today we call it "The Great Writ." In this short course, we will trace the Great Writ from its origins in England to its roll in federal courts today. | |
| LAW 7612 | Genetics and the Law (SC) (1 - 2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This class explores various legal/policy issues that arise in the context of the new genetic technologies. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 7613 | Globalization and Private Dispute Resolution (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course will examine traditional principles of private international law in the context of the rapidly changing global business environment. Areas covered will include the concept of international jurisdiction, choice of law rules in inter-jurisdictional contracts and in internet transactions, the implications of electronic commerce for private international law, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7619 | Start-Up of a Medtech Company (SC) (1) |
| This short course will provide insight into the peculiar issues of the financing of a biotechnology company and will touch on the entrepreneur's evaluation of a scientific opportunity, the business issues in negotiating and drafting a patent license term sheet, the key elements of the business plan, and developing and delivering a power point presentation to potential investors. | |
| LAW 7622 | Introduction to the Law of Trade Secrets (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This short course will examine the traditional law of trade secrets and the federal statutes with the goal of familiarizing students with the basic theoretical and doctrinal underpinnings of this vibrant and dynamic area of legal practice. | |
| LAW 7623 | Public M&A Negotiation (SC) (1) |
| The short course is a simulated negotiation of the most significant issues in public company merger agreements. These issues will include financing, private equity structuring issues, regulatory risk allocation, material adverse changes and deal termination and risks in stock-for-stock deals. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7625 | Introduction to Negotiation (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this short course, students will learn negotiation theories and techniques, and they will apply them to legal situations. |
| LAW 7626 | Oral Presentations In and Out of the Courtroom (SC) (1 - 2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course is designed to help students improve their ability to communicate persuasively in the wide variety of settings in which non-litigators are called upon to speak including client meetings, business negotiations, and presentations to public agencies. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 9053, 9055, and 9185. Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7626, 9053, 9055, or 9185 if any taken previously. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 7629 | Youth Justice Practicum (SC) (1) |
| This short course will explore some of the troubling issues within the current youth justice system with practical development of advocacy skills. Course was offered Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7630 | Corporate Governance - Shareholder Activism (SC) (1) |
| In recent years shareholder activism has emerged as a major force in shaping and influencing corporate governance. This short course will review major sources of this influence: shareholder proposals, proxy advisory companies, index funds activism, and hedge fund activism. Course was offered January 2024, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7632 | Financial Crime: Risks, Risk Management and Compliance (SC) (1) |
| This short course is designed to provide an extensive overview in Financial Crime risks, including a focus on Financial Crime Compliance and Risk Management within a global banking institution. Course was offered January 2010 | |
| LAW 7633 | International and Comparative Family Law (SC) (1) |
| Students will study international and comparative law approaches to family law. The course will cover the role of the state and religion in marriage, divorce, child custody, relocation and abduction, support, and adoption as well as surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproduction. | |
| LAW 7634 | Mediation Law and Practice (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This short course covers prevailing mediation methods along with a survey of case law on legal and ethical issues associated with mediations along with simulated mediation scenarios to develop written and oral advocacy and negotiation skills. | |
| LAW 7635 | Legal Theory in Europe and the US: A Very Brief Introduction (SC) (1) |
| Twentieth-century European legal theory was dominated by the question of what gives law its validity, whereas American legal theorists have been preoccupied with rather different questions. Yet in Europe and the United States, legal theorists have ultimately found themselves worrying about much the same set of problems. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 7636 | Monument Litigation (SC) (1) |
| This short course will examine the process by which monuments commemorating the Confederacy went up and the legal issues presented by attempts to take them down. The instructors were involved in several such cases involving monuments in Virginia. In doing so, we will discuss matters involving government speech, separation of powers, and the law of real property. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2010 | |
| LAW 7637 | Trial Advocacy College (SC) (2) |
| The Trial Advocacy College is a week-long course offered each January through the offices of Virginia Continuing Legal Education (CLE). This advocacy skills, hands-on course is the most advanced advocacy training offered at the law school. Each student gets to practice every aspect of advocacy culminating in a jury trial. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, January 2023, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2014, January 2013, January 2012, January 2011, January 2010 | |
| LAW 7638 | White Collar Criminal Practice (SC) (1) |
| This course will introduce students to the world of white collar prosecution and defense (federal primarily but not exclusively), from investigation to prosecution, through trial, sentencing, and appeal. Course was offered January 2010 | |
| LAW 7639 | Chinese Law (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This short intensive course seeks to offer students a highly selective introduction to the legal and political systems of the People's Republic of China. | |
| LAW 7640 | Jewish Law Jurisprudence: From the Bible to the Rabbis (SC) (1) |
| In this short course, we will focus on two of the formative periods of Jewish law -- biblical law and rabbinic law -- as well as the transition between these periods. We will highlight some of the main legal themes which were formed and crystallized during these periods, and which still provoke creative legal thought on contemporary legal issues. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 7641 | Corporate Strategy (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is an introduction to corporate strategy and performance. |
| LAW 7642 | After Dobbs (SC) (1) |
| In this short course, we will begin traversing the post-Dobbs landscape, with special attention to the difficult questions about access to reproductive care and family support that legislators, law enforcement agents, health care professionals, lawyers, judges, and ordinary people now must confront. Course was offered Fall 2022, January 2010 | |
| LAW 7645 | Baseball (SC) (1) |
| This course examines the effect of various laws and law-like rules on Major League Baseball. Suitable for non-experts and will include (optional) session aimed at bringing them up to speed. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, January 2023, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2014, January 2013, January 2012, January 2011, January 2010 | |
| LAW 7647 | Cryptocurrency Law and Policy (SC) (1) |
| This course will address legal and policy issues related to cryptocurrency. We will study what cryptocurrency is, why people demand it, and what advantages and disadvantages it has compared to conventional money. We will connect cryptocurrency to tax, criminal law, smart contracts, and other legal topics. The course is meant to be complementary to, and not mutually exclusive with, Cryptocurrency Regulation (SC) (LAW 7808). | |
| LAW 7648 | Federal Sentencing (SC) (1) |
| This short course will provide an overview of federal sentencing policy and practice. Students will be introduced to the history and goals of sentencing, the types of sentences available to judges, the collateral consequences of conviction, and the sentencing reform movement that led to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. | |
| LAW 7650 | Litigation and Public Policy (SC) (1) |
| In this course we will discuss issues involved in litigating challenges to government policies, using case examples from the instructor's time in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office and on the bench in the Northern District of California. | |
| LAW 7652 | Voice and Silence in Law and Literature (SC) (1) |
| Participants in this short course will explore the legal, literary, and cultural mechanisms that amplify the voices of some speakers, while silencing the voices of others. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2010 | |
| LAW 7653 | Leadership and Team Management (SC) (1) |
| In this short course we will explore the issues of team management and leadership applied in various settings. Students will learn about how failures in leadership evolve and how to prevent them; how to manage crises effectively; and how to build an organization that is less susceptible to significant preventable failures. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010 | |
| LAW 7655 | Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence (SC) (1) |
| This short course will examine the philosophical foundations of some of the most pressing debates in contemporary constitutional theory, and explore the implications of these debates for how we think about law, politics, and public policy. Some topics that we will discuss include the following: originalism, legal positivism, and the rule of law. Course was offered Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 7657 | When Financial Contracts Blow Up (SC) (1) |
| This short course exposes students to a set of situations where contract provisions risk blowing up a deal (or actually do) and shows them how sophisticated practitioners worked to solve the problems. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 7661 | Feminism and the Free Market (SC) (1) |
| This short course examines the role of markets in promoting (or inhibiting) the full participation of women in society. Course was offered January 2011 | |
| LAW 7664 | War by Other Means: The Law of Economic and Financial Sanctions (SC) (1) |
| This course will provide an introduction to domestic and international legal issues arising from economic and financial sanctions, with an emphasis on sanctions imposed by the United States and its partners outside the U.N. multilateral process. Course was offered January 2023, Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 7665 | Advanced Administrative Law (SC) (1) |
| This course will confront historical and modern controversies in administrative law. Topics will change from year to year, but may include: the appropriate contours of executive, legislative, and judicial control over federal government decisionmaking; the scope of judicial review of agency action; and the meaning of major statutes, such as the Administrative Procedure Act, governing the administrative state. | |
| LAW 7667 | Global Transactions: Key Issues and Contract Drafting (SC) (1 - 2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course will cover the content and structure of different types of agreements used in cross-border business transactions, as well as the process by which these agreements are negotiated, the role of the lawyer in identifying and resolving underlying commercial issues, and the allocation of responsibility for decision-making between business leaders and lawyers. |
| LAW 7668 | Corporate Democracy: The Proxy Fight (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In American corporate governance, a "proxy fight" occurs when one or more dissident candidates challenge the board's own nominees for election to the board of directors. In the last few years, the rise of shareholder activism and major changes to the SEC's proxy regulations have reinvigorated the proxy fight as a shareholder tool. This Course will explore the proxy fight, with an emphasis on current trends. Course was offered Fall 2024, January 2011 |
| LAW 7677 | Government Ethics (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This is a policy-making short course focused on a controversial, highly-relevant, and rapidly-evolving public policy issue -- "government ethics" (for this short course, the laws governing lobbying and campaign finance). The class provides students with an opportunity to strengthen both their writing and advocacy skills in a simulated "study committee" setting. | |
| LAW 7679 | Parental Choice in K-12 Education (SC) (1) |
| This short course examines contemporary controversies, influences, research, and roles surrounding school choice programs. | |
| LAW 7680 | Evolution of Holistic Defense (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the foundation of transformative justice through a lens of holistic defense. |
| LAW 7681 | Corporate Law as Innovation (SC) (1) |
| This short course will explore a historical sequence of important innovations in the design of corporate law, emphasizing the creativity that drives the field. Course was offered Spring 2024, January 2012 | |
| LAW 7685 | Crimmigration: Intersection of Criminal and Immigration Law (SC) (1) |
| This short course addresses the intersection of the immigration and criminal justice systems. Course was offered Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 7686 | Investigating Presidents (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this short course, students will examine the role of a special counsel investigating a president. |
| LAW 7687 | The Institutional Supreme Court (SC) (1) |
| This course will examine the Supreme Court from the perspective of its institutional role and the behavior of its members and of those whose professional lives circle around it. Since our aim is a better understanding of how constitutional law is made, the focus will be on the making, rather than on the substantive law. The readings are drawn primarily from political science and judicial behavior literature, along with recent Supreme Court opinions. | |
| LAW 7688 | Law of Artificial Intelligence (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This course introduces students to various topics within the broader field of artificial intelligence law. Course was offered January 2024, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 7689 | Internet Law (SC) (1 - 2) |
| This short course introduces students to various topics within the broader field of internet law. Course was offered January 2012 | |
| LAW 7690 | Health Care Marketplace: Competition, Regulation, and Reform (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course will examine salient features of the legal and economic framework in which we provide medical care in the United States. Course was offered Fall 2024, January 2023, January 2020, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2013, January 2012 |
| LAW 7692 | Persuasion (SC) (1) |
| This short course offers a quick but intensive training course in effective verbal communications. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, January 2023, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2014, January 2013 | |
| LAW 7694 | New Frontiers in Neuroethics and Law (SC) (1) |
| This intensive interdisciplinary experience brings medical students and law students together for two-weeks to explore topical issues at the frontier of clinical care, law, and neuroethics through multidisciplinary readings, immersion experiences, hands-on interdisciplinary group projects, and in-depth discussions. | |
| LAW 7695 | Corporate Litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery (SC) (1) |
| This course will explore corporate litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation's preeminent forum for resolving business disputes, from a doctrinal and practical perspective. It will introduce students to the Court's unique features and role in the world of corporate litigation. Course was offered January 2023 | |
| LAW 7699 | The In-House Lawyer: Duties and Tensions (SC) (1) |
| At the most basic level, it is easy to conceive of the role of a general counsel as giving advice to the entity and its agents on what the law requires, and what it prohibits. In practice, the general counsel is rarely called upon, or even able, to provide a simple up or down judgment about a proposed course of action. This course will examine the duties and tensions that attend the role. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 7700 | European Union Law (SC) (1) |
| This short course offers a introductory survey of the constitutional and legal structure of the European Union. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| LAW 7701 | Mutual Fund Regulation (SC) (1 - 2) |
| The course will focus on the federal regulation of investment companies (mutual funds, close-end funds, ETFS) and their investment advisors. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| LAW 7702 | Legal Practice and the Startup Company: An Inside Look (SC) (1) |
| This short course will provide students with a unique perspective into the many aspects of a start-up business - from creation and capitalization to IP protection and skills needed for day-to-day operations. Students will engage and explore business planning, entity choice, governance, financing, and exit opportunities. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, January 2023, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2014, January 2013 | |
| LAW 7705 | International Settlement of Disputes: Methods and Forums (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course aims to provide an understanding of the fundamental principles of public international law pertaining to settlement of disputes between states, the procedures (methods) available and the institutions (forums) that makes up the settlement system. Course was offered Fall 2024 |
| LAW 7706 | Cyber Security and Privacy Boot Camp (SC) (1) |
| This short simulaton course helps prepare students for the nuts and bolts of cyber security and privacy practice. Course was offered January 2025 | |
| LAW 7712 | Energy & Environmental Products Trading and Commodities Regulation (SC) (1) |
| This class will provide a comprehensive overview of energy trading and commodities regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including with respect to traditional energy products (such as natural gas, power, crude oil and coal), and environmental products (such as carbon offsets, acid rain allowances, and renewable energy credits). Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| LAW 7713 | Federalism (SC) (1) |
| This course will explore the division of authority between the states and the national government. We will focus on the "federalism revolution" in the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts, paying attention to recent decisions about the limits on federal regulatory power and federal court jurisdiction. Grades will be based on class participation and a writing assignment. Course was offered January 2024, January 2023, Janiuary 2022, January 2017, January 2016, January 2014 | |
| LAW 7715 | Critical Race Theory (SC) (1) |
| This course will examine the foundations of Critical Race Theory, a scholarly movement that began in the 1980s. The course will apply core principles of CRT to contemporary legal challenges. | |
| LAW 7721 | Building the Rule of Law (SC) (1) |
| How do less-developed countries and nations in transition, independently or with outside assistance, facilitate the rule of law? This seminar will explore that question through the writings and experience of scholars, policymakers, and others working in the field of law and development. Course was offered January 2021, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015, January 2014 | |
| LAW 7724 | Cannabis Legalization (SC) (1) |
| This short course will examine various cannabis legalization regimes, both domestically and internationally, with a focus on the market and financial aspects of legalization. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2014 | |
| LAW 7728 | Reproductive Ethics and Law (SC) (1) |
| The course will examine ethical & legal issues related to reproduction. While some historical coverage will take place, primary emphasis will be on current topics, such as abortion regulation, coerced medical interventions, conscientous provider accommodations, state ultrasound legislation, prenatal genetic testing, the pregnant woman in research, & regulation of the fertility industry. Course was offered Spring 2025, January 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 7730 | Lawyers, Clerks, and Judicial Decisionmaking (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the process of judicial decision-making and how lawyers influence those decisions, and how law clerks aid in the process, with a focus on analytical, writing, and communication skills that aid in the process. |
| LAW 7732 | Constitutional Law of Cyberspace Operations (SC) (1) |
| This short course explores the constitutional dimensions of U.S. cyberspace operations. Course was offered Fall 2014 | |
| LAW 7737 | Corporate Transactions: Start-up to Exit (SC) (1) |
| This course will concentrate on the business lawyer's role in three significant stages of a company's development with an emphasis on the practical elements that enable lawyers to contribute to successful client outcomes. Prerequisite: JD student and LAW 6103 or LAW 6109 Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 7738 | Israeli Business Law and Innovation (SC) (2) |
| This J-term course, taught in Israel, will familiarize students with the unique legal aspects of Israel's entrepreneurial culture through a series of lectures, meetings with practitioners, businesses and government institutions. Course was offered January 2023, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016, January 2015 | |
| LAW 7740 | Advising Boards of Directors (Public and Private Equity) Under Siege (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | We will explore how to advise boards of directors, and private equity firms, when their companies face capital structure challenges. |
| LAW 7742 | Management of BigLaw Firms: Balancing Culture and Profits (SC) (1) |
| This course is designed to provide students with a practical perspective on the governance and management of global law firms and how the structure of firms manifests itself in the culture of a firm. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 7743 | Cultural Property (SC) (1) |
| This short course examines the legal regimes that regulate interests in cultural property. Topics include the repatriation of antiquities, the rights of artists to control or profit from their works, and the enforcement of limitations on access to documents of significant public interest. The course also examines the property rights of indigenous peoples in cultural artifacts and traditional knowledge. | |
| LAW 7759 | Exercises in Rule-Making - Society, Technology and the Law (SC) (1 - 2) |
| Deciding on an appropriate rule involves a complex process that implicates social norms, available scientific evidence, and policy goals. The introduction of new technologies or making better use of existing ones, or in facing suboptimal performances, highlight the need for sensible rulemaking. | |
| LAW 7762 | Political Prisoners (SC) (1) |
| This short course will explore the genealogy and contested contemporary use of the category "political prisoner." | |
| LAW 7764 | Concepts in Policing: Challenges and Application (SC) (1) |
| This short course will focus on selected topics that pose contentious policy challenges for law enforcement, including crafting and implementing effective crime control strategies, implementing investigative practices that are both fair and useful, establishing rules to govern investigations of political activity, and calibrating use of force policies to maximize both officer and civilian safety. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 7765 | Personal Data Protection in Europe (SC) (1) |
| This class will introduce students to the basic concepts and principles of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and reflect on the current challenges the GDPR is facing, most notably the question of data transfers between the US and Europe. Course was offered Fall 2022 | |
| LAW 7769 | The Evolving AI Governance Landscape (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course will explore pressing issues in AI governance, the underlying perspectives and motivations of the different players in AI governance debates around the world, and areas where legislative and regulatory activity is most active. Course was offered Spring 2025, January 2018 |
| LAW 7773 | Inside the Boardroom (SC) (1) |
| The course will focus on the responsibilities of public company Boards of Directors and the issues Boards deal with from the routine to crisis management. Emphasis will be on practical knowledge which will enable lawyers to understand the Board process and how various aspects of law impact the Boardroom. | |
| LAW 7779 | Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions of private companies is very different from public company transactions. This course explores the structuring and negotiating of private deals by strategic (another company) and financial (private equity) purchasers through detailed discussion of and exercises focused on actual transactions. |
| LAW 7782 | Wildlife Advocacy (SC) (1) |
| This short course will teach students how to use professional skills to protect free-ranging wild animals. This course will introduce wildlife biology and animal ethics as they relate to various areas of federal and state law (including constitutional, statutory, and administrative law). Via several in-class simulations, students will practice how to protect free-ranging wildlife using a variety of regulatory and advocacy tools. Course was offered January 2019 | |
| LAW 7786 | Current Topics in Law, Medicine, and Society (SC) (1) |
| This discussion-based course will examine in depth a number of current topics in law, medicine, and society, such as organ transplantation, recent human research scandals, vaccination policy, unilateral treatment withdrawal, and posthumous reproduction. Topics vary year to year. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 | |
| LAW 7787 | Negotiating a Joint Venture in China (SC) (1) |
| Through a simulation oriented course, students will be exposed to recent economic history of the People's Republic of China, foreign direct investment law of China, and negotiating norms of US and Chinese investors. | |
| LAW 7788 | Science and the Courts (SC) (1) |
| An examination of the numerous and increasingly sophisticated ways in which science and scientific evidence impacts the legal system and how scientifically unsophisticated judges try to deal with it. Course was offered January 2024, January 2023, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019 | |
| LAW 7789 | Federal Practice & Procedure (SC) (1) |
| This short course will explore federal trial and appellate court practice through a very practical lens. We will think about litigation strategy and federal court theory as we survey and discuss the federal court criminal and civil docket. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills that will be particularly useful for future federal law clerks. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2019 | |
| LAW 7791 | Defining Leadership Moments (SC) (1) |
| This short course will develop managerial and leadership competencies through the case method and course dialogue. Readings include organizational psychology research and cases featuring UVA alumni and defining moments in their careers. | |
| LAW 7795 | Art Law (SC) (1 - 3) |
| This short course will introduce students to the practice of "art law,' which lies at the intersection of several bodies of law. Contract doctrines such as meetings of minds, mistakes of fact, warranties, and good faith will be explored. The Uniform Commercial Code, which is the primary regulatory schema in the U.S. governing disputes over art transactions, including claims of looted art and fake art, will also be studied. | |
| LAW 7797 | Economic Statecraft and Public International Law (SC) (1) |
| This course will examine the legal tools and frameworks available to United States government policymakers in dealing with threats from states and non-state actors. These tools -- most notably sanctions -- allow the government to use coercive measures to promote peace and security, further foreign policy objectives, and stem the rise of terrorism. | |
| LAW 7798 | The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation (SC) (1) |
| The course will focus on the prudential regulation of banking through capital, liquidity, and related requirements. It will begin by describing the business of banking before turning to prudential regulation and finishing with an in-depth look at the Liquidity Coverage Ratio in Basel III. | |
| LAW 7799 | Topics in Public Equity Investing (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course focuses on public equity investing and related company analysis. The course is designed to give students a practical understanding of how professional equity investors at large investment firms analyze companies and make investment decisions. |
| LAW 7801 | Antitrust in the Digital Economy (SC) (1 - 2) |
| "Tech giants now rank among the largest and most valuable companies in history. This course will explore the implications of ""big data"" and economic concentration in the New Economy, and whether and to what extent antitrust law is the proper mechanism to address issues like consumer privacy, filter bubbles, ""fake news,"" and the financial challenges facing journalism, print media, and brick-and-mortar businesses." | |
| LAW 7805 | Founders and Foes (SC) (1) |
| This course will explore the arguments for and against our great Constitution. Only by understanding the original debates can you understand the document's original meaning. And to understand the original debates you cannot read the Federalist Papers alone. During this class, we will have the opportunity to discuss the reasons for and against the Constitution, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Power, and the need for the Bill of Rights. | |
| LAW 7808 | Cryptocurrency Regulation (SC) (1) |
| The short course will review federal regulations and legal issues involving cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and initial coin offerings. This class explores the interplay of different federal regulators of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, including principally the SEC and the CFTC. Criminal laws as they relate to emerging technology of cryptocurrencies and digital assets also considered in context of DOJ criminal prosecutions. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| LAW 7810 | Music Law: Analytical and Client Management Skills (SC) (1) |
| In this course, students will learn how to analyze client goals, manage client preferences and risks, negotiate and structure agreements from opposing viewpoints, and provide comprehensive legal services to different players in the music industry. | |
| LAW 7811 | Deals (3) |
| This course focuses on the common economic problems, such as moral hazard, information asymmetry, and rent-seeking, that drive deal structuring and deal contracting. Students will apply economic tools, such as alternative contractual regimes, transaction costs, and risk-sharing to evaluate and solve economic problems in a variety of real-world deals. Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 7812 | Title IX: The Law and Policy of Sex Discrimination in Education (SC) (1) |
| This course will examine the history of discrimination against girls and women that led to the enactment of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as well as current Title IX law and policy. We will assess Title IX's application to athletics, sexual harassment and single-sex schools as well as other topics as time permits. Course was offered Janiuary 2022 | |
| LAW 7816 | Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowships (SC) (1) |
| Developing a successful project proposal for a postgraduate public interest fellowship requires multifaceted research, creativity, and strategic advocacy. In this class, students interested in becoming public interest attorneys will learn about the process for developing a fellowship project; conduct research about a timely legal problem that motivates them; and design, in collaboration with others, the foundations for a compelling project. | |
| LAW 7820 | Higher Education and the Law (SC) (1) |
| This course will introduce students to the legal and institutional complexities that are encountered by institutions of higher education. Students will examine the social and political factors that impact the programs and systems that shape higher education. Students will learn to apply legal concepts to the varied issues that are encountered in higher education settings. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 7821 | Advancing the Commitment to Service Through Law Firm Pro Bono (SC) (1) |
| This short course will explore the history of pro bono at law firms, how law firms partner with public interest organizations on impact litigation and policy reform, how law firms measure social impact, and the relationship between pro bono and other aspects of law firm practice and culture. | |
| LAW 7823 | Reproductive Rights and Justice (SC) (1) |
| This short course explores Reproductive Justice as a paradigm for understanding reproductive oppression -- that is, the subordination of individuals through their bodies, sexualities, and abilities to reproduce. Course was offered January 2025, January 2021 | |
| LAW 7825 | Internal Investigations (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This short course will explore why internal investigations are initiated, how they are conducted, and what remedial actions may follow from their results. The course will combine practical considerations that impact internal investigations with the legal parameters controlling them. Course work will be a combination of lectures, discussions, and skills work such as conducting interviews and developing investigative plans. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2021 |
| LAW 7826 | Truth, Lies and Statistics for Lawyers (SC) (1) |
| This class will cover the basics of statistical analysis as relevant to lawyers. Course was offered Janiuary 2022, January 2021 | |
| LAW 7827 | Global Business and International Corruption (SC) (1) |
| This course will cover the development of U.S. and international initiatives against public-official bribery; address cutting edge issues around key provisions of the FCPA and its extraterritorial application; related offenses such as money laundering and private sector bribery; and the anti-corruption legal practice, both before the DOJ and SEC, and advising clients. | |
| LAW 7829 | Real Estate Transactions and Litigation (SC) (1) |
| This short course will provide an overview of the issues most frequently encountered by real estate practitioners. | |
| LAW 8000 | Advanced Legal Research (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines print and electronic research. Topics include basic primary and secondary sources, including legislative history and administrative law; using Lexis and Westlaw; research in specialized areas and transnational law; business and social science resources; the role of the Internet in legal research; and nontraditional approaches to finding legal information. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8002 | Bankruptcy (Law & Business) (3 - 4) |
| This course concerns corporate bankruptcy and reorganization, and focuses on the reorganization of financially distressed firms under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The emphasis of the readings and class discussion is less on bankruptcy case law and more on the economic fundamentals of financial deal-making and restructuring. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7007 Bankruptcy.
Prerequisite: Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7007 or 8002 if either taken previously. Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8003 | Civil Rights Litigation (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course focuses on lawsuits against public officials and governments. The bulk of the course looks at constitutional and statutory claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Topics include what it means to act "under color of state law," absolute and qualified immunities, government liability for the acts of individual officials, monetary and injunctive relief and attorney's fees awards. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8004 | Constitutional Law II: Freedom of Speech and Press (3) |
| This course offers an intensive, albeit introductory, study of First Amendment law relating to freedom of speech and press (and corollary freedoms, such as freedom of political association). Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8006 | Corporate Tax (3 - 4) |
| This course deals with the tax considerations involved in the formation, operation, reorganization, and liquidation of corporations. It analyzes the relevant sections of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations and explores alternative directions that the law might have taken. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8007 | Derivatives Markets and Their Regulations (3) |
| This course studies financial instruments other than common stock and conventional debt securities. Topics include options and financial futures, structured preferred stocks, exotic debt securities such as commodity-linked bonds, and swap agreements. What is the economic function of these instruments; how are they valued; and how are they treated by the regulatory system? | |
| LAW 8009 | Copyright Law (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The federal copyright statute protects rights in literary and artistic property. Topics covered in this course include the subject matter of copyright; ownership; formalities; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; rights and remedies of copyright owners; pre-emption of state copyright laws; the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8010 | Patent Law (3 - 4) |
| Patent protection is increasingly important in the knowledge economy. Advances in biotechnology, controversial uses of patent rights, and divergent court opinions are impacting this area in far-reaching ways. This course will explore many of these developments while maintaining a primary focus on the principal rules pertaining to patent protection and enforcement. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8011 | International Taxation (3) |
| A survey of the income tax aspects of (1) foreign income earned by U.S. persons and entities, and (2) U.S. income earned by foreign persons and entities. The principal focus will be on the U.S. tax system, but some attention will be devoted to adjustments made between tax regimes of different countries through tax credits and tax treaties. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8012 | Legal Issues in Corporate Finance (Law & Business) (3) |
| This course examines legal issues that arise from different financing choices made by corporations, the relationship between a corporation and its investors, and how the courts have treated that relationship. Topics include firm valuation in change-of-control transactions and in bankruptcy, the rights of debt-holders and preferred stockholders, and common stockholders' claims to dividends. | |
| LAW 8013 | Mergers and Acquisitions (2 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course focuses on the corporate and securities law issues relevant to mergers and acquisitions, including the Williams Act; state statutory and case law; as well as important forms of private ordering such as poison pills, lockups, earnouts, and the allocation of risks by the acquisition agreement. Relevant accounting and tax issues will be covered as well. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8015 | Partnership Tax (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will examine the basic principles in the application of the federal income tax to partnerships and their partners. Due to recent changes in the law, an increasing number of private firms, whether or not organized as partnerships, will be subject to these rules in the future. The course is taught by using problems that illustrate the principles discussed in class. |
| LAW 8016 | Securities Regulation (3 - 4) |
| The course will examine the federal statutes and regulations relating to the sale of securities and the duties of issuers, underwriters, brokers, dealers, officers, directors, controlling persons, and other significant market participants. We will discuss the regulation of public and private offerings, trading markets, and disclosure and corporate governance of publicly traded companies.
Enrollment not allowed in LAW 8016 or 8017 if either taken previously. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8017 | Securities Regulation (Law & Business) (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course will examine the federal statutes and regulations relating to the sale of securities and the duties of issuers, underwriters, brokers, dealers, officers, directors, and other market participants. Topics will include the regulation of public and private offerings, trading markets, accounting standards, the lawyer's role in verifying financial information, and the use of finance theory in securities litigation. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2013 |
| LAW 8018 | Trusts and Estates (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course will cover intestate succession; requirements for the execution, revocation, republication, and revival of wills and codicils; probate procedure and grounds for will contests; requisites for the creation and termination of private trusts; inter vivos transactions that serve as will substitutes; planning for incapacity; and problems in the interpretation of wills. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8019 | Virginia Practice and Procedure (3) |
| The course is organized and presented primarily for students who intend to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The course includes a study of the Virginia judicial system and problems of jurisdiction and venue within that system; pleading and practice both at law and in equity; a study of the Rules of Court; and the procedural statutes and applicable case law. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8020 | Problem-Solving in the Public Interest (2) |
| We will scrutinize public interest lawyering as an interconnected field of practice that encompasses traditional legal techniques (such as litigation), as well as other social change tactics, including community organizing, media outreach, and policy advocacy. | |
| LAW 8026 | Taking Effective Depositions (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this course, students will learn in detail the rules and procedures associated with taking depositions in federal litigation. This is a hands-on, practical problem simulation course.
Prerequisite: LAW 6000 Civil Procedure and LAW 6104 Evidence Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016 |
| LAW 8500 | Study Abroad (12) |
| This student-initiated study abroad program permits students to spend one semester studying law in a foreign university law school or law department and complete a research paper written as part of the study abroad experience under the supervision of a selected Virginia law professor. | |
| LAW 8505 | Clinical Topics (1 - 5) |
| A series of Law clinics. The series will be designated by different sections of the course. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 8602 | Appellate Litigation Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This yearlong clinical course provides students the opportunity to brief and argue one or more appeals before a federal appeals court. The rules and procedures applicable in the federal appellate system will be examined. Fundamentals of oral and written appellate advocacy will be discussed, with a focus on each student's individual work project. |
| LAW 8603 | Appellate Litigation Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinical course providing students the opportunity to brief and argue one or more appeals before a federal appeals court. The rules and procedures applicable in the federal appellate system will be examined. Fundamentals of oral and written appellate advocacy will be discussed, with a focus on each student's individual work project. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8606 | Youth Advocacy Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic. Students may represent children with legal issues in the areas of education law, laws governing access to services for incarcerated children, mental health and developmental disabilities law, and foster care and social services law. Students will be given an opportunity to work on policy issues. |
| LAW 8607 | Youth Advocacy Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinic offered in conjunction with JustChildren, a program of the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville. Students may represent children with legal issues in the areas of education law, laws governing access to services for incarcerated children, mental health and developmental disabilities law, and foster care and social services law. Students will be given an opportunity to work on policy issues. Prerequisite: 2nd-year or 3rd-year Law Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8608 | Criminal Defense Clinic (5) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The semester-long Criminal Defense Clinic provides a first-hand, experience-based study of the processes, techniques, strategy, and responsibilities of legal representation at the trial level. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8609 | Workplace Rights Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic designed to give students first-hand experience in the practice of employment law, from both the plaintiff and defense side. |
| LAW 8610 | Workplace Rights Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinic offered in cooperation with the Legal Aid Justice Center and local attorneys. The clinic is designed to give students first-hand experience in the practice of employment law, from both the plaintiff and defense side. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8613 | Project for Informed Reform Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | There is currently a groundswell for criminal justice reform. At the same time, much is being written about the lack of hard facts and reliable data to inform these changes. This is the first half course of a year-long clinic that aims to step into that void and take on collaborative projects to produce those hard facts and reliable data for all types of organizations in the criminal justice reform movement needing that information. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8614 | Housing Litigation Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic where students develop trial skills using housing law as the substantive background, and eligible students appear and argue in local courts. |
| LAW 8615 | Housing Litigation Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered in conjunction with the Legal Aid Justice Center, this is the second semester of a year-long clinic that teaches and develops trial skills using housing law as the substantive background, and eligible students appear and argue in local courts. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8617 | International Human Rights Law Clinic (4) |
| This semester-long clinical course gives students first-hand experience in human rights advocacy under the supervision of international human rights lawyers. Projects provide practical experience with activities lawyers engage in to promote respect for human rights; build the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective human rights lawyers; and integrate the theory and practice of human rights. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8620 | Patent and Licensing Clinic (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This clinic involves instruction and practical training in patent drafting as well as the negotiation and drafting of patent and software license agreements. Topics include the evaluation of inventions and computer software; preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications; dealing with patent examiners; and researching intellectual property issues and technology transfer. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8621 | Advanced Patent and Licensing Clinic (2) |
| In this clinic, students can choose to work exclusively with patent attorneys drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications or working exclusively with licensing agents to draft license agreements, negotiate licensing terms and conditions, prepare confidentiality agreements, and marketing documents. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8622 | Prosecution Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic in which students explore a range of practical, ethical, and intellectual issues involved in the discharge of a prosecutor's duties and responsibilities including discovery and exculpatory evidence, duty not to prosecute on less than probable cause, cross-warrant situations, prosecution of multiple defendants and joint trial, witness recantation and preparation, and improper argument at trial. |
| LAW 8623 | Prosecution Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinic in which students explore a range of practical, ethical, and intellectual issues involved in the discharge of a prosecutor's duties and responsibilities including discovery and exculpatory evidence, duty not to prosecute on less than probable cause, cross-warrant situations, prosecution of multiple defendants and joint trial, witness recantation and preparation, and improper argument at trial. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8624 | Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (YR) (4 - 6) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic introducing students to all aspects of current U.S. Supreme Court practice through live cases. Working on teams, students will handle actual cases from the seeking of Supreme Court review to briefing on the merits. |
| LAW 8625 | Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinic introducing students to all aspects of current U.S. Supreme Court practice through live cases. Working on teams, students will handle actual cases from the seeking of Supreme Court review to briefing on the merits. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8626 | Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (1-term) (4) |
| This one-semester clinic introduces students to all aspects of current U.S. Supreme Court practice through live cases. Working on teams, students will handle actual cases from the seeking of Supreme Court review to briefing on the merits. | |
| LAW 8628 | Innocence Project Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic to investigate three potential wrongful convictions of incarcerated individuals in the state of Virginia. One case will have forensic evidence (usually DNA) that could potentially be tested, and two will be non-DNA cases. Student will interview potential clients and witnesses, review case files, collect records, search court files and more. |
| LAW 8629 | Innocence Project Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinic to investigate three potential wrongful convictions of incarcerated individuals in the state of Virginia. One case will have forensic evidence (usually DNA) that could potentially be tested, and two will be non-DNA cases. Student will interview potential clients and witnesses, review case files, collect records, search court files and more. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8632 | Nonprofit Clinic (YR) (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinical course providing students the opportunity to work with nonprofit organizations and assist with legal issues in their formation and day-to-day operations. |
| LAW 8633 | Nonprofit Clinic (YR) (3) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinical course providing students the opportunity to work with nonprofit organizations and assist with legal issues in their formation and day-to-day operations. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8634 | First Amendment Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinical course offering law students the opportunity to gain practical legal experience involving timely free speech and press issues. |
| LAW 8635 | First Amendment Clinic (YR) (3 - 4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong clinical course offering law students the opportunity to gain practical legal experience involving timely free speech and press issues. Supervised by the legal staff of the Thomas Jefferson Center, students work as a team in conducting legal research, meeting with clients and co-counsel, and drafting legal memoranda and briefs. Prerequisite:2nd-year or 3rd-year Law Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 8637 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (3) |
| The clinic involves instruction and practical training on advising start-up companies and drafting basic corporate documentation. As part of the clinic, students will work with and advise Darden students who have been accepted to participate in the Darden Business Incubator. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 8638 | International Human Rights Law Clinic (YR) (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a year-long clinical course that gives students first-hand experience in human rights advocacy under the supervision of international human rights lawyers. |
| LAW 8639 | International Human Rights Law Clinic (YR) (3) |
| This is the second semester of a year-long clinical course that gives students first-hand experience in human rights advocacy under the supervision of international human rights lawyers. Prerequisite: 2-yr or 3-yr JD LAW Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| LAW 8640 | Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (4 - 6) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic fits within the Law School's Program in Law, Communities, and the Environment (PLACE). Students in this semester-long clinic have the opportunity to work on real-world environmental cases in a variety of venues - before courts, administrative agencies and public utility commissions. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013 |
| LAW 8643 | Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong course that requires students to participate in case work in both the fall and spring semesters. Students will learn basic information about various consumer protection statutes while doing exercises covering the entire range of client representation. |
| LAW 8644 | Economic and Consumer Justice Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong course that requires students to participate in case work in both the fall and spring semesters. In addition, in the fall, there will be a seminar which will meet once a week. Students will learn basic information about various consumer protection statutes while doing exercises covering the entire range of client representation. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 8645 | Health and Disability Law Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong clinic in which students represent low-income clients in a variety of legal matters pertaining to their health needs. |
| LAW 8646 | Health and Disability Law Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Students in this second semester of a yearlong clinic represent mentally ill and elderly clients in legal proceedings, negotiations, administrative hearings and court proceedings (to the extent permitted by law) on a variety of legal matters. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 8647 | Immigration Law Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this 1st semester of a year-long clinic, clients come from diverse backgrounds and frequently have unusual factual scenarios that bring them to the doors of Legal Aid. Students will be expected to work with the clients and understand what they want and what can be pursued through available legal mechanisms. The Clinic will focus on complicated asylum cases arising out of emerging areas of the law as well as other cases. |
| LAW 8648 | Immigration Law Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the 2nd half of a year-long clinic (LAW 8647 & LAW 8648) Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018 | |
| LAW 8649 | Civil Rights Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this clinic, students will work on cases that have potential to provide real and concrete relief and legal support to people and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights. Students will provide direct representation to individual clients as well as engage in impact advocacy. |
| LAW 8650 | Workplace Rights Clinic (1-term) (4) |
| This is single-semester clinic offered in cooperation with the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) and local attorneys. The clinic is designed to give students first-hand experience in the practice of employment law. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| LAW 8651 | Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financing: Principles and Practice (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course deals with legal and business issues that arise in representing emerging-growth technology companies, with a particular emphasis on venture capital transactions, liquidity events, intellectual property, and corporate formation, governance, and capital structure. |
| LAW 8652 | Emerging Markets: Principles and Practice (3) |
| This seminar explores the legal and regulatory structures affecting foreign investors seeking to participate in the development of so-called "emerging markets" and in particular in the restructuring of formerly socialist economies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8655 | Estate Planning: Principles and Practice (3) |
| This seminar considers the principal tax and non-tax aspects of estate planning, with emphasis on sophisticated tax planning techniques for wealthy individuals. Prerequisites: 2nd - or 3rd - year JD Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8656 | Applied Trial Evidence (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the most common evidentiary challenges in litigation, in addition to covering important trial strategy and components (opening & closing statements, and jury selection). The keys to success include forms of proof where the factual foundations are challenging, the law demands unexpected elements to support offered proof, or the unwritten aspects of trial practice interfere with "textbook" efforts to get proof in the record. Course was offered Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 8657 | Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (1-term) (4) |
| This is a single-semester clinic for students to explore consequences arising from mass incarceration and developing legal skills to support formerly incarcerated clients and families with resolving collaterial consequences of incarceration. | |
| LAW 8659 | Drug Product Liability Litigation: Principles and Practice (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will consider the theory and practice of drug product liability litigation lawsuits before, and now after, the Supreme Court's recent landmark decision in Wyeth v. Levine (2009). We will consider the legal principles governing such lawsuits, such as inadequate warning; the learned intermediary doctrine; and medical causation. |
| LAW 8660 | International Tax Practicum - Fall (YR) (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the 1st semester of a year-long course using a mock litigation as a lens for studying issues in international tax law. The case study may implicate domestic tax law of any jurisdiction, tax treaties, and EU law. Students will be given a fact-pattern and will identify legal issues raised by the fact pattern. Students will draft briefs for both the government and taxpayer on the issues raised by the mock litigation. |
| LAW 8661 | International Tax Practicum - Spring (YR) (1) |
| This is the 2nd semester of a year-long course using a mock litigation as a lens for studying issues in international tax law. The case study may implicate domestic tax law of any jurisdiction, tax treaties, and EU law. Students will be given a fact-pattern and will identify legal issues raised by the fact pattern. Students will draft briefs for both the government and taxpayer on the issues raised by the mock litigation. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 8664 | Civil Rights Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the 2nd half of a year-long Civil Rights Clinic in which students work on cases that have potential to provide real and concrete relief and legal support to people and communities that have been harmed by the criminalization of poverty and other forms of discrimination or deprivation of rights. | |
| LAW 8665 | State and Local Government Policy Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is the first half of a year-long clinic. Students in this clinic provide research and analytical assistance to members of the Virginia General Assembly, officials in state executive branch agencies, and/or local government officials as they develop legislative or policy proposals and, when appropriate, assist their government clients in advocating for the proposals or legislative ideas they develop. |
| LAW 8666 | State and Local Government Policy Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This course is the second half of a year-long clinic. Students in this clinic provide research and analytical assistance to members of the Virginia General Assembly, officials in state executive branch agencies, and/or local government officials as they develop legislative or policy proposals and, when appropriate, assist their government clients in advocating for the proposals or legislative ideas they develop. | |
| LAW 8667 | Federal Criminal Sentencing Advocacy Clinic (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Many federal defendants are serving sentences in excess of what they would receive for the same offense today, due to errors in the original case, changes in law that were not made retroactive, and/or evolving community standards. Students in this clinic will work to reduce the sentences of indigent federal defendants and gives students a unique opportunity to practice in federal court. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 |
| LAW 8668 | Advanced Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic (2 - 3) |
| This course focuses on the common economic problems, such as moral hazard, information asymmetry, and rent-seeking, that drive deal structuring and deal contracting. Students will apply economic tools, such as alternative contractual regimes, transaction costs, and risk-sharing to evaluate and solve economic problems in a variety of real-world deals. | |
| LAW 8669 | Holistic Youth Defense Clinic (5) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The Holistic Youth Defense Clinic will provide students an opportunity to practice holistic and zealous lawyering by representing juvenile clients on delinquency matters, as well as related school discipline and special education matters, in order to help keep youth in their homes, schools, and communities with appropriate supports. Law students will have the opportunity to handle cases from the initial intake to the case disposition. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 |
| LAW 8671 | Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic I (3 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic teaches structured, team-based problem solving through collaborative engagement with community groups. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 |
| LAW 8672 | Community Organization and Social Enterprise Clinic II (3 - 4) |
| The clinic can be taken whether or not a student has taken LAW 8671 (Comm Org & Soc Ent Clinic I). The clinic assists clients with structured, team-based problem solving through collaborative engagement with community groups. | |
| LAW 8673 | Advanced International Human Rights Clinic (3) |
| Students who have completed the International Human Rights Clinic may take this offering by instructor permission to obtain advanced practical experience with activities lawyers engage in to promote respect for human rights. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 8674 | Project for Informed Reform Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second half of a year-long clinic aiming to take on collaborative projects to produce hard facts and reliable data for all types of organizations in the criminal justice reform movement needing that information. | |
| LAW 8675 | Advanced Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course builds on work undertaken in the introductory clinic, giving students an opportunity to progress in litigation, policy, and community education projects. |
| LAW 8676 | International Tax Practicum - 1 Term (2) |
| This is a single-semester course using a mock litigation and an international tax competition as a lens for studying issues in international tax law. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 8677 | Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (YR) (4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a year-long clinic for students to explore consequences arising from mass incarceration and developing legal skills to support formerly incarcerated clients and families with resolving collaterial consequences of incarceration. Course was offered Fall 2024 |
| LAW 8678 | Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic (YR) (4) |
| This is the second half course of a year-long clinic to develop legal skills for supporting formerly incarcerated people and their families with resolving the collateral consequences of incarceration, while empowering their clients and the communities to which they return to create sustainable systemic change and drive community economic development. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 8800 | Legal Writing Fellow (YR) (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong practicum in which selected upper-level students serve as teaching assistants in the law school's Legal Research and Writing Program. |
| LAW 8801 | Legal Writing Fellow (YR) (1) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong practicum in which selected upper-level students serve as teaching assistants in the law school's Legal Research and Writing Program. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8802 | Graduate Legal Research and Writing I (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course introduces LL.M. students to the fundamentals of U.S. legal research materials, methods, and strategies as well as various forms of legal writing. |
| LAW 8803 | FT Externship: Field Experience (10) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This field experience is one part of a two-part full-time externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 |
| LAW 8804 | FT Externship: Directed Study (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This directed study is one part of a two-part full-time externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 |
| LAW 8805 | Graduate Legal Research and Writing II (1) |
| This course continues to introduce LL.M. students to the fundamentals of U.S. legal research materials, methods, and strategies as well as various forms of legal writing. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013 | |
| LAW 8806 | PT Externship: Field Experience (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This field experience is one part of a two-part externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013 |
| LAW 8807 | PT Externship: Directed Study (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This directed study is one part of a two-part externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013 |
| LAW 8808 | DC Externship: Field Experience (10) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This field experience is one part of a two-part full-time Washington, DC externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. |
| LAW 8809 | DC Externship: Directed Study (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This directed study is one part of a two-part full-time Washington, DC externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. |
| LAW 8810 | Directed Research (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Eligible students receive credit for serving as research assistants supervised by selected law school faculty members. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8811 | Independent Research (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, January 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, January 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8812 | Independent Research (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8813 | Independent Research (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8814 | Independent Research (YR) (0) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is the first semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8815 | Independent Research (YR) (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is the second semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8816 | Independent Research (YR) (0) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is the first semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8817 | Independent Research (YR) (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is the second semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 8818 | Independent Research (YR) (0) |
| This course is the first semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8819 | Independent Research (YR) (3) |
| This course is the second semester of a yearlong independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 8820 | Exchange: University of Auckland (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8821 | Exchange: Bucerius Law School (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8822 | Exchange: University of Melbourne (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8824 | Exchange: Tel Aviv University (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the spring semester of their second year or first semester of their third year. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8825 | Exchange: Waseda University (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8826 | Exchange: University of Sydney (1 - 12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8827 | Exchange: Instituto de Empresa (IE) (12 - 13) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8828 | Exchange: Seoul National University (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8829 | JT Externship: Field Experience (SC) (1) |
| This field experience is one part of a two-part externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016 | |
| LAW 8830 | JT Externship: Directed Study (SC) (1) |
| This directed study is one part of a two-part externship combining academic study and work experience under the supervision of a faculty member and an educational, charitable, governmental or nonprofit host organization. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, Janiuary 2022, January 2021, January 2020, January 2019, January 2018, January 2017, January 2016 | |
| LAW 8831 | Exchange: Bocconi Law (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8832 | Exchange: Hebrew University Faculty of Law (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8833 | Exchange: Paris-Pantheon-Assas University (12) |
| Selected students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8834 | Exchange: Jindal Global Law School (12) |
| Selected law students may participate in this international exchange program during the fall semester of their third year. | |
| LAW 8843 | Directed Research (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Eligible students receive 2 credits for participating in a sustained, productive and educationally valuable project for at least 85 hours of work supervised by an eligible faculty member. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 |
| LAW 8844 | Dual Degree: Sciences Po (YR) (0) |
| This course is the first semester of a yearlong international combined-degree with University Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne Law School and Sciences Po/Paris in which selected students can participate during their third year. | |
| LAW 8845 | Dual Degree: Sciences Po (YR) (27) |
| This course is the second semester of a yearlong international combined-degree with University Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne Law School and Sciences Po/Paris in which selected students can participate during their third year. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 8846 | Tri-Sector Fellowship: Independent Study (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The Tri-Sector Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to learn how successful cross-disciplinary leaders think about real-world problems. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024 |
| LAW 8848 | Third-Year Thesis (YR) (0) |
| This is the first semester of a yearlong intensive research project resulting in a thesis completed under close faculty supervision coupled with an oral defense before a faculty committee. Course was offered Fall 2015 | |
| LAW 8849 | Third-Year Thesis (YR) (6) |
| Third-Year Thesis (YR) Course was offered Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 8850 | International Tax Practicum Fellow (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The fellow for the International Tax Practicum will be a rising 3L, typically one who took the Practicum in the previous year. The fellow will work with the instructor to develop tax-treaty practice problems and litigation scenarios to be completed by the students; give students written feedback on their responses to the problems and/or cases, and meet with students (together with the instructor) to provide oral feedback. |
| LAW 8851 | Advanced Legal Writing: Civic Engagement and Persuasion (1 - 2) |
| This course focuses on legal writing technique, going beyond the first year LRW program to develop writing skills that can be used to produce seminar papers, law review notes, policy papers, and other forms of advanced legal writing. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 9002 | Single People and the Law (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will examine the body of legal, sociological, and psychological research that is relevant to singlehood and the law. Legal topics will include family law, private benefits, public benefits, employment, and general issues of discrimination. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2011 |
| LAW 9003 | Artificial Intelligence and Democracy (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will examine domestic and global defects in democracy, assessing the opportunities and possibilities of trying to harness AI technology to address those flaws. |
| LAW 9006 | Advanced Verbal Persuasion (3) |
| This course develops advanced oral advocacy skills, including effective performance techniques, writing for speaking, and the ability to handle difficult speaking situations. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9007 | An American Half-Century (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | From 1940 to 1990, the United States eventually led the democratic world to victory in two worldwide struggles'World War II and the Cold War' against authoritarian systems. This course examines this pair of victories, especially the Cold War, through the role of international law, as well as the interplay between U.S. domestic law and foreign policy. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 9008 | Children and the Law (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this seminar students will examine the law's treatment of children's rights. Students will explore the current state of the law regarding the complexities involved with assigning rights and responsibilities to children and those who care for them, and the barriers and limitations courts and legislatures confront when making decisions regarding children. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2012, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9011 | Law and Literature: Storytelling (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | What constitutes powerful storytelling in literature and the law? How does literature make truth and justice claims? And what can we learn from literature about how to craft compelling stories on behalf of our clients? We¿ll explore these questions and more through our investigation of literary and legal texts after a brief theoretical grounding in law and literature. |
| LAW 9013 | Climate Law and Climate Ethics (2 - 3) |
| This seminar involves participants in simultaneously examining responses to climate change from law and from ethics in order to ask questions about the relation of regulatory instruments and moral culture. | |
| LAW 9015 | Franchise Law (2) |
| This course will cover the legal and practical business basics of franchising. | |
| LAW 9018 | Wine and the Law (3) |
| This seminar examines the major legal issues facing the wine industry. Specific topics include Prohibition and Twenty-first Amendment jurisprudence, federal and state alcohol beverage regulatory systems (market structure, licensing, trade practices), wine labeling, wine and health. | |
| LAW 9020 | Construction Law (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will focus on the law relating to construction contracts. It will use a textbook and local construction contracts as source materials. The seminar will cover issues relating to private and public construction, from selection of contract models to disputes resolution.
Prerequisite: 2nd-year or 3rd-year Law Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9021 | History of the American Administrative State (2 - 3) |
| This course will explore the development of the American administrative state from the nineteenth century through the present. We will engage political and theoretical debates over the bureaucratic state's role, and its implications for democracy and inequality. | |
| LAW 9023 | Liberalism and its Critics (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar provides an introduction to liberal political thought and then surveys various antiliberal critiques from the political right and the left. |
| LAW 9024 | Legal Storytelling (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course gives students those fundamental building blocks that they need to become effective storytellers in their legal writing. |
| LAW 9025 | Property, the Police Power and Emergencies (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will examine the contours of the police power, the foundational government power to regulate health, safety, and morals. Particular attention will be paid to the limits placed on the police power by the due process and takings clauses of the Constitution, as well as to the expansive use of the police power in times of crisis. |
| LAW 9027 | Advanced LawTech (1) |
| Students in this course will participate in the Online Workshop on the Computational Analysis of Law (OWCAL). OWCAL is a global workshop that highlight innovate research in empirical legal studies. | |
| LAW 9030 | Religious Freedom and Reproductive Rights (2 - 3) |
| After the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, overruling Roe v. Wade, new restrictions on abortion raise a host of questions involving religious freedom. This seminar will survey the First Amendment doctrines necessary to address these questions, explore the history of religious freedom arguments for abortion rights, and examine pending challenges to state abortion laws. | |
| LAW 9032 | Perspectives on Sovereignty - Native American Law (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar provides students with knowledge regarding the history, development and salient legal issues facing tribal nations in the United States. |
| LAW 9034 | Transactional Approach To Mergers and Acquisitions (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course will provide an in-depth look at the roles played by lawyers and investment bankers in advising boards of directors of target and acquirer companies as well as those played by other transactional professionals. Emphasis will be on how the case law and various state statutes and SEC regulations inform the acquisition process. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9038 | Mindfulness and Legal Practice (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In recent years, there has been growing recognition that the cultivation of mindfulness ¿ a focused, non-judgmental awareness of the present moment ¿ can be a powerful tool for enhancing the well-being and effectiveness of legal professionals. In this course, we will explore the theory and practice of mindfulness as it relates to the unique challenges and opportunities of the legal profession. Course was offered Fall 2024 |
| LAW 9039 | Supreme Court: October Term (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will examine the Supreme Court by intensive study of the Court's most recent Term, October Term 2008, which concludes in June 2009. After a brief introduction to the workings of the Court, the seminar will closely examine the most significant decisions from last Term. |
| LAW 9040 | Animal Law (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the legal issues pertaining to animals, the laws that govern their treatment, as well as a number of topics that fall within the general headings "animal law" and "animal rights." We will examine the historical and philosophical treatment of animals, and how those views impact the way law currently governs treatment and use of animals. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 9042 | Corporate Social Responsibility Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This course interrogates the role of corporations in frameworks of law and global governance and engages with their contributions, both positive and negative, to the attainment of social priorities. | |
| LAW 9043 | Tax Practice and Procedure Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This course will follow the progression of a tax dispute from the planning stages through to litigation. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 9044 | The Constitution, Democracy and US History (2 - 3) |
| This seminar focuses on the intersections of constitutional theory, political history, and democratic legitimacy. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 9046 | Law and Inequality Writing Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This course will offer students an opportunity to develop and polish an academic paper on a topic concerning law and inequality, with the goal of publishing it as a student note or article. Over the course of the semester, we will work through each component of a legal academic piece of writing, from the abstract to the conclusion. We will also review topic selection, preemption checking, and methodology. | |
| LAW 9047 | Dignity Law Seminar (2 - 3) |
| The concept of dignity plays a role in several legal settings, ranging from antidiscrimination law to the law of "dignitary torts" to administrative cost-benefit analysis. At the same time, there is little consensus on what "dignity" means and how dignitary values can be best instantiated in law. This class will examine a variety of applications of dignity in legal contexts. The class will emphasize dignity's function within real-world legal doctrine and practice, while also considering theoretical frameworks surrounding dignity. | |
| LAW 9053 | Hallmarks of Distinguished Advocacy (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course treats oral advocacy as an effort to persuade any audience of the merits of a cause or proposal and of the credibility of the proponent. The first seven weeks treat advocacy in settings outside the courtroom. The last half deals with advocacy in the most common trial settings: direct and cross-examination, opening statements, closing arguments and appellate advocacy. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7626, 9055, and 9185. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 9054 | AI and IP (2 - 3) |
| The rise of creative "artificial intelligence" poses deep issues concerning the extent to which rights protecting creativity should be limited to human creativity alone. This seminar will examine the rapidly evolving law on these issues both in the United States and in foreign countries and will also discuss the relevant economic and policy considerations. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 9056 | Business Reorganization Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (2 - 3) |
| This seminar focuses on the practical and strategic applications of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The seminar examines applicable statutory and case law with particular emphasis on hypothetical and actual fact situations to demonstrate how the Chapter 11 process works. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9059 | Airline Industry and Aviation Law (2 - 3) |
| This course explores legal and policy issues confronting the airline industry. Topics include current issues such as airline bankruptcies, modernizing the air traffic control system, air transportation security, whether the U.S. should permit foreign control of domestic airlines, and other similarly timely topics. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 | |
| LAW 9060 | School Desegregation, School Integration (2 - 3) |
| This seminar is a deep dive into the role of race in American public education. It will trace the arc of school desegregation and school integration law, from the early civil rights struggles and litigation strategy that lead up to the Supreme Court's seminal pronouncement in Brown v. Board of Education through the ongoing challenges to more equitable, integrated public schools in the present day. | |
| LAW 9064 | Advanced Topics in the First Amendment (Religion Clauses) (2 - 3) |
| This seminar begins with an overview of writings about the freedom of religion, including both philosophical and historical treatments. Following weeks consist of a close critique of one (relatively short) law review article on the subject. The principal objectives are to sharpen skills of close reading and critical analysis as well as to deepen understanding of the difficult issues surrounding the freedom of religion. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2021, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 9065 | State Constitutional Law: Litigation and Adjudication (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will examine the emergence of state constitutionalism, sometimes described as a "new judicial federalism." The course will examine why so many state constitutions were interpreted in lockstep with the Federal constitution for decades, as well as the new opportunities and challenges posed by independent state constitutional interpretation. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9066 | Reproductive Rights and Justice (2 - 3) |
| Reproductive Rights and Justice explores the economic, political, legal, and social factors that influence procreation and parenting. | |
| LAW 9068 | Historic Preservation Law (2 - 3) |
| The seminar reviews the structure of historic preservation law in the U.S. at the federal, state, and local level, and the policy issues facing governmental units regarding the preservation of historic buildings and sites. Comparisons are made to programs in other countries and to efforts undertaken at the international level to foster preservation. | |
| LAW 9069 | Antitrust Review Mergers in a Global Environment (2 - 3) |
| Mergers and acquisitions are reviewed under antitrust laws, with an emphasis on U.S. antitrust law at the federal level. Topics include market definition and measures of market concentration; theories of liability for anticompetitive horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate mergers; methods for predicting anticompetitive effects; failing firm, efficiencies, and other defenses; remedies; and enforcement mechanics. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9070 | Voice and Silence in Law and Literature Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Participants in this seminar will explore the legal, literary, and cultural mechanisms that amplify the voices of some speakers, while silencing the voices of others. | |
| LAW 9073 | Government Ethics: Conflicts of Interest, Lobbying and Campaign Finance (2 - 3) |
| There is increasing concern in Congress and state legislatures about the rules governing conflicts of interest, lobbying and campaign finance. We will examine what restrictions legislatures and courts have placed on the financing of campaigns, and what reforms are necessary. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9074 | Legislative Drafting and Public Policy (3) |
| Each student in this seminar will draft legislation and supporting documentation on an issue of particular interest to the student. Each student will be required to prepare a draft statute, and a supporting commentary of usual seminar paper length. | |
| LAW 9075 | Advanced Contracts: When Financial Contracts Blow Up (2 - 3) |
| Basic courses on contracts tend to assume that provisions among sophisticated commercial parties are rationally and perfectly designed, except maybe for a few remote and unanticipated contingencies. In reality, things aren¿t quite so perfect. This seminar explores those situations where contract provisions risk blowing up a deal (or actually do) and shows them how sophisticated practitioners worked to solve the problems. | |
| LAW 9076 | Natural Resources Law and Policy (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The seminar surveys the laws and policies governing the management of lands and natural resources under federal ownership (some one-third of the nation's continental land area). Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9077 | Asian Americans and the Law (2 - 3) |
| From the founding of this nation to the present, Asian Americans have been at the center of many legal controversies with profound implications for American society. This seminar will examine the legal history of people of Asian descent in the United States. | |
| LAW 9079 | Law and Leadership in the Public Interest (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores a wide range topics on what leadership in the public interest advocacy space entails. |
| LAW 9081 | Trial Advocacy (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this seminar, students are prepared for work in the trial court and for the atmosphere of the courtroom. Students will be given the opportunity to perform one or more of the functions of trial lawyers on their feet, such as direct and cross examination, opening statements, handling of exhibits, objections, and closing argument. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| LAW 9082 | Ten-year Check-up of the Affordable Care Act (2 - 3) |
| The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented 10 years ago. It has survived multiple death blows and has fundamentally changed health care in the United States. This course will explore its passage, implementation and future. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 9086 | Law Reform and Impact Litigation Seminar (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This theory-and-practice seminar explores both the historical and theoretical role of litigation in social movements as well as the nuts and bolts of actually engaging in law reform and impact litigation to effectuate systemic change. |
| LAW 9087 | International Environmental Law (2 - 3) |
| This seminar deals chiefly with the role and impact of traditional public international law and policy, particularly multilateral environmental agreements, on international environmental issues. It also emphasizes the practical aspects of representing clients in the international context, by focusing on the regulatory and liability aspects of environmental law, both domestic and international. | |
| LAW 9088 | Supreme Court Justices and the Art of Judging (2 - 3) |
| Key figures on the modern Supreme Court will be the focus of this seminar. We will consider selected justices - their background before coming to the Court, their major decisions, their jurisprudence, their interaction with other justices, their legacy. We will take stock of these justices both through their own writings and through the views of commentators, including judicial biographers. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9089 | Seminar in Ethical Values (YR) (0) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader. |
| LAW 9090 | Seminar in Ethical Values (YR) (1) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9091 | Seminar in Ethical Values (1-Term) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is a 1-term version of the seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader. |
| LAW 9093 | State Attorneys General (2 - 3) |
| This course explores the breadth and scope of the work of state attorneys general, as well as the limitations, constraints, and ethical challenges they face. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 9102 | Empirical Legal Studies I (2 - 3) |
| This course will introduce students to empirical methods and ask them to design an empirical legal study that contributes to an area of law. No experience with statistics or quantitative analysis is required or expected. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 9103 | Empirical Legal Studies II (2 - 3) |
| This course continues and builds on Empirical Legal Studies I (LAW 9102). Students will use the methods and materials they develop in the first course to conduct and write an empirical legal study. Students who have not completed LAW 9102 may take this course only if they possess the skills covered in that course and obtain instructor permission. | |
| LAW 9108 | Urban Law and Policy (2 - 3) |
| This course will examine the legal, economic, and political forces that have shaped American metropolitan areas with particular attention to the policies that have shaped American cities and suburbs. The course will consider issues such as sprawl, racial segregation, housing, education, land use, concentrated poverty, and community economic development. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| LAW 9109 | Law and Theories of Justice (3) |
| This seminar will offer a systematic overview of major contemporary theories of justice, with a special focus on their concrete implications for areas of legal doctrine. Coverage will include egalitarian, libertarian, communitarian, critical race theorists, and feminist theories of justice. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| LAW 9111 | Sexuality and the Law (2 - 3) |
| This seminar explores the role of the law in shaping the social meaning of heterosexuality and of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities in a number of contexts, including employment, education, sexual expression, family relationships, and the military. There is an emphasis on constitutional doctrines, including equal protection, due process/privacy, and freedom of speech and association. | |
| LAW 9114 | Law of Armed Conflict (2 - 3) |
| This course will introduce the student to the full scope of the contemporary law of war including international humanitarian law, centered on the Geneva Conventions, customary practice, numerous other treaties such as the Hague accords of 1899 and 1907, and rulings in hundreds of war crimes trials. It will contain a mixture of humanitarian and pragmatic concerns. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010 | |
| LAW 9119 | Litigating the 2024 Presidential Election (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will follow and critique the major cases arising out of the 2024 election in order to answer questions such as: why was the case brought, is it structured to achieve its stated (or unstated) goals, what are its likely legal (and nonlegal) problems, how much does its success depend on moving the law, what are its implications for elections more generally, and are the lawyers advancing their claims in and out of court appropriately. |
| LAW 9122 | Governing the World (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will examine the role of international law and institutions in addressing major policy concerns that transcend the boundaries of individual states. | |
| LAW 9124 | On Purpose: An Introduction to Leadership, Decision-making, and Culture (2 - 3) |
| In this course, students will learn individual and team leadership skills, communications skills, and time and meeting management techniques to create the most positive impact in the public, private or non-profit sectors using real-life case studies, current events and class exercises that place students in situations where they are being called upon to lead. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 9128 | Law and Organizing Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Many public service legal organizations -- from impact civil rights to direct service -- deploy integrated advocacy strategies that embrace organizing as an essential tool. However, the vast majority of attorneys still have little to no exposure to the work of building collective power. This course will explore theories of law's relationship to those efforts, from local community organizing to international social movements. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9129 | Comparative Freedom of Speech Law Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore freedom of expression from a comparative law and international human rights perspective. | |
| LAW 9130 | New Research in Criminal Justice (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This class is designed to expose students to new research and to engage in critical discussion about various facets of the criminal legal system. It is targeted both towards students interested in considering a scholarly path as well as those interested in criminal legal practice or reform. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9133 | Empirical Legal Studies (YR) (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Legal practice and research increasingly involve analysis of big data to resolve legal questions, and the importance of quantitative analysis is likely to grow. Also, legal employers may value lawyers who have at least basic familiarity with empirical research methods. This is the first half of a year-long course introducing students to empirical methods. No experience with statistics or quantitative analysis is required or expected. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2010 |
| LAW 9134 | Empirical Legal Studies (YR) (2 - 3) |
| Legal practice and research increasingly involve analysis of big data to resolve legal questions, and the importance of quantitative analysis is likely to grow. Also, legal employers may value lawyers who have at least basic familiarity with empirical research methods. This is the second half of a year-long course introducing students to empirical methods. No experience with statistics or quantitative analysis is required or expected. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 9135 | Geopolitics, Law and the World Economy (2 - 3) |
| The past decade has witnessed rising geopolitical tensions, and as states have become wary of interdependence, questions arise: can the international legal regimes that govern international trade, investment, and finance survive? How can they adapt? This seminar will explore these questions. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 9138 | Blood Feud (2) |
| This seminar is intended to explore the concrete, specific ¿feud¿ between the non-profit blood industry and the commercial plasma industry. We will look at this issue from a global perspective, including especially Canada and Spain, using legal, economic, and ethical lenses. The concrete case of these two industries will also be used to look at the more abstract ¿feud¿ between gift and commercial relationships. | |
| LAW 9139 | Internet Regulation Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will provide a survey of internet governance, with a focus on those areas of cyber-regulation experiencing the most active debate. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2010 | |
| LAW 9142 | Criminal Law Colloquium (2 - 3) |
| This course is a forum for students to engage with their peers, faculty, and invited scholars on cutting-edge issues in criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminal justice policy. Each week, we will focus on a scholar and read a sampling of their work; the following week, that scholar will join us to present their most recent work. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| LAW 9153 | Law and Riots (2) |
| Protest or riot? Civil disobedience or insurrection? Cities, universities, and other governmental entities must simultaneously protect free speech and public safety while managing mass demonstration events. The legal, ethical, and practical issues presented by these events will be the focus of this course. | |
| LAW 9155 | International Debt Transactions (2) |
| This course uses the lens of international debt finance to provide students with an advanced course in securities law, corporate law, and contract law. The 2-credit version of the course has a theoretical component about the basics of this multi-trillion dollar market but not the experiential component of the 4-credit version involving the design a debt restructuring plan for the private debt of a country currently in or on the brink of crisis. | |
| LAW 9156 | Regulation of Political Advocacy Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar is aimed at giving students a full view of Political Law as a field from a legal practitioner's standpoint. Topics include constitutional and public policy underpinnings of regulation, formation and entity choice, campaign finance, lobbying, and foreign participation. Voting rights, redistricting, and election law will not be covered. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 9157 | Citizenship: The Law, History, and Politics of U.S. Citizenship (2 - 3) |
| This seminar examines the development of U.S. citizenship through law, history, and politics, including topics such as naturalization, birthright citizenship (jus soli), citizenship by descent (jus sanguinis), and expatriation/denaturalization. Course was offered Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 9158 | Law, Literature, and Social Policy Seminar (3) |
| This seminar will focus on how literary and other creative works might help one to derive sociological insights that are relevant to public policy. | |
| LAW 9164 | Climate and Debt (2 - 3) |
| Financing the climate transition is expected to cost trillions of dollars in the coming decades. This seminar will examine how debt markets are (and aren't) adapting to fund adaptation to climate change. Issues discussed will include green bonds, sustainability-linked bonds and loans, carbon trading, and other related topics. | |
| LAW 9165 | Privacy Torts (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will survey the origins of the privacy torts and their trajectory in the courts and scholarship as well as barriers to their enforcement in the digital age. |
| LAW 9172 | Capitalism and Socialism Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This course begins with an in-depth explication of the theory and practice of classical socialism (as defined by the Hungarian economist Janos Kornai) in countries such as the former Soviet Union, the PRC, the European Eastern block, Venezuela and selected African countries. It then explains the varieties of capitalism by comparing U.S. style capitalism with European and East Asian capitalist systems. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 9175 | Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will be jointly offered in the Law School and the Department of Environmental Sciences and co-taught by members of those departments. The course will use several species restoration initiatives of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to study biodiversity conservation. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012 | |
| LAW 9182 | International Law and the Use of Force (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will examine the extent to which international law successfully regulates the use of force in the international community. We will focus on the prohibition on the use of force found in the U.N. Charter, and the exceptions to that prohibition. | |
| LAW 9184 | Judicial Opinions (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the genre of the judicial opinion. Topics relating to judicial style include prophetic dissents, uses of technical or colloquial language, and personal invective. We will also consider influences on judicial opinion-writing, and the effects of technological change. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2013 | |
| LAW 9185 | Oral Presentations In and Out of The Courtroom (3) |
| This seminar is designed to help students improve their ability to communicate persuasively in the wide variety of settings in which non-litigators are called upon to speak including client meetings, business negotiations, and presentations to public agencies. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7626, 9053, and 9055. Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7626, 9053, 9055, or 9185 if any taken previously. Course was offered Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012 | |
| LAW 9197 | Public Utility Regulation Seminar (3) |
| This course is intended to introduce students to the theories behind the public utility--both historically and in its new iterations. Students will learn about public utility regulation as the precursor to much of modern administrative law. | |
| LAW 9199 | International Business Negotiation (3) |
| The goals of this course are (i) to introduce students to transactional law, (ii) to provide negotiations training in the context of transactional practice, and (iii) to further practical legal skills. The focus is on having students apply their legal and non-legal knowledge in the context of serving as a lawyer negotiating an international business transaction within the controlled environment of the classroom. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| LAW 9200 | Federal Litigation Practice (3) |
| This course seeks to complement the law school's robust trial advocacy curriculum by focusing on the litigation that takes place before trial, and how every step in a case's lifespan affects the ultimate outcome of the case. Students will focus on developing their advocacy skills in the pretrial motion process and gaining a practical understanding of the increasingly important role of discovery in civil cases. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 | |
| LAW 9205 | Crimmigration Law: Law & Policy at Intersect of Immigr Law & Crim Just (2 - 3) |
| This course addresses the intersection of the immigration and criminal justice systems, focusing on: 1) the effect of criminal convictions on noncitizens' immigration status; 2) the criminalization of immigration law violations; and 3) immigration officials' adoption of surveillance and enforcement tactics used to police crime. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2014 | |
| LAW 9208 | Monetary Constitution Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will focus on the history and law of the financial infrastructure of our nation's government. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013 | |
| LAW 9213 | Comparative Gender Equality (3) |
| Constitutions around the world guarantee sex equality, or gender justice, in a variety of ways: through general equality clauses, gender-specific non-discriminating guarantees, political and other quotas, reproductive and social rights, and a broader range of international human rights guarantees. This course will explore these provisions, and their interpretation via courts around the world. | |
| LAW 9215 | Neoliberalism (2 - 3) |
| What is neoliberalism? What distinguishes it from liberalism, libertarianism, and conservatism? What values, principles, and institutions, does neoliberalism promote? And what are the strongest moral, political, and philosophical arguments for them? What are the strongest objections? This course will address these questions by providing an introduction to neoliberal social, political, and legal thought and its main critics on both the left and the right. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| LAW 9218 | Public Law Colloquium (1 - 2) |
| This is a colloquium inviting scholars writing in public law to present works in progress. The class will meet to dissect the work before having the scholar present the work to the group. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| LAW 9222 | International Arbitration (2 - 3) |
| This seminar commences with the basic principles of international arbitration, such as consent of the parties. It then examines arbitration proceedings, from the constitution of the tribunal to applicable rules of arbitral procedure. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014 | |
| LAW 9226 | Contract Theory (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will address the potential moral underpinnings of contract law. Our primary focus will be on the relationship between contract and promise. |
| LAW 9228 | PUM 29 Testing Course 3 (1) |
| PUM 29 Testing Course 3 | |
| LAW 9229 | Advanced Topics in Law and Public Service (1 - 2) |
| This course is designed for students in the Program in Law & Public Service and/or students considering a public-interest career. During the seminar, we will confront pressing questions of what it means to be a lawyer working in the public interest. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 9232 | Bioethics and the Law Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores the intersection among medicine, technology and the law. Topics may include human reproduction and birth, human genetics and the privacy and ownership of genetic information, death and dying, research involving human subjects, organ transplantation, and public health and bioterrorism.
Prerequiste: Equivalent to LAW 7008 |
| LAW 9233 | Global Legal History (2 - 3) |
| This course considers European legal regimes as they moved around the globe. It examines those regimes interactions with one another and with non-European legal cultures from roughly 1500 to 1900. | |
| LAW 9236 | Bioethics And Law Internship Seminar: Health Policy & Administration (3) |
| The course enables students to spend time in administrative settings within the UVA Medical Center as "participant-observers," in order to gain first-hand experience of the subject matter that is the focus of the theory, teaching, and practice of ethics, law, and health policy in relation to the organization and operation of healthcare institutions. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015 | |
| LAW 9239 | BigLaw and the Profession (and Business) of Law (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will look at the evolution of "Biglaw" institutions from the early days of law practice partnerships, why they developed, how they operate and what they look like today. |
| LAW 9240 | Constitutional Law II: Poverty (2 - 3) |
| This course will ask whether and how the Constitution can be read to protect the poor. We will explore the Supreme Court's flirtation with such protection during the 1960s and 1970s.
Prerequisite: LAW 6001 | |
| LAW 9242 | Feminism and the Free Market (2 - 3) |
| This seminar examines the role of markets in promoting (or inhibiting) the full participation of women in society. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015 | |
| LAW 9248 | Therapeutic Justice and the Evolving Role of Specialty Courts (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will address the evolution of therapeutic justice, looking at specialty courts, primarily as they function in the criminal justice system. The focus will be on the theoretical and practical aspects of functioning drug courts, mental health courts, juvenile and family law courts, veterans' courts and other specialty courts. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 9249 | Corporate Criminal Investigations (2) |
| This is a simulation course in which students act as outside lawyers hired to defend a hypothetical corporation in every phase of a criminal investigation from the discovery of potential misconduct through the criminal resolution. Course was offered Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 9252 | Poverty in Law, Literature, and Culture (2 - 3) |
| In this seminar, we will examine the ways in which poverty in the United States is defined, represented, and regulated by legal and literary texts. Our main objectives will to be to develop an understanding of the myriad ways in which law and legal doctrine interact with the lives of those who exist on the economic margins of our culture. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 9254 | Human Rights Study Project (YR) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is the first semester of a yearlong study project. Part of the class will be focused on identifying research topics in advance of a fieldwork trip to a site country to be determined. The second goal of the class is to practically prepare for human rights fieldwork. |
| LAW 9255 | Human Rights Study Project (YR) (2) |
| This is the second semester of a yearlong study project. Part of the class will be focused on identifying research topics in advance of a fieldwork trip to a site country to be determined. The second goal of the class is to practically prepare for human rights fieldwork. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016 | |
| LAW 9262 | Forensic Psychology in Criminal Proceedings (2 - 3) |
| This interdisciplinary seminar examines the role of mental illness, intellectual disability, and other psychological phenomena (e.g., trauma) among criminal defendants, and examines ways criminal law and policies allow (or prohibit) consideration of these conditions. | |
| LAW 9263 | Government Contract Law (2 - 3) |
| The statutes, regulations, case law and other requirements that govern the Federal Government's expenditure of over $500 billion every year are addressed in this seminar. The course serves as an introduction to this body of law, which can be described as a blend of traditional contract law, administrative law and litigation practice. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 9264 | Discrimination Theory (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will examine what exactly discrimination is and what makes it wrong. | |
| LAW 9266 | Government Secrecy (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the ways in which each branch of government keeps secrets and whether structural and statutorily-created tools to check secret actions have proven effective. | |
| LAW 9277 | Conservation Planning and Law (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore planning techniques and legal issues surrounding protection of landscapes of natural, historical and cultural value and public uses of those landscapes. The seminar will be conducted in coordination with seminars in the Architecture School and the Department of Environmental Sciences. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 9279 | Psychology for Lawyers (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this seminar, students learn about current research in law-relevant psychology and will apply it to various tasks like: engaging with clients, witnesses, & juries; negotiating; group problem solving; and planning for the future. |
| LAW 9280 | Rule of Law and its Threats (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will examine the rule of law in theory and practice. What is the rule of law and why (if at all) is it valuable? We will take up such questions by reading the philosophical literature on the rule of law and and by looking at case studies of situations where many have seen the rule of law to be under threat. |
| LAW 9281 | Legal Theory Workshop Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will explore legal issues from a philosophically informed perspective. The course offers the opportunity for students to interact with prominent scholars, to help shape cutting-edge work, to hone their writing skills, to develop their own ideas through independent research, and to gain practice and feedback about the art of asking a good question. |
| LAW 9282 | Constitutional Law and Economics (2 - 3) |
| This course will explore how economic reasoning informs constitutional and public law processes, including bargaining, voting, delegating, and enforcement. We will consider the incentive effects of legal rules and institutional designs and evaluate their implications for public and semi-public goods (like civil rights and international cooperation on climate change) and club and private goods (like welfare benefits and the right to immigrate). | |
| LAW 9283 | Constitutionalism: Nation, Culture, and Constitutions (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will examine the extent to which constitutions and constitutionalism reflect the history, traditions, culture, and politics of a particular people. How do countries give voice, in their constitutional arrangements, to national impulses and aspirations? Using Anglo-American constitutionalism as a point of reference, we will consider what other countries do. | |
| LAW 9286 | English Legal History to 1776 (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This lecture course covers the development of legal institutions, legal ideas, and legal principles from the medieval period to the 18th century, emphasizing the impact of transformations in politics, society, and thought on the major categories of English law: property, torts and contracts, corporations, family law, constitutional and administrative law, and crime. |
| LAW 9287 | Law and Economics Workshop (1 - 2) |
| In each meeting, a leading scholar will present a current legal research paper using the methodology of law and economics. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017 | |
| LAW 9289 | Juvenile Justice Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the history of the juvenile courts, troubling issues within the current juvenile justice system, recent Supreme Court cases regarding juveniles, and advocacy and policy reform currently occurring at the state and national level. This seminar will also explore related topics, such as the school-to-prison-pipeline and the recent push to consider community based alternatives to incarceration. | |
| LAW 9290 | Law and the Social Determinants of Health (2 - 3) |
| This course examines the history of the "social determinants of health" (SDOH) concept starting in the 19th Century, as well as deeper questions involving health policy, ranging from how to conceptualize SDOH within public and clinical health frameworks, to issues involving reimbursement and clinical care guidelines. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2017 | |
| LAW 9294 | Drug Product Liability Litigation Seminar (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will consider the theory and practice of such lawsuits before, and now after, the Supreme Court's landmark decisions in Wyeth v. Levine (2009), Plia v. Mensing (2011), and Barnett v. Mutual Pharm. (2013). |
| LAW 9295 | Federal Criminal Pre-Trial and Trial Practice (2 - 3) |
| This course will focus on federal criminal proceedings and introduce students to the stages of a federal prosecution by following a case from indictment through trial. | |
| LAW 9296 | The Economic Tools of National Security (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the legal authorities underlying the executive branch's use of economic tools of national security, the role that Congress plays in authorizing and overseeing executive branch actions, and the role of courts in reviewing challenges from regulated parties. | |
| LAW 9297 | Law and Psychology: Wrongful Convictions Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar course addresses the psychology research regarding behaviors in the criminal justice system -- by police, prosecutors, jurors, judges, and witnesses -- that can result in wrongful convictions. | |
| LAW 9298 | Appellate Practice (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar is designed to teach the skills required of appellate advocates. We will begin with the necessary steps lawyers must take at the trial level to preserve issues for appeal and present an adequate record for appellate review. |
| LAW 9303 | Nonprofit Organizations: Principles and Practice (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course will allow students to delve deeper into the theory and practice of representing nonprofit organizations. Throughout the term, students will have the opportunity to supplement their reading with hands-on simulated case studies. |
| LAW 9305 | LawTech (2 - 3) |
| Legal practice has always been shaped by technology as lawyers seek out new ways to better meet the needs of their clients at the lowest cost. In this seminar, we will examine some of these new technologies, how they are being put to use, and the potential upside and downside risks associated with the further automation of legal work. No prior knowledge of coding or computer science is assumed. | |
| LAW 9306 | Securities Litigation and Enforcement (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course will examine current developments and controversial issues in private securities litigation and SEC enforcement, as well as the special considerations raised by securities class actions. |
| LAW 9308 | Liberalism and Conservatism (3) |
| In this seminar we will study liberalism and its conservative critics. We will begin by considering what liberalism is, in its political, philosophical, economic, and legal forms. Then we survey various conservative (traditional, libertarian, communitarian, religious, and postliberal) responses -- both historical and contemporary. | |
| LAW 9309 | Litigation Skills and Professional Liability Law (2 - 3) |
| This course takes a deep dive into the prosecution and defense of professional liability cases. Students will learn how to prosecute and defend professional liability cases while gaining competency with the nuts and bolts of pretrial and trial litigation generally. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019 | |
| LAW 9316 | Biotechnology and the Law (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines issues ranging from food and drug regulation, clinical trials, assisted reproductive technology, telemedicine, and stem cell development/regulation to the commercialization of the human body. The course examines ethics, socioeconomics, and market demands for technologies, exploring whether the various issues emerging from biotechnological conflicts are best resolved by regulation, judicial intervention or private negotiation. |
| LAW 9317 | US Refugee and Asylum Law Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores domestic humanitarian immigration law as it affects refugees and those seeking asylum within the United States. |
| LAW 9324 | Law, Inequality, and Education Reform (2 - 3) |
| In the United States, education serves as the foundation of our democracy and economy. Law and policy determine the quality of educational opportunities in the United States. Although law and policy have made substantial inroads in reducing discrimination in education, they also tolerate and exacerbate inequalities in educational opportunities that influence the academic, professional and social outcomes of students and communities. | |
| LAW 9326 | Housing Law and Poverty Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will cover federal and Virginia housing law with a focus on issues affecting low income tenants and homeowners. |
| LAW 9327 | Law and Social Science Workshop (1) |
| In each meeting, a leading scholar will present a current research paper using the methodology of law and social science. | |
| LAW 9328 | Critical Race Theory (2 - 3) |
| Initially, Critical Race Theory (CRT) emerged as an offshoot of Critical Legal Studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to address how "race" is socially constructed and manipulated in American society. This seminar takes an historical approach and focuses on the nexus between "race" and law and legal institutions. | |
| LAW 9330 | Education Inside US Prisons Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This course will examine how law and policy have shaped the provision of education inside prisons, review social science research regarding their effectiveness, and discuss contemporary debates taking place in Congress and state capitols. We also will discuss a range of innovative models to address a long_debated question: are prisons designed for corporal punishment, human improvement, or a combination thereof? | |
| LAW 9331 | Shifting Priorities in Humanitarian Immigration (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Recent political and administrative changes have led to rapid and dramatic shifts in the types of humanitarian protection available to migrants seeking safety outside of their countries of origin. This course will investigate how these changes affect asylum-seekers, refugees, and individuals petitioning for other forms of protection, and how attorneys operating in this quickly changing legal landscape can understand clients' interests and risks. |
| LAW 9333 | Contemporary Practice of the US Relating to International Law (YR-Spring) (2) |
| This is the second half of a year-long course. In this course, selected students will track current developments in U.S. practice related to international law, foreign relations, and national security and assist the instructor in drafting short essays analyzing and contextualizing such developments for the American Journal of International Law. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 9334 | Medicare Practice Seminar (2) |
| This course will provide an in-depth look at the Medicare Program and, to a lesser extent, Medicaid, with a focus on coverage, payment, and compliance requirements for health care providers. Instructors will employ several practical skills exercises and problem-solving elements requiring students to digest client fact patterns and provide analysis. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| LAW 9336 | Practical Perspectives on Policing: Policy-Making by Law Enforcement (3) |
| This skills simulation seminar will focus on selected topics that pose contentious policy challenges for law enforcement, including crafting and implementing effective crime control strategies, implementing investigative practices that are both fair and useful, establishing rules to govern investigations of political activity, and calibrating use of force policies to maximize both officer and civilian safety. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 9337 | Advanced Topics in Federal Courts Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore current issues in the law of federal courts. Topics may include standing, political questions, non-Article III adjudication, qualified immunity, habeas corpus, stare decisis, and judicial rhetoric. | |
| LAW 9338 | Rethinking Criminal Justice (2 - 3) |
| This class will explore key issues in criminal justice reform with the goal of understanding problems and evaluating potential solutions. Students will learn how to read social science literature to provide empirical foundation for the discussion. | |
| LAW 9340 | Corporations, Investors, and ESG (2 - 3) |
| ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) issues have become a major focus of institutional investors. This class will examine the law and economics of ESG factors in investing by reviewing recent research and legal developments. | |
| LAW 9341 | Law of Corruption (2 - 3) |
| This class will examine how the topic of corruption is addressed in several different legal domains including criminal law (bribery, extortion, fraud, and deprivation of honest services, etc.), election law, constitutional law (including the Emoluments Clauses and the First Amendment's treatment of campaign finance laws) and others. In addition, the course will explore how best to define and understand corruption. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021 | |
| LAW 9347 | Religious Freedom: Current Challenges (3) |
| This seminar analyzes current issues surrounding the First Amendment freedom of religion. It covers historical, philosophical, and judicial background, current issues in free exercise and establishment clause doctrine, including government funding of religion, "corporate" religious liberty, the future of Employment Division v. Smith, conflicts between religious freedom claims and anti-discrimination law/norms, and government religious speech. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 9352 | Transactional Law: Drafting, Communication and Negotiation (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This experiential class is devoted to helping students with the nuts and bolts of contract provisions typically encountered at law firms and corporate jobs. Beyond the basics, the main portions of the class will consist of review and markup of specific transactional documents accumulated from real life transactions, and then practice negotiations of small groups within the class, with feedback on substance and style. |
| LAW 9354 | Privacy Law and Theory Seminar (2 - 3) |
| The goal of the seminar is to give students a grounding in the theory of privacy law -- our evolving conceptions of privacy and its necessity for a life of meaning and love. | |
| LAW 9355 | Law and Technology Colloquium (1 - 2) |
| The workshop provides a unique opportunity for students to engage with peers, faculty and outside speakers, exchange ideas, and witness, participate in, and contribute to legal scholarship. At most meetings, a leading scholar will present a current legal research paper in the area of law & technology. | |
| LAW 9356 | Free Speech and the Digital Age (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore questions related to the technological systemization of the powerful granting privilege to itself, with a focus on free expression. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 9357 | Identity, Law, and Politics Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the current state of thinking about the relationship between identity, politics and legal regulation. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 9360 | Current Issues in Human Rights Law (YR) (2) |
| This is the second half of a yearlong seminar exploring important current topics and issues in international human rights law. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 9361 | Separation of Powers in the Federal Courts Seminar (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will explore the development of separation of powers through litigation in the federal courts. How are checks and balances effectuated through the federal courts? What role, if any, should courts should have in public powers disputes? What is the effect of litigating powers disputes, rather than negotiating them? | |
| LAW 9362 | Complex Commercial Contract Negotiations (2) |
| The first half of the semester will be a survey of major considerations in commercial contract negotiations, and the second half of the semester will proceed as a mock negotiation with half the class on the vendor side and half on the customer side. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 9363 | Medicalization and the Law (2 - 3) |
| Law harnesses medical authority to enhance its power. This seminar will study how this phenomenon occurs, its consequences, and the normative issues that arises from it. Such issues range from civil rights consequences to those involving criminal justice, housing, and education law. Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2022 | |
| LAW 9364 | Race and Slavery on UVA's North Grounds (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This research seminar will explore the historical intersections of slavery, race, and law on UVA's North Grounds. Class readings, discussions, and field trips will investigate the history of this landscape within a broader historical context of enslavement in Virginia and at the University, land use in Virginia, and the Jim Crow South. |
| LAW 9365 | Reparations: Identity, Law and Politics (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | "This seminar will explore the current state of thinking about the relationship between identity, politics and the law. The seminar will focus on the idea of ""reparations,"" exploring the history of the concept, theoretical justifications, and empirical evidence of its significance. Will explore the idea of reparations both in the domestic context and in the global south, and explore the relationships among race, colonial identity, and other factors grounding claims for reparations and the amount that is owed." |
| LAW 9366 | Law and Inequality Colloquium (2) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This colloquium offers students the chance to engage with leading scholars exploring law's relationship to inequality. In each session we will discuss a current work of legal scholarship on inequality, first as a class, then in the following session with the author as our guest. Interested UVA law faculty will also be invited to attend. Students will leave the class having grappled with the most up-to-date research on topics involving law's role in reinforcing or challenging various forms of inequality, such as race, class, gender and sexuality, disability and their intersections. |
| LAW 9367 | Law and Business Colloquium (1 - 2) |
| This class explores a variety of topics that arise in the practice of business law. The colloquium will include classroom overview lectures and featured guest speakers who will discuss their professional experiences as practitioners in various areas of law and business. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 | |
| LAW 9368 | Consumer Financial Protection Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar explores consumer financial regulation in the U.S., focusing on federal laws and regulations. Key statutes, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, will be examined along with their implementing regulations. |
| LAW 9369 | Domestic Violence and the Law (1 - 3) |
| This seminar traces the legal treatment of domestic violence. The course will examine local, state, federal, and international law and policy concerning domestic violence, and contemporary debates about how to approach domestic violence. The focus will be on the multiple different contexts in which domestic violence appears and how it is addressed. | |
| LAW 9370 | Litigating the Unitary Executive (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will look at the constitutional theory of the "unitary executive," and then focus on the litigation surrounding it. | |
| LAW 9371 | Social Science in Law Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This seminar will address the uses of social science research in litigation. Topics will include trademarks, obscenity, damages, racial and gender discrimination, juries, and eyewitness identification. |
| LAW 9372 | Telecommunications Law and Policy Seminar (2 - 3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | From net neutrality to spectrum policy to digital equity, telecommunications policy debates play a prominent role in American society. This seminar will examine how federal regulations have both responded to and shaped industry developments over the past several decades, as technological innovations have transformed how Americans communicate. |
| LAW 9373 | Race and Equal Educational Opportunity: Past, Present and Future (2 - 3) |
| This seminar explores how race has influenced the denial and protection of equal educational opportunity from our founding to the present. Then the seminar explores what law and policy reforms are need to make equal educational opportunity a reality for all students. | |
| LAW 9374 | Transgender History, Recognition, Regulation and Rights (2 - 3) |
| This seminar will investigate the legal, institutional, and cultural practices that condition the lives of transgender people. We will devote substantial attention to the contemporary push by some lawmakers to restrict, or even eliminate, transgender lives. | |
| LAW 9500 | Tax Treaties and Other International Tax Topics (3 - 4) |
| This seminar examines the fundamental structural issues that states confront as they attempt to impose income taxes on cross-border transactions involving the movement of goods, services, capital, and individuals. | |
| LAW 9501 | Race and Law Short Course (SC) (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Various short courses covering topics in race and law. |
| LAW 9997 | Dissertation Colloquium - Fall (YR) (0 - 2) |
| The Colloquium assists S.J.D. candidates in planning and writing their dissertation, as well as to expose candidates to a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives widely used in legal scholarship. The Colloquium will also allow candidates to present their work in progress, to comment on each others work, and to receive comments from the instructors. | |
| LAW 9998 | Dissertation Colloquium - Spring (YR) (1) |
| The Colloquium assists S.J.D. candidates in planning and writing their dissertation, as well as to expose candidates to a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives widely used in legal scholarship. The Colloquium will also allow candidates to present their work in progress, to comment on each others work, and to receive comments from the instructors. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 | |
| LAW 9999 | Dissertation Research (15) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |