Elective Courses
For a description of the elective courses offered by the law school click on the course name:
Advanced Estate Planning and Drafting
Advanced Evidence and Trial Advocacy
Advanced Technology and Entertainment Law Seminar
Advanced Topics in Juvenile Justice Short Course
Advanced Topics in Labor and Employment Law Seminar
Advanced Topics in Race, Gender, and Representation in the Political Process Seminar
Advising Corporate Boards Seminar
Alternatives to the Civil Justice System: The Federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
American Legal History Seminar
Appellate Advocacy Short Course
Appellate Practice and Procedure
Black Feminist Thought and Critical Race Feminism
Campaign Finance and Elections
Child and Family Law Policy Clinic
Choosing Legal Regimes Seminar
Civil Litigation Capstone Seminar
Commercial Law: Sales Transactions & Payment Systems
Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Common Law Regulation of the Employment Relationship
Community and Economic Development Clinic
Comparative Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar
Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar: The US and South Africa
Comparative Corporate Governance Seminar
Comparative Legal Institutions
Constitution and the Family Seminar
Constitutional Law of Crime and Punishment
Constitutional Law of U.S. Foreign Relations (Foreign Affairs)
Constitutional Protection of Property Rights
Constitutional Tort Litigation
Corporate and Securities Transactions
Corporate Governance and Control
Corporate Restructuring under Chapter 11
Corporate Separateness in a Global Environment Seminar
Corporate Voting: Practice, Theory, and Research Seminar
Corporations and Business Entities
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication (Formerly Criminal Practice and Procedure)
Criminal Procedure: Investigation (Formerly Criminal Constitutional Law)
Critical Race Perspectives on Public Education (Spring 2008)
Democratic Constitution Short Course
Democracy and Religious Conviction Seminar
Digital Copyright and Music Seminar
Drafting and Analysis of Business Documents
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust
Empirical Methods for Legal Analysis
Energy, Economics, and the Environment Seminar
Entertainment Industry Transactions: Negotiation and Drafting
Environmental Regulation Capstone Seminar
Ethics and Public Policy Seminar
European Union Competition Law Short Course
Evolution in the Courts Seminar
Fair Housing in Law, Ethics, and Practice
Federal Courts and the Federal System
First Amendment Constitutional Law
Global Administrative Law Seminar
Globalization and Foreign Investment Seminar
Government and Religion Seminar
Historical Foundations of the Constitution Short Course
Human Rights Law and World Politics
Insurance and the Litigation Process
Intellectual Property and the Arts Clinic
Intellectual Property Licensing
International Arbitral Process
International Business Transactions
International Civil Litigation in U. S. Courts
International Commercial Arbitration Short Course
International Criminal Law Seminar
International Environmental Law
International Intellectual Property
International Law Practice Lab
International Law: The International Arbitral Process
International Protection of Human Rights
International Trade and Human Rights
Introduction to American Law (LL.M.)
Introduction to Behavioral Law and Economics
Introduction to Corporate Finance for Lawyers
Introduction to Law and Economics
Introduction to Legal Research and Writing in United States
Introduction to the Leveraged Buyout
Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
Law and Business of Climate Change
Law and Development in Emerging Economies
Law and Finance of Equity Markets
Law and Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions
Law and Positive Political Theory Seminar
Law and Social Justice Seminar
Law, Biology, and Human Behavior Seminar
Law of Entertainment Industries
Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Safety Net Seminar
Legal History of Race in the United States: Slavery, Segregation, and Civil Rights Seminar
Legal Interviewing and Counseling
Legal Writing Assistance for Credit
Litigating the Capital Punishment Case
LL.M. Research and Writing Project
Medical Technology and the Law
Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Dynamics
Methods & Ethics of Information Gathering
Monetary Policy Analysis for Law Students
Moot Court Competition (Formerly Intramural Appellate Advocacy Competition)
New Perspectives in the Contemporary Community Economic Development Movement
Non-Litigation Strategies for Change in Public and Social Policy
Obtaining and Monitoring Relief in Institutional Reform Litigation
Patents, Trademarks and Know-How
Political and Legal Theory Seminar
Problems at the Interface of Tort & Regulatory Law Seminar
Professional and Ethical Considerations in Corporate Practice
Protection of Property Rights: A Comparative Approach
Psychology and Criminal Law Seminar
Public Choice and Public Law Seminar
Public Interest Litigation Short Course
Race, Gender, and Representation in the Political Process
Real Estate Finance and Development
Realities of Commercial Lending
Regulation of Financial Institutions
Regulation of the Internet Seminar
Religion, Politics, and Social Issues
Representing the Family Business
Research Assistance for Credit
Responsibility, Liability, and Punishment Seminar
Restitutionary Remedies in Contemporary Tort Litigation Short Course
The Role of Documentary Films in Social Justice Advocacy
Securities Litigation Policy Seminar
Sexual Orientation and the Law
Social Choice, Fairness and the Law
Social Security Law and Practice
Taxation of Non-Profit/Tax Exempt Organizations
Taxation of Transnational Operations
Technology, Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law
Theories of the Firm in Law and Economics Seminar
Treatment of Scientific Evidence
Virtual Worlds, Social Networks & User Generated Content Seminar
