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Below is an alphabetical listing of course descriptions ordered by course name.

Administrative Law | L4025

This class provides an introduction to the administrative process of government. Topics include Constitutional issues of separation of powers; delegation of legislative and judicial power; legislative and judicial authority in government agencies; agency exercise of policy-making functions; and controls imposed on agencies by administrative procedure legislation, Constitutional principles, and judicial review of agency action.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Adv Trt Seminar: Medical Malpractice | L4616

Students considering this course should note that its focus will be an inquiry into the origins, implications, politics, and legal responses to accidental medical injury. The materials iinclude theoretical and empirical analyses of issues in related social and economic policy. The case of medical malpractice are used as a lens through which to access the workings of the tort liability system in general. The course is not a litigation practicum and not a course in medical trial practice, but is a research seminar. Individual research papers are required.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Adv Trts | L4616

This course addresses mass torts in the context of litigation about medical devices and pharmaceutical products. For coherence purposes, the course focuses on Colorado law, with reference to the impact of divergent rules and standards in sister states. After three to four weeks of lectures about products liability la, generally and in Colorado specifically. The class is divided into two groups. Each group represents the interests of a party (or sets of parties and amici) in a hypothetical pharmaceutical case. Each group divides among itself responsibilities for research and the drafting/presentation of two motions in the hypothetical case. The motions are heard and decided in class. A students grade is based on the following: Forty percent of the grade will be pass-fail, based upon written certification (by the student and her/his group) that a student has significantly contributed to the research and motions aspects of the course. Sixty percent is graded, based upon a an appellate brief of approximately 20 pages submitted by each student, regarding the correctness or incorrectness of decisions on the motion(s) previously decided in class. (Within limits, each student will have input as to which side of the case he or she represents as of brief-writing.) As the course is restricted to second- and third-year students, there are no prerequisites, except for having successfully completed the first-year courses in Torts and Civil Procedure. Students must take responsibility for conformity of their work to the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure and the Colorado Rules of Evidence.

Prerequisites: Enrollment with permission of the instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Appellate Advocacy |

This course focuses on federal and Constitutional criminal law, and helps students enhance their skills in brief writing and oral arguments.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Civil and Criminal Procedure | L4027

Advanced Civil and Criminal Procedure covers the history of jury selection, the practical process of jury selection, and the Constitutional issues surrounding the peremptory challenge. The instructor couples traditional lectures with in-class mock jury selection. The class also observes and analyzes an actual jury selection.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Civil Procedure | L4028

Topics for this course include post-trial procedure, injunctions, and other advanced civil procedure matters.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Constitutional Law | L4050

This course provides upper level students exposure to constitutional issues not covered in the basic required Constitutional Law course. Topics vary from semester to semester and may include the following: Sexuality, Individual Rights, Causation, Poverty and First Amendment. This course provides upper level students exposure to constitutional issues not covered in the basic required Constitutional Law course. Topics vary from semester to semester and may include the following: Sexuality, Individual Rights, Causation, Poverty and First Amendment.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Constitutional Law - First Amendment Religious Issues | L4050R

This course will explore historical and conceptual issues arising in various interpretive challenges to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. In particular, the course will examine the constitutional prohibition against the establishment of religion and the role of religious discourse in the public realm. The course will be graded based on class participation, class presentations, and final submission of a seminar paper in satisfaction of the upper-level writing requirement.

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Constitutional Law: Causation | L4050C

This seminar will examine constitutional law through the lens of causation in anti-discrimination law. The course will explore two descriptive theses: First, it will explore the idea that many constitutional law doctrines are, in essence, anti-discrimination doctrines. While Equal Protection is the obvious one, there are many others. For example, Free Speech doctrine is based largely on the concept of content and viewpoint discrimination; Free Exercise (religion) doctrine contains an anti-discrimination principle and Non-Establishment (religion) doctrine contains an anti-favoritism principle. Even the Dormant Commerce Clause contains an anti-discrimination principle. Second, the course will explore the idea that anti-discrimination principles are based on causation (they prohibit certain actions where they occur "because of" a particular reason, such as race or religion). It will also explore the choices related to causation in each doctrinal area (such as whether the law requires "but for" causation, or some other type of causation). Finally, the course will explore the normative implications of these causal choices. What type of causation should a particular doctrine require? What type causation requirement would be optimal in each of these areas? This will be a small, limited enrollment writing seminar. Students will write research memos and have the option of writing a work of original scholarship. Upper level writing credit will be available. There will be no final exam. Students wishing to enroll in this seminar will need the instructor's permission. They should send an e-mail to Professor Katz (mkatz@law.du.edu) explaining briefly (1) why they are interested in the class, and (2) any relevant constitutional law courses and/or experience they have had. Prerequisites: Professor Permission Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: Professor Permission; Constitutional Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Constitutional Law: Fourteenth & Second Amendments | L4050K

The large majority of this course covers the Fourteenth Amendment, including Due Process, Equal Protection, Privileges or Immunities, unenumerated rights, Citizenship, and Congressional Enforcement. The secondary topic is the right to arms. In addition, the course covers the rights guaranteed in the body of the Constitution (Ex Post Facto, Bills of Attainder, Contracts clause, and Article IV Privileges or Immunities), as well as the Ninth and Thirteenth Amendments. The courses two key objectives are solid coverage of topics for the bar exam, and preparing students for long-term civic engagement in our nations always evolving public dialogue on human rights.

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Criminal Procedure | L4027

From the commencement of formal proceedings to collateral attacks on convictions, this course guides students through the laws regulatiing criminal prosecutions. The course topics typically include trial rights; bail procedures; double jeopardy; and habeas corpus.

Prerequisites: Basic Criminal Procedure
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Family Law: Litigation of Family/Constitutional Issues | L4030

The course will explore the constitutional issues that surround who can/should marry; who can/should be parents; and what constitutes a family. In so doing the course will examine traditional and non-traditional families. This class will consider both theory and practice and will draw heavily on the writings of Martha Fineman and Kathryn Abrams as well as the cases contained in the case book. A major portion of the class will involve the development of trial and appellate skills and will require students to research to research and draft motions and memoranda of points and authority as well as participate as attorneys in motion hearings, trials and appellate arguments. No Prerequisites: Limit: 20 students by permission of instructor only.

Prerequisites: Family Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Immigration Law | L4298

This course provides theoretical and practical approaches to the representation of non-citizens in removal proceedings. This course is designed for students who have an interest in practicing immigration law with a focus on deportation and removal practice before the Citizenship and Immigration Service, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and the federal courts. The goals of this course is to give students a theoretical framework for identifying and assessing immigration issues and for formulating strategies for effective prosecution of non-citizens in removal proceedings. The instructor also teaches the practical tools and procedures, which students may apply to actual case representation.

Prerequisites: Immigration Law or an immigration-related internship
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Indian Law | L4041

This course furthers students exposure to topics in Indian Law with a particular focus on contemporary issues in practice, as informed by the history of relations between the federal and tribal governments. Topics may include Indian taxation and environmental regulation, the Indian Reorganization Act and tribal government, tribal court practice, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian legal issues, religious and cultural freedoms, community lawyering in Indian Country, and international perspectives. The course is organized as a seminar, with lectures, guest speakers, and in-depth student discussions. The course culminates in a research project, including an oral presentation and paper. Federal Indian Law is a prerequisite for this course.

Prerequisites: Federal Indian Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Legal Research | L4035

This course will provide students with the opportunity to master a major tool of law practice. Students completing this course will come away with an enhanced ability to do research in state and federal legislative and administrative materials. Students will gain knowledge and experience in the use of non-legal research resources as well as the many practice materials that attorneys frequently rely on. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate a variety of research tools, their ease of use, and relative cost with respect to creating or enhancing a law practice library. Finally, students will sharpen their presentation and public speaking skills and be exposed to innovative teaching technologies. 3 semester hours.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Legal Writing | L4651

Course involves a series of writing assignments, normally related. Typically, students research an initial legal issue, and then draft a first office memo. After receiving detailed feedback, students do at least one revision of that first office memo. Student then undertake research for a second legal issue, and then draft a second office memo. After receiving detailed feedback, students then do a revision of that second office memo. Finally, students use the final versions of those two office memos to create a court document, which they then revise as their final assignment.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 03/75
ULW: YES

Advanced Mediation | L4820

Advanced Mediation is designed to expose students to more complex cases in both the civil and criminal arenas. Clients are selected based on the criteria of both public interest aspect and the propriety of the case as a learning vehicle for planning, pleading, negotiation, discovery, research and trial work. This course is only offered if there is space available.

Prerequisites: Basic Mediation
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Patent Law | L4474

This course explores more than a dozen advanced topics in patent law. These issues include claim drafting; international patent applications; opinion letters; remedies in patent cases; security interests; patent ability of software; and patent ability of genetic sequences. While Patent Law is not a formal prerequisite for this course, students who have not taken Patent Law should be prepared to do extra reading in the first few weeks of the semester to familiarize themselves with the basic concepts of patent law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Securities: The Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisors | TBD

Denver has become a center for mutual funds. Founders, Berger Funds, Invesco and Janus Funds among others are headquartered in this city. However, Denver does not have enough lawyers trained in the regulation of these mutual funds. This course covers the federal regulation of investment companies including an extensive examination of the Investment Company Act of 1940 with an overview of the other applicable federal securities laws and the operation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Topics of study include the definition of an investment company; management of investment companies; restrictions on affiliated transactions; sales load provisions; pricing requirements; and registration and disclosure requirements. Finally, the course provides an overview of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Class discussion includes an analysis of releases issued by the Commission and actual no-action letters, exemptive applications, and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Topics in Anti-Discrimination Law | L4039

This seminar allows students who have already been exposed to anti-discrimination law to go into further depth in this area in order to explore its cutting edge issues. The seminar's initial focus will be on (1) why and how we protect certain groups in the employment context, and (2) concepts of intent and causation in disparate treatment law (i.e., what exactly does it mean to say that an employer "intentionally" discriminated or that the employer discriminated "because of" an employee's race or sex), as well as methods of proving intent and causation. It will also deal with intent and causation in the area of sexual harassment. However, the remainder of the seminar will be largely driven by the students' interest, as students will select their own paper topics and make multiple presentations to the other students on those topics. So a broad spectrum of topics tends to be addressed. The student papers in this course will be of the academic variety. That is, they will need to go beyond simply summarizing black letter law or doctrine; they will require original thought, such as understanding trends, analyzing, or critiquing current doctrine. The papers will be 20-30 pages. Students will turn in a detailed outline, a rough draft, and a final draft. Completion of this paper will satisfy the upper-level writing requirement. To enroll in this course, students must have had either coursework or some other relevant experience dealing with anti-discrimination laws. A course in Employment Law or Employment Discrimination Law, though not necessary, is highly suggested. In some cases, other courses or experience will suffice. Some preference will be given to graduating 3Ls. Admission to this course is by permission of the instructor.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Torts Seminar | L4615R

Please see: http://www.houseofrussell.com/torts/advancedtorts/

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advanced Trial Practice | L4042

This class is an advanced study of trial practice issues and skills.

Prerequisites: Trial Practice
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advocacy I | L4045

Building upon earlier foundation courses, the thrust of Advocacy is to develop client interaction skills. Students enhance their interviewing, counseling, drafting, and planning skills. Furthermore, they are guided through substantive law comprehension that is required to draft pleadings and discovery and appropriate motions and memoranda of law. The course emphasizes negotiation and advocacy in the administrative context and other forms of dispute resolution.

Prerequisites: Alternative Dispute Resolution or Trial Practice
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Advocacy II | L4046

This course delves into effective trial communication. Students learn how trial theory development and planning will benefit their arguments. Additionally, they learn the art of persuasive speaking to better interact with the judge and jury. The instructor explains how much effective presentation of evidence through expert witnesses and the cross-examination of such witnesses can sway a court room. Finally, students learn the importance of the unspoken word through analysis of trial briefs, jury instruction and other work necessary for competent trial practice.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Agency, Partnership & the LLC | L4047

This is a survey of legal doctrines and legislation that governs the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). The course material also explores employement and agency relationships and partnerships.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Airline Business & Law | L4088

This course weaves the legal and regulatory issues airlines face with business principles of economics, finance, planning, operations, marketing, distribution, pricing, labor, cost containment, and inter-corporate alliances. Relationships with airports, travel agents, computer reservations systems, and government are explored. Other examined areas include international dimensions of commercial air transportation; regulatory and policy issues involving safety; antitrust; licensing; securities issuances; employment; environment; and sustainability.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Alcohol Beverage Law | L4047

The course briefly covers the history of alcohol beverage regulation from the repeal of prohibition, to the current status of the state and federal regulatory environment. The legal framework of the open (licensing) states and the control states are examined. Colorado's version of the three tier system of alcohol beverage regulation is explored. The course also focuses on issues involving importing and manufacturing alcohol beverages, such as the friction between the interstate commerce clause and the power of the states under the 21st Amendment to restrict Internet or direct purchases of wine and spirits from manufacturers. Finally, the course touches on retail enforcement issues (e.g., sting operations and regulation of activities protected by the First Amendment).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Alternative Dispute Resolution | L4060SP

This course explores various dispute resolution processes including negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation. It examines similarities and distinctions among the processes and principles of conflict. In addition to textbook and other assigned readings, the course consists of participation in exercises and simulations involving conflict theory, listening, communication, interviewing, preparation, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and drafting. Students assume and are coached in a variety of roles, including those of party, attorney, mediator, arb itrator, observer and coach.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Alternative Dispute Resolution | L4060

The course examines a full range of contemporary dispute resolution processes: negotiation, mediation, arbitration and formal litigation. Conceptual and functional similarities and distinctions between these processes are explored. Additionally, the processes' impacts upon disputants, role of the lawyer, the legal system, and social order in general are reviewed.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

American Lawyering for International Students | L4709IS

This course addresses the principles governing the American legal system and provides a brief comparison of the U.S. system to a sampling of other legal systems. In addition, the course addresses the organization of the court system, the anatomy of a lawsuit, and some of the ethical rules governing lawyers. Legal reasoning, standard legal analysis method, and reasoning by analogy will be covered. A broad overview of American civil procedure and constitutional law are included. Also, because this is a critical election year, legal issues impacted by the upcoming election will be explored. Finally, more practical skills such as legal research, legal writing and exam-taking skills will be addressed.

Prerequisites: MACLAW Students Only
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

American Legal History | L4065

This course concerns itself with the interaction between the legal system and social change in what is now the United States. Chronologically, the course materials run from the colonial period to the New Deal, although the nineteenth century will receive particular emphasis. A principal focus is the interrelationship of law, social life, economy, and ideology. For more information on the course, please visit the course home page at: http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Antitrust | L4070

This course will trace the historical developments of the United States antitrust laws from 1890 to the present. This course will examine the origin, application, and enforcement of federal legislation including the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the Robinson-Patman Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act to regulate business conduct. Substantive concepts of multi-firm and single-firm restraints will include: cartel activity, price-fixing, boycotts, bid rigging, customer allocations, territory allocations, trade associations, resale price maintenance, exclusive dealings, tying, dealer terminations, boycotts, monopolization, attempts to monopolize, and mergers. The course will also examine the interplay between federal, state and international jurisdiction and enforcement mechanisms.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Antitrust Law |

The course examines conspiracies and combinations in restraint of trade, monopolizes and mergers that lessen competition. Course materials focus on legal antitrust provisions the government has created, such as the Sherman Act and Clayton Act.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Advocacy | L4703JJ

This course focuses on developing skills necessary for effective appellate advocacy. It includes discussion of the critical differences between trial and appellate practice and techniques for presenting a persuasive case on appeal. Students will write appellate briefs and present oral argument to a panel of judges. Students will also observe oral arguments presented in Colorado appellate courts.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Advocacy | L4703A

This class examines the nature and function of the appellate courts and appellate review as well as the written and oral foundations of appellate advocacy. Class materials and discussions will examine the structure of appellate courts, the foundations of appellate theory, and critical appellate issues including finality, mootness, standards of review and harmless error. The course will also address critical appellate skills such as developing a clear and concise statement of facts, framing the questions presented, writing the argument and presenting oral argument. Students will be expected to write and re-write significant portions of an appellate brief, defend their legal arguments to a panel of judges and participate in an oral examination by the professor regarding substantive topics.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Advocacy | L4003

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Advocacy Competition | L4004

This 3 credit class satisfies the upper-level writing requirement and uses a criminal constitutional law problem. Student enrollment is limited and the professors permission is required. Students will (a) write an appellate brief (a series of drafts and a final brief) and (b) conduct oral arguments (both practice and final rounds). This class focuses on advanced written and oral communication skills. This class also addresses appellate practice topics, including standard of review.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Advocacy Competition | L4004

Prerequisites: Required Professor Permission
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Appellate Practice and Appellate Advocacy Seminar | L4077

The seminar consists of readings and class discussions on the nature and function of the appellate courts, and examination and discussion of the critical rules of appellate procedure. Students examine a prepared record, prepare Notices of Appeal and briefs, and then argue their cases before panels of judges.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Practice and Procedure | L4078

Enrollment limited to participants in competition teams.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Appellate Writing and Oral Argument | L4074

The purpose of this course is for students to better develop their ability to write briefly and present an oral argument. The student learns and practices the legal, logical, and rhetorical skills in writing and speaking necessary for an effective appellate practice. The instructor emphasizes legal analysis and argument construction. Students are required to write a complete brief and construct and practice oral agruments.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Applied Leadership and Management Theory |

The focus of this course is management theories, concepts, and models and the application of these topics to various sectors of the legal environment. This course emphasizes legal reasoning; management styles; decision-making; problem solving; interpersonal communication; conflict resolution; and management of change in the workplace. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Art and Craft of Judging | L4082

This course explores the practical and jurisprudential aspects of the judges' work. It may include presentations by judges and may involve an opportunity for preparation of a research paper.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Asian Americans and the Law |

This seminar provides an overview of contemporary legal issues facing Asian Americans, including the historical treatment of persons of Asian ancestry by courts, legislatures, the executive branch, and the electorate. The course will also examine the positioning of Asian Americans within traditional civil rights work, liberal legal scholarship, and critical legal theories. A significant portion of the course will focus on the popular depiction of the U.S.-Pacific Wars (U.S.-Philippines War, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War) and the construction of Asian racial and gender identity as well as the construction of masculinity and the American nation. Students must complete a research paper that fulfills the upper division writing requirement.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE LAW SEMINAR |

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Asylum Law | L4709E

The course begins with a history of the roots of the U.S. refugee definition in international law, the passage of the 1980 Refugee Act and the evolution of asylum law to the present day. Particular attention will be paid to asylum procedures at ports of entry (including the Safe Third Country Agreement with Canada), the affirmative asylum process, and immigration court proceedings. Students will review case law from the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts and the BIA. In addition, students will have the opportunity to view a documentary of the affirmative asylum process in the United States and, if possible, view an asylum hearing in immigration court (special permission from the asylum applicant would need to be secured). In lieu of a final exam, students will pick a current topic in asylum law and write a paper on the topic (minimum of 20 pages).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Aviation Law | L4085

This course provides a broad overview of the field of aviation law. The materials cover the administrative regulation of aviation safety and air carrier economics; air transport labor relations; the allocation of airspace; property and environmental law aspects of living with the airport; aviation accidents and tort law (including governmental liability for air traffic control and other activities covered by the Federal Tort Claims Act); liability of air carriers and manufacturers; and international law that regulates air commerce.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Bankruptcy | L4090

Bankruptcy reviews various state statues and forms of debtor protection. It also analyzes the federal bankruptcy system, its structure, law and procedure, and its interface with state laws.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Bankruptcy Seminar: Business Reorganizations | L4094

This three-hour course focuses on business reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, including pre-bankruptcy strategies and issues for businesses in financial distress. The course looks at both the legal issues as well as practical issues for coping with financial failure and managing an insolvent or near-insolvent company prior to and during bankruptcy proceedings. Students interested in learning how to protect the rights and interests of future clients during bankruptcy benefit from this course. This course is designed to arm students with theoretical and practical knowledge of the major components of bankruptcy so that no matter what the student's primary focus in practice after graduation, she or he will be able to identify issues and formulate strategies with clients.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Basic Criminal Procedure | L4200

Bacis Criminal Procedure outlines Constitutional and other rules regulating pretrial evidence acquisition by government officials in criminal matters. The course commonly includes the following topics: an overview of criminal justice administration; arrest; search and seizure; the exclusionary rule and its administration; wiretapping electronic eavesdropping; entrapment; interrogation; and confessions and lineup practices.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Basic Real Estate | L4095

This course serves as an introduction to contractual, priority of right, and title assurance issues involved with transferring real estate. This is a highly recommended survey course for all law students, regardless of specialization, because much of the course material is heavily examined on the Multi-state, Colorado and other state bar exams. This class also serves a gateway course for real estate specialists.

Prerequisites: Property
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Basic Tax | L4100

This course provides students with a general understanding of tax law. Materials cover topics from personal and business deductions, to property basis and depreciation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Bioethics | L4482

This course examines current ethical and legal topics in medicine that challenge our notion of what is right and wrong. Bioethics examines types of ethical theories that influence how health care practitioners' decisions in their relationships with patients. The class studies a structure to engage in ethical decision making. The four primary principles: autonomy; nonmaleficence (do no harm); beneficence (do good); and justice are discussed in detail in conjunction with cases examining how health care practitioners relate to patients and determine what health care will be delivered to patients. Applying the four principles, students examine beginning of life issues; genetics; end of life decisions; organ transplantation as an example of justice; and ethical and legal issues in health care research. The discussions that students have in this class often will not have any clear answers, but are intended to challenge what society's views of ethical decisions involving health care and advancing technology are. Through this course, students will understand how these difficult, ethical decisions are made in the legal world, and turned into policy that affects the lives of patients and their families.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Biotech Law: From Food to Genetics and Beyond | L4478

This course includes a survey of the traditional laws and regulations that are applicable to conventional foods, dietary supplements, medical devices, and biologics. Also, it provides a segment on the developing laws that relate to genetics. Finally, the course explores the role of various intellectual property rights that are involved in the marketing, sale and distribution of FDA regulated products.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Brownfields and Beyond | L4704B

This course will provide students with hands-on training on the application of todays environmental law practice in a variety of real-world, topical settings. Using real-world transactions and Brownfields projects faced by environmental practitioners, students will learn how environmental law intersects with various disciplines, enhancing their ability to advise clients on multi-disciplined matters. The course will also explore emerging trends in environmental law such as renewable energy initiatives driven by climate change concerns. The course will include only a brief review of key statutory schemes and is designed for those who have either taken a full environmental survey course or otherwise have a solid foundation in environmental law. We will then examine such topics as (1) the evolution and development of Brownfields clean-up sites, and how those urban projects reflect the integration of environmental law into the business and legal world; (2) environmental due diligence in transactions and the lawyers role in integrating environmental laws into a typical deal; and (3) basic contract drafting/negotiation skills, using real-life environmental scenarios arising in corporate, real estate, and natural resources transactions. The course will emphasize practical legal training, such as mock negotiations, examining case studies with guest speakers in specific fields, outside site visits, and resolving legal issues raised by competing statutory schemes. Class participation, oral presentations and negotiation skills, and creative thinking will be given a high premium in the class grade, as well as ability to integrate and think creatively to solve multi-faceted legal problems.

Prerequisites: Completion of the Environmental Law survey course unless student can demonstrate equivalent experience/training through outside source.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Business and Commercial Law Seminars | 4105

These are topical seminars scheduled periodically to afford students the opportunity for focused study of business and commercial law matters. This includes matters such as consumer credit; mergers and acquisitions; corporate practice; bankruptcy; antitrust; quantitative evidence; and representation of minority- and women-owned business firms.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Business Entities (Formerly Corporate Taxation) | L4185

The course provides an overview of the differences in in the operation of a trade or a business as an LLC/LLP, an S-Corporation and a C-Corporation. The class offers an overview of the state law requirements of for the operation of each type of business (Model Business act and LLC/LLP state statutes) and the difference in the tax treatment for each type of business. The objective is to give students a basic understanding of some of the do's and don'ts for each business and how they might advise a client as to the preferred business form in typical factual situations. The class explores both the legal and tax effects during the life cycle of any business, including formation, operation, distribution, redemption, sale of an interest, liquidation, mergers and divisions, and the death of the owner.

Prerequisites: Basic Tax
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Business Mergers and Acquisitions | L4441

Business Mergers and Acquisitions This is a transactions based course that will focus on teaching future junior associates practical deal skills in the context of M&A law. The course will cover how M&A deals (e.g. asset sales and triangular mergers) are structured, how lawyers interact with various parties to engineer a transaction, the basics of a negotiated document, allocation of value and risk, drafting techniques, advising boards, and due diligence concerns. We will work with statutes relevant to M&A transactions (with a focus on Delaware law and the MBCA), federal securities laws (the 33 Act, proxy rules and the Williams Act), and survey tax and antitrust laws. Finally, the course will also cover anti-takeover defenses, deal protection devices, and board fiduciary obligations. While the course will include theory and policy discussions, it will also incorporate practical assignments, a drafting exercise, and a team presentation.

Prerequisites: Corporations
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Business Planning | L4110

Prerequisites: Corporations and Securities Regulation
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Business Torts | L4113

This course covers common law and statutory remedies available to businesses for tortuous interference with their contracts, business relationships, trade secrets, and commercial property rights. This includes coverage of trademark and copyright law and legal remedies available under related statutes. Class discussions may consist of the intersection of business torts and patent and antitrust law as well.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Business Transactions in the European Union | L411L4

In today's global economy, any international business lawyer must have some basic knowledge of European Union law. Economic ties between the EU and the United States are increasingly interdependent: U.S. companies have invested some U.S. $370 billion in the EU and American investors are present in the majority of major European companies. European investment in the United States stands at around U.S. $370 billion supporting nearly 6 million American jobs. This class is an introduction to what European law is and how it is applied.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Child Advocacy Practicum | L4807

An advanced course and practicum on Children and the Law that is designed to (1) expand understanding of the status, rights and obligations of children, the child-parent relationship, child abuse and neglect, foster care, criminal abuse and neglect, adoption, medical decision-making, financial obligations, immigration issues; (2) the legal role of the GAL and representation of the child in the courtroom, including the interrelationship of rights and responsibilities among the child, parents and government; and (3) trial skills necessary to become the childs voice in the courtroom.

Prerequisites: Permission of faculty supervisor.
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Civil Litigation Clinic/Seminar | L4805/L4806

Students in the Civil Litigation Clinic address pressing community legal problems through individual and group representation as well as projects designed to tackle systemic issues. Students represent victims of domestic abuse in civil protection order cases, tenants in low income housing who are being evicted, threatened with the loss of their subsidy or discriminated against and immigrant day laborers in wage claims, contract disputes or injury claims. The different types of cases and venues provide students exposure to a broad skill set including interviewing, counseling, negotiation, trial advocacy - both formal and informal, and research and writing. Because students work in teams and with community partners, they also improve their collaboration skills. Through the community projects, students are exposed to a broad vision of what lawyers can do to address systemic problems identified by low income communities and groups that advocate on their behalf.

Prerequisites: Students in their last semester may enroll for this clinic
Credit Hours: 3 in-class/3 out-of-class credits
ULW: May fulfill the Upper Level Writing Requirement (ULW).

Civil Litigation Practicum | L4637

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide students a practical, hands-on approach to civil pretrial litigation. Students will draft pleadings, motions and discovery requests essential in the litigation process prior to the actual trial stage.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Civil Procedure | L4120

Students enrolled in Civil Procedure learn how Constitutional statutory and judicial rules frame the determination of court controversies. They also explore the doctrines, remedies, and other principles pertinent to judicial dispute resolution.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Civil Procedure (Post Trial) | L4028

This class's curriculum covers post-trial procedure, injunctions, and other advanced civil procedure topics.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Civil Rights Clinic/Seminar | L4809/L4812

The year-long Civil Rights Clinic is an intensive 12-credit program in which students represent clients in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies in situations involving a broad range of civil rights issues, including prisoners rights, disability rights, employment discrimination, fair housing, and equal access to public entities and privately-owned places of public accommodation.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3 in-class/3 out-of-class credits
ULW: This course may satisfy the Upper Level Writing Requirement (ULW)

Civil Rights Seminar | L4121

This seminar examines individual and class action litigation brought against government officials for the violation of constitutional rights under Part II: 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the primary federal civil rights statute. The seminar focuses on the most critical substantive issues in pursuing Constitutional litigation, including the history and purposes of Section 1983; the elements of Constitutional torts; rules governing liability of government officials and municipal liability; immunity doctrines; remedies; jurisdictional and procedural barriers to Section 1983 litigation; and recovery of attorneys' fees.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Civil Rights Seminar: Animal Rights | L4019

Students enrolled in this course explore the definition of the term animal, the laws offering some protection of animals. State and federal anti-cruelty laws, such as the Animal Welfare Act and the Endangered Species Act, are used as a basis for in-class discussions debating the need for animal rights.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Claims, Applications, Prosecution & Tactics (Patent Workshop) |

The basic legal principles for patents, what patents are, what legal rights patents provide, and how patents function are covered in this workshop. The clas discusses what materials are required for and the basic technique in drafting a patent application. Students learn how a patent application is processed and examined by the Patent Office. This course is designed to provide an insight into the complicated and expensive patent process faced by corporate and litigation counsel. The course material reviews various corporate tactics used to increase patent asset value.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Clerkship Seminar | L4705C

This small seminar is for students who are serious about pursuing an appellate judicial clerkship (either state or federal) following graduation. It may also be helpful for students who will be taking a judicial internship during law school. The seminar will offer information in three basic areas: (1) The application process (its not as straightforward as one might think); (2) how courts work, both in terms of culture and logistics; and (3) the process of drafting a judicial opinion.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Client Development and Strategic Marketing |

This class explores techniques and experiences in client development strategies, approaches, and practice that students will critically analyze. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Client Service |

This course exposes students to the growing complexities of managing a variety of workloads. We consider resource allocation limitations and meeting the expectations of clients, customers, constituents, and stakeholders. Discussion on emerging technologies shows students how client service performance is developing into a guiding principle in courts and law firms. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Clinic Studies in Courts and Law Office Management |

Students gain hands-on experience in courts and law firms by shadowing legal administrators. Students learn about a law firm's organization through assignments creating formal and informal organization charts; reviewing the facility design and layout; creating macro and micro flow charts of court operations; and examining ethical issues facing legal administrators. There is an emphasis on hands-on experience in ethics; court structure; law firm structure and design; research and writing; working with judges; and the language of the legal profession supplemented with directed placement in clinical programs in area law firms and court systems. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

CLINIC: Advanced Public Interest | L4820

Students who have completed one of the basic clinical courses may enroll in this program which focuses on clients with more complex cases in both the criminal and civil arenas. Clients are selected based on both public interest aspects and the propriety of the case as a learning vehicle for planning, pleading, negotiation, discovery, research, and trial work.

Prerequisites: Permission of faculty supervisor.
Credit Hours: 5
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

CLINIC: Advanced Civil Litigation | L4426

Students who have completed one of the Basic Representation courses may enroll in this program, which focuses on more complex cases in both criminal and civil areas. Students should apply for this course, but will not be notified until the first day of orientation for Basic Representation whether or not a space is available for the Advanced Litigation applicant.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: permission of faculty supervisor.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

CLINIC: Advanced Mediation | L4431

Students handle client intake, screen calls, and determine whether cases are appropriate for mediation. Students mediate actual cases in the areas of landlord/tenant, neighborhood, employment and general civil disputes. The course allows students with prior mediation experience to expand that experience with continued supervision. Students conduct both co-mediations and solo mediations, with an emphasis on improving communication and facilitation skills. Students will continue to learn lawyering skills such as negotiation, problem solving, and drafting agreements. Course prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of Basic Mediation and Arbitration Clinic or 40 hours of Mediation Training ((including simulations). Approval of course instructor required.

Prerequisites: Permission of faculty supervisor.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

CLINIC: Child Advocacy | L4807

This clinic enhances students' ability to relate their trial skills to cases involving children. Students hone their skills during simulated excercises, which are concentrarted cases involving child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and educational law. Students enrolled in this course have the option to enroll also in a 3-semester-hour internship at the Children's Legal Clinic, designed to allow students to gain experience with child representation.

Prerequisites: Recommended: Juvenile Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

CLINIC: Domestic Violence Civil Justice | L4204

This multi-disciplinary clinic is available for students who have an interest in representing victims of domestic violence. Students team with interns from the Graduate School of Social Work, and provide legal services for victims of various counties. This course is funded by a grant under the Violence Against Women Act by the Department of Justice.

Prerequisites: A personal interview may be required
Credit Hours: 5
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Colorado Administrative Law Practice Seminar | L4128

Prerequisites: Administrative Law
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Colorado Legal Research | L4700LR

This course will introduce students to legal materials generated by executive/administrative, legislative, and judicial branches of Colorado government. Students will develop research strategies for answering legal questions using primary and secondary resources and learn to relate the various sources of authority to the structure of Colorado government. Students are required to bring laptop computers to classes.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Commercial Law Survey | L4706CL

This course provides an introduction to the concepts and methods of commercial law. As a survey course, it explores the major Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, namely, Article 2 (Sales), Article 9 (Secured Transactions), Article 3 (Payment Systems), as well as Article 5 (Letters of Credit) and Article 7 (Documents of Title). In addition, the intersection of Article 9 and Bankruptcy Law will be discussed in some depth. The completion of this course will give students a firm footing for any advanced course in commercial law. Students taking only one course in commercial law will, in this course, receive broad exposure to the basics of commercial law.

Prerequisites: Exclusion: Students who have previously taken Sales and Leases and Secured Transactions may not take this course.
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Commercial Paper | L4143

Commercial Paper, or Payment Systems, studies legal problems that arise from commercial and consumer payments systems. The course considers a variety of money substitutes including checks, credit cards, and debit cards. It focuses on systems used primarily in commercial transactions, including letters of credit and wire transfers. Throughout the class students will consider how modern technological developments have altered the risks associated with payment systems and created new legal problems that need solutions. Specific topics include negotiability, fraudulent and unauthorized payments, finality of payment, funds availability and float, transactional privacy, relations between banks and their customers, relations among banks in the payments process, and the ongoing transition from paper to electronic payment systems.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Communications Law | L4130

The course focuses on governmental regulation of mass media, and concentrates on relations between licenses in the public interest and the Federal Communications Commission. It deals with the meaning of Commission policies, such as the fairness doctrine, access, cross-media ownership, and license acquisition and renewal. The course also views the responsibility of mass media to private individuals and the special problems presented by cable TV.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Community Relations in Natural Resources Law | L4701CR

Mining (and other natural resources) companies across the world understand that a key component of their success is tied to successfully managing community relations in locations where they operate. David Humphreys, chief economist for mining sector giant Rio Tinto, has observed, [Mining] is a capital intensive industry and, generally, not a very profitable one, which can ill afford the delays, disruptions and other costs that are associated with poor community relations. At the same time, the benefits of managing its community relations well prospectively confers competitive advantages on a company. This course will be to explore the various issues involved in community relations. It will be taught by two pre-eminent experts in this growing field one a leading mining lawyer from Peru and the other a sociologist by training who works as a community relations manager for a major mining company operating in Peru. The objectives of this course are: Understanding the strategic importance of successful community relations. Creating a multi-disciplinary examination of community relations, including consideration of social, legal, and economic issues. Analyzing the tool box of ideas and concepts available to successfully manage community relations. Exploring alternatives when community relations problems arise. Introducing students to a simulated community relations exercise.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Comparative Constitutional Human Rights Seminar | L4142

The seminar begins with a general overview of international human rights as put forth in the International Bill of Rights. The second part of the course focuses on economic, social and cultural rights. The last part of the seminar consists of student presentations on the topics of the research papers required for the course. ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW.)

Prerequisites: Suggested: International Law, Human Rights
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Comparative Corporate Law Seminar | L4129

Comparative Corporate Law will examine the system for forming and managing businesses in the United States and overseas. We will examine the impact of culture and other factors on legal regimes and examine whether a uniform international system is developing. The final grade will be based upon participation and a paper.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Comparative Employment Law | L4223

The course in comparative employment discrimination begins with an overview of U.S. anti-discrimination law as framed by principles of discriminatory intent and disparate impact. The class then shifts to the most recent social science research and legal scholarship on unconscious bias and causation. Finally, the course explores alternative employment discrimination frameworks in a limited number of countries, including Brazil and South Africa.

Prerequisites: EMPLOYMENTDISCRIMINATION LAW Required Professor Permission
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Comparative Latin American Mining Law | L4702LML

Latin Americas mining sector has enjoyed significant expansion in recent years. Two countries that exemplify mining sector growth are Argentina and Peru. However, the countries are different in how the mining sector has expanded and what challenges and opportunities lay ahead. Argentina is a non-traditional mining country in that the sector is beginning from a lower level of output than Peru. However, Argentina has huge tracts of land in the western part of the country at the base of and in the Andes that represent major areas of exploration and development. On the other hand, Peru is a mining leader it produces more silver than any country in the world and is second in copper. Nearly two-thirds of Perus exports in 2007 came from the mining industry. Underscoring the regions growing importance as an exporter of minerals is the fact that Chinese and Indian companies have joined Australian, European, and North American firms in searching for investment opportunities in Latin America. This course, which will be taught by two of Latin Americas pre-eminent mining law experts, will introduce students to mining law in the region. Special focus will be placed on Argentina and Peru. Among other topics, the course will consider constitutional treatment of natural resources, how mining rights are obtained, administrative procedures, general contractual structures used in mining, environmental issues, promotional regimes, and project financing and other financing sources (such as IPO's, bond issuances and syndicated loans, etc.).

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Comparative Law | L4135

Comparative Law is the study of the foundation of legal traditions and systems which exist in the world today. The major topics covered in this course are legal history and culture; legal structures; legal actors; and procedure and sources of law. The interactive course begins with an overview followed with coverage of each of the topics in relation to the United States's legal system. We then cover the same topics in relationship to the common law tradition and the civil law tradition. Students conduct an overview of unique features of the Islamic legal tradition. The course is especially useful to students who want to learn more about the U.S. legal system by comparing and contrasting it with other traditions and are interested in an international practice.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Complex Litigation | L4140

This class examines the methods used to recognize and evaluate complex cases and the appropriate techniques to organize and manage these cases. Students conduct an analysis of "The Manual for Complex Litigation," the "Multi-District Panel Rules," and class action procedures used in such cases.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Computer-Assisted Litigation | L4147

This course covers technical, procedural, and evidentiary issues related to computer-assisted litigation. Students learn how to use pre-trial and trial litigation support software technology by organizing a document intensive case and preparing key exhibits for trial presentation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Computers and Internet Law | L4145

Computers and Internet Law is designed to consider the areas in which computer technology and the legal environment intersect. This includes legal protection of computer software; contracting for computer services; computer data banks and privacy; the check-less society; and the relationships between Federal Communications Commision policies and computers.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Computers and the Practice of Law Seminar | L4150

This seminar analyzes the use of computer technology, including relevant aspects of artificial intelligence, in the practice of law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Condominium, Cooperative and Common Interest Development Ownership | L4155

This course is a doctrinal and practical analysis of problematic real estate ownership forms (and their community associations), which have become immensely popular in the past quarter century.

Prerequisites: Property
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Conflict Management Seminar | L4162

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Conflict of Laws | L4160

Conflict of Laws is an analysis of legal problems arising in cases when at least one of the operative facts cuts across state or national boundaries. Topics covered include problems of interstate jurisdiction over parties and subject matter; the application of principles of full faith and credit and comity on the recognition and enforcement of interstate and multinational judgments; the comparison of various theories of law choice in the context of the Constitutional threshold constraints of the due process and full faith and credit clauses.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law I | L4165

This course explores America's judicial branch and its powers, which students relate to other branches of government. Students also explore how the judicial system interpretes and enforces the Constitution and how the judicial branch regulates various aspects of our government's laws and activities.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law II | L4166

This course focuses on the relationship of the judicial branch with other governmental branches. It explores the various limitations of the different branches and levels of government as well. Finally, it expounds how the judicial branch interprets and enforces the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Civil War amendments.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law Seminar: Article II | L4172

This course covers the law of presidential elections and succession. The instructor places special emphasis on the Constitutional mechanism of the electoral college, which is outlined in Article II and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law Seminar: Civil Rights | L4171

This seminar focuses on two problems of representation that recur within anti-discrimination law. First, the problem of using demographic group membership as a proxy for individual interests. Next, the problem of defining the boundaries between groups. The class first examines these issues in the context of jury selection. For instance, what does it mean to have a representative jury? Who is harmed by discrimination in jury selection, and by what theory? What is the relationship between jury composition and jury context with theories of representation in other contexts, such as electoral districting and academic admissions? We focus particularly on recent debates concerning the propriety of race-conscious strategies for increasing the representation of historically under-represented groups.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law Seminar: SLAPPs | L4547

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are a form of litigation brought to suppress or inhibit citizens' speech directed to the government. SLAPPs are a widespread and troubling phenomenon in the United States because they strike at the core principle of representative democracy: the right to petition for redress of grievances. This class explores various SLAPPs cases to give students a better understanding of these types of lawsuits.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law Seminar: When Fairness is at Risk (prerequisite - Constitutional Law) | L4170

This course (taught as a seminar) is an advanced Constitutional Law offering to supplement the basic four hour Constitutional Law course. It will consider advanced Due Process of Law principles in the context of government contended emergency (i.e., terrorism, safety national defense, etc.) that is claimed to justify summary governmental action with a procedural opportunity afforded later. Legislative procedures in the post-9/11 legislation will be considered and evaluated in terms of Due Process principles, and in terms of other legislative procedural requirements which may be relevant.

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Law Writing Seminar | L4169

N/A

Prerequisites: Registration by instructor permission only.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Constitutional Litigation Seminar | L4168

This seminar examines individual and class action litigation brought against government officials for the violation of Constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the primary federal Civil Rights statute. The historic interplay between substantive Constitutional law and traditional doctrines of tort liability has developed into an entire body of law under Section 1983 that any Civil Rights or government lawyer must regularly confront. The seminar focuses on the most critical substantive issues in pursuing Constitutional litigation. This includes the history and purposes of Section1983; the elements of constitutional torts; rules governing liability of government officials and municipal liability; immunity doctrines; remedies; jurisdictional and procedural barriers to Section1983 litigation; and recovery of attorneys' fees. In addition the class also addresses litigation strategy in Constitutional cases, as well as relevant ethical issues.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Constitutional Problems Seminars | L4169

Topical seminars involving research into selected modern Constitutional problems which are not considered in depth during Constitutional Law.

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law I and II
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Construction Law | L4179

This course examines the legal relationships, obligations, rights, and remedies that govern the diverse parties to a construction project, including owners, lenders, contractors, materialmen, sureties, insurers, subcontractors, laborers, and others. A substantial portion of construction law (and accordingly, the primary focus of this class) is advanced contract law. Experience in the construction industry is not required, but those students who are unfamiliar with construction will benefit from spending a little extra time learning basic construction concepts and processes.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Contract Damages Seminar | L4182

This problem-based class covers contract damages in depth. The class examines original texts that explore contract damages theories running the gamut from restitution to specific performance. The class also explores contract damages law as stated in the Restatement 2nd of Contracts and the UCC. In addition, the class examines and analyzes complex problems in contract damages derived from cases, textbooks, and the bar examination.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Contracts Drafting: Sports Contracts & Negotiation | L4551

This course provides an overview of the contract negotiation process in professional sports. This includes but is not limited to player contracts in National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball. Furthermore, students conduct an analysis of the different bargaining systems in each sport.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Contracts I | L4175

This course provides a broad introduction to understanding, negotiating, and writing contracts. The instructor covers the legal protection accorded contracts; the elements of agreement; and problems often encountered with offers and acceptances. Students also learn some of the more vague working of contracts, such as expressed and implied conditions.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Contracts II | L4176

This class considers the restatement of contracts and the relevant provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code. Students explore all the legal protection accorded contracts and the various conditions that exist.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Copyright and Trademark | L4666

This course covers common law and statutory remedies available to businesses for commercial property rights. The curriculum includes coverage of trademark and copyright law and legal remedies available under related statues. The instructor also discusses business torts and patent and antitrust law, and how these subjects relate to one another.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Corporate Drafting Seminar | L4181

Corporate drafting focuses on writing responsive, lucid, unambiguous corporate documents. Students assume the role of the in-house counsel and other members of the corporate negotiating team as the team structures, negotiates, drafts, and implements corporate transactions. This course requires extensive writing.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Corporate Finance | L4180

This course is designed as a practical, case-study approach to financing high-tech and emerging-growth companies. Through the model of a hypothetical company, students address the significant legal and business issues a company and its founders may face. Students learn how to position a company for financing, prepare and circulate a company's business plan, and understand such topics as investments and incubators.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Corporate Internship | L4991

he program is offered solely in the spring term and consists of four mandatory seminars and 15 hours of work in the legal department of the sponsoring corporation. The seminars introduce students to the practice environment and operations of in-house corporate legal departments through the use of three written assignments. The assignments are designed, reviewed and taught by the corporate counsel who participate in the program. They generally require 3-4 hours of preparation. Four credit hours are awarded upon completion and grades are given on a pass/fail basis.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Corporations | L4190

Corporations provides students with a basic introduction to corporations, including the roles of shareholders and creditors. The instructor also covers the various duties and liabilities of officers and directors, and supplies a brief overview of the applicability of the federal securities laws.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Counseling and Negotiation in Spanish | L4193

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the obstacles and challenges of communicating with Spanish-speaking clients in a legal environment. Students will be trained on how to prepare legal documents in Spanish, conduct attorney-client interviews in Spanish, and overcome the obstacles that prevent effective communication in a legal setting. These obstacles include cultural stereotypes and language usage and misconceptions regarding the role that attorneys, judges and interpreters play in the U.S. legal system. The course also emphasizes how to build a law practice that attracts Spanish-speaking clients.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Creation of Public Policy | L4706PP

Course will have a reality-based focus on the influences on American public policy. Issues to be discussed will include, but not be limited to: 1. The influence of special interest contributions on elections and legislation, and the law relating to campaign money. 2. The effects of non-competitive, safe legislative districts, and the politics and law of our decennial redistricting bloodbaths. 3. The level of participation and information among American voters and the suboptimal impacts of this level of participation. 4. The conflict between mass democracy and effective leadership. 5. Effective typical and atypical strategies for advancing legislative policy goals.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Justice and International Human Rights | L4196

This course examines the application of international human rights principles affecting criminal justice in domestic criminal justice systems, regional courts, and international tribunals and commissions. Decisions of constitutional and supreme courts of various governments (democratic, transitional, and totalitarian) are compared. Relevant provisions in international agreements, covenants and treaties, as applied in various adjudicatory bodies, are also studied and compared. Students explore the extent to which various systems protect individuals from arbitrary prosecutions for exercise of fundamental human rights, and the influence of history, politics, and culture on human rights decisions.

Prerequisites: Suggested prerequisites: International Law, Human Rights, Criminal Procedure.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Justice Seminar: Ex-Offender Reentry and Collateral consequences of Incarceration |

This course will examine the complexity of legal and practical barriers faced by individuals returning from prison to the community. The barriers explored will include, but will not be limited to: the denial of public housing, public assistance, and educational student loans; exclusion from certain jobs; and curtailed voting rights. Students will become familiar with the range of legal restrictions and practical hurdles facing individuals with a criminal record, as well as their families and communities. Further, students will consider the delicate balance between promoting public safety and stigmatizing people who have paid their debt to society. The course will also educate students with regard to the workings of parole and probation and the attorneys (both defense and prosecution) role in mitigating the collateral consequences of incarceration. 3 credit hours. Will meet the Upper Level Writing Requirement.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: YES

Criminal Justice Seminar: Ex-Offender Reentry and Collateral Consequences of Incarceration | L4521CJ

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Justice Seminar: Sexual Offenders | L5022

The purpose of this course is to explore the development of laws concerning sexual violence. The class will address the sexual offender legislation that has been enacted on the federal level over the last two decades (Jacob Wetterling Act, Megans Law, Adam Walsh Act, and so forth), with an additional focus on Colorados sexual offender laws. Students will study these initiatives in order to examine the questions of how sexual offenders are identified and what consequences accompany conviction or classification as a sexual offender, including registration requirements, residency restrictions, and civil commitment. The class will address the legal justifications for and challenges to sexual offender laws. Students will be responsible for writing a seminar paper addressing an issue in sexual violence criminal law.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Law | L4195

The course explores the definition of crime and criminal liability.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Law - Victims' Rights | L4197

Victims' rights has emerged as an important aspect of the criminal justice field in recent years. Anyone planning a career in criminal justice will want to engage in this seminar class to learn about the law and it's application to victims' rights. This class is designed to explore the role of the criminal justice system and its response to victims. In depth discussions will be held about victims' rights and criminal procedure.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Law Clinic | L4800/L4801

This clinic offers students the opportunity to defend low-income clients charged with various criminal offenses. These offenses include DUI/DDWAI; domestic violence; assault; theft; disturbance; child abuse and neglect; menacing; etc. Students represent their clients in various municiple and county courts in the area. This course requires numerous court appearances for arraignments, pre-trial motions, and sentencing. Students should be prepared for an intense litigation experience in misdemeanor criminal defense.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: permission of faculty supervisor.
Credit Hours: 3 in-class/3 out-of-class credits
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Law Drafting Seminar | L4198

This seminar emphasizes the practical aspects of filing litigating motions in criminal matters. Students learn how to identify issues and how to file motions in court concerning those issues. They draft motions in the proper format with effective writing techniques.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Criminal Trial Practice | L4914

This course provides an overview of the criminal justice process from arrest through the pre-trial, trial and post-trial stages. It then concentrates on developing the skills necessary to conduct a trial before a judge or jury as a prosecutor and defense counsel. Using both lecture and student participation in simulated courtroom exercises, this course teaches the basics of organizing and evaluating a criminal case; developing prosecution and defense theories and strategies; preparing for trial; selecting a jury; organizing and delivering opening statements; direct examinations; cross-examinations; closing arguments; and making and responding to objections. The course culminates with students participating in a mock jury trial. While the course emphasizes criminal cases, it is open to any students interested in trial practice.

Prerequisites: Criminal Law, NOTE: THIS CLASS DUPLICATES TRIAL PRACTICE.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Death Penalty Jurisprudence | L4201

The course is designed to make students aware of the substantive body of law surrounding the modern death penalty and the policy issues raised by the law. The course begins with the class constructing a fair death penalty. Students decide whether they, as the omnipotent legislature, want a death penalty. Then, students construct one that is fair, just and humane, and that achieve the goals they have established for their death penalty. Next, the class examines "Furman v. Georgia" to explore the problems that the Supreme Court perceived in the death penalty prior to 1972. This is followed by a study of "Gregg v. Georgia" and its progeny. From there, students embark on a substantive review of virtually all aspects of the law surrounding the litigation of death penalty cases, from pre-trial through post-conviction proceedings.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Directed Research | L4999

Direct Research is an opportunity for students to research and write on any area of law approved by a full-time faculty member who agrees to direct the project. The research project must be completed within the semester for which the student is registered. The research is compiled into a paper of publishable quality that is delivered to the associate dean for academic affairs by the last day of exams for that semester. The dean notes compliance with the timely completion rule, and then delivers the paper to the supervising faculty member for grading. Students may petition for either two or three semester hours. A maximum of five semester hours credit for Directed Research is permitted in satisfaction of the 90-credit degree requirement. A Directed Research application form (available in the registrar's office) signed by both the faculty supervisor and student is required for enrollment. The registrar's office will register the student for his or her directed research once the student's application form has been approved. As of February 2004, the faculty adopted a resolution requiring that all directed research projects conform with the upper level writing requirement, which involves a mandatory rewrite, in addition to any other requirements.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Directed Research in Spanish | L4999S

Directed Research in Spanish provides an opportunity for students to research and write in Spanish on topics related to the Mexican Legal System while they study at the Mexican law school, Facultad Libre de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. Students approved for Directed Research in Spanish must travel to Mexico for six weeks to conduct research in Monterrey under the supervision of a SCOL faculty member and law professors at the Facultad Libre de Monterrey. Students must submit drafts of their papers to their professors for specific comment and criticism, and students must submit a final paper that adequately responds to their professors' comments and criticisms. The final paper must arise to publishable quality, and students must submit their final drafts to their professors and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs by the last day of exams for the summer term. Students may petition for two or four semester hours of Directed Research. Students may find the Directed Research application form in the Dean's Suite or the Registrar's Office. The form requires the signature of the faculty supervisor, the student and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. The registrar's office will register the student for his or her directed research once the supervising professor and the Associate Dean has approved the student's application form. For additional information, please contact Prof. Valeria Elliott at velliot@law.du.edu. Please see: http://www.law.du.edu/registrar/DirectedResearchinSpanish-Schedule.htm

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: Yes

Disability Law | L4202

This class outlines legal issues concerning persons with disabilities. It pays special attention to the Americans with Disabilities Act. The course may include some practical exercises, such as complaint drafting or other applications of the substantive law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Discovery Practicum | L4218

Most litigations never get to trial. Instead, these cases are settled after the discovery period has revealed the strengths and weaknesses in the case. This course focuses on the instruments, rules, and case law governing civil discovery: interrogatories, document requests, requests for admissions, and depositions.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Distinguished Natural Resources Practitioner Seminar | L4521

N/A

Prerequisites: Registration by instructor permission only.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Doing Business in Mexico | L4118

This course is an introduction to the law governing business organizations and investment vehicles in Mexico. The class explores the laws and policies that regulate foreign investment in Mexico, including an overview of the legal framework provided by NAFTA.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Domestic Violence Seminar | L4213

Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women in the United States. Why is the violence not abating after years of discussion, legislation and millions of federal dollars allocated to "solve the problem?" This seminar examines the legal, social, and political basis for intimate violence against women. Current policies are deconstructed by raising the question whether these methods have improved the quality of women and children's lives. Students have the unique opportunity to draft legislation to present during a mock legislative hearing presided over by members of the Colorado Legislature. Thus, students will be able to put into practice what they have learned and investigated over the semester.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Drafting Legal Documents in Spanish | L4708S

This course focuses on the drafting of legal documents in Spanish with an emphasis on court documents. Students develop an understanding of how legal documents are created, negotiated, revised, and finalized. This course is intended to be hands on, offering students the experience of working with Spanish-speaking clients in simulated negotiations and drafting sessions.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Economics of Natural Resources Projects and Transactions | L4452

This course deals with the basic concepts of financial evaluation of a natural resources project. The emphasis is on financial evaluation topics and issues relevant to a lawyer's participation in a project. Students are introduced to the time-value of money; spreadsheet analysis; discounted cash flow; and spreadsheets, with relevancy to negotiations. This course is part of the core curriculum for the graduate degree courses in International Natural Resources Law and Policy.

Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to consult with the director of this program before enrollment.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Elder Law | L4203

This course explores a range of issues relevant to legal counseling of elderly clients. Students learn to counsel their clients in areas such as Medicaid, guardianships, and right-to-die issues.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Election Law |

This course examines Federal Election Law, specifically the Voting Rights Act; federal legislative districting; federal regulation of political parties; and the evolution of federal campaign finance law. Students consider the likely course of campaign finance based on a close examination of the 2004 federal elections. The course does not address state campaign finance issues, ballot initiatives, or term limits. However, it may touch on those topics if time permits.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Emerging Trends in Data and Knowledge Management | MSLA L4080

This class provides a review of the application of computer technology to law office management and court administration. This includes computer basics; needs analysis; fundamental and advanced software applications; networking and telecommunications; the consultant's role; selection of equipment and services; and managing automated systems. Exercises and demonstrations are held in the computer-learning center. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Discrimination Law | L4707

This course concerns federal constitutional and statutory law that prohibits discrimination in the workplace, including regulation of both private employers and the federal government. The course covers theoretical issues, such as the definition of equality, and practical problems that involve the complex procedural requirements of the applicable statutes.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Law - Benefits | L4223

This course is a statute and case law course introduces students to Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the important federal law that controls the design and operation of virtually all employee benefit plans. The course offers students an understanding of the application of ERISA and how ERISA issues arise in business and private law practice. The classroom scenarios include lecture, problem solving and role playing to identify the kinds of experiences students likely will experience in private practice.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Law Benefits | L4706

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Law in the New Economy | L4024

Employment Law in the New Economy: This seminar focuses on legal and policy issues that arise in modern work environments, with particular emphasis on service and information-based industries. It covers such emerging matters as the growing use of temporary labor, reductions in employer-provided benefits, the changing role of labor unions, and ownership of intangible property. The course satisfies the upper level writing requirement. Prerequisite: One prior employment law course or permission of the instructor.

Prerequisites: Employment Law is a Prerequisite
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Law in the New Economy | L4702

Prerequisites: Employment Law is a Prerequisite
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Law Mediation | L4707E

Employment Law Mediation:(Prerequisite: Survey of Employment Law or Employment Discrimination; Satisfies upper level writing requirement; limited to 16 students) This advanced seminar is for students who want to apply their employment law knowledge to a skills course that involves alternative dispute resolution. The federal courts handle many pro-se individual employment matters which often require mediation. This class works through a realistic fact pattern and requires students to research and write client and court documents in preparation for mediation. Additionally, the students will prepare their (mock) client and participate in a moot mediation with experienced, volunteer mediators.

Prerequisites: Survey of Employment Law or Employment Discrimination; Satisfies upper level writing requirement
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Employment Law: Benefits |

This course is a statute and case law course designed to introduce students to Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the important federal law that controls the design and operation of virtually all employee benefit plans. The course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the application of ERISA and how ERISA issues arise in business and private law practice. The classroom scenarios include lecture, problem solving and role playing to identify the kinds of experiences students are likely to experience in private practice.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Energy Law | L4210

Energy Law presents the regulation of production, conversion, transportation, distribution and pricing of fossil, hydro, nuclear, and other conventional sources of primary energy. It also offers insight into the regulation of renewable energy resources, including energy from the sun, wind, biomass, oceans, earth (geothermal) and rivers (low-head hydro). There is an emphasis on new legislative and judicial development relating to these various energy sources.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Entertainment Law | L4215

Entertainment law focuses on issues that have an impact on the entertainment industry. Topics include copyright; service and trademark; licensing; publishing; unfair competition; antitrust; agency; and labor law. The class also explores publishing agreements.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Environmental Ethics and Justice | L4219

This course provides a broad analytical consideration of ethical environmental policy-making. Students consider the historical aspect of environmental ethics as the various ethical approaches to making a decision concerning the environment. The class also explores the roles that the law, economics, and society's values play in environmental ethics.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Environmental Law | L4220

Environmental Law covers the major federal laws and programs for environmental protection. These laws and programs include the National Environmental Policy Act; Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act; Toxic Substances Control Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; wildlife laws; landform preservation laws; and public resource laws. In this class, federal laws are compared to state and local legislation and common law remedies. Issues of economics and technology, tactics of environmental litigation, legislative lobbying, and administrative agency enforcement are explored.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Administrative Law recommended but not required.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Environmental Law Clinic and Seminar | L4206/L4802

Students must take THE ELCP clinic seminar in conjunction with the ELCP Clinic. During class, students review federal civil procedure through a lecture series entitled "anatomy of a lawsuit," receive specific lectures on effective legal writing and commonly used statues such as the Freedom of Information Act, and Endangered Species Act. Each student must also prepare a class presentation on their assigned major case, and participate in random, less formal docket meetings. Students must also attend four guest lectures from lawyers and other professionals on environmental law advocacy issues.

Prerequisites: Evidence & Legal Profession. Must take concurrently with L4802.
Credit Hours: Year-Long Clnic: 3 in-class/3 out-of-class credits per semester
ULW: This course may satisfy the Upper Level Writing Requirement (ULW)

Environmental Law Seminar | L4222

This seminar presents forms of environmental preservation. This includes the acquisition of property rights using conservation easements; land trusts; outright purchases of sensitive lands; and private/public partnerships for preservation. These areas are becoming an increasingly important element in our efforts to save biological diversity, scenery and other aspects of nature we value. Acquisition preservation is swiftly developing its own body of law. Many aspects of the acquisition preservation process have increasingly less regard to politics and society. Rather, acquisition preservation intersects with more traditional forms of public growth control zoning and planning. In this seminar, students develop a basic understanding of the law of acquisition preservation and a sense of the non-legal dimensions of the process.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Essentials of Pro-Bono Practice | L4224

This seminar surveys the various types of pro bono work that are performed by lawyers, and introduces students to sources of information, clients, and support that are available to new practitioners in each area of work. While the course is designed for students who are not necessarily interested in full-time public interest work, it will be of interest to students who are committed to full-time, public-interest employment.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Estate and Gift Taxation | L4225

This class is a study of the federal estate tax; federal gift tax; and federal generation skipping transfer tax.

Prerequisites: Basic Tax
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Estate Planning | L4230

This course is designed to teach students how to properly aid their clients with planning how their estates should be handled. It has an emphasis on family settlements, but primarily stresses the areas of wills, trusts and federal estates, and gift and income taxes.

Prerequisites: Estate and Gift Taxation
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

European Union Environmental Law & Policy | L4037

In the last 25 years, the European Union (EU) has become a leading player in the context of European environmental legislation and policy making. Of particular interest has been the relationship between economic development, which serves as the underpinning of the EUs single market, and environmental protection, the importance of which is clearly set out in the European Community Treaty. Matters dealing with climate change, genetically modified organisms, and recycling are now dealt with on a regular basis at EU level. These matters have impacts, both internally in the EUs 25 member states, as well as internationally where companies, including U.S. firms, must abide by EU standards in order to market products in the worlds largest single market. This course considers the history of EU environmental policy, the current legal basis of EU environmental activities, seminal court decisions involving environmental protection, and the growing role of the EU in setting world standards in environmental protection. The course is taught online beginning Jan. 12 and ending May 1. It consists of a series of reading, video interviews, and writing assignments as well as on-going internet discussions.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

European Union Law | L4232

The European Union (EU) has been described as the 21st century's newest superpower. Bearing in mind the rapidly growing importance of the EU, this course introduces EU law, and emphasizes its historical underpinnings, institutional framework, legal procedures, and internal market. Moreover, emerging policies (e.g. enlargement, environment) are considered. The course examines these topics in the context of European political integration and where appropriate, the ongoing tension in the trans-Atlantic relationship between the EU and United States.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Evidence | L4235

Evidence is an introduction to trial process and the law of evidence. It exposes students to the common law, with an emphasis on the Federal Rules.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Evidence Practicum: Trial Exercises and Motion Drafting | L4237

This course helps to develop students' practical skills and facility with the rules of evidence as they are used in the courtroom. Students simulate the introduction of exhibits and the examination of witnesses in problem settings or in the context of a whole case, learning how the rules are used through objections and arguments about admissibility. Problems are oriented to the application of evidence rules in actual practice, so students can see the impact made by attorneys' choice of case theory and evidentiary theory. Students also draft motions in limine to argue evidentiary issues for resolution before trial.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: - Evidence (must have completed the course; simultaneous enrollment does not meet this requirement). - Trial Practice (helpful but not required).
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Extremism and the Law | L4246

Racism. Sexism. Gay-bashing and immigrant-bashing. These are the creeds of America's domestic extremists. From the Ku Klux Klan to the Westboro Baptist Church, hate groups represent our nation's ongoing battle with domestic terrorism. In this course, students analyze the ways in which extremist groups impact the law. How should hate and extremism be defined in the domestic context? In what ways do extremist ideologies and hate groups influence mainstream ideologies and policies? How do the activities of domestic terrorists influence the development and implementation of laws? Are laws, such as hate crimes statutes, desirable? How should our nation balance the First Amendment rights of hate mongers with the rights of others and with the harms inflicted on others? When should hate speech, for example, become legally actionable? This course touches on many areas of the law, including torts, criminal law, employment discrimination and the First Amendment. While it spotlights domestic terrorists, the course does address the impact of international groups in the wake of September 11.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Family Law | L4240

This course is an examination of laws that involve and/or regulate families. Students learn the legal rights of families in cases incidental to marriage or without marriage. This includes child-parent relationships and the dissolution of marriage. This class also provides students with an understanding of new familial relationships.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Family Law Seminar | L4241

N/A

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Federal Courts | L4250

This is an advanced public law course that examines the role of the federal courts in our constitutional system. It focuses on the federal courts role and power in relation to the other branches of the national government (the separation of powers theme) and in relation to state and local governments (the federalism theme). Specific topics include the organic judicial powers of the federal judiciary, including Article IIIs Case or Controversy requirement; congressional power to restrict or expand federal jurisdiction, the Supreme Courts power to review state court rulings on federal law by direct appeal and on collateral review (habeas corpus); federal question jurisdiction; federal civil rights law under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and many of the doctrines that limit federal judicial power to provide remedies to parties whose federal constitutional and civil rights have been violated, including official immunity, state sovereign immunity, and the abstention doctrines. The course is open to students who have taken, or are concurrently taking, Constitutional Law. It is highly recommended for students interested in pursuing federal judicial clerkships and/or careers in federal civil rights litigation, government representation, or other federal litigation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Federal Government Contracts |

Federal Government Contracts provides the history and development of the federal governments balancing of roles in the procurement area of contracts in terms of sovereignty and private contractual capacity. It also provides insight into how federal statutes, judicial decisions, various policies, and national interest may influence federal government contracts.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Federal Indian Law | L4300

This introductory course surveys the body of "Federal Indian Law," focusing on the legal relationship between Indian nations and the United States, including implications of this relationship for states and individual citizens. The course covers the historical origins of federal Indian common law, the development of federal Indian policy, and tribal sovereignty in the modern era (tribal property, jurisdiction, criminal and civil governance, and economic development including gaming). It may provide a brief introduction to the Indian Child Welfare Act, religious and cultural freedoms, tribal law, and indigenous peoples in international law, if time allows. The course culminates in a 3-hour in class examination. This course is a required prerequisite for Advanced Indian Law and Native American Natural and Cultural Resources Law. It is also strongly recommended before students enroll in Indian Water Law or Tribal Law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Federal Wildlife Law | L4251

This course covers federal wildlife law beginning with the Constitutional underpinnings of federal wildlife law. It focuses on the Endangered Species Act with some coverage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The course takes new approaches to species and habitat preservation, paying particular attention to Colorado species.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Finance and Accounting in Law Office Business Management | MSLA L4410

This class has a primary emphasis on financial management and the basis of business decisions required in a law firm. Some of the material presented has application in the courts. This class provides some foundational knowledge and skill in accounting principal and practices. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Financial Management for Legal Administrators | M4901

Building on the fall finance class, the student focuses on the financial skills necessary to monitor and control the economic aspects of law firms. Also, this course emphasizes on the modern nature of public financing for court systems and related bodies by examining the appropriation and budgeting process, the court administrators role in financial planning, and the concept of public accountability. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Future Interests | L4255

This course provides an in-depth study of future interests, including such topics as the rule against perpetuities, reversions, right of entry, possibilities of reverter, remainders, executory interests, class gifts, powers of appointment, claims of creditors, and alien ability of future interests. For enrolled students, there is some practice in drafting particular provisions frequently used in deeds and wills. Daily assignments include restructuring the transactions so as to eliminate all plausible grounds for litigation.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Property. Prior completion of Trusts and Estates is recommended.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Gaming Law | L4258

This course examines the legal aspects of gambling and commercial gaming. Gambling remains among the most heavily regulated industries in the country, and raises significant constitutional issues. It questions the scope of government; the interaction of federal; regulatory controls; casino crimes; gambling on Indian lands; and the future of gambling under federal law. The class also briefly touches on Internet, in-flight, and cruise ship gaming.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Gender and the Law | L4260

The course is based on sex-discrimination materials, especially those found in the Constitution and civil rights and employment laws. It emphasizes a feminist analysis relating to speech issues and theoretical approaches. It also gives an historical perspective leading into reproductive rights. Next, it addresses womens sexuality issues including rape, incest, and prostitution, and provides an analysis of the social construction of heterosexuality. Finally, it explores the impact women have in the legal profession.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Global Climate Change | L4259

As concern over the threat of global climate change spreads, action on greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is increasingly commanding attention. This seminar consists of supervised research and writing on the issue of climate change and the legal and policy responses. The course focuses the effects of climate change on development and the environment in industrialized and developing countries and the laws in the international, regional and domestic arenas that address the problem. The course thoroughly examines the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol and trade issues related to climate change, especially the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol cap and trade provisions. The course gives special attention to China and India as they increasingly become the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. This seminar examines rules, procedures, and institutions that address climate change as well as on-going domestic and regional cases that concern the effects of climate change.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Global Trade & the Environment | L4709GT

This course explores the struggle of globalization whether the treaties to protect the environment can thrive under agreements that promote trade. Many vehicles have been signed to protect certain species or specific areas, but none has the enforcement authority found in trade agreements. Theories of ecology, capitalism, and public policy are studied to gain a sense of how environmentalism will survive in a global economy. This course will use the text Trade and the Environment. Although the text often presents and discusses international trade disputes, this is not case law, at least in the traditional sense. These are decisions made by appointed panelists, not by judges or juries of your peers. Rules of stare decisis, that one court must follow the rulings of a previous court, have no bearing in trade disputes. Panelists make their decisions based on the applicable agreements signed by the member country, taking into account the potential political ramifications of their decisions. The aim of the course is to provide students with an introduction to international trade agreements, to rethink laws that control industrial pollutants and to gain a more comprehensive understanding of how these agreements and laws can be used to protect the global environment. At the end of the course, the student should be able to: Understand the basic concepts of trade agreements; realize the efficacy and limitations of international policy; determine the extent international trade and globalization promotes or diminishes the worlds environment; and evaluate the efficacy of trade agreements to enforce environmental policy.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Going Public and the Public Corporation | L4700

This course considers what a securities practitioner must take into account in advising a company contemplating an initial public offering (IPO) and becoming a public corporation. We attempt to take into account, among other things, the underwriting-distribution process, listing on a stock exchange, registering the securities under the Securities and the Exchange Acts, and focusing on the integrated disclosure system. The class materials are on the Internet at www.bloomthal.com and for a more complete description of the course access the Syllabus. The materials are being revised to reflect new regulations adopted by the SEC in November and December of 2007 and other developments since the last publication of the materials.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Government Contract Drafting | L4265

Government Contract Formation And Administration provides an in depth examination of the unique statutory, regulatory and administrative process used by the U.S. Government when it annually spends more than $1 trillion taxpayer dollars to contract for goods and services used by Federal departments and agencies. Topics will include the contract award and contract administration processes, with an emphasis on practical solutions to issues which routinely confront attorneys who advise businesses which do business with the Government.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Government Liability | L4270

The course covers the liability of government officials and entities for harms caused in the conduct of government activities and services. It covers such government activities and services as the provision of police protection; road construction and maintenance; and public education. The class also includes discussions of actions brought under civil rights statutes for deprivation of constitutional or statutory interests by public officials.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Hazardous Waste & Toxic Substances | L4380

This practical, hands-on course reviews the major federal environmental protection programs, with an emphasis on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or "Superfund") and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). It also covers Toxic Torts, Underground Storage Tanks, the Clean Water Act, Safe Water Drinking Act, and the Clean Air Act. Other materials may be distributed by the instructor on OSHA, NEPA, TSCA, OPA, the Colorado state voluntary cleanup program (VCUP), toxicology, and immunity issues. The course emphasizes practical application of major environmental laws. Students will become familiar with statutory and regulatory schemes, and are expected to be able to identify environmental legal issues and apply environmental laws and regulations to hypothetical problems.

Prerequisites: JD student prerequisites: Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, or Public Land and Resource Law. LLM & MRLS student prerequisites: 1) Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, or Public Land and Resource Law, or 2) be registered to take any these thre
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Health Law | L4276

This survey course introduces students to how the legal environment of health care shapes both its quality and its distribution. The course begins with a foundation in how health care is both provided and financed in the U.S., including managed care, Medicare, and Medicaid. This foundation sets the stage for studying the laws and policies that impact health law, including ERISA, antitrust, fraud and abuse, the False Claims Act, Stark, and HIPAA. This course does not focus on bioethics or medical malpractice. Students must submit a publishable quality paper on a health law topic approved by the professor.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Holocaust Seminar | L4708H

Please send Professor Miccio a 25-word narrative as to (1) why you wish to take the course; (2) what you hope to gain; (3) how you intend to contribute; and (4) whether you will accept a non-traditional assessment process (contract grading). This will require much reading, thinking and sharing with colleagues as well as small group work.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Holocaust Seminar | L4708H

This class focuses on conceptions of individual and state accountability. By understanding how the Holocaust occurred, and how individual and collective acquiescence combined with affirmative conduct, we can begin to grasp the complex web that created a moment in time where morality and civilization were abdicated and almost eradicated. We will examine how law, culture, power, ignorance and fear combined to create the Final Solutionand how conceptions of moral agency and accountability were forged in flames that marked the death camps. Students will read narratives of resistance and collaboration and historical accounts of how the U.S., Europe and religious institutions interacted with the Third Reich. Through the readings and discourse that will follow, students will have the unique opportunity to question what constitutes moral agency and how individuals and cultural systems should be held accountable for circumstances that created the Third Reich and its ideology. This class is interdisciplinary thereby integrating law with literature, political theory and philosophy.

Prerequisites: Requires Professor Permission
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Hughes Research Seminar | L4280

TBD

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Human Resources | MSLA L4121

Students learn how effective court and law practice managers employ decision-making skills in the context of human resources law and policy. During this course, students concentrate on the best human resource practices of legal administrators. Students discover how to achieve court and law firm goals via managing their most precious resource, personnel. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Human Rights Law | L4290

The course provides an introduction to international civil and political rights and economic, social, and cultural rights in the international arena. It also covers the means available to protect such rights of the individual and groups. The focus is on the implementation part at the United Nations and other international, regional and national settings.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: International Law.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Immigration Law |

This is a study of the historical development and current jurisprudence in American immigration law. The course examines such concepts as sovereign authority, exclusion, expulsion and asylum, and current developments in the area.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Immigration Reform | L4709IR

This seminar will allow students who have taken or are currently taking Immigration Law to examine issues related to immigration reform and policy in the United States in-depth. In addition to discussing problems with and possible solutions to our current immigration laws, we will also cover topics related to the rights and privileges of non-citizens living in the United States, and the debate surrounding immigration reform and policy at the federal, state, and local levels. We will analyze what the rights are of noncitizens in the United States as well as where they come from (the U.S. Constitution, statutes), and how these rights and privileges implicate civil and human rights as well as race, class, and gender.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Indian Water Law | LTBD

This course will explore federal, tribal and state relations as they pertain to tribal water rights. Students will gain an understanding of the legal underpinnings of tribal reserved water rights and survey issues regarding quantification, regulation, and administration of reserved water rights. The course will also cover considerations relating to litigation of tribal reserved water rights versus negotiation and settlement. The final aspect of the course will highlight practical problems and obstacles to development of tribal water rights. The course will include a substantial research and writing assignment designed to require students to analyze a difficult legal question and to advocate a novel position. Students are strongly encouraged to take Federal Indian Law and/or Water Law before enrolling in this course.

Prerequisites: Federal Indian Water Law or Water law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Indian Water Rights Seminar | L4669

This course covers all aspects of representing tribes in securing and enforcing their water rights. This includes discussing the prior appropriation doctrine; the vocabulary of hydrology; understanding the competing needs for water in the west; the historical and legal bases of reserved water rights; how to quantify the tribal water right; representing a tribe in a state court water adjudication; the process of limiting competing users to their decreed water right; and how the Endangered Species Act impacts exercise of tribal water rights.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Indigenous Peoples in International Law | L4479

This course will explore some of the major contemporary legal issues facing indigenous peoples across the globe. The course will cover issues as far ranging as: how indigenous groups are defined under the law; ethical and legal issues pertaining to indigenous self-governance including the tension between minority rights, individual rights, and democratic precepts; the uneasy application of self-determination law to indigenous self-governance; the implications of human rights, environmental, intellectual property, and international trade regimes for indigenous peoples; and international legal texts affecting indigenous peoples, such as the recent United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. At the option of the individual student, this course can be used to satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: YES

Injuries: Tort Law and Society | L4702

Debate over the role of tort law in our society has raged for many years, yet only recently have researchers provided reasonably extensive knowledge about how the tort law system actually works. Drawing on insights obtained from a rapidly growing body of research, this seminar examines selected topics in tort law from a doctrinal and from a social and cross-cultural perspective. Studies of injuries in American society are compared to studies set in other societies, and students rely on the writings of social scientists as well as lawyers. A few key concepts are emphasized, including the following: current perceptions and critiques of the tort law system in America, policy debates, and insights provided by empirical research; variations in the concept of injury itself as a physical, emotional, relational, or social harm in different cultural or historical settings; tensions in cultural, legal, and scientific conceptualizations of causation; how cultural and social factors influence requests for compensation; how juries actually go about their evaluation of injury cases; how lawyers decide whom to represent and what kinds of damages to request; the role of race, gender, and religion in the tort system; and the recent trend toward globalization of tort law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Insurance Law | L4304

A comprehensive overview of laws, standards, concepts and remedies related to Insurance, including: interests protected by Insurance; selection and control of risks; insurable interest; the principle of indemnity; types and classifications of Insurance; making, dealing with and termination of insurance contracts; underwriting and claims handling; regulation of Insurance and insurers; subrogation; and extra-contractual liability. Course may be used to satisfy Upper-Level Writing requirement.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: May be used to meet the ULW.

Intellectual Property | L4310

This course delves into the history, purposes, and policies of patents, trademarks , and copyrights. Students learn the ins and outs of the application process, life of protection, and how much protection is afforded an owner of intellectual property by common law and federal statues. The class also covers licensing and remedies and protecting ideas on common law. The instructor devotes some time to newer technologies such as computer software.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Intellectual Property and Technology | L4476

N/A

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Intellectual Property, Remedies and Defenses | L4293

This course expounds on the valuable remedies available to intellectual property owners. Winners in patent infringement litigation have received very large monetary awards. Trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation all have a portfolio of remedies that offer creative solutions for attorneys to use in certain factual situations. Ex parte; TROs; preliminary injunctions (including seizure and destruction); permanent injunctions; damages; increased damages, and proceedings are briefly covered.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Intermediate Legal Analysis | L4015

This small-group course provides second-year law students with comprehensive instruction, guidance, and feedback how to develop the analytical and communicative skills necessary to engage in effective legal analysis. The course builds legal analysis skills in the subject area of Information Privacy Law (an intriguing field of law that explores the abilities of individuals to control personal information within an open and free society). In particular, the course will focus on the development of analytical and communicative strengths using first-year subjects (such as privacy torts, contracts, criminal law, and constitutional protections against privacy invasions) as well as novel legal areas (such as statutory schemes for privacy protection and criminal procedure issues raised by informational searches). The initial class meetings are devoted to diagnostic testing of analytical abilities in both written and multiple-choice formats. Subsequent class meetings require students to submit practical writing assignments and periodic in-class presentations of written work. The final grade is based on a final exam. In addition, students can choose to can satisfy the upper-level writing requirement in this course.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Intermediate Legal Analysis | L4015P

This small-group course, aimed at second-year students, focuses on further developing the analytical, reasoning and writing skills acquired in the first year of law school. As a context for strengthening these skills, Professor Pollvogts section of ILA explores a question in constitutional law---specifically, we examine application of the Equal Protection Clause to the issue of same-sex marriage. Throughout the semester you will write a number of un-graded, interim assignments concerning the same-sex-marriage issue and draft a (graded) judicial opinion on the subject. In addition, there will be a graded final exam. A substantial portion of the course will focus on exam strategies and techniques. One of the core goals of this course is to provide extensive, individualized feedback. To that end, students are expected to meet with Professor Pollvogt for individual conferences a number of times during the course of the semester. The writing assignment for this course can be used to satisfy the upper level writing requirement.

Prerequisites: 2L Students
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International & Comparative Mining Law | L4342

The course deals with basic concepts of mineral law, as practiced in various jurisdictions. This includes exploration, mining and environmental protection and reclamation issues. It then focuses on the current evolution and legal and policy status of mining legislation, mineral investment agreements, and major actors. Students completing this course develop a basic understanding of the general approaches, legal frameworks, policies and agreements used to regulate the mining industry in key jurisdictions outside the United States.

Prerequisites: This course is part of the core curriculum for the graduate degree courses in International Natural Resources Law and Policy. Students are encouraged to consult with the director of this program before enrollment.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International & Comprarative Petroleum Law | L4343

The course deals with basic concepts of international law relating to petroleum investment, current elements of petroleum legislation, and petroleum investment agreements (production-sharing, concession, joint venture, service, management contracts). Also, students explore such aspects of petroleum law as dispute settlement and legal status. The instructor discuss the major actors (international petroleum companies, state petroleum enterprises, Ministries of Energy) and their legal and policy status. Students completing the course leave with a basic understanding of the general approaches, policies, and agreements used to regulate the petroleum industry in key selected jurisdictions outside the United States.

International Aviation Law Seminar | L4312

This seminar is an analysis of contemporary issues in international aviation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Bankruptcy Law | L4709IBL

Increasingly, transactions have connections with several countries and the companies engaging in these transactions have operations in many nations. And, so, increasingly business bankruptcies have ramifications in many nations. This course will cover (1) the new Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code that applies to cross-border bankruptcy cases; (2) other international bankruptcy regimes; and (3) the business bankruptcy laws and systems of other major nations. Note: this is a distance learning course to be taught at Columbia University Law School. The course will be taught by Dan Glosband, Judge Allan Gropper, Lewis Kruger and Ralph Mabey (faculty profiles are available at the American College of Bankruptcy website) as well as by lawyers and professors from other countries. David Epstein, Professor of Law at SMU and Richard Broude, formerly a professor at the Georgetown Unviersity Law Center and now an internationally recognized practitioner, will act as national course coordinators. Professor Michael D. Sousa will attend the classes at Denver Law School and be the Denver Law course coordinator. Students at Denver Law School and the other participating schools will be able to see and hear the Columbia Law class and to ask questions during the class. The first class is Thursday, January 14, 2010, 4:00-6:00 p.m. There will be a fact-pattern based, open book, take home exam at the end of the course. Students should contact either Professor Sousa or Professor David Epstein if there are any questions about the course format or content (depstein@mail.smu.edu).

Prerequisites: Bankruptcy Law
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Business Planning Seminar | L4331

International Private Business Planning focuses on issues that arise for small and medium enterprises and individuals conducting business or investing internationally. The class also touches on certain tax aspects. The class analyzes the US inclusion regimes and source of income rules, tax treaties, and laws of various offshore jurisdictions to provide students with a practical understanding of how such clients can structure their affairs to take advantage of multi-jurisdictional considerations. This includes examining an attorney's responsibilities in representing such clients.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Business Transactions in Spanish | L4548

This course focuses on the realities of practicing law in Latin America and Spain and considers the following topics from a case-study perspective: 1) the sale of goods across national borders; 2) the establishment of foreign means of production or distribution through licensing or franchising operations; 3) direct investment in a Latin American country; and 4) resolution of international commercial disputes in civil law jurisdictions. Students reflect on the legal and ethical issues the international lawyer is likely to confront when advising American companies on investment activities in Spanish-speaking countries. The course is taught online beginning Jan. 12 and ending May 1. It consists of a series of reading, video interviews, and writing assignments as well as on-going internet discussions. In addition to the lecture-based presentations on streaming video, this course includes a live class online every Friday from 12-1 pm.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Business Transactions: Federal Regulation | L4318

Federal regulation examines the ability of the federal government to control international trade. The focus of the course is US export controls, embargoes, anti-terrorism regulations that apply to international commerce, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Students prepare a compliance program integrating these regulations into a workable framework for a company.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Business Transactions: Survey Course | L4315

This course provides students with a general overview of international business transactions. The course examines the legal framework of international sales transactions including the commercial terms of the sales agreements, shipping contracts, insurance, financing arrangements and customs documentation. The course also examines the foreign direct investment transaction, international franchise and distribution agreements. The regulation of international business is reviewed, with special attention to the World Trade Organization agreements and regional trade areas.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Commercial Dispute Resolution | L4311

The course focuses primarily on international and comparative arbitration mechanisms. Remedies such as mediation, conciliation, and dispute resolution boards also may be covered.

Prerequisites: Recommended: International Business Transactions.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Commercial Law | L4708

The course will examine legal problems encountered by parties engaging in international commerce, and the evolution of a transnational commercial law. It will cover the development of transnational commercial law from the time of the lex mercatoria to modern day conventions and treaties aimed at facilitating commercial transactions and the minimizing of obstacles to international commerce. A thorough understanding of the limitations of private international law in resolving problems posed by the differences in national commercial laws will be attempted by highlighting some areas of the law where the difficulties are the most acute. Such areas of the law will include secured transactions and sales. The course is premised on the understanding that most modern commercial transactions have, or are capable of having some international element and that national commercial laws are inadequate to maximize commercial opportunities. Materials covered will include the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980 (CISG); the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, 2002; the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held With an Intermediary, 2006; the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, 2005; and the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards, 1958.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Conflict Resolution and Management | L4316

The course explores the role international law, public institutions and NGOs may play in managing and resolving international conflicts with sectarian, racial, and cultural causes. The initial focus is on alternate dispute resolution (ADR) techniques within the United States and international ADR techniques within treaties such as NAFTA and the WTO.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Contracts | L4314

N/A

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Criminal & Humanitarian Law | L4291

his course examines the origins, development, and impact of international humanitarian law (also known as international criminal law, the law of armed conflict or laws of war). At its core, International Humanitarian Law strives to limit the suffering caused by war or armed conflicts and to hold those accountable who violate its provisions. It consists of four primary laws: Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions, Violations of the Laws and Customs of War, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. In class, and through individual student research, the course focuses on the origins of international humanitarian law and the attempts to enforce it from the early prosecutions at Nuremburg and Tokyo up to current prosecutions occurring at the various Ad Hoc Tribunals and the International Criminal Court. The course also examines national attempts to prosecute IHL as well as the application of the law to modern conflicts and policy development. IHL provides a fascinating learning experience for those interested in public policy and the real world application of law. Throughout the wide range of subjects within IHL, the course considers many instances where IHL has passed into customary law and parties use the law to resolve conflicts. As with most bodies of law, application and enforcement of proves uneven. The course explores the contradictions, successes and failures of IHL. The class provides students with a deeper understanding of IHL as well as attempts to enforce those laws and their impact on policymaking and on armed conflict.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Environmental Law | L4317

International Environmental Law is an introduction to the growing network of international law (multilateral and bilateral treaties, customary law, adjudications, etc.) that govern environmental law. The course focuses on international legal issues including global climate change; transboundary pollution; resource depletion; toxic waste export; biodiversity and wildlife/plant extinction; deforestation; desertification; ocean pollution; sustainable development; etc. (The internal domestic environmental laws of individual countries receive some attention as does trade law, but these are covered with more detail in Comparative Law and International Business Transactions, respectively.)

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Human Rights | L4329

The course begins with a general overview of international human rights law and the legal structure of international economic development. This overview includes an examination of development agencies such as the World Bank and others. After this overview, classes focus on selected issues arising in these areas such as women's roles in development projects and multinational corporations' responsibilities in the area of international human rights and the right of participation in development. Specific areas of concentration will vary from year to year.

Prerequisites: Recommended: International Law
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Human Rights Law and Advocacy Course and Clinic (INTS 4945, 4955) | L4810

This INTS 4945 human rights law/advocacy course is designed to teach the prospective human rights advocate the various systems available for pursuing human rights claims as well as the methods that may be used to advocate for human rights protection. The course will cover the assorted global, regional and (U.S.) domestic mechanisms and instruments available for addressing human rights abuses, as well as methods of addressing abuses through more informal channels, e.g., the influence of civil society and U.S. foreign policy. Departing from early history of this course, there WILL BE a final examination. Students who complete the course will be invited to participate in INTS 4955 the 5 hour (or 3 hour for law students) clinical follow-on to this substantive course. (Students who have not taken INTS 4945 may be admitted to INTS 4955, the clinical course, if they have had taken other relevant human rights courses and/or had relevant human rights work experience, and with the instructors permission.) Students in INTS 4955 will be asked to undertake a case study on a human rights violation and provide a Litigation Report (roughly 5000 words, i.e., 20 double-spaced pages) that includes (a) a synopsis of relevant facts, (b) pertinent domestic (usually Constitutional) law of the country where the violation occurs as well as relevant regional and international human rights law, and (c) a recommended course of remedial action using the rule of law. (Law students may also have the option of representing asylum seekers in the Denver immigration court, depending on current case-load.) Non-graduating law and GSIS students in INTS 4955 may seek an overseas assignment in order to either advance their research or initiate the implementation of the recommendations in their Litigation Report. Additional internship or independent research credit may be available for these overseas ventures. Students in INTS 4955 will be graded on the merit of their Litigation Reports (how well researched, written and organized; and analytic quality whether remedial options are correctly identified, and a recommended option thoughtfully defended).

Prerequisites: Permission of faculty supervisor. bgolten@du.edu
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Law | L4320

International Law is the foundational course in public law, treaties, systems, and policies that bind nations into a world community of law. The class places special emphasis on the origins of international law; statehood; international responsibility and claims; use of force; and human rights.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Law Seminar: Russian Commercial Environment | L4330

The course examines the commercial environment in the former Soviet Union, with particular emphasis on Russia and Ukraine. The course looks at the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. This includes an examination of legal reform and the impact of the bureaucracy on the commercial environment.

Prerequisites: Corporations recommended
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Licensing of Intellectual Property | L4334

This course covers issues related to transnational licensing of intellectual property. The course includes a review of the legal environments effecting licensing transactions, including international treaties, national competition law, and intellectual property regimes. Various types of licenses are examined dealing with trademarks and patents. The business uses of licenses are studied. Because of the nature of enforceability issues, attention is paid to alternative dispute resolution techniques in facilitating transnational transfers of technology and other licensing arrangements.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Organization Seminar | L4703IO

This seminar covers law making in international organizations also known as intergovernmental organizations [IGOs or IOs]. An IGO is a more or less permanent institution created by a collection of states for the purpose of pursuing defined common ends. This includes multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF. It also refers to regional organizations such as the European Union, the Organization of American States and the African Union. The first part of the seminar consists of readings on international institutional law, multilateral treaty-making and institutionalized dispute settlement. The last part of the seminar consists of presentations by students on the topics of the research papers required for the course. (Formerly L4336)

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Private Law and International Civil Procedure | L

This course offers a basic introduction to the areas of international private law and international civil procedure, including a review of different preliminary injunctions which are commonly available in the international arena. The objective of the course is to familiarize the student with important, fundamental civil law principles, civil law formats (sequence and relevance of facts and issues posed to foreign legal counsel) and approaches. In todays global economy, such an understanding is often valuable when you have US clientele engaging in overseas business affairs who have to rely on local foreign counsel. Understanding the material covered in this course will assist you in effectively interacting with foreign counsel on behalf of your client, since the manner in which questions are posed to foreign attorneys often determines the costs and efficiency of their advice. Areas covered include a short introduction to U.S. Conflicts and Choice of Law principles before moving on to its European/German counterpart, International Private Law, in a comparative fashion. The objective of the course is to familiarize students with civil law concepts and terminology used in the European Economic Area in general and in one particular European Union member state (case study: Germany). The course will also pick up on topics offered by the ABA as part of its Continuing Legal Education series on International Law and will examine in detail those foreign law issues which the student is likely to be confronted with later in practice, in order to prepare them with the relevant know how.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Securities Regulation | L4338

This course is concerned with regulatory implications of cross-border securities offerings. Emphasis is placed on the US/Canadian, multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, securities regulation in the United Kingdom, and the European Community reciprocal arrangements among member states for the offering of securities and investment services.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Securities Transactions | L4339

This course provides a general overview of international securities regulation. The course examines the offering of foreign securities in the U.S and, conversely, the offering of U.S. securities to foreigners, including the use of Regulation S, Rule 144 and hedge funds. The course also examines broker/dealer and financial intermediary regulations. There is an analysis of the rules governing tender offers, takeovers, and other corporate combinations. The course reviews the unique issues that arise from international securities transactions, including local regulatory schemes, settlement issues, and global custody issues.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Trade | L4379

This course examines the law of international trade in goods and services, focusing principally on the law of the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. We will examine the trading systems rules restraining national restrictions on trade that address, among other things, tariff and non-tariff barriers, discrimination, regionalism, anti-dumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards. The course will also spend time considering the relationship between trade and other regulatory areas or social values, such as environmental protection, health and safety standards, human rights, intellectual property protection, and other facets of globalization. Student will write a research paper in lieu of an exam and this course will satisfy the Upper Level Writing Requirement.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

International Trade | L4704

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

International Trade and Investment Law | L4340

Contrasted with the transactional part of international business, this course addresses the national and international legal and regulatory features of international economic developments. The discussion is focused on the United States's economic regulation of trade and investment, bilateral and multilateral regulatory mechanisms, and regional trade and investment groups in the international arena.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

International Trade Seminar | L4702I

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

International Water Law | L4672

This course presents a global overview of water law, systems, and practice in the modern world. It includes coverage of hydrology, history, national legal systems, and modern international treaties and cases. It has a special emphasis on sustainable development, equitable utilization, pollution control, and ecosystem protection utilized for multi-nation water basins.

Prerequisites: Water Law and International Law courses not a prerequisite, as basics will be covered.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Internship/Externship Program | L4996

The program is designed to allow students the opportunity to gain experience working in legal programs of concern to the legal profession and community. Example placements include public defenders' offices; prosecutors' offices; the attorney general's office; legal service offices; judicial clerkships; and selected private firms. Internship Seminar: In conjunction with the above field placement each student shall meet in a seminar under the supervision of a member of the law faculty to explore common and contrasting areas of professional responsibility, professional tasks and skills, decision making and dispute resolution presented in the various intern settings.

Prerequisites: No a maximum of 10 hours credit may be awarded for this program.
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

INTERNSHIPS | L4995

The program allows students to gain experience working in a variety of legal settings and in a myriad of areas of practice. Placements include the public defender's offices; the district attorney's offices; the attorney general's offices; Colorado Legal Services; judicial clerkships at both trial and appellate level; corporations; not-for-profit organizations; and private firms. Areas of practice include criminal law, family law, business/corporate law, estate planning, employment law, land use law, and intellectual property law. Internship Seminar: During the semester each student attends a weekly seminar taught by adjunct or law school faculty. The seminars explore a variety of topics that relate to the internship placements, but may include ethics and professionalism, decision-making, and time and case management. The Internship Office enrolls each student in the weekly seminar. Interns are also required to write weekly journals and submit weekly time sheets. Grading is a pass/fail basis. An aggregate of 10 credits is allowed. Attorney General (L5001), Business Corporation (L5002), City Agency (L5003) , Federal Agency (L5004), Judicial Clerkship (L5005), Private Firm L5007), Prosecutor (L5008), Public Defender L5009), State Agency (L5010), Nonprofit Organizations (L5012).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Intro to Law of the US | L4655

N/A

Prerequisites: MACLAW STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

JOURNALS | L4880, L4884, L4885, L4888, L4889

Scholarly journals are edited at the College of Law, allowing students to participate in research in various fields. Permission to enroll is obtained from the managing editor for credit of 0-3 semester hours. Available Journals include International Law Journal (4884); Law Review (4880); Preventive Law Journal (4885); Transportation Law Journal (4888); and Water Law Review (4889).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Judicial Administration Seminar | MSLA L4130

This seminar provides an extensive examination of the principal facets of judicial administration. Topics include judicial system development, organization, and reform; rural and urban court environments; judicial selection and retention; facilities planning; and judicial independence theory. The class examines the role of the administrator as a liaison to the executive, legislature, bar, and the media. Students are introduced to research methodologies to interpret court studies and evaluate judicial articles. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Jurisprudence | L4345M

This course examines the relationship of law to morality and accountability. We will be using writings from law, political and legal theory, literature, theology and philosophy as part of the lecture/discussion. This class has an extensive reading list and requires that all students complete a final project and facilitate discussion sessions. This semester, the final project will be based on the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Castle Rock v Gonzales, and it will entail the drafting of a bill and bill memo, testimony at a mock legislative hearing and a short paper which examines the theoretical and practical implications of your bill. The policy areas that we will cover will be drawn from the following areas: War & Torture; the Holocaust; Abortion; Domestic Violence; Immigration; Faith-based legislation. Please note, we will not cover all areas listed but coverage will be drawn from the list. Admission: By permission of professor. Submit a 2 paragraph statement as to (1) why you want to take the class and (2) how you expect to meet the requirements. Send your statement to Professor Miccio, kmiccio@law.du.edu

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Jurisprudence | L4345

The course is designed to introduce several contemporary modes of legal thought. This includes sociological jurisprudence; analytical jurisprudence; critical legal studies; and feminist jurisprudence. An exploration and critical evaluation of these differing perspectives on law are pursued to foster an understanding of the interdependency between legal philosophy and legal decision process, the role law plays in our culture, and the social and philosophical impediments to law's effectiveness.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Juvenile Law | L4350

This course examines the legal parameters surrounding juveniles. Students gain a basic understanding of juvenile law, such as the legal definition of who is considered a child and the allocation of power between the state, parent(s), and the children. The class examines what protection the Constitution provides children and the historical development and philosophy of juvenile justice to understand the foundation of juvenile law. The focus of the class also includes an examination of rights of abused children and children who are delinquents and status offenders.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Labor Law | L4355

Labor Law provides a background of modern labor relations law and union pressures with a historical review of the laws that shape this field. Laws covered include the National Labor Relations Act; National Labor Management Relations Act; Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959; Civil Rights Act of 196L4; employer unfair labor practices; union unfair labor practices; internal affairs of labor organizations; collective bargaining and settlement of labor disputes; and state labor legislation. Also, it explores employer and union labor practices and manners in which disputes concerning these practices may be resolved.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Labor/Civil Rights Law Seminar | L4356

This seminar includes several readings surrounding doctrines of labor and employment law that deal with the issue of race. Readings are in the area of Critical Race theory and Civil Rights.

Prerequisites: Employment Law and Labor Law.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Land Conservation Transactions | L4358

This course covers the fundamental law and principles related to land conservation. It is a research based class, and students are responsible for researching, presenting information and drafting regarding a specific conservation project. This course provides all the background necessary to allow students to conduct a meaningful research foray in and to create conservation easements for land conservation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Land Use Planning | L4360

This is an examination of public controls and powers used in the regulation of privately owned land. The master plan, the official map, subdivision regulation, zoning, eminent domain and urban renewal are planning techniques that are analyzed that restrict the private use of land. Special problems in land use planning also studied include exclusionary zoning; slow growth ordinances; regulation of aesthetics; regulation of natural resources development; and inverse condemnation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Latin American Law | L4362

This course seeks to provide students with a basic understanding of Latin American legal traditions. Intended for students who will come into contact with Latin American law in their work as lawyers, international civil servants, business executives and diplomats. The course examines the civil law tradition and constitutional law issues and current developments, such as Latin American economic integration, reform of the public sector, and the emergence of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights. Students acquire some degree of familiarity with the following aspects of legal systems in Latin America: historical background; sources of law; judicial system; distinguishing legal institutions; the nature and role of legal actors; and how to work within the system.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Latin American Law Case Study: The Mexican Legal System | L

Case Study: The Mexican Legal System Registration and Course Information May 29 - June 22, 2007 Why should I take this class? Approximately 70 percent of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S. are from Mexico. The experiences, the development of language skills and the opportunity to work with immigrant cultures gained from this course will be invaluable for students professional development. Students will earn four University of Denver Sturm College of Law approved credits and be able to add this valuable international experience to their legal resume The course is an opportunity to combine summer coursework with a variety of real-world legal projects in Monterey, Mexico, including service learning with nonprofit organizations involved with different immigration issues Students will gain better insight into the immigration debate by participating in a research project designed to analyze the border-crossing enterprise and the role of various groups profiting from migration on both sides of the border The summer course Latin American Law-Case Study: Mexican Legal System begins at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law on May 29th. One week later, the class will travel to Monterey, Mexico, to study in an approximately three-week long course on Mexican Law at the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterey. The off-site portion of the course includes visits to top law firms in Monterey, local civil and criminal law courts, the Monterey Bar Association and non-profit organizations in the area. In addition to conventional COL course credit, the Lawyering in Spanish program and the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterey will award a certificate of attendance for participation in the three-week portion of the course in Mexico.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Latinas, Latinos and the Law |

This course will examine present-day and historic treatment of Latinas and Latinos in U.S. law and culture. Special attention will be paid to the diversity within and the different histories of the groups that comprise Latinas and Latinos. A significant portion of the course will be devoted to examining the state of race relations in the United States along with attention to Critical Race Theory and the emerging critical Latina/o legal theory movement known as "LatCrit." Students will be graded on reflection papers, two other short writing projects, and classroom participation.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Latinas, Latinos and the Law |

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law & Special Education | L4493

The focus of this course is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), its implementing regulations, and relevant case law and Colorado law. The IDEA is placed in context with Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). By completing this course, students obtain foundational knowledge of special education law. The course also asks students to examine special education law as an educational reform model.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law & Technology (Information Technology & the Law) | L4376

Students take a comprehensive look at current information technology (IT) and its applications in the law. Current legal issues, including the implications of the use of IT and professional responsibility are reviewed and discussed in class. Subject learning areas that are covered in the course include the Internet and the security issues raised by its use. Current time-saving applications, such as voice recognition, are related to the ethics of billing and is a topic covered by the course. Information Technology and the Law is designed to provide law students with the knowledge necessary to progress in adaptation and utilization of modern technological advances used in the process of providing legal services in today's modern society.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law and Economics | L4365

This course is an examination of selected common law, regulatory law, and Constitutional law issues from the perspective of economic efficiency analysis.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law and Popular Culture | L4497

Why are there so many jokes about lawyers? Why is John Grisham so popular? What explains the success of the "Law and Order" franchise? Does popular culture affect the outcomes of trials? This seminar will explore the role law plays in popular culture (for example, how law and lawyers are portrayed and perceived; how law shapes and defines pop culture) and the role popular culture plays in law and in the lives of lawyers (for example, the impact of cameras in the courtroom; should lawyers be allowed to write books and sell their clients' stories? The reading list includes traditional materials (case law and legal scholarship) as well as movies, novels and other popular culture materials. Legal Profession is not a prerequisite, but is recommended.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law and Society | L4375

The legal profession is usually treated by the academy as a unitary profession. However, the reality of the world of lawyers depends heavily on the nature of ones practice. This course adopts an overview of the historical, economic, and sociological factors that have shaped and continue to shape the modern legal marketplace. The central focus is the law firm as a business organization. A recurring theme throughout the course is the tension between the ideal of the lawyer as a trusted autonomous professional and an emerging business environment that increasingly treats legal services as a commodity input. The framework for this course is derived from Heinz and Laumanns study of Chicago lawyers. The core principle underlying Heinz and Laurmanns work is that a lawyers social, professional, and economic interests are primarily defined by the type of clients a lawyer services. In this class students focus on three hemispheres of practice: 1) lawyers who serve organizational clients, such as corporations, institutions, and labor unions; 2) lawyers that provide personal services to individuals and small businesses; and 3) trial lawyers, the class action bar, and cause or public interest lawyers. Students spend approximately half of the course on readings that provide context for these three spheres. The focus of the remaining time is as follows. (1) The inner-workings of law firms, including law firm culture, compensation structure, governance, and who makes partn; (2) Trends in the legal market place including law firm compensation; increased competition, growth in law firm size, increase in women and minority lawyers in the profession, and anti-lawyer sentiments in popular culture; (3) We will ask how economic, social, and cultural trends affect lawyers work.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law and Society Seminar | L4375

The primary focus of this seminar is on law as a product of the structure of society. The subject matter can be divided into four distinct sections: 1) What factors affect the development of substantive law? (This section examines the influence of values, beliefs and norms.); 2) Given the existence of substantive law, what organizations develop to carry out the administration of law? (Here, concentration is on the phenomena classified as legal roles, organizations, institutions, and inter-institutional relations, e.g., juries, the legal profession, courts, legislature, etc.); 3) How does law affect social behavior?; and 4) What is the role of law in social change?

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law of the Sea | L4374

Focuses on the UN convention on the law of the sea which came into effect in 1994. Examining this treaty, and other relevant sources of law, the course will explore the principles and rules of international law applicable to maritime space, its resources and environment, and its use by humans and nations. Possible areas of consideration include treatment of the territorial sea; exclusive economic zones; the protection and preservation of the marine environment; and dispute-settlement procedures.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Law of the Workplace | L4709

This course offers an overview of the basic common law and statutory rules that govern the workplace. Coverage includes employment at will, contractual and tort-based modification of at-will status, workplace privacy, protection of employer property, federal wage and hour laws, unemployment benefits, and workplace health and safety. It also examines alternatives to employment, such as independent contractor status.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Lawyering in Spanish Externship | L4389

Prerequisites: Students must have completed 30 hours and be approved by the program director
Credit Hours: 2-6
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Lawyering Process I | L4385

The course surveys and explores (in a large class and also small groups) the intellectual culture of decision making and the nature of jurisprudence. It employs practical tools and skills in research, such as writing, drafting, interviewing and counseling. Lawyers' roles and operations also are examined. This includes negotiations; litigation; persuasive appellate argument; alternatives to litigation; and planning and professional responsibility. The small groups replicate law firms and reinforce cooperative work.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Lawyering Process II | L4386

The course surveys and explores, in a large class and also small group law firms, the intellectual culture of lawyer decision making and the nature of jurisprudence. It emphasizes practical lawyer tools and skills in research, writing, drafting, interviewing, and counseling. Finally, lawyers' roles and operations, which consist of negotiations, litigation, persuasive appellate argument, alternatives to litigation, planning and professional responsibility, are considered. The class is divided into small groups, which replicate law firms and reinforce cooperative work.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal & Medical Control of the Reproductive Process | L4378

Critical evaluation of the legal regulation of a wide range of areas of human reproduction, including some or all of the following: abortion, contract parenthood (surrogacy), cloning, embryo freezing, pregnancy-based employment discrimination, criminal prosecution for prenatal substance abuse, and court-ordered Cesarean sections. Examination of the gender, race, and class assumptions about women and human reproduction that affect, and are reflected in, legal doctrine and medical practice, with particular attention to the way that reproductive rights issues raise issues of race and class equality as well as gender equality.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Accounting | L4400

In this class, topics are developed in the areas of overlap between law and accounting for private enterprise, including corporate financial statements.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Analysis Strategies | L4032

This course provides last semester graduating students with instruction, guidance and feedback to develop foundational skills necessary to achieve success on both the bar exam and in the legal profession as skilled legal analysts. Substantively, the course will primarily focus on core bar exam subjects (constitutional law, contracts, property, evidence, torts and criminal law/procedure) using practical problems in all three examination formats of the bar exam essays, performance tests, and multiple-choice questions. Initially, the course will provide a diagnostic evaluation of the analytical and communicative strengths using a performance test and multiple-choice questions. Subsequent classes will require submission of written practice exams with follow-up class presentations by students of analytical strategies used to solve hypothetical problems posed in essay questions, performance tests and multiple-choice questions. The course will include a final exam given during the final exam period designed to simulate bar exam protocols. In the past, supplemental tests have included: Michael Hunter Schwartz, "Pass the Bar" (Carolina 2006); and James A. Gardner, Legal Argument: Structure and Language of Effective Advocacy (Bender 2007). Both tests are available in the library on course reserve. In addition, a commercial outline will be provided to students.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to students in their last semester of law school.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Databases Research | L4702LD

This course will introduce students to a variety of legal databases, both fee-based and free, that can be utilized for conducting effective legal research as a student and practicing lawyer. Students will learn to analyze and critically evaluate whether or not a database provides accurate information and resources. Students will learn to determine which legal databases are most useful for specific types of information and resource needs. Students will learn to construct successful search strategies that can be employed to search a database and find the information required. This course will equip students to become expert searchers in the online environment.

Prerequisites: Must have a laptop
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Interviewing and Counseling | L4405

The development of concepts and skills required for establishing effective working relationships with clients, for ascertaining the relevant facts, for defining their problems and for preparing alternative strategies for their resolution, taking into account legal and non-legal aspects of the problem. Course material relates to legal and counseling skills, the development of a case theory and relationship between facts and evidence.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Practice Seminar: Law as a Business | L4420

This course provides an overview of the business functions of a law practice. Students learn how effective law practice administrators and managers base policy and management decisions on a comprehensive understanding of the law firm as a complex and interdependent equation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Profession | L4425

This is the study of the legal profession in American society. Topics include the history, structure, and function of the legal profession; the role of lawyers in the delivery of legal services; standards of professional ethics (including the Code of Professional Responsibility and the Rules of Professional Conduct); professional responsibility problems that confront the legal profession; developments in the delivery of legal services; disciplinary procedures; and admission to the practice of law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal Writing | L4388

Legal writing is a writing course offering students the opportunity to research and draft practice-oriented documents, which receive intensive feedback from a professional writing instructor. Class presentations review research and writing skills and introduce advanced skills.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal/Judicial Process for the Legal Administrator I | M4380

To be effective managers, legal administrators must understand what lawyers do. This course surveys and explores the functions and skills of being a lawyer. Through case reading and exercises, students learn the process a lawyer undergoes to make a decision; the nature of legal analysis; and practical lawyer tools and skills, such as research, writing, and addressing issues in professional ethics. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal/Judicial Process for the Legal Administrator I & II | M4382

To be effective managers, legal administrators must understand what lawyers do. Through a series of online presentations, exercises, and workshops, this course surveys and explores the functions and skills of being a lawyer. Students learn how to read statutes and case law, as they come to understand the process of lawyer decision-making; the nature of legal analysis; and gain practical lawyer tools and skills, such as research, analysis, objective and persuasive writing, and professional responsibility. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legal/Judicial Process for the Legal Administrator II | M4381

After learning to write objectively about the law as it applies to a client's situation, this semester's class focuses on how to gather case law and write persuasively about it. A demand letter to opposing counsel, a settlement letter, and a brief to a court are prepared. Students learn how attorneys advocate for their client's position while still staying within the bounds of professional ethics. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Legislation Seminar | L4428

This seminar provides students with an understanding of the legislative process on the state level with a particular emphasis on Colorado. Also, it develops students' bill-drafting skills.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Literature and the Law | L4434

Students in the law and literature seminar read and discuss books, short stories, and articles. The purposes of the seminar are to read great literature and to analyze and appreciate the intersection between legal concepts and literary works. Students will read short stories, such as "The Lottery," and novels, such as "To Kill a Mockingbird." The seminar includes discussion of legal remedies for race, gender, and religious discrimination; the nature and effectiveness of punishment; the role of confession and religion in the criminal process; the relationship between fear of economic deprivation and criminal activity; ethical values as a restraint on crime; and the arbitrariness within the legal system.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

LITIGATION SKILLS IN A BILINGUAL WORLD | L4709L

This class will present an opportunity for students to acquire skills that will be of use to them when litigating cases involving monolingual Spanish speaking parties. They will learn how to prepare Spanish speaking witnesses with little or no experience in the U.S. court system. Additionally, students will be exposed to evidentiary, immigration, translation and ethical issues that may arise in trials involving such witnesses. All materials for the course will be provided by the Professor and will include actual cases, rules of ethics, the Federal Rules of Evidence and other materials dealing with the preparation of Spanish speaking witnesses and actual trials. Students will participate in mock witness preparation sessions and trials.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Litigation Technology | L4701LT

Litigation Technology gives students up-close, hands-on learning to prepare and effectively use electronic illustrative aids and demonstrative exhibits in trial and alternative dispute settings. Each student prepares opening statements, closing arguments, and direct and cross-examinations, utilizing litigation software. Students learn to create their own presentations, and how to advocate most effectively using technology.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Managed Externship | MLSA 5010

The externship is a full-time position in a law firm or court where a student shadows a legal administrator to experience the obligations of and the issues facing that legal administrator. The student then chooses an administrative issue facing the law firm or the court for their project focus. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Media Law | L4705B

Topics in Media Law: This course addresses the First Amendment, statutory, and common law regimes under which the news media operate in the United States, ranging from the seminal New York Times v. Sullivan to the recent decisions on anonymity for online bloggers. Because a media lawyers tasks involve intense amounts of writing, the course will have four to five practical writing exercises, ranging from the drafting of a complaint to a motion to quash a subpoena, and the like.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Mediation and Arbitration Clinic and Seminar | L4430/L4803

A course offering clinical experience in both mediation and arbitration. The student learns mediation skills, performs mediation simulations, and mediates actual cases. Students are oriented to the role of arbitrator, perform arbitration simulations, and attend actual arbitrations. By gaining experience in both roles, students learn which process to choose for resolving a particular dispute. In addition, students learn lawyering skills such as communication, negotiation, problem solving, and drafting agreements. Application must be sent to the Student Law Office for admission to this course.

Prerequisites: Permission of faculty supervisor.
Credit Hours: 2 in-class and 3 out-of-class credit hours
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Mental Disability and the Law Seminar | L4440

This is an overview of legal issues affecting the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled. Coverage includes both civil issues (such as civil commitment, guardianship and therapist-patient relations) and criminal issues (such as the insanity defense and incompetence to stand trial).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Mining Law | L4445

This course provides the basic framework of mining law. It begins with the acquisition of title to and development of deposits of hard minerals and energy resources under the mining and mineral leasing laws of the federal and state governments in the western United States. Next, it emphasis the practices and procedures of the various proprietary and regulatory agencies responsible for the management and administration of public lands. Finally, students learn how to resolve competitive demands for exclusive and multiple use of public lands for mineral production and conservation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Motions Practice | L4634

In this class, students learn how to present and argue pre-trial motions. These motions include motions from civil practice (motion for preliminary injunction, motion to dismiss, motion for summary judgment, etc.) criminal practice (motion to suppress, Rule 35 (c), etc.) and evidentiary motions (Rules 403, 404, and 405.) In addition, the course covers both legal and evidentiary motions in limine. Each student is asked to prepare, present, and argue a motion, as well as decide motions presented by others after making appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law. Because a number of the motions involve the presentation of witnesses and appropriate case and statutory law, students learn trial skills, as well as refresh their knowledge of criminal and civil procedure, and the rules of evidence. Students will not be asked to draft motions or prepare written briefs.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Multiculturalism, Race and the Law Seminar | L4501N

This course reviews the major approaches to the field of critical race theory (CRT) in the context of doctrine. CRT is a heterogeneous interdisciplinary field which emerged out of a basic critique of the legal academys objectivist approach to law. CRT has sought to show not only that the law is socially constructed and therefore influenced by institutional and individual perspectives but also that race, gender, class and sexual orientation have historically played a critical role in legal outcomes. Besides a thorough review of the major works in CRT, this course will have a strong emphasis on the relevance of the meaning of legal and cultural citizenship in our current era of globalization and its related U.S. demographic changes. 3 credit hours

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Multiculturalism, Race and the Law Seminar | L4446

This course is designed to examine the interstices of cultures, race, identity and the law as manifested in legislation and jurisprudence. Through case law and articles, students uncover and examine the ways in which legal systems define and promote certain activities, identities, and classifications and discourage others. Some are advanced as legitimate, and deserving of protection, and others not so. These endorsements have a significant impact on the makeup of American society. We see ourselves as a melting pot of cultures and peoples from all over the world, but do our laws really promote this vision? Have our laws evolved to promote racial and cultural harmony, or to discourage it? What approach do other nations around the world take? As our national demographics become increasingly diverse, what should our legal strategy and aspirations be? While most discussion will focus on these issues as they appear in the United States, students also discuss cases and materials from other nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Europe, and Africa.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Native American Natural and Cultural Resources Law | L4706NA

This course studies the convergence of federal Indian law, natural and cultural resources law. Topics may include Indian lands, environmental regulation and natural resource development in Indian Country, water rights, hunting and fishing, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, use and protection of tribal songs, stories, and ceremonies, and sacred sites. The course culminates in a research project, including an oral presentation and paper. This course meets the Upper Level Writing Requirement.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Natural Forest Planning & Management Seminar | L4456

N/A

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Either Environmental Law, Natural Resource Law, or Public Land Law.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Natural Resources Distinguished Practitioner Seminar | L4448

Students cover a broad range of topics in this seminar. The instructor provides insight into everything from legal writing and drafting memos to working well with other practitioners and staying sane while practicing law.

Prerequisites: Need professor's permission.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Natural Resources Law | L4450

The course is designed primarily for students who wish to have an introduction to and an overview of the entire natural resources law area in one course. Students survey the primary natural resources subject matter areas: water law; mining law; oil and gas law; public land law; environmental law; and energy law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Natural Resources Law Seminar | L4455

Students examine problems selected from the broad range of contemporary legal or policy problems related to natural resources development.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Negotiating Natural Resources Agreements | L4462

Students completing this course leave with an understanding of the general approaches, and primary issues and motivations pertaining to the negotiation of large, internationally funded petroleum and mining projects. They particularly gain a perspective on the negotiation of first-tier agreements between trans-national companies and governments, and joint venture agreements between private parties.

Negotiation and Mediation | L4460

The course examines principles of negotiation, bargaining and dispute problem solving. It builds the development of skills in negotiation and, later, mediation. Principles of problem solving introduced in negotiation are further developed in an exploration of mediation, its legal, economic, skills context.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Ocean Law and Coastal Policy | L4461

OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW AND POLICY - This course addresses both legal and scientific principles applicable to oceanic and coastal resources. The course begins with an overview of basic scientific principles including oceanography, fisheries management, the geomorphology of the coastal zone and the ecology of marshes and beaches. The first half of the course addresses oceanic law and policy issues, specifically sources of oceanic law, the scope and extent of national jurisdiction, navigation rights, seabed mining, protection of the marine environment, protection of migratory species and the resolution of boundary disputes. Particular attention is paid to the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea and the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. The second half of the course addresses coastal law and policy issues, specifically the scope and extent of federal and state jurisdiction, property interests in coastal resources, the public trust doctrine, the navigation servitude, shoreline access, coastal water quality and both federal and state regulation of fisheries. Particular attention is paid to the Coastal Zone Management Act. 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Oil and Gas Law | L4465

This course surveys the various characteristics of oil and gas interest. Topics include mineral rights, and how ownership leases and transfers of these rights should be handled. The instructor also distinguishes the field of oil and gas law on private lands from those in the public domain.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Operational Aspects of Court Management I | MSLA 4200

This course is designed to provide the student with the fundamental principles, elements and state-of-the-art information regarding the key functions performed by courts. These functions include case management; jury management; records management; dealing with the media and press; court reporting; security; automation; and others. Students review status, rules, and articles. Instructors provide real-world examples regarding these processes and functions. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Operational Aspects of Court Management II | MSLA 4201

This class combines the calendar management portion of the present Client Service and Calendar Management class with additional operational processes of courts. This includes civil and criminal case flow and procedure and other court processes, such as appeals; juvenile; probate domestic relations; small claims; and bankruptcy. Students also learn to cope with space and facilities management; court security issues; court reporters and interpreters; and the unique issues caused by litigants without lawyers. It also includes exposure to these operational court processes through clinical assignments. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

OTHER INTERNSHIP: Environmental and Natural Resources Law Internship | L5006

Application is required to be filed by the first week of new semester. This course does not require special permission for enrollment. See Environmental Law/Natural Resources Program secretary for rules, application, employers list, etc. Environmental Law or Natural Resource Law is recommended but not required.

Prerequisites: Must have completed first year and be in good standing.
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Patent Law | L4471

This course presents patent law in detail. Topics include patentable subject matter; a history of patent law; and brief comparisons with other forms of intellectual property such as copyright, trademark, and trade secret. It also includes patent issues relating to compositions of matter, computer software, business methods, and the Internet.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Patent Law and Trade Secrets | L4473

Patent Law and Trade Secrets examines policy and practice behind two of the most important intellectual property protection schemes for business today. The course explores the appropriateness and application of patent and trade protection for businesses in various industries and stages of development. Topics include eligibility and requirements for protection; patent application and registration procedures; litigation considerations and available remedies; licensing issues; analysis of tension between business and legal issues and its effect on competitive position; and considerations for Internet related businesses.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Patent Litigation | L4483

This is an in-depth study of law, strategies and tactics of patent litigation. Topics include legal principles, procedures and strategies associated with patent claim construction, infringement, invalidity and unenforceability. Also, students cover patent trial practice with a focus on both the knowledge and practical skills necessary to litigate patent cases.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Patents: Patent Application, Writing Claims, Applications, Prosecution | L4470

A brief overview is presented that sets forth the legal basis for patents: what patents are, what legal rights they provide, and how they function in business world. The statutory classes of invention for which patents can be obtained and the type of patents within each class will be discussed. Most of the course is devoted to hands-on drafting of a patent application and prosecuting it through the patent office. The student learn the statutory parts required for a complete patent application and the basic techniques in drafting a patent application. This includes the actual drafting of the specification and claims of several types of patent applications. The students learn how a completed patent application is filed in the patent office, processed and examined.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Payments | L4467

This course covers the law of promissory notes, checks, and other negotiable instruments under Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code as extensively amended in 1990. The laws of wireless transfers, electronic funds transfers, and other modern payment devices are examined.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Population, Law and the Environment | L4472

This course focuses on the relationship between population, the environment, and the legal issues which are created by an expanding world population. The government's environmental policies and private environmental action have been curative in nature, and the course explores the cost effectiveness of such policies and practices at a time in world history when the exponential growth of the population places undue burdens on the environment. The course examines the multiple interrelationships of population, law, environment, and governmental policy in such areas as abortion, immigration, education, and economic regulation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Poverty Law | L4469

This course explores legal issues relating to poverty. Students consider issues of access to justice and the evolution of legal services for the poor. They study the most influential Constitutional cases, as well as the trend to stray from Constitutional litigation to the legislative and administrative arenas. Students consider the shift of responsibility for the poor from the federal to state governments and from the public to private sectors.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Preserving & Protecting the Intellectual Property Assets of a High Tech Company | TBD

This course explores the legal basics involved with establishing an intellectual property (IP) program for a high tech company in a fashion so as to maximize the legal IP assets and to minimize the legal IP risks.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Privatization of State Owned Enterprises | L4491

This course deals with the basic concepts of policy and law relating to the privatization of state owned enterprises and assets. There is a trend both in the US and abroad to transfer state owned enterprises and assets to the private sector. The primary emphasis is on the transfer of projects related in some way to the natural resources sector. It is anticipated that students will gain insight into the reasons why governments have state enterprises; why the state may decide to transfer such enterprises to the private sector; the methods by which such a transfer may be implemented; and some of the difficulties (political, legal, environmental and social) involved in such transfers. Selected case studies may be used to illustrate privatization topics and issues.

Products Liability | L4475

This is an advanced analysis of legal theories for litigating product-related injuries. Problems of proof, legislative reforms, and alternative means of compensation are considered, as well.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Professional Ethics Seminar | L4480

The seminar will begin with brief introductions to ethics in general and professional ethics specifically, and then turn to in depth consideration of theoretical perspectives on lawyers ethics. For the remainder of the semester the seminar will focus on: (1) Comparative professional ethics: comparing the ethics of other professionsmedicine, journalism and business, for examplewith the ethics of lawyering. (2) Narrative ethics: stories (from literature, biography, or tradition) and how they inform ethical perception and choice. (3) Topics chosen by students for research and presentation. Permission of the instructor required for enrollment. If interested, please send a brief e-mail to Professor Pepper.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Professional Ethics Seminars |

Topical seminars are offered periodically to permit focused consideration of one or more aspects of professional ethics.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Project Management | MLSA 4954

In today's fact-based, complex, and highly competitive world, projects are a way of life. Work has become a series of projects. Project Management provides the essential elements that help legal professionals create and use project teams to get the job effectively. The instructor of this course teaches legal administrators and court managers how to build a go-cart plan for getting the job done, and how a skilled driver quickly accomplishes a quality and cost-effective product. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Property | L4490

This course introduces selected topics relating to rights and interests in land and personal property. These topics include estates in land and future interests; private and/or public restriction of land use; conveyancing; multiple land interests; and landlord/tenant relations.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Property/Constitutional Law Seminar | L4708B

Private Property Rights and the American Constitution: Theory, Protection, Practice This law and public policy course involves the study of historical and evolving notions of private property as well as public controls on private property rights in the American legal order. The course examines a variety of notions and theories related to the role of private property rights in social and economic organization and in securing civil liberties, individual freedom, and individual and social justice in American society and throughout the world. The course includes the study of specific juridical and constitutional doctrines in the United States related to the protection of private property rights and examines private property rights and free markets in the context of public intervention and controls related to protection of a communitys cultural, historic, and aesthetic values related to visual aspects of the built environment, as well as emerging public strategies and controls related to addressing issues involving urban planning, growth management, environmental protection, sustainable development, global warming, and climate change. Readings may involve both history and theory, from the ideas of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Marx, to Adam Smith, Ronald Coase, Richard Posner, and John Rawls, to landmark Supreme Court cases dealing with eminent domain and police power controls, and constitutional doctrines related to the protection of private property rights. Discussion may include topics related to property interests in land, the built environment, labor, images, publicity, and cyberspace, as well as claims related to the public taxing and spending power, and the role of culture, private property rights, the rule of law, and intangible wealth in promoting economic prosperity and securing individual dignitary values. If you enjoy interesting ideas, as well as thoughtful discussion, and have some interest in history, economics, philosophy, political theory, protection of individual freedoms, human dignity values, economic development, constitutional law, or just plain current events related to private property (it actually makes the world go round) you might really enjoy this course. If you are already a committed ideologue, of one type or another, you may find the classes exasperating. Prerequisites: None ULW: This course may satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW) Final Grade 50% class attendance/participation and 50% final paper or take home exam.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: Yes

Psychiatry and the Law | L4709P

This course will explore the relationships between psychiatry, psychology, and the law. We will cover the connections between psychiatry and criminal, civil, and administrative law. Subjects to be covered will include: sanity and competency determinations; role of mental health experts in the court; special issues involving the mentally ill and death penalty; third party protections and reporting requirements in child abuse and danger to third parties; child custody and termination of parental rights; civil commitment and involuntary treatment of the mentally ill; malpractice including professional misconduct and sexual boundary violations, and standards of mental health care; professional ethics in medicine and the law; law of informed consent for medical treatment; confidentiality; clinical and legal aspects of end of life care; prisoners rights in correctional settings including sex offender treatment; and application of the ADA in the setting of mental illness. Readings will include landmark state and federal decisions shaping each of these areas, along with readings from legal and mental health literature. Landmark cases will be accessed electronically. Brief Professor Biography: Dr. Richard Martinez is the Robert D. Miller Director of Psychiatry and Law at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). He directs the Forensic Programs at Denver Health Medical Center and is Director of the Forensic Fellowship Training Program at UCDHSC. He has written on topics of professional ethics and social responsibility, organizational healthcare ethics, medical undergraduate education, boundaries in the patient-professional relationship, and the medical humanities. His recent book, written with colleagues Phil Candilis and Robert Weinstock, is Forensic Ethics and The Expert Witness. He is a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Public Education and the Law | L4494

This offering grants an overview of legal issues affecting public education. These issues include due process; school financing; desegregation; First Amendment freedoms; the privatization movement; and bilingual and special education.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Public Land and Resources Law | L4495

This offering grants an overview of law, policy, and procedures governing the lands managed by the federal government and state of local government lands. The interwoven law, history, and economics controlling acquisition and allocation of public lands and resources are traced. The class grants a close examination of traditional commercial uses and other resource categories of land use practices.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Administrative Law recommended but not required.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Public Utility Law | L4500

Public Utility Law reviews the law and procedures for the regulation of public utilities. This review includes the statutes of being a public utility; the right and duty of utilities to serve; the obligations of service and service discrimination; the concept of reasonable rates and the basis for rate regulation; the rate-fixing process utility rate structures and rate design; the relationship between utility regulation and antitrust laws; the commission form of regulation; and the effect of resource shortages upon utility regulation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Race and Civil Rights | L4510

Does the continued consideration of race in making law and social policy move us closer to achieving equality and social justice for all? This is one of the themes which is explored in this course. The class addresses the role of race in the areas of employment, housing, voting rights, education and criminal law.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Race and the Law | L4502

This class is an analysis of the relationship between race and law in American society with a particular focus on critical race theory.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Raising Capital for Technology Start Up Companies | L4503

This course is designed as a practical, case study approach to the financing of high-tech and emerging growth companies. Through the model of a hypothetical high-tech startup, students address the significant legal and business issues the company and its founders must confront to achieve success for the company. The course focuses on positioning the company for financing; capitalization of the company; preparation and circulation of the company's business plan; understanding fundamental financial information; securities laws; venture capital; angel; private equity and institutional investments; incubators; business accelerators and catalysts; mezzanine and bridge financing; initial public offerings; and mergers and acquisitions.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Real Estate Planning | L4505

This course is a transactional synthesis of property, business law, taxation and other doctrinal subjects. It focuses on acquisition, disposition, management, development and financing of real estate.

Prerequisites: Property, Basic Real Estate Transfer and Finance.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Real Estate Planning |

land descriptions and conveyancing; form of deeds and quality of title conveyed; master planning, zoning, annexation, subdivision platting and the "political" process of subdivision approval; title standards and title insurance; contract drafting considerations; the use of title commitments and surveys and the "due diligence" process; real estate financing, including construction lending and permanent financing; mortgage "substitutes," including installment land contracts and "contracts for deed"; public trustee foreclosures; Rule 105 "quiet title" actions and judicial foreclosures; mechanics liens and "unjust enrichment" claims; Residential Real Estate Closing; Commercial Real Estate Closing; Residential and Commercial Leasing issues; Condominiums; creation of a condominium regime under the Colorado Common Ownership Interest Act (CCIOA), and representation of the Condominium Owner's Association;

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Real Estate Seminar | L4510

Focusing on an area of real estate law and practice, students research and prepare presentations and papers to the seminar. The topic is announced prior to registration.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Property, Lawyering Process I & II, and permission of the instructor.
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Regulated Industries | L4515

The course offers students a comprehensive overview of the major American industries in which state and federal governments have played a regulatory role. It introduces students to the rationales for governmental intervention in the market, and addresses the threads of economic regulation common to all these industries, including principles of entry, rate making, antitrust and other corporate activities. Particular attention is given to the principal federal and state regulatory agencies: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; the Federal Communications Commission; the Interstate Commerce Commission; the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Justice; and the state Public Utilities Commissions. Attention also is given to the contemporary political phenomenon of deregulation and its impacts.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Remedies | L4520

Remedies provides students with the basic principles and problems of damages, restitution, and equity. Students enter into an investigation of fundamental concepts, such as remedial goals, problems of proof, and the relationship between remedies and substantive rights. The course also explores equitable remedies and alternative remedial devices available in any given situation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Remedies Seminar | TBD

This seminar will investigate the question of when it is appropriate for a court to deny a litigant a remedy when that litigant has a valid claim on the merits. We will begin by studying the traditional law of remedies -comparing the remedies available in the tort, contract and criminal contexts. We will then shift our focus to those doctrines - harmless error, governmental immunity, non-retroactivity, etc. - that courts employ to deny a remedy to one seeking relief. Students will be expected to conduct independent research on a related topic, present the topic to the class and prepare a 25-page paper. Spring semester.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Renewable Energy and Project Finance Law | L4501

This course explores the legal, economic, technological, and policy underpinnings of the Renewable Energy Industry, global warming, and associated implications to the electric utility and transportation sectors. The course addresses both domestic and international perspectives on renewable energy development including the Kyoto Protocol. A detailed introduction to the law of energy project finance is presented, which provides the student with the theory and tools needed to structure and develop domestic and international energy production projects. (Project Finance Law is now a substantial practice area at major international law firms.)

Prerequisites: Contract Law is a prerequisite, and an interest in energy, environmental or natural resource law is recommended.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Renewable Energy: Law, Policy & Markets | L4506

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Research and Writing Seminar | L4523

The main focus of this seminar is the development of sophisticated legal research and writing skills. The semester-long exercise will involve redrafting portions of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code related to damage remedies. Students draft proposed black letter rules and commentary supported by judicial and scholarly authority. This seminar is particularly useful to students wishing to develop their practical writing and research skills, their expertise in contract and commercial law, or both.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Restorative Justice Seminar | L4516

This course will examine the philosophy and practice of Restorative Justice. Restorative Justice, which is also sometimes called Balanced and Restorative Justice, is an approach to criminal justice. Central to the practice of Restorative Justice is a conception of crime as harm to the community. The goals of restorative Justice include holding the offender accountable for the harm to the community, repairing that harm to the extent possible, and developing competency in the offender so that the offender makes better future choices. Accountability, repair of harm, and development of future competency take place within mediated processes that balance the concerns of the victim, offender, and community. Part of the course will involve reading and class discussions. The readings, which are TBA, will include comparison of the Restorative approach to other current models of criminal justice. The readings will also examine Restorative Justice approaches to different types of crime, including juvenile justice, for example. In addition to reading, the seminar will include firsthand looks at the practice of Restorative Justice in Denver and Boulder. As we examine the practice of Restorative Justice, one area of particular concern will be the practical problems in implementing a model of Restorative Justice. Students will complete a paper of 30-40 pages in length. This paper may address philosophical or theoretical issues associated with Restorative Justice and/or may be a field study of the practice of Restorative Justice.Spring semester.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Russian for Lawyers I | L4524

This sequence of courses introduces students to the fundamentals of the Russian language, with emphasis on legal and economic vocabulary. More specifically, this includes vocabulary and reading assignments that involve finance and banking, insurance, and international trade and stock exchange/securities matters.

Prerequisites: Russian for Lawyers I is the prerequisite for Russian for Lawyers II.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Russian for Lawyers II | L4525

This course picks up where Russian for Lawyers I leaves off by continuing to introduce students to the fundamentals of the Russian language, but with an emphasis on legal and economic vocabulary. More specifically, this includes vocabulary and reading assignments that involve finance and banking, insurance, international trade, and stock exchange/securities matters.

Prerequisites: Russian for Lawyers I
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Sales and Leases | L4526

A basic coverage of the law of commercial transactions dealing with the sale of and payment for goods. The course completes the coverage of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (Sale of Goods) which was introduced in the first-year Contracts course. The commercial functions and the legal principles of payment and credit devices are articulated based upon Articles 3 and 4 of the UCC and recent federal legislation. Sales transactions involving the uses of documents of title (Article 7) and letters of credit (Article 5) also are studied.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Scientific Evidence | L4660

The course begins with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (113 S.Ct. 2786 (1993)). This decision threw out the Frye Rule that had governed the admission of scientific evidence in federal courts since 1923. While the Daubert rule now applies in all federal courts, states are free to either stay with the Frye Rule, adopt the new Daubert Standard or adopt some combination of the two. Students discuss the implications of these evidentiary changes in a number of areas of legal controversy. The course concentrates primarily on the use of social science evidence; however, topics include tort litigation involving Bendectin, and the controversy over the use of DNA testing in criminal cases. Other topics include the use of scientific evidence in consumer confusion cases; obscenity cases and the question of community standards; and the number of syndrome evidence cases, including post traumatic stress disorder, battered woman syndrome, and rape trauma syndrome. Constitutional law cases include coverage of death penalty issues, jury size cases, and school segregation by race and gender (including the controversy over single-sex education, and the ending of school busing mandates by the federal courts). The goal of this course is to increase the proficiency of lawyers' to use scientific evidence on behalf of clients and be able to defend against such evidence when presented by the opposing counsel. (This class is formerly known as Social Science Research.)

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Secured Transactions | L4530K

Secured transactions can be involved in a wide variety of legal representations, including transactional matters and litigation. The Secured Transactions Class is designed to provide students with a working understanding of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and how it comes into play in these transactions. For background and understanding we will look at various types of financing transactions that might give rise to a secured transaction, including loans and installment sales, and take a brief look at some other Articles of the UCC where applicable. The class will approach the subject of secured transactions from both a technical perspective and a practical perspective. You will learn how to draft the documents needed to create a UCC security interest and secure obligations by personal property collateral (including the security agreement and financing statement), and how to perfect that security interest. We will cover such items of personal property as inventory, accounts, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, instruments and chattel paper, investment property, and deposit accounts. We will discuss priorities among competing secured creditors, how to search UCC records to determine the existence of competing secured creditors. We will also discuss issues created when the collateral is sold, when the owner of the collateral changes its name or business form, and the types of personal property with respect to which liens are not created under the UCC but rather under some other law. We will also discuss foreclosure rights and procedures in the event the credit transaction goes bad. The subject is governed largely by statute the Uniform Commercial Code - and students will be expected to read the relevant sections of the UCC as assigned as well as certain assigned cases. Students will be required to purchase the latest available version (2007, if 2008 is not available by the first class) of the volume of the Colorado Statutes that includes Title 4. There will be no other text book requirements. Periodically problems with typical fact patterns will be handed out in class. The students will be expected to go over those problems on their own and to discuss them during the following class. In addition, certain classes will be devoted to a discussion of techniques for drafting agreements in general, and, in particular, drafting security agreements, financing statements, and certain types of notices associated with secured transactions. There will also be a class devoted to a discussion and review of the documents typically prepared in a loan transaction, and one class, featuring a guest practicing attorney, discussing bankruptcy generally and, in particular, the impact on lien rights of a bankruptcy filing, including automatic stay provisions and the prospect of a security interest being attacked as a voidable preference. While we may talk about some mind twister type issues raised by language in Article 9, that will be the exception, as the main focus is to provide students with an understanding of the subject sufficient so that they have a good confidence level if asked to take on a secured transaction as a practicing lawyer (or summer intern). Class size is limited to facilitate student participation in discussions and class presentations as well as drafting projects. Students will be graded on class participation and presentations, performance on drafting projects, results of a mid-term test (which is not anticipated to be long or difficult), and results of the final exam. The class meets from 9 to 10:15 A.M. each Tuesday and Thursday, beginning August 19, 2008, and running through November 20, 2008, with the exception of two dates to be announced. There will be no reading assignment for the first class, although students should bring their copies of the UCC with them. Required Materials Copy of Article 9 of UCC as enacted in Colorado, including Official Commentary (suggested is the 2007 volume of the Colorado Revised Statutes that includes Title 4).

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Secured Transactions | L4530

This course covers the law of secured transactions in personal property. Subjects include chattel mortgages; installment sales; inventory financing; accounts and contracts financing; and some equipment leasing. Students also explore the law of bankruptcy as it interacts with secured financing.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Securities Compliance | L4535

This is a study of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Enrolled students cover the federal regulation of the public securities markets, including insider trading; broker-dealer regulation; tender offers; and public corporations.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Corporations or Unincorporated Associations highly recommended.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Securities Law | L4528

Students in this course study the statues and regulations regulating the offer and sale of securities by private and public corporations. Course material information pertaining to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; federal regulation of the public securities markets; insider trading; broker-dealer regulation; tender offers; and public corporations.

Prerequisites: Corporations or Agency Partnership and the LLC recommended as a prerequisite.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Securities Litigation | L4529

This course examines private actions (Sections 11, 12(a)(2) and Rule 10b-5) under the Securities Acts as a deterrent. A primary focus is the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), which is the Congressional backlash to lawyer driven litigation. Students also learn to cope with bringing and defending securities fraud class actions in a PSLRA environment; arguing under Rule 9(b) with enhanced pleading standards; and filing motions to dismiss and stay of discovery.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Securities Litigation in the Aftermath of ENRON/Worldcom and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act | L4529

This course focuses on and contrasts class action lawsuits and US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) enforcement actions in the context of financial and other securities frauds. The Enron debacle and the resulting class action lawsuit provides the material for a case study of trying a Rule 10b-5 securities fraud class action subject to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, and how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act might impact private actions in this context in the future. How SEC enforcement actions against Enron/Worldcom and a host of other Fortune 500 companies, the manner in which Sarbanes-Oxley strengthens SEC enforcement, and impacts securities litigators and practitioners also are featured.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Securities Offerings | L4540

This is an in-depth study of statutes and regulations regarding the offer and sale of securities by private and public corporations. Particular attention is given to releases, decisions, and administrative practices of the Securities Exchange Commission and state securities agencies.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Corporations or Unincorporated Associations highly recommended.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Securities Regulation | L4528

Students study statutes and regulations regarding the offer and sale of securities by private and public corporations. This includes coverage of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; federal regulation of the public securities markets; insider trading; broker/dealer regulation; tender offers; and public corporations.

Prerequisites: Corporations or Agency Partnership & the LLC recommended as a prerequisite.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Sentencing Seminar | L4532

Over the past several years, nearly all of the Supreme Court's important criminal law and procedure decisions have involved sentencing. Starting with the court's Apprendi decision, the class examines how criminal defendants have been sentenced in the US has become chaotic. This seminar uses these decisions as an opportunity to examine a number of the important issues raised by criminal sentencing. These issues include what the goal of criminal sanction is, who is best positioned to achieve those goals, and whether rules or standards are more useful in helping sentencers achieve these goals.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Serving Clients, Customers and the Public | M4386

This course introduces students to the business of the courts, lawyers, and law firms by presenting an overview of legal institutions as professional service organizations in the context of a system requiring judicial independence. Topics include basic principles of quality management, such as developing and meeting customer expectations; quality service: productivity measurement; and continuous process improvement. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.

Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Sexual Orientation and the Law | L4543

This seminar offers an opportunity for students to study the relationship between law and sexual orientation. Historically, law in this country consistently and pervasively regulated the realm of human identity and behavior we call sexuality. However, questions and claims challenging traditional assumptions about sexual orientation have surfaced in the last twenty-five years. Our study of sexual orientation and law allows students to view the relationship between law and society through a new lens, that of sexual orientation. Specifically, students examine issues of sexual orientation arising in areas ranging from Constitutional law, criminal law, employment law, family law, health law, immigration law, to tax law. They discuss some or all of the currently controversial issues relating to sexual orientation and law. This includes such topics as the proliferation of both nondiscrimination laws and anti-gay initiatives like Amendment 2 in Colorado; the Constitutionality of laws prohibiting specified sexual behavior between different-sex and same-sex adults; the Constitutionality of laws limiting the right to speak about sexual identity, public and private employment; and discrimination against same-sex couples with respect to marriage, parenting, health benefits, and taxes.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Social Change Law | L4700B

This seminar will explore the role of law and the legal profession in pursuing broader social causes across the political spectrum, such as the pursuit of civil rights for racial minorities or the effort to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. Distinguished from the practice of law solely advocating the interests of individual clients, social change lawyering is a major component of the legal profession of the 21st century. Known as public interest law, cause lawyering, and by numerous other labels, this area of practice implicates many important issues worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Some of the topics that will be examined include: the competing definitions of social change lawyering and the relevance of such definitions; the history of American law and social change; the role of progressive/conservative ideologies in social change lawyering; the role of practice settings (non-profit, government, and private sector) in effectuating social change; strategies and organizational models for social change lawyering groups; the relationship between social change lawyers and their clients; the economics and financing of social change lawyering; ethics and social change lawyering; legal education and social change. Throughout the course, students will be asked to critically examine the role of lawyers in social change, and question whether and how lawyers have been effective agents of social change in American society. The course will not use a traditional casebook. Rather, students will study a set of materials comprised of excerpts from law review articles and books, historical and sociological materials, and problems. Students will be required to write short, reflective papers about some of the assigned topics, as well as a more comprehensive final paper (requiring the submission of a draft and a revised final paper). This seminar will fulfill the upper level writing requirement. Obtaining Instructors Permission For any student who is interested in enrolling in this seminar, please email me a brief statement (one or two paragraphs) indicating why you are interested in the subject matter of the course and describing any relevant experience, background, and/or future career plans, if any, that relate to social change lawyering practice (but if you dont have any, please still tell me why you are interested in the course). Students of all political ideologies are welcome, and encouraged, to submit applications. (FYI, the materials I will be teaching from will eventually be published by Aspen Publishers, which has given me a contract to write a textbook on social change lawyering).

Prerequisites: Requires Professor Permission
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: Yes

Social Sciences and the Law | L4541

This course is a survey of social science research methods for use in law. The emphasis in this course is on actual application of social science methodology. Legal applications are drawn from both criminal civil law (e.g., constitutional law, antitrust, torts, employment discrimination, trademark and copyright, and legislative use of empirical methods). Students learn how to design an empirical study, collect data and analyze and present findings within the American legal process.

Prerequisites: Students are required to learn how to use computers for statistical analysis and actively engage in analytical computer exercises. Permission of instructor required.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Space and Technology Law | L4631

Space and Technology Law is not one particular area of law. Rather it is best thought of as a combination of numerous areas of policy and law (including the Communications Act, the COMSAT Act, the Defense Production Act, the Land Remote Sensing Act, the Commercial Space Act, the Arms Export Control Act, the Export Administration Act, and several other bodies of law) that come together to govern the Space and High Technology industries. There is extensive overlap between what is considered high tech and what is considered space and how they are treated from a legal and policy standpoint. The course explores many of these interrelated issues.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Spanish for Lawyers I | L4553

Beginning Spanish I for Legal Professionals This course is the first of a two part series in beginning Spanish with an emphasis on the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The focus is on creating conversational exchanges about selected topics and situations in the present and future tenses. Students will practice oral communication skills needed to converse with Spanish-speaking clients, using basic legal terminology. The customs and culture of Spanish-speaking people will also be examined with the aid of video programs, CDs and readings. Topics: Greetings, spelling names and addresses, personal descriptions, numbers from 1-1000, coordinating meetings (times, driving directions), family members, housing arrangements and meals. Grammatical structures: Present tense of verbs, ser and estar, possessive adjectives, some affirmative commands, basic por and para and direct object pronouns. Legal Topics: Intake form, phone etiquette, initial interview, fees and confidentiality.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Spanish for Lawyers II | L4554

Beginning Spanish II for Legal Professionals This course is the second of a two part series in beginning Spanish with an emphasis on the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The focus is on creating conversational exchanges about selected topics and situations in the present and past tenses. Students will practice oral communication skills needed to converse with Spanish-speaking clients using basic legal terminology. The customs and culture of Spanish-speaking people will also be examined with the aid of video programs, CDs and readings. Topics: Daily routine, the concept of time, shopping, sports and pastimes, holidays and traditions, transportation and travel. Grammatical structures: past tenses, uses of ser and estar, reflexive verbs, double object pronouns, verbs like gustar. Legal Topics: interviewing client (divorce, robbery, domestic violence, and traffic accident) Explaining civil and criminal court proceedings.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Sports Law | L4545

The course studies the legal problems of professional athletics. It applies the application of contract law, antitrust, labor law and income tax to the functioning of a professional league. The question of governmental regulation of professional sports is a constant focus of students' work. Special attention is given to the impact of these questions on negotiating players' contracts.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Sports Law II: Amateur Sports | TBD

The class shall provide a collegiate and international perspective of amateur sports. The first half of the class shall focus on legal issues surrounding college athletic departments (e.g., Title IX, fundraising, stipends/payments to athletes, sports agents, sports media and information and academics) and an in depth discussion of NCAA rules and regulations and the court cases involving the NCAA. The second half of the class shall focus on the Olympics and international sports, and drug testing.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

State and Local Government | L4550

Cities, counties and state agencies affect the lives of most people most of the time. This course affords future lawyers, as professionals and members of the community, the opportunity to become familiar with the way in which these governments are organized, grow in size and stature, operate and govern. Students examine subjects ranging from incorporation, annexation, land use, transportation and housing, to municipal finance, condemnations, recreation, and public health. Although dealing largely with the subject matter of traditional courses in municipal corporations, this course broadens that perspective to include newer institutional and organizational arrangements and functions.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Street Law | L4555E

Street Law -- Education: Under faculty supervision, students in two-person teams teach law in urban high schools. An underlying principle of the course is that one of the best ways to learn is to teach. There will be weekly seminars and field performances supervised by the instructor. Students develop skills in practical application of legal concepts; substantive topics in federal and Colorado law; teaching techniques; classroom management; and the multifaceted roles of lawyers in the community. Each student participates in researching, drafting and presenting a course in a particular field of substantive law. Street Law -- Department of Corrections: This course allows students to educate and work with inmates in the Colorado Department of Corrections men's and women's facilities teaching them practical legal concepts and issues they will face upon release. Students also assist teachers in teaching Constitutional issues as part of the GED program. Students learn more about the law through actually teaching. They are paired with one or more other law students. All students research, develop, and present course material in a field of substantive law based upon the needs of the inmates. The actual teaching time is scheduled by the student and the DOC teachers. This class qualifies for the community service requirement.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Street Law: Trial Practice | L4555TP

Street Law:Trial Practice is a two-semester, skills-based course for law school students who seek to refine their trial skills and improve their understanding of criminal procedure and how evidence applies in a trial setting. Students build their skills and knowledge by teaching local area high school students in a mock trial setting. The course consists of two classes a week. The first class, taught by Professors Schott and Webb, takes place at the law school. This weekly class involves case analysis and discussion of evidentiary principles and facilitates the lesson plans that law students develop in order to teach their high school students. Lesson plans will include trial topics such as case analysis, discussion of evidentiary principles, direct and cross-examination, objections based on evidentiary rules, opening statements, closing arguments, and the development of the theme and theory of a case. The second weekly class takes place at a local area high school. In this class teams of 4 law students will mentor and coach high school mock trial teams who then will participate in the fall Providence Cup Mock Trial Tournament and the spring Colorado Bar Association's mock trial competition. Interested students must obtain permission from the professors to register for the course. The professors will given preference to students who have completed evidence, criminal procedure, and trial practice I and II or to students who have experience through participation in a Student Law Office clinic, STLA moot court competitions, ABA or TYLA trial team, or an internship that involved attorney-supervised trial work.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

SUMMER SPANISH COURSES: Advanced Conversation in Spanish | Register on Quarter System

This course focuses on advanced conversation with an emphasis on more complex tasks, such as explanations and discussions for students who have pursued an advanced study of the language or who have been in situations where they have spoken Spanish regularly. Legal terminology is covered. Advanced conversation in Spanish.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

SUMMER SPANISH COURSES: Advanced Reading and Writing in Spanish | Register on Quarter System

The purpose of this course is to develop, in detail, the reading, and writing abilities of the student through the study of advanced readings and writing assignments with a focus on advanced grammar accuracy. Students should be very familiar with grammatical issues and understand conversational Spanish. Legal terminology is covered. Advanced reading and writing in Spanish.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

SUMMER SPANISH COURSES: Intermediate Conversation in Spanish | Register on Quarter System

This course focuses on developing conversational skills with idiomatic expressions, basic grammar, and vocabulary to develop functional Spanish for students with a previous study of the language. This course familiarizes students with basic oral communication skills needed to work with Spanish-speaking clients. Legal terminology is covered. Intermediate course Spanish conversation.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

SUMMER SPANISH COURSES: Intermediate Reading and Writing in Spanish | Register on Quarter System

The purpose of this course is to present strategies to develop reading comprehension and writing proficiency in Spanish for students with previous study of the language. Students will be required to read authentic language samples and improve their grammar accuracy through reading and writing. Legal terminology is covered. Intermediate course in reading and writing Spanish.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Survey of Employment Law | L4205

This course will provide a broad overview of the field of employment law. It begins with an exploration of the employee/employee relationship and the at will rule. It then addresses various constitutional, statutory, and common law doctrines that tend to be applied to the employer/employee relationship, often as exceptions to the at will rule. Contract, tort, and anti-discrimination doctrines will be covered, as well as constitutional doctrines addressing free speech and privacy in the workplace, and regulatory regimes addressing wages and hours. Finally, this Course will explore the post-employment relationship, including trade-secrets and non-competition agreements. These topics will be addressed at both a theoretical and a practical level.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Sustainable Development and Trade | L4556

Course meets upper level writing requirement.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: Yes

Taxation of International Transactions | L4600

This course provides a detailed analysis of the treatment of nonresident aliens and foreign corporations; the foreign tax credit; rules for determining the source of income and deductions; operations through foreign branches or subsidiaries; earned income tax exclusion; and the effect of tax treaties.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Taxation of Natural Resources | L4605

This course outlines the financial, business, and legal tax problems that may be encountered during the acquisition, operation, and disposition of natural resources properties. It is a strong course for students to develop skills in general tax planning for natural resources ventures.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Taxation of Property Transactions | L4117

Basis of property; capital expenditures and current expense comparison; depreciable status; amortization of intangible property; depreciation methods; property casualties and losses; profit or loss computation and characterization for taxable property dispositions; limitations on passive losses; lessor and lessee reporting; tax-deferred dispositions.

Prerequisites: Cross-Listed Tax Class
Credit Hours: 3 Semester Hours
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Technology and the Internet Seminar | L4628

This course is designed to provide student with the fundamental knowledge necessary to commence and progress in adapting and utilizing modern technological advances. It covers a variety of the newest developments in technology and how they might be utilized in the legal industry.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Telecommunications Law | L4624

This seminar explores advanced topics relating to telecommunications, multimedia, cyberspace, and the Internet, with an emphasis on the continuing development of the law as it relates to advancing technology. Specific areas of focus will include a) Criminality, defamation, intellectual property, and choice of law issues on the Internet; b) Issues relating to the legal obtainment of content for multimedia works, and the legal issues surrounding marketing of multimedia products; c) The Telecommunications Act and its effect on the cable, phone, and broadcast industries, with a special emphasis on the likelihood of merger activity and antitrust issues; and d) The Constitutional issues relating to cyberspace and computer technology, with an emphasis on the First and Fourth Amendments.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

THE PROSECUTOR AS PROTAGONIST | L4707P

This seminar will be an in depth examination of the role of the prosecutor in our justice system. Attorney General Suthers will lead wide ranging discussions about crime and punishment. Topics discussed and debated will include the purpose of criminal sentencing, minimum mandatory sentences, the death penalty, the juvenile justice system, plea bargaining, prosecutor ethics, special prosecutors, criminal justice interest groups, prosecution oversight of police, forensic science, federalization of crime, attorney general activism, jury reform, reform of drug laws, and mental illness in the criminal justice system. Some of the top experts in Colorado on these subjects will speak to the seminar participants.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

The Rights of Prisoners and Parolees | L4521

This course gives students a detailed exploration of the legal rights of prisoners and parolees. Students gain an understanding of the processes involved with everything from bonds to parole.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Topics in Indian Law: Tribal Reserved Water Rights | L4477

This course is for students who intend to practice either water law or Indian law in the United States. It is designed to make students familiar and comfortable with the complex arena of Indian water rights and other federally reserved water rights. Students begin with the historical and legal bases of reserved water rights, and then move to the process to quantify the right and determine its priority date. Next are related issues, such as how the Endangered Species Act is enforced in connection with the exercise of tribal water rights and who has jurisdiction to regulate water use and quality on the Reservation. Specific current or recent disputes between tribes, states, municipalities, irrigation districts, and the federal government are analyzed in detail.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Torts I | L4610

This course covers compensation for private wrongs, covering harm to persons and property, with attention to legal theories of intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability. Topics includes damages, product liability, and some nonphysical harms. Other subjects, such as alternative methods of dispute resolution and legislation, may be covered as time permits.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Torts II | L4611

This course explores compensation for private wrongs, covering harm to persons and property, with attention to legal theories of intentional torts, negligence and strict liability. This coverage includes damages, product liability, and some nonphysical harms. Other topics, such as alternative methods of dispute resolution, and legislation may be covered as time permits.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trade Regulation | L4625

This offering covers price discrimination, illegal brokerage services, and allowances. Other topics may include retail price maintenance, the Federal Trade Commission Act; and the Robinson-Patman Act.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Antitrust Law
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trademark and Unfair Competition Law |

This course will survey the theory and the law of trademarks and unfair competition. Topics include the acquisition of trademark rights, registration of trademarks, loss of trademark rights, infringement, false designation of origin, advertising, rights of attribution and publicity, dilution, Internet domain names, trademarks as speech, and remedies for trademark infringement. The course also examines the role of trademark and unfair competition law within the larger context of intellectual property law and policy, including state and international protection of intellectual property

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Transportation Law | L4629

The Transportation Business Law course will cover all areas of business law, through the prism of transportation. The course will touch on contracts and contract disputes, the UCC, as well as employment, tort and international litigation from both the plaintiffs and defendants point of view. The course, will be taught entirely by practicing attorneys from around the nation. Each week a different attorney, representing experience in a different area of law, and a different mode of transportation, will travel to DU to lecture and discuss his or her expertise, and the legal principles and changes in that area of law. The course is overseen by Professor Robert Hardaway. This course is a unique partnership between the University of Denver and the Transportation Lawyers Association. The attorneys who visit to instruct will include many past presidents of the association, and Executive Board members. All modes of transportation law will be covered, including aviation, trucking, rail, (overseas) shipping, passenger and cargo. This is a two credit course.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trial and Evidence Practicum | L4632

N/A

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to participants in competition teams with professor's permission.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trial Practice I: Pretrial Civil Practice | L4635

This course provides students with practical approach through the pretrial process. Students draft pleadings, motions and discovery requests essential in the litigation process prior to the actual trial stage. Furthermore, they explore the settlement process via arbitration, mediation and settlement conferences.

Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to take Trial Practice II to complete this year long course.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trial Practice I: Writing Motions | L4635

This course provides students with a practical approach to the pretrial process. Students draft pleadings, motions, and discovery requests essential in the litigation process prior to the actual trial stage. This is in addition to exploring the settlement process via arbitration, mediation and settlement conferences.

Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to take Trial Practice II to complete this year long course.
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trial Practice: Mentors Practicum | L4442

The Mentors Practicum, employs and relies upon integrated teaching, feedback, student collaboration, and multiple assessment. The Practicum is designed for law school students who have exhibited advanced skills in trial advocacy, client advocacy, case analysis and communication. The course is comprised of two components. The first component is a weekly law school classroom component (2.5 hours) where the law school students (the Mentors) trial skills and relationship intelligence (client advocacy) are evaluated. These evaluations are based on their performance in trial-related areas (Opening Statements, Closing Arguments, Direct Examination, etc.), as well as delivery of the lesson plans which the Mentors are required to model, and then teach to high school students. In short, the law school students enter the course as advanced in the area of trial advocacy. The course raises the challenges to a level higher than the standard Advanced Trial Advocacy course. After each weeks law school class component, the Mentors, and their 4 to 5 person Mentoring team, enter an local-area public high school where they work with high school students (many of them at-risk students) for an additional 2.5 hours. The Mentors teachings focus on professional writing, critical analysis, verbal advocacy, and most of all, group dynamics and communication all within the context of a trial advocacy curriculum. Mentors are graded on their field work, their Final Trial performances, and their weekly Mentor Journals. Now in its third year, the Mentors Practicum has been shown to have had a tremendous impact in a number of areas: further developing and refining the law school students (the Mentors) understanding and application of advanced trial advocacy, evidentiary rules and principles, and client advocacy skills; public interest outreach for the Sturm College of Law and the University of Denver; and; teaching high school students about the professional skills (i.e. life skills) upon which they will rely for success after their academic education.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trial Pratice | L4635

The course is designed to teach the concepts and organizing principles of the formal trial process. It emphasizes the understanding necessary to develop, evaluate, prepare, and present a case for trial before a judge, jury, or other fact-finder. Exercises and simulations are used to demonstrate the importance of theory building and teach the functions of each stage of a trial. Students develop the advocacy skills appropriate to adversary adjudication.

Prerequisites: Evidence is a pre- or co-requisite for Trial Practice.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trial Pratice: Juvenile Law Content | L4636

This course is devoted to the study and practice of trial skills related to cases involving children. Simulation exercises, which concentrate on cases involving child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and educational law, are utilized. Students enrolled in this course have the option to enroll in a three hour internship at the Children's Legal Clinic, which is designed to allow students to be involved in the representation of child clients.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Tribal Law | L4709C

The Tribal Law course will discuss the body of law dealing with the status of the Indian tribes and their special relationship to the federal government. It is concerned with the treaties, statutes, executive orders, court decisions, and administrative action defining the relationship among the United States, Indian tribes and individuals, and the states. The course will include discussion of the assigned readings, guest speakers and a presentation to the class of the students final research paper.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Trusts and Estates | L4640

Students enrolled in this course learn the ins-and-outs of trusts and estates planning. The course surveys everything involving succession, wills, trusts, the role of third parties to a trust or estate, and property disposition.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Unincorporated Associations | L4560

A survey of legal doctrines and legislation governing entity organization, employment and agency relationships, and partnership.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Urban Environmental Law | L4700U

Urbanization of the western United States brings with it new legal and social challenges. Industrial pollution, changed land use patterns, and new infrastructure development can have significant consequences on a population. This course first will examine these challenges by focusing on the emerging environmental issues along Colorados increasingly urban Front Range. The course will involve guest speakers and field trips to broaden student knowledge. The class will then critically examine the legal resources available to urban governments and citizens to balance economic growth with protection of public health and quality of life. Major legal topics will include the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, local land use planning, and environmental justice policies. The course will conclude with a comparison of Colorados legal response to urban environmental issues with the responses of other metropolitan areas in the United States and worldwide. 3 credit hours.

Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Urban Planning Law, Growth, and Sustainable Development: An International Perspective | L4703

This course focuses on the utilization of local zoning, modern growth management, and smart growth regulatory programs that attempt to shape and control development of the built environment in metropolitan areas both in the United States and throughout the world. The course will examine how laws and public policies in the United States and elsewhere in the world relate to shaping the form and design of the built environment and provide the governing context for urban development and economic growth. The course provides a law and public policy analysis of the related sustainable development issues of free markets, private property rights, population growth, immigration, education, technology, land use, green development, urban sprawl, food production, infrastructure, transportation, housing, environmental protection, energy, global warming, and social cohesion. The course examines how urban planning, smart growth, and other governmental polices impact urban sprawl, environmental protection, and sustainable development in this country and in other countries of the world. A particular focus of the course will be twenty-first century public policy issues related to the development of Chinas cities, peak oil, urban collapse, global warming, climate change, alternative energy systems, social cohesion, and urban terrorism.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Voir Dire | L4027

This course covers the practical process of jury selection including the court rules and statutes that apply as well as Constitutional issues including fair cross-section and discriminatory challenges. An exploration of the demographic, legal, and case-specific issues that can be addressed in jury selection. The course couples traditional lectures with emphasis on student exercises. The course culminates in a "final voir dire" where the student is given a case problem and required to incorporate persuasive introductions, law questions, case-specific questions, and conclusions. Student participation throughout the class is required as both the inquiring attorney and as a juror.

Prerequisites: none, although trial practice is helpful
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Water Law | L4670

Water Law is an introductory course for students interested in pursuing water law. It covers private property rights in water, and the legal and environmental controls surrounding it.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Administrative Law recommended but not required.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Wills Lab | L4686

This lab is designed to provide students with practical experience with interviewing and drafting for a real client while under the close supervision of a practicing attorney. Clients come primarily from Legal Aid. Each student is individually supervised by a volunteer attorney or by Prof. Marsh. The attorney goes with the student to the first interview with the client to assist the student if any difficulties come up in the interview. Then the student drafts the appropriate documents from scratch, and the attorney helps the student determine what revisions are necessary. When documents are in final form the attorney assists the student in having the documents properly signed. Documents include will, living will, and medical or financial powers of attorney, as appropriate. Letter grades are given by Prof. Marsh. Note that no student is allowed to drop the Wills Lab after the first interview with the client unless there is a severe medical emergency. There will be one introductory meeting scheduled during lunch time. All the rest of the work is scheduled individually by the student, supervising attorney, and client.

Prerequisites: Restrictions: Students must be concurrently enrolled in Trusts & Estates (with any professor), or must have completed Trusts & Estates (with any professor). NOTE: Students will NOT be allowed to drop the course after the first interview with the client.
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)

Worker's Compensation | L4680

The course covers compensation for employment-related injuries, addresses administrative practice before compensation boards, and analyzes issues that concern the relationships between standard litigation and administrative remedies.

Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)