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LAW 5314 - Lawyering Skills & Strategies I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Not for upper level students.
Focuses on the introduction to the American legal system and the skills and strategic planning lawyers must possess to succeed within it.
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LAW 5315 - Foundational Issues in Health Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the basic legal and theoretical concepts related to the study of health law. Major topics include bioethical theories and their relevance to the law, medical malpractice, and the role of the courts in defining and applying standards of care.
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LAW 5316 - Consumer Dispute Resolution Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: None.
Provides students with an opportunity to work with the Texas Consumer Complaint Center. Students deal directly with consumers and consider the legal and ethical problems that arise.
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LAW 5317 - Trademark/Unfair Competition Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Development and protection of trademarks under state and federal law. Various phases of trademark and related unfair competition litigation. Intellectual Property Survey course recommended but not required.
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LAW 5318 - Landlord and Tenant Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A study of the legal rights of parties to commercial and residential leasing agreements.
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LAW 5319 - Intro To American Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A course in American legal method for foreign lawyers.
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LAW 5320 - Pretrial Procedure Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Modern problems of pleading, parties, depositions, and discovery, primarily in the Texas State system.
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LAW 5321 - Law Office Management Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
Students will be introduced to basic concepts of law firm management, including typical and predictable problems in managing a law practice, and solutions to these problems.
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LAW 5322 - Pretrial Litigation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Intensive individualized training and instruction in case analysis and the art of drafting and oral advocacy relating to pretrial discovery, motion practice and pleadings, including instruction in the law of pretrial procedure.
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LAW 5323 - Conflict of Laws Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The central issue focuses upon the controlling law if there are competing legal principles from various jurisdictions that have a connection with the controversy. The course is a cross section of many courses that the student has previously taken.
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LAW 5324 - International Trade Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A course in the problems businesses encounter in transnational dealings in goods and services, including import controls, export controls, tariffs, and sales conventions.
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LAW 5325 - National Security Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
This course is an introduction to national security law that will cover presidential and congressional national security powers under the Constitution as well as relevant statutes-such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the USA Patriot Act-regulations, and guidelines.
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LAW 5326 - Oil & Gas Pipeline Regulation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
Oily’ shale gas plays in the United States have spotlighted the need for additional domestic pipeline infrastructure that may include a combination of natural gas pipelines and oil/condensate pipelines.
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LAW 5327 - Practitioner’s Guide Oil & Gas Industry Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: None.
Practitioner’s Guide Oil & Gas
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LAW 5328 - Judicial Externship I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: None
Judicial Externship I
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LAW 5329 - Judicial Externship II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisite: None
Judicial Externship II
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LAW 5330 - Anti-Trust Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The law and economics of antitrust policy and the methods for enforcing antitrust policy. Emphasis is placed on the issues of monopolization, mergers, price fixing, and state and local government actions displacing the competitive process.
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LAW 5331 - English Legal History Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Development of English law from the twelfth to the eighteenth century with emphasis on the nature of legal change, the relationship between legal and social change, and the development of individual rights.
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LAW 5332 - Patent Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The substantive U.S. law of patents including eligible subject matter, novelty and nonobviousness requirements, scope of claims, and modern infringement law.
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LAW 5333 - Practice of Environmental Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
This course will overview key areas of practice within environmental law such as regulatory counseling and permitting, civil enforcement, criminal liability, private litigation over environmental contamination, policy advocacy, and environmental aspects of commercial transactions.
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LAW 5334 - Health Law Externship I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in LAW 6322 (Health Law Survey: Bioethics & Quality of Care), LAW 6331 - Health Law Financing, Organization, and Quality or permission of instructor required. In addition, requires a minimum GPA of 2.7.
Students have the opportunity to work with non-profit organizations or government agencies dealing with health issues.
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LAW 5335 - Land Use Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
This course will deal with the basic legal issues arising in the government control of land, including regulatory takings (especially in environmental area) and other special topics.
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LAW 5336 - Public Health Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Surveys the laws and legal institutions that play key roles in the public’s health in the United States.
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LAW 5337 - Clean Air Act Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Legal requirements for air pollution control under the federal Clean Air Act, with emphasis on the 1990 amendments and state and local approaches including an examination of the Texas Clean Air Act.
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LAW 5338 - Land Use & Finance Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Law pertaining to land use and finance, as reflected in governmental regulations, zoning and other municipal ordinances, and land-financing practices.
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LAW 5339 - Trusts and Wills Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Express, resulting and constructive trusts, substantive and remedial aspects. Intestacy; execution, revocation, and construction of wills; contracts to devise.
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LAW 5340 - Marital Property Rights Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Marriage, divorce, and annulment; rights of children and the community property law of Texas.
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LAW 5341 - Disabilities and the Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Is a study of legal issues affecting persons with disabilities, including education, higher education, employment, architectural barriers, transportation, public accommodations, public services, housing and access to health care.
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LAW 5342 - Health Law Externship II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in LAW 6322 (Health Law Survey: Bioethics & Quality of Care), LAW 6331 - Health Law Financing, Organization, and Quality or permission of instructor required. Also requires a minimum GPA of 2.7.
Students have the opportunity to continue their work with an external placement. The second term in a placement allows a student to work on additional lawyering skills while continuing to improve the lawyering skills they have worked on previously.
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LAW 5343 - Employment Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Focuses on the expanding body of statutes and common law dealing with the legal rights of nonunion employees. The course examines the legal aspects of hiring practices, conditions of employment, and termination of employment and the legal regulation of employers and employees.
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LAW 5344 - Appellate Advocacy I Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Intensive, individualized training in the art of persuasive brief writing and effective oral argument, as well as the law of appellate advocacy.
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LAW 5345 - Real Estate Transactions Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
This course applies substantive concepts from the first-year property course to a wide range of common real estate transactions and related matters. The primary focus will be residential transaction, but issues relating to commercial transactions will also be considered.
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LAW 5346 - State & Local Government Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
States and local governments have substantial law-making and regulatory authority in areas as diverse as education policy, civil rights, tax law, land use and environmental issues. In addition, states and local governments are responsible for the financing and provision of most public services.
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LAW 5347 - Criminal Procedure: The Investigation Process Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Deals with the law of search and seizure, confessions, right to counsel, incorporation of bill of rights guarantees, retroactivity, federal court supervisory power, due process and the war on terrorism.
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LAW 5348 - Texas Consumer Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
An advanced course in sales and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act designed to supplement courses in contract and commercial law.
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LAW 5349 - Toxic Torts Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None
This course strives to give students an overview of the law of environmental and toxic torts. It includes cases in which there is a personal injury or property damage due to exposure to toxic substances, including drugs. It combines a historic overview of the field with coverage of the current issues confronting the courts and Congress.
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LAW 5350 - Crimimal Procedure: The Adjudication Process Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Addresses the constitutional rules of criminal procedure applicable in all court proceedings in a criminal prosecution in state or federal court.
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LAW 5351 - Juvenile Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A survey of the statutes and case law governing the rights of children alleged to be delinquent, incorrigible, or neglected.
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LAW 5352 - Corporate Taxation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: LAW 5359 , LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
Taxation of corporate entities; corporate formations, distributions, liquidations, and reorganizations.
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LAW 5354 - Environmental Law Practicum Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Environmental law.
This course will overview key areas of practice within environmental law such as regulatory counseling and permitting, civil enforcement, criminal liability, private litigation over environmental contamination, policy advocacy, and environmental aspects of commercial transactions.
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LAW 5355 - Oil and Gas Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Covers the basic property, contract, and regulatory framework for oil and gas production in Texas. Explores common law property concepts; the provisions of an oil and gas lease negotiated between a mineral interest owner and an oil company as lessee; and also examines Railroad Commission regulation of drilling, production, pooling, and unitization for the efficient and fair development of oil and gas.
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LAW 5356 - Remedies Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Content includes a wide array of legal and equitable remedies available in civil actions - including injunctions (and the related contempt power), specific performance, common law “writs,” restitution, money damages, attorney’s fees, and prejudgment interest.
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LAW 5357 - Evidence Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The rules evidence and reasons supporting them, state and federal, including relevancy, impeachment presumptions, judicial notice, competency of witnesses, privilege, and the hearsay rule and its exceptions.
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LAW 5358 - Sales and Leasing Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The law of sales and leases including Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code, and some consideration of the CISG-the law governing international sales of goods.
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LAW 5359 - Health Industry Basics: Providers-Innovators-Regulators Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
This core health law course is an introductory tour of Texas/federal laws governing health-sector businesses that together account for 18% U.S. Gross Domestic Product, including traditional 20th-century institutions like hospitals and an expanding array of new players that supply innovative products (drugs, devices, diagnostics) and services (clinical laboratories, biobanks, contract research organizations, health data exchanges, management and informational services) to healthcare providers and¿increasingly¿directly to consumers.
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LAW 5360 - Licensing and Tech Transfer Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: LAW 5201 - Intellectual Property Survey , LAW 5332 - Patent Law or LAW 5379 - Copyright Law ; Consent of Instructor.
Introduction to the transfer of technology by licensing agreements where underlying rights are patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret (know-how). Agreement structures and legal limitations via antitrust laws. U.S. law emphasis; some foreign laws considered.
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LAW 5361 - Financial Statement Analysis and Business Practices for Lawyers Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Financial Statement Analysis and Business Practices for Lawyers will cover the area of introductory financial reporting and analysis. Included in the course will be introduction to the mechanics of financial accounting, the building of financial statements, reporting and analysis of financial information and in depth study of accounting principles and procedures. Certain business and financial practices are also covered.
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LAW 5362 - Employment Discrimination Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Examines the substantive law of employment discrimination and the policy conflicts underlying the legal and social issues raised by the cases. Basic doctrines designed to protect individuals from unfair unemployment decisions: Title VII; Americans with Disabilities Act; and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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LAW 5363 - Securities Regulation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A study of state and federal statutes regulating the issuance, transfer, and trading of securities.
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LAW 5364 - Texas Coastal and Ocean Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The course will deal with the origin and present status of the 1972 National Coastal Zone Management Act and subsequent coastal management programs adopted by virtually all coastal states. The Texas program is administered by the General Land Office and will be dealt with in depth as the central focus of the course. Statutory law relating to citizen, state, and federal rights and duties as they impact coastal law will be studied as a part of Texas real property law. Cases relating to those rights and duties and Public Trust Doctrine cases are an integral part of understanding the responsibilities of governments and rights of citizens. The course should help prepare an attorney to advise clients concerning their rights and responsibilities, as well as permit procedures and limitations applicable to the coast.
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LAW 5365 - Bankrptcy&Creditrs Rgts Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A study of federal and state laws relating to the remedies of debtors and creditors, including bankruptcy.
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LAW 5366 - Comparative Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Examination of the major legal systems in the world today (focus on civil law and common law). Comparison of selected features of foreign laws, legal institutions, legal methodology, and legal culture with their American counterparts. Topics include procedure, private law, legal profession, legal education, sources of law, court structure and others. Countries sampled include Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, and others.
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LAW 5367 - Biotechnology and the Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Surveys ethical, regulatory, and policy issues with modern medical technologies, such as genome-based products and nanotechnology, with emphasis on the challenges of regulatory novel products and resolving barriers to research and commercialization.
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LAW 5368 - Estate Planning Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: LAW 5359 , LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax and LAW 5339 , LAW 5440 - Trusts and Wills or seek instructor’s permission to waive prerequisite.
Planning of estates from the standpoint of tax savings and ease of administration.
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LAW 5369 - Insurance Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Examines the regulation of insurance contracts and insurance companies, including underwriting regulation, doctrines of contract interpretation, claims-processing regulation, solvency regulation and special remedies for breach. The course covers both the property/casualty and life/health “sides” of the insurance industry with an emphasis on policy issues and economics.
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LAW 5370 - International Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Basic public international law; legal organization of the international community; the relation of individuals within a state to the rules of international law.
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LAW 5371 - Int’l Petroleum Transaction Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Recommended prerequisite - not required, LAW 5355 - Oil and Gas .
A study of key provisions in development contracts (licenses and production-sharing contracts); relationships with host governments; and international joint operating agreements.
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LAW 5372 - Fraud and Abuse Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
This course examines the implications of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, civil monetary penalty and exclusion laws, anti-referral (Stark) laws, and false claims laws, as well as traditional federal white collar criminal laws applied to health care.
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LAW 5373 - Admiralty Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Covers a number of unique features of maritime law such as limitation of liability, general average, salvage cargo claims, the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act and variations theron under international conventions, and seamen’s remedies for personal injuries including the Jones Act, unseaworthiness and maintenance and cure. It will also focus on the variety of federal jurisdiction issues that come into play in Admiralty.
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LAW 5374 - Legal History Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Emphasis on the First and Fourteenth Amendments. A study of American legal history from 1776-1940. The course concentrates on federalism, the relationship between both state and federal constitutions and the common law, and the process of development of individual rights under the Constitution.
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LAW 5375 - Administration of Estates and Guardianship Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Administration of Estates and Guardianships. A skills class that will cover all types of administrations encountered with decedent¿s and incapacitated estates: Dependent Administrations, Independent Administrations, Probating wills, alternative to probate administrations, Intestacy and guardianships. Students will review and be exposed to defective wills as well as proper wills and learn how to get them admitted into probate in addition to reviewing a variety of estate administration pleadings.
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LAW 5376 - Colloquium Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Students and scholars work cooperatively in a rigorous intellectual environment where students participate in a unique analytic discussion of the law of many different fields. Enrollment limited.
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LAW 5377 - Life & Health Insurance Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Addresses federal and state regulation of the life and health insurance industry. The health insurance component addresses the major federal regulatory statutes: ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, pending federal legislation, as well as state initiatives. The life insurance segment addresses insurance regulations, including anti-forfeiture laws, accounting issues, securities regulation and tax issues.
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LAW 5378 - Statutory Interpretation & Reasoning Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Focuses on common law rules extracted from court opinions. Reading and interpreting statues and administrative materials providing an overview of the legislative and regulatory process that generates those documents.
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LAW 5379 - Copyright Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Study of protection for literary, artistic, musical, computer, and other works of human intellect under the Copyright Act of 1976. Prerequisites and formalities for protection; nature, scope, and limitations of rights with special emphasis on fair use; infringement actions, remedies and federal preemption of state law.
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LAW 5380 - Labor Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A study of the National Labor Relations Act and other federal legislation relating to the labor management relationship.
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LAW 5381 - Legal Negotiation Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
An introduction to legal negotiation as a method of reaching agreement on different matters.
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LAW 5382 - Administrative Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A study of the administrative process, primarily at the federal level; agency powers; agency jurisdiction; agency procedures; limitations on agency power; enforcement of agency decisions; judicial review.
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LAW 5383 - Family Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
A study of the law of marriage, divorce, and child custody; legal aspects of illegitimacy, family desertion, nonsupport, and abandonment of children.
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LAW 5384 - Endangered Species and Biodiversity Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: none.
The study of Endangered Species and Biodiversity Law.
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LAW 5385 - Introduction to the Laws of European Union Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Students will gain an insight into the way in which the law of the European Union (European Community law) impacts the business community at a national and international level. The European Union now represents a vast market and a window of opportunity for business and commerce.
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LAW 5386 - Trial Advocacy Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: LAW 5270 , LAW 5357 - Evidence .
Through “learning-by-doing” students master the skills necessary to developing case theory, selecting a jury, conducting direct and cross examinations, handling exhibits, impeaching witnesses and presenting opening statements and closing arguments.
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LAW 5387 - International Tax Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: LAW 5359 , LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
A study of issues in U.S. and foreign taxation including analyses of tax consequences relating to multinational business operations.
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LAW 5388 - Storytelling Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Coverage of how to develop effective and persuasive case theories, rhetoric, and the psychological aspects of persuasion.
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LAW 5389 - Immigration Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Study of United States laws relating to the permanent and temporary entry of foreign nationals into the U.S.
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LAW 5390 - Environmental Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Environmental law, with emphasis on legal regulation and control of activities affecting the land, sea, and air environment.
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LAW 5391 - Law Practice Strategies Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Covers strategies for document preparation, client relations, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, running the practice, and advocacy through simulations involving civil litigation, contracts, criminal litigation, real estate, divorce, and wills.
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LAW 5392 - Int Business Trans Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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LAW 5393 - Intl Criminal Law Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly/Same as: LAW 5393 - Information Law Seminar.
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LAW 5394 - Crimmigration Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Formerly/Same as: LAW 5393 - Information Law Seminar.
Prerequisite: None.
This course will introduce students to the many issues at the intersection of immigration law and criminal law. Crimmigration is a complex and dynamic area of law. The course will provide students with the knowledge required to recognize and analyze the potential immigration consequences of a variety of criminal pleas and convictions.
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LAW 5395 - Transactional Clinic II Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Emphasizes federal and Texas constitutional law, statutory law, regulations and practices in all aspects of primary and general election of offices and voting on issues.
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LAW 5397 - Selected Topics Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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LAW 5398 - Special Research and Writing Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Second -or third- year standing and consent of instructor.
Independent research paper written under the direct supervision of a full-time faculty member. Cannon be used as the senior writing requirement unless approved by the Associate Dean for Student Affairs.
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LAW 5399 - Special Problems Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
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LAW 5400 - Government and Nonprofit Externship I Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
The Government/Nonprofit Externship Program enables students to experience and reflect upon the law in practice through field places in local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as nonprofit institutions. The program¿s goal is to exposure students to the disposition of ¿real world¿ legal issues, while working under the supervision of experienced attorneys.
Note: Independent Study
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LAW 5401 - Transactional Clinic II Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisite: None.
Students advise clients who start a small business about business structures, contracts, tax, and commercial law. Students contact clients with professor’s supervision. Weekly meeting is held to discuss the projects.
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LAW 5402 - Transactional Clinic I Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
Students advise clients who start a small business about business structure, contracts, tax, and commercial law. Students contact clients with professor’s supervision. Weekly meeting is held to discuss the projects.
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LAW 5405 - Immigration Clinic Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Grade Point Average of 2.5. Recommended - not required, LAW 5222 , LAW 6321 - Professional Responsibility , LAW 5270 , LAW 5357 - Evidence , LAW 5389 - Immigration Law .
The immigration clinic combines actual representation of clients with the theoretical teaching of immigration law. Each student handles ad individual caseload of 5-7 clients. The types of cases handled through the clinic include: applications for political asylum; petitions under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); family visa petitions, citizenship, special immigrant juvenile petitions; and representation of long term residents in removal/deportation proceedings.
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LAW 5406 - Civil Procedure Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Introduction to civil procedure; jurisdiction of courts; pleading, discovery; trial; effect of judgments; appeals. Emphasis is on the federal rules of civil procedure.
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LAW 5407 - Judicial Externship I Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 4
Judicial Externship I
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LAW 5408 - Property Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Introduction to basic principles of property law; acquisition of property; types of property interests; transfer of ownership; recording systems; conveyancing; landlord and tenant; regulation of land use.
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LAW 5409 - Contracts Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Basic contract law including contract formation, prerequisites such as consideration, remedies, enforcement, interpretation, writings, and multiple parties.
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LAW 5410 - Law Review Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Membership on Law Review staff.
Advancement from candidacy to staff requires publication of two case notes or one comment. Credit is given for satisfactory staff service.
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LAW 5411 - Health Law Externship I Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in LAW 6322 (Health Law Survey: Bioethics & Quality of Care), LAW 6331 - Health Law Financing, Organization, and Quality or permission of instructor required. In addition, requires a minimum GPA of 2.7.
Students have the opportunity to work with non-profit organizations or government agencies dealing with health issues.
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LAW 5412 - Judicial Externship II Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 4
Judicial Externship II
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LAW 5413 - Health Law Externship II Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in LAW 6322 (Health Law Survey: Bioethics & Quality of Care), LAW 6331 - Health Law Financing, Organization, and Quality or permission of instructor required. Also requires a minimum GPA of 2.7.
Students have the opportunity to continue their work with an external placement. The second term in a placement allows a student to work on additional lawyering skills while continuing to improve the lawyering skills they have worked on previously.
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LAW 5414 - Immigration Clinic II Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: LAW 5405 - Immigration Clinic .
Covers practical and theoretical training in immigration law.
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LAW 5415 - Government and Nonprofit Externship II Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisite: Government and Nonprofit Externship I.
The Government Nonprofit Externship Program enables students to experience and reflect upon the law in practice through field places in local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as nonprofit institutions. The program¿s goal is to exposure students to the disposition of ¿real world¿ legal issues, while working under the supervision of experienced attorneys.
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LAW 5417 - Civil Practice Clinic II Credit Hours: 4.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisite: LAW 6371, LAW 5420 - Civil Practice Clinic I , LAW 5401 (Criminal Defense Clinic I), LAW 6375 (Child Dependency I).
Students, under close faculty supervision, represent clients with a broad variety of legal problems arising in a civil context. Attendance mandatory for the classroom component necessary to learn skills for effective lawyering.
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