Jul 03, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Latin

  
  • LATN 6398 - Advanced Study in Latin

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or Post Baccalaureate status.
    Selected readings in Classical Latin poetry and prose together with modern works of scholarship.
    This course may be repeated for credit.


Law

  
  • LAW 5103 - Health Law Journal

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Membership on Health Law Journal staff.
    Advancement from candidacy to staff requires satisfactory completion of two case notes or one comment. Credit is given for satisfactory staff service.
  
  • LAW 5104 - Houston Business/Tax Journal

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Membership on Houston Business/Tax Journal staff.
    Advancement from candidacy to staff requires publication of two case notes or one comment. Credit is given for satisfactory staff service.
  
  • LAW 5105 - Interscholastic Mock Trial

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
  
  • LAW 5106 - Interscholastic Moot Court

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
  
  • LAW 5108 - Advanced Health Law

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    This course provides LL.M. students with an opportunity to develop and present their own research projects as well as to survey a wide range of topics in health law and policy. This course is limited to, and required for, LL.M. students.
  
  • LAW 5109 - Advocates-Negotiation-Current Year

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    This course is for students participating in the Advocates Negotiation Competition, and includes negotiating a problem set provided by the American Bar Association, drafting a contract that reflects the negotiation, and drafting a short memo detailing their negotiating strategy.
  
  • LAW 5110 - Law Review

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    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.
  
  • LAW 5111 - Advocates - Blakely Moot Court

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

  
  • LAW 5112 - Advocates - Hippard Mock Trial

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

  
  • LAW 5113 - Advocates

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Counts as credit for advocates board membership or competitive team membership.
    May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

  
  • LAW 5114 - Transactional Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5114 - Court Observation.
    Prerequisite:  .
    At a heightened level, students in Transactional Clinic II continue the work done in Transactional Clinic I.  They also work in teams with Transactional Clinic I students.
  
  • LAW 5116 - Judicial Process

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
    Students perform exercises that compliment the work they are doing at a court and discuss issues impacting the judiciary. This course is taken concurrently with Judicial Internship I.
  
  • LAW 5117 - Public Interest Workplace

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
    Students perform exercises that complement the work they are doing in field placement and discuss issues impacting their externships. This course is taken concurrently with Clinical Externship I or Health Law Externship I.
  
  • LAW 5119 - Advocates-Negotiation-Retro

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    This course is for students who have participated in the Negotiation Competition and includes negotiate a problem set provided by the American Bar Association and then draft a contract that reflects the negotiation. As part of the contract submission, students also draft a short memo detailing their negotiating strategy.
  
  • LAW 5121 - Moot Court Board

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Assists the Moot Court Director in all administrative aspects of the Moot Court Program, and facilitates the judging process for the John Black mandatory rounds, including providing training for judging, coordinating the organization of the competition with The Advocates and Legal Analysis Research and Communication, and researching the problems issues to provide summaries and questions for the judges.
  
  • LAW 5122 - Advocate-Hippard Mock Trial RETRO

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-2); )
    Student seeking credit for this course must participate in the Hippard Mock Trial Competition in a previous semester. This is an intra-scholastic competition where students can compete in the Hippard Open or Hippard Novice Competition.
  
  • LAW 5123 - Civil Practice Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: LAW 6371, LAW 5420 - Civil Practice Clinic I , LAW 5401 (Criminal Defense Clinic I), LAW 6375 - Client Interviewing & Counseling .
    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.
  
  • LAW 5124 - Immigration Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5399, LAW 5405 - Immigration Clinic I .
    Covers practical and theoretical training in immigration law.
  
  • LAW 5125 - Small Firm Practice Skills

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: Currently enrolled in Externship/Apprenticeship Clinic.
    Classroom component where students learn a new perspective in terms of the realities of the “law school experience” contrasted with the actual practice of law in a small-to-mid-sized firm.
  
  • LAW 5126 - Advocates-Newhouse Mediation - Current

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Students seeking credit for this course must participate in the Newhouse Mediation Competition in a current/previous semester.  The Newhouse Competition is an intra-scholastic advocacy in mediation competition.
  
  • LAW 5127 - Advocates-Newhouse Mediation - Retro

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Students seeking credit for this course must participate in the Newhouse Mediation Competition in a current/previous semester.  The Newhouse Competition is an intra-scholastic advocacy in mediation competition.
  
  • LAW 5128 - Personal & Professional Ethics

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    The goal of the course is to explore the causes of and possible cures for law student and lawyer distress.
  
  • LAW 5131 - Consumer Dispute Resolution

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-4); )
    Provides students with an opportunity to work in the Texas Consumer Complaint Center. Students deal directly with consumers and consider the legal and ethical problems that arise.
  
  • LAW 5132 - Advocates-Blakely Moot Court - RETRO

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Student seeking credit for this course must participate in the Blakely Moot Court Competition in a previous semester. The Blakely Competition is an intra-scholastic moot court competition.
  
  • LAW 5136 - Interscholastic Moot Court-RETRO

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    This is a Moot Court Competition. Participants will engage in legal research, brief writing, and oral arguments pursuant to competition rules.
  
  • LAW 5147 - Houston Journal of International Law

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Membership on Houston Journal of International Law staff.
    Advancement from candidacy to staff requires publication of two case notes or one comment. Credit is given for satisfactory staff service.
  
  • LAW 5151 - Tax Research

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359 , LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax ,
    A specialized course in tax research open only to master’s degree students specializing in taxation.
  
  • LAW 5176 - Environmental, Energy, and Policy Law Journal

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    An academic publication of the Law Center in which the law students, under the direction of the faculty, edit articles of distinguished faculty and scholars around the country.
  
  • LAW 5183 - Mediation Process

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Mediation Externship.
    In order to enroll in the externship, students must have completed the course work in mediation and be in compliance with the Texas Statute 154.052 requiring forty classroom hours of instruction.
  
  • LAW 5188 - Interscholastic Mock Trial-Retro

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-1); )
    This is a Moot Court Competition. Participants will engage in legal research, brief writing, and oral arguments pursuant to competition rules.
  
  • LAW 5197 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(1-0); )
    Temporary course number.
    May be repeated for a maximum of six semester hours.

  
  • LAW 5198 - Special Research and Writing

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: second- or third-year standing and consent of instructor.
  
  • LAW 5199 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Approval of the dean.
    For law students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
    May be repeated for a maximum of four semester hours.

  
  • LAW 5201 - Intellectual Property Survey

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Study of the main principles and doctrines of trade secret, copyright, trademark, and patent law.
  
  • LAW 5202 - Transactional Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-2); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 6324 - Transactional Clinic I .
    At a heightened level, students in Transactional Clinic II continue the work done in Transactional Clinic I. They also work in teams with Transactional Clinic I students.
  
  • LAW 5204 - Health Legislation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Focus on state legislation, but also addresses issues relating to federal legislation, city codes, and regulations.
  
  • LAW 5205 - Immigration Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5405 - Immigration Clinic I .
    Covers practical and theoretical training in immigration law.
  
  • LAW 5207 - Clean Air Act

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    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.
  
  • LAW 5209 - Advanced Legal Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    This upper level course will teach students to become more proficient, efficient, and effective at researching, analyzing legal issues, and composing and organizing written documents.
  
  • LAW 5210 - Law Review

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (; )
    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.
  
  • LAW 5212 - Advanced Legal Writing (LARC III)

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prepares students to undertake the analytical and informational writing tasks demanded of lawyers and expected by legal employers.
  
  • LAW 5213 - Digital Transactions

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    This course focuses on issues in software and database licensing, and on transactions conducted online.
  
  • LAW 5214 - Elder Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Highlights the social and legal issues associated with an aging society; critical understanding of the distinct legal problems of the elderly, and familiarity with governmental programs aimed at older people.
  
  • LAW 5216 - Clean Water Act

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Focuses on the Federal Clean Water Act and its administrative implementation. The course specifically focuses on current issues of concern in the Act.
  
  • LAW 5220 - ERISA

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Provides a basic overview of ERISA’s regulatory scheme, explaining the difference between pensions and defined contribution plans.
  
  • LAW 5221 - International Commercial Arbitration

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    A comprehensive study of international commercial arbitration which includes examination and analysis of international arbitration procedure, arbitration agreements, institutional rules and international conventions.
  
  • LAW 5223 - Post-Mortem Estate Planning

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359 , LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax  and (LAW 5339 , LAW 5440 - Trusts and Wills ).
    Issues associated with estate administration; estate tax compliance and audit procedures; examination of the use of trusts as estate surrogates.
  
  • LAW 5224 - Animal Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    The study of statutory and decisional law in which the nature - legal, social, or biological - of nonhuman animals is an important factor.
  
  • LAW 5226 - Patent Remedies and Defenses

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5332 - Patent Law , LAW 5201 - Intellectual Property Survey  or consent of instructor.
    Statutory and rules provisions governing U.S. patent litigation; commonly sought remedies and defenses; recent Federal Circuit decisions; jurisdictional and venue issues.
  
  • LAW 5230 - Mergers & Acquisitions

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5421 - Business Organizations .
    An examination of the law and finance of corporate acquisitions; evaluation of capital markets and the efficient markets hypothesis; analysis of the motives underlying acquisitions; legal duties and liabilities of directors facing takeover bids.
  
  • LAW 5231 - Anti-Corruption Law & Development

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Reviews anti-corruption efforts in law and law enforcement, and examines the major instruments in anti-corruption, including international conventions and standards, and US and foreign criminal and civil legislation.
  
  • LAW 5232 - Trade Secrets

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Study of characteristics, protection and enforcement of trade secrets as tangible property rights. Emphasis on litigation tactics, including specialized injunctive relief, proof, evidence, remedies and calculation of damages.
  
  • LAW 5235 - Financing the Business Transaction

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5235 - Legal Research and Writing
    Prerequisite:  .
    Explores the various types of debt financing that either utilize Article 9 collateral or are unsecured, and when each is appropriate.
  
  • LAW 5236 - Higher Education Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5236 - Legal Reseach and Advocacy.
    Prerequisite: None.
    Covers legal and governance issues that affect higher education institutions:  legal governance, academic freedom, faculty, students, and equity topics.
  
  • LAW 5237 - Baseball & the Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Exploring the legal aspects of baseball, but that invariably also requires an examination of the business aspects of the game, and some of the historical roots of the national pastime.
  
  • LAW 5238 - Introduction to the Law of Mexico

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5238 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
    Prerequisite: None.
    Introduction to conducting basic research on Mexican Law covering transborder litigation and enforcement of foreign judgments in Mexico.
  
  • LAW 5239 - Oil and Gas Tax

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359 , LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Focuses on federal taxation of domestic oil and gas exploration and production operations. Taxation of foreign oil and gas exploration and production operations will also be included in the course, although in summary fashion addressing tax models foreign jurisdictions can adopt and the resulting U.S. tax overlay.
  
  • LAW 5240 - Applied Appellate Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    This course offers intensive instruction in brief writing and oral advocacy skills in an appellate advocacy setting.
  
  • LAW 5244 - Medical Liability

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Examines each step in managing a medical malpractice lawsuit while highlighting Texas’ reform statute that many see as a model throughout the nation.
  
  • LAW 5245 - Civil Practice Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: LAW 6371, LAW 5420 - Civil Practice Clinic I  , LAW 5401 (Criminal Defense Clinic I), LAW 6375 - Client Interviewing & Counseling .
    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.
  
  • LAW 5246 - International Litigation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    This course will address, among other subjects: suits against foreign defendants in United States courts, suits by foreign plaintiffs, foreign sovereign immunity, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
  
  • LAW 5247 - Houston Journal of International Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: Membership on Houston Journal of International Law staff.
    Advancement from candidacy to staff requires publication of two case notes or one comment. Credit is given for satisfactory staff service.
  
  • LAW 5249 - Origins of the Federal Constitution

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    An intensive introduction to the historical sources of the Constitution while considering the influence and use of this material on the modern interpretation of the Constitution.
  
  • LAW 5250 - Procedure of Patent Litigation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite:   or  .
    Examines the hypothetical patent case from the pleadings, through the Markman hearing, and to trial, while focusing on issues patent litigators face in their day to day trial preparation.
  
  • LAW 5253 - Mediation Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Covers the law of representing clients in a mediation setting and the skills used in providing such representation.
  
  • LAW 5254 - Tax Controversy & Litigation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Covers the tax controversy process, starting with handling an IRS audit, administratively protesting before IRS Appeals, and representing a client before the United States Tax Court.
  
  • LAW 5255 - Practicing Consumer Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Teaches the practical side of starting a consumer law practice, including learning the ethical issues encountered by consumer lawyers, marketing, formal and informal discovery, expert witnesses, protective orders, and tax consequences to clients, to name a few.
  
  • LAW 5256 - Sports Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5256 - Juvenile Law Clinic.
    Prerequisite: None.
    Examines both aspects of Professional and Amateur Sports.  Player Contracts, collective bargaining, antitrust issues, Intellectual Property and Torts in Sports, and Eligibility and the NCAA.
  
  • LAW 5259 - State and Local Tax

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    An examination of the various laws concerning state taxes, including income, franchise, property, excise, and severance taxes. State taxation of interstate businesses.
  
  • LAW 5261 - Real Estate Tax

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Analysis of state and federal tax considerations pertaining to the ownership, rental, and sale of interests in real estate.
  
  • LAW 5263 - Taxation of Compensation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  and LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Taxation of qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, nonqualified and incentive stock options, restricted property arrangements, part-in-interest transactions, executive compensation and severance arrangements and welfare benefit arrangements.
  
  • LAW 5266 - Taxation of Exempt Organizations

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Study of federal and state law concerning organizations exempt from federal income taxation including contributions deductibility, standards for granting exemption, private foundations, fiduciary duties and limits on political activities.
  
  • LAW 5267 - Tax Accounting

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Study of methods in context of federal tax laws including cash, accrual installment methods, inventory taxation, changes of accounting methods, and time value of money concepts.
  
  • LAW 5271 - Advanced Negotiation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Focuses on in-depth analysis, planning and practice on preferred systems and techniques for complex negotiations involving hard and soft interests.
  
  • LAW 5272 - Federal Courts

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5272 - Health Law Policy Seminar; LAW 5272 - Psychology of Communication
    Prerequisite: None.
    Covers jurisdiction of the federal courts and other issues concerning the relationship of the federal and state courts, such as congressional control over the jurisdiction of the federal courts, and justiciability doctrines.
  
  • LAW 5274 - Interscholastic Moot Court-RETRO

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-2); )
    This is a Moot Court Competition. Participants will engage in legal research, brief writing, and oral arguments pursuant to competition rules.
  
  • LAW 5275 - Structuring Real Estate Transaction

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5275 - Asset Based Lending; LAW 5275 - Law and Psychology Seminar; LAW 5275 - Advanced Contracts.
    Prerequisite: None.
    To familiarize students with the practical aspects of purchasing and selling commercial real estate.  Actual form documents, including financing documents and a commercial lease, will be reviewed and analyzed.
  
  • LAW 5276 - Immigration and Business Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5276 - Government Contracts; LAW 5276 - Maritime Cargo
    Prerequisite:  
    Concentration upon the employment-based provisions of immigration law (EB), particularly those non-immigrant and permanent resident provisions that authorize employment.
  
  • LAW 5278 - Public Health Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: None.
    Surveys the laws and legal institutions that play key roles in the public’s health in the United States.
  
  • LAW 5280 - Modern Real Estate Transactions

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    This course begins by walking students through each of the steps in a prototypical, but simple, real estate transaction including residential property. It will examine more complex transactions including purchasing and sales of income producing property, commercial leasing, large-project real estate lending documents, mortgage foreclosures, and construction contracts.
  
  • LAW 5283 - Mediation Externship

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-2); )
    Prerequisite: Completion of the A.A.White Mediation, and Professor Approval.
    Students do not serve as an advocate or represent clients. Instead act as neutral third-party mediators who assist others, most often parties to small claim disputes, in resolving their disputes.
  
  • LAW 5285 - Practice of Environ Law

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5285 - Legislation Seminar.
  
  • LAW 5286 - Interscholastic Mock Trial-Retro

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-2); )
    This is a Moot Court Competition. Participants will engage in legal research, brief writing, and oral arguments pursuant to competition rules.
  
  • LAW 5288 - Tax Ethics

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    An analysis of the civil, disciplinary and professional rules that govern lawyers in their practice of tax law.
  
  • LAW 5289 - Interscholastic Mock Trial

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5289 - Problems in Commercial Law.
  
  • LAW 5290 - Interscholastic Moot Court

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Formerly/Same as: LAW 5290 - Corporate Clinic.
  
  • LAW 5291 - Partnership Tax

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Analysis of federal tax considerations pertaining to partnership entities.
  
  • LAW 5292 - Tax Procedure

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Study of procedural requirements pertaining to proceedings in federal tax disputes.
  
  • LAW 5293 - Tax Fraud/Money Laundering

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5359  or LAW 5459 - Federal Income Tax .
    Processes by which the IRS and Justice Departments uncover and prosecute tax crimes and money laundering cases, mandatory sentencing, improper investigative techniques, related non-tax crimes and related matters.
  
  • LAW 5295 - US Export Regulation

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
  
  • LAW 5296 - Advanced Appellate Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(0-2); )
    Prerequisite: none.
    builds on appellate briefing & oral argument skills to teach students the practical side of how an appeal should set up in trial court in order to win in appellate court.
  
  • LAW 5297 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Temporary course number.
    May be repeated for a maximum of six semester hours.

  
  • LAW 5298 - Special Research and Writing

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: second- or third-year standing and consent of instructor.
  
  • LAW 5299 - SP-Directed Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Independent Study
  
  • LAW 5299 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Independent Study
  
  • LAW 5299 - Special Problems - Aep

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Independent Study
  
  • LAW 5299 - Special Problems - Jtcl

    Credit Hours: 2.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(2-0); )
    Independent Study
  
  • LAW 5301 - Immigration Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (Lecture Contact Hours:(3-0); )
    Prerequisite: LAW 5405 - Immigration Clinic I .
    Covers practical and theoretical training in immigration law.
  
  • LAW 5302 - Civil Practice Clinic II

    Credit Hours: 3.0 (; )
    Prerequisite: LAW 6371, LAW 5420 - Civil Practice Clinic I , LAW 5401 (Criminal Defense Clinic I), LAW 6375 - Client Interviewing & Counseling .
    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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