Course Catalog

 

LAW 816A - Accounting for Lawyers

This introductory course gives students a basic understanding of the structure of an accounting system; the mechanics of accounting entries; and the related legal, tax and business ramifications of implementing various accounting conventions and methods. Course lectures and text include discussions and cases covering generally accepted accounting principles, financial statement analysis and disclosure, auditing, choice of entity issues, and the attorney's role in dealing with accountants, auditors, and other financial professionals.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 811 - Administrative Law

This course surveys the organization, authority, and procedures of administrative agencies in relation to rulemaking, adjudication, and judicial review of administrative rulings and decisions. The course examines both federal and state agencies.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 885E - Advanced Seminar in Labor/Employment Law

This seminar explores a variety of cutting edge issues in the labor and employment law field, and gives students an opportunity to explore in depth policy issues affecting the workplace. The course explores both the union and non-union sectors, public and private sectors, building trades, health care issues, and other current topics.
Credit: 2 Units  

LAW 815 - Alternative Dispute Resolution

The purpose of this course is to help students learn approaches to negotiation and conflict resolution, and to understand various dispute resolution processes, principally mediation and arbitration. Students will be exposed to simulated negotiations and mediations and will be expected to participate in exercises and to act as advocates and/or mediators. Guest lecturers may include a hostage negotiator, an aikido master, a retired superior court judge now serving as a JAMS mediator, and prominent mediators and arbitrators. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LLM 350A - American Legal System

A brief introduction to the US court systems, civil procedure, basic constitutional principles, common law torts, and legal writing and analysis.
Credit: 2 Units  

LAW 890A - Antitrust

This study of the federal antitrust laws (and corresponding California provisions) has a particular emphasis on price fixing, boycotts, discriminatory dealing, and other marketing restraints. The course focuses on counseling for small businesses and on understanding antitrust pitfalls. Current issues, particularly those relating to health care and intellectual property, are highlighted.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 732 - Appellate Advocacy

This course builds on the writing skills developed in the first year of law school. Students prepare appellate briefs and present oral arguments in a moot court program. Prerequisites: Writing and Research I and II.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 835 - Banking & Financial Institutions Law

This course introduces students to the legal framework that governs banks and financial institutions in the United States and in the State of California. The course will address bank and financial institution regulation in the light of the current economic crisis and help the student to analyze regulatory reform proposals. Guest speakers from the industry and regulatory agencies will add their distinct perspectives.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 826C - Bankruptcy Law

This course covers all the major aspects of bankruptcy law, including eligibility, types of bankruptcy, the automatic stay, trustee strong-arm powers, rights of debtors and creditors, filing claims, and discharging debts. The course introduces students to substantive bankruptcy law and bankruptcy court procedures that are helpful to all practitioners, even those not specializing in bankruptcy law.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 802A - Business Associations

This course covers the formation, financing, structure, control, and management of business associations, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability entities. The course also examines agency principles and uniform acts related to business associations and selected provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Credit: 4 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 842B - Business Immigration Law

This course is an in-depth review of the law, policies, and procedures regulating the entry into the United States of foreigners for business, employment, and investment purposes. Students examine the various strategies available to U.S. employers and to foreign individuals under existing law. Students further familiarize themselves with the federal agencies that regulate the dispensation of temporary and permanent immigration benefits in business, employment, and investment contexts, and develop insights into counseling and procedures for obtaining those benefits. The course also addresses related issues, such as employer compliance with federal employment eligibility verification requirements, and, to a lesser extent, export control issues, the impact of mergers and acquisitions, the intersection of immigration and employment law, and tax aspects of immigration.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 816 - Business Planning

This course follows a small business through the formation and early development stages, including the corporate, partnership, and tax issues raised in formation; relationships among the founders; employee stock and option structures; and venture capital and other capital-raising efforts. The course emphasizes practical aspects of representing small businesses and includes drafting and negotiation practice. Prerequisites: Business Associations, Federal Income Taxation.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 897A - Civil Litigation: Pretrial Phase

In this course, students handle every aspect of the pretrial preparation of a civil lawsuit. They proceed from the initial client contact, through formulating client representational strategy, to developing a case theory. They draft all the case pleadings as well as motions challenging the sufficiency of the pleadings. Students also engage in all aspects of fact investigation. The course ends with a pre-trial settlement conference. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 700A - Civil Procedure I

This yearlong course (see Civil Procedure II) is a survey of the procedures regulating the litigation of civil disputes. Civil Procedure I covers personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, venue, and choice of law.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 700B - Civil Procedure II

This yearlong course (see Civil Procedure I) is a survey of the procedures regulating the litigation of civil disputes. Civil Procedure II covers elements of pleading, joinder of parties and claims, discovery, functions of court and jury, verdicts, post-judgment motions, and appeal. The main focus is the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure although comparisons will be made to the California Rules of Civil Procedure when they are materially different. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 803B - Commercial Finance

This introduction to the law of basic business financing covers the rules regulating lenders and the manufacturers, dealers, and consumers who borrow from them (and from one another) in our modern credit economy. This is also an introduction to the commercial world for students unfamiliar with elementary business practices. It is strongly recommended for anyone planning to represent business clients in litigation or commerce. The course covers Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 808A - Community Property

This course covers the law of California marital property. Topics include general principles of classifying marital property, management and control of community property, division of community property upon dissolution or death, and the property rights of putative or meretricious spouses. Prerequisites: Property I and II.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 890C - Comparative Anti-Trust Law

This course is a general introduction to a comparative analysis of US, European and global antitrust law. The course will emphasize the attorney's role in dealing with clients engaged in business in the US and/or in Europe. Students will acquire the fundamental analytical tools needed to represent clients faced with potential or actual antitrust problems. They will examine the cultural and historical aspects underlying the differences between the US and EU approaches to certain cases (i.e. Microsoft, GE/Honeywell merger, etc.). Finally, the course will explore applying international antitrust law notably within the framework of the WTO.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Summer 2009  

LAW 801A - Constitutional Law I

Constitutional Law I examines the American constitutional system with an emphasis on judicial review, the powers and responsibilities of the three branches of the federal government, the distribution of power between federal and state governments, and substantive due process. Enrollment during the spring term is limited to students in the Honors Lawyering Program (HLP).
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 801B - Constitutional Law II

Constitutional Law II deals with individual rights, specifically equal protection of the law, freedom of speech, and religious freedom. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Spring 2010  

LLM 366C - Contemporary Issues in International Law

This course focuses on the application of principles of public international law to current events. Students will evaluate selected topics drawn from contemporary/current news sources and determine whether the action of the nations or international organizations involved are consistent with the principles of public international law. Each class will begin with a review/overview of the applicable principle of international law (e.g. the law of treaties, the legitimate use of force, the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, etc.) and then students will participate in a discussion of the selected contemporary issue in light of the principle(s) just reviewed. Examples of topics for discussion include: the status of detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, the legitimacy of the use of force in Iraq, violations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (by Iran, North Korea, India, Pakistan), the Central American Free Trade Agreement (and its relation to NAFTA and the European Union), and the protection of intellectual property in foreign jurisdictions. Students may also propose topics for discussion as appropriate. Grading will be based upon class participation and on a 25-page research paper due on the date of the last class meeting.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 705A - Contracts I

This yearlong course (see Contracts II) covers basic contract law, including contract formation and legal devices designed to police the bargaining process. It also covers problems of performance, excuses from performance, breach of contract, remedies, third-party beneficiary contracts, assignments, and delegation of contract rights and duties.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 705B - Contracts II

This yearlong course (see Contracts I) covers basic contract law, including contract formation and legal devices designed to police the bargaining process. It also covers problems of performance, excuses from performance, breach of contract, remedies, third-party beneficiary contracts, assignments, and delegation of contract rights and duties. Prerequisite: Contracts I
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LLM 322A - Corporate Taxation

This course addresses tax treatment, planning techniques, and problems of transactions between corporations and their shareholders, transfers to a corporation, capital structure of corporations, dividends and other distributions, stock redemptions, corporate liquidations, and tax free reorganizations. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 855 - Courtroom as Theatre

This course teaches performance skills related to the use of voice, body, and movement in the context of the courtroom. It is designed for law students who want to improve their presentations as trial and appellate advocates or to simply be more effective in ordinary lawyer communications. The premise of the instructors is, "Lawyers don't have a constitutional right to be boring!" This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 898A - Criminal Litigation

This course affords students the opportunity to apply the skills learned in Trial Advocacy in the context of a criminal case. The class is divided into two-person teams. Each team is assigned either the role of prosecution or defense counsel. The class usually begins with the staging of a mock crime. The crime is reported, a suspect is arrested, charges are filed, and the prosecution commences. The class proceeds, week by week, through major phases of a criminal case. The course concludes with the trial of the case, which is conducted in a local courthouse. Prerequisites: Evidence, Trial Advocacy.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 803E - Criminal Procedure I

This survey of the basic constitutional issues underlying the criminal justice system focuses on the role of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments in regulating police practices such as search and seizure, confessions, lineups, and right to counsel.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 825A - Criminal Procedure II

Topics include bail and other forms of pretrial release, prosecutorial discretion, the preliminary hearing, grand jury, joinder and severance, speedy trial, discovery, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, double jeopardy, pretrial publicity, change of venue, sentencing, appellate review and harmless error, and habeas corpus. Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure I.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LLM 395 - Curricular Practical Training

Qualified international students in valid visa status may obtain practical training by participating in clinical programs, legal internships and externships, and law clerk positions under the guidance of the program director and a faculty adviser. To qualify, students must demonstrate competence in legal writing and research and obtain written authorization from an international student adviser. May be taken a maximum of three times. Open only to students in LLM programs. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.
Credit: 1 - 2 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LLM 399 - Directed Study

A Directed Study is an independent study project for LLM students done under the supervision of a faculty member or supervising attorney for academic credit. Directed Study can be taken for 1 to 3 units. The project can be on any topic agreed to by the student, faculty member or supervising attorney, and the LLM program director. Directed Study can be taken for a letter grade or for a Credit/No Credit grade and must be decided at the time of topic approval. All papers submitted under this program should reflect approximately 70 hours of work per unit of credit.
Credit: 1 - 3 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 832A - Employment Discrimination

This course examines the major federal statutes prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, citizenship status, national origin, and age. California law regulating employment is also briefly examined. In addition to covering the substantive law, the course critically examines the law's assumptions about the nature of the employment relationship, the definition of discrimination, and the role of the government in regulating employment.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 831 - Employment Law

This course examines the relationship between employers and individual employees. Topics include hiring, wrongful termination, employees' duty of loyalty, restrictions on post-employment competition, workplace privacy and defamation, and protection against harassment and other abusive conduct in the workplace. The course covers substantive law and examines prevailing assumptions about the employment relationship. While the course covers some discrimination issues, it does not offer in-depth coverage of that area of law.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 834F - Environmental Law and Policy

This course focuses on the federal Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Students explore federal regulatory strategies, including technology-based requirements, environmental assessment, and enforcement methods, as well as alternatives to traditional regulation such as market-based incentives and information disclosure laws. Students also learn tools of statutory interpretation.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 846F - European Union Law

This course surveys the development of regional law in Europe, culminating in the formation of the European Community, European Union, and European Economic Area.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 804 - Evidence

This course is a survey of the principles of law and rules governing the admissibility of proof at criminal or civil trials, including direct and cross-examination of witnesses, impeachment of credibility, expert testimony, hearsay, privileged communication, and documentary proof. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I, Corequisite: Civil Procedure II
Credit: 4 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 896F - Externship: Criminal Litigation

Students intern with prosecuting attorneys or public defenders on criminal cases in trial or appellate courts in the state or federal system. Students also attend a concurrent seminar covering relevant criminal justice issues. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Prerequisites: Criminal Law, Evidence. Recommended: Criminal Procedure, Trial Advocacy, and Criminal Litigation. Consent of instructor required.
Credit: 2 - 4 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 896C - Externship: Judicial

In this field placement program, students work in selected courts under the supervision of a judge. Students must complete 45 hours of work for each unit. A full-time externship can require up to 13 units; most students take 3 to 5 units at a time. Arrangements are made on an individual basis with the externship director. In addition to working at the court placement, students must attend a mandatory seminar, the first day of which is just before the start of the term. Students who enroll in this course in a summer session are limited to 8 units of credit. Prerequisite: Students must have completed 40 units and have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 for state trial court and 2.75 for appellate and federal court externships. Corequisite: Evidence, or consent of instructor. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.
Credit: 2 - 13 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 883 - Externship: Real Estate

Students are placed in law firms that specialize or do considerable work in real estate. Under the direct supervision of attorneys, students interview clients, draft pleadings and motions, and participate in trial preparations and trials. They also draft provisions for leases, sales contracts, closing papers, loan documents, and other real estate instruments. Students are required to attend classes in the Real Estate Practice Seminar or the Real Estate Litigation Seminar. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Prerequisites: Property I and II. Consent of instructor required.
Credit: 2 - 4 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 824D - Extership: Homeless Advocacy

Students learn counseling, interviewing, and negotiating skills in class simulations, then work with real clients through the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP), which is sponsored by the Bar Association of San Francisco Volunteer Legal Services Program. Training is provided in both lawyering skills and substantive law. Under the professor's supervision, students act as advocates for HAP clients in a variety of settings. Students in the Honors Lawyering Program (HLP) may not enroll in this course.
Credit: 3 - 4 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 838C - Federal Courts

Students examine issues involved in federal court litigation, including habeas corpus, three-judge courts, suits brought by and against the federal government, governmental immunity, procedural barriers to obtaining federal court jurisdiction, and proposals for change in the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I and II, Constitutional Law I and II.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 838B - Federal Income Taxation

This study of the law of federal income taxation of the individual taxpayer covers the nature of income, statutory and regulatory exclusions from gross income, income splitting, personal and business deductions, at-risk and passive-loss rules, capital gains and losses, and elementary tax accounting. Prerequisites: Property I & II
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Spring 2010  

LLM 396 - Graduate Legal Writing & Research

This course provides students with an overview of U.S. legal research tools and techniques, along with an introduction to writing a memorandum of law. The first ten class sessions are devoted to learning about U.S. legal resources, including practice materials, court rules, and computer-assisted legal research. The last few class sessions will provide students with an opportunity to learn how to write a memorandum of law. This couse is required for U.S. Legal Studies LLM students. Students in the International LLM program may enroll with the professor's permission if space is available.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 842D - Immigration and Refugee Policy Seminar

This course will focus on U.S. and national asylum law and procedure, international refugee protection law and procedure, and significant debates regarding these topics. Students will become familiar with the process involving USCIS, US ICE, Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the federal courts of review.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 842A - Immigration Law

This introduction to immigration and naturalization law and procedure examines major immigration policies and covers immigration and naturalization statutes, regulations, major administrative and court decisions, and constitutional rights as affected by alienage.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 845 - Insurance Law

This course studies the interpretation and enforcement of liability, property, and life insurance policies, including the liability of insurers for bad faith. Emphasis is on the function of insurance in civil litigation and on public policy, including recent changes in California insurance laws. Prerequisite: Contracts I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LLM 360 - International Business Transactions

This introduction to the law and practice of international trade and investment focuses on typical transactions, such as sale of goods, transfer of technology (including franchising and licensing), and transnational investment. The course also examines the regulation of imports and exports and the role of competition law in international business. Recommended: Sales.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 741A - International Commercial Dispute Resoltn

As global markets continue to expand so has the need for resolving transnational disputes. While some international disputes will be resolved through litigation, most will be settled by alternative means. This course will concentrate on the various forms of dispute resolution available to international parties in both foreign and domestic legal settings. The course will emphasize the utility of mediation, conciliation, arbitration, and litigation as appropriate vehicles for the settlement of international disputes.
Credit: 2 Units  

LLM 364 - International Human Rights Seminar

This course begins with a brief historical introduction to the concept of international human rights and their antecedents. Selected international human rights instruments, including U.N. documents, regional instruments, U.S. reservations, U.S. legislation, and war crimes documents, are then examined in detail with appropriate classifications of human rights in accordance with their contents or substance and the chronological and generational stages of their development.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LLM 321 - International Taxation I

This course provides a basic survey of international taxation law, including source of income and expense allocation rules, international tax credits, transfer pricing, antideferral rules, withholding taxes, income tax treaties, tax incentives, and expatriate issues. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. Recommended: Corporate Tax (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LLM 322 - International Trade Regulation

This survey of the international regulation of trade in goods and services emphasizes the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Other topics include the role of regional economic arrangements (such as NAFTA and the EC), the relationship of U.S. trade law to the international trading regime, the role of specialized U.N. agencies, and the position of developing countries in the global trading system.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LLM 350 - Introduction to the US Legal System

Students study the structure and procedures of the US legal system; methods of legal analysis; writing and research; and basic terminology and principles of common law subjects including torts, contracts, and property. The course also provides a basic foundation for study of the US Constitution. Open to LLM and SJD students whose first law degree is from a non-US Law School.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 854A - Labor Law

This course will provide an overview of union and management relations under the National Labor Relations Act, focusing on employees' right to organize, union representation, collective bargaining, right to fair representation, employer and union economic weapons, and recent proposed legislative changes. Students will learn how the political, economic, and social environment have shaped the law of labor relations and gain an appreciation for competing visions of how the 64-year-old Act applies, or may need to be changed, to deal with many issues in the contemporary workplace.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 856A - Land Use Regulation

This review of the devices available to a community for regulating the development of land includes zoning, subdivision regulation, historic preservation, growth management, open space, and urban renewal. Also considered are the rights of owners, neighbors, environmentalists, and reformers to resist regulation on grounds such as just compensation, free speech, and housing welfare interests. Prerequisites: Property I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 744 - Mergers and Acquisitions

The course focuses on the multitude of legal and nonlegal issues confronting lawyers handling mergers and acquisitions of entities. Issues include corporate, securities, tax, and antitrust issues. In a part-lecture, part-workshop approach, the course analyzes the lawyer's diverse role in managing a complex business restructuring. Public and private company mergers and other restructurings are considered, as are the various M&A roles played by directors, senior officers, investment bankers, accountants, and others.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 863 - Practical Legal Writing

This is an upper level writing course that focuses on the legal documents most commonly prepared by attorneys in the practice of law. In-class exercises include a variety of legal writing documents, some of which are modeled on those used in the performance section of the California Bar Examination. Practical Legal Writing is limited to students who will be classified as D3 or E4 at the beginning of the semester in which they take the course. Students are recommended to take this class during the final semester of law school. Prerequisites: Appellate Advocacy.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 805A - Professional Responsibility

This course examines the attorneys responsibility to the client, the profession, and society, as well as the structure and operation of the U.S. legal profession. Both ABA and California rules are discussed.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 715A - Property I

This survey of interests in land covers possession versus ownership, forms of ownership, modern landlord-tenant law, restrictions on the use of land through easements and restrictive covenants, and regulation of land use. The course also considers constitutional issues such as taking property without just compensation, infringements on freedom of association, and exclusion of minorities and the poor.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 715B - Property II

This survey of modern real estate transactions examines aspects of purchasing real estate. Prerequisite: Property I.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 882D - Real Estate Development

This advanced course covers legal problems that arise out of the development of real property. Topics include an overview of real estate investment analysis, selection of the acquiring entity, issues in the acquisition of real estate, land use problems, environmental issues, financing, and leasing. The orientation of the course is from the developer's point of view. Prerequisites: Property I and II. Recommended: Real Estate Finance, Federal Income Taxation.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 882E - Real Estate Finance

This course covers legal problems that arise out of financing and purchasing property, including foreclosure and redemption, antideficiency laws, and other debtor protections. Prerequisites: Property I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 883L - Real Estate Litigation Seminar

This course examines common areas of real estate litigation such as commercial unlawful detainers; breach of sales contracts; broker commissions; malpractice claims against brokers, title insurers, escrow agents, attorneys, and brokers; foreclosures, receiverships, and injunctions against foreclosure; toxic waste; construction defects and mechanics' liens; condemnation and inverse condemnation; quiet title and partition; encroachment and trespass; bankruptcy; and the use of writs and lis pendens. Spring clinic students must attend the seminar as part of their clinical experience. Nonclinic students may take this course for nonclinic credit and complete special drafting exercises each week. Prerequisites: Property I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 883T - Real Estate Transactions Seminar

This course explores common areas of real estate practice such as residential and commercial leases, purchase and sale contracts,loan documents, CC&Rs and easements, zoning applications, construction contracts, title insurance endorsements, and shared ownership agreements. Fall clinic students must attend this seminar. Nonclinic students may take this course for nonclinic credit and will complete special drafting exercises each week. Prerequisites: Property I and II.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 806 - Remedies

This survey of the legal and equitable remedies available to litigants based on their substantive rights emphasizes the type and extent of damages awarded in different legal settings. Also covered are specific performance, injunctive relief, and restitutionary remedies. Prerequisites: Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II and Property II
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 740 - Sales

Students examine Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code but also learn about the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The course focuses on formation, express and implied contractual terms, warranties, performance, and remedies for breach of contract. Prerequisites: Contracts I and II.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 802B - Securities Regulation

Students investigate the Securities Act of 1933 and selected portions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, together with analogous provisions in the Uniform Securities Act and California Corporate Securities Law. Topics include the role of the underwriter, the nature of a security, the registration process, exemptions from registration, and civil liability provisions. Prerequisite: Business Associations.
Credit: 3 Units  

LAW 728C - Special Problems: Property

The Law School offers advanced Special Problems courses in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze problems in the subject matter covered by the course. The focus is on written and analytical skills. Prerequisites: Property I and II
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LLM 386 - Thesis

A thesis is an independent study project for LLM students done under the supervision of the LLM Program Director. Thesis can be taken for 4-6 units. The thesis can be on any topic agreed to by the student and the Program Director. Thesis can be taken for a letter grade or for a Credit/No Credit grade and must be decided at the time of topic approval. All papers submitted under this program should reflect approximately 70 hours of work per unit of credit.
Credit: 4 - 6 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 720A - Torts I

This course examines the elements of and defenses to intentional torts, negligence and introduces strict liability. The legal principles in each subject area and the policies underlying them are extensively analyzed and explored.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 720B - Torts II

This course examines strict liability, liability for defective products, defamation, privacy and economic and business torts. The legal principles in each subject area and the policies underlying them are extensively analyzed and explored. Prerequisite: Torts I
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 899B - Trial Advocacy

This is the entry course for the litigation program, and it teaches the basic skills needed by every lawyer going to court: conducting a direct examination of a witness, introducing documents and physical evidence, cross-examining witnesses, making and answering objections, and preparing opening statements and closing arguments. Much of the students' work is videotaped. The final examination for this course is a full trial conducted in a local courthouse. Prerequisite/Corequisite (depending on the instructor): Evidence.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 871W - Water Law

This class provides an overview of the legal framework and principles governing the ownership, use, and distribution of water. It covers topics that are national in scope, but it also emphasizes laws and issues unique to California. The class covers: surface water and ground water rights, riparian and appropriative water rights, California and federal water agencies, the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) and the California's State Water Project; interstate water compacts and international water allocation treaties, Native American water rights, instream flow requirements, the public trust doctrine, and California's water supply-land use legislation (SB 221 and SB 610).
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 807 - Wills and Trusts

A study of nontax estate planning devices, this course explores intestate succession; restrictions on the power to dispose of property; the execution and revocation of wills; and the nature, creation, modification, and termination of trusts. Future interests and perpetuities problems are also discussed. Prerequisites: Property I and II.
Credit: 4 Units   Offered: Summer 2009 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 885B - Womens Employment Rights Clinic

Students represent low-income clients with employment-related problems in areas including unpaid wages, discrimination and harassment, pregnancy disability, family and medical leave, and unemployment benefits. The clinic operates as a law office, with students practicing under direct faculty supervision. Clinic students must simultaneously enroll in the Women's Employment Rights Seminar (LAW-885S). Prerequisites: All first-year courses. Corequisite:Evidence. Consent of the instructor is required for Clinic enrollment.
Credit: 1 - 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009 , Spring 2010  

LAW 892 - Workers Compensation

This course surveys the compensation system for handling claims of workers injured in the course of their employment.
Credit: 2 Units  

LAW 725A - Writing and Research I

In this process-based course, students begin working with the basic legal research resources. They become familiar with legal citation, legal reading and legal analysis. They develop their ability to formulate research plans and to analyze legal issues as they research and write predictive memoranda responding to specific legal problems.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 725B - Writing and Research II

The second semester of Writing and Research continues to focus on the predictive memo as the vehicle to further develop research and analytical skills. The memo problems are more complex, requiring more in-depth research. Prerequisite: Writing and Research I
Credit: 1 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 876A - Wrongful Convictions: Causes & Remedies

Since 1989, more than 200 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated by DNA testing. (One of that number, Peter J. Rose, exonerated in 2004-2005, was represented by Professors and students from GGU.) This 2-unit seminar course gives students the opportunity to do law reform work. Students investigate the factors that contribute to wrongful convictions by studying flaws in our criminal justice system and, working in conjunction with the national Innocence Project, propose remedies.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009