Course Catalog

 

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  

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 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 833 - Entertainment Law

An introduction to the complex legal issues arising in the areas of music sound recordings and publishing, motion pictures, television, theater, and literary publishing in the United States and internationally. Covers the drafting of contracts in the entertainment industry, as well as dispute resolution alternatives. Students also study the roles of attorneys, agents and personal managers, as well as relevant legislation affecting the entertainment industry.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LLM 340A - ERISA I

This course examines Employees Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rules for defined contribution retirement plans and related issues. 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: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LLM 340B - ERISA II

This course examines Employees Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rules for defined contribution retirement plans and related issues. This class is a continuation of ERISA I (LLM 340A) and will focus on the review of the IRS model provisions for defined contribution plans. Prerequsite: ERISA I.(Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)
Credit: 1 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 885A - Gender and the Law

This course addresses a variety of gender-based private and public law controversies. Topics may include rape law reforms, reproductive rights, intersections between gender and race discrimination, the feminization of poverty, gender discrimination in athletics, and the rights of pregnant employees. Issues are addressed using a variety of practical and theoretical sources, including judicial opinions, feminist commentary, social science data, litigation documents, and literature.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

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 885D - Sexual Orientation & the Law

This survey of the ways in which the law treats matters of sexual orientation emphasizes civil and constitutional law. The issues to be addressed include the right to privacy as applied to sexual orientation and conduct, issues of communication about controversies related to sexual orientation, definitions of discrimination in law applied to sexual orientation controversies, and decriminalization of lesbian/gay sexual activity. Prerequisites: Constitutional Law I and II or consent of the instructor.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Spring 2010  

LAW 873 - Sports Law

This survey of the complex legal relationships found in major professional teams and leagues includes contracts, antitrust, labor law, torts, workers compensation, and gender discrimination brought to bear on current issues in the sports industry. Practical guidance in representing athletes is stressed.
Credit: 2 Units   Offered: Fall 2009  

LAW 885S - Women's Employment Rights Seminar

The Women's Employment Rights Seminar is a required companion course for students enrolled in the Women's Employment Rights Clinic (LAW-885B) and is also open to a maximum of 15 students who are not enrolled in the Clinic. The course addresses employment law issues affecting low wage workers, focusing on both California and federal law. Substantive law areas include: overview of employment discrimination law, workplace harassment, wage and hour law, pregnancy discrimination, Family and Medical Leave Act, unemployment insurance benefits, disability discrimination, ethical issues in employment law, and wrongful termination. The seminar may also include skills training components on client interviewing and counseling, case theory development, and administrative filing and hearing practice. The seminar is open to second and third-year students.
Credit: 3 Units   Offered: 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