Academic Programs
Courses
Florida's comprehensive J.D. curriculum prepares students from around the world for a broad range of traditional and non-traditional legal careers. Course work develops students' analytical ability, knowledge of the theory and practice of law, communication skills and understanding of the legal profession's codes of responsibility, ethics and commitment to professionalism. Teaching methods include the traditional "case" and "Socratic" methods as well as problems, simulations, role-playing, video-taping, and computer-assisted instruction.
More than 100 courses and 30 seminars offered each year support a variety of practice areas, including environmental and land use law, estates and trusts, corporate law, media law, family law, intellectual property law, tax law, and international and comparative law. The courses listed below are not necessarily offered each semester, and some may be subject to enrollment limits.
Florida's new and developing centers and institutes complement the academic program and bring together faculty, students and practitioners with similar interests in areas such as social policy and public interest law, dispute resolution, legal technology, international financial crimes studies, and race relations.
Courses and Seminars
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW — LAW 6520
Credits: 3. Analysis of the administrative process, with
an emphasis on the activities of federal regulatory agencies.
Topics include legislative delegations of authority to agencies,
executive branch controls, rulemaking and adjudicatory procedures,
due process rights, and the scope of judicial review of
administrative decision making.
ADMIRALTY — LAW 6730
Credits: 2. Jurisdiction; choice of law; right to navigate;
sickness, personal injury, and death of seamen, longshoremen
and others in maritime occupations; collisions; government
responsibilities related to navigation; maritime salvage;
pilotage; maritime liens.
ADVANCED COURSE IN LABOR ARBITRATION — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration
(LAW 6542). Prerequisites: Legal Drafting (LAW 6955), and
either Labor Relations Law (LAW 6540) or Public Sector Labor
Relations Law — (LAW 6544). The course is an in-depth
exploration of labor arbitration, a successful alternative
to litigation in labor disputes and a model for alternative
dispute resolution systems in other fields. The course examines
the practical and legal aspects of the subject, and includes
at least two major written exercises such as the preparing
of an arbitration brief or an arbitration award. Satisfactory
completion of the course will satisfy the advanced writing
requirement.
ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. This course teaches strategies for effective
legal research, finding the law, and updating the law, with
an emphasis on the structure of American legal bibliography.
The course will cover both manual and electronic research
sources in depth. There will be emphasis on primary and
secondary sources of law in federal and state jurisdictions.
Among the topics examined will be legislative history, administrative
law sources, court rules, citators and topical research
materials in tax, environment and international law. Advanced
training in LEXIS, WESTLAW, DIALOG and other electronic
sources is included.
ADVANCED PATENT LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law (LAW
6570). Topics to be covered include the structure of the
U.S. Patent Act, conditions of patentability, claims drafting,
amendment and correction of patents, acts constituting infringement,
property and contract interests in patents, and litigation
procedures including remedies and defenses.
ADVANCED PROBLEMS IN BANKRUPTCY & DEBTOR-CREDITOR LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Creditors’ Remedies
and Bankruptcy (LAW 6052) or Debtor-Creditor Law (LAW 6050).
The objective of the course is to give the student a grounding
in bankruptcy processes, a strengthened appreciation of
the philosophical and policy-based underpinnings of bankruptcy,
and a deepened understanding of selected aspects of bankruptcy
practice. The course will consist of a number of selected
problems of current interest in the practice of bankruptcy
and debtor-creditor law.
ADVANCED RESEARCH, WRITING & APPELLATE ADVOCACY I — LAW 6953
Credit: 1. Students serve as instructors in the first-year
Research Writing and Appellate Advocacy course under the
direction of the assistant directors of the program. Letter
grades are awarded on the basis of writing assignments,
instruction and counseling prepared and performed by the
student instructors. Enrollment with permission of the assistant
directors only. LAW 6954 must be taken in addition to LAW
6953; otherwise, no credit toward graduation will be allowed
for LAW 6953.
ADVANCED RESEARCH, WRITING & APPELLATE ADVOCACY II — LAW 6954
Credits: 2. Continuation of LAW 6953. LAW 6954 must be taken
or no credit toward graduation will be allowed for LAW 6953.
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN APPELLATE ADVOCACY — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Passing grade in Appellate Advocacy
(LAW 5793). This course provides in-depth, advanced instruction
and practice in persuasive written and oral legal analysis,
focusing on appellate advocacy techniques. The course will
build upon the training provided in the first-year writing
courses. Among the topics examined will be appellate brief
writing, preservation of appellate issues, appellate standards
of review, rhetoric and the canons of logic in the appellate
context, and appellate oral argument. Students will be required
to prepare at least one appellate brief and to present at
least one appellate oral argument.
AGRICULTURAL LAW — LAW 6474
Credits: 3. A course devoted to the study of the legal aspects
of agricultural operations. Topics pursued include protection
and preservation of land for agricultural use, federal regulatory
agencies and legislation, civil liability for farming activities
and agri-business and the law.
AIR AND WATER POLLUTION CONTROL — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Introduces students to the basic federal
laws governing air and water pollution control: the Clean
Air Act and the Clean Water Act. The history and implementation
of technology-based and media-based quality standards under
both laws, mobile and stationary air pollution source controls,
interstate air pollution, offsets and emissions trading,
point and non-point-source water pollution control are among
the topics covered.
AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY — LAW 6226
Credits: 2 or 3. Historical introduction to the origins
and development of American law, constitutional principles
and legal institutions and of their influence upon the distribution
of social, economic and political power.
ANTITRUST LAW — LAW 6550
Credits: 3. An analysis of the legal, economic and policy
issues engendered by efforts to prescribe standards of business
conduct and preserve competitive market structures under
the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Federal Trade Commission Act,
and related legislation.
APPELLATE ADVOCACY — LAW 5793
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Passing grade in Legal Research
& Writing (LAW 5792). As a continuation of LAW 5792,
a factual situation is presented to the student by means
of a hypothetical appellate record. The record is the basis
for the preparation of an appellate brief and oral arguments.
The course is graded on a scale of Satisfactory (S), Honors
(S+), or Unsatisfactory (U), and must be completed with
a grade of S or better, even if this requirement necessitates
repeating the course.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS — LAW 6062
Credits: 2 or 3. A consideration of the various forms of
doing business, especially for unincorporated associations.
Emphasis is placed upon agency and partnership, with consideration
given to other forms of businesses, such as non-profit corporations,
professional associations, and limited liability companies.
CHILDREN’S LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. This course will address our legal system’s
treatment of children, including such issues as: juvenile
delinquency and the juvenile justice system; child abuse
and neglect; children’s autonomous rights; limitations
on minors’ liberties; and medical treatment and consent.
In examining these issues, students will confront conflicts
between parents and children, parents and the state, and
children and the state. These conflicts raise constitutional
and social policy concerns in the context of the law’s
treatment of children. These conflicts also broach issues
applicable to other areas of law. Children are often legally,
physically, and mentally disabled, reflecting the problems
and perspectives of other groups in our society who are
similarly disabled.
CIVIL CLINIC: Full-Representation, Juvenile, and Pro Se — LAW 6940
Credits: 9 (Full-Representation Fall/Spring), 6 (Full-Representation
Summer, Juvenile, and Pro Se). Prerequisites for Juvenile
and Pro Se sections: Juvenile and Pro Se Clinic Prep (LAW
6930). Recommended for Full-Representation section: Evidence
(LAW 6330). Not available to students who have taken Criminal
Law Clinic (LAW 6942) or Mediation Clinic (LAW 6940). Must
have completed 48 semester hours. Students participate in
the conduct of civil legal matter under a scheme of systematic
supervision combined with substantial related formal instruction.
One-third of the credits may be awarded on a letter grade
basis at the option of the instructor. The remaining credits
will be awarded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U)
basis. Enrollment for Full-Representation section is by
application prior to pre-registration.
JUVENILE AND PRO SE CLINIC PREP — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. A prerequisite for the Juvenile and Pro Se sections
of the Civil Clinic, this is a simulation-based course designed
to prepare students for participation in either the Juvenile
or Pro Se section of Civil Clinic. The course covers interviewing,
counseling, and some negotiation and mediation, using Florida
family/juvenile substantive and procedural law. Registration
is by registration priority, based on entering class, hours
completed, and preference classes completed prior to or
during the clinic prep course. Preference classes include:
Evidence, Trial Practice or Trial Advocacy, Family Law,
Children’s Law, Educational Summer Placement, and other
relevant courses that may be announced at a later date.
Students enrolled in the clinic prep course must take either
the Juvenile or Pro Se section of the Civil Clinic in the
term following completion of the clinic prep course. Registration
is by application prior to pre-registration.
CIVIL PROCEDURE - LAW 5301
Credits: 4. Analysis of a civil lawsuit from commencement
through trial including consideration of jurisdiction, venue,
pleading, motions, discovery, and joinder of parties and
of claims; right to trial by jury, selection and instruction
of jury, respective roles of judge, jury, and lawyer; trial
and post-trial motions; judgments.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING & LABOR ARBITRATION — LAW 6542
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Advanced Course in Labor Arbitration (LAW
6930). Prerequisite: Labor Law (LAW 6540) or Public Sector
Labor Relations (LAW 6544). Problems concerning the collective
bargaining and labor arbitration processes. These include
the drafting and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements;
the economics of collective bargaining; the contents of
collective bargaining agreements, including discipline,
promotions, demotions, grievance procedures, anti-discrimination
provisions, wages, hours and other conditions of employment;
worker participation and labor-management cooperation; mediation
and other dispute resolution methods; and the enforcement
of collective bargaining contracts, including the writing
of arbitration opinions and awards. Class limit: 24 students.
COMMERCIAL PAPER — LAW 6020
Credits: 2 or 3. A study of negotiable bills, notes and
other commercial paper, banking law relating to the collection
of checks, and suretyship in the negotiable paper context.
COMPARATIVE LAW — LAW 6250
Credits: 2 or 3. The first part of this course deals with
a cross-cultural comparison of law and the legal profession;
the second part deals with more specific applications, e.g.,
comparison of American and foreign case materials.
CONFLICT OF LAWS — LAW 6340
Credits: 3. Problems arising whenever at least one of the
operative facts of the case is connected with a state other
than the forum; jurisdiction of courts; enforcement of foreign
judgments; federal-state conflicts.
CONSERVATION CLINIC — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Environmental Law and/or Land
Use Law (4th semester or greater); graduate students need
instructor approval and referral from affiliate faculty.
This course will provide upper level environmental law students
and graduate students in related fields with exposure to
transactional environmental and land use professional practice,
applied research and public policy analysis under the supervision
of the instructor/clinic director. It will also enable students
to participate in the development of novel approaches to
the field application of environmental policies. Students
will learn to work within interdisciplinary teams to achieve
results that require a collaborative approach from multiple
disciplines.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - LAW 5501
Credits: 4. Introduction to United States Constitutional
Law. Judicial enforcement of the Constitution to preserve
individual liberties; judicial review; separation of powers;
structure and powers of federal government; relationship
to states, and other topics.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II — LAW 6502
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law (Law 5501).
Additional Constitutional law topics such as personal liberties
and fundamental rights, the First Amendment, or the Fourteenth
Amendment. Course coverage will be designated by the instructor
prior to registration.
CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law (LAW 5501).
Explores the historical significance of different constitutional
epochs, the political theory of the constitution, the critical
legal analysis of constitutional doctrines, and the philosophical
implications of constitutional interpretation.
CONTRACTS - LAW 5000
Credits: 4. An introduction to the law and theory of legally
enforceable agreements and promises, including elements
of contract formation; consideration; effects of non-performance;
conditions for relief from or discharge of obligations;
and remedies.
COPYRIGHT LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Principles of copyright law, including protection
of literary, musical, dramatic, visual art, audiovisual,
and architectural works, motion pictures, sound recordings,
computer programs and other digital and new technological
works, and derivative works and compilations; ownership,
duration, renewal, and formalities; exclusive rights and
limitations; moral rights; infringement actions; fair use
and other affirmative defenses; and federal preemption.
CORPORATE FINANCE & REORGANIZATION — LAW 6064
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Corporations (LAW 6063). Recommended:
Legal Accounting (LAW 6760). An inquiry into the various
methods used in financing the corporation, payment of dividends
and other distributions, the reacquisition by a corporation
of its own shares, and problems of mergers, consolidations
and other forms of corporate reorganization.
CORPORATE TAXATION — LAW 6610
Credits: 3. Prerequisites: Income Taxation (LAW 6600), or
Tax I (LAW 6601) and Tax II (LAW 6606). This course addresses
income tax topics which might be encountered by a general
practitioner advising a closely held corporation and its
investors. Income tax consequences of transfers of property
and services to a corporation, distributions to investors,
and corporate liquidations and mergers will be explored.
In addition, coverage will be given to the tax treatment
of “S Corporations,” which are an increasingly
important choice of entity for small businesses.
CORPORATIONS — LAW 6063
Credits: 3. Registration preference will be given to fall
entering students in their fourth full semester and to spring
entering students in their second full semester. Consideration
of problems in organizing a corporation, disregard of the
corporate fiction, control and management, derivative suits,
and special problems of the close corporation. Consideration
may also be given to federal regulations controlling insider
trading, proxy solicitations, and short-swing profits.
CREDITORS’ REMEDIES & BANKRUPTCY — LAW 6052
Credits: 3 or 4. Credit for Debtor-Creditor Law (LAW 6050)
precludes additional credit for this course. A study of
individual collection of monetary judgments and administration
of insolvent estates under the Bankruptcy Code and state
law. The non-bankruptcy materials cover execution, attachment,
garnishment, proceedings in aid of execution and the liens
and priority produced by judicial process. Bankruptcy focuses
principally on liquidation proceedings and the trustee’s
powers to avoid transfers, with greater attention being
given to business workouts when the course is taught for
four credits.
CRIMINAL LAW - LAW 5100
Credits: 3. The substantive law of crimes covering, in addition
to basic principles and the elements of typical crimes,
such concepts as relational and inchoate crime, responsibility,
and defenses.
CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC — LAW 6942
Credits: 6. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: Police &
Police Practices (LAW 6111), Criminal Procedure: Adversary
Systems (LAW 6112), and Trial Advocacy (LAW 6361) or Trial
Practice (LAW 6363). Not available to students who have
taken Civil Clinic (LAW 6940) or Mediation Clinic. Must
have completed 48 semester hours. Participation in the conduct
of actual criminal legal matters as an intern supervised
by a member of a state attorney or public defender office.
Two of the six credits will be graded, the remaining four
credits will be awarded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory
(U) basis. Enrollment is done by application prior to pre-registration.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: ADVERSARY SYSTEM — LAW 6112
Credits: 3. This course covers the commencement of formal
criminal proceedings; bail, the decision to prosecute, the
grand jury, the preliminary hearing, venue, joinder and
severance, and speedy trial. Trial concerns such as guilty
pleas, discovery, jury trial, prejudicial publicity, professional
ethics and double jeopardy are also considered. Credit for
this course precludes credit for Criminal Procedure Survey
(LAW 6930).
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: POLICE & POLICE PRACTICES — LAW 6111
Credits: 3. Police as a social institution, including personnel,
bureaucratic structure and incentives. Police practices
such as arrest, search, seizure, wiretapping, eavesdropping,
use of informers, entrapment, confessions and lineups also
are covered. Credit for this course precludes credit for
Criminal Procedure Survey (LAW 6930).
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE SURVEY — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. This course presents an overview of major issues
presented in the administration of the criminal justice
process. It covers in one course, survey manner, many of
the concepts and legal issues covered in Criminal Procedure-Police
and Police Practices (LAW 6111) and Criminal Procedure-Adversary
Systems (LAW 6112). Credit for this course precludes credit
for either LAW 6111 or 6112. Students who have previously
taken either of those courses may not enroll in this class.
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. A examination of the various laws prohibiting
discrimination in employment, with particular emphasis on
federal law.
ENGLISH LEGAL HISTORY — LAW 6220
Credits: 2. Emphasis on the history of English law from
the Conquest: the feudal society; the growth of constitutional
concepts and the limits on public order; the origins of
the central courts and the elaboration of the judicial system;
the history of the jury and of equity; the prerogative courts;
a brief consideration, time permitting, of the distribution
of English Law.
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisites, required: Environmental Law:
Water, Wetlands and Wildlife (LAW 6472) or Environmental
Law: Toxics, Hazardous Wastes and Governmental Action (LAW
6471). Recommended: Administrative Law (Federal or Florida);
an Alternative Dispute Resolution Course. The course will
teach a variety of both traditional and nontraditional dispute
resolution techniques and skills that can be used to resolve
environmental disputes. To illustrate the utility of various
dispute resolution techniques, three primary types of environmental
disputes will be used: 1.) a challenge to an environmental
rule; 2.) a challenge to an environmental agency permitting
decision; and 3.) an enforcement action for an environmental
violation. The course will explore the advantages and disadvantages
of dispute resolution practices including judicial litigation,
administrative litigation, mediation, negotiation and legislatively-created
dispute resolution techniques. Students will be required
to prepare for and participate in two “hands-on”
exercises: a mock administrative hearing on a permit challenge
and a mock mediation involving an environmental violation,
and will be required to prepare legal documents related
to these exercises.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: CONTROL OF TOXICS, HAZARDOUS WASTE & GOVERNMENTAL ACTION — LAW 6471
Credits: 3 or 4. A study of selected subjects in environmental
law. The course covers the regulation of toxic substances
(including the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and toxics provisions
of other statutes), the control of hazardous waste (with
emphasis on Superfund) and the regulation of government
activity (including the National Environmental Policy Act
and the evolving law applicable to federal facilities).
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: WATER, WETLANDS & WILDLIFE — LAW 6472
Credits: 3 or 4. A study of selected subjects in federal
and state environmental law. The course covers topics in
water pollution control (including the Clean Water Act and
state law), the public trust doctrine and submerged land
management, wetlands regulation (state and federal), coastal
construction permitting, and protection of wildlife (including
the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection
Act, and state regulations).
ESTATE PLANNING — LAW 6450
Credits: 3. Prerequisites: Estates and Trusts (LAW 6430)
and pre- or co-requisite Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers
(LAW 6620). Recommended: Fiduciary Administration (LAW 6440).
Using problems as the primary means of instruction, this
course will explore the theories and skills involved in
the estate planning process. Specific topics include the
following: the estate planning engagement; information gathering;
estate analysis; identification of client objectives; development
of remedial and conventional estate plans; and selection
of fiduciaries. Students should expect to complete an exercise
in document preparation in a transactional context.
ESTATES & TRUSTS — LAW 6430
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Property I (LAW 5400). Registration
preference will be given to students in their third full
semester. Topics covered include intestate succession, gifts,
execution of wills, creation of trusts, charitable trusts,
ademption and lapse, powers and appointment.
EVIDENCE — LAW 6330
Credits: 4. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure (LAW 5301). Registration
preference will be given to students in their third full
semester. A study of the law governing the proof of issues
of fact before a judicial tribunal. Topics covered may include
judicial notice, presumptions, burden of proof, hearsay,
relevancy, testimonial proof, demonstrative and scientific
proof, documentary proof and privileged communications.
Emphasis is placed on the common law and modern development,
such as the Federal Rules of Evidence.
FAMILY LAW — LAW 6710
Credits: 3. Nature of contract to marry and of marriage;
requisites for validity; annulment doctrines; divorce; causes,
grounds, defenses, jurisdiction; problems of the child;
economic and tort relations between spouses and parent and
child.
FEDERAL COURTS — LAW 6302
Credits: 3. Prerequisites: Civil Procedure (LAW 5301). Recommended:
Constitutional Law (LAW 5501) and Constitutional Law II
(LAW 6502). Analysis of the federal judicial system and
of its relationship to the state’s judicial systems,
including consideration of the applicable jurisdictional,
procedural and substantive law.
FIDUCIARY ADMINISTRATION I — LAW 6440
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Estates and Trusts (LAW 6430).
Problems and the administration of decedents’ estates
and of noncommercial trusts, probate procedure, powers of
the fiduciary, compensation of fiduciaries and their attorneys.
FLORIDA CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — LAW 6503
Credits: 2 or 3. Analysis of selected provisions of the
Florida Constitution, with emphasis on recent decisions
of the Florida Supreme Court; analysis of current proposals
for constitutional change.
FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE LAW — LAW 6521
Credits: 2 or 3. Coverage of Florida Administrative Procedure
Act (FAPA), rule-making under the FAPA, decisions affecting
substantial interests, enforcement of agency action, judicial
review under the FAPA, non-FAPA judicial review, government
in the sunshine and public records.
FUTURE INTERESTS — LAW 6433
Credits: 2 or 3. Topics include protection of the family,
termination of trusts, classification of possessory and
future interests, gifts to classes, the Rule Against Perpetuities.
HEALTH CARE LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. This course will cover the various legal aspects
of health care administration, including organizations for
health care delivery, medical malpractice liability, government
and private insurance, cost control mechanisms, antitrust
constraints, employment issues, and bioethics.
IMMIGRATION & NATIONALITY LAW — LAW 6211
Credits: 2 or 3. A course on current United States immigration
and nationality law, its history and constitutional, statutory
and policy perspectives. Topics include: administration
by the Department of Homeland Security; source and
scope of congressional power; procedures for entry, exclusion,
and deportation; refugee and asylum law; immigration process
reform proposals; undocumented migration; and acquisition
and loss of citizenship.
INCOME TAXATION — LAW 6600
Credits: 3 or 4. Not available to students who have taken
Tax I (LAW 6601). This course is designed to teach law students
the fundamentals of federal income taxation in order to
prepare them, as lawyers, to recognize and appreciate the
income tax consequences of the transactions and events they
encounter in the general practice of law. Students are introduced
to the essential legal skills of learning to read and understand
the language of statutes (the Internal Revenue Code) as
well as that of an administrative agency (the Internal Revenue
Service) and judicial interpretations of the statutes and
agency pronouncements. Students who wish to take additional
courses in taxation should consider taking Income Taxation
in their second year because it is a prerequisite to all
of the other income tax courses.
INCOME TAXATION OF ESTATES & TRUSTS — LAW 6621
Credits: 2. Prerequisites: Income Taxation (LAW 6600) or
Tax I (LAW 6601) and Tax II (LAW 6606). The general practitioner
frequently encounters problems relating to family income
tax matters and the use of custodial devices such as trusts,
inter vivos or testamentary. This course addresses the income
tax consequences of estates, trusts and beneficiaries with
a view to minimizing drafting blunders.
INDEPENDENT STUDY — LAW 6905
Credits: 1 to 3. Open only to students who have completed
four terms. Contents of course to be determined initially
by student and approved by the Curriculum Committee at least
one week prior to advance registration for the term in which
the independent study course will be offered. Course must
be completed in two academic terms or less. Credit awarded
may not be applied toward minimum course load per semester
(12 hours). Independent study courses are not used to cover
materials in courses offered as part of the regular curriculum.
INSURANCE — LAW 6080
Credits: 2 or 3. The various forms of policies, i.e., Fire,
Homeowners, Automobile, Health and Accident, Floates, etc.,
concepts of marketing, claims, processing, and insurance
institutions, principles of indemnity, risk transference,
reasonable expectancies, and unconscionable advantages.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW — LAW 6570
Credits: 2 or 3. A survey of the law of patents, trade secrets,
copyrights, trademarks, and unfair competition.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW II — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law
(LAW 6570). This course is a continuation of Intellectual
Property (LAW 6570). Topics to be covered may include design
patents, idea law, copyright restoration, remedies in intellectual
property cases, the gray market, false advertising and product
disparagement, misappropriation, intellectual property law
and the internet, the right of publicity, and federal preemption
of state intellectual property actions.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law (LAW
6570). Overview of issues and strategies in high-tech litigation,
including discovery, use of technical experts, alternative
dispute resolution, pretrial investigation, settlement negotiations
and trial.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS — LAW 6261
Credits: 2 or 3. Legal problems involved with commercial
transactions across borders, the transfer of technology,
and foreign investment. The course explores international
documentary sales, letters of credit, bills of lading, international
intellectual property, foreign direct investment issues
including risk analysis and the decision to invest, transfer
pricing, currency controls, company withdrawal, investing
in developing nations, nations in transition, and economically
integrated areas such as the NAFTA and the EU, and the resolution
of international commercial and investment disputes.
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. This course is an introduction to the international
protection of human rights. The course covers the theoretical
and practical aspects of human rights law, focusing on international,
regional and domestic law contexts. Particular attention
is given to the procedures that characterize human rights
mechanisms for both prescribing and applying human rights
precepts.
INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law
(LAW 6570). A survey of the principal multinational agreements
relating to intellectual property, including the Berne Convention,
the TRIPs Agreement, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, and
the Paris and Madrid Conventions; how these agreements affect
U.S. domestic law; and some aspects of comparative intellectual
property law.
INTERNATIONAL LAW — LAW 6260
Credits: 3. An introduction to international law as applied
between nations and in United States courts.
INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL — LAW 6949
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three;
third credit only available to editors. Maximum credits
allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities
(Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal
of International Law, Journal of Technology Law & Policy
and Journal of Law & Public Policy) are four. Research,
writing, and editorial work for the Florida Journal of International
Law. Limited to students whose scholastic average meets
the requirements for international law journal work. The
course is graded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U)
basis. NOTE: Students who successfully complete an open
writing candidacy for the Florida Journal Journal of International
Law, as certified by the faculty adviser, may register for
one credit of LAW 6949 retrospectively in the term of enrollment
next succeeding the term in which the candidacy was completed.
INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION & ARBITRATION — LAW 6265
Credits: 2 or 3. A consideration of several areas of dispute
settlement and procedure when litigation and arbitration
issues cross borders. Included is choice of law and forum,
service of process, jurisdiction, act of state, foreign
state immunity, proving foreign law, obtaining evidence
from abroad, enforcement of foreign judgments, arbitration,
enforcement of arbitral awards.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Legal problems involved with the control
of trade and investment by national governments and multinational
agreements. The course explores obligations under the World
Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement,
as well as U.S. trade law affecting imports and exports
of goods and services, including customs valuation and classification,
government procurement and subsidy, dumping and safeguard
actions. Also considered are U.S. laws governing international
economic boycotts and foreign corrupt payments.
INTERVIEWING & COUNSELING — LAW 6381
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Interviewing, Counseling, and Mediation (LAW
6387); or Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation (LAW
6388). An examination of theories and skills involved in
interviewing clients and witnesses and counseling clients.
Readings, videotapes, role plays, and simulations will be
used to develop these theories and skills.
INTERVIEWING, COUNSELING & MEDIATION — LAW 6387
Credits: 3 or 4. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Interviewing and Counseling (LAW 6381), or
Mediation and Other Dispute Resolution Processes (LAW 6383).
A study of theories and skills involved in interviewing,
counseling, and mediating. Student performances in role
plays and simulations will be a primary means of instruction.
INTERVIEWING, COUNSELING & NEGOTIATION — LAW 6388
Credits: 3 or 4. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Interviewing and Counseling (LAW 6381), or
Negotiation (LAW 6385). A study of theories and skills involved
in interviewing, counseling, and negotiating. Student performances
in role plays and simulations will be a primary means of
instruction.
INTRODUCTION TO LAW — LAW 5002
Credit: 1. An intense four-day course, scheduled at the
beginning of the student's first semester. This course introduces
the student to legal education and the College of Law, basic
legal structures, the study of law, and the roles and responsibilities
of lawyers.
JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY — LAW 6526
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three;
third credit only available to editors. Maximum credits
allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities
(Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal
of International Law, Journal of Technology Law & Policy
and Journal of Law & Public Policy) are four. Research,
writing, and editorial work for the Journal of Law &
Public Policy. Students in good academic standing are eligible
to apply during their third or fourth semester. The course
will be graded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U)
basis. NOTE: Students who successfully complete an open
writing candidacy for JLPP, as certified by the JLPP faculty
advisor, may register for one credit of Journal of Law &
Public Policy (LAW 6930) retrospectively in the term of
enrollment next succeeding the term in which the candidacy
was completed.
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAW & POLICY — LAW 6930
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three;
third credit only available to editors. Maximum credits
allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities
(Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal
of International Law, Journal of Technology Law & Policy
and Journal of Law & Public Policy) are four. Research,
writing, and editorial work for the Journal of Technology
Law & Policy. Students in good academic standing are
eligible to apply during their third or fourth semester.
The course will be graded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory
(U) basis. NOTE: Students who successfully complete an open
writing candidacy for JTLP , as certified by the JTLP faculty
advisor, may register for one credit of Journal of Technology
Law & Policy (LAW 6930) retrospectively in the term
of enrollment next succeeding the term in which the candidacy
was completed.
JURISPRUDENCE — LAW 5210
Credits: 3. A study of the relationships between the practical
and theoretical dimensions of law and legal process; of
the complexity composed of legal, ethical and moral experience
in light of historical and contemporary sociolegal problems.
LABOR LAW — LAW 6540
Credits: 3 or 4. Exploration of the law governing employer-union-employee
relations in the private sector. Subjects covered include
employee organization, concerted activities, collective
bargaining, and administration of agreements, including
arbitration.
LAND FINANCE — LAW 6421
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Property (LAW 5401). A study of
selected legal problems related to developing and financing
the development of real property. Both the traditional mortgage
arrangement and contemporary alternative financing approaches
will be considered.
LAND USE PLANNING & CONTROL — LAW 6460
Credits: 3 or 4. Prerequisite: Property (LAW 5401). A study
of the legal aspects of the allocation and development of
land resources; private controls through covenants and easements;
public regulation and control through zoning and subdivision
regulation; social, economic and political implications
of land regulations; eminent domain; selected current problems
such as growth management, historic preservation, environmental
regulations, and urban development.
LAW & PSYCHIATRY — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. This course is designed to cover issues concerning
government efforts to deprive the “mentally disabled”
of liberty or property, as epitomized by the criminal, civil
commitment, and guardianship systems. It will attempt to
define “mental disability” as that term is used
for legal purposes and then examine the extent to which
mental health professionals are able to assist the legal
system in answering the questions posed by criminal, commitment
and guardianship law.
LAW REVIEW — LAW 6950
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three;
third credit only available to editors. Maximum credits
allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities
(Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal
of International Law, Journal of Technology Law & Policy
and Journal of Law & Public Policy) are four. Research,
writing, and editorial work for the Florida Law Review.
Limited to students whose scholastic average meets the requirements
for law review work. The course is graded on a Satisfactory
(S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis. NOTE: Students who successfully
complete an open writing candidacy for law review, as certified
by the law review faculty adviser, may register for one
credit of LAW 6950 retrospectively in the term of enrollment
next succeeding the term in which the candidacy was completed.
LEGAL ACCOUNTING — LAW 6760
Credits: 2. Elements of accounting; interpretation of financial
statements and audit reports; accounting problems likely
to arise in a lawyer’s practice. Designed for students
with little or no accounting background. Students with more
than six semester hours of accounting courses must seek
special permission of the instructor.
LEGAL COUNSELING — LAW 6380
Credits: 2. Methods of interviewing and counseling clients,
discussion of the attorney-client relationship based on
actual case histories involving counseling.
LEGAL DRAFTING — LAW 6955
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Passing grade in Appellate Advocacy
(LAW 5793). Principles and practice of drafting legal documents,
including complaints and responses, contracts, and legislative
and quasi-legislative documents.
LEGAL HISTORY OTHER THAN COMMON LAW — LAW 6221
Credits: 2. Emphasis on the antecedents of the Western World’s
laws, legal institutions, legal thought, etc., from customs
of primitive societies through law-related developments
in early civilizations from ancient Babylonia through Athens
and Rome, into the Dark Ages of Western Europe, and some
attention to other civilizations.
LEGAL PROBLEMS OF MASS COMMUNICATION — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Not available to students who have taken or
are taking Media Law. An extensive examination of the First
Amendment and laws pertaining to the mass media, including
electronic communication. Course explores prior restraint,
access to government meetings and records, defamation, privacy,
confidential sources, broadcast and cable law, and other
topics. Extensive writing required. Limited enrollment.
Available to graduate students under the designation MMC
6202.
LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING — LAW 5792
Credits: 2. The first half of a two-part course, both parts
required for graduation. Includes emphasis on basic legal
research and writing legal memoranda. The course is graded
on a scale of Satisfactory (S), Honors (S+), or Unsatisfactory
(U), and must be completed with a grade of S or better even
if this requirement necessitates repeating the course.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW, TAXATION & FINANCE — LAW 6531
Credits: 2 or 3. Examination of the substantive and procedural
law of local governments, including organization, powers,
procedure, personnel, and of financing sources, including
state and local taxation, special assessments, user fees
and borrowing.
MEDIA LAW — LAW 6852
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Legal Problems of Mass Communications (LAW
6930). This course focuses on the bodies of law regulating
the gathering and dissemination of information by the media,
including constitutional, statutory, and common law. Specific
topics that will be covered in the course include the following:
defamation and privacy, liability for physical and economic
harms caused by the media, copyright, subpoenas and searches,
media access to information, and regulation of broadcasting.
Special attention will be given to the problem of regulating
new technologies and to adapting first amendment theory
to deal with new technologies.
MEDIATION & OTHER DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESSES — LAW 6383
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Interviewing, Counseling, and Mediation (LAW
6387); or Negotiation, Mediation, & Other Dispute Resolution
Processes (LAW 6389). An exploration of theories and skills
involved in mediation and other dispute resolution processes.
Readings, videotapes, role plays, simulations and critical
observation of mediations will be used to develop these
theories and skills.
MEDIATION CLINIC — LAW 6940
Credits: 6. Participation in the delivery of actual mediation
services under supervision combined with instruction in
mediation theory and skills, including short role-plays,
longer simulated sessions, and observations of actual mediations.
One-third of credits may be awarded on a letter-grade basis
at the option of the instructor. The remaining credits will
be awarded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis.
Enrollment is done by application prior to pre-registration.
Students who have taken civil or criminal clinic are eligible
only if seats go unfilled.
MOOT COURT — LAW 6951
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three.
Maximum Credits allowed for any combination of co-curricular
activities (Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review,
Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology
Law & Policy and Journal of Law & Public Policy)
are four. Advanced training in appellate practice, including
both the briefing and argument of cases on appeal through
participation in appellate moot court proceedings. The course
is graded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis.
NOTE: Students who successfully complete a moot court candidacy,
as certified by the moot court faculty adviser, may register
for one credit of LAW 6951 retrospectively in the term of
enrollment next succeeding the term in which the candidacy
was completed.
NEGOTIATION — LAW 6385
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Interviewing, Counseling, & Negotiation
(LAW 6388); or Negotiation, Mediation & Other Dispute
Resolution Processes (LAW 6389). Using simulations and role
plays, this course will explore the negotiation skills lawyers
employ in both transactional and dispute resolution contexts.
NEGOTIATION, MEDIATION & OTHER DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESSES — LAW 6389
Credits: 3 or 4. Not available to students who have taken
or are taking Mediation and Other Dispute Resolution Processes
(LAW 6383), or Negotiation (LAW 6385). A study of theories
and skills involved in negotiation, mediation, and other
dispute resolution processes. Student performances in role
plays and simulations will be a primary means of instruction.
PARTNERSHIP TAXATION — LAW 6616
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisites: Income Taxation (LAW 6600),
or Tax I (LAW 6601) and Tax II (LAW 6606). A general practitioner
is likely to encounter many business enterprises (including
law firms) engaging in business in the form of a partnership.
This course addresses taxation of partnerships and tax consequences
of partnership formation or termination, distributions of
money or property to partners, and consequences of sale
or exchange of a partnership interest or of the death of
a partner.
PENSION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. This course will introduce students to
the basics of federal pension law, including the employee
benefit provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the
labor law portions of ERISA (the federal statute governing
employer-provided plans). The course will provide a basic
overview of the tax principles of deferred compensation,
and an introduction to the tax requirements for qualified
pension plans. The course will also cover the large body
of federal case law addressing such issues as ERISA preemption
of state law and its impact on employer-provided health
benefits, age and sex discrimination in pension benefits,
and other issues.
POLITICAL & CIVIL RIGHTS — LAW 6510
Credits: 2 or 3. An examination of the changing relationship
between the individual and the state as demonstrated by
developments in the areas of free speech, press, association,
religion, and privacy. While focus will be on First Amendment
doctrine, study will also include consideration of various
political and philosophical theories of individual and state.
POVERTY LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. This course is designed to enhance students’
ability to address the legal problems of the poor. This
course will introduce to students some of the major benefits
programs, the common structures and issues in those programs,
and the policy debates about the community’s role in
addressing the problems of poverty. Cases delineating clients’
rights in government programs will be studied. Students
will address the question whether lawyers have a special
obligation to represent the poor, and issues that arise
in representing disadvantaged populations. Because federal
and state statutes governing benefits programs are often
unwieldy, students will be given practice in reading and
interpreting these statutes.
PRODUCTS LIABILITY LAW — LAW 6702
Credits: 2. Prerequisites: Torts (LAW 5700). An analysis
of modern products liability law including policy goals,
basis of liability, types of product defects and the role
of user and plaintiff fault.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY & THE LEGAL PROFESSION — LAW 6750
Credits: 2 or 3. This course examines the role of the individual
lawyer and the legal profession as an entity in contemporary
society. Topics include the role of the lawyer as advocate,
counselor and community leader; the ethical and moral obligations
of lawyers to their clients, other lawyers and society as
derived from general ethical and moral principles and as
embodied in the Code of Professional Responsibility; problems
encountered by the lawyer in representing particular categories
of clients, including corporations, criminal defendants
and indigents.
PROPERTY — LAW 5400
Credits: 4. The acquisition and possession of real and personal
property; estates in land; introduction to future interests;
landlord and tenant; survey of modern land transactions
and methods of title assurance; easements; and, licenses,
covenants, and rights incident to land ownership.
PUBLIC SECTOR LABOR RELATIONS — LAW 6544
Credits: 2 or 3. A study of labor relations in the public
(governmental) sector in the United States. The laws concerning
the rights of public employers and employees with respect
to the organization of unions, collective bargaining, concerted
activities and related subjects will be considered. Special
attention is given to the Florida Public Employees Relations
Act, which represents one of the model legislative enactments.
When taught for three credits, federal sector labor relations
will be covered.
RACE & RACE RELATIONS LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. This course will explore race relations and
the law in two ways. First, the course will study the ways
in which social, political and economic intercourse between
the races is regulated by the law. In this vein, the course
will consider those statutes, regulations and case precedents
that prohibit discrimination in education, housing, public
accommodations and voting. These aspects of positive law
will be studied in the context of the African-American historical
experience. Secondly, an examination of the policies and
theories underlying the ways in which race is expressed
in the legal system will be attempted. Concepts such as
“race,” “racism,” “colorblindness,”
and “equality” will be examined in light of the
civil rights movement and current critical race theory.
REGULATED INDUSTRIES — LAW 6552
Credits: 2 or 3. An examination of the legal and economic
problems when selected industries are subjected to varying
forms of administrative control; the public policy goals
of regulation; the effectiveness of the administrative process
in furthering and balancing these goals; and the extent
to which principles of antitrust remain relevant and operative
in this area.
REMEDIES — LAW 6320
Credits: 2 or 3. Analysis and comparison of legal, equitable,
statutory and extra-judicial remedies. Coverage includes
injury to business interests; remedies available to vendor
and vendee of real estate; restitution of benefits conferred
under unenforceable agreements; remedies in transactions
induced by misrepresentation or mistake.
SALES — LAW 6010
Credits: 2 or 3. The law applicable to the sale of goods,
including bulk transfers, with emphasis on the legal devices
utilized in the distribution of such property.
SECURED TRANSACTIONS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY — LAW 6051
Credits: 3. Credit for Debtor-Creditor Law (Law 6050) precludes
additional credit for this course. Selected problems in
financing of security interests in personal property, principally
under Article Nine of the Uniform Commercial Code. The course
addresses the attachment and perfection of security interests,
their enforcement and priorities among competing interests.
SECURITIES REGULATION — LAW 6560
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Corporations (LAW 6063). Examination
of the controls and exemptions relating to the sale and
distribution of securities by corporations, underwriters
and others, including the scope of the securities laws,
registration provisions, distribution and resale of restricted
securities, express and implied civil liabilities, secondary
distributions and tender offers. Issues will be analyzed
in the context of the 1933 and 1934 federal statutes, as
amended, and state Blue Sky laws.
SPORTS LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 3. Legal issues arising out of amateur and professional
sports. Amateur sports topics include an examination of
the role of the National Collegiate Athletic Association,
and issues of eligibility, gender discrimination, antitrust,
and the contractual aspects of amateur athletics. Professional
sports topics include leagues, labor relations, antitrust,
and aspects of representing professional athletes. Topics
common to both include criminal matters, tort issues, and
drug testing.
STATE & LOCAL TAXATION — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. This course explores economics and public finance
which affect individuals and businesses daily in a wide
variety of ways. Study will include the basic concepts of
state and local taxation, and Federal constitutional considerations,
generally from a broad, national perspective.
TAXATION OF GRATUITOUS TRANSFERS — LAW 6620
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisites: Estates and Trusts (LAW
6430) and Income Taxation (LAW 6600), or Tax I (LAW 6601).
In addition to the income tax, taxes are imposed upon the
transfer of money or other property by gift, at death, and
by certain “generation skipping transfers.” This
course explores each of these categories of taxes on gratuitous
transfers of wealth, the interrelationships with each other,
and their role in estate planning.
TECHNIQUES OF GROWTH MANAGEMENT — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. This course will cover three of the more significant
techniques of managing growth: development exactions, impact
fees, and transferable development rights. The course will
focus on the history of these techniques, their current
use, and the case law that has evolved. Primary attention
will be focused on the use of these techniques in Florida,
but not to the exclusion of those of other states.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS I — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law (LAW
6570). This course will focus on establishing a foundation
in basic technology transactions and contracts, including
software licensing and distribution, technology development,
royalty agreements, technology service arrangements, maintenance
and consulting agreements, hardware purchase contracts,
OEM and VAR arrangements.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSACTIONS II —LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Technology Transactions I. This
course will focus on specialized legal topics in technology
matters including Year 2000 liability, internet transactions,
software escrow, CRADAS, multimedia applications, international
software transactions, and outsourcing contracts. The course
will focus on relevant case law and contract drafting techniques.
TORTS — LAW 5700
Credits: 4. Civil liability for harm caused by wrongful
acts that violate non-contractual duties imposed by law.
The course covers negligence and other theories of liability
as prescribed by the instructor.
TORTS II — LAW 6701
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Torts (LAW 5700). Additional torts
topics such as commercial torts, intentional torts, common
law strict liability, product liability, malpractice, defamation,
privacy, constitutional torts, third party liability, contribution
and indemnification, and no-fault systems. Course coverage
will be designated by the instructor prior to registration.
TRADEMARK PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law (LAW
6570). This course will focus on trademark practice, including
applications for registration, PTO office actions, inter
partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal
Board, infringement actions, maintenance of trademark rights,
state registrations, assignments and licenses.
TRIAL ADVOCACY — LAW 6361
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Evidence (LAW 6330). Not available
to students who have taken Trial Practice (LAW 6363). Registration
preference shall be given to sixth-semester students. A
study of the trial process, including the law relating to
trials, trial tactics and trial techniques. Consists of
two hours of classroom/lecture presentations and a three-hour
laboratory period each week involving role-playing and critical
evaluation of performance. Letter grades may be given in
lieu of Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U), at the option
of the instructor.
TRIAL PRACTICE — LAW 6363
Credits: 4. Prerequisite or concurrent: Evidence (LAW 6330).
Not available to students who have taken Trial Advocacy
(LAW 6361). Registration preference shall be given to fifth
and fourth semester students in that order. A study of the
trial process, including law relating to trials, trial tactics,
and trial techniques. The first half consists of classroom
work and a weekly three-hour laboratory, involving role-playing
and critical evaluation. The second half consists of simulated
trials and critical evaluation. Mock trials are usually
held on Saturday. Credit will be awarded on a Satisfactory
(S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis. Enrollment is done by application
prior to pre-registration.
TRIAL TEAM — LAW 6366
Credits: 1 or 2 per semester. Students who are selected
to participate in an inter-school competition are eligible
for two credits in the semester in which the inter-school
competition occurs. In all other circumstances credit will
be limited to one credit per semester. Maximum credits allowed
are three. Maximum credits allowed for any combination of
co-curricular activities (Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida
Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal
of Technology Law & Policy and Journal of Law &
Public Policy) are four. Advanced training in trial practice,
including the briefing and presentation of cases in the
context of mock trial competitions. The course will be graded
on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Using the vehicle of federal investigation
and prosecution of white-collar crime, this course will
explore the interplay of different fields of law and of
legal standards and administrative discretion — features
common to many types of transactional practice. The materials
considered will be chosen from the fields of substantive
criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, administrative
law, evidence, corporate law, and professional responsibility.
Topics considered will include entity criminal liability,
substantive federal crimes (e.g., mail fraud and RICO),
grand jury investigations, administrative agency subpoena
authority, parallel civil and criminal proceedings, application
of the self-incrimination and lawyer-client privileges,
federal sentencing guidelines (for individuals and entities)
and forfeitures. Considerable attention will be given to
Department of Justice policies and strategies utilized by
counsel representing, witnesses, targets, and defendants.
WOMEN & THE LAW — LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. Discussion of selected legal topics exploring
the perspective of women as the subject and object of law.
The course will include segments focusing on women’s
explicit status, or lack of status, in the law, such as
legal disabilities of married women and the treatment of
domestic violence; the treatment of legal areas historically
and currently of particular interest to women due to cultural
norms of women’s roles, such as family law, laws governing
sexuality and reproductive rights; the use of law to expand
women’s rights and redefine women’s roles, such
as constitutional equality doctrine and discrimination laws
applying to employment and education; and exploration of
feminist jurisprudence, questioning whether our very concepts
of law, legal rules, legal structure, and legal analysis
are defined and shaped by gender.
WORKERS ’ COMPENSATION & OTHER EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS — LAW 6548
Credits: 2 or 3. Rights of employees and duties of employers
under modern social programs including workers’ compensation,
wage and hour regulations, Social Security, old age, disability
and medical problems and anti-discrimination laws.
Seminars & Advanced Courses
Seminars (LAW 6936) provide students the opportunity for close study and research of a topic under the supervision of a faculty member. Enrollment is limited to 15 students. Generally, students in a seminar produce a “senior paper” to satisfy the Senior Writing Requirement. (See Degree Requirements) Approximately 35 seminars are offered each year on a broad spectrum of topics. Examples of recent seminars include:
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Advanced courses in bankruptcy and debtor-creditor, labor arbitration, and environmental law create opportunities for sequential learning, complex problem solving, and development of writing and drafting skills in small-group settings. Advanced courses differ from the traditional seminar format in terms of subject area and/or course design.
Courses Not Currently Offered:- Appellate Practice — LAW 6304
- Advanced Jurisprudence — LAW 6212
- Civil Litigation — LAW 6365
- Consumer Law — LAW 6040
- Criminal Law Litigation — LAW 6941
- Debtor-Creditor Law — LAW 6050
- Domestic Relations Practicum — LAW 6712
- Fiduciary Administration II — LAW 6624
- Florida Land Transactions — LAW 6423
- Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law — LAW 6580
- Law Office Economics — LAW 6751
- Legislation — LAW 6523
- Natural Resources — LAW 6480
- Practice Court — LAW 6362
- Tax I — LAW 6601
- Tax II — LAW 6606