Academic Programs
Juris Doctor Course Selection
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.
ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND LITIGATION—LAW 6479
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Natural Resources Law (LAW 6472) or Land Use Planning and Control (LAW 6460). Prerequisite may be waived with instructor’s approval. Simulation-based course focusing on pre-trial phase of a case involving environmental and land use issues. Students work in teams on research, litigation strategy, preparing an expert witness for deposition and taking a deposition. Substantial writing and document drafting involved. This course satisfies the Advanced Writing Requirement.
ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH—LAW 6798
Credits: 2. Teaches strategies for effective legal research, finding and updating the law, with an emphasis on the structure of American legal bibliography. Covers both manual and electronic research sources in depth. 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, Environmental and International law. Advanced training in LEXIS, WESTLAW, DIALOG and other electronic sources included.
ADVANCED LITIGATION—LAW 6365
Credits: 3. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory/ Satisfactory With Distinction. Prerequisites: Evidence (LAW 6330) and Trial Practice Law (LAW 6363). Course offers advanced, in-depth study of courtroom litigation at all stages and skills necessary for persuasive trial advocacy. Includes lecture/discussion as well as simulated case proceedings and critical evaluation. In addition to continued work in courtroom advocacy, areas of emphasis will include fact and theme development through the discovery process, pretrial motions, voir dire, trial evidence and record preservation.
ADVANCED PROBLEMS IN BANKRUPTCY AND DEBTOR-CREDITOR LAW—LAW 6056
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 AND 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 AND 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 6799
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Passing grade in Appellate Advocacy (LAW 5793). Provides in-depth, advanced instruction and practice in persuasive written and oral legal analysis, focusing on appellate advocacy techniques. Builds upon training provided in first-year writing courses. Among 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.
ADVANCED TRIAL PRACTICE—LAW 6930
Credits: 1-2. Maximum of 2 credits. Students review and critique performances of trial practice students under the direction of the professor. Credit will be awarded on the basis of written assignments, critiques and other assistance prepared and performed by the student instructor. Enrollment is by permission of the professor only. This course is graded Satisfactory (S) or Unsatisfactory (U).
AGRICULTURAL LAW AND POLICY—LAW 6474
Credits: 3. Devoted to the study of the legal aspects of agricultural operations. Topics 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.
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 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 and 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 the following semester.
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.
CHILD, PARENT AND STATE—LAW 6714
Credits: 3. Covers child abuse and neglect, juvenile justice, adoption and foster care, and discusses education and health entitlements of children and conflicts between parents and children over medical decision-making, religion, schooling and emancipation. Students will engage in exercises involving drafting and oral advocacy in a simulated child protection case.
CHILDREN’S LAW—LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Addresses 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. 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 similarly disabled.
CHILD WELFARE CLINIC—LAW 6940
Credits: 9. The Clinic is a two-semester legal skills program with a one-week prep course emphasizing multi-disciplinary collaboration and representation of governmental agencies. Students attend bi-weekly staff meetings and participate in case reviews. They also attend weekly classes and team meetings to assess and discuss case assignments and research projects. Students are evaluated on written work and performance evaluations.
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 6944). 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 matters under a scheme of systematic supervision combined with substantial related formal instruction. 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 for Full-Representation section is by application prior to advanced registration and is based on the same priority selection as Clinic Prep (see below).
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.
CLINIC PREP (JUVENILE AND PRO SE)—LAW 6944
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. 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 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, Family or Juvenile Law Externships, and other relevant courses that may be announced at a later date. Students enrolled in the clinic prep course must take either Juvenile or Pro Se section of the Civil Clinic in the term following completion of the clinic prep course. Registration by application prior to advanced registration.
COMPARATIVE FAMILY LAW—6930
Credits: 3. An exploration of the similarities and differences in family laws and policies across various national legal systems. We will look at issues such as marriage and divorce, custody of children, adoption and procreation, child and family support policies. We will focus primarily on comparing norms that have developed in the US with those of the countries of the European Union, but will also draw comparisons with child and family law systems in other parts of the world that follow quite different models. We will look as well at selected issues of transnational law, involving families and children with connections to multiple jurisdictions. And we will explore selected international laws and treaties relating to families and children. Family Law or Perspectives on the Family is a prerequisite. There will be a take home exam.
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.
COMPLEX CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS—LAW 6930
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure: Police and Police Practices Law (LAW 6111). Recommended: Evidence (Law 6330). Course builds upon the Police Practices course, considering the law and practice of criminal investigations conducted by agencies other than the police—typically prosecutors (through grand juries) and administrative agencies. In large part such investigations relate to white collar crime, and this course complements the white collar crime course (which focuses on the substantive offences). Coverage includes: fashioning and enforcing investigative subpoenas; Fourth Amendment, relevancy, and overbreadth objections to subpoenas; self-incrimination objections and use of immunity grants to replace the self-incrimination privilege; lawyer-client and work product objections; obtaining financial records, customer information, and computer records from “third parties” (e.g. banks, telephone companies, computer networks); legal representation during investigations (including issues of multiple representation, fee arrangements, and duties of disclosure); parallel civil proceedings and criminal investigations; disclosure of investigative information to civil litigants and other governmental agencies; and use of search warrants to obtain documents and computer information. Primary focus will be on federal investigations.
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 6465
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. Registration is by application prior to advanced registration. Course is graded Satisfactory (S) or Unsatisfactory (U).
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW—LAW 5501
Credits: 4. Introduction to United States Constitutional Law. Topics include judicial enforcement of the Constitution to preserve individual liberties; judicial review; separation of powers; structure and powers of the federal government; and federalism.
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 designated by instructor prior to registration.
CONSUMER LAW—LAW 6040
Credits: 3. This course is an introduction to and survey of principle statutes and common-law doctrines protecting consumers in the American marketplace. Typical topics covered may include fraud, deceptive practices, product quality, warranties, equal access to credit, Truth-in-Lending law, fair debt collection, and consumer issues in cyberspace.
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 6572
Credits: 2 or 3. 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 AND 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. Prerequisite: Income Taxation (LAW 6600). 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. Coverage given to tax treatment of “S Corporations,” an increasingly important choice of entity for small businesses.
CORPORATIONS—LAW 6063
Credits: 3. Registration priority given to second-year students in their fourth 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. May also consider federal regulations controlling insider trading, proxy solicitations, and short-swing profits.
CREDITORS’ REMEDIES AND 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. Substantive law of crimes, including principles of punishment, elements of typical crimes, complicity, inchoate crime, responsibility and defenses.
CRIMINAL LAW CLINIC—LAW 6942
Credits: 6. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure: Police and 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 conduct of actual criminal legal matters as an intern supervised by member of a state attorney or public defender’s office. Two of the six credits will be graded, the remaining four awarded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis. (Summer Criminal Clinic is graded on an S/U basis only.) Enrollment by application prior to pre-registration.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: ADVERSARY SYSTEM—LAW 6112
Credits: 3. Covers 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 AND POLICE PRACTICES—LAW 6111
Credits: 3. Police as a social institution, including personnel, bureaucratic structure and incentives. Also covers police practices such as arrest, search, seizure, wiretapping, eavesdropping, use of informers, entrapment, confessions and lineups. Credit for this course precludes credit for Criminal Procedure Survey (LAW 6930).
ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY—LAW 6930
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Perspectives on the Family (LAW 6711) or Family Law (LAW 6710). Income Tax recommended. Covers theories of alimony, child support, and equitable disposition of property at divorce, valuation and distribution of pensions and other complex assets, child support in marital and non-marital contexts, taxation and economic policy, family and work issues, and income supports for poor and working families. Students will complete exercises in applying state family laws and federal tax laws.
EMPLOYEE PENSION AND BENEFIT LAW — LAW 6541
Credits: 2 or 3. Introduces students to basics of federal pension law, including employee benefit provisions of Internal Revenue Code and labor law portions of ERISA (federal statute governing employer-provided plans). Provides a basic overview of tax principles of deferred compensation and introduction to the tax requirements for qualified pension plans. Also covers 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.
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION—LAW 6930
Credits: 2 or 3. An examination of various laws prohibiting discrimination in employment, with particular emphasis on federal law.
EMPLOYMENT LAW—LAW 6545
Credits: 3. This course is an introduction to and survey of principal statutes and common-law doctrines governing the workplace and relationships between employers and employees. Typical topics covered may include the at-will doctrine, developing exceptions to the at-will doctrine, employment discrimination, conditions of employment, aspects of labor law, hiring, firing and other topics.
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; and a brief consideration, time permitting, of the distribution of English Law.
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION—LAW 6478
Credits: 2. Prerequisites: Natural Resources Law (LAW 6472) or Environmental Law (LAW 6470). Recommended: Administrative Law (Federal or Florida); an Alternative Dispute Resolution Course. Teaches a variety of traditional and non-traditional 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. Will explore 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 required to prepare legal documents related to these exercises.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW—LAW 6470
Credits: 3 or 4. Introduction to modern environmental regulation and its foundations, covering common law precursors to environmental law and a survey of major regulatory issues and techniques, focusing on the Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, with examples drawn from other statutes such as the Clean Air Act.
ESTATE PLANNING—LAW 6450
Credits: 2 or 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, will explore theories and skills involved in estate planning process. Specific topics include: estate planning engagement; information gathering; estate analysis; identification of client objectives; development of remedial and conventional estate plans; and selection of fiduciaries. Students will complete an exercise in document preparation in a transactional context.
ESTATES AND TRUSTS—LAW 6430
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Property (LAW 5400). Registration priority given to second-year students. 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. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure (LAW 5301). Registration priority given to second-year students. 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 Federal Rules of Evidence.
EXTERNSHIPS—LAW 6946
Credits: 2-6. Maximum of six credits allowed for any combination of externships. Educational field placements, commonly known as externships, give students the opportunity to gain practical experience, enhance working knowledge of the law and develop professional contacts in the field. Students work in selected agencies or organizations focused on a particular legal field.
FAMILY LAW—LAW 6710
Credits: 3. (Not available to students who have taken Perspectives on the Family/Law 6711.) 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. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure (LAW 5301). Recommended: Constitutional Law (LAW 5501) and Constitutional Law II (LAW 6502). Analysis of the federal judicial system and 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.
FIRST AMENDMENT LAW—LAW 6511
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law (LAW 5501). Analyzes and criticizes philosophical and legal bases of important contemporary restrictions on freedom of expression. Connections with larger issues of tolerance and related principles of First Amendment law also pursued.
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.
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.
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 and the Rule Against Perpetuities.
GENDER AND THE LAW—LAW 6238
Credits: 2 or 3. Discussion of selected legal topics exploring the perspective of women as the subject and object of law. Includes 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.
HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE LAW— LAW 6225
Credits: 3. Offers a close, analytical study of issues in women’s history and the law by introducing important developments in the law as it pertains to women and women’s status in England and America. Utilizes general and specific historical studies; primary documents such as articles and reports written during the period at issue; legislation and cases from the relevant periods; and legislation, cases and articles of current interest pertaining to the modern development of the relevant topics.
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAW—LAW 6264
Credits: 2 or 3. Current United States immigration and nationality law, its history and constitutional, statutory and policy perspectives. Topics include administration by Immigration and Naturalization Service; 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. Designed to teach the fundamentals of federal income taxation in order to prepare students, as lawyers, to recognize and appreciate income tax consequences of transactions and events they encounter in general practice of law. Students are introduced to 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 AND TRUSTS—LAW 6621
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Income Taxation (LAW 6600). 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 or 2 per semester. Maximum credits allowed toward graduation are 4. Open only to students who have completed three terms and who are in good academic standing. An independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member who has a special interest in the area. The student must obtain the consent of the faculty member and agreement on the number of credits to be awarded prior to registering for this course. The project must include per credit reading and writing components at least commensurate with those of a law school seminar, and shall be graded pass/fail in accordance with general law school standards. Independent studies cannot be used to fulfill the seminar requirement. Interested students should obtain an Independent Study Template from Student Affairs Office.
INSURANCE—LAW 6080
Credits: 2 or 3. Various forms of policies—such as Fire, Homeowners, Automobile, Health and Accident, Floates; 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. Students may not enroll in Intellectual Property Law if they have already taken, or by the end of the semester in which they would be enrolled in Intellectual Property Law will have taken, two or more of the following courses: Copyright Law, Patent Law or Trademark Law. A survey of the law of patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and unfair competition.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION—LAW 6577
Credits: 2. Prerequisite, at least one of the following: Intellectual Property Law (LAW 6570), Copyright Law (LAW 6572), Patent Law (LAW 6573), or Trademark Law (LAW 6576). 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, transfer of technology, and foreign investment. 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 resolution of international commercial and investment disputes.
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION MOOT—LAW 6316
Credits: 3. A course combining study of the Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) with participation in the International Commercial Arbitration Moot (ICAM) program. The first third of the course is devoted to study of the CISG, at the end of which students will take an examination on the Convention. During the balance of the term, students participate in brief writing and oral arguments based on the ICAM problem for the year. The grade in the course will be determined by the grade on the CISG exam, the brief, and the oral argument. The best oralists, as selected by the professors, become members of the ICAM team and travel to Vienna in the spring to represent the College of Law. That team will prepare the Claimant’s and Respondent’s brief to be submitted to the competition. In doing so, it will rely on the briefs already prepared by the class. Because of the possibility of selection to the ICAM team, this course is open only to students who will be enrolled in both the fall and spring semesters.
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW—LAW 6263
Credits: 3. Introduction to international protection of human rights, including theoretical and practical aspects of human rights law, focusing on international, regional and domestic law contexts. Particular attention is given to procedures that characterize human rights mechanisms for both prescribing and applying human rights precepts.
INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW—LAW 6574
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite, at least one of the following: Intellectual Property Law (LAW 6570), Copyright Law (LAW 6572), Patent Law (LAW 6573), or Trademark Law (LAW 6576). 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 (International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and 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. Course is graded on a Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U) basis. NOTE: Students who successfully complete an open writing candidacy for the Florida Journal of International Law, as certified by the faculty adviser, may register for one credit of LAW 6949 retrospectively in term of enrollment next succeeding term in which the candidacy was completed.
INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION AND 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, and enforcement of arbitral awards.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT—LAW 6298
Credits: 2 or 3. Legal and policy issues raised by clashes between global rules promoting free trade and domestic efforts to conserve natural resources. The course explores the relationship between World Trade Organization rules reducing trade barriers and environmental treaties such as the Endangered Species Convention that rely on these very trade restrictions to manage resources, as well as efforts by the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Biodiversity Convention to reconcile the two critical public policy objectives. Equips future lawyers with background to advise how business strategies must account for both legal regimes.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW—LAW 6262
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 AND 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.
JESSUP MOOT COURT—LAW 6965
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three. Maximum credits allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities (Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and Public Policy) are four. The University of Florida’s Jessup Moot Court is the course for which members and potential members of the Jessup team are awarded credit. The team is a co-curricular, competitive arbitration organization that explores issues of public international law and international humanitarian law. The team is run by students with faculty supervision and involvement and collectively drafts competitive briefs and attends national and international competitions. The class functions as an extended tryout, with guidance from the student chair of the Jessup team and from the faculty advisors.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 6965 retrospectively in the term of enrollment next succeeding the term in which the candidacy was completed.
JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY—LAW 6526
Credit: 1 per semester. Three maximum credits allowed (third credit only available to editors). Maximum credits allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities (Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and Public Policy) are four. Research, writing, and editorial work for the Journal of Law and 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 LAW 6526 retrospectively in the term of enrollment next succeeding the term in which the candidacy was completed.
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY LAW AND POLICY—LAW 6959
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 (Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and Public Policy) are four. Research, writing, and editorial work for the Journal of Technology Law and 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 and Policy (LAW 6959) 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 relationship between the practical and theoretical dimensions of law and the legal process. A study of the concepts of law and morality in their historical contexts beginning with Blackstone, Bentham and Austin; comparing the American contributions of Holmes, Llewellyn and Frank; culminating in an intense study of judicial decision-making. The second half of the course undertakes a deeper study of Hart, Fuller and Dworkin in an exploration of a wide variety of issues arising in the relation of law, morality, and society.
LABOR LAW—LAW 6540
Credits: 3 or 4. Exploration of the law governing employer-union-employee relations in the private sector. Topics include employee organization, concerted activities, collective bargaining, and administration of agreements, including arbitration.
LAND FINANCE—LAW 6421
Credits: 3. Prerequisite: Property (LAW 5400). 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 AND CONTROL—LAW 6460
Credits: 3 or 4. Prerequisite: Property (LAW 5400). 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 AND ECONOMICS—LAW 6555
Credits: 2 or 3. Course considers the application of economic analysis to a variety of areas of law, including contracts, torts, property, criminal law and intellectual property. The appropriateness of economic analysis in these contexts is evaluated in light of behavioral and moral considerations.
LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT—LAW 6752
Credits: 2. Students must complete a class project. Course covers topics such as the law firm as a business, practical skills in the practice of law, expanding practice through client and professional development, and ethical and professionalism responsibilities.
LAW AND PSYCHIATRY—LAW 6726
Credits: 2. 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 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 OF THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT—LAW 6296
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: International Business Transactions or International Trade Law must be taken prior to or concurrently with this course. (A satisfactory substitute may be acceptable with permission from the instructor.) Provides an in-depth analysis of the regional trade area of most importance to the U.S., the NAFTA, through the study of its historical background; its impact in the areas of goods, services, investments, intellectual property, dispute settlements, labor and the environment; and an introduction to the ongoing process to develop a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).
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 (Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and Public Policy) are four. Research, writing, and editorial work for 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 DRAFTING—LAW 6955
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Passing grade in Appellate Advocacy (LAW 5793). This required course must be taken in the second year and be completed with a passing grade. Principles and practice of drafting legal documents, including complaints and responses, contracts, and legislative and quasi-legislative documents.
LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING—LAW 5792
Credits: 2. First half of a two-part course, both required for graduation. Includes emphasis on basic legal research and writing legal memoranda. 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 necessitates repeating the course the following semester.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW, TAXATION AND 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). Focuses on bodies of law regulating the gathering and dissemination of information by the media, including constitutional, statutory, and common law. Specific topics covered include 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 given to the problem of regulating new technologies and to adapting first amendment theory to deal with these.
MEDIATION AND 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, and 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 advanced registration. Students who have taken civil or criminal clinic are eligible only if seats go unfilled.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE—LAW 6725
Credits: 2. Addresses questions related to the tort liability of health care professionals and institutional providers, including issues of negligent medical treatment and failures to secure informed consent from patients and research subjects.
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW—LAW 6724
Credits: 2 or 3. Course considers the many ways our society manages medical technologies (primarily pharmaceuticals and medical devices), including direct federal regulation of research, development and marketing; products liability doctrines affecting manufacturing, design, and labeling; and the impacts of insurance systems and intellectual property regimes on access and innovation.
MOOT COURT—LAW 6951
Credit: 1 per semester. Maximum credits allowed are three. Maximum credits allowed for any combination of co-curricular activities (Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and 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.
NATURAL RESOURCES LAW—LAW 6472
Credits: 3 or 4. A survey of law and policy related to management of natural resources, including public and private lands and water, covering the public trust doctrine, sovereign submerged lands, water law, the National Environmental Policy Act, wetlands regulation, the Endangered Species Act, and management of public lands.
NEGOTIATION—LAW 6385
Credits: 2 or 3. Not available to students who have taken or are taking Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation (LAW 6388); or Negotiation, Mediation and Other Dispute Resolution Processes (LAW 6389). Using simulations and role plays, this course explores negotiation skills lawyers employ in both transactional and dispute resolution contexts.
NEGOTIATION, MEDIATION AND 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. Prerequisite: Income Taxation (LAW 6600). 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.
PATENT LAW—LAW 6573
Credits: 2 or 3. Topics to be covered may include 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.
PAYMENT SYSTEMS—LAW 6020
Credits: 2 or 3. The study of the laws and regulations governing checks and notes, the collection of checks in the banking system, electronic funds transfers, credit and debit cards, and other evolving payment systems.
PERSPECTIVES ON THE FAMILY—LAW 6711
Credits: 4. Not available to students who have taken Family Law (LAW 6710). Covers the law of the family, including cases, statutes and constitutional precedents relating to marriage, divorce, non-traditional families, child custody, child and spousal support, adoption and reproductive technologies. Students will complete exercises in negotiation and drafting of documents in a simulated family law transaction.
POVERTY LAW—LAW 6812
Credits: 3. Designed to enhance students’ ability to address legal problems of the poor. Introduces some of the major benefits programs, common structures and issues in those programs, and policy debates about the community’s role in addressing problems of poverty. Cases delineating clients’ rights in government programs will be studied. Students will address 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 role of user and plaintiff fault.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION—LAW 6750
Credits: 3. Examines role of the individual lawyer and 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 model rules of the Code of Professional Responsibility; and problems encountered in representing particular categories of clients, including corporations, criminal defendants and indigents. This required first-year course must be completed with a passing grade.
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.
RACE AND RACE RELATIONS LAW—LAW 6234
Credits: 2 or 3. Explores race relations and the law in two ways. First, ways in which social, political and economic intercourse between races is regulated by the law. In this vein, the course will consider 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 ways in which race is expressed in the legal system. 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; and 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 controls and exemptions relating to the sale and distribution of securities by corporations, underwriters and others, including 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 context of amended 1933/1934 federal statutes, and state Blue Sky laws.
STATE AND LOCAL TAXATION—LAW 6650
Credits: 2. This course explores economics and public finance that affect individuals and businesses daily in a wide variety of ways. Study will include 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). 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 6461
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.
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.
TRADEMARK LAW—LAW 6576
Credits: 3. Covers trademark law, with some coverage of broader unfair competition and false advertising issues. It is a combination common law/statutory class, and will provide experience in interpreting statutory language against a common law background. Specific trademark issues include nature of trademark rights, violations of trademark rights, defenses, remedies and selected procedural issues that arise in trademark cases. The prosecution of trademark applications is not covered in any detail, but the statutory requirements and benefits of registration are covered.
TRADEMARK PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE—LAW 6578
Credits: 2. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property Law (LAW 6570) or Trademark Law (LAW 6576). 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 given to sixth-semester students. A study of the trial process, including the law relating to trials, trial tactics and trial techniques. This course will be graded Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U).
TRIAL PRACTICE—LAW 6363
Credits: 4. Prerequisite or concurrent: Evidence (LAW 6330). Not available to students who have taken Trial Advocacy (LAW 6361). Registration priority will be given to third-year students. 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.
TRIAL TEAM—LAW 6366
Credits: 1 or 2 per semester. Students 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 (International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Jessup Moot Court Team, Trial Team, Moot Court, Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of Technology Law and Policy and Journal of Law and 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 Satisfactory (S), Unsatisfactory (U).
UNFAIR COMPETITION—LAW 6579
Credits: 2 or 3. Recommended: Intellectual Property Survey or Trademark Law. An overview of the law of unfair competition. Topics may include trade secret law, both state and federal, civil and criminal; false advertising and product disparagement; miscellaneous business torts; idea law; cybertrespass; and right of publicity. (Course will not offer comprehensive coverage of the law of trademarks, trade dress, antitrust or consumer protection.) Students who take or have taken this course in addition to Patents, Trademarks and/or Copyright courses may not concurrently or subsequently enroll in the Intellectual Property Survey course.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME—LAW 6116
Credits: 2 or 3. Prerequisite: Corporations (LAW 6063). Using the vehicle of federal investigation and prosecution of white-collar crime, this course explores interplay of different fields of law and of legal standards and administrative discretion—features common to many types of transactional practice. Materials considered will be chosen from substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, administrative law, evidence, corporate law, and professional responsibility. Topics considered 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.
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION AND 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.