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is an alphabetical listing of course descriptions ordered
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Administration of Criminal Justice Seminar | L4020 Top
This is an advanced seminar focusing on criminal law. An oral presentation and a paper are required, the subject of which the student and instructor decide.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2-3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Administrative Law | L4025 Top
This class provides an introduction to the administrative process of government. Topics include Constitutional issues of separation of powers; delegation of legislative and judicial power; legislative and judicial authority in government agencies; agency exercise of policy-making functions; and controls imposed on agencies by administrative procedure legislation, Constitutional principles, and judicial review of agency action.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Civil and Criminal Procedure | L4027 Top
Advanced Civil and Criminal Procedure covers the history of jury selection, the practical process of jury selection, and the Constitutional issues surrounding the peremptory challenge. The instructor couples traditional lectures with in-class mock jury selection. The class also observes and analyzes an actual jury selection.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Civil Procedure | L4028 Top
Topics for this course include post-trial procedure, injunctions, and other advanced civil procedure matters.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Criminal Procedure | L4027 Top
From the commencement of formal proceedings to collateral attacks on convictions, this course guides students through the laws regulatiing criminal prosecutions. The course topics typically include trial rights; bail procedures; double jeopardy; and habeas corpus.
Prerequisites: Basic Criminal Procedure
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Evidence Practicum | L4024 Top
Prerequisites: Civil Procedure, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Legal Profession and student must exhibit superior writing skills
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Family Law: Litigation of Family/Constitutional Issues | L4030 Top
The course will explore the constitutional issues that surround who can/should marry; who can/should be parents; and what constitutes a family. In so doing the course will examine traditional and non-traditional families. This class will consider both theory and practice and will draw heavily on the writings of Martha Fineman and Kathryn Abrams as well as the cases contained in the case book.
A major portion of the class will involve the development of trial and appellate skills and will require students to research to research and draft motions and memoranda of points and authority as well as participate as attorneys in motion hearings, trials and appellate arguments.
No Prerequisites: Limit: 20 students by permission of instructor only.
Prerequisites: Family Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Immigration Law | L4298 Top
This course provides theoretical and practical approaches to the representation of non-citizens in removal proceedings. This course is designed for students who have an interest in practicing immigration law with a focus on deportation and removal practice before the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, and the federal courts. The goals of this course is to give students a theoretical framework for identifying and assessing immigration issues and for formulating strategies for effective prosecution of non-citizens in removal proceedings. The instructor also teaches the practical tools and procedures, which students may apply to actual case representation.
Prerequisites: Immigration Law or an immigration-related internship
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Juvenile Law | L4352 Top
This course examines advanced issues in dependency and neglect proceedings within the context of the Colorado Children's Code. It provides students with exposure to the more complex aspects of civil child abuse actions with an emphasis the different perspectives of what is best for the child. The primary topic of the course is trial court proceedings, including motions with some appellate practice information included. The roles of various professionals and agencies involved in these cases are explored, but special attention is paid to examining the functions of the county attorney, guardian ad litem, and social services as they relate to the child and family. Both theoretical and practical aspects of this area of law will be addressed. In addition to requiring the students to undertake a written assignment, interactive methods such as role-playing aspects of dependency and neglect proceedings will be utilized to enhance the students' learning experience.
Prerequisites: Juvenile Law or a course in child advocacy or trial practice
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Legal Analysis | L4032-Wilson Top
Students learn to apply the critical skill of legal analysis writing and organization. They improve their ability to analyze facts, use legal authorities to identify the issues and sub-issues presented by a problem, and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of legal arguments. Students' writing skills are developed through an emphasis on audience assessment and attention to legal and factual analytical reasoning, among many other approaches.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Legal History | L4033 Top
With a focus on the 19th Century-American West, the course in Advanced Legal History focuses on the legal regulation of sexuality through statutes, case law, and historical materials. Topics may include the history of legal regulation of marriage (such as common law marriage and the development of restrictions on marriage) and crimes related to sexuality (including adultery, bigamy, fornication, incest, prostitution, rape, sodomy, and statutory rape). Particular attention is paid to ways in which, class, gender, sex, and sexual orientation inform legal regulations of sexuality.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Legal Research | L4035 Top
This course will provide students with the opportunity to master a major tool of law practice. Students completing this course will come away with an enhanced ability to do research in state and federal legislative and administrative materials. Students will gain knowledge and experience in the use of non-legal research resources as well as the many practice materials that attorneys frequently rely on. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate a variety of research tools, their ease of use, and relative cost with respect to creating or enhancing a law practice library. Finally, students will sharpen their presentation and public speaking skills and be exposed to innovative teaching technologies. 3 semester hours.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Mediation | L4820 Top
Advanced Mediation is designed to expose students to more complex cases in both the civil and criminal arenas. Clients are selected based on the criteria of both public interest aspect and the propriety of the case as a learning vehicle for planning, pleading, negotiation, discovery, research and trial work. This course is only offered if there is space available.
Prerequisites: Basic Mediation
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Patent Law | L4474 Top
This course explores more than a dozen advanced topics in patent law. These issues include claim drafting; international patent applications; opinion letters; remedies in patent cases; security interests; patent ability of software; and patent ability of genetic sequences. While Patent Law is not a formal prerequisite for this course, students who have not taken Patent Law should be prepared to do extra reading in the first few weeks of the semester to familiarize themselves with the basic concepts of patent law.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Problems in Jurisprudence | L4036 Top
This seminar explores some advanced, general problems of legal theory from a different perspective than Basic Jurisprudence does. Topics to be addressed include the definition and meaning of the rule of law; the relationship between modern judicial quandaries (objective versus subjective judgments and the notion of judicial activism); and ongoing problems of philosophical theories (i.e. empirical, rationalistic, or skeptical accounts of reality). Also to be discussed is the separation of powers in national security decision-making.
Prerequisites: Basic Jurisprudence
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Securities: The Regulation of Investment Companies and Investment Advisors | TBD Top
Denver has become a center for mutual funds. Founders, Berger Funds, Invesco and Janus Funds among others are headquartered in this city. However, Denver does not have enough lawyers trained in the regulation of these mutual funds. This course covers the federal regulation of investment companies including an extensive examination of the Investment Company Act of 1940 with an overview of the other applicable federal securities laws and the operation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Topics of study include the definition of an investment company; management of investment companies; restrictions on affiliated transactions; sales load provisions; pricing requirements; and registration and disclosure requirements. Finally, the course provides an overview of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Class discussion includes an analysis of releases issued by the Commission and actual no-action letters, exemptive applications, and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Topics in Anti-Discrimination Law | L4039 Top
This seminar allows students who have already been exposed to anti-discrimination law to go into further depth in this area in order to explore its cutting edge issues. The seminar's initial focus will be on (1) why and how we protect certain groups in the employment context, and (2) concepts of intent and causation in disparate treatment law (i.e., what exactly does it mean to say that an employer "intentionally" discriminated or that the employer discriminated "because of" an employee's race or sex), as well as methods of proving intent and causation. It will also deal with intent and causation in the area of sexual harassment. However, the remainder of the seminar will be largely driven by the students' interest, as students will select their own paper topics and make multiple presentations to the other students on those topics. So a broad spectrum of topics tends to be addressed. The student papers in this course will be of the academic variety. That is, they will need to go beyond simply summarizing black letter law or doctrine; they will require original thought, such as understanding trends, analyzing, or critiquing current doctrine. The papers will be 20-30 pages. Students will turn in a detailed outline, a rough draft, and a final draft. Completion of this paper will satisfy the upper-level writing requirement. To enroll in this course, students must have had either coursework or some other relevant experience dealing with anti-discrimination laws. A course in Employment Law or Employment Discrimination Law, though not necessary, is highly suggested. In some cases, other courses or experience will suffice. Some preference will be given to graduating 3Ls. Admission to this course is by permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Torts Seminar | L4615 Top
This course will cover civil conspiracy, intentional torts, strict liability, products liability, defamation, and the privacy torts.
Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Torts Seminar: Medical Malpractice | L4616 Top
Students considering this course should note that its focus will be an inquiry into the origins, implications, politics, and legal responses to accidental medical injury. The materials iinclude theoretical and empirical analyses of issues in related social and economic policy. The case of medical malpractice are used as a lens through which to access the workings of the tort liability system in general. The course is not a litigation practicum and not a course in medical trial practice, but is a research seminar. Individual research papers are required.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advanced Trial Practice | L4042 Top
This class is an advanced study of trial practice issues and skills.
Prerequisites: Trial Practice
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advocacy I | L4045 Top
Building upon earlier foundation courses, the thrust of Advocacy is to develop client interaction skills. Students enhance their interviewing, counseling, drafting, and planning skills. Furthermore, they are guided through substantive law comprehension that is required to draft pleadings and discovery and appropriate motions and memoranda of law. The course emphasizes negotiation and advocacy in the administrative context and other forms of dispute resolution.
Prerequisites: Alternative Dispute Resolution or Trial Practice
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Advocacy II | L4046 Top
This course delves into effective trial communication. Students learn how trial theory development and planning will benefit their arguments. Additionally, they learn the art of persuasive speaking to better interact with the judge and jury. The instructor explains how much effective presentation of evidence through expert witnesses and the cross-examination of such witnesses can sway a court room. Finally, students learn the importance of the unspoken word through analysis of trial briefs, jury instruction and other work necessary for competent trial practice.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Agency, Partnership & the LLC | L4047 Top
This is a survey of legal doctrines and legislation that governs the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). The course material also explores employement and agency relationships and partnerships.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Airline Business & Law | L4088 Top
This course weaves the legal and regulatory issues airlines face with business principles of economics, finance, planning, operations, marketing, distribution, pricing, labor, cost containment, and inter-corporate alliances. Relationships with airports, travel agents, computer reservations systems, and government are explored. Other examined areas include international dimensions of commercial air transportation; regulatory and policy issues involving safety; antitrust; licensing; securities issuances; employment; environment; and sustainability.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Alcohol Beverage Law | L4047 Top
The course briefly covers the history of alcohol beverage regulation from the repeal of prohibition, to the current status of the state and federal regulatory environment. The legal framework of the open (licensing) states and the control states are examined. Colorado's version of the three tier system of alcohol beverage regulation is explored. The course also focuses on issues involving importing and manufacturing alcohol beverages, such as the friction between the interstate commerce clause and the power of the states under the 21st Amendment to restrict Internet or direct purchases of wine and spirits from manufacturers. Finally, the course touches on retail enforcement issues (e.g., sting operations and regulation of activities protected by the First Amendment).
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Alternative Dispute Resolution | L4060 Top
The course examines a full range of contemporary dispute resolution processes: negotiation, mediation, arbitration and formal litigation. Conceptual and functional similarities and distinctions between these processes are explored. Additionally, the processes' impacts upon disputants, role of the lawyer, the legal system, and social order in general are reviewed.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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American Legal History | L4065 Top
This course concerns itself with the interaction between the legal system and social change in what is now the United States. Chronologically, the course materials run from the colonial period to the New Deal, although the nineteenth century will receive particular emphasis. A principal focus is the interrelationship of law, social life, economy, and ideology. For more information on the course, please visit the course home page at: http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Antitrust Law | Top
The course examines conspiracies and combinations in restraint of trade, monopolizes and mergers that lessen competition. Course materials focus on legal antitrust provisions the government has created, such as the Sherman Act and Clayton Act.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Appellate Practice and Procedure | L4078 Top
Enrollment limited to participants in competition teams.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Appellate Practice and Appellate Advocacy Seminar | L4077 Top
The seminar consists of readings and class discussions on the nature and function of the appellate courts, and examination and discussion of the critical rules of appellate procedure. Students examine a prepared record, prepare Notices of Appeal and briefs, and then argue their cases before panels of judges.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Appellate Writing and Oral Argument | L4074 Top
The purpose of this course is for students to better develop their ability to write briefly and present an oral argument. The student learns and practices the legal, logical, and rhetorical skills in writing and speaking necessary for an effective appellate practice. The instructor emphasizes legal analysis and argument construction. Students are required to write a complete brief and construct and practice oral agruments.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Applied Leadership and Management Theory | Top
The focus of this course is management theories, concepts, and models and the application of these topics to various sectors of the legal environment. This course emphasizes legal reasoning; management styles; decision-making; problem solving; interpersonal communication; conflict resolution; and management of change in the workplace. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Art and Craft of Judging | L4082 Top
This course explores the practical and jurisprudential aspects of the judges' work. It may include presentations by judges and may involve an opportunity for preparation of a research paper.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Aviation Law | L4085 Top
This course provides a broad overview of the field of aviation law. The materials cover the administrative regulation of aviation safety and air carrier economics; air transport labor relations; the allocation of airspace; property and environmental law aspects of living with the airport; aviation accidents and tort law (including governmental liability for air traffic control and other activities covered by the Federal Tort Claims Act); liability of air carriers and manufacturers; and international law that regulates air commerce.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Bankruptcy | L4090 Top
Bankruptcy reviews various state statues and forms of debtor protection. It also analyzes the federal bankruptcy system, its structure, law and procedure, and its interface with state laws.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Bankruptcy Seminar: Business Reorganizations | L4094 Top
This three-hour course focuses on business reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, including pre-bankruptcy strategies and issues for businesses in financial distress. The course looks at both the legal issues as well as practical issues for coping with financial failure and managing an insolvent or near-insolvent company prior to and during bankruptcy proceedings. Students interested in learning how to protect the rights and interests of future clients during bankruptcy benefit from this course. This course is designed to arm students with theoretical and practical knowledge of the major components of bankruptcy so that no matter what the student's primary focus in practice after graduation, she or he will be able to identify issues and formulate strategies with clients.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Basic Criminal Procedure | L4200 Top
Bacis Criminal Procedure outlines Constitutional and other rules regulating pretrial evidence acquisition by government officials in criminal matters. The course commonly includes the following topics: an overview of criminal justice administration; arrest; search and seizure; the exclusionary rule and its administration; wiretapping electronic eavesdropping; entrapment; interrogation; and confessions and lineup practices.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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CLINIC: Basic Criminal Representation | L4800 Top
This clinic offers students the opportunity to defend low-income clients charged with various criminal offenses. These offenses include DUI/DDWAI; domestic violence; assault; theft; disturbance; child abuse and neglect; menacing; etc. Students represent their clients in various municiple and county courts in the area. This course requires numerous court appearances for arraignments, pre-trial motions, and sentencing. Students should be prepared for an intense litigation experience in misdemeanor criminal defense.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 5
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Basic Real Estate | L4095 Top
This course serves as an introduction to contractual, priority of right, and title assurance issues involved with transferring real estate. This is a highly recommended survey course for all law students, regardless of specialization, because much of the course material is heavily examined on the Multi-state, Colorado and other state bar exams. This class also serves a gateway course for real estate specialists.
Prerequisites: Property
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Basic Tax | L4100 Top
This course provides students with a general understanding of tax law. Materials cover topics from personal and business deductions, to property basis and depreciation.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Bioethics | L4482 Top
This course examines current ethical and legal topics in medicine that challenge our notion of what is right and wrong. Bioethics examines types of ethical theories that influence how health care practitioners' decisions in their relationships with patients. The class studies a structure to engage in ethical decision making. The four primary principles: autonomy; nonmaleficence (do no harm); beneficence (do good); and justice are discussed in detail in conjunction with cases examining how health care practitioners relate to patients and determine what health care will be delivered to patients. Applying the four principles, students examine beginning of life issues; genetics; end of life decisions; organ transplantation as an example of justice; and ethical and legal issues in health care research. The discussions that students have in this class often will not have any clear answers, but are intended to challenge what society's views of ethical decisions involving health care and advancing technology are. Through this course, students will understand how these difficult, ethical decisions are made in the legal world, and turned into policy that affects the lives of patients and their families.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Biotech Law: From Food to Genetics and Beyond | L4478 Top
This course includes a survey of the traditional laws and regulations that are applicable to conventional foods, dietary supplements, medical devices, and biologics. Also, it provides a segment on the developing laws that relate to genetics. Finally, the course explores the role of various intellectual property rights that are involved in the marketing, sale and distribution of FDA regulated products.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Business and Commercial Law Seminars | 4105 Top
These are topical seminars scheduled periodically to afford students the opportunity for focused study of business and commercial law matters. This includes matters such as consumer credit; mergers and acquisitions; corporate practice; bankruptcy; antitrust; quantitative evidence; and representation of minority- and women-owned business firms.
Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Business Planning | L4110 Top
Prerequisites: Corporations and Securities Regulation
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Business Torts | L4113 Top
This course covers common law and statutory remedies available to businesses for tortuous interference with their contracts, business relationships, trade secrets, and commercial property rights. This includes coverage of trademark and copyright law and legal remedies available under related statutes. Class discussions may consist of the intersection of business torts and patent and antitrust law as well.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Business Transactions in the European Union | L411L4 Top
In today's global economy, any international business lawyer must have some basic knowledge of European Union law. Economic ties between the EU and the United States are increasingly interdependent: U.S. companies have invested some U.S. $370 billion in the EU and American investors are present in the majority of major European companies. European investment in the United States stands at around U.S. $370 billion supporting nearly 6 million American jobs. This class is an introduction to what European law is and how it is applied.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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CLINIC: Child Advocacy | L4807 Top
This clinic enhances students' ability to relate their trial skills to cases involving children. Students hone their skills during simulated excercises, which are concentrarted cases involving child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and educational law. Students enrolled in this course have the option to enroll also in a 3-semester-hour internship at the Children's Legal Clinic, designed to allow students to gain experience with child representation.
Prerequisites: Recommended: Juvenile Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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CLINIC: Civil Litigation Clinic | L4805 Top
Students represent low-income clients in a variety of civil disputes. The Civil Litigation Clinic permits students to participate in the selection of cases and problems they work on during the semester. In previous semesters, students represented clients in areas involving housing discrimination, mortgages, and family law. Additionally, the purpose of this clinic is to encourage some form of community outreach, enabling students to learn about the communities they serve.
Prerequisites: Students in their last semester may enroll for this clinic 5 semester hours.
Credit Hours: 5
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Civil Procedure (Post Trial) | L4028 Top
This class's curriculum covers post-trial procedure, injunctions, and other advanced civil procedure topics.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Civil Procedure | L4120 Top
Students enrolled in Civil Procedure learn how Constitutional statutory and judicial rules frame the determination of court controversies. They also explore the doctrines, remedies, and other principles pertinent to judicial dispute resolution.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Civil Rights Seminar | L4121 Top
This seminar examines individual and class action litigation brought against government officials for the violation of constitutional rights under Part II: 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the primary federal civil rights statute. The seminar focuses on the most critical substantive issues in pursuing Constitutional litigation, including the history and purposes of Section 1983; the elements of Constitutional torts; rules governing liability of government officials and municipal liability; immunity doctrines; remedies; jurisdictional and procedural barriers to Section 1983 litigation; and recovery of attorneys' fees.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Civil Rights Seminar: Animal Rights | L4019 Top
Students enrolled in this course explore the definition of the term animal, the laws offering some protection of animals. State and federal anti-cruelty laws, such as the Animal Welfare Act and the Endangered Species Act, are used as a basis for in-class discussions debating the need for animal rights.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Claims, Applications, Prosecution & Tactics (Patent Workshop) | Top
The basic legal principles for patents, what patents are, what legal rights patents provide, and how patents function are covered in this workshop. The clas discusses what materials are required for and the basic technique in drafting a patent application. Students learn how a patent application is processed and examined by the Patent Office. This course is designed to provide an insight into the complicated and expensive patent process faced by corporate and litigation counsel. The course material reviews various corporate tactics used to increase patent asset value.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Client Development and Strategic Marketing | Top
This class explores techniques and experiences in client development strategies, approaches, and practice that students will critically analyze. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Client Service | Top
This course exposes students to the growing complexities of managing a variety of workloads. We consider resource allocation limitations and meeting the expectations of clients, customers, constituents, and stakeholders. Discussion on emerging technologies shows students how client service performance is developing into a guiding principle in courts and law firms. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Clinic Studies in Courts and Law Office Management | Top
Students gain hands-on experience in courts and law firms by shadowing legal administrators. Students learn about a law firm's organization through assignments creating formal and informal organization charts; reviewing the facility design and layout; creating macro and micro flow charts of court operations; and examining ethical issues facing legal administrators. There is an emphasis on hands-on experience in ethics; court structure; law firm structure and design; research and writing; working with judges; and the language of the legal profession supplemented with directed placement in clinical programs in area law firms and court systems. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 1
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Colorado Administrative Law Practice Seminar | L4128 Top
Prerequisites: Administrative Law
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Communications Law | L4130 Top
The course focuses on governmental regulation of mass media, and concentrates on relations between licenses in the public interest and the Federal Communications Commission. It deals with the meaning of Commission policies, such as the fairness doctrine, access, cross-media ownership, and license acquisition and renewal. The course also views the responsibility of mass media to private individuals and the special problems presented by cable TV.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Comparative Constitutional Human Rights Seminar | L4142 Top
The seminar begins with a general overview of international human rights as put forth in the International Bill of Rights. The second part of the course focuses on a comparative study of human rights norms in the constitutions of nations around the world. The last part of the seminar consists of student presentations on the topics of the research papers required for the course.
Prerequisites: Suggested: International Law, Comparative Law or Human Rights
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Comparative Law | L4135 Top
Comparative Law is the study of the foundation of legal traditions and systems which exist in the world today. The major topics covered in this course are legal history and culture; legal structures; legal actors; and procedure and sources of law. The interactive course begins with an overview followed with coverage of each of the topics in relation to the United States's legal system. We then cover the same topics in relationship to the common law tradition and the civil law tradition. Students conduct an overview of unique features of the Islamic legal tradition. The course is especially useful to students who want to learn more about the U.S. legal system by comparing and contrasting it with other traditions and are interested in an international practice.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Complex Litigation | L4140 Top
This class examines the methods used to recognize and evaluate complex cases and the appropriate techniques to organize and manage these cases. Students conduct an analysis of "The Manual for Complex Litigation," the "Multi-District Panel Rules," and class action procedures used in such cases.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Computer-Assisted Litigation | L4147 Top
This course covers technical, procedural, and evidentiary issues related to computer-assisted litigation. Students learn how to use pre-trial and trial litigation support software technology by organizing a document intensive case and preparing key exhibits for trial presentation.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Computers and Internet Law | L4145 Top
Computers and Internet Law is designed to consider the areas in which computer technology and the legal environment intersect. This includes legal protection of computer software; contracting for computer services; computer data banks and privacy; the check-less society; and the relationships between Federal Communications Commision policies and computers.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Computers and the Practice of Law Seminar | L4150 Top
This seminar analyzes the use of computer technology, including relevant aspects of artificial intelligence, in the practice of law.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Condominium, Cooperative and Common Interest Development Ownership | L4155 Top
This course is a doctrinal and practical analysis of problematic real estate ownership forms (and their community associations), which have become immensely popular in the past quarter century.
Prerequisites: Property
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Conflict Management Seminar | L4162 Top
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Conflict of Laws | L4160 Top
Conflict of Laws is an analysis of legal problems arising in cases when at least one of the operative facts cuts across state or national boundaries. Topics covered include problems of interstate jurisdiction over parties and subject matter; the application of principles of full faith and credit and comity on the recognition and enforcement of interstate and multinational judgments; the comparison of various theories of law choice in the context of the Constitutional threshold constraints of the due process and full faith and credit clauses.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Law I | L4165 Top
This course explores America's judicial branch and its powers, which students relate to other branches of government. Students also explore how the judicial system interpretes and enforces the Constitution and how the judicial branch regulates various aspects of our government's laws and activities.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Law Seminar: Article II | L4172 Top
This course covers the law of presidential elections and succession. The instructor places special emphasis on the Constitutional mechanism of the electoral college, which is outlined in Article II and the 12th Amendment of the Constitution.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Law Seminar: Civil Rights | L4171 Top
This seminar focuses on two problems of representation that recur within anti-discrimination law. First, the problem of using demographic group membership as a proxy for individual interests. Next, the problem of defining the boundaries between groups. The class first examines these issues in the context of jury selection. For instance, what does it mean to have a representative jury? Who is harmed by discrimination in jury selection, and by what theory? What is the relationship between jury composition and jury context with theories of representation in other contexts, such as electoral districting and academic admissions? We focus particularly on recent debates concerning the propriety of race-conscious strategies for increasing the representation of historically under-represented groups.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Law Seminar: When Fairness is at Risk (prerequisite - Constitutional Law) | L4170 Top
This course (taught as a seminar) is an advanced Constitutional Law offering to supplement the basic four hour Constitutional Law course. It will consider advanced Due Process of Law principles in the context of government contended emergency (i.e., terrorism, safety national defense, etc.) that is claimed to justify summary governmental action with a procedural opportunity afforded later. Legislative procedures in the post-9/11 legislation will be considered and evaluated in terms of Due Process principles, and in terms of other legislative procedural requirements which may be relevant.
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Law Seminar: SLAPPs | L4547 Top
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are a form of litigation brought to suppress or inhibit citizens' speech directed to the government. SLAPPs are a widespread and troubling phenomenon in the United States because they strike at the core principle of representative democracy: the right to petition for redress of grievances. This class explores various SLAPPs cases to give students a better understanding of these types of lawsuits.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Law Writing Seminar | L4169 Top
N/A
Prerequisites: Registration by instructor permission only.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: ULW
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Constitutional Litigation Seminar | L4168 Top
This seminar examines individual and class action litigation brought against government officials for the violation of Constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the primary federal Civil Rights statute. The historic interplay between substantive Constitutional law and traditional doctrines of tort liability has developed into an entire body of law under Section 1983 that any Civil Rights or government lawyer must regularly confront. The seminar focuses on the most critical substantive issues in pursuing Constitutional litigation. This includes the history and purposes of Section1983; the elements of constitutional torts; rules governing liability of government officials and municipal liability; immunity doctrines; remedies; jurisdictional and procedural barriers to Section1983 litigation; and recovery of attorneys' fees. In addition the class also addresses litigation strategy in Constitutional cases, as well as relevant ethical issues.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Constitutional Problems Seminars | L4169 Top
Topical seminars involving research into selected modern Constitutional problems which are not considered in depth during Constitutional Law.
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law I and II
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Contracts Drafting: Sports Contracts & Negotiation | L4551 Top
This course provides an overview of the contract negotiation process in professional sports. This includes but is not limited to player contracts in National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball. Furthermore, students conduct an analysis of the different bargaining systems in each sport.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Contracts I | L4175 Top
This course provides a broad introduction to understanding, negotiating, and writing contracts. The instructor covers the legal protection accorded contracts; the elements of agreement; and problems often encountered with offers and acceptances. Students also learn some of the more vague working of contracts, such as expressed and implied conditions.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Copyright and Trademark | L4666 Top
This course covers common law and statutory remedies available to businesses for commercial property rights. The curriculum includes coverage of trademark and copyright law and legal remedies available under related statues. The instructor also discusses business torts and patent and antitrust law, and how these subjects relate to one another.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Corporate Drafting Seminar | L4181 Top
Corporate drafting focuses on writing responsive, lucid, unambiguous corporate documents. Students assume the role of the in-house counsel and other members of the corporate negotiating team as the team structures, negotiates, drafts, and implements corporate transactions. This course requires extensive writing.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Corporate Finance | L4180 Top
This course is designed as a practical, case-study approach to financing high-tech and emerging-growth companies. Through the model of a hypothetical company, students address the significant legal and business issues a company and its founders may face. Students learn how to position a company for financing, prepare and circulate a company's business plan, and understand such topics as investments and incubators.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Corporate Taxation (Business Entities) | L4185 Top
The purpose of Business Entities is to provide and overview of the differences in operating a trade or business as an LLC/LLP, S Corporation and a C Corporation. The class will consist of both an overview of the state law requirements of operating each type of business (Model Business act and LLC/LLP state statutes) and the difference in the tax treatment for each type of business. The objective it to give the student a basic understanding of some of the do's and don'ts for each business and how he/she might approach a typical factual situation presented by a client in advising that client as to the preferred business form. The class will explore both the legal and tax effects that apply in the operatin life cycle of any business, including formation, operation, distribution, redemption, sale of an interest, liquidation, mergers and divisions, and the death of the owner.
Prerequisites: Basic Tax
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Corporations | L4190 Top
Corporations provides students with a basic introduction to corporations, including the roles of shareholders and creditors. The instructor also covers the various duties and liabilities of officers and directors, and supplies a brief overview of the applicability of the federal securities laws.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Counseling and Negotiation in Spanish | L4193 Top
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the obstacles and challenges of communicating with Spanish-speaking clients in a legal environment. Students will be trained on how to prepare legal documents in Spanish, conduct attorney-client interviews in Spanish, and overcome the obstacles that prevent effective communication in a legal setting. These obstacles include cultural stereotypes and language usage and misconceptions regarding the role that attorneys, judges and interpreters play in the U.S. legal system. The course also emphasizes how to build a law practice that attracts Spanish-speaking clients.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Criminal Justice and International Human Rights | L4196 Top
This course examines the application of international human rights principles affecting criminal justice in domestic criminal justice systems, regional courts, and international tribunals and commissions. Decisions of constitutional and supreme courts of various governments (democratic, transitional, and totalitarian) are compared. Relevant provisions in international agreements, covenants and treaties, as applied in various adjudicatory bodies, are also studied and compared. Students explore the extent to which various systems protect individuals from arbitrary prosecutions for exercise of fundamental human rights, and the influence of history, politics, and culture on human rights decisions.
Prerequisites: Suggested prerequisites: International Law, Human Rights, Criminal Procedure.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Criminal Justice Seminar: Rights of Probationers and Parolees | L4521 Top
This course is designed to educate students of the next steps their clients must take after being arrested and what their roles as attorneys involved with the proceedings would be. The instructor covers everything from bail bonds to facing a parole board and parole violations.
Prerequisites: N/A
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Criminal Law - Victims' Rights | L4197 Top
Victims' rights has emerged as an important aspect of the criminal justice field in recent years. Anyone planning a career in criminal justice will want to engage in this seminar class to learn about the law and it's application to victims' rights. This class is designed to explore the role of the criminal justice system and its response to victims. In depth discussions will be held about victims' rights and criminal procedure.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Criminal Law Drafting Seminar | L4198 Top
This seminar emphasizes the practical aspects of filing litigating motions in criminal matters. Students learn how to identify issues and how to file motions in court concerning those issues. They draft motions in the proper format with effective writing techniques.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Criminal Law | L4195 Top
The course explores the definition of crime and criminal liability.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Criminal Trial Practice | L4914 Top
This course provides an overview of the criminal justice process from arrest through the pre-trial, trial and post-trial stages. It then concentrates on developing the skills necessary to conduct a trial before a judge or jury as a prosecutor and defense counsel. Using both lecture and student participation in simulated courtroom exercises, this course teaches the basics of organizing and evaluating a criminal case; developing prosecution and defense theories and strategies; preparing for trial; selecting a jury; organizing and delivering opening statements; direct examinations; cross-examinations; closing arguments; and making and responding to objections. The course culminates with students participating in a mock jury trial. While the course emphasizes criminal cases, it is open to any students interested in trial practice.
Prerequisites: Criminal Law, NOTE: THIS CLASS DUPLICATES TRIAL PRACTICE.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Death Penalty Jurisprudence | L4201 Top
The course is designed to make students aware of the substantive body of law surrounding the modern death penalty and the policy issues raised by the law. The course begins with the class constructing a fair death penalty. Students decide whether they, as the omnipotent legislature, want a death penalty. Then, students construct one that is fair, just and humane, and that achieve the goals they have established for their death penalty. Next, the class examines "Furman v. Georgia" to explore the problems that the Supreme Court perceived in the death penalty prior to 1972. This is followed by a study of "Gregg v. Georgia" and its progeny. From there, students embark on a substantive review of virtually all aspects of the law surrounding the litigation of death penalty cases, from pre-trial through post-conviction proceedings.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Directed Research | L4999 Top
Direct Research is an opportunity for students to research and write on any area of law approved by a full-time faculty member who agrees to direct the project. The research project must be completed within the semester for which the student is registered. The research is compiled into a paper of publishable quality that is delivered to the associate dean for academic affairs by the last day of exams for that semester. The dean notes compliance with the timely completion rule, and then delivers the paper to the supervising faculty member for grading. Students may petition for either two or three semester hours. A maximum of five semester hours credit for Directed Research is permitted in satisfaction of the 90-credit degree requirement. A Directed Research application form (available in the registrar's office) signed by both the faculty supervisor and student is required for enrollment. The registrar's office will register the student for his or her directed research once the student's application form has been approved. As of February 2004, the faculty adopted a resolution requiring that all directed research projects conform with the upper level writing requirement, which involves a mandatory rewrite, in addition to any other requirements.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Disability Law | L4202 Top
This class outlines legal issues concerning persons with disabilities. It pays special attention to the Americans with Disabilities Act. The course may include some practical exercises, such as complaint drafting or other applications of the substantive law.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Discovery Practicum | L4218 Top
Most litigations never get to trial. Instead, these cases are settled after the discovery period has revealed the strengths and weaknesses in the case. This course focuses on the instruments, rules, and case law governing civil discovery: interrogatories, document requests, requests for admissions, and depositions.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Distinguished Natural Resources Practitioner Seminar | L4521 Top
N/A
Prerequisites: Registration by instructor permission only.
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Doing Business in Mexico | L4118 Top
This course is an introduction to the law governing business organizations and investment vehicles in Mexico. The class explores the laws and policies that regulate foreign investment in Mexico, including an overview of the legal framework provided by NAFTA.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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CLINIC: Domestic Violence Civil Justice | L4204 Top
This multi-disciplinary clinic is available for students who have an interest in representing victims of domestic violence. Students team with interns from the Graduate School of Social Work, and provide legal services for victims of various counties. This course is funded by a grant under the Violence Against Women Act by the Department of Justice.
Prerequisites: A personal interview may be required
Credit Hours: 5
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Domestic Violence Seminar | L4213 Top
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women in the United States. Why is the violence not abating after years of discussion, legislation and millions of federal dollars allocated to "solve the problem?" This seminar examines the legal, social, and political basis for intimate violence against women. Current policies are deconstructed by raising the question whether these methods have improved the quality of women and children's lives. Students have the unique opportunity to draft legislation to present during a mock legislative hearing presided over by members of the Colorado Legislature. Thus, students will be able to put into practice what they have learned and investigated over the semester.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Drafting Legal Documents in Spanish | L4708S Top
This course focuses on the drafting of legal documents in Spanish with an emphasis on court documents. Students develop an understanding of how legal documents are created, negotiated, revised, and finalized. This course is intended to be hands on, offering students the experience of working with Spanish-speaking clients in simulated negotiations and drafting sessions.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Economics of Natural Resources Projects and Transactions | L4452 Top
This course deals with the basic concepts of financial evaluation of a natural resources project. The emphasis is on financial evaluation topics and issues relevant to a lawyer's participation in a project. Students are introduced to the time-value of money; spreadsheet analysis; discounted cash flow; and spreadsheets, with relevancy to negotiations. This course is part of the core curriculum for the graduate degree courses in International Natural Resources Law and Policy.
Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to consult with the director of this program before enrollment.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Elder Law | L4203 Top
This course explores a range of issues relevant to legal counseling of elderly clients. Students learn to counsel their clients in areas such as Medicaid, guardianships, and right-to-die issues.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Election Law | Top
This course examines Federal Election Law, specifically the Voting Rights Act; federal legislative districting; federal regulation of political parties; and the evolution of federal campaign finance law. Students consider the likely course of campaign finance based on a close examination of the 2004 federal elections. The course does not address state campaign finance issues, ballot initiatives, or term limits. However, it may touch on those topics if time permits.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Emerging Trends in Data and Knowledge Management | MSLA L4080 Top
This class provides a review of the application of computer technology to law office management and court administration. This includes computer basics; needs analysis; fundamental and advanced software applications; networking and telecommunications; the consultant's role; selection of equipment and services; and managing automated systems. Exercises and demonstrations are held in the computer-learning center. MSLA STUDENTS ONLY.
Prerequisites: MSLA STUDENTS ONLY
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Energy Law | L4210 Top
Energy Law presents the regulation of production, conversion, transportation, distribution and pricing of fossil, hydro, nuclear, and other conventional sources of primary energy. It also offers insight into the regulation of renewable energy resources, including energy from the sun, wind, biomass, oceans, earth (geothermal) and rivers (low-head hydro). There is an emphasis on new legislative and judicial development relating to these various energy sources.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Entertainment Law | L4215 Top
Entertainment law focuses on issues that have an impact on the entertainment industry. Topics include copyright; service and trademark; licensing; publishing; unfair competition; antitrust; agency; and labor law. The class also explores publishing agreements.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Environmental Ethics and Justice | L4219 Top
This course provides a broad analytical consideration of ethical environmental policy-making. Students consider the historical aspect of environmental ethics as the various ethical approaches to making a decision concerning the environment. The class also explores the roles that the law, economics, and society's values play in environmental ethics.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Environmental Law Seminar | L4222 Top
This seminar presents forms of environmental preservation. This includes the acquisition of property rights using conservation easements; land trusts; outright purchases of sensitive lands; and private/public partnerships for preservation. These areas are becoming an increasingly important element in our efforts to save biological diversity, scenery and other aspects of nature we value. Acquisition preservation is swiftly developing its own body of law. Many aspects of the acquisition preservation process have increasingly less regard to politics and society. Rather, acquisition preservation intersects with more traditional forms of public growth control zoning and planning. In this seminar, students develop a basic understanding of the law of acquisition preservation and a sense of the non-legal dimensions of the process.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Environmental Law | L4220 Top
Environmental Law covers the major federal laws and programs for environmental protection. These laws and programs include the National Environmental Policy Act; Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act; Toxic Substances Control Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; wildlife laws; landform preservation laws; and public resource laws. In this class, federal laws are compared to state and local legislation and common law remedies. Issues of economics and technology, tactics of environmental litigation, legislative lobbying, and administrative agency enforcement are explored.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Administrative Law recommended but not required.
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Essentials of Pro-Bono Practice | L4224 Top
This seminar surveys the various types of pro bono work that are performed by lawyers, and introduces students to sources of information, clients, and support that are available to new practitioners in each area of work. While the course is designed for students who are not necessarily interested in full-time public interest work, it will be of interest to students who are committed to full-time, public-interest employment.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: N/A
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Estate and Gift Taxation | L4225 Top
This class is a study of the federal estate tax; federal gift tax; and federal generation skipping transfer tax.
Prerequisites: Basic Tax
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Estate Planning | L4230 Top
This course is designed to teach students how to properly aid their clients with planning how their estates should be handled. It has an emphasis on family settlements, but primarily stresses the areas of wills, trusts and federal estates, and gift and income taxes.
Prerequisites: Estate and Gift Taxation
Credit Hours: 2
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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European Union Environmental Law & Policy | L4037 Top
In the last 25 years, the European Union (EU) has become a leading player in the context of European environmental legislation and policy making. Of particular interest has been the relationship between economic development, which serves as the underpinning of the EUs single market, and environmental protection, the importance of which is clearly set out in the European Community Treaty. Matters dealing with climate change, genetically modified organisms, and recycling are now dealt with on a regular basis at EU level. These matters have impacts, both internally in the EUs 25 member states, as well as internationally where companies, including U.S. firms, must abide by EU standards in order to market products in the worlds largest single market. This course considers the history of EU environmental policy, the current legal basis of EU environmental activities, seminal court decisions involving environmental protection, and the growing role of the EU in setting world standards in environmental protection. The course is taught online beginning Jan. 12 and ending May 1. It consists of a series of reading, video interviews, and writing assignments as well as on-going internet discussions.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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European Union Law | L4232 Top
The European Union (EU) has been described as the 21st century's newest superpower. Bearing in mind the rapidly growing importance of the EU, this course introduces EU law, and emphasizes its historical underpinnings, institutional framework, legal procedures, and internal market. Moreover, emerging policies (e.g. enlargement, environment) are considered. The course examines these topics in the context of European political integration and where appropriate, the ongoing tension in the trans-Atlantic relationship between the EU and United States.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Evidence Practicum: Trial Exercises and Motion Drafting | L4237 Top
This course helps to develop students' practical skills and facility with the rules of evidence as they are used in the courtroom. Students simulate the introduction of exhibits and the examination of witnesses in problem settings or in the context of a whole case, learning how the rules are used through objections and arguments about admissibility. Problems are oriented to the application of evidence rules in actual practice, so students can see the impact made by attorneys' choice of case theory and evidentiary theory. Students also draft motions in limine to argue evidentiary issues for resolution before trial.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: - Evidence (must have completed the course; simultaneous enrollment does not meet this requirement). - Trial Practice (helpful but not required).
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Evidence | L4235 Top
Evidence is an introduction to trial process and the law of evidence. It exposes students to the common law, with an emphasis on the Federal Rules.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 4
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Extremism and the Law | L4246 Top
Racism. Sexism. Gay-bashing and immigrant-bashing. These are the creeds of America's domestic extremists. From the Ku Klux Klan to the Westboro Baptist Church, hate groups represent our nation's ongoing battle with domestic terrorism. In this course, students analyze the ways in which extremist groups impact the law. How should hate and extremism be defined in the domestic context? In what ways do extremist ideologies and hate groups influence mainstream ideologies and policies? How do the activities of domestic terrorists influence the development and implementation of laws? Are laws, such as hate crimes statutes, desirable? How should our nation balance the First Amendment rights of hate mongers with the rights of others and with the harms inflicted on others? When should hate speech, for example, become legally actionable? This course touches on many areas of the law, including torts, criminal law, employment discrimination and the First Amendment. While it spotlights domestic terrorists, the course does address the impact of international groups in the wake of September 11.
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours: 3
ULW: This course does not satisfy the Upper Level Writing requirement (ULW)
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Family Law Seminar | L4241 Top
N/A
Prerequisites: None
Credit Hours:
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