2012-13 Spring Master Schedule

This course surveys federal statutory protections for people with disabilities. It will focus is on discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations. It will also touch upon federal law requiring schools to provide appropriate education for students with disabilities.

This course focuses on how law is understood, interpreted, and applied both in and out of formal legal settings. Our investigations will look not only at "law on the books" but also at "law in action." Drawing on a wide variety of sources and questions that illustrate the pervasiveness of law in all areas of public and private life, students will be asked to reflect on the impact of legal classifications, reasoning, and decisions on society. At the same time, we will explore how law and legal institutions reflect political, economic, and cultural values and arrangements. Ultimately, students should come away with a deeper understanding of and the ability to more critically evaluate the role of law both in courtrooms and in everyday life.

This course studies the ways that international and transnational legal issues impact U.S. lawyers across a broad spectrum of different practice areas. Example of topics that will be covered include: civil and criminal litigation involving non-U.S. citizens, cross-border business transactions, immigration, antitrust, securities regulation, and local regulations that potentially impact U.S. foreign/diplomatic relations with other nations.

This class integrates theory and practice in an analysis of the way in which water is regulated. We will spend substantial time discussing the theory underlying such issues as: 1) whether water should be treated as a property right or human right, 2) Who should regulate water (Federalism issues), 3) How we regulate water (tools of regulation) and 4) How we choose regulatory targets (risk versus politics and issues of administrability). We will then apply the theory to an analysis of current regulatory matters such as hydrofracking, groundwater protection and wetlands protection.

This course studies the law governing administrative agencies in the task of carrying out governmental programs; interrelations of legislative, executive and judicial agencies in development of public policy; decision-making processes and internal procedures of administrative agencies, and legislative, executive, and judicial controls on them.

This course will provide students, who have already taken Contract Drafting, with the "next steps" in the transactional drafting & negotiation process. There will be two deals that students will work on during the semester. For each deal, one student will be paired with a classmate, and the students in the pair will represent different parties. By participating in the entire deal, students will learn how to negotiate and draft an initial Letter of Intent (LOI) which sets forth material deal terms and, once the LOI is executed, will negotiate & draft a final agreement. These deals will be more complex than the ones they were exposed to in Contract Drafting, and as a part of this advanced class, students will also learn a lot more about strategizing a negotiation with their client, handling negotiation with opposing counsel, redlining documents prior to execution, and seeing the contract through to completion.

This course provides students a thorough grounding in the research skills needed by today's lawyers. Students will learn how to use advanced electronic and print resources and techniques to research case law, statutes, legislative histories, administrative law, and specialized law-related topics such as business and social science research. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course provides students with advanced training in appellate advocacy, including the study of the rhetoric of persuasion, the preparation of appellate briefs and effective oral advocacy, and will include an introduction to appellate procedure. This course is required for students serving on the moot court board.

This is a continuation of LAW 947S. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic.

This course is a continuation of Introduction to Trial Advocacy and is an advanced criminal trial skills class which teaches students advanced trial skills; evidentiary issues; and case development. Students will perform exercises and develop case theories using mock criminal cases. The course will culminate with a criminal mock trial. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course will examine both state law remedies and priorities and the federal Bankruptcy Code. Topics will include elements common to all bankruptcies, as well as Chapter 7 liquidations in the consumer context, and Chapter 8 and 13 wage-earner payout plans.

This class explores the legal and ethical issues surrounding the development of new biological technologies. Topics may include the research bioethics, assisted reproductive technology, genetics, issues surrounding death and dying, and organ transplantation.

This course covers business law-related resources, in both print and electronic format, including primary and secondary sources; company information and demographics; SEC and tax information and documents; and current awareness tools. Students will learn how to locate, use and evaluate these resources. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This class studies the legal attributes of corporations, partnerships, and the limited liability of companies. It examines the rights, duties and liabilities of managers, owners, and agents. It also focuses on formation issues, operational powers and fundamental changes in business forms such as dissolution, merger, or acquisition.

This course is a continuation of LAW 943S. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic.

The goal of this interactive seminar is to assist students in becoming practice-ready when they graduate from law school. The course will explore the array of skills and values that lawyers need to be effective in working with their clients using a relationship-centered model. Participants will draw upon their real world experiences in and out of law school to develop concrete tools and techniques to communicate with clients in a wide variety of contexts and to achieve better outcomes. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course covers topics arising from the comparative study of constitutional systems. Focusing on constitutional structure and law in a variety of countries, the course will address comparative approaches to issues as judicial review, judicial appointment, separation of powers, federalism, and fundamental rights. The course will also explore fundamental, underlying questions about the nature of constitutions and constitutionalism, processes of constitution design, political constraints on constitutional rights and constitutional courts, and constitutional culture.

The course focuses on cases involving multi-jurisdictional elements. Three primary areas are covered: choice of the law approaches; enforcement in a forum of judgments rendered in another state; and jurisdiction over an out-of-state party. Both relationships among American states and issues involving state and federal law are addressed.

This course examines the basic issues in federal constitutional law. Topics include the role of the courts in interpretation of the Constitution, the scope of legislative and executive powers, the limitation of the powers of state and local governments, and an introduction to concepts of equal protection.

This course examines the basic issues in federal constitutional law. Topics include the role of the courts in interpretation of the Constitution, the scope of legislative and executive powers, the limitation of the powers of state and local governments, and an introduction to concepts of equal protection.

This course focuses on the issues and principles of drafting transactional (non-litigation) documents, such as contracts, wills and legislation. Students will complete a number of drafting assignments in and out of class. This course will include the use of form books with particular emphasis on customization of documents to a particular client's needs.

This advanced litigation course is designed to train students in how to create a strategy for handling a criminal or civil rights matter. Students will begin with substantial factual material. With this base, they will move through the processes of developing a case theory, designing an investigation and discovery strategy, targeting relevant court motions, and preparation of the case for trial.

This course examines the principles that underlie liability for criminal conduct. Topics include the definition of crimes and the principles of punishment, the required acts and mental states necessary for liability, and defenses to and justifications for conduct. Specific crimes will be discussed including conspiracy and intentional murder and manslaughter.

This course examines the principles that underlie liability for criminal conduct. Topics include the definition of crimes and the principles of punishment, the required acts and mental states necessary for liability, and defenses to and justifications for conduct. Specific crimes will be discussed including conspiracy and intentional murder and manslaughter.

This course is a continuation of LAW 941S. Students must enroll in both semesters of the clinic.

This course considers the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the Fifth Amendment's right to Due Process and against compulsory self-incriminations, and the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel, all with particular emphasis on the application of these constitutional provisions within the context of criminal investigation.

This course will study the basic rules of criminal procedure, beginning with the institution of formal proceedings. It will emphasize prosecutorial discretion, preliminary hearings, the grand jury, criminal discovery, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, jury selection, pretrial publicity, double jeopardy, the right to counsel, and pretrial release and sentencing.

Students must enter the law review writing competition and be selected as a member of the law review staff. Students will receive credit for their work in preparing each issue of the Drexel University Law Review. Enrollment by permission of the faculty supervisor(s) only. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course will survey the differing federal income tax treatments of the various forms of business and investment activities, including both corporations and partnerships.

Students in the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic serve as "staff attorneys" in Drexel University’s "Start-Up Law Clinic." Students are expected to devote an average of 20 hours per week over the semester to the work of the Clinic. The Clinic will offer business and intellectual property law counseling to entrepreneurial start-ups based in the Greater Philadelphia area. These services will range from entity formation, founders’ agreements, and employment law counseling to trademark and patent registrations and general intellectual property protection counseling. The Clinic will be a transactional law practice servicing a select number of entrepreneurial clients. The Clinic will operate in collaboration with a panel of advisors who come from the leading emerging growth lawyers in Philadelphia.

The Clinic Seminar will meet once a week, allowing participants in the Innovation Law Clinic to discuss various issues they encounter in their work in a seminar setting. There will be guest speakers and other opportunities to explore areas of law and law practice encountered in the Clinic.

This course studies the law governing proof of disputed factual matters in criminal and civil trials, including issues of relevancy, competency, hearsay, and other exclusionary rules, and the privilege of witnesses.

This course studies the law governing proof of disputed factual matters in criminal and civil trials, including issues of relevancy, competency, hearsay, and other exclusionary rules, and the privilege of witnesses.

This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to the family. Topics will include marriage, including barriers to marriage and the legal relationships between spouses; parents and children; divorce and its incidents, including child support and custody, and jurisdictional issues.

This course considers the constitutional, statutory, and judicial rules that determine whether a case is tried in state or federal court.

This course is intended to give students an understanding of the fundamental legal and policy concepts underlying the federal individual income tax. The course will focus on the statutory framework of U.S. tax laws, particular judicial authorities, and selected Treasury Department regulations and rulings.

This course examines speech and religion clauses of the First Amendment. It considers the philosophical and historical foundation of free expression; analytical problems in First Amendment jurisprudence; and the relationships between free exercise of religion and the separation of church and state.

This class will consider basic economic concepts related to health care finance and private insurance. Topics will include managed care organizations and provider owned networks, as well as the effect of major federal payment programs and the impact of ERISA health care delivery systems.

This course examines the history of the American health care system and will consider the tensions between costs and access to care. Topics will include the federal Medicare and Medicaid systems, cost controls through health insurance and federal regulation, antitrust issues, ERISA, EMTALA, and other federal regulatory regimes.

In this intensive course, students will hone their legal performance skills by studying improvisational theater techniques. The course will involve extensive hands-on performance. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course develops the practical lawyering skills of interviewing and counseling. Students will also be introduced to negotiation theory and practice.

This course will teach students to perform trial skills based on strategic themes and theories. The students will conduct direct and cross-examination of lay, party and expert witnesses, opening and closing statements, make objections and introduce exhibits. The course will culminate with each student performing in a mock trial. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course will conduct an in-depth study of juvenile justice jurisprudence, doctrine, and policy in the United States. It will consider particular constitutional issues as they relate to children in the juvenile justice system. It will also consider the major differences between the criminal justice and the juvenile justice systems.

This course focuses on the laws governing collective bargaining by unions and employees, and the laws regulating the relationship between individuals and their unions.

This seminar focuses on learning from experiences, both in the Co-op and in later professional practice. Students will study the roles being played by lawyers and the institutions where lawyers work. They will discuss their fieldwork experiences, make formal class presentations, and listen to practicing attorneys. Co-Req: Co-op

This seminar focuses on learning from experiences, both in the Co-op and in later professional practice. Students will study the roles being played by lawyers and the institutions where lawyers work. They will discuss their fieldwork experiences, make formal class presentations, and listen to practicing attorneys. Co-Req: Co-op

This seminar focuses on learning from experiences, both in the Co-op and in later professional practice. Students will study the roles being played by lawyers and the institutions where lawyers work. They will discuss their fieldwork experiences, make formal class presentations, and listen to practicing attorneys. Co-Req: Co-op

This course surveys Anglo-American legal history from the origins of the common law through the 20th century. The course will focus on the development of both legal institutions and substantive law.

This course continues Legal Methods I. Students will learn additional legal research skills and will be introduced to persuasive writing techniques.

This course continues Legal Methods I. Students will learn additional legal research skills and will be introduced to persuasive writing techniques.

This course continues Legal Methods I. Students will learn additional legal research skills and will be introduced to persuasive writing techniques.

This course continues Legal Methods I. Students will learn additional legal research skills and will be introduced to persuasive writing techniques.

This course continues Legal Methods I. Students will learn additional legal research skills and will be introduced to persuasive writing techniques.

This course explores technical and strategic issues in the drafting of litigation documents such as complaints, answers, written discovery, motions, affidavits, discovery schedules, pretrial orders, jury instructions, releases and correspondence. Students will complete a number of drafting assignments in and out of class.

Students will be selected by the faculty supervisors to serve on the moot court board. Students will develop an intra-scholastic moot court competition and will be eligible to compete in interscholastic competitions. Students must take Appellate Advocacy before or during the semester of their external competition. Enrollment by permission of the faculty supervisor(s) only. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course will examine the legal frameworks governing the use of national security powers by the U.S. government. It will explore the exercise of military force, the structures of the law enforcement and intelligence communities, and the legality of counterterrorism-related activities.

This course provides an introduction to patent infringement litigation in the federal courts and will focus on the special aspects of patent litigation arising from its technical nature.

This course focuses on drafting patents, strategy and tactics before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and standards for patentability in the context of business effectiveness and ethical requirements.

This is a practicum in which students work on behalf of individuals claiming they were wrongly convicted of a crime and seeking exoneration. Each student will be assigned cases under the supervision of an attorney. In the course of investigating factual claims and researching legal issues, students will review criminal files, interact with investigators, contact other attorneys, interview the client and witnesses, gather documentation, and prepare legal documents and memoranda. Students will also learn the law relevant to both innocence claims and legal issues in their cases. Grading is Credit/No Credit

In this course, students will become familiar with Pennsylvania primary resources (including cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, etc.) and Pennsylvania secondary legal resources (including practice guides, treatises, and CLE materials.) The class will cover all available resources, including print resources, free electronic resources, and subscription database resources. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course explores unique issues related to civil litigation in Pennsylvania.

The course has three primary purposes: (1) to help us understand who the poor are, what their lives are like, and, to a limited extent, to understand how the poor understand their own lives and situations; (2) to explore various explanations for wealth inequality and poverty and to consider possible societal responses to poverty; and (3) to survey legal topics of significance to lawyers who represent low-income Americans. Thus, readings for the course will include sociological, historical, ethnographic, and policy works on poverty and its causes; and also more orthodox legal materials: statutes, cases, law review articles, and reference materials prepared for legal aid lawyers.

This course is designed for students with an interest in litigation. Students will learn the major steps in the pretrial litigation process including theory development, client interviewing, informal fact investigation, pleading, discovery, depositions, pretrial motions, jury selection, and the settlement process.

This course will examine the ethical duties of lawyers toward clients, courts, and society. The course emphasizes the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the Model Code of Professional Responsibility, and relevant case law. Topics covered include confidentiality, conflicts of interest, competence, fee arrangements, and the unauthorized practice of law.

This course examines the basic elements of the law of real and personal property. Topics include ownership and possession of property, gifts, the rights of bona fide purchasers, adverse possession, estates and future interests in real property, and co-ownership and concurrent interests.

This upper-level property course studies the legal aspects of residential and commercial real estate sales, development and finance.

This course explores the treatment of foreign refugees and political asylees, with particular emphasis on relevant statutes, regulations and treaties.

This course provides an introduction to the law governing contractually created interest on personal property used to secure payment or performance of obligations. Students will study the creation, perfection, priority, and enforcement of security interests in personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

This course examines securities market regulation, including registration, exemption, and remedies under the Securities Act of 1933; reporting and accounting standards under the 1934 Act; the proxy system; and the regulation of broker-dealers, specialists, and self-regulatory organizations.

This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and resources required to establish or manage a law firm. Topics will include marketing, office management, case management, and ethical considerations. Grading is Credit/No Credit.

This course will consist of an in-depth study of mass tort litigation of all kinds, at both the state and federal level, focusing primarily on the manufacture and distribution of defective and toxic products and pharmaceuticals. Class actions will be studied as a remedial tool.

This course analyzes the law of unfair commercial practices. It covers trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, infringement, interference with contractual relationships, appropriation of intellectual property created by another, defamation, disparagement, false advertising, unfair methods of competition, unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and remedies.

This hands-on skills course places students in the role of dealmakers. Students must anticipate legal problems and create agreements that avoid those pitfalls.

This hands-on skills course places students in the role of dealmakers. Students must anticipate legal problems and create agreements that avoid those pitfalls.

Grading is Credit/No Credit. Pre-Reqs: Evidence; Pretrial Advocacy; Introduction to Trial Advocacy

This course will prepare students for the written portions of the bar exam - essays and performance test questions. Students will develop their exam-writing skills by taking practice questions under exam conditions and receiving critiques of their answers. Students will also review several areas of substantive law commonly tested on bar exams. Grading is Credit/No Credit. Note: The course is not intended as a substitute for a commercial bar review course. Students sitting for bar exams that do not have a performance test will take additional essay practice tests instead of practice performance tests.

This course will prepare students for the written portions of the bar exam - essays and performance test questions. Students will develop their exam-writing skills by taking practice questions under exam conditions and receiving critiques of their answers. Students will also review several areas of substantive law commonly tested on bar exams. Grading is Credit/No Credit. Note: The course is not intended as a substitute for a commercial bar review course. Students sitting for bar exams that do not have a performance test will take additional essay practice tests instead of practice performance tests.

This course will prepare students for the written portions of the bar exam - essays and performance test questions. Students will develop their exam-writing skills by taking practice questions under exam conditions and receiving critiques of their answers. Students will also review several areas of substantive law commonly tested on bar exams. Grading is Credit/No Credit. Note: The course is not intended as a substitute for a commercial bar review course. Students sitting for bar exams that do not have a performance test will take additional essay practice tests instead of practice performance tests.