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This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. This course is a study of the process of civil litigation from the commencement of a lawsuit through final judgment under modern statutes and rules of court, with emphasis on the federal rules of civil procedure.
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Units: 4
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Freeman Engstrom, D. (PI)
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Marshall, L. (PI)
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Spaulding, N. (PI)
LAW 203: Constitutional Law
This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. This course offers an introduction to American constitutional law. In addition to examining questions of interpretive method, the course focuses on the powers of the federal government and the allocation of decisionmaking authority among government institutions, including both federalism and separation of powers.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Martinez, J. (PI)
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McConnell, M. (PI)
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Staff, 1. (PI)
LAW 205: Contracts
This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It provides exposure to basic contract law. The course will identify the scope and purpose of the legal protection accorded to interests predicated on contract and will focus on problems of contract formation, interpretation, performance, and remedies for breach.
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Units: 4
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Cole, G. (PI)
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Craswell, R. (PI)
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Fried, B. (PI)
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Morantz, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Cole, G. (PI)
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Craswell, R. (PI)
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Fried, B. (PI)
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Morantz, A. (PI)
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Triantis, G. (PI)
LAW 207: Criminal Law
This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It examines the traditional general issues in the substantive criminal law, including the purposes of punishment and the appropriate limits on the use of the criminal sanction. It focuses predominantly on how criminal statutes are organized around objective offense elements (conduct, causation, and attendant circumstances) and mental states, and to a lesser degree on inchoate crimes, complicity, justification and excuse.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Kelman, M. (PI)
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Marshall, L. (PI)
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Mills, D. (PI)
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Weisberg, R. (PI)
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LAW 217: Property
This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It deals with possession and ownership of land and with the incidents thereof, including private and public restrictions on its use and development, nuisance, trespass, concurrent interests, landlord and tenant, and eminent domain.
Terms: Win
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Units: 4
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Kelman, M. (PI)
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Staff, 1. (PI)
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Thompson, B. (PI)
LAW 218: JSD Research Colloquium
Required for and limited to JSD candidates. The objective of the colloquium is to assist students in developing their dissertation research proposals. Weekly colloquium sessions will include a mix of lectures and discussions on selected methodological topics, relevant to the candidates' dissertation research; guest lectures by empirical legal research scholars; presentations by and discussions with more advanced doctoral candidates; and presentations by the first year JSD candidates.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 0
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Law Mandatory P/R/F
Instructors:
Hensler, D. (PI)
LAW 219: Legal Research and Writing
This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. Students work under the close supervision of a legal research and writing instructor, learning the techniques of legal library research, writing legal memoranda, drafting documents, preparing an appellate brief, and arguing orally before a moot court.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 2
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Antognini, A. (PI)
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Colgan, B. (PI)
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Gilden, A. (PI)
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Johnson, T. (PI)
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Instructors:
Antognini, A. (PI)
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Colgan, B. (PI)
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Gilden, A. (PI)
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Johnson, T. (PI)
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Matsumura, K. (PI)
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Merino, J. (PI)
LAW 221: Intellectual Property: Commercial Law
This seminar, co-taught by eBay's first In-House Counsel and former Director of Law & Public Policy, Brad Handler, examines the ways in which intellectual property rights are asserted, exchanged, protected, and respected, both in theory and in practice. Special attention is devoted to the regulatory and strategic considerations involved in the business and legal decisions implicating intellectual property. See SLS Registrar's website for prerequisites.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Cole, G. (PI)
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Handler, B. (PI)
LAW 222: Advanced Legal Research
The course is designed to prepare law students for research in practice and clerkships. The course will review who produces legal authority and how this material is organized, published, indexed and kept current. Objectives for the course: 1) to show students how to evaluate legal research sources and use them effectively, with particular emphasis on cost-effective research 2) to expand skills in primary and secondary US legal sources 3) to introduce students to the array of non-legal information resources that could be useful to legal practice. Since learning legal research requires a hands-on approach, students are required to complete homework assignments and in-class exercises. Each student is also required to analyze a recent California Supreme Court opinion.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Lomio, J. (PI)
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Wayne, E. (PI)
LAW 223: Torts
This course is part of the required first-year JD curriculum. It considers issues involved in determining whether the law should require a person to compensate for harm intentionally or unintentionally caused. These problems arise in situations as diverse as automobile collisions, operations of nuclear facilities, and consumption of defective food products. Among other considerations, the course explores various resolutions in terms of their social, economic, and political implications.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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Grading: Law Honors/Pass/R credit/Fail
Instructors:
Dauber, M. (PI)
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Engstrom, N. (PI)
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Rabin, R. (PI)
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