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This is a course about the law governing private agreements. The course analyzes the criteria for determining whether or not a particular promise or voluntary agreement is legally enforceable and... |
The course provides an introduction to principles of sound legal analysis for incoming first-year students. Topics include: structure of the legal system, analysis of rule creation and rule... |
Legal Research and Writing is the students’ foundational clinical course and focuses on practice-oriented legal analysis. During this yearlong course students develop the analytic skill set needed by... |
This course covers selected topics in substantive criminal law: principles underlying the definition of crime such as the requirements of actus reus and mens rea and general doctrines such as... |
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An analysis of property as a social institution and particularly of the dynamics of the system for recognizing and protecting competing claims to resources. Major problem areas to be studied include... |
This course focuses on personal injury law, as it has developed within the Anglo-American legal tradition. In particular, the concept of negligence and the refinements of negligence law will be... |
This is a course about the processes that courts follow in deciding disputes in noncriminal cases. It deals with the way in which conflicts are framed for courts, the stages through which litigation... |
This course examines ways in which the United States Constitution (a) distributes power among the various units of government in the American political system, and (b) limits the exercise of those... |
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The First Year Epstein Program Workshop is designed to provide students with an overview of public interest practice. Through readings, guest speakers, and class discussion, students gain familiarity... |
This course is the first year students’ foundational clinical course, focusing on the essential aspects of the lawyer-client relationship. Students will be trained through the clinical method on... |
"Modes of Legal Inquiry" is a collection of electives: one-credit courses, offered on a pass/unsatisfactory/no credit basis. The Modes of Legal Inquiry will be taught in small, seminar-style classes... |
R. Goldstein J. Varat E. Volokh This course complements Constitutional Law I. It is devoted mainly to the study of the First Amendment's guarantees of the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly. The course also considers the First... |
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P. Arenella D. Carbado J. Chacón B. Colgan D. Dolinko K. Lapp L. Levenson R. Re This course studies Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment constitutional restraints on the activities of law enforcement officers during the investigatory stage of the criminal process. Special... |
Arbitration has become an important aspect of legal practice in such disparate fields as securities regulation, commercial law, employment law, family law, labor law, medical malpractice,... |
E. Bawden J. Daar S. French P. Goodman This course surveys the law of wills and trusts. Topics include: interstate succession, wills (with an emphasis on execution and revocation), will substitutes, planning for incapacity, trusts, and... |
This course is a detailed examination of the California community property system, which has long regulated property relations between husband and wife during marriage and at its termination by... |
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This is a concentrated study of the law governing the financing of land transactions from both a national and California perspective. Coverage includes the California deed of trust, installment land... |
In 1991, Professor Judith Resnik argued that the federal courts no longer decided “cases” but instead managed “litigation.” An international marketplace and a broad-based consumer society have made... |
P. Bergman I. Eagly L. Levenson J. Mnookin P. Reich E. Scallen P. Wonsowicz This course examines the law governing the admission of evidence, focusing on the Federal Rules of Evidence (and to a lesser extent the California Evidence Code), related case law, and federal... |
This course addresses the constitutional and statutory provisions, as well as the judicially-created doctrines, that shape and limit the role that federal courts play in our system of government. It... |
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This course will examine the current state of regulation and litigation surrounding advertising—especially TV and internet advertising—in the United States. The enormous growth in advertising has led... |
This is a survey course intended to review both the causal and remedial relationship of law to racial discrimination. The material will provide a brief review of the historic development of race as a... |
This course is an introduction to the legal, normative, and organizational principles that undergird the administrative state. We will study the sources of law for agency action and examine the ways... |
This course will provide an introduction to some of the central issues in the philosophy of law. We will specifically consider questions in analytical jurisprudence (the study of the nature of law)... |
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Survey of the federal gift, estate, and generation skipping transfer taxes, with emphasis on the tax consequences of various methods of transferring wealth during life and at death. While there are... |
This class explores current important issues related to taxation in a global economy. The goal is to provide an understanding of these issues, their relationship to the US and some non-US tax... |
This is a survey course that examines the basic legal aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, which are among the most dynamic and complex strategic activities firms undertake. Students will... |
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I. Anabtawi S. Bainbridge S. Bank S. Cummings S. Kim L. LoPucki J. Park UCLA offers basic courses in Business Associations. A course in Business Associations is a foundational requirement in the Business Law Specialization. Different instructors have different emphases... |
This course offers an advanced treatment of key topics in corporate law and governance. It assumes that students have taken the basic course in Business Associations. Corporate governance is... |
This course examines legal and policy challenges stemming from rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. Cyber insecurities affect many types of actors—for example, individuals who suffer... |
This course introduces basic accounting principles, concepts and terminology. It is intended for the law student who does not have an accounting background. Permission of the instructor to enroll is... |
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This course offers an introduction to the federal securities laws, covering the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as well as the regulations enacted by the... |
Over the last two decades, the compensation of chief executive officers and other top executives has been one of the most controversial areas of law and corporate governance. Throughout the... |
This course is a basic one-semester introduction to federal antitrust law, including the rules against price-fixing, market division, monopolization, attempts to monopolize, tie-ins, and exclusive... |
This course reflects an integrated approach to the television industry, and the role of lawyers and legal doctrine within it. The course will focus on new challenges faced by the industry in response... |
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Prescription drugs and medical devices dominate the news. Whether through breakthrough medical advances in areas such as orthopedics, obstetrics, cardiology, oncology, or a variety of psychiatric... |
D. Bussel K. Klee A. Stremitzer This course is an introduction to federal bankruptcy law with an emphasis on the restructuring of businesses. The class will provide a solid foundation in bankruptcy law both for those who are... |
This course surveys the taxation and structuring aspects of corporate and partnership merger and acquisition transactions. Coverage will include tax-free corporate acquisitions and divisions, the tax... |
Debt is pervasive in the American economy. Security interests, mortgages, and liens are the legal devices by which the parties to loans, deals, and other transactions establish the power relationship... |
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Business Torts is a two-unit course that covers the commercial tort claims most frequently asserted in business litigation. Unlike the first-year torts class, which focuses on conduct causing... |
Professional Responsibility Issues in Sophisticated Business Transactions, Litigations, and Reorganizations will examine the legal and ethical obligations of lawyers representing corporate clients in... |
International commercial arbitration is the single most important means to resolve cross-border commercial disputes in today’s flat world economy. This course provides students with the fundamental... |
This course will focus on the federal law governing relations between private-sector employers and workers acting collectively through unions. We will study union organizing, collective bargaining... |
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What this course is. This course surveys American employment law, with an emphasis on California law. We will not take a chronological, cradle to grave (i.e., hiring to firing) approach. Instead, we... |
This course examines the regulation of employment discrimination through Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related laws. It offers a comprehensive introduction to conceptualizing and... |
Throughout American history, race has profoundly affected the lives of individuals, the growth of social institutions, the substance of culture, and the workings of our political economy. Not... |
This course provides an overview of federal Indian law through a study of cases and historical and contemporary materials. It covers the basic conflicts among sovereign governments which dominate... |
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This course is an introductory examination of U.S. national security law. We will study questions relating to the exercise of military force, the conduct of intelligence operations, and the... |
This course examines the legal rules and institutions that govern and influence world politics, as well as analyzing the politics of international law. International law today is more complex and... |
This course examines the legal framework of private international business transactions, including: the international sale of goods; bills of lading; letters of credit; government regulation of... |
This course examines the most important legal frameworks governing international trade relations between states. Focusing on the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the North American Free... |
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K. Abou El Fadl E. Achiume A. Bâli Many of the most significant and troubling trends in international law and international relations today center on fundamental questions of human rights. The rise of international human rights... |
This course is a two-credit introduction to U.S. trademark and unfair competition law. It covers federal trademark infringement and dilution, the tension between trademark rights and the First... |
This course will focus on the comparative study of the structure and content of constitutional law in both older and newer democracies around the world. After initial discussion of the concept of... |
This introduction to comparative law course focuses primarily, although not exclusively, on studying two legal traditions, (1) the "civil law" tradition that originated in continental Europe but... |
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An examination of recent high profile, education-related disputes at both the K-12 and higher ed levels. Topics to be explored include campus safety and privacy, student freedom of expression,... |
This course will consider the source, scope, and limits of local government power. It will consider the relationship of local governments to state and federal government and of the relationship of... |
In this course, we will study the legal regulation of the urban environment. Developers, environmentalists, homeowners, interest groups and other political actors are constrained and empowered by a... |
A. Carlson S. Hecht C. Horowitz E. Parson This introductory course will focus on the variety of legal mechanisms that regulate the environment, including common law doctrines such as nuisance as well as major U.S. federal statutes such as... |
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This course introduces students to the federal income taxation of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. Topics covered will include choosing the appropriate entity, formation of... |
This course examines the laws that address the legal status and management of public lands and natural resources, as well as the history, theory and legal authority that have shaped our country’s... |
The subject of this course is the criminal process "from bail to jail." We examine the theory, policy, history, and development of the constitutional and non-constitutional procedural components... |
In this course, we will study topics such as international and transnational crimes (such as crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, corruption, narcotics and money laundering, and torture);... |
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This course explores the theory and substance of federal criminal law. Throughout the term, we visit the question of the proper role of the federal government in law enforcement, as well as the... |
This course is a survey of the law of remedies. It considers the central remedies of modern American law, including various forms of damages, injunctions, restitution, and declaratory judgments.... |
This course studies the emergence of “art” and “cultural property” law as a field of legal inquiry and practice. Broadly defined, the field encompasses the body of law applied to fine art and... |
This course is a comprehensive four credit introduction to U.S. copyright law. The course begins with copyright's underlying policies and theoretical framework. It then examines the requirements... |
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of the music business and is designed to provide a basic framework for students to begin to understand the complex legal, business and financial issues... |
This course provides an overview of the legal, business and financial aspects of the entertainment industry, specifically in the fields of motion picture, television, and digital content production... |
A. Heinrich A. Iancu D. Lichtman This is an introductory course in patent law and patent strategy. Although the readings will at times cover technical areas, no technical background is required or even helpful. Instead, our... |
Patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret law are increasingly playing a central role in the economy, in business strategy, in scientific achievement, and in culture as well. This survey is... |
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The field of animal law has grown tremendously in the past decade. There is substantial litigation and reform legislation designed to help animals we currently exploit for food, entertainment, and... |
S. Cummings S. Derian S. Kim J. Lipner T. Parr E. Scivoletto A. Winkler This course satisfies the Professional Responsibility Requirement and deals with the law and ethics of lawyering; that is, the standards of law and the ethics that lawyers are held to (or aspire to)... |
This course deals with legal conflicts arising in multistate transactions, both within the federal system and in the international sphere. The emphasis will be on choice of law, but recognition of... |
Disability Law provides an introduction to areas of U.S. domestic law and policy that address the civil rights, needs, and treatment of persons with disabilities. The course covers the Americans with... |
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L. Baldwin Clark G. Blumberg F. Olsen This four-credit survey course on Family Law introduces students to marriage and divorce (including child custody, property division, spousal maintenance, and child support); civil union,... |
This course explores the rapidly-evolving ways in which the law constructs, regulates, and concerns sexuality. The course is largely an advanced constitutional law course (equal protection and... |
Many of the rules that govern the modern legal order come from statutes enacted by legislatures and from regulations issued by administrative agencies. While most law school classes focus on case... |
This course is an introduction into the law, policy, politics, ethics, and economics of health care in the United States. We will explore and discuss the legal and policy considerations that have... |
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This course examines the legal and social status of women in modern American society, law and policy relating to that status, legal tools developed to address sexual inequality, and the... |
The course focuses on the answers to four principal questions: who is a citizen of the United States?; who else can come to this country as an immigrant or a visitor?; when and why can non-citizens... |
This course examines the rights (and responsibilities) of non-citizens. Put differently, this course analyzes when and how questions of membership in U.S. society are complicated by immigration and... |
This course introduces students to Jewish law, beginning with biblical law and continuing through its rabbinic interpretation and expansion over 2500 years to our own day. This legal system is based... |
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This course introduces students to the field of Islamic law. It is designed to give students a firm grounding in the principles, concepts and terminology of Islamic law. Islamic law is one of the... |
Students undertake legal research under the supervision of a faculty member resulting in an original scholarly paper analyzing a particular area of law. All work must be done under a faculty member’s... |
Students undertake legal research under the supervision of a faculty member resulting in an original scholarly paper analyzing a particular area of law. All work must be done under a faculty member’s... |
This course is designed to teach the basics of complex financing techniques commonly utilized by practicing lawyers in representing clients in raising capital in the global private institutional debt... |
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Students undertake original research, usually involving empirical or field study, and produce a paper analyzing their findings. All work must be done under a faculty member’s supervision, and several... |
The European Union is an economic and political union of 28 member states and nearly 500 million citizens, and forms the world’s largest trading bloc. It also represents the fastest and most... |
This course provides an introduction to energy law and regulation in the United States. It covers basic principles of rate regulation and public utilities; the division of jurisdiction between... |
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This course will survey a broad array of California civil procedure topics, including topics which may be tested on the California Bar Exam. Because a study of civil procedure requires extensive... |
This survey course examines the entertainment industry through the various unions and Guilds in the creative and production spheres that comprise the industry. Because the entertainment industry is... |
This course focuses on the financial analysis skills lawyers need to better represent their clients on a variety of issues. As a foundation course in the Business Law Program, this course is also... |
The nonprofit sector is a vibrant part of our economy, providing multiple types of paid employment opportunities, including legal work in for-profit organizations that have associated charitable... |
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This course will provide an intensive introduction to the sequential distribution of theatrical motion pictures, both domestic and international. It will focus on the business relationships the major... |
This course addresses the legal aspects of the U.S. government's efforts to prevent terrorism and investigate and prosecute terrorists. It examines the crimes and special approaches (including... |
As dissent becomes criminalized and activity that has previously been considered legitimate dissent can land one in jail, the distinction between exercising freedom of speech and engaging in civil... |
According to the Wall Street Journal, "it has become evident in recent years that the serious business of governing the United States is largely being done in the States." To meet the demand for... |
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This course will introduce students to international refugee law and U.S. asylum law. Some background in immigration law would be helpful, but it is not necessary. Students without any background in... |
This course addresses some of the most pressing and interesting constitutional questions raised by new technologies. Issues to be considered include the tension between anonymous speech and allegedly... |
Courses in criminal law tend to focus on the “front end” of the criminal justice process: investigation, prosecution, and verdict. But for those offenders sentenced to prison, the trial process is... |
We will examine the nature and structure of, and the multidisciplinary legal rules relevant to, start-up companies and venture capital transactions. The course is designed to provide students:i. an... |
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Course is limited. Application to enroll is by invitation only; deadline 12:00 noon, Friday, October 19. Graded on a Pass/No Pass basis.The course explores the fundamentals of effective written legal... |
Although numbers and empirical analysis now pervade many fields of law, most lawyers have few skills in presenting or interpreting data or quantitative arguments. This course develops those skills. ... |
S. Anayah C. Fischer R. Fordon K. Gerson J. Kruger L. McClelland E. Meyers This course is designed to provide students with the research skills needed in the practice of law. |
The Advanced Real Estate Transactions course examines the principal business and legal issues arising in each phase of typical real estate investment and development transactions. The course starts... |
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This course will help prepare students for responsible leadership and service in the many roles that lawyers perform both in and out of legal practice, and in their roles as social change agents.... |
The law is fundamentally concerned with human behavior, and every behavior is enabled by a brain. But does understanding the neuroscience – brain mechanism – behind a behavior matter for the law?... |
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This course examines U.S. contact law from a transactional approach. The course is an introduction to main topics in contract law, including issues of formation, enforceability, defenses,... |
This is a course on the Supreme Court of the United States, with a special emphasis on the Court’s status as a political institution in American life. As lawyers and citizens, we mostly are... |
This course offers a fresh way to introduce students to philosophy of law. (No previous study of philosophy is required.) We’ll engage with cutting-edge work — the most exciting developments of the... |
Given global markets and the ease at which patented inventions, trademark-protected goodwill, and copyright-protected works cross borders, intellectual property infringement litigation increasingly... |
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Most lawyers will work, at some point in their careers, in a small or medium-sized law firm. For many law students, their first job will be with such a firm. Students in this course will acquire the... |
Students explore the practice of law from the perspective of their personal approach to life and the values that matter to them most, as well as examine the oft-inherent conflict between the practice... |
Whether our goal is to convince one person in a face-to-face encounter, influence a group, sway an entire organization, or win over the public, persuasion lies at the heart of our personal and... |
This course provides a general introduction to death penalty law and practice in the United States. We will explore the constitutional and legal structure of capital punishment (i.e., common law... |
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This course, which is open to students who are currently enrolled in Immigration Law or who have taken Immigration Law (or a comparable course) in a prior semester, is focused on providing a more... |
This course will examine sports law in an international and comparative context. We will study the ways in which public, quasi-public, and private regulation have interacted, often ineffectively and... |
The objective of this course is to provide new lawyers with the accounting and financial skills required to better serve their clients. Students will gain qualitative and quantitative aptitude in the... |
This course introduces the regulatory regime that governs the broadcast radio, broadcast television, cable television, wireline telephone, wireless telephone, and Internet industries. Students... |
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This course examines how society manages-–or fails to manage-–environmental issues that fall beyond the authority or capability of one national government. Class sessions will be divided roughly... |
UCLA School of Law has established the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy, which has emerged as a thought leader in this new field. The Resnick Center recognizes the important role of food law... |
This course is an introduction to public health law and policy in the United States. We will discuss ways that law can and should be used to improve health, focusing on the legal basis and limits of... |
In coming decades, nearly all of the growth in global pollution emissions is expected to come from developing countries. For example, more than 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions between 2012... |
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This 3-unit course, taught by a professor from Anderson School of Management, focuses on important aspects of starting a new business enterprise with emphasis on the challenges faced by an... |
The aim of this course is to provide law school students with a strong foundation in securities markets, investments, and valuation. Topics include discounting and present values, the valuation of... |
This course surveys the emerging field of Reentry Law with a focus on the profound labor market consequences of racialized mass incarceration. Students will learn the key technical features of and... |
This course reinforces and enhances students existing Spanish communication skills in legal practice. The class will cover a broad range of legal contexts, while building students practical legal... |
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This course will focus on doctrine, policy, and practice relating to the class action as a device for resolving claims by multiple parties arising from a common set of facts or events. Topics covered... |
This course will analyze the major challenges of Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law at a global level. The contribution of constitutions, constitutional litigation and constitutional rights to the... |
The purpose of the course is to give students an introduction to the field of the international Law of the Sea. The course focuses on the contemporary legal regime governing maritime relations,... |
The course will provide an overview of the broad range of legal issues related to the growing international and domestic problem of human trafficking. Conservative estimates are that around a... |
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The course will provide students, from the perspective of one who has been deeply involved in the legal developments under study, a unique view of key aspects of the evolving law and practice of... |
This course considers whether and to what extent international human rights law applies to the actions of states outside their sovereign territories. And what it requires of states insofar as it does... |
P. Goodman P. Reich E. Scallen T. Schneider This course is designed to prepare the foreign lawyer for American legal study. It is required for any LL.M. student who has not previously earned a law degree in the U.S. The course provides... |
This course provides an introduction to American Constitutional Law in its historic, social, and political context. It surveys the U.S. Supreme Court’s treatment of federalism, separation of powers,... |
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This course covers specialized, advanced issues of current interest to transactional lawyers in the motion picture and television industries. The topics change from year to year. In spring 2019,... |
This course will investigate the legal and policy implications of current topics in criminal law and procedure, including: civil asset forfeiture, opioid abuse, marijuana legalization, mens rea... |
This seminar and workshop allows students to explore topics introduced in the basic corporate law and securities regulation classes in greater depth. It does so through a combination of course... |
Requirements: four brief response papers and one research paper This seminar will have three thematic parts. First, it will look at the changing nature of the employment relationship and its... |
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This course will provide an intensive look at California’s approaches to several areas of environmental and natural resources law. California’s environmental regulatory systems raise important... |
This course explores the identity, ownership, appropriation and repatriation of both tangible and intangible cultural property – those items which are of great significance to the cultural heritage... |
This seminar examines the increasing powerful theory and practice of "running government like a business." We will consider local, state, and federal case studies in which government operates... |
This seminar examines how tax regimes can influence a country’s economic development. Topics include: the goals of tax systems in developing and developed countries, taxation and economic growth,... |
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This seminar revisits the foundations of American Property law by examining its precepts and some seminal cases in the contexts of conquest and gentrification. More specifically, it explores the... |
A. Heinrich A. Iancu D. Lichtman K. Orso This seminar is designed to allow students to delve deeply into current issues and controversies in patent law. The seminar is co-taught by two partners from the law firm of Irell & Manella who... |
A growing body of evidence suggests that high levels of housing segregation in the U.S. are the root cause of persistent black/white gaps in mortality, employment, cognitive skills and general... |
Students in this seminar will study the past and present legal systems of Native American tribal nations. There will be detailed examination of several different tribal systems, such as Navajo,... |
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This course introduces students to philosophical questions that arise when trying to explain and justify the laws that empower individuals to make legally enforceable contracts, as well as the laws... |
G. Blasi S. Cummings I. Eagly J. Nanda V. Narro J. Schwartz R. Sears This seminar is a required course for the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and enrollment is limited to Epstein Program students. Building on the First Year Epstein Program... |
Tax policy is at the heart of many of the most important public policy issues that we face in our society. How should we allocate the cost of government? Should the tax code be used to influence... |
This yearlong research and writing seminar gives students the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge scholarship in the areas of entertainment, media, and intellectual property law, with a... |
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This Workshop aims to deepen and sharpen students’ capacity to produce high-quality legal analysis. To do so, the Workshop will require students on a daily basis to train in order to improve the... |
This seminar will explore contemporary controversies about, and the actual practice of, constitutional interpretation, with a non-exclusive focus on the Supreme Court of the United States. Among the... |
The seminar will focus on what (if anything) makes it morally permissible for the state to inflict “hard treatment” on people, against their will, provided they have been found guilty of criminal... |
This seminar will examine the development, articulation and application of “Intersectionality” as both a theoretical frame and a discursive practice in law, human rights and social justice advocacy.... |
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M. Greenberg S. Munzer L. Sager S. Shiffrin The Legal Theory Workshop brings leading scholars from around the world to discuss their works in progress with law students, graduate students in philosophy, and interested faculty. All the papers... |
What is a political crime? Is there a meaningful distinction between a political as opposed to a non-political or common crime? And what is the relationship of political crimes to terrorism? This... |
This seminar examines the theoretical underpinnings of several major types of regulation, as well as the practical issues involved in implementing and enforcing each. We will explore the selection... |
E. Achiume S. Bainbridge A. Bâli S. Bank S. Banner D. Bussel D. Carbado A. Carlson B. Colgan S. Cummings J. Dienstag S. Dolovich I. Eagly K. Eichensehr M. Greenberg J. Horwitz J. Kang S. Kim K. Klee R. Korobkin D. Lichtman J. Michaels J. Mnookin N. Netanel J. Oh F. Olsen E. Parson K. Raustiala R. Re A. Riley L. Sager R. Sander J. Schwartz S. Shiffrin C. Spillenger J. Varat E. Volokh J. Zasloff E. Zolt These seminars are designed to give students the chance to discuss engaging texts pertaining to law, lawyering, and their emerging professional identities in a non-traditional, collegial and... |
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The purposes of this seminar are several. First, it seeks to provide a deeper, more contextualized study for some of the cases and topics that students are likely to have encountered in... |
The subset of international law relating to the conduct of war – known as international humanitarian law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict – plays a prominent role in contemporary debates about law... |
S. Biegel E. Scallen E. Volokh This year-long seminar is designed for advanced law students who wish to develop and complete a full-length, high-quality legal article (or “comment”) of publishable quality in a collaborative... |
This course is designed to prepare the foreign lawyer for legal study in the United States. It is designed for any LL.M. student who has not previously earned a law degree in the United States, and... |
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This seminar is required for all writing advisors in the Lawyering Skills Program and is open only to those writing advisors. The seminar reinforces the analytical and writing skills taught in the... |
This course will introduce students to the procedural regulation of impact litigation brought in the public interest. Public interest litigation regularly raises a number of complex procedural... |
This seminar explores major legal controversies afflicting the digital economy. In particular, the seminar asks how “property” and “monopoly power” should be defined to promote prosperity when... |
This is a seminar focused on guiding students conducting original empirical legal research. It introduces the fundamentals of research design, statistics and data analysis in the first half of the... |
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This course examines the law governing the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. The Constitution sets out the basic framework for foreign relations law, but it leaves much unsaid and at least as much... |
Sexual politics cut across issues in human rights, encompassing debates about gender equality, cultural relativism, sexual orientation, human trafficking, and HIV/AIDS. This seminar explores the role... |
From ancient times, law, justice, government, and responsibility have been major themes in many great works of literature. The primary emphasis of this seminar will be the consideration of a number... |
In this highly participatory seminar, students will assess the complex relationship among disruptive technologies, law, and regulation, with an emphasis on the U.S. legal system. The course will draw... |
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Global climate change has emerged as the most significant environmental, if not societal, issue of our era. This seminar will explore cutting-edge public policy, legal, and scientific challenges... |
To a growing degree, the sophisticated practice of law requires a familiarity with quantitative methods and an understanding of how judges apply these methods in hearing and deciding cases. This... |
This seminar focuses on the interface between two important subjects: law and popular culture. Before class, students will see a series of films or television shows relating to law, lawyers, and... |
UCLA School of Law offers various opportunities for its students, and for law students in other countries, to gain exposure to international law and the legal systems and cultures of other nations.... |
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This seminar allows students to write a seminar paper on a topic of their choice, subject to instructor approval, in the field of mergers and acquisitions. The course consists of three parts,... |
New technologies are transforming the experience, regulation, and even meaning of personal privacy. Digital surveillance for law-enforcement purposes presents one salient aspect of this broader... |
This course will examine the intersection of law, health and public policy as applied through medical-legal partnerships. An emerging national trend poised to expand under the implementation of... |
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This course will examine the important trends in European political and constitutional theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, that is, the political theory that was current and... |
The course will enroll up to 24 students, from law and other graduate programs, who will each week read the work of a scholar who will present a paper on the topic of either climate change and/or... |
In this seminar, we will explore issues in medical ethics and law that are almost always in the headlines and fall under the broad umbrella of "reproduction." We will examine how the institutions of... |
This seminar will help prepare students to defend clients charged with crimes, especially in difficult or controversial cases. It explores how, why, and when injustices arise and develops tools to... |
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This course provides an overview of comparative criminal procedure. Its goal is not only to study how other legal systems regulate the criminal process, but also to enable a deeper understanding of... |
More than half of the U.S. population lives near a coast, and we rely on coasts and oceans for a variety of important services like food, transportation, recreation, energy, and goods movement. ... |
This course is intended for those interested in sophisticated international legal argumentation or those interested in scholarly debates over international law. The seminar will explore competing... |
This course will cover the development, theories, and practice of environmental justice law, specifically analyzing the legal and policy tools used by advocates to advance environmental justice. The... |
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The seminar examines traditional legal theory from a feminist perspective and explores alternative feminist views of legal issues and standard jurisprudential quandaries. Students planning to publish... |
“So what is our role as lawyers? How can we make transformative work—both in our profession and our communities—real? I do not know the answers to these difficult questions. I do not even know if... |
This seminar examines contemporary issues of and scholarship on health reform. The seminar will provide a framework from which to understand and evaluate the ethical, empirical and legal... |
Courses in criminal law tend to focus on the “front end” of the criminal justice process: investigation, prosecution, and verdict. This seminar will cover a series of topics pertaining to the “back... |
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Over the last 35 years, China has embarked on an unprecedented effort to build a legal system and a cadre of lawyers, judges, and law professors essentially from scratch. The progress of that effort... |
This course examines issues legal issues integral to governance that Native American nations face in the 21st century, including those that impact and shape: political sovereignty, economic... |
This seminar will introduce students to international refugee law and U.S. asylum law. Some background in immigration law would be helpful, but it is not necessary. Students without any background in... |
The Supreme Court famously called education "the very foundation of good citizenship" and designated it "the most important function of state and local government." Today, Americans continue to... |
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This course will examine the nature of “the executive power” from legal, theoretical, and historical perspectives. The executive branch exercises vast legal authority, in the form of executive... |
This seminar will focus on race-conscious remedies designed to ameliorate race discrimination and inequality. Preliminary focus will be on the location of race-conscious remedies within the existing... |
M. Grady J. Horwitz A. Stremitzer The UCLA Law and Economics Workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop attended by students and faculty members. Speakers from other universities will be invited to present working papers on law and... |
Students will participate along with faculty in the law school's weekly Critical Race Studies Workshop. Every week we will discuss a work-in-progress. These works will be presented scholars across... |
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Central to the extraordinary success of the American experiment is the ability of religious minorities to thrive. This success is largely attributable to the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and... |
In recent decades, sex discrimination scholarship has moved beyond its initial focus on legal doctrine and constitutional arguments to develop a criticism of the legal system itself. This seminar... |
This seminar briefly introduces students to international criminal law, then focuses on contemporary issues facing the International Criminal Court (ICC). At each weekly class meeting, we will... |
In an increasingly globalized world, corporate law is becoming international. Companies operate across borders, and lawyers are expected to understand foreign systems. This seminar provides both an... |
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In a growing number of U.S. cities, deteriorating economic conditions have put in jeopardy standard public services most Americans take for granted: potable water, police and fire protection,... |
This seminar will confront the myriad issues posed by the recent case of Garcia v. Google. A bit-part actor became subject to an Egyptian cleric's fatwa after her role in Innocence of Muslims was... |
The U.S. health care system is the most expensive system (per capita) on earth, often not particularly effective at improving health, and terribly controversial. The members of this course will... |
This course will cover the major topics dealing with barriers and protections for racial minority participation in the political process, including voting rights law, reapportionment, redistricting,... |
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The 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause is the constitutional provision that limits what the state can do to convicted criminal offenders as punishment. Substantive challenges to... |
Why are people wrongfully convicted? There are a variety of reasons: some involve people who act with intentional bad faith, or who make decisions that are bad or unintentionally biased; others... |
This course will introduce students to sociology as a theoretical framework through which to understand law. The course will use sociological texts liberally to examine law “on the ground” as opposed... |
In the United States and abroad, policy makers and educators are increasingly driven by the idea that high school graduates must emerge ready to conquer college and the rapidly changing... |
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The course will provide an overview of the broad range of legal issues related to the growing international and domestic problem of human trafficking. Conservative estimates are that around a... |
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest public health crises of the past four decades and has resulted in significant legislation and public policy geared toward both infected and affected... |
This course will undertake a systematic study of the role of law in constructing, defining, and negotiating the Muslim “other” in the American legal system. Since the commencement of the war on... |
This comparative course focuses on the global legal environment in which counterterrorism efforts function today. The course focuses on a comparative analysis of the different legal definitions of... |
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This seminar canvasses a range of issues and views regarding how to structure innovation law and policy to spur greater technological innovation. Much debated issues in this area include whether... |
This course provides an overview of the legal profession, including the business, culture, and ethics of lawyering in different practice contexts. Ethical issues for lawyers will be studied as they... |
This course will cover a wide spectrum of legal issues relating to modern news media, including constitutional law and the laws of defamation, privacy, newsgathering and intellectual property. Given... |
This class explores the fundamental principles that underlie theories of human rights and asks to what extent such principles also require rights for animals (and perhaps nature more generally).... |
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This seminar in moral and legal philosophy will investigate the concept of legal authority and its relationship to human rights. The seminar will have three parts. The first will lay the groundwork... |
This course will examine the challenges posed to legal arrangements and institutions of government by certain societal trends – principally related to technological advance and environmental stress –... |
Issues of race and racial inequality have shaped American history and continue to be at the forefront of debates about justice, fairness, and equality. The legal system has developed particular... |
This seminar provides an overview of some of the core ethical concerns in today’s global politics, centering on the question of what demands justice imposes on agents and institutions acting in a... |
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Water law presents a unique mix of federal and state regulatory regimes over a resource that is scarce yet ubiquitous and, of course, essential to life. In this course, we will consider different... |
In the United States, 69% of adults are overweight or obese and noncommunicable diseases (and especially heart disease) are by far the leading cause of death. These staggering figures continue to... |
In the past 35 years, weather-related disasters in the United States have resulted in damages of more than $1 trillion. Hurricane Katrina alone resulted in over $80 billion in damage, claimed nearly... |
This antitrust seminar will study legal and economic issues that arise in merger analysis under the antitrust laws, during enforcement agency review and in litigation. The seminar aims to have... |
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This seminar will focus on the right to keep and bear arms. We will examine the philosophical and historical origins of the arms right; the controversy over the original meaning of the Second... |
D. Babbe K. Hoek D. Lanning J. Light A. Regan S. Wetzstein A. Whitcup This course is designed for students who will be doing civil litigation. The course provides a “real world” overview of how pretrial civil litigation is conducted and explores how lawyers... |
D. Binder K. Hoek J. Light K. Lyon Grossman A. Moore This course is designed for students who intend to engage in a heavy civil litigation practice. The course focuses on the practical and theoretical aspects of taking and defending depositions in... |
C. Anderson D. Babbe J. Bernstein S. Derian A. Moore S. Patel A. Regan The course explores theoretical and practical aspects of the trial process and provides training in the skills needed to represent clients in trials. Classes consider the principal function of trials... |
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R. Feldman F. Mosten E. Scully Mediation is a central aspect of lawyers' work in many contexts, including litigation, transactional, private and public sector. This course combines a theoretical exploration of mediation as an... |
L. Holder S. Patel J. Schwartz The Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic pursues police reform through civil litigation. In the seminar, students will develop litigation skills including complaint drafting, litigation... |
Students teach law-related topics in local public high schools and participate in weekly simulated teaching seminars at UCLA Law. The course is based on a community legal education approach. In... |
This clinic focuses on teaching students interviewing and counseling skills through practicing client-centered lawyering. The course builds on UCLAW’s strong skills training curriculum developed by... |
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M. Gottfried J. Hilson K. Klee K. McKinney Through the simulated transaction and rich case studies, this course will translate into various specializations of business law, including entertainment, real estate, corporate, and... |
UCLA School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic (“CDC”) examines the role of the defense lawyer in the criminal justice process. The central feature of this clinical course is the CDC’s work providing... |
E. Achiume J. Berra T. Schneider The International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) requires students to navigate international human rights legal theory and practice in the service of real clients and partners. It has two components:... |
M. Hankins S. Hecht C. Horowitz J. Stein The course is designed to train students in lawyering by exposing them to actual environmental law cases. Under faculty supervision, students represent environmental and environmental justice... |
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C. Anderson D. Birnholz G. Cardona P. Johnson Third year students have priority for enrollment in this course. This course will be graded on a P/U/NC basis. Students are allowed to take only one Trial Advocacy related course (Civil, Criminal or... |
The Real Estate Law Clinic offers students practical, hands-on training and experience working on live real estate transactions involving the development and finance of affordable housing. Students... |
This Clinic files friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of nonprofits (e.g., the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more) in a wide range of First... |
In this course students work on real cases before the United States Supreme Court, while learning how the Court selects and decides its cases and how lawyers shape their arguments. Our work consists... |
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This course will provide students with instruction in appellate practice and procedure and rigorous skills training in written and oral advocacy in the appellate context. The course will be taught... |
This course will offer students the chance to simulate oral argument and decision-making in the Supreme Court of the United States. Each class will revolve around a single current case before the... |
Students in this clinic provide legal assistance to Native nations. Clinic projects emphasize skills of drafting legislation, legal memoranda and other documents, along with cross-cultural... |
Students in this Clinic will provide assistance to justices of the highest courts of the Hualapai Tribe in Arizona and other tribes, while learning skills useful in clerking for any appellate judge... |
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The Veterans Legal Clinic opened its doors in August 2017, as part of the Master Plan to redevelop the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) West Los Angeles Campus (“WLA Campus”). The Master... |
The Asylum Clinic is a joint venture between the law school and Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Students will spend approximately four hours each week in the classroom and an additional... |
Community economic development (CED) has emerged over the past quarter century as a important strategy for redressing urban poverty. The main programmatic goal of CED—advanced primarily by... |
The acquisition of a going concern raises a host of environmental issues to be resolved and integrated into the larger transaction. It also offers an excellent context in which students can learn... |
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Legal practice in the modern world requires the ability to deal with complex regulatory regimes, including tax, environmental, telecommunications, and others. Thus, the operation of a business raises... |
The Corporate Practice Clinic provides students an opportunity to work on a law assignment provided by a local company under the supervision of the instructor. The assignments will require the... |
This course leads students through an in-depth analysis of the M&A process and the contracts applicable to selling a private company. Students who complete the course become familiar with how to... |
What is juvenile justice? How and why do we define “youth” and “youth at risk?” How are juveniles profiled? What happens when juveniles enter “the system?” What is the role of a prosecutor,... |
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This course focuses on the development of skills used by lawyers in connection with transactions as opposed to controversies. It should appeal to a wide range of students because virtually all... |
In this clinic, students will gain hands-on experience working on state and federal criminal justice reform campaign efforts. Lawyers engaged in criminal justice reform projects use multiple tactics... |
This course will provide students with rigorous litigation skills training in the context of the intersection between insurance law and litigation practice. Using simulations that involve liability... |
This course is designed to teach students the requisite skills to:· Analyze, structure and consummate typical transactions at each stage of the life cycle of a business· Draft a basic bilateral... |
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The Patent and Trademark Clinics at UCLA School of Law teach students how to file applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The clinics offer such limited legal services on a... |
This is a skills course in which students learn to formulate legal strategy in the context of secured transactions. Debt is pervasive. Security interests, mortgages, and liens are the legal devices... |
This course is designed for students who will be representing the law school in external moot court competitions. The course will provide instruction regarding effective brief writing and oral... |
Contract Drafting uses familiar contract concepts such as representations, warranties, covenants and conditions, and teaches students how to draft for the particular type of contract concept. ... |
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The Transactional Law Competition is a UCLA student competition which uses a simulated M&A transaction to learn and practice the skills of contract analysis, drafting and negotiation. The course... |
The Patent and Trademark Clinics at UCLA School of Law teach students how to file applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The clinics offer such limited legal services on a... |
S. Genco S. Hilderley J. Light The Music Industry Clinic will allow students to take on the role of providing legal advice along with negotiating and drafting agreements related the production, distribution and publishing of music... |
This course will provide experiential opportunities for students interested in practicing in the sports industry in the United States. Each student will participate in one major experiential project... |
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The Documentary Film Legal Clinic will give students the opportunity to provide legal counsel and representation to documentary filmmakers. The legal services for independent filmmakers may include:... |
Sentencing advocacy is central to the work of criminal defense lawyers. In the federal system, 97% of cases are resolved by plea bargaining and proceed immediately to sentencing. Sentencing law is... |
Immigrants’ Rights addresses the consequences of immigration or citizenship status. For example, are undocumented immigrants eligible for state-run health care and other public benefits? Are... |
The Food Law and Policy Clinic will allow students to take on the role of policy advocate within the food justice movement, which calls for positive, systemic change in the areas of food insecurity,... |
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Video Message from Prof. Taimie Bryant about Law 778. Clinic webpage: https://law.ucla.edu/academics/clinical-and-experiential-programs/dog-adjudication-clinic/ Dogs in the United States frequently... |
The goal of this course is to train students in a number of skills fundamental to the practice of tax law. Through a number of simulated exercises, students will gain familiarity with tasks that are... |
Students will work directly for an individual justice of the California Court of Appeal in the judge’s chambers (you will be working in downtown Los Angeles twice a week). Students will: regularly... |
International commercial arbitration is the single most important means to resolve cross-border commercial disputes in international commerce. In this course, students learn the advocacy skills and... |
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This course will examine cutting edge developments, lawyering roles, and practice skills that are necessary to prepare law students for a successful career to serve families using a non-adversarial... |
R. Feldman R. Korobkin E. Scully Nearly all lawyers, in both litigation and transactional practices, negotiate on a regular basis. “Introduction to Negotiation,” a 3-unit experiential course designed specifically for LL.M. students... |
This course will introduce foreign law students to the practical skills necessary for negotiating and litigating real property disputes in the United States. The class is composed of dispute modules... |
This course is a concise—but through--review of Evidence law in context—as part of summary judgment motions, arbitration, pretrial motions in limine, and objections at trial. Each class session will... |
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Course Description: This live-client clinic serves immigrant families on the site of the Robert F. Kennedy campus of six K-12 public schools located in Koreatown. The location of this clinic will... |
The Human Rights in Action Clinic (HRAC) will provide students with a critical understanding of human rights as a dynamic and contested field of law and social action, focusing on collaborative... |
This course is a deep dive into developing trial advocacy skills, using two actual civil commercial cases that were tried to juries in Los Angeles. The course materials will use the actual emails,... |
This course is designed for students who will be representing the law school in external trial competitions. The course will provide instruction in trial advocacy and, in each class, students will... |
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Students in their second and third years may apply to do a part-time externship with a judge, government agency, a non-profit organization or with in-house corporate counsel. A student may take more... |
The Part-time Judicial Externship Seminar is intended to be experiential and serves as the companion course for law students enrolled in part-time judicial externships. Students will learn how... |
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The Part-time Public Interest Lawyering Externship Seminar is intended to be experiential and serves as the companion course for law students enrolled in part-time externships in an array of public... |
The Part-time Civil/Government Externship Seminar is intended to be experiential and serves as the companion course for law students enrolled in part-time externships in civil/government settings... |
The Part-time Transactional/Corporate Externship Seminar is intended to be experiential and serves as the companion course for law students enrolled in part-time externships in entertainment and... |
D. Babbe T. Bryant I. Eagly R. Feldman J. Groban T. Spangler R. Steinberg A. Virani Practicums link substantive law courses with practice experience. They combine doctrinal courses with either field placements (live-client practicums) or simulation-based clinical courses... |
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This course will provide students with rigorous litigation skills training in the context of California’s Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”). The course will provide students with an in depth... |
The goal of this practicum is to link ordinary classroom teaching to real-world practice experiences outside the law school, enriching both in the process. For this course, students will all have... |
Students work with life science startup companies through the “Startup Legal Garage,” which is based at UC Hastings College of Law. Students provide legal services for early-stage startup companies,... |
Representation on bond hearings is a critical need in the immigrant community. Without representation at their bond hearings, individuals can remain detained—sometimes for years—while their cases are... |
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The goal of this course is to provide students with opportunities inside and outside the classroom to examine the role of bail in the criminal legal system. Students will participate in field... |
This course grounds important elder law subjects in an experiential learning context. Each week students will meet at the Law School for three hours to discuss topics in elder law, including those... |
This two-unit course examines the judicial process and supports judicial externs. Readings and discussion will address: the roles of judges, clerks, research attorneys and externs in drafting... |
UCLA School of Law offers externships in a variety of settings from government agencies to non-profit organizations. Currently, externship placements are limited to California, Seattle, Chicago, New... |
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Students in their second and third years may apply to do a full-time externship with a judge, a government agency, a non-profit organization or with in-house corporate counsel. A student may not take... |
This course applies economic concepts to the practice of structuring contracts. It consists in discussing the economics underlying business transactions and applying those concepts to focused case... |
This course will examine cutting edge developments, lawyering roles, and practice skills that are necessary to prepare law students for a successful legal career to serve clients using a... |
Writing is one of the most important skills a lawyer can have, and editing is the key to good writing. This course will provide intensive practice with editing briefs, articles, memos, press release,... |
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This three-credit January-Term seminar offers an overview of key doctrines (including municipal liability, qualified immunity, and supervisory liability), remedies (including damages and injunctive... |
This course introduces students to the field of law & economics. It highlights the various insights of social science research (economic theory, cognitive and social psychology, sociology) in... |
This course is designed to provide an introduction to specific sources and research skills relevant to the study of health policy and the practice of health law. No prerequisites are required. This... |
This course will provide students with substantive knowledge about Directors & Officers Liability Insurance (“D&O Insurance”). All lawyers who serve publicly-traded corporate clients,... |
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In this course, we will focus on motion writing in the criminal context. We will work through an opening brief along with an opposition brief for a pretrial criminal suppression motion. We will... |
Storytelling is not a metaphor for legal advocacy. It is legal advocacy itself. This course uses a single book and fictional stories about lawyers in film and television to understand what narrative... |
This Seminar will immerse students in “rebellious lawyering” – the name given both to a particular vision of problem solving practiced by growing numbers of lawyers and to the broad movement... |
The Promise Institute for Human Rights is offering for the 2019 J-Term the International Human Rights Field Experience. The International Human Rights Field Experience offers students a unique... |
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This course addresses some of the most pressing constitutional questions raised by new technologies. The course is largely case-based, and considers the evolving technology-driven challenges of... |
This course addresses the blockchain and the associated legal and regulatory considerations. Topics include cryptocurrencies (particularly bitcoin), Ethereum, smart contracts, and registries of... |
Video Message from Prof. Taimie Bryant about Law 938 A/BDogs in the United States frequently die just because someone accused them of being “dangerous.” Some accusations are legitimate, but many are... |
This course will introduce students to the study and practice of law in the U.S.-Mexico border region across a variety of topics. As the border has generated a wide array of controversies, the... |
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As the law consists of, in, and through language, and is its practice executed through language, it seems appropriate to take an initial look at some of the many ways this linguistic “materiality” of... |
The U.S. health care system is the most expensive system (per capita) on earth, often not particularly effective at improving health, and terribly controversial. The members of this course will... |
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of legal authorities and resources and with the research skills needed in the practice of law. Emphasis will be placed on... |
Practicing law requires stamina and endurance. This course equips students with lifelong tools for meeting the mental, physical and emotional challenges of practicing law, including tools for... |
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Lawyers’ advocacy for their clients and the public good often goes beyond direct representation of clients and involves critically evaluating and promoting better public policy and law through a wide... |
Homelessness is quite obviously a pressing social problem. On any given night, as many as half a million people are homeless in America; in 2015 the mayor of Los Angeles declared a state of emergency... |
Restorative Justice (RJ) is a true alternative to the criminal and juvenile justice systems. It requires a paradigm shift from thinking about crime as ‘a breaking of the law’ to thinking about crime... |
For two weeks, look at civil procedure through the eyes of a judge. Do federal and state rules of civil procedure as they exist serve the goals of the litigation process? Or do they retard dispute... |
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The course will provide students, from the perspective of one who has been deeply involved in the legal developments under study, a unique view of key aspects of the evolving law and practice of... |
This course examines the development of racial laws during WWII in France, Germany, and the British Channel Islands. We will use original documents and actual statutes and cases to understand how... |
In this course students will analyze eight different Human Rights Cases from a variety of jurisdictions: The European Court of Human Rights, The European Court of Justice, the InterAmerican Court of... |
This course is designed to provide students interested in international criminal law with a basic knowledge and understanding of international criminal law, a thorough insight into theory and... |
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This course will give a general overview on the international right to food, and will provide examples of the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights in international courts, as well... |
S. Akens D. Babbe R. Feldman G. Helleringer R. Korobkin E. Scallen E. Scully Nearly all lawyers, in both litigation and transactional practices, negotiate on a regular basis. “Negotiation Theory and Practice,” a 3-unit experiential course taught in an intensive workshop... |
This is a practical course in trial advocacy for students who have already learned the mechanics of conducting a trial and are looking to take the next step as courtroom advocates. We will... |
The due diligence process is essential to all transactions. Without it, parties to a transaction will be unable to make informed decisions about their involvement in such transaction, including with... |