Winter 07/Spring 08 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Winter 2007 and Spring 2008; however, some (or all) may not be offered in either term.  The courses that are offered in Spring link to the Schedule of Classes.  Classes with alternative delivery modes (Web based, cable TV, correspondence, etc) are noted in the Schedule at the section level.  The complete list below is a good indicator of what may be offered over the next few years (contact department about offerings).  For explanations of course elements see the Key to Course Descriptions.

James E. Rogers College of Law (LAW )  Department Info

LAW 500 -- Special Topics in Philosophy  (3 units)
Description:  Topic varies according to the research interests and specialization of the instructor. Graduate-level requirements require more depth and breadth with more extensive reading assignments.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  PHIL 500; PHIL is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 502 -- Management and Security Public Nonprofit Informations Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Blends the basics of networked information systems into broader public and nonprofit organizational and security management issues and experiences.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PA 501.
Identical to:  PA 502; PA is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 514 -- The State and Social Policy  (3 units)
Description:  Examination of the historical development of the state, processes of policy formation, and the political economy of modern welfare and regulatory regimes.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  SOC 514; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 525 -- Native Ecomonic Development  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines the issues surrounding economic development as indigenous peoples and their respective organizations enter the 21st Century. The course will cover a broad range of issues including sovereignty, constitutional reform and by-law development, cultural preservation, securitization of resources, intellectual property, religious freedom, health, social welfare and education.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AIS 525.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 527 -- International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples  (2-3 units)
Description:  Over the last few decades, international law's human rights regime has developed to address the concerns of indigenous peoples worldwide, giving rise to new international norms and procedures that generally favor their cultural survival, land and resource rights, and self-determination. Because international law is part of the law of the United States law by virtue of the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, international human rights law as it concerns indigenous peoples does not just function on the international plane, but it also should be considered part of Federal Indian Law. This course provides students with an exposure to the theory and practice of international human rights law and to how it is developing in this field. Particular attention will be paid to developments in the U.N. and the Organization of American States, and how those developments relate to the domestic legal systems of the United States and selected other countries.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 540 -- Correctional Policy and Theory  (3 units)
Description:  Theories of crime applied to public policy issues. The relationship between scientific analysis of crime and formation of public policy.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  PA 540; PA is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 563 -- Forensic Assessment: Intervention and Treatment  (3 units)
Description:  Theory, research and practice in the assessment and treatment of, and intervention with, persons involved with the legal process who have clinical problems. Graduate-level requirements include a different grading system for class participation and exams.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  consent of instructor.
Identical to:  PSYC 563; PSYC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 577 -- Judicial Administration and Reform  (3 units)
Description:  Explores the structure, administration, management, and reform of United States courts. Course is intended to prepare students for careers in the courts and court administration.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  PA 577; PA is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 584 -- Development of Federal Indian Policy  (3 units)
Description:  European colonial precedents through the treaty-making period; federal policy from treaty-making to the present.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AIS 584; AIS is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 587 -- Economic Sociology  (3 units)
Description:  An introduction to the sociological study of economic life, especially markets.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  SOC 587; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 595I -- The Anthropology of Law and Nation State  (3 units)
Description:  (Colonial & Postcolonial Legal Systems) This colloquium will explore anthropoligical approaches to the role of law and legal systems in the creation of Nation states that have developed in contexts of European colonization of non-Western societies over the last several hundred years. The course will include 3 weeks of Introduction; 3 weeks on the Emergence of "Modern" Law and Colonial Law; 4 weeks on Law in the Colonial Control of Indigenous Peoples; and the remaining 5 weeks on Law in the Emergence of Nation States.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  ANTH 595I.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 595J -- Sanctioned Indentities: Culture, Power and Law  (3 units)
Description:  This course focuses on social theory and examines its relevance for an understanding of how law, as discourse and practice, shapes and is shaped by social relations, sanctioned indentities and dominant cultural forms. We will read foundational texts in social theory as well as more contemporary works that explicitly address the relationship of law to its social and cultural context. These will include works on feminist and critical race theory. Ethnographic and historical case studies will complement and provide grounding for more abstract, theoretical works.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  ANTH 595J.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 595K -- American Indians, Anthropology and the Law  (3 units)
Description:  Topics covered include the role of anthropologists as expert witnesses during the Indian Claims Commission and subsequent litigation in the Court of Claims, anthropological studies conducted for Federal recognition of Indian Tribes, Native American rights under the National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act, current issues regarding the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, protection of sacred sites, and tribal regulation of scholarly research. The seminar is designed to review both the practical knowledge lawyers need to know about anthropology and archaeology, and the legal considerations anthropologists need to understand when undertaking research for compliance with federal legislation or preparation of expert witness testimony. Anthropologists, archaeologists and Native Americans with experience relevant to these issues will be invited to share their perspectives during the seminar.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  ANTH 595K.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 595M -- Anthropology and Law  (3 units)
Description:  This course applies an historical and anthropological approach to the evidence for written (and unwritten, or 'traditional') laws in ancient societies, to uncover the rise of legal systems in culturally different communities. It explores how the imposition of non-indigenous law on other societies in Roman times gave rise subsequently to a plurality of legal systems during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, laying the foundations for universities and professionalization. Next, it assesses the impact of a similar imposition of written law designed for Western societies on others during the Colonial history of the last few centuries. Possible societies to study: India, Indonesia, Central and South America, and/or Native Americans. The final part of the course consists of student presentations of legal cases where applied anthropology played a significant role.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  ANTH 595M.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 596B -- Arizona Water Policy  (3 units)
Description:  This course focuses on current Arizona water policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Through readings, research, lectures, discussions and presentations, the student is exposed to major, current water resource issues facing Arizona and other parts of the West and policies to address them. The faculty draw upon their and guest-lecturers’ experiences to demonstrate the development, analysis and implementation of real-world water policy.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  Consent of instructor is required.
Identical to:  SWES 596B; SWES is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 596F -- THEORY AND RESEARCH ON THE NONPROFIT SECTOR  (3 units)
Description:  The seminar examines nonprofit organizations and philanthropic behavior from a sociological perspective. We apply neo-institutional, ecological, social movement, and global society theories to understand the role of nonprofits in markets, political arenas, and civil society.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  Graduate Student in SBS, Law, Eller College of Management, or Education.
Identical to:  SOC 596F; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 596H -- Law, Psychology and Policy  (3 units)
Description:  Special topics seminar focused on the development and exchange of scholarly information by course registrants working individually or as a group.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Identical to:  PSYC 596H; PSYC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 596J -- Advanced Topics in Social Movements Research  (3 units)
Description:  Presents a sociological examination of both the emergence and outcomes of social movements, with an eye toward understanding the dominant research methologies employed by social scientists studying social movements.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  student in sociology or law.
Identical to:  SOC 596J; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 596L -- Governance and Security, and the Response to Terrorism  (3 units)
Description:  Course integrates security issues into study of policy, public administration, and governance. Graduate-level requirements include a 20 minute presentation, a 10 page single spaced paper with a 10 page annotated bibiliography.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  PA 596L; PA is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 596N -- Cultural Psychology  (3 units)
Description:  The seminar focuses on the interdependence of psychology and social context in shaping the basic process of meaning-making. Using theories and empirical work from social and cultural psychology, as well as from anthropology and sociology, this seminar explores how psychological processes and structures are shaped by participation in particular social contexts as constituted by gender, ethnicity, race, religion, and region of the country or world.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  PSYC 596N; PSYC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 600 -- Contracts  (5 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 601A -- Introduction to Legal Process and Civil Procedure  (3-4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 601B -- Introduction to Legal Process and Civil Procedure  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 602 -- Criminal Procedure  (3-4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  PA 602.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 603 -- Nation Building  (3 units)
Description:  This course will explore critical nation-building issues confronting indigenous peoples in North America, with a primary focus on Native peoples in the United States. The course will examine multi-dimensional settings that confront Native societies and their social, cultural, political, educational, and economic leaders. The issues to be analyzed, include: education (formal and informal) from both contemporary and historical contexts, economic development, culture and identity; and leadership and institution-building. Issues, concepts, and theories examined in the course will provide a basis for examining current Native institutions of self-government; assessing educational policies of federal, First Nation/tribal, and state/provincial governments; analyzing how to enhance the foundational capacities for effective governance and for strategic attacks on education, economic, and community development problems of Native nations; and augmenting leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities for nation-building. Course participants will link concepts of education and culture, with nation-building and leadership through readings, discussions, short assignments, and a final research paper.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Identical to:  AIS 603; AIS is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 603C -- Civil Procedure Practice  (1 unit)
Description:  First-year practice in civil procedure. Students will apply analytical skills primarily through written assignments in civil procedure.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 603D -- Contracts Practice  (1 unit)
Description:  First-year practice in contracts. Students will apply analytical skills primarily through written assignments in contracts.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 603E -- Torts Practice  (1 unit)
Description:  First-year practice in torts. Students will apply analytical skills primarily through written assignments in torts.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 603H -- Legal Analysis, Writing and Research  (3-4 units)
Description:  The course will introduce first year students to a variety of kinds of legal writing and help them develop analytic, research, and writing skills necessary to communicate about law to a variety of audiences. The course will (1) help students further hone analytic skills introduced in first semester courses; (2) reinforce those skills by placing them in the context of legal research; (3) emphasize the need to identify purpose, audience, and context of each document; and (4) address fundamental writing principles of organization on a large and a small scale basis.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 603I -- International Business and Investment Structuring  (2 units)
Description:  Legal advice increasingly has an international component, which requires an understanding of the legal environment in which international business and investments are made, including the ways in which different legal systems treat corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and other common forms of legal entities. The course will analyze and compare corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts, and other forms of legal entities used for conducting business and making investments internationally, as well as the operational, tax, and other reasons why one form of entity may be chosen over another in planning for a particular international business or investment. In addition, issues specific to joint ventures, both contractual and organizational, as well as the unique issues involved in structuring international investments in real estate will be explored. General knowledge of business entities, real estate, and tax issues will be useful, but is not required.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 603J -- Sustainability and Environmental Policy  (2-3 units)
Description:  Over the past twenty years “sustainability” (or “sustainable development”) has emerged as a central goal of environmental policy making. Contemporary tools of environmental policy including ecosystem management, adaptive management, and restoration have been displaced by what seems like a clearer goal that captures ends as well as means. Sustainability has moved from the work of scholars and activists to laws and administrative regulations. The language of sustainability has extended to the world of business and commerce.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  ANTH 603J, ECOL 603J, PA 603J, SWES 603J.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 604A -- Torts  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 604B -- Torts  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 604C -- Torts  (2-3 units)
Description:  Injuries to persons, property, and relationships. Intentional wrongs, negligence, contributory negligence, strict liability, products liability, deceit, defamation, and malicious prosecution.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 604D -- Torts  (2-3 units)
Description:  This is a continuation of 604C. Students will continue to study negligence, contributory negligence, comparative negligence, strict liability, products liability, etc.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 605 -- Property  (4-5 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 606 -- Constitutional Law I  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 607A -- Corporate Criminal Investigations  (2 units)
Description:  The course will examine in both a theoretical and practical fashion the investigation and criminal prosecution of corporations and corporate officers, with special emphasis on the impact of Enron and some of the other notorious corporate criminal scandals. Among the topics covered will be conducting internal investigations, grand jury practice, ethical issues, practice under the Flase Claims Act, plea negotiations, the sentencing guidelines, Sarbanes-Oxley and strategies in the dealing with the Government.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 608 -- Evidence  (4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 609 -- The Legal Profession  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 610 -- Health Care Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 611A -- Employment Discrimination  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 611B -- Employment Law  (1-3 units)
Description:  Course will examine a variety of topics in employment law and state and federal perspectives.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 611C -- Empirical Social Science in Litigation  (3 units)
Description:  This course explores the role of empirical social science in litigation. Both graduate students and law students interested in the legal uses of social science research are encouraged to enroll. Civil rights litigation, class actions and mass torts are just a few of the typical large-scale litigations that involve significant empirical social science. The course aims has two primary aims: first, to explore the use (and abuse) of empirical social science in litigation and, second, to demonstrate, in the context of litigation, the importance of communication between experts in social science and consumers of social science, in this case litigators. The course will consist primarily of one or two litigation simulations, one of which is a longer, more involved simulation than the other. Law students will take on the role of litigators and graduate students will take on the role of expert witnesses.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 611D -- Public Employment Law  (3 units)
Description:  This course will examine issues particularly relevant to employees working for state, federal, and local governments and governmental agencies. This group includes an enormous number of people, including public school teachers, public university employees, government lawyers, policymakers, clerical workers, and so on. The course will examine specific constitutional and statutory protections and obligations that apply to public workers at all three governmental levels.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 612 -- Family Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 613 -- Law and Medicine  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 614 -- Disability Law  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 615 -- Constitutional Law II  (3-4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 616 -- Business Organization  (3-4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 617 -- Corporate Finance  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 616.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 618 -- Antitrust Law  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 619 -- Estates and Trusts  (3-4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 620 -- Immigration Law  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 621 -- Administrative Law  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 622 -- Law Review  (1-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 623 -- Conflict of Laws  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 624A -- Labor Law  (2 units)
Description:  The scope of employees' rights to engage in concerted activities; the processes of collective bargaining and the enforcement of labor-management contracts, the lawyer's role as counselor, negotiator and litigator; the interpretation and enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 625 -- American Legal History  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 626 -- Jurisprudence  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 627 -- Oil & Gas Law  (1 unit)
Description:  This one unit course will provide interested students with an overview of oil and gas statutes, regulations, and case law, as well as an overview of typical transactions involving oil and gas, such as oil and gas leases, royalty agreements, etc. The course will focus on the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights, which often also apply to governmentally owned resourses.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 628A -- Separation of Powers  (2-3 units)
Description:  This class will study the separation of powers in our federal government by focusing on certain historical events and their impact on constitutional law. Topics will include the election of 1800, the Civil War, voting rights and the Vietnam War, presidential impeachments, and the war on terror.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 629 -- The Regulatory State  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course is an introduction to the state rule-making process: its mechanisms, institutions, strengths, and imperfections. In this course we will examine questions of why we need legal rules, who the rule makers are, and who the rule enforcers are. We will also examine the standard techniques for reading rules, and the relationship of those techniques to the purposes of the rules. The purpose of this course is to equip students with tools to think critically about legal rules and about state intervention in the private domain.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 630 -- Animal Rights Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will provide an introduction to the field of animal rights law. It will survey philosophical and historical materials concerning the moral status of nonhuman animals, consider the legal status of animals as property, and explore the differences between the concepts of “animal rights” and “animal welfare.”
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 631A -- Federal Indian Law I  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AIS 631A.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 631B -- Tribal Courts & Tribal Law  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 631A.
Identical to:  AIS 631B.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 631C -- Taxation in Indian Country  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine the leading Native American tax cases. One-third of the class will address the policy, legal, and regulatory framework surrounding Native taxation including a case study of the Navajo Tax Commission. Two-thirds of the class will cover federal taxation of members and tribes, special federal rules (fishing rights, Indian Tax Status Act, tribal bonds, rapid depreciation rules, Indian jobs credit, and special rules for gaming; state taxation of tribes, members, and non-members and tribal taxation. Finally, a brief comparative analysis will be made with respect to taxation and First Nations in Canada.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  For J.D. and AISP students, one of the following: Fed. Indian Law I, Indigenous Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Clinic.
Identical to:  AIS 631C.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 631D -- Law, Policy,and Econonics of Development in Indian Country  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course examines the development challenges faced by contemporary Native nations. Utilizing numerous case studies and extensive research on what is working and what is not working to promote the social, political, cultural and economic strengthening of American Indian nations, the course emphasizes themes applicable to community development worldwide. Historical and relevant federal Indian policy and case law are used as background material, but the course emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the “nation building” revolution underway in Indian Country. Additional emphasis is placed on how tribal initiatives can conflict with federal case law, state jurisdiction, and federal policies and politics.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 632 -- Federal and State Taxation of Multinational Transactions  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 646.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 633A -- UCCI Sales (Article 2)  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 633B -- Electronic Fund Transfers and Payment Systems (Art. 3 and 4)  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 633C -- Secured Transactions Article 9  (2-4 units)
Description:  This course will cover Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, which deals with secured transactions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 633D -- Law and Entrepreneurship  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course explores the legal issues faced by entrepreneurial businesses, including the dynamics of entrepreneurial finance (e.g., venture capital). This course will proceed in three parts. The first part will explore the basics of choice of entity and founders’ issues, including corporate governance and exit mechanisms. An LLC operating agreement will be used as the primary teaching tool. Students will be asked to revise provisions in the sample operating agreement based on hypothetical changes in the founders’ relationship. The second part of the course will focus on funding the entrepreneurial venture from the perspective of entrepreneurs and their lawyers, and will include a discussion of securities law and disclosure issues. A private placement memorandum (PPM) or similar document will be used as the primary teaching tool. Students will be asked to adapt the “risk factors” section of the sample PPM to fit a new, hypothetical venture. The third part of the course will explore a broad range of legal issues faced by entrepreneurial businesses and the dynamics of entrepreneurial finance (e.g., venture capital). It will also introduce other types of private equity transactions (e.g., MBOs, LBOs). Student presentations will be used as the launching point for class discussions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  ENTR 633D.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 635 -- Insurance Law  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 637 -- Federal Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 638 -- Real Estate Transactions  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 639 -- Community Property  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 640 -- Mining and Public Land Law  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 641 -- Water Law  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 642 -- Federal Courts  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 643A -- Criminal Procedure: State Law  (2 units)
Description:  The course will closely examine statutory and constitutional principles related to advanced criminal procedure. The course will also provide practical information from both a defense and prosecutorial view point as to the day-to-day administration of criminal cases in the federal district and superior courts in Arizona.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 643B -- Advanced International Trade Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This advanced international trade law course builds on the legal and policy structure provided by the basic International Trade Law course and similar courses taught elsewhere. It will focus on three critically important areas of contemporary international trade law: (a) settlement of trade disputes under the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (including a moot court exercise); (b) the major trade remedy laws contemplated by GATT 1994 and the other WTO Agreements relating to safeguards, dumping and subsidies; national (primarily but not exclusively U.S.) trade remedy laws will be examined where appropriate; and (c) trade and economic development (the Doha Development Round, “special and differential treatment,” “conditionality” of trade preferences, etc.).
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 643C -- Property, Social Justice and the Environment  (2-3 units)
Description:  Private property is sometimes cast as the villain in social and environmental problems, but sometimes as the solution to the same problems. This course will explore the relationship of property to social and environmental concerns in the context of several past and present controversies over property rights. Topics will include racially restrictive covenants; private and especially “gated” communities; land titling programs in less developed areas; the expansion of property rights in intellectual endeavors; and several types of environmental property rights, e.g. conservation easements, private wildlife rights, tradeable emission permits and habitat trading programs, and community ownership of forests and other natural resource bases. These topics will offer an opportunity to explore recent topics in property theory as well as the social and ecological implications of property institutions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 643D -- Native American Natural Resources  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine several themes: conflicts over which government has sovereign control over which resources; the role that tribal governments play in natural resource allocation and management; questions relating to ownership of natural resources; the changing federal policies relating to natural resources allocation; the role of federal courts, Congress, and Executive branches in relation to the trust responsibilities to protect tribal lands and resources; environmental protection, including EPA policy in relation to Indian Reservations; and natural resource development and management.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 643E -- Arizona White Collar Law  (1-2 units)
Description:  This class will meet daily for one week at the beginning of the Fall semester. It will introduce the most commonly charged white collar and financial crimes. Students taking the Arizona Attorney General Clinic will attend this course but need not separately register for it. Most of the class sessions will be taught by practicing attorneys or Criminal Investigators. Attendance and participation at all classes is required.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 643F -- Law and Development in Asia  (2 units)
Description:  During the 1960’s and early 1970’s, the U.S. Government and various private foundations funded a number of programs intended to help reform the legal systems of Asia, Africa and Latin America, with a view to facilitating economic development in the third world. The premise of the programs was that law played a central role in the development process and could be employed as a tool to engineer change.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 643K -- Arizona Attorney General Clinic  (3 units)
Description:  In this clinic, students will work on various matters handled by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, including white collar, financial fraud and financial elder abuse investigations. The students will work with investigators to evaluate potential violations of law, draft indictments or civil complaints, evaluate potential evidentiary problems, participate in motion practice, plea or settlement negotiations, trial preparation, and, if necessary, trials. Students will work with and under the supervision of professor and Special Assistant Attorney General Jack Chin, and other Assistant Attorneys General. Because of the lengthy nature of investigations and litigation in the Attorney General’s Office, students will be expected to enroll for two semesters. Some students will begin in the Fall, some in the Spring. Possibly one or two students can continue in the Summer as Interns.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for credit 2 times (maximum 3 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 643M -- Foreign Investment in Developing Economics: Its Regulation and Protection  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will introduce students to the "new order" of international investment protections that emerged during the last quarter of the twentieth century to protect foreign investors from the political risks that traditionally inhibited them from making substantial investments in the third world such as expropriation, regulatory interference, currency exchange controls and devaluation, civil disturbance, breach of contract, and corruption.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 644A -- Accounting for Lawyers  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course is designed to acquaint lawyers with the vocabulary of accounting and finance and to offer an opportunity to consider some of the basic problems that arise in many everyday settings, both business and otherwise. The goal is not to train lawyers as accountants or financial analysts, but to enable the lawyer to operate more effectively as a professional when issues of accounting or finance arise.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 644B -- International Commercial Transactions  (2 units)
Description:  This course will examine the various approaches taken to commercial law in several representative legal systems, including the United State Uniform Commercial code. We will examine some of important implications for international commercial transactions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 644C -- Accounting and Finance for Lawyers  (2 units)
Description:  This course is designed to acquaint lawyers with the vocabulary of accounting and finance and to offer an opportunity to consider some basic problems that arise in many everyday settings, both business and otherwise. The goal is not to train lawyers as accountants or financial analysts, but to enable the lawyer to operate more effectively as a professional when issues of accounting or finance arise.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 644D -- Remedies  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 644G -- Property Transactions I  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines the legal issues involved in the transfer, finance, and development of real property. The course will introduce students to the various mechanisms of land transfer and recording regimens. It will also examine various financing mechanisms, such as mortgages and mortgage substitutes, installment land contracts, rights upon default and before foreclosure, and transfers of the lender’s interests. Students will learn about the rights of the parties in a foreclosure, foreclosure proceedings, and the priorities of creditors in foreclosure.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 645A -- Trial Advocacy: Basic Trial Advocacy  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 608, LAW 609.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 645B -- Trial Advocacy: Advanced Trial Advocacy  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 608, LAW 609, LAW 645A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 646 -- Federal Income Taxation  (3-5 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 647 -- Corporate Taxation  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 646.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 648 -- Estate and Gift Taxation  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 619.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 649 -- Torts II  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 649A -- Dignitary Torts  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will address many Acommunicative torts,@ which involve First Amendment issues, including 1) defamation (both common law and statutory), including truth and privilege under common law and statutes; 2) invasion of privacy; 3) tortious litigation and tactics, including malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and others.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 649B -- Economic Torts  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine economic torts (as opposed to torts involving physical injury to person or property), including such commercial torts as “misappropriation,” trademark violation, intentional and unintended interference with contract, unfair competition, and misrepresentation. It will also examine statutory protections against misrepresentation and deceptive practices, as well as the special case of lawyer malpractice.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 604D.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 649C -- Complex Litigation: Class Actions & Other Topics  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will study some of the most important issues in complex litigation. It will focus primarily on class actions as well as the contemporary civil justice reform movement and the rise of judicial case management. The course will be built around the following problems: How can courts resolve mass harms in a fair and efficient manner? How do courts solve problems created by the intersection of mass harms with overlapping jurisdictions that enjoy concurrent adjudicatory power? How do lawyers finance complex litigation? How do courts manage the burdens that complex litigation puts on parties? How do courts manage private litigation that has public regulatory effects?
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 650 -- Criminal Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  PA 650.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 651 -- Environmental Justice  (2-3 units)
Description:  Explores issues of justice in the context of environmental law and policy. It considers whether environmental burdens are evenly distributed; whether governmental decision makers adequately take into account the circumstances of communities of color and low income communities in setting environmental standards; and whether the institutions of environmental law and policy provide equal access to all. It examines the role of the law in remedying the inequalities of deficiencies identified.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 652A -- Formation and Taxation of Non-Profit Organizations  (2-3 units)
Description:  A study of the law of nonprofit organizations, including the rules governing their organization, governance, operation and tax-exempt status. The course also examines rules regarding the solicitation and deductibility of charitable contributions. A significant portion of the course will be devoted to tax issues because nonprofit organizations are shaped in large part by the tax regimes that nurture and regulate them. A guiding theme of the course is developing and understanding the various rationales for the non-profit sector and the special treatment it is allowed under our legal system. Students will also undertake the practical exercise of learning the basics of forming a non-profit organization and applying for tax-exempt status.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 653A -- Persuasive Communication  (2-3 units)
Description:  The course will examine the similarities and differences between objective and persuasive writing. Students will receive instruction and gain practice in crafting the four basic building blocks of a persuasive document; the issue, the statement of facts, the argument, and the conclusion. The course will also offer students instruction and experience in oral argument.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 653B -- Advanced Appellate Practice and Moot Court  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 653C -- Environmental Moot Court  (1-3 units)
Description:  The purpose of this course is to field a team of three law students to compete each year in the Pace Law School National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition held in White Plains, New York. This course is open only to the three students selected to represent the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in the Pace Competition. The team will produce an outline and a first and a final draft of a significant appellate brief of approximately 30 pages in length. The students will then attend and participate in the Pace Law School Moot Court Competition at Pace Law School.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 654 -- Bioethics and Medical Litigation  (3 units)
Description:  This course will examine personal injury litigation against health care providers (physicians, nurses, hospitals, and HMO's, to name a few) in the context of law & bioethics. The major components of the course are personal injury litigation and law & bioethics. Medical liability litigation introduces many complexities, including nuances of procedural requirments, financing cases, obtaining and qualifying experts, standare of care, causation, damages, joint and vicarious liability, product liability, and tort reform.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 654A -- Bioethics and Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course studies the ethical, legal, and public policy ramifications of scientific and medical advances that fragment and rearrange certain natural processes, conditions, or relationships and social arrangements resting on them. Specific areas of investigation include biomedical research and experimentation; mind and behavior control; reproductive technology; genetic control and manipulation; death and dying; transplantation and implantation of natural and artificial organs and tissues; and enhancement of human attributes. The course will cover basic ethical theories and jurisprudential concepts that are relevant to analysis of the various subject matter areas. It will also entail examination of a broad array of cases, statutes, and administrative materials that have already been promulgated or proposed to deal with legal issues raised or portended by scientific and medical advances. These materials cut across many areas of the law, including constitutional, tort, property, contract, and administrative law.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 654B -- Law and Medical Litigation  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course examines personal injury litigation against health care providers (physicians, nurses, hospitals, and HMO’s, to name a few). Most law students are familiar with the basic concepts of personal injury litigation, at least of the “red car hits blue car” genre. Medical liability litigation introduces many complexities, including, but in no way limited to, challenging nuances concerning extraordinary procedural requirements, financing cases, obtaining and qualifying experts, adducing and presenting scientific evidence, the standard of care, causation, damages, joint and vicarious liability, product liability, and tort reform. The course will be both practical and theoretical. In addition to readings in a traditional casebook, students will study the basic steps of a medical liability case from the client interview through accepting a case, doing discovery and pretrial work, trial, and appeal. Documents will be available if the student wishes to build a “form file” for future use. Examination of the various stages of medical liability litigation and the textbook material will both entail consideration of underlying strategic, policy, and jurisprudential issues. The course is good preparation for any type of relatively complex litigation.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 654C -- Reproductive Law & Ethics  (2-3 units)
Description:  This examines the ethical and legal issues surrounding reproduction in both the United States and abroad. Course readings are compiled from a wide variety of sources and will include legal cases and articles from medical, ethics and legal journals. Topically, the course will cover sterilization, contraception, assisted reproductive technologies, embryo storage and adoption, cloning, abortion, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and screening, maternal-fetal conflicts and surrogacy. No previous coursework is required. Grades will be based on class participation and a series of five short research papers (4-5 pages each) written during the semester.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655A -- Intellectual Property Law: Trademarks and Unfair Competition  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655B -- Intellectual Property Law: Copyright Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 655C -- Patent Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655D -- Courtroom Ethics  (1-2 units)
Description:  The goal of Courtroom Ethics is to provide a framework of reference within which the ethical dilemmas, which confront every advocate in the courtroom, can be resolved. While ethical rules and standards of practice will be identified, the course will focus on solutions to those ethical dilemmas.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 655F -- International & Comp - Law of Indigenous People  (3 units)
Description:  This course will provide students with a exposure to the theory and practice of the international law of indigenous peoples, as well as an understanding of the manner in which the United States and other countries are treating in their domestic legal systems the issues that have been taken up at the international level.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 655G -- Law and Science  (2-3 units)
Description:  This seminar considers the interplay between the law and science, whether in the context of litigation, agency decision-making, or the legislative process. The course will be structured around a series of case studies designed to elucidate specific facets of the complex relationship that exists between law and science. Through these examples, the course will explore how scientific information is integrated into legal decision making.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 655I -- Intellectual Property Transactions  (2 units)
Description:  This course examines the management of intellectual assets such as brands, copyrighted materials, technology, and know-how. The course will cover a series of discrete topics, including intellectual property licensing, portfolio management, new media issues, biotechnology patenting, and internet law.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 655J -- International Taxation  (2 units)
Description:  The International Tax course will focus on the fundamental concepts of international tax as they relate to corporations and individuals, including the outbound taxation of U.S. multinationals doing business overseas, the inbound taxation of foreign multinationals doing business in the United States and the tax consequences of individuals working overseas. After the completion of this course, students will be able to identify the international tax implications from a set of facts and understand how to apply the law to resolve basic international tax issues.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655K -- Freedom of Speech  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine the law of freedom of speech under the first amendment. After a short overview of the development of the modern formulation of the law of freedom of speech, the course will focus on the legal, cultural, political and economic dimensions of a variety of recent cases. Topics will include offensive speech, libel and defamation, pornograph and obscenity, commercial speech and campaign finance. Assigned readings will be drawn primarily from Supreme Court opinions. Counstitutional Law I is pre-requisite.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 606.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655M -- State and Local Taxation  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course has two major components. First, the federal constraints on state taxation are explored. Specifically addressed are the Commerce Clause, Equal Protection Clause, Due Process Clause, Privileges and Immunities Clause, and several federal statutes. Second, students learn the basic structure and operation of the three major sources of state and local tax revenue: the sales, income, and property tax. Taxation on Indian Lands will also be addressed. Most state tax systems were developed in a far simpler time. Thus, a major theme of the course is tension between often anachronistic state tax systems and a changing world. The course does not concenrate on the law of any particular state nor is any other prior couse in taxation required.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655N -- Preparing for Lives in the Law: The First Steps  (2 units)
Description:  This upper level seminar is designed to offer students, faculty and interested practitioners and other law graduates a forum for discussions of the formal education of lawyers-past, present and future. It will address forms of legal education, the changing roles of lawyers, and the various roles that formal legal education might play in this preparation. What can we teach, in the limited time we have with our students, about the worlds in which they will be expected to function after graduation? How can we best bring the contexts of lawyering to bear in the formal curriculum? Are there alternative teaching methodologies we have not explored that would be worth pursuing? What must be left to others to teach our graduates, and what role should the law school play in assuring that these unmet educational needs of its graduates are satisfied?
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 655O -- Patent Law for Non-Lawyers  (1 unit)
Description:  This course will provide a general overview of patent practice and theory for scientists and engineers. The course will focus on the legal principals necessary for solid grounding in patent law for non-lawyers. Subjects covered will include the following: patentable subject matter; requirements for utility, novelty, and non-obviousness of inventions; legal bars to patentability; discclosure and enablement requirements in patent applications; infringement of patents; legal remedies; and the patent examination process. This is a pass/fail only course.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Summer.

LAW 655P -- Corporate Governance  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course will explore some of the major corporate governance issues confronting public corporations in the United States today. The course will explore the techniques being developed to assure that corporate management properly serves the goals of the corporation and its shareholders. It will examine in depth the definition of corporate objectives, the role of the board of directors and board committees, the methods of electing boards and holding them accountable, and the role of lawyers and independent accountants in the governance process.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  PA 655P.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 655R -- Intellectual Property Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This is a survey course covering the main areas of intellectual property law - patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. It introduces each subject and explores commonalities and differences among different systems of intellectual property protection. This course is intended for the non-specialist interested in a general introduction to intellectual property law.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 655S -- Global Antitrust & Intellectual Property  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine the intersection of antitrust and intellectual-property laws, its traditional applications, and contemporary applications in global markets. The course will review the role of Intellectual Property protection, fundamental antitrust principles, and the application of antitrust principles in IP-protected markets. The goal of the course is to provide tools to identify and analyze potential antitrust problems in transactions and practices related to intellectual-property rights.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 656A -- Reseach Seminar on Indian Treaties  (2 units)
Description:  Visiting scholars will address the use of customary law in tribal courts in the U.S., and examine different ways that it affects both the process and outcomes in tribal court. The course will also address Indian Treaties - history implementation, and current status.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 656B -- Comparative Aboriginal Rights  (2 units)
Description:  Visiting Scholars will address the interrelationship of international and environmental law and indigenous rights. The course will also examine the different ways aboriginal rights are treated in a number of legal systems across the world.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 656C -- Accuracy in the Criminal Justice System  (2 units)
Description:  This class will investigate the challenge of ensuring accuracy in the criminal justice system. How technological, scientific and administrative improvements can be employed to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice, and the innocent are not convicted.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  PA 656C.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 656D -- Education Law  (2 units)
Description:  This course covers an extensive variety of legal issues encountered in education settings, with an emphasis on legal issues impacting public primary and secondary school districts and public colleges and universities. Topics covered include: (1) freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and establishment clause issues involving students, school employees, and school properties; (2) gender equity, affirmative action, desegregation, and other discrimination issues in the school setting; (3) issues involving due process, tenure, academic freedom, and student and employee discipline; (4) state laws impacting the operation of educational entities such as open meeting, conflict of interest, and public records laws; and (5) federal legislation applicable to schools such as No Child Left Behind, the Equal Access Act, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 656F -- Cultural Property of Indigenous Peoples  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will cover tangible and intellectual cultural property, its identity, ownership, appropriation and repatriation and will begin with the history of the appropriation of cultural materials and the development of national and international laws. The class will cover laws in the United States which have been used to preserve heritage, i.e. NHPA, ARPA, NAGPRA.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 656G -- Comparative Law on Indigenous Peoples  (3 units)
Description:  The course entails an overview and analysis of the historical and contemporary legal treatment of indigenous peoples in select countries of the world, especially countries of Latin America and common law countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It will examine and compare the various domestic legal regimes as they concern areas of indigenous land rights, self-government, and traditional or customary justice systems. The focus will be on constitutional and legislative developments, case law, and the theoretical foundations for historical and recent developments. We will endeavor to identify common or divergent normative trends and to assess those trends in light of developing international legal standards.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 656I -- Arizona Civil Procedure  (2 units)
Description:  This course is designed to highlight the important differences between the various rules of procedure governing practice in the Arizona state courts and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which are addressed extensively in the first-year Civil Procedure courses. This course will specifically address critical differences including jurisdiction, venue, service of process, offers of judgment, mandatory disclosures, nonparties at fault, compulsory arbitration, right to a jury trial, jury instructions, non-unanimous verdicts, special actions, the duties of lawyers, and the courts’ power to sanction attorney conduct.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 656P -- Prosecution and Adjudication  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course examines pretrial and trial procedures. The course begins at the point where a suspect has been arrested. The police and investigators have finished their work, and it is time for lawyers to take control of each case and of the criminal process. The first (and some would say defining) question for this course is which lawyer a defendant will receive, with what kind of expertise, caseload, and resources, and when that lawyer will first appear. This class ends at the point where issues of sentencing, punishment, appeals and post-conviction review arise.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Typical structure:  1 hour lecture, 2 hours discussion.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 656Q -- Advanced Topics in Real Estate Law  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine the development and structure of common interest developments and the Neighborhood and Homeowner’s Associations that govern them. Topics to be examined will explore the legal, sociological and economic implications of private common interest developments which exist independently of public forms of local government. During the course of the seminar, we will examine the strengths and weaknesses of common interest communities, including management by nonprofessional boards of directors and/or professional management companies; interpretation of the Code of Covenants and Restrictions (CCRs);the relationship between the HOA and its members compared to the constitutional and statutory protections afforded citizen of public entities; the relationship between residents and the lawyers retained by the HOA; development and enforcement of architectural and esthetic guidelines; problems of foreclosure and other remedies for recovery of financial obligations; homestead exemptions; protection of civil rights; enforcement of fines and penalties and other topics drawn from the syllabus and course book which contain many other potential topics.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 657 -- LLC, LLP & Partnership Taxation  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 646.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 658 -- Securities Regulation  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 659 -- International Human Rights  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  LA S 659.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 660 -- Natural Resources Law  (3 units)
Description:  This course provides an overview of the legal (and non-legal) regimes that govern the acquisition and control of natural resources, using economic analysis as the principle analytical framework. The course examines the history of the federal public domain, including statehood grants, homestead acts, and the creation of national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges, and the Bureau of Land Management system. The course provides an introduction to the common law and federal statutory control of specific resources including water, wildlife including endangered species, hardrock minerals, oil and gas, marine fisheries, and public lands dominated by recreational and/or preservation uses.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AREC 660.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 661A -- Moot Court Board: Moot Court National Team  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 661B -- Moot Court Board  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 662A -- Bankruptcy and Related Issues  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 662B -- Land Use Regulation  (3 units)
Description:  This course explores the major American legal tools for public control of land uses. As a background, it begins with compensated land use control (eminent domain) and uncompensated private constraints on land uses (nuisance law). It then turns to the first and most fundamental type of land use regulation, zoning, along with the challenges that landowners can make to zoning in general and especially to changes in pre-existing zoning. Two special problems follow: aesthetic regulation (along with its First Amendment implications), and subdivision regulation, especially as the latter is used to finance urban infrastructure. Finally, it takes up some reforms: the requirement that land regulators plan in advance, and that they meet regional responsibilities. Finally, time permitting, we will take up some of the relationships between land use regulation and environmental controls
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 662C -- Legal Ethics for Criminal Lawyers  (2 units)
Description:  Application of the Ethics Rules, case law concerning effective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct, and professionalism to criminal practice, for the prosecution and defense.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 663 -- Introduction to Business Reorganization in Bankrkuptcy  (3 units)
Description:  This course develops issues arising in Chapter 11 business reorganization bankruptcy cases. Pieces of the puzzle include an overview of the Bankruptcy Code; understanding secured, unsecured and priority claims; property of the estate; the automatic stay; use, sale or lease of property; executory contracts; avoidance powers of the trustee or debtor in possession, substantive consolidation or joint administration; negotiation and confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization; allowance, disallowance and equitable subordination of claims; and ethical issues.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 664 -- Biotech Startup Co: Law, Science & Business Issues  (1-3 units)
Description:  Interdisciplinary course for law, business, and science graduate students, focusing on (1) intellectual property employment law issues; (2) biotechnology issues; (3) business planning, in the context of the initial stages of developing an invention for market. Students will draft contractual provisions enabling an inventor to leave their employment and begin a startup; develop a business plan concerning how they would help develop and add commercial value to the invention; negotiate the terms of the inventor's exit from her employment, and present marketing/business development strategies.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for a total of 4 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 665A -- Interviewing and Negotiating: Interviewing  (1 unit)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 665B -- Interviewing and Negotiating: Negotiating  (1 unit)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 665C -- Interviewing  (1-2 units)
Description:  Interviewing involves reading, lectures and discussions, as well as in-class exercises on client interviewing and counseling. Students must also complete two out-of-class interviews.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 665D -- Negotiating  (1-2 units)
Description:  Negotiating includes readings, lectures and discussions, as well as in-class and out-of-class exercises aimed at developing skills in legal negotiation.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 666 -- NAFTA and Regional Trade Agreements  (2-3 units)
Description:  To provide the basic fundamentals of both legal systems of the European Union and NAFTA and examine certain areas, such as the institutions, mechanisms for achieving intra-regional free trade and dispute settlement, in a detailed comparative fashion.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  LA S 666.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 667A -- Sentencing Law  (3 units)
Description:  This class examines the principles and practices of sentencing. Any brief study of sentencing can only hint at the rich and complex field that has emerged—indeed, that has been created—in the past twenty years. While sentencing as an aspect of the legal process has been around for several thousand years, sentencing as a distinct field of study and practice is quite a recent event. Sentencing reform movements revealed a gap in law—a lawlessness—in many of the justice systems in the U.S. for most of the 20th century. But what has filled that gap in many systems—sentencing guidelines—is one of the most controversial law reform projects of our era.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 668 -- Pretrial Litigation  (3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 608.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 669 -- Environmental Law  (3-4 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 670 -- Public International Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  LA S 670.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 671 -- Law and Humanities  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 673 -- Media Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 674 -- Law of "White Collar Crime"  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 675 -- Advanced Criminal Procedure  (2-3 units)
Description:  The course will closely examine statutory and constitutional principles related to advanced criminal procedure. The course will also provide practical information from both a defense and prosecutorial viewpoint about the day-to-day administration of criminal cases in the federal district and state superior courts.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 676A -- Juvenile Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course is designed to acquaint students with some basic and, often, unresolved issues in juvenile law. We will explore questions involving child protection, teenage parents, juvenile delinquency, treating children as adult criminals; public education, foster care, child custody and the juvenile death penalty.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 676B -- Law of Child Abuse and Neglect  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 677 -- Statutory Interpretation  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course will consider a subject that has stimulated great scholarly and professional interest in recent years; the role of the courts in the interpretation of statutes. After an overview of basic themes, we will focus on such questions as: theoretical approaches to the task of interpretation; the significance of background norms and of "canons of construction"; the relevance of context; the treatment of legislative history; the relationship between courts and administrative agencies; problems of obsolescence; and the proper limits of judicial creativity in reading and applying statutory texts.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 678 -- Jessup Moot Court  (1-2 units)
Description:  The Jessup International Moot Court Competition is an international law advocacy competition. The Jessup promotes awareness, study and understanding of international issues and law. Students research and write an advocacy brief on issues of international concern and practice oral agrumentation during the course. This course runs for the entire academic year and is divided into Jessup I and Jessup II. Jessup I is offered for 2 units; pass/fail; Jessup II is offered for 1 unit, pass/fail.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for a total of 3 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 680A -- Mediation  (1-2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 680B -- Mediation  (1-2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 680C -- Mediation Advocacy  (3 units)
Description:  Give the prominence of both court-mandated and voluntary mediation as a means of resolving legal disputes, the ability to effectively represent clients in mediation is an essential lawyering skill. This course will examine the theory and practice of representing clients in mediation through readings, demonstrations, role plays, critique, class discussions, presentations, and written assignments. As part of the course, students will take part in series of increasingly complex simulations emphasizing various components of mediation advocacy including: client interviewing, counseling and preparation, negotiating, writing mediation briefs, and advocacy in mediation sessions. In the final mediation simulation, students to will represent clients played by actors before practicing mediators drawn from the legal community. The goals of the course include: introducing students to the nature of conflict and principles of conflict management; considering the policy and ethical implications of the use of mediation as a means of conflict resolution; developing negotiation and communication skills; experiencing and analyzing various mediation models and mediator styles; fostering emotional literacy and reflective skills; understanding experientially the lawyer’s role in mediation and developing skills in preparing and representing clients in mediation.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 681A -- Case Studies in Public Interest  (1 unit)
Description:  In conjunction with public service summer employment, students will study 1) the agency’s impact on and definition of its client(s); 2) the lawyer’s role, in particular the lawyer’s ethical responsibilities and challenges, and the lawyer as decision maker and public policy maker or precedent setter; and 3) at least one individual case or project on which the student is working as part of the student's summer agency placement. The course will require students to attend pre-and/or post-agency placement sessions where issues of the unique role of agency attorneys, as will as the particular ethical responsibilities of agency attorneys, are addressed. This course will be carried over from Summer I to Summer II without the students having to re-register for the course.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Summer.

LAW 681B -- Criminal Investigation and Discovery  (2 units)
Description:  This course will focus upon the development of facts by lawyers in criminal cases, in and out of court, from the perspective of both state and federal courts and the use of out of court fact development tools such as investigators, computers and public record requests.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 681C -- Issues in Federal Criminal Justice  (1-2 units)
Description:  This class will give students insight into the prosecutor's role in the enforcement of federal law. it will also discuss some of the substantive laws the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Offices are responsible for enforcing.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 681D -- Introduction to DUI Law and Policy  (1 unit)
Description:  This course will introduce the law and policy regarding Driving Under the Influence in Arizona. The course is aimed both at those planning to practice criminal law and those interested in DUI for policy reasons.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 681E -- Law Library Practice and Administration  (3 units)
Description:  This course will focus on a wide range of issues dealing with law library practice and administration, including but not limited to digital law libraries, collection development, law library administration, teaching legal research, database management, professional ethics and intellectual property issues. Several classes will be taught by guest lecturers, primarily librarians from the law library.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  IRLS 681E.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 681F -- Practices in Professionalism  (1 unit)
Description:  In conjunction with public service summer employment, students will study the lawyer's role in a public service or government agency context. In particular, students will study the lawyer's ethical responsibilities and challenges in a real work setting, as well as the various roles lawyers play -- decision-maker, public policy maker, negotiator, advisor, etc. Students must be working concurrently for 320 hours in a government or public sector setting. Students will be participating in ongoing assignments and online discussions during the course of summer. The course will explore principles of professionalism and their appllication in practice; provide students with support in developing job-related skills and in dealing with job-related issues and an opportunity for structured reflection and feedback. Course activities will help students develop skills and attitudes associated with job satisfaction and competence and ultimate successful entry into the legal profession. Students will attend pre and post work class sessions where the goals of the course are articulated, principles of ethics and professionalism explored, and strategies for successful experiences are identified.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Summer.

LAW 681G -- Law and Policy of Sex Crimes  (1-2 units)
Description:  This course will discuss prosecution and defense of crimes of a sexual nature. While Arizona caselaw and statues will be referenced, emphasis of the course will be on broader policy issues not necessarily limited to Arizona law. The course will cover adult sexual assault and related offenses; offenses involving the sexual exploitation of children; crimes involving child pornography; and discussion of Sexually Violent Person civil commitments.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 682 -- CyberLaw  (2-3 units)
Description:  The nature and scope of the Internet and the World Wide Web, including the role of web browsers as both search and transaction tools, the proposed national information infrastructure; the general impact of technology on law and law on technology; encryption, anonymity and privacy.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 684 -- Law and the Elderly  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 685 -- Introduction to the U.S. Legal System  (2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  open to LL.M. students or with consent of instructor.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 685U -- Islam and Human Rights  (1 unit)
Description:  A two week investigation of Islam and Human Rights, taught to graduate students in Middle eastern Studies and Law, meeting for one hour daily with extensive reading assignments, a final paper, and in class discussion. The course will be a seminar, with daily lectures by Mrs. Ebadi and joint participation by law Professor S. James Anaya, James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy, and Near Eastern Studies Associate Professor, Anne Betteridge, who is also the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 686 -- International Law Journal  (1-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  selection to Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law Board.
May be repeated:  for a total of 5 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 687 -- European Union  (1-2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 688 -- Introduction to Comparative Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course concentrates on the basic features of different legal systems, focusing on civil law systems in selected European and Latin American countries, providing students with a useful introduction to the field of comparative law. The basic structure, principles and jurisprudence of the civil law system will be compared to those of the common law, leading the student to appreicate the strengths and weaknesses of both systems. The course will focus on legal methodology as well as selective substantive components.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 689 -- Advanced Legal Research  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring, Summer.

LAW 689A -- Teaching Legal Research  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course is for students who seek to be law librarians. The course will meet once a week for two hours where the students will develop lesson plans and practice teaching legal research in specific areas such as the case, the statute and legislative history, secondary sources, non-legal research, CALR, administrative law and the internet. We will videotape their practice classes to critique and to allow students to monitor their own teaching styles. They will also develop web pages for the course. The course will culminate with the students actually teaching the Intermediate Legal Research (boot camp) class which takes place the week after the Spring semester ends.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  IRLS 689A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 690 -- Law Practice Management and Technology  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 693 -- Internship  (1-10 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Summer.

LAW 693B -- Federal Public Defender Externship  (2-3 units)
Description:  Students may enroll for an externship for a semester working in the Tucson office of the Federal Public Defender on various habeas cases providing a unique opportunity for students with an interest if death penalty litigation to learn about this interesting and rapidly developing area of law, as well as to obtain intensive experience in legal research and writing at a sophisticated level, working with attorneys who spend most of their professional energies researching and writing. Students will spend 100 or 150 hours during the externship, depending on the number of units earned.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  Completion of first year of law school.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 694A -- Entrepreneurship Law Practicum I  (1 unit)
Description:  This course is the first in a two-part series. The course will provide an integrated framework for addressing the legal issues that arise in the context of a start-up company. The first half of the course will consist of a series of seminars linking the various legal issues together and introducing students to the practical considerations involved in counseling clients starting small companies. Several seminars will be taught by outside speakers with extensive experience representing start-up companies in Arizona. The second half of the course will focus on students' preparation of a business development presentation, which will be made to the entrepreneurship teams involved in the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 694B -- Entrepreneurship Law Practicum II  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course is the second in a two-part series. The course will involve students functioning as partners in a mock law firm advising the entrepreneurship teams involved in the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program. Students will develop skills in the following areas: (1) development of business plans and founders agreements; (2) incorporation and capitalization of a company, including their tax implications; (3) identification and protection of intellectual property, including intellectual property that protects inventions (e.g., patents, trade secrets) and intellectual property that support marketing strategies (e.g., trademarks); and (4) business negotiations strategy and technology licensing. The experience law students gain through the course will make them uniquely qualified for positions in high-technology sectors and work representing small start-up companies generally upon graduation.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 694A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 694C -- Juvenile Detention Teaching Program  (1 unit)
Description:  Law students teach in two or three person teams at the Juvenile Detention Center. The program is presented to juveniles from age 13 to 18 held in custody at the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center. Law students attend three sessions for planning and training, followed by each team’s consultation with Juvenile Justice personnel. The suggested curriculum is grounded by the eight law-related videos , but law students are free to create their own law-related curriculum for the training sessions.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  Completion of first year of law school.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 694D -- Civil Rights Restoration  (2 units)
Description:  In addition to 14 hours of classroom work, students in the class will be certified under Rule 38(d) to represent persons with criminal convictions and, under the supervision of attorneys, assist them in filing petitions to restore their civil rights. The courtroom work is not primarily aimed at developing litigation skills. Instead, it is to give students the opportunity to meet persons with criminal convictions, learn about their situations, and communicate in a formal setting about the reasons they want their civil rights restored and how that would advance their reentry into society.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 608. Concurrent registration, LAW 609.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695A -- Colloquium Speakers Series  (2-4 units)
Description:  The colloquium meets on average every 3 to 4 weeks throughout the academic year. Experts in the field of indigenous law and policy from around the world present on their respective areas of law. Students will attend all colloquiums (approximately 10) and prepare a three-page comment on each. A paper of approximately 10 pages on any theme relevant to any colloquium is also required.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 695B -- Gender and the Law  (1-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  W S 695B.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695E -- Judicial Clerking Program  (1-2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695F -- Disability Law Center Interviewing  (1 unit)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695G -- High School Teaching Program  (1 unit)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695H -- The Supreme Court  (1 unit)
Description:  This course explores the Supreme Court of the United States, past and present. It aims to give the student an insider's look at the current practices and procedures of both the litigants who argue cases and the Justices who decide them, while contrasting those practices and procedures with historic approaches. it also examins the role of the Court as an institution, addressing the significant change that the Court has experienced in the last two hundred years in a handful of substantive and procedural areas.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 695J -- ASUA/Legal Service Interviewing  (1-2 units)
Description:  This course provides the opportunity for students to obtain supervised experience in intake interviews with students in one of two legal aid settings: university legal aid services for students, or community legal aid services with Southern Arizona Legal Aid. Students consult with a supervising attorney in determining how to interview and advise individual clients.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for credit 2 times (maximum 3 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695K -- Election Law  (1-3 units)
Description:  Election law, as the 2000 presidential election dramatically illustrated, sets the ground rules for the most fundamental process in our democracy; the use of voting to determine who governs or, through an initiative or referendum, to determine substantive law. These issues are especially relevant in Arizona, where voters have approved a number of election-related reforms. This course will review the key constitutional provisions, statutes, and court decisions governing such topics as the expansion of the franchise, presidential selection, redistricting, campaign finance reform, and direct democracy. Weekly lectures may include guest speakers who have participated in federal and state campaigns.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 695L -- Civil Rights Laws  (2-3 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 695M -- ERISA and Employee Benefits Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), applies to “pension benefits” such as 401(k) arrangements and other retirement plans, and “welfare benefits” such as health insurance and disability plans. In 1997, Chief Justice Rehnquist commented at the University of Virginia Law School: “. . . there are at least three courses offered just on the First Amendment . . . . By contrast, there seems to be no course offering devoted to federal regulation of employer-employee benefit and retirement plans–an area of the law which is much less glamorous, receives much less media attention, but the ramifications of which have a far greater effect on the daily lives of people than do the nuances of First Amendment law. Surely practitioners are much more likely to have clients with pension and benefit plan problems than with separation of church and state problems.”
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 695O -- Ares Fellows I  (1-2 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 695Q -- Writing Fellows  (1-3 units)
Description:  Instruction in the fundamentals of analysis, writing and research, as well as in the techniques of assisting others to learn the basic skills required of lawyers in analyzing, researching and writing about legal problems.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 695R -- Technology, Innovation & IP Policy  (2-3 units)
Description:  The colloquium on Technology, Innovation nad IP Policy is to explore current policy and legal issues relataing to the legal protection of intellectual property rights and the legal and policy tools that are available to encourage innovation.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 696A -- Estate Planning  (2-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 619, LAW 646, LAW 648.
Usually offered:  Summer.

LAW 696B -- Domestic Violence Seminar  (1-3 units)
Description:  This will cover an in-depth study of the domestic violence issue.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696C -- Clinical Practice  (2-6 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  LAW 608, LAW 609.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696D -- Indigenous Peoples Law Clinic  (2-6 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AIS 696D.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

LAW 696E -- Capital Punishment  (2-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 696F -- Legal Ethics  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

LAW 696H -- Sports Law  (2 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696I -- International Environmental Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 696J -- Intellectual Property  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course will explore various theoretical approaches to intellectual property. Particular attention is paid to how changing theoretical perspectives expose the shortcomings of other theories and lead to different policy prescriptions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696K -- Refugee Law and Policy  (2-3 units)
Description:  The course will involve an in-depth examination of any of a variety of topics in refugee rights law.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 696L -- International Trade Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  LA S 696L.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696M -- The Practice of Law in the Digital Era  (3 units)
Description:  This course will provde an introduction to the economics and structure of the legal profession, to law firm organization, law office technology, client relations, firm billing and marketing, document and case management tools, management information and resources technology, managing financial resources, including expenses, income, and budgeting; capitalizing and financing a law practice; delivery of high quality legal services; and creation of a business plan for a law office. Students will create their own business plans as part of the course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696N -- Substantial Paper Seminar  (1-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 696O -- Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence  (1-2 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 696P -- Law and Social Work  (1-2 units)
Description:  The social work profession represents a synthesis of theories and practice approaches developed to assist clients to become increasingly self-determinative and sufficient by enhancing their own adaptive skills and abilities, while simultaneously decreasing external barriers. For students who aspire to promote social justice or seek to work in clinical or multidisciplinary practice settings, it is critically important that they possess a working knowledge of relevant social work principles, theories, values and ethical considerations.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 696Q -- Racial Profiling  (2-3 units)
Description:  This seminar in Racial Profiling will introduce students to the racial profiling debate through a series of readings relating to domestic law enforcement and law enforcement relating to terrorism. The course will address questions of constitutionality raised by racial profiling, particularly under the Fourth Amendment the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In addition, the course will address practical questions raised by racial profiling, remedies to constitutional violations, and prevention of racial profiling. Finally, the class will focus on racial profiling in immigration, traffic stops, and medicine.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 696R -- Family Law Theory and Policy Seminar  (2 units)
Description:  This course examines a number of controversial issues in family law from theoretical and policy perspectives. Will consider especially issues of gender, race, and sexual orientation in family law. Specific issues include the use of social science in family law; transracial adoption, open adoption, assisted reproduction; child abuse; neglect and foster care system; marriage as a legal institution; same sex marriage; and intersection of welfare law and family law.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 696S -- Citizenship & Society Seminar  (2 units)
Description:  This seminar investigates the tensions inherent in the legal status distinctions between citizens and noncitizens in society. The federal government’s robust power to determine whom to admit and exclude from the country is well-established (although also well-criticized). At the same time, courts have held in a variety of context that noncitizens in the United States have certain Constitutional protections and entitlements.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696T -- DNA: Criminal Justice, Science and Evidence  (1 unit)
Description:  This class will involve hands-on experience with biological evidence at every step of the criminal process from crime scene collection to evaluation by fact-finders. There will be discussions of the nature of scientific evidence in general and DNA evidence in particular. The focus of the course will be on how lawyers can understand, use and attack scientific evidence.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Identical to:  PA 696T.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696U -- Professionalism in Law Practice  (2 units)
Description:  This is a course about professionalism in the practice of law; what it means; what it doesn't mean; and how lawyers can develop it and maintain it in the face of the pressures of the practice of law. This is not a course in the rules of professional responsibility, although there is considerable overlap involving ethics and professionalism. This overlap will be explored, along with core values essential to the legal profession.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 696V -- Fundamentals of Regulation  (2-3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696W -- Commercial Transactions Seminar  (2-3 units)
Description:  In this course we will create a purchase and sale agreement for a commercial transaction. Students will learn how the respective business and legal interests of the buyer and seller must come together in order to complete a contract which works for both parties. Students will draft terms and conditions, use oral skills to explain their party's position and advance its interests; and work with significant parts of a complex commercial contract.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 696Y -- Human Rights and Intellectual Property  (1 unit)
Description:  This seminar will explore the emerging relationship between intellectual property and human rights law. Recently, human rights concerns have been asserted in a number of contexts as counterweights to the expansion of intellectual property rights. Human rights issues are relevant in a range of issues that intersect with intellectual property protection, including: freedom of expression; public health; education and literacy; privacy; agriculture; technology transfer; rights of indigenous peoples. At the same time, creators of intellectual property are asserting human rights bases for the protection and expansion of intellectual property rights. The seminar will explore the implications for domestic and international intellectual property law of these kinds of human rights claims in addition to some of the key tensions between them.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 696Z -- Criminal Justice Policy Seminar  (2-3 units)
Description:  The United States prison population has increased from 200,000 in 1970 to 1.4 million in 2003. Most of those prisoners will eventually be released, and have to successfully reenter society or reoffend and be returned to prison. Approximately 600,000 prisoners are released from custody every year. This class explores the contemporary problem of prisoner reentry from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697A -- Intermediate Legal Research  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course will build on the fundamentals of legal research concepts introduced in the first year legal research course, and will involve students in an intensive, hands on course of concentrated legal research in primary and secondary sources, including treatises, digests, legal periodicals, legislative history, and internet and other on-line research. The goal of the course is to develop legal research skills to enable students to work independently in a legal setting.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697B -- Globalization and Preservation of Culture  (1-3 units)
Description:  Workshop on globalization and preservation of culture.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AIS 697B.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697C -- Privacy Law  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course will involve in depth examination of any of a variety of issues in regards to privacy law.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697D -- Constitution, Government and Law of Arizona  (1-3 units)
Description:  An interdisciplinary survey of Arizona's constitutional law, governmental organization and those common law principles peculiar to Arizona and its governance.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697E -- International Intellectual Property  (1-3 units)
Description:  Workshop on advanced topics in intellectual property.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697G -- Citizenship and Society Advocacy Workshop  (1 unit)
Description:  This course runs concurrently with the Citizenship and Society Seminar. Students who enroll in the Advocacy Workshop will have the opportunity to participate in advocacy projects. The students can choose between two projects run by the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW). Both projects are part of SIROW’s new initiative, “Protecting Women’s Rights at the Border,” a multi-faceted research, education, and advocacy project to protect women’s human and civil rights in the U.S./Mexico border region. One project is the Women Workers’ Project; the other is documentation and advocacy for women in immigration detention. In the Women Workers’ Project, law students and a rotating group of volunteer attorneys will staff the open-houses. Each open-house will begin with a 20-minute “know your rights” presentation and group discussion. Women will then have the opportunity to meet individually with law students to describe their specific employment-related questions. The law students will be trained to respond to employment issues including wage and hour violations, race and sex discrimination, sexual harassment, disability and unemployment benefits, and workers’ compensation. In the project working with women in immigration detention, law students will gather information through interviews with detainees, previously detained women, detainees’ family members, attorneys, government officials, and facility personnel. It will also draft Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, LAW 696S.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697H -- Law and Economics  (3 units)
Description:  Policymakers and lawyers regularly use economic tools to analyze various legal issues and disputes. The employed methodologies include cost-benefit analyses, game-theoretic analyses, behavioral economic analyses, econometric estimations, and others. This course introduces the fundamentals of economic analysis of law. The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with some of the major economic issues faced by decision makers,lawyers and economists while addressing basic legal topics and the prime economic tools employed in these contexts. More specifically, the course will explore several economic methods and concepts and apply them to illuminate and critique familiar areas of law, including property, contracts, torts, criminal law, and the legal process.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 697I -- Advanced Criminal Procedure (Federal) Bail to Jail  (2 units)
Description:  This class follows a simulated federal criminal case. It follows a defendant from "bail to jail". The class participates as actors and lawyers. The class is split in half between prosecutors and defense lawyers.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 697J -- Representing Children Workshop I  (2 units)
Description:  This course will be a workshop in which students will study the role of lawyers representing children and will design a multi-disciplinary training for children’s lawyers to be implemented in the Pima County Family Court. In designing a training for practicing lawyers and court staff, students will need to explore the many ethical and practical issues relating to the representation of children in custody and divorce matters.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697K -- Contemporary Issues in Employment Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  This seminar will explore current issues in the employment law including drug testing, employee privacy, the use of agreements to arbitrate as a condition of employment, regulation of off-work activity, and wrongful termination. We will also explore some of the intellectual property issues involved in the employment area such as trade secrets, inventions and authorship.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 697L -- Advanced Topics in Family Law  (2-3 units)
Description:  The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697M -- Freedom of Religion  (1 unit)
Description:  Issues may include issues of school prayer, vouchers for attendance at religious institutions, governmental display of religious symbols, such as Nativity Scenes and Tables of the Ten Commandments, government support of religious instruction, government limitation on religious clothing, use of otherwise illegal substances as part of religious observances.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  RELI 697M.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697O -- Law and Economics of the Natural Environment  (1 unit)
Description:  This course will use economic principles to understand legal institutions, including the common law, statutory law, and administrative regulations, although the emphasis will be on the common law. The analysis will be used to explain both the rationale for various legal rules and their effects on economic behavior and economic organization. The course will focus on the law of property, contract, tort, and crime but will also examine topics in family law, environmental law, the evolution of legal rules, economic regulation, and informal law (e.g., norms). Emphasis will be placed on transaction cost economics, contract economics, and the economics of information.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697P -- Comparative Commercial Law  (3 units)
Description:  This course will examine the different approaches taken to commercial law in several representative legal systems, including the United State Uniform Commercial code. The implications for international commercial transactions will be examined and explored.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 697Q -- Intermediate Legal Research  (1 unit)
Description:  The course will consist of a combination of lectures, hands-on learning and library exercises. Students will learn how to use traditional paper as well as electronic research sources (for example, Lexis, Westlaw, Dialog, Nexis, Dow Jones and Loislaw). It will be team taught by the librarians of the College of Law Library. Contact instructor for registration information.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697R -- Intermediate Legal Research II for Non-Lawyers  (2 units)
Description:  This course is only open to graduate and professional students who have taken Intermediate Legal Research. It consists of the creation of a legal research pathfinder. The pathfinder will be created under the direction of the professor. There will be no scheduled classes, but enrolled students will work with the professor "virtually" through e-mail and the web or in individual meetings. See instructor for more details.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697S -- Economics, Law and Environment  (1 unit)
Description:  The Economics, Law and Environment Workshop (ELE Workshop) is intended to expose students and participating faculty members to a broad range of original research in the area of overlap between law, economics and environmental issues. The Workshop will consist of six meetings during which leading scholars in the field will present their research for discussion and critique by the enrolled students and participating faculty. The Workshop is part of the broader Program on Economics, Law and the Environment, a research and educational collaboration between the College of Law and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  AREC 697S.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 697T -- Natural Resources Law  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course examines the management of specific resources found on public lands; wilderness, timber, water, wildlife, grazing, minerals. It will also analyze the interrelated roles of various branches of government in determining the use of public lands.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697U -- Creative Writing for Lawyers  (1-3 units)
Description:  The course will involve the workshop method of teaching writing, with a professional writer working closely with serious-minded students who are willing to write regularly and participate actively in class discussion of their own and classmates' work. The instructor will facilitate and provide guidance from the practicing lawyer's perspective and that of a working novelist. The focus will be on student manuscripts. All students will write and critique fore, during and after each class. Students will be encouraged to advocate with attention to structure, style, and form, drawing on the techniques of creative writers.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 697V -- Transportation Law  (1-2 units)
Description:  Concentrates on truck and rail transportation: transportation contracts and bills of lading, liability for loss and damage, insurance, tort liability of carriers and shippers, and public law and other considerations.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Spring.

LAW 697W -- Accounting for Lawyers  (1 unit)
Description:  This course will introduce law students to the basic concepts of accounting and finance. Topics include: introduction to generally accepted accounting principles, the basic components of financial statements, basic concepts of accounting, basic principles of valuation including the time value of money and the legal and professional responsibilities of accountants and lawyers in the auditing process.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

LAW 697Y -- Representing Child Workshop II  (2 units)
Description:  This course will involve a field placement with attorneys who have been appointed by the Pima County Family Court to represent children in custody disputes. The field placement will be supervised by the Law College faculty consistent with ABA and Law College rules on field placements. The expectations of field work will adhere to the Law College standard of 50 hours per credit hour [including class time and class preparation]. Students will work with lawyers who have been trained with specially designed multi-disciplinary materials that take into account the many ethical and practical issues relating to the representation of children in custody and divorce matters.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 697Z -- Patent Practice  (2 units)
Description:  This course would instruct students in all aspects of patent applications. It would build on the theoretical concepts covered in Patent Law and involve both analysis of sample (existing) patent applications and drafting of new ones. The key elements of patent applications will be emphasized and detailed examination of the requirements of a successful patent application undertaken.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 699 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
Grading:  This course is offered for pass/fail only.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

LAW 910 -- Thesis  (1-4 units)
Description:  Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation of research, artistic creation, or thesis writing) maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 920 -- Dissertation  (1-9 units)
Description:  Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library, research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.