Curriculum - First Year

Fall Semester		Spring Semester
Course	Hours	Course	Hours
Civil Procedure	4	American Public Law Process	3
Contracts	4	Legal Research	1
Criminal Law	3	Legal Writing II	2
Legal Research	0	Professional Responsibility	3
Legal Writing I	2	Property	4
Torts	4	Transnational Law	3

Courses

LAW 105 - American Public Law Process.

An introduction to the legal framework of American constitutional and administrative government. The course covers the development of principles of separated legislative, executive and judicial functions; the combination of those functions in the modern administrative agency; and the predominantly procedural responses of the legal system to the continuing questions of legitimacy raised by this allocation of authority. Three hours. Carr, Grunewald, Hu, and Murchison

LAW 109 - Civil Procedure.

This course commences with an overview of the system of civil litigation. Thereafter, topics for study will include personal jurisdiction, notice, subject matter jurisdiction, venue, the Erie doctrine, pleadings, pre-trial matters, joinder of parties and claims, discovery, dispositive motions, and preclusion of issues and claims. Four hours. Moliterno, Rendleman, Sahani, and Shaughnessy

LAW 140 - Contracts.

One of the major goals of this course is to broaden the student’s perception of the nature of exchange relationships in our legal system. In order to develop this understanding such matters as the legal remedies available for reinforcing exchange relationships, concepts, and techniques relating to continuing exchange relationships, social control and utilization of contracts, and the concept of contract as a form of economic wealth and property are explored. Four hours. Howard, Millon, and Parella

LAW 150 - Criminal Law.

A study of the ways in which society defines conduct and persons as criminal. Principal topics include: mental state and act; mental state as a classification device; the effect of mental disease or defect on the decision to punish; culpability of persons addicted to or under the influence of intoxicants; justification and excuse; attempt crimes. Three hours. Bruck and MacDonnell

LAW 160 - Legal Reasoning.

This course will develop skills of legal analysis through a series of increasingly complex problems. In order to receive credit, students must complete all exercises and meet with the instructor to review feedback on assignments. Pass/No Pass only. Limited enrollment. One hour. Natkin.

LAW 163 - Legal Research.

This class, spanning the fall and spring semesters, introduces students to the principles and strategies of legal research. Utilizing a flipped classroom and a series of increasingly complex in-class and out of class assignments, students master the principles of legal information literacy required for the successful practice of law. One hour. (Full-year course. Grades are posted to the spring semester.) Christensen, Mart-Rice, Miller and Osborne

LAW 165 - Legal Writing I.

Legal writing assignments will be designed to sharpen students’ writing and analytical skills. Assignments also will be designed to familiarize students with law library resources and research methods. Instruction will be coordinated with small sections in Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, and Torts. Students’ written work will be closely reviewed in small group sessions and individually, with redrafts often required. Two hours. Howard, Millon, Rendleman, Sahani, Shaughnessy, and Wiant (fall semester)

LAW 166 - Legal Writing II.

Legal writing assignments will be designed to sharpen students’ writing and analytical skills. Assignments also will be designed to familiarize students with law library resources and research methods. Instruction will be coordinated with small sections in American Public Law Process, Professional Responsibility, Property, and Transnational Law. Students’ written work will be closely reviewed in small group sessions and individually, with redrafts often required. Two hours. Carr, Mr. Drumbl, Eggert, Fraley, Grunewald, and Hu (spring semester)

LAW 175 - Professional Responsibility.

A consideration of the sources and implications of the moral behavior of lawyers, and of the consequences of immoral behavior by lawyers, including professional discipline and the imposition of damages for legal malpractice. The course considers the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association; earlier American compilations on professional ethics, proposals for reform; current sources on the law of legal malpractice and legal-malpractice prevention; and non-legal sources on ethics, including biography, fiction, history, philosophy, and moral theology. Three hours. Natkin and Sahani

LAW 179 - Property.

An introduction to the concept of property and the law governing it. Topics to be covered may include acquisition and possession of property, estates in land, the landlord-tenant relationship, and the purchase and sale of real property. Four hours. Eggert, Fraley, and Seaman

LAW 190 - Torts.

Concerns the legal protection afforded in civil proceedings against interference by others with one’s person, property, and intangible interests. The historical and theoretical bases of tort liability are examined against the background of the legal process employed to develop an understanding of current law and a sensitivity to changing patterns of tort responsibility emerging from a dynamic society. Four hours. Eggert, Murchison, and Wiant

LAW 195 - Transnational Law.

This course introduces students to core principles of public and private international law, comparative law, foreign law, cross-border legal process and deal-making, transboundary dispute resolution, and elements of U.S. law that have international effect. One goal of the course is to equip students for the reality that U.S. practitioners increasingly require conversance with international, foreign, and extraterritorial law in all aspects of their legal work. Three hours. Baluarte, Mr. Drumbl, and Parella

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