Fall 2008 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Fall 2008; however, some (or all) may not be offered this term.  The course numbers that are offered this term link to the Schedule of Classes.  Class 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 Information 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 522 -- Trade and Globalization in the 21st Century  (2 units)
Description:  This course will explore the history of trade policy in the United States during the last half century and the evolution of institutions government and promoting multilateral trade. It will examine current social and economic issues related to globalization and how these external forces impact trade policy at home and abroad.
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:  BNAD 522; BNAD is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

LAW 525 -- Native Economic 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.
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 588 -- Advanced Topics in Economic Sociology  (3 units)
Description:  Examines recent work in Economic Sociology.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  SOC 588; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

LAW 595I -- The Anthropology of Law and Nation State  (3 units)
Description:  This colloquium will explore anthropological 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 Identities: 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 identities 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 methodologies 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 bibliography.
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 596P -- Social Cognition and Criminal Law  (3 units)
Description:  As the title suggests, this seminar examines linkages of social cognition and criminal jurisprudence and law, building primarily upon scholarly disciplines of psychology, law, philosophy, psychiatry, and public policy. This seminar attends to issues of how legal theory and philosophy in criminal law may be informed by social cognitive science. In addition, although secondary, this seminar addresses how social cognitive psychology may be guided by developments in criminal law. Literatures from social, developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychology, psychiatry, sociology, criminology, and legal philosophy/jurisprudence, will be drawn from, and students will read important criminal law cases, as well. Some topics are: constructions of mens rea, free will, criminal culpability, diminished capacity and responsibility, affirmative defenses, retributive versus liberal constructions of juvenile justice, competence to stand trial, social development, decision making, and extracognitive and contextual factors in criminogenic information processing. Class discussion is strongly emphasized; students will give an oral presentation and submit a final research paper. This seminar is open to law students and all graduate students (including, but not limited to, graduate students in psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, family studies and human development, sociology, and related behavioral science disciplines).
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  Open to Psychology & Law graduate students. All other graduate students are welcomed to register with the consent of instructor.
Identical to:  PSYC 596P; 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 -- Litigating with Experts  (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 611E -- Corporate Tax Policy  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course will examine various controversial issues of US corporate tax and economic policy, including questions relating to elimination of the double tax through integration (that is, elimination of the taxation of corporate income twice: once to the corporate and once to the individual); corporate responsibility (how much tax should corporations pay?); corporate taxation (for example, the impact on corporate taxation of the recent reduction to 15% of the tax rate on dividends); and other topics selected following class consultation.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
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 resources.
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 AIS 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 Economics 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.
Identical to:  PA 631D.
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 communicative 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 649D -- American Courts: Structure, People, Processes, & Politics  (2-3 units)
Description:  This course examines trial and appellate courts in the United States, with a heavy emphasis on federal courts. It covers how courts are organized and how they govern themselves; methods of selecting judges and the roles of various players in the process; the ethical rules governing judges and the mechanisms for dealing with alleged misconduct or disability; how judges are educated; how the rules of procedure are adopted and amended; how the judicial branch and individual judges interact with the legislative branch and individual legislators about legislation that may affect the administration of justice, including judicial branch funding; how the courts and the news media interact; how trial and appellate courts manage larger caseloads.
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 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 requirements, financing cases, obtaining and qualifying experts, standard 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, pornography and obscenity, commercial speech and campaign finance. Assigned readings will be drawn primarily from Supreme Court opinions. Constitutional 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 concentrate on the law of any particular state nor is any other prior course 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; disclosure 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 -- Research 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, hard rock 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 Bankruptcy  (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 trus