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DESCRIPTIONS
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Advanced
Legal Methods (2/3
units)
In this
class students have an opportunity to refine their analytical
and communicative skills.
Students draft and rewrite legal memoranda, briefs, discovery
devices, affidavits, essays,
wills, trusts, and contracts in a series of practical exercises.
Advanced Legal Methods gives students the dual advantage of
preparing for both the California State Bar Examination
and the actual practice of law.
Agency
and Partnership
(3 units)
Instructor:
Karalash, Daniel
This class
focuses upon agency principles and the formation of agency-type
relationships. Principles include respondent superior, vicarious
liability of joint enterprises and ventures, and authority
and ratification.
Alternative
Dispute Resolution
or ADR
(2 units)
Students
in ADR learn concepts in alternative dispute resolution processes,
an initial grounding in negotiation theory and practice, the
role of the advocate in negotiating a settlement, and a balanced
treatment of ADR and litigation.
Bankruptcy
(3
units)
Instructor:
Smith, Gregory
This class
deals with the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, the
negotiation of agreements between parties, dispute resolution,
bankruptcy administration, and the Bankruptcy Reform Act.
Corporations
and Other Business
Entities I & II
(6 units)
This course
explores business associations, with an emphasis on corporations,
but also including partnerships, and LLCs. Primary focus is
on relations among management, shareholders and directors.
We also cover problems of close corporations, stock issuance,
mergers and acquisitions, and Federal Securities Laws.
Civil
Procedure I & II (6
units)
This course
covers a wide range of topics including jurisdiction and venue,
parties, causes of action, notice and service of process,
demurrers, answers, appearances, counterclaims, cross-complaints,
amendments to pleadings, motions, discovery, judgments, res
judicata and collateral estoppel, post-trial motions and appeals,
and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Community
Property
(2 units)
This class
explores the nature of community property vis-a-vis separate
property and is concerned with distribution upon the death
of a spouse or upon dissolution of a marital relationship.
Issues include management, control, transmutation, and liability
to debtors and creditors.
Constitutional
Law I & II (6
units)
Instructor:
Kravitz, Jeffrey
This course
examines the U.S. Constitution and the relationship between
the three branches of government. Other topics include states
rights, individual rights, freedoms and protections, due process,
the Bill of Rights, privileges and immunities, taxation, and
interstate commerce.
Consumer
Advocacy (2/3
units)
This course
provides students with practical experience and instruction
about consumer protection laws and procedure.
Contracts
I & II (6
units)
Instructor:
Platon, Ben
This course
focuses upon formation, performance, and remedies, including
mutual assent, consideration, substitutes for consideration,
third-party contracts, assignments and delegation, breach,
discharge and excuse of duties, the Statute of Frauds, damages,
specific performance, and selected transactions governed by
the Uniform Commercial Code.
Criminal
Law I & II (4
units)
Instructor:
Bowie, Arthur L.
This class
examines the law of crimes, including murder, manslaughter,
assault, battery, mayhem, rape, larceny, robbery, fraudulent
takings, receiving stolen goods, burglary, arson, conspiracy,
attempts, solicitations, statutory crimes, justification,
excuse, and mitigation.
Criminal
Procedure (3
units)
This course
emphasizes the fundamental policy questions about crime and
the legislative response, about crime and policing, about
crime and racial discrimination, just to name a few. This
class will discuss issues involving he Fourth Amendment search
and seizure concepts, remedies for Fourth Amendment violations,
confessions, police interrogation and self-incrimination,
the Miranda exclusionary rule, Sixth Amendment right to counsel
and other relevant topics.
Employment
Law (2/3
units)
This class
deals with the fair employment principles under the Constitution
and federal statutes. The primary focus is on race, gender,
and age discrimination. Students explore current controversies,
including sexual harassment, comparable worth and pay equity,
affirmative actions, and discrimination against persons with
disabilities.
Environmental
Law
(2/3 units)
Students
analyze some of the major themes and issues concerning environmental
law, including nuisance theory, intergovernmental relations,
economic analysis, hazardous waste control, wetlands protection,
clean air regulation, and judicial control of administrative-decision
making.
Evidence
I & II (6
units)
Instructor:
Karalash, Daniel
This course
covers the Federal Rules of Evidence and the common law rules
of evidence, including judicial notice, burden of proof; presumptions,
the functions of judge and of the jury, the competence of
witnesses, and witness privileges.
Immigration
law (2/3
units)
This course
surveys the various Constitutional and statutory basis for
regulation of immigrants and non-immigrants. Topics include
citizenship and naturalization, sources of immigration power,
federal agencies and courts, admissions categories and procedures,
constitutional rights of aliens, illegal aliens, deportability
and relief from removal and refugees and political asylum.
Independent
Study/Clinic
Independent
study is available to second-, third-, and fourth-year law
students upon approval of the Dean. Independent study programs
include a variety of internships, scholarly research/writing
projects, or work-study. A maximum of 3 units per semester
is allowed; 2 units may be taken per semester in the Summer.
A maximum of six units of independent study may be applied
towards the students total units required for graduation.
Students are required to spend 45 hours of research work per
one (1) unit of academic credit
Warning:
The Veterans Administration does not recognize internship
hours in its computation of a students workload.
Introduction
to Law, traditional (2/3
units)
Instructors:
Marquez, Anthony
This class
introduces the beginning law student to the techniques of
legal study, case briefing, legal research, and factual analysis.
Students will also be introduced to the decision-making processes
of the various courts and agencies.
Labor
Law
(2/3
units)
This class
covers the law governing the relations between employer and
employee. State and federal legislation relative to collective
bargaining, including collective agreements, strikes, boycotts,
and picketing, are discussed.
Land
Use (2/3
units)
This course
covers the law relating to the principal methods used by federal,
state and local governments to regulate the use and development
of land. Special emphasis is given to California land use
regulations.
Legal
Writing (4
units)
This is
a practical course requiring students to write several essays
for critique and grading. Students will learn how it identify
central themes and issues, recite the relevant rules of law
that are raised by the facts, apply the facts to the rules,
and develop reasoned conclusions that are supported by legal
analysis.
Moot
Court (2
units)
Students
prepare and orally present arguments from simulated appellate
court cases. Research teams consist of students, who take
opposing sides of an issue.
Professional
Responsibilty (2
units)
This class
covers the organization and rules regulating the legal profession,
including the unauthorized practice of law, the attorney-client
relationship, advertising limits, solicitation of clients,
group legal services plans, compensation, fiduciary duties,
trust funds, conflicts of interest, withdrawal from employment,
zealous representation, disciplinary actions, canons of professional
responsibility, and ethics.
Real
Property I & II (6
units)
This class
covers common law estates in land, along with modern concepts
such as cotenancy, landlord-tenant, forms of ownership, transfers,
escrows, title insurance, recording statutes, zoning and land
use law.
Remedies
I & II (6
units)
This class
focuses on the remedies intentional torts (of assault, battery,
false imprisonment, trespass), the quasi-intentional torts
(of privacy, libel and slander), strict liability (for abnormally
dangerous activities, wild animals, and products), negligence,
and defenses. In addition, remedies for contracts of damages,
restitution, rescission and specific performance are discussed.
Issues of jury rights and attorney fees are also covered.
Torts
I & II (6
units)
In the
first semester, intentional torts & negligence are covered
in detail. The second semester focuses on areas such as products
liability, nuisance, misrepresentation, defamation, right
to privacy & other civil rights.
Trial
Advocacy (3
units)
Students
study the techniques and strategies for drafting briefs, pleadings,
and discovery and trial motions and devises. The class will
stage a mock trial with teams representing the plaintiff and
the defendant.
Wills
& Trusts (6
units)
These
courses cover transfer of property at death or via intervivos
conveyance, the principles of estate planning, intestate succession,
the execution of wills, private express trusts, informal and
incomplete trusts, gifts to charity, interrelating testamentary
and intervivos transactions, future interests, social restrictions
on perpetuities, and fiduciary duties and responsibilities.
Workers
Compensation (2
units)
This course
deals with the laws related to injuries sustained in the work
setting and available remedies.
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