In this short course, students will learn negotiation theories and techniques, and they will apply them to legal situations.

This short course is designed to help students improve their ability to communicate persuasively in the wide variety of settings in which non-litigators are called upon to speak including client meetings, business negotiations, and presentations to public agencies. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 9053, 9055, and 9185. Enrollment not allowed in LAW 7626, 9053, 9055, or 9185 if any taken previously.

This short course covers prevailing mediation methods along with a survey of case law on legal and ethical issues associated with mediations along with simulated mediation scenarios to develop written and oral advocacy and negotiation skills.

Twentieth-century European legal theory was dominated by the question of what gives law its validity, whereas American legal theorists have been preoccupied with rather different questions. Yet in Europe and the United States, legal theorists have ultimately found themselves worrying about much the same set of problems.

This short course will examine the process by which monuments commemorating the Confederacy went up and the legal issues presented by attempts to take them down. The instructors were involved in several such cases involving monuments in Virginia. In doing so, we will discuss matters involving government speech, separation of powers, and the law of real property.

This course will introduce students to the world of white collar prosecution and defense (federal primarily but not exclusively), from investigation to prosecution, through trial, sentencing, and appeal.

In this short course, we will focus on two of the formative periods of Jewish law -- biblical law and rabbinic law -- as well as the transition between these periods. We will highlight some of the main legal themes which were formed and crystallized during these periods, and which still provoke creative legal thought on contemporary legal issues.

This short course will provide an overview of federal sentencing policy and practice. Students will be introduced to the history and goals of sentencing, the types of sentences available to judges, the collateral consequences of conviction, and the sentencing reform movement that led to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.

This short course will examine the philosophical foundations of some of the most pressing debates in contemporary constitutional theory, and explore the implications of these debates for how we think about law, politics, and public policy. Some topics that we will discuss include the following: originalism, legal positivism, and the rule of law.

This short course will cover the content and structure of different types of agreements used in cross-border business transactions, as well as the process by which these agreements are negotiated, the role of the lawyer in identifying and resolving underlying commercial issues, and the allocation of responsibility for decision-making between business leaders and lawyers.