This is the first semester of a yearlong seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader.

This is a 1-term version of the seminar designed to enhance students' understanding of ethical issues and address the broader ethical and moral responsibilities of the lawyer as citizen and leader.

This course will follow and critique the major cases arising out of the 2024 election in order to answer questions such as: why was the case brought, is it structured to achieve its stated (or unstated) goals, what are its likely legal (and nonlegal) problems, how much does its success depend on moving the law, what are its implications for elections more generally, and are the lawyers advancing their claims in and out of court appropriately.

Many public service legal organizations -- from impact civil rights to direct service -- deploy integrated advocacy strategies that embrace organizing as an essential tool. However, the vast majority of attorneys still have little to no exposure to the work of building collective power. This course will explore theories of law's relationship to those efforts, from local community organizing to international social movements.

This class is designed to expose students to new research and to engage in critical discussion about various facets of the criminal legal system. It is targeted both towards students interested in considering a scholarly path as well as those interested in criminal legal practice or reform.

Legal practice and research increasingly involve analysis of big data to resolve legal questions, and the importance of quantitative analysis is likely to grow. Also, legal employers may value lawyers who have at least basic familiarity with empirical research methods. This is the first half of a year-long course introducing students to empirical methods. No experience with statistics or quantitative analysis is required or expected.

This seminar will survey the origins of the privacy torts and their trajectory in the courts and scholarship as well as barriers to their enforcement in the digital age.

This seminar will address the potential moral underpinnings of contract law. Our primary focus will be on the relationship between contract and promise.

This course explores the intersection among medicine, technology and the law. Topics may include human reproduction and birth, human genetics and the privacy and ownership of genetic information, death and dying, research involving human subjects, organ transplantation, and public health and bioterrorism.Prerequiste: Equivalent to LAW 7008

This course will look at the evolution of "Biglaw" institutions from the early days of law practice partnerships, why they developed, how they operate and what they look like today.