In Environmental Law, we address pollution control under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts as well as natural resource protection under the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act. Although the primary focus will be on federal law, we will also explore some local, state and international dimensions.

This course studies the law governing how brands may be legally protected.

This short course will examine salient features of the legal and economic framework in which we provide medical care in the United States.

This course treats oral advocacy as an effort to persuade any audience of the merits of a cause or proposal and of the credibility of the proponent. The first seven weeks treat advocacy in settings outside the courtroom. The last half deals with advocacy in the most common trial settings: direct and cross-examination, opening statements, closing arguments and appellate advocacy. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7626, 9055, and 9185.

This course develops advanced oral advocacy skills, including effective performance techniques, writing for speaking, and the ability to handle difficult speaking situations.

This course is designed to provide a general introduction to the practice of law under the National Labor Relations Act from the late 1800s through passage of the Wagner Act (1935) and its modification by the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments. We will review the Act's concept of concerted, protected activity, unfair labor practice or "ULP" and the way ULPs are processed through the Board and courts.

In this seminar students will examine the law's treatment of children's rights. Students will explore the current state of the law regarding the complexities involved with assigning rights and responsibilities to children and those who care for them, and the barriers and limitations courts and legislatures confront when making decisions regarding children.

This course will consider artificial intelligence and machine learning from the perspective of law. Students will develop a basic understanding of the computer science underlying both artificial intelligence and machine learning, the ways in which the law is adapting (or failing to adapt) to artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the ways in which these technologies may be used by lawyers and legal researchers. Students need no background in computer science or coding.

This course explores a wide range topics on what leadership in the public interest advocacy space entails.

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