This course will introduce students to law and public service, broadly defined to include all careers that serve the public interest, from litigating civil rights cases to prosecuting and defending criminal suspects to providing legal services for indigent clients to representing local, state, and federal government agencies to working for an international human rights organization and everything in between.

This course will examine the response of law to racial issues in a variety of contemporary legal contexts. Topics may include criminal justice, education, employment, interracial relationships and adoption, hate speech, voting. Mutually Exclusive with LAW 7707 Race and Law (SC) and LAW 9058 Race and Law Seminar

A web of constitutional, statutory, and judge-made laws regulate the American political process. This course will examine these laws and their implications for three broad and important issues: participation, aggregation, and governance. Participation involves the right to vote and various restrictions thereon, aggregation involves apportionment and redistricting, and governance involves campaign finance and the role of political parties.

This course introduces the institutions and rules governing international trade. The principal focus is the World Trade Organization and its rules governing tariffs, non-tariff barriers, dumping, subsidies, trade in services, health and safety standards, and intellectual property rights, as well as its international dispute settlement mechanism. The course also covers the U.S. legal framework for international trade relations.

Delaware courts have issued a line of decisions that sparked public debates and could have significant corporate law implications.  This lecture will examine those decisions in-depth.

This course will explore the web of interacting federal, state, and local laws that govern the police and police departments.

This course will provide an introduction to real estate transactions and financing, including mortgages, foreclosure, the regulation of mortgage lending, the secondary market for home loans, government intervention in the housing market, and details of land transactions such as contracts of sale, recording, and brokerage agreements.

This course explores the history, theory, and practice of community development, its contemporary emphasis on housing law and policy, and the role of law and lawyering within that professionalized field.

This is a survey of individual rights under the Constitution, excluding equal protection and criminal procedure. The allocation of time to subjects will be somewhat uneven, largely reflecting the interests of the casebook editors.

This course introduces students to the law, theory and practice of intellectual property transactions.