This lecture course will address the rapidly-changing field of computer crime and data privacy, surveying the major domestic authorities in the area, such as the Wiretap Act, the Pen/Trap statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Stored Communications Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Fourth Amendment, as applied to computers.

Legislation and Regulation is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the way Congress and administrative agencies adopt binding rules of law (statutes and regulations, respectively) and the way that implementing institutions -- courts and administrative agencies -- interpret and apply these laws.

This course covers technical, ethical, and strategic aspects of eDiscovery, applying practical skills simulations and discussion to prepare law students for litigation practice.

Roman law developed over the course of more than one thousand years, and it continues to influence contemporary legal systems throughout the world. In this course, we will examine the portions of Roman private law that correspond to Anglo-American contract, tort, property, and family law.

This course introduces LLM candidates who have received their law degrees from foreign universities to certain structural and historic aspects of the U.S. legal system.

Feminist jurisprudence is a field in which scholarly activity is rooted in a set of practices designed to excavate and revise the myriad ways in which law conditions the lived experiences of women, men, and children. In the course, we will study what are understood to be distinct schools of feminist jurisprudence and the forms of practice that each supports.

In this course, students (in multifunctional teams from the Schools of Law, Engineering, and Public Policy) will work on real, national security-related problems facing the U.S. Government. Students will study the structures and processes of the various national security agencies and how those agencies approach the problem of innovation, which for defense institutions is a combined problem of technology, policy, and law.

This course focuses on the legal topics and skills required to successfully negotiate and document a public private partnership for a real estate transaction.

This course provides an introduction to privacy law, from its common law foundations to today's complex regulatory landscape. Topics discussed are expected to include the philosophical bases of privacy protection; internet and consumer privacy; health privacy; First Amendment issues; regulation and enforcement, including international approaches; and privacy by design.

This class examines exchanges and transactions that are traditionally repugnant, and sometimes illegal. Importantly, what constitutes a repugnant transaction is culturally dependent, changing over time and across cultures. For example, typical repugnant transactions in modern western societies include organs, blood, babies, sexual relations, votes for money, and a wide range of other issues.