Additional courses are under consideration for the upper-class curriculum. Course offerings may differ from this list depending on faculty expertise and student interest. Courses will be constantly reviewed and revised as societal needs change.

Required Courses

Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution I
LAW 511 3 credits
Exploration of the nature and structure of dispute resolution systems, with a focus on formal adjudicatory procedure for civil lawsuits while exposing students to the spectrum and interrelation of dispute resolution systems. Includes jurisdiction, venue, rules of procedure, and choice of law.

Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution II
LAW 531 3 credits
Continuation of Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution I. Includes pretrial practice, pretrial dispositions, and court-imposed alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

Constitutional Law I
LAW 517 3 credits
Role of the courts in the federal system, distribution of powers between state and federal governments, and the role of procedure in litigation of constitutional questions.

Contracts I
LAW 503 3 credits
Overview of basic contract law. Exploration of common law legal method and the structure of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the context of issues of contract formation.

Contracts II
LAW 519 3 credits
Continuation of Contracts I with an emphasis on interpretation of contracts.

Criminal Law
LAW 616 3 credits
Introduction to criminal law with emphasis on principles of criminal liability.

Introduction to Law
LAW 501 1 credit
Introduction to the basic concepts of law, the role of lawyers in society, the historical roots of common law and equity, the reasoning used by attorneys and courts, and the interpretation of statutes.

Lawyering Process I
LAW 505 3 credits
Provides students, through course work and simulated cases, the opportunity to examine the relationship between legal analysis and lawyering tasks such as effective legal research strategies, legal writing, oral advocacy, and client interviewing and counseling, with an emphasis on professionalism and ethics.

Lawyering Process II
LAW 515 3 credits
Students continue to develop skills in legal research, analysis, reasoning and writing. In Lawyering Process II, students learn to write persuasively as an advocate, through increasingly complex simulations that focus on analyzing statutory and administrative materials. Assignments include letters to clients and attorneys, a trial court memorandum and an appellate brief and are staged to allow for extensive individual feedback and instruction during the writing process. Each student also makes an oral argument to a mock appellate court.

Lawyering Process III
LAW 610 3 credits
The final semester of the Lawyering Process program provides students with an advanced legal writing experience. Each semester at least three sections of LPIII will be offered. Students may choose from a menu of courses so they can focus on the types of legal writing that most interest them. Courses will include advanced advocacy with a focus on appellate court, trial court or administrative agency settings; advanced analysis and writing; basic legal drafting; special topics in drafting, which may focus on transactional drafting, litigation drafting, legislative drafting or ADR drafting; writing in law practice, a simulation course with a variety of writing and drafting assignments; and judicial opinion writing. In each section, students will have multiple assignments, will write successive drafts of at least one major assignment and receive extensive individual feedback and instruction. Students may take more than one LPIII offering but must complete at least one before their final semester.

Professional Responsibility
LAW 613 3 credits
This course examines the law governing lawyers, the rules that govern how members of the legal profession, including judges as well as lawyers, may or must behave. Sources of these rules are many - the Constitution, statutes, procedural, evidentiary, and court rules, and rules of professional conduct.

Property I
LAW 521 3 credits
Acquisitions of property interests, estates in land and future interests, and landlord-tenant issues.

Property II
LAW 525 3 credits
Real estate transactions, easements and other servitudes, and public land use regulation.

Torts I
LAW 523 3 credits
Law of civil injuries, including legal protection of personality, property, and relational interests against physical, economic, and emotional harms.

Torts II
LAW 529 3 credits
Continuation of Torts I with an emphasis on strict liability and products liability.

Note: First-year required courses (500 level) are prerequisites to all 600 and 700 level courses.

Electives

Administrative Law
LAW 604 3 credits
Examines the legal structure of federal and state government agencies, how they may be structured under the Constitution, how they issue and enforce regulations, and how they make decisions.

Advanced Contracts (Sales and Leasing)
LAW 637 3 credits
This course examines the laws governing the sale and lease of goods, including Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code, the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act.

Advanced Issues in Tax
LAW 663 2-3 credits
Seminar. In consultation with the professor, students select topics of current interest and importance in federal, state, or international taxation. Students write research papers on these topics and present and defend them in class.
Prerequisite: LAW 603 Federal Income Tax or LAW 661 Federal Taxation.

Advanced Legal Research
LAW 729 2-3 credits
The goal of Advanced Legal Research is to expand the research skills that have been introduced in Lawyering Process I as well as introduce new topics. Practitioner-oriented materials and their use are a focus of the class. In addition, research in specific subject areas also are explored.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Practicum
LAW 714 3 credits
Students engage in simulated situations involving various means of alternative dispute resolution in action, including simulated forms of mediation, arbitration, and various hybrids of ADR.
Prerequisite: LAW 531 Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution II.

American Legal History
LAW 602 3 credits
Examination of major issues in American legal history such as the role of lawyers in society, the role of law in developing the economy, and the development of American legal institutions.

Antitrust Law
LAW 657 3 credits
This course concerns the basic legal framework for regulating conduct to undermine competitive markets. The course also considers the role of antitrust law in today's technological environment.

Arbitration
LAW 717 3 credits
Examination of the history and use of arbitration as well as its current legal status. Focus will be on substantive legal doctrines of arbitration, particularly enforcement of arbitration agreements, and on arbitration procedure, particularly the manner in which arbitration may be conducted in various contexts.

Banking Law
LAW 660 3 credits
This course provides students with a basic understanding of the federal and state laws governing traditional commercial banks and financial institutions in the United States. At the end of the course, the students will have a solid foundation which they can use to study more specific areas of law regarding such institutions.

Basic Bankruptcy
LAW 605 3 credits
This course will review the basic elements of business and consumer bankruptcy under federal bankruptcy statutes. Emphasis will be placed on problem solving and ethical issues.

The Bill of Rights in Law and Regulation
LAW 710 2-3 credits
Students will read recent works on the Bill of Rights and consider contemporary and historical questions about the meaning and purpose of the Bill of Rights or one of its particular provisions. Topics covered will include federalism, populism, the role of reason in conceptualizations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the problem of unenumerated rights and issues raised by the incorporation controversy.
Prerequisite: LAW 517 Constitutional Law I.

Bioethics and the Law
LAW 728 2-3 credits
This seminar explores law and policy relating to bioethical issues. Coverage of issues will vary somewhat based on current events and student interest. Topics may include abortion, genetic screening, defining death, the "right to die," and research involving human subjects.

Business Bankruptcy
LAW 730 2-3 credits
This course studies financially distressed businesses with emphasis on business reorganizations under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Emphasizes lawyering skills and may include students representing parties in a simulated Chapter 11.
Prerequisite: LAW 605 Basic Bankruptcy or LAW 615 Secured Transactions.

Business Organizations I
LAW 626 3 credits
This course examines different forms of business organization, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. It will focus on similarities and differences among these forms, and it will examine the roles, responsibilities and rights of the persons involved in business organizations.

Business Organizations II
LAW 656 3 credits
This course will cover the law of publicly-traded corporations. Special attention will be given to the fiduciary duties of boards of directors; management, and controlling shareholders; proxy regulation and shareholder voting; insider trading; shareholder litigation and mergers and acquisitions.
Prerequisite: LAW 626 Business Organizations I.

Child, Parent, and the State
LAW 636 2-3 credits
Survey course explores the legal relationships between children, their parents, and the state, covering such issues as the child as an autonomous being, the child's role in the family, family autonomy, and the obligations of parents and the state to children.

Child Welfare Clinic
LAW 770 6 credits
Under direct supervision of the professor, students represent clients in civil litigation regarding child protection, termination of parental rights, adoption or other related matters. In order to represent clients in court, students must be licensed under Nevada's student practice rule. Course will also have classroom component.

Children in Society: Selected Problems
LAW 711 2-3 credits
Seminar examines issues related to laws and policy governing the place and treatment of children in American society. Specific issues covered will vary somewhat based on current events and student interest, but generally will focus on legal and policy issues affecting the meaning of the state's parens-patrial obligation, the parent-child relationship, and the family.

Civil and Criminal Litigation in Tax
LAW 662 3 credits
Examines tax controversy resolution mechanisms. Not limited to tax students. Helpful for all interested in a litigation careers, including civil litigation and white collar crime. Also, good to hone drafting skills. Students prepare pleadings, memos, and other controversy-related documents.

Civil Rights Litigation
LAW 647 3 credits
Students examine, analyze, and evaluate the various stages of a complex case involving a civil rights claim made pursuant to the Constitution, federal anti-discrimination statutes, or common law.

Commercial Law: Concepts in Secured Transactions and Payment Systems
LAW 668 4-5 credits
This course will give students a familiarity with, and the ability to manipulate, basic concepts in secured transactions (Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code) and certain aspects of payment systems (Article 3,4 and 5 of the Uniform Commercial Code).

Community Property
LAW 630 1-3 credits
This course examines the law dealing with the classification, management and distribution of marital property within the community property jurisdictions of the United States.

Conflict of Laws
LAW 635 2-3 credits
This course will focus on the problem of choosing which jurisdiction's law should be applied to transactions, relationships, or events with contacts in more than one jurisdiction.

Congressional Externship
LAW 750 3-6 credits
Explores the legislative process by placing students in legislative offices in Washington, D.C.

Constitutional Law II
LAW 624 3 credits
Examination of fundamental protections for persons, property, and political and social rights.

Criminal Procedure I
LAW 653 3 credits
This course will examine the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments (rights of criminal defendants) of the United States Constitution. Students will study the history and development of these amendments as well as the interpretations given to them by the Supreme Court.

Criminal Procedure II
LAW 664 3 credits
Covers law and practices between the time defendant is charged and the time of final disposition and sentencing. Includes prosecutorial discretion, bail, plea bargaining, right to counsel, due process, sentencing, and post-conviction review.

Cyberlaw
LAW 646 3 credits
Study of legal issues attending use of computers and electronic communications and commerce, including intellectual property concerns related to cyberspace and features such as websites, e-commerce, and communications. LAW 629 Intellectual Property is strongly recommended before students take Cyberlaw.

Directed Readings
LAW 780 1 credit
Students earn credit for completing readings under the supervision and approval of a faculty member.

Directed Research
LAW 781 1-3 credits
Students research and write about a legal topic of their choice under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member who has approved their choice of topic. Students further their knowledge of the area, as well as their legal research and writing skills.

Disability Law
LAW 617 3 credits
Examines the law of disability discrimination, focusing on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and other federal and state statutes, case law, and regulations governing the civil rights of persons with disabilities with respect to education, employment, public accommodations, and housing.

Domestic Violence and the Law
LAW 666 3 credits
This course will examine violence against women and others in intimate relationships and the ways in which the law impacts and is impacted by domestic violence. The course will explore the history and social context of domestic violence and the dynamics and dimensions of abusive relationships.

Economics and the Law
LAW 723 3 credits
A study of the interplay between economic theory and policy and the law. Topics include microeconomic principles and their application to property rights, contracts, torts, criminal law, intellectual property, antitrust, regulation, and employment discrimination.

Education Law and Policy
LAW 638 2-3 credits
This seminar will examine six distinct and highly visible areas of education law and policy, primarily in K-12: compulsory education, school governance and due process, school finance, private schools, religion and public schools, and equal educational opportunity.

Employment Discrimination Law
LAW 618 3 credits
This course examines the law of employment discrimination, focusing on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and other federal and state statutes, case law, and regulations protecting the civil rights of employees and job applicants.

Employment Law
LAW 619 3 credits
This course surveys the law of employment relations focusing on common law exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine through public policy, individual contracts, handbooks, and tort doctrine. The course examines just cause provisions of the Model Termination Act, analyzes common law and statutory protections afforded to employee speech and employee privacy, and examines federal wages and hours legislation.

Entertainment Law
LAW 641 3 credits
This course surveys a wide range of legal issues pertinent to live and recorded entertainment, including intellectual property rights, contract formation and breach, regulatory schemes, labor issues, and First Amendment considerations.
Prerequisite: LAW 629 Intellectual Property II

Environmental Quality Law
LAW 651 3 credits
This course provides an overview of the law and policy of environmental quality and pollution control. The course addresses the origins and development of modern statutory environmental law as it relates to the various media: air, water and soil.

Estate and Gift Tax
LAW 650 2-3 credits
This course examines the federal taxation regime applicable to gifts and inheritances.

Evidence
LAW 606 3 credits
This course focuses on the Federal Rules of Evidence and the issues that arise out of their use and provides an understanding of the rules including both their theoretical basis and how they function in the courtroom. This course addresses preparation and presentation of various kinds of evidence, including proof of writings, qualifications and examination of witnesses, privilege, opinion testimony, demonstrative, experimental, scientific evidence, determination of relevancy, and application of the hearsay rule.

Family Law
LAW 607 3 credits
Basic family law course which covers the legal construction of the family, the relationship between the state and the family, marriage, divorce, custody, and adoption.

Federal Courts
LAW 634 3 credits
This course examines federal jurisdiction and the law of federal-state relations. Specific topics covered are the federal judicial powers, congressional allocation of jurisdiction, choice of law, district court jurisdiction, appellate review, civil judicial reform, 42 USC Section 1983, Implied Right of Action, 11th Amendment, and federal habeas corpus.

Federal Income Tax
LAW 603 3 credits
Overview of the code provisions governing the taxation of individual income and the basic concepts and legal doctrines which courts employ in implementing those provisions.

Federal Taxation
LAW 661 1-5 credits
Surveys the 3 major federal tax topics: income tax (two-fifths of course), taxation of business entities (two-fifths), and estate and gift tax (one-fifth). Students may enroll for all 3 components (5 credits), or two components, or one component (credits depend on components taken).
Prerequisite for Module 2 is Module 1 (Income Tax) or LAW 603 Federal Income Tax.

Feminist Jurisprudence
LAW 639 2-3 credits
This course explores feminist theory in relation to the law. It examines the historical foundations of women's legal subordination as well as the various strands of feminist legal theory. Specific units of study may include topics such as affirmative action, comparable worth, family, education, sexual harassment, domestic violence, the teaching and practice of law, pornography and free speech, and abortion.

First Amendment Rights
LAW 659 3 credits
This course explores the critical First Amendment freedoms: freedom of expression and association, freedom of press and media, and freedom of religion.

Gaming Law I
LAW 622 3 credits
A study of the law relating to gaming activities with an emphasis on the laws, policies, and procedures that have developed through court decisions and the regulatory activities of administrative agencies.

Gaming Policy Law Seminar
LAW 725 1-3 credits
Students study gaming law policy and sophisticated legal issues surrounding gaming law and regulation, primarily through case studies. Focus is on legislation and administrative action as well as litigation.
Prerequisite: LAW 622 Gaming Law.

Government & Public Interest Externship
LAW 773 1-12 credits
This program is designed to provide experiential learning opportunities in a variety of public law agencies including the offices of the U.S. Attorney, Special Public Defender, Clark County District Attorney, Federal Defender, Nevada Legal Services, Clark County Legal Services and Henderson City Attorney. Supervised fieldwork is coupled with a weekly seminar.
Prerequisite: LAW 613 Professional Responsibility and prior or concurrent enrollment in LAW 606 Evidence for the U.S. Attorney and District Attorney externships.

Health Care Liability and Quality Regulation
LAW 648 3 credits
This course explores ways in which the law promotes the quality of health care through licensing, certification, and accreditation of health care professionals and institutions and also addresses liability issues in the health care context.

Health Care Organization and Finance
LAW 665 3 credits
This course focuses on the laws and legal issues relating to the organization and operation of health care enterprises and the financing of health care services. Prior or concurrent enrollment in LAW 626 Business Organizations I desirable but not required.

Immigration Clinic
LAW 775 1-6 credits
Under direct supervision of the professor, students represent clients in judicial and administrative proceedings involving immigration and related and naturalization law, lawyering and professionalism. Students must be eligible to represent clients under the applicable student practice rules. Beginning academic year 2004-05 must have completed LAW 658 Immigration Law.

Immigration Law
LAW 658 3 credits
This course covers legal issues and policies pertaining to non-citizens of the United States, including the regulation of admission, exclusion, and deportation of immigrants seeking to enter the United States. The course will also examine the rights of non-citizens who are in U.S. territory in the areas of health, education, and labor. These topics will be covered from various perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, comparative law, ethics and morality, and history.

Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts
LAW 734 3 credits
Examines federal income taxation of estates, trusts, and income in respect of decedent. Considers effect on estate, planning and administration.
Prerequisite: LAW 603 Federal Income Tax.

Insurance Law
LAW 608 3 credits
Overview of the theory and operation of insurance, including the marketing, underwriting, and claims processes. The major forms of insurance will be surveyed while the primary focus will be on issues of insurance policy construction and judicial resolution of recurring coverage issues.

Intellectual Property I
LAW 621 3 credits
This course explores federal and state laws pertaining to patents, trademarks, trade secrets, unfair competition, "cybersquatting," idea protection, and the right of publicity.

Intellectual Property II
LAW 629 3 credits
This course covers the fundamental principles and public policy questions of federal copyright law.
This course is a prerequisite to LAW 641 Entertainment Law.

International Business Transactions
LAW 672 3 credits
This course is an introduction to the international law, U.S. law, and selected foreign law issues that arise when doing business abroad. This course will survey a variety of topics in international business transactions, including international dispute resolution, foreign investment issues, international intellectual property licensing and enforcement, export controls for sensitive dual-use technologies, U.S. prohibitions against corruption in foreign trade transactions, and business immigration issues. We will employ a problem-oriented approach with team projects to analyze and discuss each of these problem areas.

International Criminal Law
LAW 667 3 credits
This course covers the basics of public international law in the context of international criminal law including the nature of international crime, aspects of the international substantive system of laws, and specific offenses, as well as how this law is adjudicated and enforced. Specific offenses covered will include both international and transnational crimes as well as the procedural and adjudicative mechanisms established to dean with these offenses. Must have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAW 616 Criminal Law.

International Human Rights Law
LAW 727 2-3 credits
This seminar studies the norms, procedures, and actors of international human rights, and emphasizes the role of the United States in international human rights and the significance of international human rights in U.S. domestic law.

International Public Law
LAW 652 3 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the doctrines, institutions, and methodology of modern international law. The course examines the legal systems governing relations among states and their expansion to non-state actors. Students will also analyze the application on international law in domestic courts, international tribunals and organizations, and the doctrines of jurisdiction, immunities, and human rights.

Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiations
LAW 713 3 credits
Students study three principal forms of lawyering that take place outside the courtroom. Through participation in exercises and simulations, students examine issues of client relations, decision-making, and ethics in dealing with opponents as well as in guiding clients.

Judicial Externship
LAW 751 3-6 credits
Explores the role of the judiciary in the legal system by means of in-class discussions and field placements in judicial chambers in federal and Nevada state courts.

Juvenile Justice Clinic
LAW 771 6 credits
Under direct supervision of the professor, students represent juveniles in juvenile court and district court proceedings involving charges of criminal conduct. To represent these clients, students must be licensed under Nevada's student practice rule for court appearances. The course will also have a classroom component.
Prerequisite: LAW 653 Criminal Procedure I or LAW 664 Criminal Procedure II or LAW 644 Juvenile Law and LAW 613 Professional Responsibility.

Juvenile Law
LAW 644 2-3 credits
This course examines the procedural and substantive law and judicial administration relating to juvenile justice. Primary area of concentration: rights of the accused juvenile, police conduct and detention, reference for adult prosecution, adjudication, treatment vs. punishment, and the roles of the lawyer in the juvenile court system.

Labor Law
LAW 640 3 credits
This course will explore the employer/employee/union relationship, its historical and economic developments, and its modern statutory framework.

Land Use Regulation
LAW 633 3 credits
The course focuses on public regulation of land use, including zoning, subdivision regulation, and regulation of urban growth. Coverage will include the planning process, constitutional limitations on land use controls, state and regional regulation, aesthetic regulation and discriminatory zoning, and private land use alternatives.

Law and the American Indian
LAW 625 3 credits
An anthropological, historical, and legal study of the American Indian, including a focus on American Indian traditional law and values, federal policy, and current legal issues.

Law and Literature
LAW 609 1-3 credits
The study of real or fictional depictions of lawyers and the legal system from a literary perspective to gain a new understanding of the law.

Law and Social Justice
LAW 642 3 credits
This course examines the role of law in creating, perpetuating, and dismantling hierarchies of power and privilege in society, particularly those based on social/ethnic groupings, gender, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, and disabilities. The primary aim is to enable students to read law critically with an understanding of the ways in which techniques, practices, and rhetorical strategies can exclude and subordinate based on categories of identity.

Law Journal
LAW 760 1-3 credits
Academic credit for successful completion of work by a member of the Nevada Law Journal.

Law Practice Management
LAW 724 1-3 credits
Students study how to maintain a law practice for clients, including not only law office management but also issues of handling client funds, legal ethics, and the economics of successful law practice.

Lawyering Theory and Practice
LAW 645 3 credits
Students study and simulate a range of tasks and services performed by practicing attorneys in the representation of clients. Exercises include counseling, assessment of legal problems, efforts for resolution, litigation and defense through complaints, motions, discovery, and trial-related activity.

Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
LAW 643 3 credits
This course will explore some of the various procedural, constitutional, and jurisprudential issues raised by a study of the unique role that the state and federal legislatures play in our constitutional order.

Legislative Externship
LAW 752 1-12 credits
Explores the state legislative process by placing students in the Legislative Counsel Bureau in Carson City and Las Vegas. Students are assigned to work with the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and interim committees.
Prerequisite: Prior or concurrent enrollment in LAW 643 Legislation and Statutory Interpretation.

Mediation
LAW 715 3 credits
This course examines the theory, practice, and public policy of mediation. Focusing particularly on issues of relevance to attorneys representing clients in mediation, the course will include.simulations.

Negotiation
LAW 719 3 credits
This course examines the theory, practice, and public policy of negotiation. Focusing particularly on issues of relevance to attorneys representing clients in negotiation, the course will include numerous simulations.

Payment Systems
LAW 628 3 credits
This course will examine the legal rules regarding payment for goods and services. Included in this study will be portions of Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code, federal statutes regarding credit and debit cards, and rules regarding negotiable instruments.

Pretrial Litigation
LAW 627 3 credits
A hands-on experience of the pretrial litigation process in the federal court system. Students will act as lawyers in a simulated civil case, interviewing and counseling clients, conducting legal research, drafting pleadings, and engaging in discovery practice, settlement negotiations, and pre-trial motion practice.

Privacy, Publicity & Defamation
LAW 732 3 credits
Discusses the four privacy torts, the right against defamation, and the right of publicity.

Products Liability
LAW 611 3 credits
This course analyzes the substantive law, underlying theory and policy, and practice of products liability-liability for injuries by defective consumer products.

Public Lands and Natural Resources Law
LAW 654 3 credits
This course provides an introduction to federal public lands and natural resources law. Focusing on the laws and legal systems that govern the classification and use of the federally-owned lands constituting a third of America and the vast majority of the West, the course will examine the major resource areas, including: minerals, timber, range, wildlife, recreation, wilderness, and cultural resources. Importantly, the course will explore the interplay between environmental, economic, cultural, social and political factors in managing our national parks, forest, and the public domain.

Real Estate Finance
LAW 614 3 credits
Mortgages, deeds of trust, installment land contracts, construction financing, mechanics' liens, effect of CERCLA on lenders, sale and leaseback financing, ground lease financing, shopping center leases, and condominiums.

Remedies
LAW 631 3 credits
This course will explore what lawyers and courts do to help someone who has been, or is about to be, wronged. The course will provide an in-depth look at the four major categories of remedies: damages, coercive remedies, declaratory relief, and restitution.

Secured Transactions
LAW 615 3 credits
Covers Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code with respect to taking security interests in personal property. Emphasis on interplay with real property security and bankruptcy, problem solving, and ethical issues.

Securitization
LAW 655 2-3 credits
This course will examine the financing technique of securitization and its various legal underpinnings. Securitization is a trillion dollar industry that raises issues in corporate finance, secured transactions, bankruptcy, and securities regulation.
Prerequisite: LAW 615 Secured Transactions or LAW 626 Business Organizations I.

Seminar in Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and the Law
LAW 731 2-3 credits
Students select the specific topics covered. Examines race, ethnicity, culture, gender, and sexual orientation and how legal norms address tensions raised by such diversity.

Separation of Powers Law
LAW 726 2-3 credits
This course explores the separation of powers in our federal constitutional system. Topics covered include allocation of authority in the Constitution relating to the conduct of American foreign policy and the conduct of war-making activities.

Society of Advocates
LAW 716 1-3 credits
Students participate in forensic competitions, such as moot court and trial practice, involving legal research and analysis and brief writing as well as oral arguments or other advanced lawyering tasks.

Special Topics in Law
LAW 790 2-4 credits
This course involves the study of a specialized topic in law that is not covered elsewhere in the law school curriculum. The particular topic will be announced during registration for the semester in which the course is offered.

Taxation of Business Entities
LAW 649 3 credits
This course surveys federal income taxation of business entities and their owners, including corporations and partnerships.
Prerequisite: LAW 603 Federal Income Tax

Trial Advocacy
LAW 712 3 credits
Students design, execute, and practice the lawyering tasks specifically associated with actual courtroom trials, including opening statements, direct examination, cross-examination, evidentiary objections, and closing arguments. Students perform these tasks in the context of hypothetical cases.
Prerequisite: Must have completed LAW 606 Evidence.

U. S. Taxation of International Transactions
LAW 735 3 credits
Examines how the federal income tax applies to out-bound (U.S. persons doing business abroad) and in-bound (foreign persons doing business in U.S.) transactions. Also examines tax treaties.
Prequisite: LAW 603 Federal Income Tax

Water Law
LAW 620 3 credits
Acquisition and exercise of private rights in water, public rights and environmental protection, water distribution organizations, interstate water allocation, and federal-state relations in water resource management.

Wills, Trusts and Estates
LAW 632 3 credits
This course examines intestate succession, family protection, execution of wills, will contests, will substitutes, creation of trusts, modification and termination of trusts, and administration of estates and trusts.