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2018-2019 Law Catalog

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	Law 1600 - Introduction to Law This is a required one (1) credit course which will provide incoming 1L students and transfer students with instruction in skills and basic concepts needed to succeed in their courses. It is specifically designed to be taught in large part before the new students begin attending their Fall semester course. The course, through readings, assignments and lecture, will cover basic concepts used in understanding and analyzing both cases and statutes. Among the topics covered will be the common law, the federalist system of both the courts and the legislative bodies, reading and analyzing cases and determining the relevant rule of law from a statute or series of cases. The objectives of the course are: (1) to prepare students to read and understand legal concepts for the very beginning of their 1L year; (2) the roles and differing characteristics of sources of law: the common law; legislation, administrative regulations; treaties, and judicial interpretation of legislation, regulations, treaties and constitutions; (3) the processes through which law is made and changed and how those processes differ from one source of law to another; and (4) the different roles that state and federal law play in the process of lawmaking. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1700 - Civil Procedure This course provides an introduction to the nature and functioning of judicial systems, including a survey of the major phases of civil litigation under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Major emphasis is given to the reach of judicial authority, pleadings and amendments, pretrial discovery, the right to a jury trial, appellate procedure (including appeals from administrative decisions), and judgments and former adjudication. Major themes of the course are the relationship of procedure to substantive law and the purposes and characteristics of procedural rules in light of proposed reforms. Credits: 5 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1705 - Contracts The concept of contract, which is concerned with relations based upon consent, is central in law as well as in political philosophy and theology. The course in contracts provides an opportunity to explore conflicts between fundamental social values, such as stability versus reform and freedom of contract versus regulation of fairness in dealing. The study of contracts also provides an introduction to a variety of lawyering skills, including analysis, drafting, counseling, statutory construction, and adversary method. The course covers legal remedies of contracting parties, creation and termination of contractual rights, consideration, conditions, assignments, third-party beneficiaries, consumer credit transactions, sales of goods under the Uniform Commercial Code, the relationship between contract and tort, and professional ethics. Credits: 5 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1710 - Criminal Law This course is designed to enable the student to deal with substantive criminal law problems in both practical and policy terms. There is inquiry into the proper scope and objectives of the criminal law and exploration of the practicality of using the criminal law to achieve posited objectives. The elements of a crime are examined expositionally and critically, as are problems of criminal responsibility. The course also provides an opportunity for critical examination of statutes at an early stage in the law student’s career. Credits: 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1716 - Transnational Law This course introduces first-year law students to the growing reality of law practice in an era of increased global interaction and interdependence. Individuals in this globalized environment are increasingly likely to be engaged in activities that implicate more than just domestic and local law. Lawyers representing those individuals thus will be called upon to analyze and apply both international law and foreign law, or “transnational law,” to resolve legal issues for their clients. A fundamental understanding of law beyond American boundaries has become just as important as a fundamental knowledge of contracts, torts, property, criminal law, procedure, and the U.S. constitutional framework. This course aims to provide first year law students with an ability to identify legal issues in areas of “transnational” law that they are most likely to encounter in domestic law practice. This course intentionally does not, and cannot, provide a comprehensive, in depth, survey of all international and comparative law topics. Instead, like other first-year courses, it introduces the fundamental legal doctrines and issues to begin the study of transnational law while leaving more in-depth development for upper-level elective courses in international and comparative law. Credits: 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1720 - Legal Analysis, Writing & Research I Hofstra requires five credit hours in legal analysis, writing and research in the first year — three in the fall semester and two in the spring. In the fall semester Legal Analysis, Writing & Research I (Leg. Analysis Wrtg. & Res. I ), students learn the basics of legal analysis, research, and predictive writing, focusing on the writing process through rewriting and re-writing office memoranda. A student receives substantial individualized feedback, including one-on-one conferences with the professor to critique the student’s written work. Credits: 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1730 - Property Property law is studied as a social and legal institution that facilitates the acquisition, disposition, and use of personal and real property. The course surveys problems related to personal property, the system of estates and future interests, the landlord-tenant relationship, the modern real estate transaction, and private arrangements affecting the use of land. Credits: 4 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1735 - Torts The law of Torts concerns the principles governing redress of injuries resulting from intentional and unintentional wrongs against persons or their property. Particular attention is given to the relative functions of judge and jury in determining liability and damages and to the interplay between standards of liability and problems of proofs. The course also examines affirmative defenses based upon the conduct of the plaintiff, with particular regard to situations in which the plaintiff might have consented to the alleged wrong. Modern trends in the allocation of liability will be discussed with emphasis on insurability and possible alternative systems of compensation. Credits: 4 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 1750 - Legal Methods Legal Methods is designed to assist students in developing the analytical and writing skills necessary for success in law school. The goal of this course is to help students become effective, independent learners through an instructional approach that gives students many opportunities to develop and hone analytical and writing skills. An essential component of the course is regular feedback to students on their skills development. Throughout the course of the semester students will develop analytical skills, particularly those involved in identifying legal issues, understanding and using rules of law, and using and analyzing facts. They will also develop their ability to read and understand court opinions, statutes, and legal rules, and their ability to express ideas and understanding regarding legal issues in writing. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2500 - Juvenile Justice Clinic Practicum Students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic Practicum represent youth at public school suspension hearings and related disciplinary matters. After an intensive training in school discipline law at the start of the semester, students are assigned to represent youth who are being threatened by their schools with suspension, expulsion or other disciplinary consequences. Allegations against youth clients range from assault and fighting to insubordination and absenteeism. Students engage in client interviewing and counseling, intensive fact investigation, legal research, and negotiation. Students’ representation of their clients at disciplinary hearings involves witness examinations, introduction of documentary evidence, evidentiary objections, and closing arguments. Students meet regularly with supervisors for case rounds, and are accompanied by a supervisor at all hearings. Trial Techniques or Introduction to Child and Family Advocacy is recommended preparation for participation in the Juvenile Justice Clinic Practicum. Instructor permission is required to register for the course. Prerequisites & Notes There are no pre-requisites. Students are, however, encouraged to take either Trial Techniques or Introduction to Child and Family Advocacy before applying. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2501 - Immigration Clinic Practicum Students in the Immigration Clinic Practicum represent clients on various immigration applications, including naturalization, adjustment, and family petitions. As a prerequisite, all of the students in the Immigration Clinic Practicum must take Immigration Law. Additionally, students must attend a one-half day training at the beginning of the semester. Students are assigned to assist clients in preparing and filing immigration applications and to represent clients at immigration hearings or interviews before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Students engage in fact gathering and legal research to determine clients’ eligibility for relief, counsel clients on whether and how to move forward with their applications, prepare the applications, gather the necessary supporting documentation, and ultimately prepare clients to give testimony in front of immigration hearing officers. Instructor permission is required to register for the course. Prerequisites & Notes Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2502 - Comparative Family Law This course provides an introduction to and comparative perspective on the Civil and Common Law legal systems, with a focus on how law regulates our intimate and family lives, and special attention to the family law and culture of Cuba. After a historical grounding in the contrasting legal systems, the course will spotlight the treatment of issues of family formation, dissolution, and relational rights within the common law and civil law tradition, as well as examine how the Cuban legal system emerged and how it deals with the family. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2503 - International Transaction Skills This course will focus on cross-border business transactions. We will analyze real-world documents and discuss their use. Students will then use the documents and other course materials to make a business pitch to a board of directors (the rest of the class) for entry into a foreign market. Prerequisites & Notes None Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2504 - Law and Role of In-House Counsel This course will examine the role of in-house counsel. The analysis will include the practical roles and responsibilities of in-house lawyers in providing advice and counsel to organizations on a daily basis. We will examine planning for compliance with a variety of ambiguous and sometime conflicting laws, including criminal laws, regulations, civil laws (e.g., governance, copyright, patent, and tort laws), and quasi-laws (such as self regulatory and standards organizations). We will review how to investigate and advise when faced with incidents of non-compliance. We will also examine the ethical professional responsibilities of in-house counsel, including “Upjohn” warnings, in-house counsel’s rights and responsibilities both while employed and when changing jobs, and whistleblowing. Prerequisites & Notes None Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2505 - Real Time Lawyering Skills: The Grand Jury The Real Time Lawyering: The Grand Jury skills course introduces students to the realities of criminal law practice from the prosecutor’s perspective. The Grand Jury is a three day course that will simulate that time pressured grand jury preparation and presentation experience of a typical assistant district attorney in a New York District Attorney’s Office. Time sensitivity is reality based due to stringent statutory requirements regarding post arrest detention and grand jury action. In New York, where defendants are held in custody after arraignment on the felony complaint, prosecutors have 120 hours from the filing of that felony complaint to seek grand jury action on the charges. Failure to do will result in the defendant’s release. Prosecutors therefore must act quickly to investigate the charges and determine whether or not to seek grand jury action while considering not only the sufficiency of the evidence but the eventual admissibility of that evidence in light of the constitutional, evidentiary, and statutory constraints. The students will investigate, analyze and ultimately present cases to a New York grand jury. The students will work within the real time constraints of a busy district attorney’s office that must present cases to a grand jury. Skills to be taught within the Grand Jury three day course include witness interviewing and examinations, factual and legal analysis, and conduct of grand jury proceedings. In addition, students will discuss and deal with various ethical concerns that they will discover while investigating and preparing the grand jury cases. Understanding and integrating various criminal legal principles within the context of the factual frameworks of the cases will be a pertinent part of the course. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2510 - Contract Drafting in the Music Business The purpose of this course is to provide the student with a practical understanding of drafting contracts through the drafting/redrafting/review of (i) a recording/performing/singer/songwriter’s recording agreement with its record label (a “recording agreement”), (ii) that artist’s agreement with one of its music producer (a “producer agreement”), (iii) that artist’s agreement with its manager (a “management agreement”), and (iv) that artist’s co-publishing agreement with its music publisher (“co-publishing agreement”). By the end of the course, the student should be able to understand the material deal terms of these core agreements in the music business as well as the boilerplate provisions (and some of the key revisions to the boilerplate language) of these agreements that are common to all lawyers who draft or review contracts (not just entertainment law practitioners). Prerequisites & Notes Students must have taken copyright law (if not, professor approval required). Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2511 - The ADA: Statutory Interpretation This course covers the fundamentals of statutory interpretation through the lens of a particular statute, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended. The course introduces students to the basics of statutory interpretation, then asks students to apply what they have learned in doctrinal context. Students will be exposed to the various mechanisms by and forums in which statutes are analyzed and interpreted, and the evidence used in the process, including but not limited to legislative history, agency interpretation, judicial decisions, and administrative regulations. Although the course is not designed as a doctrinal course in disability law, students should come away from the offering with a solid grasp of its fundamentals, as well as an understanding of the subject matter at hand. Prerequisites & Notes This course is only open to students in an online degree program at the Law School. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2512 - International Financial Crimes This 2-credit course examines and compares the prosecution of “securities fraud” in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. The respective statutes, key cases, and regulators shall be detailed and evaluated. Both primary authority and commentary will be reviewed in the cause of selecting an ideal enforcement regime. The specific role of stock exchanges in forming and – in some cases – stalling regulatory enhancements shall be studied. In particular, the relative advantages and harms of the criminalization of market abuses such as insider trading and stock manipulation shall be explored. Prerequisites & Notes None. Course offered in the Pisa Summer Study Abroad Program. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2513 - Comparative European Union and U.S. Data Protection Law Laws and regulations governing the protection of data are increasingly vital as more and more personal information is store online and held by private companies. Moreover, companies such as Google or Amazon face regulations in both the United States and in the European Union. This course will review and analyze the law governing data protection in both jurisdictions, two of the largest economies in the world. In particular, this course will introduce students to the Genera Data Protection Regulation, a new important rule from the EU that will affect U.S. and other non-EU companies worldwide. It will situate these rules against the backdrop of pre-existing laws governing data protection and compare it to laws and regulations in the United States. Prerequisites & Notes None. Course offered in the Pisa Summer Study Abroad Program. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2514 - Law, Big Data, algorithms regulation Today’s technologies enable the unprecedented exploitation of data for any thinkable purpose, but mostly in business and surveillance. Algorithms are regularly used for mining data of a highly personal nature, offering unexplored patterns and deep non-causal analyses to those businesses seeking to exploit these advances. Yet, these innovations need to be properly framed under existing legal frameworks that account for protection of fundamental rights and freedoms. For these aims, laws providing data protection plays a significant role The course aims at enabling students to understand how algorithms and data mining techniques are used in today’s society as well as how those techniques intersect with applicable legal frameworks. Students will develop an awareness of the interplay between these techniques and normative rules. Prerequisites & Notes None. Course offered during the Pisa Summer Study Abroad Program. Credits: 1 or 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2515 - Fundamentals of Cybersecurity The course will familiarize students with the geometrically expanding array of cyber risks and educate them on the ever-evolving statutory, regulatory and case law that has arisen in response to these most modern torts and crimes. The course will highlight the most common and devastating types of cyberattacks. Acknowledging that we are undoubtedly in the early stages of the development of laws relating to cybersecurity, the course will inform the students about an inter-disciplinary approach to the problem with presentations by technologists, insurance experts and investment bankers, legal experts and law enforcement, supported by in-depth analysis of the primary statutes and case law governing cybersecurity. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2516 - Housing Litigation Skills This weekend course will provide students with an introduction to basic Housing litigation skills through lecture and participation in simulations. Students will be required to read and do drafting prior to the first class. Prerequisites & Notes Registration by permission only. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2517 - MLP Practicum This course is intended to allow students who have completed the course entitled “Law and Medicine Together” to continue their work with the Hofstra\|Northwell Medical-Legal Partnership in the following semester. The Practicum’s primary goals are to teach our students how effectively to respond to health-harming legal needs and to help low-income patients in two Northwell clinics resolve legal problems. A second-level goal involves continuation of interdisciplinary rapport building across traditional professional boundaries (begun in the Law and Medicine Together course) and the continued cultivation of the working relationships begun the previous semester as students continue working closely with Northwell physicians and other professionals as a member of the patient-client care team. Students will be required to spend 6 hours per week on-site at one of Northwell Health system’s community clinics and attend weekly supervision conferences with the professor. Students in the Practicum will use skills learned in Law and Medicine Together. These include interviewing and client-counselling skills as well as skills in specific areas of the law relevant to patient-clients’ needs. Students will continue to be graded on the quality of their work as a whole with particular attention to their interviewing skills, counselling skills, professionalism, and client advocacy. and will be primarily engaged in more advanced research, writing, and client interviewing than was expected of them in the Law and Medicine Together (“LMT”) course. Law school permission is required to enroll in this course. Permission to enroll may be denied to students whose performance in LMT was in any way unsatisfactory. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2518 - MLP Primer This course is intended to allow students who have completed the standard, non-MLP housing course and who wish to begin work with the housing clients of the MLP in the following semester to do so. The course is taught as a one-credit intensive over several days in the January session and is intended to introduce students to key concepts necessary to be successful in the Medical-Legal Partnership. STUDENTS MUST HAVE RECEIVED A B+ OR HIGHER IN THE NON-MLP HOUSING COURSE AND MUST OBTAIN LAW SCHOOL PERMISSION TO ENROLL. Students will be expected to enroll in the relevant Practicum in the Spring immediately following this course. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2519 - Housing Practicum Students in the Housing Practicum will provide legal assistance to either clients from Northwell Health Clinics through the Hofstra/Northwell l Legal/ Medical Partnership or to unrepresented housing litigants in the District Court of Hempstead. Students will be supervised by Judge Fisher with the assistance of an Adjunct Professor at all times. Students will primarily provide legal advice and brief services in eviction cases and instances where tenants need repairs. It is envisioned that there will be very limited litigation in District Court. In the event of litigation, students will assist in preparation and only observe in Court. The Professor will actually handle the case in court. Additional litigation experience will be obtained through simulations in class and through case preparation. This course will be offered every semester. Prerequisites & Notes Either Landlord and Tenant Law in a Challenged Society and a special mini course on Health and Ethics or Housing and Health Law . Permission will be required for registration. (Please note that the educative components of the mini course will be included in Housing and Health Law. Thus, the mini course would be redundant for students who take Housing and Health Law as a prerequisite for the Practicum.) Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2706 - Practice Ready Research Skills This course will be offered as an intensive summer experience and is designed to provide students embarking on internships, externships, clerkships, summer associate positions, and the practice of law with the skills to approach practical legal research problems in efficient and cost-effective ways. Emphasis will be placed on research strategy, accompanied by a solid understanding of the appropriate types of research resources critical in the exploration of state and federal legal issues. While both print and electronic sources will be used, the most efficient sources will be highlighted for each type of research problem explored. Students will be evaluated on their ability to develop and execute a high quality research strategy when presented with real-life research problems. The fundamental goal of this course is the development of strategies and skill sets required to prepare participants to perform exceptional, efficient, and cost-effective legal research in a professional environment. Prerequisites & Notes Students should have completed a minimum of two semesters toward their Juris Doctorate prior to enrolling in this class. The content of the course necessarily presumes a basic familiarity with the types of primary and secondary legal authorities used in the analysis of legal issues based in United States law. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2709 - Computer Technology in Legal Practice Computer technology has a unique position in legal practice – it is everywhere integrated with the activities of both clients and law offices. This seminar provides students with the basic knowledge needed to understand the technology of computers and mobile devices, and its impact on today’s legal practice – whether that practice involves management and professional responsibilities, client counseling and problem solving, or litigation and trial practice. Moreover, within many substantive areas of law, such as privacy law, private and public security, and patent and copyright law, issues arise relating to this technology. In this seminar, students will learn how computers and mobile devices work, and how legal documents and other files are stored and used, as well as the fundamentals of the Internet and cloud computing, data mining and computerized search, artificial intelligence and law, and computer and file security (hacking, encryption, and transmission interception). No technical background is needed, because the seminar will provide information at a level appropriate to lawyers. Students will be required to write an analytic paper on a topic of their choice that deals with a problem involving this technology in an area of importance to the legal professional. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2714 - Criminal Law in the Workplace This course addresses criminal statutes that impact employers and employees in a business setting. It is designed to provide insight to students interested in the criminal, labor, employment and commercial fields to better enable them to advise clients as to possible liabilities and regulatory pitfalls. Those interested in workers’ rights advocacy will learn how to work with government agencies in charge of protecting workers and their wages. Prospective criminal practitioners who have an interest in white collar crime will gain knowledge of how to prosecute and defend criminal cases involving businesses and their employees, as well as strategies employed during investigations of business and corporate clients or targets. The course reviews corporate criminal liability, various theories of larceny, and the criminal statutes most commonly violated by businesses and their principals. Students will also learn about the various criminal laws designed to address wage and benefit theft, as well as tax crimes committed by multi-employee businesses. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2720 - Intellectual Property Colloquium This colloquium aims to put students and faculty in conversation about some of the best current scholarly work in intellectual property. Subjects for Spring 2013 will include aesthetic analysis in intellectual property, the role of innovation prizes in intellectual property, copyright law and pornography, experimental tests to measure innovation and creativity in intellectual property, improvement doctrines in property and intellectual property law, the problem of determining the audience in intellectual property infringement, and the issues surrounding the patenting of nature, among other topics. Every other week, outside authors will present their own recent work, with students and faculty engaging them in dialogue. On the weeks respectively preceding each speaker, students will prepare to discuss authors’ scholarship, in part by writing and sharing reaction papers and formulating questions. Throughout the semester, students will also be appointed to lead the discussion about the work of specific speakers. Students will leave the course with a stronger grasp of the field of intellectual property and better prepared to engage with specialized materials in the area on their own. Prior coursework in intellectual property is not required, but students without any background will be asked to complete additional reading in preparation for the class. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2721 - Negotiation Skills This course is a two-day intensive course teaching the skills of negotiating difficult family and workplace conflicts with the primary aims of either preserving the relationship between the parties or ending that relationship amicably on both sides. For many parties to conflict in these domains, that kind of “relational goal” is as important as any other in the situation. However, the skills needed to achieve this goal are distinct and different from those conventionally taught in negotiation courses, which focus more on resolving disputes over tangible matters. This course takes the view – advanced by feminist and other recent negotiation theorists – that relational or interactional goals matter greatly to parties in many contexts. The course helps students identify and practice strategies for achieving those kinds of goals when negotiating disagreements in the family or workplace contexts, where relational goals are particularly important. However, the skills learned will also be applicable in other kinds of conflicts Prerequisites & Notes None Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2726 - Organized Crime and the Response of Government Utilizing the Port of New York as its theater, this course will study attempts by government to control Organized Crime. The course will study the origins of Organized Crime in the United States, its influence in the Port of New York, why the longshore trade and the longshore trade Unions are susceptible to its influence, and the various responses by government to such susceptibility - focusing on the Waterfront Commission Act, the administrative and regulatory effectuation of this Act by the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, and the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Students will be challenged to analyze the success and failure of these laws and regulations, and to craft alternative legislative and regularity solutions to the problems that the existing laws and regulations were implemented to combat. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2727 - Medical Product Development and Licensing Agreement Drafting Seminar This writing course provides participants with the opportunity to draft the form of agreement used in the medical products industry for collaborative development and licensing of new regulated medical products. Regulated medical products include drugs, biologics, medical devices, and cell, tissue, and gene therapies. CD&L agreements cover the major steps and interparty interactions along the pathway from product discovery to regulatory approval. As such they integrate several legal disciplines – contracts, intellectual property, licensing, medical product regulation, federal funding of technology development, venture governance and dispute resolution, commercial transactions, insurance, finance, and litigation. The course will reinforce several important principles that extend beyond the life science industry and collaborative development and licensing agreement on which the course focuses. These principles include the importance of understanding the business and interests of clients and their counterparties, the limits to which contracts can protect the interests of clients and their counterparties, and the dynamic impact of applicable statutory, regulatory, and case law on various matters covered in contracts. During the semester, each participant will be engaged as counsel by various hypothetical clients to draft (and sometimes negotiate) contractual provisions for varying hypothetical medical product development projects. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2728 - Environmental Dispute Resolution Dispute resolution arises in many contexts and forms in environmental law. This course will provide instruction in the professional skills necessary to resolve and prevent environmental disputes. Course work will include the study and practice of environmental negotiation, mediation and facilitation, and will provide an opportunity for students to develop these skills in a broad range of contexts including, among others, a two-party Clean Air Act environmental enforcement negotiation, a multi-party hazardous waste mediation, and a complex multi-stakeholder climate change consensus-building process involving local zoning law. Students will learn how to determine the appropriate environmental dispute resolution process for a given matter, deal with high conflict situations, and manage disparate factual and scientific information in a dispute. Students will leave the course with skills they can apply to a wide variety of environmental law practices and to other fields of law as well. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2729 - Law Practice Management A seminar devoted to the ethical, legal and business considerations in forming and running a law firm. Students will analyze complex fact patterns based on real and hypothetical scenarios that arise in the day-to-day life of managing a law firm. Students will then be asked to read, analyze, and apply discrete portions of a specimen partnership agreement, an employee handbook, an ethical rule, and a ground lease to the fact patterns provided. These tasks will then be converted either into a written or oral presentations for the class, who will serve as an Executive Committee of a law firm. Grading will be based on class participation, role-playing exercises, written assignments, and a final exam. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2730 - Pre-Trial III: Drafting and Arguing the Summary Judgment Motion This is a 2 ½ day intensive simulation-based course designed to introduce students to the conceptual, legal, strategic and practical issues posed by the drafting and arguing of summary judgment motions in a civil litigation. Students will learn the importance of audience, developing a theory of the case that will appeal to that audience, how to draft a persuasive statement of facts and how to construct persuasive arguments. In addition, students will learn how to present an effective oral argument to the trial court. Students will work with the Professor to draft a statement of undisputed facts and memorandum of law in support of a summary judgment motion. Students will then exchange briefs with one another and proceed to draft a response to the statement of undisputed facts, as well as a memorandum in opposition to the summary judgment motion. Students will work with the Professor to prepare for oral argument of the motion in front of a Judge. A portion of the coursewill be conducted online, using the Voice Thread technology that is available to all Hofstra students through the portal. Training and support in using Voice Thread will be available to students who need it. Prerequisites & Notes Students who have taken the full semester Pretrial Skills course, cannot take this course - Drafting and Arguing the Summary Judgment Motion. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2731 - Logic Skills for Legal Reasoning This course is designed to teach skills useful in analyzing the reasoning structures found in judicial decisions, and in constructing new arguments using elements of those structures. Students will learn to analyze judicial decisions as natural language documents that we search in order to retrieve the elements of legal reasoning and argument. The logic skills taught in the course include: analyzing the linguistic structure of judicial decisions, to interpret the meaning of the text (a skill applicable to all types of legal documents); searching documents and retrieving information critical to legal argumentation (a skill also applicable to search software, e-discovery, and artificial intelligence applications in law); and constructing new legal arguments using rules, findings, evidence and policies extracted from judicial decisions (a skill applicable to all types of legal reasoning and argumentation). No prior knowledge of linguistics or logic is required. Students will work through a series of modules that are focused on particular logic skills. Each module will consist of the following online elements: background text, videos, interactive examples; exercises to be performed; and feedback on those exercises. After students have completed certain sets of modules, there will be online discussion of problems that students might be having, and online discussion of the topic more broadly. Examples, exercises and judicial decisions will be drawn primarily from Torts cases, of the kind familiar from first-year Torts courses. There will be a final examination. While a student’s performance in the course will be graded, the mandatory grading curve will not apply because the grade will be primarily determined by an evaluation mechanism involving significant individualized interaction between the student and teacher. Credits: 1 or 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2732 - Lawyers and Social Change This course will examine how the law can be an instrument for social change. Each weekly session will be taught by a guest lecturer who is a lawyer and would discuss with the students her/his experience in bringing about social change. Guest lecturers would relate their experiences, followed by questions and comments by the students. Students will take a final exam at the end of the semester. This course may be offered for skills credit. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2733 - Combatting Corruption This course will examine the legal instruments used to combat corruption and money laundering. We will delve into the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “FCPA”), the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, and the anti-money laundering sections of the Bank Secrecy Act and Patriot Act. We will also examine the False Claims Act, and the whistleblower and other related provisions of the Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes Oxley Acts. Additionally, we will examine the interplay between domestic and international cross-border anti-corruption efforts, including the UK Bribery Act. Special attention will be paid to the practical considerations of enforcement and defense, including the use of deferred and non-prosecution agreements, sentencing issues, implementing compliance programs, and lessons learned from recent enforcement actions. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2734 - Approaches to Legal Analysis and Writing Approaches to Legal Analysis and Writing (ALAW) will focus on practical skills that can be used now, in school, and later, on the bar exam and in practice. The course is designed to follow the Diagnostic exam. The Diagnostic tests writing and multiple choice proficiency in Crimes, Torts, Property and Contracts. ALAW will look at four topics within these subjects, specifically: (1) Homicide (2) Negligence, (3) Landlord and Tenant Issues, and (4) Contract Formation. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2735 - Introduction to Asset Management Legal and Compliance Corporate compliance, one of the fastest growing markets for legal services, is the way organizations manage risk. This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of the laws and regulations encountered by compliance professionals in daily practice. Specifically, this course will serve as an introduction to risk management and compliance within the financial services industry, and primarily within the asset management realm (i.e. investment advisers and investment companies). The course will explore the evolution of compliance and risk management functions, including the statutes that serve as the foundation for compliance, such as the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940 and other Federal securities law. The course will then provide students with a real-life understanding of compliance and risk management roles, through the introduction of guest speakers, including high-level legal and compliance professions from the private sector (in-house and law firm), regulatory agencies (including the SEC) and other well-respected industry groups. The course will also focus on specific compliance-related issues including registration requirements, portfolio compliance testing, Code of Ethics and conflicts of interest, fiduciary responsibilities, the role of regulators, preparing for regulatory examinations and the implications of enforcement-related matters. Students will have the opportunity to complete mock compliance and risk management assignments to supplement the course learning materials, which will be a combination of statutes, case law, best practices and regulatory guidance. Prerequisites & Notes None, although Securities Regulation enrollment is strongly encouraged as a pre- or co-requisite Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2737 - Business and Law of Marijuana This course will introduce students to the rapidly-developing legal questions encountered in the operation of marijuana-related businesses. The course will use a fictional business, Cannabis Inc., to explore (1) the interplay between state laws legalizing recreational and/or medical marijuana uses and the Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA); (2) enforcement and application of other regulatory regimes governing the operation of marijuana-related businesses, such as banking and securities laws; and (3) the ethical considerations for an attorney advising a client engaged in a marijuana-related business. Students will also be encouraged to develop normative arguments regarding the legalization of marijuana. As this is a new, burgeoning industry, with few clear and concise rules and even fewer dispositive judicial rulings, this course will include numerous news articles that students will need to review, consider and be prepared to discuss in class. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2738 - Corporate Compliance and Ethics This course will introduce our students to the core concepts of corporate compliance and ethics. We will review the role of compliance as well as the role of compliance officers in today’s corporations. Their role is especially important in the current environment of heightened scrutiny by regulators, shareholders and the media. We will spend several classes on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of compliance: setting the tone and getting the culture right, the code of conduct, helplines/hotlines and training. They we will focus on specific areas of compliance such as privacy (including Gramm Leach Bliley, HIPAA, US Safe Harbor), human resources/employment issues (e.g. Discrimination, ADA, Harassment), import export and other trade issues as well as FCPA, AML and OFAC issues. We will finish the course discussing whistleblowers, internal investigations and finally the role of the board of directors and audit committee in corporate compliance. This will be a very practical “how to” class, with special focus on current evolving issues and how companies are dealing with them. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2739 - Law, Health and Technology This course explores the rules, principles, and difficulties embedded in the protection of the right to health and its interplay with technology. The first part of the course will analyze some fundamental problems of health law and its relationship to the protection of the right to health. We will highlight convergences and divergences from the national, transnational, and comparative perspective. The second part of the course will offer an introduction to the emerging field of law and technology by examining the growing body of literature investigating how technological change affects legal analysis and the regulation of healthcare. Accordingly, this part of the course will analyze the impact of technology on health law and the delivery of healthcare services from a transnational perspective. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2740 - The Policy and Business of Cryptocurrencies This Course will offer students insight into the legal and business impact of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and will provide students with different models that will explain how Bitcoin and blockchain technology may be treated by regulators in the U.S. and abroad. The Course will be taught as a seminar. Each week, students will be selected to conduct a presentation on the next week’s topic, summarizing the papers that have been selected as course material, describing the unique problems presented by cryptocurrencies given the existing framework of currency and payments, and proposing solutions, innovations, and ideas regarding the future landscape of currency in an increasingly decentralized global market. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites or Corequisites: Business Organizations or Securities Regulation Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2750 - Accounting and Finance for Lawyers This course is designed to give law students the knowledge, tools, insights and confidence they need to work effectively in any one of a myriad of business, financial or commercial settings. We will begin with the history and purpose of corporations and other business entities. Students will study about how corporations are created and organized, the respective roles of boards of directors, management and shareholders and how conflicts arise and may be resolved. We will focus on corporate governance and best practices as well as the nature and limits of fiduciary and other legal obligations. Considerable time will then be spent learning how to read and understand financial statements of both public and private companies. This is not delving into technical and arcane accounting rules but learning how the principal financial statements are related to each other and tell the story of a business, its operations and financial condition. This is always eye opening and often exciting. Thereafter, we will learn the most basic tools of financial analysis—including the time value of money and discounted cash flow analysis—and how they are used to value everything from bonds to investment projects and ultimately entire businesses. We will look in some detail at the finance of real estate and see how both legal and financial analyses are crucial to success in the field. Throughout the term students will explore in some depth the concepts of risk and return and learn the fundamentals and key drivers of financial analysis. Real world examples will constantly be used to illustrate these concepts as we develop them throughout the semester. Quantitative analysis will be a core skill used throughout the course. However, no background in statistics, calculus or other advanced mathematical theory or practice is required. Each topic will be presented in an accessible manner and ALL students will be able to understand and master the skills taught in the course. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2751 - Clinic Practicum The Clinic Practicum provides an opportunity for students who have taken the Disaster Recovery Clinic, Community and Economic Development Clinic, Youth Advocacy Clinic, Criminal Justice Clinic, Law Reform Advocacy Clinic, or Asylum Clinic to continue to work on Clinic cases that carry over to a second semester, and to receive advanced training in the advocacy skills, professional responsibility obligations, and case strategy analysis required in client representation. Students advocate on behalf of the clients who they represented when they were enrolled in one of the Clinics, and may also be assigned to other cases that raise particularly complex issues of fact and law. Students are required to attend weekly supervision meetings that focus on strategic decision-making considerations, and each student must make at least one major presentation on a practice or professional responsibility issue drawn from one of his or her cases. Students are eligible for the Clinic Practicum only if they meet one or more of the following criteria: the student’s carry-over cases involve complex legal or factual issues which require more sophistication than would normally be expected of a one-semester student; the student’s carry-over cases involve upcoming trials or other significant court hearings; the student’s carry-over cases involve law-re f o rm related issues; the student has established a positive relationship with one or more of the significant professionals involved in the case that would be difficult for another student to emulate effectively; or, the student has established a positive relationship with his or her client that would be difficult for another student to emulate effectively. Prerequisites & Notes Disaster Recovery Clinic, Community and Economic Development Clinic, Youth Advocacy Clinic, Criminal Justice Clinic, Law Reform Advocacy Clinic, or Asylum Clinic. Instructor’s permission needed for enrollment. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2753 - Admiralty Law This course provides an introduction to the general maritime law and practice and procedures in admiralty. It examines such issues as admiralty jurisdiction and federalism; procedure for admiralty claims; maritime liens; the carriage of goods by sea, including Hague-Visby Rules and the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act; charter parties and arbitration; the laws relating to salvage; general average; collision; personal injury and death; limitation of liability; international treaties and conventions; and pollution of the seas. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2757 - Advanced Bankruptcy This course focuses on selected topics on federal bankruptcy law and practice. It covers bankruptcy court jurisdiction, litigation under the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, and professional responsibility and ethical issues facing bankruptcy lawyers. Other topics may include claims trading strategy and its impact on chapter 11 cases, cross-border bankruptcy cases under chapter 15, bankruptcy relief for municipalities under chapter 9, debtor-in-possession financing trends, asset acquisitions in chapter 11 cases, intellectual property rights in bankruptcy, and other timely topics. Recent controversial cases may be explored as well. A paper is required on a topic to be selected by the student in consultation with the teacher. There is no examination. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Bankruptcy or the consent of the instructor. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2758 - Advanced Competition Skills The primary focus of the Advanced Appellate Skills course will be the introduction of students to advanced techniques in the crafting of an appellate brief, principally focusing on the crafting of briefs to the United States Supreme Court. This will be done through a series of workshops, combining lecture, readings, and interactive exercises. In addition, the course will introduce students to advanced techniques in the oral argument of an appeal, focusing principally on argument to the Supreme Court. Differences between actual briefs and argument before the high Court and conventions utilized in interscholastic moot court competitions will be pointed out. Enrollment in the course is limited to, and mandatory for, those students selected by the Director of Student Advocacy Programs to represent Hofstra in interscholastic moot court competition. That selection, for most teams, occurs following tryouts typically held early in the fall semester. The course will be taught on weekday evenings and/or weekend days to minimize conflicts with students’ academic classes. The course will be conducted, outside of the traditional semester structure, during the moot court competition “season,” which typically runs from October to April. It is anticipated that the course will begin shortly after September tryouts and team selections, and end in March, when the last briefs typically are submitted in competition. Early in the process there will be plenary sessions, attended by all competitors. Thereafter, the course will be conducted in smaller break-out sessions attended by students on a rolling basis, depending upon when in the “season” they will be submitting their briefs (and, eventually, orally arguing) in competition. Students will earn one academic credit for satisfactory completion of the course in the semester in which their team brief is submitted in competition. They will earn a second credit following their satisfactory preparation for and performance of oral argument in their respective competition. It is possible that a student who participates in an interscholastic moot court competition will not earn any academic credit for his or her participation in the course and the competition, if that student is otherwise taking the maximum allowable number of academic credits in a semester. Credits: 1 or 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2767 - Criminal Procedure II: Adjudication This course examines selected criminal procedure topics that arise during the adjudication of a criminal case, organized along the procedural stages of a typical prosecution. Such issues may include the following: bail and pretrial release, prosecutorial charging discretion, discovery battles, plea bargaining, grand jury practice, petit jury selection and trial tactics, double jeopardy, trial by the media, sentencing issues, appeals and collateral attacks on convictions, and other related issues. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2769 - Mediation Seminar Students in this course read studies by prominent mediation researchers and theorists, view tapes, read transcripts of actual mediation sessions and observe simulated mediation. Class lectures and discussions use these materials as a basis for close examination of questions about the use of mediation in general, the specific practices that mediators employ in current practice, the possibilities of alternative approaches to mediation theory and practice, and the philosophical premises that underlie both theory and practice. This intense examination of the theory, practice and premises of mediation is used to raise larger questions about the nature of conflict and dispute resolution, and the relation of dispute resolution processes and institutions to broader societal value frameworks and world views. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2772 - Advanced Tort Practice & Problems This course explores the conceptual, legal and practical issues of handling a tort case from the initial intake to post-trial litigation. The course uses a case-study and problem-solving approach that takes the students step-by-step through the litigation process. Students will be able to simulate the handling of a hypothetical civil case by maintaining an actual file throughout the entire course. They will learn about each phase of a litigation through discussions, role-playing, and simulations. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2777 - Elder Law This seminar focuses on the legal problems of the elderly and the disabled. It will approach the Elder Law practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics include planning with Government benefits, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability and SSI benefits; long-term care insurance; and estate planning and the utilization of trusts to protect and preserve assets. Additional topics will include Guardianship proceedings under Article 81 of New York’s Mental Hygiene Law as well as the Health Care Decisions Act, and advance directives such as health care proxies, living wills and MOLST forms. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2783 - Legal Analysis, Writing & Research II Leg. Analysis Wrtg. & Res. II completes the five-credit first-year course sequence in legal analysis, writing and research, which begins in Leg. Wrtg. Analysis & Res. I in the fall semester. Leg. Analysis Wrtg. & Res. II primarily teaches persuasive writing, introduced through a trial-court level brief and developed through an appellate brief. To learn time-efficient writing skills, students write additional memos under the type of constraints required in contemporary law practice, typically measured in hours rather than days. And to learn tightly concise writing for busy partners and clients, students write email advice memos. Research instruction, begun in the fall, is completed in this course. As in the fall, professors provide substantial individualized feedback and conduct one-on-one conferences with students to critique their work and discuss rewriting techniques as well as methods through which each student can improve. At the end of the course, students participate in an oral argument. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2784 - Applied Evidence: Evidentiary Oral Argument in Trial Courts An advanced evidence course that is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn how to develop and present trial level evidence arguments. The course will cover both pre trial preparation of legal arguments as well as the skill of identifying evidence issues and creating a persuasive arguments under the heat of the moment, whether it be in the courtroom during trial or with opposing counsel and/or judges at bench conferences. In each class, students will argue different evidentiary issues that arise in the contexts of objections, motions in limine, or conferences with judges and opposing attorneys and will be critiqued in terms of substantive law and stylistic execution. Grading will be based on substantive and stylistic performance in class and on an final examination in which students will be required to present oral evidentiary arguments. Prerequisites & Notes Evidence Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2786 - Ethics in Criminal Advocacy This course will examine the ethical responsibilities of prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers, as well as related jurisprudential issues. It will examine the roles, rules and best practices for prosecutors and defense lawyers in state and federal criminal justice systems. This course explores a wide range of sources that enforce professional standards for prosecutors and defense lawyers. It will cover the topics discussed in the general course on Professional Responsibility but will deal with most of these topics in the context of criminal practice. This course satisfies the Professional Responsibility requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Pre or Co-Req: Criminal Procedure I, Criminal Procedure II or Evidence Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2790 - Banking Law This course examines the basic structure of bank regulation under federal law and the differences among banking institutions. Attention will be paid to the powers of national banks and bank holding companies and the limitations upon their operations. The course emphasizes the evolving role that banks (and other financial institutions) play both as lenders and deposit takers and as participants in the broader financial markets, and it considers certain consequences of the recent financial crisis, including relevant changes in applicable laws and regulations. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2792 - Business Drafting Seminar This course provides an opportunity to draft various instruments typically encountered in a business oriented practice. Depending upon the choices made by each individual instructor, students may be expected to draft and submit weekly for review by the instructor a number of the following: certificates of incorporation for a business entity and for a professional practice with various optional control and exculpatory provisions; an amendment of a certificate; minutes and bylaws; a shareholder buy-sell agreement; partnership agreement; articles of organization and operating agreement and notice of formation for a limited liability company; conversion agreement and certificate of conversion of the partnership to a limited liability company; assumed name certificates for a partnership and a corporation; a sale and security agreement; an employment or independent contractor agreement; and various other documents. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisites & Notes Business Organizations Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2807 - Corporate Finance This course deals with financial theories and legal doctrines relating to the publicly held corporation, including problems of valuation, financing options, capital structure and dividend policy. Prerequisites & Notes Business Organizations. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2810 - Corporate Governance Seminar This seminar will focus on the governance of the modern American corporation. We will look more deeply at recent governance failures such as Enron and WorldCom, and evaluate efforts to address those failures. The seminar begins by reviewing the structure of the corporation, paying close attention to the different stakeholders in the corporation and examining other potential corporate structures. The role of the board will be closely examined, with particular focus on the role of independent directors and the importance of the board as a corporate monitor. We will explore new federal investor protections, particularly the Sarbanes Oxley Act, and discuss the responsibilities that investors have for good corporate governance. The seminar will also look more closely at the role of employees, particularly employees as shareholders. Finally, we will discuss the role of corporate counsel in promoting good governance, as well as reporting bad governance. An effort will be made to bring in speakers and set up field trips in order to better understand the issues we will cover. Enrollment is limited. A paper is required. Prerequisites & Notes Business Organization Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2821 - Pre-Trial I: Written Discovery This course introduces students to the conceptual, legal, strategic and practical issues posed by the discovery phase of civil litigation. It focuses on written discovery – interrogatories, requests for admission and document requests and responses and objections thereto. Instruction emphasizes learning by doing. Students will get a theoretical overview of the nature and purposes of discovery, and practice in applying those concepts in written discovery practice in a simulated case. Students will be assigned to a law firm representing a party in the case. They will plan strategy for and draft written discovery and objections and responses under intensive faculty supervision. The students will also plan strategy for negotiation of discovery disputes, negotiate with the other side and advocate for their position before a judge if disputes are unresolved. Students receive one academic and one skills credit for this Course. The course is graded pass/fail. This course is offered in an intensive three day period. It is part of a two course sequence on Discovery Skills. It can be taken separately or together with Discovery Skills II (Deposition Practice). The same case file is used for both courses. Prerequisites & Notes Students who enroll in this course will not be permitted to take the course titled “Pre-Trial Skills”. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2829 - Pre-Trial II: Depositions Practice This course introduces students to the conceptual, legal, strategic and practical issues posed by the discovery phase of civil litigation. It focuses on deposition practice- preparing for and taking a deposition, defending a deposition and preparing a witness for a deposition. Instruction emphasizes learning by doing. Students will get a theoretical overview of the nature and purposes of discovery, and practice in applying those concepts in deposition practice in a simulated case. Students will plan strategy for and take and defend numerous portions of a deposition and prepare witnesses for a deposition under intensive faculty supervision.. Students receive one academic and one skills credit for this Course. The course is graded pass/fail. This course is offered in an intensive three day period. It is part of a two course sequence on Discovery Skills. It can be taken separately or together with Discovery Skills I (Written Discovery). The same case file is used for both courses. Prerequisites & Notes Students who enroll in this course will not be permitted to take the course titled “Pre-Trial Skills”. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2830 - Environmental Law in Commercial and Real Estate Transactions This course integrates issues arising from substantive environmental law into real estate and commercial transactions. The common law and statutory bases of environmental liability will be reviewed and the transactional process from due diligence to closing will be examined. Issues frequently encountered in land use and environmental law practice are considered and resolved in the context of specific transactions. Practical skills such as navigating regulatory approval processes, interpreting technical/scientific material, working with technical professionals, negotiating complex multi-party relationships, drafting, and presentation of findings will be covered. Grading is based upon both written work and class participation. This course is taught over 7 2-hours sessions and satisfies one credit of the Skills requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Suggested as a Pre-Req: Environmental Law Suggested as a Pre-Req or Co-Req: Business Organizations and/or Real Estate Transactions Credits: 1 or 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2832 - Law of Medical Product Discovery, Development and Commercialization The following description applies to the course as it is offered in the JD program: This course will explore the influence of law and regulation in the United States and other jurisdictions on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The central focus will be the pathway of the discovery, development, and commercialization of new medicines and the effect of various stakeholders, legal disciplines, governmental structures, and globalization on that pathway. Students will learn the lawyer’s role in negotiating agreements, resolving disputes, making policy, and otherwise building consensus in this complex setting. Topics include the history of food and drug and related law, the evaluation of drug safety and efficacy, market exclusivity and market protection, and the roles of the FDA and other U.S. and non-U.S. government agencies. Students will have the option of taking the final examination or writing a paper. The following description applies to the course as it is offered in the online MA and LLM programs: This course will explore the influence of law and regulation in the United States and other jurisdictions on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The central focus will be the pathway of the discovery, development, and commercialization of new medicines and the effect of various stakeholders, legal disciplines, governmental structures, and globalization on that pathway. Students will learn the lawyer’s role in negotiating agreements, resolving disputes, making policy, and otherwise building consensus in this complex setting. Topics include the history of food and drug and related law, the evaluation of drug safety and efficacy, market exclusivity and market protection, and the roles of the FDA and other U.S. and non-U.S. government agencies. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2835 - ERISA and Employee Benefit Plans This course introduces fundamental concepts essential to a basic understanding of the pension benefits field. The course reviews relevant provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA together with related regulations, administrative rulings and court cases. Initial class sessions and readings provide a basic introduction to the legal concepts and complicated technical requirements applicable to tax-qualified retirement plans and review alternative types of retirement plans and demographic, economic and practice considerations related to plan selection and administration. The course then branches out to explore the interaction of pension rules and concepts with other areas of law such as fiduciary principles, corporate law (e.g., mergers, acquisitions and divestitures), labor management relations, securities laws, employment discrimination laws (Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FMLA, etc.), bankruptcy laws, debtor-creditor rights and domestic relations laws. The course examines legislative regulatory and case law developments in the context of contemporary legal and policy considerations. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2838 - Estate Planning This course provides an extensive examination of the techniques of estate planning and the drafting of wills and trusts. Through the distribution of problem and other materials, students are provided with an opportunity for analysis of various methods of handling potential estates in light of income, gift and estate tax considerations. Prerequisite or co-requisite: Federal Estate and Gift Tax. For third-year students only, the professor may waive the prerequisite. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2841 - International Family Law International Family Law is an essential part of any family law curriculum, both as a practical necessity and as a means to provide American law students with a broader perspective on increasingly complicated and intractable family law issues. Students should be prepared for the globalized practice of family law, including problems they may encounter relating to international adoption, divorce, custody and domestic violence. Among the areas that the course addresses are the regulation of marriage, including procedural requirements for entry into marriage in several foreign jurisdictions; dissolution of marriage and various approaches to divorce reform around the world; the emerging rights and duties of nontraditional partners, including alternatives to marriage, constitutional rights of same-gender couples and cohabitants, and sexual orientation discrimination under international law; recognition of foreign marriages and divorces; violence between family members; and child abduction, jurisdiction, and enforcement in international custody disputes. In connection with these and perhaps other topics, the course examines relevant international conventions, statutes, and regulatory materials. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2842 - Modern Divorce Advocacy This intensive training simulation-based course provides students with an introduction to the practice of divorce law. The course focuses on the development of students’ representational skills in all phases of divorce litigation and disputes. It begins with an overview of applicable law. Students explore the divorce process with an interdisciplinary focus on how to effectively communicate with court-appointed mental health and financial professionals, as well as hired consultants in the same fields. They also explore client counseling and alternative dispute resolution (negotiation and mediation)representational skills. Students conduct direct and crossexamination of mental health and financial expert witnesses, counsel clients, negotiate, and participate in a simulated mediation. The course also includes a careful examination of the ethical responsibilities lawyers face when representing clients in family law disputes. Extensive faculty critique is provided. Much of the course is centered on alternative dispute resolution. Students will learn the role of the attorney in negotiation and mediation by counseling clients and consulting with mental health and financial experts in a simulated case. By participating in a mediation, students will improve their counseling and mediation advocacy skills and familiarize themselves with different mediation strategies. The course is team-taught by lawyers, judges, mental health and financial professionals who possess expertise in working with children and families experiencing divorce. The course provides a unique opportunity for students to work closely with experts in the field of divorce law and improve their own skills through hands-on experience. Materials for the course include a specially prepared case file with an interdisciplinary focus and selected readings. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites & Notes Recommended courses: Family Law, and Alternatives to Litigation. Students may, however, apply for permission to take the course without having taken any or all of these courses. The course will be graded pass/fail. Credits: 1 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2843 - Federal Tax Procedure This course examines the basic rules of federal tax procedure, focusing primarily on civil tax matters. Topics covered include the sources of federal tax procedure; IRS organization, operation and administration; ruling requests and determination letters; retroactive and prospective changes in IRS interpretations; the doctrine of estoppel, consistency and equality as applied to IRS actions; audit and summons powers of the IRS; deficiencies, interest and penalties; refund claims; statute of limitations, waivers and the mitigation provisions; appeals and settlement procedures within the IRS; forums available for judicial review of IRS determinations; assessment and collection procedure; injunctions and suits to restrain assessment and collection; disclosure obligations imposed by the IRS and the Freedom of Information Act; confidentiality of tax returns; and criminal investigations. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2844 - Interdisciplinary Seminar on Family Law and Policy This seminar explores issues of family law and policy through an interdisciplinary lens with the goal of generating an agenda for law reform on a complex and controversial subject. The seminar discusses and evaluates approaches to implement resulting law reform recommendations, ranging from federal and state legislation to pilot projects. Each year, the seminar focuses on one topic, determined in advance by the faculty teaching the course. Illustrative topics include: youth at risk, alternative dispute resolution in family disputes, unified family courts, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, adoption policies, same sex marriage, health care for children, unmarried parents living together, special education for disabled children, self-represented litigants in family court, child abuse and neglect, juvenile offender punishment and policies and the role and ethical conduct of the lawyer for children and parents. The seminar is team taught by members of the law school faculty, as well as faculty from other disciplines appropriate to the subject being addressed. It includes law students and students from other disciplines who are seriously committed to the goals of the seminar and who have the background to contribute to the seminar’s work. The seminar begins with an overview of the laws, public policy, and social science and health approaches and trends relevant to the particular issue. Subsequent classes focus on the interrelationship between different disciplines and the development of a law reform agenda. The seminar provides an opportunity for students in different disciplines to learn about the theories, philosophies, ethics, and practices of the range of professions that confront family policy issues, and the impact of decision making in one forum on the practices and decisions made in another forum. Students are challenged to consider the strengths and weakness of the responses of various disciplines, and their interaction. Students will be expected to undertake a substantial research project and write a paper and make a presentation on a topic within the seminar’s scope. Enrollment is limited, and instructor permission is required for enrollment. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2845 - Intro to Stat and Reg Interpretation We live in an Age of Statutes, an age in which the nation’s legislative institutions and the administrative agencies they have established are the dominant institutions for converting policy into law. For today’s lawyers the question they are most frequently asked by clients in transactional and litigation settings is: “how does this statute or rule apply to my facts?” In most cases, if the questions is asked, it is not easily answered. Otherwise there would be no need for an attorney. How judges interpret statutes and rules is something every lawyer needs to understand. There are rules –- e.g., a statute must be given its clear meaning – but they must be read against a background human experience which frequently results in exceptions and various twists and turn that challenge our thinking about the rule of law. In this course we will look at topics such as: clear statutes, unclear statutes, legislative history, judicial willfulness, all to determined a usable framework for addressing the many question about statutes that lawyers must address on a day to day basis. We will also explore the special set of principles applicable to reading agency rules. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2848 - Foreign Affairs and the Constitution This course examines how U.S. law both constrains and is constrained by U.S. foreign relations and the foreign policy-making process. The course focuses on the constitutional allocation of responsibility among the executive, legislative and judicial branches in matters relating to foreign affairs, including war, treaty-making and spending powers. Unique aspects of the lawmaking process in the foreign relations context are illuminated through historical case studies to include, among others, the use of force in Grenada, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Somalia and Haiti; the Iran-Contra Affair; and the controversy surrounding interpretation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The involvement of state and local governments and of private actors in foreign affairs is also considered from a constitutional pragmatic. Finally, the course examines how treaties, international instruments and international law in general interact with domestic legal mechanisms, and how the national security context affects such individuals’ rights as those provided under the First and Fourth Amendments. All topics address the need for possible reform of foreign relations law as the United States continues to move forward in the post-Cold War era. A paper is required. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2854 - Law of Humanity and Law of Nations This course will consider the foundations of international law and of global justice, with special emphasis on the sources and evidence of law, and when and why international standards should limit or control the national law and policies of independent governments or states. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2855 - Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics “Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics” will focus on the application of law to public health and on the ethical and policy parameters of that application. During most of its history, the United States has struggled to improve population health without compromising the health of individuals. This course will address legal and policy responses to issues such as vaccination, addiction, obesity, hunger, genetic testing, environmental pollution, epidemics, bioterrorism, natural disasters, and limitations on access to healthcare, among other issues. The course will ask students to engage in textual analysis and to examine and respond to a set of public health case-studies. (Case studies will be distributed at the start of each semester; topics of the case studies will vary as policy issues shift over time.) Students will consider how best to shape public-health policy, the role of law in implementing policy, and the ethical implications of efforts by law-makers to improve population health. The course will direct students to work with, and consider the implications for public health of administrative law, tort law, criminal law, and constitutional law. More specifically, students will examine federalism issues that arise in efforts to improve population health; identify stakeholders interested in various components of public health law and delineate the positions of each stakeholder; shape statutes aimed at safeguarding population health while protecting individual rights; and design legal responses to local, state, national, and global public-health crises. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2856 - Global Climate Change and U.S. Law This course introduces students to domestic legal, administrative, and market mechanisms – both existing and possible – for addressing global climate change in the United States. The absence of direct federal action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, coupled with growing recognition of the need for U.S. emissions reductions, has resulted in a multiplicity of (frequently highly creative) efforts to force reductions through other means. These include litigation to require federal regulation of greenhouse emissions under the Clean Air Act, litigation and other actions to mandate the consideration of climate change impacts under other existing federal statutes (such as NEPA and the ESA), common law tort actions, and independent emissions-reduction measures adopted by localities, states, regions, and market sectors. Now, however, a changing political landscape suggests the emergence of substantial federal legislation directly mandating greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Additionally, the success of one of the above noted litigation strategies in Massachusetts v. EPA raises the possibility that EPA may soon propose federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Interesting questions arise in considering how the possible advent of direct, federal greenhouse gas emissions regulation will impact other litigation; local, state and regional greenhouse gas reduction measures (including motor vehicle GHG emissions standards adopted by states under the Clean Air Act); and existing (voluntary) private sector strategies for reducing GHG emissions. There is also an interesting question as to where, going forward, regulatory responsibility for addressing greenhouse gas emissions should be located. This course will educate students about the domestic legal options available to address greenhouse gas emissions and invite them to develop opinions about their viability, interplay, and desirability. Prerequisites & Notes No pre-requisites or co-requisites are required, but Environmental Law is recommended. A basic understanding of major environmental statutes, such as the Clean Air Act, NEPA, and the ESA will assist students in understanding how climate change issues intersect with those statutes. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2860 - Securities Arbitration This course will examine securities arbitration as it is presently conducted on Wall Street. We will begin with the rudiments of arbitration and securities law with a focus on the Federal Arbitration Act and the anti-fraud provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The course will then examine the evolution of those laws and see how they gave rise to the unique forum of dispute resolution that exists today. Students will also learn how to draft litigation documents, how to navigate the discovery process, and other skills that may be applied to a broad variety of practice areas. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2864 - Federal Tax Clinic Practicum Students in the Federal Tax Clinic represent taxpayers in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service concerning the determination, collection or refund of any tax, additions to tax, penalties or interest under the Internal Revenue Code. Representation may take place at any stage of a tax controversy including, but not limited to, examination (audit), collection, IRS Appeals, and litigation in the United States Tax Court. Students engage in client interviewing and counseling, intensive fact investigation, legal research, drafting of court and administrative documents and briefs, and negotiation. Students meet regularly with supervisors and attend a weekly seminar. Instructor permission is required to register for the course. Prerequisites & Notes Pre-Req: Federal Income Taxation of Individuals Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	Law 2865 - Advanced Labor Law This course is a seminar for students interested in acquiring a more in-depth understanding of labor law in the United States. We will address advanced labor issues including current hot topics such as the use of social media in the work place, non-traditional organizing methods; the legality of employer workers councils in the United States, and other labor topics that arise in the context of a global economy and the current political climate in our country. The course is designed to be interactive and to provoke discussion and debate over labor issues. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2867 - Independent Study Independent Study Projects may be arranged in specialized areas of the law or particularly advanced subject areas. Although we cannot guarantee satisfaction of every student request, there are two types of Independent Study Projects for which a student may apply: (1) individual student research under the direction of a regular full-time faculty member (including visiting faculty); and (2) research by a group of students under the direction of a regular full-time faculty member (including visiting faculty). In all cases a written proposal must be submitted detailing the intended research, and the written permission of the faculty member must be obtained before the project is begun. Projects exceeding three credits also require approval by the Dean’s Office. The amount of credit to be awarded for the research (two to six credits) is determined by the supervisor of the project based upon the scope and complexity of the project. Credits: 2 to 6 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2869 - Family Law LLM: Thesis I This course is required for students enrolled in the LL.M. in Family Law program. It offers the students guidance in drafting an original research paper on a family law topic. In addition to weekly class meetings, students will meet individually with the instructor to develop appropriate research skills and select a topic. Students will be expected to complete a first draft of their Thesis during the Fall semester. In addition, students are expected to make presentations of their work and critique each other’s work. Enrollment is limited, and instructor permission is required for enrollment. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2871 - Family Law LL.M. Thesis II This course is substantively a continuation of Family Law LL.M. Thesis I. (See description for LL.M. Thesis I.) LL.M. Thesis II will consist primarily of intensive mentoring and close review of drafts by the instructor as the students continue the thesis drafting process. Enrollment is limited, and instructor permission is required for enrollment. Students must successfully complete Family Law LL.M. Thesis I in order to enroll in Family Law LL.M. Thesis II. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2875 - International Commercial Arbitration This course intends to comprehensively examine the law and practice of contemporary international commercial arbitration by thoroughly explicating relevant international conventions, national arbitration statutes, and institutional arbitration rules. It focuses on both international instruments (particularly the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards), national law provisions (such as the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), and international accepted model laws (such as the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration). Coverage includes provisional remedies and the form, content, and enforceability of awards. Prerequisites & Notes *** Please note that this class has no component focused on the William C. Vis International Commercial Moot. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2876 - International Business Transactions This course covers the various economic and legal requirements of conducting business in the global community. The students become familiar with the basic commercial terms of international economic transactions and the basic agreements of the documentary sale and letter of credit. Students are asked to trace the typical international business transactions from the financing stage to contact formation and possible dispute resolution. The regulation of international business involves customs classification and valuation. Transfers of technology, franchising and licensing of intellectual property are also discussed. Joint ventures and the establishment of a direct foreign investment abroad are analyzed with special emphasis on the role that cultural difference plays in international business transactions. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2882 - International Human Rights Law Seminar This seminar examines both customary international law and treaties that govern the individual and collective rights of humans and the duties of states to respect those human rights. The course uses a combination of lectures and discussions to explore the United Nations human rights machinery, regional structures and problems of enforcement in considering a wide range of human rights and state duties. The major international human rights instruments are dealt with in detail, including the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Students take an examination, make a presentation and write a paper in this course. Enrollment is limited to 20 students. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2891 - Law and Literature Traditionally, law and literature courses might be better described as law in literature courses, through which students use fictional accounts of legal events to discuss those events. But lawyers can gain much more from literature than the insights provided by discussion of such depictions. Several reasons come to mind. First, advocacy is storytelling. The better the story teller, the better the lawyer. Second, as lawyers, before we present our case, we must understand it. Our understanding of what we observe or hear is influenced by our experience. While what we learn from literature is not a substitute for what we learn through our own life’s experiences, reading literature can be part of that learning process and help introduce us to different understandings of behavior. Finally, lawyers exercise power in our society. Whether it is through traditional lawyering or as a judge or legislator, or administrator or lobbyist, or community activist, lawyers are constantly being asked to explain, mediate, defend, or change our laws and legal system. Literature can help us in these efforts by, again, broadening our understanding of our own society and of human nature. Samuel Johnson once defined law as “human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.” Literature can play an important, not exclusive, role in the development of such wisdom. Through the reading of a number of novels and short stories, this course in law and literature will reach for that goal. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2892 - Matrimonial Skills While the ability to negotiate and resolve matrimonial cases is critical to success of the practitioner, resolution does not always occur and litigation is required. This course addresses many of the basic trial skills which are required in order to effectively present a client’s casebefore the court. Aspects of trial practice which are stressed include direct and cross examination of the parties as well as of experts; presentation of evidence; opening statements and closing arguments; preparation of a trial file; ethical and persuasive argument to the court; and appropriate decorum and conduct with regard to the court, your client and your adversary. Students will discuss the theories behind every aspect of the case and prepare for litigation in thatarea the following week. Each student will be assigned a role as counsel for plaintiff or defendant. When not conducting examination of witnesses, students will serve as witnesses themselves. The course had a distinct “New York flavor,” preparing students for employment in New York firms as well as in any law firm or agency across the country. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2897 - Lawyers’ Ethics The rules of law governing lawyers’ professional conduct are studied through the ethics codes, lectures, text, cases, problems and class discussion. Principal attention is given to whether lawyers should subordinate their own moral judgment to that of their clients, the lawyer’s role in an adversary system, zealous representation, lawyer-client confidentiality, conflicts of interest, prosecutors’ ethics and solicitation of clients. Prerequisites & Notes Either Lawyers’ Ethics or the Ethics & Economics of Law Practice will satisfy Hofstra’s ethics requirement. Students may not take both courses. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2898 - Law of International Trade This course addresses the law that governs trade across national borders. We consider both U.S. law and international agreements like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the North American Free Trade Agreement. We extensively discuss the World Trade Organization. Topics include the theory of comparative advantage, authority to regulate foreign trade under the U.S. Constitution, dispute settlement, most-favored- nation status and national treatment, product safety regulation, trade and the environment, safeguards, subsidies and dumping. Credits: 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2900 - Lawyer Malpractice This course examines the growth and development of a rapidly evolving area of substantive law encompassing topics such as legal malpractice, lawyer liabilities and client remedies. Students are exposed to and come to appreciate the impact of consumerism in a litigious society and how those forces are being increasingly turned against the legal profession. Analysis of theories is thoroughly explored as the foundation of legal malpractice suits and is developed into other areas and theories on which a lawyer can be held responsible for damages to clients and others. Such other areas include breach of fiduciary duty, RICO and consumer protection statutes. A central purpose of the course is to stimulate students’ analytical skills by exposing them to several different substantive areas of law within the context of a legal malpractice setting. At the same time, students become sensitive to the need for and acquire the know-how to assist them in furnishing high-quality legal services. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2906 - Legal Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation Most lawyers interview clients and witnesses, counsel clients, and negotiate on their clients’ behalf. These are among the most widely used skills in the everyday practice oflaw. In this course, students learn these important, interrelated skills primarily through simulation. They participate in interview, counseling, and negotiation exercises withimmediate feedback. They also conduct one-half hour counseling and negotiation sessions that are videotaped and critiqued. The course includes a few short written assignments but no final exam. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisites & Notes Evidence is not a prerequisite but is strongly recommended. Credits: 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2909 - Medicare and Medicaid Law The following description applies to the course as it is offered in the JD program: This course is an overview of the two most important government-funded health care programs. The course begins with a review of the history, purposes, expectations, and evolution of Medicare/Medicaid legislation and then emphasizes recent changes including those created as part of the Affordable Care Act. The student will become familiar with issues important in the legal representation of patients, hospitals, doctors, and other providers under these laws. Special attention is given to the lawyer’s role regarding fraud and abuse statutes. The mechanisms of cost containment, utilization and quality control within these programs are examined including the role of managed care. The class explores policy issues and compares these programs to other federally-funded health care programs. Debates and discussions in class and evaluation of relevant current events are all utilized to enhance the course content. The requirements of the course can be met either by taking the final exam or by writing an erudite paper. The following description applies to the course as it is offered in the online MA and LLM programs: This course is an overview of the two most important government-funded health care programs. The course begins with a review of the history, purposes, expectations, and evolution of Medicare/Medicaid legislation and then emphasizes recent changes including those created as part of the Affordable Care Act. The student will become familiar with issues important in the legal representation of patients, hospitals, doctors, and other providers under these laws. Special attention is given to the lawyer’s role regarding fraud and abuse statutes. The mechanisms of cost containment, utilization and quality control within these programs are examined including the role of managed care. The class explores policy issues and compares these programs to other federally-funded health care programs. Debates and discussions in class and evaluation of relevant current events are all utilized to enhance the course content. Prerequisites & Notes There are no prerequisites for this course. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2912 - Mass Media and the First Amendment This seminar provides a broad survey of the basic First Amendment issues facing the press today. Topics may include the law of libel and privacy; obtaining access to information; the tension between the protection of news sources and other values; and private and governmental regulation of broadcast, cable and newer communications systems. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2913 - Mergers and Acquisitions This course explores the practical and legal considerations raised by merger and acquisition transactions, including the impetus behind business combinations, the mechanics of consummating such transactions, and applicable legal rules governing mergers and acquisitions. Topics include theories of corporate synergy, the mechanics of such transactions and the applicability of the Williams Act and other state and federal regulations governing business combinations. Prerequisites & Notes Business Organizations. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2918 - Nonprofit Corporations Not-for-profit corporations range from small, privately supported fraternal and political groups to large, publicly supported charities, research foundations, museums and hospitals. This course addresses elements of the corporate structure of not-for-profit organizations, with emphasis placed upon matters typically confronted by legal counsel to such organizations and also theoretical matters connected with not-for-profit corporation laws. These include problems connected with fund raising, maintaining corporate books, controlling the liability of officers and directors , understanding expenditure responsibilities and the limits of permissible not-for-profit activities, and meeting state and federal charter requirements. Basic tax considerations are explored as necessary. Students have the option of completing a paper or taking a final examination to satisfy the requirements of the course. Credits: 2 or 3 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2920 - Medical Malpractice At the very heart of the contemporary “Medical Malpractice Crisis” – whether viewed as a real and present threat to health care in our country or as a myth promoted by the liability insurance industry– is our tort system of compensating patients who are victims of substandard medical care. In this course, the theory and reality of medical malpractice law will be thoroughly explored. The students will study topics including the elements of the physician-patient relationship; the multiple duties of physicians in our contemporary health care system; the various sources of standards of care applicable to medical personnel; principles of informed consent and the consequences of and defenses to medical malpractice cases. In addition, attention will focus on how the tort system actually operates from the moment of patient injury through the span of the litigation process. To supplement the student’s case book reading assignments, the students will be granted access to excerpts of actually litigated medical malpractice cases. These will be utilized to help the student grasp the techniques of factual investigation, prosecution and defense of medical malpractice cases, preparation of pleadings, discovery and ultimate resolution of claims by trial or settlement. Particular attention will be given to the central role played by the medical expert witness in the litigation system. Finally, the students will be challenged to weigh in on one of the most perplexing contemporary dilemmas we face: To what extent has the lawyer’s role in bringing justice to patients injured by medical negligence actually been a cause of the crisis in our health care delivery system? Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2921 - Patent Law This course provides a review of the common law and statutory protection afforded inventors, including the law of trade secrets and the U.S. Patent Laws. Emphasis is placed on the classes of patentable inventions; the conditions for patentability; the rights afforded a patentee, including limitations thereon; responsibilities of an attorney to the Patent Office; property and contract interests in patents; and remedies for infringement. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2923 - Negotiation Seminar: Theory, Research and Practice This seminar will be a focused study of selected parts of three decades of literature on the theory and practice of negotiation as a conflict resolution process. The aim of the study will be to gain a critical understanding the value and the limitations of this process, in relation to adjudication and other dispute resolution, as well as an appreciation of the diversity of views on the most effective methods and the ethics of negotiation practice. The seminar will trace the development of negotiation theory through four distinct stages over this period, and will examine the research that either supported or challenged the prevailing theory at each stage. While the course emphasizes theory and research, the ultimate aim is a practical one for lawyers. The objective is to develop an informed and critical view of the proper applications and methods of negotiation for legal practitioners today. This is not a skills instruction course. Prerequisites & Notes Notes: Limited enrollment (10-15 students). Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2927 - Products Liability This course examines the law of products liability within the United States, with particular attention to theories and concepts rooted in negligence, breach of warranty and strict liability in tort. It surveys current evolved in response to changes in technology, information and public expectations. The procedural and evidentiary aspects of product litigation are emphasized by working through problems based on actual cases. Credit cannot be received for this course if three credits are received for the course in Product Regulation and Liability in the United States and the European Union. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2928 - Introduction to the Economic Law of the European Union for non EU-lawyers This course examines the most important aspects of European Union (EU) economic law which are relevant for non-EU lawyers, as well as for non-EU companies and nationals. Not only is the EU currently the world’s biggest trader, but together with the United States the EU also forms the largest bilateral trade partnership in the world (goods and services combined). Basic knowledge of the functioning of the EU is thus essential for any non-EU commercial lawyer practicing in an international environment. This course provides essential legal insights into the workings of the unique European legal order. After a general introduction to the institutional structure and legal principles governing the EU, details of the free movement of goods, services, capital (together making up the so-called internal market of the EU) are discussed. Moreover, the EU’s own legal regime on competition and state aid is highlighted, an area of EU law that is also highly relevant for US companies. Attention is also paid to the common commercial policy of the EU and in particular the role of the EU in setting international trade standards. Finally, the complex legal framework governing European Economic and Monetary Union is examined. No only is the Euro competing with the US Dollar to become the dominant reserve currencies in the world, but the European single currency area has also become the blueprint for other such projects elsewhere in the world. The highly complex legal issues will be explained using practical examples and actual cases that have been decided by the European Court of Justice. Classes are interactive as participants have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and enter into legal discussions. Prerequisites & Notes None. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026
	LAW 2933 - Religion and the Constitution This seminar explores in depth issues involving religion that arise under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We study the history of the relationship between government and religion, the evolution of our interpretation of each of the Religion Clauses (Anti-establishment and Free Exercise), and a number of areas in which problems repeatedly appear at the intersection of religion and the state. For example, we will examine aid to parochial schools and school vouchers, prayer in schools and government bodies, public religious displays and monuments, teaching of evolution in public schools, religious speech in various public settings, and rights of religious people and institutions to exemption from or special accommodation under existing laws, such as anti-discrimination laws and the Affordable Care Act. Credits: 2 View Course Offering(s): Summer Session I 2026 Summer Session II 2026 Summer Session III 2026 Fall 2026

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