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Instructor s : Joseph Kaatz. Agency staff, EPIC staff, and students work together to select one or more energy-or-climate change-related legal or policy research topics. Under the supervision of a practicing attorney and EPIC staff, students conduct a semester-long research project on the selected topic s.

Students will present results to the agency staff at the end of the semester. Instructor s : Chris Wonnell. Entertainment, including the production of movies, television shows, music, and video games, has become one of the preeminent industries in the United States, and especially in California, and one of America's largest exports. The industry creates a plethora of legal questions that span the traditional law school curriculum. It creates issues of property, especially of copyrights and trademarks.

There are many issues of contract, including production contracts, compensation of talent, and financing, There are important tort matters, including privacy and publicity rights. There are First Amendment constitutional law questions, including censorship and defamation. And there are significant labor law issues, including union relations and discrimination. This course will explore these controversies and the role of the lawyer in bringing the full panoply of legal materials together at the same time to advise, defend, or sue members of this important industry.

Through hands-on opportunities, students in the Entrepreneurship Clinic provide pro bono legal services to low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs who want to start or expand their small businesses.

The Entrepreneurship Clinic does not engage in litigation-related services; instead, it focuses on advising clients on legal matters relating to starting their business and assisting in drafting and filing necessary documents. Such work includes: determining the appropriate choice of business entity, assistance in obtaining necessary permits and licenses, advising on employment and independent contractor issues, drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and leases, and assisting with the establishment of tax-exempt organizations.

Instructor s : Kelly Richardson. This survey course addresses the principles that govern environmental law, including the respective roles of the courts, state and federal agencies, and citizen groups.

Instructor s : Adam Hirsch. The course covers topics in estate planning, including substantive planning strategies for beneficiaries with special needs, strategies for avoiding will contests, and basic tax planning. Students undertake will criticism exercises and are required to produce two drafts of a substantial research paper on a topic in the area of inheritance law, trust law, transfer taxation, or estate planning.

Each student will present the first draft to the class for a substantive discussion and constructive analysis. The final draft is due at the end of the semester. Successful completion of this course satisfies the written-work requirement.

Instructor s : Horacio Spector. Contemporary public policy and legal debates in both the domestic and international arenas involve an intricate network of moral, political, and legal considerations. After a general introduction, we will proceed to discuss the following topics: conceptions of liberty and equality, democracy and public deliberation, human rights, conflicts of rights, corporate responsibility for human rights violations, and the rule of law. Our attention will be focused on cross-boundary issues: Is democracy more important than the rule of law?

Does economic equality threaten liberty? Are welfare and social rights compatible with civil liberties in populist democracies? In the last part of the seminar, we will deal with complex global issues: wars and military interventions, terrorism, and global justice. Can military force be used to protect human rights? Should rich nations transfer money to poor countries? Should pharmaceutical patents be enforced in the undeveloped world? Are there immigration rights? Is there a global community?

Each student will be required to write a research paper of 20 pages in length. The rules of evidence in judicial tribunals, focusing on the Federal Rules of Evidence and the California Evidence Code are addressed in this course.

Also covered are issues relating to: 1 judicial control and administration - functions of judge and jury, judicial notice, burden of proof presumptions, problems of relevancy, circumstantial evidence, and unfair prejudice; and 2 witnesses - competency, privileges, principles of examination and cross-examination, impeachment and support, expert and lay opinion testimony.

The hearsay rule and its exceptions, rules relating to writings, real and scientific evidence are also examined. Instructor s : Lisa Rodriguez. This course is designed to familiarize students with the practical application of evidentiary points addressed in the traditional evidence course. Students focus on one or two evidentiary issues each week using a problem format. Each area of evidence is taught through performance.

Each student is assigned as a proponent, opponent, witness and judge and is responsible for performing that role in class each week, and for submitting a short memo identifying the evidentiary issue and presenting the best approach to offering or opposing the evidence in court.

The roles rotate each week. There is a new problem assigned each week. By the end of the semester, each student should be comfortably able to determine what it is he or she wished to accomplish in a courtroom with respect to specific evidentiary questions, and be able to structure the most logical, persuasive and trouble-free means to that end. Instructor s : Linda Lane. The Experiential Advocacy Practicum is a one-year, two credit course that has been designed to provide first-year students with an overview of two major areas of legal practice, litigation and transactional work.

The practicum will incorporate learning-by-doing skills exercises that will simulate advocacy tasks that junior attorneys will be expected to perform in practice. Students will work, both in teams and as individuals, with a fictional case file, which will allow them to complete tasks within a realistic but simulated context. The practicum will supplement the first-year curriculum by giving a practical view of the theoretical concepts students are learning in other first-year doctrinal courses.

Instructor s : Leah Boucek. This open-enrollment course surveys the constitutional and legislative doctrine and the adjudication frameworks related to traditional family-law topics: marriage and divorce; marital property regimes; parent and child, including child custody, termination of parental rights, and adoption; family support rights; and rights of children. The course will be organized generally in relation to the California Family Code.

Instructor s : Richard Carpenter. This is a hands-on clinical course for students who wish to develop tax controversy skills. Students working under the supervision of the Tax Clinic supervising attorney will represent low income taxpayers in resolving their tax disputes with the IRS.

Students must also be available to participate in Tax Clinic Outreach presentations at various community locations and times. Prerequisite: Tax I. Fundamentals of Bar Exam Writing addresses two components of the bar exam: the performance test and the essay portion. This course develops bar writing skills and imparts strategies and approaches to improve bar exam essay and performance test writing.

Students are introduced to bar exam components and topics, and quickly move on to focus on the structure and details of bar essay writing and performance test drafting using highly tested areas of law from actual past bar exam questions. Students will cultivate techniques to analyze and solve bar essays and performance tests and communicate legal analysis in writing. Students will practice under timed test-like conditions, among other in-class activities devoted to developing writing and self-analysis skills.

Students receive specific grading and feedback on their written work throughout the course. The course includes self and peer review, as well as professor-student conferencing as needed. This survey course will analyze the relationship between law and gender. We will examine a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of gender and the history of certain social movements that have pushed for legal change and their strategies.

We will also analyze many substantive areas of law that implicate gender, including constitutional law, employment discrimination law, family law, criminal law, education law, same-sex marriage, reproductive rights, poverty law, and immigration. Over the course of our history, the United States has increasingly expanded political, legal and social rights for persons without regard to their biological sex and more recently without regard to their sexual orientation and gender identity.

As new rights are recognized and protected, however, new social and legal issues emerge. Learning about the regulation of gender in various areas will help you thing more thoroughly and systematically about gender issues. Instructor s : Mila Sohoni. The past five years have seen a dramatic transformation of the health care policy landscape. Legislative and regulatory interventions in the health care market have had, and continue to have, enormous effects upon insurers, small businesses, doctors, and individual consumers.

And they have also raised, and continue to raise, novel and critically important issues of constitutional law, administrative law, and legislative process. The goal of this course is to orient students to the broader implications for public law of the ongoing torrent of health care reform measures. This course will equip students both to understand these reforms as a practical matter and also to critically evaluate how health care reforms are faring as instruments of public law.

The primary focus of the course will be on the Affordable Care Act and on the legislative, regulatory, and judicial responses to it. The final grade for the class will be based primarily on an approved-topic paper, satisfactory completion of which will satisfy the writing requirement for graduation.

Class attendance and participation will also be considered. Additional Information: Health Law Concentration. Instructor s : Dov Fox. Millions of children each year are born using reproductive technologies. The emergence of new, technologically advanced ways to have children has raised new questions in tax, torts, contract, inheritance, immigration, family, constitutional, and especially health law. This course considers the cases, statutes, and policies that explore these issues. We will cover topics including sperm donation, egg freezing, gamete selling, embryo disputes, prenatal torts, surrogacy contracts, fertility tourism, and posthumous conception.

No background in science or medicine is required. The course grade will be based on a final exam. Instructor s : Michael Devitt. This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to refine their written and oral advocacy skills by providing instruction in both the appellate process and the proper techniques involved in brief writing and oral argument.

The Paul A. McLennon, Sr. Honors Moot Court Competition will consist of several rounds of competition, culminating in the Final Round competition held before a distinguished panel of judges. Participants in this competition will meet their course obligations by completing a satisfactory moot court brief of required length and form, conducting oral arguments on the selected problem, and attending four mandatory classes.

Instructor s : Alessandra Serano. Increased globalization and the internet have brought instances of human trafficking and child exploitation to unprecedented levels. As a result, the criminal justice system stands at a historic crossroad. We will review and discuss the various Title 18 crimes associated with human trafficking and child exploitation, accompanied by the relevant case law.

We will also review the various methods of proof used by prosecutors to combat these crimes. This course will involve a written exam at the end of the semester designed to evaluate the student's understanding of the law and the challenges that are encountered during the investigation and prosecution of a human trafficking case. Students gain practical experience through interviewing, counseling, and representing clients with immigration-related problems. Students have the opportunity to assist clients with a range of immigration issues such as naturalization, lawful permanent residency, derivative citizenship, deferred action, and U-visa and VAWA for domestic violence and abuse victims.

Students may attend U. Students may also attend and participate in community immigration outreach. Weekly meetings are held with the clinic supervisor and other interns to discuss immigration law, practical application and casework.

No Prerequisites. Instructor s : Ann Harris. The federal income taxation of trusts, estates, and their beneficiaries; distributable net income; distribution deductions for simple and complex trusts and estates; grantor trusts; income in respect of a decedent; and throwback rules. Instructor s : Shawn Miller.

The IP Law Speaker Series will feature nine distinguished speakers, typically leading practitioners and academics, during the course of the semester. The speakers will address a variety of topics in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law.

Attendance at all speaker sessions is required. Students must have taken a course in some area of intellectual property, or have work experience in the field, to register for the course. Instructor s : Ralph Folsom. In the Spring Semester of , course coverage will focus on advanced global, regional and national international business transactions law and policy topics: Tariff remedies and wars, nontariff trade barriers, free trade agreements, foreign corrupt practices, export controls, technology transfers, piracy of intellectual property, direct and portfolio foreign investment, investor-state arbitrations, international franchising, international mergers and acquisitions, and international business litigation.

There will be no coverage of international sales law. The course will be customized to student backgrounds and interests. No exams. This course does not qualify for written work credit. Instructor s : Catherine MacKenzie. This course introduces students to international environmental law and considers how law may be used to enhance international environmental protection.

It commences with an overview of the international legal system in the context of environmental protection. It then discusses the history, development, sources and principles of international environmental law and reviews the role of the UN and other international agencies in the context of international environmental law-making. Next, it considers issues of particular interest to the United States.

These may include climate change, energy, biodiversity and biotechnology, transboundary water, forests and protected areas, and environment and trade. It concludes by considering the resolution of international environmental disputes including international responsibility, the role of international courts and tribunals and the quantification of environmental harm.

Instructor s : Patrick Martin. The course will address U. A detailed review of the income tax rules under Subchapter J and the transfer tax rules for persons who are not U.

Instructor s : Lisa Ramsey. This course examines international protection of intellectual property. We will discuss international treaties, trade agreements, and dispute resolution systems relating to trademarks, patents, copyrights, and related rights.

The course will also cover acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property rights in foreign markets. Please take a moment to rate it. We would love to hear your thoughts. USP began its academic activity in It has an urban campus located in Sao Paulo.

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