Summer Quarter 2008 Classes

The following classes are planned for this summer quarter beginning on June 23 and ending July 23. This schedule is tentative: days and times subject to change.

Law B599 O SPECIAL TOPICS: METHODS OF SOCIAL CHANGE (3 cr)
Professor Kim Ambrose
MTWTh 10:00am - 12:00noon

This course examines the role of lawyers and the legal system in advancing a cause or broad-based public policy. The course will look at different methods utilized by lawyers to effect social change, such as impact litigation, legislative advocacy and direct appeal. These methods will be discussed in the context of various practice areas such as education, civil rights, environmental justice and family law. How lawyers use the media and other avenues to move forward their agendas for social change will also be discussed. The course will also examine ethical considerations faced by lawyers as they move forward goals that may be larger than a particular client's interests in an individual case.

Law A562 EMPLOYMENT LAW (4 cr)
Professor Mary Hotchkiss
MTWTh 1:00pm - 3:20pm

A study of the law governing the employment relationship, including the establishment and termination of that relationship. Specific topics studied include employee access to job opportunities, employer information gathering (including testing), prohibited discriminatory employment practices, regulation of wages, hours, and benefits of employment occupational safety and health, the developing concept of unjust discharge, and regulations providing protection of retirement benefits. The course has a broader coverage than Law A554 Labor Relations and the Law, which is a more intensive study of problems arising in the relationship between employers and employees organized and represented by labor unions.

Law B510 PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (4 cr)
Professor Thomas Andrews
MTWTh 4:00 - 5:45pm

Explores the ethical problems faced by lawyers in our legal system, including detailed study of the Rules of Professional Conduct. The course examines the various modes and methods of practice, e.g., criminal and civil practice, public interest law, government service including judging, and "house" counseling. In addition, the course explores the ethical problems and dilemmas inherent in each type of practice and the adversary system itself and addresses the larger philosophical and ethical dimensions of the lawyer’s role in society. Some of the issues may be approached through role playing and other clinical techniques

Law B599 P SPECIAL TOPICS: ANIMAL LAW (2 cr) 
Lecturer Adam Karp
TTh 4:30- 5:45pm

This course will involve a number of topiocs under the general heading of Animal Law and Animal Rights. Questions of property, torts, will and trusts, contracts, administrative and constitutional law will be explored as these areas relate to animals

Law B503 EVIDENCE (3 cr) 
Lecturer Maurice Classen
TTh 6:15 - 8:15pm

This course will examine the rules governing the admission, exclusion, and presentation of evidence in judicial hearings. Topics to be covered in this course include relevancy; authentication; the ‘Best Evidence’ doctrine; witnesses; examination and impeachment of witnesses; opinion and expert testimony; presentation of evidence; privilege; the hearsay rule and its exceptions; presumptions and burdens of proof; and the scope of judicial notice.

Law B567 General Externship Perspectives Seminar (2 cr) 
Professor Bill Covington
Tues or Wed 6:15 - 8:15pm

This seminar is designed primarily for students undertaking an externship earning 10 or more credits. The seminar provides a framework for evaluating and analyzing externships from an educational and philosophical perspective. The seminar facilitates dialogue among students engaged in different kinds of externships and encourages consideration of the ways rules, policies, and standard business practices affect different organizations, populations, and practitioners. The seminar uses a team approach, relying upon the collaborative efforts of several faculty members, judges, and practitioners, and includes supplemental reading from a variety of sources. A final paper analyzing material presented in the course is required. The following areas may be addressed: practical lawyering considerations, practical professional responsibility and ethics issues, the adversary system and other ways to resolve disputes, judicial administration, politics and the law, excluded and suppressed voices in the legal system, the pro bono obligation, and quality of life considerations. Offered on a credit/no credit basis only.