Administrative Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
The law relating to the establishment and control of administrative agencies, including administrative process, policy and procedure.

Admiralty Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course concerns the public international law of the sea. It addresses the legal rules that bind states in their international relations on maritime matters as well as the major maritime zones recognized in international law.

Advanced Criminal Procedure
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Only those students in the Lex Excellence Criminal Law program will participate. This course is used to prepare the pleadings and documents for Criminal Trial Practice I and II.
Motion to be argued in Criminal Trial Practice I may include:

1. 1538.5
2. 995
3. Demurer
4. Serna
5. Restitution
6. Sentencing
7. Motion to dismiss
8. Preliminary hearing
9. Family Law
10. Discovery
11. Juvenile
12. Motions in Limine

Students would do both moving and opposition papers for each motion (i.e. 16 weeks in course, 1 week for moving papers 1 week for opposing.) Students should exchange papers for opposition.

Alternate Dispute Resolution
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
A survey of various dispute resolution techniques, including negotiation, adjudication and mediation.

Antitrust Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course is a survey of federal law regulating competitive business practices and affecting the day-to-day activities of the smallest to the largest domestic and inter-national businesses. These laws, including the Sherman and Clayton Acts, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Robinson Patman Act, generally prohibit "unreasonable restraints of trade," "anticompetitive mergers and acquisition," "monopolization," "unfair practice," and "price discrimination."

Bad Faith Insurance Litigation
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
This course deals with in-surance coverage disputes, insurance bad faith, and the litigation of those actions.  The course will cover pleading, discovery and advocacy regarding insur-ance disputes.

Business Organizations I & II
REQUIRED (6 UNITS)
Agency & partnership; Establishment and termination of the relationship; scope of the agency; liabilities arising therefrom; disclosed and undisclosed principals; express agencies, ostensible agencies, and agencies by ratification. Corporations; Nature of, promotion and formation; issues of shares, initially and later; scope of authorized transactions; management's role in corporate government; share-holders' roles; derivative suits; divideds; purchase and redemption of shares and capital reduction; fundamental changes through sale of assets, merger, consolidation and amendments to articles; dissolution. Also covers forms of non-incorporated business associations.

Bankruptcy
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
Proceedings concerning the National Bankruptcy Act, including judicial and extra-judicial proceedings, the bankrupt estate liquidation and distribution, and discharge and rehabilitation proceedings.

Civil Procedure I & II
REQUIRED (6 UNITS)
General principles of pleading, joinder, discovery, and adjudication without trial; state and federal jurisdiction and venue; trial and appeal of civil actions; res judicata and collateral estoppel. These courses are a general overview of the customary procedures in a lawsuit from its commence-ment to its conclusion.

Civil Procedure III
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Given only to students in Lex Excellence Civil. Forms and procedures used in the practice of civil law. The selection and drafting of forms for a variety of civil matters. Practical application of civil procedure from client interview to arbitration, including summary judgment.

Clinical Education
ELECTIVE (6 UNITS)
Practical training involving actual client relations under close direction of a supervising attorney. Covering a wide spectrum of legal areas, this course helps bridge the gap between law school and the actual practice of law.

Community Property
REQUIRED (2 UNITS)
The classification of separate and community property for the management and control of the community, liability for debts, and problems arising from the dissolution of the community.

Computer Law
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
This course reviews and illustrates the application of Trade Secret, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Contract law to the protection of computer software, hardware and biological products.

Conflicts of Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Sources and development of private international law, jurisdiction of courts and foreign judgments, conflict of laws with respect to procedural wrongs, con-tracts, property, business organizations, and administration of estates.

Constitutional Law I & II
REQUIRED (6 UNITS)
Judicial review, immunities of federal and state governments, federal delegated powers and reserved state powers, federal powers as limitation on state powers, individual rights as limiting federal and state powers.

Contracts I & II
REQUIRED (7 UNITS)
The law relating to formation of contracts, the Statute of Frauds, third party beneficiary contracts, assignment of rights and delegation of duties, liability for breach of contract including the law of conditions and discharge, and other related problems.

Complex Theories of
Law I & II
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
A comparative study of the similarities and differences, of and between Contracts, Torts and Criminal Law. Complex Theories of Law II is a comparative study of Civil and Criminal Law.

Creditor Rights
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
A study of the remedies and procedures available to the unsecured creditor under California law for collection of debts; the nature and general course of a bankruptcy proceeding; the problems arising out of conflicting claims between secured and un-secured creditors and among secured creditors.

Criminal Law
REQUIRED (3 UNITS)
Fundamentals of the substantive law of crime, punishable acts and omissions, requisite intent, legal defenses, liability for conspiracy and attempt, enforcement of the law.

Criminal Trial Practice I
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course will consist of 16 weeks of motion and hearing practice. The motions and oppositions prepared in advanced criminal procedure will be argued here. Depending on class size and time, students should argue both prosecution and defense in a "Round Robin" fashion. Preliminary hearings will also be argued.

Criminal Trial Practice II
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course will consist of trials and lectures. Depending on class size and time, Jury Trials should be utilized. Lectures should cover:

1. Jury selection
2. Opening statement
3. Direct examination
4. Cross examination
5. Demonstrative evidence
6. Closing arguments
7. Judicial notice
8. Expert witnesses
9. Motion for new Trial

The factual scenarios used in Advanced Criminal Procedure and Criminal Trial Practice I should be the basis for the Trials in this course so the students can concentrate on their trial technique.

Education Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course is designed to identify and explore current and developing legal issues in education. Topics to be examined include the legal framework for governance of the public schools, compulsory education, conflict over textbooks and curriculum, state / church relationships, control of student conduct including student speech, school financing, racial imbalance, and control of teacher conduct including tenure, dismissal, and collective bargaining and the impact of federal programs in the areas of privacy and education to the handicapped.

Employment Discrimination
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course addresses local, state, and federal legal devices available to combat discrimination in the public and private workplace. Although constitutional remedies are also considered, the main emphasis is on statutory remedies for discrimination, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Attention will also be devoted to study the employment at will doctrine, truth detecting devices, the Fair Labor Standards Act, state regulatory schemes, and the impact of the preemption doctrine, and what obligations employers (public and private), labor unions, and employment agencies are under including the requirement of affirmative action programs.

Environmental Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course constitutes an analysis of the ends and means of environmental protection through study of statutes, administrative regu-lations and practices, and judicial decisions treating the protection of the environment in the United States. Topics may include The national Environmental Policy Act, The Water Quality Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund). Solid and hazardous waste management, risk as-sessment, wildlife protection, conservation of natural resources, and administrative practice will also be examined.

Entertainment Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Overview of the relationships between artist and personal manager, artist and artist's manager / agent and artist and motion picture producer. Other areas include right of publicity and performers' rights, and protection of titles, characters and ideas.

Evidence I & II
REQUIRED (6 UNITS)
The law relating to relevancy and materiality, privileged communications, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, the opinion rules; authentication and the best evidence rule; impeachment and rehabilita-tion; presumptions and burden of proof; parol evidence rule.

Family Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Family status, including marriage, divorce, annulment and separation; right and obligations of parent and child; property and support rights and agreements.

Federal Income Taxation
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
An overview of the fundamentals of federal income taxation, including income, exclusions, basis, assignment of income, deductions, passive loss rules, and capital gains / losses.

Federal Tax Appeals Procedure
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
A survey of the federal income tax law appeals process including IRS audit, protest and petition to the U.S. Tax Court. Included is a survey of the statute of limitations.

Federal Tax Collection Procedure
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
A survey of Internal Revenue Service policy and procedures regarding collection of taxes including employment tax, responsible parties, liens, priorities and release in bankruptcy, and Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

Federal Estate & Gift Tax
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
The operation and use of federal tax provisions applicable to inter vivos and testamentary dispositions of property, with particular emphasis upon coverage in depth on matters of federal estate and gift taxation.

Global Comparative Law, Latin and French Systems
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course examines the similarities and differences between the Latin and French Systems of Jurisprudence.

Immigration Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
The law relating to enforcement agencies, admission requirements, exclusion processes, elements of deportation, aliens, citizenship, naturalization and customs.

Intellectual Property
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Introduces state and federal doctrines that afford protection for creative works, including the right of publicity, unfair competition, copyrights, patents and trademarks.

International Constitutional Law Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Constitutionalism, judicial review, horizontal and verti-cal separation of powers, and individual rights, in-cluding equal protection, due process, and free speech and religion.

International Contract Law Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Contract formation issues, ambiguity of terms, formal requirements, parol evi-dence under domestic law and under the CISG, “battle of the forms,” irrevocable offers, performance and breach, and comparative and CISG approaches to remedies.

International Corporate Law Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Issues of comparative and transnational law. Choice of law; a basic typology of business organization forms in the world; limited liability and creditor protection concerns; corporate govern-ance structures; misman-agement by directors and controlling shareholders; insider trading; and take-overs.

International Criminal Law Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Address international issues mens rea, actus reus, accomplice and conspira-torial liability, and defenses, transnational crimes, terror-ism, and genocide.

International Family Law Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Marriage, divorce, estab-lishing parent-child relation-ships, parental rights and responsibilities, adoption and domestic violence. Private international law, human rights, and immigra-tion and asylum rights

International Labor Law Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Statutes, proposed “guest worker” legislation, ILO conventions, OECD guide-lines, company codes of conduct, WTO rulings, AFL-CIO complaints, EU directives, Alien Tort Act decisions

International Legal Ethics Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
International, transnational, and comparative law issues into a course on Profes-sional Responsibility.

International Property Global Issues Series
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Property law concepts, in areas including adverse possession, the right to ex-clude, estates in land, future interests, marital property, the landlord-tenant relation-ship, eviction of tenants, low-income housing, land sales transactions, title assurance, nuisance, and land use.

Insurance Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course examines the fundamental legal principles of fire, life, accident and marine insurance such as the nature of insurance, special construc-tion of insurance contracts, insurable interests, transfer of risk, rights at variance with policy provisions, concealment, representation, warranty, illegality, waiver and estoppel, subrogation, contribution, insurance bad faith, and rights of assignees and beneficiaries.

Juvenile Law
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
An overview of juvenile law theory, followed by an in depth study of juvenile court hearing procedures, evidentiary considerations and constitutional issues in delinquency and dependency matters. Field trips to juvenile facilities may be included.

Labor Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
The law governing relation-ships among employees, employers and labor organizations, employer responses and collective bargaining, problems of distributing power between the federal government and the states, and the role of the NLRB.

Landlord-Tenant Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course presents a complete examination of the law relating to the landlord-tenant relationship, including the nature and creation of leasehold estates, discrimination in selection of tenants, respective rights to possession in the lessor and lessee, warranties of habitability and suitability for intended commercial use, liability exposure of the parties, rent, and remedies by each party in the event of breach by the other.

Law & Medicine
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Explores areas in which law and medicine interact, including constitutional law questions, doctor-patient and forensic medicine issues as well as civil liability. Not merely a review of medical malpractice.

Law & Psychiatry
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
An overview of the interaction between psychiatric diagnoses and the practice of law.

Law and the Media
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
An in depth study of legal issues relating to the media is provided by this course. Beginning with an exploration of the constitutional and legislative basis for regulation, it will cover such issues as defamation, privacy issues, prior restraint, conflict between the right of a defendant to a fair trial and the rights of the media, reporter privileges including the use of confidential news sources, commercial speech, access issues, the Federal Freedom of Information Act, and issues relating to broadcasting, cable and newer forms of electronic journalism.

Law Review
ELECTIVE (1-2 UNITS)
Contributing editors to the Law Review are eligible to receive credit for demonstrable competence in legal writing and editing. Two credits are the maximum allowed per semester, with a total of no more than four units of Law Review credit being applied toward graduation.

Legal Analysis I
REQUIRED (4 UNITS)
Provides a threshold for logical and creative legal thinking and writing for legal practice. The first semester focuses on legal theory, statutory analysis and case analysis. Subsequent work emphasizes a practical approach that develops legal research skills and the ability to write objectively and persuasively.

Legal Analysis II
REQUIRED (2 UNITS)
The second semester focuses on legal research; methods of legal analysis, search methods for deferral and state statutes, for judicial precedents in digests, encyclopedias, text- books, legal periodicals, loose-leaf reporting services, case reports, and problems in their use.

Moot Court
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
Offered during the spring semester. Students are given an appeals case, and assigned to write a trial brief and to present oral arguments. Winners are determined by judges and awarded prizes.

Native Americans and the Law
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
An anthropological, historical and legal study of the American Indian, including a focus on traditional American Indian law and values, federal policy and current legal issues. Students will consider com-peting claims to jurisdiction by state, federal and tribal governments, treaties and abrogation thereof, civil rights of tribal members, powers of tribal self government, water, fishing and hunting rights, Indian education programs, and patterns of Indian property ownership.

Natural Resource
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course emphasizes the law as it relates to oil, gas and water resources. The course will concentrate upon the interests that may be created in these re-sources, the rights of the landowner, provisions in the oil and gas lease, the rights of assignees, and legislation dealing with production and conservation. The course also includes a survey of the law regulating water quantity and quality which will emphasize water problems endemic in the Western United States, including allocation of water resources in times of scarcity. Other topics include the basic property and administrative systems in water, water resources development, transfers, groundwater management, and water pollution.

Negotiations
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
Introduction to the theories and techniques of negotiating with other attorneys. Students are given problems throughout the semester covering a variety of subjects and are assigned to negotiate settle-ments with other class members.

Negotiable Instruments: Uniform Commercial Code Article 3
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
Consideration of the main legal principles controlling checks, notes and other significant instruments of payment. Topics include negotiability, rights and liabilities of parties to the in-struments, forgery and alteration, the law relating to checking accounts and check collection.

Products Liability
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
This course presents a study of the source, devel-opment, and limits of the law of product liability with particular attention to theories rooted in negli-gence, fraud, strict liability in tort and warranty as applied to the problems of a techno-logical society. The product concept is examined within the total environment of its development, manufacture, sale and use. Heavy em-phasis is placed on litigation problems such as the factors influencing stand-ards of liability.

Professional Responsibility
REQUIRED (2 UNITS)
An examination of relevant codes and cases in an attempt to better understand a lawyer's ethical obligations and conflicts.

Real Property I & II
REQUIRED (6 UNITS)
The law relating to the various types of real property interests including freehold and non-freehold estate and future interest; the Statute of uses; con-current ownership of land, adverse possession; the methods of transferring title to land, including the law of delivery and acceptance; re-cording statutes; covenants running with the land and equitable servitudes; ease-ments and profits.

Secured Land Transactions
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Laboratory and underwriting experiences in packaging and servicing loans; the law of foreclosure, mortgages and related matters.

Secured Personal Transa-ctions: Uniform Com-mercial Code Article 9
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
The legal principles governing the use of goods as security for debt arising out of a sales transaction or otherwise. Other creditors and remedies are surveyed, providing per-spective on the context of the framework of UCC Article 9.

Taxation of Business Entities
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
Encompasses the basic study of the federal taxation of corporations, partnerships and "S" corporations. Includes tax research techniques.

Torts I & II
REQUIRED (7 UNITS)
An examination of civil liability independent of contracts. A wide variety of torts will be examined under the basis of intentional, strict liability or negligent conduct.

Trial Practice I (Civil)
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Training in trial techniques through participation in practice court sessions. Students participate in all phases of civil cases under the supervision of a superior or municipal court trial judge or attorney. The emphasis will be on civil law and motion.

Trial Practice II (Civil)
ELECTIVE (3 UNITS)
Training through civil trials and lectures with an emphasis on trial technique.

Trusts
REQUIRED (3 UNITS)
The law relating to the creation of the trust relationship; charitable trusts; resulting and constructive trusts; the powers and duties of the trustee; alteration and termination of the trust; and remedies for breaches of trust.

Uniform Commercial Code
REQUIRED (2 UNITS)
The interpretation and applica-tion of the law of sales (UCC Article 2); and the law relating to contract formation, enforcement, performance and breach when there is a transaction in goods. Includes buyers' and sellers' remedies, and the law of warranties.

Wills
REQUIRED (2 UNITS)
The law relating to intestate succession; testamentary capacity and intent, the formalities of execution, alteration, revocation of wills and the problems of distribution.

Worker's Compensation
ELECTIVE (2 UNITS)
The law governing employees covered by statute, job-related injuries and diseases, com-pensation, third party suits and conflicts of law problems.