This course explores the legal framework governing the public health system in the United States. Students will learn about the functioning of the public health system at the federal, state, and local levels, and students will conceptualize the development of public health law as a process through which lawyers, scientists, public health practitioners, and others work collaboratively to develop legal reforms.

In this specialized course tailored for aspiring lawyers, students are immersed in the intricate legal landscape surrounding fraudulent and abusive practices within the healthcare sector. As global healthcare expenditures rise, protecting the system against unethical behaviors becomes paramount.

This course uses a health justice lens, which aims to give all people a fair and just opportunity to be healthy, and critical perspectives, including critical race theory, to explore the relationship between the status, rights, and well-being of children and the law. The course, for instance, asks how the law creates, exacerbates, prevents, and alleviates childhood trauma, which is a significant social determinant of health. This course critically examines how family law; juvenile delinquency law; education; and constitutional law affect children.

This course will provide instruction to students competing on a Moot Court team during the academic year and will focus specifically on practical research, writing, and argument skills needed to succeed in competition and in appellate practice generally.  Instructor permission required.  In some semesters, this course is open to all-level students.  Students completing the course earn two experiential credits..

This is a seminar devoted to gaining an understanding of class action and other “mass tort” litigation from both a practical and an academic perspective. This course will cover alternative structures for litigation, class definition, and other pleading issues; discovery; the certification process; and trial and settlement issues.

This class provides an overview of incarceration in the U.S., with a focus on the operation of the U.S. constitution within prisons and jails.  Specific topics include prison health care, involuntary labor, freedom of speech and religion.

The United States has embraced arbitration more than any other country; arbitration agreements exist in connection with virtually every type of transaction imaginable. This course combines theory, law, and skills to explore the arbitration process, the legal framework governing this process, and policy debates that have emerged in light of the expansive uses of arbitration.

This course will explore the law and policy regarding diversity in the legal profession in the United States. The specific topics covered are women lawyers, and other minority groups such as African American, Asian-American, Latinx, LGBTQ+, as well as lawyers with disabilities and undocumented immigrant attorneys.

This course builds on the basic instruction of the European Union’s structures and institutions offered in Law of the European Union I and provides specific, detailed coverage in the substantive competencies of European Union law, including such topics as free movement of goods, services, workers, and capital in the common market, anti-trust (competition) law, company law harmonization, environmental law, external relations and the common commercial policy, social policy, and fundamental rights.

This course introduces students to the development, functioning and role of international organizations and institutions in global governance related to peace and security, human rights, and the global economy-both within and outside of the United Nations system. Students will also visit with regional integration and cooperation systems in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.