This course provides an introduction to U.S. energy law. The first part of the course introduces the nation’s primary sources of energy: coal, oil, biofuels, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear, wind, solar, and geothermal energy. Students explore the physical, market, and legal structures within which these energy sources are extracted, transported, and converted into energy. The second part focuses on the two main sectors of energy economy: electricity and transportation.

This course provides students with an overview of modern digital technologies and the legal doctrines most relevant to these industries.  Students will obtain an overview of both networking technologies (the physical infrastructure of networks) and software applications that utilize networks.  The course will also provide a specialized perspective on the intersection of these technologies with relevant aspects of intellectual property law, privacy law, cyberlaw, business law, and communications law.  Enrollment is limited and preference is given to students who are working towards a Law, Te

This course uses experiential learning exercises to develop skills in ADR and trial advocacy, oral persuasion and nonverbal communication.  In a simulated trial setting, class participants perform opening statements, closing arguments, witness examinations and lay evidentiary foundations.  Faculty lectures and demonstrations supplement these exercises. Students completing the course earn three experiential learning credits.  Prerequisite: LAW L760 or permission of Instructor.

This course focuses on the protection afforded individuals by the 14th amendment due process and equal protection clauses, state action, and Congress’ power to enforce the 14th amendment. Students are strongly encouraged to take this course, as well as the First Amendment course (LAW L823).

This course will introduce students to the reasons for regulation, the ways in which regulation can go awry, the choice of legal institutions, the choice of regulatory instruments, and the art of statutory interpretation. Students will examine several substantive subject areas as recurring themes, all involving the regulation of risk.

This course surveys the law of asylum and related protection for those fleeing danger in their home countries through a case simulation and a set of practice-oriented exercises that include preparation of an asylum hearing memorandum.  Students examine asylum and refugee law and policy in the United States, and under international law, and the legal grounds for barring individuals from asylum.  There is no prerequisite for the course. Students completing the course earn three experiential learning credits and satisfy the Law and Poverty Requirement.

Students will explore problems posed by immigration and the regulation of aliens in the United States through selected readings, class discussion, and class presentations. The exact subjects to be considered will be chosen by the instructor.

This two-credit seminar course covers selected international legal issues and frameworks within the energy-environment nexus. Topics include Introduction, Fundamentals (Sources of Law, State Responsibility, Private Remedies), Energy Facility Siting and Environmental Policy Umbrella, Oilfield Waste Regulation (Offshore), Major Environmental Issues in the Nuclear Energy Debate, Energy Transportation, Energy Consumption and International Trade, and Energy and Global Climate Change. Students will learn to appreciate international (environmental) law as a system of law.

This course deals with the resolution of disputes in the international context. It addresses both litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration. The course focuses on commercial disputes between private actors, but may also analyze the special problems of disputes between private actors and states or state-owned entities. Students completing the course earn experiential learning credits equivalent to the credit hours earned in the course.  Permission of Instructor required.

This course presents the regulatory context of the international sale of goods, including the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and other supranational or international organizations, as well as the effect of bilateral treaties and similar arrangements.