Art Law focuses on major legal issues related to the visual arts, including an analysis of the meaning and purpose of art; First Amendment issues (freedom of speech, censorship and obscenity); artists’ rights (copyright, fair use, and moral rights); copyright formalities (registration and infringement issues); trademark; rights of privacy and publicity; the major players in the art market, including art galleries, art dealers, collectors and museums; and a repeated analysis and discussion of the impact and importance of visual arts on American society.

This course is open only to staff attorneys employed with the College of Law, Law Clinic who are also enrolled in the College of Law LLM program.  This course focuses on: the theory of law clinic pedagogy, a clinical practicum that centers on the staff attorney’s work in the Law Clinic, and an introduction to clinical scholarship.

This seminar instructs students in modern practice strategies, with a focus on employing digital-age research and writing tools both ethically and effectively.

Throughout history, lawyers have played critical leadership roles in both the public and private sector. In every aspect of society, lawyers lead and Loyola lawyers in particular are known for actively serving in leadership capacities in their communities and the legal profession. Leadership training is needed in this increasingly-complex and ever-changing professional environment. Topics and skills covered during the course will include leadership styles and strategies, personality assessments, public service and professional responsibilities, and leadership opportunities for lawyers.

This Critical Justice course centers on four “elements” frequently missing from conventional legal analysis (identities, groups, interests, and power) by incorporating them into legal problem-solving contextually, and from a “bottom-up” perspective.

This course examines the governance mechanisms employed by the sport of soccer and the legal issues resulting from this governance structure.
The first part introduces students to the institutions that set the rules for the sport both on and off the field, and describes the interaction and tension between the international and club game.  The second part describes how this set of private organizations interacts with and is shaped by

This course introduces students to three foundational concepts in American law: the tripartite governmental structure and the legislative process, principles of statutory interpretation, and the procedures and doctrines governing the administrative state. This course aims to equip advocates and advisors with the tools they need to pursue policy change. Over the course of the semester, students will draft legislation, "adopt" and research a federal agency, and draft a short comment that could be filed with an agency in an open rulemaking proceeding.

This course will focus on the foundational law and jurisprudence surrounding the death penalty, as well as the standards of practice of defending individuals who have been sentenced to death. Throughout the course, students will be expected to read and digest jurisprudence governing the death penalty, as well as begin to implement their knowledge as applied to real clients represented by the Capital Defense Center. Students will read and digest case materials, produce work product, and visit clients at Angola.

This course will introduce students to advanced legal research for use in policy advocacy, utilizing Participatory Action Research, a community-based relational research model utilized in the social sciences, as a basis for community lawyering, advocacy, and organizing. Students will have an opportunity to see community-based research in action, supporting the Professor in conducting research based upon collaboration with community partners.

This course will study the characteristic features of toxic tort litigation, such as the temporal separation between wrongful conduct and the appearance of injury, novel issues of medical causation, property valuation, environmental restoration and hazard assessment, and the difficulty of fashioning remedies. The impact of these core problems on doctrinal, procedural and evidentiary matters will be explored.