This course considers how lawyers can use non-litigation approaches to effect change through organizing, community development, and generally through the creation of new institutions.
Estate Administration
This upper-level skills course focuses on the process and procedures for administering an estate, beginning with a practical review of the probate process.
Estate Planning
This course introduces students to central concepts in wealth transfer tax and income taxation of estates and trusts, and it covers pre-death and post-mortem planning and basic document drafting.
Family Law Journal — Editorial Staff
In this co-curricular course, NYLS students are responsible for editing and source-checking each article that is selected for publication in The Family Law Quarterly (FLQ).
Fashion Law and Technology
This course explores the interplay between emerging technologies in the fashion arena and the law, covering all forms of existing wearable tech as well as recent technological advances in the fashion industry.
Fashion Law Practicum
This upper-level skills course focuses on legal and business concerns faced by attorneys representing fashion companies as their general counsel or external counsel.
Federal Income Tax: Partnership
This upper-level, substantive course focuses on the laws, regulations, and policies that impact the formation, operation, and dissolution of partnerships.
Federal Income Tax: Trusts and Estates
This course focuses on Subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code and introduces students to the rules that govern the income taxation of trusts and estates and their beneficiaries.
Federal Income Taxation of Business Pass Throughs
This course teaches students the rules that apply to S corporations, partnerships, RICs, REITs and other pass-through entities and how those entities are used, both domestically and internationally.
Federal Wealth Transfer Tax: Basic
This course introduces students to the basic concepts of the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes.