This Core Curriculum course is the second part of a two-semester introduction to constitutional law and theory with a primary focus on the constitutional rules governing individual rights and equality.
Constitutional Law, Advanced: Law and Democracy
This seminar course explores the constitutional issues raised by elections and voting, covering several major topics, including the right to vote, voter identification requirements, and reapportionment.
Constitutional Law: Free Speech
This course surveys First Amendment free speech law and issues in depth, including current controversies and precedents such as “commercial” or corporate speech, broadcast “indecency,” and “electioneering communications.”
Contracts
This Core Curriculum course deals with basic principles governing the creation and enforcement of contractual obligation.
Copyright
This course provides an introduction to the major debates in contemporary high-tech copyright, which both shapes and is in turn shaped by technological innovation.
Corporate Restructuring
This course will expose students to the practical, real-world skills needed to advise clients in both in- and out-of court corporate restructuring.
Corporate Finance
This is an advanced corporations course on legal and economic issues involved in corporate financing decisions, covering valuation of corporate entities and their securities, corporate capital structures, and more.
Corporate Tax Planning Seminar
In this substantive course, LL.M. students analyze the tax issues and opportunities in planning corporate tax structures and related actions.
Corporations
This upper-level Core Curriculum course covers the formation, organization, purposes, and powers of business corporations, the distribution of powers between shareholders and directors, the duties and liabilities of directors and officers, and more.
Crimes and Immigration
This course covers the immigration consequences of federal and state criminal convictions, federal crimes relating to immigration, criminal procedural rights in immigration proceedings, and immigration relief for victims of crime.