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2021-2022 Law Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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LAW 7169 - Criminal Appellate Practicum.
4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7165 and LAW 7167. 2.30 GPA or better required.
Requirements: Applicants must have a cumulative gpa of at least 2.30 at the time of enrollment.
Description
This is an elective course. This course provides students with an introduction to the theory and practice of criminal law at the appellate level. Students will work in teams to prepare legal briefs in active cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States Supreme Court. At the same time, students will study the broad fundamentals of appellate law and also develop in-depth understanding of the specific issues relevant to their case work to achieve a refined understanding of appellate practice in the state and/or federal courts. Limited enrollment. Admission only by application and permission of professor.
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LAW 7170 - Criminal Justice: Fieldwork and Law Reform.
3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Open to a limited number of second and third year students. Consent of instructor required. Students must submit an application and be available for a possible interview.
Description
This is an elective course. Students will learn about the criminal justice system as it actually operates in metropolitan Atlanta and develop a law reform proposal about a specific aspect of that system. The course will use a wide variety of teaching methods including assigned readings drawn from both the legal scholarship and social science research, classroom lectures and discussions, and group fieldwork at locations such as police stations, jails and courthouses. Each student will select some aspect of the criminal justice system for independent research out of which will develop a written project proposing improvement or reform. The project must demonstrate mastery of applicable substantive criminal law and procedure and application of that knowledge to data gathered through the student’s own fieldwork. Examples of fieldwork would be carefully documented court-watching, analysis of data collected from public records, and interviews of relevant participants in the criminal justice system.
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LAW 7172 - Philosophy of Criminal Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores some of the basic philosophical problems underlying criminal law. Some of the topics we will consider include the preconditions for criminal responsibility and punishment, why we punish, and which conditions might excuse punishment even when a person causes or intends harm.
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LAW 7173 - Criminal Law in the Supreme Court.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: This course requires significant reading and active weekly participation by all students.
Description
This is an elective course. Participants in this course will study criminal law and procedure cases that are currently pending before the Supreme Court. In so doing, students will review a broad array of relevant materials, including certiorari petitions, briefs, relevant legal precedents, and oral argument transcripts.
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LAW 7174 - Criminal Regulation of Vice
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5020 and LAW 7165 (concurrent enrollment in LAW 7165 permissible).
Description
This is an elective course. In the United States, federal and state governments have used criminal law to regulate drugs, alcohol, commercial sex, and gambling. This advanced criminal law/procedure seminar will focus on these and other so-called “vice crimes.” The course will explore the legal, political, and theoretical aspects of criminalizing vice. Topics may include the historical and contemporary debates about morality and harm that have surrounded vice’s criminalization; the implications of vice enforcement for police authority and civil rights; and vice enforcement’s disparate racial consequences.
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LAW 7176 - Security Interests and Liens.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores the rights, liabilities, and remedies of debtors and various creditors. Among the creditors studied are general creditors, judgment creditors, governmental creditors, statutory creditors, and secured creditors under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
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LAW 7178 - Different and Unusual Forms of Intellectual Property.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: No prior experience in intellectual property is required.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will introduce students to the following federal and state IP regimes: trade secrets, right of publicity, design patents, plant patents, plant variety protection, vessel hull design protection, semiconductor chip protection, and FDA- administered regulatory competitive shelters. Through introduction to these regimes, students will become acquainted with the industries driving and benefitting from these regimes and will appreciate the respective advantages and disadvantages of specialized vs. general intellectual property protections.
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LAW 7180 - Disability Discrimination.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. An examination of legal approaches to discrimination on the basis of handicap. Topics may include autonomy, education, institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, housing, employment, accessibility, and health care.
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LAW 7181E - Social Security Disability Law Practicum
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course provides a simulated lawyering experience in Social Security Disability Law. This area of the law focuses on individuals who file administrative claims alleging that they are unable to work due to a medical condition(s). Students will use a simulated case to learn the fundamentals in this area and apply that knowledge in multiple practical activities, such as representing an individual in a simulated administrative hearing.
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LAW 7183 - Domestic Litigation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Law 7216.
Description
This is an elective course. Through reading and simulations, this course will comprise a start-to-finish examination of a domestic relations case, including the client interview, pleadings, discovery, negotiations and settlement, child custody matters, mediation, and trial. The course will also involve contact with personnel from the Neighborhood Justice Center or other similar agency.
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LAW 7184 - Domestic Violence Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is an introduction to the legal, social, and policy issues involving domestic violence. The course will examine federal and state laws addressing domestic violence, as well as explore the social, psychological, and cultural issues that are involved in domestic violence and that affect the legal representation of parties in domestic violence cases.
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LAW 7186 - Education Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the role that law plays in shaping basic education in the United States. The course will examine the interrelationship of law and education policy, the part played by the courts in school governance, and the role of the federal government in the educational system.
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LAW 7187 - Advanced Torts
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course surveys advanced topics in tort law including defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of mental distress, medical malpractice, misuse of legal proceedings, misrepresentation, interference with prospective advantage, nuisance, products liability, toxic torts, trespass to chattels, conversion, and vicarious liability.
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LAW 7190 - Seminar in Education Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: The course may be used to satisfy the writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. An in-depth study of selected topics in education law. Students will explore legal issues through assigned readings, class discussion, collaborative exercises, class presentations, and individual written papers. Topics may include issues related to early childhood, K-12, and higher education.
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LAW 7191 - Employee Benefits.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Survey of the taxation and other legal principles applicable to the basic forms of retirement plan arrangements, including qualified and non-qualified plans, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, individual retirement arrangements, and multi- employer plans. When taught in the three-hour format, course will include a study of employee welfare benefit plans, including medical benefit plans and cafeteria plans.
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LAW 7192 - Eminent Domain and Taking Seminar.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine Eminent Domain and Regulatory Taking issues. The seminar will focus on state and federal legislation, and governmental practices, within the framework of both constitutional authority and constitutional restraint. Substantive and procedural aspects of taking law will be explored through the study of judicial applications in a variety of specific areas, such as environmental regulations, exactions on development, and zoning restrictions.
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LAW 7193 - General Employment Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Examines the expanding body of state and federal law as it affects the modern employment relationship and the conflict between traditional employer prerogatives and individual employee rights. This course will not duplicate the coverage in labor law or employment discrimination. Each of these courses is freestanding and may be taken without the others.
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LAW 7195 - Employment Discrimination Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the major federal laws barring discrimination in employment, with emphasis on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The course will examine the procedures, methods of proof and defenses in discrimination cases, and address special problems in the areas of affirmative action, testing, gender discrimination, and remedies.
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LAW 7197 - The Law of Electronic Commerce.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores the legal issues involved in conducting electronic commerce. Topics include the following: Setting up a web site from which to conduct business, obtaining a domain name, determining liability for content, and complying with legal requirements of privacy and security. Students learn the law which regulates electronic transactions including sale of goods, licenses of software and information, and electronic payments. The course also examines issues which arise when disputes occur, such as jurisdiction, choice of law, and alternative dispute resolution of on-line disputes.
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LAW 7199 - The Law of Democracy.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores the law regulating our political process, the principles that shape our political institutions and the relationship between democratic procedures and contemporary politics. With a primary focus on constitutional and federal law, the course examines topics such as individual rights of access to participation in the political process, the role of associations such as political parties and the regulation of party primaries, as well as topics such as redistricting, political and racial gerrymandering, voting rights, campaign finance, the use of direct democracy, and alternative voting systems.
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LAW 7200 - Environmental Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A survey of legal principles and policies relating to the development, protection, and enhancement of the physical environment. Attention will be given to the judicial review of agency decision making, pollution control, hazardous waste and resource management, energy development and allocation, and conservation.
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LAW 7201 - International Environmental Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is concerned with the international legal response to environmental problems. The course covers comparative environmental law, major multinational treaties (and their enforcement regimes) addressing global environmental problems, and the issues concerning the “conflict” between international trade and international and domestic environmental and natural resource protection.
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LAW 7202 - Selected Topics in Environmental Litigation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine the problems, and current and potential legal responses to, the disproportionate distribution of environmental harms in our society. It may be taught as a seminar.
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LAW 7203 - Natural Resources and Water Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will provide an overview of present and future law and policy issues relating to the utilization of natural resources, particularly the water resource. Both federal and state materials will be utilized. We will focus our attention on law and policy issues relating to (1) mineral resources, (2) timber resources, (3) public lands (4) coastal zone management, (5) public outdoor recreation, (6) endangered species, and (7) water resources.
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LAW 7204 - Urban Environmental Law Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5050, LAW 7200 or LAW 7203.
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar will examine the range of environmental issues facing urban areas, exploring the extent to which it is appropriate to legislate and regulate solutions for urban environmental problems differently than for non-urban (rural, agricultural. e.g.) areas. To this end, the seminar not only will study topics like improving air quality and providing clean water in urban areas, but also the inter- relation of such goals with transportation and growth management, and urban and public health planning. Additional topics will include lead poisoning, indoor air pollution, brownfield reclamation, environmental justice and emergency preparedness for environmental contamination. Federal and state statutes and regulations will be evaluated throughout the seminar, as will local ordinances. To the greatest extent possible, the seminar will evaluate the Atlanta metropolitan area as a case study for the topics covered.
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LAW 7205 - Estate and Gift Taxation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Survey of estate and gift taxation with primary emphasis on federal tax law in these areas.
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LAW 7206 - Comparative Environmental Law: Urban Issues.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Examines Brazilian legal and regulatory responses to issues such as urbanization and it’s threat to the biodiversity of the Atlantic Rainforest, water and wastewater management in a less developed country, the use of international and legal instruments to improve urban air quality, ecosystem conservation, and environmental education. Brazilian experience and efforts will be compared to U.S. and other legal responses where relevant.
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LAW 7207 - Environmental Health Law & Policy: Comparative Perspectives.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Examines a range of legal and policy reponses to questions of environmental health law and policy in Rio de Janeiro. In conjunction with graduate students in public health, students are asked to consider appropriate legal, regulatory and policy responses to a range of environmental health challenges, from the effects of pesticides on consumers to efforts to control communicable and insect-born disease. Because this course is offered abroad, students are also asked to consider the appropriate role of foreign lawyers and policymakers in formulating appropriate responses to the environmental health challenges studied.
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LAW 7208 - Cross-Cultural Communication in International Dispute Resolution.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Taught in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Surveys the impact that culture has on international dispute resolution processes. This course will explore cultural differences in social customs, business practices, religious and ethical values, and language in the context of various dispute resolution processes through classroom discussions, simulations and role plays. Students will develop and enhance their skills in critical thinking, listening and cross-cultural communications and will have the opportunity to learn about and observe the use of these skills with lawyers and other professionals in Rio.
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LAW 7209 - Creative Conflict Prevention and Community Improvement.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Taught in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Will study creative responses to community conflict in Rio and other Brazilian communities and will examine their impact on law and society. The course will offer students the opportunity to examine and discuss the dispute resolution design process with professionals and to visit Brazilian community programs to observe first-hand active conflict prevention programs.
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LAW 7210 - Estate Planning Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7510.
Description
This is an elective course. In-depth coverage of selected topics related to the planning of estates, including planning for intrafamily transfers, use of the marital deduction, charitable giving, retirement plan benefits, life insurance, owners of closely held businesses, estate- freezing techniques, postmortem planning, and international estate planning. Student writing project is designed to satisfy the legal writing requirement.
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LAW 7212E - The Reflective Lawyer.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course develops the skills, traits, and values of the reflective legal professional. Through readings, journaling, and experiential exercises including mindfulness, students develop essential competencies for successful practice in a broad range of legal fields and settings. These competencies include the capacity for self-reflection, effective communication, emotional intelligence, adaptability and resilience in the face of rapid change, and personal and professional responsibility to oneself, for one’s health and well-being, and to the profession.
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LAW 7216 - Family Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5011 and LAW 5050.
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the law relating to the creation, functioning, and dissolution of the family as a unit, with a focus on marriage, family obligations, divorce, annulment, child custody, and property division. Other topics may include adoption, legitimacy, and procreation.
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LAW 7220 - Family Law Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7216.
Requirements: A paper is required.
Description
This is an elective course. A seminar on selected problems in family law.
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LAW 7222 - Federal Tax Policy Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095.
Pre-/Co-requisites: Basic Federal Taxation I (2-3 credits).
Requirements: The paper produced in this course will satisfy the College of Law’s Upper Level Legal Writing Requirement. Enrollment limited to 16.
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar examines the legal, economic, and political considerations relevant to formulating federal tax policy. Specific topics will vary from year to year but may include the nature of the income tax, tax expenditures, using tax rules to achieve nonrevenue objectives, equity and efficiency issues, alternative tax regimes, wealth transfer taxes, taxation of international income, fundamental tax reform, tax compliance and enforcement, and current tax policy legislative initiatives. Grades will be based on participation in weekly class discussions and preparation of a substantial (25+-page) paper on an approved federal tax policy topic.
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LAW 7225 - Federal Courts.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. The study of the federal constitutional and statutory provisions establishing and regulating federal courts. Topics treated include the “case and controversy” requirement, federal subject matter jurisdiction and its regulation by Congress, original and removal jurisdiction, the law applied in federal courts in civil actions, and the rules of procedure followed in federal courts.
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LAW 7228 - Beverage-Alcohol Law
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 6000.
Description
This is an elective course. The course is an introduction to the regulation of alcoholic beverages. It will provide an overview of the thistory of beverage- alcohol law in the U.S. From pre-Prohibition through Prohibition and into today’s beverage-alcohol industry, students will learn principles such as “tied-hours,” “franchise law,” and the “three-tier system.” The course will investigate complex constitutional questions about jurisdiction, involving the Commerce Clause, Equal Protection, and First Amendment, among others. The course will examine current trends in the ever-changing industry landscape, including analysis of recent case law and legislation. The course will include visits to local beverage-alcohol businesses.
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LAW 7229 - Georgia Appellate Practice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course educates students regarding the procedural requirements and core competencies involved in effective appellate advocacy before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court, and enables students to apply these skills by gradually engaging in a simulated appeal over the course of the semester using a record prepared by the instructor from an actual appeal in the Georgia Supreme Court.
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LAW 7230 - Georgia Legal Research.
1 to 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5030.
Description
This is an elective course. Limited enrollment. The course will concentrate on using online and print resources to identify and utilize Georgia legal materials. The course will build on skills acquired from Legal Bibliography and employ advanced research techniques. Topics covered in the course will include cases, statutes, regulations, secondary sources, practice materials, and current awareness tools.
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LAW 7232 - Fiduciary Administration.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course covers the powers, duties, and liabilities of executors, administrators, and trustees, and other select issues related to the administration of trusts and estates.
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LAW 7234 - Food and Drug Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is an introduction to the regulation of food, drugs and medical devices, and cosmetics in the United States. The course will focus primarily on the body of law and regulations that have developed under the implementation, enforcement, and interpretation of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 by the US Food and Drug Administration and the courts. It will also examine ethical and public policy issues presented by government efforts to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs and medical devices and the safety and purity of foods and cosmetics. The course will explore the impact the food and drug laws have on public health both domestically and internationally.
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LAW 7236 - Georgia Practice and Procedure.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Jurisdiction and practice in the Georgia courts, including coverage of the Georgia Civil Practice Act.
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LAW 7237 - Seminar in Georgia Practice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7238 - Hazardous Waste.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This class will explore the laws and regulations governing hazardous waste storage, transport, disposal, and cleanup. Although the main laws of hazardous waste are touched on briefly in the environmental law class, this course seeks to explore the laws and regulations in a more in-depth manner (particularly the liability and damage provisions which are somewhat unique in environmental law), look at their connections with other areas of practice, and discuss some of the real-life situations that will face an attorney in practice.
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LAW 7239 - Health Law: Quality and Access.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
Formerly Health Law: Liability. This is an elective course. This course examines laws affecting the relationships among patient, health care providers and practitioners, and health care payers. Emphasis is placed on tort liability, contractual and other professional arrangements, and bioethics. Topics include medical malpractice, informed consent, hospital privileges, managed care, and various contemporary issues in bioethics, such as medical decision making at the beginning and end of life.
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LAW 7240 - Health Law: Financing and Delivery.
2 to 4 Credit Hours
Description
Formerly Health Law: Regulation. This is an elective course. This course examines laws affecting the delivery and financing of health care. Emphasis is placed on federal and state regulation of the health care industry. Topics include access to health care, corporate law and antitrust regulation of health care providers and payers, and criminal and civil enforcement actions for fraud and abuse in government health care programs.
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LAW 7241 - Seminar in Health Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Students will explore a variety of topics through assigned readings, class discussion, and individual written papers, which may be used to satisfy the writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. An in-depth study of current legal issues confronting the health care profession and involving delivery of health care in our society.
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LAW 7242 - Advanced Land Use Law Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar will stress the key planning legal techniques for managing the growth of urban areas. State and regional comprehensive land use and transportation planning, impact analysis, and infrastructure finance through developer funding requirements. The consequences of urban sprawl and its avoidance through land use regulations and compensation programs will be used as the unifying theme of the seminar. The consideration of statutes, cases and programs will be used as the unifying theme of the seminar. The consideration of statutes, cases, and programs from throughout the United States will be directed toward Georgia specific problems.
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LAW 7243 - HIV/AIDS and the Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines the social, legal, political, and ethical controversies surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The class will consider the impact of the epidemic on the individual, public health, and society through the laws and policies that have been adopted since the beginning of the epidemic. The course will cover both domestic and international policies regarding HIV/AIDS.
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LAW 7244 - Public Health Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course provides an introduction to legal issues in public health practice. It addresses the legal authorities for intervention in public health practice, and surveys a variety of federal, state, and local laws and policies affecting public health. Law’s role in preventing disease, injury, and disability is explored through particular topic areas such as reproductive health, environmental hazards, workable health, sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco-related illness, vaccine-preventable diseases, and injury control.
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LAW 7245 - Immigration Law and Practice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the immigration, nationality, and naturalization laws of the United States. Among the topics to be discussed are: the immigrant selection system, the issuance of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, grounds of excludability of aliens and of waiver of excludability, grounds for deportation, change of status within the United States, administrative procedures, administrative appeals, judicial review, nationality by birth and by naturalization, revocation, and naturalization and expatriation. appeals, reviewing proposed administrative decisions, and researching in preparation and support of writing appellate briefs and memoranda to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, D.C. Where permissible, third-year students may present selected cases under the supervision of a staff attorney.
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LAW 7247E - Health Legislation and Advocacy I.
3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Students who enroll in Law 7247 must also enroll in Law 7248 in the succeeding semester.
Description
This is an elective course. It examines the process by which proposed legislation becomes enacted into law at the state level, including drafting, legislative organization and procedure, ethics and lobbying, and the appropriations process. It will focus on health-related legislation, policy, and advocacy. Students will have the opportunity to work with a community partner (such as a non-profit health advocacy group, health related government agency, or non-profit health-related enterprise) on a written project that relates to upcoming proposed health-related legislation in the Georgia General Assembly, that proposes new legislation, or that involves other legislation-related health policy or advocacy issues.
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LAW 7248E - Health Legislation and Advocacy II.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is a continuation of Health Legislation and Advocacy I. Under the instructor’s supervision, students will work with their community partners to track proposed health related legislation or policy, provide legal research for use during the General Assembly’s session, prepare testimony, briefings, or other assistance during the session, and work with the relevant legislative committees and other ‘players’ in the legislative process.
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LAW 7249 - Genetics and the Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores legal and policy issues that arise in the context of the new biotechnologies that incorporate genetic analysis. Topics include the history of genetic research in the U.S., the Human Genome Project, genetic privacy, DNA as a forensic tool, and the role of genetics in new biotechnologies related to reproduction, medical treatment and research, genetic engineering, and pharmacogenetics.
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LAW 7251 - Law and Social Welfare.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
Formerly Public Interest and Social Welfare Law. This is an elective course. This course is an introduction to the laws and policies that address social welfare and poverty in American society. The course will explore state and federal laws addressing social welfare, including welfare reform, benefit programs, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, consumer fraud, problems of the uninsured, and access to appropriate education, affordable housing, and safe environments. The course will also include an examination of the nature of poverty, socio-economic inequalities in U.S. society, and the challenges faced by those who provide legal representation to economically disadvantaged and other vulnerable populations.
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LAW 7252 - Human Rights and Children.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores the status of the child under international law, the rights of the child under international and regional human rights conventions, and mechanisms available for enforcing such rights. The course begins with an overview of these issues. The course will then focus on selected issues, including trafficking of children, commercial sexual exploitation of children, child labor, children in armed conflict, juvenile justice, and rights to health care and education. In examining each of these specific issues, we will explore the relevant human rights law, efforts to enforce such law, and shortcomings in the existing legal regimes. Case studies will be drawn from a number of countries. In addition, special attention will be given to the U.S. approach to child rights generally and to the specific topic issues explored in the course.
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LAW 7253 - Human Subjects Research.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines legal and ethical considerations in research with human subjects. We will explore in detail the ethical and regulatory framework that governs human subjects research in the U.S., including the historical basis that led to the adoption of the regulations, how that history shaped the current regulations, and how new technologies, such as genetic technologies and stem cell research, challenge the regulatory framework.
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LAW 7254 - Seminar on Public Health Law in Historical Context: Vaccination, Quarantine, and the War on STDs.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Law 7243, 7244, or Law 7253, or with the written permission of the instructor.
Requirements: The paper will fulfill the upper level writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar will focus on themes that have appeared in the history of public health law and research, as analyzed in several key publications. It will give students a general introduction to how the unique powers associated with public health law, such as the potential use of coercion in the application of medical interventions on both an individual and population basis, have developed. It will also engage students in an exploration of the role of the government, the scientific establishment, and individual scientists/investigators who were involved in two now discredited research programs carried out by the US Public Health Service. The seminar will culminate in student research projects that will generate a paper and a class presentation.
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LAW 7255 - International and Comparative Health Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores the developing field of international health law. The course will examine the legal, ethical, and political issues that arise in the context of addressing current challenges to global health, and look at the role played by governments, the private sector, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in meeting the health needs of the world’s population. The course will focus on contemporary legal responses to issues such as global disparities in health; public health emergencies; pharmaceuticals and the balancing of trade and public health considerations; health and human rights; and infectious diseases.
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LAW 7256 - Independent Research.
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Independent research may satisfy the writing requirement, but only if taken for two credit hours. No more than two credit hours will be counted toward graduation requirements.
Description
This is an elective course. Students may in their senior year undertake a project which involves investigation, research, and scholarship and culminates in a research paper of publishable quality, as determined by their supervising faculty member.
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LAW 7257 - Health Fraud & Abuse.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will focus on real world experience of prosecuting and defending healthcare fraud cases. It will cover the key statutes and regulations, including the False Claims Act, Stark law, Anti-Kickback Statute and more; nuts and bolts of a healthcare fraud investigation; as well as insight into client counseling and professional responsibility concerns in the fraud and compliance space. The course will provide students with opportunities to hone litigation drafting and oral argument skills while applying the substance of the course.
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LAW 7258 - Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course focuses on laws and policies related to preparedness for and response to public health emergencies. Students will be introduced to the different types of public health emergencies, including contagious disease outbreak, natural disasters, and bioterrorism; explore the authority and limitations of federal/state/local government to respond, as well as decision-making structure and processes; and examine the legal and ethical issues that arise during emergencies such as allocation of scarce resources; credentialing of health care workers and other volunteers across state lines; liability of emergency response; and consideration of special populations such as Native Americans, children, elderly, and persons with special needs. Students will participate in several case studies or hypothetical table-top exercises, commonly used in emergency response to test policies and plans.
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LAW 7259 - Great Cases in Bioethics.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. The field of Bioethics has developed over the past thirty years as a product of several shifts in American cultural consciousness, particularly in the role of doctors as they relate to patients. An ongoing conversation about the impact of law in shaping medical practice also influenced the current complexion of Bioethics as an area of study. A number of legal cases stand as signposts for critical moments in the history of Bioethics. They mark the changing public perception of the intersection of science, medicine, personal values and law. This seminar explores approximately one dozen of those cases, in areas such as reproduction, medical confidentiality, withdrawal and withholding of treatment, and definitions of death.
Notes: Students should be prepared to participate in class discussion, complete a major class presentation as well as a seminar paper on a topic of their choice.
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LAW 7260 - Special Topics in Bioethics.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 6030.
Description
This is an elective course. Examines issues in Bioethics.
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LAW 7261 - Global Perspectives on Children & The Law.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores how law and policy can advance children’s rights and well-being globally. It provides students an opportunity to learn about children’s rights law and policy and to examine how that law and policy operates in practice in selected countries.
Notes: It typically is offered in conjunction with a one-week study abroad program that is part of the course.
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LAW 7262 - Introduction to Bioethics
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will survey the field of Bioethics, including material concerning medical decisions at the beginning of life, the end of life, the doctor/patient relationship & informed consent, medical privacy, reproductive rights and sexuality, research ethics, allocation of health care resources and related topics, as well as schools of ethical decision-making, It will introduce students to the linkages between bioethical thought and health law, and is designed to augment the health law curriculum in the focus area of bioethics.
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LAW 7266 - Insurance Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. From a perspective of the history and development of the principles governing insurance contracts and the state regulation of the business of insurance, this course will consider the issues associated with the fundamental principles of insurance law, insurable interest, formation and structure of insurance policies, insurance contract interpretation, insurance agency, duties of insurers and policyholders, an analysis of policies and related issues arising from property insurance, liability insurance, automobile insurance, life insurance and disability insurance and a study of the principles of insurance bad faith.
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LAW 7268 - International Intellectual Property.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Intellectual property lawyers face a variety of issues that transcend national borders. This course introduces the principles, treaties and institutions that regulate intellectual property rights at the international level, and surveys major cross-border issues in intellectual property with a focus on copyright, patents and trademarks.
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LAW 7269 - Licensing of Intellectual Property.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will focus on patent, trademark, and copyright licensing. Emphasis will be placed on preparing the student to counsel clients on intellectual property licensing matters and to be able to prepare and negotiate license agreements. Various types of license agreements will be used and reviewed during the course. Specific areas covered in the course include introduction to intellectual property; developing strategies for intellectual property licensing; licensing negotiations; detailed review of key license agreement provisions and their interplay; unique considerations for licenses of different types of intellectual property; and drafting of various license agreements based on model agreements.
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LAW 7270 - Intellectual Property Survey.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will introduce students to the concepts of intellectual property through the three basic federal intellectual property regimes established under trademark, copyright and patent laws. With respect to each of these frameworks, the course will cover how to obtain, protect and enforce one’s intellectual property rights, and the limits of and exceptions to such rights. No prior knowledge or background is necessary.
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LAW 7271 - Advanced Intellectual Property Law Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7270 or LAW 7158 or LAW 7417 or LAW 7478.
Description
This is an elective course. Over the past 20 years the Supreme Court has decided many cases in Copyright, Trademark, and Patent Law. As Intellectual Property issues have become more important to society and to the economy, the pace and number of Supreme Court cases has increased. In this seminar, students will examine selected Supreme Court cases, and other relevant developments and then write a substantial research paper. The course may include presentations of the works-in-progress.
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LAW 7272E - Licensing of Intellecual Property
Variable 2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: LAW 7158, LAW 7270, LAW 7417, LAW 7416, or LAW 7478.
Description
This course will involve analysis of cases involving litigation over licenses, including the licensing of electronic rights. It will include comparative examination of licenses and licensing agreements and practical experience in drafting and negotiating license agreements. Students who successfully complete this course may also apply to their required hours to graduate from the College of Law up to 3 credit hours for successfully completing (i.e., achieving a grade of B- or greater) the graduate level Entrepreneurship and Enterprise course (MGS 8500) at the Robinson College of Business. Law 7272 and MGS 8500 need not be taken in the same academic year or in any particular order.
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LAW 7273 - International Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course surveys the basic principles of law governing, primarily, the legal interrelationships of sovereign states within the context of the global legal order. Considered are the origins and sources of public international law; participation in the international legal order; the legal implications of the doctrine of sovereignty over land, sea, and air; jurisdictional aspects of international law; international obligations; the resolution of international disputes; and the law of international cooperation.
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LAW 7274 - International Criminal Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Jurisdiction in international criminal law, specific applications (e. g., Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Money Laundering, Terrorism), procedural issues (e.g., mutual assistance, extradition), and international courts. At the discretion of the instructor, International Criminal Law may be offerred as a seminar with a research paper required.
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LAW 7275 - International Business Transactions.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A systematic approach to legal problems arising in transactions that involve entities operating in two or more nations. As well as examining international trade accords and relevant commercial law, this course surveys United States law, practice and procedure relating to the import and export of goods and transnational flow of services.
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LAW 7276 - Seminar in International Commercial Arbitration.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar is intended to serve as an introduction to the basic legal concepts, doctrines and principles that are relevant to the current status of international commercial arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism alternative to litigation in national court systems. Course objectives include familiarizing the student with the basic features of the modern system of international commercial arbitration and examining the transnational framework of international commercial arbitration, including its regulation in selected foreign legal orders.
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LAW 7277 - International Human Rights.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. An introduction to international human rights law and institutions. This course deals with the development of the international protection of human rights and focuses on the work of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the role of nongovernmental international human rights organizations and the human rights policy of the United States.
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LAW 7278 - International Human Rights Seminar - Immigration.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: A paper is required.
Public International Law or International Human Rights is helpful but not required.
Description
This is an elective course. A seminar on selected problems in international human rights law.
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LAW 7280 - International Moot Court.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is open to those students chosen to represent GSU College of Law in the annual Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
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LAW 7281 - International Human Rights: Practical Applications Seminar
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: At least two classes relating to international law and/or human rights, one of which must be LAW 7273 or 7277.
Description
This is an elective course. The objective of this course is to give students an opportunity to integrate their knowledge about international human rights law with the fundamentals of civil and criminal procedure, constitutional law, evidence, and professional responsibility in a real-world context. Each year the course will focus on a contemporary human rights issue and, to the extent possible, the students will assess the situation and develop a work product as if they were representing the “client” at issue. Limited enrollment. Admission only by application and permission of professor.
Notes: Applicants must have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.30 at the time of enrollment.
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LAW 7283 - International Human Rights Seminar: Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Please contact Professor Saito for details at nsaito@gsu.edu.
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LAW 7284 - Int’l Comm Arbitrat Advocacy
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A doctrinal and skills course training students as advocates in international commercial arbitration. The course will begin with an introductory description of the world’s principal arbitral institutions and a discussion of the main treaties, statutory materials and “soft law” (including ethical codes) which regulate international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. Next, the course will look quickly the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (“CISG”) and similar compilations. These introductory sessions will be followed by intensive research and writing exercises and oral presentations by students pertaining to hypothetical arbitrations arising under the CISG.
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LAW 7285 - International Trade Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar is intended for students who have developed an understanding of the international legal process through prior course work or who, by virtue of unique personal experience, are capable of dealing with advanced issues of international law in the field of economic and business regulation. The focus of the seminar will vary, but possible topics might include the United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, the Organization for Economic Enterprises, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development Code of Conduct on Restrictive Business Practices and its Code on Transfer of Technology, and the International Labor Organization Tripartite Declaration on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.
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LAW 7286 - Human Rights Seminar Case/Reparations
3 Credit Hours
Description
This course, cross-listed with Africana Studies, will explore the issue of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States. It will also address other cases addressing reparations for historic wrongs, domestically and internationally. Law students will focus particularly on a comparative study of remedial options within the U.S. and international legal systems. Papers written for this course may fulfill the writing requirement
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LAW 7288 - International and Foreign Legal Research.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will provide an overview of international and foreign legal research. Students will receive a solid grounding in the practical skills and knowledge required for research in these areas. Foreign legal systems, international treaties, intergovernmental organizations and other related topics will be addressed. Theoretical principles – such as developing cost- and time-efficient research strategies – will also be covered. Electronic resources will be the primary focus of the class, though students will learn about, use and evaluate print resources as well. Students will be evaluated based on legal research assignments, in-class presentations and a take-home exam which tests their understanding of research tools and ability to perform foreign and international legal research tasks.
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LAW 7289 - International Law and U.S. Foreign Relations.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines the intersection between international law, U.S. law, and U.S. foreign policy. It centers on case studies, including Guantanamo Bay and the torture memos, the U.S. posture towards the International Criminal Court, and the invasion of Iraq, alongside the international news of the day. By working through such controversies, students will be exposed to competing international and domestic interpretations of sovereignty, the use of force, the role of the Security Council, the authority of the International Court of Justice, and even the nature of international law itself. Discussions of foreign policy will be grounded in core provisions of international law and U.S. law. International Law and U.S. Foreign Relations.
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LAW 7291E - Interviewing and Counseling.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is designed to help students understand and develop skills in interviewing and counseling methods and techniques. Students will learn through reading, discussion, extensive role-playing, and self- reflection. Students will also learn to develop strategies for addressing moral and ethical issues which can arise when interviewing and counseling clients in different legal contexts.
Notes: Enrollment may be limited.
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LAW 7293 - Seminar On Judicial Power.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law I and II, Criminal Procedure: Investigations, or permission of the instructor.
Requirements: The course may be used to satisfy the writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. Enrollment may be limited. This course addresses the use of doctrine to constrain judicial power, especially in the Supreme Court. In particular, the doctrine of originalism will be explored through leading works of legal scholarship and famous cases. Students will learn how to use textual analysis and historical research and will write papers applying what they have learned to the interpretation of statues or constitutional provisions.
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LAW 7295 - Jurisprudence.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores selected topics related to the role of law in American society. Particular attention will be given to such issues as the law’s authority to compel obedience; the relationship of law and morality; and the meaning of the concept of justice.
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LAW 7296 - Seminar in the Philosophy of Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is designed to teach selected topics in jurisprudence.
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LAW 7300 - Juvenile Justice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the juvenile justice system from investigation and detention to adjudication and disposition. The theoretical and practical distinctions between delinquency and criminality are considered. Topics covered include status offenses, diversion, and dispositional alternatives.
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LAW 7306 - Juvenile Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A course which considers the parent-child relationship, the power of the state to intervene in the lives of parents and children and problems relating to dependency, neglect, delinquency and status offenses.
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LAW 7315 - Labor Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the law regulating the rights and activities of employers, employees, and labor unions, in the workplace. The National Labor Relations Act is examined in detail with respect to the administrative role of the National Labor Relations Board; union organizing and representation elections; collective bargaining; and the regulation of strikes, picketing, boycotts, and other concerted labor practices.
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LAW 7319 - Wildlife Law.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. An examination of the Federal and state legal framework dealing with wildlife. It reviews wildlife law from a variety of perspectives, including those recognizing sustainable use as a valid conservation tool and regulated hunting as a component of conservation and sound wildlife management. Selected topics include the North American Wildlife Conservation Model, the Public Trust Doctrine, the right to hunt and fish, the Federal preemption of state law, the state role in Federal lands, the Federal protection of species, and the Federal protection of wildlife habitat.
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LAW 7320 - Land Use Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5050.
Description
This is an elective course. The principal methods of public control of land use, including judicial control through doctrines such as nuisance, and legislative control through the power of eminent domain, taxation, and the police powers. Special emphasis is given to the theory and practice of zoning.
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LAW 7325 - Land Use Drafting Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7320 and LAW 7375.
Description
This is an elective course. After introductory classes on the role and methodology of legislative drafters for local government, students draft model ordinances for selected problems and present analyses of those ordinances. Each student prepares two drafting exercises: a comprehensive regulation in the role of government attorney and suggested amendments to another student’s regulation in the role of attorney for an interest group.
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LAW 7327 - Crimmigration
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Students will learn how to analyze criminal statutes to determine potential immigration consequences of convictions, including inadmissibility, deportability, eligibility for relief from removal and waivers. Students will learn how to apply the categorical and modified categorical approaches, as well as how to identify crimes involving moral turpitude and aggravated felonies.
Notes: This course is not currently conceived of as an experiential course.
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LAW 7328 - Law and Business of Immigration.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Recommended but not required as prerequisites: LAW 7245, LAW 7521, LAW 7193, LAW 7195, or LAW 7191.
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines the intersection of immigration, labor, and employment issues from law and business perspectives. Using both legal analysis and business school-type case studies, the course introduces major areas of labor and employment law and explores the rights of immigrant workers under each area of law. The course also covers business immigration, including visas available to skilled and unskilled foreign workers and employers’ obligations to verify workers’ immigration status. Finally, the course examines international labor supply and demand issues from the perspectives of workers and employers. The course is interdisciplinary and highly participatory and will expose students both to doctrinal legal questions and to the realities pf employing, and representing, immigrant workers.
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LAW 7330 - Law and the Elderly.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of legal problems that are common to elderly clients, including Social Security, SSI, Medicare, nursing home law, pensions, and age discrimination. This course may also consider issues relating to guardianships, conservatorships, housing problems, voluntary euthanasia, and abuse of the elderly.
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LAW 7331 - Law and Health Equity.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is an introduction to understanding socioeconomic causes of chronic and mental health illnesses in low-income and minority communities, and will emphasize the need for legal solutions to such diseases. In this course, the students will analyze the applicability of current laws, policies and regulations in creating safe and healthy neighborhoods for vulnerable populations. Students will work with Neighborhood Planning Units (“NPUs”) as community partners in order to assess the impact of and provide recommendations for the mitigation of health disparities in underserved communities in the Atlanta area.
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