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2021-2022 Law Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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LAW 7333 - Law Practice Technology.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Legal technology is advancing at a rapid pace and it is critical that lawyers understand the technology they are using in the practice of law. This course will cover different aspects of legal technology from tracking billable hours and document manipulation to artificial intelligence and algorithmic bias. The course will provide the background necessary to be knowledgeable and ethical users of legal technology. Students will complete a variety of take-home or in-class assignments, a presentation, and will develop a final portfolio of chosen legal technology solutions that may be useful to them in their practice.
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LAW 7334E - Legal Process Engineering
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Pre-Requisite-LAW 7333, Introduction to Legal Technology & Innovation or instructor permission.
Description
This course will focus on the development of innovative technologies and processes to help legal organizations better serve their clients, create competitive advantage, and reduce overhead in legal operations. The course will use legal project management and process improvement concepts to help students develop problem-solving, product evaluation, and technology implementation skills. Students will explore opportunities in intelligent automation, R&D in emerging technology, integrating technology into legal services, and technology projects that support digital strategies for law firms, courts, and legal clients.
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LAW 7335 - Law and Literature.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Students will be required to write three short papers during the semester and one substantial final work which, if satisfactory, may be used to fulfill the upper-level writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. Literature can provide a humanistic perspective for understanding law, affording insights into the nature of law and social justice. This course will examine the interplay of law and literature primarily through texts about crime and punishment. Each class will explore one or more interrelated themes, including the tension between law and equity, authority and legitimacy, retribution and redemption, civic duty, revenge and betrayal. Readings will include works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Melville, Conrad, Camus, Fugard, Traver, Glaspell and others.
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LAW 7336E - Fundamentals of Law Practice.
4 Credit Hours
Requirements: Enrollment is limited and consent of the instructor is required.
Description
This is an elective course. Students will learn practice skills and ethical decision making through simulating the work of a small, general practice law firm. The course grade will be based on written work, performance in simulation exercises, class participation, and performance in simulation exercises and actual client representation.
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LAW 7339 - Managing Corporate Integrity.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prior study of Corporations and Professional Responsibility recommended, but not required.
Description
This is an elective course. This course introduces management and law students to the fundamental issues and current best practices in managing legal/ethical compliance and corporate social responsibility. Topics and cases will cover both domestic and international business issues. Special attention is given to preparing law and management students to understand and manage the demands on U.S. and international corporations making complex business decisions on the face of increasing expectations for transparency and accountability. Structured around real-world cases that simulate the challenges of today’s domestic and global markets, the course equips students to manage and integrate the differing perspectives of lawyers and managers. The course uses focused readings in law and management, interactive case-studies, simulations, and class discussions that include presentations by corporate executives.
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LAW 7341 - Law and Mental Health.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
Formerly Law and Psychiatry. This is an elective course. An examination of the interrelationship of law and psychiatry and the role of psychiatric experts in the legal process. The course will address civil aspects of mental health law such as commitment of the mentally ill, competency, testamentary capacity, and the law of psychic damages; and, criminal aspects of forensic psychiatry including criminal responsibility, competency to stand trail, juristic psychology, dangerousness determinations, and coerced behavioral change.
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LAW 7344 - Law and Statistics.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7349 - Law and Religion.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will present an exploration of the historical formation and current judicial interpretations of the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment, as well as the theories of church and state, and religion and law, that support and contest these interpretations. The course will also compare and contrast the prevailing models of these protections in Europe and the United States, as well as explore intersections of law and religion, including the effect of religion on law and of law on religion, the degree to which law should accommodate religious beliefs and practices, the concept of legal pluralism, and the secularization of the American legal system.
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LAW 7350 - Law Review.
1 Credit Hours
Requirements: One hour per semester for a maximum of five hours.
Description
This is an elective course. For upper-level students who serve on the editorial board or as candidates for the Georgia State University Law Review. By invitation only.
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LAW 7353 - Information Privacy Law
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines laws that protect personal information, with particular focus on how the laws protecting privacy evolve with the emergence of new information technologies. The course traces the origins of the right to information privacy in American law through constitutional law, tort law, and modern statutory law. Case studies of landmark privacy legislation illustrate how expectations of privacy are translated into legal frameworks. The course looks at recent controversies involving domestic surveillance, drones, social media monitoring, and “always on” devices. The course also considers the impact of the European privacy directive, the growth of the Internet, and the availability of cryptography and other Privacy Enhancing Technologies on the future of privacy law in the United States.
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LAW 7354 - Technology Law and Ethics
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will introduce key legal principles, regulatory structures, and ethical problems presented by today’s technological innovations. Major topics can include the impact of potential liability on product design, proper and improper uses of intellectual property, cybercrime, privacy regulation, cybersecurity, permissible constraints imposed by nondisclosure agreements and employment relationships, and the entrepreneurship-related aspects of technology law.
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LAW 7355 - Law and Emerging Technologies.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: Students will be required to complete a paper on an approved topic.
Description
This is an elective course. Limited enrollment. This seminar will examine various technological developments in areas such as medicine, agriculture, energy, and information technology and explore the legal frameworks pertaining to these technologies while highlighting the legal challenges.
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LAW 7356 - Legal Technological Competency and Operations
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course teaches basic technological and software skills needed by legal practitioners to practice the law proficiently– effective, efficient, and ethical. As prescribed by the instructor, topics may include legal document formatting and work product creation, spreadsheets, sharing legal documents with adobe acrobat, metadata creation and elimination, law office technology procedures, law practice management tools, timekeeping, billing, document management, and lawyer efficiency tools like Lexis Shepard’s Brief Check.
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LAW 7357 - The Law of Social Enterprise.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Successful completion of at least one of the following courses is a prerequisite, although it may be taken concurrently with this course: Corporations, Unincorporated Business Associations, Business Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Partnership & LLC Taxation or Nonprofit Organizations.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will cover the existing and developing law of “social enterprise.” Although there is no universally accepted legal definition of “social enterprise,” the term generally refers to using market-based approaches (such as selling products or services) to solve complex social problems, instead of using more traditional, and primary charitable, methods to solve such problems. The principal focus of the course will be upon federal and state laws that are uniquely applicable when an organization engages in social enterprise. For example, the course will consider laws limiting the conduct of commercial activities by nonprofit organizations as well as laws requiring for-profit organizations to maximize shareholder wealth, even when doing so is arguably detrimental to employees, the environment, the community, or other stakeholders.
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LAW 7358E - Expert Testimony Using Technology.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Students will learn substantive law regarding evidentiary issues surrounding the admissibility of expert testimony and then apply that knowledge in simulated advocacy skill workshops. Students will learn through reading, discussion, extensive role- playing, and self-reflection. Students will conduct simulated expert interviews, expert preparation, preparing and using technology-based demonstrative evidence, depositions, direct examination, and cross examination.
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LAW 7362 - The Legal History of the U.S. Eugenics Movement
3 Credit Hours
Requirements: The paper will fulfill the upper-level writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar explores the legal history of eugenics in the U.S. as reflected in more than a hundred statutes that were passed and remaining in effect during the 20th Century. We examine the background and content of laws for premarital testing for STDs, eugenic sterilization laws, statutes prohibiting interracial marriage or the marriage of people with disabilities, and federal immigration restriction law. Students will study the key concepts of the hereditarian ideology of eugenics that formed the basis of these laws. The seminar will culminate in student papers and class presentations.
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LAW 7363 - History of the Common Law in England and America.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines the origins, development and characteristics of core Anglo-American legal concepts and institutions. Using primary source materials (cases, statutes, codes, ordinances) and occasional narrative overviews for context, the course explores how and why fundamental Anglo-American legal concepts (e.g., trespass) and legal institutions (e.g., jury) have changed over time due to complex social, economic, and religious factors. The course will help students situate Anglo- American legal doctrines and institutions within their historical context and illuminate how modern American legal practice and jurisprudence has been shaped by the past. The course is interdisciplinary and highly participatory, and will expose students to the realities of internal and external legal change.
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LAW 7364 - Seminar in Georgia Legal History.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar introduces the student to basic principles of historical methodology and historiography and to selected legal aspects of primary names in Georgia history drawn from sources in the colonial and revolutionary period; the western and expansion of the State and the growth of sectionalism, the War of 1861-1865 and Reconstruction; the embrace of New South ideologies; and the emergence of modern Georgia in the twentieth century. Resources in the seminar encompass a special emphasis on the use of primary and secondary materials traditionally associated with historical inquiry as well as with resources customarily employed in legal research.
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LAW 7365 - Legal History.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the origins, development and characteristics of American legal institutions and the basic themes in American law which have shaped practice and jurisprudence.
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LAW 7366 - Legal Innovation.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Innovation has been part of human thought since the dawn of time, as we seek better ways to solve problems and achieve outcomes. Recent developments are shaping the way legal services are developed, delivered, and consumed. This course will explore new methods of service deliver, knowledge management, and process enhancement. In addition to cost savings and better use of information, innovation can promote inclusion among diverse stakeholders and the under-served. As students build awareness and proficiency with new processes and technologies, they will be able to identify and develop new opportunities in the study and practice of law.
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LAW 7375 - Legislation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. An examination of the legislative process and statutory interpretation, including examination of how legislation is enacted; constitutional limitations upon legislative enactments; amendment, revision, and repeal; the interrelationship between courts and legislatures; and the interpretive process and the principles and techniques which guide courts in that process.
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LAW 7380 - Legislative Drafting Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7375.
Description
This is an elective course. The principal focus of this course is on the development of skills in (1) the drafting of statutes and/or ordinances, (2) advocacy in the legislative process, and (3) advocacy in the interpretation of statutes and ordinances. Weekly problems in interpretation and/or drafting will be assigned and discussed in a seminar setting.
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LAW 7385 - State and Local Government Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
Formerly Local Government Law. This is an elective course. This course examines the relationship between local, state, and federal governments. It includes a study of the sources and limits of local government authority in the context of constitutional and statutory law. Among the topics considered are delegation of state authority, government spending and financing, conflicts and preemption, the use of special purpose government entities, and annexation and incorporation.
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LAW 7386 - Advanced Local Government Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
LAW 7385 or LAW 7320 recommended but not required.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will provide an opportunity for in-depth study of one or more Local Government Law issues that may include, but are not limited to: public finance, taxation, bond issuance, and revenues; state and local government structures, including municipal incorporation, annexation, regionalism, consolidation, dissolution, and federation; exercise of local government powers, including land use powers; home rule and preemption; intergovernmental conflicts and cooperation; transfer of functions and delegation of governmental power; and privatization of public services and outsourcing. This course may be taught in seminar format.
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LAW 7387E - Street Law
3 Credit Hours
Description
Street Law advances justice through classroom and community education programs that empower people with legal and civic knowledge, skills, and confidence to bring about positive change for themselves and others. Under faculty supervision, law students enrolled in this course will develop curricula and teaching materials and serve as the primary teachers of the material to either high school students or juveniles in detention facilities. Instructor permission is required to register, and space is limited.
For upper-level students only upon successful completion of course application and receival of instructor approval.
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LAW 7390 - Mass Communications Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Topics to be covered may include broadcast and cable rules and regulations, free press and fair trial, libel, privacy and the press, journalist’s privilege, the law of news gathering, and access and reply to the press.
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LAW 7395 - Mergers and Acquisitions.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. The law relating to transactions by means of which two or more corporations combine with but one corporate entity surviving, or in which one business entity obtains another by purchase, exchange, or the like.
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LAW 7397 - International Perspective on Urban Law and Policy.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. International Perspectives on Urban Law and Policy is a course taught by visiting foreign or international law professors specializing in land use, planning, and environmental law, on the comparative legal aspects of metropolitan growth management and control as it affects the human, built and physical environments. This course is 2 credit hours with the option of an additional credit hour for writing a paper. The paper may be either independent research on a topic of your choice, or a paper written in conjunction with participation in a week-long Study Abroad offering (over Spring Break) focused on urban law and policy issues.
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LAW 7405 - Moot Court Board I.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. After having successfully completed Legal Bibliography and RWA, prospective Board members with overall GPA’s of 2.7 or higher are invited to participate in the group. Successful completion shall be deemed to be a grade of Satisfactory in Legal Bibliography and either an overall average of 2.7 or higher in RWA or a 3.0 or higher in the second semester of RWA. (For full details, consult bylaws of Moot Court.) Members will either be a part of Competition Teams or serve as Case Counsels who develop Appellate Advocacy problems. Academic credit is awarded to members.
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LAW 7406 - Moot Court Board II.
1 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7405.
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7407 - Moot Court III.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7408 - Moot Court IV.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7410 - Multistate Taxation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095.
Description
This is an elective course. An examination of state and local taxation, including requirements of uniformity and equality, ad valorem property taxes, sales and use taxes, due process restrictions, exemption and immunity from taxation, and tax procedures.
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LAW 7411 - Nonprofit Organizations
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095 (may be taken concurrently).
Description
This is an elective course. This course covers the major legal and tax issues affecting nonprofit organizations, especially IRC § 501(c)(3) exempt organizations. Topics to be discussed include permitted purposes, formation, operation, organization, governance, state regulation, tax exemption, and restrictions on lobbying and political activity. In addition, the course will examine special rules concerning churches, private foundations, unrelated business income taxation, charitable fundraising, and charitable contributions. Approximately one-third to one-half of the course will focus upon state-law issues (using the Georgia Nonprofit Corporation Code as a statutory model), while the remaining portion of the course will focus upon the unique rules relating to the federal income taxation of nonprofits.
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LAW 7412E - Military Law/Veteran’s Clinic
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5000, LAW 5020, LAW 7010 and LAW 7216 are recommended, but not requred.
Description
This is an elective course. This course introduces the student to legal issues for servicemembers and their families. The course introduces the student to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and criminal prosecution within the military. The course also introdcues the student to administrative processes and hearings within the military: the impact of criminal convictions in state courts, military family law issues, the servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act (SCRA), and Veterans’ Administration benefits and appeals.
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LAW 7413 - National Security Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 6000.
Requirements: Papers may satisfy the writing requirement.
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar explores the constitutional architecture for the American national security enterprise and the role played by the three branches of government. Topics of study include the use of armed force to maintain the security of the nation and its consistency with statutory and constitutional constraints. Recent topics include anti-terrorism, anticipatory self-defense and preemptive war; targeted killing and the use of drones; intelligence gathering authority for the CIA, FBI and NSA and its constraint by the Fourth Amendment; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court system; data mining; detention of terrorists and military combatants; preventive detention; detention of material witnesses; extraordinary rendition, material support crimes; and trial by military commissions. Students are evaluated on the basis of an assigned paper or project.
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LAW 7414E - Negotiation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course provides the fundamentals of negotiation. It offers both a theoretical understanding of the negotiation process and practical skills of an effective negotiator. The course combines readings, simulated role plays and exercises, and written assignments.
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LAW 7415 - Partnership Taxation.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will cover the federal income taxation of partnerships (including limited liability companies) from formation through liquidations. The tax implications to the partners (or members) and the entity will be examined. The course will cover transfers of property to a newly formed or preexisting partnership or limited liability company; nonliquidating distributions; “inside” and “outside” basis adjustments; sales of partnership or membership interests; partnership and limited liability company liquidations; and partner and member withdrawals.
Notes: NOTE: The maximum number of credit hours a student may earn for taking any combination of LAW 7110, LAW 7415 and LAW 7127 is 6.
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LAW 7416 - Patent Drafting and Prosecution.
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Recommended Prerequisites: LAW 7270 and/or LAW 7417. A technical background is helpful, but not required, to take this course.
Description
This is an elective course. This course focuses on preparation of patent applications and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Topics include types of patent applications, inventor interviews, analysis of prior art, preparation of the patent specification, claim drafting, inventorship/ownership determination, amendment practice, and argument practice, with coverage of U.S. law and regulations governing patent prosecution practice.
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LAW 7417 - Patent Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. An introduction to patentability, patent infringement, and patent and trademark licensing.
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LAW 7419E - Civil Pre-Trial Litigation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Law 6030 and prior approval of the instructor.
Description
This is an elective course. This capstone class involves aspects of tort law, procedural law, contract interpretation, statutory interpretation, and litigation skills such as mediation, depositions, negotiation, drafting and client counseling. It also exposes students to some of the business decisions that occur over the course of civil litigation. The class will be conducted primarily through simulation exercises. Limited enrollment.
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LAW 7420 - Products Liability.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine the legal responsibility of product suppliers for harms caused by product defects and misrepresentations. Appropriate parties, causes of actions, and varieties of defects will be among the topics discussed.
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LAW 7421 - Georgia Products Liability Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine Georgia laws relating to the legal responsibility of product suppliers for harms caused by product defects and misrepresentations. Appropriate parties, causes of actions, and varieties of defects will be among the topics discussed.
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LAW 7423 - Probate Procedure and Practice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7510.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will cover substantive Georgia law pertaining to the Georgia probate court system, including the following areas: subject matter jurisdiction; personal jurisdiction; venue principles; and process and service of process. In addition, the course will contain a skills component that is designed to familiarize students with the most common types of proceedings they will handle in probate courts, including the administration of intestate estates, probate of wills, will contests, year’s support proceedings, guardianships of minors, and guardianships of incapacitated adults.
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LAW 7425 - Public 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 7433 - Race, Ethnicity, and the Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
LAW 6000 recommended but not required.
Description
This is an elective course. Race has played a central role in American law from the Constitutional Convention through the civil rights movement to debates on affirmative action. This course will look at the evolution of “race” as a legal construct and its relation to ethnicity in our legal system. Examining cases, statutes, and analysis from diverse viewpoints, the course will consider the concept of a “colorblind” legal system in light of these historical developments.
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LAW 7434 - Racial Justice Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar will use a contemporary or historic case study of racialized injustice as a lens through which students will examine the legal and social context in which such harms occur and the availability of remedies offered by statutory, constitutional, and international human rights law. It will include experiential learning opportunities. For example, depending upon the topic addressed, students will interview people affected by the issue, explore options for redress, and prepare materials that will or could be utilized to implement remedial measures.
Notes: Writing credit will be an option.
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LAW 7435 - Real Estate Transactions.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5050.
Description
This is an elective course. This is the basic course in conveyancing. The simple transfer of residential real estate is studied: listing agreements, contracts for sale, financing, closing, recording, and warranty obligations.
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LAW 7437 - Advanced Real Estate Transactions.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7435.
Description
This is an elective course. This second-level elective in real estate integrates material from taxation, property law, and other related subjects in the context of major development projects. Typical large commercial developments such as shopping centers or office complexes are studied from acquisition, through construction to final financing arrangements.
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LAW 7441 - Regulated Industries.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Governmental regulation of the selected industries not subject to the legal controls applicable to the economy at large: conventional public utilities such as gas, electric, telephone, and pipeline; domestic ground and air transportation; and mass communications. Aspects of these industries to be covered will include control of entry, determination of rates, and regulation of services and practices.
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LAW 7442 - Solidarity Economy Lawyering
Variable 2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: LAW 7101, LAW 7100E, LAW 7357 or LAW 7411
Description
This course will cover (i) the principles and values of the framework and movement known as the solidarity economy, (ii) the legal structures and attending considerations related to solidarity economy institutions (e.g., worker cooperatives) and (iii) the lawyering skills that solidarity economy lawyers employ. This is an elective course.
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LAW 7445 - Remedies.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is concerned with the equitable and legal remedies which are available to protect property interests, personal interests, and business interests. In addition to its emphasis on protectable real and personal property interests, the course will also include: (1) examination of public policy considerations relative to urban housing problems, the control of nuisance, and the resolution of ownership controversies and attempts by contracting parties to alter damage rules; (2) remedies in employer-employee disputes; and (3) a miscellany of tortious interest protection including defamation, product disparagement, injury to feelings, and physical injury and death. Damage remedies, restitutionary remedies, and specific performance and injunctive relief will be the focus of the course.
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LAW 7451 - Sales.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5011.
Description
This is an elective course. The study of commercial sales transactions with emphasis on Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
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LAW 7453 - Forensic Evidence.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 6010.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine selected topics in the forensic sciences devoted to the investigation and trial of both civil and criminal cases. Primary attention will be given to the investigation and trial of criminal cases. The course topics will consist of both legal and scientific aspects of the investigative and trial processes. Legal analyses will focus primarily on issues of criminal and civil discovery and the debate over the legal requirements for an area of forensic science to be utilized at trial.
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LAW 7454 - Forensic Medicine.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This is an interdisciplinary course exploring the interaction between the practices of law and medicine. The course highlights the challenges and advantages of using forensic medicine in legal proceedings and how it affects the fields of health and law. It addresses subjects such as toxic causation, disease epidemiology, vaccination litigation, paternalistic medicine, medical malpractice, fraud and abuse, government/regime sponsored experiments, mental health problems, and issues associated with the beginning and end of life. In class, students will be able to identify controversy and common ground and work on problem-solving techniques in cases that both reply upon and sometimes criticize forensic medicine. The course will improve understanding about how law and medicine interact to create public policy and impact public perception. Students will write a final paper for the course that examines a specific area of forensic medicine and how the legal system has, continues to, and, in the future, will shape that practice.
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LAW 7460 - Securities Regulation
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course introduces students to the law capital markets and conducts in an in-depth study of the federal securities laws, with emphasis on the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which regulate the distribution of and trading in securities. The subjects to be examined include the structure and operation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the definition of a “security”, securities law reporting and disclosure obligations, the “registration” of securities for sale to the public, the numerous exemptions from the registration requirements, the structure of U.S. capital markets, the debate and market “efficiency,” and the causes of actions available to plaintiffs under the securites laws. The course is essential for any student intending to advise clients on how to raise capital and the disclosure requirements in both public and private transactions. It is highly recommended for students interested in general business transactions and litigation, or in-house counsel positions. This course is intended to either follow, or be taken concurrently with the Corporations course.
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LAW 7468 - Sentencing.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This class will broadly examine the purposes, principles and practices of criminal sentencing in the United States. While federal sentencing law has received the most attention in recent years, particularly since the creation of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, it is impossible to understand the current dynamics or the likely future trends of federal sentencing without also taking state practices into account. As such, this course will examine sentencing law and incarceration practices in both the federal and state systems. This course will also assess a variety of alternative sanctions, including the death penalty, probation, and various other judicial and administrative sanctions, as well as some of the collateral consequences that accompany criminal conviction.
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LAW 7471 - Sexual Identity and the Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Requirements: At the discretion of the instructor, Sexual Identity and the Law may be offered as a seminar with a research paper required.
Description
This is an elective course. This course focuses on issues pertaining to sexual identity and the law. The course will examine topics such as employment issues, military service, domestic relations, and criminal laws as they relate to sexual identity.
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LAW 7472 - Society and the Supreme Court Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar takes an institutional look at the Supreme Court, exploring in detail the different facets of the Court’s procedures and operations. The course examines the nomination process; the process by which the court shapes and controls its docket; the process of deciding cases on the merits; and other institutional issues, including the role of the solicitor general, the role of the amici curiae briefs, and the relationship of the Court to the press and the public, etc.
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LAW 7473 - Sports Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Selected legal problems of athletes, teams, leagues, and associations will be examined, along with antitrust and other regulatory concerns faced by sports as a commercial industry.
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LAW 7474E - LAW 7474E
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will present students with some of the most intricate obligations of lawyers who work within the field of sports law. Students will be engaged in real-world simulations and tasks that will mirror a sports lawyer’s role regarding contract negotiation, arbitration, and other legal responsibilities when representing amateur and professional sports team and/or athletes.
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LAW 7478 - Trademarks and Unfair Competition.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Analysis of common law and federal trademark law, including the acquisition, maintenance, and enforcement of rights, as well as the remedies available for infringement. Unfair competition law doctrines such as “passing off” and “false designation of origin” will also be covered. The course will also include recent developments in false advertising and an overview of the right of publicity, including the use of “sound-a-likes” and “look-a-likes.”
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LAW 7479E - Trademark Prosecution.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Learn all the ins and outs of the trademark process. In this hands-on course, you’ll see the lifecycle of a trademark from start to registration to how to maintain them. Topics will include the mechanics of the trademark application process and other practical issues that are not covered in the legal theory class. Students will learn how to talk to clients about the trademark application process and their scope of protection. Students will also be able to practice with real trademark forms and filings to prepare them for a job as a trademark attorney.
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LAW 7482 - Theories of Justice Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course addresses a fundamental question at the heart of our society and judicial system – “What is justice?” Students will critically examine the framework John Rawls proposed in A Theory of Justice (1971) and later writings. Alternative libertarian, utilitarian, communitarian, and egalitarian, theories will be considered as well.
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LAW 7485 - Transnational Litigation Seminar.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This seminar concentrates on advanced research and writing in the area of cross-border civil litigation, including the study of special jurisdictional problems; the service of process and other judicial documents; the taking of evidence abroad; the enforcement of judgements in foreign states; and special alternative dispute resolution devices available in the arena of international commercial and investment disputes.
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LAW 7487 - Trial Advocacy I.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Students enrolled in these courses will represent the College of Law on teams competing in mock trial competitions, including the Georgia Bar Association Competition, the National Trial Competition, the Atlanta Trial Lawyers Association Competition, the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers Competition, and other competitions. Enrollment will be limited. S/U grade.
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LAW 7488 - Trial Advocacy II.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. See Law 7487.
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LAW 7489 - Trial Advocacy III.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7490 - Trial Advocacy IV.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7494 - Urban Fellows Program.
2 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. For upper-level students who are selected to serve as Urban Fellows of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth.
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LAW 7495 - Refugee and Asylum Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course explores the international and domestic legal regimes for the protection of refugees and asylees. Topics include the history of the U.N. Convention on the Status of Refugees, the implementation of that convention through the U.S. Refugee Act of 1980 and subsequent related legislation, political and judicial efforts to define the extent of the protections afforded under international and domestic law, current proposals to amend the laws, and the practice of asylum law in the United States. The central goal of this course is to prepare you to represent an asylum seeker in the United States, while giving you a strong foundation in the laws that protect refugees and asylum-seekers. To this end, the course aims to: (1) give you a substantive basis in the law and the tools you need to answer questions of law that arise in your future practice; (2) orient you in the relevant procedures and highlight the skills you will need in order to meaningfully engage with clients seeking asylum; and (3) introduce you to issues in law and policy that your generation of lawyers must struggle with, and hopefully resolve. This class emphasizes learning by doing, so you should not only be prepared to participate actively in class discussion but poised to engage in group exercises and the representation of a simulated client created for this class, which will occupy much of the second half of the course.
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LAW 7496 - United States Taxation of International Transactions.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095 and LAW 7110 or consent of instructor.
Description
This is an elective course. Examines the income tax provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code which affect international transactions and activities, including import, export, and performance of services.
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LAW 7500 - Water Rights.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5050.
Description
This is an elective course. Limited enrollment. This seminar will focus on the issues of law and policy arising in allocation of water resources. After introductory sessions dealing with basic legal principles involved in acquiring, maintaining, transferring, and adjudicating property rights in water, students will present in-class analyses of current topics in water resource allocation. Each student presentation will form the basis of a research paper to be completed within five weeks of the final class. Students are urged to begin consultation with the instructor to identify topic areas during the semester before the course offering.
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LAW 7506 - White Collar Crime.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A study of the prosecution and defense of persons for nonviolent crime for financial gain typically committed by means of deception and in the course and under color of legitimate economic activity.
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LAW 7507E - Rights of People in Prison.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will explore the substantive, historical, ethical, and strategic issues involved in litigating civil rights cases on behalf of people in jail and prison. We will study principles of First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence in the prisoners’ rights context. Students will learn basic principles and apply them to litigation using problem sets. This is an experiential learning course with opportunities for drafting legal documents, mock arguments, team case strategy sessions, and self-evaluation.
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LAW 7510 - Wills, Trusts and Estates I.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Basic survey of the legal framework surrounding the transfer of property through intestate succession, wills, and trusts. Includes coverage of powers of appointment and an introductory overview of wealth transfer taxation.
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LAW 7511 - Fiduciary Administration.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Issues relating to the transfer of property through wills and trusts (including coverage of future interests and the rule against perpetuities) and coverage of fiduciary administration and the probate process.
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LAW 7515 - Women and the Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. A survey of legal issues relating to women, including criminal law, gender discrimination, family law, special statutory programs, and constitutional law.
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LAW 7521 - Workers Compensation.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5060.
Description
This is an elective course. An examination of common features of state workers’ compensation statutes including concepts of accident, course of employment, injuries arising out of employment, and causation as well as related problems.
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LAW 7525 - Leadership In Law
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the principles of leadership, the ability to define and evaluate existing leaders and to help current students identify the skills currently possessed, and those that need to be developed to seek or accept future positions of leadership.
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LAW 7600E - Tax Law Clinic: Tax Court I.
6 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095. Law 7095 (Basic Federal Taxation) is necessary either before or simultaneously with Tax Clinic- Tax Court I.
Requirements: This course may be taken by a limited number of students, and students seeking to enroll must have an overall GPA of 2.30.
Description
This is an elective course. This clinic will permit students to assist individual clients to prepare their cases for presentation before the Small Claims Division of U.S. Tax Court and before the administrative appeals offices of the Internal Revenue Service. Under appropriate supervision, students will provide advice in a wide range of matters arising under the Internal Revenue Code. They will interview clients, research legal issues, analyze facts, prepare protests and petitions.
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LAW 7601E - Tax Law Clinic: Tax Court II.
4 to 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 7095 and LAW 7600.
Requirements: This course may be taken by a limited number of students, and students seeking to enroll must have a minimum GPA of 2.30.
Description
This is an elective course. This is a continuation of Tax Law Clinic Tax Court I. Students will handle the more advanced aspects of the cases developed in Tax Court I. Their activities will include actual presentation of taxpayer positions before the I.R.S. and arguing cases before the U.S. Tax Court.
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LAW 7605E - Partnership & LLC Taxation Lab.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. An attorney’s principal role for clients entering into a partnership or limited liability company agreement is to draft the parties’ business deal into the agreement in compliance with tax rules. Accordingly, this skills-based course will teach students how to translate substantive tax rules learned in Partnership & LLC Taxation into a written partnership or limited liability company agreement that complies with the tax rules and accurately reflects the parties’ business terms. Understanding and drafting provisions governing so-called “waterfalls,” capital accounts, allocations, and distributions in partnership and limited liability company agreements will be the primary subject of this course. Other common provisions of partnership and limited liability company agreements will be studied as well.
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LAW 7607E - Immigration Clinic I.
6 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Successful completion of first year courses (LAW 5000,5001,5010,5011,5020,5030,5050,5060,5070,5071) and minimum GPA of 2.3.
Description
This is an elective course. Students will provide direct legal services to low-income noncitizens in a variety of immigration matters before administrative agencies and federal courts. Students will have the opportunity to develop interviewing, counseling, legal research and writing skills through real-world advocacy.
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LAW 7608E - Immigration Clinic II.
4 to 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Successful completion of first year courses (LAW 5000,5001,5010,5011,5020,5030,5050,5060,5070,5071) and minimum GPA of 2.3.
Description
This is an elective course. Students will provide direct legal services to low-income noncitizens in a variety of immigration matters before administrative agencies and federal courts. Students will have the opportunity to develop interviewing, counseling, legal research and writing skills through real-world advocacy.
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LAW 7611 - Comparative Legal and Policy Responses to Climate Change.
1 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Please see http://law.gsu.edu/metrogrowth/4866.html for information and details.
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LAW 7622 - LAW 7622
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Law and development addresses the impact of law, legal frameworks, and institutions (LFIs) on development. LFIs have significant impacts on development, particularly economic development. The course explores the theories and practices pertaining to law and economic development. In particular, the course explains how LFIs affect economic development in several key areas relevant to economic development, such as property rights, political governance, regulatory framework for business transactions, state industrial promotion, taxation, competition law, banking and financing, labor, corruption, and international trade. The course examines law and economic development issues in both developing and developed countries, such as the United States.
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LAW 7629 - LAW 7629
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 5010 or 5060.
Description
This is an elective course. This course covers the technical, legal and policy issues associated with blockchains, smart contracts and related technologies and key applications including cryptocurrencies . It considers emerging technology interacting with a variety of legal concepts. It starts with computing and blockchain technology fundamentals; then reviews cryptocurrencies and related regulations before examining implementation issues; then considers the context of security, commodity and tax regulations, before reviewing blockchain miners. Next, we consider smart contracts, and their applications in supply chain and real estate, then legal entities and crypto assets. The course concludes with discussions of public policy issues and medical and loT applications.
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LAW 7630 - Doing Business and Environmental Protection
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Comparative Perspectives on the Regulatory State in the U.S. and Argentina.
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LAW 7631E - Contract Drafting and Risk Analysis.
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Business transactions require well-crafted contracts that properly reflect and clarify the parties’ intentions and anticipate various outcomes to the transaction, including counter-party risk assessment and risk transfer. Lawyers and businesspeople together must think these things through. This course will focus on anticipating and providing for contingencies, securing value in and licensing intellectual property, examining choices and options for the deal, obtaining collateral to secure the performance; consider appropriate contract forms; and address risk, liability indemnity and insurance to protect and accomplish the business purpose Students will draft and assess contracts (both actual and fictional) for goods, services, secured transactions, real estate, construction, and international contracts to illustrate the application and range of contract and risk practice.
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LAW 7632 - The Role of In-House Counsel.
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: LAW 6020.
Description
This is an elective course. An introduction to the in-house practice of law and the different practical and ethical issues faced by in-house attorneys. The course will focus on the role of the in-house legal function in a corporation; the structure and management of corporate legal departments; the relationships between the legal department, corporate management and the board of directors; attorney- client privilege, internal investigations, and advising and counseling internal business clients; retaining and managing outside counsel; corporate compliance and enterprise risk management; and professional responsibility and ethics issues for in- house attorneys.
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LAW 7650 - Coastal Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course examines the competing interests in coastal zones, the problems of public and private ownership rights, and the conflicts of legal jurisdiction. Shifts in federal policy, as well as varying policy considerations, are explored in depth. Specific state and federal statutes are reviewed, along with international and regional treaties. When taught abroad, the course will also include a significant comparative law aspect.
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LAW 7651 - Social Equality and the Law.
1 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine the legal response to (in)equality in the United States and Brazil with a comparative consideration of the treatment of racial, ethnic, and economic status in both nations. Topics for comparison will include constitutional and statutory status protections, affirmative action efforts and also the cultural limits of legal enforcement.
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LAW 7652 - Public Health Law & Policy: Global & Comparative Perspectives.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine legal concerns relating to global public health regulation, including intellectual property, national security and inter-governmental cooperation challenges. As a comparative and international law course, it will first consider efforts to strengthen the global legal structure for regulation of public health. It will then examine regional law and regulation of public health in the Americas, and in particular cross-border health issues. Finally, it will compare U.S. and other national challenges in public health regulation.
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LAW 7653 - Comparative Concepts of Criminal Justice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will examine how Brazil and the United States conceive of criminal justice.
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LAW 7654 - Ecosystem Management Law.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Recommended prior courses: Law 7200 (Environmental Law) and/or Law 7320 (Land Use Law)
Description
This is an elective course. Beginning in the 1970’s, the nation federalized environmental protection with a series of major pieces of legislation. Each of these laws focused on the clean up of a single environmental medium, mandating cleaner air, water, soils, etc. Increasingly, however, diverse interests from real estate financing companies to local government officials have called for an integrated approach that combines land use planning techniques and environmental law and regulation. Ecosystem Management Law will explore these laws, regulations, and techniques for environmental management. The course is thus recommended for those students who wish to position themselves for careers in real estate, land use, and environmental law.
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LAW 7659 - Comparative Corporate Law: Governance/Transactions/Practice.
2 to 3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. Compares and contrasts the systems for regulating internal governance and corporate finance in various countries, with a primary emphasis on the United States and Brazil.
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LAW 7663 - Comparative Legal Institutions
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. *NO DESCRIPTION*
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LAW 7666 - Comparative Criminal Procedure
2 Credit Hours
There is no prerequisite for this course but Criminal Precedure (Adjudication or Investigations) recommended.
Description
This is an elective course. This course will compare American criminal procedures, from investigations and first appearance through sentencing and appeal, to the criminal procedures of countries in the common law tradition (such as England, Australia, or India), the civil law tradition (such as France or Germany), and other traditions (such as socialist, Islamic, or indigenous traditions).
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LAW 7672E - Sneaker Law
3 Credit Hours
Description
This is an elective course. This course will provide students with an overview of the $90bn sneaker industry, focusing on its main legal and business components. This course prepares students to think and act as business professionals and lawyers in anticipating and addressing the principal business and legal issues faced by sneaker companies, designers, manufacturers, and other parties involved in the sneaker industry. The practice-oriented perspective introduces students to the range of issues faced by the business professional, lawyer, and in-house counsel.
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