700 Health Care Regulations (1-4) Regulation of the medical profession; the physician-patient relationship; professional and institutional liability; health care institutions and delivery systems; quality control; access to health care services and problems of distribution and rationing; cost control, including government and private health care programs; patient rights; antitrust.
701 Juvenile Law (1-4) Juvenile law is a substantial and extremely important segment of the modern practice of law and is highly specialized. Focus is on the practitioner's point of view and the courtroom approach to juvenile issues.
703ab Children's Legal Issues (1-4; 1-4) Students will work on cases in the following areas: (1) Dependent and neglected children: All children who are wards of the court must have legal counsel. (2) Children with AIDS: Legal implications of such issues as health care and custody. (3) Guardianships or other temporary arrangements for children whose parents are terminally ill or are otherwise unable to care for them.
704ab Public Interest and Poverty Law (1-4) Two-semester course in which students represent indigent clients in a number of legal areas, under the supervision of both Law Center faculty and attorneys from public interest agencies.
705 Community Property (1 or 3) The law of community property, including disposition of property on dissolution of the marriage and questions of conflict of laws. May be offered as a reading course.
706 Conflict of Laws: The Federal System I (2, 3, 4) The problem of interstate and inter-country private-dispute resolution: a: who has jurisdiction to make an externally enforceable decision (procedural due process and full faith and credit); b: whose law should be applied (choice of law and full faith and credit); c: the special role of the federal courts, including federal-state choice of law in diversity cases.
712 Medicine and Law (2 or 3) The adversary system as a setting for medical-legal issues; examination of the medical expert, malpractice suits, physician-patient privilege. Medical terminology, medical literature, and hospital and physician records. Problems of proving causation.
717 Estate Planning (3, FaSp) Legal and tax considerations important to the lawyer advising his client on the transmission of wealth from one generation to the next.
719 Corporate Finance (4) Legal and economic aspects of corporate finance including capital structure, policy, mergers, takeovers, and freeze-outs; analysis of policy relating to present law and possible reforms.
725 Bioethics and Law (3) Legal, ethical and economic problems of advanced biological technologies, for example, behavior, genetic, and reproductive control; control of the processes of dying; organ transplantation and the use of artificial organs; regulation of scientific research and human experimentation.
728 Admiralty (2) Admiralty law as a forerunner of much of commercial law and of modern specialized adjudicatory tribunals. Maritime contracts and naval matters.
733 Corporate Reorganization (2) Reorganization of failing corporations under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act. Claims, protective committees, plans, tax considerations.
734 Local Government Law (3 or 4) Study and evaluation of the municipal and regional legal institutions. Emphasis on the crises in financing and governing the urban society.
740 Women and the Law (2 or 3) The role of women in society and the way in which gender differences are reflected in law and legal theory.
743 Family Law Seminar (2 or 3) Investigation of selected problems of family law. Prerequisite: LAW 623.
744 Taxation Seminar (2 or 3) Investigation of selected problems of tax law. Prerequisite: LAW 600.
749ab Securities Regulation (2-2) Regulation by federal and state agencies of issuance of, and trading in, stocks, bonds, and other securities. Particular reference to SEC regulations.
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