810 Patent Law (2) Patent laws, litigation, and the process of prosecuting the patent application. The concept of invention and ownership of rights under patents.

820 Pretrial Advocacy (3 or 4) Examines conceptual and practical aspects of interviewing, counseling, negotiation, settlement, drafting, and formal advocacy in the handling of legal cases.

821 Trial Advocacy (4) Examines decision-making by counsel in the litigation of cases. Emphasis is given to decisions involving tactics and strategies and their implications for the functioning of legal institutions and substantive doctrine. Extensive use of simulated trial practice exercises.

822 Legislation (2 or 3, Fa) The legislative process in Congress and state legislatures; legislative and judicial law making, statutory interpretation and drafting, and judicial activism and restraint.

837 Legal Aspects of Motion Picture Production (2) Seminar in business and legal issues arising in motion picture production. Class represents hypothetical production company; renders legal advice from acquisition of rights through production.

839 Copyright: Introduction to Entertainment Law (2 or 4) Basic entertainment law course: study of federal copyright law, analysis of property rights and interests created thereunder. Manner in which these rights can be exploited in the various entertainment media. Study of specific segments of the entertainment industry (motion picture, sports, etc.) is undertaken in separate courses.

840 Regulation of Broadcasting (2) Legal problems in radio and television broadcasting. Regulation by the Federal Communications Commission and state statutes. Tort liabilities; contract problems; advertising.

842 Partnership Taxation (2, 3, 4)

861 Criminal Justice Seminar (2 or 3) Investigation of selected problems of international law.

862 Transnational Litigation: The U.S. and Japan (2 or 3) Japanese legal philosophies and Japanese attitudes toward law and the legal system. Survey and discussion of related cultural foundations.

870 Lawyering Techniques Instructorship (2-4) Assist in teaching Introduction to Lawyering Techniques course. Responsibilities include drafting and grading writing and analysis assignments; teaching one small section of first year students, and designing first year Moot Court program.

871 Constitutional Law II (2 or 4) The First Amendment, freedom of expression (political speech, symbolic expression, obscenity, commercial speech, defamation), rights of access to the media of expression. The protection of religion and the prohibition of the establishment of religion.

890ab Directed Research (1-4) Directed Research may be taken only with the approval of the Administrative Board. This course is intended for substantial independent research and study that does not result in a paper of publishable quality. It includes, but is not limited to, preparation of research memoranda for faculty research projects, empirical research for such projects, and supervised independent study. Directed research is to be supervised by a regular, full-time faculty member (including full-time visiting faculty). Students may take a maximum of 4 units of Directed Research during their educational experience at the Law Center.

891 Advocacy and Dispute Resolution (2 or 4) Study of the use of lawyer and non-lawyer advocates or ombusdmen; non-adversary processes, alternative tribunals, mediation and quality control processes, in order to resolve disputes and protect rights and entitlements. Examples may be drawn from patient care systems, prisons, consumer, neighborhood, or workplace disputes, or inter-business disputes.

892 Post-conviction Justice Seminar and Clinical Internships (2 or 4) Weekly seminar examines the substantive rights of federal prisoners with respect to parole, sentencing, validity of conviction and conditions of confinement and the procedural mechanisms by which to enforce those rights. In addition, students in the course provide legal assistance, under faculty supervision, to federal inmates in administrative and judicial proceedings.

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