Courses of Instruction

USC Gould School of Law

Courses

Law

• LAW 101w Law and the U.S. Constitution in Global History

  Units: 4
  By examining key constitutional moments involving race, rights, and revolutions, students will explore how legal meaning changes over time.
  Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 200w Law and Society

  Units: 4
  Sources and structure of law; history of Bill of Rights emphasizing effect on criminal justice system; limits of law in solving problems in American society.
  Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 201x Law and Politics: Electing a President

  Units: 4
  Examination of the rules and realities of American politics, and the role politics plays in American life and culture.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  Crosslisted as POSC-201
• LAW 220 The Legal Profession

  Units: 2
  Introduces students to the basic aspects of the legal profession.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 250 Children and Law

  Units: 4
  Examines topics such as children’s suggestibility, decision-making, and risk and resiliency all as they apply to legal settings.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 300 Concepts in American Law

  Units: 4
  The main concepts and topics in American law, in the historical, economic and cultural contexts in which they have developed. Open only to students enrolled in the Philosophy, Politics and Law (PPL) major.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 301 The Constitution in Transnational Perspective

  Units: 4
  Examines the Constitution of the United States in transnational perspective, both historically and today. Focuses on democracy; slavery, emancipation, and freedom; empire; and governmental structures.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 320 Law, Slavery, and Race

  Units: 4
  Studies how law, politics and culture interacted to shape the institution of slavery and the development of modern conceptions of race. 
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  Crosslisted as HIST 320
• LAW 402 Psychology and Law

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Explores issues of responsibility and credibility. Intentional and unintentional behavior. Clinical biases. Topics include witness credibility, confessions, cults, hostages, battered persons, and repressed memories.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 403 Mental Health Law

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Issues at the intersection of law and psychology, both civil — e.g., civil commitment — and criminal — e.g., the insanity defense. Emphasis on ethical issues.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 404 Law and Psychology: Examining the Criminal Justice Process

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Examination of the capacity of the criminal justice process to produce accurate verdicts. Application of psychological research on witnesses, detectives, suspects, judges and jurors.
  Recommended Preparation: PSYC 100 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 444 Civil and Political Rights and Liberties

  Units: 4
  (Enroll in POSC 444 )
  
• LAW 450 Law, Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice

  Units: 4
  Historical overview of the evolution of international legal norms prohibiting atrocity crimes found in the law of armed conflict, international human rights law and the 1948 Genocide Convention.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• LAW 502 Procedure I

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Consideration of the participants in litigation — private and public plaintiffs, defendants, and courts. Information exchange, process, outcomes, and costs of lawsuits.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 503 Contracts

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  The interpretation and enforcement of promises and agreements.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 504 Criminal Law

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  The crime problem and the legislative response to it through substantive criminal law; administration of criminal justice through police, prosecutorial, sentencing, and penological discretion.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 505 Legal Profession

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Functions of the lawyer in modern society; history and organization of the legal profession; the adversary system; equal access to justice; other problems of ethics and professional responsibility.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 507 Property

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  The idea of property as understood through economic and philosophical concepts. Rights in land, water and other natural resources. Forms of shared ownership (e.g., landlord and tenant), and a survey of mechanisms for controlling land use.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 508 Constitutional Law: Structure

  Units: 2, 3, 4, 5
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Considers the delineation of spheres of responsibility between the judiciary and legislature, the nation and the state, and the government and the individual.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law majors
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 509 Torts I

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Individual’s obligation not to harm others; bases for compensating persons who are harmed, either by holding responsible whoever is at fault or by invoking other principles of liability, including the efficiency of resource allocation and the spreading of losses.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 510 Legal Research

  Units: 0 or 1
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Examination of the basic sources of law for federal and California jurisdictions, utilizing a vast array of sources from books to computer-assisted research and analyzing research methodology and techniques.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 511a Legal Writing

  Units: 1, 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Two-semester course focusing on developing analytic and communication skills. Lawyers will analyze legal principles and incisively apply them to facts.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 511b Legal Writing

  Units: 1, 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Two-semester course focusing on developing analytic and communication skills. Lawyers will analyze legal principles and incisively apply them to facts.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 512 Law, Language and Values

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  An introduction to legal interpretation and normative reasoning. Among the topics addressed are statutory and common law interpretation, the rule of law, externalities, and inequality.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 515 Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy I

  Units: 2, 3
  Development of legal research, writing and advocacy skills. Emphasis on objective legal writing, including memoranda, and researching case law through primary and secondary sources.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 516 Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy II

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Continuation of LAW 515 . Development of legal research, writing, and advocacy skills. Emphasis on persuasive legal writing, including appellate briefs, and researching statutory and administrative law. Participation in a moot court program.
  Prerequisite: LAW 515 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 520 Introduction to U.S. Legal System

  Units: 2
  The basic structure of government in the U.S., including the constitutionally mandated division of power in the federal government and the federal system of power sharing between state and federal systems. A comparative perspective on selected substantive and procedural matters, such as common law reasoning, jury trials, adversary process, and various aspects of civil procedure. Open to LLM students only.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 521 Topics in American Law

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  This course provides LLM and MCL students with a survey of various topics in American law, including criminal law, evidence, family law, constitutional law, torts, wills and trusts, administrative law and property law. Open to LLM and MCL students only.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 522 Entertainment Law and Industry

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides a detailed survey of entertainment law, entertainment-related transactions and litigation, and legal issues facing the entertainment industry.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 527 Intellectual Property: Copyright

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides an introduction to copyright law, the application of copyright laws in litigation, and the management of copyrighted works.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 528 Constitutional Law

  Units: 2
  Covers the delineation of spheres of responsibility between three branches of the federal government, the federal government and the states and the government and individuals.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 530 Fundamental Business Principles

  Units: 3
  Exposes students to everyday business and finance vocabulary, concepts and modes of analysis. Strongly recommended for students without significant prior business experience.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 531 Ethical Issues for Public Interest, Government and Criminal Lawyers

  Units: 3
  Covers legal ethics issues with an emphasis on access to justice, nonprofit practice settings, and duties of prosecutors and defense attorneys. Fulfills Legal Profession requirement.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 532 Constitutional Law: Rights

  Units: 3
  Examines constitutional rights particularly ones protected under the Equal Protection/Due Process Clauses and related questions of judicial role and theories of interpretation.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 550 Business Law Advisor

  Units: 1
  Max Units: 4
  Write or edit articles for the Business Law Advisor, a student-run publication that publishes advisory articles relevant to the intersection of business and law.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 551 Intellectual Property: Trademark

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides an introduction to trademark law, the federal trademark registration process, and the application of trademark laws in litigation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 559 Human Resource Compliance

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides an overview of human resource related law, and various legal issues involved in the employment relationship.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 560 Academic and Professional Skills for U.S. Law Studies I

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Explores and develops the legal communication and analytical skills necessary to the practice of law.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 561 Fundamentals of Legal Writing Skills

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Explores purpose and form of legal documents and emphasizes effective communication.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 562 Introduction to U.S. Legal Culture and Practice

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Explores the foundation for U.S. law and culture, including the historical and contemporary development of U.S. law.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 563 Presentation Skills for International Lawyers

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Explores the art of public speaking and effective communication in legal settings.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 564 Persuasive Advocacy

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Explores the communication and presentation skills necessary for persuasive legal advocacy.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 565 U.S. Common Law Analysis and Skills

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Explores how judicial opinions interact with other sources of law and develop law in the U.S.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 566 Academic and Professional Skills for U.S. Law Studies II

  Units: 1
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Explores effective legal communication and professionalism skills.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to master students enrolled in Certificate in U.S. Legal Studies program at USC Gould School of Law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 567 Introduction to Litigation in U.S. Courts

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Provides an overview of the United States legal system for those unfamiliar with common law courts, including the mechanics of the U.S. Court system in both criminal and civil courts, as well as more detailed analysis of torts and intellectual property disputes.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 570 ADR Legal Principles

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Survey course for students who have not earned a J.D. in a U.S. law school to gain an understanding of the legal framework for the dispute resolution processes in which they participate.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 571 Organizational Conflict

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Origin and types of conflicts which arise within organizations. Designing systems to prevent conflict from developing or escalating and developing a culture of collaboration and creativity.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 572 Practical Mediation Skills Clinic

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Sm

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  Students learn basic and advanced mediation skills, practice their skills in simulated mediations, and upon certification by the instructor, mediate in the Los Angeles Superior Court. (Note: LAW 570  must be taken prior to or concurrently with enrollment in LAW 572, unless the student has previously earned a J.D. from a U.S. law school.)
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 573 ADR Specialized Study

  Units: 1, 2, 3
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  ADR Specialized Study projects reflect substantial research and study which result in meaningful written work, generally 10 to 15 pages in length per unit of credit. 
  Prerequisite: LAW 715  and LAW 819  and LAW 829 
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 574 Health Care Compliance

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides background on about the importance of compliance for health care organizations and legal challenges facing the health care industry.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 579 Global Regulatory Compliance

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Introduction to regimes that regulate business practices on a global level and compliance of such regimes, such as Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and other regulations.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 580 Wicked Problems Practicum

  Units: 2
  Max Units: 6
  A year-long project addressing an urgent public policy issue that is both multifaceted and intractable.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 598 Regulatory Compliance

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides an overview of regulatory compliance law and the ways that various organizations ensure compliance with governing laws and regulations.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 599 Special Topics

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 600 Taxation

  Units: 3 or 4
  Federal tax statutes, technical issues and social problems involved in tax planning, tax litigation, and reform of the tax laws.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 601 Advanced Legal Writing Practicum

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Requires students to draft legal documents they were not exposed to in the first-year writing course, such as client letters, demand letters, and contracts.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 602 Criminal Procedure

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Criminal procedure in the courts, and the regulation of law enforcement by the courts through rules of evidence and interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 603 Business Organizations

  Units: 3, 4, 5
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Organization of economic activity — especially the modern corporation — as institutions of social power. The roles of managers, owners, and public regulatory agencies in shaping processes of decision-making.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 604 Real Estate Transactions Problems

  Units: 1
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Selected problems to supplement LAW 605 .
  Corequisite: LAW 605 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 605 Real Estate Law and Business I (Transactions)

  Units: 3, 4, 5
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  The land transfer process: arrangements between buyers and sellers, brokers, escrows, recorders, title companies. Real estate financing through mortgages and other land security devices.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 606 Land Use Controls

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Concentrates on the major topics of Land Use and Environmental law in the 21st Century.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 607 Gifts, Wills, and Trusts

  Units: 3 or 4
  Gratuitous transfer of wealth, especially the transmission of wealth from one generation to the next as a settlement of family affairs. Comparative analysis of the legal mechanisms of gifts, wills, and trusts. Introduction to problems of fiduciary administration.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 608 Evidence

  Units: 3 or 4
  The purpose and character of trial. Problems of adversary presentation and the nature of proof. The basis for admission and exclusion of evidence in judicial proceedings.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 610 Antidiscrimination Law

  Units: 3, 4
  Surveys federal constitutional and statutory mechanisms designed to fulfill the promise of equality under the law.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 611 Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Seminar for students who aspire to write publishable research articles or notes on constitutional law topics.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 612 California Civil Procedure

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Examines the California rules of civil procedure. Emphasizes California law, with some discussion of the differences between state and federal procedure.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 614 Accounting for Lawyers

  Units: 2 or 3
  The lawyer’s skills needed to understand the financial affairs of a business client.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 615 Election Law

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Consideration of legal regulation of the right to vote and otherwise to participate in the electoral process.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 616 Restitution

  Units: 3
  Comprehensive study of restitution, the common law action for unjust enrichment. Addresses unjust enrichment as a freestanding wrong, not just as a remedy.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 617 History of American Law

  Units: 2 or 3
  Explores the interaction of law, culture, and politics in American society from the Revolution through the New Deal.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 618 Advanced Contracts

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Students work in groups using principles of contract design analyzing concrete cases based on actual events in transactions handled by a large commercial law firm.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 619 Employment Law

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Examination of the evolving role of work in our society and the nature and scope of legal regulation of the employment relationship.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 620 Mortgage Law

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Deals with the rights and remedies of mortgage lenders and borrowers after the mortgage loan has gone into default.
  Recommended Preparation: LAW 605 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 621 Gender Discrimination

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Analysis of the constitutional and statutory debates about the meaning of equality, and the recognition and accommodation of difference.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 622 Money in Politics

  Units: 2, 3
  Studies the statutes and cases governing campaign finance in America and the latest research into their effects.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 623 Family Law

  Units: 3 or 4
  Creating, regulating and dissolving family relationships. Explore moral and power relations among men, women, children and the state. Develop skills to help clients in families.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 624 Water Law

  Units: 2
  Covers the regulation of groundwater and surface water by the courts and the State Water Resources Control Board.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 625 Remedies

  Units: 3 or 4
  Comparison of the remedial goals of contracts, torts, and property and the impact of procedural devices in law and equity. Damages, injunctions, specific performance and restitution. Remedial theory and transactional application.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 626 International Investment Law and Arbitration

  Units: 2
  Provides students with understanding of protection offered to foreign investment and investors through bilateral investment treaties and multilateral and regional investment and free trade agreements.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 627 Business Planning

  Units: 3, 4
  Covers each phase of the structuring, formation, financing and operation of a new media enterprise.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 628 Real Estate Problems

  Units: 1
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Selected problems to supplement LAW 629 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 629 Real Estate Law and Business II (Finance and Development)

  Units: 2, 3, 4, 5
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  A survey of the major types of financing used for real estate and the basic techniques used to make real estate investment and financing decisions.
  Recommended Preparation: LAW 605 
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 630 Mediation Clinic I

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Students receive the training required to become professional mediators for civil cases in the L.A. County Superior Court, and mediate these cases.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 631 Mediation Clinic II

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Continuation of LAW 630 .
  Prerequisite: LAW 630 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 632 Business for Lawyers

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  This course introduces law students to the tools, concept, and language of business. It is premised on the belief that to excel as a business lawyer, one must understand the business world from the perspective of the clients one counsels and assists. The course will cover, in compressed form, the basic subjects from the MBA program which are most useful to lawyers.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 634 Legal Analysis of Evidence

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Legal analysis of the rules of Evidence using problems designed to improve analytic skills and problem-solving. Taken in conjunction with Evidence.
  Corequisite: LAW 608 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 635 Employment Discrimination Law

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Examines the regulation of employment discrimination under federal law. Pays primary attention to issues of race, sex, age and disability discrimination.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 636 Labor Law

  Units: 3 or 4
  The interrelation of labor, business, and government in collective bargaining, federal regulation of union and management practices and pressures, especially through the Taft-Hartley Act.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 637 International Trade Policy

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Examination of the institutions and laws that regulate international economic relations. Students will be introduced to the major international agreements and national laws that regulate international trade goods, services and capital.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 638 Topics in Alternative Dispute Resolution

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 6.0
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Examines selected topics in negotiation, mediation, or alternative dispute resolution. May be repeated with permission of the instructor as topics vary.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 639 Law and Literature

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Selected topics in law and literature.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 641 Commercial Law

  Units: 2 or 4
  Commercial transactions involving secured financing (other than land). Government regulation of such sales and borrowing through Article 9 of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code and other recent legislation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 642 Secured Transactions

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  This is a course on Chattel paper and secured transactions involving personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and some related bodies of law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 643 Securities Fraud Litigation

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Examination of the laws governing fraud in securities markets. Focus on several sections of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including fraudulent statements and insider trading, fraud in the takeover context, fraud in proxies, and controlling personal liability.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 644 Corporate Taxation

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Tax principles and practice applicable to business, especially problems of formation, liquidation, and reorganization.
  Prerequisite: LAW 600 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 645 Transactional Practice — The Syndicated Loan Agreement

  Units: 4
  Involves issues including loan restructuring; what loan agreements cover; how representations, covenants, default and financial and repayment terms interrelate; and how security documents fit in.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• LAW 646 Advanced Topics in Employment Discrimination

  Units: 1, 2, 3
  Reviews recent Supreme Court decisions and legal scholarship with attention to statutory interpretation, consistency with constitutional antidiscrimination standards, and consistency with current understandings about discrimination.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 647 Bankruptcy: Debtors and Creditors I

  Units: 2 or 3
  Bankruptcy of the poor, imprudent or unlucky, and of unsuccessful businesses. The mechanisms of our law for distributing the debtor’s property and discharging his obligations.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 648 Topics in Entertainment Law

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Contemporary topics in the field of entertainment law.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric
  
  
• LAW 649 Insurance

  Units: 2 or 3
  The pooling of risks and distributing of losses. Actuarial foundation and contract problems of insurance.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Numeric