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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Law

Courses numbered 500 and above are open only to law students except by special permission from the associate dean.
  

  • LAW 570 ADR Legal Principles

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    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
    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: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Max Units: 06
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Students learn basic and advanced mediation skills, practice their skills in simulated mediations, and upon certification by the instructor, mediate in the Los Angeles County courts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 573 ADR Specialized Study

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    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
    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
    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: 1, 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 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 03
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Part-time or full-time, practical work experience in the student’s field of study. The internship must be located at an off-campus facility. Students are individually supervised by faculty. May not be taken until the student has completed at least one semester of enrollment in the graduate program with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 598 Regulatory Compliance

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 609 Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Compliance

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Explores regulations and compliance issues as well as related problem-solving techniques in the workplace.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    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 613 Corporate Governance

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examines the purpose, evolution and history of corporate governance standards, priorities and culture of boards, shareholder/stakeholder engagement, and corporate social responsibility, as it relates to law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to the USC Gould School of Law students.
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 633 Business Principles in Law

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Focuses on fundamental business concepts, including, business strategy, management, sales and marketing, finance and risk, as they relate to law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of 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
    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 640 Financial Institution Regulation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduces foundational concepts on general financial institution compliance, including compliance methods and regulatory rules affecting banks, securities firms, funds, and financial services.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    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
    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

  

  • LAW 650 Entertainment Law

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An examination of how the courts are handling selected, “cutting edge” topics in entertainment law. The topics will include the scope of and limitations on the right of publicity; fair use and parody defenses to copyright infringement; future technology clauses in rights contracts; and copyright and defamation issues arising in the online world.
    Recommended Preparation: Previous entertainment law courses recommended, but not required.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 651 Entertainment Law Practicum

    Units: 1, 2
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised internship for students enrolled in LAW 650 .
    Corequisite: LAW 650 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 652 Cyber Crime and Policy

    Units: 2
    Examines the legal and policy issues involved with the emergence of cyber crimes and cyber security issues, including government access and privacy issues.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 653 Music Law in Practice

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Focus on contract drafting and negotiation issues relevant to an artist’s pursuit of a career in the music business.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 654 Television and Digital Media

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    An in-depth study of television industry legal concepts, contracts, business structures and economic models.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 655 Environmental Law

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Focus on environmental law policy and practice. This course is a combination of regulatory and private law, with a special emphasis on disputes and regulations involving contamination in soil, water and air.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 656 The Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology

    Units: 1, 2
    Introduces aspiring attorneys to important concepts in the entertainment business, and builds context for more advanced courses in entertainment, media, technology and intellectual property law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 657 International Protection of Intellectual Property

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    The laws concerning how to enforce and exploit rights protecting media creations, marketing symbols, computer programs, new technologies, designs, know-how, and data across national borders.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 658 Mergers and Acquisitions

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Problems of integrating the corporate, securities, tax, business, antitrust, accounting and contractual aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions.
    Prerequisite: LAW 603 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 659 Legal Issues in the Motion Picture Industry

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Involves the legal and business principles involved in structuring, negotiating and documenting agreements relating to the development, production and distribution of theatrical motion pictures.
    Prerequisite: LAW 772  or LAW 841 
    Corequisite: LAW 650 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 660 Trademark Law in Practice

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    A rigorous introduction to a law of trademarks. A trademark can be any word, symbol, design, sound, fragrance or product configuration that is used to distinguish the goods or services of one person from those of another, and to indicate the origin of the goods or services.
    Prerequisite: LAW 772  or LAW 841 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 661 National Security Law

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Examination of the nature of United States’ national security law, focusing on how it is created, violated and enforced.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 662 Public International Law

    Units: 3, 4
    Principles of international law involving relations among governments. The function of international tribunals and organizations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 663 Health Care Law, Business and Finance

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Covers health care business fundamentals, financial risk and return, capital budgeting, and long-term financial analysis and planning, as it relates to law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 664 Patient Privacy Law

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Emphasizes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other important federal and state privacy laws, and their enforcement.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 665 Art Law

    Units: 2 or 3
    Provides an overview, often from a litigation perspective, of legal issues affecting artworks and cultural property.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 667 Hale Moot Court Brief

    Units: 2
    Invitation-only course offered to second-year students as part of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program. Students write an appellate brief. Open only to students in JD program (including dual degrees).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 668 Hale Moot Court Oral Advocacy

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Invitation-only course for students in the Hale Moot Court Honors Program. Students present an oral argument and judge first-year student rounds.
    Prerequisite: LAW 667 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 669 Moot Court Supervision

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Evaluation and supervision of the preparation of briefs and oral arguments in the Hale Moot Court honors competition.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 670 Advanced Moot Court Oral Arguments

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 3.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Preparation of oral arguments in approved moot court competitions, such as national and state prize rounds (other than Hale Moot Court Program).
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 671 Advanced Moot Court Briefs

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Preparation of briefs in approved moot court competitions, such as national and state prize rounds (other than Hale Moot Court Program).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 672 Jessup Moot Court Briefs

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Students prepare for competition by writing a brief on the issues in a problem that is the basis for the Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Participation is by faculty selection only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 673 Deal Strategy, Structure and Negotiation

    Units: 4
    Examines the legal and business skills, concepts and practices, involved in structuring, drafting and negotiating financing, production and distribution deals in the entertainment industry.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 674 Advanced Secured Transactions Workshop

    Units: 1
    Provides hands-on experience in the various tasks typically required in structuring, documenting and closing a personal property secured transaction.
    Corequisite: LAW 642 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 675 Mental Health Law

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Studies the important issues at the intersection of law and psychology/psychiatry, both civil and criminal.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 678a Review of Law and Social Justice Staff

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Writing, source-checking, and preliminary editing of articles and comments for publication in the Review of Law and Social Justice. For second-year students serving as staff members on the Review.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 678b Review of Law and Social Justice Staff

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Writing, source-checking, and preliminary editing of articles and comments for publication in the Review of Law and Social Justice. For second-year students serving as staff members on the Review.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 679 Review of Law and Social Justice Writing

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 4.0
    Writing, source-checking, and preliminary editing of articles and comments for publication in the Review of Law and Social Justice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 680 Mediation Theory and Practice

    Units: 2, 3
    Develop knowledge and skills associated with the mediation process as a third party neutral. Explore mediation theories, practices, ethical issues and policies.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 680a Review of Law and Social Justice Editing

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Supervision of research and writing, and final editing of articles and comments for publication in the Review of Law and Social Justice. For officers of the Review.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 680b Review of Law and Social Justice Editing

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervision of research and writing, and final editing of articles and comments for publication in the Review of Law and Social Justice. For officers of the Review.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 681 Analytical Methods for Lawyers

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Teaches important business and economic concepts that will assist with problems lawyers in every practice area routinely encounter.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 682 Jessup Moot Court Oral Arguments

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Students prepare oral arguments on the issues in a problem that is the basis for the Jessup International Moot Court competition. Participation is by faculty selection only.
    Prerequisite: LAW 672 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 683 Fact Investigation and Discovery

    Units: 2, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to a practice-oriented approach to interviewing and counseling clients. Enables students to develop a useful framework for effectively interviewing and representing clients.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 684 Suing the Government

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Deals with suits against federal and state governments. Intended for aspiring government workers or representatives of plaintiffs who sue a government official or entity.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 685 Civil Discovery

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Focuses on the discovery phase of pre-trial litigation and many of the skills new lawyers are called upon to use right out of law school.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 686 Civil Rights: The Enforcement of the Constitution

    Units: 3
    Gives students operational significance to the abstractions presented in the Constitutional Law courses by investigating civil rights litigation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 687 Immigration Detention and Appellate Clinic

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    A one-semester clinical course where students represent non-citizens in appellate matters before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals, and in petitions for writs of habeas corpus before the U.S. District Court.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 689 Digital Media Transactions

    Units: 2
    Focuses on the business, legal, and financial issues that relate to the creation, financing, and exploitation of digital media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 690 Entertainment Law in Practice

    Units: 2
    Develops legal, analytical, and client management skills required to represent entertainment industry clients in all areas of the entertainment industry.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

 

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