Golden Gate University

This introductory course gives students a basic understanding of the structure of an accounting system; the mechanics of accounting entries; and the related legal, tax and business ramifications of implementing various accounting conventions and methods. Course lectures and text include discussions and cases covering generally accepted accounting principles, financial statement analysis and disclosure, auditing, choice of entity issues, and the attorney's role in dealing with accountants, auditors, and other financial professionals.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course surveys the organization, authority, and procedures of administrative agencies in relation to rulemaking, adjudication, and judicial review of administrative rulings and decisions. The course examines both federal and state agencies.

Units: 3

This course takes a comprehensive and detailed look into issues such as charitable organizations, valuation discounts, domestic partnerships, family limited partnerships, guardianships and conservatorships, trust and estate litigation, representing high net worth clients, irrevocable trusts, and law office management.

Prerequisite: Estate and Gift Taxation; Estate Planning. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course explains the structure and use of legal materials. The goal is research proficiency, especially in a virtual law library. Each student is responsible for using the various online research tools, theories, and strategies presented by the instructors to complete weekly exercises and compile a comprehensive research memorandum/guide. Hard copy and electronic resources will be compared to explore their relative strengths and weaknesses, so students can also expect to sharpen their research skills with traditional print materials. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. This course is open only to upper division JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course explores the art of legal writing. Students will focus on the writing process (from outlining to rewriting) as a series of strategic decisions. Assignments include writing and rewriting two closed library assignments. Students will also rewrite a document from a previous class (e.g., Appellate Advocacy brief) using the advanced writing techniques learned in class. Students who received less than a B- in Appellate Advocacy must obtain instructor permission prior to registering. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Must be taken after, and not concurrently with, Appellate Advocacy., Units: 1 , Offered: Spring 2013

The Litigation Center is premised on the notion that trial and presentation skills are honed through repetition and experience. This course is designed to give students an opportunity for additional presentation experience beyond Trial Advocacy. This course provides an experience similar to participating on a mock trial competition team and addresses additional topics in advocacy. In Advanced Trial Advocacy, every student will participate as counsel in several full trials, as advocates, witnesses, and jurors. Outstanding students in this class may also be selected to represent the law school in mock trial competitions. This course (or competing in mock trial) is required for the JD Litigation Certificate. Prerequisite: Evidence and either Trial Advocacy or Trial Evidence & Advocacy

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The purpose of this course is to help students learn approaches to negotiation and conflict resolution, and to understand various dispute resolution processes, principally mediation and arbitration. Students will be exposed to simulated negotiations and mediations and will be expected to participate in exercises and to act as advocates and/or mediators. Guest lecturers may include a hostage negotiator, an aikido master, a retired superior court judge now serving as a JAMS mediator, and prominent mediators and arbitrators. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement.

Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I and II., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course begins with a discussion of the ethical bases for legal protection of individual animals and wildlife populations, focusing on where different ethical premises create conflicts over animal protection. The course then reviews several wildlife protection laws, including the Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and California's Fully Protected Species Statutes. Finally, the course reviews the legal protections available to individual animals, from their status of property to standing for animals to their ethical treatment in domestic, agricultural, and laboratory settings. Several of San Francisco's unique statutes protecting animals will be reviewed, as well as recent bills proposed in Sacramento pertaining to animal and wildlife law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This study of the federal antitrust laws (and corresponding California provisions) has a particular emphasis on price fixing, boycotts, discriminatory dealing, and other marketing restraints. The course focuses on counseling for small businesses and on understanding antitrust pitfalls. Current issues, particularly those relating to health care and intellectual property, are highlighted.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course builds on the writing skills developed in the first year of law school. Students prepare appellate briefs and present oral arguments in a moot court program.

Prerequisite: Writing and Research I and II., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course focuses on legal issues related to visual arts and explores the artist's rights in their work of art, specifically matters relating to property rights, including copyright, moral rights and resale rights, while examining issues relating to license agreements with third parties.

Corequisite: Intellectual Property Law Survey, Units: 2

The Aviation Law course covers international treaties applicable to commercial air transportation; the regulatory structure for aviation in the United States; litigation of an aviation case; claims against the United States; general aviation operations and accidents; special problems with aircraft accident investigation; and enforcement actions against pilots, mechanics, and aviation companies who are certificate holders.

Prerequisite: Torts and Constitutional Law I., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course focuses on the basic rules for bankruptcy (corporate, partnership and individual) and the important interplay between taxes and bankruptcy. The course will cover the discharge of income and other taxes in bankruptcy, and analyze special tax rules applicable to bankruptcies, including tax rules for real property dispositions in bankruptcy, taxation of individual bankruptcy estates, net operating losses and relief of indebtedness income rules. Current bankruptcy-related legislation and events will be discussed. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course examines the legal issues arising from the intersection of biology, technology, and intellectual property law (especially patent), focusing primarily on current topics of interest such as cloning, assisted reproduction, and genetically modified foods and crops. Topics are explored mainly through internet sources and guest lecturers. Students research, write, and present to the class a publication-quality paper on a biotechnology topic of their choice. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. Prerequisite: High school level understanding of cellular and molecular biology. Some knowledge of patent law is a plus.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course covers the formation, financing, structure, control, and management of business associations, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability entities. The course also examines agency principles and uniform acts related to business associations and selected provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement.

Units: 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course examines the rights and remedies available to a failing business and its creditors when the business seeks to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. The course is structured as a "practicum," which tracks a single business through restructuring, and emphasizes practical and strategic lawyering skills. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course focuses on the nature and purpose of various basic agreements found in business settings, including contracts for the manufacture of goods, for the distribution of goods, and for the provision of services. Each session is comprised of a lecture in a seminar style followed by a practical exercise designed to help students understand how to draft contracts from scratch, analyze contracts drafted by others, spot problem areas, and formulate solutions while avoiding common mistakes. One series of exercises will simulate key components in the formation of a business contract, including interviewing a client, drafting deal points from that interview, and a negotiating deal points with the client's adversary. Another series of discussions and exercises will analyze the structure and component parts of a typical contract, using a sample contract as a guide. The goal is to provide students with sufficient background information to dissect and understand the moving parts in an agreement, together with the real-world challenge of negotiation and drafting.

Prerequisite: Contracts I & II, Writing & Research I & II. Preferred: Business Associations., Units: 2

This course is an in-depth review of the law, policies, and procedures regulating the entry into the United States of foreigners for business, employment, and investment purposes. Students examine the various strategies available to U.S. employers and to foreign individuals under existing law. Students further familiarize themselves with the federal agencies that regulate the dispensation of temporary and permanent immigration benefits in business, employment, and investment contexts, and develop insights into counseling and procedures for obtaining those benefits. The course also addresses related issues, such as employer compliance with federal employment eligibility verification requirements, and, to a lesser extent, export control issues, the impact of mergers and acquisitions, the intersection of immigration and employment law, and tax aspects of immigration.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Many GGU law graduates enter civil practice in small firms or in solo practice. To be competent practitioners they must not only master the substantive and procedural aspects of law practice, they must also master the skills needed to own and operate a small law practice business. This one-unit course, offered all day on two consecutive Saturdays, aims to help develop those business administrative skills. Subjects covered will include: choosing a location; choosing technology for phones, networking, calendaring; insurance; client relations; hiring and staff relations; marketing; relations with other firms and attorneys; and file management. A take-home final exam will be given at the end of the course, which will present students with an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of the course materials through their application to a hypothetical law firm start-up scenario.

Units: 1 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course explores the business aspects of the practice of law for students interested in solo practice, those starting a firm with friends, or for students interested in understanding management issues of an existing firm or corporate law department. The course will consider the different forms of practice, client management issues, marketing, budgeting and financial planning, space and equipment planning, fee setting, compensation and human resource issues and associated ethical considerations. In lieu of a final exam, over the semester students will draft a number of documents including a law firm structure outline, a business plan, including a budget, client letters, a personal career plan and resume, a diary of observations and insights and time records.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

California boasts some of the nation's most spectacular environmental resources and some of its worst environmental problems. It also frequently sets national trends with its cutting-edge environmental and natural resource protection laws. This seminar examines some of the state's unique environmental problems and regulatory approaches. Topics covered include: the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); the California Coastal Act and the California Coastal Commission; the California Forest Practices Act; the public trust doctrine; California Wild & Scenic Rivers protection; Stream Alteration Agreements; dams and fisheries passage under the California Fish & Game Code; the California Endangered Species Act, and farmland preservation pursuant to Williamson Act contracts and conservation easements.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course demonstrates the structure and use of legal resources as they relate to California practice. The course goal is research proficiency, especially with electronic California legal materials. Each student is responsible for learning to use the electronic research tools, theories, and strategies presented by the instructors. Weekly exercises are assigned, and students may also be expected to complete either a semester research project or a shorter end-of-semester project to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of research skills. Paper and online resources will be compared to reveal their respective strengths and weaknesses, so students in this class can also expect to hone their skills in researching California printed legal materials.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course provides a foundation in the theory and practice of property taxation for California businesses. During this 5-week session, students will learn the basics of real and personal property taxation and discuss current and relevant legal issues, such as tax compliance issues affecting property valuations, audit administration issues, and tax saving strategies. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course examines the fundamental concepts of federal income taxation, including gross income, business and investment deductions, personal exemptions, and the mechanics of capital transactions. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013

Children and the Law is a seminar that examines the unique status of children under our legal system, and explores the fundamental question of how the law allocates decision-making power and responsibility for children among the child, the family and the State. The course will focus on both the theory underpinning the child welfare and delinquency systems as well as the function of those systems in practice. Topics we cover include delinquency and juvenile justice; abuse and neglect; foster care and adoption; and the rights of children within the family. Unlike a course in family law, we will not focus on marriage, divorce, or reproductive rights. This course satisfies the JD upper division writing requirement.

Units: 3

This course focuses on the practical and theoretical aspects of preparing for and taking depositions in civil cases. Over the course of the semester, students learn deposition strategies and questioning techniques using a variety of simulations to provide students with a wide array of contexts. Special emphasis is given to deposing hostile witnesses. The course is designed to give students continual practice and feedback in order to maximize skill-development. Co-requisite: Evidence.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

In this course, students handle every aspect of the pretrial preparation of a civil lawsuit. They proceed from the initial client contact, through formulating client representational strategy, to developing a case theory. They draft all the case pleadings as well as motions challenging the sufficiency of the pleadings. Students also engage in all aspects of fact investigation. The course ends with a pre-trial settlement conference.

Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I and II., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This yearlong course (see Civil Procedure II) is a survey of the procedures regulating the litigation of civil disputes. Civil Procedure I covers personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, venue, and choice of law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This yearlong course (see Civil Procedure I) is a survey of the procedures regulating the litigation of civil disputes. Civil Procedure II covers elements of pleading, joinder of parties and claims, discovery, functions of court and jury, verdicts, post-judgment motions, and appeal. The main focus is the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure although comparisons will be made to the California Rules of Civil Procedure when they are materially different. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

Commercial leasing constitutes a major area of modern real estate practice. This course introduces students to substantive law, drafting skills, and essential negotiation techniques that practitioners use and look for in their new hires. Some of the issues covered will be letters of intent, rentable space, expenses, use provisions, recapture provisions, repair & compliance clauses, tenant improvements, insurance, SNDAs, CAM, ADR, ADA, financing, and bankruptcy. Prerequisite: Property I & II (6 units) or Property (4 units).

Units: 2

This course covers the law of California marital property. Topics include general principles of classifying marital property, management and control of community property, division of community property upon dissolution or death, and the property rights of putative or meretricious spouses. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Using a comparative and functional approach, the course examines the various regulatory and governance strategies employed in different legal systems to address three recurring problems of corporation law: mediating the tensions between owners and managers, between majority owners and minority owners, and between the corporation and society. The primary comparison will be between US and French/EU law. There is no prerequisite for this course. This course is offered only through the Paris Summer Program.

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course explores the US approach to criminal justice compared with that of other countries through readings and lively discussions. Specifically, this course considers the differences between adversarial and non-adversarial trial systems, the roles of the different figures in the criminal justice system; that of the defendant, prosecutor, judge, jury, victim and defense attorney. This course also examines issues such as rules surrounding police investigations, the practice of plea bargaining and other trial-avoidance procedures, as well as some substantive criminal law issues such as the crime of rape, sexual harassment, and punishment considerations, including the death penalty. This course will count toward satisfying the JD upper division writing requirement.

Units: 2

Using a comparative approach, the course examines the various constitutional and statutory strategies employed in different legal systems to address the recurring problems of environmental protection. The primary comparison will be between US and French/EU law but the course will also draw significantly on experiences outside Europe and North America. Particular attention will be paid to contemporary environmental issues. There is no prerequisite for this course. This course is offered only through the Paris Summer Program.

Units: 2

This course examines the protection of fundamental constitutional rights including theoretical approaches and practical applications of legal principles in a variety of countries but with special attention to France, the United States and member countries of the EU and the Council of Europe. The course examines the contemporary controversies related to the constitutional protection of fundamental rights, including the right to abortion, the right to religious expression and action, free speech, the social welfare rights and equal protection on the basis of race, sex and sexual orientation. There is no prerequisite for this course. This course is offered only through the Paris Summer Program.

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This seminar compares current tax law in countries from all parts of the developed and developing world. The course will explore similarities and differences among countries' income and other tax systems and identify the implications for tax practice. Using a structural framework, the course materials include recent cases and commentaries. The seminar will also assess national tax regimes in light of international tax treaty requirements and models (OECD, UN, EU, WTO, etc.). (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This global approach to the study of legal systems in various parts of the world is designed to enable students to recognize and analyze legal problems that might confront lawyers dealing with matters involving application of foreign law. The course focuses on the fundamental historical, institutional, and procedural differences between the common law and the civil law systems, with an emphasis on the code systems of continental Europe, and on their use as models for law reform in developing countries. References are also made to legal systems based on religious principles or socialist legal principles. This course will count toward the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3

This course explores trials as conducted in Europe (and particularly, in France) with trials as conducted in the U.S. The difference between the inquisitorial system and the advocacy systems are many, including the use of juries and the rules about the admission of evidence. The policies behind the differences are also discussed. There is no prerequisite for this course. This courses is offered only through the Paris Summer Program.

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

The ABA Law Student Division National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) emphasizes the development of oral advocacy skills through a realistic appellate advocacy experience. Competitors participate in a hypothetical appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The competition involves writing a brief as either respondent or petitioner and then arguing the case in front of the mock court. Enrollment in this course is limited to members of the Moot Court Board. Students may not enroll without explicit permission. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course is open only to students who have been selected by the instructor to represent the law school in an inter-school mock trial competition. The number of mock trial competitions, and corresponding student competitors, varies from year to year. Selection to compete in mock trial competitions will be based upon an application and tryout open to all upper division students who have completed Evidence and have completed or are currently enrolled in Trial Advocacy. Consent of the instructor is required for registration in this course. Prerequisite: Evidence. Co-requisite: Trial Advocacy.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Students participate in the annual National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition in New York City at Pace University School of Law. Students who participate in the mandatory qualifying round in the fall (in which the students who represent the law school are selected) receive 1 unit of credit; students chosen for the actual competition receive 2 units. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Appellate Advocacy and one introductory environmental law course; or permission of the instructor., Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

In today's law practice, almost all civil cases settle before trial. Negotiation skills are essential. In this unique course, learn universally applicable methods for negotiating personal and professional disputes, such as learning to invent options for mutually beneficial gain and learning to separate interests from positions. These skills are learned to prepare for a one-day competition in which two-person teams will negotiate a simulated environmental dispute, judged by environmental lawyers, judges and professional mediators.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Law students participate in the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition, which focuses on trademark law problems. Students are coached by faculty in basic trademark legal issues and in oral advocacy skills. The class is to be completed in two semesters in which students draft a brief in the fall term and compete in oral argument in the first half of the spring term. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The American Society of International Law sponsors this moot court competition, which enables students to argue timely questions of international law in regional and final competitions against teams from 150 law schools in 20 different countries. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is open only to students who have been selected by the instructor to represent the law school in an inter-school mock trial competition. The number of mock trial competitions, and corresponding student competitors, varies from year to year. Selection to compete in mock trial competitions will be based upon an application and tryout open to all upper division students who have completed Evidence and have completed or are currently enrolled in Trial Advocacy. Consent of the instructor is required for registration in this course. Prerequisite: Evidence, Co-requisite: Trial Advocacy.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The Roger J. Traynor California Moot Court Competition is a prestigious interscholastic moot court competition open to California law schools. The competition is designed to provide students with a learning experience that reflects contemporary appellate practice in California, and uses an edited record from an actual California Court of Appeal case. A team of two or three students will prepare and submit an appellate brief representing one side, and present oral arguments representing both sides. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This national competition hosted by the Williams Institute is dedicated to the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity law. The competition provides an opportunity for competitors to write an appellate brief on a current legal topic and to argue the case before a panel of judges. The competition is designed to promote and recognize the finest oral and written advocacy on a significant problem in sexual orientation and gender identity law. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Constitutional Law I examines the American constitutional system with an emphasis on judicial review, the powers and responsibilities of the three branches of the federal government, the distribution of power between federal and state governments, and substantive due process. Enrollment during the spring term is limited to students in the Honors Lawyering Program (HLP).

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Constitutional Law II deals with individual rights, specifically equal protection of the law, freedom of speech, and religious freedom. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I.

Units: 3 , Offered: Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course introduces students to consumer bankruptcy law, both substantive and procedural. The focus will be on chapter 7 (liquidation) and chapter 13 (payment plan for individuals with regular income). We will cover eligibility, types of bankruptcy, the automatic stay, trustee strong-arm powers, rights of debtors and creditors, claims, and discharge of debts. The course will be useful to all practitioners, even those not specializing in this area.

Units: 2

This course focuses on the application of principles of public international law to current events. Students will evaluate selected topics drawn from contemporary/current news sources and determine whether the action of the nations or international organizations involved are consistent with the principles of public international law. Each class will begin with a review/overview of the applicable principle of international law (e.g. the law of treaties, the legitimate use of force, the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, etc.) and then students will participate in a discussion of the selected contemporary issue in light of the principle(s) just reviewed. Examples of topics for discussion include: the status of detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, the legitimacy of the use of force in Iraq, violations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (by Iran, North Korea, India, Pakistan), the Central American Free Trade Agreement (and its relation to NAFTA and the European Union), and the protection of intellectual property in foreign jurisdictions. Students may also propose topics for discussion as appropriate. Grading will be based upon class participation and on a 25-page research paper due on the date of the last class meeting. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3

This yearlong course (see Contracts II) covers basic contract law, including contract formation and legal devices designed to police the bargaining process. It also covers problems of performance, excuses from performance, breach of contract, remedies, third-party beneficiary contracts, assignments, and delegation of contract rights and duties.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This yearlong course (see Contracts I) covers basic contract law, including contract formation and legal devices designed to police the bargaining process. It also covers problems of performance, excuses from performance, breach of contract, remedies, third-party beneficiary contracts, assignments, and delegation of contract rights and duties. Prerequisite: Contracts I

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This in-depth analysis of U.S. copyright law includes the history of the law, from the first copyright statutes through the major revisions of the 1909 Act, the 1976 Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Students explore legal issues relating to the registration process, defenses such as fair use and parody, and remedies for infringement. Terms for the licensing and/or transfer of copyright are also examined. Includes the impact of the use of digital media and the growth of the Internet on copyright protection. Intellectual Property LLM students are required to take this course, Trademark Law of the U.S., or Patent Law of the U.S.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course will highlight the rising importance of corporate governance as evidenced by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the adoption of related rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the national securities exchanges and the national securities associations. It will focus on the impact of these regulatory initiatives on corporations, their executive officers, their directors, their auditors, and their attorneys. The course will also address the increasing importance of corporate governance on investor behavior and evaluate the evolving consensus on corporate governance best practices.

Prerequisite: Business Associations., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course addresses tax treatment, planning techniques, and problems of transactions between corporations and their shareholders, transfers to a corporation, capital structure of corporations, dividends and other distributions, stock redemptions, corporate liquidations, and tax free reorganizations. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course focuses on the study of substantive criminal law. It examines the rules of conduct for major crimes against persons and property and the defenses to such crimes. The course also considers the development of and philosophical rationales for criminal law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course affords students the opportunity to apply the skills learned in Trial Advocacy in the context of a criminal case. The class is divided into two-person teams. Each team is assigned either the role of prosecution or defense counsel. The class usually begins with the staging of a mock crime. The crime is reported, a suspect is arrested, charges are filed, and the prosecution commences. The class proceeds, week by week, through major phases of a criminal case. The course concludes with the trial of the case, which is conducted in a local courthouse.

Prerequisite: Evidence, and either Trial Advocacy or Trial Evidence & Advocacy., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This survey of the basic constitutional issues underlying the criminal justice system focuses on the role of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments in regulating police practices such as search and seizure, confessions, lineups, and right to counsel.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Topics include bail and other forms of pretrial release, prosecutorial discretion, the preliminary hearing, grand jury, joinder and severance, speedy trial, discovery, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, double jeopardy, pretrial publicity, change of venue, sentencing, appellate review and harmless error, and habeas corpus. Prerequisite: Criminal Procedure I.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

Qualified international students in valid visa status may obtain practical training by participating in clinical programs, legal internships and externships, and law clerk positions under the guidance of a faculty adviser. To qualify, students must demonstrate competence in legal writing and research and obtain written authorization from an international student adviser. May be taken a maximum of three times. Open only to upper division JD students. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 0 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Qualified international students in valid visa status may obtain practical training by participating in clinical programs, legal internships and externships, and law clerk positions under the guidance of the program director and a faculty adviser. To qualify, students must demonstrate competence in legal writing and research and obtain written authorization from an international student adviser. May be taken a maximum of three times. Open only to students in LLM programs. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Qualified international students in valid F-1 visa status may obtain practical training by participating in clinical programs, legal internships and externships, and law clerk positions under the guidance of the program director and a faculty adviser. To qualify, students must demonstrate competence in legal writing and research and obtain written authorization from an international student adviser. May be taken a maximum of three times. Open only to students in SJD program.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is an overview of some of the legal issues contemporary debtors and creditors face. The course looks briefly at the system's major debtor protections laws (e.g., bankruptcy, usury, homesteads, truth in lending, predatory lending & fair debt collection laws), and at the mainstream creditor enforcement devices (e.g., foreclosure of real estate mortgages, repossession of personal property security interests, workouts and loan modifications), as well as at the post-judgment remedies of unsecured creditors. Additionally, the course will cover inter-creditor conflicts over priorities and loan transfers (secondary market). Recommended for students who do not intend to take the full, more comprehensive courses in Secured Transactions, Real Estate Finance, and Bankruptcy.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

A Directed Study is an independent study project for LLM students done under the supervision of a faculty member or supervising attorney for academic credit. Directed Study can be taken for 1 to 3 units. The project can be on any topic agreed to by the student, faculty member or supervising attorney, and the LLM program director. Directed Study can be taken for a letter grade or for a Credit/No Credit grade and must be decided at the time of topic approval. All papers submitted under this program should reflect approximately 70 hours of work per unit of credit.

Units: 1 - 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This is a competitive placement, one student is selected each semester by DOJ. The student will have the opportunity to complete an internship with the Department of Justice Tax Division office in San Francisco, working directly with attorneys on both civil and criminal tax cases. Interested students should contact the director of the LLM in Taxation Program, for more information. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures and Federal Tax Procedure. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 - 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This seminar studies the historical, cultural, and psychological aspects of domestic violence in addition to the civil and criminal changes in the law both nationally and internationally. Students are assigned a reader composed of relevant articles, cases, and legislation.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This 2-unit seminar will focus on judicial decisions, statutory law, and administrative regulations affecting public education in this country. Topics will include the history and philosophy of mandatory schooling, desegregation, equal opportunity, safe schools, freedom of expression for students and teachers, religious accommodation, bilingual education, searches in the school setting, employment rights, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). The course will culminate in a mock expulsion hearing, with all students participating. Each student will submit an original paper in order to receive credit for the course. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. Completion of Constitutional Law I is recommended.

Units: 2

Elders represent the fastest growing segment of our society, and confront unique legal and financial issues. Topics explored in this course include: elder physical, emotional, and financial abuse; capacity and undue influence; role of Adult Protective Services; civil remedies including EADACPA (the Elder and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act); Government benefits and programs for the elderly; nursing home and related facilities litigation; and end-of-life issues.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course examines the major federal statutes prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, citizenship status, national origin, and age. California law regulating employment is also briefly examined. In addition to covering the substantive law, the course critically examines the law's assumptions about the nature of the employment relationship, the definition of discrimination, and the role of the government in regulating employment.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course examines the relationship between employers and individual employees. Topics include hiring, wrongful termination, employees' duty of loyalty, restrictions on post-employment competition, workplace privacy and defamation, and protection against harassment and other abusive conduct in the workplace. The course covers substantive law and examines prevailing assumptions about the employment relationship. While the course covers some discrimination issues, it does not offer in-depth coverage of that area of law.

Units: 3

This course surveys the law and regulation of energy production, distribution, and use, with an emphasis on the legal and policy issues at the intersection of energy and environmental law. These issues are examined in the context of the electricity and natural gas industries, giving particular attention to the statutory and administrative framework governing public utilities and the wholesale and retail energy markets. The class provides an introduction to state and national energy policy, and compares local, regional, and global impacts of fossil-based and renewable energy sources on climate change and the natural environment. Students interested in environmental law, natural resources law, water law, administrative law, and international law should consider this course. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3

An introduction to the complex legal issues arising in the areas of music sound recordings and publishing, motion pictures, television, theater, and literary publishing in the United States and internationally. Covers the drafting of contracts in the entertainment industry, as well as dispute resolution alternatives. Students also study the roles of attorneys, agents and personal managers, as well as relevant legislation affecting the entertainment industry.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

The Environmental Law & Justice Clinic (ELJC) is an in-house clinic, which provides students with intensive training and hands-on lawyering experience. Under close faculty supervision, students provide legal representation on matters addressing environmental justice, including the enforcement of environmental laws and formulating energy justice policies. Clinic students are certified under State Bar of California rules to perform many of the tasks of an attorney: they interview clients, develop legal strategies, draft legal documents, and counsel clients. They may also appear at hearings and negotiate with opposing parties. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. Co-requisite: Evidence. Students also must have completed an environmental law course or have the instructors' waiver of this requirement. Special scheduling arrangements can be made on a case-by-case basis for night students.

Units: 1 - 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & JUSTICE SEMINAR explores law and policy issues central to the environmental justice movement, focusing on matters that recur in the Clinic's representation of clients who are disproportionately impacted by pollution; explores the role of lawyers and their ethical responsibility in representing clients from communities overburdened by pollution; and provides skills training that students must master to become effective lawyers, focusing on skills that are necessary for the Clinic's caseload. The seminar is a required companion course to the Environmental Law & Justice Clinic, but it may also be taken by LLM students who are not enrolling in the Clinic with permission of the instructor. Such permission may be denied if the Clinic's caseload is unsuitable for such an arrangement. Co-requisite: Environmental Law & Justice Clinic.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course focuses on the federal Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Students explore federal regulatory strategies, including technology-based requirements, environmental assessment, and enforcement methods, as well as alternatives to traditional regulation such as market-based incentives and information disclosure laws. Students also learn tools of statutory interpretation.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course examines Employees Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rules for defined contribution retirement plans and related issues. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course examines Employees Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rules for defined contribution retirement plans and related issues. This class is a continuation of ERISA I (LLM 340A) and will focus on the review of the IRS model provisions for defined contribution plans. Prerequisite: ERISA I.(Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1

Essential Mindfulness for Lawyers (formerly Contemplative Lawyering) will expose students to meditation and other contemplation methods through practice, reading and class discussion, to enable students to develop an awareness of the way the mind works according to current scientific thinking and ancient meditation-based treatises. This will form the foundation for an exploration of what it means not only to think like a lawyer, but also to think like a human being. In class and for homework students will have sanctioned time for quiet and reflection, which will allow their minds to become more tranquil, focused and visionary. From that platform students will learn how the cultivation of tranquility, focus and vision can improve essential lawyering skills like speaking, listening, reading, writing, analysis, counseling, negotiation and advocacy. Students will also experience how these qualities of mind can lower stress and create greater access to inspiration and happiness in the study and practice of law, and in general. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course provides an introduction to federal wealth transfer tax, including estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course includes a study of various estate planning topics such as the unified credit, marital deductions, charitable deductions, generation-skipping transfers, life insurance, trusts and their uses, and family limited partnerships. Emphasis is on practical skills needed to create a uniform estate plan. Prerequisite: Estate and Gift Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

For estate planners representing blended families such as second marriages, same sex relationships, and families with difficult children, this one-unit course will explore and analyze technical and tax issues surrounding the marital deduction, discretionary trust distributions, retirement plan distributions, community property characterization, tax allocation and payment planning, post mortem planning, death versus divorce and the individual psychologies of the parties. This course will also address ethical conflicts and dissect some "typical" estate planning documents to show drafting modifications appropriate for the blended family.

Prerequisite: Estate and Gift Tax; Estate Planning. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course uses exercises designed to illustrate the challenges and rewards of the estate planning attorney's professional life. Student participation in role plays and class discussion is required and will be graded. Highly experienced estate planning attorneys will be guest participants and lecturers. The course emphasizes the process of practice, including client communication skills, rather than technical substance or document drafting.

Prerequisite: Estate Planning; Estate and Gift Taxation., Units: 1

The number of wrongful criminal convictions is staggering. This course will explore the behavior of prosecutors and emphasize their unique ethical and social responsibilities in their multiple roles as advocates for the community, officers of the court, and seekers of justice. Exploring the unique role of the prosecutor includes investigative, pre-trial and trial responsibilities of the prosecutor. Students will experience, throughout the course, the prosecutor's interactions with law enforcement agencies, supervisors, defense counsel, victims and their families, as well as the charging decisions, witness preparation, case evaluation and re-assessment, and societal pressures of working in a government office. Ethical prosecutions (and prosecutors) too will reduce the number of wrongful convictions and travesties in our criminal justice system. This course would be invaluable to any student considering work as a prosecutor and informative for any student intending to become a criminal defense attorney.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course surveys the development of regional law in Europe, culminating in the formation of the European Community, European Union, and European Economic Area.

Units: 3

This course is a survey of the principles of law and rules governing the admissibility of proof at criminal or civil trials, including direct and cross-examination of witnesses, impeachment of credibility, expert testimony, hearsay, privileged communication, and documentary proof. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I,

Corequisite: Civil Procedure II, Units: 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

The rules of evidence dictate the manner of criminal and civil trials. Understanding evidence impacts the questions attorneys will ask, the exhibits and testimony that the jury will consider, the quality of the advocacy and, even, the outcome at trial. This course connects the rules of evidence and evidentiary determinations with the skills of trial advocacy. Students will learn how arguments under the rules of evidence and evidentiary rulings play out in the courtroom. Students will write and argue motions in limine, make offers of proof, conduct examinations, argue evidentiary objections and render decisions on evidence as trial judge. This course will focus on advocacy skills rooted in understanding evidence, such as motions in limine, evidentiary foundations, modes of impeachment and making a record for appeal. This course will not cover the aspects of trial advocacy that do not relate significantly to the rules of evidence, such as trial preparation and organization, themes and theories, voir dire, opening statements and closing arguments. Prerequisite: Evidence

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course considers nonqualified retirement plans including stock option plans, top hat plans, excess benefit plans, and related issues.

Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

Open to students who have completed one or more Externship clinics in prior semesters and who wish to work again in the same field of law. The class will meet four times during the semester. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 - 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Capital Post Conviction Defense Clinic introduces students to the representation of indigent defendants challenging their convictions and death sentences on direct appeal and through habeas corpus proceedings in the California Supreme Court. In addition to discussing legal and topical issues concerning death penalty representation at the weekly seminar sessions, students will work under the supervision of experienced capital defense attorneys to represent indigent defendants in their research and drafting of pleadings, the investigation of claims, and the collection and preservation of evidence. GGU law students in the past have drafted appellate arguments and habeas corpus claims, reviewed capital trial testimony, witness statements, and police reports, evaluated crime scene evidence, researched and drafted office memoranda and resource materials on various topics, collected defendant life history documents, and prepared litigation outlines and chronologies. In addition, CAP student externs are encouraged to attend oral arguments, to participate in litigation meetings, and to visit a client on death row. CAP is located at 101 Second Street, Suite 600. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

Students work in private or non-profit law offices, government agencies, or business legal departments as law clerks, working on civil litigation or engaging in transactional work. Students also attend seminar class meetings. Students may work in a wide variety of areas such as civil rights, corporate law, entertainment law, family law, intellectual property law, international law, and personal injury law. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Application form and consent of instructor required.

Units: 2 - 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

The Consumer Rights Clinic focuses on representation of clients facing debt collection lawsuits and related issues. Students learn interviewing skills, issue spotting and assist attorneys to provide advice, counseling and limited legal representation to clients including drafting letters and basic pleadings such as answers and claims of exemption. To enroll in this clinic, students must be able to attend the Bar Association of San Francisco's legal clinics, on selected Wednesday evenings and also on the last Saturday of the month. For times and locations see the course section scheduling note or the instructor's syllabus. With instructor approval, students seeking a third unit, and certified by the State Bar, may be able to perform additional limited client representation, such as drafting and arguing motions in court. During Priority Registration enrollment in this course will be restricted to evening-part time students. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Students intern with prosecuting attorneys or public defenders on criminal cases in trial or appellate courts in the state or federal system. Students also attend a concurrent seminar covering relevant criminal justice issues. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement.

Prerequisite: Evidence. Strongly Recommended: Criminal Procedure, Trial Advocacy. Also Recommended: Criminal Litigation. Consent of instructor required. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis., Units: 2 - 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Students intern with prosecuting attorneys or public defenders on criminal cases in trial or appellate courts in the state or federal system. Students also attend a concurrent seminar covering relevant criminal justice issues. Students are recommended to take Evidence concurrently. Consent of instructor required. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. This course is offered only in the summer term.

Units: 2 - 4 , Offered: Summer 2013

This externship is designed to address a vastly underserved population: low income persons and families with urgent family law issues. Students will work with non-profit organizations, government agencies, and private attorneys specializing in Family Law, to handle all aspects of Family Law cases at all stages, from client interview to representation at court hearings, assisting in trials, and writing legal briefs. Students are responsible for obtaining their own placement. For help in finding a placement, please contact Law Career Services, the Externship Director, or the professor well in advance of the start of classes. Eligible students may become certified to argue cases in court. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. Corequisites: Students should have taken either Community Property, Family Law, or Family Law Practice, or be taking one of these courses contemporaneously with this externship. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 - 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Students learn counseling, interviewing, and negotiating skills in class simulations, then work with real clients through the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP), which is sponsored by the Bar Association of San Francisco Volunteer Legal Services Program. Training is provided in both lawyering skills and substantive law. Under the professor's supervision, students act as advocates for HAP clients in a variety of settings.

Units: 3 - 4 , Offered: Spring 2013

In this field placement program, students work in selected courts under the supervision of a judge. Students must complete 45 hours of work for each unit. A full-time externship can require up to 13 units; most students take 3 to 5 units at a time. Arrangements are made on an individual basis with the externship director. In addition to working at the court placement, students must attend a mandatory seminar, the first day of which is just before the start of the term. Students who enroll in this course in a summer session are limited to 8 units of credit. Prerequisite: Students must have completed 40 units and have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 for state trial court and 2.75 for appellate and federal court externships. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement.

Corequisite: Evidence, or consent of instructor. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis., Units: 2 - 13 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This externship clinic is available to students who are otherwise eligible to enroll in an externship clinic and have obtained an approved placement outside of the Bay Area. Consent of the Director of Externship Programs, or the clinic instructor, is required. In lieu of attending a seminar at the law school, students are required to meet with the instructo prior to leaving the Bay Area, to set up a communication plan with their instructor for the term away from the Law School. Students will create a professional development plan, respnd to jurnal prompts on a regular basis, and complete mid-semester and final evaluations. The course may be taken for 2 to 8 units in the summer or 2 to 13 units in fall or spring.

Units: 2 - 13 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013

The goal of this course is to provide students with the lawyering skills, substantive legal knowledge, and training in non-legal areas to prepare them to be attorneys for children and other vulnerable populations. The course consists of a seminar and a supervised practicum, both of which will be held at Legal Services for Children (LSC). Although the work will focus on lawyering for children and youth, the skills and non-legal trainings will be relevant for any student with an interest in pursuing a career in public interest. The weekly seminar will be led by Exec. Director Trillin, who has been representing children for over sixteen years. Topics include discussion of specific cases, substantive legal training in Education, Foster Care, Guardianship and Immigration, and additional training in non-legal topics relevant to attorneys working with children and other vulnerable populations, focused on advocacy for clients who have been impacted by trauma. The practicum component will include participation in LSC's warmline (a free and confidential help line), school expulsion hearings, guardianship proceedings, and immigration matters. Students will also assist on LSC policy/advocacy projects. Students will improve their skills in interviewing, issue spotting, case presentation and trial techniques, as well as gain familiarity with administrative hearings, state court hearings, federal immigration proceedings and policy work.

Units: 5 - 6 , Offered: Fall 2013

Students are placed in law firms that specialize or do considerable work in real estate. Under the direct supervision of attorneys, students interview clients, draft pleadings and motions, and participate in trial preparations and trials. They also draft provisions for leases, sales contracts, closing papers, loan documents, and other real estate instruments. Students are required to attend classes in the Real Estate Practice - Transactions Seminar or the Real Estate Practice - Litigation Seminar. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) OR Property (4 units). Consent of instructor required., Units: 2 - 4 , Offered: Fall 2013

This analysis of public and private regulation of the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of the de facto and de jure family unit includes the respective custody, support, and property rights and obligations between mates and between parents and children. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. Prerequisite: Property I (3 units) or Property (4 units).

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course focuses on the skills necessary to carry on a basic family law practice in California. Students prepare and argue motions, learn trial skills, and practice using the most popular computer programs for setting child support according to the detailed provisions of the Family Code. Students also develop parenting and child visitation plans, calculate spousal support, and learn various methods of dividing community property. Priority is given to graduating students. Prerequisite: Family Law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This study of the law of federal income taxation of the individual taxpayer covers the nature of income, statutory and regulatory exclusions from gross income, income splitting, personal and business deductions, at-risk and passive-loss rules, capital gains and losses, and elementary tax accounting.

Prerequisite: Property (4 units) or Property I & II (6 units)., Units: 3 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course explores the tax treatment, problems, and planning techniques involving LLCs and S corporations, including eligibility, election, revocation, termination, and accounting rules. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income and Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation; Recommended: Corporate Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course provides an overview of federal tax procedures, including Internal Revenue Service practices and policies and the correlative rights and privileges of taxpayers. Coverage includes the regulatory process, the audit and administrative appeals process, choice of litigation forum, and assessment and collection practices. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This seminar will examine key legal issues related to women and children within the international context and the relevant responses designed by international law. Each week we will look at current international issues such as gender discrimination, violence against women, women's violence, religious or traditional practices, including female genital cutting and forced child marriages, abortion, sex trafficking and prostitution, women in peace building, women's land and property rights, child labor, child soldiers as well as other war crimes affecting women and children in hostilities. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course studies the generation-skipping transfer tax rules that focus on direct skips, taxable distributions, taxable terminations, and their exceptions, including exceptions for grandfathered trusts. It will also cover the special valuation rules of Sections 2701, 2702, 2703 and 2704 of the Internal Revenue Code. Emphasis is on understanding the statutory provisions, applicable regulations and strategies to minimize or to avoid the impact of the both regimes. Prerequisite: Estate & Gift Taxation or Estate Planning. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course will review and analyze the global warming and climate change issue with a specific focus on the potential remedy of renewable energy and its legal implications. The class will review federal policy relating to climate change and whether it preempts state and local initiatives. Emphasis will be given to California's policy, reflecting its leadership role on these issues with specific attention to its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the state's renewable energy portfolio standard and restrictions on the use and import of coal-based energy.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This seminar focuses on lawyering for social change. It teaches the art of using guerrilla fighting techniques in the legal arena. Guerrilla lawyers are characterized by limited resources and by an alternative vision of the dominant culture. The class first explores the lawyer-client relationship, then moves on to unmasking legal dogma. Through role-playing students learn how to use the law as an organizing tool. There will be two class sessions in an actual courtroom at the federal building where each student will argue a bail motion or sentencing hearing. Students will learn how to exert power in formal legal settings. The course emphasizes merging political/legal theory with practical lawyering. There will be a short final paper, but no final exam in this course.

Units: 1 , Offered: Spring 2013

Using the venture capital financing of a start-up company as a transactional model, this class focuses on the practical mechanics of how a business transaction is structured and implemented from term sheet to closing. The purpose of the course is to convey practical lessons that are transferable to any business transaction. Coursework covers the documentation, legal issues, business issues, and mechanical process of closing a preferred stock financing on behalf of a venture-backed start up. Prerequisite: Business Associations; Recommended: prior securities law class advisable but not required. This course counts toward the Certificates of Specialization for both Business Law and Intellectual Property Law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

Students have the opportunity to do independent research under direct faculty supervision in areas of special interest. They may enroll in the project on a letter-grade or credit/no-credit basis after making arrangements to work with a faculty member and after receiving the approval of the associate dean for student services. Students must complete 60 total hours of research and writing for each unit. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

Students learn counseling, interviewing, and negotiating skills in class simulations, then work with real clients. Training is provided in both lawyering skills and substantive law. Under the professor's supervision, students act as advocates for clients in a variety of settings. This course is open only to students in the Honors Lawyering Program (HLP).

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course applies the law of Evidence and Constitutional Law II to practical problems. This course is open only to students in the Honors Lawyering Program (HLP).

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course will focus on U.S. and national asylum law and procedure, international refugee protection law and procedure, and significant debates regarding these topics. Students will become familiar with the process involving USCIS, US ICE, Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the federal courts of review. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2

This introduction to immigration and naturalization law and procedure examines major immigration policies and covers immigration and naturalization statutes, regulations, major administrative and court decisions, and constitutional rights as affected by alienage.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course analyzes the income taxation of trusts and estates, their creators, beneficiaries, and fiduciaries, including computation of distributable net income, taxable net income, taxation of simple and complex trusts, grantor trusts, and income in respect of a decedent. The course will focus on federal income tax issues, although state taxation of estates and trusts will also be addressed. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Students have the opportunity to do independent research under direct faculty supervision in areas of special interest. They may enroll in the project on a letter-grade or credit/no-credit basis after making arrangements to work with a faculty member and after receiving the approval of the associate dean for student services. Students must complete 60 total hours of research and writing for each unit. Unit value for the work is determined in conference with the supervising faculty member. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. Petition for Independent Study forms, and appropriate registration forms, are available from the registrar's office or on the law school website.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

An introduction to the U.S. law of copyright, trademark, and patent, this course explores state law of trade secrets, unfair competition, and the role of IP protection of computer programs. The course is designed for students interested in focusing on IP law or in simply getting a basic understanding of the key legal principles of IP law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course takes students through the various stages of an intellectual property litigation case, focusing on the issues specific to litigating trademark cases and copyright cases. Infringement and breach of contract situations form the basis for study and analysis. Litigation strategies, discovery techniques, and settlement negotiation issues are also addressed. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This introduction to the law and practice of international trade and investment focuses on typical transactions, such as sale of goods, transfer of technology (including franchising and licensing), and transnational investment. The course also examines the regulation of imports and exports and the role of competition law in international business. Recommended: Sales.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course explores the practical aspects of drafting, negotiation, administration, and dispute resolution as they apply to international commercial contracts. A primary goal is to identify international and cross-cultural issues. Six categories of contracts are examined: distribution, sales, construction, loans, licensing, and joint ventures. The aim of the class is to endow students with the lawyering skills expected of an international business attorney. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3

Students examine the law and institutions relevant to managing transboundary, regional, and global environmental problems.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course begins with a brief historical introduction to the concept of international human rights and their antecedents. Selected international human rights instruments, including U.N. documents, regional instruments, U.S. reservations, U.S. legislation, and war crimes documents, are then examined in detail with appropriate classifications of human rights in accordance with their contents or substance and the chronological and generational stages of their development.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course examines the law regulating international investment, exploring the range of issues practitioners deal with, including different bodies and mechanisms set up for the settlement of investment disputes, as well as selected international instruments at regional, interregional, and multilateral levels. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

Students who have been selected to edit articles for the Annual Survey of Comparative & International Law may sign-up for this 1-2 credit class with instructor approval in the spring semester of their second or third year of law school. LLM and SJD students are eligible to apply to work on the Annual Survey for credit as well. Students will edit articles submitted by outside and student authors. The production editor may receive 2 credits and all other student editors will receive 1 credit for editing articles. The course includes some mandatory orientation and training sessions at times to be determined early in the spring semester. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This survey of international organizations includes the United Nations and its specialized agencies, as well as institutions for dispute resolution. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course provides a basic survey of international taxation law, including source of income and expense allocation rules, international tax credits, transfer pricing, anti-deferral rules, withholding taxes, income tax treaties, tax incentives, and expatriate issues. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. Recommended: Corporate Tax (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Detailed review and analysis of the anti-deferral provisions of Subpart F and the Passive Foreign Investment Company ("PFIC") rules. Analysis of the asset and stock cross-border rules of Sec. 367 and Sec. 1248. Overview of transfer pricing provisions as related to anti-deferral provisions.

Prerequisite: International Tax I and Corporate Tax., Units: 2

This survey of the international regulation of trade in goods and services emphasizes the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Other topics include the role of regional economic arrangements (such as NAFTA and the EC), the relationship of U.S. trade law to the international trading regime, the role of specialized U.N. agencies, and the position of developing countries in the global trading system. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course covers the key issues in cyberspace law. Students explore the application of traditional legal principles to this technology and examine issues regarding regulation of access, the impact of code architecture on regulation of conduct, and jurisdictional issues (both domestic and international). This course also covers the basics of e-commerce, including digital certification/verification, UCITA, EDI, and EFI. Emphasis is placed on issues relating to privacy and indecent materials online.

Units: 3

This course aims to introduce students to the theories of intra-state conflicts and international practices of resolving them at the very basic level. Students will explore sources and causes of conflicts, ongoing conflicts, successful resolution practices, peace building, relevant international law and the role of international and regional organizations in resolving intra state conflicts. General knowledge of or familiarity with international law required. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This introduction to French and European Union Law has 2 main goals. First, to provide a solid foundation for understanding both the French legal system, which relies on statute law and codes as its primary source of law, and the unique European legal system, which relies on treaty law as its primary source of law and on regulations and directives. The second goal of the course is to make a close study of key legal terminology in order to avoid some of the most common misunderstandings that arise between French and American lawyers. During the 2-week course, students will have opportunities to visit French courts; interact with a number of French, European, and American lawyers; and take a field trip to Brussels, where they will hear lectures by members of the European Commission or its staff. There is no prerequisite for this course. This course is offered only through the Paris Summer Program.

Units: 2 , Offered: Summer 2013

This course introduces students to the basic concepts of Islamic law and their applicability in contemporary legal systems. Throughout the course students will learn the history and evolution of Islamic law, development of different schools of thought, an overview of the substantive principles and comparative analyses with existing legal principles in the world. Students will also have an opportunity to explore Islamic legal systems in diverse communities, the impact of colonialism and modernity on Islamic law, and to examine the presence of Islam in today's western societies. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Students study the US legal system, including the structure of the court system, binding and persuasive precedent, and how to read cases. They study the substantive law, in survey form, of Constitutional Law, Torts, Contracts, and Civil Procedure. They learn basic legal terminology and principles of the common law as well as statutory analysis. They complete four written assignments: a case brief, an IRAC exercise, an outline; and a memorandum of law. They also take a final essay exam. This course is open to LLM and SJD students whose first law degree is from a non-US Law School.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This is a competitive placement as an unpaid law clerk with the Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel in San Francisco or San Jose. Selected students will work directly with IRS counsel on pending Tax Court, collection and other current cases. The placement may be with either SB/SE and LMSB divisions. An IRS background check is required before beginning the internship; interested students should submit a resume and cover letter to the Associate Dean of the Tax LLM Program at the beginning of the semester prior to semester in which the student seeks the internship.

Prerequisite: Federal Tax Procedure; Characterization of Income and Expenditures. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This is a competitive placement as an unpaid law clerk with the Probate Department of the California Superior Court of Alameda County. Selected students will work directly with the probate judge, probate examiners, court investigators, and courtroom staff on pending estate, trust, and conservatorship cases. The externs will get hands-on Probate Court experience from the judicial perspective. The course provides invaluable insight for future estate planners.

Prerequisite: Estate and Gift Taxation; Estate Planning; Probate Procedure and Litigation. Enrollment in this course requires the permission of the program director of the LLM in Taxation Program. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course will provide an overview of union and management relations under the National Labor Relations Act, focusing on employees' right to organize, union representation, collective bargaining, right to fair representation, employer and union economic weapons, and recent proposed legislative changes. Students will learn how the political, economic, and social environment have shaped the law of labor relations and gain an appreciation for competing visions of how the 77-year-old Act applies, or may need to be changed, to deal with many issues in the contemporary workplace.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This review of the devices available to a community for regulating the development of land includes zoning, subdivision regulation, historic preservation, growth management, open space, and urban renewal. Also considered are the rights of owners, neighbors, environmentalists, and reformers to resist regulation on grounds such as just compensation, free speech, and housing welfare interests.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

Leadership calls upon a broad variety of skills, including professionalism, networking, mentoring and public speaking. The goal of this seminar is to help students develop competency in a range of leadership skills and increase their appreciation for the variety of leadership roles people with legal training may achieve throughout their careers. The seminar will also explore ways for students to strengthen their own personal leadership style through self-assessment and skill development. Enrollment in this class is by application. The application process begins April 1 and ends on the last Monday of spring semester classes. Students must enroll in both the fall and spring semesters and successfully complete both to receive credit. Grading is credit/no credit.

Units: 0 - 1 , Offered: Spring 2013

Students explore the body of law governing the actions of nations and individuals during a state of armed conflict. Topics include the use of force between states, rules of international armed conflict, war crimes and war crimes tribunals (including applications to ongoing conflicts), international humanitarian law, the Geneva Convention, arms control and disarmament, weapons of mass destruction, collective security, the United Nations and U.N. peacekeeping efforts, and the applicability of the laws to national and international terrorism. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This two (2) unit course offers students an opportunity to learn the legal aspects of the multi-billion dollar online gaming industry. Social media games, virtual world games and closed universe MMORPG will be examined. The transactional component of the course will focus on the elements found in most Terms of Use (TOU) and End User License Agreements (EULA). Students will learn the legal issues which shape the terms of these agreements, and the skills involved in drafting them. The litigation component of the course will focus on recent case decisions regarding issues involving right of privacy, property and intellectual property rights, and tort claims in the online gaming community. Students will have an opportunity to learn how to draft litigation materials (pleadings/motions/discovery requests) needed in gaming cases.

Units: 2

Required of all Law Review members during their second year on Law Review (2 units/Fall, 1 unit/Spring). (Not applicable to Law Review Board members, see LAW 861D). In the Fall term, 12 hours of mandatory seminar sessions will be scheduled. During the course of the two semesters, each member will edit and cite check the work of various first year Law Review members or work on selected articles from outside authors. The total of 3 credits will be awarded at the end of the Spring term. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Required of all Law Review Board members during the Fall and Spring terms (2 units/Fall & 2 units/Spring). Outlines of the requisite responsibilities of the board members are found in the Law Review Bylaws. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Required of all Law Review members during their first year on Law Review (2 units/Fall, 1 unit/Spring). Over the course of the two semesters, each student will write a scholarly casenote or comment. During the Fall semester, 12 hours of mandatory seminar sessions will be scheduled. The total of 3 credits will be awarded at the end of the Spring term. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Enrollment is limited to persons invited to join the Law Review. Membership on Law Review is determined in two ways: by first-year grades (top 10%) or through a writing competition that is held during the middle of the second semester of the first-year.

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course aims to introduce students to the practice of asylum law. The class will provide students with a basic understanding of the requirements and procedures for obtaining asylum. During the course, students will develop specific legal skills such as handling client interviews, drafting declarations and conducting direct examinations. In addition, the course will involve consideration of issues that arise in legal practice, including working with translators and managing client expectations. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

In this course, students are introduced to the child welfare system, including the laws that govern the reporting and investigation of abuse and neglect, and state action following investigation. In particular, the focus is on dependency court - a unique forum involving multiple parties and participants where judges make decisions affecting the fundamental rights of parents and their children. Students will explore the life of a case from the moment a child becomes a "dependent" under the court's jurisdiction through case dismissal triggered by the establishment of a permanent placement or emancipation.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course explores the minefield of ethical dilemmas facing prosecutors and defense attorneys in practice. Initially we will study the rules governing the conduct of prosecutors and defenders in their respective roles which set an ideal standard of behavior for lawyers in criminal practice. We will then examine some of the real world pressures that affect the practice (e.g. race and cultural barriers; the competitive nature of trial work; limited resources) through the lens of a realistic fact pattern. Students will identify some of the major flaws of the criminal justice system, and will learn how those problems challenge a lawyer's twin obligations to be both effective and ethical. Working in teams of prosecutors and defenders (and switching roles at various points in the semester), students will integrate their theoretical understanding of the issues through various mock trial exercises in which they will hone their interviewing, counseling and negotiation skills. The values of the profession that this course examines are: the provision of competent representation and concepts of justice, fairness and morality. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

A business has been a center of its community for decades, but now it's struggling - global competition, a defective product, a faltering economy, changes in management, have taken a toll. Thousands of jobs hang in the balance. Will the company survive? In this course, students will be introduced to the options and strategic decisions that a business entity facing financial stress may encounter. The course will have four components: first, we will explore basic concepts of business finance in an effort to recognize financial distress; second, negotiations among the students will determine whether the business can survive outside of bankruptcy; third, a simple drafting exercise; and fourth, oral argument will introduce the students to the bankruptcy court's fast-paced motions practice and help determine whether the business can survive in bankruptcy. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2

This course is designed to acquaint students with pretrial litigation practice in a typical Employment Law dispute. The focus will be on giving students a practical and conceptual understanding of those lawyering skills fundamental to conducting the Fact Investigation phase of a civil lawsuit. After getting an overview of the doctrinal framework of Employment Law protections afforded to California employees, students will receive a case simulation that will guide them through various practical lawyering exercises, some of which will be video-recorded. Through those exercises, students will learn how to gather facts, analyze those facts, and develop legal case theories; they will learn questioning strategies and techniques useful for interviewing clients and deposing hostile witnesses; and they will be exposed to other aspects of the litigation process, such as settlement negotiation.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course will explore the legal issues relating to private, non-governmental persons or entities seeking to enforce federal environmental laws prohibiting air pollution. Students will become familiar with constitutional and statutory requirements for federal enforcement, the core substantive strategies in the federal clean air act and various litigation skills. The course will utilize readings of cases and federal statutes and regulations as well as various exercises to develop practice skills including the drafting of legal documents, alternative dispute resolution and advocacy. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2

This course will introduce students to the federal securities laws and the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement program. Students will learn the laws behind many of today's headline-grabbing enforcement actions such as insider trading rings, accounting and offering frauds, and Ponzi schemes. Through a simulated fact pattern, students will learn how the SEC conducts investigations, including the tools at its disposal and the challenges it faces. Students will have the opportunity to experience the basic process of government investigation: case intake, conducting witness interviews, drafting and serving subpoenas, and coordinating with other law enforcement agencies. Students will also confront typical challenges faced in government investigations, including legal limitations, ethical considerations, and privilege issues. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

Tax issues touch everything! This course will show two sides of a tax law practice: litigation and transactional work. For the first half of the course, we will examine the mechanics of litigating a Tax Court case involving the deductibility of gender identification surgery as a medical expense. This portion of the class will involve issues of statutory construction, litigation procedure, negotiation of settlements, client interactions and preparation for (mock) trial. In the second half of the course, we will examine all of the issues raised in starting a new business venture, including choice of entity, debt and equity structures, ownership, and negotiating and drafting agreements. Students will work in teams representing various sides of the transaction -- investors, owners, employees, etc., and work to arrive at a business structure that meets all of the goals of the participants, including minimization of tax liabilities. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2

Trade secrets are an important-yet often overlooked-type of intellectual property that are important to virtually all businesses, especially in the Bay Area's high-technology and biotechnology industries. This course will introduce students to the substantive law, procedure, lawyering skills, strategies, and ethics involved in a typical trade secret misappropriation case. Students will gain experience in evaluating whether a valid trade secret exists, drafting a Complaint and Answer in a litigation proceeding, conducting pretrial discovery (including depositions), and drafting and arguing a pretrial dispositive motion in a simulated case. Throughout the course, students will be guided to develop practical and critical thinking skills in performing tasks (and creating work product) typical in a trade secret misappropriation case in state or federal court. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course will introduce students to the skills associated with working in judicial chambers and with Supreme Court advocacy. Students will learn the laws behind a select number of today's headline-grabbing Supreme Court cases and will explore the processes by which decision-making occurs at the Court. Using actual certiorari petitions, real appellate briefs and the recordings of oral argument from the current term of the United States Supreme Court, students will practice the skills used by clerks, judges and advocates. Assignments will include writing a bench memo or one section of a judicial opinion, preparing an oral argument memorandum, conducting appellate argument as both an advocate and a justice, and attending an oral argument. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

The course will examine the role and limits of the law in effecting social and institutional change as seen through critical examination of the current work of lawyers within the prison reform and prison industrial complex abolition movements. The course will require multiple in-class performance exercises and short written feedback pieces. The course is intended for students interested in models of lawyering used to create institutional change, as well as to prepare students for on-the-ground problem-solving as practitioners, with emphasis on intersecting legal work with other tools for social change, coalition building, evaluating one's impact, ethical use of one's power, and how to know (and what to do) if your strategies fail in effecting desired results. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

"White collar crime" describes a classification of non-violent, complex criminal offenses. Corruption, bribery, fraud, money laundering, tax and obstruction of justice offenses are some of the most common white collar offenses litigated in federal courts. Students, through their representation in a simulated case, will experience many of the issues unique to the investigation, prosecution and defense of white collar crime. Students also will encounter and discuss internal investigations, cooperating witnesses, corporate liability and sentencing issues, as well as prosecutorial discretion, collateral consequences and societal perceptions. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2

This course will introduce students to youth law in California with an emphasis on the intertwined systems of dependency, delinquency and education. Topics will include the competing interests of the State, parents and juveniles whenever children and families interact with government systems and institutions, and the sources of law and procedure governing those interactions. The course is meant to present a realistic picture of how attorneys and judges become involved in the lives of children as well as the myriad ethical issues arising in representation of juveniles. Students will explore each of the major phases of a typical representation including initial client interviews and document drafting. The course will culminate in a mock public school expulsion hearing which will allow students an opportunity to experience the quasi-judicial environment of administrative hearings including taking testimony and making oral argument. This course is open only to first-year JD students.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course covers the elements of legal reasoning and problem solving, with an emphasis on analytical writing. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course re-examines a subject from the first year curriculum, exploring it in a small seminar setting with an emphasis on problem solving and analytical writing. Admission is by invitation only. See instructor for details of subject matter to be covered. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course provides an overview of the US legal profession and the historical, economic, and sociological forces that shape the profession and the practice of law. A central focus of this course is to examine the everyday realities of the practice of law and explore what it means to be a lawyer--a "professional"--in a variety of the many contexts in which lawyers work, including big-firms, small firms and solo practices, and government law offices. Class reading and critical discussion will examine such topics as the history of the American legal profession, the changing social structure of the bar, the business of practicing law, public interest and "cause" lawyering, the realities of legal ethics in everyday law practice, gender issues in the practice of law, and the future of legal practice and the legal profession. The course requires seminar participants to actively participate in class and to complete several analytic memos and brief essays throughout the semester.

Units: 2

Trust and estate practice is filled with actual and potential conflicts among close and distant family members and other interested persons. Effectively identifying and addressing these unique types and causes of conflicts are essential to a successful trust and estate practice. This course will enable the practitioner to sharpen his/her existing skills in dealing with these conflicts and disputes and equip the practitioner with new tools and methods for creative non-adversarial resolution. The students will learn by using real case scenarios in an interactive classroom setting that includes dispute resolution role-play. Prerequisite: Probate Procedure and Litigation, may be waived by the instructor upon good cause. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course explores the evolving views, skill sets, and ethical considerations for facilitative attorneys practicing consensual dispute resolution, principally mediation and Collaborative Practice, and how attorneys conduct themselves as part of an interdisciplinary team working with mental health and financial professionals. Students will participate in a mock client consultation with a local Collaborative attorney and a mock first Collaborative meeting. Guest lecturers will include leading Bay Area CDR professionals. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement.

Units: 2

This course addresses estate, inheritance, gift, and income taxation of trusts and estates as they relate to U.S. citizens living abroad, foreign nationals in the United States, and nonresident aliens. Analysis includes comparative law, estate and gift tax treaties, conflicts of law, and choice of law in selected jurisdictions. Prerequisite: Estate & Gift Taxation; Estate Planning. Recommended: Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates; International Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

This advanced course in entertainment law focuses on the drafting and negotiation of the numerous agreements involved in entertainment projects. Sound recording and publishing contracts in the music business and licensing agreements for the online distribution of music and audiovisual works are examined in detail. Students get hands-on experience in drafting these agreements. They also analyze negotiation points and discuss negotiation tips and strategies with experienced practitioners in entertainment law. Prerequisite: Entertainment Law.

Units: 2

This course examines various methods available in the resolution of conflicts between States. The course examines the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea at Hamburg, the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague for former Yugoslavia, and the International Criminal Tribunal at Arusha for Rwanda, as well as the interplay of other methods of dispute settlement between States, such as the DSB and its Appellate Body under the WTO in Geneva, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and United Nations-sponsored conciliation, mediation, enquiry, good offices, and negotiations. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course concerns tax issues of the organization and operation of partnerships, including contributions, distributions, withdrawal of a partner, dissolution, and sales or exchanges of partnership interests. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation.(Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course provides students with an overview of US patent law and the policies underlying it. Students will learn how to obtain a patent, how to understand the patent document and interpret patent claims, and how a patent is enforced. The course highlights important policy considerations and patent law's impact on current events. Global patent law issues are introduced for a comparative perspective. In addition to class discussions of the cases and statutes, patent law principles are applied in a practical manner in graded student projects. A technical background is not required. Intellectual Property LLM students are required to take this course, Copyright Law of the US, or Trademark Law of the US.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course takes students through the various stages of preparing a patent infringement or validity challenge case through trial. Litigation strategies, discovery, and pre-trial motions are covered.

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the unique legal issues of the poor and how the legal system deals with access to justice and indigency. We will review historical and contemporary challenges facing public interest lawyers, legal problems and policy choices regarding poverty, and effective advocacy strategies. These themes will then be traced through three areas of substantive discussion: government benefit programs, housing law and homelessness, and family law. We will conclude the course with an examination of new trends in legal services.

Units: 2

Practical Legal Writing is designed to introduce students to the bar exam with emphasis on the California bar exam. Students will learn how to prepare for the bar exam, what the exams are testing and how they are scored, and all the factors that contribute to a successful outcome. All three testing formats, i.e. essays, multiple choice, and the performance test, will be explored in detail. The classes will be taught in a combination of large classroom and small section formats to provide students with multiple opportunities to practice the test-taking skills and techniques and receive meaningful feedback. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Appellate Advocacy., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is an intensive examination of relational torts, including privacy, defamation, interference with economic relationships, interference with family relationships, and abuse of the litigation process. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement. Prerequisite: Torts (4-units).

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The Pro Bono Tax Clinic provides students with the opportunity to assist low-income individuals in certain tax disputes before the California Board of Equalization ("BOE"). Under the direct supervision of a BOE attorney, the students provide legal assistance to taxpayers with claims involving California tax issues. The students meet regularly with a BOE attorney on campus who instructs them about the relevant law and assists them in the development of their clients' factual and legal arguments. The students draft procedural letters, legal memoranda and briefs that are submitted to the BOE. Students may also have the opportunity to argue the client's case at a BOE hearing. Recommended: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Tax. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 - 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Students will learn how to handle all aspects of Trust and Estate matters in the California Superior Courts. Assets that may pass without probate and those that must be probated will be distinguished and discussed. All aspects of estate administration will be studied as well as the most common issues that arise in trust proceedings. Real case scenarios, hypotheticals, and other in-class practical exercises will be utilized to give students best practices guides to effective planning. It is preferable if students have taken or are simultaneously taking Estate Planning. Estate & Gift Taxation is recommended but not required.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

Students will be introduced to probate proceedings available in the California Superior Courts as they relate specifically to elders, minors, and the disabled. This will include an introduction to issues unique to seniors and disabled elders, including common financial and medical issues that develop with age and/or physical and cognitive impairments. Students will review various protective proceedings, including conservatorships, guardianships, special needs trusts and powers of attorney. Current trends and conventional wisdom will be analyzed and discussed to discern the practical application of the various protective proceedings and effective planning techniques. It is preferable for students to have taken or be concurrently taking Estate Planning. Probate Procedure I is not a prerequisite for this course.

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course teaches performance skills related to the use of voice, body, and movement in the context of the courtroom. It is designed for law students who want to improve their presentations as trial and appellate advocates or to simply be more effective in ordinary lawyer communications. The premise of the instructors is, "Lawyers don't have a constitutional right to be boring!" This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course examines the attorneys responsibility to the client, the profession, and society, as well as the structure and operation of the U.S. legal profession. Both ABA and California rules are discussed.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course considers tax practice issues including tax attorney regulation and ethical considerations. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This survey of interests in land covers possession versus ownership, forms of ownership, modern landlord-tenant law, restrictions on the use of land through easements and restrictive covenants, regulation of land use, and fair housing law. The course also considers constitutional issues such as taking property without just compensation, infringements on freedom of association, and exclusion of minorities and the poor.

Units: 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This basic course introduces the progressive development of international law, which primarily regulates the relations between states but also governs the rights and obligations of subjects other than states, namely, international organizations and individuals. Sources of international law are examined. Substantive topics for study include jurisdiction, territories and responsibility of states, the law of treaties, and international liability of states for injurious consequences of acts not prohibited by international law.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course examines the laws governing natural resources on the one-third of the United States that comprises our public lands including forests, minerals, ranges, wildlife, recreation parks, and wilderness. Students also explore laws protecting federal wildlife and endangered species.

Units: 3

This course covers legal problems that arise out of financing and purchasing property, including foreclosure and redemption, antideficiency laws, and other debtor protections.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units) and Real Estate Transactions., Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course examines common areas of real estate litigation such as commercial unlawful detainers; breach of sales contracts; broker commissions; malpractice claims against brokers, title insurers, escrow agents, attorneys, and brokers; foreclosures, receiverships, and injunctions against foreclosure; toxic waste; construction defects and mechanics' liens; condemnation and inverse condemnation; quiet title and partition; encroachment and trespass; bankruptcy; and the use of writs and lis pendens. Spring clinic students must attend the seminar as part of their clinical experience. Nonclinic students may take this course for nonclinic credit and complete special drafting exercises each week.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course explores common areas of real estate practice such as residential and commercial leases, purchase and sale contracts, loan documents, CC&Rs and easements, zoning applications, construction contracts, title insurance endorsements, and shared ownership agreements. Fall clinic students must attend this seminar. Nonclinic students may take this course for nonclinic credit and will complete special drafting exercises each week.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course explores the tax advantages of owning real property, acquisitions, operations, sales and exchanges, conversions and abandonments, aspects of financing, leasing, and forms of entity ownership of property.

Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation; Recommended: Corporate Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

The purchase of a home represents the most important financial transaction in their lives for most Americans. (It is also one of the topics most frequently covered on the bar exam.) This course goes through the steps of a real estate "deal" from beginning to end, covering the roles of brokers and attorneys, drafting of contracts, dealing with physical and title defects, closing of escrow, priorities (i.e., ranking of claims against the property), title insurance, mortgage financing, and income tax consequences. The course is a prerequisite for Real Estate Finance. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement. Prerequisite: Property (4 units)

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This survey of the legal and equitable remedies available to litigants based on their substantive rights emphasizes the type and extent of damages awarded in different legal settings. Also covered are specific performance, injunctive relief, and restitutionary remedies. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement.

Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II and either Property II (3 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Going beyond Roe v. Wade and its progeny, this course aims to develop students' understanding of the interrelationship of legal rules, politics, ideology, and socio-economic realities that shape reproductive rights and justice. In this seminar, students will be introduced to the meaning behind "reproductive rights" and "reproductive justice" and explore a wide spectrum of related topics, including the types of abortion restrictions upheld since Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, access to contraception and reproductive health services, implications of new assisted reproductive technologies, the intersections between criminal law and reproductive autonomy, and the U.S. government's role in reproductive rights.

Units: 2

Students examine Uniform Commercial Code article 2, which governs the domestic sale of goods, and survey law governing the international sale of goods. Topics include warranties, manner, time and place of performance, buyers' and sellers' remedies for breach of contract, and limitations on freedom of contract. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement.

Prerequisite: Contracts I and II., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course introduces students to the Uniform Commercial Code (article 1 and article 9), to essential concepts of borrowing and lending in a credit economy, and to the ways in which lenders reduce the risk of non-payment by obtaining an interest in business and consumer borrowers' personal property. It is strongly recommended for anyone planning to represent lenders, businesses or consumers in commercial transactions.

Units: 3

Students investigate the Securities Act of 1933 and selected portions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, together with analogous provisions in the Uniform Securities Act and California Corporate Securities Law. Topics include the role of the underwriter, the nature of a security, the registration process, exemptions from registration, and civil liability provisions. Prerequisite: Business Associations.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This survey of the ways in which the law treats matters of sexual orientation emphasizes civil and constitutional law. The issues to be addressed include the right to privacy as applied to sexual orientation and conduct, issues of communication about controversies related to sexual orientation, definitions of discrimination in law applied to sexual orientation controversies, and decriminalization of lesbian/gay sexual activity.

Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I and II or consent of the instructor., Units: 2

This course is for SJD students who require an extra semester of residency before sitting for their qualifying oral exam. Tuition effective Fall 2012 is US$1000 each term and all other fees apply.

Units: 0 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is for SJD students who have advanced to candidacy and will continue work on their dissertation in the San Francisco Bay Area at GGU. Tuition effective Fall 2012 is US$1000 each term and all fees apply.

Units: 0 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is for SJD students who have advanced to candidacy and will continue work on their dissertations outside of the United States. Tuition is US$0 and only the "Registration" fee applies.

Units: 0 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course is for SJD students who have advanced to candidacy and will continue work on their dissertations in the United States but not in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tuition is US$0 and only the "Registration" fee and applicable "international student" fees apply.

Units: 0 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

The purpose of this seminar is to provide collaborative support, intellectual and scholarly context, and useful direction and practical assistance to students in the Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) program. Students pursue their own research with readings, discussions and workshop activities in the seminar complementing each candidate's ongoing tutorial relationship with thesis supervisors, advisers, and committee members. At the end of the seminar each student will be expected to complete a revised proposal, or draft chapter of his or her dissertation, which will be graded. In addition the final two seminar sessions will be devoted to individual presentations to the class. This seminar is required for all students in the SJD program.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course is for the first and second of the required two semesters of residency. Tuition effective Fall 2013 is US$18,000 for each semester and all fees apply.

Units: 0 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

The class is conducted entirely in Spanish. The goal is to assist students who already speak the language with some facility (either because they are native-speakers, or were raised in bilingual families, or lived in a Spanish-speaking country, or studied Spanish in high school and/or college) to develop a repertoire of legal vocabulary and phrases that will benefit them in their professional lives during and after law school. A secondary, but very significant, goal is to expose students to historical/social/cultural/class issues that might arise in their interactions with or representation of Spanish-speaking clients. The course is built around readings, exercises, and presentations in some or all of the following doctrinal areas: Constitutional Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, Criminal Law, Anti-Discrimination Law, Housing Law, International Human Rights Law, Environmental Law, Employment Law, and Civil Rights Law. Each week students are responsible for completing readings in Spanish of court opinions, journal articles, newspaper stories, and other materials on the subject of the week. These readings serve as the basis of the guided discussions that take place in each class session. In addition, each student is responsible for planning at least one oral presentation. All students are also involved in doing weekly mini-presentations, role-playing exercises (lawyer-client, for example), and/or oral exercises. The instructor will also make available materials on grammar and syntax and, where needed, will spend some class time on relevant language exercises.

Units: 2

The Law School offers advanced Special Problems courses in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Evidence, Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze problems in the subject matter covered by the course. The focus is on written and analytical skills. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I & II., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

The Law School offers advanced Special Problems courses in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze problems in the subject matter covered by the course. The focus is on written and analytical skills. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Contracts I & II and Torts I & II (6 units) or Torts (4 units)., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The Law School offers advanced Special Problems courses in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze problems in the subject matter covered by the course. The focus is on written and analytical skills. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure I, Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The Law School offers advanced Special Problems courses in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze problems in the subject matter covered by the course. The focus is on written and analytical skills. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement. Prerequisite: Evidence

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The Law School offers advanced Special Problems courses in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Contracts, and Torts. Students analyze problems in the subject matter covered by the course. The focus is on written and analytical skills.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This survey of the complex legal relationships found in major professional teams and leagues includes contracts, antitrust, labor law, torts, workers compensation, and gender discrimination brought to bear on current issues in the sports industry. Practical guidance in representing athletes is stressed.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

This course provides an overview of state and local taxation with an emphasis on federal constitutional limitations on state and local taxation, the jurisdiction to tax, apportionment and allocation of the tax base, and an introduction to multistate business taxes, sales and use taxes, corporate income taxes, and individual income taxes. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course is devised to teach the fundamentals of effective legal writing and specific techniques in exam essay writing. Students will take and review 12 essay exams covering all California subject areas over the course. During the last week of class students will take two practice exams under exam conditions. This course counts toward completion of the Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Prerequisite: Students must have taken all Law School required courses with the exception of Practical Legal Writing., Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

The Street Law Project operates in conjunction with approximately 25 Bay Area high schools and several middle schools and their respective school districts. Law students, working under faculty supervision, serve as student instructors and teach a course entitled "Street Law" which annually reaches 2,000 predominately inner-city school students. The program seeks to promote legal literacy among young people to ensure that they possess that minimum amount of practical, legal knowledge needed to understand the system as a whole and how it can work in their behalf. Law student instructors deliver units in Housing, Consumer, Family, Criminal, and Constitutional Law at their assigned school sites. They also participate in weekly seminars and research and develop additional material on California law to be used in their classes. Prerequisite: completion of first-year courses. Street Law is taught by the University of San Francisco School of Law, with classes meeting at their campus. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. Students must have approval from the associate dean for student services to enroll in this course.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

This course will provide an in-depth analysis of income, estate, and gift tax issues arising in the context of gifts to charity. Basic rules of charitable giving, including analysis of contributions that will and will not give rise to tax benefits, permissible beneficiaries, limitations based on adjusted gross income and other considerations, valuation and substantiation will be presented. In addition, charitable giving techniques will be discussed, including charitable lead trusts, charitable remainder trusts, and bargain sales. Specific giving situations relevant to estate planning will also be covered. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. Recommended: Estate and Gift Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2

This course provides an overview of the laws governing tax-exempt organizations, focusing on federal tax laws affecting charitable and educational organizations. Topics covered include charitable planning, charity formation and application for exemption, operational requirements, executive compensation, private foundation excise taxes and prohibitions, unrelated business income, and other interesting tax issues. The course will also include discussion of relevant state law formation and governance issues as well as charitable trust restrictions, using California as a model. Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2

Clinical fieldwork in a tax practice may be performed under the supervision of a practicing attorney. Students must petition to program director for approval. This course is graded on a Credit/No Credit basis. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 - 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course acquaints students with resources available for tax research, including legislative processes, the Internal Revenue Code, judicial and administrative interpretations, reference services, and electronic research. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 1 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013

This course considers utilization of the tax system to achieve public policy goals, including assumptions, problems, and social impacts of alternative public taxation policies. Taxation policy will be examined in light of current political theories and electoral proposals. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.)

Units: 2

A thesis is an independent study project for LLM students done under the supervision of the LLM Program Director. Thesis can be taken for 4-6 units. The thesis can be on any topic agreed to by the student and the Program Director. Thesis can be taken for a letter grade or for a Credit/No Credit grade and must be decided at the time of topic approval. All papers submitted under this program should reflect approximately 70 hours of work per unit of credit.

Units: 4 - 6 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

This course analyzes problems of allocation income and deduction items to the proper taxable year, including annual accounting concept, tax year selection, accounting methods, and the time value of money.

Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation.(Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 2 , Offered: Spring 2013

This introductory course considers the elements of and defenses to intentional torts, negligence and strict liability, including liability for defective products. The legal principles in each subject area and the policies underlying them are extensively analyzed and explored.

Units: 4 , Offered: Fall 2013

How to regulate the thousands of toxic substances used in commerce today is a central focus of environmental law. This course first examines how effective common law actions are in dealing with exposures to toxic substances, then studies the range of regulatory responses dealing with toxic substances and hazardous waste, such as the federal hazardous waste management law (RCRA), the federal Superfund statute that deals with clean up of abandoned waste sites, and other federal statutes controlling toxics in various other settings, including drinking water (the SDWA Act) and pesticides (FIFRA). The course also covers risk assessment and risk management issues and information-based alternatives to traditional regulation, including California's Proposition 65.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

This course covers US trademark law and the role trademark protection plays in interstate commerce. Students explore the legal issues arising from the registration process with special attention to the business perspectives on trademark protection. The course also examines the interaction between domain names and trademarks and the general impact of the Internet on trademark law. Intellectual Property LL.M. students are required to take this course, Copyright Law of the US or Patent Law of the US.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013

Transfer pricing involves transfers of tangible products, intangible products and services between related parties. The field has evolved to become one of the largest, most complex, and most contentious areas of international tax, finance and economics. This course provides an in-depth analysis of case law, regulations and guidelines governing transfer pricing in the US. and abroad. By the end of the course, students will have mastered the basic legal principles and economic methods governing intercompany pricing of intangible property, services and tangible goods among multinational corporations.

Prerequisite: Characterization of Income & Expenditures or Federal Income Taxation. A background in economics, finance, or accounting is not required or necessary.(Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 1

This course picks up where Transfer Pricing I left off, with a detailed analysis of transfer pricing issues that arise with transfers of intangible property among related parties. We will examine recent case law, regulations and international guidelines relating to the following five issues in particular: the treatment of stock option expenses; the best method analysis for valuing intangible property; the definition and nature of intangible property in the context of multinational transfers; the evolution of the US cost sharing regulations; and policy debates regarding transfers of intangible property from US multinationals to their affiliates abroad.

Prerequisite: Transfer Pricing I. (Offered through the LLM in Taxation Program. JD students seeking to enroll must obtain the approval of the program director.), Units: 1

This is the entry course for the litigation program, and it teaches the basic skills needed by every lawyer going to court: conducting a direct examination of a witness, introducing documents and physical evidence, cross-examining witnesses, making and answering objections, and preparing opening statements and closing arguments. Much of the students' work is videotaped. The final examination for this course is a full trial conducted in a local courthouse. This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. Prerequisite/Corequisite (depending on the instructor): Evidence.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

Specifically-designed for the Summer Trial and Evidence Program (1st STEP), this course combines the courses of trial advocacy and evidence in the courtroom, as well as presentation and acting techniques from a theater instructor. In the trial advocacy part, students learn the basic skills needed by every lawyer going to court: conducting a direct examination of a witness, introducing documents and physical evidence, cross-examining witnesses, making and answering objections, and preparing opening statements and closing arguments. In the evidence in the courtroom part, students learn that the rules of evidence dictate the manner of criminal and civil trials. Students will learn how arguments under the rules of evidence and evidentiary rulings play out in the courtroom. This course connects the rules of evidence and evidentiary determinations with the skills of trial advocacy. The final examination for this course is a full trial. Corequisite (within 1st STEP): Evidence. This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Experiential Learning Requirement.

Units: 5 , Offered: Summer 2013

Students will master and understand fundamental concepts and practices regarding Value Added Taxes (VAT) and the administration of such taxing systems in major industrialized countries. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the economic and social implications of VAT and similar taxing initiatives. Students will participate in learning exercises designed to develop and deepen their knowledge of VAT applications and implications in differing economic and political environments.

Units: 1

VOICe is the GGU Law Veterans Online Information Center developed through a partnership between GGU Law and Bay Area internet company, Pearl.com. This course combines the practical training of a clinic serving veterans with the substantive focus of a upper-division elective focusing on veteran's benefits. A small section of 10 or less students will learn the field of veterans' benefits, develop materials, field online requests for information from veterans, and possibly further assist veterans with specific matters at the discretion of the supervising attorney. Like so many others Americans without adequate access to justice, our veterans need assistance getting information about the issues that matter most to them. Veterans regularly seek information about the benefits and entitlements stemming from their service. At GGU Law's VOICe, veterans can request information and assistance through an accessible online platform. Students will study, respond and develop materials from past requests posed by veterans. Students, working with a supervising attorney, will develop and update materials to assist veterans with common requests for information related to their benefits from military service. Through an online dialogue using Pearl.com's platform, veterans will pose "live" requests for information to GGU Law's VOICe and, when feasible, the students and supervision attorney will provide information and assistance to the veteran. Like Pearl.com's main site, within GGU Law's VOICe: (i) the customers requesting information and the professionals providing information use usernames only and are anonymous; (ii) the online dialogue is public, searchable and not confidential; (iii) the professionals do not provide legal advice ; and (iv) the parties do not form an attorney-client relationship. The supervising attorney, with or without the assistance of the VOICe students, may represent a veteran who was a customer of VOICe; yet, the representation must be entirely offline and outside of Pearl.com's online platform.

Units: 1 , Offered: Summer 2013

This class provides an overview of the legal framework and principles governing the ownership, use, and distribution of water. It covers topics that are national in scope, but it also emphasizes laws and issues unique to California. The class covers: surface water and ground water rights, riparian and appropriative water rights, California and federal water agencies, the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) and the California's State Water Project; interstate water compacts and international water allocation treaties, Native American water rights, instream flow requirements, the public trust doctrine, and California's water supply-land use legislation (SB 221 and SB 610). This course counts toward completion of the JD Upper Division Writing Requirement.

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

The term "white collar crime" describes a classification of non-violent, complex criminal offences. Corruption, bribery, schemes to defraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice offenses are some of the most common white collar offenses litigated in federal courts. Students will explore the stages of the federal criminal process implicated in a white collar case. We will discuss the issues unique to the investigation, prosecution, and defense of white collar crimes. Students also will discuss the related issues of parallel proceedings, working with cooperating witnesses, corporate liability, litigation and trial tactics, plea negotiations, and sentencing. Prerequisite: Criminal Law. Students who have taken LAW 706H Lawyering: White Collar Crime in Practice may not enroll in this course.

Units: 2

In this two-unit Wills & Trusts drafting lab, students will have the opportunity to draft simple wills and the operative provisions of simple trusts (without significant tax implications). Students will engage in drafting based on written materials, and also based on information elicited from client interviews with live mock clients. The course includes a client counseling component. The lab will also include a visit to the Probate Court in San Francisco, and an opportunity to meet with GGU Law alumni who now practice in this area (details depending upon enrollment). Co-requisite: Wills & Trusts

Units: 2

A study of nontax estate planning devices, this course explores intestate succession; restrictions on the power to dispose of property; the execution and revocation of wills; and the nature, creation, modification, and termination of trusts. Future interests and perpetuities problems are also discussed. This course counts toward completion of the California Bar Subject Requirement.

Prerequisite: Property I and II (6 units) or Property (4 units)., Units: 4 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Summer 2013 , Spring 2013

The Women's Employment Rights Seminar is a required companion course for students enrolled in the Women's Employment Rights Clinic (LAW-885B). The course addresses employment law issues affecting low wage workers, focusing on both California and federal law. Substantive law areas include: overview of employment discrimination law, workplace harassment, wage and hour law, pregnancy discrimination, Family and Medical Leave Act, unemployment insurance benefits, disability discrimination, ethical issues in employment law, and wrongful termination. The seminar includes skills training components on client interviewing and counseling, case theory development, and administrative filing and hearing practice. The seminar is open to second and third-year students.

Units: 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

Students represent low-income clients with employment-related problems in areas including unpaid wages, discrimination and harassment, pregnancy disability, family and medical leave, and unemployment benefits. The clinic operates as a law office, with students practicing under direct faculty supervision. Clinic students must simultaneously enroll in the Women's Employment Rights Seminar (LAW-885S). This course counts toward completion of the Experiential Learning Requirement. Prerequisites: All first-year courses.

Prerequisite: All first-year courses. Corequisite:Evidence. Consent of the instructor is required for Clinic enrollment., Corequisite: Evidence. Consent of the instructor is required for Clinic enrollment., Units: 1 - 3 , Offered: Fall 2013 , Spring 2013

In this process-based course, students begin working with the basic legal research resources. They become familiar with legal citation, legal reading and legal analysis. They develop their ability to formulate research plans and to analyze legal issues as they research and write predictive memoranda responding to specific legal problems.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013

The second semester of Writing and Research continues to focus on the predictive memo as the vehicle to further develop research and analytical skills. The memo problems are more complex, requiring more in-depth research. Prerequisite: Writing and Research I

Units: 3 , Offered: Spring 2013

Since 1989, more than 200 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated by DNA testing. (One of that number, Peter J. Rose, exonerated in 2004-2005, was represented by Professors and students from GGU.) This 2-unit seminar course gives students the opportunity to do law reform work. Students investigate the factors that contribute to wrongful convictions by studying flaws in our criminal justice system and, working in conjunction with the national Innocence Project, propose remedies.

Units: 2 , Offered: Fall 2013