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Accounting, Data Analysis, and Financial Reporting for Lawyers

rchung — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:36:18 +0000

Accounting, Data Analysis and Financial Reporting for Lawyers

The course covers accounting techniques in the contexts in which a lawyer is likely to confront accounting issues. It provides knowledge of fundamental accounting techniques and principles of recordation, presentation, and analysis of financial data. Students will also learn how to analyze various SEC disclosure documents, including SEC Form 10-K.

This course is graded on a pass/fail basis.

Open to Tax LL.M. students.

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Corporate Transactions and Governance; Financial Services and Compliance; Health Care Management and Compliance; International Business; Labor and Employment (Corporate Perspective); Real Estate and Land Use; Tax; Trusts and Estates; Government/Public Sector; Media, Entertainment, Sports, Fashion; Tech/Privacy; General Practice – Transactional

2 Credits

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Administrative Law

rchung — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:36:18 +0000

Administrative Law

The complexity of modern government means that much governing is done not by the traditional three branches but by administrative agencies with quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial, as well as executive, functions. This course explores administrative process and procedure: how, in the federal government, the Constitution, Congress (through organic statutes and the Administrative Procedure Act), the courts, and the agencies themselves help define the powers and responsibilities of the independent and executive agencies. The course examines specific agencies as bureaucratic institutions, considers approaches to regulatory reform, and specially emphasizes the courts.

This is a substantive course that deals with law and policy.

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Civil Rights/Civil Liberties; Family Law; Government/Public Sector; Immigration; International Law/Human Rights; Labor and Employment; Corporate Transactions and Governance; Financial Services and Compliance; Health Care Management and Compliance; Labor and Employment (Corporate Perspective); Real Estate and Land Use; Tax; IP/Copyright and Trademark;Tech/Privacy; General Practice – Litigation/Dispute Resolution; General Practice – Transactional

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Advanced Appellate Advocacy

rchung — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:36:18 +0000

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

This course will cover the basic procedural and substantive issues involved in the filing, preparation, and arguing of an appeal, including the requirement of preservation and the applicable standard of review.

Working with a case file, students will have the opportunity to prepare an appellate brief and engage in oral arguments, thereby developing advanced skills in both written and oral advocacy. Students will have opportunities to become involved in actual appeals by observing practicing appellate arguments and participating in moots to help prepare appellate attorneys for oral arguments.

Approved for the Experiential Learning Requirement. Satisfies either the Experiential Learning Requirement or the Writing Requirement.

Please note: Per ABA rules, this course may only be used for one graduation requirement. Students must communicate with the Registrar to elect to count the course for either Writing Requirement or Experiential Learning Requirement.

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Civil Rights/Civil Liberties; Immigration; International Law/Human Rights; Labor and Employment; IP/Copyright and Trademark; General Practice – Litigation/Dispute Resolution

3 Credits

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Advanced Bar Exam Analysis

jbancamper — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:17:24 +0000

Advanced Bar Exam Analysis

Advanced Bar Exam Analysis is an opportunity for students to continue the work of Introduction to the MEE and the MPT with added exposure to complex Performance Test problems and multiple-subject bar exam essay questions.

The primary focus of the course is on students’ continued development of their abilities to produce effectively written bar exam essay and Performance Test responses in a logical, coherent IRAC format. Students are required to complete regular writing tasks for homework as well as in-class assignments, and will also receive instruction, guidance, and feedback on their writing.

This upper-level substantive course covers areas of law that are frequently tested on the UBE and provides students with the opportunity to practice drafting complex Performance Test responses and answers to Bar Exam-style essay questions.

Students whose grade point average ranks them in the third and fourth quartiles are strongly encouraged to take this course.

While this course meets remotely, quizzes and the final exam will be administered in person, on campus. All students are expected to plan accordingly.

Co-requisite: Introduction to the MEE and the MPT

1 Credit

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Advanced Business Immigration and the Global Employee

jbancamper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:00:18 +0000

Advanced Business Immigration and the Global Employee

This course examines the complex legal and strategic issues that arise when businesses employ talent across borders. Using real-world-inspired hypotheticals, students explore the substantive and procedural dimensions of business immigration law and its intersection with other areas such as criminal law, family law, and corporate law.

The course is structured as a collaborative, practice-oriented simulation. Students are organized into “law firms,” while alumni practitioners serve as “senior counsel.” Prior to each class, students complete the assigned readings and analyze hypothetical client scenarios drawn from real-world immigration matters. Working in their firms, students develop case strategies as “associates,” present their analyses to their peers and senior counsel, and refine their approach through discussion and feedback. Once each firm reaches a cohesive strategy, the groups present their recommendations to the class for broader discussion.

For each class session, students prepare a written analysis of one assigned hypothetical for submission while participating in group discussions for all scenarios. These written submissions, together with in-class strategy presentations, form a significant component of the course grade. Students are also evaluated on the presentation of a research topic and a short final paper, with the option to complete a longer paper to satisfy the Law School’s writing requirement.

By working closely with alumni practitioners throughout the semester, students gain insight into the practical challenges of advising global employers and foreign national employees. The course’s interactive format not only deepens students’ understanding of business immigration practice but also fosters mentorship and networking opportunities with practicing attorneys in the field.

Approved for the Experiential Learning Requirement.

Recommended for the following Professional Pathways: Civil Rights/Civil Liberties; Family Law; Government/Public Sector; Immigration; International Law/Human Rights; Labor and Employment; General Practice – Litigation/Dispute Resolution

Recommended Pre-/Co-requisite: Immigration Law

2 Credits

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Advanced Corporate Tax

rchung — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:36:18 +0000

Advanced Corporate Tax

This course examines the tax consequences of various forms of taxable as well as nontaxable mergers and acquisitions. Building upon the distribution and liquidation regime covered in TAX 110, it considers the Section 338 election in the context of practical merger and acquisition planning. Tax-free reorganizations are examined in some detail, including the tax consequences to the parties and circumstances in which one or another type of reorganization may be appropriate. The course will introduce students to intragroup sales subject to Section 304 and the closely related.

This course complements and goes beyond TAX 110 Federal Income Tax: Corporate. A substantive/statutory course that deals with law, theory, and policy in the context of the U.S. Tax Code.

Open to Tax LL.M. students.

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Corporate Transactions and Governance; Tax

Prerequisites: Federal Income Tax: Individual, and Federal Income Tax: Corporate

2 Credits

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Advanced Legal Methods

rchung — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:36:18 +0000

Advanced Legal Methods

This course consolidates the predictive analysis and professional writing skills that first-year students have been developing. The class offers multiple opportunities for writing practice and feedback, while helping to create bridges between students’ understanding of academic exam-driven analysis and writing and context-driven professional writing. The course centers on writing exercises drawn from a series of case files that address core legal topics drawn from first-year subjects. It reinforces substantive knowledge of selected key legal rules while applying those rules in a variety of different legal genres.

A foundational skills course in which students synthesize their learning. The course practices an array of forms of professional writing and analysis. It applies analytical competencies that will be important for the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), with a special emphasis on the skills required in the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) and the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE), as well as reinforcing skills needed for the practice of law.

Core Curriculum Course: Full-time Day Division students complete this course during their 1L spring term. Evening Division students complete this course during their 2LE fall term.

2 Credits

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Advanced Real Estate Transactions

rchung — Fri, 01 May 2020 22:36:18 +0000

Advanced Real Estate Transactions

This course builds on principles from Real Estate Transactions and Finance. It examines legal issues related to the initial development of real estate from the ground up and complex issues related to the financing, ownership, and operation of commercial properties. Topics may include: commercial mortgage commitments; permanent financing; construction lending and mechanics’ liens; subordinated financing; lender liability related to construction; ground lease financing; commercial leases; shopping center development and operation; condominium and cooperative development and operation; distressed properties; the effect of environmental regulation on real estate transactions; green leases and sustainable development; and globalization of American real estate transactions.

This upper-level course focuses on the legal and business issues of sophisticated real estate transactions, i.e., transactions beyond the sale of an existing residence or an existing, basic commercial property. It represents a final step for students in the area of real estate transactions and finance. The course provides substantive learning through cases, statutes, and scholarly and professional articles. It also develops skills by having the students address, critique, and alter sample transaction documents in light of lessons learned and through the use of problems. The course focuses on developing a transactional approach to issues, applicable to real estate, corporate, business, and other related practices.

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Real Estate and Land Use; Corporate Transactions and Governance; General Practice – Transactional

Prerequisite: Real Estate Transactions and Finance

2 Credits

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Advanced Sports Law

kking — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:24:45 +0000

Advanced Sports Law

This course shall take an advanced approach and dig deeper into the topics raised in sports law. More importantly, this class will explore how agents, arbitrators, and attorneys interface with one another and shall include, among other things, the review actual complaints, contracts, and motions filed in relevant sports law cases. In addition, students shall engage in in-class group exercises. All topics are designed to have students apply their lawyering skills directly to the field of sports. This will take these in-class exercises to the next logical, advanced level to help students gain practical legal experience.

Enrollment is limited.

Prerequisite(s): Sports Law

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Media/Entertainment/Sports/Fashion; IP/ Copyright and Trademark; Labor and Employment—Corporate; Litigation/Dispute Resolution

2 credits

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Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution

kking — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:16:15 +0000

Advanced Topics in Dispute Resolution

This seminar course offers the opportunity for intense and robust investigation of discrete issues arising in the course of resolving disputes by means other than the courts. Students will prepare and discuss issues of public policy, practice, and theory, and they will be responsible for original scholarship on a topic of their choosing. Issues may include cross-cultural negotiation, investor-state conciliation, public policy of mediation confidentiality, consequences of diversity in arbitration, mediation practices outside the United States, and conflict resolution in religious communities.

The course is the post-introductory offering in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). It will require students to become conversant with current issues of policy regarding court-annexed and independent dispute resolution processes with an emphasis on such topics as implicit bias in “neutral” arbitrators and mediators; the increasing concern of lack of diversity among ADR practitioners; the impact of globalization on traditionally culturally homogeneous approaches to ADR; and broad public policy questions such as class action waiver and confidentiality of mediation communications.

Recommended for the Following Professional Pathways: Litigation/Dispute Resolution; International Business; International Law/Human Rights; Labor/Employment; Family Law

Prerequisites: At least two of the following—any mediation course, any arbitration course, any negotiation course, or membership in the Dispute Resolution Team.

2 Credits

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Accounting, Data Analysis, and Financial Reporting for Lawyers

Accounting, Data Analysis and Financial Reporting for Lawyers

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Administrative Law

Administrative Law

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Advanced Bar Exam Analysis

Advanced Bar Exam Analysis

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Advanced Business Immigration and the Global Employee

Advanced Business Immigration and the Global Employee

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Advanced Corporate Tax

Advanced Corporate Tax

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Advanced Legal Methods

Advanced Legal Methods

PROFESSIONAL PATHWAYS

Business and Financial Services

Intellectual Property and Privacy

Government and Public Interest Law

General Practice / Chart Your Path

OTHER CRITERIA

Format

Credits

Graduation Requirements

Advanced Real Estate Transactions

Advanced Real Estate Transactions

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