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The focus is upon legislative authority and administrative agencies with special emphasis on administrative process and judicial review.

Prerequisites: Con. Law I is recommended

Hones advanced analytical writing skills, with an emphasis on preparing for the writing portions of the Bar exam. Through repeated practice and regular feedback, students develop the skills of issue spotting, effective organization, clear explanation, and thorough analysis, which are critical for success on the MEE and MPT (50% of the bar exam). As a basis for practicing these skills, students review the substantive law of civil procedure, criminal law, and property. Enrollment is limited to students in their final semester of law school.

This seminar builds on the legal research materials and methods studied in the first-year legal research course and emphasizes effective research techniques. Research topics vary each semester but generally include judicial opinions, statutes, legislative history, court rules, administrative law, secondary sources, foreign and international law, and research databases used in law practice. Students must bring to class their own computer that is capable of connecting to the law school's wireless network.

Students are selected as a member of an advocacy competition team representing the School of Law in one of several inter-school competitions in which the School of Law participates each year. One hour for each competition up to a maximum of 4 hours can be earned.

Designed to provide a general introduction to advocacy and is required for students who wish to be considered for involvement with ������ý’s travelling advocacy teams. The course includes units on public speaking; communications theory; ethics; and introductions to appellate and trial advocacy, negotiations and mediation, and transactional skills. Students have opportunities to develop the concepts underlying the professional skills being taught through multiple opportunities for performance through participation on an off-campus team or in an on-campus competition.

An examination and analysis of materials and skills used in dispute resolution other than litigation. The theory and practice of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and minitrials will be emphasized, with examples and problem simulations drawn from various fields of law.

This course provides an introduction to the dynamic field of animal law. It is not an animal rights class, although the course explores the concepts of human and animal 'rights' in the development of the law. Students will review animal-related cases in such areas as constitutional law, criminal law, intellectual property, and international law. In addition, students will debate topical issues, hear expert speakers, analyze actual cases, and track the legislative process. The course will cover the laws affecting companion animals, farm animals, and wild animals at the local, state, and federal levels.

An introductory course to aviation law covering regulation of domestic and international aviation; deregulation of domestic aviation, the legal regime of the airspace, aircraft and users of the airspace; the liability of the insurance for the airman, manufacturer, services, airline and United States of America; aviation litigation fundamentals and focused issues; criminal law specific to aviation, legal issues governing aviation transactions, aviation labor and the law of space.

Prerequisites: Administrative Law or Insurance Law is recommended

Introduces the federal laws governing commercial banking activities, with primary emphasis on the regulation (and deregulation) of U.S. banks and related policy considerations. Lecture topics vary from year to year but generally include key domestic, regional, and international issues with respect to banking, the banking industry, and the overall financial services industry. Uses interdisciplinary subject matter in economics, finance, and business, and may use comparisons to regulation of other financial institutions such as broker-dealers, investment banks, and financial technology companies.

An introduction to federal and state law governing the debtor-creditor relationship: enforcement of judgments; attachment, garnishment, and sequestration; fraudulent conveyances; and bankruptcy as affecting secured and unsecured creditors under the Bankruptcy Code.

A survey of American business laws for international graduate students. Selected topics may be drawn, from year to year, from the laws of agency, partnership, corporation, securities, antitrust, bankruptcy, and business taxation, and are taught from the perspective of assisting non-U.S. trained lawyers to draw comparative and practical lessons and otherwise to enrich these students upon their return home. Course is normally taught in the fall semester. Enrollment is limited to international, non-U.S.-law-trained graduate students.

Prerequisites: International LLM Students Only; May not take this course and the BE course for JDs.

This is the basic business law course. The emphasis of the first portion of the course is on the closely held business. To be considered are the following: Agency: General principles of the law of agency. Partnerships (general and limited): Formation, control, liabilities, property, dissolution and disposition of business; internal and external relations of partners. Limited Liability Companies and Corporations: Formation, control, allocation concerns; duties, liabilities, and rights of management and shareholders or members; dispute resolution devices; and fundamentals of capitalization and financing (including basic securities financing and securities law concerns, particularly respecting the private exempt offering). The primary emphasis of the second portion of the course is on the widely owned business. In this portion, general corporate governance and capitalization problems (including preferred stock and debt securities structuring) are further explored, along with corporate distributions and repurchases and fundamental corporate changes. Analysis of mergers and acquisitions is emphasized. Depending on available time, emphasis also is placed on the impact of federal securities laws on the corporate governance structure, including discussion of ongoing public disclosure requirements, proxy regulations, and insider trading restrictions and liabilities. The course is transaction-oriented, whereby planning and problem-solving are stressed, and interdisciplinary use of basic taxation, accounting, and finance notions is made. Special attention is given to the modern statutory trends.

This is the basic business law course. The emphasis of the first portion of the course is on the closely held business. To be considered are the following: Agency: General principles of the law of agency. Partnerships (general and limited): Formation, control, liabilities, property, dissolution and disposition of business; internal and external relations of partners. Limited Liability Companies and Corporations: Formation, control, allocation concerns; duties, liabilities, and rights of management and shareholders or members; dispute resolution devices; and fundamentals of capitalization and financing (including basic securities financing and securities law concerns, particularly respecting the private exempt offering). The primary emphasis of the second portion of the course is on the widely owned business. In this portion, general corporate governance and capitalization problems (including preferred stock and debt securities structuring) are further explored, along with corporate distributions and repurchases and fundamental corporate changes. Analysis of mergers and acquisitions is emphasized. Depending on available time, emphasis also is placed on the impact of federal securities laws on the corporate governance structure, including discussion of ongoing public disclosure requirements, proxy regulations, and insider trading restrictions and liabilities. The course is transaction-oriented, whereby planning and problem-solving are stressed, and interdisciplinary use of basic taxation, accounting, and finance notions is made. Special attention is given to the modern statutory trends.

Introduces vocabulary, concepts, and skills needed to effectively understand how business works so students are able to communicate with and advise business clients (including as regulatory and litigation counsel). The course is not designed to go in-depth, but moves quickly over key business concepts and terminology. Students learn from expert ������ý faculty (including from the Cox School of Business) and from industry experts, both lawyers and business professionals. A background in finance, accounting, or business is neither required nor expected. This course is offered in an accelerated boot camp format with the coursework completed approximately by mid-semester and the final take home exam occurring shortly after.

Examines the techniques of properly analyzing circumstantial evidence in the context of a murder trial. From the crime scene to the courthouse, students learn the role of and the technical process of presenting circumstantial evidence. The class is based on crime scene evidence and trial transcripts from several famous Dallas murders including Jack Ruby (the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald), Charles Tex Watson (the Manson Family Killings), Charles Albright (The Eyeball Killer), and the Trinity River Massacre. It is recommended that students have either taken or are enrolled in Evidence.

Prerequisites: Evidence is recommended

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Civil Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Civil Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Civil Clinic

Provides students with insight into civil practice and case management, as well as an opportunity to strengthen their research and writing skills. To begin the semester, students receive a “filed” federal complaint evincing a civil commercial dispute and alleging claims sounding in contract, tort, and equity. Students represent either a defendant or a plaintiff defendant and spend the semester learning and performing early case assessment tasks including, but not limited to, triaging the complaint, pre-answer motion practice, procedural motion practice, “issue spotting” and strategizing defenses, answering the complaint, commencing discovery, and filing dispositive motions. The course emphasizes (1) relevant resources to consider when drafting (and filing) motions, answers, and discovery requests; (2) proper organization and form of written submissions, (3) persuasive argument and briefing strategies; and (4) strategic, analytical, and practical considerations in litigation practice.

Civil procedure, focusing on judicial resolution of disputes; development of the modern civil action including consideration of the jurisdiction of courts, venue, process, pleading, joinder, discovery, pretrial practice, right to a jury trial, withdrawing cases from a jury, motions after verdict, judgments and their effects, and appellate review. An introduction to alternative dispute resolutions is also included.

Civil procedure, focusing on judicial resolution of disputes; development of the modern civil action including consideration of the jurisdiction of courts, venue, process, pleading, joinder, discovery, pretrial practice, right to a jury trial, withdrawing cases from a jury, motions after verdict, judgments and their effects, and appellate review. An introduction to alternative dispute resolutions is also included.

Civil procedure, focusing on judicial resolution of disputes; development of the modern civil action including consideration of the jurisdiction of courts, venue, process, pleading, joinder, discovery, pretrial practice, right to a jury trial, withdrawing cases from a jury, motions after verdict, judgments and their effects, and appellate review. An introduction to alternative dispute resolutions is also included.

The course develops lawyering skills and analytic methods for developing those skills. Clinic students represent indigent clients in actual cases involving disputes related to deceptive trade practices, consumer credit and debt, and tenants’ and civil rights, housing and real estate, among others. Classroom instruction uses the actual cases to develop skills such as interviewing, counseling, fact investigation and discovery, case planning, negotiation, drafting of pleadings, motions and memoranda, and pretrial and trial advocacy. Special emphasis is placed on access to justice, professional responsibility, and strategic planning. Throughout the course, a combination of teaching methods are employed, including one-on-one case supervision, classroom instruction, and simulations.

Prerequisites: Professional Responsibility may be taken concurrently; Good academic standing; Completion of first year courses; By selection only

Constitutional issues arising in the pretrial stage of a criminal case, such as search and seizure, interrogation, identification, the exclusionary rule, and the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine. Students taking this course may not take Constitutional Criminal Procedure Survey.

Prerequisites: Criminal Law

A study of individual rights including such areas as equal protection of the law and due process of law, with particular emphasis on issues of racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and the right to privacy. Depending on the Professor, this course may also include freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Prerequisites: Con. Law I

A study of individual rights including such areas as equal protection of the law and due process of law, with particular emphasis on issues of racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and the right to privacy. Depending on the Professor, this course may also include freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Prerequisites: Con. Law I

This course will address the legal aspects of the construction process. Particular emphasis will be devoted to discussion of the provisions of standard form contracts, and to the liability issues that arise out of the relationships between design professionals, contractors, and owners. Within this framework, the following will be covered: bidding; types of contracts; pricing variations; the rights and obligations of parties involved in the process; construction documents; bonds; insurance; changes; scheduling; delays; unforeseen circumstances; risk allocation of defective work; payments; and remedies for breach.

History and development of the common law of contract; principles controlling the formation, performance, and termination of contracts, including the basic doctrines of offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, material breach, damages, and statute of frauds; statutory variances from the common law with particular attention to Uniform Commercial Code sections.

History and development of the common law of contract; principles controlling the formation, performance, and termination of contracts, including the basic doctrines of offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, material breach, damages, and statute of frauds; statutory variances from the common law with particular attention to Uniform Commercial Code sections.

History and development of the common law of contract; principles controlling the formation, performance, and termination of contracts, including the basic doctrines of offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, material breach, damages, and statute of frauds; statutory variances from the common law with particular attention to Uniform Commercial Code sections.

Corporate & Transactional Legal Research is a specialized legal research class designed for students who are interested in practicing corporate and transactional law. Students will develop advanced proficiency in case law and statutory research, regulatory materials, secondary sources, and other fundamental research concepts utilized in a corporate law practice. The course will focus on locating and evaluating primary and secondary sources that can be used to research issues involving business transactions, securities offerings, corporate governance, and a number of related topics. Assignments and in-class exercises will simulate activities frequently performed by transactional attorneys.

The field of ethics and compliance has emerged as a new legal focus area with significant opportunities for legal practitioners, and the discipline has taken on an international aspect because of global enforcement and the growing convergence of standards. Regulators have stepped up enforcement of guidelines in key areas such as anticorruption, export, and trade sanctions. It is imperative that U.S. corporations comply with the United States Sentencing Commission's guidelines for organizations and establish risk management programs and processes to demonstrate their compliance. Using the framework of an overarching hypothetical, this course provides hands-on experience in identifying and reviewing key compliance issues and developing workable tools and solutions to address them, with a focus on the expected components of an effective corporate compliance program, drawing from important statutes, case law, and international treaties. This course is offered in an accelerated boot camp format with the coursework completed approximately by mid-semester and the final take home exam occurring shortly after.

The Corporate Counsel Externship Program integrates a weekly, two-hour corporate counsel class with hands-on experience in corporate legal departments. The class provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of substantive areas encountered in an in-house legal department, ethical responsibilities of in-house counsel, as well as professional skills, such as working with outside counsel, conflicts management, contract drafting, and conducting internal investigations. Chief legal officers, general counsels and senior managing attorneys will guest lecture in certain classes. In addition to the class component, students will be assigned to corporate legal departments where they will work approximately 10 hours per week, for a minimum of 120 hours for the semester. Student activities will vary depending on the corporation but may include: attending meetings, observing negotiations, conducting legal research, working on special projects and otherwise gaining an understanding of how law is practiced within a business setting. The externship component will be pass/fail, and the class component will be graded (take-home examination limited to 20 pages). Students must pass both the externship and class components to receive credit for program. Students successfully completing the externship and class will receive four hours credit (based on 2 credits for the externship and 2 credits for the classroom component). Students will be selected through a competitive application process. Interested students may apply through Symplicity by submitting their resume, application, unofficial transcript and brief statement of interest. Application deadlines will be announced. Students who are selected for the program will be notified before registration begins. Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.7 and have taken Business Enterprise. A student may enroll in the Corporate Counsel Externship Program and up to one additional externship program for credit while a J.D. student, including the Federal Judicial Externship Course and the SEC Extern Program. Students may not, however, simultaneously enroll in this program and another externship or clinical program during the same semester.

Prerequisites: Business Enterprise, Minimum GPA of 2.7

The formation of corporations, corporate capital structure, earnings and profits, dividends, distributions, redemptions, partial liquidations and complete liquidations, and Subchapter S corporations.

Students enrolled in the Crimes Against Women Clinic (also known as the “Hunter Clinic”) provide representation to survivors of gender-based harms, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Students typically represent clients in family law, humanitarian immigration, or postconviction matters. They also work with institutional partners on policy and advocacy projects that seek long-term solutions to the problem of violence against women. Work on real cases, in combination with faculty supervision and the clinic seminar, allows students to hone a wide range of lawyering skills, both practical and analytical.

Prerequisites: Professional Responsibility may be taken concurrently; Evidence & Family Law are recommended; Good academic standing; Completion of first year courses; By selection only

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Crimes Against Women Clinic

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Crimes Against Women Clinic

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Crimes Against Women Clinic

A practice-based period of study involving representation of indigent clients in Dallas County criminal courts. Classroom instruction and skills training are integrated with actual case work.

Prerequisites: Professional Responsibility may be taken concurrently; Evidence & Texas Crim. Procedure are recommended; Good academic standing; Completion of all first year courses; By selection only

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Criminal Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Criminal Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Criminal Clinic

Provides an in-depth examination of discovery-related legal writing in civil litigation. Using a simulated commercial business dispute between two companies as its factual backdrop, students assume the role of law firm associates representing either the Plaintiff or Defendant in a federal lawsuit. Students develop skills in drafting, responding to, and objecting to written discovery (including interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission), as well as drafting and responding to motions to compel. Through hands-on drafting exercises, immersive in-class simulations, and strategic legal analysis, students build a strong foundation in litigation discovery writing and are well-equipped for real-world litigation practice.

The course will emphasize constitutional issues in public education law and will include case law and law review articles [discussing current controversies]. Depending on the enrollment, students may be asked to make in-class presentations based on the assigned material.

This seminar engages personhood and freedom of contract to explore social and economic equity, with a focus on Black entrepreneurship. This seminar uses legal realism, law and economics, and critical legal studies to interrogate and examine these issues. It also contemplates how the economic theory of social choice is impacted by American racial standards, and whether this influence impacts the ability to rely on social choice for the generation of economic policy.

A survey that presents an introduction to basic elements of federal environmental law. The course includes analysis of environmental regulatory policy, statutory control of air, water, and hazardous waste pollution, and allocation of the costs of cleaning environmental contamination.

Prerequisites: Administrative Law & Land Use are recommended

Consideration of the kinds of transfers that attract the estate and gift tax; the generation skipping tax; income taxation of estates and trusts.

Principles governing the admission and exclusion of evidence, including functions of judge and jury, examination and competency of witnesses, demonstrative evidence, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, burdens of proof and presumptions, privileges, and judicial notice.

Principles governing the admission and exclusion of evidence, including functions of judge and jury, examination and competency of witnesses, demonstrative evidence, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, burdens of proof and presumptions, privileges, and judicial notice.

The legal problems of the family including marriage, annulment, divorce, legitimacy, custody, support of family members, adoption, and related matters. This course does not include Texas matrimonial property law. If the student plans to take instruction in both courses, this course should be taken first.

Under the supervision of an experienced clinical faculty member, student attorneys in the VanSickle Family Law Clinic represent and provide counsel to low-income clients in matters of family law such as divorce, child custody, possession and access, paternity, modifications, enforcement actions, child and spousal support, and adoption. Through client representation and the clinic seminar, student attorneys have the opportunity to engage in the performance of fundamental lawyering skills necessary for competent representation and zealous advocacy. These skills include but are not limited to, interviewing and counseling clients, negotiating, fact development and analysis, strategic case planning, conflict resolution and decision making, motion and trial practice, drafting legal pleadings and ancillary documents, organization and management of legal work, cultural competency, collaboration and self-evaluation. Student attorneys also collaborate with community-based organizations to provide limited consulting to pro se litigants at organized community legal clinics located in a low-income, culturally diverse area of Dallas.

Prerequisites: Professional Responsibility is recommended; Good academic standing; Completion of all first year courses; By selection only

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Family Law Clinic

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Family Law Clinic

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Family Law Clinic

Covers the core legal issues faced by fashion and apparel companies, including wholesale, retail, and direct-to-consumer operations. Topics covered include: the role of copyright, trademark, and patent protection in fashion; licensing and supply chain legal issues; legal issues in marketing and advertising, data privacy, sustainability; the method of policing counterfeit goods; labor and employment matters.

This externship provides opportunities for students to work in the chambers of the U.S. District Court judges, U.S. Magistrate judges, and U.S. Bankruptcy Judges in the Northern District of Texas, Dallas and Fort Worth Divisions. From time to time, students may also have the opportunity to work with federal judges in the Eastern District of Texas, Plano Division and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Students will be paired with an individual judge, and will work approximately 10-15 hours per week under that judge's supervision for one semester for a total of at least 120 hours. The Federal Judicial Externship also includes a Judicial Externship that will meet for at least fourteen 50-minute hours. Students successfully completing the externship and class will receive three hours credit (based on 2 credits for the externship itself and 1 for the classroom component). The students' primary activities will be research, drafting bench memos, drafting opinions, and observing conferences, motion hearings, and evidentiary hearings. Students will occasionally have the opportunity to prepare short articles for publication. The teacher of the classroom component will also serve as Faculty Supervisor for the externships, while the judges will serve as Field Supervisors.

Prerequisites: Students are only eligible for this course if they have not previously received credit for an externship.

Preparation and trial of tax cases in the federal courts; representation of a taxpayer before the Internal Revenue Service; administrative powers and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service; criminal violations of the Internal Revenue Code; accumulations of supporting evidence for a tax plan.

Prerequisites: All first year courses, Income Tax may be taken concurrently

The Tax Clinic is a combination of academic and practical experience. Students represent mostly low-income clients who have tax issues with the Internal Revenue Service. The scope of representation ranges from negotiating settlements and collection plans with the IRS to taking a client’s case to Tax Court or District Court. Participation in the Tax Clinic will provide a unique educational experience in which you will participate in the representation of actual clients before the IRS. In certain instances, students can participate in Tax Court proceedings and even visit with sitting Tax Court judges in chambers.

Prerequisites: Income Tax may be taken concurrently; Good academic standing; Completion of all first year courses; By selection only

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Federal Tax Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Federal Tax Clinic

The First Amendment Clinic (the “Clinic”) will provide assistance to clients defending and advancing the rights of free press, free speech, petition, and assembly. The seminar component will integrate substantive law, theory, core lawyering skills, and legal ethics to provide law students real world law practice experience. Under faculty supervision, student attorneys may handle the following types of cases and matters, among others: Defamation defense/Representation of witnesses in defamation cases, Texas Citizens Participation Act proceedings (anti-SLAPP), Motions to obtain access to civil and criminal court records, Challenges to gag orders and protective orders in criminal and civil cases, Motions to open courtrooms/motions to photograph, broadcast, or stream court proceedings, Issues related to the right to photograph police officers and other government officials in public, Motions to quash subpoenas directed to journalists, Pre-publication review of news articles, Individual or group free speech, right to petition, and right of assembly Claims, Amicus briefs on First Amendment issues, Texas Public Information Act requests/Freedom of Information Act requests. Clinic students are expected to take the lead in all aspects of their casework and to be professionally responsible for the services they provide on behalf of their clients. Through client representation and the clinic seminar, student attorneys will have the opportunity to practice fundamental lawyering skills necessary to provide competent, ethical, and zealous representation. These skills will include, but will not be limited to, interviewing and counseling clients, negotiating and interacting with opposing counsel, developing and analyzing facts and legal theories, developing and planning case strategy, and drafting and arguing legal pleadings and motions. The students will develop these skills in an atmosphere that promotes collaboration, self-evaluation, and self-reflection.

Prerequisites: Evidence & Con. Law II are recommended; Good academic standing; Completion of all first year courses. By selection only

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: First Amendment Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: First Amendment Clinic

This course examines how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food, drugs, medical devices, and biotechnology. The FDA is the oldest consumer protection agency in the United States, and it regulates a significant portion of the U.S. economy. This course will address the history and scope of the FDA's authority, and how the agency has evolved to deal with modern developments in the biosciences, as well as emerging public health and safety issues, such as bioterrorism and advances in genetic research. Students will learn theories and study examples of risk regulation, statutory interpretation, inter-agency cooperation, public participation, and agency policymaking. We will also focus on the FDA's relationships with Congress, the executive branch, and the industries it regulates.

There is a growing recognition and respect for franchising and product distribution domestically and around the world. Franchising had its start in the U.S. around the time of the Civil War, but in the last ten years franchising's growth has been explosive. It no longer concerns only restaurants and lodging, but has expanded to areas such as telecom and automotive. This course will provide an overview of the law of franchising and product distribution, both domestically and internationally.

Prerequisites: Contracts I & II; (Business Enterprise & either Intellectual Property or Trademark & Business Torts are recommended)

The Government and Public Interest Externship Program is an academic program that combines a weekly public sector law class with hands-on fieldwork in nonprofit and government legal departments. Students who pass both the class and externship components receive one credit for the classroom component and 2-3 hours credit for their field work (depending on the hours worked at the placement).

Immigration law is fascinating, controversial. and inextricably linked to the constitution and history of the United States. This course will address key areas of immigration law - citizenship, naturalization, the bases for noncitizens to immigrate, visit, and work in the United States, grounds of inadmissibility and removability, adjustment of status, relief and protection from removal (in particular asylum), prosecutorial discretion to defer removal, and judicial review of the immigration enforcement and adjudication. The course will also address the jurisprudential basis for legislation and executive power restricting immigration, a brief history of immigration to the United States, and ideas for immigration reform. Grading will be accessed based on two short projects or quizzes throughout the semester and a final exam.

Prerequisites: All first year courses; Con. Law I, Con. Law II, and Administrative Law recommended

Introduction to the federal income tax system; analysis of Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, rulings, and case law; consideration of income, deductions, credits, assignment of income, and accounting periods and methods.

Prerequisites: Property I & II are recommended

Investigation and Litigation of Actual Innocence claims by persons convicted of serious crimes involves unique and highly challenging legal issues. Students involved in the clinic will assist in a wide range of post-conviction case investigation including any or all of the following: locating and reviewing original trial records; searching for any identifying remaining evidence, if any; analyzing cases for viability; submission of evidence for additional testing; interviewing potential witnesses; communicating with clients, including at least one face-to-face meeting either in the county jail or the assigned prison unit; interacting with assigned personnel from the District Attorney's Office; identifying and communicating with potential experts; drafting briefs, motions and proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.

Prerequisites: Evidence must be taken prior to or concurrently; Good academic standing, By selection only

An overview of intellectual property law for both students with a general interest in the area and students who are pursuing specialized fields with IP. Beginning with an analysis of the competing theories underlying IP law, it goes on to outline the basic principles of patent copyright, trademark, and trade secret protection, as well as current issues in software protection, biotechnology, and competition policy.

This course will teach research methods to find and evaluate international and foreign legal materials using both electronic and print resources. Its principal purpose is to provide the basic knowledge and skills needed to conduct competent international and foreign legal research. It also has the secondary, but important, goal of expanding on and reinforcing the basic legal research skills that students had earlier gained from the first-year legal research and writing course. In this course, you will become skilled in researching various international and foreign legal sources through practical application in assignments and in-class exercises. In short, this is a course on international and foreign legal research sources and techniques. Students taking this course will need to bring their own laptop computers.

This is an experiential, collaborative, practical skills course structured around a simulated negotiation exercise in which the students in this class will represent either a multi-national pharmaceutical company (KJH Pharmaceutical Corporation) or an African agricultural company (Malundian Cassava Corporation). The two companies are interested in working together to exploit a new technology developed by KJH Pharmaceutical that uses the cassava produced by Malundian Cassava Corporation. The form of their collaboration could be a joint venture, licensing agreement or long-term supply contract. The negotiations will take place through written exchanges and through live negotiations.

When intangible property crosses imagined borders, it becomes subject to competing cultural concerns, economic interests, and protective regimes. This seminar focuses upon the international regulation of intellectual property and the resolution of disputes through institutions such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization, multinational and regional treaty agreements, and national responses. Policy issues include the perspectives of developing and industrialized countries, problems generated by emerging biotechnologies and the growth of cyberspace, and future trends in harmonization of IP protection.

The basic course in public international law includes (with varying emphasis depending on teacher preference) such topics as: nature, history, and sources of international law; customary international law; law of treaties; the relationship between municipal law (especially of the United States) and international law; recognition and subjects of international law; law of the sea; air and space law; environmental law; human rights; jurisdiction; state responsibility; state succession; dispute settlement; and regulation of state use of force.

Law review experience involving preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incident to publication of The International Lawyer and NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas. Students must be selected for participation before they may register. [Available only for J.D. students.]

Prerequisites: By selection

Law review experience involving preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incident to publication of The International Lawyer and NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas. Students must be selected for participation before they may register. [Available only for J.D. students.]

Prerequisites: By selection

Law review experience involving preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incident to publication of The International Lawyer and NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas. Students must be selected for participation before they may register. [Available only for J.D. students.]

Prerequisites: By selection

This course is intended to provide students with practical exposure to transactional law and transactional negotiations in an international oil and gas context, through a combination of lectures and discussions on negotiation topics, as well as hands on practical negotiation experience through participation in a series of seven (7) simulated negotiations where the student role-plays a lawyer representing a client on one side of an acquisition of oil and gas exploration rights in a foreign country.

A survey of basic principles and contracts used in petroleum exploration and production operations internationally. Included in the coverage are concessions, production-sharing contracts, participation agreements, and technical agreements, such as study and bidding agreements, confidentiality agreements, and dispute resolution agreements. The focus of the course is upon both fundamental principles and current issues. Drafting solutions and alternative structures are explored.

Selected topics, including the protection of individuals and groups against violations by governments and private institutions of their internationally guaranteed rights, and the promotion of these rights. Presentation and discussion of student papers may be required.

A basic course for U.S. and international students focusing on foreign citizens, residents, and business entities conducting business or investment in the United States -- so-called inbound transactions.

Prerequisites: All first year courses, Income Taxation

An introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code, with particular emphasis on the Code's general principles, secured transactions, commercial paper and bank collections. Students enrolled in the course may enroll in the Negotiable Instruments/Payment Systems course and the Sale of Goods Transactions course, but may not enroll in the Secured Transactions course.

An examination of the legal and economic aspects of medical malpractice, including elements of the prima facie case, defenses, and problems of proof. From time to time, the course also focuses on the potential liability of the individual practitioner and of health care institutions; tort reform legislation; the structure of insurance markets; negligent nondisclosure risks and treatment alternatives; forensic medicine and the use of medical and scientific evidence in the courtroom; and legal and ethical aspects of the professional-patient relationship.

The MPT is 20% of the Texas Bar Exam and closely mimics the practice of law.  In the MPT, you use basic lawyering skills in a real-life simulation to complete an activity that a new lawyer would be assigned (e.g. memo, brief, or client letter). Using the MPT as our foundation, this course focuses on developing critical lawyering skills including: separating relevant and irrelevant information; extracting relevant legal principles from cases, statutes, and other authorities; applying legal principles to facts to solve a client’s problem; and explaining the law and its application in a clear and well-organized document. The course will be a combination of lecture, class participation, hands-on drills, and peer editing. You will also receive specific feedback on the documents you submit, and be able to meet with the professor one-on-one to continue improving your skills. This course is by invitation only.

������ý’s Legal Writing Fellows work with all law students under the supervision of the LAWR faculty and a Student Director. Fellows keep regular office hours in the Writing ������ý each week. Fellows are trained to help students recognize global problems in their written work and develop techniques to address these problems and improve their writing skills. In addition to one-on-one meetings with students in the Writing ������ý, Fellows support LAWR professors by participating in Fall Orientation; completing citation reviews on student work; leading workshops; and participating in class-related activities, such as client interviewing and oral argument.

Prerequisites: LAWR I and II and instructor permission

An advanced legal writing class for second- or third-year students that builds upon skills developed in the first-year legal writing curriculum. It focuses on various forms of persuasive writing, including trial briefs, motions, and appellate briefs and better prepares our students for the NextGen Bar Exam as well as the practice of law. Texas law is the primary basis for the course, while contrasts between Texas and federal practice is presented.

In this simulation class, you will be an associate working with the class as a law firm on a new client’s case.  You will analyze the case, how to achieve the client’s objectives, research the applicable law, and determine proper procedures under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure to prepare or respond to the suit. In the process, you will report to your supervising partner, participate in firm meetings, report your conclusions to the firm as a whole, and in the process, draft pleadings, correspondence, and memoranda.”

In this simulation class, you will be an associate working with the class as a law firm on a new client’s case.  You will analyze the case, how to achieve the client’s objectives, research the applicable law, and determine proper procedures under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure to prepare or respond to the suit. In the process, you will report to your supervising partner, participate in firm meetings, report your conclusions to the firm as a whole, and in the process, draft pleadings, correspondence, and memoranda.”

Successful completion of this course will provide foreign-trained law students with an introduction to general principles of U.S. legal research, common law legal analysis, and objective writing, which will be geared to enable students to (a) recognize and distinguish primary and secondary levels of authority, (b) locate, read and understand rules of law available in constitutions, judicial opinions, and statutes, (c) update different types of legal authority, including the process of Shepardizing (d) recognize and use acceptable citation forms for legal authority and (e) complete legal research/writing assignments to explain the law pertaining to a legal question.

Prerequisites: International LLM Students Only

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

The primary objective of the course is to synthesize legal doctrine, lawyering skills, and professional responsibility for the first-year student. Meeting in small groups and using simulated exercises, students engage in client counseling, interviewing, negotiating, drafting, and advocating. Grades are based on the evaluation of written and oral performances throughout the semester.

This class will be a limited enrollment, 'practice skills' seminar designed to build upon the lessons learned in first-year Contracts and first-year Torts, and to apply those lessons to the world of transactional lawyering. Toward that end, the class will study real-world agreements entered into at the early stages of an M&A transaction and provide opportunities for students to comment upon, draft, and negotiate examples of some of those agreements in class, including LOIs, IOIs, Term Sheets, NDAs and side letters to name just a few. While geared toward the M&A world, contract drafting skills learned in this course will be applicable in any transactional practice. The goal of the course is to better equip students to draft transactional agreements, not only by giving students the opportunity to prepare initial drafts of such agreements, just as young associates in a law firm environment would, but also by examining the situations in which errors or lack of clarity in contract drafting gave rise to disputes requiring judicial determination. In other words, don't let the phrase 'practice skills' fool you into thinking we will not be reading cases too. Indeed, for every type of agreement we practice drafting or reviewing, there will be numerous current and classic cases to analyze in class to understand the 'contort' common law that forms the basis for interpreting and enforcing each contractual agreement we draft. To get the most out of this class attendance, preparation and participation will be critical, not only to your own learning experience but also to that of your classmates. Grades will be based on a combination of class performance/class room exercises, and either a short paper or a few short memos prepared about specific drafting issues.

Prerequisites: You cannot enroll in this course if you have already taken Advanced Contracts or Advanced Contracts Drafting.

This course introduces the fundamentals of and critical topics in mergers and acquisitions law, as well as the key financial and transactional issues that they present. The principal focus of the course will be on the documentation and negotiation of acquisitions of privately-held businesses, as well as the key drivers of M&A activity and the business incentives of the parties to the transactions. This is not a securities, tax, antitrust, or regulatory class, but those issues will play a role as well. In addition to case law, this course will spend a fair amount of time reviewing and analyzing deal documents (or portions of such documents). Students will learn how core provisions of an acquisition agreement are negotiated to create value for and allocate risks among the parties.

Prerequisites: Business Enterprise may be taken prior to or concurrently

This seminar explores the legal issues that surround the conservation and use of natural resources, focusing on property ownership of and regulatory structures over public lands, mines and minerals, wildlife, wind, and other resources. These issues include the often competing claims of the public interest versus private property rights; the role of private contracts, judicial oversight, and agency management in land use decision making; and stakeholder conflicts in natural resource management. The seminar uses case studies, primary and secondary materials, and interdisciplinary approaches to analyze ownership, use, and regulation of natural resources. Students have an opportunity to write a paper on topics of interest within the fields of property, natural resources, and land use.

Ownership in oil and gas; correlative rights and duties in a common reservoir; instruments conveying mineral interests; partition; pooling and unitization. Special emphasis on the rights and duties of the oil and gas lessee and lessor in leasing transactions.

Students provide pro bono legal services to individual and small-business clients seeking to protect their inventions using the patent system. This work may involve counseling clients regarding patent-related matters, conducting inventor interviews, conducting patentability searches, preparing patentability opinions, drafting and filing patent applications, and drafting and filing responses to office actions received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Prerequisites: See pre-registration materials

Includes assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Patent Clinic

An introduction to patent law. Analyzes the goals and costs of the patent law system. Studies substantive and procedural aspects of obtaining patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and enforcing patents through licensing and litigation. Covers patentability, validity, enforceability, claim construction, infringement, and remedies. Does not require a technical background as a prerequisite for the course.

This course (which is integrated with an optional legal writing, research, and exam-taking tutorial component) is required for and designed to provide international graduate students with an introduction to the U.S. legal system. The primary emphasis of the course is to examine the nature of the U.S. judicial system, the common law system of case law development, and the trial and appellate processes (in part through a study of selected tort cases). The interrelationship of law and U.S. society is explored. The course further attempts to develop basic U.S. legal writing, research, and exam-taking skills through the optional tutorial component. The course is taught in the fall semester. Enrollment is limited to international, non-U.S.-law-trained graduate students. All international, non-U.S.-law trained graduate students must take at least the first one-credit-hour component of this course.

Prerequisites: International LLM Students Only

Introduces key accounting and financial principles needed to effectively counsel and represent clients. Students learn to read, understand, and discuss basic accounting statements and basic financial asset valuation principles and methodologies. Also, basic financial instruments and their normal use in major capital markets.

Examines the roles that lawyers and business professionals play in the private equity industry, in the process of investing and harvesting capital following the successful formation of a private investment fund. Transactions examined include public and private buyouts and acquisitions; joint ventures and minority investments, both with and without leverage; as well common exit transactions such as IPOs and strategic and secondary sales. Issues that arise during the lifecycle of an investment are also examined, including governance issues involving private equity portfolio companies and co-investor and management team relations.

Prerequisites: Business Enterprise

Introduces the concept of Professional Identity, which includes, but is not limited to, the knowledge, skills, values and morals, goals, and personality traits considered foundational to successful legal practice. Students learn about professional competencies critical to a satisfying and successful career. Covers the development of a personal brand, what it means to be a professional in the legal industry, professional correspondence and communication, exercising sound judgment, and other skills necessary to achieve professional success. Helps students identify legal areas of interests and individual strengths. The course also touches on wellness and resilience. Students learn how to prepare effective resumes, cover letters, and other professional correspondence; strategic interviewing skills; networking; and job search strategies.

An analysis of principles and rules governing the conduct of lawyers. Topics include the client-lawyer relationship, competence, confidentiality, loyalty, the roles of lawyers as counselors and advocates, public service, advertising, admission to practice, and professional discipline.

An analysis of principles and rules governing the conduct of lawyers. Topics include the client-lawyer relationship, competence, confidentiality, loyalty, the roles of lawyers as counselors and advocates, public service, advertising, admission to practice, and professional discipline.

Uses viewings and discussion of the Netflix series Black Mirror as an entry point for comparison of current global privacy law and how the legal, technological, and ethical choices of today shape our future. Students develop conceptual and practical understandings of privacy law.

Introduces students to scientific developments, ethical dilemmas, and legal disputes surrounding assisted reproduction. Topics include the science and medicine of human procreation, including new and emerging technologies; markets for gametes; the rights and responsibilities of sperm and egg donors; reproductive genetics, including the testing of embryos for medical and social purposes; surrogacy and gestational carrier arrangements; reproductive tourism and cross-border reproductive care; posthumous reproduction; the regulation of reproductive medicine and the fertility industry; as well as international and comparative approaches to reproductive technologies and the law. Grading is based on a final exam, class discussions and active participation, and drafting exercises.

Explores the fundamental elements of civil and criminal causes of action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1961, et seq., and the policies and cultural dynamics that caused Congress to pass RICO in 1970 and that have led to its expansive use in federal and state courts today. The course relies heavily on contemporary RICO prosecutions and RICO scenarios presented in popular movies and television shows, such as The Godfather, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul. This course provides students with unique knowledge about a complex and expanding area of the law that will be valuable in any public or private litigation practice.

Law Review experience involving preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incidental to the publication of the ������ý Science and Technology Law Review. Students must be selected for participation before they may enroll. Available to J.D. students only.

Law Review experience involving preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incidental to the publication of the ������ý Science and Technology Law Review. Students must be selected for participation before they may enroll. Available to J.D. students only.

Law Review experience involving preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incidental to the publication of the ������ý Science and Technology Law Review. Students must be selected for participation before they may enroll. Available to J.D. students only.

Explores the right to keep and bear arms as a matter of law, as well as how society regulates and enforces access to personal weapons. Examines how gun rights and regulation intersect with lawful self-defense. Covers the foundational Second Amendment case, District of Columbia v. Heller; key lower court opinions; and the broader historical, political, and theoretical debates in which they are embedded. While the dominant focus is on the U.S., the seminar will also draw comparisons with the regulatory approaches in other countries

An introductory survey of the law governing security interests in personal property, with particular emphasis on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and the Bankruptcy Code.

A comprehensive study of public and private actions under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Special attention will be paid to the implication of causes of action, the elements of each cause, vicarious liability, the liability of attorneys, accountants, and directors, the peculiarities of civil procedure as applied to securities litigation and damages. The course will also study nondamage actions, including SEC enforcement proceedings, criminal actions, contempt proceedings, and state actions.

Prerequisites: Business Enterprise

A study of the securities laws (primarily federal but also state, especially Texas) and of the activities and industry they govern. The principal emphasis is on the regulation of issuance, sale, resale, and purchase of securities, and on the disclosure requirements generated by the registration, reporting, proxy, tender, and antifraud provisions. Other important subjects are civil liability (express and implied), government enforcement, exemptions from registration (especially private placements), insider trading, and the meaning of 'security.' Also treated are the functions of the SEC and of state securities administrators. Broker-dealer and market regulation may be covered if time permits.

Prerequisites: All first year courses, Business Enterprise may be taken concurrently, (Business Planning, Corporate Finance, Law and Accounting are recommended)

Examines how the legal and historical treatment of race has shaped family law doctrine and practice. The topics may vary by term and may include family formation; parenthood; family regulation; family dissolution; domestic and international adoption; assisted reproduction technology; and intersections with immigration law, criminal law, probate law, and children and the law. Course materials may include books, historical and legal scholarship, cases, briefs, news articles, videos, and films. Students are required to write a paper on a family law topic within the covered material.

Prerequisites: Prerequisite or corequisite: One of the following: LAW 6347 Family Law, LAW 6495 or Law 8395 Trusts and Estates, LAW 7660 Child Advocacy Clinic, LAW 7643 Family Law Clinic, LAW 7642 Crimes Against Women Clinic.

This course is intended for students who are already familiar with the main contours of intellectual-property law and would like to develop their own research projects. We will examine a series of topics that, in recent years, have proven especially controversial, including extralegal IP norms, traditional knowledge, the right of publicity, intellectual-property protection for fashion, fair use, and exhaustion. Each student will be expected to participate in the discussion of these issues and to write a research paper addressing an aspect of intellectual property law.

An examination of the role of sentencing in the criminal justice system, including a study of the purposes of punishment and sentencing, and the history, philosophy, and administration of the criminal sentencing process. Includes exploration of judicial decision-making, the use of sentencing guidelines, the role of discretionary decisions by prosecutors, the effects of credit for acceptance of responsibility, and alternatives to incarceration in light of criminal justice philosophies, scarce resources, and political support. Also includes examination of the death penalty from historical and contemporary perspectives, justifications for it, evolution of constitutional standards for its imposition, review of empirical data on deterrent effect and demographic distribution of death sentences.

The Small Business & Trademark Clinic provides free legal services to individuals, small businesses and non-profit organizations who likely cannot afford to pay legal fees, while providing law students (Associate Members of the State Bar of Texas) with training and experience in transactional law and trademark law. Clinic students advise clients on the formation of business and non-profit entities and assist in preparing necessary legal documents to form these entities. Students in the Small Business Clinic will experience the transactional practice of law with real clients who have real issues in the business world, such as contract drafting and revising. Clinic students will also work on trademarks matters in the Trademark Clinic, which is member of the USPTO Law School Clinic program. Clinic students gain specific experience in advising clients about basic trademark matters as well as drafting, filing and prosecuting trademark applications with the USPTO. Clinic students accepted for the Small Business & Trademark Clinic should expect to handle both business and trademark matters.

Prerequisites: Business Enterprise; Good academic standing; Completion of all first year courses; By selection only

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Small Business & Trademark Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Small Business & Trademark Clinic

Assisting in preparing and supervising clinic students in client representation, including fact investigations and analysis, legal research and writing, litigation training, and court appearances. Deputies are selected by the clinic instructors. Students may not enroll before being selected.

Prerequisites: Small Business Clinic

Preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incident to publication of the ������ý Law Review and the Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Students must be selected for participation before they may register.

Prerequisites: By selection

Preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incident to publication of the ������ý Law Review and the Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Students must be selected for participation before they may register.

Prerequisites: By selection

Preparation of comments on topics of current interest, notes on cases of significance, and editorial work incident to publication of the ������ý Law Review and the Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Students must be selected for participation before they may register.

Prerequisites: By selection

Timing of income and deductions for federal income tax purposes, including accounting periods, the cash receipts and disbursements and accrual methods, installment sales, interest income and deductions, time value of money provisions, depreciation, and recapture.

Prerequisites: Income Tax

A study of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and its implementation in the Texas courts from the point of arrest through the appellate stage of the proceedings.

Prerequisites: Criminal Law; Constitutional Criminal Procedure is recommended

Texas civil procedure prior to trial, including establishing the attorney-client relation; the prelitigation aspects of civil controversies; jurisdiction; service of process; pleading; joinder of parties and claims; venue; res judicata and related principles; discovery; summary judgment practice; and settlement.

Civil liability arising from breach of common law and statutory duties as distinguished from duties created by contract, including coverage of intentional wrongs, negligence, and products liability. The methods and process of the American legal system are discussed, with attention paid to legislation, as well as to the common law.

Civil liability arising from breach of common law and statutory duties as distinguished from duties created by contract, including coverage of intentional wrongs, negligence, and products liability. The methods and process of the American legal system are discussed, with attention paid to legislation, as well as to the common law.

Civil liability arising from breach of common law and statutory duties as distinguished from duties created by contract, including coverage of intentional wrongs, negligence, and products liability. The methods and process of the American legal system are discussed, with attention paid to legislation, as well as to the common law.

This course explores in detail the law of trade secrets, confidential information, and 'ideas' in 21st-century business. It also explores the boundary between fair and unfair competition, including actions for tortious interference, defamation and commercial disparagement, false advertising, common-law misappropriation, and conspiracy, and practice under the most prominent trade-regulation statutes such as Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other 'Cybertort' statutes, RICO, the Anti-SLAPP Act, civil theft and commercial bribery acts, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act. Issues related to data use, contests, cause-related marketing, hidden endorsements, techniques for ethical investigations, and remedies may be included. No technical background is required.

Enrollment is limited. An intensive course in trial tactics, techniques, and advocacy, emphasizing the practice of the separate components of a trial: direct examination, objections, cross-examination, use of rehabilitative devices, examination of expert witness, jury selection, opening statements, and closing argument. At the end of the semester each student acts as co-counsel in a full trial. Video tape recording is used for critiquing student performance throughout the semester.

Prerequisites: Evidence

Enrollment is limited. An intensive course in trial tactics, techniques, and advocacy, emphasizing the practice of the separate components of a trial: direct examination, objections, cross-examination, use of rehabilitative devices, examination of expert witness, jury selection, opening statements, and closing argument. At the end of the semester each student acts as co-counsel in a full trial. Video tape recording is used for critiquing student performance throughout the semester.

Prerequisites: Evidence

Enrollment is limited. An intensive course in trial tactics, techniques, and advocacy, emphasizing the practice of the separate components of a trial: direct examination, objections, cross-examination, use of rehabilitative devices, examination of expert witness, jury selection, opening statements, and closing argument. At the end of the semester each student acts as co-counsel in a full trial. Video tape recording is used for critiquing student performance throughout the semester.

Prerequisites: Evidence

Enrollment is limited. An intensive course in trial tactics, techniques, and advocacy, emphasizing the practice of the separate components of a trial: direct examination, objections, cross-examination, use of rehabilitative devices, examination of expert witness, jury selection, opening statements, and closing argument. At the end of the semester each student acts as co-counsel in a full trial. Video tape recording is used for critiquing student performance throughout the semester.

Prerequisites: Evidence

Enrollment is limited. An intensive course in trial tactics, techniques, and advocacy, emphasizing the practice of the separate components of a trial: direct examination, objections, cross-examination, use of rehabilitative devices, examination of expert witness, jury selection, opening statements, and closing argument. At the end of the semester each student acts as co-counsel in a full trial. Video tape recording is used for critiquing student performance throughout the semester.

Prerequisites: Evidence

A general survey of the law relating to family wealth transmission, taking into account transfers within the probate system - wills and intestate succession - and transfers outside it, with special attention to trusts. Topics include the legal definition of family relationships; formalities required for execution and revocation of wills and other donative documents; mental capacity and volition; drafting pitfalls, post-execution events, and difficulties of interpretation; legal protections offered to a decedent's spouse and children; will substitutes such as life insurance, pension plans, and rights of survivorship; planning for incapacity and other changes in circumstances; obligations and powers of fiduciaries; rights of creditors and beneficiaries; trust creation, supervision, modification, duration, and termination; charitable purposes; and the impact of tax policy on estate planning.