An elective course for second-year law students. Examination of rules governing intestate distribution of property; formal requirements governing execution, alteration, and revocation of wills; requisite elements of express trusts and requirements for their creation; special rules relating to charitable trusts and spendthrift trusts; rules concerning construction of wills and trusts and general rules governing administration of decedents' estates and trusts.
This course focuses on secured credit transactions and will include an examination of contemporary bank lending practices.
Minimizing risk of loss through bankruptcy by business creditors and debtors; Uniform Commercial Code versus the federal Bankruptcy Act; nonbankruptcy creditors' and debtors' remedies in commercial context, including assignments and arrangements under state law; commercial bankruptcy; rehabilitation under Bankruptcy Act.
Rules of admissibility, real, circumstantial, testimonial and documentary evidence, witnesses, hearsay rule and its exceptions, procedure of admissibility, law and fact, judge and jury, burden of proof and presumption, judicial notice, and parole evidence rule.
This is the law school's independent research course. Students must have the approval of a sponsoring professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Forms are available on the law school's website or from the Dean's Office. Students must present a completed prospectus about their research and a signed approval form before they will be allowed to sign up for the course. The Associate Dean will not normally approve proposals submitted after the first day of class. A paper 25 pages or more in length, exclusive of footnotes, is required.
This is the law school's independent research course. Students must have the approval of a sponsoring professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Forms are available on the law school's website or from the Dean's Office. Students must present a completed prospectus about their research and a signed approval form before they will be allowed to sign up for the course. The Associate Dean will not normally approve proposals submitted after the first day of class. A paper 25 pages or more in length, exclusive of footnotes, is required.
This is the law school's independent research course. Students must have the approval of a sponsoring professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Forms are available on the law school's website or from the Dean's Office. Students must present a completed prospectus about their research and a signed approval form before they will be allowed to sign up for the course. The Associate Dean will not normally approve proposals submitted after the first day of class. A paper 25 pages or more in length, exclusive of footnotes, is required.
This is the law school's independent research course. Students must have the approval of a sponsoring professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Forms are available on the law school's website or from the Dean's Office. Students must present a completed prospectus about their research and a signed approval form before they will be allowed to sign up for the course. The Associate Dean will not normally approve proposals submitted after the first day of class. A paper 25 pages or more in length, exclusive of footnotes, is required.
This is the law school's independent research course. Students must have the approval of a sponsoring professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Forms are available on the law school's website or from the Dean's Office. Students must present a completed prospectus about their research and a signed approval form before they will be allowed to sign up for the course. The Associate Dean will not normally approve proposals submitted after the first day of class. A paper 25 pages or more in length, exclusive of footnotes, is required.
The role of the legal system in regulating the interrelated subsystems within the physical environ- ment, including: water and air pollution, solid waste disposal, and strip mining. Emphasis on: constitu- tional limitations on the public's power to implement planning proposals; relationships between federal, state and local governments; structure of agencies regulating environmental quality; standards for admin- istrative discretion; the openness of administrative hearing procedures; and the scope of judicial review of administrative decisions.
