This course examines the regulation of health care access, cost and quality. It will cover public and private market rules controlling access to health care, cost containment rules, and regulations regarding the quality of health care.

This course examines the liability issues that arise from the provision of medical care. The course studies the physician/patient relationship, when it begins and how it can be terminated. It examines the extent of the duties owed by providers to patients, including requirements relating to confidentiality, informed consent and records disclosure. The course also provides a detailed treatment of the common law of provider liability, focusing on medical malpractice. The course also examines the question of legislative reform of medical liability.

Over 95% of the cases filed in courts today settle or are disposed of by motion. To be prepared properly for the practice of law, students aspiring to be civil litigators will need instruction in pretrial matters. This course is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of both pretrial advocacy theory and fundamental pretrial skills involved in civil litigation.

An examination of the varying roles played by lawyers in society and the conflicting pressures created to each role. Special attention is paid to the Code of Professional Responsibility as a guide and control in the lawyer-client relationship. Also considered at length is the role of law in society and the place of the legal profession in society. Guest speakers are used to bring into focus employment options for lawyers and the viewpoints of varying types of practicing lawyers to the pervasive problems of the legal profession.

The relationship of law to religion with emphasis on the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

This course will focus on the mechanics of judicial decision making and opinion writing. Each week, students will read the lower court opinion and merits and selected amicus briefs of selected cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The class will focus on these cases and deliberate the merits of each side's arguments, much like the Supreme Court does during its conferences. We will also explore theories of judicial decision making, interpretation and policy. At the end of each class, we will "vote" as to how we think the decision should come out.

This course presents a survey of the various schools of legal philosophical thought, with an emphasis on exploring how these intellectual "value systems" necessarily inform judges' decisions, and how they might therefore influence one's choice of legal argument in a given case. The course will include readings from formalism, legal positivism, process theory, legal realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, and critical race theory, among others.

Legal introduction to business organization; emphasis on nature and structure under modern American business corporation law. Areas: partnership planning (formation, property rights, dissolution and liquidation rights); steps for corporate organizing (including legal consequences of defective incorporation); nature of corporate entity concept; corporate control and management (including problems of close corporation); fiduciary duties of directors and controlling shareholders under state law; nature and characteristics of shareholders' derivative suit.

The second half of a student's study of corporation law (the first half is the course in Business Associations). This course is essential for anyone who intends to be involved to any significant degree in a corporate practice and very helpful to those persons intending to practice in other areas as financial and accounting concepts are very much a part of the general practice of law.

This course focuses on planning, drafting, interviewing, negotiating, and strategies involving typical small business clients and problems. Students will work in pairs or small groups drafting and completing documents required to competently represent clients in a business practice. Among the transactions covered are the formation of a new business organization, buying and selling business interests, and combinations. Drafting assignments include detailed legal memoranda, contracts, corporate articles, and partnership agreements.