Problems in federal and state income taxation.

This course builds on Partnership Tax (but which is NOT a prerequisite) and focuses primarily on corporations and S-Corporations. It is an essential course for anyone planning to practice corporate law.

This is a two-hour, problem-oriented, skills course. Problems will be distributed to the class involving detailed factual situations, e.g., owners of a small, closely held business; a middle income family with three minor children and a fiance seeking a prenuptial agreement. Student will be expected to draft appropriate wills, trusts, and other legal documents for their clients. Role playing will be used to better simulate realistic situations.

The law governing the issuance, distribution and trading of securities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; the obligation to register securities; public offerings by issuers; secondary distributions; and registration requirements growing out of mergers, definition of a requirements; insider trading prohibitions; antifraud provisions in tender offers, self tenders, proxy solicitations and the purchase and sale of securities.

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.

Nature of contract, insurable interest, making the contract, concealment, representations, warranties, implied conditions of forfeiture, waiver and estoppel, rights under the contract, and construction of the policy.

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 course is directed at students with an interest in developing and in-depth knowledge of current issues in equine law. Equine law is an amalgamation of various areas of the law employed specifically in the advancement of the equine industry. The industry is founded on a tradition of handshake deals (which still take place at the highest level) but is increasingly sophisticated.

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.