Federal income taxation of transactions between partners and their partnership and shareholders and their corporation; organization of partnerships and corporations; taxation of distributions of operating profits, liquidations, and sales of interests.
This course covers numerous issues related to real estate conveyancing, including contractual issues, title assurance, and financing the transactions.
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.
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 the basics of payment transactions using check and other negotiable instruments. In the longer version of this course, coverage will also include the regulatory structure governing modern electronic payment systems.
This course focuses on secured credit transactions and will include an examination of contemporary bank lending practices.
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.
Interdisciplinary, topical or experimental courses to be approved by the faculty and Dean of the College of Law. A particular course may be offered no more than twice under the LAW 900 number.
