Formation of contracts; offer, acceptance, consideration. Statute of Frauds, parol evidence rule. Sale of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Intentional torts and defenses, negligence, causation, duties of occupants of land and manufacturers and vendors of chattels, contributory negligence, strict liability, deceit, defamation, malicious prosecution, interference with advantageous relations.

This course will cover federal white collar criminal issues, including RICO, mail and wire fraud, political corruption, bank secrecy laws, and false statement laws.

Jurisdiction; the criminal act, complete and incomplete; criminal intent, actual and constructive; duress and mistake of fact, of law; justification; parties in crime; crimes against the person and crimes against property.

This course provides an examination of history, purpose and constitutionality of capital punishment. The course will also discuss death penalty eligibility/offenses and will provide an international perspective.

Introduction to the civil action; personal and in rem jurisdiction; service or process and notice; subject matter jurisdiction; venue; choice of law; pleading.

The nature of the federal judicial function and its development, distribution of power among federal and state courts, Supreme Court review of state court decisions, the law applied in federal district courts, federal question and diversity jurisdiction, federal habeas corpus, removal jurisdiction and procedure.

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 will cover topics such as legal reasoning in bioethical situations, determination of death, issues of human reproduction, organ transplantation, genetic testing, clinical research with human subjects, and end-of-life decision making. This second survey course in the health law area will provide the students who take this course and Healthcare Organizations and Finance (Law 830) with a broad understanding of this increasingly important area of the law. Neither class is a prerequisite for the other class. They may be taken concurrently or in any order taken by the student.

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.