This course provides a comprehensive overview of the law as it impacts the American primary and secondary education system. Course topics include education as an individual right and a state duty; campus safety; student and teacher rights relating to expression, religion, and privacy; educational policy development; copyright issues; education of students with disabilities; educational funding and accountability; and other topics as they timely emerge in the ongoing public debates over education policy and law.

This course surveys and examines that multitude of important legal doctrines, statutes and rules that regulate those rights and responsibilities of employers and workers which are not controlled by collectively bargained agreements. The structures for administering the more important areas of such regula- tion are also studied. The subject matter of this course affects most dimensions of the manner in which over three quarters of our Gross National Income is distributed.

This course will focus on the law of products liability. It will cover all the causes of action for products liability, negligence, strict liability and warranty, with detailed treatment of some or all of the following issues: design defects, failure to warn, hybrid transactions, federal preemption, comparative fault and assumption of risk, negligent marketing, causation, punitive damages, toxic tort and class action litigation.

Contracts to marry; the marriage status; annulment, divorce and separation; parent and child; infants and incompetent persons.

When offered for two credit hours: allocation of rights between the state and parents, management/ control of minor's property, child protective services termination of parental rights, foster care, and adoption. When offered for three credit hours: allocation of rights between the state and parents, management/ control of minor's property, child protective services termination of parental rights, foster care, adoption, medical decision-making, education rights, and juvenile justice (transfer hearings, and sanctions).

This course is designed to examine and interpert federal immigration legislation and policy. The course will include such topics as the constitutional origins of immigration legislation, definitions of immigrant and non-immigrant categories, grounds for exclusion and/or deportation, and refugee and asylum law.

Establishment of administrative tribunals, limits on discretion. Notice and hearing, orders, methods of judicial relief, scope of judicial review.

This course looks comprehensively at the law governing the political process and democratic self-government. Topics covered include legislative redistricting, campaign financing laws, the regulation of political parties, the Voting Rights Act, and 'direct democracy' initiatives (such as binding public referendums). The course also addresses the alternative electoral structures being explored by many US cities, such as proportionate representation, cumulative voting and transferable vote systems. Students interested in law, government and democratic theory are encouraged to enroll.

Introduction to the legal process by which interests are adjusted and decisions reached on the international scene. Treaties, the law of inter- national organizations, the "common law" of nations and national laws with significant international ramifications are examined to determine their effect on international cooperation and coercion.

This course provides an introduction to legislation and the legislative process, with an emphasis on federal legislation. Among the subjects considered are theories of representation by the legislature, includes one person-one vote; legal process theory and the roles that judicial review and separation of powers play in that theory; and statutory construction, including the rules and canons of statutory construction and the use of legislative history in interpreting statutes.