This spring semester course is designed to help students develop lawyering skills that students will need in their legal careers. The course continues to refine students' skills in the legal research, analysis and writing style techniques introduced in the fall semester LAWS I course. In addition, it adds instruction on persuasive legal writing. The course also includes assignments and lessons on professionalism, oral advocacy and client counseling.

This spring semester course is designed to help students develop lawyering skills that students will need in their legal careers. The course continues to refine students' skills in the legal research, analysis and writing style techniques introduced in the fall semester LAWS I course. In addition, it adds instruction on persuasive legal writing. The course also includes assignments and lessons on professionalism, oral advocacy and client counseling. The Appellate Advocacy track of LAWS II instructs students on advocacy in the courts of appeal.

This seminar will examine the trial of Jesus by deconstructing and critically analyzing the Gospel of Matthew in light of Jewish religious and criminal law and procedure, Roman law, as well as known historical events apart from the Gospel. The course will also explore the impact of the trial on the Jewish people and world history with particular attention given to the development of anti-Semitism. The course assumes no prior knowledge of Judaism, Jewish law, or Christianity.

This course involves the study of the formative process of contracts; mutual assent, consideration, effect of the statute of frauds, and parole evidence rule; the remedial process applied to contracts, including measure of damages and other remedies; and the examination of problems of breach of contract, anticipatory breach, and exploration of defenses to contract actions, including conditions, impossibility of performance, frustration of purpose, and discharge. Emphasis is also placed on the Uniform Commercial Code.

This course provides a study of the institution of judicial review, the limitations on federal judicial power and the constitutional roles of the legislative and executive branches. Due process and individual rights under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are also reviewed.

This seminar explores concrete legal problems of particular and current concern to women.

Employment Discrimination Law studies the history, doctrine, and practice of law outlawing discrimination in the workplace based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, and membership in other protected classifications. Although the course focuses on California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, together with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it also covers the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and other federal and state anti-discrimination statutes.

Students who have successfully completed the Immigration Rights Clinic can continue to hone their lawyering skills through direct representation of children and adults in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and U Visa cases. Students will not participate in the Immigration Law Clinic classroom component. The course may be taken for 1 to 3 units upon approval from the Director of the Immigration Law Clinic. Prerequisite: Immigration Law Clinic (680IM).

The Immigration Appeals Practicum (IAP) is a one semester course offered in the Fall and Spring semesters. The IAP is 3 units and graded credit/no credit. Students will conduct substantial legal research and draft the initial brief. Students will work with their supervising attorney to discuss research results and outline and content of the brief. This will involve a weekly in-person meeting at MTO offices and as needed conferences by telephone or in-person. The MTO supervisor will work with the student to refine and perfect the brief, and ultimately, file the brief with the BIA.

This practicum course will provide students the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty supervisor on a pro bono amicus brief. Students enrolled in this course will be assigned a case and a faculty supervisor. Case selection will be based on a variety of considerations, including legal significance, social significance, inquiry by an interested party (including students), jurisdiction, service to the profession, as well as faculty interest and expertise.