Entertainment externships place students with legal departments of studios and entertainment companies. Some examples include Warner Bros. Pictures, Rhino Records, and Fox Group Legal. Externs work closely with experienced attorneys on a range of projects generally involving intellectual property issues and/or contractual issues. The field placement is complimented by an academic component, including several class meetings on campus and/or via videoconferencing. For specific details, please see the Externship Office staff and course syllabus.Prerequisite: Copyright (538).

This course examines the issues arising in mass tort litigation involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products, toxic torts, environmental disasters, and terrorist attacks. Initially, the course explores the tension between aggregate procedure and litigant autonomy, as well as ethical dilemmas arising in mass tort practice. The course then assesses attempts to adjudicate mass torts through multidistrict litigation, class actions, preclusion, quasi-class actions, and non-class claims funds.

The Children's Rights Clinic offers students an opportunity to participate in educational rights work, including direct representation of children and families in school discipline and special education matters, community outreach and education. Clinic students will have an opportunity to represent children in school discipline proceedings, represent children with disabilities in special education proceedings, or work with community groups to advocate for better and more equitable educational opportunities for children.

Civil Practice externships place students with legal departments of companies as well as with law firms (in non-entertainment practice areas). Externs work closely with experienced attorneys on a range of projects, generally involving research and analysis, drafting documents, and observation/participation in meetings and negotiations. Depending on the placement, the work may be transactional or litigation-oriented. The field placement is complemented by an academic component, including several class meetings on campus and/or via videoconferencing.

This course covers the skills of legal interviewing, counseling, negotiating, and preliminary fact investigation and analysis through a series of simulated exercises based on realistic problems. The course also emphasizes ethical issues commonly encountered in the performance of these lawyering tasks. The goal of the course is the development of performance and analytical skills necessary to function competently and ethically as a lawyer.

This course provides an in-depth examination of the law of intellectual property licensing. Licensing is one of the most prevalent types of contracts in the entertainment, media and technology industries today. This course will focus on the importance of licensing to these industries and will look at the similarities, as well as the differences, in licensing practices within and between these industries. The course will also look at licensing law and practice in the European Union.

This course examines the major federal environment laws as implemented by the states in partnership with the federal government, including the regulation of hazardous waste and toxic substances, air pollution, waste pollution, and endangered species. There is a particular focus upon how the regulatory process responds to legal, scientific, technical and moral complexities within a multi stakeholder context.

This course explores the relationships and interests of the parties to various contracts in the music industry. Contracts to be covered include those governing recording artists, record producers, and personal managers. The course will feature actual contracts, guest speakers, and other sources of information that provide a real-world picture of the U.S. music industry. By the end of the course, students can expect to learn the following: 1. Students will learn how real world factors such as leverage and relationships impact the negotiation and completion of various agreements in the U.S.

This course surveys the law of trademarks and unfair competition, including the right of publicity and other related statutory and common law schemes. A trademark is a word, symbol, phrase or other device used to identify the products or services of a particular manufacturer or provider and distinguish them from those of another. For example, the trademark "Apple" (along with its famous silhouette image) identifies the computers and other products produced by Apple Inc. and distinguishes them from the products of Microsoft, Google and others.

International Human Rights has mushroomed as a legal field since World War II, first as a vehicle through which the United States and its allies spread their values, but now, increasingly, as a movement that also challenges the U.S. After briefly introducing students to basic principles of international law, this seminar will examine the international protection of human rights from five major perspectives: 1) War crimes tribunals and the law of war; 2) The U.S.