This capstone course builds skills and knowledge needed to advise early-stage businesses. The course discusses diverse legal and business topics faced by start-up lawyers such as business formation, intellectual property, legal ethics, employment law, financing the enterprise, operational contracts, reading financial statements, online commerce law, risk management, and exit strategies. The course is not meant to replace the core courses in these areas but addressees their particular application to the start-up arena.

America has become a carceral state. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 2.3 million individuals were held in local, state, or federal jails and prisons. We incarcerate a larger percentage of our population than any other nation. Think tanks like the Pew Center on the States observed in a 2008 report that such explosive rates of imprisonment (approximately one in one hundred adults) cannot be sustained because it fails to prevent crime while simultaneously it causes a crippling drain on ever-decreasing public resources.

This capstone course builds skills and knowledge needed to advise early-stage businesses. The course discusses diverse legal and business topics faced by start-up lawyers such as business formation, intellectual property, legal ethics, employment law, financing the enterprise, operational contracts, reading financial statements, online commerce law, risk management, and exit strategies. The course is not meant to replace the core courses in these areas but addressees their particular application to the start-up arena.

Multistate Bar Exam: Skills & Strategies. This course is designed to provide early preparation for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and uses best practices and cognitive learning science to promote learning and greater recall of the information. The course takes a "skills first" approach and covers all the 7 MBE subjects (Civil Procedure, Contracts, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts).

This course is focused on the three major above-the-line unions in the entertainment industry: Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Writers Guild of America. After an introduction to labor law and an overview of the labor movement in the entertainment industry, students will study key provisions of the guilds' basic collective bargaining agreements for entertainment content. The course will also cover agreements in other areas where SAG-AFTRA has jurisdiction.

This course is designed as a comprehensive overview of the legal issues related to abuse and neglect of children, and termination of parental rights. The course will examine the philosophical underpinnings of the foster care system and will feature speakers ranging from experts in the field to former foster youth. This course is focused on families who find themselves subject to government intervention due to allegations of abuse and neglect.

This course combines the study of the transmission of property at death, including the rules of interstate succession, with inter vivos gifts, the creation of inter vivos and testamentary trusts, and the rights and duties of trustees who hold and manage property for another or for charitable purposes. It includes the study of resulting and constructive trusts as well as the Uniform and California probate codes.

Building upon first year concepts, including those covered in Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Law, students will study criminal case law and statutes, with a focus on federal law in general and white collar crime in particular. Students will also study various procedural aspects of criminal investigation, such as Fifth Amendment and grand jury issues. Finally, students will also cover some basic common law principles, such as inchoate offenses and theft crimes. Students will complete oral simulations of proceedings that occur during criminal investigations and prosecutions.

This course is devoted primarily to the study of the differences between community and separate property, what determines how property is classified as one or the other, and the impact of such classification. The course also deals with the disposition of community property on termination of the marriage relationship, either by divorce or death. Liability of spouses for debts is also explored. Prerequisite: Property (160).

This course is an in-depth study of copyright law and its protection of the intellectual property rights of authors. Among the topics covered by the course are protectable subject matter, ownership, duration, licensing, infringement and defenses. Students will learn basic concepts as well as statutory rules and apply them to various issues that arise in the entertainment, art, communication and information industries.