This course provides an introduction to patent application drafting techniques for students interested in pursuing patent law as a career. Students are afforded the opportunity to prepare an entire patent application. Although an overview of statutory requirements is included in this course, prior exposure to patent law is considered helpful.

Legal Arguments about Moral & Political Issues Seminar. This seminar examines the central importance of law in resolving the most vexing moral and political arguments of the past 40 years. Topics include: abortion; euthanasia; death penalty; drug legalization; and interrogation torture. This seminar will examine real cases from the perspective of legal, political, and moral principles.

This seminar focuses on the law that relates to the education of children with disabilities. It covers the concept of appropriate education, the right to an education in the least restrictive environment, the entitlement to related services, due process rights, and additional central ideas in special education law. Students will research those topics and others relating to legal entitlements to public school services for children with disabling conditions.

This seminar builds on the first-year Criminal Law course to examine a group of contemporary issues: domestic violence against both women and men; prosecutorial discretion and the abuse to which that sometimes leads; juvenile offenders, juvenile court, and constitutional limits on juvenile sentencing; and the history of, and proposals to abolish the death penalty. Guest speakers will be featured.

This course is a negotiation skills course in which students will engage in a series of seven mock negotiations - modeled after actual industry deals - covering television, motion picture and legitimate theater deals. Each negotiation exercise will include substantive, in-class instruction in the relevant subject matter, including review of long-form contracts; actual mock negotiations, in rotating teams of two students; and in-class debriefing sessions in which both substantive results and negotiating strategies and tactics are discussed and evaluated.

Students who have successfully completed the Street Law Clinic can continue to hone their lawyering and professionalism skills through teaching for a second semester at a location that has challenging programming and student needs. In addition, students will assist with observing and supervising current Street Law Clinic students at their school sites, help with program development, support relationship building at schools and juvenile centers, and help with writing new lessons. Students will not participate in the weekly classroom component but may teach one class to current students.

Students who have successfully completed the Entertainment and the Arts Legal Aid Clinic (680PR) can continue to hone their lawyering and professionalism skills through the continued provision of business and legal affairs services on motion pictures.

Students who have successfully completed the Children's Rights Clinic can continue to hone their lawyering skills through direct representation of children and families in school discipline and special education matters. Students will not participate in the weekly Children's Rights Clinic classroom component; rather, they will work solely on clinic cases. The course may be taken for 1 to 3 units upon approval from the Director of the Children's Rights Clinic. Prerequisite: Children's Rights Clinic (680CR).

A student may earn unit credit through completing an independent study project. Independent study allows a student with a demonstrated interest in a particular subject to pursue this interest in-depth under the guidance of a full-time faculty member with expertise in the area. The student is required to submit an independent study petition and a detailed written proposal of approximately two to five pages in length that includes a thesis or hypothesis, a discussion of the importance of the project, and a bibliography of research materials.

This course introduces Southwestern Law Review staff members to the basic elements of legal scholarship, with the goal of completing research papers of publishable quality. Subjects will include selecting a topic, learning the principles of scholarly writing ethics, organizing scholarly research papers, learning effective research methods, and practicing effective writing and editing techniques.