Despite the portrayal of LGBTQ youth in the media with an abundance of acceptance and freedom, not all youth are able to express themselves fully or experience the calm acceptance of family, caretakers, and peers. This course will provide an overview of the various systems of care that youth may encounter during the course of their childhoods. This course will also explore the discrimination and backlash that youth often experience at the hands of these systems of care and caretakers.

This course presents a study of corporate mergers and acquisitions from a transactional perspective. The mechanics of alternative acquisitions techniques are described and compared from the point of view of the target corporation and the acquiring corporation. Defensive tactics of target corporations are examined with reference to the legal standards governing their use. The corporate law concerns of the acquiring corporation are considered in both the friendly and the hostile acquisition.

This course will examine the intersection between immigration and the LGBTQI community. The course will examine the issues representing LGBTQI asylum seekers who face a fear of persecution in their native countries because of their sexual orientation or identity. This course will also examine the struggle of LGBTQI undocumented youth and the challenges they face as a result of the "double closet" in this country. The course will be taught primarily as a lecture-style course but will integrate some practical exercises.

This course will offer students the opportunity to get first-hand experience researching and working with regulatory rules and regulations the context of legal practice. The course will cover both federal and California agency research. It will also explore statutory law in relation to administrative bodies. The course will delve deep into the complexities of agency decisions and guidance. Upon completion of this course, students will have gained an understanding of the basics of administrative law in addition to experience formulating efficient research methodologies.

This course will explore the challenges LGBTQI people have with respect to their family relationships. The course will briefly review the struggle for marriage equality. However, the main focus of the course will be on the legal challenges LGBTQI people still face with respect to their family relationships. The course will primarily be a lecture-style course.

The course will explore the unique legal issues affecting transgender individuals including the rights of transgender people to necessary medical care; the rights of transgender youth in schools; the treatment of transgender people in correctional facilities; legal mechanisms to change identification; discrimination against transgender people in employment; and, legal solutions to the problem of violence against transgender people.

This course examines the means by which the political process, particularly the conducting of elections, is regulated in the United States.

Appellate Advocacy - Mock Supreme Court: In this skills-oriented course, students will hone their written and oral advocacy skills. Students will practice by writing a portion of an appellate brief and engaging in oral arguments defending and opposing the arguments in their brief. Besides working with factual arguments, students will be exposed to statutory construction arguments, policy arguments, and other types of arguments frequently before the United States Supreme Court. This course will be divided into two components: intensive written and oral.

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution. Through weekly reading, lectures, and class discussions, students will gain a solid foundation in negotiation principles and techniques developed by leading negotiation experts, as well as the ethical and practical issues that arise when lawyers negotiate on behalf of their clients. Students will have the opportunity to apply these techniques - and develop their own negotiation methods - through a series of intensive negotiation exercises focused on a range of legal and practical issues.

This is a five-unit clinical course in which law students represent low-income tenants being evicted or at risk of being evicted from their homes. In general, students will attend a classroom component and engage in legal work under the supervision of ICLC Professors and Inner City Law Center (ICLC) attorneys experienced in eviction defense litigation and trial. Clients reside in Los Angeles County and most trials take place at the Pasadena, Norwalk and Stanley Mosk Courthouses.