America is engaged in a national conversation about its justice system and how to fix it. Wrongful convictions, once thought to be rare, are now understood to be a serious and pervasive nationwide problem. This course will explore the issue of wrongful convictions, from causes to cures.

The Project for the Innocent externship is a year-long externship (fall and spring semesters) with the Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent, which is dedicated to the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted. Externs play a central role in the investigations that LPI undertakes. Responsibilities include: investigating claims of innocence; interviewing witnesses; meeting with prosecutors; visiting prison inmates.

This course will explore legal and institutional responses to transnational and international crime. We will examine the history of nations' attempts, individually and jointly, to prosecute crimes including torture, genocide, terrorism, war crimes, and drug trafficking. We will examine the post-World War II war crimes tribunals as models for their modern successors, including the International Criminal Court.

Drafting, Negotiating, and Understanding Real Estate Transacations will be structured around a fictional deal, that we follow from the term sheet phase, to the execution of a purchase agreement and due diligence, then the negotiation of a joint venture, the obtaining of financing, and ultimately, acquisition and operation including leasing and construction management.

This course will cover the taxation of general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, Subchapter S corporations and Subchapter C (i.e., ordinary) corporations. The course is intended for students who intend to practice business law. It will provide students with the tax knowledge they will need in order to counsel clients on: the type of entity to form when starting a new business or expanding an existing one; the daily operations of business entities; and the termination of business entities by liquidation or sale.

This course explores the process of social change. To understand change of any kind, one has to understand power, because power is never easily conceded. The course therefore starts with an examination of the sources of power in society and then moves to the ways in which power is embodied and deployed. From there the course will confront and grapple with the limits of social transformation before finally considering possible points of intervention.

This course is designed to provide in-depth, practical training in Driving Under the Influence (DUI) prosecution and defense for future criminal lawyers. Through a combination of lectures and interactive group exercises, utilizing real case files, students will learn the common charges, allegations, and enhancements they will encounter in both misdemeanor and felony DUI practice, as well as their accompanying jury instructions. Students will learn to identify the strengths and weaknesses of real DUI cases, including common 4th Amendment issues.

Students who have successfully completed the Family Law Clinic can continue to hone their lawyering skills through direct representation of children and families in family law matters. Prerequisite: Family Law Clinic (680FL) in addition to Family Law (546) or Family Law Procedure and Practice (551).

Introduction to Lawyering will focus primarily on a general overview of the civil litigation process and the structure of federal and state court systems. It is designed to provide context for the terminology and procedural posture of civil cases you will read in your substantive law classes (such as Contracts, Torts and Property) during your first year of law school.

This course deals with practical and substantive aspects of doing business abroad, and with the domestic international law of import-export, especially U.S. trade remedies and GATT. Topics include: international contracting; the International Convention on the Sale of Goods; documentary sale of goods; choice of law and forum problems; forms of direct and indirect foreign investment; transfer of technology problems; business immigration issues; transnational litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute settlement; and the ethical aspects of choosing and employing foreign lawyers.