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.

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.