Foundations of Law and Practice provides instruction in core law school skills, such as reading cases and statutes, note-taking and classroom engagement strategies, time management, rule synthesis, outlining, multiple-choice techniques, and effective exam writing. Effective exam writing includes analogizing and distinguishing cases, focusing on key facts, and building factual depth and common sense inferences within analysis.

Foundations of Law and Practice provides instruction in core law school skills, such as reading cases and statutes, note-taking and classroom engagement strategies, time management, rule synthesis, outlining, multiple-choice techniques, and effective exam writing. Effective exam writing includes analogizing and distinguishing cases, focusing on key facts, and building factual depth and common sense inferences within analysis.

Foundations of Law and Practice provides instruction in core law school skills, such as reading cases and statutes, note-taking and classroom engagement strategies, time management, rule synthesis, outlining, multiple-choice techniques, and effective exam writing. Effective exam writing includes analogizing and distinguishing cases, focusing on key facts, and building factual depth and common sense inferences within analysis.

Gambling law is a relatively unique body of law. Historically, gambling has been both prohibited and criminalized on the one hand and legalized and regulated on the other hand. Gambling law addresses the legalized and regulated aspect of gambling; the course would only lightly touch on the prohibited and criminalized aspect of gambling. This course will provide an overview of public policy issues involving legalized gambling.

The course would offer students an overview of the Major California Discovery Statutes, with common law decisions and articles offering commentary of the Statutes, which would be provided in a Textbook.

The Removal Defense Clinic is designed to train students to represent low-income immigrants in immigration removal proceedings before the Executive Office of Immigration Review, including matters before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services where applicable. The clinic will focus its removal practice to cases in immigration court that involve the following forms of immigration relief: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Asylum, Withholding of Removal, Relief Under the Convention Against Torture, and Cancellation of Removal.

The Entertainment Law Firm Externship exposes students to various aspects of entertainment law through select field placements at law firms. Students who have demonstrated exceptional competency and interest in media and entertainment law are selected by the Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute for the Entertainment Law Firm Externship. The field placement is complimented by an academic component, including several class meetings on campus and/or via videoconferencing.

This class addresses the historical and contemporary relationships between criminal and immigration law. In particular, it explores how migrants are framed as criminals, how people with criminal convictions are treated in the immigration law system, and how unique policies apply to immigrants in the criminal justice system.

Full-length features and episodic productions are generally based on some form of literary or other work. Such underlying works include novels, comic books, video games, short stories, and news articles or other publications.