Business Organization and Practice

This course will expose students to a cutting-edge critical approach that challenges the long-held beliefs that emotion is the enemy of reason and that thinking and feeling are opposite experiences. While conventional law tends to rely upon and perpetuate such beliefs, many disciplines that study decision-making or respond to human problems, including psychology, medicine, sociology, and education, have made what's called "an affective turn," revealing emotions' vital role in shaping and responding to people's experiences.

This course is designed to give students a proper understanding on how to plan and set up their finances as they continue their careers in law. Students will learn various financial concepts that are relevant in today's world. Most importantly, students will learn the framework and process of how to become financially independent. The course will be taught in an interactive approach where students will participate in in-class exercises.

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.

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.

This course is intended to provide students with an understanding about cybersecurity as defined in the law and in the real world when an intrusion or hack occurs, successful or not. What is the legal fall-out? What is the organizational fall-out? What does such an event mean to the ongoing success of the business entity or law firm?

The course would address the growing thicket of complicated and sometimes conflicting local, state, and federal laws governing the use, possession, cultivation, transportation, and distribution of cannabis, whether for medical or recreational purposes.

This is a survey course which examines the legal rules and principles associated with the formation, interpretation and enforcement of insurance contracts. The course covers basic law applicable to all insurance contracts as well as more specific legal doctrine applicable to special lines of insurance, such as property; liability; and life, health and disability. The course also covers the rights, duties and obligations of both insurers and policyholders under both the law of contract and the law of tort.

This is a hands-on course designed to train students in how to analyze technology contracts and how to draft some of today's most widely used forms of technology agreements. The course will take a detailed look at every aspect of contract drafting - why some clauses work and why others don't. Common provisions used in technology agreements will be reviewed in detail, particularly those standard, "boilerplate" terms that many lawyers have a tendency to skip over.

The U.S. capital markets, the legal complexities involved in raising capital, and the concurrent responsibilities assumed when a company "goes public" are focused upon in this course. The role and responsibilities of corporate counsel, underwriters counsel, SEC counsel, "directors," "controlling persons," and "insiders" are explored. The course material includes federal and state legislation, administrative action, and case law. The Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the SEC are examined.

This general overview of federal antitrust law concentrates on basic substantive areas of the Sherman and Clayton Acts such as: horizontal restraints of trade including price fixing, boycotts, bid rigging, allocations of customers and territories, and trade associations; vertical restraints including resale price maintenance, allocation of territories, exclusive distributorships, tying and termination dealers; monopolization and attempts to monopolize under Section 2 of the Sherman Act; and mergers (horizontal, vertical and conglomerate) under the Clayton Act, Section 7.