ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE

LAW 725

Various aspects of criminal procedure and criminal justice administration. Constitutional limitations upon criminal justice practices.

LAW 714

Development of the modern civil action including pleading, discovery, and the pretrial conference; the trial; motions after verdict and judgment; appeals; state and federal procedures.

LAW 601

An introduction to the American common law tradition and to the American legal system. Open only to Law LLM students or Visiting International students in the Law LLM Pathway.

LAW 731

An introduction to the constitutional law of the United States covering the basic structure of government in the United States, with emphasis on the federal government. Includes the role of the federal courts and the doctrine of judicial review; the rise of federal power, as reflected particularly in shifting definitions of "interstate commerce," the doctrine of separation of powers, with emphasis on current issues of legislative and executive branch authority; and judicial and other limitations on the exercise of authority by the states as well as selected rights protected in the Amendments to the Constitution.

LAW 860

Various important procedural problems arising in federal and state criminal proceedings.