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Mental Health Advocacy Clinic
LAWS 67013
- 01
(1 to 2)
+, a, s, w, x
The Mental Health Advocacy Clinic teaches legislative advocacy and other policy advocacy skills. Under the supervision of the clinical teacher, students engage in legislative and other policy advocacy on behalf of persons with mental illnesses and not-for-profit organizations. Students may research and draft legislation and regulations and supporting materials, devise and implement strategies to obtain the enactment or defeat of legislation, negotiate with representatives of various interest groups, engage in coalition building and testify in legislative hearings.
The Mental Health Advocacy Clinic satisfies part of the writing requirement if substantial written work is completed. Prior or contemporaneous enrollment in either Legislation or a course on statutory interpretation is encouraged but not required.
The course includes a mandatory one hour weekly classroom component during the Fall Quarter for which one credit will be awarded.
2-7 credits by agreement with the clinical teacher.
Student may enroll in the course for no more than three quarters.
Winter 2013
Mark J. Heyrman
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Mental Health Advocacy Clinic
LAWS 67013
- 01
(1 to 2)
+, a, s, w, x
The Mental Health Advocacy Clinic teaches legislative advocacy and other policy advocacy skills. Under the supervision of the clinical teacher, students engage in legislative and other policy advocacy on behalf of persons with mental illnesses and not-for-profit organizations. Students may research and draft legislation and regulations and supporting materials, devise and implement strategies to obtain the enactment or defeat of legislation, negotiate with representatives of various interest groups, engage in coalition building and testify in legislative hearings.
The Mental Health Advocacy Clinic satisfies part of the writing requirement if substantial written work is completed. Prior or contemporaneous enrollment in either Legislation or a course on statutory interpretation is encouraged but not required.
The course includes a mandatory one hour weekly classroom component during the Fall Quarter for which one credit will be awarded.
2-7 credits by agreement with the clinical teacher.
Student may enroll in the course for no more than three quarters.
Autumn 2012
Mark J. Heyrman
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Mental Health Litigation Clinic
LAWS 67015
- 01
(1)
+, a, s, w, x
The Mental Health Litigation Clinic teaches litigation skills. Under the supervision of the clinical teacher, students engage in litigation on behalf of indigent, mentally ill clients of the Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Students may interview clients and witnesses; research and draft pleadings and legal memoranda, including briefs to reviewing courts; conduct formal and informal discovery; negotiate with opposing counsel and others; conduct evidentiary hearings and trials; and present oral argument in trial and appellate courts. The most common type of litigation will involve representing persons confined in state hospitals in state trial court hearings concerning the clients’ conditional or unconditional release or their treatment within the hospital. Students will be licensed to appear, under the supervision of the clinical teacher, in state and federal courts pursuant to court rules and practices.
See the general rules for all clinical courses for further details concerning enrollment, including the rules governing the award of credit.
The Mental Health Litigation Clinic satisfies part of the writing requirement if substantial written work is completed.
Participation in the Mental Health Litigation Clinic is limited to third year students.
Prior completion of Evidence is required.
2-6 credits by agreement with the clinical teacher.
Autumn 2012
Mark J. Heyrman
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Mental Health Litigation Clinic
LAWS 67015
- 01
(1)
+, a, s, w, x
The Mental Health Litigation Clinic teaches litigation skills. Under the supervision of the clinical teacher, students engage in litigation on behalf of indigent, mentally ill clients of the Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Students may interview clients and witnesses; research and draft pleadings and legal memoranda, including briefs to reviewing courts; conduct formal and informal discovery; negotiate with opposing counsel and others; conduct evidentiary hearings and trials; and present oral argument in trial and appellate courts. The most common type of litigation will involve representing persons confined in state hospitals in state trial court hearings concerning the clients’ conditional or unconditional release or their treatment within the hospital. Students will be licensed to appear, under the supervision of the clinical teacher, in state and federal courts pursuant to court rules and practices.
See the general rules for all clinical courses for further details concerning enrollment, including the rules governing the award of credit.
The Mental Health Litigation Clinic satisfies part of the writing requirement if substantial written work is completed.
Participation in the Mental Health Litigation Clinic is limited to third year students.
Prior completion of Evidence is required.
2-6 credits by agreement with the clinical teacher.
Spring 2013
Mark J. Heyrman
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Mental Health Litigation Clinic
LAWS 67015
- 01
(1)
+, a, s, w, x
The Mental Health Litigation Clinic teaches litigation skills. Under the supervision of the clinical teacher, students engage in litigation on behalf of indigent, mentally ill clients of the Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Students may interview clients and witnesses; research and draft pleadings and legal memoranda, including briefs to reviewing courts; conduct formal and informal discovery; negotiate with opposing counsel and others; conduct evidentiary hearings and trials; and present oral argument in trial and appellate courts. The most common type of litigation will involve representing persons confined in state hospitals in state trial court hearings concerning the clients’ conditional or unconditional release or their treatment within the hospital. Students will be licensed to appear, under the supervision of the clinical teacher, in state and federal courts pursuant to court rules and practices.
See the general rules for all clinical courses for further details concerning enrollment, including the rules governing the award of credit.
The Mental Health Litigation Clinic satisfies part of the writing requirement if substantial written work is completed.
Participation in the Mental Health Litigation Clinic is limited to third year students.
Prior completion of Evidence is required.
2-6 credits by agreement with the clinical teacher.
Winter 2013
Mark J. Heyrman
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Mergers and Acquisitions
LAWS 42311
- 01
(3)
In this course we will examine a number of the important legal and practical issues that arise in connection with mergers and acquisitions of U.S. businesses. These include: (1) the differences between mergers, tender offers, stock acquisitions and asset acquisitions and the advantages and disadvantages of each type of transaction; (2) the duties of directors in change of control transactions; (3) special considerations applicable to transactions, such as controlling shareholder buyouts or management buyouts, in which a director, officer or shareholder has a material conflict of interest; (4) disclosure issues in public M&A transactions; (5) issues that arise in connection with hostile takeovers and takeover defenses; (6) timing issues in public M&A transactions; (7) the enforceability of deal protection provisions in public merger agreements; (8) issues relating to fraud claims brought in M&A transactions; and (9) problems that arise between signing an M&A agreement and the closing of the transaction.
The course materials will include relevant judicial decisions as well as examples of disclosure documents and merger, stock purchase and asset purchase agreements.
Grades will depend on a final exam and class participation.
Some of the topics in this course will also be covered more intensively in Buyouts, but that course is not a prerequisite for this course and students may take both courses.
This offering was previously listed as Advanced Corporations: Mergers and Acquisitions.
Winter 2013
Scott Davis
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Network Industries
LAWS 73501
- 01
(3)
This course addresses state and federal regulation of price, quality, and entry, with an emphasis on the regulation of natural monopolies, cost-of-service rate-making, rate design, and the problem of partial competition within a regulated environment. While the scope of the course precludes a detailed investigation of any particular industry or system of regulation, particular attention is paid to electrical generation and transmission, the Internet, and telecommunications, with exposure to problems of the other network industries, such as transportation and consumer electronics. This course emphasizes the substantive law and regulated industries and pays scant attention to the procedural questions addressed in Administrative Law, which should be taken at some point, but which is not a prerequisite for this course.
The student's grade is based on class participation and a final examination.
Winter 2013
Randal C. Picker
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Non-Profit Organizations
LAWS 67802
- 01
(2)
+, c/l, m, x
The financial crisis and increase in political polarization that we have experienced has led to an increase in the role of non-profit organizations in our economy and democratic processes. However, few professionals understand how the rules applicable to non-profit organizations differ from comparable laws that govern the behavior of for-profit entities. This seminar attempts to fill that gap by exploring the tax and non-tax rules applicable to non-profit organizations. Such topics as fiduciary duties, commercial activities, federal and state tax exemptions, charitable deductions, and limits on lobbying and political activities are included. We dwell on the underlying question of why some activities (and not others) are carried out in the non-profit sector and the erosion of the difference between activities conducted by for-profit and non-profit entities. Think of hospitals; both for-profit and non-profit hospitals provide the same services to customers (patients). However, the tax and non-tax rules that apply to the two categories of hospitals are quite different. We examine these differences and consider whether they make sense.
The student's grade is based on class participation and a final examination.
Instructor's approval is required for students who have not completed or are currently enrolled in Introductory Income Tax.
Enrollment is limited to 20.
Autumn 2012
William C. Golden
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Obscenity Law and Pop Culture
LAWS 53013
- 01
(3)
m, w, x
This seminar will examine a culturally relevant issue: the intersection of obscenity laws and pop culture. It will provide an in-depth look at the obscenity laws in the United States, with a particular focus on the laws that prohibit obscene materials of minors. The seminar will explore the "community standards" requirement of obscenity, as it relates to the definition of obscenity and how it interacts with the law's treatment of a teenager's ability to consent to being featured in obscene material.
Students enrolled will write a seminar paper.
Spring 2013
Rachael Pontikes
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Oil and Gas Law
LAWS 45301
- 01
(3)
The basic law relating to the exploration, production, and development of oil and gas. The following principal topics are covered: ownership interests in natural resources, leasing and field development, the classification and transfer of production interests, and regulation of field operation-pooling, unitization, and environmental controls. Taxation and post-production marketing controls are not covered.
The student's grade is based on class participation and a final exam.
Winter 2013
R. H. Helmholz
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Parent, Child, and the State
LAWS 47101
- 01
(3)
c/l, r
This course examines the legal rights of parents and children and the state's authority to define and regulate the parent-child relationship. Among the topics discussed are children's and parent's rights of expression and religious exercise, termination of parental rights and adoption, paternity rights, the state's response to child abuse and neglect, the role of race in defining the family, and the legal issues raised by the development of new reproductive technologies.
A student's grade will be based on a take-home final examination or a major paper.
Winter 2013
Emily Buss
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Partnership Taxation
LAWS 44301
- 01
(3)
s, x
This course examines income tax aspects of partnerships. Partnerships have become a widely used business structure, particularly since the invention of limited liability companies (which are treated as partnerships for tax purposes) and the increase in the number of start-up ventures and sophisticated financial ventures such as hedge funds and private equity funds that rely upon partnership tax principles to maximize after-tax returns of investors and management. The course uses problem sets to illustrate the application of basic principles to formations, income and loss allocations, borrowings, and distributions of partnerships, with a special focus on applying the tax rules in a transactional setting.
Introductory Income Tax is a prerequisite.
The student's grade is based on a final examination and class participation.
Spring 2013
Richard Lipton, Todd Golub
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Patent Law
LAWS 78001
- 01
(3)
This is a basic course in patent law, in which the class is introduced to the governing statutes, core concepts, and influential court decisions. No technical expertise is necessary, and students from all backgrounds are encouraged to enroll. Patent cases often involve complicated technologies, but the key to understanding the relevant legal issue almost never turns on an understanding of the patented technology itself.
Student grades are based on an in-class final examination.
Winter 2013
Jonathan Masur
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Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic
LAWS 67243
- 01
(1)
a, s, w, x
The Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic (PIRC) will assist individuals returning to society after detention and imprisonment. Approximately 600,000 people are annually released from state and federal prisons in the United States; in Illinois, about 40,000 prisoners return to their communities each year and a substantial percentage of Illinois prisoners return to a small number of Chicago neighborhoods (several on the Southside) where they encounter restricted housing, employment, and educational opportunities, inadequate social, medical, and mental health services, real obstacles to care and provide for their families, and other policies and practices that make it difficult to become productive members of the community. Students will be engaged in individual representation, policy reform, and public education. In terms of direct representation, students may interview and counsel clients, prepare and present witnesses at hearings before the Circuit Court of Cook County or the Prisoner Review Board, provide advice and assistance on reviewing criminal records, prepare petitions for expungement and sealing of records, apply for certificates of good conduct and relief from disabilities, provide counsel in parole and probation revocation proceedings, and consider petitions for executive clemency and other post-conviction relief. With regard to policy and public education, we will, inter alia, collaborate with other community organizations and providers in advocating for alternatives to incarceration, legislative reform, and the elimination of barriers to employment, housing, public benefits, and education for those with criminal records. PIRC will engage in effective interdisciplinary collaboration with the Clinic social worker and social work students as well as related law school clinics, interested academics, and other university departments and disciplines.
Winter 2013
Herschella G. Conyers, Randolph N. Stone
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Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic
LAWS 67243
- 01
(1)
a, s, w, x
The Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic (PIRC) will assist individuals returning to society after detention and imprisonment. Approximately 600,000 people are annually released from state and federal prisons in the United States; in Illinois, about 40,000 prisoners return to their communities each year and a substantial percentage of Illinois prisoners return to a small number of Chicago neighborhoods (several on the Southside) where they encounter restricted housing, employment, and educational opportunities, inadequate social, medical, and mental health services, real obstacles to care and provide for their families, and other policies and practices that make it difficult to become productive members of the community. Students will be engaged in individual representation, policy reform, and public education. In terms of direct representation, students may interview and counsel clients, prepare and present witnesses at hearings before the Circuit Court of Cook County or the Prisoner Review Board, provide advice and assistance on reviewing criminal records, prepare petitions for expungement and sealing of records, apply for certificates of good conduct and relief from disabilities, provide counsel in parole and probation revocation proceedings, and consider petitions for executive clemency and other post-conviction relief. With regard to policy and public education, we will, inter alia, collaborate with other community organizations and providers in advocating for alternatives to incarceration, legislative reform, and the elimination of barriers to employment, housing, public benefits, and education for those with criminal records. PIRC will engage in effective interdisciplinary collaboration with the Clinic social worker and social work students as well as related law school clinics, interested academics, and other university departments and disciplines.
Spring 2013
Herschella G. Conyers, Randolph N. Stone
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Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic
LAWS 67243
- 01
(1)
a, s, w, x
The Post Incarceration Reentry Clinic (PIRC) will assist individuals returning to society after detention and imprisonment. Approximately 600,000 people are annually released from state and federal prisons in the United States; in Illinois, about 40,000 prisoners return to their communities each year and a substantial percentage of Illinois prisoners return to a small number of Chicago neighborhoods (several on the Southside) where they encounter restricted housing, employment, and educational opportunities, inadequate social, medical, and mental health services, real obstacles to care and provide for their families, and other policies and practices that make it difficult to become productive members of the community. Students will be engaged in individual representation, policy reform, and public education. In terms of direct representation, students may interview and counsel clients, prepare and present witnesses at hearings before the Circuit Court of Cook County or the Prisoner Review Board, provide advice and assistance on reviewing criminal records, prepare petitions for expungement and sealing of records, apply for certificates of good conduct and relief from disabilities, provide counsel in parole and probation revocation proceedings, and consider petitions for executive clemency and other post-conviction relief. With regard to policy and public education, we will, inter alia, collaborate with other community organizations and providers in advocating for alternatives to incarceration, legislative reform, and the elimination of barriers to employment, housing, public benefits, and education for those with criminal records. PIRC will engage in effective interdisciplinary collaboration with the Clinic social worker and social work students as well as related law school clinics, interested academics, and other university departments and disciplines.
Autumn 2012
Herschella G. Conyers, Randolph N. Stone
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Poverty and Housing Law Clinic
LAWS 90512
- 01
(4)
a, s
This clinic, conducted over two sequential quarters, exposes students to the practice of poverty law work by giving them the opportunity to work on housing cases at LAF, which provides free legal services to indigent clients in civil matters. Students will spend twelve hours per week in LAF’s Housing Practice Group, and may be be asked to attend administrative grievance hearings, represent defendants in eviction actions, prevent landlords from performing lockouts or refusing to make necessary repairs, and participate in ongoing federal litigation. All students will be expected to interview clients, prepare written discovery, and draft motions. In addition to working at LAF, students will attend a weekly two-hour class at which they will learn about poverty law, subsidized housing programs, eviction actions, housing discrimination, the intersection between domestic violence and housing, using the bankruptcy code to preserve subsidized tenancies, challenging barred lists and "no trespass" policies, jury trial practice, and the extensive and often misunderstood connection between criminal law and subsidized housing.
Enrollment is limited to twelve students.
The seminar is taught by Lawrence Wood (Director, LAF’s Housing Practice Group).
Each student's grade is based on his or her class participation (20%), one paper-l0 pages minimum (10%), and work at LAF (70%).
Spring 2013
Lawrence Wood
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Poverty and Housing Law Clinic
LAWS 90512
- 01
(3)
a, s, x
This clinic, conducted over two sequential quarters, exposes students to the practice of poverty law work by giving them the opportunity to work on housing cases at LAF, which provides free legal services to indigent clients in civil matters. Students will spend twelve hours per week in LAF’s Housing Practice Group, and may be be asked to attend administrative grievance hearings, represent defendants in eviction actions, prevent landlords from performing lockouts or refusing to make necessary repairs, and participate in ongoing federal litigation. All students will be expected to interview clients, prepare written discovery, and draft motions. In addition to working at LAF, students will attend a weekly two-hour class at which they will learn about poverty law, subsidized housing programs, eviction actions, housing discrimination, the intersection between domestic violence and housing, using the bankruptcy code to preserve subsidized tenancies, challenging barred lists and "no trespass" policies, jury trial practice, and the extensive and often misunderstood connection between criminal law and subsidized housing.
Enrollment is limited to twelve students.
The seminar is taught by Lawrence Wood (Director, LAF’s Housing Practice Group).
Each student's grade is based on his or her class participation (20%), one paper-l0 pages minimum (10%), and work at LAF (70%).
Winter 2013
Lawrence Wood
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Pre-Trial Advocacy
LAWS 67403
- 01
(2)
s, u, x
This class focuses on fundamental pretrial litigation strategies and skills, including creation and evaluation of legal and factual theories, motion practice, interviewing clients, discovery planning, depositions, and pretrial preparation. The class employs a variety of learning methodologies, including lectures, small group discussions, simulated exercises, and oral arguments.
Students taking Pre-Trial Advocacy are also eligible to enroll in the Intensive Trial Practice Workshop.
Because of the overlap in topics, students are ineligible for Pre-Trial Advocacy if they have taken or are currently enrolled in any of the following litigation clinics: Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project Clinic; Civil Rights Clinic: Police Accountability; Mental Health Litigation Clinic; Complex Mental Health Litigation Clinic; Exoneration Project Clinic; Employment Discrimination Clinic; Abrams Environmental Law Clinic; and Federal Criminal Justice Clinic.
The student's grade is based on class participation and written work product.
Evidence is a prerequisite (may be taken concurrently).
Enrollment is limited to 20 students.
Spring 2013
Erin Kelly
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Presidential Powers
LAWS 68712
- 01
(3)
x
The course will discuss the President's constitutional powers and duties. We'll consider law enforcement, prosecutorial control, independent agencies, the pardon power, signing statements, the duty to defend the constitutionality of federal statutes, the line-item veto, executive privilege, impeachment, suits against the President and other executive officers, authority over foreign affairs and the war powers, including questions related to the war against terrorism (detention, tribunals, targeting).
Autumn 2012
Sai Prakash
