William H. J. Hubbard : Courses and Seminars
Advanced Civil Procedure
LAWS 52502
This course examines salient features of major civil litigation from both a practitioner's and a policymaker's perspective. Broadly, these features fall into two categories: issues with forum and aggregation on the one hand, and problems with the collection and production of evidence on the other. Topics in the first category include class actions and arbitration. Topics in the second category include electronic discovery and expert testimony. In addition, this course studies how the federal rulemaking process, statutes, and judicial decisions compete to define the procedures that govern civil litigation.
The student's grade is based on class participation and (primarily) a final examination.
Winter 2013
William H. J. Hubbard
Civil Procedure I
LAWS 30211
Civil Procedure is offered in two parts. Part I meets in the Autumn Quarter and addresses the mechanics of civil litigation, with special reference to pleading, discovery, and trial, including the respective roles of judge and jury. Part II is offered in the Spring Quarter and focuses on the study of the power of particular courts to decide cases (subject matter jurisdiction); jurisdiction of the courts over the person or things before them; the scope and effect of judgments; principles of finality of judgments; and the rules governing joinder of claims and parties.
The student's grade is based on an examination given at the end of each quarter.
Autumn 2012
William H. J. Hubbard
Civil Procedure II
LAWS 30221
Civil Procedure is offered in two parts. Part I meets in the Autumn Quarter and addresses the mechanics of civil litigation, with special reference to pleading, discovery, and trial, including the respective roles of judge and jury. Part II is offered in the Spring Quarter and focuses on the study of the power of particular courts to decide cases (subject-matter jurisdiction); jurisdiction of the courts over the person or things before them; the scope and effect of judgments; principles of finality of judgments; and the rules governing joinder of claims and parties.
The student's grade is based on an examination given at the end of each quarter.
Spring 2013
William H. J. Hubbard
Greenberg Seminar: Law and Disaster
LAWS 95902
The Greenberg seminar on law and disaster will examine different ways in which the law responds to, or prepares for, disasters, and how disasters shape the law. Natural calamities like Hurricane Katrina, mass accidents like the Titanic, environmental tragedies like a large oil spill, economic crashes like the collapse of the financial markets, impending catastrophes like climate change, and even colossal legal blunders -- all have met patterns of legal responses that are uniquely shaped by the social and psychological attitudes towards disaster.
The seminar meetings will be held in the Winter and Spring terms.
Winter 2013
Omri Ben-Shahar, William H. J. Hubbard
Workshop: Law and Economics
LAWS 56012
This workshop, conducted over three sequential quarters, is devoted to the intensive examination of selected problems in the application of economic reasoning to a wide variety of legal questions. Workshop sessions will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers by students and by members of the faculty of the University of Chicago and of other institutions.
The workshop meets every other week throughout the academic year. Students enrolled in the workshop receive three credits; one in Autumn, one in Winter, and one in Spring.
Grading is based on the completion of a series of reaction papers as well as a short research paper.
While this workshop is intended to provide groundwork for students' own research in law and economics, it does NOT have an SRP component.
Winter 2013
William H. J. Hubbard
Workshop: Law and Economics
LAWS 56012
This workshop, conducted over three sequential quarters, is devoted to the intensive examination of selected problems in the application of economic reasoning to a wide variety of legal questions. Workshop sessions will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers by students and by members of the faculty of the University of Chicago and of other institutions.
The workshop meets every other week throughout the academic year. Students enrolled in the workshop receive three credits; one in Autumn, one in Winter, and one in Spring.
Grading is based on the completion of a series of reaction papers as well as a short research paper.
While this workshop is intended to provide groundwork for students' own research in law and economics, it does NOT have an SRP component.
Spring 2013
William H. J. Hubbard
Workshop: Law and Economics
LAWS 56012
This workshop, conducted over three sequential quarters, is devoted to the intensive examination of selected problems in the application of economic reasoning to a wide variety of legal questions. Workshop sessions will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of papers by students and by members of the faculty of the University of Chicago and of other institutions.
The workshop meets every other week throughout the academic year. Students enrolled in the workshop receive three credits; one in Autumn, one in Winter, and one in Spring.
Grading is based on the completion of a series of reaction papers as well as a short research paper.
While this workshop is intended to provide groundwork for students' own research in law and economics, it does NOT have an SRP component.
Autumn 2012
William H. J. Hubbard
