Lior Strahilevitz : Courses and Seminars
Independent Research
LAWS 49901
Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
Autumn 2009
Lior Strahilevitz
Privacy
LAWS 79501
This course surveys society's efforts to draw boundaries between the public and private spheres, with a focus on the legal regimes governing the collection, aggregation, and dissemination of private information. The course devotes substantial attention to the privacy-related torts, government surveillance, privacy-related First Amendment issues, and international privacy law. Other substantive topics that may be covered include consumer privacy on the Internet, Megan's Law, associational privacy, the Freedom of Information Act's privacy provisions, and medical privacy. The student's grade is based on a final examination and participation. This course is capped at 84 students.
Autumn 2009
Lior Strahilevitz
Property
LAWS 30411
This course, offered over two sequential quarters, provides an introduction to the legal relationships that arise out of or constitute ownership of property. Subjects covered may include, but are not limited to, such areas as the initial acquisition of rights in real and personal property, the nature of ownership of natural resources, the various types of concurrent and successive interests in land, and restraints on alienation. The course will also deal with the law relating to easements and covenants, landlord and tenant, and conveyancing. The students grade is based on a single final examination.
Winter 2010
Lior Strahilevitz
Property
LAWS 30411
This course, offered over two sequential quarters, provides an introduction to the legal relationships that arise out of or constitute ownership of property. Subjects covered may include, but are not limited to, such areas as the initial acquisition of rights in real and personal property, the nature of ownership of natural resources, the various types of concurrent and successive interests in land, and restraints on alienation. The course will also deal with the law relating to easements and covenants, landlord and tenant, and conveyancing. The students grade is based on a single final examination.
Spring 2010
Lior Strahilevitz
Trade Secrets
LAWS 45902
This seminar will examine the law that governs the protection of trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information. This body of law is given short shrift in intellectual property courses, notwithstanding the importance of trade secrecy protection in the increasingly information-based economy. Topics to be covered may include the evolution of trade secrets law in the United States; the relationship between trade secrets, patent law, contract law, and information privacy law; the reasonable precautions requirement; trade secret misappropriation; the relationship between trade secret protection and employee mobility; and remedies in trade secret litigation. Most of the reading for the seminar will consist of trade secret cases, to be supplemented by some economic, sociological, and historical readings on trade secrecy protection. Students will be graded on the basis of several short response papers, one somewhat longer research paper, and class participation.
Spring 2010
Lior Strahilevitz
Independent Research
LAWS 49901
Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
Winter 2010
Lior Strahilevitz
Independent Research
LAWS 49901
Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
Spring 2010
Lior Strahilevitz
