School of Law (GRAD)

This is an optional 1-credit, 1-semester, pass/fail 1L course exploring what the ABA calls "professional identity" in law: "what it means to be a lawyer," especially in light of (1) obligations to clients and society and (2) the values, guiding principles, and well-being practices that are "foundational to successful legal practice." Students will consider and reflect on employment and service opportunities; bar-licensure obligations; legal education; and individually tailored pathways into and through the legal profession.

This course will consider the legal and regulatory aspects of professional sports. Primary issues will include labor relations, antitrust, contracts, torts, and the regulation of agents.

In this course, students will learn the process of civil litigation from start to finish. Topics covered include pleading, joinder of parties, discovery, territorial and federal subject matter jurisdiction, the Erie Doctrine, conduct of trial, jury selection and instruction, verdicts, judgments, and appellate review.

This course introduces students to all aspects of contract law. It covers contract formation, consideration, formal requirements and other aspects of enforceability, interpretation, effects of unforeseen circumstances, express and implied conditions, contract remedies, rights of third parties, and quasi-contract.

This course examines the functions and development of criminal law, including elements of criminal culpability, excuse and justification, theories of punishment, and specific crimes and defenses as defined by the interaction of statutes and common law. The criminal law's jurisprudential focus on responsibility and on the translation of social values into legal obligations provides an important foundation for the study of law.

The course examines the scope and limitations of permissible law-enforcement conduct in investigation of crime, with particular focus on constitutional limits established by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Principal areas of coverage include rules governing search and seizure, and statements and confessions.

This course introduces students to property concepts. Topics covered include concurrent estates, landlord-tenant law, contracts, fraud, equitable conversion, and conveyance by deed. Other issues covered include adverse possession, title covenants and title insurance, the creation, scope, and termination of easements and covenants affecting land. Some attention is paid to regulation of the use of land, nuisance, zoning, subdivision, regulation, and eminent domain.

This course presents broad coverage of common law and statutory principles governing compensation for personal injury, property damage, and other harm. Depending upon the professor, specific areas of study may include intentional torts, negligence, wrongful death, worker's compensation, liability related to animals and abnormally dangerous activities, products liability, nuisance, misrepresentation, defamation, and privacy.

The course explores how the law regulates and protects video games, movies, music, art, comic books, software, the internet, DVRs, automobile design, sports broadcasts, theatre, show tunes, photography, architecture, etc.

Trademarks both signal sources and values and have significant expressive, cultural and commercial impact. This course covers federal and state trademark laws, which are important to anyone providing goods or services because they rely on protecting their reputation through brands. Topics include history of branding; getting and protecting trademarks; helping clients strengthen trademark portfolios; fair use; trademarks as speech; and infringement, counterfeiting, trademark dilution, and false advertising.

This course is designed to introduce students to the practical skills necessary to help clients identify, keep, and use trademarks. In this seminar, we will explore trademark law through practical exercises and writing assignments. We will work on a client matter throughout the semester.

Students will study federal and state laws that govern the formation, operation, governance, and tax-exemption of nonprofit organizations, plus the policy considerations that motivate many of these laws. This course will be particularly valuable for students considering a public-interest transactional or tax practice and students who wish to incorporate nonprofit pro bono work, board service, or leadership into their careers.

This course surveys immigration law and policy in the U.S; explores questions relating to the meaning of citizenship, the circumstances under which newcomers are permitted to enter the U.S., and the circumstances under which they may be forced to leave; addresses complex statutes in the context of dynamic interplay between Congress, administrative agencies, and the courts; and considers current laws in their historical, social, and political contexts.

The course will cover the basics of US taxation of international income earned by individuals and businesses, examine international tax norms, and compare different countries' tax rules. We will incorporate policy discussion and consideration of anti-abuse rules aimed at protecting global tax coffers. Topics include tax residence and "expatriation", source of income principles, the foreign tax credit, earnings stripping, transfer pricing, 2017 legislation regarding the taxation of foreign income, and the international tax treaty network.

This course examines the various alternatives to adjudication that lawyers use to help clients resolve civil disputes, including negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, arbitration, private and public hybrids and other innovative processes. Students will learn about the theoretical basis for, and practical operation of, each process. The course will also address process design, effective advocacy in ADR settings, ethical and policy issues relevant to each process, and the relationship of ADR processes to the court system.

This course typically examines: the form and function of federal administrative agencies, which play a central role in the modern regulatory state; how agencies function in light of the Administrative Procedure Act and other statutes; how the legislative, judicial, and executive branches control and review agency decisions; the legitimacy and accountability of federal agencies in our constitutional system; and how the constitution constrains agency action.

The course addresses the purposes, law, and practice of workers' compensation for injuries ranging from routine to complex; explores issues related to claims of mental trauma, repetitive motion disorders, chemical exposure, and workplace assaults; and considers practical aspects of representing injured workers and defending against compensation claims.

The course will focus on the structure of the U.S. legal system and legal education system. It will introduce the basics of case analysis, statutory interpretation, the application of regulations, and the role of the Constitution. It will also provide students minimal exposure to legal research methodologies.

The course addresses relevant pre-trial, trial, and post-trial aspects of the criminal justice process, including topics such as the following: prosecutorial discretion; grand juries; preliminary hearings; pre-trial release and detention; discovery; defense pleading; guilty pleas; jury trial; double jeopardy; right to confrontation; compulsory process; jury deliberations and verdict; sentencing; and appeal.

This course provides an introduction to the legal doctrines, public policies, and intellectual theories that inform the practice and administration of federal antitrust law. We will encounter problems posed by monopolies, mergers, joint ventures, tying arrangements, exclusive dealing, collaboration in pricing, and other business behavior, as they have arisen in a wide variety of industries and markets.

The course introduces law regarding corporations and other business entities, plus partnership and agency law, focusing on structure, governance, and characteristics of the entities. Topics include corporation formation; formalities required for corporate existence and governance, including elections and meetings of boards of directors; fiduciary duties; special considerations relating to small businesses; and mergers and acquisitions.

Business of practicing law; professional responsibility and professionalism; basic financial concepts; employment agreements, equity-based compensation; basic accounting principles and use of financial statements; valuation methods; choice of entity (C corporation, S corporation, B corporation, partnership, limited liability company); owners' agreements; venture capital financing; corporate securities; mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.

A three-credit, graded course that uses simulations, discussion, video, and lecture to cover the substantive law and practical skills needed by lawyers in juvenile delinquency court and school suspension appeals. The course also presents for discussion and written reflection and analysis the ethical, strategic, and systemic issues that arise in these proceedings, focusing on how race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, language of origin, and disability status affect outcomes for young people.

This course examines how courts choose which law should be applied to transactions, relationships, or occurrences having contacts with more than one state. The course will also touch on topics such as personal jurisdiction, the recognition of foreign judgments, choice-of-law clauses, forum selection clauses, and the extraterritorial application of U.S. law.

This is a survey constitutional law course. Among other things, it covers judicial review of constitutional issues, the allocation of power between the state and federal governments, the separate branches of the federal government and individual liberties protected under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses.

This course examines state-level constitutional law.

This course surveys the First Amendment"s speech clause and to some extent its religion clauses. Typical topics include libel, campaign-finance regulation, obscenity, hate speech, commercial speech, subversive speech, speech on public property, freedom of association, religious speech, school prayer, public displays of religious symbols, and aid to parochial schools.

Students will learn the fundamentals of corporate finance, including capital structure, valuation, and the legal implications of financial decisions. By bridging the gap between law and finance, this course prepares students to excel in transactional corporate law, securities regulation, M&A, and corporate litigation.

The course explores the legal structure and federal regulation of the financial services industry. Topics include: formation and expansion of banks, bank holding companies, and financial holding companies; banking activities; and financial-service activities of banks and their holding companies.

This course explores how the law, especially the federal Bankruptcy Code, addresses financial distress among households and for-profit and non-profit enterprises and the impact on the people to whom they owe money or other obligations. The central focus is federal Bankruptcy Code.

This course addresses the body of law that structures and regulates the American political process. Topics covered include: the right to vote; one person/one vote; legislative districting; partisan gerrymandering; minority vote dilution; the constitutional rights of political parties; access to the ballot; direct democracy, and campaign finance regulation.

This course introduces legal mechanisms, particularly in federal law, to address environmental harms such as air and water pollution, toxic substances, habitat destruction, and climate change. Topics include: the interplay federal and state law; theoretical justifications and economic theory of environmental law; structure and interpretation of complex environmental law statutes; environmental policy mechanisms and their justification; and environmental law's political economy, distributive consequences, and implicated value choices. Honors version available.

This course focuses primarily on the following evidence-related topics: relevancy, including evidence of character or other crimes; hearsay and the relevant exceptions; expert and scientific evidence; impeachment and rehabilitation; and privilege.

Evidence introduces students to all major aspects of the Federal Rules of Evidence through the problem-based method. The course covers the following topics: real and demonstrative evidence, relevancy, character evidence, expert and scientific evidence, examination of witnesses, credibility and impeachment, competency, hearsay, the Confrontation clause, and privileges. The focus of this course will be on the practical application of the rules of evidence in the courtroom.

This course covers federal law governing employment discrimination, primarily based on race, sex, disability, age, and religion. The main laws discussed will be Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the U.S. Constitution.

The course examines both national and state employment law. Typical topics include: the employment relationship; duties of employees; the at-will doctrine and its exceptions; employee speech; privacy; and federal regulation of working conditions (e.g., wage and hour requirements, family and medical leave, health and safety, and employee benefits).

The course surveys the constitutional framework of family law and major issues such as marriage, divorce, child support and custody, division of property, spousal support, nontraditional relationships, and interstate considerations.

This course will cover First Amendment issues in both the K-12 and higher education contexts. This will include the relationship of parents, students, and the state; speech rights of students, teachers, and professors; academic freedom; public school libraries; curriculum requirements / restrictions; speech restrictions on college athletes; religion and schools; and speaker policies.

This course focuses on the role of the federal courts in relation to (1) other branches of the federal government and (2) states and their courts. Topics include: judicial review, particularly standing, ripeness, mootness, and political questions; congressional power to control federal jurisdiction; federal appellate jurisdiction; federal-question jurisdiction; supplemental jurisdiction; federal common law; state sovereign immunity; abstention; and "Our Federalism."

This course combines the basic insurance-law course with a 3-week introduction to the law of disasters. The law of disasters is a growing field for attorneys, and insurance is directly or indirectly one of the largest employers of attorneys and law firms in the country. The principal private-law skill students will learn is how to read an insurance contract and how to navigate the interpretive doctrines courts use to resolve insurance disputes. Honors version available.

Permission of curriculum chair and instructor required. Practical problems of international law, including its nature; treaty making, interpretation, enforcement, and termination; recognition; territory; nationality; jurisdiction and immunities; state responsibility and international claims; and the law of war and neutrality.

Students will examine legal, economic, and political integration within the European Union (EU) and related organizations. Topics will include the EU's historical development and expansion, current status, and future plans; the EU's foundational treaties, legal institutions, and decision-making processes; basic procedures and jurisprudence of the Court of Justice; and EU legislation in corporate law and financial regulation, particularly as related to difficulties of harmonizing the substantive laws of EU Member States.

In this simulation course, the professor owns a company that produces labor-law knowledge and employs students covered by the National Labor Relations Act, which governs union organizing, collective bargaining, non-union collective action, economic pressure by employees through strikes, pickets, boycotts, etc., and protects employees who resist or challenge unions. Students/employees may organize and bargain with the owner over class rules and structure; act as corporate counsel; file election petitions or unfair labor practice charges, etc.

A group of eight students travel to northwest Wyoming over Fall Break for an intensive four-day seminar at the site of a WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans. Examining the factors that led decent, talented lawyers to develop and support a system of mass oppression, students have the opportunity to consider the risks and temptations they will encounter in their own professional lives and point themselves toward professional identities of which they will be proud.

The goal of this course is to induct students into the history of ongoing development of American law. This course will develop critical skills in thinking about legal history and reading legal history scholarship.

This practice-oriented course examines environmental practice and policy through the perspectives of government regulators, law firm practitioners, and public interest lawyers, represented by guest speakers. Students conduct an interview, a negotiation, and a deposition, and also research and write a major motion or petition. The professor will hold individual conferences with the students to discuss their ongoing projects.

This course provides an in-depth introduction to the three major branches of federal intellectual property law: trademark, patent, and copyright. The state law doctrines of trade secret and right of publicity are covered briefly. No prior technical background or knowledge is required or expected.

This course covers the legal ethics and rules governing the conduct of lawyers.

This course examines the legal profession, regulation of the profession, confidentiality; the lawyer-client relationship, conflicts of interest; and duties to courts, adversaries, and third persons. Students will learn how to apply the rules to practical situations and think critically about the relationship between legal ethics and personal ethics.

This course explores relationships between professional and personal lives in varied law-practice organizations - private firms; solo practice; in-house counsel; government, university, non-profits; criminal prosecution and defense; and legal services. Topics include ethics, professionalism, family-practice balance, and economics of practice. Examining practice types as social and economic entities that influence and are influenced by the lives of those who work there, we'll include perspectives of lawyers and social scientists who have studied these issues.

This course offers opportunities to expand your skills in using primary and secondary legal sources in the context of legal practice. By exploring a range of advanced search techniques for statutory, administrative, and case law research, students will gain experience formulating efficient research methodologies and evaluating sources of legal information in various formats. Course grades will be based on a series of research assignments and class participation.

This course offers opportunities to expand your skills in using primary and secondary legal sources in the context of legal practice. By exploring a range of advanced search techniques for statutory, administrative, and case law research, students will gain experience formulating efficient research methodologies and evaluating sources of legal information in various formats. Course grades will be based on a series of research assignments and class participation.

Students will receive individualized instruction in legal writing and analysis, focusing on practical legal documents. The professor will work with each student to determine the particular skills and genres to focus on. Then the professor and student will pursue the student's goals using the instruction-writing-feedback cycle with various practice problems, along with weekly remote class meetings and weekly individual conferences. Moreover, students will consciously examine and refine their writing processes through systematic, step-by-step training.

Because everyone can be an online "publisher" and every company has some media presence, any well-trained lawyer benefits from knowing the basics about media law. This course covers legal and policy issues relating to print, electronic and digital media, particularly through the lens torts and constitutional law. Typical topics include defamation, privacy, news gathering, regulation of broadcasting and various digital technologies.

This course deals with the law of mortgages, mortgage substitutes, and other forms of financing in which land is used as security. Typical topics include the economics behind our real estate law and negotiations, judgment liens, the role of other real estate professionals (brokers, appraisers, lenders, etc.), the law of eminent domain, commercial leases, and basic tax considerations.

This course helps law students systematically explore their ideals; their views of practice and the profession; the roles of lawyers and law in political activism; the organization of the profession; delivery of legal services to the middle class and the poor; professional responsibility. Other topics include strategies and activities of public-interest lawyers at the state and federal levels and in work with community activists.

This course covers debt transactions in which the debtor offers personal property collateral to secure the debt. The creditor's interest in the collateral is a security interest and the course examines the creation, perfection, priority, and enforcement of this security interest under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The class emphasizes statutory construction and practical considerations in structuring the transaction.

A comprehensive survey of statutes and regulations governing securities distribution and trading on the stock exchanges; broker-dealer regulation; the definition of "security"; disclosure and registration obligations; exemptions from registration for small-scale transactions; broker-dealer sales practices; how the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates securities markets; and self-regulation of the securities markets (including the exchanges and the over-the-counter markets).

This RWE seminar requires research and writing on topics such as those set forth in the course description for Securities Regulation.

This course focuses on international business transactions in the private sector; emphasizes issues peculiar to, or especially prevalent in, formation and enforcement of international contracts; explores dispute resolution in the context of cross-border transactions; and considers the advantages and disadvantages of various forms of doing business internationally through agencies and distributorships, licensing agreements, franchising, joint ventures, and the establishment of branches or subsidiaries.

This course covers basic issues involved in federal taxation of individuals-including the definition of taxable income, deductibility of certain business and personal expenses, and computation of gains and losses on sales and exchanges-and basic finance concepts such as debt versus equity, insolvency, and loan interest that will be useful even to students who don't go on to specialize in tax.

Tax consequences of corporate contributions; dividends and redemptions; liquidations; taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions. We will also consider choice of entity (corporation, partnership, limited liability company).

This course explores local democracy and decentralized power that is shared among governments. Topics include legal doctrines that determine powers of local governments; relationships between local and state governments; how state constitutions legally construct local governments and subject them to state control; the profound consequences that the legal structure of local governments have on the organization of American society; school financing; land-use; housing policy; economic development; city-suburb relations; and racial and class segregation.

Introduction to substantive aspects of patent law, including doctrines, policies, and theories relevant to patent prosecution, counseling, and litigation. Students explore (1) an issued patent's form and substance, and claims that define a patent grant's substantive scope; (2) statutory requirements for obtaining a patent grant; and (3) law governing patent infringement. Technical background or knowledge is encouraged but not required, though students should be comfortable with readings in science and technology.

The course covers partnership taxation, the tax treatment most commonly applied to small and medium-sized businesses. The course will also provide students extra practice in careful reading of a statutory code and accompanying regulations.

A study of the trial as part of the legal system. Class members participate in simulations of various pretrial and trial proceedings and a final full trial.

The law of evidence as it pertains to scientists and other experts; the basic science (at a level for lawyers) underlying many of the most frequent and controversial topics of expert testimony, including DNA evidence, medical causation, economics, statistics, accident and crime scene reconstruction, and the "forensic sciences"; the application of the law of evidence in these various areas; and tactical considerations.

This class provides students with foundational, practice-oriented and skills-focused instruction. The course meets in small class sections and fosters active learning with opportunities for self-evaluation and feedback. Working both individually and in teams, students learn the fundamentals of legal reasoning, research, and writing, primarily by simulating important aspects of law-office work.

This class provides students with foundational, practice-oriented and skills-focused instruction. The course meets in small class sections and fosters active learning with opportunities for self-evaluation and feedback. Working both individually and in teams, students learn the fundamentals of legal reasoning, research, and writing, primarily by simulating important aspects of law-office work.

This course will introduce students to the legislative process and the Legislative Branch of government, and develop practical skills associated with advocacy in the legislative arena. Areas of emphasis include: basic principles and processes of legislative lawmaking, public policy considerations that impact the legislative process and legislative lawmaking, legislative bill drafting; parliamentary procedure; legislative ethics; and advocacy skills such as oral presentation and debate, written argument and defense of a position.

Students argue and decide constitutional cases pending before the United States Supreme Court. Each week, two students argue a case before the other students sitting as a simulated Supreme Court, which will decide the case and then draft and file majority and dissenting opinions. Students receive feedback on written work and review video of their oral arguments with the professor, who shares suggestions for improvement.

This course involves representing clients before the U.S. Supreme Court. Students will write petitions for certiorari, oppositions to certiorari, merits briefs, and amicus briefs at the petition and merits stages. Students will also help identify cases that are good cases for Supreme Court review.

The course provides students with a solid foundation in basic and advanced estate-planning knowledge, skills, and strategies. It helps students build the technical and personal skills necessary to develop and implement a comprehensive estate plan. It will focus on ways to understand and meet a client's estate planning objectives with hands-on simulation exercises in developing, drafting, and executing an estate plan. Topics covered include tax mitigation, philanthropy, business succession, domicile, non-tax considerations, and fiduciary selection.

Explores the critical roles law plays in defining and determining the scope, breadth, meaning, and applicability of civil and political rights. Topics include (1) the principles, rationale, and context of judicial decision-making regarding civil rights, particularly regarding to whom they apply, when they are abridged, and the remedies available; and (2) various historic and contemporary issues in civil rights law, such as discrimination in public education, accommodations, municipal services, voting, housing, land use, and employment.

Search for careful and well-founded contemporary answers to age-old questions: What does it mean to be a good judge? How does the answer vary depending on location? What is an "activist" judge? What is a judge's proper role in achieving "justice" in a case? What is the requisite "judicial temperament"? How do or should politics and the will of the people affect the judicial process? Where is the best thinking and writing about these questions?

This seminar will examine the coordination and conflict between the Congress and the President in areas in which they share power but compete for dominance. Topics will generally be chosen from current or timely conflicts, including disputes over each branch's unilateral authority to interpret the Constitution; executive immunity and privilege; Supreme Court selection; impeachment and removal; internal rule-making in the Senate; pandemics; and foreign affairs, including international agreements and military conflicts.

This course focuses on the legal issues unique to the academic and business operations of institutions of higher education. Through examination of applicable laws, cases and regulations, institutional policies, public policy issues, and societal expectation, the seminar will explore issues relating to governance of higher education institutions, academic freedom and responsibility, freedom of expression, admissions and access to higher education, athletics, employment, research, regulation of higher education, and student affairs, among other topics.

This course explores the patchwork approach that characterizes constitutional, common law, statutory, and regulatory privacy law in the US federal system, including how existing and evolving law does or should address privacy and competing interests impacted by new technologies and industry or government practices. Typical privacy topics covered relate to media, health, criminal investigation, anonymity, employment, public records, consumer behavior, and other aspects of personal autonomy including decisional privacy.

This course will explore tort law beyond personal injury and property damage, first regarding pure economic harm in business or economic settings-such as fraud, negligent misrepresentation, interference with existing and prospective contracts, tortious bad-faith contract breaches, boundaries between tort and contract, business disparagement, and unfair competition as tortious conduct-and second regarding products liability, including drug and medical-device liability.

Appellate Advocacy teaches appellate practice and process and develops students' skills and judgment as writers and oral advocates. Students will learn fundamental principles of appellate practice and procedure, including standards of review, preservation of issues for appeal, and creation of an appellate record. Students will also receive advanced training in written and oral advocacy techniques. Students will prepare several pieces of work product that an appellate lawyer would create in the course of representing a client on appeal, culminating in an appellate merits brief and oral argument.

Modern life depends heavily, and often invisibly, on commercial law and contracts. New technology dramatically shapes how parties make payments or extend credit for all sorts of transactions. This course permits students to learn about payment systems and related contract issues, as well as develop a range of professional skills and values. In addition, each student will develop expertise in a topic of interest through a research project selected in consultation with the professor.

This 3-credit class will partner with Stanford Law's Criminal Justice Center on a national research project about survivors of gender-based violence who killed an abusive partner. It covers the doctrinal concepts related to GBV generally, including civil and criminal remedies, GBV and children, economic issues, and civil rights issues. Students will gather data, conduct interviews, and make recommendations for policy and legislative changes related to survivor representation, conditions of incarceration, and needs upon re-entry.

Examine the goals, methods, and practical relevance of comparative constitutional analysis, and compare approaches to separation of powers, judicial review, federalism, structural safeguards of democracy, and constitutional protection of human rights, including equality and free expression and socioeconomic rights. Develop both breadth and depth of knowledge by covering a wide range of topics through weekly readings, assignments, and discussions, and write a research paper to deepen understanding of a topic chosen by the student.

This survey course provides an overview of laws impacting people with disabilities in the United States, emphasizing federal laws addressing employment, education, health care, housing, and public programs, and covering North Carolina law where applicable. The course includes discussion of current political issues regarding disability rights law and policy and the intersectionality of disability with race, sex/gender, age and other legal categories of identity.

This seminar examines legal issues involved in the construction process, including rights and obligations of owners, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals. Typical topics project design and delivery systems, claims and damages related to design and construction, workplace safety, alternative dispute resolution, liens, suretyship, sustainable construction, and computer-assisted design. One class session may be held at the site of a notable nearby construction project.

This course explores how the law addresses the interests of children and the relationship among those interests, parental interests, and state interests. Specific legal issues covered will include, but are not limited to, government restrictions on children's constitutional rights, children's rights and welfare in schools, the interests of children in family law, and children's rights in international law.

This seminar will examine the legal and policy challenges presented by the many private actors that make up the Internet, including internet service providers (ISPs), search engines, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Google, and X. Course themes include the jurisdictional challenges posed by the global Internet as well as changing conceptions of freedom of speech, intellectual property rights, and privacy. We will also touch on issues of cybersecurity, defamation, antitrust, and contract law.

This seminar provides a thorough introduction to sentencing law, policy and practice through weekly classes and separately scheduled workshops involving students and invited judges and criminal-justice practitioners. Classes focus on legal and policy dimensions of sentencing, particularly under North Carolina law, and correctional programs. The workshops are intensive case discussions, for which students and other participants must prepare by reading case studies, propose sentences for each case, and preparing to discuss them.

This course will explore American law as it concerns Indigenous peoples and nations. The course will trace the historical development of the field as well as major contemporary issues. These include jurisdiction, gaming, family law issues, tribal law, and more. The course will explore the relationship between the federal government, states, tribal nations, and individuals. Students will gain a truly unique perspective on American law, Native America, and exercise of authority in a colonial context.

This overview examines the North Carolina Constitution's origins, amendments, and development through case law, exploring ways in which the Constitution shapes contemporary legal debates in North Carolina and beyond on issues such as gerrymandering, separation of powers, and individual rights. Goals include: deepening understanding of the North Carolina Constitution, including through original research and collaborative projects: situating such study alongside federal Constitutional law, and serves as a bridge to public-law practice in North Carolina.

This seminar covers pretrial litigation under the NC Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence. Topics: pre-suit considerations, claims and defenses, written discovery and depositions, summary judgment and other motions and pretrial preparation. Course materials include an annotated copy of the NC Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence, assigned NC appellate decisions and other supplemental readings. Material will be presented in the context of torts, but concepts will be applicable to all areas of civil litigation.

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of human rights law. It examines legal frameworks for protecting human rights at the United Nations and regional human rights institutions, as well as the ways in which these legal regimes intersect with domestic law. The course will also discuss critiques of the international human rights system, for example, claims that the system is ineffective or imperialist.

Examines the evolution of state and federal white-collar statutes including mail and wire fraud, RICO, and conspiracy; the powers of grand juries and other investigative bodies; sentencing under the federal guidelines; difficulties posed parallel civil and criminal proceedings; practical dimensions of being a successful white-collar lawyer on the enforcement/prosecution or defense side of practice; practice tips; and scenarios taken from current headlines. The course typically includes in-class exercises and high-profile guest lecturers.

This course introduces students to various intellectual property ("IP") strategies encountered in different industries, and the practical skills necessary to help clients identify, acquire, use and commercialize their IP assets. Students will draft IP-related agreements, such as confidentiality agreements, opinion letters, letters of intent, assignment agreements, and license agreements. Students are provided sample agreements and hypothetical fact patterns, and will learn to draft contract language that addresses their clients' specific needs and business objectives.

This seminar will explore the fundamental policy issues that influence our choice of tax laws. We will not focus in significant detail on the mechanics of the current law but will focus on what the tax law could and should be. Specific topics will include theories of distributive justice, progressivity, tax compliance and enforcement, consumption taxes as an alternative to an income tax, the capital gains tax, and tax expenditures like the mortgage interest deduction.

The Youth Justice Clinic (YJC) is a four-credit hour clinic that can be taken in the fall, the spring, or for the full year. Law students in YJC represent children in delinquency proceedings and school suspension appeals, and adults in clemency applications and parole hearings.

The Civil Clinic represents individual clients and collaborates with partner organizations on civil matters related to racial, economic, and gender justice. It focuses on the rights of tenants and workers. For Fall semester, students represent individual clients in civil litigation related to preserving affordable housing or maintaining a living wage. For Spring semester, students will continue representing their clients and will work on advocacy projects related to housing, employment, or other areas of civil justice.

The Community Development Law Clinic (CDL) is a one semester clinic in which students provide corporate and transactional counsel to North Carolina nonprofit community development organizations. The aim of the CDL Clinic is to help students develop skills in corporate and transactional law and, at the same time, show them how those skills can be put to use in serving the needs of nonprofit social entrepreneurs, particularly in under-resourced communities.

Must attend Intensive Weekend in Fall. The Immigration Clinic is a two-semester clinic that provides students with an opportunity to represent low-income clients seeking humanitarian immigration relief. Students represent clients in their applications to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and before Immigration Court or the Board of Immigration Appeals, depending on the client's needs. Students work in teams of two and will have weekly team meetings with their faculty supervisor about their client representation.

Supervised Research & Writing requires research and writing of either a significant research paper or a series of related papers under direct supervision of a full-time UNC Law faculty member, who must meet periodically with the student and provide significant individualized feedback on both the student's ideas and writing, including a substantial draft. Enrollment requires advance written consent from both parties. The student must certify compliance with law school policy regarding multiple uses of written product.

This invitation-only course addresses ways to mentor and support first-year students as they adjust to RRWA and to legal advocacy, professionalism, research, and writing. An HWS meets with RRWA students--individually or in small groups--several times per semester to listen to them, mentor them on RRWA-related matters, and assist them with short exercises. An HWS also periodically cooperates with the students' RRWA professor.

The lab follows and builds upon the fall semester Honors Writing Scholars Seminar. Using the training they will have received in the Seminar, the Honors Writing Scholars students will assist a section of the first-year RRWA students inside and outside the classroom.

The Externship Program enhances classroom instruction by engaging students in real-life lawyering experiences with practicing lawyers and judges. Students receive ungraded credits for externing with one of the Program's 100 externship partners, who serve as mentors and on-site supervisors, at federal and state levels and at government agencies, public-interest groups, and corporate-counsel offices for the students. The Program's faculty supervisors guide and facilitate students' exploration of their experience through tutorials, journal writing, and group discussion.

The Summer Externship Program is offered for six weeks from mid-May through the third week of June. Rising 2Ls and 3Ls participate in a lottery selection process. Students work on site at their externship 32 hours/week; submit weekly journals and time sheets; attend individual conferences with their faculty supervisor; and attend weekly class meetings (held on Fridays). In addition, students are required to attend a Monday orientation class before the program begins.

The Semester in Practice program offers full-time externships, with on-site supervisors at partner government agencies and public-interest organizations in Washington, New York, Atlanta, and North Carolina, as a capstone experience for students with demonstrated academic and professional excellence and interest in developing particular practical skills. The Program's faculty supervisors guide and facilitate students' exploration of their experience through tutorials, journal writing, and group discussion.

This course examines the legislative history and jurisprudence of the Fourteenth Amendment, focusing primarily on the Equal Protection Clause. The course studies the application of the Amendment to women, to people of color, to economic status, and to sexual orientation.

This highly practical course teaches students to make wise strategic choices so they can use law effectively for clients. Recurrent themes are which remedies to seek and how to frame issues effectively. The course covers three areas: methods for claiming and calculating damages; equity and equitable remedies such as injunctions, preliminary injunctions, and constructive trusts; and restitution, plus the unjust-enrichment action underlying that remedy.

This course engages the journal's elected editors and staff, under faculty supervision, in editorial aspects of publishing the journal, as set forth in the journal's by-laws. The activity includes: recruiting and selecting new members; consulting with the journal's faculty supervisor and others who support the journal; and guiding and mentoring journal members in selecting topics, researching, writing, and editing.

This course engages the journal's elected editors, under faculty supervision, in editorial aspects of publishing the journal, as set forth in the journal's by-laws. The activity includes: recruiting and selecting new members; consulting with the journal's faculty supervisor and others who support the journal; and guiding and mentoring journal members in selecting topics, researching, writing, and editing.

This course engages the journal's elected editors, under faculty supervision, in editorial aspects of publishing the journal, as set forth in the journal's by-laws. The activity includes: recruiting and selecting new members; consulting with the journal's faculty supervisor and others who support the journal; and guiding and mentoring journal members in selecting topics, researching, writing, and editing.

This course engages the journal's elected editors, under faculty supervision, in editorial aspects of publishing the journal, as set forth in the journal's by-laws. The activity includes: recruiting and selecting new members; consulting with the journal's faculty supervisor and others who support the journal; and guiding and mentoring journal members in selecting topics, researching, writing, and editing.

Limited to law students in Holderness Moot Court program. Students will develop skills in legal research, written preparation, and oral advocacy.

Limited to students on trial team. A study of the trial as part of the legal system. Class members participate in simulations of various pretrial and trial proceedings, as well as a final full trial and competition.

This course engages the journal's elected editors, under faculty supervision, in editorial aspects of publishing the journal, as set forth in the journal's by-laws. The activity includes: recruiting and selecting new members; consulting with the journal's faculty supervisor and others who support the journal; and guiding and mentoring journal members in selecting topics, researching, writing, and editing.

The goals of the course are to improve Spanish legal vocabulary and improve cross-cultural lawyering skills to enable one to work with Spanish speaking clients. The course will focus on legal issues that largely impact the Spanish speaking client. We invite several guest speakers who are experts in working with Spanish speaking clients to add dimension to the material we are studying. We also consider legal issues within a cultural context.

Provides an overview of the substantive content of, and legal authority for, international IP rights, using cases, treaties, and other materials in copyright, patent and trademark law, and focusing on issues important to modern IP practice, including IP protection arising under international public law, the emerging role of transnational private law in acquisition and enforcement of IP rights, and the geopolitics of IP trade and harmonization.

This course covers the Religion Clauses of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Typical topics include religious exemptions, financial aid to religion, school prayer, religious group autonomy, and religious participation in politics and public life.

Complex civil litigation may involve: multiple claims, parties, and tribunals; novel legal issues or remedies; complex factual determinations; and lots of money. Nonetheless, this course covers topics that arise in nearly all civil lawsuit--commercial disputes, employment or civil rights cases, product liability matters, antitrust or securities cases, etc. Typical topics include class actions; joinder; federal multi-district transfer and related methods of coordinating litigation; and judicial management of complex disputes, including in discovery and trial.

This RWE seminar requires research and writing on topics such as those set forth in the course description for Business Associations.

This course covers intestacy, wills, and trusts. Classes cover the casebook materials, using a combination of class discussion and lecture.

This course will survey selected software, technologies, and skills necessary to practice effectively as a 21st century lawyer. The intention of the course is to prepare students for evaluating these materials and using them in a practical setting and to examine the ethical questions that arise with their use.

This seminar focuses on issues related to self defense in criminal law, especially involving use of lethal force, chiefly via firearms. Students examine case studies of controversial shootings, write a research paper advocating a specific policy proposal plus a shorter op-ed style essay, and simulate a reform commission, deliberating and voting on their classmates' policy proposals.

This course examines the role of animals in the law through various legal theories in property, tort, contract, trusts and estates, criminal, and constitutional law. More than simply an introspective into companion animals, students will also study the law's treatment of wildlife and animals used for commercial purposes such as entertainment, food and research.

This course addresses both domestic and international law and practice of commercial arbitration, which in some industries is the norm, not exception, and which many consumer and employment contracts require. Typical topics include arbitration's unique procedural and substantive issues, including drafting and enforcing arbitration agreements and awards and conducting arbitration proceedings.

This course addresses how mental illness and psychopathology interface with the legal system in both civil and the criminal areas, starting with an overview of psychopathology and assessment, including standardized assessments, psychological testing, forensic evaluations, and mental-health experts. Typical topics include confidentiality, privilege, treatment, risk assessment, civil commitment, malpractice, competency, restoration, criminal responsibility, sentencing, correctional issues, sexual offenders, and juvenile forensic issues. Students review approved forensic topics and draft and revise a research paper.

This course explores contemporary issues in corporate governance. Areas of focus include the role of corporate constituents and their place within the broader corporate governance framework; the balance of power between various stakeholders in a corporation; and the future of corporate governance in light of new regulatory and technological developments.

This introductory health law course focuses on the law governing the provider-patient relationship, mechanisms for assuring quality of health care, and legal issues that implicate bioethics. Topics may include informed consent, formation and termination of medical treatment relationships, confidentiality of medical information, end-of-life care, emerging health care technologies, medical research, and organ donation and transplantation. The course also surveys the legal regulation of health care quality, such as medical malpractice, accreditation, and professional licensure.

This introductory health law course focuses on the regulation, structure, and financing of the American health care system, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ongoing health care reform efforts. Regulation and structural issues include the legal organization of health care institutions, corporate practice of medicine doctrine, medical staff disputes, managed care, fraud and abuse, tax exemption, and health care transactions. Access and financing issues include health insurance regulation, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), Medicare, Medicaid, and ERISA.

Gender-related issues arise in many health care contexts -- some obvious (such as reproduction) and others less so (such as medical research). By examining selected legal topics, this course will provide an opportunity for students to explore the gender implications of the U.S. health care system. Topics may include, for example: women as patients and doctors, gender imbalance in clinical research, issues surrounding the use of reproductive technologies, domestic violence, and insurance coverage.

This course focuses on non-cash employer provided benefits designed to help employees save for retirement and cover health care costs through the use of plans that are qualified under the Internal Revenue Code. It also looks at current trends in executive compensation, including equity plans, deferred compensation, and hot topics in executive employment agreements.

This fall course provides a review of critical legal concepts for three subjects tested on the bar exam: constitutional law, contracts, and torts. Students will engage in a review of the substantive law and complete a variety of practice questions. The course is limited to 3Ls. Permission of the Instructor.

This spring course provides a review of critical legal concepts for three subjects tested on the bar exam: property, evidence, and criminal law/criminal procedure. Students will engage in a review of the substantive law and complete a variety of practice questions. The course is limited to 3Ls. Permission of the instructor.

Advanced Bankruptcy is a transition-to-practice writing and experiential course designed for students who have taken the basic bankruptcy course and would like to continue studying business bankruptcy in a more applied context.

This course introduces students to social justice critiques of our current legal system and explores strategies for moving the law toward more socially just outcomes.

This seminar explores contemporary issues in law and medicine from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course will address legal topics impacting the practice of medicine and the delivery of health care, with the aim of having students appreciate both the relevant law and the broader legal and medical context.

The Domestic and Sexual Violence Clinic is a full-year clinic in which third-year law students represent low-income clients in civil matters aimed at assisting them in safely leaving abusive relationships. Principally, students will be representing clients in domestic violence protective order hearings in District Court.

The course uses a series of negotiation exercises and mock negotiations, readings, and discussion to teach the skills involved in negotiation. In addition, lawyers from the community are brought in to observe the students and give them feedback on their skills and techniques for one half-day weekend.

This course studies such substantive types of economic regulation (and deregulation) as those found in the regulation of energy and electricity, telecommunications and the internet, food and pharmaceuticals, and consumer and financial affairs. The course will be offered every other year.

This seminar will examine the legal and policy aspects of food and fiber production, with specific attention being paid to both traditional agricultural law issues and contemporary debates regarding how we grow, market, and sell food in the United States.

Art Law introduces students to a variety of legal areas surrounding artists, museums, galleries, auction houses and art collectors. This area of the law embodies contract issues, criminal law matters, intellectual property, constitutional concerns involving free expression, torts and the preservation of cultural heritage artifacts and sites. The impact of technology is another focus of the course. Recommended preparatory courses are Law 210 (Copyright) or 265 (IP).

Students will apply the doctrine they are learning in Family Law in hands-on exercises that will help them gain the skills to interview clients, prepare a divorce complaint, interrogatories for equitable distribution and spousal support claims, conduct negotiations regarding these claims, draft prenuptial and separation agreements, and prepare for trial on family law issues.

Pre- or Co-requisite: Law 286 (Patent Law) or prerequisite: Law 265 (Intellectual Property). The seminar focuses on practical application of patent law concepts in preparing and prosecuting patent applications. It examines patent statutes and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rules governing patent prosecution as well as court decisions impacting and interpreting patents.

This course requires students to operate in groups of five, each of which will function as a mock Supreme Court. After introducing students to materials on how courts function and stare decisis, each student Court will choose to decide cases in one of two areas - the first amendment or equal protection/due process.

The course uses a series of role playing exercises, readings and discussion to teach the skills involved in interviewing and counseling. Occasionally, an outside individual will be invited to the class to make the role plays more realistic. In addition, both mental health professionals and lawyers from the community will observe students and give feedback on their skills and techniques.

The Economic Justice (EJ) Clinic is a semester or year-long clinic in which students represent individual and organizational clients in civil matters related to consumer credit and debt, including issues related to home ownership and foreclosure, car ownership and repossession, and student debt. Certain courses may be helpful in providing background doctrinal understanding, including Consumer Law, Bankruptcy Law, Secured Transactions, and Negotiation. Departmental permission via the lottery selection process.

Recommended prerequisite or This course is the ground level course for the law of energy resources (oil, coal, gas, renewable) as well as the laws of electricity production and delivery.

This course is for members of the editorial board of the North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review. Credit will be awarded for completion of the responsibilities of the editorial board, including developing publishing timelines, soliciting articles from eligible and qualified academics and legal practitioners, thoroughly revising and editing articles, communicating constructive feedback to staff members on their writing and cite checking, managing the journal's online presence, and page proofing articles for publication. Restricted to 3L board members of the North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review journal.

This class is designed primarily for students interested in or already pursuing judicial clerkships after graduation. Students will track the life cycle of an appeal from initial briefing through final opinion and beyond. Through in-class exercises and out-of-class writing assignments, students will learn about the behind-the-scenes mechanics of an appellate court and develop their skills in synthesizing arguments and drafting clear and complete bench briefs, judicial opinions, and more.

In this course, students will work on practical skills in those areas of civil law that small firm practitioners are most likely to encounter while also learning valuable practice management methods. This course will explore family law, trusts and estates, real estate practice, civil litigation, and small business representation.

This 6-credit, 20-hour/week fall/spring externship opportunity is for a select group of our North Carolina partner sites such as federal judges, federal agencies, US Attorney Offices and others. It enables a limited group of 3L students to essentially take a half course classroom load while increasing on-site participation and deepening their externship learning experience.

The Intellectual Property Clinic (IP Clinic) is a one semester clinic in which third-year students assist individual entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups with the protection, acquisition and management of intellectual property rights. In addition to their direct client representation, all students will have the opportunity to become certified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which provides students with limited recognition to practice before the USPTO under the supervision of the clinic faculty supervisor.

The seminar will examine, initially, the nature, extent and characteristics of poverty in NC. Early classes will consider the data and demographics of economic hardship in the state. Issues of economic inequality will also be explored. Finally, it will examine the impact of various recent NC public policy decisions on low income Tar Heels.

This course will expose students to international debt markets, with a particular focus on borrowing and debt restructuring by sovereign nations. Because there is no international insolvency mechanism for sovereigns, borrowing and restructuring are closely related; lawyers must build a restructuring mechanism into the debt contract and be familiar with a unique patchwork of law.

This course will cover the major statutory, constitutional, regulatory, and common law rules applicable to amateur sports. Students will learn the major issues in amateur sports law and engage in exercises that simulate sports law practice, including drafting a sports-related employment contract and summary of a current legal issue, and participating in a contract negotiation exercise.

The course will focus on the U.S. criminal justice system. Topics: arrest practices, incarceration rates, prison conditions, race-/class-based disparities in criminal justice administration, secondary effects of mass incarceration on communities/families. It will then turn to how contact with the criminal justice system triggers numerous civil regulatory decisions. Topics: immigration enforcement, public benefits, employment, restrictions on movement.

The course is designed to expose students to a series of current events and topics in the criminal justice system. Topics will include trends in imprisonment and incarceration, recidivism, forensic evidence, capital punishment, and the role of the media.

This transition to practice course is designed for upper-level students interested in environmental law and/or civil rights law. Environmental Justice sits at the cross roads of environmental law and civil rights law. The course will examine the application of the law in practice, teaching students how to identify and address environmental injustice in various settings.

Sexual Violence & the Law will provide an overview of the prevalence, causation, prevention, and response to sexual violence in our culture. Students will examine applicable state and federal statutes, court decisions, and policies in order to understand the various legal intersections, remedies for survivors, and due process considerations for alleged perpetrators.

This course will introduce students to one of the critical, culminating events in the life of a business organization: the negotiated merger or acquisition transaction. It will survey the work lawyers do at each of the main stages of the transaction and is directed at students who are considering careers as business lawyers.

The course will explore the historical, social, and political context in which people's reproductive decisions are shaped and through which reproductive rights and justice law and policy has emerged. It will necessarily provide a basic overview and understanding of how broader public health laws and policies intersect with reproductive rights and justice issues.

The Military and Veterans Law Clinic is a one-semester or full-year clinical course that is focused on assisting both former and current servicemembers. Students will represent low-income former servicemembers seeking legal status as a veteran. Veteran status is a prerequisite to VA health care and other life-altering benefits. Students may also serve as expert veterans benefits eligibility consultants to active duty military defense counsel who represent servicemembers in a variety of disciplinary proceedings.

This seminar will serve as an introduction to the nuts and bolts of contracting drafting. The seminar will address not only legal drafting issues, but also how to understand a client's practical business needs in order to effectively use the contract as a planning and problem-solving tool.

LAW 489 recommended but not required. The course will focus on the practical skills of negotiating and drafting contracts and other legal documents associated with renewable energy projects. Students will have a fundamental understanding of and practice with the real estate, tax, finance, contract and regulatory issues affecting renewable energy projects.

This transition-to-practice course, taught by a career general counsel, will introduce students to life as an in-house attorney. The course is for students considering careers as in-house counsel, whether as generalists, transactional lawyers, litigators or legal managers, and whether for manufacturers, financial institutions, technology firms, insurers, utilities, information providers, healthcare providers, other service providers or non-profits.

This seminar will examine global climate change and the range of policy responses at the international, national, and subnational levels. Students will study policy options for mitigating climate change, the evolving international response to climate change, and national and subnational policies, including U.S. EPA regulation under the Clean Air Act, other federal laws and policies relevant to climate change mitigation, and state-level action by California, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, and North Carolina.

This course will serve as a survey of the basic theory and techniques of lawyering communication skills, like client interviewing, counseling, negotiations, and conflict resolution.

This course examines how law constructed the program of removal and detention of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in WWII, and how Japanese Americans experienced and contested the government's program. The course will examine prewar Asian American legal history, the actions of the executive, legislative and judicial branches in carrying out the removal and detention program, the postwar path to redress, and the legacy of this history for antiterrorism policy and reparations for historical injustices.

Writing for Practice (W4P) builds on the practical writing skills introduced in RRWA I and II to prepare students for writing in various legal practice settings. Like RRWA, W4P uses cycles of instruction-writing-feedback to help students hone their writing processes--for example drafting and revising--and products, including familiar genres such as internal memoranda and motion memos and new genres with new audiences, for example blog posts, letters, and feedback on others' writing.

The course helps students understand the growing practice of electronic discovery and how changes are impacting the way attorneys manage and provide legal services. Areas of focus include: document management in a digital environment; electronic discovery; information literacy; metadata, and professional responsibility. Readings and hands-on experience will address both general technological issues as well as specific legal ramifications within electronic discovery.

This course will offer students the opportunity to expand their skills in using legal resources and online research tools in the context of transactional law practice. A range of topics will include practitioner resources, transactional drafting tools, company research, and specialized topical resources for transactional areas such as securities, banking & finance, corporate governance, and intellectual property. Students will have gained experience formulating efficient research methodologies and using online practitioner tools in various research databases.

This course focuses on United States privacy law, including torts, contracts, constitutional laws, statutes and regulations, and societal norms that safeguard the right of privacy and personal dignity in the United States and which balance that interest against competing interests.

In this intensive practicum, students will engage in high-stakes negotiations involving the buying, selling or licensing of intellectual property rights. Students will be directly supervised and mentored by one of the two faculty members, each of whom is a recognized expert in intellectual property licensing negotiations. Hypothetical facts and clients will be based on real-world examples of high-stakes IP acquisition transactions.

This course builds on the practical writing skills introduced in RRWA to prepare students to write for the Uniform Bar Exams, with a particular emphasis on the Multistate Performance Test (MPT). Students will write multiple MPTs and bar essays, receive feedback from the professor, and learn to self-assess their performance.

Students will provide legal services to a range of for-profit organizations, ranging from tech start-ups to small businesses in low-income communities. The course will focus upon basic corporate work and commercial contracts, including choice of entity, forming corporations and limited liability companies, and drafting shareholder and operating agreements.

This skills-based seminar provides the opportunity to explore and practice a trauma-informed approach to lawyering through readings, discussion, interdisciplinary guest speakers, and a multi-step simulation. Simulations will permit students to "represent" a client in a domestic violence or Title IX matter. Permission from Program Director.

This course helps students learn (primarily through simulation exercises) practical, effective strategies to transmit legal analysis, advice, and risk assessment to diverse clients and stakeholders in highly sensitive or crisis-type situations. Exercises challenge students to communicate substantive legal analysis and advice in ways that are responsive to a specific client's needs and expectations. For each exercise, students will analyze a scenario, plan communication strategies, use their strategies in a communication simulation, and receive feedback.

Students will learn how the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and AI Act affect organizations in all sectors and countries, including the US. The course highlights the legal context of the GDPR and EU AI Act, examines foundational privacy and AI legal requirements, explores recent fines and enforcement by EU regulators, and uncovers practical tips for building legal and compliance programs. Grades will be based on class participation and 1 short paper.

In this simulation class, students adopt the role of prosecutor and are trained as though they have been newly hired. Through their work on a single case that unfolds as the semester progresses, they confront the ethical, evidentiary, and strategic dilemmas typically faced during a criminal prosecution.

In this one-credit RWE course, students learn, refine, and practice various editing techniques that strengthen their ability to communicate legal analysis -- and related types of writing -- clearly, succinctly, and effectively. Students also explore strategies for helping other legal writers substantially improve drafts. Legal Editing enhances skills learned in RRWA, further prepares students for advanced writing courses and for law practice, and complements work with journals, competition teams, and other organizations.

This seminar will explore the entwinement of race with American institutions through a legal lens in historical and contemporary contexts. Among other things, the course will interrogate how the concept of race has influenced law and legal thought, and how law and legal thought have influenced the concept of race.

This course covers the legal options available to policy makers for addressing financial crises. It examines limitations on financial institutions to reduce risk and legal authorities to resolve systemic institutions. This course also examines the rulemaking, legal challenges and subsequent legislative changes that shaped today's legal framework. This course builds upon the Banking Law course, but it is possible for a student to be successful in the course who has not enrolled in Banking Law.

This seminar will prepare students to be critical and informed observers of, and participants in, legal developments, disputes and discourses surrounding AI technologies. Topics will include the transformation of labor, including the practices of legal services and institutions; the rights, duties and liabilities attaching to the designs and activities of robotic and transactional AI agents; and the privacy, security, social and ethical impacts of AI and automation.

This clinic provides students with the opportunity to explore innovative methods for developing advocacy strategies to address issues of racial and social injustice and inequality. Students will learn to merge theories gleaned from critical race theory into effective legal advocacy strategies. Students will engage in direct representation of clients in a range of cases including but not limited to employment discrimination, fair housing, racial disparities in education, and collateral consequences of criminal convictions.

Against a backdrop of major regulatory change, expectations for financial services compliance functions have never been higher. This course will provide practical insight into how compliance programs are structured to meet those expectations, with a focus on key regulatory requirements, fundamentals of a compliance program; ethical standards in financial services and evolving issues in today's regulatory environment.

Introduction to key issues and documents that companies and investors negotiate when seeking or funding private investment, including venture capital, private equity, or angel investment transactions. The course will utilize the market-standard equity investment documents promulgated by the National Venture Capital Association to discuss negotiated terms in a practical context with real-world examples. The course will also cover other investment vehicles, including convertible notes and SAFEs. Moderate proficiency in Microsoft Excel required for this course.

This skills course provides an introduction to taking and defending a deposition. Students will learn how to examine a deponent efficiently and strategically and how to deal with objections. Students will also learn how to prepare a witness for deposition and how to defend the witness and the deposition record. Some coverage of expert depositions will be included.

In this year-long reading group, students will consider the relationship between US law and racial inequality today. Students will meet for two-hour sessions eight times during the year. At each session, we will discuss a book that explores how a particular field of law has contributed to racial inequality, including criminal justice, the child welfare system, and housing segregation. Students will also assess the potential for law to play a role in redressing racial inequality.

This course will explore restorative justice and the ideas that form its foundation and investigate opportunities to put the theory into practice. It will give particular consideration to restorative justice practices as they relate to gender and other forms of family violence, as well as campus sexual assault matters. The course will compare restorative justice with transformative justice and community accountability mechanisms.

This seminar will introduce students to the major legal and policy issues surrounding the role of prosecutors in the criminal justice system. The reading for this course will include cases, law review articles, and some materials from popular media. Students will be asked to complete a seminar paper which will be written in stages during the semester.

This state-specific legal research course is designed for second and third-year law students who are interested in practicing law in North Carolina. Students will develop advanced proficiency in North Carolina case law and statutory research, regulatory materials, secondary sources, and municipal law research concepts through the context of state and local law issues and examples.

Selection for a Holderness appellate advocacy competition team is required. The Lab provides training, support, and supervision by a faculty member for students whom the Holderness Board selected for appellate advocacy competition teams. The Lab also provides an academic structure to track student progress and withhold credit if a student does not complete the work required for the competition.

Selection for a Holderness dispute resolution competition team is required. The Lab provides training, support, and supervision by a faculty member for Holderness Board students selected for dispute resolution competition teams. The Lab also provides an academic structure to track student progress and withhold credit if a student does not complete the work required for the competition.

This seminar explores the criminal enforcement provisions of various federal environmental statutes in the context of actual prosecutions in North Carolina. By engaging in practical exercises such as interviewing a witness, analyzing evidence, and preparing a prosecution recommendation or defense memorandum, students will gain an appreciation for the legal tools, policy considerations, and investigative hurdles in federal criminal law practice.

This course examines the goals of immigration enforcement and its implementation in the United States. Topics include border and interior enforcement, employer-based enforcement, state and local enforcement, and the merger of criminal and immigration law. This course is not limited to students interested in immigration law careers. Issues of immigration enforcement are of general interest to the public, given their impact on employers, localities, and criminal prosecutors and defense attorneys, among others.

This clinic will focus on law-related avenues of relief for individuals who have been imprisoned for killing their abusers, or who have committed other felonies arising out of their circumstances as abused persons. Most of these incarcerated persons are women who were unable to introduce evidence of their abuse when charged, convicted, or sentenced. Students will seek sentencing mitigation, clemency, and parole and will engage in legislative and policy changes to improve outcomes for victim/offenders.

The Lab provides training, support, and supervision by a faculty member for students whom the Broun National Trial Team selected for trial advocacy competition teams. It covers opening and closing statements, direct examinations, cross examinations, use of evidence rules, trial strategy, recognizing explicit and implicit biases, anticipating and preparing for ethical challenges in advocacy, fostering attorney health and wellness, and using legal "soft skills" such as active listening, teamwork, time management, and collaboration.

The course will examine the freedom of speech and freedom of association issues that arise from the regulation of elections, political campaigns, and political parties. Issues to be covered include the regulation of campaign speech, campaign finance, electioneering, political parties, third party candidates and ballot access, political patronage, and partisan gerrymandering. First Amendment is a pre-requisite.

This course surveys the provisions that appear at the back of most contracts that nobody ever reads (e.g., the choice-of-law clause, the indemnification clause, the force majeure clause). Students will learn about the purpose of these provisions, the origins of contract boilerplate, and the variations between provisions of a similar type. They will also learn how to draft these provisions and how to litigate them should a contract wind up in litigation.

Students will learn about government enforcement against corporate wrongdoing and the role that compliance plays in preventing, detecting, and resolving those issues. Simulation exercises will focus on drafting materials, scoping an investigation, conducting interviews, building a compliance program, conducting a risk assessment, and working on an M&A deal. The combination of substantive lectures, reading materials and doing simulation exercises focused on "real world" issues will provide skills/knowledge in a high demand area for a litigator or corporate attorney working in a firm, company, or government.

This survey course explores laws applied to the functioning, transactions, and resolution of issues regarding art, cultural heritage, historic preservation, indigenous heritage, and cultural property. Among topics explored are copyright, free speech, the relationships, rights and transactions among collectors, artists, dealers, auction houses, museums (nonprofits), cultural property in armed conflict, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Antiquities Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Abandoned Shipwreck Act, and cultural heritage of indigenous societies.

In the Family Defense Clinic, students will represent parents in child welfare cases and survivors of domestic violence in civil protection order proceedings. Students will interview and counsel clients, conduct investigations, prepare case strategies, draft pleadings and motions, participate in the court system's Child Planning Conferences, and litigate cases.