Survey of basic generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") in the context of corporate business transactions, partnership formations and dissolutions, family law matters and public company reporting. How to "read" a financial statement in the context of a business formation, acquisition or sale; a divorce settlement; and litigation. Overview of the relationship of lawyers and accountants in a mutual client engagement. Not open to law students who have an extensive background in accounting or accounting courses. Certificate: High Tech Law in Corporate Transactions.

The regulatory state - from local to state to federal government agencies - operate under special administrative laws and procedures.  Administrative agency actions are governed by particular administrative law doctrines, as well as constitutional and statutory limitations.  Administrative law plays a key role in many different areas of law practice - securities law, intellectual property law, labor law, communications law, environmental law, tax law, consumer protection law, immigration law, food and drug law and many others.  As a result, the course is designed to benefit students with diverse career interests.

Enrollment for this course is limited to those students on the program of directed study.

Enrollment in this course limited to those students on the program of directed study.

Students not in attendance on the first day will be withdrawn from the class.  Formerly titled "Advanced LARAW: Drafting".  Writing course, designed to improve and refine students’ writing, analytical, and editing skills. The course offers a wide range of realistic legal writing projects, completed inside and outside of class. Writing is done under the direct supervision of the professors. Credit/No Credit. Limited enrollment. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Students not in attendance on the first day will be withdrawn from the class.  Formerly titled "Advanced LARAW: Drafting".  Writing course, designed to improve and refine students’ writing, analytical, and editing skills. The course offers a wide range of realistic legal writing projects, completed inside and outside of class. Writing is done under the direct supervision of the professors. Credit/No Credit. Limited enrollment. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

This course will provide upper division law students with the opportunity to study the areas of law which were eliminated from Torts when the course was reduced from six units to four. The course will focus on the areas of Defamation, Privacy and Intentional Economic Harm. Other potential topics include Introduction to Insurance, Incremental Tort Reform, Workers' Compensation and no-Fault Schemes.

Students admitted to this course through formal application procedure.  One year, two semester course. Students should obtain permission number from instructors.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

Required course. Credit/No Credit. This course must be taken by all students in summer or fall after their first year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. (Formerly titled Cloning and Genetic Engineering) Supervised Analytical Writing credit possible.  There are no pre-requisites for this course.  Approved IP LLM course.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Bar course. Subject to grade curve.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Bar course. Subject to grade curve.

WAITLISTED COURSE. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement. Possibility that the paper may be used for Supervised Analytical Writing Requirement.

Credit/ No Credit only. Prerequisite: Pleading and Civil Procedure (114). Students may not register through E-Campus. Students must apply to the Director of Internships. For more info, go to High Tech Internships. There are seven class meeting dates:  Aug 24, Sept 14, Sept 28, Oct 12, Oct 26, Nov 9, Nov 30. Attendance at all class meetings is mandatory.

(Formerly titled Secured Transactions.)  Supervised Analytical Writing credit possible.  Note:  The grade in this course is based on a final exam.  There is no paper alternative.  However, Professor Neustadter is willing to supervise a limited number of students enrolled in the class in writing a paper that satisfies the supervised upper division writing requirement.

Bar course. Subject to grade curve.

Credit/No Credit.  To register for this course, students must obtain a permission number from the editor.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Subject to grade curve. All second year full-time students must register for Con Law II in fall of their second year.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Subject to grade curve. All second year full-time students must register for Con Law II in fall of their second year.

Required course. Subject to grade curve. All second year full-time students must register for Con Law II in fall of their second year.

Because the class on October 5 may conflict with the Fall Break, class that week will be held on Wednesday, October 3, from 4:10 - 5:25 in lieu of the normal Friday class.

Approved IP LLM course.

Pre-requisite: Business Organizations (248). The exam for this course will be an open-book, take-home essay exam.  The paper option may be used in satisfaction of the Supervised Analytical Writing Requirement.  This course will pursue an advanced understanding of the nature of the corporate form and its place in contemporary American society. 

Credit/No Credit Only. Pre-requisite: Criminal Law (106) Course meets five times: Sep 12, Sep 26, Oct 3, Oct 17, and Nov 28. Students must arrange their own internships prior to the first class meeting. Students must also fill out informational applications available at Criminal Justice Internship page.

Credit/No Credit. Class will meet at the Public Defender Office. Enrollment is by application only. Applications available in the Law Records Office and for download online. Students will be placed at the Santa Clara County Public Defender Office. Students will be given the opportunity to represent real clients and to work on their cases at arraignments, pre-trial conferences, the motion calendar and, if necessary, at trial. The first week, students will receive intensive training from our misdemeanor supervisor, J.J. Kapp and will learn all facets of misdemeanor practice from arrest through sentencing and probation. The second week, students begin supervised work in a courtroom and will be required to prepare the files before court with a senior attorney. This means the student must perfect discovery, direct investigation, write and argue motions, and assist clients in the settlement of their cases. Whether a student is permitted to conduct a trial depend on their experience, progress, and aptitude. If there is a trial, a senior member of the Public Defender Office would help them prepare the case and would accompany them, at counsel table, throughout the proceedings. The program requires a great deal of commitment by a student to be able to take advantage of the opportunity to work on real cases. The lessons learned in this clinic will be invaluable for any students who expect to practice in the criminal justice system. Students may not participate in this clinic while working in law enforcement or in the district attorneys office.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Bar course. Subject to grade curve.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Bar course. Subject to grade curve.  The reading load in this course is heavy.  This is a basic survey course which fully prepares students on all major areas of coverage on the California bar examination.

WAITLISTED COURSE.  Approved IP LLM Course.

WAITLISTED COURSE. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

WAITLISTED COURSE.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Basic foundation course. This course is the prerequisite for the Environmental Law Seminar.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Subject to grade curve.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Subject to grade curve.

Laptops will not be permitted.

Pre-Requisite: 114 Pleading and Civil Procedure.  Final paper required.  Approved IP LLM course.

Basic foundation course.

Basic foundation course.

All students who are interested in participating in Giles Rich, Saul Lefkowitz, or Entertainment and Communication Law Moot Court competitions in the 2007/2008 season must register for this class.  No other paperwork is required at this time.

Students are appointed to the board. Credit/No Credit. To register for this course, students must obtain a permission number from the Moot Court Board President.  

WAITLISTED COURSE.

Interested students should contact Professor Jimenez directly - PJimenez@scu.edu. Course will occasionally meet in the Weigand Room for teleconferences. This course meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

This course will require a final paper.

Credit/No Credit. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement. Paper required for those not participating in an external moot court competition, a substantial contribution to a brief for those who are.  Intended for students interested in participating in one of the international law moot court competitions that Santa Clara participates in (such as Jessup, Pictet, or the International Criminal Court competition), a basic survey of public international law, with an emphasis on some of the issues that repeatedly arise in the Jessup context. Students will engage in simulated moot court rounds throughout the semester on topics germane to international law.

Credit/No Credit. Limited enrollment. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement. This "learning by doing" course is designed to teach you some of the communications skills that you will need in your professional career. The goal is for you to learn the theory of client-centered lawyering and to help you turn this theory into a skill. You will practice your analytical skills in mock interviews and will consider issues of ethics that might arise in "real life" situations. We will also consider some special issues such as age, gender, cultural appropriateness and working with an interpreter.

Credit/ No Credit. Limited enrollment. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement. This "learning by doing" course is designed to teach you some of the communications skills that you will need in your professional career. The goal is for you to learn the theory of client-centered lawyering and to help you turn this theory into a skill. You will practice your analytical skills in mock interviews and will consider issues of ethics that might arise in "real life" situations. We will also consider some special issues such as age, gender, cultural appropriateness and working with an interpreter.

Credit/No Credit. To register for this course, students must use a permission number from the Editor. 

Credit/No Credit. Limited Enrollment. Applications for this course available at Law Career Services. To register, students must obtain a permission number from the director of externships. Students must also register for the Judicial Externship Seminar.

Credit/No Credit. Limited Enrollment. Applications for this course available at Law Career Services. To register, students must obtain a permission number from the director of externships. Students must also register for the Judicial Externship Seminar.

Credit/No Credit. Limited Enrollment. Applications for this course available at Law Career Services. To register, students must obtain a permission number from the director of externships. Students must also register for the Judicial Externship. Seminar will meet 5 times; Aug 29, Sep 19, Oct 24, Nov 7, and Nov 14.  Students must attend all five sessions of the class!

Credit/No Credit.  Students continue to teach practical legal skills to at-risk youth on juvenile probation, while simultaneously cultivating the professional growth of their peers. The law students serve not only as an instructor and a weekly positive role model for 20 youth over the 14-week period, but also as a site leader. As a site leader, the students are responsible for communications with Probation, FLY, each of the youth, and the other volunteer law students. Site leaders evaluate the course and provide weekly feedback to the teaching team. The course includes three 2.5-hour orientation sessions, three lunch seminars, and regular check-in meetings. The trainings and seminars provide law students with instruction about substantive legal issues and professional skills such as, Public Speaking, Client Communication, Interviewing, Client Case Management, Juvenile Justice Research, Individual Evaluation, and Factual Investigation.

Credit/No Credit.  Students teach practical legal skills primarily to at-risk youth on juvenile probation. Legal concepts include constitutional law, criminal law, and criminal procedure. The 14-week Program seeks to use the law as a vehicle to build life-skills in disadvantaged youth while empowering them to exit the juvenile justice system. The law students will serve not only as an instructor, but as a weekly positive role model for 20 youth over the 14-week period. The course includes three 8-hour training sessions, three lunch seminars, and regular check-in meetings. The trainings and seminars provide law students with instruction about substantive legal issues and serves as a forum for sharing general impressions and ideas concerning successful teaching techniques.

This course fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement. This course is the graded portion of Clinical Skills I. Students wishing to take more than 3 units of Clinical Skills I should also register for 1-3 units of Clinical Skills IB, which is the credit/no credit portion of this class. Students must submit an application after enrolling. Students must attend a mandatory training class on Saturday, August 25, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. [Note: Students interested in working in the immigration practice area with political asylum, VAWA (battered immigrant spouses and children), U Visa (victims of particularly serious crimes), and T Visa (victims of human trafficking) cases MUST also register for the 1-unit credit/no credit course on trauma and working with traumatized clients (Health Law 418B). This one-unit course will be offered at the Law Center. Students who are unable to register for this one-unit course will be assigned non-trauma immigration cases such as relative petitions, citizenship, and other types of deportation defense cases.]

Credit/No Credit. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement. Students must attend a mandatory training class on Saturday, August 25, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thereafter, students must spend 25 hours advising at the Consumer and Debtor Rights Clinic, on the following Mondays from 3:30 - 6:20 pm:  Aug 27, Sep 10, Sep 24, Oct 1, Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29, Nov 5, and Nov 19. Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class without the prior approval of the instructors.

Credit/No Credit. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement. Students must attend a mandatory training class on Saturday, August 25, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thereafter, students must spend 25 hours advising at the Immigration Clinic, which meets on the following Wednesdays; Sep 5, Sep 19, Oct 3, Oct 17, Oct 31, Nov 7, and Nov 28, from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. [Note: Students interested in interviewing clients with political asylum, VAWA (battered immigrant spouses and children), U Visa (victims of particularly serious crimes), and T Visa (victims of human trafficking) claims MUST also register for the 1-unit credit/no credit course on trauma and working with traumatized clients (Health Law 418B). This one-unit course will be offered at the Law Center. Students who are unable to register for this one-unit course will be able to interview clints with non-trauma immigration cases such as relative petitions, citizenship, and other types of deportation defense cases.] Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class without the prior approval of the instructors.

Credit/No Credit. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement. Students must attend a mandatory training class on Saturday, August 25, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thereafter, students must spend 27 hours advising at the Workers' Rights Clinic, which meets on the following Tuesdays: Aug 28, Sep 4, Sep 11, Sep 18, Sep 25, Oct 2, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 30 from 5:45 to 8:45 p.m. Class meets on Thursdays: Aug 30, Sep 6, Sep 13, Sep 20, Sep 27, Oct 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. Students may not take more than one interviewing and advising class without the prior approval of the instructors.

The class will be held on Thursdays (10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, and 11/15) from 5:30 to 7:30PM. Credit/No Credit. Will require a short reflection paper. Enrollment limited to students concurrently enrolled in KGACLC Skills I (#511), Immigration Interviewing and Advising (#469), and with instructor permission.

Laws that control the use of land come from local regulations, as well as the common law, statutes, and constitutional protections.  This course explores how such laws can work together to make communities and neighborhoods thrive - or not.  This course examines basic land use issues in a more sophisticated and focused way than is possible in basic property and constitutional law courses.  Some of these issues include local environmental concerns, economic, racial and ethnic exclusion, and the powers of local municipalities to regulate the use of land.  Each student will have the opportunity to choose a particular local land use issue to study in depth. 

WAITLISTED COURSE. Limited enrollment. First day attendance is required.  Students must be available on November 9th for paper presentations at a case study conference. See instructor with questions about this commitment.  May satisfy the Supervised Analytical Writing requirement with a rewrite and expansion of the course project. 

WAITLISTED COURSE. This course covers the legal requirements and policy implications for nonprofit organizations. Course topics include the formation and operation of charitable organizations, issues of organization governance, articulation and enforcement of fiduciary duties, remedies for breach of fiduciary duties, federal taxation requirements, principles of charitable gifts and restrictions on gifts, dissolution and extraordinary transactions, and relationships between the organization and the State (including private enforcement and derivative proceedings).  The course also considers non-charitable nonprofit organizations.  The course is designed to permit students to satisfy the Supervised Analytic Writing Requirement.

Credit/No Credit.  To register for this class, students must obtain a permission number from the editor. 

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Subject to grade curve.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Required course. Subject to grade curve.  Laptops will not be permitted.

WAITLISTED COURSE. This class meets during October on the following dates: Oct 1, 3, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29.  Course will focus primarily on California, with some federal coverage. Topics include: the role of legislation in common law system, Federalism, legislative process-theory and reality, constitutional limitations and judicial review, statutory drafting, legislative resources and research, career paths in legislation and public policy, and current issues in legislation.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Approved IP LLM course. This course emphasizes the management of complex litigation and the use of technology to manage complex litigation with an emphasis on how the management principles taught can be applied to the management of a complex IP case. The class will address the key management challenges in complex litigation, i.e., managing documents, witnesses and the litigation team. The class will also use a hypothetical IP case to underscore the teaching points. Grading is based on attendance, class participation, reading assignments and quizzes, and a final team presentation. This class is recommended for any student who is considering a career as a litigator handling complex IP cases.

WAITLISTED COURSE. This is a different course from the one taught by Sandoval this semester. This course introduces students to the evolving federal and state regulation of broadband networks. Emphasis is placed on students learning to recognize, understand and anticipate the changing relationships between technology, competition, regulation and law. In this seminar the student explores and addresses regulatory laws and policies governing the deployment and provision of broadband technologies and networks (DSL, cable modem, broadband over power lines, broadband satellites) and services such as voice over internet protocol (VOIP) and internet protocol television (IPTV). Policies addressed will include: net neutrality, statewide franchising of IPTV, electronic redlining, distinctions between information and telecommunication services, CALEA, emergency services, universal service and the digital divide/digital inclusion. The class will address the technologies, laws, and policies on the state and federal levels. The seminar requirements include: one group project, one presentation and one paper on a topic agreed to by student and professor. Consistent attendance and class participation are required and will be graded as well. There is no pre-requisite for the seminar although a background in administrative law, anti trust law, constitutional law, or mass com I , or technology would be a plus. Approved IP LLM course.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Approved IP LLM course.  Supervised Analytical Writing credit possible. 

WAITLISTED COURSE.  Credit/No Credit. This class fulfills the Professional Skills requriement.

Graded. Limited enrollment. This course is ONLY available to students who have completed one semester of NCIP. Clinic is located in Loyola Hall. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

Credit/No Credit. Limited enrollment. This course is ONLY available to students who have completed one semester of NCIP.   Clinic is located in Loyola Hall.  This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement. 

WAITLISTED COURSE. Credit/No Credit. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement.

Credit/No Credit. Limited to two to three students. To apply, students must submit a resume, a transcript, and a statement of interest to the Director of Law Externships. Students will also be given a brief writing exercise. Contact the Director of Law Externship Programs at (408) 554-5015 with any questions about the Panetta Fellowship Program or the selection process

Approved IP LLM course.

WAITLISTED COURSE. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

Required course. Subject to grade curve. Required for all second-year part time students.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Supervised Analytical Writing credit possible.  This class is a pre-requisite for Critical Race Theory.

An overview of real estate conveyancing principles.  The real estate purchase contract, escrows, recording acts, title insurance, delivery of deeds and covenants of title are among the topics to be covered in this course.  The course will cover Common Law and California statutory modifications.

(Formerly titled Real Property Secured Transactions.) California law is emphasized. No prerequisites.

Limited enrollment.  This course will acquaint students with the major topics in the law of electricity and natural gas regulation, focusing on reading representative state public utility laws (primarily California) and the major federal statutes that govern energy providers, and significant judicial and agency decisions interpreting these statutes.  Supervised Analytical Writing credit possible.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Bar course. Subject to grade curve.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Supervised Analytical Writing credit possible.

Limited enrollment. Supervised Analytical Writing Requirement credit possible.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Limited enrollment. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement.

WAITLISTED COURSE. This class fulfills the Professional Skills Requirement. Approved IP LLM course. Limited enrollment. Copyright, trademark, and patent classes are strongly recommended.

Approved IP LLM course.  Students enrolled in this class cannot have taken 535. Trademark Law.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Credit/No Credit. Pre- or co-requisite: Evidence (320). One class per week will normally be held off campus, at a local courthouse, with occasional assignments in Moot Court Room. This class meets the Professional Skills Requirement.

WAITLISTED COURSE. Bar course. Subject to grade curve.

Bar course. Subject to grade curve.