PERSP 949
Higher Education Law (3) This course examines the legal issues applicable to American colleges and universities. Topics include academic freedom and tenure, affirmative action in admissions decisions, intercollegiate athletics, issues of student privacy, sexual harassment, and intellectual property.
Effective: Summer 2007
PERSP 951
The Rise of the Administrative State (3) This course will provide a survey of selected topics in the twentieth-century history of American law, with a focus on the rise of the modern administrative state. Among the topics expected to be covered: legal formalism and its progressive and legal-realist critiques; the rise of corporations; the labor and liability explosion; the New Deal and the rise of banking and securities regulation; and deregulation in the 1980s.
Effective: Summer 2013
PERSP 972
Sports and Public Policy (3) The course introduces students to fundamental concepts of law, economics, and business strategy necessary to understand and evaluate legal doctrine and public regulatory policy with regard to professional and major intercollegiate sports.
Effective: Spring 2011
Prerequisite:
PERSP 999 or Faculty Approval
PERSP 973
Biotechnology Law (3) This course will provide students a comprehensive understanding of the legal issues posed by developments in genetic technologies. The course will provide an overview of the history and technical foundations of the field and examine the legal dimensions of biotechnology. Generally, the course will examine how the law reacts to legal problems that arise from new technologies and examine whether the law is capable of anticipating such problems and acting prospectively.
Effective: Spring 2003
PERSP 978
Native American Law (3) This course has several segments covering such matters as federal and state power over Native American affairs; personal rights and liberties under tribal law; and the history of treaties with and legislation concerning Native Americans.
Effective: Spring 2003
PERSP 979
Animal Law (3) In this course we will adress how legal systems and administrative agencies make decisions that affect nonhuman animals. The course will focus on the origins, background, and evolution of animal law and address specific substantive areas involving animals such as the concept of animals as property; contract and tort issues related to animals, animal protection laws; constitutional law issues; animal exploitation and the government regulation of animals.
Effective: Summer 2011
PERSP 982
Economic Analysis of Law (3) This course will introduce students to the economic analysis of law and legal issues. No prior training in economics is assumed, though students with such training are welcome to enroll. Students will be instructed in the nature of economic reasoning and will learn to use fundamental principles of economics to explain legal doctrines and solve legal problems. The course will focus primarily on a positive analysis, investigating whether legal doctrines can best be explained as attempts to promote efficiency, and only secondarily on the normative question of whether law ought to promote efficiency. After a brief survey of microeconomics, the course will address the major common law areas of property, contracts, torts, and criminal law as well as the legal process.
Effective: Summer 2011
PERSP 994
The Right To (1) This minicourse will consider the notion of right in the context of personal choice. It will examine costs to individuation, both necessary and excessive, that are exacted in the process of establishing and perpetuating the uniformity and stability of legal and political regimes. Topics that will be considered include relative definitions of normalcy and privacy, physical characteristics and their exploitation, religious activities, prostitution, obscenity/pornography and personal expression, racial identity and discrimination, gambling, controlled substances, the use of force, and terrorism.
Effective: Fall 1998
PERSP 995
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or term.
Effective: Summer 2007
PERSP 996
Independent Study (1-4) In this course the student, under the supervision of a full-time member of the faculty, will be permitted to do research and write a paper of a substantial nature on a significant subject.
Effective: Summer 2011
PERSP 997
Special Topics (1-9) Special topics.
Effective: Spring 2011
PERSP 997A
Information Privacy and Security Law (3) As information technology advances, the legal issues surrounding information privacy and security grow increasingly complicated. This course will explore information privacy and security issues arising from technological change and provide an overview of the current legal regime in the United States meant to address such issues. This overview will take into account constitutional, statutory, contract, and common law sources of information privacy and security law, at both the federal and state level.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
PERSP 997A
National Security Law (3) This course examnies the domestic and international legal framework governing the use of national security powers by the U.S. government. After examing the shared powers of the President, Congree, and the courts, the course will carefully examine the role of international law in U.S. national security decision-making; the use of force abroad; the law of armed conflict; intelligenc collection both aborad and within the United States; and the challenges of detaining, interrogating, and prosecuting terrorist suspects. Throughout the course, consideration will be given to the appropriate balanace between liberty and security, the proper allocation of power between the three branches of government, and the potential tension between naational security objectives and international obligations.
Effective: Spring 2014 Ending: Spring 2014 Future: Spring 2014
PERSP 997B
Energy Law and Policy - National and International (3) This course is the introductory course in the regulation of energy in the United States. It also considers some of the international impact of U.S. energy policy. The course examines each significant form of energy (oil, natural gas, nuclear power, electricity, coal and renewables) in terms of the manner in which each form is regulated by various government instititions. To understand the various forms of regulation, we will also consider a substantial amount of economic, political and social/psychological information. Each segment of the course will be presented in terms of specific problems that participating students will help analyze and solve. At each stage of the course, we will consider the current policies and attempt to develop regulatory goals and positions that will improve those policies.
Effective: Spring 2014 Ending: Spring 2014 Future: Spring 2014
PERSP 999
Sports Law (3) This course explores how various areas of the law impact the sports industry. The "law" that is used by most sports lawyers is principally the appliction of settled principles of other legal fields to the sports industry: contract law, labor law, tax law, products liability law, intellectual property law, etc. The Sports Law course, then focuses on important areas that provide the foundational principles that drive the outcome of most legal disputes arising in the sports industry. The course also examines on certain areas of the law such as antitrust, labor, and constitutional law, that have specific and unique applications to sports.
Effective: Summer 2011
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