Month: August 2022

This course examines the interrelationship between the legislative and judicial branches of government in creating and interpreting laws and prepares students to work with complex statutory schemes.  In modern times, legislatures have taken a larger role in creating law through the enactment of statutes, and this has resulted in a relative shrinking of purely judge-made… Continue reading Legislation & Statutory Interpretation

This course focuses on the civil rights of Americans and introduces alternative remedies and procedures for securing these rights. Statutory law, including 42 USC 1983, the Equal Pay Act, and various statutes prohibiting discrimination, are emphasized as well as Bivens-type actions, common law causes of action in tort, enforcement by the Justice Department and other… Continue reading Civil Rights

This course deals with the purchase and development of commercial real estate. Mortgage financing is at its core, since purchase, construction and take-out financing, as well as mortgage securitization, are lawyer-intensive aspects of real estate development. The course also focuses on issues concerning the development and management of subdivisions, condominiums, timeshares and shopping centers, with… Continue reading Real Estate Development and Financing

This course examines four contemporary themes in American jurisprudence: law and economics (law as efficiency), critical legal studies (law as politics), literary theory and deconstructive method (law as a text), and humanistic legal education. Law and economics and critical legal theory imply that the classical notion of law as a public morality is dead. Excerpts… Continue reading Jurisprudence