Course Descriptions

Summer 2012 Course Descriptions

Spring 2012 Course Descriptions

Fall 2012 Course Descriptions

Students at RWU Law choose from a dynamic array of elective course offerings.  This is a partial list of our elective courses grouped by subject area; not all are offered every year.

COMMERCIAL, CORPORATE & LABOR LAW

• Banking Law
• Bankruptcy
• Business Concepts for Non-Business Lawyers
• Business Organizations
• Business Planning
• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Law
• Labor Law
• Legal Drafting: Commercial Transactions
• Legal Drafting: Commercial Leasing
• Legal Drafting: Commercial
• Legal Drafting: Contracts
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Payment Systems
• Sales
• Secured Transactions
• Securities Regulation

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & CIVIL RIGHTS

• Civil Rights
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Education Law
• First Amendment: Free Speech
• Sexual Orientation & the Law
• State Constitutional Law
• United States Supreme Court Cases

CRIMINAL LAW

• Advanced Criminal Procedure
• Advanced Evidence
• Advanced Trial Advocacy
• Death Penalty
• Criminal Defense Clinic
• Genocide in the 20th Century
• Legal Drafting: Criminal Litigation
• Prosecution & Defense Externships
• Trial Advocacy
• White Collar Crime

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

• Advanced Evidence
• Class Action Litigation
• Federal Courts
• Lessons of Litigation
• Mediation
• Mediation Clinic
• Negotiation
• Products Liability
• Remedies
• Rhode Island Civil Procedure
• September 11th Litigation

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

• Administrative Law
• Advanced Torts
• Environmental Law
• Fisheries Law & Policy
• International Environmental Law
• Land Use Planning
• Marine Pollution
• Natural Resources
• Ocean & Coastal Law
• Ocean Management & Policy

FAMILY LAW

• Children & the Law
• Education Law
• Family Law
• Family & Divorce Mediation
• Feminist Legal Theory
• Gender & the Law
• Health Law & Policy
• Law & Medicine
• Legal Drafting: Estate Planning
• The Voice of the Child: The Role of Guardians in the Family Court
• Wills & Trusts

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• Copyright Law
• Information Technology Law
• Intellectual Property
• Patents
• Trademark Stories

INTERNATIONAL LAW

• Comparative Law
• Conflicts of Law
• European Union Law
• Genocide & Atrocity Crimes
• Human Rights
• Immigration Law
• Immigration Law Clinic
• International Business Transactions
• International Environmental Law
• International Law
• International Litigation
• Military Law
• National Security Law
• Refugee & Asylum Law

LAWYERING SKILLS

• Advanced Appellate Advocacy
• Advanced Trial Advocacy
• Federal Practice
• Interviewing & Counseling
• Legal Drafting
• Lessons of Litigation
• Mediation
• Negotiation
• Real Estate Transactions
• Theories of Litigation
• Trial Advocacy

MARITIME & MARINE AFFAIRS

• Admiralty
• Collision & Limitation of Liability
• Energy, Development & Climate Change
• International Environmental Law
• Law of the Sea
• Marine Insurance
• Marine Pollution
• Marine Salvage
• Maritime Practice and Procedure
• Maritime Regulation and Law Enforcement
• Marine Law in the Arctic
• Marine Dispute Resolution
• Maritime Security Law
• Ocean & Coastal Law
• Ocean Management & Policy
• Piracy: Past to Present

PUBLIC INTEREST LAW

• Children & the Law
• Civil Rights
• Criminal Defense Clinic
• Education Law
• Employment Discrimination
• Health Law & Policy
• Housing Law & Policy
• Human Rights
• Judicial Externship Program
• Immigration Law Clinic
• Legislative Drafting & Advocacy
• Mediation Clinic
• Medical-Legal Partnership
• Public Interest Externship Program
• Refugee & Asylum Law

TAXATION

• Accounting for Lawyers
• Advanced Business Planning
• Advanced Taxation
• Business & Partnership Tax
• Estate & Gift Taxation
• Federal Income Tax