Spring 2021 Course Offerings

Instructor:

• GOVT-5003-001: Solimine
• GOVT-5003-002: Lenhart

Description:

This course continues issues first explored in Civil Procedure I. It opens with joinder of parties in multi-party actions, interpleader, class actions and intervention. Modern discovery procedures, the trial process, and post-trial motions are considered. The course ends with procedures governing appeals, alternative dispute resolution, and the effect of res judicata and collateral estoppels by judgment in prior litigation. Prerequisite: Civil Procedure I.

Instructor:

• IRTS-5001-001: Bryant
• IRTS-5001-002: Schneider

Description:

This required course covers individual rights and freedoms, including the incorporation of the Bill of Rights as against the States, freedom of speech and religion, due process, economic and personal liberties and state action. Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I.

Instructor:

• IRTS-5001-001: Godsey
• IRTS-5001-002: Whiteman

Description:

This course deals with substantive criminal law, although its focus is on the various principles that apply to all crimes rather than on the elements of specific crimes. Homicidal crimes are given separate attention, however. The various defenses, including insanity, are reviewed.

Instructors:

• LITG-7008-001: Oliver
• LITG-7008-002: Lenhart
• LITG-7008-003: Oliver
• LITG-7008-004: McCord
• LITG-7008-005: Smith
• LITG-7008-006: McCord

Description:

The course is structured as a simulated law firm with students working on a case file to develop and apply advocacy skills.  Students study and write one or more persuasive briefs to a court.  The course culminates with students arguing a motion before a simulated judge.  Students also continue their work on legal research and professionalism.

Prerequisite: Lawyering I: Legal Research & Writing.

Instructor:

• PROP-5001-001: Morris
• PROP-5001-002: Bai

Description:

This course surveys the varieties of property interests and relations available in Anglo-American law, with an emphasis on tracing their development and evolution in modern American society. Discussion usually covers adverse possession, the traditional estates in land, future interests, landlord-tenant law, concurrent ownership, land use regulation and eminent domain, and easements and other servitudes.

Description:

There is a classroom component consisting of a one classroom credit online class and an optional one credit field placement, which is in person at the Help Center at the Hamilton County Municipal Court. The Field Placement is optional because it is in person at a time when COVID-19 is still a threat and not all students may want to pursue an in person clinical experience. Students may take the 1-credit online class and not the field placement. But students may not take the field placement without taking the one-credit class. In 2015 the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Task Force on Access to Justice released its Report and Recommendations, noting that Ohio courts are “filled with individuals unable to secure legal representation in civil matters and are left with no choice but to navigate an unfamiliar, complex court system alone.” This class will examine the justice gap, where 86% of civil legal problems reported by low-income people received either no or inadequate legal help. The class will have three components: First, we will examine the justice gap in a variety of contexts—housing, criminal cases, immigration and family law matters—inviting in access to justice lawyers to lend their insights and expertise. We will then move towards access to justice interventions, including right to counsel, technology, self-help centers and court process simplification. A third component is an optional in person field placement at the Help Center that will give students a practical experience with access to justice lawyering. The class would convene 2hrs/week and require a 15 page paper. The field placement would consist of 26 hours in the Help Center and 11.5 hours classroom time beyond the amount of time justifying the one credit classroom component. Representative Classes include: 1. Introducing the Justice Gap: Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap Report; American Bar Association, Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States; Ohio Supreme Court Report and Recommendations on the Taskforce on Access to Justice. 2. Access to Justice Lawyering & Help Center Training: Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy; William P. Quiqley, Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice, 1 DePaul J. for Soc. Justice; David F. Levi, Dana Remus, and Abigail Frisch, Reclaiming the Role of Lawyers as Community Connectors, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Jennifer Ching et al., A Few Interventions and Offerings from Five Movement Lawyers to the Access to Justice Movement, 87 FORDHAM L. REV. 186. 3. Housing: Excerpts from Matthew Desmond’s Evicted; Department of Sociology University of Cincinnati, "You are being asked to leave the premises": A Study of Eviction in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. 4. Criminal: Excerpts from Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. 5. Defining Terms: Rebecca L. Sandefur, Access to What?, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Robert W. Gordo, Lawyers, the Legal Profession & Access to Justice in the United States: A Brief History, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Robert H. Frank, How Rising Income Inequality Threatens Access to the Legal System, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1. 6. Lawyers’ Role (Rt. to counsel, mandatory pro bono, unbundled/limited legal help): Tonya L. Brito, The Right to Civil Counsel, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Benjamin Barton and Stephanos Bibos, Triaging Appointed Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice; John Pollock and Michael Greco, It’s Not Triage If the Patient Bleeds Out. 7. Partnerships with non-lawyers (legal tech., court navigators, pro se information/self-help centers): Tanina Rostain, Techno-Optimism & Access to the Legal System 8. Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Margaret Hagan, Participatory Design for Innovation in Access to Justice, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Deborah L. Rhode and Lucy Ricca, “Protecting the Profession or the Publi

Description:

There is a classroom component consisting of a one classroom credit online class and an optional one credit field placement, which is in person at the Help Center at the Hamilton County Municipal Court. The Field Placement is optional because it is in person at a time when COVID-19 is still a threat and not all students may want to pursue an in person clinical experience. Students may take the 1-credit online class and not the field placement. But students may not take the field placement without taking the one-credit class. In 2015 the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Task Force on Access to Justice released its Report and Recommendations, noting that Ohio courts are “filled with individuals unable to secure legal representation in civil matters and are left with no choice but to navigate an unfamiliar, complex court system alone.” This class will examine the justice gap, where 86% of civil legal problems reported by low-income people received either no or inadequate legal help. The class will have three components: First, we will examine the justice gap in a variety of contexts—housing, criminal cases, immigration and family law matters—inviting in access to justice lawyers to lend their insights and expertise. We will then move towards access to justice interventions, including right to counsel, technology, self-help centers and court process simplification. A third component is an optional in person field placement at the Help Center that will give students a practical experience with access to justice lawyering. The class would convene 2hrs/week and require a 15 page paper. The field placement would consist of 26 hours in the Help Center and 11.5 hours classroom time beyond the amount of time justifying the one credit classroom component. Representative Classes include: 1. Introducing the Justice Gap: Legal Services Corporation, The Justice Gap Report; American Bar Association, Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States; Ohio Supreme Court Report and Recommendations on the Taskforce on Access to Justice. 2. Access to Justice Lawyering & Help Center Training: Duncan Kennedy, Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy; William P. Quiqley, Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice, 1 DePaul J. for Soc. Justice; David F. Levi, Dana Remus, and Abigail Frisch, Reclaiming the Role of Lawyers as Community Connectors, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Jennifer Ching et al., A Few Interventions and Offerings from Five Movement Lawyers to the Access to Justice Movement, 87 FORDHAM L. REV. 186. 3. Housing: Excerpts from Matthew Desmond’s Evicted; Department of Sociology University of Cincinnati, "You are being asked to leave the premises": A Study of Eviction in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. 4. Criminal: Excerpts from Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. 5. Defining Terms: Rebecca L. Sandefur, Access to What?, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Robert W. Gordo, Lawyers, the Legal Profession & Access to Justice in the United States: A Brief History, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Robert H. Frank, How Rising Income Inequality Threatens Access to the Legal System, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1. 6. Lawyers’ Role (Rt. to counsel, mandatory pro bono, unbundled/limited legal help): Tonya L. Brito, The Right to Civil Counsel, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Benjamin Barton and Stephanos Bibos, Triaging Appointed Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice; John Pollock and Michael Greco, It’s Not Triage If the Patient Bleeds Out. 7. Partnerships with non-lawyers (legal tech., court navigators, pro se information/self-help centers): Tanina Rostain, Techno-Optimism & Access to the Legal System 8. Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Margaret Hagan, Participatory Design for Innovation in Access to Justice, Daedalus Winter 2019, Vol. 148, No. 1; Deborah L. Rhode and Lucy Ricca, “Protecting the Profession or the Public? R

Instructors: Boland, Jones

Description:

Online Advanced Legal Research offers students an opportunity to review basic research skills and to delve more deeply into research as it is applied in practice. Particular attention will be given to practical online and computer-assisted legal research. At the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of online research, how to effectively manipulate online research databases, as well as an expanded understanding of administrative research, legislative history research, and verification research.

Instructor: Bilionis

Description:

This seminar will examine key constitutional challenges that the United States faces in the early 21st century – issues of public concern that have sparked significant debate about the proper role of constitutional values in contemporary American life. The topics that will be studied include:

• Racial Justice in Criminal Justice
• Constitutional Challenge and Change: The Case of Capital Punishment
• Fraction and Friction in 21st Century American Political Life
• Money, Speech, and Political Power
  
• Presidential Authority in Times of Global Challenge and Political Polarization
• The Changing Look of American Federalism
  
• Conscience, Religion, and Constitutional Objection
• Free Market Principles in Constitutional Law

Examination of the topics will draw on a broad range of readings to inform class discussion. Each student will prepare a seminar length paper (minimum of 30 pages in length) on a topic of her or his selection after consultation with the professor. Each student also will deliver a presentation on the paper to the class for discussion.

SPECIAL NOTE: Taking this course satisfies only one of the graduation requirements (seminar or writing). If you take this course and have not yet satisfied the seminar requirement, you will be deemed to have met the seminar requirement. However, if you take this course and you have already met the seminar requirement, you will be deemed to have met the writing requirement. Two, separate courses are required to satisfy both the seminar and writing requirements. No one course satisfies them both.

Instructor: Chang

Description:

This course covers basic legal antitrust concepts, including the economic foundations and justifications for antitrust law and the analysis of business practices or ventures that may violate federal antitrust law by reducing competition or trending toward monopolization. It includes consideration of the Sherman Act, the Robinson-Patman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act, as well as the decades of case law interpreting and applying them. This class is useful for students interested in criminal law and business law, including those interested in business operations and/or mergers and acquisitions.

Instructor: Leftwich

Description:

This course will provide you with the fundamentals of asylum and refugee law in the United States, the policies underlying asylum and refugee law, and the federal agencies that implement and enforce those policies. The course will trace the history and development of the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, the 1967 Protocol, and the U.S. Refugee Act of 1980. Students will become familiar with the key actors in the asylum and refugee law arena, including the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the U.S. Congress, the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, and the federal courts. Students will gain an understanding of the refugee definition as interpreted in the U.S. The course will address the limits of refugee law and will assess the current asylum system from both a practitioner’s and a policy perspective – contextualizing asylum law within the need for international and domestic policymakers alike to meet obligations under international conventions while maintaining national security, including addressing the challenges of terrorism and transnational crime.

Instructor: Kalsem

Description:

This course offers an introduction to the Bankruptcy Code. The course begins with brief coverage of non-bankruptcy debt collection; however, it primarily focuses on the basics of bankruptcy proceedings by consumer and business debtors under Chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. Topics covered include the creation of a bankruptcy estate, exemptions, the automatic stay, the trustee's avoidance powers, adequate protection, and executory contracts. Special Note: You must have taken Secured Transactions to take this class. However, if you have not taken Secured Transactions, it is the student’s responsibility to discuss this with Professor Kalsem to see if she will waive this prerequisite for you.

Instructor: Malloy

Description:

Bioethics explores the development of American law as it relates to ethical and moral issues in the areas of health care and life sciences. Supplementing courses in health law and public health law, and law and biosciences, this course is intended to give students an appreciation of the ways in which the law’s regulatory powers have been used to guide decision-making in medicine and biomedical research, and, in turn, how theories of medical ethics and practice have informed modern legal developments. In this class, we will take up a range of issues including (but not limited to): end of life decisions, allocation of resources such as organs for transplantation, human reproduction, human subjects’ research, and developments in genetics and stem cell research and therapies. Bioethics raises difficult questions about the nature, meaning, and value of life and the importance and appropriate ethical and legal role of health care. Through an in-depth study and writing on these topics, I hope that you will develop and challenge our thinking about these issues. Students will be evaluated based on a final research paper. There are no prerequisites.

Description:

This Honors seminar will take students on a semester adventure through the fascinating and eye-opening work of the Ohio Innocence Project at UC’s College of Law. In doing so, students will study the systemic flaws in the criminal justice system that lead to wrongful convictions, as well as the psychological, political and social underpinnings that create and perpetuate these flaws. Students will also interact with key players in the criminal justice system during the semester. Innocent men and women who served decades in prison, including time on death row, for crimes they did not commit, will speak to the class and interact with the students in an open and intimate setting.

Instructor: Chang

Description:

This course covers major topics in the law of agency, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations, as well as selected aspects of the federal securities laws.

Instructor: McMahon

Description:

This course will cover the fundamentals of the federal income tax as it applies to businesses. Its focus will be on the tax treatment of the most common business entities: C corporations, partnerships, and S corporations. This course is intended to provide a basic understanding of these entities’ most frequent tax issues for those interested either in a career in tax law or representing business entities more generally.

Instructors: Gerhardstein/Greene/Trotter Bratton

Description:

This course explores the history, text, structure, and policy of federal civil rights litigation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The course addresses doctrinal, theoretical, and practical issues that shape civil rights litigation. Theoretical issues include the appropriate role of the history of American slavery in interpreting the civil rights statutes, the benefits and drawbacks of private litigation in constitutional development, and the respective roles of federal and state judiciaries in protecting federal rights. Bivens actions, the Federal Tort Claims Act and State claims and immunities will be introduced but not extensively covered. Practical issues include the types of remedies available, the defenses and immunities available to governments and their agents, and the availability of attorney fees for prevailing plaintiffs. Students will apply their theoretical and practical knowledge through in-class discussion based on assigned readings or other out-of-class assigned activities as well as by short drafting assignments in response to fact patterns provided by the instructors and occasional quizzes.

Instructor:

• PRSP-7016-001: Aaron
• PRSP-7016-002: Aaron
• PRSP-7016-003: Mangan
• PRSP-7016-004: Kearney

Description:

In this course, students consider the lawyer-client relationship in the context of realistic scenarios, examining the basic strategies and skills a lawyer must master in the lawyer-client relationship. Students will practice and demonstrate the skills of effective client communication and practice management. The instruction and simulations will be set in the business transaction context. This is an intensive course that meets over a condensed time period. Students must attend every class session. Do not sign up for this class if you must miss one of these sessions. Students may take only one (1) short course before the fall semester. Additional assignments outside of the classroom, a final skills exercise, and wrap-up classes will take place during the fall 2019 semester at times and dates to be announced. This is a required course that must be taken in the second year, unless you have met the requirement in another way. Students who participate in other experiences in the second year may have met the Client Counseling Requirement and are not required to take this course. These students, along with 3Ls who have not taken a client counseling course, will be permitted to take this Client Counseling class only if seats remain after students are placed in the sections of the course who must take it.

Instructor: Behlen

Description:

This course will introduce students to Computer Crime Law. Areas of coverage include: computer misuse crimes, traditional crimes, sentencing issues, the Fourth Amendment, statutory privacy protections, jurisdiction, and national security. The course will also cover techniques used in computer crime investigations.

Instructor: Solimine

Description:

This course focuses on the problem of choosing which jurisdiction's law should govern transactions, relationships, or events with contacts to more than one jurisdiction. The course also explores the law governing recognition of sister - state and foreign judgments, and the jurisdictional and choice-of-law problems posed by cyberspace. The course will provide students with the opportunity both to become familiar with and to criticize the various approaches to these problems adopted by U.S. jurisdictions (especially Ohio).

Instructor: Armstrong

Description:

This course examines copyright law in detail, with particular focus on the Copyright Act of 1976, its history, and its ability to respond to recent developments in technology. Copyright law offers protection for works considered to be within the "fine arts" (music, paintings, photographs, sculpture) and "literature" (books, stories, plays) as well as more mundane works, including commercial, i.e., applied art and even data directories. Copyright also covers architectural works and works reliant on technology, such as computer software. Students will gain an understanding of copyright law generally, as well as an understanding of how that law might apply to emerging technologies.

Instructor: Bilionis

Description:

This introductory course deals with the constitutional aspects of various police practices, focusing primarily on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the US Constitution. The course specifically addresses the right to counsel; arrest, search and seizure; wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping and the use of secret agents; police interrogation and confession; and the scope and administration of the exclusionary rules.

Instructor: Vázquez

Description:

This course covers the basic rules for post-arrest criminal litigation. Sources include constitutions, statutes and court rules, ethical codes, performance standards, research data, and appellate decisions interpreting these primary materials. Topics include the right to counsel; charging decisions; pretrial detention; discovery and investigation; plea bargaining; speedy trial and double jeopardy; jury selection; additional trial rights, including compulsory process and confrontation of witnesses; sentencing; and appeal/post-conviction procedures. The goal is clear understanding of the rules, their underlying theories, and their real-world consequences. SPECIAL NOTE: This course covers completely different material than that covered in Criminal Procedure I. Criminal Procedure I is not a prerequisite for this course, but it is recommended that Criminal Procedure I be taken first.

Instructor: Vázquez

Description:

This course will focus on the historical and current relationship between criminal and immigration law. The class will look at the intersection both in the criminal justice system as well as the immigration court system. It will proceed in two parts. First, it will focus on procedural and substantive law. The goal during this part of the course is for students to gain a practical knowledge to take a non-citizen defendant from his arrest in the criminal system through his immigration proceeding with the ability to understand the consequences of the criminal conviction to his immigration status. Therefore, this part will focus on specific grounds of deportation and inadmissibility related to criminal conduct; analyzing the Immigration and Nationality Act, criminal law, and pertinent case law. This part will include topics such as mandatory detention, aggravated felonies, divisible statutes, crimes of moral turpitude, and Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Second, it will focus on policy. The course will discuss current federal, state and local governmental immigration policies; including immigration raids, cooperation between local law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security as well as and local ordinances aimed at businesses and employers. Policy discussions will include issues of race, national origin, and ethnicity and its relationship, if any, to the increased use of the criminal justice system to enforce immigration law on national security and public safety grounds. This section will address topics including Secure Communities, 287(g), Operation Streamline and state and local immigration legislation such as SB 1070. The course may include class discussion, lectures, Customs and Border Patrol operations tour at CVG, and outside speakers. SPECIAL NOTE: Taking this course satisfies only one of the graduation requirements (seminar or writing). If you take this course and have not yet satisfied the seminar requirement, you will be deemed to have met the seminar requirement. However, if you take this course and you have already met the seminar requirement, you will be deemed to have met the writing requirement. Two, separate courses are required to satisfy both the seminar and writing requirements. No one course satisfies them both.

Instructor: Houh

Description:

This course explores the foundations and central tenets of Critical Race Theory (“CRT”), a scholarly movement that emerged in the 1980s as an offshoot of Critical Legal Studies (“CLS”). Since then, CRT has developed into an expansive and diverse field of scholarship in its own right. Most, however, would characterize CRT as centrally concerned with (1) using critiques of liberalism and colorblind ideology to expose how racism (and, particularly, white supremacy) is structurally and discursively embedded in and perpetuated by the law, and (2) generating and applying more inclusive and liberatory modes of legal analysis, such as intersectionality, to effect lasting social change. CRT scholars over the last 30 years have produced a diverse range of robust CRT spinoffs, such as LatCrit, QueerCrit, AsianCrit, and ClassCrit (and, to be certain, several other “—Crits”); in fact, since its inception CRT has arguably overtaken CLS within the legal academy. CRT’s interdisciplinary reach and impact during the past three decades likewise cannot be overstated, as it has been widely influential across many fields, including (but not limited to) education theory, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and American studies. This course will begin with an exploration of CRT’s origins in Critical Legal Studies, as well as an introduction to “racial formation theory,” which was contemporaneously introduced in the mid-1980s in the fields of sociology and ethnic studies. Following the introductory study of CRT’s origins and key aspects of racial formation theory, several weeks will be spent reading and discussing foundational CRT texts, primarily comprising “first generation” works (in their full and unedited forms) from 1976-1993, as well as a few later writings. After mastering CRT foundations, the course will move on to the more difficult question of CRT “praxis.” That is, how can CRT insights be used to engage more effectively in social justice advocacy and lawyering? How does one navigate the difficult terrain between CRT praxis and conventional legal practices, both as a student and as a lawyer?

Instructors: Houh, Kalsem

Description:

When we teach Feminist Jurisprudence (Fem Jur - Kalsem) and Critical Race Theory (CRT - Houh), in the same semester, we invariably end up in the same place – where feminist legal theory takes into account racial critiques and critical race theory does the same with gender and sex critiques. In other words, our courses converge organically at intersectionality, a word and concept that is often used in mainstream discourse and almost as frequently misunderstood. Our classes intersect, as do the theories, and both fields richly and rigorously examine the necessity and challenges of intersectional analysis and activism. This year rather than coordinating who is teaching which of our favorite pieces, we are collaborating and offering this readings course as a plus-1 during the last five weeks of the spring semester. To register for this course, students must have completed either Fem Jur or CRT in the spring of 2020 or 2021 (in 2021, Fem Jur and CRT are each being offered as 2-credit courses that will be completed before the start of this plus-1). We will be reading stories told in law review articles and essays, but also in short stories, books, and plays by authors such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, Sumi Cho, Margaret Montoya, Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Derrick Bell, Pauli Murray, Leslie Feinberg, and David Henry Hwang. We also will read intersectional stories in the legal contexts of cases, legislation, social movements, and activism. Course requirements include two reflection/response papers and engaged participation.

Instructor: Lucas

Description:

As part of collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, students act as advocates for victims of domestic violence. Advocacy includes interviewing and counseling clients, helping clients in civil protection order cases as well as issues as they relate to family law. Second-year students, who cannot be licensed as legal interns in Ohio, participate in interviewing, case preparation, and other aspects of clinic work.

Instructor: Lucas

Description:

2L Domestic Violence & Civil Protection Order Field Placement. You must also enroll concurrently in the 2L DV&CPO Class (IRTS 7039). As part of collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, students act as advocates for victims of domestic violence. Advocacy includes interviewing and counseling clients, helping clients in civil protection order cases as well as issues as they relate to family law. Second-year students, who cannot be licensed as legal interns in Ohio, participate in interviewing, case preparation, and other aspects of clinic work.

Instructor: Lucas

Description:

As part of collaboration with the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, students act as advocates for victims of domestic violence. Second-year students, who cannot be licensed as legal interns in Ohio, participate in interviewing, case preparation, and other aspects of clinic work. Third year students must apply for and obtain an intern license before the start of the semester. Under the direct supervision of a supervising attorney, students will represent clients in court.

Instructor: Van Nice

Description:

Electronic discovery plays an important and increasingly high-profile role in modern litigation. This course will provide a comprehensive study of electronic discovery issues, blending an in-depth analysis of legal principles with the study of their application in practice. No special technological background or expertise is necessary for success in the class. In addition to the professors (a litigation partner who leads the ediscovery practice at an international law firm and a former general counsel of a Fortune 500 company who is the chair emeritus of The Sedona Conference), class instruction will include presentations by guest speakers from the ediscovery field (in-house counsel, technology professionals, and judges). The goal for the class is to provide students with a thorough understanding of legal issues in ediscovery and, for those who may pursue a litigation practice, the practical ability to apply that understanding in actual cases.

Instructor: Mangan

Description:

Students will also be concurrently enrolled in BCL7038. In this course, students will staff the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic (ECDC), obtaining “hands on” experience representing local businesses and entrepreneurs on transactional legal issues critical to their success, including assistance and counseling on entity selection and formation; regulatory compliance and licensing; trademark/copyright protection; lease review and negotiation; contract preparation/review/negotiation; tax-exempt applications; and other legal issues confronting small businesses, both for-profit and nonprofit. Students also will learn how a small law office operates, including procedures for client intake, file maintenance, project tracking, timekeeping, and scheduling. In addition to attending the weekly class, students will be expected to spend approximately 10-12 hours per week on their clinic work, with a minimum of 3 of those hours spent working in the clinic offices at the law school. The ECDC will represent primarily clients of limited financial means who cannot afford the services of the private bar and will not represent clients in litigation or in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. SPECIAL NOTES: Interested students should look for email announcements regarding information sessions about the Clinic and how to apply.

Instructor: Mangan

Description:

In this course, students will staff the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic (ECDC), obtaining “hands on” experience representing local businesses and entrepreneurs on transactional legal issues critical to their success, including assistance and counseling on entity selection and formation; regulatory compliance and licensing; trademark/copyright protection; lease review and negotiation; contract preparation/review/negotiation; tax-exempt applications; and other legal issues confronting small businesses, both for-profit and nonprofit. Students also will learn how a small law office operates, including procedures for client intake, file maintenance, project tracking, timekeeping, and scheduling. In addition to attending the weekly class, students will be expected to spend approximately 10-12 hours per week on their clinic work, with a minimum of 3 of those hours spent working in the clinic offices at the law school. The ECDC will represent primarily clients of limited financial means who cannot afford the services of the private bar and will not represent clients in litigation or in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. SPECIAL NOTES: Interested students should look for email announcements regarding information sessions about the Clinic and how to apply.

Instructor: Morris

Description:

This course surveys the government's role in environmental protection, including the scope and nature of governmental control. Topics covered include pollution control, toxic substances and hazardous waste, as well as conservation measures. SPECIAL NOTE: Laptop and Electronic Device Policy: You may use your laptop only for classwork. However, I think that you would be better prepared for the examination and class participation if you do not use your laptop for note taking and instead use a paper notebook. You may not use your laptop, cell phone or any other electronic device during class to text, e-mail, chat, read, check the internet or play games during class. You may use your laptop during our review session(s) at the end of the semester.

Instructor: Maria Moyer, Mark Noel

Description:

This course explores the fundamental principles of estate planning, trust, and probate law, including the disposition of probate vs. non-probate property, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax fundamentals, and planning for the transfer and protection of wealth. The tax planning focus will include the study of various estate planning techniques, charitable planning, and other tax savings strategies. The non-tax planning covered will include the lawyer’s role and ethical duties, drafting wills and trusts for non-tax reasons, powers of attorney, and estate planning documents relating to health care matters and end of life decisions.

Instructor: Godsey

Description:

The goal of this course is for students to know and be able to apply (1) the Federal Rules of Evidence governing relevance, unfair prejudice, character evidence, impeachment, hearsay, and opinion testimony; (2) the rules as they intersect with a few constitutional provisions, such as the Sixth Amendment confrontation right; and (3) some housekeeping rules, such as Rules 102-105, 201, 611, and the Best Evidence rule.

Instructor: Hubbard

Description:

Primary focus is on the relationship between law and the family in the context of the creation, maintenance and restructuring of domestic relations. Special attention is given to the nature of marriage, separation, divorce, dissolution, support, alimony, and child custody.

Instructor: Kalsem

Description:

In Feminist Jurisprudence, students will study various schools of feminist legal thought, including liberal, radical, cultural, postmodern, critical race, and social justice feminisms, as well as related issues from LGBTQ+ studies. Shifting from theory to practice, the course will conclude with an introduction to participatory action research which is a form of community-based research that is aligned with the principles of feminist legal theory. In previous years, students have "performed feminist jurisprudence" by volunteering at social justice organizations in the community. With Covid-19, this is not practical. I have redesigned this class to be a seminar, with the final paper being a rewrite of a judicial opinion through the lens of feminist legal theory. 

Instructor: Schneider

Description:

Directed principally at exploring freedom of speech and freedom of religion, this seminar enables each student to consider both the historical development of and contemporary cases and issues related to the First Amendment.

Instructor: Tomain

Description:

We often hear that “the Government” is either doing too much or not enough. We also often feel that government regulations are everywhere and intrude on our lives or that they are not providing enough support for them. There is truth to those propositions. What is also true is that government regulation has always been a part of any government of any complexity. Further, it is also true that contemporary problems, such as climate change, the interference of privacy by social media, COVID-19 responses and the like may well require a government response. Government Regulation is a course about government and about how government conducts its business. More specifically, it is about the legal rules, principles, and institutions by which the government operates. We all experience the fact that our daily lives are heavily affected by government rules and regulations from speed limits to securities regulations and from local zoning to national and international energy and environmental laws. Consequently, government regulation may well seem ubiquitous. Government regulation may also seem unduly complex. During the semester we will explore various topics including: (1) the history and structure of government regulation; (2) the economic and non-economic reasons for government intervention into private markets; (3) the regulatory tools that government uses when it intervenes in private markets; (4) instances of regulatory failure; and (5) responses to those failures. One of the lessons of the course is that even though government regulation is extensive, there are only a handful of reasons that the government uses to justify its regulations and when government does intervene in private markets it uses only a handful of regulatory tools. Consequently, understanding the reasons for interventions and the use of those tools will enable you to understand how government regulation operates. Once you understand the principles of regulation, then you will be able to apply those principles to new areas of concern as they arise. Indeed, regulatory issues are reported virtually every day in the news. Consider, as examples questions about whether government should regulate Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Google, GMOs, vaping, marijuana, or veggie burgers as “burgers,” and the like.

Instructor: Tomain

Description:

We often hear that “the Government” is either doing too much or not enough. We also often feel that government regulations are everywhere and intrude on our lives or that they are not providing enough support for them. There is truth to those propositions.  What is also true is that government regulation has always been a part of any government of any complexity.  Further, it is also true that contemporary problems, such as climate change, the interference of privacy by social media, COVID-19 responses and the like may well require a government response.   Government Regulation is a course about government and about how government conducts its business. More specifically, it is about the legal rules, principles, and institutions by which the government operates. We all experience the fact that our daily lives are heavily affected by government rules and regulations from speed limits to securities regulations and from local zoning to national and international energy and environmental laws. Consequently, government regulation may well seem ubiquitous. Government regulation may also seem unduly complex.  During the semester we will explore various topics including: (1) the history and structure of government regulation; (2) the economic and non-economic reasons for government intervention into private markets; (3) the regulatory tools that government uses when it intervenes in private markets; (4) instances of regulatory failure; and (5) responses to those failures.  One of the lessons of the course is that even though government regulation is extensive, there are only a handful of reasons that the government uses to justify its regulations and when government does intervene in private markets it uses only a handful of regulatory tools. Consequently, understanding the reasons for interventions and the use of those tools will enable you to understand how government regulation operates.  Once you understand the principles of regulation, then you will be able to apply those principles to new areas of concern as they arise. Indeed, regulatory issues are reported virtually every day in the news. Consider, as examples questions about whether government should regulate Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Google, GMOs, vaping, marijuana, or veggie burgers as “burgers,” and the like. 

Instructor: Malloy

Description: 

This class explores the financing and regulation of health care, bioethics, the various structures of health care organizations, the physician-patient relationship, professional liability of health care providers, and tort reform for medical injuries.

Instructor: Lockwood

Description:

Editor Position: By permission of Instructor. Participating students engage in the selection and editing of articles for publication in the University of Cincinnati Human Rights Quarterly. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Lockwood

Description:

Participating students engage in the selection and editing of articles for publication in the University of Cincinnati Human Rights Quarterly. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Lockwood

Description:

This course examines the development of human rights and the substantive principles and practices of human rights as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other instruments. This course also reviews the regional and international procedures for the implementation of human rights.

Instructor: Bai

Description:

Participating students engage in selection and preparation of articles for publication in the Review. Students also write notes and comments for publication in the Review. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Bai

Description:

Participating students engage in selection and preparation of articles for publication in the Review. Students also write notes and comments for publication in the Review. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Vázquez

Description:

This course is designed to provide an understanding of contemporary issues in U.S. immigration law and policy through an examination of the historical, political, and legal considerations that have shaped it. It will analyze various topics, such as proposed travel bans, unauthorized migration, detainers, state and local policies regarding immigration enforcement, sanctuary cities, federalism, removal priorities, immigration detention, constitutional protections for noncitizens, birthright citizenship, various categories of visas of admission, and comprehensive immigration reform. While this course will be grounded in the current issues surrounding how migrants are admitted to, excluded, and removed from this country, contemporary issues within immigration cannot be understood without discussing the historical events, political debates, and laws and policies that established U.S. immigration law. Most fundamentally, immigration law raises the questions of who we imagine ourselves to be as a country, who we really are, and how immigration law has been created to support these conclusions. Therefore, this class will also address the constitutional roots and reverberations of immigration law, its relationship to other areas of law, and its broad policy implications.

Instructor: Silverstein

Description:

Through the Office of the Hamilton County Public Defender, students provide representation to indigent criminal defendants in misdemeanor cases. Each student is closely supervised by a licensed attorney and handles all aspects of the case, from the initial client interview and investigation to motions practice and trial advocacy. During the year-long program, students must commit 15 hours each week to the clinic, including participation in a weekly Thursday evening classroom component. This is a continuation of the Clinic from fall semester; accepted and enrolled students commit to both semesters of their third year. Limited to students who participated in the Clinic in the previous semester; 3L’s only; students must qualify for the Ohio Student Intern License to enroll in this clinic.

Instructor: Silverstein

Description:

Concurrent enrollment required in LITG 7051. Through the Office of the Hamilton County Public Defender, students provide representation to indigent criminal defendants in misdemeanor cases. Each student is closely supervised by a licensed attorney and handles all aspects of the case, from the initial client interview and investigation to motions practice and trial advocacy. During the year-long program, students must commit 15 hours each week to the clinic, including participation in a weekly Thursday evening classroom component. This is a continuation of the Clinic from fall semester; accepted and enrolled students commit to both semesters of their third year. SPECIAL NOTES: Limited to students who participated in the Clinic in previous fall semester; 3L’s only; students must qualify for the Ohio Student Intern License to enroll in this clinic.

Under the direct supervision of a member of the faculty, upper-level students engage in original research and prepare for credit a substantial written work product. The research project is selected jointly by the student and faculty member. Customarily, the final product will be a research paper, and, in that case, the paper must be 10-15 pages long for one credit, 20-30 pages long for two credits, and 35-50 pages long for three credits. SPECIAL NOTE: Students must register for the course and present a completed contract by the last day of the drop/add period. Contracts must be turned in on time or students will be dropped from the class. You are limited to five total credits of Individual writing per academic year.

Under the direct supervision of a member of the faculty, upper-level students engage in original research and prepare for credit a substantial written work product. The research project is selected jointly by the student and faculty member. Customarily, the final product will be a research paper, and, in that case, the paper must be 10-15 pages long for one credit, 20-30 pages long for two credits, and 35-50 pages long for three credits. SPECIAL NOTE: Students must register for the course and present a completed contract by the last day of the drop/add period. Contracts must be turned in on time or students will be dropped from the class. You are limited to five total credits of Individual writing per academic year.

Under the direct supervision of a member of the faculty, upper-level students engage in original research and prepare for credit a substantial written work product. The research project is selected jointly by the student and faculty member. Customarily, the final product will be a research paper, and, in that case, the paper must be 10-15 pages long for one credit, 20-30 pages long for two credits, and 35-50 pages long for three credits. SPECIAL NOTE: Students must register for the course and present a completed contract by the last day of the drop/add period. Contracts must be turned in on time or students will be dropped from the class. You are limited to five total credits of Individual writing per academic year.

Instructor: Lawless

Description:

Every business deals with private information of one sort or another. That information, often traversing legal boundaries at the speed of light, might concern medical care, payments, employees, clients, or consumers, and it may implicate different sectoral and jurisdictional rules. Businesses often have to consider state, national, and international laws to figure out what they can and cannot do with the information they possess, or want to possess, or what they need to do and might have to face when they lose it. Those laws come in various forms: torts, contracts, constitutions, statutes, and regulations (with a number of industry and self-regulatory schemes to boot). And they may have originated before information became either electronic or digital, often stem from a particular conception of “privacy,” represent a compromise among competing values, and aren’t always consistent with one another. This course is an introduction to all of that.

Instructors:

• Bergeron
• Caster
• Godsey
• Howe

Description:

The Ohio Innocence Project (OIP), a part of the Rosenthal Institute for Justice, harnesses the energy and intellect of students to identify inmates in Ohio prisons who are innocent of the crimes they were convicted of committing. Innocence is often determined by DNA testing, but can include other types of new evidence such as new witnesses, new expert testimony, or evidence of police misconduct. Once an inmate's innocence has been established through investigation, the OIP sends the case back to court and litigates in the hope of obtaining the inmate's freedom. SPECIAL NOTES: Enrollment by permission of instructor; full year commitment required; must complete year if participated in the fall of 2018.

Instructors:

• Bergeron
• Caster
• Godsey
• Howe

Description:

In this course, students examine the various types of evidence that might lead to the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. They will also consider the roles police, prosecutors, and defense lawyers play in the criminal justice system, with an emphasis on discovering how errors can lead to the conviction of the innocent. SPECIAL NOTES: Field Study in the spring semester is required. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Briggs

Description:

This course provides an overview of the U.S. insurance industry and its regulation. Specifically, we will learn what insurance is, how insurance is developed and sold, and the history, purpose and scope of insurance regulation. We’ll apply insurance regulations to common insurance activities and events and consider how we help our clients meet regulatory requirements. We’ll demystify life insurance, annuity, and property/casualty product terminology and explore the continuing evolution of insurance consumer protections applicable to those products. We’ll identify common areas of regulatory non-compliance, enforcement tools available to regulators, and ways insurers, agents and brokers can resolve regulatory problems. We’ll focus on concepts and issues most commonly arising in both claims and non-claims litigation and learn basic principles of insurance policy interpretation.

Instructor: Armstrong

Description:

Intellectual Property & Computer Law Journal Editor-in-Chief. By permission of supervising faculty/instructor. The Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal is dedicated to furthering knowledge associated with the research and practice of intellectual property law, computer law, and related fields concerning domestic and international media and telecommunications policy. The Journal will be published online. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Armstrong

Description:

The Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal is dedicated to furthering knowledge associated with the research and practice of intellectual property law, computer law, and related fields concerning domestic and international media and telecommunications policy. The Journal will be published online. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Armstrong

Description:

The Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal is dedicated to furthering knowledge associated with the research and practice of intellectual property law, computer law, and related fields concerning domestic and international media and telecommunications policy. The Journal will be published online. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Cogan

Description:

This course is intended to prepare students to represent clients in a variety of business transactions that contain international elements. The emphasis is on the formation and enforcement of agreements between private commercial parties and on the anticipation and recognition of issues that are peculiar to, or are especially prevalent in, international business. The course follows a sequence of increasingly complex transactions, from the isolated purchase and sale of goods, to sales through agents and distributors, license and franchise agreements, and foreign direct investment. Topics include: the formation of the basic commercial transaction; financing the international sale of goods; agency and distributorships; licensing of intellectual property; establishing and operating a foreign investment; prohibitions on corrupt payments; and dispute settlement. Although discussed in summary, the international regulation of national trade laws, through the WTO and regional agreements such as the NAFTA, is the subject of a separate course on International Trade.

Instructor: Armstrong

Description:

This advanced doctrinal course will consider the global aspects of protecting all the human creations that fall under the general rubric of intellectual property—from creative or expressive works, to useful inventions, to corporate brands and confidential information. The perspective is both international and comparative—that is, we will study both the “internal” intellectual property systems of foreign nations as well as the “external” regime that governs interactions between nations in the intellectual property domain. Students have likely already come to appreciate, during their prior study of intellectual property law, the roles that powerful and self-interested private actors play in the formulation and enforcement of intellectual property rules. The international perspective adds complexity to this picture by introducing new actors—including sovereign governments and international organizations—that may have very different opinions and institutional interests regarding both the substantive legal rules of intellectual property law and the overarching principles those rules are meant to foster. The uses (and misuses) of intellectual property law as a tool to advance the economic interests of one nation or group of nations vis-à-vis other nations’ interests will be considered in some depth, as will the effects of the international intellectual property regime on other pressing international concerns such as global health and the unique needs of developing nations.

Instructors: Jones, Kemen

Description:

This course will explore how law is an important part of all aspects of our society, including our economy, our democracy, and our personal lives. Using current topics in law, such as drones, online privacy issues, and issues of policing, students will explore the broad impact of the law and legal actors on our society. Fundamental concepts will be discussed that include property rights as a bundle of rights and law giving rise to settled expectations so that businesses are willing to make investments in the economy. The course will also explore the role of attorneys in society including how they are trained and licensed in the United States. Types of legal practices will be discussed such as business, criminal, intellectual property, litigation, employment, and other common types of practice areas. Important topics of legal ethics will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to meet lawyers and law students, along with opportunities to visit places where law is important, which may include courtrooms, prisons, law firms, and businesses.

Instructor: Mangan

Description:

This class provides a comprehensive introduction to drafting legal documents in the transactional context, with a heavy emphasis on contracts and internal corporate documents. Students will learn the basic concepts that guide contract drafting and how mastery of these concepts aid in managing risk in legal transactions. Students will complete a number of short drafting exercises and four graded drafting assignments.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Description:

The classroom component of the Judicial Extern Program covers writing for judges and professional conduct for judges and judicial clerks. The work performed in the judicial extern field placement is similar to that performed by a law clerk to a judge. It usually involves preparing memoranda on cases, reviewing case files, drafting opinions and orders, and attending court and conferences. The precise tasks performed, however, depend upon the type of court and the style of the judge. SPECIAL NOTES: Concurrent enrollment in Judicial Externship class and field placement required. Complete the Judicial Externship Survey in the Symplicity “Job Postings” section. Upload your completed survey along with your current resume and transcript to be matched with a judicial extern placement. Students may not enroll concurrently in Extern programs.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Description:

The classroom component of the Judicial Extern Program covers writing for judges and professional conduct for judges and judicial clerks. The work performed in the judicial extern field placement is similar to that performed by a law clerk to a judge. It usually involves preparing memoranda on cases, reviewing case files, drafting opinions and orders, and attending court and conferences. The precise tasks performed, however, depend upon the type of court and the style of the judge. SPECIAL NOTES: Concurrent enrollment in Judicial Externship class and field placement required. Complete the Judicial Externship Survey in the Symplicity “Job Postings” section. Upload your completed survey along with your current resume and transcript to be matched with a judicial extern placement. Students may not enroll concurrently in Extern programs.

Instructor: Lenski

Description:

This course covers the juvenile justice system and related juvenile issues. This course explores the juvenile justice system with a focus on juvenile delinquency and child-welfare related matters. The course will examine the structure of the juvenile justice system and the agencies which interact with the system.

Instructor: Ela

Description:

Critical consideration and discussion of the federal, state, and regulatory framework applicable to land use controls, including the origins and contemporary application of law and policies concerning land use planning, zoning, historic preservation, eminent domain, transportation-oriented development, inclusionary housing, environmental review, the interaction of those laws with private property rights, and the legislative and administrative settings within which land use disputes are fought.

Instructor: Malloy

Description:

The blog has student, professor and practitioner contributors. Knowledge of Bluebook and Texas Law Review Manual for Style and Usage, and ability to coordinate. The job responsibilities of the Blog Editor would include:

• Actively solicit and select practitioners for blog posts
• Ensure Contributing Members, Guest or Student Editors, and Student Contributors all meet posting requirements ensuring conformance with the Texas Law Review Manual for Style and Usage and that all footnote content conform with the Bluebook
• Coordinating promotion and utilization of the blog including monitoring any comments/feedback.

In recognition of the responsibilities of the Blog Editor, this position will receive 2 non-classroom credit hours; it would not meet the writing or seminar requirement. This position would only be open to 3L students. The UC Law Review Blog is of great importance to the future of the Law Review. With a dedicated position overseeing the blog, the maintenance and care of the blog can be guaranteed. By Permission Only

Instructor: Malloy

Description:

Participating students engage in the selection and editing of articles for publication in the University of Cincinnati Law Review. Some students also write notes and comments for publication in the Review or blog. Students must participate in a competition and be selected to participate. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Malloy

Description:

Participating students engage in the selection and editing of articles for publication in the University of Cincinnati Law Review. Some students also write notes and comments for publication in the Review or blog. Students must participate in a competition and be selected to participate. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Malloy

Description:

Participating students engage in the selection and editing of articles for publication in the University of Cincinnati Law Review. Some students also write notes and comments for publication in the Review or blog. Students must participate in a competition and be selected to participate. The Registrar will enroll students selected to participate in the necessary class through the registration system.

Instructor: Ela

Description:

This seminar invites students to examine the relationship between law and capitalism in the United States, through reading and independent research. In the first part of the course we will read and discuss selected books and articles on law and capitalism—both classics and recent works. In doing so, we will learn about and critically assess two emerging research projects: American Political Economy (in the field of political science) and Law and Political Economy (in law and legal studies). We will also reflect on the ways that socio-legal research can aspire to describe, explain, and change the world. These discussions will help students identify and refine the research questions that will guide their independent research projects. The second part of the course will be devoted to developing these projects, through one-on-one meetings with the professor, peer review, and in-class class presentation and feedback. The course is open to students in the College of Law seeking to fulfill their seminar and/or second writing requirement, as well as undergraduate juniors and seniors majoring in Political Science and/or Law and Society.

Instructor: Chanvisanuruk

Description:

This course serves the dual purpose of equipping students to succeed on the written portions of bar examinations and preparing for legal practice by developing and honing skills relevant to legal analysis, professional and effective written communication, principled advocacy, and management of legal work. Students will receive instruction, practice, critical peer review, and coaching in these skills that will be valuable in taking a Uniform Bar Exam. Students will practice these skills using model and previously-administered essays from the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) and Multistate Performance Tests (MPTs). Students will also engage in self-assessment exercises addressing learning styles and time/work management issues. Although students will have an opportunity to review some core legal concepts, the focus of this course will be on practicing and developing the professional skills necessary to pass a bar examination and enter the legal profession. This course is not intended to substitute for a bar preparation course taken after Hooding. Instead, this course will build a strong foundation in the skills necessary to be successful on a bar exam.

Instructor:

• PRSP-7015-001: Vander Laan
• PRSP-7015-002: Richard Moore

Description:

In this course students consider the lawyer-client relationship in the context of realistic scenarios, evaluating the complete choices an ethical lawyer must make to establish an effective lawyer-client relationship. Following an examination of the ABA Model Rules and the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct, students consider the ethical components of the lawyer-client relationship, with an emphasis on competency, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest. The course also includes substantial instruction in the history, goals, structure, values, and responsibilities of the legal profession and its members.

Instructor: Smith

Description:

In this course, students consider the lawyer-client relationship in the context of realistic scenarios, evaluating the complex choices an ethical lawyer must make to establish an effective lawyer-client relationship. Following an examination of the ABA Model Rules, students consider the ethical components of the lawyer-client relationship, with an emphasis on competency, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest. The course also includes multiple skills application exercises to introduce students to Performance Tests and Professional Responsibility Exams required by state bar examiners.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Description:

The classroom component of the Legal Extern I Program emphasizes practical lawyering competencies and ethical issues encountered in the practice of law. In their field placements, legal externs work under the supervision of attorneys in local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and in businesses and law firms in the private sector. SPECIAL NOTES: Concurrent enrollment in Legal Externship I class and field placement required. Complete the Legal Externship Survey in the Symplicity “Job Postings” section. Upload your completed survey along with your current resume and transcript. Spots are limited and students will be chosen based on preferences and availability. Students may not enroll concurrently in Extern programs.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Description:

The classroom component of the Legal Extern I Program emphasizes practical lawyering competencies and ethical issues encountered in the practice of law. In their field placements, legal externs work under the supervision of attorneys in local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and in businesses and law firms in the private sector. SPECIAL NOTES: Concurrent enrollment in Legal Externship I class and field placement required. Complete the Legal Externship Survey in the Symplicity “Job Postings” section. Upload your completed survey along with your current resume and transcript. Spots are limited and students will be chosen based on preferences and availability. Students may not enroll concurrently in Extern programs.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Description:

The classroom component of the Legal Extern II Program expands upon the practical lawyering competencies addressed in Legal Externship I. In their field placements, legal externs work under the supervision of attorneys in local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and in businesses and law firms in the private sector. SPECIAL NOTES: Concurrent enrollment in Legal Externship II class and field placement required. Complete the Legal Externship Survey in the Symplicity “Job Postings” section. Upload your completed survey along with your current resume and transcript. Spots are limited and students will be chosen based on preferences and availability. Students may not enroll concurrently in Extern programs. Prerequisite: Legal Externship I.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Description:

The classroom component of the Legal Extern II Program expands upon the practical lawyering competencies addressed in Legal Externship I. In their field placements, legal externs work under the supervision of attorneys in local, state, and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and in businesses and law firms in the private sector. SPECIAL NOTES: Concurrent enrollment in Legal Externship II class and field placement required. Complete the Legal Externship Survey in the Symplicity “Job Postings” section. Upload your completed survey along with your current resume and transcript. Spots are limited and students will be chosen based on preferences and availability. Students may not enroll concurrently in Extern programs. Prerequisite: Legal Externship I.

Instructor: Stephani

Description:

This course will focus on the private sector health care issues that arise frequently in mental health law. Issues to be covered include: guardianship, psychiatric malpractice and informed consent, mental health law confidentiality and privilege, duties to warn and other duties to third parties, the right to refuse treatment, the right to treatment and the influence of the ADA, the admissibility of mental health professional expert testimony, brief coverage of ERISA and the right to die.

Instructor: Bai

Description:

This course introduces students to deal structures of corporate mergers, important actors and their roles in the deals, defensive measures toward hostile takeovers, duties of the board and rights of shareholders of the target companies under state laws, federal regulations such as the Williams Act, the proxy rules and stock registration, and key provisions of a merger agreement.

Instructor: Oliver

Description:

Prerequisites: Moot Court Honor Board. Participating students represent the College of Law in various intercollegiate moot court competitions. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Oliver

Description:

Prerequisite for Moot Court Executive Editor and other positions. Participating students represent the College of Law in various intercollegiate moot court competitions. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Oliver

Description:

Prerequisite for Moot Court Executive Editor and other positions. Participating students represent the College of Law in various intercollegiate moot court competitions. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Oliver

Description:

Prerequisites: Moot Court Honor Board. Participating students represent the College of Law in various intercollegiate moot court competitions. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Oliver

Description:

Prerequisites: Moot Court Honor Board; students in their fourth semester. Participating students represent the College of Law in various intercollegiate moot court competitions. Students will be scheduled by the Registrar.

Instructor: Lawrence

Description:

In this course students learn the "science and art" of negotiation. Students are introduced to significant literature and theory in negotiation and have the opportunity to practice negotiating through a sequenced series of negotiations simulations.

Instructor: Goldstein

Description:

In this course students learn the "science and art" of negotiation. Students are introduced to significant literature and theory in negotiation and have the opportunity to practice negotiating through a sequenced series of negotiations simulations.

Instructor: Ela

Description:

In this course, we will analyze how land use law has shaped the lives and opportunities of residents in Greater Cincinnati. Drawing on historical accounts, contemporary case studies, and conversations with local attorneys and activists, we will discuss how land use law as practiced in Cincinnati and its suburbs has informed patterns of growth and decline, equity and inequity, and crisis and resilience. Grades will be based on in-class participation and short response papers due before each class session. Students must enroll in this Practice One course concurrently with Land Use Law and Development (PROP 7012).

Instructor: Tomain

Description:

The 1963 March on Washington has been remembered largely because of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech. Other speeches were given that day including one by a young John Lewis who had much to say including: “I appeal to all of you to get in this great revolution that is sweeping this nation. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village and hamlet of this nation until true freedom comes, until the revolution of 1776 is complete.” Race & Democracy in Contemporary America is a one-hour Book Discussion course that continues the Democracy in Contemporary America discussions that have been offered in the past. The core idea is to explore the relationship between race and democracy particularly in relation to those normative values that we purport to cherish as noted by John Lewis and many, many others including Martin Luther King and President Barack Obama. We can briefly identify those democratic values as liberty, equality, fairness and the common good. Further, we can trace their development from before ethe Founding until today. We will explore them through readings that will include historical and contemporary cases, statutes, speeches, and videos. In addition to other handouts, the core of the course will consist of reading five short books James Baldwin, Fire Next Time; Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice; Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me; Mark Lilla, The Once and Future Liberal; and Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others. The course is timely and connects us with our history; our revolutionary history. Most particularly, it is my hope that we can explore the relationship between race and democracy and appreciate its contemporary significance and application at a time when it seems that democracy is strained.

Instructor: Paul Butler (short course)

Description:

Ferguson has come to symbolize a widespread sense that there is a crisis in American criminal justice. This course describes various articulations of what the problems are and poses the question of whether law is capable of fixing these problems. I consider the question theoretically by looking at claims that critical race theorists have made about law and race. Using Supreme Court cases as examples, I demonstrate how some of the “problems” described in the U.S. Justice Department's Ferguson report, like police violence and widespread arrests of African-Americans for petty offenses, are not only legal, but integral features of policing and punishment in the United States. They are how the system is supposed to work. The conservatives on the Court are aware, and intend, that the expansive powers they grant the police will be exercised primarily against African-American men. I then consider the question of reform using empirical analysis of one of the most popular legal remedies: “pattern or practice” investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice. Some reforms are stopgap measures that provide limited help but fail to bring about the transformation demanded by the strongest articulations of the crisis. In fact, in some ways, reform efforts impede transformation. I conclude by imagining the wholesale transformation necessary to fix the kinds of problems articulated by the Movement for Black Lives.

Instructor: Morgan

Description:

This class will focus on practical, real life situations involved in residential and commercial real estate transactions. The emphasis of the course will be on drafting documents appropriately, in order to avoid disputes. Areas covered will include: Attorney’s and broker’s roles in the transaction; the contract of sale; due diligence during the transaction; title assurance; and financing including mortgage foreclosures and distressed sales.

Instructor: Hubbard

Description:

This course covers all forms of ultimate relief in civil actions: damages, restitution, and equitable relief. The first portion deals with the damage remedies in tort, contract, real property, and personal property litigation. The second unit analyzes the alternative remedy of restitution, in law and equity. The course concludes with those cases governing specific relief in equity, specific performance in contract, and injunctions in tort.

Instructor: Houh

Description:

This course deals primarily with contracts for the sale of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. In it, we will master code‐reading and basic Article 2 doctrines. Students also examine how the law of the sale of goods differs from the common law of contracts, particularly with respect to the relevant law of warranties, performance, risk of loss, and remedies. Students explore the reasons, both practical and theoretical, for the substantive differences between Article 2 and common law contracts. Finally, the course examines, to varying degrees, the related law of leases of goods (under Article 2A of the UCC) and contracts for the international sale of goods (under the Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods or “CISG”).

Instructor: Combs

Description:

This course is designed to introduce students to the substantive and practical aspects of the law as applied to the business of sports and athletic competition. Students will be exposed to a review of current and selected past case law, discussion of current events in the business and law of sports, a review and interpretation of the legislation governing sports, and analysis of the various contractual relationships and structures that govern the operation of amateur and professional athletics.

Instructor: Willbrand

Description:

This course introduces students to the various legal and business considerations involved in the organization and launch of startup companies, as well as in venture capital and private equity transactions. The first portion of the course focuses on the key issues involved in forming and operating an emerging growth business (a startup), including selecting and forming a business entity, structuring the economic benefits and management control among various owners, protecting intellectual property assets and complying with securities laws (with a look at crowdfunding). With that foundation, the second portion of the course focuses on the significant legal and business issues involved in a venture capital financing transaction from both the company and the investor perspective. Finally, the third portion of the course focuses on private equity transactions, including private equity as a method of financing and private equity as a means of liquidity or exit (with a look at M&A). The course combines theory and practice in order to prepare students for the types of projects and challenges they will confront as transactional lawyers.

Instructor: Pierre Bergeron

Description:

Long neglected, people are starting to wake up and appreciate the significance of state constitutions. Gerrymandering is a great example – the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that federal courts could not consider federal constitutional claims regarding partisan gerrymandering, but state courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, relying on their state constitutions, granted relief and redrew political maps. This course will explore the role of state constitutions in our federal system and how can state constitutions be used to achieve a client’s litigation objectives when federal relief might be beyond reach. Taught by a sitting state appellate judge, with a unique vantage point on these questions, the class will cover recent developments in state constitutional law and explore what the future may hold for these type of claims.

Instructor: Sperino

Description:

This course explores the enactment of statutes by federal and state legislators and the interpretation given by the courts and administrative agencies to such legislative enactments. The course will focus on various procedural, constitutional, and jurisprudential issues relating to the legislative and electoral processes embodied in our constitutional order, and to the methods of statutory interpretation employed by our courts and administrative agencies. Chief among the many aims of the course is to introduce students to the legal problems posed by legislative government, in the hopes that as practicing lawyers they will be more effective participants in the legislative process and the subsequent implementation and interpretation of statutes. Please Note: Substantive and thoughtful class discussion is an essential component of this course. Accordingly, the use of laptops and other computer devices will not be permitted in class.

Instructor: McMahon

Description:

This course critically examines our method of taxing income: criteria for a sound tax policy; tax system versus tax on income; use or acceptance of certain deductions, credits, and exclusions. Students examine and evaluate proposals for tax reform.

Instructor: Krafte

Description:

This course examines the law governing trademarks and other means of identifying products and services in the minds of consumers. Instruction primarily will focus on the federal statute governing trademarks and unfair competition, the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946, but students will learn about state laws and state law doctrines in the field as well. Topics include the protectibility of marks, including words, symbols, and "trade dress"; federal registration of marks; causes of action for infringement, dilution, and "cybersquatting;" and defenses, including parodies protected by the First Amendment.

Instructor: Aaron

Description:

To be a trial lawyer is to be a story teller, stage director, and character in drama where the audience determines the resolution. This course will review and provide practice in each aspect of trial, from working with facts and developing strategy and then, to structure and techniques for effective opening statements, direct and cross examination, and closing argument. We will focus on those elements that are also applicable to professional presentations in other contexts: communicating to render complexity accessible, build your own and witness credibility and audience trust, and persuade the audience using emotion as well as reason.

Instructor: Aaron

Description:

Students prepare for and participate in Trial Practice Competition Team events.

Instructor: Pinney

Description:

The Vis Competition has two components. The first component (for which 1 credit hour will be given for up to 4 students) is the researching and writing of two 30 to 35 page memoranda, the first supporting the position of a hypothetical international arbitration claimant and the second supporting the position of the respondent. (This component is expected to involve about 45 hours of work beginning in October and running through the end of January when the respondent’s memorandum is due.) The second component (for which 2 credit hours will be given for up to 4 students) will include supervising and editing the memoranda plus participating in the week-long virtual oral competition in Hong Kong and Vienna. (This component is expected to involve over 100 hours of work beginning October and running through the close of the competition in late March or early April.)