Spring 2023 Course Offerings

Instructor: Lenhart

Instructor: Solimine

Credit Hours: 3

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: Thoreson

Instructor: Bryant

Credit Hours: 3

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: Whiteman

Instructor: Godsey

Credit Hours: 3

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.

Instructor: Bock

Instructor: Conley

Instructor: McCord

Instructor: McCord

Instructor: Lenhart

Instructor: Smith

Credit Hours: 3

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: Vazquez

Instructor: Morris

Credit Hours:4

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.

Instructor: Mank

Credit Hours: 3

Description

Government agencies increasingly regulate the marketplace, health and safety, and provide basic services. This course explores the constitutional powers and limitations on agency action, judicial review of agencies, and the procedures with which agencies must comply in regulating or providing benefits.

Instructor: Aaron

Credit Hours: 2

Description:

What is Decision Tree Analysis? Decision tree analysis is a way of mapping a lawyer’s, client’s, or mediator’s legal analysis and judgments, and assessing possible consequences of decision options. While often thought of as a method for revealing and facilitating optimal decisions, and assessing settlement value, it is also an invaluable tool for lawyers to achieve rigor and clarity in analyzing complex legal matters. It helps lawyers achieve the goal of a “fully informed client” by facilitating lawyer-client communication and understanding. It can lead to more productive and successful negotiations with opposing counsel and in mediation. In fact, in-house counsel increasingly require inside and outside lawyers to use decision analysis for complex cases and litigation management decisions. While it’s fair to say that, in legal practice, litigators are more likely to be familiar with decision tree analysis, it has long been widely taught in business schools and used in business decision-making unrelated to litigation. It is widely used by policy makers and corporations, particularly in health care and epidemiology.

Instructor: Jones

Instructor: Kemen

Credit Hours: 3

Description:

This course builds upon the basic research skills and techniques learned in the required Lawyering I courses. Its problem-solving approach gives students practical research experience that will enhance their understanding of legal literature and legal research principles. Students will learn to assess and respond strategically to legal research problems using available resources in print and digital formats. Focus is on researching United States federal and state law. Multiple weekly assignments give students practical research experience and a foundation for learning research techniques and principles. In addition, each student is assigned a specific research problem that serves as the subject of a 20-minute class presentation. Recommended for all students, particularly those who plan to practice or pursue judicial clerkships.

Instructor: Bilionis

Credit Hours: 3

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: Dewine

Instructor: Stier

Credit Hours:3

Description:

This course covers the role and function of appellate courts: preserving issues for appeal; appealability; appeal strategy; the record on appeal; briefs and oral argument; operating procedures of appellate courts; motion practice; extraordinary writs; and related matters. Students will complete three writing assignments: a jurisdictional memorandum requesting that the Ohio Supreme Court exercise its jurisdiction over an appeal, a memorandum in opposition to jurisdiction, and an analysis of a pending appeal. 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: Lubans-Otto

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 2

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.

Instructor: Mangan

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 3

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.

Instructor: Cook

Instructor: Helfrich

Instructor:  Washington

Credit Hours: 1

Description:  

One of the most intrusive governmental actions is the removal of children from their families. The grounds for removal include abuse and neglect. These decisions are made by juvenile and family courts across the nation, resulting in nearly 500,000 children in the child protection system each year. The parties to a child protection action include county social workers, parents, best interests advocates known as Guardians ad Litem (GAL) and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA Volunteer), and the children. These parties are represented by attorneys in a variety of roles. This course is designed as an introduction to child protection actions and the roles of attorneys participating in them, and current practitioners.

Instructor: Cook

Instructor: Helfrich

Instructor: Washington

Credit Hours: 1

Description:

One of the most intrusive governmental actions is the removal of children from their families. The grounds for removal include abuse and neglect. These decisions are made by juvenile and family courts across the nation, resulting in nearly 500,000 children in the child protection system each year. The parties to a child protection action include county social workers, parents, best interests advocates known as Guardians ad Litem (GAL) and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA Volunteer), and the children. These parties are represented by attorneys in a variety of roles. This course is designed as an introduction to child protection actions and the roles of attorneys participating in them, and current practitioners.

Instructor: Mangan

Credit Hours:2

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 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 3L’s 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: Aaron

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

Most lawyers agree that practicing law would be much simpler without (autonomous) clients. But then, practice would be without purpose: whom would we represent? This course focuses on the realities of working with clients, from the initial lawyer-client interview through the challenges of counseling the fully informed client toward wise and ethical decision-making. Short exercises, presentations, video, and role simulations will focus upon how to communicate legal concepts, conduct interest-based inquiry and advice, work with client emotion and psychology, and introduce basic risk analysis. We will touch upon effective use of voice, gesture, and body language in the lawyer-client counseling context. Finally, we will address the most difficult counseling challenge: how to give a client bad news while maintaining client rapport, trust, and confidence. The instruction and simulations will be set in legal dispute contexts. 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:

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

In this course, students will learn the skills necessary to effectively conduct client interviews, counsel clients, and negotiate in the public sector. Students will explore real-life scenarios of a government attorney and demonstrate the skills of effective client communication and practice management. This course is practical and problem-oriented.

Instructor: Solimine

Credit Hours: 2

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: Cogan

Credit Hours:2

Description:  

In this year-long course, students will assist the professor in producing the “Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law” (CPUS) section of the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), the preeminent peer-reviewed international law journal. Students will track current developments in U.S. practice related to international law, foreign relations, and national security, and class discussions will focus on these current events. Students will assist the instructor in drafting short essays that analyze and contextualize current developments. Essays may focus on, for example, domestic and international litigation, uses of force, the making or terminating of international agreements, and U.S. policy with respect to international organizations.

Instructor: Armstrong

Credit Hours: 3

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:

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

This course teaches concepts and methodologies used by corporations in major financing activities, as well as legal issues that may arise in those activities. Course materials are divided into four parts: equity financing, debt financing, valuation methodologies, and financial derivatives. For equity financing, discussions will focus on the IPO process, ADRs and GDRs, rights offerings and stock repurchases. For debt financing, discussions will focus on bond features and trading environment, bond issuance, valuation and risk management, convertible bonds, key provisions in an indenture and legal implications, characteristics of medium term notes and commercial paper programs. For valuation methodologies, discussions will focus on discounted cash flows, net present values, and dividend discount models. For financial derivatives, discussions will focus on options trading, pricing and risk management, the futures market and interest rate swaps.

Instructor: Caster

Instructor: Underwood

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

Using the Theory of Defense as the guide by which all else follows, this course will explore the components of an effective defense of the criminally accused, with special consideration being given to the unique problems presented when representing the indigent defendant. Beginning with the initial accusation and going up to the eve of trial, the course will address the various components of an effective defense. These include brainstorming, developing the Theory of Defense, client interview, witness interviews, effective case investigation, aggressive pursuit of formal discovery, and pre-trial motions practice. As the various topics are covered, the ethical issues commonly occurring will also be discussed. Students will be required to apply the lessons of the class in a final project where they act as defense counsel.

Instructor: Dye

Credit Hours: 1

Description:  

This course will explore how the state legislative process works, using the Ohio General Assembly as model. Additionally, the course will highlight the relationships between the branches of state government, community composition, and organizing/education strategies to buttress legislative initiatives that impact the legislative process. By the end of the course, students will not only understand these processes but be able to analyze and articulate barriers to effective legislative advocacy and will have developed advocacy, writing, and investigative skills in legislative advocacy.

Instructor: Bilionis

Credit Hours: 3

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: Vazquez

Credit Hours: 3

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: Malloy

Credit Hours: 2

Description:

Disability Law introduces areas of U.S. domestic law and policy that address the civil rights, needs, and treatment of persons with disabilities. The course covers the Americans with Disabilities Act, some discussion of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Fair Housing Act, and a brief overview of international disability law, specifically the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Topics include the following: the challenge of defining disability; the social and medical models of disability; the nature and causes of disability discrimination; the proper scope of legal regulation; the costs and benefits of accommodation; the overlapping and distinctive features of regulating discrimination in different domains such as employment, education, and public accommodations; what disability law and theory can teach antidiscrimination law more generally; and the role of extra-legal knowledge in the legal project of responding to disability discrimination. The course has no prerequisites and is open to LLMs and non-law students as well as to JD candidates. Grades will be based on class participation, potential response papers, and a final seminar paper and presentation. 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: Bluett

Credit Hours:  2

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: Bluett

Credit Hours: 1

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: Bluett

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

You must register concurrently in 3L DV&CPO Class (IRTS 7037). 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: Bluett

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

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:  Mank

Credit Hours: 3

Description:

This course will focus on issues related to climate change and related energy law issues. If there is time, the professor may address additional environmental topics. Students may write a paper on a wide range of environmental topics, not just those related to climate change. 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: Moyer

Instructor: Noel

Credit Hours: 2

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: Kalsem

Credit Hours: 3

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 still with us, 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: Bard

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

This course will survey selected topics in food and drug law, including the new drug approval process, regulation of food additives and carcinogens, food labeling and nutrition, prescription vs. OTC drug status, and restrictions on pharmaceutical marketing.

Instructor: Brewer

Credit Hours: 2

Description:

Instructor:

Credit Hours: 2

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: Lockwood

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 3

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: Vazquez

Credit Hours: 3

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: Vazquez

Credit Hours: 2

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: Silverstein

Credit Hours: 1

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

Credit Hours: 3

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.

Instructor:

Credit Hours: 1

Description:  

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:

Credit Hours: 2

Description:

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:

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

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: Caster

Instructor: Godsey

Instructor:  Howe

Credit Hours: 2

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.

Instructor: Caster

Instructor: Godsey

Instructor: Howe

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

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: Armstsrong

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

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:

Credit Hours: 2

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: Behlen

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

This course will examine the fundamentals of Criminal Law and International Law. It will consider the development of international criminal tribunals from the Nuremberg Tribunal to the International Criminal Court. The course will explore comparative criminal procedure and sentencing, principles of jurisdiction, the extraterritorial application of U.S. criminal statutes, and immunities. It will cover U.S. Constitutional rights in a transnational context, obtaining evidence abroad, and extradition. Next, the course will explore transnational crime: organized crime, trafficking, money laundering, corruption, and terrorism. Finally, the course will examine the International Criminal Court; modes of participation; defenses; international crimes: crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, the crime of aggression, torture, sexual violence; and alternatives to prosecution, such as truth and reconciliation commissions.

Instructor: Armstrong

Credit Hours: 3

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.

Instructor: Mangan

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

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. Taking Evidence simultaneously or previously is strongly preferred and may be required for some placements.

Instructor: Szydlowski

Credit Hours: 1

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. Taking Evidence simultaneously or previously is strongly preferred and may be required for some placements.

Instructor: Houh

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

This course examines labor unions and labor-management relations from both a legal and a social perspective. The course will utilize traditional legal materials such as statutes, regulations and judicial opinions, which will be complemented by social research such as theoretical perspectives and empirical studies from the social sciences. The course aims to provide students with an overview of significant issues and doctrines in labor law; to introduce students to theory and research on labor unions and labor-management relations; and to encourage students to consider how insights from social theory and research can inform legal practice.

Instructor: Ela

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2 

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

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 3

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: Margolis

Credit Hours:  2

Description:  

This course focuses on ensuring students’ readiness for post-graduation bar preparation. Students will receive instruction, practice, and strategies for the Uniform Bar Exam; the skills will translate to state specific bar exams as well. Students will practice these skills using model and previously administered essays from the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) and Multistate Performance Tests (MPTs) and will received detailed, personalized feedback. Students will also practice Multi-State Bar (MBE) style questions throughout the semester. Although students will review some core legal concepts, the focus of this course will be on practicing and developing the skills necessary to pass a bar examination and enter the legal profession. This course is not a 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: Moore

Instructor:  Vander Laan

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 1

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

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

COURSE 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

Credit Hours:  1

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

Credit Hours: 3

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: Kuhl

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

This course will teach students the skills and strategic analysis necessary to successfully fulfill the role of neutral third-party mediator. Students will undertake a series of mediation role plays, and will receive intensive feedback on techniques, skills and intervention choices. Video-taping will be used to enable students to calibrate perception and reality of their own mediation style and effectiveness. The class will also view and critique the techniques used by other experienced mediators (on video-tape and through in-class demonstration), permitting us to see a range of mediator presence, styles and choices. In addition, this course will be valuable for students who may not plan to be a mediator, but who will represent clients in mediation. The course will provide the mediation advocate with an understanding of how the mediator operates, the role of the lawyer in mediation and what choices the mediation process offers for parties and lawyers. This course requires each student to recruit 1-2 volunteers to serve as parties in the Saturday class mediation simulations.

Instructor: Stephani

Credit Hours: 2

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: Bryant

Instructor:  McCord

Credit Hours: 3

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: Bryant

Instructor: McCord

Credit Hours: 1

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: Bryant

Instructor: McCord

Credit Hours: 2

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: Bryant

Instructor: McCord

Credit Hours: 3

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: Bryant

Instructor: McCord

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours:  3

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: Mangan

Instructor: Wagner

Credit Hours: 1

Description:

This course has been developed by the College of Law in conjunction with Ildiko Szegedy-Maszák, a professor of international trade law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana located in Bogota, Colombia. The course is a one week short course that will take place in Bogota during the College of Law’s spring break. Prior to the Bogota trip, UC Law students will be assigned articles related to Colombian business law, the Colombian peace process, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Bogota. Also prior to the trip, UC law students will be paired in teams with Javeriana law students and tasked with negotiating a simulated transaction in which an American equity firm invests in a Colombian startup. During the week in Bogota, UC law students will spend their mornings in classes taught by Javeriana professors. The individual classes will include Colombia business law, the Colombian peace process, international trade, and similar topics. In the afternoon, students will embark on a cultural activity or visit related to these topics. The week will culminate with a joint presentation by each American-Colombian team as to the terms of their simulated investment. Following the week in Bogota, students will submit a ten-page paper on a legal topic of interest related to the Colombian experience. Students will also complete a self-assessment that will explore the challenges of international travel, conducting legal business across cultures, and working in teams.

Instructor: Goldstein

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

This course provides students with "hands on" experience in conducting patent practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Topics include patent searches; patentability opinions; patent drafting; filing; responding to correspondence from the Patent Examiner; the requirements of the new America Invents Act; and conducting appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Instructor: Gastright

Instructor: Hurst

Credit Hours:  2

Description:  

In this course, students will work at the University of Cincinnati College of Law’s Patent and Trademark Clinic (PTC), obtaining “hands on” experience representing local business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs, and inventors in identifying, protecting, and commercializing their intellectual property, focusing on work to be performed in the patent and trademark areas, as well as transactional documents relating to intellectual property. Services for individual clients may include completion of patent applications (provisional and non-provisional); completion of federal trademark applications; analysis and opinions on patent and trademark registrability; analysis and opinions on patent, trademark, and/or copyright infringement; assistance on responding to office actions from the USPTO; preparation, review, and/or negotiation of IP licenses and other related agreements; and general IP advice. The PTC will not represent its clients in litigation/dispute resolution or on foreign applications. The PTC will be structured to simulate practice in a law firm, and will provide insight and experiences in PTC students also will learn how a small law office operates, including procedures for client intake, conflict checks, file maintenance, project tracking, timekeeping, scheduling, coordination, and client communications. Students will perform all work at the PTC under the close supervision of its directors and volunteer-lawyers with relevant expertise. Students will be expected to average 8-12 hours per week working on clinic matters. The PTC will share the offices of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic. The PTC will represent onlyprioritize representation of clients of limited financial means and/or local entrepreneurs, means who cannot afford the services of the private bar and will not represent clients in litigation related matters..

Instructor:

Credit Hours: 3

Description:

Public Health Law focuses on the use of legal tools to improve the public’s health. The course takes a transdisciplinary approach to public health law, conceptualizing public health law a process through which coalitions of lawyers, scientists, public health practitioners, and others work collaboratively to develop, advocate for, implement, and evaluate evidence-based legal reforms and interventions to prevent disease and reduce injuries. The transdisciplinary approach emphasizes that the entire process of legal change—from researching potential policy approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of legal interventions—requires careful examination, and that that each part of the process necessarily involves transdisciplinary collaborations.

Instructor: Tomain

Credit Hours: 1

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 the Founding until today. We will explore them through readings that will include historical and contemporary cases, statutes, speeches, and videos. A list of short books will be provided shortly. 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. 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: Hubbard

Credit Hours: 3

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

Credit Hours: 3

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: Hubbard

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

This course will examine how the law constructs and regulates gender and sexuality, including laws regulating and affecting the dignity, status, conduct, and relationships of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, and queer persons. We will examine both legal restrictions and emerging developments in areas such as constitutional and statutory recognition and protection; the right to sexual expression; access to health care, including gender-affirming and reproductive services; education, including self-identity, gender-correct bathrooms, and athletics; equal employment, including protections against stereotyping or harassment and support for transitioning; free and safe access to public accommodations and public spaces; and family law, including recognition of nontraditional and nonmarital families, reproductive collaborations, protections for LGBTQ minors, and parent-child relationships. This course also will examine the dynamic role of social and political forces in marginalizing gender minorities, shaping and enforcing gendered roles and identities. and, recently, advancing more accurate and nuanced understandings of the spectrum of human sexuality and gender.

Instructor:  Colvin

Instructor:  Paulson

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

Students from both the UC College of Law and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law will be participating. In this clinic, students will work on cases for indigent clients whose cases are on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a federal appellate court located in Cincinnati. Under the supervision of experienced attorneys, students will analyze trial records, identify arguments to be used in the appeals process, and write motions and briefs for their clients. This is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about federal courts, criminal law, appellate procedure, and improve writing skills. Students will also have the chance to learn from experienced lawyers, meet members of the federal bar, and meet federal judges. Students will be expected to attend oral arguments at the Sixth Circuit as well as present their own oral arguments in class. Some students have been able to argue before the Sixth Circuit, though such opportunities vary with timing and interest.

Instructor: Colvin

Instructor: Paulson

Credit Hours: 1

Description:

Concurrent enrollment in LITG 7043 is required.

Instructor: Combs

Credit Hours: 2

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: Bergeron

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

Instructor:  Hayden

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

This course provides an overview of the basic principles of state and local taxation. In this course, students will study the federal limitations on state and local taxation including U.S. Constitutional restraints imposed by the Due Process and Commerce Clauses and federal statutory preemptions. In addition, students will study the fundamental principles of the most common state taxes with a focus on corporate net income and sales and use taxes. This course will also address the impact of state and local taxes on multistate businesses, including e-commerce businesses. Finally, this course will briefly cover general state tax procedures.

Instructor: McMahon

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

This courses covers advanced topics in the federal income tax as it applies to businesses. Its focus is on the tax treatment of liquidations, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactions involving most common business entities: C corporations, partnerships, and S corporations.

Instructor: Miller

Credit Hours: 1

Description:  

This course provides an opportunity for students to obtain professional practice skills, including client problem solving skills, in a small class setting. The class is designed to teach practical skills and there is no pre-requisite for the class. It’s useful if student’s have taken Business Associations, but it is not required and the Professor will provide the students with the background on both U.S. and Chinese law to address the specific issues for the class. The course will focus on advising a client who is assessing its risks and opportunities of getting into business in China. The practice skills we will highlight include: 1) Critical Thinking--- based on a the basket of facts presented we will help the client assess what is important and address unexpected problems that arise as we progress in a pragmatic fashion; 2) Transaction Skills--- prepare for and conduct a negotiation in which the students will have to make recommendations and decisions versus only 'issue spotting’. They will work in teams to negotiate for their client; and 3) Effective Writing--draft memoranda/recommendations for review by the law firm senior partner and for the client General Counsel.

Instructor: Eads Adkins

Credit Hours: 2

Description:  

Nationally, upwards of 80% of legal needs go unmet; this situation is even more dire in Hamilton County. The Legal Access Clinic is one effort to close the access to justice gap by representing people earning too much to qualify for Legal Aid but not enough to afford an attorney or who cannot access Legal Aid due to capacity or conflict issues. Under the supervision of the clinic director, students will conduct intake and represent clients in wills and estates, LGBTQ+ name and gender changes, divorces, evictions and habitability issues, and immigration.

Instructor: Eads Adkins

Credit Hours: 4

Description:  

Concurrent enrollment required in LITG 7094. Nationally, upwards of 80% of legal needs go unmet; this situation is even more dire in Hamilton County. The Legal Access Clinic is one effort to close the access to justice gap by representing people earning too much to qualify for Legal Aid but not enough to afford an attorney or who cannot access Legal Aid due to capacity or conflict issues. Under the supervision of the clinic director, students will conduct intake and represent clients in wills and estates, LGBTQ+ name and gender changes, divorces, evictions and habitability issues, and immigration.

Instructor: Krafte

Credit Hours: 3

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: Nestor

Credit Hours: 2

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

Credit Hours: 2

Description:

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

Instructor: Pinney

Credit Hours: 2

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.)

Instructor: Hanley

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  

This course examines the special problems of proving a guilty mind and a guilty act in the context of business and government activities. Specific emphasis will be placed on corporate criminal liability, personal liability in organizational settings, conspiracy, mail fraud, false statements, perjury and false declarations, obstruction of justice, bribery of public officials, and RICO: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. This course also contains a substantial criminal procedure component.