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  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses Latin lyric poetry of late Republic and early Empire, excluding works of Horace and Ovid, and elegiac tradition in Latin. Prerequisite: LATN 2030 or equivalent. (Offered based on sufficient demand and resources)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to the prose of the statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE). Readings will be selected from his political speeches, correspondences, or treatises on philosophical, rhetorical, and religious topics. Prerequisites: LATN 2030 or equivalent. (Offered based on sufficient demand and resources)
  • 0.00 - 15.00 Credits

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  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of the elements of simple contracts, including offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, defenses, and damages. The impact of the Uniform Commercial Code on contracts is considered.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Covers two general areas. The first area is the rights that define property ownership, in relation to neighbors, the world, and others with interests in the property. Subjects include rights to use the land and its products, estates, concurrent ownership, and landlord-tenant law. The second area is private limitations on those rights, in the form of covenants and easements.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Study of the methods and policies for allocating risks of harm; intentionally inflicted harms; negligence in its general aspects and its application to products liability, landowners, and automobile traffic; emotional harms; defamation; and fraud. Principal areas of coverage typically include wrongful death, defenses, vicarious liability, strict liability, nuisance, products liability and defamation. If time permits we will also cover privacy, misrepresentation and other topics.
  • 3.00 Credits

    After a brief overview of the sources of criminal law and the purposes of criminal punishment, this course will consider the constituent parts of criminal conduct, including act (or omission), culpable mental state, result, and causation. These general principles then will be brought to bear on two specific areas of the criminal law: homicide and sexual assault. The course also will consider common defenses to criminal charges, including self-defense, necessity, duress, insanity, and intoxication. Finally, the course will consider liability for attempted crimes and for crimes committed by others. Throughout the course, students will be required to consider the constitutional limits of the criminal law and the relationship of substantive principles to practice.
  • 3.00 Credits

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  • 2.00 Credits

    Introduction to legal writing and legal reasoning. In this course students are introduced to the fundamentals of legal reasoning and analysis and the basics of legal writing.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Introduction to paper and electronic resources that cover primary & secondary legal materials, including case law, statutes, agency regulations for federal and state jurisdictions, & treatises, journals, restatements, and other secondary sources. Discusses research plans and develops brief research strategies for hypothetical situations. Prerequisites: none.