Covers Articles 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Deals primarily with payment systems.

Credit transactions in which the creditor by contract obtains a lien on personal property--Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Further study and application of the basic concepts of secured credit covered in Law 180D, 280D, 380D, 480D.

Emphasis on First Amendment rights, due process, equal protection, or other topics as announced.

Examine territorial jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, forum selection clauses, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

Introduction to the idea of a war against terror. Discuss the relationship between law and strategy in the domestic context, and explore the relationship between strategy and law in the international context.

Explore the European Union's history and institutional structure as well as various areas of substantive and procedural law. Examine law governing the fundamental freedoms as well as the role, structure, and functioning of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Explore the historical and cultural development of modern European law on the Continent and in England. Examine the differences between English and American laws.

Explore, largely through simulated exercises, the lawyer's role in the negotiation of transactions.

Explore the principles of effective client representation in international arbitration.

Advanced specialty course. Negotiation, meditation, arbitration, minitrial, and other means of resolving disputes short of full litigation.

Skills and techniques needed for effective negotiation and mediation.

Explores the increasing variety of techniques, norms, and institutions available to states and other actors for the peaceful resolution of international disputes.

Explore the techniques and skills necessary for advising clients, drafting adequate arbitration agreements, and advising on enforcement of international arbitration awards.

Treatment of claims concerning breach of contract, tortious injury of person or property, ownership of land or chattels, and status, where the claims involve facts foreign to the adjudicating state; jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments.

Legal principles and processes that affect both private and governmental decisions about international economic relations.

International petroleum transactions in the context of a single industry: the various participants and the transactions that take place at each stage of the industry, from acquisition of development rights through exploration and production to transportation and marketing.

Survey of the history and major principles of international law including sources and subjects of international law, the law and interpretation of treaties, the relationship between international law and United States law, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Also examines a number of specific subjects including human rights, humanitarian law, international criminal law, and the use of force.

Examine constitutional and administrative law as well as operation of the various government entities related to the admission, maintenance of status, and deportation of non-citizens.

Nature and functions of the comparative study of law; study in detail of history, territorial expansion, and basic features of the civil law.

Advanced civil procedure course dealing with multiparty and complex cases, including problems in litigation context.

Explore an overview of international human rights law, including its history and development. Examine domestic, regional and international legal systems, and the extent to which they incorporate and implement human rights; as well as contemporary political and theoretical debates over the scope and interpretation of human rights law.

Special problems of civil litigation when one or both parties are nonresident aliens, or the facts have significant international contacts, or both.

Resolution of disputes from transnational business transactions. International arbitration, gathering evidence abroad, and enforcement of judgments transnationally.

Examine compensatory, restitutionary, and exemplary damages for breach of contract or for injury of personal and property interests. Explore injunctions and other equitable relief.

Examine the law of restitution (unjust or unjustified enrichment), presented as the third heading of private, civil liability in the legal system, along with contract and tort.

Examine problems in complex mass tort litigation that emerged during the 1980s and have become a permanent part of the litigation landscape.

Principles and rules governing admissibility and relevance of evidence in trial courts; qualification, privileges, and examination of witnesses; burden of proof and presumptions.

Examine the judicial phase of the criminal justice process, beginning from the initial decision to bring criminal charges, through the pretrial and trial processes, and concluding with sentencing.

Explore the rules governing police conduct and the effect of these rules on admission of evidence. Examine search and seizure, lineups, confessions, and similar matters.

Examine the litigation of a criminal case, from the defendant's initial appearance in court through pretrial matters and the trial itself.

Explore general jurisprudential and moral issues related to capital punishment. Examine developments in capital punishment law over the past two decades.

An introduction and exposure to the principles of restorative justice and its application to the treatment of human suffering from crime and related social problems. Explore needs and roles for key stakeholders (victims, offenders, communities, justice systems), values and assumptions of the movement, and current programs at community, state and international levels.

Examine the prosecution and defense of criminal trials in federal district court with a considerable emphasis on white-collar crime.

Examine international criminal law, including the history of international criminal justice; the core crimes of international criminal law; theories of criminal liability and available defenses; international terrorism, U.S. policy towards the International Criminal Court; and dilemmas of transitional justice.

Explore the basics of criminal defense, from a practical perspective.

Explore the basics of criminal defense, from a practical perspective.

Examine the statutory law and appellate case law related to pretrial criminal court procedure in Texas.

Examine the statutory law and appellate case law related to criminal court procedure--trial and beyond--in Texas.

Examination of areas of corporation law not covered or covered briefly in Law 274K, 374K, 474K, 574K. Topics include the nature and theory of the firm and valuation of the firm and its securities.

Introduction to the laws, policies, and ideals affecting the creation and governance of nonprofit organizations, including medical and health-related institutions, educational institutions, cultural institutions, social clubs, service delivery organizations, religious (or "faith-based") institutions, and advocacy organizations.

Examine advanced corporation law, including enterprise and securities valuation, capitalization, senior securities, distributions to shareholders, voluntary reorganizations, and business combinations.

Examine the issues faced by CEOs, and those who report directly to them, as they balance their time between achieving quarterly performance targets and building strong companies that can sustain above-market financial performance in the future.

Examine taxation of corporations and their shareholders. Explore representative transactions, including the formation of a corporation, distributions to shareholders, redemptions of stock, liquidations of corporations, and corporate reorganizations.

Federal and state regulation of the distribution of, and trading in, securities, with particular emphasis on problems of coverage and administration of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Designed for students about to begin appellate clerkships. Explore the writing and research skills expected of appellate clerks, as well as a glimpse into the judicial process at the appellate level. Analyze briefs and record excerpts, write bench memos, and draft and edit opinions and dissents.

Introduction to the sources and methods of research in foreign and international law, tailored to the needs of American lawyers.

Introduction to the judicial, statutory, and administrative sources of Texas law. Explore research in state administrative law and legislative histories.

Research resources used in business and commercial practice. Identify sources and efficiently undertake corporate, securities, and general business and commercial law research.

Identify and evaluate relevant primary and secondary sources and efficient information retrieval. Design a research strategy that effectively integrates online tools with traditional print resources.

Explore drafting for the various audiences that an immigration practitioner will encounter, including clients, agency officials, trial and appellate judges, non-immigration lawyers, and the public.

Draft litigation documents and participate in exercises meant to simulate actual legal practice.

Explore advanced legal writing and persuasive skills in the context of criminal law. Draft and revise documents commonly used by the State in criminal cases at trial and on appeal.

Examine the structure and style of contracts and agreements with a focus on modern drafting conventions. Revise and draft various kinds of transactional documents.

Examine analytical legal writing. Explore the skills necessary in evaluating and critiquing written legal analysis.

Explore common mistakes in word usage, grammar, and punctuation. Examine concision, persuasion, organization, revision, citation, and transactional drafting.

The lawyer's responsibility in making and administering the law; the codes of ethics and problems of professional conduct.

Explore the underlying problems in the functioning of a legal order. Examine legal definition and justice as factors in decision making; discovery and interpretation of authority; rights and privileges of the person relative to society and government; conditions for imposing legal responsibility on a person; procedures for decision making; and the relationship between law and the market in economic decision making.

An introduction to traditional election law. Explore the constitutional, legal, and policy considerations that govern redistricting and campaign finance; laws and policies that govern the administration of elections; and an overview of issues currently confronting the field of election law and administration.

Examine the ways the Texas Legislature works, both officially and otherwise. Consider a wide range of procedural and substantive subjects, with emphasis on the regulation of citizen conduct through statute, rather than on the purely political aspects of the institution.

Explore an overview of law librarianship and the legal information environment. Examine the context in which law librarians, legal publishers, and other legal information professionals work. Discuss the organization and communication of legal information and the particular roles and responsibilities of legal information providers and institutions.

Examine real contracts with real risks including guaranty, promissory note, deed of trust, merger agreement and asset acquisition agreement.

Explore advanced problems dealing with acquisition, financing, development, and disposition of real estate.

Explore conveyancing at an intermediate level, dealing with the transfer, finance, and development of real estate.

Explore an intermediate-level overview of the real estate development process and relevant areas of law: land acquisition, leasing, construction finance, and permanent finance.

Assess issues in general United States law that affect commercial and industrial construction, with emphasis on significant Texas cases. Explore an overview of the construction process, including the examination of roles of various parties, followed by consideration of the legal problems frequently encountered.

Analyze theories of liability and defense in the area of construction litigation, with emphasis on Texas law.

Advanced study of public law, focusing on federal judicial power to make law, to intervene in state judicial proceedings, and to govern state or nation by decree.

Introduction to areas of federal law. Explore some of the Court's current cases and examine professional materials of national importance. Participate in analysis of legal issues through focused lawyerly argument, and training in confident and effective articulation of a legal position.

Examine federal law governing Indian tribes and Indian people.

An introduction to the theory and practice of suing under state and federal statutory and constitutional law for redress of harm to one's civil rights by the government or its agents.

Explore the history of disability law, the trends in federal rulings, and emerging issues as Congress debates new legislation related to persons with disabilities.

Identify, discover, interpret, authenticate, and challenge electronically-stored information. Explore information technology and computer forensics, federal rules, and e-discovery cases.

Examine the activities involved in commercializing a technology from conception to profitable enterprise.

Explore a general overview of intellectual property law. Analyze competing policies underlying intellectual property laws. Examine the fundamentals of trade secrets, patent, copyright, and trademark law.

Examine selected issues involving the international protection of intellectual property, with emphasis on copyright.

Examine literary and artistic property, the law as it relates to trade identity, and other rules of the competitive game.

Explore the nature of marks, distinctiveness, acquisition of rights in marks, registration, loss of rights, infringement, defenses, remedies, trade dress, federal unfair competition, dilution, licensing, protection of marks outside the United States.

Designed for individuals interested in practicing in the field of intellectual property law. Examine the substantive law of patents in the United States.

Analyze the case law and statutes governing patent enforcement, and compare with the most recent decisions of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Examine the study of infringement and remedies.

Explore an overview of the rules of practice before the Patent and Trademark Office, and an introduction to the practical considerations in preparing and prosecuting a patent application.

Examine the basics of persuasive techniques in all litigation settings, including pretrial motions, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, voir dire, and trial. Participate in a mock trial.

Explore the basics of persuasive techniques in all litigation settings, including pretrial motions, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, voir dire, and trial. Participate in a mock trial.

Designed for students who have mastered the basic advocacy skills. Focus on cutting-edge advocacy theories and techniques. Examine recent developments in behavioral science, communication, psychology, and technology.

Examine a criminal case from its inception through trial, plea or dismissal. Participate in intake evaluation, pretrial motions, plea negotiations, witness preparation, and trial.

Explore the specific skills of design thinking, divergent thinking, and ideation.

Examine real-life cases and key strategic decisions made immediately before and during trial.

Design and develop a process to generate and evaluate narratives to best solve clients' problems.

Designed for the advocacy student interested in improving trial skills. Participate in intensive skills exercises and trial technique training. Try up to four cases in one semester in a fast-paced environment.

Examine the advocate's strategies and role in the appellate process.

Examine the regulation of broadcast media by the Federal Communications Commission and the constitutional and administrative law problems generated by regulation.

Discuss legal subjects being impacted by social media: marketing, intellectual property, employment, privacy, free speech, and fund raising.

Examine the law of privacy and personal data protection under two leading, but quite different, legal frameworks.

Examine an amalgam of contracts, antitrust, and labor law as they affect professional and collegiate sports in the United States. Explore issues affecting professional team sports, individual and college (especially Title IX) sports, and the regulation of agents.

Explore the legal aspects of producing and financing a motion picture, with a brief look at the theatre industry.

Examine legal problems related to the establishment, dissolution, and reorganization of family relationships, including marriage, divorce, annulment, alimony and child support, custody, and injuries to family relations.

Survey important legal problems involving children and their relationships to their families and to the state (including the public education system).

Analyze reproductive rights as they are defined by United States law including abortion; voluntary and forced contraception and sterilization; minors' rights and education; public funding; assisted reproduction and surrogacy; the rights of underrepresented groups; and international law.

Examination and evaluation of the role of law in maintaining a gendered society. Case readings, examination of statutes, and readings that provide different perspectives brought to this and related questions by feminist theory.

Examine all aspects of divorce: premarital contracts, marriage, annulment, and ongoing family relationships.

Examine the social and historical context of battering; related civil and criminal law issues; alternative procedural frameworks and legislative reforms; state-of-the-art court programs working to combat domestic violence.

Execution, revocation, and interpretation of wills; future interests, particularly those involved in testamentary trusts; perpetuities; powers of appointment.

The genres of legal scholarship, including jurisprudence, traditional legal analysis, law and economics, sociology of law, and legal history.

Examine areas relating to law and security, including: strategic arms and arms control, economic sanctions, and intelligence.

Sociological theories and research about law and legal institutions.

Examine policy formation in the areas of economics, national security, science, technology, and trade.

Explore an overview of the field of public law in political science.

Creation and transfer of interests in oil and gas; mutual obligations of parties to a mineral lease; correlative obligations of neighboring mineral owners; regulation of production.

The fundamentals of oil and gas law and commonly created interests in oil and gas, as well as the lands from where it is extracted, with an emphasis on the oil and gas lease; rights and obligations created thereby; rights and duties between mineral and surface owners; and protection of interests in oil and gas properties against trespassers and wrongful claimants. Also includes state regulation of drilling and production.

An analysis of the United States federal income taxation of domestic oil and gas operations and transactions. Examines taxation associated with the operational life cycle of oil and gas operations including exploration, development, production, and abandonment, as well as transactions involving oil and gas interests analysis acquisition, disposition, structuring and investment.

Examine international business transactions in the energy and natural resource industries.

Evaluate geologic information made available in a bid round package, analyze the fiscal terms offered by the government, examine the legal regime, and determine and quantify the risks associated with an investment.

Examine the regulatory regimes governing the sale and delivery of energy in American energy markets.

Examine the law applicable to the business of using the oceans and other navigable waters to transport people, goods, and materials, and the related business of exploring for oil and gas beneath those waters.

Examine recent important decisions dealing with the rights of maritime workers, harbor workers, and others injured under circumstances of potential admiralty jurisdiction.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the School of Law's International Student Programs (ISP) office. Credit is recorded as assigned by an ISP Administrator in the School of Law. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence.

Examine the legal aspects of government programs for controlling land use, with an emphasis on urban problems.

Examine property rights and the environment, including the constitutional basis for environmental protection, sustainable development and the role of law, environmental enforcement, and trade and environment.

Examine the regulation of toxic substances in both the common law and federal regulations.

Introduction to pollution control, the common law antecedents, and early statutory developments. Study the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

An introduction to environmental thinking in the context of scarce publicly and privately-owned natural resources. Examine the public trust doctrine, relevance of the Tenth Amendment to environmental protection, the National Endowment Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act.

Examine environmental law in the United States from its roots in the common law to the explosion of legislation and regulation that emerged in the 1970s and continues through the present.

Examine the science, law, and policy relating to issues such as land use, water use, and climate change in coupled watershed-coastal ocean systems.

Explore the judicial, legislative, and administrative problems in water resources' development, allocation, and control.

Explore an overview of the jurisprudential basis and theoretical underpinnings of animals in our legal system. Examine the developing field of animal law through the prism of traditional legal disciplines, including torts, contracts, criminal, regulatory, administrative, and constitutional law.

Examine the organization, management, financing, and dissolution of business associations and their creditors. Explore the agency principles governing the representation of business associations and partnership law, with an emphasis on the business corporation and the problems of the closed corporation.

Examine the ways to forecast and analyze the economic efficiency of a choice in economies that contain imperfections and inconsistencies.

Explore how financial markets are organized and function. Examine debt equity and foreign exchange markets, primary and secondary market operations, and investment banking.

Examine the time value of money, expected value decision making, and investment in enterprises.

Introduction to the theory of financial accounting and its numerous applications to the practice of law.

Examine federal and state law dealing with concerted action in unreasonable restraint of trade; monopolization; price discrimination, exclusive dealing arrangements, and other unfair competition; permissive resale price maintenance; mergers and joint ventures; and limitations on the patent legal monopoly.

Examine the business functions and competitive impact of practices that are subject to antitrust regulation to determine their legality under United States antitrust laws.

Introduction to Title II of the United States Code and related state and federal laws. Explore both liquidation and reorganization bankruptcy, including exemptions, discharge of debt, avoidance of powers of trustees, and rights of various classes of creditors. Examine jurisdiction and procedure.

Examine the representation of debtors and secured creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy. Participate in further study and application of the basic concepts of business bankruptcy, with emphasis on structuring and drafting.

Explore advanced problems in estate planning: marital deduction trusts, planning for community and separate property, inter vivos gifts and trusts, closely held business interests, farm and ranch properties, and income taxation of estates and trusts.

Examine federal income taxation of estates, trusts, grantors, and beneficiaries, as prescribed by subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code.

Examine solicitation and sale of insurance, persons and interests protected by insurance, selection and control of risks, and disposition of claims.

Review consumers' rights and remedies in insurance litigation in detail. Examine practical applications of substantive law, including actionable conduct, statutory and common law theories, standing, persons and entities that may be liable, remedies, defenses, presuit considerations, pleadings, discovery, trial practice, and ethics.

Examine legal issues involved in the acquisition of business enterprises by multinational corporations: initial negotiations, documentation, financial structuring of the purchase, and sale of business enterprises.

Examine problems confronting exporters, importers, and firms doing business abroad. Explore American and foreign tariff; antitrust, corporation, and arbitration law; and the European Union.

Explore core issues relating to venture capital (VC). Examine financing of the emerging growth company and subjects relating to VC investments in start-up companies, the structure of VC backed companies, the allocation of cash-flow and control rights in these companies, and litigation arising from the unique VC arrangements.

Explore an overview of the ways the United States taxes nonresident aliens and foreign corporations on income from United States sources, and United States persons and corporations on income received from international sources.

Examine problems related to the prevention or compensation of harm attributable to dangerous or defective products through regulation by government agencies, the judicial process, and market forces.

Explore an overview of the primary common law causes of action available to purchasers of real property, goods, and services. Examine case law under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Article 21.21 of the Texas Insurance Code.

Examine the effect of tax on business decisions.

Explore an overview of the federal income tax, mostly as it applies to individuals.

Examine forms of law governing jurisdiction and procedure of state and federal agencies, the right and scope of judicial review, and the relation of administrative agencies to legislature and chief executive.

Examine the law of and about administrative agencies. Compare federal and Texas administrative law.

Examine academic freedom and tenure, related constitutional issues, employment discrimination, and collective bargaining in the university context.

Examine legal doctrines governing employment relations outside the collective bargaining arena. Explore the development of the common law doctrine of at-will employment, the doctrine of free market control of employment, and problems raised by new employee rights, including affirmative action, pregnancy disability, and comparable worth.

Examine issues related to the elimination of discrimination and the promotion of equality in employment.

Examine collective bargaining and government intervention, functions of labor unions, settlement of labor disputes, and the rights of employees and of union members.

Introduction to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Examine pension taxation, antidiscrimination rules, fiduciary duties arising from employee benefit trusts, and the regulatory tension between federal and state governments regarding health benefits.

State constitutional law concerning intergovernmental relations and the organization and administration of local government; ad valorem and other taxes; finance, lawmaking, personnel, contracts, and tort liability.

Study of subnational governments in the United States.

Survey the rules governing civil litigation in the Texas state courts, including pleadings, forum selection, discovery, summary judgment, jury charge, judgments, appeals, and settlements.

Examine the preparation of a civil case for trial, including ethical considerations and client relations, preparation of pleadings, preparation of discovery requests and responses to discovery requests, taking depositions, handling experts, evaluation of cases, and final trial preparation.

Participate in further study and application of the basic concepts of Texas civil procedure covered in Law 294S, 394S, or 494S.

Examine legal issues arising from the development of biomedical technologies that extend life and manipulate its creation.

Examine medicine as an industry, including the types of legal regulation that control the medical profession and regulate the health care system.

Explore the language and structure of the medical profession, the process of establishing medical diagnoses and treatments, the concept of standard of care as applied in medicine, and the legal validation and use of medical information.

An introduction to health law. Examine legal issues in health care delivery, health insurance financing, and the responsibilities of health care professionals to patients.

An introduction to the common law of contracts for foreign lawyers. Examine the methods by which rights and duties of promissory and quasi-promissory origin are created, transferred, limited, discharged, breached, and enforced.

Introduction to the case-law method, the basic tools for conducting legal research, and the basic conventions and expectations for creating professional legal work product. Research and draft a full-length, formal analytical memorandum that may serve as a professional writing sample.

An introduction to the concepts of law fundamental to, and the legal institutions operating within, the United States legal system. Explore an overview of the United States Constitution and the functions and procedures of civil and criminal courts.

Roles of persons, institutions, courts, administrative agencies, and legislatures in lawmaking; interpretation of legislation; decision making and legal advocacy in the legislative process; drafting of legislation.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the School of Law's International Student Programs (ISP) office. Credit is recorded as assigned by an ISP Administrator in the School of Law. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence.

Practical experience in different areas of law. Topics to be announced.

Practical experience in different areas of the law. Topics to be announced.

Individual research conducted under standards promulgated by the dean. The completed work must be approved by the supervising faculty member.

Internship under the supervision of a faculty member.

Registration in career experiences represents less than half-time enrollment status for the student. Grades are not issued and the student does not receive credit toward any degree or degree requirement.