2009-10 University Catalog

LAWS 5425 (4). Torts.
Studies nonconsensual allocation of losses for civil wrongs, focusing primarily on concepts of negligence and strict liability. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 6005 (4). Constitutional Law.
Studies constitutional structure: judicial review, federalism, separation of powers; and constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 6035 (3). White Collar Crime.
Examines distinctions between white collar crime and other types of criminal activity and the needs for and arguments against white collar laws and law enforcement. Studies securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, money laundering, false statements, conspiracy and criminal forfeiture statutes. Includes use of the grand jury, privileges applicable in the corporate setting, immunity, discovery and the impact of parallel civil proceedings. Examines effect of government policy on corporations and their counsel, pre-trial and trial strategy, jury selection, and victim notification and restitution options. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 6045 (3). Criminal Procedure.
Focuses primarily on the constitutional limitations applicable to such police investigative techniques as arrest, search, seizure, electronic surveillance, interrogation, and lineup identification. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 6105 (2). Spanish for Family Law Practice.
Provides Spanish-speaking students with vocabulary, legal-drafting skills, and a working knowledge of Spanish to enable them to serve families in the Family Law Division of the Boulder and Adams County Courts. Students prepare letters, memoranda, pleadings, and agreements in Spanish, role-play mock interviews with clients, and study specific legal rules that govern Boulder County and Adams County. Available: Summer 2009 

LAWS 7005 (3). Media Law.
Surveys common, statutory, and regulatory law as applied to the mass media. Focuses on the law as it affects the gathering and publishing of news. Also examines the regulation of the electronic media.

LAWS 7015 (3). First Amendment.
Examines speech and religion clauses of the First Amendment. Includes the philosophical foundation of free expression, analytical problems in First Amendment jurisprudence, and the relationships between free exercise of religion and the separation of church and state. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7025 (3). Civil Rights Legislation.
Presents a comprehensive study of federal civil rights statutes briefly reviewed in other courses (e.g., Constitutional Law or Federal Courts). Studies federal civil rights statutes, their judicial application, and their interrelationships as a discretely significant body of law of increasing theoretical interest and practical importance.

LAWS 7045 (3). Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process.
Focuses primarily on criminal procedure at and after trial. Looks at bail, prosecutorial discretion, discovery, plea bargaining, speedy trial, jury trial, the right to counsel at trial, double jeopardy, appeal, and federal habeas corpus. Available: Spring 2009 Summer 2009 

LAWS 7055 (3). Education Law.
Considers issues raised by the interaction of law and education. Issues may include the legitimacy of compulsory schooling, alternatives to public schools, socialization and discipline in the schools, and questions of equal educational opportunities. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 7065 (3). Immigration and Citizenship Law.
Covers legal issues pertaining to noncitizens of the United States, especially their right to enter and remain as immigrants and nonimmigrants. Topics include admission and exclusion, deportation, and refugees and political asylum. Approaches topics from various perspectives, including constitutional law, statutory interpretation, planning, ethics, history, and policy. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7085 (2). Law and Religion.
Uses judicial decisions as well as historical and theoretical materials to explore significant aspects of the relationship between law and religion. The religion clauses of the First Amendment are a central but not exclusive subject of study. Offered in alternate years.

LAWS 7095 (2). Women in Law.
Explores the role of women in the legal system by looking at women as parties, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, law professors, and judges. Explores the relationship of law and society to women as victims and offenders. Investigates law and society's response to adoption, lesbian/gay issues, rape, surrogate and bad mothers, and sexual harassment.

LAWS 7105 (3). Family Law.
Focuses on nature of marriage, actions for annulment and divorce, problems of alimony and property division, separation agreements, and custody of children. Also considers illegitimacy, abortion, contraception, the status of married women in common law and under modern statutes, and relations of parent and child. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7115 (2). Juvenile Justice.
Covers a wide array of issues dealing with the legal rights of the unborn, children, and juveniles. Covers the legal status of parent-child abuse, delinquency and crime, and emancipation. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7125 (2). Advanced Domestic Relations.
Offers advanced study of several domestic relations subjects, including both theoretical and lawyering issues. Tentative subjects include discovery, client interviewing and deposition preparation, asset valuation, working with expert witnesses, children as clients, and alternative dispute resolution. Recommended prereq., LAWS 7105.

LAWS 7135 (3). Parent, Child and State.
Examines the legal rights of parents and children in a constitutional framework, as well as the state's authority to define and regulate the parent-child relationship. Addresses rights of parents and children to freedom of expression and religious exercise, termination of parental rights and adoption, paternity orientation, and culture in defining the family. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 7205 (3). Administrative Law.
Covers practices and procedures of administrative agencies and limitations thereon, including the Federal Administrative Procedure Act, and the relationship between courts and agencies. Available: Spring 2009 Fall 2009 

LAWS 7255 (3). Local Government.
Studies state legislative and judicial control of the activities, powers, and duties of local governmental units, including home-rule cities and counties, and some problems of federal, state, and local constitutional and statutory limitations on governmental powers when exercised by local governmental units (e.g., the powers to regulate private activities, tax, spend, borrow money, and condemn private property for public uses). Offered in alternate years.

LAWS 7325 (3). Election Law.
Examines the rapidly evolving field of election law: the right to vote, voting procedures, redistricting, candidate selection, campaign finance laws, and direct democracy. Emphasizes federal law, including applicable constitutional jurisprudence. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7335 (1). The Law of Presidential Elections.
Examines the laws and regulations that uniquely shape presidential selection, analyzing practical applications as well as the broader constitutional and policy considerations. A combination of federal, state, and local laws shapes how Americans select their president. But more than ever before, Americans are questioning the rules that influence presidential selection, such as the major party primary system, ballot access, presidential campaign financing, and the electoral college.

LAWS 7345 (2). Comparative Criminal Procedure.
Takes an in-depth look at some of the basic features of modern criminal justice systems that share the civil law tradition with the hope that such study will provide a vehicle for a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the American system of criminal justice. Prereq., LAWS 6045.

LAWS 7375 (2-3). U.S. Races and Justice Systems.
Examines the unique but related legal, social, and economic problems and accomplishments of those persons in this country whose ancestry originated in Africa, Asia, Latin America, or North America, and explores the developing literature on whites and whiteness.

LAWS 7405 (2-3). Health Law 2: Medical Malpractice and Quality Regulation.
Explores (1) the law controlling ethical issues that arise during the delivery of medical care, (2) the substantive law of medical malpractice and tort reform aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of medical malpractice verdicts, and (3) the practical aspects of litigating a medical malpractice case. Cross-listed at the Health Sciences Center; will include field trips there.

LAWS 7425 (2-3). Health Law.
Acquaints students with the issues arising at the interface between law and medicine through analysis of cases and other materials. Critically analyzes methods used by courts and legislatures to address medical/legal problems in an effort to determine whether the legal resolution was reasonable and appropriate in light of medical, social, and political considerations. Offered in alternate years.

LAWS 7475 (2). Advanced Torts.
Studies selected tort actions and theories. Topics covered may include "dignitary torts" (e.g., defamation, privacy, etc.), business torts, and product liability. Offered in alternate years. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 7505 (2). Sexuality and the Law.
Examines the regulation of sexuality in local, state, and federal law, with particular emphasis on sexual orientation. Explores how sexuality shapes, and is shaped by, an array of laws and policies, which may include family law, military regulations, tax law, employment law, trusts and estates, obscenity law, and criminal law.

LAWS 7515 (3). Poverty Law.
Explores the legal and policy responses to poverty in the United States and addresses how the law shapes the lives of poor people and communities. Examines the extent of poverty in the United States, the root causes, and the historical development of social welfare policy. Focuses on the rights-based aspect of poverty law and various policies that attempt to ameliorate poverty. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7525 (3). Race and American Law.
Examines the judiciary's approach to racial discrimination from America's colonial period to the present day. Concludes with an analysis of the contemporary status of racial subordination in the legal system and considers recent scholarly critiques of the law's limitations in effecting racial justice. Employs an interdisciplinary approach and covers the experiences of American Indians, African Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, and Chicana/os.

LAWS 7605 (2). Refugee and Asylum Law.
Focuses on protections offered under international and domestic law for persons who are threatened by persecution or other adverse conditions in their country of origin. Covers who is a refugee and the protections they have or do not have under United States and international law. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 7725 (3). American Indian Law.
Investigates the federal statutory, decisional, and constitutional law that bears upon American Indians, tribal governments, and Indian reservation transactions. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 7735 (2). Advanced American Indian Law.
Examines selected issues in the field emphasizing major emerging problems and reform proposals. Examples of issues include Alaska development and the Indian Child Welfare Act.

LAWS 7775 (1). Gender Law and Public Policy.
Examines the relationship of law and gender in criminal law, and constitutional law, using feminist theoretical perspectives as the organizing principle. Each perspective is applied to cases and materials on such topics as violence against women, prostitution, pornography, and discrimination in education and athletics.

LAWS 8005 (2). Seminar: Advanced Constitutional Law Equality and Privacy.
Addresses "Equal Protection" rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and "privacy" rights to personal autonomy. Analyzes varied constitutional grounds for recognizing or rejecting abortion rights; limits on Congressional power to pass civil rights laws granting broader rights than the Fourteenth Amendment does; treatment of sexual orientation-related laws and government actions as "privacy" versus "equality" matters; and "benign"/"remedial" race- and sex-based government decisions such as affirmative action and same-sex schools. Available: Spring 2009 Fall 2009 

LAWS 8015 (3). Seminar: Constitutional Theory.
Examines the role of the courts and the other branches of government in defining and enforcing constitutional values. Relevant readings are from philosophy, social sciences, and legal scholarship, as well as cases. Available: Spring 2009 Fall 2009 

LAWS 8025 (2). Seminar: Advanced Topics in Federalism.
Explores the development of "Our Federalism", the relationship between federal and state governments, from the founding period of the US Supreme Court's recent New Federalism jurisprudence. Studies historical material, commentary, and case law, and addresses how federalism is defined; the values that federalism serves; the role of federalism in our interconnected, global society; the Supreme Court's boundaries of federalism; the direction of New Federalism.

LAWS 8035 (2). Seminar: Intersection of Antidiscrimination and First Amendment Law.
Addresses past and continuing debates involving potential tensions between antidiscrimination principles and free speech, free exercise, and establishment clause values. Examines constitutional protections under the First Amendment and the equal protection clause, together with an array of existing and proposed federal and state antidiscrimination laws regulating employment, housing, and public accommodations, among other areas. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 8045 (2). Seminar: Comparative Constitutional Law.
Examines legal structures and concepts typically found in constitutions, including judicial review, distinction between legislative and executive authority, federalism and the principle of subsidiarity, the relationship between church and state, free speech and press, and social welfare rights. Examines differences between constitutional law and other domestic law, role of comparative constitutional law in domestic constitutional law adjudication. Emphasizes American and Swedish perspectives.

LAWS 8055 (1-2). Seminar: Media, Popular Culture, and the Law.
Examines how the institutions, practices, and the very identity of law are in part affected by the media through which law is apprehended and communicated. Hence the general question posed in this seminar: To what extent and how are the forms and methods of the new media having an effect on the perception, role, and identity of law? This is a year-long seminar. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 8075 (2). Seminar: Race, Racism, and American Law.
Focuses on issues of race reform law, in particular the group of issues dealing with Black Americans. (Students of all hues and persuasions are welcome.) Offers an interpretive or critical dimension, rather than a litigation-oriented one. Helps students understand how race reform law works and how attitudes and historical forces have shaped that body of law.

LAWS 8095 (2). Seminar: Problems in Constitutional Law.
Explores how theories of social freedom and self-governance developed in the United States. Analyzes the most controversial socio-legal issues as they relate to privacy, equal protection and other questions of substantive due process. Discusses recent trends in national security and information privacy to evaluate their overall relevance to civil liberties and nascent influence on the fundamental rights debate in the US and abroad.

LAWS 8115 (2). Seminar: Child Abuse and the Law.
Explores legal responses to child abuse by examining the constitutional framework for legal proceedings, effective strategies for preventing child abuse and punishing offenders, alternatives to the current system, and cultural aspects of child abuse and the legal response to it. Examines physical abuse and neglect, and focuses on sexual abuse.

LAWS 8125 (2). Seminar: Law and the Politics of Family Law.
Examines issues that have been raised under the United States Constitution with respect to state regulation of families. Topics include questions of family and individual privacy, the status of children, procreation, marriage and divorce, the definition of family relationships, and problems of federalism and the role of the Supreme Court in the regulation of families.

LAWS 8135 (2). Seminar: Gender, Work, and Family.
Explores the social and legal problems that develop at the intersection of work and family, and considers legal/non-legal solutions that have been and could be used to accommodate both women and men in their efforts to deal with these problems.

LAWS 8315 (2). Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice.
Studies policy and practice issues rather than case law. Focuses primarily on how American criminal justice is dispensed in cases that do not reach trial, including police behavior, prosecutorial discretion, defense services, bail, plea bargaining, and sentencing.

LAWS 8325 (2). Seminar: Reforming Criminal Trials.
Starts from the premise that reform of our criminal trial system to make it less complicated, less expensive, and more reliable should be considered. Examines trial systems in other countries and U.S. changes over recent decades. Student papers make and defend proposals for reform.

LAWS 8335 (2). Seminar: Advanced Criminal Procedure.
Focuses on a particular topic in criminal procedure. Topics include the privilege against self- incrimination, juries, and defense and prosecution ethics. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 8355 (2). Seminar: Sentencing Law and Policy.
Studies sentencing law against the backdrop of criminal justice policy and concerns of public policy. Covers theories of punishment, the merits of indeterminate sentencing, sentencing guidelines, and nonincarcerative sanctions. Confronts problems of race, class, and other disparities in criminal sentencing.

LAWS 8375 (2). Seminar: Advanced Immigration and Citizenship.
Explores the law and policy of citizenship in the United States, starting with legal questions regarding acquisition and loss of citizenship as well as the consequences of citizenship, but also examines the fundamental premises underlying American citizenship and the concept of citizenship generally.

LAWS 8395 (2). Seminar: Separation of Powers.
Explores the constitutional relationships among the three branches of the federal government in the sphere of domestic matters, omitting foreign affairs and war. Develops topics including executive orders, Congressional control of the executive and the courts, appointment and removal of officers, impeachment, executive privilege, use of military tribunals, and the election of 2000. A seminar paper will be required. Available: Fall 2009 

LAWS 8405 (2). Seminar: Public Health Law and Ethics.
Explores rules of law pertaining to the American public health care system and the ethical issues raised by the government's effort to protect the health of the American people. To be held at Health Sciences Campus.

LAWS 8415 (2). Seminar: Bioethics and Law.
Focuses on legal, moral, and economic analyses of problems posed or soon to be posed by advances in biomedical technologies. Available: Spring 2009 

LAWS 8425 (2). Seminar: Advanced Torts.
Explores how dignitary interests have influenced the development of and have been incorporated into law, using the common law of torts and the constitutional rights of life and liberty as a general (but not exclusive) focal point of discussion.

LAWS 8515 (2). Seminar: Forced Labor.
Reviews several regimes of compulsory labor that have been central to the American experience: Black chattel slavery in the antebellum South; debt peonage, criminal surety, and related institutions of agricultural involuntary servitude; convict leasing and other forms of compulsory inmate labor; "white slavery" and prostitution; and forced labor among immigrants. Emphasizes the complicated role that the law has played, and in some respects continues to play, in both supporting and undermining such institutions.

LAWS 8535 (2). Seminar: Class and Law.
Explores issues relating social class to such areas as labor relations, law enforcement, controls on radical movements, and the distribution of wealth and power. Considers problems defining social class.

LAWS 8705 (2). Seminar: Affordable Housing.
Explores the policy, legal, and practical dynamics that drive the development and preservation of privately owned, government subsidized affordable housing. Investigates the nature of the market for housing, with particular emphasis on multifamily rental housing, and debates about market failure in that context and then outline and contrast the major regulatory responses to such market failure. Explores how subsidy programs work in practice, focusing on model documents to frame sample transactions.

LAWS 8725 (2). Seminar: Advanced American Indian Law.
Examines the current state of the justice system within Indian nations today. It concentrates on the interplay among contemporary federal, tribal, state and local institutions which, taken together, comprise "justice" within Indian Country. Includes understanding the respective roles of tribal and state law enforcement authorities, as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Justice Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Coreq., LAWS 7725.

LAWS 8765 (2). Seminar: Gender, Law, and Public Policy.
Examines the relationship of law and gender in criminal law, and constitutional law, using feminist theoretical perspectives as the organizing principle. Each perspective is applied to cases and materials on such topics as violence against women, prostitution, pornography, and discrimination in education and athletics. Available: Spring 2009 Fall 2009 

LAWS 8775 (2). Seminar: Advanced Topics in Health Law and Policy.
Addresses advanced legal issues in representing physicians, long-term care institutions, hospitals, and other health providers. Issues range from economic policy, distributive justice, and bioethical questions to antitrust and regulatory issues. Recommended prereq., LAWS 7425. To be taught at Health Sciences Center.