Family, Gender, and Health
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.
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.
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.
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.
LAWS 7405 (2-3). Health Law 2: Medical Malpractice Litigation. 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 1: Finance, Administration, and the Organization of Health Care. 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 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 7513-3. Domestic Violence. Explores the law, policy, history, and theory of domestic violence. Examines the limits of legal methods and remedies for holding batterers accountable and keeping victims safe; the dynamics of abusive relationships; the history of the criminal justice system’s response to domestic violence; the defenses available to battered persons who kill their abusers; the legal paradigm of the sympathetic victim; psychological and feminist theories about abusive relationships; civil rights and tort liability for batterers and third parties; and the intersection of domestic violence with international human rights.
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 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.
LAWS 8765-2. Seminar: Gender Law. 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 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.
