434 - Critical Race Theory (2 hours)This seminar explores the centrality of race as a foundational feature of American law. This course satisfies the LAWR III Requirement. Students will act as a court, ethics board, governmental, or administrative agency and participate in simulations or write opinions and legislation addressing emerging legal issues created by society's advancement in medicine and technology, including genetics, medical experimentation and research, reproductive rights and end of life decisions. Each element of trial is studied in discrete weekly lecture/discussion and lab classes that culminate in a final mock jury trial with a presiding judge and jurors in the box. This publication features articles, notes, and comments from intellectual property practitioners, students, and faculty. Local attorneys assist me by observing students in simulations, guiding and advising students' in-class work and adding to students' practical knowledge from their own legal careers. Interim writing goals and exercises will be set. 597 - Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition (2 hours)This course examines the law and legal theories related to identifying and protecting competitive business interests and confidential business information one of the fastest growing areas of intellectual property law outside of traditional patent, copyright and trademark concerns. The student works as a judicial extern for a state or federal judge. It is here -- at the points of legal difference -- that we can see how society truly values religion in relation to other interests that compete for the attention, primacy, and recourses of people and government. *Routing aspects of the legislative process including the role of the three branches of the U.S. Government, as well as the role of the appropriations (budget) and authorization committees, the role of lobbyists and non-governmental organizations Prerequisite: Business Organizations. At the commencement of the semester, students classwork will focus on lawyering skills and the basics of administrative and environmental law through two Saturday intensives. 615 - Trial Practice (Competition) (1 hour)Interscholastic trial competition for selected students. It addresses legal issues traversing multiple substantive areas of law, including rules governing contractual relationships in sports, defining tort liability in sports, embodying antitrust and labor law issues in sports, governing gender equity issues in sports, and governing agency relationships in sports. 112 - LAWR I (Research) (0.5 hours)Course description pending. Given the nature of this problem-based approach and the number of topics we will cover, the course will be front-end loaded, with lectures and group work ending in early November. Below you will find a complete course listing. This course cannot be taken if you have taken Business Drafting (420). 650 - Election Law: Gerrymanders and Related Topics (2 hours)*This course will focus on selected topics related to the legal structure of the political process in the United States. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate current trends in cybersecurity and cyber warfare; analyze American privacy and security laws applicable to private businesses and government; assess cybersecurity risks, and develop a risk mitigation strategy based on an assessment of current cyber risks. * This course may be offered for 2 hours during some years. As such, there will be no final exam. 465 - Compliance and Risk Management (2 hours)The Compliance and Risk Management course will explore a range of topics within the corporate compliance framework. Below you will find a complete course listing. Topics covered will typically include the right to participate in the political process, reapportionment, redistricting, racial and political gerrymandering, the role of political parties, money and politics, legal issues in election administration, and remedies for defective elections. While sometimes using international law as a point of comparison, the course will focus primarily on US law and policy. The class will consider a number of different areas, including but not limited to employment, education, family responsibilities, violence against women, and other issues affecting womens bodies, including pornography and prostitution. Students selected by the Transactional Competition Board to prepare and edit the Problem Book receive one academic credit on certification of their work by a faculty member. We will also touch upon the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. At the conclusion of the course, students will draft a paper exploring the overarching question of what equality means. 552 - Education Law (2 hours)In this course you will be exposed to major court decisions that have shaped elementary and secondary education in the US. students must complete a two-hour writing requirement. 300 - Externship Lecture (0 hours)The course invites students to consider the different roles that lawyers play throughout their careers, including that of advocate, counselor, business person, and leader. Students can expect to review both domestic and foreign commentaries, statutes, international conventions, institutional rules, and case law on the subject. Students may select from a list of courses (primarily seminars) that can satisfy this requirement. 104 - Civil Procedure I (3 hours)A survey of proceedings in a civil action, including jurisdiction of state and federal courts, law for the case, pleading and parties, pre-trial and discovery, trial and appeal. This occurs due to fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and interference with contract. Special attention will be paid to the family law issues arising most frequently in a family law practice asset and liability division, alimony, child support, child custody, and modification of prior orders. For an externship during the summer, those hours are doubled for a total of 60 and 120 hours, respectively. We also will consider what it means for you to become a member of the legal profession at a time of economic pressure, technological advancement, and international competition. Curriculum Overview - Wake Forest University School of Medicine After covering basic principles of constitutional and administrative law as they apply to environmental regulation, the course focuses on the major federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. The primary reading materials are North Carolina state statutes and North Carolina appellate opinions. Student services include advising clients on basic intellectual property principles, drafting contracts (or contract provisions) that affect intellectual property rights, prosecuting copyright and/or trademark applications, and preparing policy documents and guidelines. 584 - Freedom of Religion Under the Constitution (2 hours)*This course concerns the First Amendments two Religion Clauses: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. These sixteen words are the most disputed and litigated of constitutional issues. 483 - Public Leadership and the Social Enterprise: Legal and Theological Perspectives (2 hours)This course explores how institutions create and further the conditions that lead to justice in society and does this through two distinct lens, legal and theological thinking. 340 - Externship (1-2 hours)A student may receive 1 or 2 pass/fail credits for an externship with an unpaid judge or law-related placement of the students choosing, subject to the approval of a faculty supervisor whom the student has enlisted. The course will introduce broad issues in the area of human rights and will complement the International Human Rights course taught by Professor Knox. Required for all students and should be taken within the first year. Credit may be awarded for work that expands on work initially assigned in, or conceived during, a course, clinic, externship, practicum, or paid work experience but only if the continued work represents a meaningful and substantial contribution to the already existing project, significantly beyond mere editing or polishing. 621 - Planning and Drafting of Wills and Trusts (2 hours)This course, previously offered as Estate Planning, includes an introduction to the federal estate and gift tax system. 573 - Sports Law (2 hours)This course examines the legal issues arising in high school, college, and professional sports. What perspective do in-house lawyers apply to their companies' law-related problems and issues? Students with significant prior business experience or exposure may only enroll with permission of the professor. Then, we would outline some of the most significant issues growing companies face. In 2019, the course will be essentially an extra unit of the Business Organizations. revamped ESG disclosure, new shareholder-management consortia as well the corporation as moral organism and re-conceptualizations of corporate leadership. It also covers international criminal law. No previous programming experience is needed for this course, but a willingness to read and reread and discuss technical documentation and literature is essential. students who opt not to write a thesis must satisfactorily complete an upper-level seminar course that requires the research and the writing of a significant paper in conjunction with at least a two-hour course. Students will conclude the course by giving a mock CLE presentation on a discrimination law topic of their choice. 458 - Essential Business Concepts (2 hours)As a matter of baseline knowledge, law students should have a better understanding of business entities and our complex economy. We will discuss the European Convention on Human Rights (1950) and several cases decided by the Strasbourg court. * This course may be offered for 3 hours during some years. 442 - Sales and Secured Transactions (UCC arts. It will explore, from a meditative perspective, the ethical responsibilities of the lawyer, the stresses and challenges of the lawyer's life, and the management of the complex emotions that affect the lawyer (including anger, self-righteousness, and compassion). The goal of this course is to foster innovative and critical thinking in law students so that this generation of legal minds may go on to start their own firms, startups, legal service companies, or lead existing law firms and companies into the 21st century. This intensive course examines the practice and theory of negotiation with an emphasis on developing deals or resolving disputes in times of crisis. This course is co-taught with faculty from the schools of divinity and medicine and is cross listed for credit in each school. Required for all students. In addition to direct client representation, students will attend a two-hour seminar, and meet with the clinic faculty supervisor to discuss fieldwork each week. For the developed countries, we will examine different types of health care systems and how they compare to the U.S. with respect to their structure, research and development of new drugs and biologics, public health systems, and overall effectiveness. They will share their experiences of utilizing cutting-edge technologies to build a firm that is able to stay lean while garnering national recognition and accolades. This course will study the development and implementation of public policy with a focus on pandemic relief legislation. We are counting on your abilities to prevent us from being flattened by outside forces! It covers damages, restitution, injunctions, and declaratory judgments. Each student must write a research paper and make a class presentation on the research. Topics that are covered include consideration of what makes a civil case complex, advanced joinder devices (intervention, necessary parties, interpleader, consolidation), multidistrict litigation, overlapping state and federal actions, including injunctions against prosecuting duplicative actions, discovery and the conflict between zealous representation and the obligation of cooperation in discovery, confidentiality orders, appellate jurisdiction, attorneys fees, and mechanisms to structure the trial, such as bifurcation of issues. 645 - Mediation (3 hours)*Law schools classically prepare attorneys to represent clients by teaching the law, theory, procedures, and, skills necessary to prepare for and try cases in court. 110 - Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I (2 hours)Seminar instruction in the lawyering skills of case analysis, statutory interpretation, persuasive argument, and legal research through the preparation of legal memoranda and briefs. For developing countries, we will look at the devastating effect of poverty on health, as well as how clinical research trials that originate in developed nations may exploit third-world populations. The 3 credit section of this course is designed both for students who wish to pursue Constitutional Law in more depth and for students who may have struggled in Con Law I and feel they could benefit from additional exposure to this material. 457 - Introduction to Private Equity Law (1 hour)This seminar provides an introduction to private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC), including an overview of the common types of private funds, how these funds are typically structured, and how PE and VC funds go about structuring and negotiating investment terms. The class has a heavy practical focus and includes regular written assignments and in-class exercises. 415 - IP Innovation and Commercialization (2 hours)This course reinforces and expands on the student's understanding of many of the fundamental principles of intellectual property law and focuses specifically on its development and commercialization. Each section provides an overview of the topic and links to more detailed discussions of particular practice types, legal employers, and legal subject areas. Learn broadly. Whether you intend to practice it or are just interested in the subject matter, students will gain an understanding of how entertainment law can be used to protect and empower creative people. The London Summer Program | Study Abroad | Wake Forest School of Law Specifically, the course will focus on the governance structure of compliance and risk management as well as best practices. It introduces students to the passthrough regime of partnerships and LLCs and the double tax regime of C-Corporations. Wake Forest Law School LSAT Requirements Another essential score that Wake Forest will place heavy emphasis on is your LSAT. 525 - Health Care Law and Policy (3 hours)*This course introduces students to the structure, financing and regulation of the health care system and proposals for its reform. Special attention will be brought to critiquing American tort law from a European perspective. The course covers legal rights and obligations of employers, employees, and unions under the National Labor Relations Act, along with Union/Management relations topics including: collective bargaining, grievance administration and arbitration, and union organizing and representation. ), first amendment rights of government employees, free expression and secrecy orders in civil cases, political gerrymanders and the First Amendment, the tension between freedom of expression and other interests in student free speech rights in public schools, and more. 694 - Environmental Law and Policy Clinic (2 hours)Open only to students who have completed Law 690. Topics covered include cryptocurrency use and regulation, legal forensic analysis of tokens, ethereum-based smart contract governance frameworks, patent strategy, and the professional responsibility considerations when working in a space that is popular, but not well understood. For a one-hour externship, the student will meet with the supervising faculty member for one hour each week of the semester (for a total of 15 meeting hours); for a two-hour externship, the student will meet with the supervising faculty member for two hours each week (for a total of 30 meeting hours). 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106 336.758.5430. Actual practitioners and CEOs of successful post-Recession companies and law firms will be guest lecturers. * This course may be offered for 2 or 4 hours during some years. Prerequisite: Debtor-Creditor Law. Lawyers representing companies in the modern landscape face wide-ranging challenges, including investigations by federal, state and international authorities, scrutiny from shareholders, and the threat of civil litigation. In addition, this weekly meeting will serve as a touch-point for learning and sharing with other students how their representation of clients is progressing, what concerns and issues are arising, and what learnings they are taking away. 538 - Antitrust (2 hours)*An overview of federal antitrust law or competition law, including laws related to agreements restraining trade (especially agreements between competitors), monopolization and attempted monopolization, unfair trade practices, and merger policy and practice. Earn one of our 4 Graduate Certificates in as few as 2 semesters: Workplace Legal Fundamentals (12 credits) Business Law & Compliance (12 credits) Health Law & Policy (12 credits) Human Resources (12 credits) Graduate Certificate course offerings are detailed below. You will learn the ins and outs of federal regulation of securities offerings (IPOs, private placements and crowdfunding) under the Securities Act of 1933, as well as become familiar with the basics of federal regulation of securities markets and trading under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. * This course may be offered for 3 hours during some years. 565 - Dispute Resolution (3 hours)A study of traditional and alternative methods of resolving disputes; use of techniques such as arbitration and mediation will be studied. The online MSL Master's Degree and Graduate Certificate tuition is $1,120 per credit hour for the 2023-2024 academic year. The creditors rights coverage will include units on debtor exemptions and constitutional and statutory process requirements intended to protect debtors rights, which are relatively paltry compared to the width and strength of creditors rights. Consult the calendar notes in the registration materials for special scheduling requirements. * This course may be offered for 2 hours during some years. 437 - Food Law and Policy (2 hours)This course explores the many facets of law and policy affecting food production and consumption. The final paper will be a scholarly paper exploring a pre-approved health law topic. Estimating and Settling Personal Injury Claims (1 hour)*This course will cover the basics of how the value of a personal injury claim is estimated by forensic economists, complications and variations in such estimates, taking depositions and discovery of all relevant parties with respect to the extent of the damages, constructing a life care or vocational plan (if needed) with the help of vocational and social service experts, dealing with insurance companies and opposing counsel, defending depositions, opposing bad faith claims and preparing for trial. 200 - Legislation and Administrative Law (3 hours)This course surveys the legislative process, fundamentals of statutory interpretation, and the work of administrative agencies, with special emphasis on the administrative rule-making process. Students may repeat this course for a maximum of two hours credit. * This course may be offered for 2 hours during some years. We are in the midst of a "death revolution" in the United States - cremation rates are rising fast and traditional funeral service providers are under stress. Such rhetoric is much more substantive than mere style. The course looks at the corporations current design: its externalization of social costs, the short-termism of corporate decision-making, the groupthink culture of corporate management, and the corporation as political actor. 564 - Immigration Law (3 hours)This course will cover a broad range of topics as we survey the landscape of immigration law: Who is a citizen of the United States? Among other topics, the course covers primers on the technical underpinnings of the internet, the regulation of Internet access and domain names; contract formation, execution and enforceability; jurisdiction and choice of law; speech; intellectual property focus; artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and the Internet of Things. Students will write a paper contrasting the constitutional law on a particular topic of a given country with the comparable law in the United States. We will discuss the various employment agreements that are found in the current workforce. 456 - Meaning and Interpretation in Public and Private Law (2 hours)With practicing lawyers in mind, this course not only explores meaning and interpretation of various constitutional and statutory provisions but also explores meaning and interpretation of contracts and other private law documents and instruments drawn from actual practice. The development of the Moot Court Board in 1971 and the Student Trial Bar in 1978 further enhanced Wake Forest's appellate and trial advocacy curriculum by increasing the amount of competitive . Offered in alternate years. 555 - Workers' Compensation (2 hours)This course covers the essential aspects of state mandated, no-fault, programs that compensate employees injured or killed at work. The class will review core concepts of real estate law that must be considered in drafting a binding and enforceable real estate contract. We do not recommend that you take FYS (the first-year seminar) at the same time that you take WRI 111, since it is 4 credits, but it would be fine to take FYS at the same time you take WRI 109 or WRI 110 since they are each just 2 credit hours. 657 - Biotechnology Law and Policy (2 hours)Biotechnology is a major growth industry and both large and boutique law firms are establishing biotech or life sciences practice groups. We give extensive coverage to both civil litigation and government enforcement. * This course may be offered for 3 hours during some years. . This course explores the ways in which race is relevant to the law and legal practice, with an eye on what social-science research can tell us. 637 - Veterans Legal Clinic (4 hours)The Veterans Legal Clinic provides legal assistance on a pro-bono basis to North Carolina military personnel, including active-duty service members, reservists, veterans, and non-affiliated veterans. This course will also include a significant historical component that focuses on the common foundation of all of these traditionsRoman law and Christian doctrine and custom. Students who have taken Mediation in the past or who are currently enrolled in or who plan to take Mediation may not register for Dispute Resolution. This class lives in a statute, the Internal Revenue Code. Students explore employee leave policies, health care reform, and executive compensation. Although primarily a drafting class, it will also include at least one oral component. 460 - Privacy Law (2 hours)*This course will examine the current legal, political, social and technological aspects of U.S. privacy law. Integrating oral advocacy experience into the curriculum has been a long-held tradition at Wake Forest Law, one that has transformed dramatically since the first required moot court offering in 1894. * This course may be offered for 2 hours during some years. 121 - Legal Analysis, Writing and Research for International Lawyers (2 hours)The Legal Analysis, Writing and Research course for international students (LAWR) is designed to teach basic legal analysis, writing and research skills which are fundamental to practicing law. Admissions | Wake Forest Law }, A Private Liberal Arts University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina / Founded1834 / ProHumanitate. This course is a writing course with no exam. The course also includes Lunch & Learn events with federal judges, field trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, FBI, etc., and visits from guest speakers, including a prosecutor, in-house counsel, DOJ attorney, and partners at prominent law firms. Students meet weekly with the director to integrate and apply the doctrinal insights received elsewhere in the law school curriculum and in the subject matter of the field placements. Litigation and client counseling strategies are also explored, with a practical focus of applying legal theories to typical situations confronted in this rapidly developing area of law. Juvenile Justice in North Carolina 398 is a pre-requisite. The course will conclude with a final packet of coursework for grading purposes. 403 - Conflict of Laws (3 hours)A study of the choice of law rules applicable where at least one of the operative issues in a case is connected with some state or country other than the one in which suit is brought at the national level or the international level; jurisdiction of courts over persons, things, and property in the national and transnational context; recognition and enforcement of judgments on the national and international levels; business and estate planning issues in law in different jurisdictions. This course will help you learn to use these skills in collaboration with other legal professionals, specifically inside and outside counsel. 291 - Intensive: Leadership and Adversity (1 hour) Experiential Learning | Academics | Wake Forest Law The goal is to provide a focus on the critical components of corporations that rely on compliance and discuss how that translates into opportunities for lawyers. 412 - NCAA Rules Compliance and Enforcement (2 hours)This course offers students a comprehensive overview of current NCAA rules, policies, enforcement procedures, and the manner in which they are applied at the Division I intercollegiate level. Students will write a paper in this course. This course will help you understand the intersection of the law and justice and deepen your creative and critical thinking to address the community clients concern. Various texts and materials will be used, including leading LPM applications. This course is 50% lecture and 50% practical skills. Topics covered will include civil rights, criminal procedure, environmental law, zoning and land use regulation, health and safety regulation, health care regulation, and financial regulation. The bankruptcy coverage will focus fairly equally on consumer and business bankruptcies. 682 - Securities Litigation (3 hours)*This course teaches the law and practice related to investment fraud, market manipulation, and insider trading. 850 - Independent Research and Thesis (2 hours)LL.M. Among the many special problems that exist in this area of tort law is causation, and that will be the focus of the course: addressing the theory of factual causation and the understanding the different types of scientific evidence brought to bear on the issue of causation. In todays evolving society, lawyers often help individual and corporate clients navigate the complexities of the law which is now becoming increasingly connected to concepts around diversity, inclusion and equity. At the end of the externship, the student will also submit to the supervisor a sample of the students work for the placement. Students who have taken Criminal Procedure Survey in the past or those who are currently enrolled in Criminal Procedure Survey may not register for Criminal Procedure: Adjudication. 469 - Technology in the Modern Law Practice (2 hours)Unprecedented opportunities welcome this coming generation of practitioners and jurists in the wake of the Great Recession.
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