Seminars and Directed Research
Seminars
Seminars covering a variety of subjects are offered each semester in the law school, sometimes in cooperation with adjunct faculty members or faculty from other divisions of the university. The specific subject areas of the seminars vary from semester to semester. Each seminar is worth three credit hours. The following are examples of seminars taught over the past several years:
- 20th Century Constitution
- Advanced Corporate Governance: Law & Policy
- Advanced International Negotiations
- Advanced Negotiation Skills & International Peace Making: Focus on Legitimacy
- Comparative Bill of Rights
- Comparative Conflicts
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Critical Race Theory
- Current Issues in Privatization
- Disability & Discrimination
- Education Law & Policy
- Empirical Methods in Law
- Federal Housing Policy & Homelessness
- Federalism & Corporate Law
- Feminist Legal Theories
- Free Speech/Hate Speech
- The Future of Islamic Law
- Human Rights Perspective
- International Environmental Law
- International Intellectual Property
- International Women's Human Rights
- Latin American Legal System
- Law and Literature
- Law and Economics
- Law and Terrorism
- Law and Vulnerability
- Patents and Their Role in Global Economic Development and Access to Health
- Politics & Democratic Governance
- Products Liability
- Racial Integration
- Reproductive Issues
- Role of Patents
- Separation of Powers
- Sexuality and the Law
- Statutory Interpretation
- Supreme Court and Family
- Theatre Law
- Topics in Legal History
- Victimless Crimes
899. Directed Research
2 hours. A major research paper prepared under supervision of a faculty member. Approval of both the associate dean and supervising faculty member required.
898. Directed Research: Specific Topic
2 hours. Each student prepares, under the supervision of a faculty member, a major research paper that meets the writing requirement. Approval of both the associate dean and the supervising faculty member are required.