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[Number] 156 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Antitrust I: Principles (formerly "Antitrust") examines judicial doctrines, enforcement guidelines, and policies relating to competition as a means of ordering private economic behavior. Specific topics include agreements involving competitors, dominant firm behavior, joint ventures, ...
Antitrust I: Principles
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[Number] 162 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course extends the study, begun in Antitrust I, of the laws that regulate competition in the marketplace. Specific topics taken up here but not in the basic course include the interplay of antitrust and intellectual property law, including the obligation to license standard essen...
Antitrust II
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Course Descriptions - George Mason Law
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[Number] 159 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course focuses on brief writing and oral advocacy for students participating in extramural moot court competitions. Rules of the Supreme Court, which govern most moot court contests, receive special emphasis. All class participants must be registered for an extramural competition...
Appellate Advocacy
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[Number] 160 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course is a practicum on the modes and methods of appellate practice and advocacy. Students are graded on several compositions and practical exercises involving both oral and written advocacy. The course will use federal and/or state rules at the discretion of the instructor. [Co...
Appellate Practice
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
da3926f6_escriptions___George_Mason_Law__Course_Name
[Number] 151 [Cr.] 2-3 [Description] This is a survey course of aviation law, covering both U.S. and international domestic law and regulation. Students will receive an introduction into all major aspects of aviation law, with special emphasis placed on Government regulation of aircraft, air carriers, airmen, and airpo...
Aviation Law
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[Number] 167 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Studies legal, economic, and social issues in bankruptcy through a survey of the Bankruptcy Code and the previous Bankruptcy Act. Considers bankruptcy liquidation and reorganization, as well as the role of the courts and trustees in the bankruptcy process. [Course Name]
Bankruptcy
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[Number] 454 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This Seminar will cover the procedures, the strategies and the dynamics of corporate reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Among other topics, the Seminar will examine management of the debtor's business, financing the debtor while in bankruptcy, what goes into ...
Bankruptcy Reorganization Seminar
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 398 [Cr.] 2 [Description] (NOTE: This course was previously called “Broadband, Net Neutrality, and the Future of Media”) - In the Obama Administration's first term, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) addressed the future of media in the 21st century by, among other things, producing a National Broadba...
Broadband Economy – Current FCC Initiatives
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 172 [Cr.] 4 [Description] Provides a detailed introduction to the law and economics of agency, partnerships, limited partnerships, and corporation law. The second half of the course focuses on publicly traded corporations. [Course Name]
Business Associations
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 174 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Presents an in-depth treatment of patent law and practice as applied specifically to protecting inventions relating to chemical and biotechnology. Patent application preparation and prosecution strategies are particularly emphasized. Patent Law I and II are prerequisites to this cours...
Chemical and Biotechnology Patent Practice
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 112 [Cr.] 4 [Description] This basic course is for the study of the legal process, with emphasis on the powers and operations of courts deciding disputes between private parties. Examines the organization of state and federal courts and the relations between them; the processes by which courts resolve disputes...
Civil Procedure
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[Number] 196 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Parallel to the legitimate world of international commerce and finance, there exists an alternative universe of commercial fraud. From Charles Ponzi to Bernard Madoff, commercial fraud is a matter of the gravest concern because, apart from direct and indirect losses, it poses a seriou...
Commercial Fraud
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[Number] 176 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course covers the workings of the finance and payments systems, and the legal doctrines on which they are based, focusing on UCC Articles 3 (Negotiation, Defenses, Holder in Due Course, and the status of parties to an instrument) and 4 (the bank collection system) and Regulation ...
Commercial Paper
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 381 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course will survey and analyze the key documents, cases and developments in that evolution from the Magna Carta to American colonial charters, state constitutions, and the federal Constitution and the drafting of our Bill of Rights. In the process the class will also discuss the ...
Common Law and American Rights
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 623 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course is identical to Law 381 with the exception that it is conducted as a seminar and will require a seminar paper. [Course Name]
Common Law and American Rights Seminar
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[Number] 181 [Cr.] 3 [Description] A treatment of basic telecommunications law, policy, and regulation. [Course Name]
Communications Law
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[Number] 182 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Antitrust law and antitrust jurisdiction is not determined by the origin of, or the geographic area where the relevant action has taken place. It is determined by the action’s effects. These could and, in a globalized economy, normally do take place any- and everywhere. The more so si...
Comparative Antitrust Law
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[Number] 346 [Cr.] 3 [Description] In a world of increasing global interaction it is critical for American lawyers to understand the legal systems of other nations. This course will introduce students to comparative legal methods with an emphasis on comparative constitutional law. It will examine the general features o...
Comparative Constitutional Law
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[Number] 433 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar will explore the legal issues that judges, legislators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys confront as they respond to the recent explosion in computer-related and online crime. In particular, the course will consider how crimes in cyberspace will challenge traditional ap...
Computer Crime Seminar
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 186 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Focuses on choice of law problems, particularly in relation to property, family law, contracts, torts, trusts, and the administration of estates. Consideration is given to acts of jurisdiction, effects of judgments, special problems of federalism, and transnational regulation. [Course...
Conflict of Laws
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[Number] 121 [Cr.] 4 [Description] Analysis of the structure of American government, as defined through the text of the Constitution and its interpretation. The course focuses on the allocation of powers and responsibilities among governmental institutions, including the separation and coordination of the legislative, ...
Constitutional Law I: Structure of Government
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[Number] 158 [Cr.] 2-3 [Description] This course is a continuation of Constitutional Law I, and examines the interpretations of the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the scope of congressional authority to enforce these constitutional provisions. [Course Name]
Constitutional Law II: The 14th Amendment
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 131 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This is a course in which students read and discuss important documents that illuminate the intellectual and historical context in which the U.S. Constitution was framed. The focus is on primary sources, such as the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, our Declaration of Indepe...
Constitutional Law: The Founding
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 487 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar will examine the history and original meaning of the Second Amendment, as well as its interpretation by the courts. Some attention will be given to academic studies of the efficacy of government regulations aimed at reducing the misuse of firearms. There are no prerequisi...
Constitutional Law: The Second Amendment
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 102 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Introduction to the principles of contract law, including the consideration doctrine, offer and acceptance, promissory estoppel, and the regulation of the bargaining process. [Course Name]
Contracts I
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[Number] 103 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Continuation of Contracts I, with emphasis on interpretation, excuse, and remedies. [Course Name]
Contracts II
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[Number] 191 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course covers the basics of copyright law, including determinations of what is copyrightable, formalities for obtaining protection, and copyright registration practices and procedures. The substantive and procedural elements of infringement actions are examined, including defense...
Copyright Law
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[Number] 194 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Focuses principally on state corporate law, though consideration is also given to federal securities, tax, and antitrust laws. Topics covered include business and tax considerations relevant to acquisitions, methods of corporate combinations, directors' duties in connection with sales...
Corporate Acquisitions
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[Number] 198 [Cr.] 3-4 [Description] Focuses on the taxation of corporations and their shareholders. Consideration is given to the tax consequences of the formation of a corporation, distributions, redemptions, liquidations, and reorganizations. Income Tax is a prerequisite to this course. [Course Name]
Corporate Tax
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 106 [Cr.] 3 [Description] General principles of the substantive criminal law and its major processes are derived from study of its common law origins and the effects of such variables as societal values, legislation, and judicial activity. Inquires into uses of the coercive power of the state, the federal-stat...
Criminal Law
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[Number] 389 [Cr.] 2-3 [Description] This course examines the criminal litigation process. Topics covered may include: the charging decision; bail and detention pending trial; right to a speedy trial, to a jury trial, other trial rights; discovery; guilty pleas; double jeopardy; sentencing; appeals; and collateral reme...
Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
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[Number] 206 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Acquaints students with the criminal justice system, its procedures, and Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. [Course Name]
Criminal Procedure: Investigation
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 416 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar course will provide students exposure to the key legal and policy issues related to cybersecurity, including the legal authorities and obligations of both the government and the private sector with respect to protecting computer systems and networks, as well as the nation...
Cybersecurity Law Seminar
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 380 [Cr.] 1 [Description] This course will include a detailed review of design patent law practice, including patent prosecution and litigation. Course work includes in-depth review of the patent prosecution topics of statutory subject matter, actual reduction to practice, novelty, non-obviousness, public use,...
Design Patent Law and Prosecution
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 639 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course surveys American law as it relates to people with disabilities. Primary focus is on discrimination in employment, education, government services, public accommodations run by private entities, and housing. The course will also cover issues involving the civil rights of ins...
Disability Law Seminar
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 210 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Examines the federal regulatory structure governing employment practices that make distinctions based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and age. [Course Name]
Discrimination in Employment
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[Number] 134 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course prepares students interested in practicing family law for the stages of a dissolution of marriage proceeding in Virginia, including client intake, interim proceedings and discovery, and settlement documents, with an emphasis on the documentation required throughout the pro...
Drafting for Practice: Family Law
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[Number] 352 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course introduces students to the laws governing employee benefits, principally the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA. The course will examine selected topics related to both employee pension and welfare benefits including regulation of plans, preemption, plan adm...
ERISA Law
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[Number] 114 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course exposes students to a broad survey of economic, statistical, finance and accounting concepts in which those concepts play a crucial role in determining the outcome of legal disputes. Students will not become expert in these technical areas but will be exposed to both the m...
Economic Foundations for LLM Students
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[Number] 108 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course exposes students to a broad survey of economic, statistical, finance and accounting concepts in which those concepts play a crucial role in determining the outcome of legal disputes. Students will not become expert in these technical areas but will be exposed to both the m...
Economic Foundations of Legal Studies
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[Number] 374 [Cr.] 2 [Description] After a brief review of the methodology of law and economics, this course utilizes the standard tools of economic analysis for the study of private law and legal institutions, with special emphasis on property, torts and contracts. The course builds upon the coherent first-year curric...
Economics of Private Law
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[Number] 420 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course is identical to Law 374 with the exception that it is conducted as a Seminar and will require a seminar paper. [Course Name]
Economics of Private Law Seminar
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[Number] 382 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course covers a broad range of topics involving campaigns and elections. Specific areas typically covered include districting, nominating candidates, campaigning for office, and voting, with some coverage of tax issues, administrative and judicial enforcement, and ethics law. Stu...
Election Law
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[Number] 497 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Increasingly technology has served as a disruptive force which challenges society to make important decisions about what privacy is and how it should be respected and/or protected. Students will survey the historical, policy and technological bases of privacy and information governanc...
Emerging Law of Internet Privacy Seminar
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[Number] 365 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Surveys the law governing the employment relationship in the absence of a collective bargaining agreement. The first section of the course will cover the agency law foundations of the employment relationship including the meaning of employee and the duties of loyalty and obedience. Th...
Employment Law
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[Number] 280 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This 3-credit writing course will cover the basic elements of energy law and its intersection with natural resources and environmental policy and law including air, climate, water, endangered species, and other kinds federal and state regulation. The course will also cover introductor...
Energy Law and the Environment
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[Number] 356 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Energy issues have framed recent international security crises: the OPEC oil shock of 1973-74, both Gulf Wars, 9/11 and Afghanistan, Russian gas threats to Europe (including the Georgia invasion), China’s scramble for energy resources, the financial imbalance caused by oil imports, th...
Energy, Environment, and National Security: Law and Policy
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[Number] 209 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course will focus on legal issues of particular salience to the “entertainment industry,” defined for this purpose as those firms concerned with the commercial creation and distribution of fixed expressive content marketed for its entertainment value. The first half of the course...
Entertainment Law
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[Number] 218 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course covers numerous substantive areas in environmental law, while exploring the theme that environmental law is perhaps the most significant area of the law where structural constitutional questions of federalism and the separation of powers regularly arise. After explaining s...
Environmental Law
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[Number] 604 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Includes a substantial writing requirement, with an emphasis on organization of facts, the development of problem-solving thought patterns, and performance of research, drafting, and writing skills that are involved in the practice of law. Income Tax, Trusts and Estates, and Estate an...
Estate Planning Seminar
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[Number] 219 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Provides a detailed examination of the estate, gift, and intergenerational transfer taxes, and considers their interaction with individual, partnership, and corporate tax provisions. Income Tax and Trusts & Estates are prerequisites to this course. [Course Name]
Estate and Gift Taxation
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http://www.law.gmu.edu/academics/courses/
1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 259 [Cr.] 2 [Description] European Union Competition Law impacts significantly on the ways in which companies, both large multinational corporations, and small and medium-sized enterprises, conduct themselves in the competitive environment. The primary focus of this course will be on the control of multi-later...
European Union Competition Law
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[Number] 642 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This is a two‐credit course that aims to give students a comprehensive introduction to European Union law in the wake of the recent Treaty of Lisbon. The first part of the course will survey the succession of treaties that have led to today’s EU and the institutions that govern the Un...
European Union Law Seminar
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[Number] 222 [Cr.] 3-4 [Description] Examines legal rules governing the proof of disputed issues of fact during adversary proceedings. The emphasis is on rules determining the admissibility of various types of evidence, including testimonial evidence (hearsay rules and impeachment of witnesses), documentary evidence, a...
Evidence
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 612 [Cr.] 2 [Description] The seminar will examine the FTC as an institution in its many facets. The Commission's two main missions, consumer protection and antitrust, provide it with a platform for involvement with major sectors of the economy. We will examine the Commission's structure, its legal authority, ...
FTC Seminar
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[Number] 212 [Cr.] 3 [Description] The course is focused on the formation of families, marriage, marital dissolution and the division of marital assets, cohabitation, issues connected with children, and contemporary directions in the reform of family law. [Course Name]
Family Law
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[Number] 228 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Studies the law underlying the federal budget process, including the preparation of the president's budget, the Congressional Budget Resolution, and the appropriations and reconciliation bills. Also examines the Constitutional provisions underlying the federal budget process. [Course ...
Federal Budget Law
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[Number] 437 [Cr.] 2 [Description] A seminar on the practical aspects of appearing before the Federal Circuit, as well as the most relevant substantive issues currently before the Court. The seminar discusses the history of the Court, the purpose for its creation, the Court's jurisdiction, rules of practice, and the pr...
Federal Circuit Practice Seminar
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1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 226 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Jurisdiction of the federal district courts, including federal question, diversity, and supplemental jurisdiction; appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; federal common law; aspects of the relations of the federal and state courts, including removal, abstention, and the Anti-inj...
Federal Courts
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http://www.law.gmu.edu/academics/courses/
1/1438042990112.50_20150728002310-00313-ip-10-236-191-2_555321762_0.json
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[Number] 625 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course covers the rules and regulations governing employment in the Federal Government. Specifically, it will focus on personnel issues involving misconduct and performance, and Federal employees' rights to appeal adverse actions taken against them. It will also cover the Federal...
Federal Sector Employment Law Seminar
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http://www.law.gmu.edu/academics/courses/
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[Number] 620 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar will examine a variety of topics in the political economy of constitutional federalism. Issues to be covered include the advantages and disadvantages of political decentralization, competition between state and local governments, the impact of federalism on the status of ...
Federalism Seminar
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[Number] 644 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Energy and natural resources policies are often at odds with environmental regulatory policy. Increasingly, federal regulatory policy has been used to trump state policies relating to the generation of energy within states and the extraction of natural resources within states. Many st...
Federalism: Energy, Natural Resource & Environmental Policy Seminar
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[Number] 164 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course will cover the basic principles of First Amendment law related to free expression with a special emphasis on free speech in academia. Individual topics include the development of modern First Amendment law, the categories of unprotected speech, forum analysis, commercial s...
First Amendment Law
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http://www.law.gmu.edu/academics/courses/
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[Number] 481 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar will explore a variety of timely issues and topics in the field of Food Law & Policy, which looks at the basis and impact of laws and regulations that govern the food and beverages we grow, raise, produce, transport, buy, sell, distribute, share, cook, eat, and drink. Thr...
Food Law & Policy Seminar
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[Number] 268 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course examines, in depth, the unique interface of intellectual property law and regulatory law in the FDA-regulated industries, principally the pharmaceutical industry but also medical devices and food additives. Primary attention is given to the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Amendments to ...
Generic Drugs, FDA, and IP Law
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[Number] 125 [Cr.] 2 [Description] The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition. Students may only register with the permission of the instructor. As of Fall 2010, students receive two (2) total credits for this class. One (1) credit is “in-class” and one (1) cr...
Giles Rich Moot Court Competition
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http://www.law.gmu.edu/academics/courses/
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[Number] 428 [Cr.] 2 [Description] The high tech sector, which represents a growing share of the world economy, raises a large number of antitrust and IP law issues. These issues result from the “winner-takes-all” feature of the high tech sector where companies with innovative products and services can quickly sideline...
Global Antitrust and IP Law Seminar
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[Number] 230 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Examines the processes by which private parties establish and perform contracts with the federal government. Specific subjects include the appropriations mechanism; the authority of government agents, sealed-bid and negotiated procurement methods; competition requirements, contract pr...
Government Contracts
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[Number] 233 [Cr.] 3 [Description] The legal and economic foundations of the United States health care delivery and payment systems are analyzed from the differing perspectives of providers, payers, patients, contractors, and governments, including health reform and the Affordable Care Act, the Medicare and Medicaid pr...
Health Law
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[Number] 400 [Cr.] 2 [Description] The Health Law & Antitrust Seminar will cover various topics in health care law, including: (i) the continuing relevance of the Federal Trade Commission’s and Department of Justice’s Statements of Health Care Antitrust Enforcement Policy; (ii) the legal and economic analysis of (a) me...
Health Law & Antitrust Seminar
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[Number] 427 [Cr.] 2 [Description] The legal and economic foundations of the United States health care delivery and payment systems are analyzed from the differing perspectives of providers, payers, patients, contractors, and governments, including health reform and the Affordable Care Act, the Medicare and Medicaid pr...
Health Law Seminar
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[Number] 426 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course provides an introduction to the policy, strategy and practical application of homeland security through an understanding of the authorizing laws, regulations, and polices that established DHS. This is a multi-faceted course that will expose students to complex intergovernm...
Homeland Security Law Seminar
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[Number] 235 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Examines fundamental issues in immigration law of inadmissibility and deportability, relief from removal, asylum and refugee status, citizenship, nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, including labor certification, and administrative and judicial review. [Course Name]
Immigration Law
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[Number] 422 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course will examine U.S. immigration policy as it is embodied in our laws and procedures and will ask how our nation’s immigration policy reflect on our values as a nation. The course will discuss whom we let in, whom we keep out, how do we treat the people already here, and why....
Immigration Policy Seminar
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[Number] 236 [Cr.] 4 [Description] The fundamental statutory and regulatory principles upon which the federal income tax structure is based are considered, with emphasis on individual income taxation. Topics include definition and characterization of income, deductions, and the tax treatment of property transactions. [...
Income Tax
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[Number] 238 [Cr.] 1-3 [Description] Each independent study course must be approved in writing by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, who will require a written syllabus or similar detailed description of the content of the course and the means by which the student will be evaluated. May be 1 to 3 credit hours. Al...
Independent Study
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[Number] 242 [Cr.] 2-3 [Description] Acquaints students with the various problems involved in risk-spreading through private and public insurance. Concepts of risk, uncertainty (or compound risk), and insurability are discussed as well as contractual problems such as mistake, fraud, and coinsurance. The impact of insur...
Insurance Law
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[Number] 608 [Cr.] 2-3 [Description] Acquaints students with the various problems involved in risk-spreading through private and public insurance. Concepts of risk, uncertainty (or compound risk), and insurability are discussed as well as contractual problems such as mistake, fraud, and coinsurance. The impact of insur...
Insurance Law Seminar
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[Number] 367 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course focuses on the protection of proprietary rights in inventions, writings, creative expression, software, trade secrets, trade designations, and other intangible intellectual products by federal patent, copyright, trademark and unfair competition law, and by state trade secr...
Intellectual Property Law
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[Number] 492 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar will provide students with an overview of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and its sources of legal authority. Students will engage in exercises (both written and oral) to analyze and draft practical guidance on relevant legal issues for the IC. Each class will involv...
Intelligence Law Seminar
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[Number] 391 [Cr.] 1 [Description] This is a course on the law and practice of arbitration as a means of commercial dispute resolution. The course places arbitration in the continuum of overall methods of dispute resolution from negotiation to litigation. It then deals with the laws which encourage agreements to arbitr...
International Commercial Arbitration
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[Number] 245 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course provides the foundation for understanding and working with international commerce. It approaches the subject from the perspective of essential payment mechanisms such as open account, banker's acceptances, collections, and letters of credit. From this perspective, it will ...
International Commercial Transactions
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[Number] 255 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This is an introductory course on the theory and practice of international environmental law including bilateral and multilateral agreements and nonbinding instruments. It will touch, generally, on the sources of law: customary international law, general principles of law, decisions a...
International Environmental Law
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[Number] 418 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This seminar examines the major treaties and other international agreements providing protection for patents, trademarks, and copyrights and other forms of intellectual property, including the World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreements, the US free trade agreements and the World Intell...
International Intellectual Property and Policy Seminar
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[Number] 248 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Considers traditional public international law issues and analyzes them in an economic and game-theoretic perspective. Emphasis is on basic concepts of public international law, including sources and evolution of international law; relation of international law to municipal law; subje...
International Law
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[Number] 253 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Covers the theory and practice of international trade law including U.S. laws and the World Trade Organization (WTO) regime. Includes trade remedy litigation (e.g. antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard investigations) and export controls for U.S. national security purposes (...
International Trade Law and Regulation
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[Number] 093 [Cr.] 1 [Description] This course is designed to provide LL.M. students who did not receive their legal education in the United States with an overview of U.S. law. Students will develop basic research and writing skills necessary for the study and practice of law in the U.S., while covering substantive ar...
Introduction to U.S. Law.
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[Number] 126 [Cr.] 2 [Description] The purpose of this course is to prepare student for effective participation in the Jessup International Moot Court Competition. All class participants must be members of the GMU Jessup International Moot Court Team. As of Fall 2010, students receive two (2) total credits for this cla...
Jessup International Moot Court Competition
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[Number] 350 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course is an introduction to the philosophy of law. The first half will deal with the descriptive problem of what the law is. Is the law reducible to sociological facts — in particular power? Is it reducible to ethics? Is it something completely different — neither sociological n...
Jurisprudence
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[Number] 622 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This seminar is devoted to a close reading of major works of legal and political philosophy. For Spring 2015, the seminar will consider the topic of education for liberty and happiness in Locke, Plato, and Rousseau. Students who enrolled in Law 622 in prior years may enroll in the cou...
Jurisprudence Readings Seminar
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[Number] 435 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This is an interdisciplinary course introducing students to the fundamental question of post-World War II Anglo-American jurisprudence, the problem of deriving meaning from written texts. The derivation of meaning from written documents characterizes attorneys' work (interpreting case...
Jurisprudence Seminar
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[Number] 096 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Introduces the student to research methods, analysis of legal concepts, and the art of legal writing. Students begin to learn the research, analysis and writing process through an assigned series of open and closed memoranda. [Course Name]
LRWA I - Introduction to Legal Research, Writing and Analysis
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[Number] 097 [Cr.] 3 [Description] Students continue developing their research, analytical and writing skills by working through a trial-level problem. Students will also participate in an oral argument. [Course Name]
LRWA II - Trial Level Writing
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[Number] 098 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Appellate Writing builds on the practical legal writing skills students mastered during their first year. This course provides an opportunity to perform in-depth legal research and a high level of legal analysis as students brief both sides of an appellate case and participate in oral...
LRWA III - Appellate Writing
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[Number] 099 [Cr.] 2 [Description] Students continue developing their research, analytical and writing skills by drafting legal documents that govern the future behavior of clients and other parties. [Course Name]
LRWA IV - Legal Drafting
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[Number] 256 [Cr.] 3-4 [Description] An overview of the law of union and management relations in the private sector: development and coverage of federal labor law; representation elections; unfair labor practices; relations between employees and their union; employee concerted activity; anti-union discrimination; union...
Labor Law
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[Number] 258 [Cr.] 3 [Description] This course focuses on government restrictions on the use of privately owned land and government takings of land. It reviews nuisance law, zoning and development restrictions, the use of eminent domain and the issue of regulatory takings. The course also considers the relative institu...
Land Use Planning
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[Number] 511 [Cr.] 1 [Description] Limited to incoming editorial board members of the law school’s academic journals. As of Fall 2010, students receive one (1) credit for this class which is “out-of-class” credit and graded “CR”. [Course Name]
Law Journal Management
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[Number] 394 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This course is intended to give students who intend to enter private practice the basic foundation in the business aspects of law necessary to enable them to operate their own practice or to become a financially productive member of a firm. The course will expose students to all aspec...
Law Practice Management
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[Number] 208 [Cr.] 2 [Description] This is an advanced course that will bring together outside scholars, resident faculty, and GMUSL students for discussion of cutting-edge research papers in the law and economics tradition. Approximately two of every three weeks will feature a leading scholar presenting a paper growin...
Law and Economics Colloquium
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