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SPRING 2002
REGISTRATION BULLETIN
Schedule of Classes
Registration Instructions
Academic Regulations
Course and Faculty Information
Important Note: Spring
registration will be conducted online - see the
instructions for online
registration on page 3 of this Bulletin.
A List of Changes to the
Preliminary Schedule and
a List of Classes Likely
to be Offered in the 2002 Summer Session
appear on pages 21-22.
For information on paying
your tuition online,
see "Payment of Tuition
and Fees" on page 5.
Please note new policy
on adding courses during the second week
of the semester, explained
on page 4.
November 15, 2001
SPRING 2002 REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
1. BEFORE YOU REGISTER
Outstanding Balance
If you are indebted to the university, you will have
a "Financial Hold" preventing you from registering. Before you can register,
you must clear the Financial Hold with the Bursar's office in Room 290.
If you are uncertain whether you have an outstanding balance, you can
check your account status by logging into the Online Registration System
(go to the Student Portal page at http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/current.html
and click on the Online Registration link; then follow the instructions
under the Account Holds heading toward the bottom of the page).
If you believe there are unusual circumstances
justifying your registration despite an outstanding balance, you should
send an e-mail containing a detailed explanation of the unusual circumstances
to the Bursar's office (gbooker@kentlaw.edu). Please be advised that
such waivers are not routinely granted. (See also the provisions on
Financial Delinquency on page 5 of this Bulletin.)
2. SELECTING YOUR COURSES
Using the schedule of classes in this Bulletin,
decide which courses you would like to take. Because of enrollment limits,
some of your choices of courses or sections may be closed when your
registration requests are processed. If you are not admitted into one
or more of the courses you select, you may add additional courses or
change your schedule in other ways after the initial registration period
is complete (see page 3). We do not maintain waiting lists
for any course except Intensive Trial Advocacy.
The following courses have low enrollment
limits in the Spring 2002 semester:
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation,
and Negotiations: 24 students.
Advanced Research, Legal Drafting, Legal
Drafting & Research, and all seminars: 15 students.
Advice Desk 1: 20 students.
Business Entity Transactions: 16 students.
Intellectual Property Trial Advocacy:
15 students.
Legislative Advocacy: 25 students.
Litigation Technology: 16 students.
Trial Advocacy 1: 12 students; Trial Advocacy
2: 10 students. (There are several sections of Trial Advocacy for each
of the 6:00 sections listed on the schedule; you will be assigned to
a specific section after registration.)
Degree Requirements
The following courses must be successfully
completed to earn the J.D. degree: Contracts, Criminal Law, Torts, Civil
Procedure, Justice & the Legal System, Property, Legal Writing 1
and 2, Advanced Research, Legal Drafting (or a combined Legal Drafting
& Research course), Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility,
one seminar, and attendance at Professionalism
Day.
In order to satisfy the seminar requirement,
you must have completed at least 54 hours of credit, and Advanced
Research, prior to beginning the seminar. You may take a seminar
before you have earned 54 hours, but it will not satisfy the senior
seminar graduation requirement.
Important:
All required courses must be taken in the sequence designated in the
registration instructions. First-year students may not
register for any courses other than the ones identified for their section
on the schedule of courses. Even though schedules are set for first-year
students, you still must register for your Spring courses. Second-year
Evening students must register for Constitutional Law. Second-year
Day students must register for Advanced Research or Legal Drafting,
whichever course you are not taking in the current Fall semester. Alternatively,
you may take a combined 3-credit Legal Drafting & Research section,
which will satisfy your Advanced Research and Legal Drafting writing
requirement. Evening students may satisfy the Advanced
Research and Legal Drafting requirements in either their second or third
year, either by taking the separate courses or by taking a combined
3-credit Legal Drafting & Research section.
Additonal Information about the
Advanced Research/Legal Drafting Requirement: You are not permitted
to take both Advanced Research and Legal Drafting in the same semester,
unless you take a combined Legal Drafting & Research section. If
you have already taken Advanced Research or Legal Drafting, you are
permitted to take a combined section in satisfaction of the other course
requirement. Exceptions to the Advanced Research/Legal Drafting
requirement: Students in the Labor and Employment Law Certificate
Program should register for one of the sections of the special combined
course listed on the course schedule. Students in the Litigation and
Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (LADR) are exempt from Advanced
Research and Legal Drafting. The Advanced Research requirement (but
not the Legal Drafting requirement) is waived for students who complete
two semesters of Law Review or who take Appellate Advocacy as part of
the Moot Court program.
Prerequisites
Course prerequisites that are listed on
the class schedule must be completed prior to registering for a course.
The instructor may waive a prerequisite by signing a Waiver of Prerequisite
form, which must be approved by Dean Sowle.
Intensive Trial Advocacy 1
Students enrolled in the January 2002 session
of Intensive Trial Advocacy 1 must enroll in Trial Advocacy 2 in
the Spring 2002 semester, or risk losing credit for the Intensive course.
Credit Hour Limitations
Day students must take at least 12 and
not more than 16 credit hours. Evening students must take at least 8
and not more than 11 credit hours. Students enrolled in Law Review or
Moot Court Honor Society may take one extra credit hour without special
permission. Graduating seniors needing fewer than the minimum
number of hours to graduate may take fewer credits without special permission,
but must comply with the residency requirements in § 1.5 of the
Student Handbook. You may request an exception to these limitations
by submitting a Petition to Dean Sowle setting forth the extenuating
circumstances justifying the exception.
Please be careful to observe the credit
hour limitations. Day students who register for more than 16 hours,
and Evening students who register for more than 11 hours, may do so
only if one of the above exceptions applies, or a Petition approved
by Dean Sowle is submitted to the Registrar's office. If you enroll
for more than the maximum number of hours without permission, you will
have to drop a course when the Registrar discovers it, regardless of
how late in the semester the discovery is made.
Residency Requirement
Students must comply with the residency
requirement in § 1.5 of the Student Handbook. Please read this
section carefully and contact Dean Sowle if you have any questions.
Registering for Courses
Not in Your Division
Students must take at least one-half of
their credit hours in the division in which they are enrolled. Courses
offered only at 4:00 p.m. are considered both Day Division and Evening
Division courses. Except for the Saturday sections of Trial Advocacy,
all Trial Advocacy courses are considered Evening Division courses.
Day Division courses are indicated by
the designation "001" (or "002" if there is more than one Day section
of the course) following the course number. Evening Division courses
are indicated by the designation "051" (or "052" if there is more than
one Evening section of the course) following the course number. If a
course is listed on both the Day and Evening Division schedules, it
will be listed with the designation "071."
Making Up Incompletes
If you will be making up an Incomplete
grade by attending a class in the Spring semester, do not register
for the course. You must submit an Incomplete Course Make-up Notice
to the Registrar's office by the end of the second week of classes in
order to earn credit for the course.
Courses With Exams Scheduled at
the Same Time
Please note that you are permittedto
register for courses even if their exams are scheduled at the same time;
one of your exams will be rescheduled in accordance with the rules stated
in § 7.2 of the Student Handbook.
Final Undergraduate Transcript Required
If your final undergraduate transcript
is not on file in the Registrar's office, you will not be permitted
to register for the Spring semester. You must contact your undergraduate
school and request that your final transcript be sent to the Registrar's
office. Advanced students will lose registration priority if their transcript
is received after their priority group registers.
Registering for LL.M. Courses
Refer to §§ 1.21 and 1.22 of
the Student Handbook for information on the joint J.D./LL.M. degree
programs in Taxation and Financial Services. Students in the joint programs
must register as joint degree students and consult with the program
directors before registering for LL.M. courses.
Non-joint degree students may register
for graduate Tax courses only with the permission of Professor Gerald
Brown. Non-joint degree students may register for Financial Services
graduate courses provided the student is in his/ her final year of law
school and ranks in the top one-third of the class. The Taxation LL.M.
schedules appear after the J.D. schedule later in this Bulletin; contact
the Center for Law and Financial Markets for the Financial Services
LL.M. schedule.
3. HOW TO REGISTER
Online Registration
We will be conducting Spring registration
online. To register, go to the Law School's Student Portal page (http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/current.html)
and click on the Online Registration link. You can use any computer
with Internet access, either inside or outside the Law School.
Registration will take place Friday, November
16 through Tuesday, November 20. You may register at any time during
that period. After the end of the registration period, the registration
requests will be processed according to each student's registration
priority (see below). In other words, registration will not be
conducted on a first-come, first served basis; as long as you register
during the designated period, you will have an equal chance of being
admitted to a class as other students within your registration priority
group.
To learn what classes you have been admitted
into, you must check the Online Registration site on or after Tuesday,
November 27. Registering for a class during the initial registration
period is no guarantee that you will be admitted into the class - you
must check the web site on or after Tuesday, November 27 to learn what
classes you have been admitted into.
Registration Priority
Day Division students have priority for
Day Division classes; Evening Division students have priority for Evening
Division classes. For classes in the 4:00 time slot, seats are allocated
proportionately between Day Division and Evening Division. Within divisions,
registration priority is based on the date a student began law studies,
with the earliest starting date having the highest priority.
First-Year Students
Although first-year students have set schedules,
you still must register for your Spring courses using the Online Registration
system. Please be sure to register for the courses in the proper section;
if you have any questions about your section number, contact the Registrar's
office.
ADDING & DROPPING
COURSES
You may add open courses or drop courses
using the online system beginning Tuesday, November27. New faculty
policy: You may add an open course without special permission
until the end of the first week of Spring classes; during the second
week, however, you may add an open course only with permission of
the instructor. You may not add a course after the second week of
the semester. To find out what courses are open, check the Online Registration
system.
You may withdraw from any course except
a required course, a clinical course, Law Review, Moot Court, or Intensive
Trial Advocacy at any time prior to the date of the final exam or final
paper (see § 3.10(c) of the Student Handbook.). There is no tuition
penalty if you drop a course during the first two weeks of classes.
You will not receive a tuition refund, however, if you drop a
course after the second week of classes.
MAY 2002 GRADUATES
Students who will complete their degree
requirements in the Spring 2002 semester must submit an Application
for Graduation form to the Registrar as soon as possible after their
schedule is finalized. Graduating seniors should read §§
1.7 and 1.8 of the Student Handbook regarding their degree requirements.
TUITION CHARGES AND
PAYMENTS
Tuition for the Spring 2002 Semester
Tuition for first-year day students for
the Spring 2002 semester is $12,110. Tuition for first-year evening
students is $8,885. Tuition for upper-level students is $855 per credit
hour for J.D. students who began their studies in Fall 2000 or earlier,
and for visiting and special students. A $50 student activity fee is
payable each semester by J.D. students. Graduating seniors will be assessed
a $75 graduation fee.
Student Health Insurance
All students registered for at least 12
hours in the Fall, regardless of their division, were automatically
billed $566 for student health insurance for the year. If you were registered
for fewer than 12 credit hours in the Fall semester but register for
at least 12 hours in the Spring semester, you will be enrolled in the
IIT Student Health Plan and assessed a fee of $340.
You may waive insurance coverage if you
have comparable coverage by filing a waiver form by January 25, 2002.
If you were covered in the Fall semester, are taking fewer than 12 hours
in the Spring semester, and do not want coverage in the Spring semester,
you may request cancellation of the student insurance by January 25,
2001, and your student account will be refunded half of the amount you
paid at the beginning of the year. If the waiver is not received by
January 25, you will be billed for the insurance. Waiver forms and brochures
explaining the insurance coverage are available in the Registrar's office.
Completed forms should be addressed to the IIT Counseling and Health
Service and dropped in the Main Campus mail slot in the College Service
Center on the second floor. If you intend to waive the student insurance
coverage, please read the waiver instructions in the insurance brochure
carefully.
If you have previously filed a waiver
form, you need not file another one as long as you are continuously
enrolled in law school, unless your outside insurance carrier changes.
In that case, you must notify the Counseling and Health Services office.
A student who waived insurance in
the prior semester, or a student registered for fewer than 12 credit
hours in the Spring semester (whether in the Day or Evening Division),
will not be covered by student insurance unless the student elects to
obtain coverage. If you want student insurance coverage, you
must apply for it; applications are available in the Registrar's office.
If you are making up Incompletes, those
credits will not count in determining whether you will be automatically
enrolled in the health insurance plan.
A more comprehensive health plan than
the basic plan offered by the university is available for students at
an additional cost. If you are interested in learning about this plan,
contact the Counseling and Health Service office at 312/808-7100.
Payment of Tuition and Fees
Payments can be made by cash, check, money
order, MasterCard, Visa, or Discover, either by mail or in person, at
the Bursar's office in Room 290. All tuition payments for the Spring
2002 semester are due by January 14, 2002. You may also pay your
tuition online by going to the Student Portal Page at http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/current.html
and clicking on the Online Tuition Payment link.
Financial aid awards are considered credits
to the student's tuition account. Students whose financial aid awards
do not cover the cost of tuition and fees must select a payment option
below. Financial aid scholarships and loans supercede all other
forms of tuition payment. Therefore, if anticipated loans and scholarships
cover a portion or all of your tuition costs, a student may not use
other forms of payment - including credit cards - to participate in
a payment option for the amount of tuition cost covered by the anticipated
scholarship or loan amount.
1. IIT Semester Payment Plan: The total
balance of tuition and fees, minus financial aid (if applicable), is
due on January 14, 2002.
Full-Time Students Only:
2. IIT Monthly Payment Plan: The total
balance of Spring semester tuition and fees, minus anticipated financial
aid (if applicable), may be divided into four equal installments. The
first installment is due by January 14, 2002. The remaining three payments
are due on the first of each month, beginning March 1, 2002, and ending
May 1, 2002. There is a $45 fee associated with this option. See the
Bursar for more information.
Financial Delinquency
Any student who fails to meet the required
payments will be charged a late penalty. This penalty will be 1% per
month of the amount due on the payment due date. The 1% payment penalty
will be charged each month until the amount due is paid in full.
Students with delinquent accounts are
subject to suspension and exclusion from classes after being notified
by the Bursar. These students may not be permitted to take final exams,
receive course credits or transcripts, register for a subsequent semester,
receive a degree, or be certified to the bar examiners.
Financial Aid
All students who will be attending Chicago-Kent
during the Spring 2002 semester are eligible to apply for either federal
or private loans. In order to apply for any loans, the Financial Aid
Office requires that each student submit all of the 2001-2002 documents
listed below.
Federal Stafford Loans: Students
interested in applying for federal loans must be enrolled for at least
6 credit hours. To apply for federal financial aid for the Spring
2002 semester, students must submit the following documents to the Financial
Aid Office:
- 2001-2002 Student Aid Report (SAR)
(Note:If Chicago-Kent is listed on your SAR, you do not need
to submit it; the Financial Aid Office will receive it electronically.)
- Express Federal Loan Application
- If requested by the Financial Aid
Office: 2000 federal tax returns and Verification Worksheet
- Any other documents requested by the
Financial Aid Office
Private Loans: Students interested
in applying for private loans must be enrolled in at least 3 credit hours.
To apply for private loans for the Spring 2002 semester, students must
submit the following documents to the Financial Aid Office:
- 2001-2002 Student Aid Report (SAR)
(Note: If Chicago-Kent is listed on your SAR, you do not need
to submit it; the Financial Aid Office will receive it electronically.)
- Express Alternative Loan Application
- Any other documents requested by the
Financial Aid Office
Loan Checks: Students must complete a loan application/promissory
note for each loan they wish to receive. The Bursar's office will contact
you by e-mail when your refund is available or your loan check is ready
for endorsement.
If you have any questions regarding financial aid,
please e-mail FINAID, stop by Suite 230, or call the Financial Aid Office
at 906-5180.
PASS-FAIL ELECTION
A student in good academic standing may
elect to take courses on a pass/fail basis except: (1) required
courses, including Professional Responsibility; (2) seminars, whether
or not being taken to fulfill the seminar degree requirement; (3) courses
that have been designated by instructors as ineligible for the pass/fail
election; (4) courses that are graded only on a pass/fail basis,
such as clinical courses, Moot Court, and Law Review; (5) LL.M. courses;
(6) Trial Advocacy and Appellate Advocacy courses; and (7) courses taken
to fulfill the requirements of the Environmental Law, International
and Comparative Law, Intellectual Property Law, Labor and Employment
Law, or LADR certificates.
No more than six credit hours taken under
this election will count toward the graduation credit requirement.
Spring courses that have been designated
as ineligible for the pass/fail election by instructors are indicated
on the Schedule of Classes.
Refer to §§2.4-2.7 of the Student
Handbook for the procedures for making the pass/fail election; other
limitations on the pass/fail election; and limitations on total credit
hours you may earn taking certain designated types of courses. A student
taking a course on a pass/fail basis must earn at least a C to receive
a P ("Pass"). If you pass the course but fail to earn at least a C,
you will receive a grade of LP ("Low Pass").
EMPLOYMENT LIMITATION
Day Division students may not be employed
for more than 20 hours per week during the semester.
RECOMMENDED COURSES
FOR UPPER-LEVEL STUDENTS
(adopted by the faculty February 1998)
Courses with an asterisk (*) cover material
that is likely to be tested on many states' bar examinations, including
that of Illinois. Other subject areas may also be tested; you should
review the Illinois Bar Exam Information Statement in the Registration
Bulletin - or, if you plan to take another state's bar examination,
contact the bar examiners in that state - before deciding which of these
and other courses to take.
I. The faculty believes that every student
should take:
A. *Business Organizations (4 hours)
B. *Evidence (3 hours)
C. Personal Income Tax (3 hours)
D. *Remedies (3 hours)
II. The faculty believes that every student
should take at least 15 hours from the following list of courses, with
most courses taken from subsection A and at least one course taken from
subsection B. Courses not included in this list should not be thought
of as less challenging or unimportant. They may have been left off because
they cover advanced or very specialized material, or because they focus
on non-traditional legal materials. Students may take some of those
courses with their remaining electives.
For those students whose grade point average
is in the lower third of the class after they complete their first year
of law school (two semesters for day students and three semesters for
evening students), we recommend in the strongest terms possible that
they take at least 20 hours (rather than 15) from the following list,
with a heavy emphasis on courses that cover subject matter that may
be tested on the Bar Exam.
A. Courses in major areas of law:
1. Administrative Law (3 hours).
2. Civil Litigation: one of the following:
Appellate Courts (3 hours), Civil Procedure 2 (3 hours), Complex Litigation
(3 hours), Federal Courts (3 hours), *Illinois Civil Procedure (2 hours).
3.Commercial Law: one or two of the following:
*Secured Transactions (3 hours), *Payment Systems (3 hours), *Survey
(4 hours).
4. *Conflict of Laws (3 hours)
5. *Constitutional Law: First Amendment
(3 hours).
6. Criminal Procedure: *The Adjudicative
Process (3 hours), or *The Investigative Process (3 hours).
7. *Estates and Trusts (4 hours).
8. *Family Law (3 hours).
9. International Law (3 hours) or Comparative
Law (3 hours).
10. *Products Liability (2 hours).
B. Courses focusing on statutory analysis
and/or administrative agencies:
1. Antitrust (3 hours).
2. Bankruptcy (3 hours).
3. Copyright Law (3 hours) or Patent Law
(3 hours).
4. Employee Benefits Law (2 or 3 hours).
5. Employment Discrimination (3 hours).
6. Environmental Law & Policy (3 hours).
7. Labor Law (4 hours).
8. Legislation (3 hours).
9. Securities Regulation (3 hours).
10. Taxation of Business Enterprises (4
hours).
III. The faculty believes that every student
should take at least one skills or one clinical course from the following
list of such courses. Beginning in February 1998, the Illinois Bar Examination
began using the Multistate Performance Test to test six fundamental
lawyering skills: problem, solving, legal analysis and reasoning, factual
analysis, communication, organization and management of a legal task,
and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. Each of the courses
listed below teaches some of the above-listed skills. You should review
the Illinois Bar Exam Information Statement in the registration materials
- or, if you plan to take another state's bar examination, contact the
bar examiners in that state - before deciding which of these courses
to take.
A. Skills courses:
1. Business Entity Formation (3 hours).
2. Business Entity Transactions (3 hours).
3. Employment Litigation (3 hours) (for
students in the Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program only).
4. Pretrial Litigation (3 hours) (for students
in the LADR Program only).
5. Trial Advocacy (3 hours).
B. Clinical courses:
1. In-House Clinic (3 or 4 hours):
a. Civil Litigation (3 or 4 hours).
b. Criminal Defense (3 or 4 hours).
c. Health Law Litigation (3 or 4
hours).
d. Mediation and ADR (3 or 4 hours).
e. Tax Litigation (3 hours).
2. Judicial Externship (4 hours).
3. Legal Externship (4 hours).
4. Labor and Employment Externship (4 hours)
(for students in the Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program only).
BAR EXAM INFORMATION
Illinois does not require students to take
any specific courses to be eligible to take the bar exam. However, some
states may require specific law courses to be eligible to take the bar
exam. In addition, many states - including Illinois -- require students
to register with the bar examiners while in law school. If you intend
to take an out-of-state bar exam, you should check the state's requirements
in the Registrar's office or Dean Sowle's office as soon as possible.
First-year students who intend to take
the Illinois Bar exam should register by March 1, 2002. Registration
packets are available in the Registrar's office. Note:
Although you are not required to register as a first-year student, the
advantage of doing so is that you will avoid paying a late fee of $250
imposed on those who register at any point after March 1 of their first
year. If you are uncertain whether you intend to practice in Illinois,
you may want to consider waiting to register and paying the late fee
should you eventually decide to take the Illinois bar exam. If you have
questions about the application materials, you may call the Illinois
Board of Admissions to the Bar at 217/522-5917.
The Illinois Bar Exam
To be admitted to practice in Illinois,
you must take the Illinois bar exam and the Multistate Professional
Responsibility Exam (MPRE), which is administered separately from the
bar exam in March, August, and November each year. The MPRE may be taken
before you receive your law degree, so long as you have completed a
certain minimum number of credits. Applications are available in the
Registrar's office.
Illinois Supreme Court Rule 704(g) states
that the following subjects may be tested on the
Illinois bar exam: "administrative law; agency; business organizations;
commercial paper; conflict of laws; contracts; criminal law and procedure;
domestic relations; equity jurisprudence, including trusts and mortgages;
evidence; Federal and State constitutional law; Federal jurisdiction
and procedure; Federal taxation; Illinois procedure; personal property,
including sales and bailments; real property; secured transactions;
suretyship; torts; wills and administration of estates." Not all of
these topics are tested regularly on the Illinois bar exam; for example,
in recent years, administrative law and federal taxation have not been
tested.
The Illinois bar exam is comprised of
four parts: the Multistate Essay Exam (3 hours, 6 essay questions);
the Illinois Essay Exam (90 minutes, 3 essay questions); the Multistate
Bar Exam (two 3-hour sessions, 200 multiple-choice questions); and the
Multistate Performance Test (90 minutes, one item). The following subjects
have been tested on the Illinois bar exam in recent years or are considered
to be reasonably likely to be tested. However, you cannot assume
that the composition of the exam will be the same when you take the
bar exam.
Multistate Essay Exam: Business
Organizations (agency, partnerships, corporations); Commercial Law (sales,
secured transactions, commercial paper); Estates & Trusts (future
interests, trusts and wills); Conflict of Laws; Family Law; Federal
Civil Procedure.
Illinois Essay Exam: All of the
above topics, plus Equity (Remedies); Illinois Civil Procedure; and
Personal Property.
Multistate Bar Exam: Contracts/Sales,
Torts, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, and
Real Property.
Multistate Performance Test: Skills
tested include problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, factual
analysis, communication, organization and management of a legal task,
and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas.
FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Biographies of most full-time faculty members
appear in the publication entitled Faculty Biographies/Course Descriptions:
2000-2002 (available in the Registrar's
office, Dean Sowle's office, and the Admissions Office) and on the Chicago-Kent
web site at http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty.
Biographies of new members of the full-time faculty, as well as biographies
of adjunct and visiting faculty members teaching in the Spring 2002
semester, appear below.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Visiting Associate Professor
Professor Fuentes-Rohwer received his B.A. in Psychology
and Spanish from the University of Michigan, his M.A. in Social Foundations
of Education from Eastern Michigan University, and his J.D. from the
University of Michigan Law School. In addition, he is working on an
LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Ph.D. in Political
Science from the University of Michigan. He has taught at the University
of Michigan and Georgetown Law Center. His publications include articles
on election law and racial redistricting.
Peter Orebech
Visiting Faculty Member
Professor Orebech is an Associate Professor
of Fisheries Law at the University of Tromso in Norway and a Visiting
Professor at the Technical University of Norway. He was the supervisor
of a study on Constitutional Power and Democracy in Norway and several
other studies, and is a member of the Norwegian Bar Association Advisory
Group on Fisheries Law. He was Bellagio Scholar for the Rockefeller
Foundation in 1999 and a Fulbright Scholar in 1996-1997.
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Nancy Albert-Goldberg
White Collar Crime
Ms. Albert-Golberg earned both her B.A.
and J.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1993 to 1995, she was
an attorney with the Illinois Death Penalty Resource Center. She has
also worked as a public defender and as an Assistant Illinois Attorney
General. She is currently engaged in the private practice of law.
David S. Allen
Legal Drafting & Research
Mr. Allen received his B.S. from the University
of Illinois in 1977 and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in
1980. He is an associate with Jacobs Burns Orlove Stanton & Hernandez.
Douglas Bristol
Family & Employment-Based Immigration
Practice
Mr. Bristol received his B.S. from the
University of Wisconsin in 1966 and his J.D. from the University of
Illinois in 1969. He is currently in the private practice of law specializing
in immigration law.
Thomas Brzezenski
Gift and Estate Tax
Mr. Brzezenski received his J.D. from Tulane
University School of Law, an M.S. in accounting from the State University
of New York at Binghamton, and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University
School of Law.
Thomas B. Cahill
Legal Drafting
Mr. Cahill received his bachelor's degree
from Illinois Benedictine College and his law degree from Northern Illinois
University College of Law. He currently practices with Altman, Kritzer
& Levick.
Kit Chaskin
Insurance
Ms. Chaskin earned her B.S. from Northwestern
University in 1983 and her J.D. from Northwestern University in 1990.
She is currently with the firm of Sachnoff & Weaver in Chicago,
where she specializes in insurance law and litigation.
Champ W. Davis, Jr.
Negotiations
Mr. Davis is a partner in the firm of Davis,
Mannix & McGrath and graduated from the University of Illinois College
of Law in 1966.
Juan Javier del Granado
Latin American Business Law
Mr. Del Granado holds a D.U.J. from the
Universidad Mayor de San Simon in Bolivia and a J.D. from Northwestern
University School of Law. He practiced corporate and business law and
taught economic theory and commercial law in Bolivia, and served as
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of California
at Berkeley School of Law. He currently works for the Center for Latin
American Studies in Chicago.
Bernard J. Farber
Legal Drafting
Mr. Farber received his B.S. from the State
University of New York and his law degree from Chicago-Kent College
of Law. He is engaged in private practice.
Ira C. Feldman
Advanced Issues in Family Law
Mr. Feldman received his B.A. from American
University in 1970 and his J.D. from Washington College of Law in 1974.
He is currently a partner with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon,
where his practice focuses on domestic relations law.
Geoffrey G. Gilbert
Legal Drafting & Research
Mr. Gilbert received both his A.B. (1966)
and J.D. (1969) from the University of Michigan. He is currently of
counsel to McBride Baker & Coles.
Bradley Ginn
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mr. Ginn received his J.D. from Wayne State
University. He is the executive director of the Center for Conflict
Resolution in Chicago.
Vincent J. Gnoffo
Advanced Research
Mr. Gnoffo received his B.S. in Electrical
Engineering in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and
his J.D. in 1998 from The John Marshall Law School. He is currently
an associate with Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione.
David Gordon
Legal and Economic Transition in Southeastern
Europe and the Balkans
Mr. Gordon earned a Ph.D. from Claremont
Graduate School and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was
appointed by the U.S. Small Business Administration to be Assistant
Regional Counsel for the Midwest in 1991; he is presently Attorney/Advisor
and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. Prior to joining the SBA, Mr. Gordon
practiced corporate and international law at private firms in Chicago.
He has provided analysis of proposed Eastern European legislation for
the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative
for the past decade. Mr. Gordon has published widely, including several
articles on privatization and foreign investment in Poland.
Eric F. Greenberg
Legal Drafting & Research
Mr. Greenberg practices with the firm of
Ungaretti & Harris in Chicago. He received his B.A. from Northwestern
University's College of Arts and Sciences and his J.D. from Cornell
Law School in 1983.
Nancy Hablutzel
Disability Law
Ms. Hablutzel received her Ph.D. from Loyola
University and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. She serves
as Education Advisor to the Illinois Department of Children and Family
Services and is affiliated with Northern Illinois University.
Eldon Ham
Sports Law
Mr. Ham received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent
in 1976. He is currently in private practice specializing in sports
law.
William M. Hannay
Antitrust
Mr. Hannay received his bachelor's degree
from Yale University and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law
Center. He is a partner with the firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite.
Keith Harley
Environmental Law Clinic
Mr. Harley is director of the Environmental
Law Program at the Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc. He received his J.D. from
Chicago-Kent in 1988.
Ken Harris
Tax Planning for International Business
Mr. Harris received his J.D. from the University
of Chicago in 1985 and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University
in 1988. He is a partner with Jenner & Block in Chicago.
Marshall J. Hartman
Philosophy of the Criminal Justice System
seminar
Mr. Hartman received his law degree from
the University of Chicago in 1958 and is currently with the Capital
Litigation Division of the Illinois State Appellate Defender Office.
William N. Howard
International Commercial Litigation
Mr. Howard received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent
in 1985. He is currently a partner with Schwartz and Freeman.
Bradley J. Hulbert
Patent Office Practice
Mr. Hulbert received his law degree from
the University of Minnesota in 1977 and his M.B.A. in 1978. He is a
partner with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, where he specializes
in patent law.
Thor Ketzback
Current Issues in Environmental Law
Mr. Ketzback received his undergraduate
and J.D. degrees from DePaul Univeristy and an LL.M. in Environmental
Law from George Washington University. He is currently Assistant Regional
Counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Donald Kempster
Immigration Law and Policy
Mr. Kempster is a 1976 graduate of Valparaiso
University Law School and is a partner in the firm of Kempster &
Lenz-Calvo, Ltd..
William C. Kling
Legislative Advocacy
Mr. Kling is an alumnus of Chicago-Kent,
receiving his J.D. in 1987. He currently practices with the firm Ancel,
Glink, Diamond, Cope & Bush, P.C.
Judith E. Koehler
State Constitutional Law
Judge Koehler received her B.S. in Business
Education from Western Illinois University and her J.D. from Loyola
University of Chicago School of Law. She has worked in all three branches
of Illinois government, including serving as an Illinois State Representative
(1980-1986), as an Assistant State's Attorney (1991-1994), as an Illinois
States's Attorney's Appellate Prosecutor (1994-1998), and as a Justice
of the Illinois Appellate Court (1998-2000). She has taught at Loyola
University of Chicago School of Law and Midstate College.
Clint Krislov
Consumer Protection Law
Mr. Krislov earned his B.A. in 1971 from
Northwestern University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and his
J.D. in 1974 from Cornell Law School. He is the senior attorney with
Krislov & Associates, Ltd., which focuses on complex litigation
and public interest class actions.
Corinne M. Levitz
Mediation
Ms. Levitz received her B.A. from Carleton
College in 1974 and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in
1977. She is currently a mediator with the Marriage and Family Counseling
Service in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Douglas Litowitz
Mr. Litowitz earned his B.A. from Oberlin
College in 1985, his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law
in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago in
1996. Mr. Litowitz was formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent
and has also taught at Florida Coastal School of Law and the University
of Miami School of Law. He has published widely on issues of philosophy
and the law.
Nancy Livingston
Estates & Trusts
Ms. Livingston received her B.A. from Wellesley
College and her J.D. (with honors) from DePaul University College of
Law. She also earned an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School
of Law. She formerly was a member of the clinical faculty of Chicago-Kent,
and was a partner with the Chicago firm of Rudnick & Wolfe, where
she specialized in tax, corporate, and estate planning law. She is currently
with the firm of Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chtd.
Richard J. Mason
Bankruptcy
Mr. Mason received his J.D. from the University
of Notre Dame in 1977 and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago
in 1980. He is currently a partner at Ross & Hardies.
Terrence McConville
Legal Drafting
Mr. McConville received his J.S. from John
Marshall Law School and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
He is in the private practice of law.
Ira A. Moltz
Legal Drafting
Mr. Moltz received his J.D. from American
University. He is currently a private practitioner.
Jennifer S. Moore
Advanced Research
Ms. Moore received her B.A. from the University
of Iowa in 1990 and her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in 1996.
She is currently Legal Counsel to Commissioner Ruth Kretschmer of the
Illinois Commerce Commission.
Hal R. Morris
Legal Drafting & Research
Mr. Morris received his J.D. (with high
honors) from Chicago-Kent College of Law and his M.B.A. from the University
of Chicago. He is currently a partner with Arnstein & Lehr.
Steven J. Murawski
Current Issues in Environmental Law
Mr. Murawski received his B.S. in Economics
from DePaul University in 1994 and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1997.
He currently is an associate in the environmental law department at
Gardner, Carton & Douglas. He was formerly Assistant Regional Counsel
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Scott Peters
Land Use
Mr. Peters received his J.D. from Washington
University in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the University
of Illinois at Chicago in 1991. He is currently an assistant professor
in the Social Sciences Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Neil B. Posner
Insurance
Mr. Posner earned his B.A. from New York
University in 1971 and his J.D. from Marquette University Law School
in 1996. He is currently with the Chicago firm of Sachnoff & Weaver,
where he specializes in insurance law and tax law.
The Honorable Lee Preston
Illinois Civil Procedure
Judge Preston received his J.D. from DePaul
College of Law in 1972. He is currently a judge of the Circuit Court
of Cook County.
Richard W. Renner
Trademarks and Unfair Competition
Mr. Renner received his J.D. from the University
of Chicago and an LL.M. from the University of London. He was formerly
the chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Anheuser-Busch Companies.
Michael G. Rogers
Litigation Technology
Mr. Rogers received his B.A. from Regis
College in 1985 and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1989. He is an Assistant
State's Attorney in the Cook County State's Attorney Office.
Herbert B. Rosenberg
Estate Planning
Mr. Rosenberg graduated from DePaul University
of Law in 1966. He is a partner in the firm of Schoenberg Fisher Newman
& Rosenberg Ltd.
Vincent J. Samar
Jurisprudence
Mr. Samar received his J.D. in 1978 from
Syracuse University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in
1986. He is a philosophy professor at Loyola University of Chicago.
Rick M. Schoenfield
Negotiations
Mr. Schoenfield received his J.D. from
Northwestern University School of Law in 1978. He is currently a partner
with Schoenfield, Schwartzman & Massin.
Laurie A. Silvestri
Legal Drafting
Ms. Silvestri received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent
College of Law in 1986 and her B.A. from the University of Chicago.
She is in private practice.
Donald F. Spak
Mr. Spak received his A.B. from Washington
University in 1970 and his J.D. from DePaul University in 1974. He is
currently engaged in the private practice of law. He specializes in
commercial law, advertising law, real estate litigation, debtor-creditor
law, and copyright infringement. He was formerly affiliated with the
firm of Arvey, Hodes, Costello & Burman.
Richard M. Stanton
Collective Bargaining & Arbitration
Mr. Stanton is a partner with Jacobs, Burns,
Sugarman, Orlove & Stanton. He received his B.A. in 1964 and his
J.D. in 1967, both from the University of Illinois.
Peter Strand
Entertainment Law
Mr. Strand received his J.D. from the University
of Wisconsin in 1987. He practices entertainment and intellectual property
law with the Chicago firm of McBride Baker & Coles.
John Strzynski
Legal Drafting & Research
Mr. Strzynski received his law degree from
the University of Puget Sound in 1977 and an LL.M. in 1985. He was formerly
a law librarian at Chicago-Kent.
Carlina Tapia-Ruano
Family & Employment-Based Immigration
Practice
Ms. Tapia-Ruano received her J.D. from
DePaul University College of Law in 1980. She is currently a principal
with Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan.
Daniel J. Voelker
International Commercial Litigation
Mr. Voelker received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent
in 1985. He is currently a partner with Schwartz and Freeman.
The Honorable Warren D. Wolfson
Advanced Evidence seminar
Justice Wolfson received his bachelor's
and law degrees from the University of Illinois. He is a justice of
the Illinois Appellate Court, and coordinator of Chicago-Kent's Trial
Advocacy Program.
Margaret Woulfe
Legal Drafting & Research
Ms. Woulfe received her B.S. (with honors)
from Illinois State University in 1979 and her J.D. from the University
of Illinois in 1982. She is currently engaged in the private practice
of law.
J.D. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Course descriptions appear in the publication entitled
Faculty Biographies/Course Descriptions: 2000-2002 (available
in the Registrar's office, Dean Sowle's office, and the Admissions Office)
and on the Chicago-Kent web site at
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ academics/courses.html. Spring
semester courses not described there, or for which the description has
changed, are described below.
Advanced Evidence Seminar
Justice W. Wolfson
This seminar will focus on the topic of
burdens of proof and presumptions. These twin ideas are of considerable
practical and theoretical importance but tend to get only passing treatment
in other courses, including basic Evidence courses. We will examine
them in some depth, looking at the factors that determine upon whom
a given burden of proof is placed, what it takes to satisfy that burden,
and when the burden can be shifted to another party. We will consider
both civil and criminal litigation. Two credit hours.
Advanced Issues in Family Law
Professor Feldman
This course will address a variety of current
family law issues, including divorce taxation, the drafting of prenuptial
agreements, effective discovery strategies in divorce litigation, evaluation
of closely-held businesses, treatment of deferred income plans, and
effective use of expert witnesses. Recommended preparation: Family Law.
Two credit hours.
American Legal History
Professor Fuentes-Rohwer
This course examines law as a dynamic force
in American society from the American Revolution through the modern
times, and seeks to place legal doctrine and institutions within their
social, political, and cultural context. Particular attention will be
paid to selected topics such as early constitutional debates, independent
judiciaries and the rise of an elected judiciary, the law of free and
bound labor, and the regulation of the market economy. The course will
close by examining more recent criticisms of our legal institutions,
including law and economics, feminist legal theory and critical race
theory. Three credit hours.
Civil Procedure 2
Professor Laser
This course will complete the overview
of civil litigation in the federal system. It will focus on judicial
supervision of pretrial conferences, the promotion of settlements, and
incentives to settle; the trial-including the Seventh Amendment right
to jury trial, judicial control of the verdict through judgments as
a matter of law, new trial orders, remittitur and additur, different
kinds of verdicts, and juror impeachment of the verdict; the preclusive
effects of judgments; and pre- and post-judgment remedies. Three credit
hours.
Comparative Tort Law Seminar
Professor Wright
The comparative study of the commonalities
and differences of the law in different countries has always been valuable
for the insights such study provides about possible improvements in
one's own law, possible universal principles, and the interplay of law
with local cultures and norms. In our increasingly interconnected world,
the comparative study of law has also become increasingly necessary
to be a competent lawyer in almost every area of practice, since legal
issues and disputes commonly cross national boundaries. In the belief
that the comparative study of law is most beneficial and illuminating
when it is strongly focused on a particular area of law, not merely
for those with a special interest in that area of law but also for anyone
interested in the insights one can obtain from such comparative study,
this seminar focuses on tort law doctrines and principles in the United
States and other countries. Particular but not exclusive attention will
be given to the countries in the European Union, where there has been
a recent outpouring of comparative studies as a result of the felt need
to "harmonize" the tort law of the different member countries.
Two credit hours.
Consumer Protection Law
Professor Krislov
This course will cover the fundamental
causes of action and defenses in current consumer protection law. The
course will examine common law antecedents of modern consumer protection
law, contract and tort-based causes of action, consumer credit, compulsory
disclosure statutes, consumer contract formation issues, collection
and foreclosure issues, complex litigation issues of federal and state
provisions, civil RICO, qui tam, class actions, and governmental enforcement.
Three credit hours.
Current Issues in Environmental
Law Seminar
Professors Murawski and Ketzback
This seminar will address cutting edge
issues in a variety of environmental law areas. Among the topics that
may be addressed are land use and land transfers, environmental implications
of corporate transactions, facility citing, public participation, environmental
justice, environmental enforcement matters, and Brownfields. Two credit
hours.
Current Topics in Education Law
Professor Adams
This class will focus on some of the most
provocative education law topics of the moment, including First Amendment
voucher and school-prayer issues, Fourth Amendment issues following
Columbine, accommodation and inclusion of children with disabilities
(ADA and IDEA), school funding disparities, and the current state of
school desegregation. In addition, the study of these timely issues
provides valuable insights into the interplay of state and federal constitutional
and statutory law. This class may be taken either for course credit
(with a paper or a final examination) or for seminar credit (with a
paper only). Course materials will be photocopied and made available
in the Bookstore. Two credit hours.
Cybercrime
Professor Henderson
"No area of criminal activity is more on
the cutting edge or has greater global implications than crime involving
technology and computers." U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno (1997).
As global digital networks become increasingly pervasive and critical
to our banking, power, telecommunications, health care, employment,
and entertainment infrastructures, they become an increasingly tantalizing
target to would-be-criminals, terrorists, and spies. A dramatic increase
in cybercrime is thus a certainty, for in the words of Willie Sutton,
"that's where the money is." This course will examine cybercrime, including
hacking/cracking, wiretapping, cyberstalking, child pornography, identify
theft, criminal intellectual property theft, fraud, and other offenses.
Where relevant, the technology of cyberspace, tort law analogues, and
multi-national issues will be covered. The class will debate what technological
and legal proposals optimally balance privacy interests, free speech
interests, business interests, and law enforcement and national security
interests; and whether cybercrime requires novel legislative and investigative
responses, or whether traditional notions of, and compilations of, criminal
and constitutional law are adequate. The course may be taken for either
course or seminar credit. Two credit hours.
Disability Law
Prof. N. Hablutzel
This course examines statutes and cases
concerning people with mental and physical disabilities. Most of the
relevant law has developed in the area of schooling, insurance, employment,
access to public facilities, and estate planning and guardianships.
The course also explores the processes of administrative and judicial
review as they have adapted to resolve these cases. Preparation of disability
cases, the use of expert witnesses, and the role of attorneys in disability
negotiations also are covered. Two credit hours.
E-Commerce
Professor Warner
This course covers Internet contracting
both domestically and internationally; payment systems and related privacy
concerns; Internet business torts and anti-trust in e-commerce. Legal
issues are examined against the background of the nature of e-commerce.
Two hours.
Environmental Law and Policy 2
Professor Henning
This is the second semester of a two-semester
course sequence. While it is required for students in the Program in
Environmental and Energy Law, it is open to all students. Environmental
Law and Policy 1 is not a prerequisite. The course emphasizes
the Clean Air Act as a vehicle for exploring complex statutory schemes,
administrative policy-making, market environmental controls, the interplay
of federal and state environmental programs, benefit-cost analysis,
risk analysis, and environmental litigation. The course will also examine
global warming and the broader concept of climate change. Two credit
hours.
Environmental Law Clinic
Professors Harley and H. Gordon
The Environmental Law Clinic will help
students develop their lawyering skills by giving them the opportunity
to represent individuals and community organizations with environmental
concerns. Students will interview clients, represent clients in meetings
with corporations and government officials, and represent clients in
court. Cases range from assisting an individual who discovers she has
lead paint in her home to helping communities with problems arising
from active facilities, abandoned sites, and proposed facilities. The
class sessions will provide an opportunity to observe and practice lawyering
skills, develop an understanding of the key substantive environmental
law areas involved in the clinic's work, and discuss ongoing cases.
Students are required to perform 10 hours a week of fieldwork for the
3-credit version of the clinic, and 12 hours a week of fieldwork for
the 4-credit version, in addition to the classroom component. Students
are required to perform 5 hours a week of fieldwork for the 1-credit
version of the clinic; there is no classroom component for the 1-credit
version. Faculty: The director of the clinic, Keith Harley, and
a clinic staff attorney, Holly Gordon, will supervise the clinical work.
Mr. Harley and Ms. Gordon will co-teach the classroom component. Availability:
The clinic is open to 8 students each semester. If a selection process
is necessary, you will be notified regarding the interview process after
you register for the class. There are no prerequisites for this clinic.
One, three, or four credit hours.
Environmental Law Externship
Professor Gross
Students in the Program in Environmental
and Energy Law have the opportunity to explore environmental opportunities
in the public and public interest sectors. These externships help students
develop their legal research and writing skills and substantive knowledge
of environmental law. Externships are currently available at several
government agencies and public interest groups: the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Regional Office, the Illinois Attorney General's Office
(Environmental Division), the City of Chicago Law Department (Environmental
Unit), the State's Attorney's office (Environmental Division), the Illinois
Pollution Control Board, the Chicago Legal Clinic, the Lake Michigan
Federation, and the Environmental Law and Policy Center for the Midwest.
Students should contact Professor Gross for more information about enrolling
in this externship. Third-year students have preference. Four credit
hours.
European Union Seminar
Professor Orebech
This seminar examines the law of the European
Union and some main agreements with third states. The institutions of
the European Union represent an extraordinary development in the role
and function of law as a mechanism for economic and political integration.
Moreover, the law governing these institutions has acquired great practical
significance, which is likely to increase dramatically as the community
moves toward further integration. The seminar focuses on the law of
the European Union as it is today, with the main emphasis on the free
flow of commodities, establishment, services, labour and investment,
and explores the probable consequences of plans for the next few years.
Two credit hours.
Famous American Trials Seminar
Professor Nance
This seminar is in part a course on American
legal history and in part an advanced evidence course. We will consider
in some detail several (probably five) famous trials in American history,
starting (probably) with the Salem witchcraft trials and ending (probably)
with the trial of Charles Manson. For each trial considered, students
will be expected to read an assigned book that concerns the trial and
to address various issues for class discussion. Each student will also
write a paper about a famous trial not covered in the assigned readings
and make a presentation to the class regarding that case at the end
of the semester. Two credit hours.
Gender and the Law
Professor Smith
This course explores the relationship between
sex inequality in society and sex equality under the law. The course
examines and critiques the validity of gender-based distinctions in
American law in light of their history, underlying policies, and social
context. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, reproductive
rights, work-family conflict, inequality in employment opportunities,
domestic violence, education, pornography, sexual harassment, rape,
and women in the legal profession. The course emphasizes relationships
between theory and practice, and considers the intersections of race,
class, gender, and sexual orientation. Three credit hours.
IIT Interprofessional Projects (IPROs)
Students may obtain one credit of independent
research by joining a university-wide team to work on projects furnished
by industry. Information about one IPRO, sponsored by the Law School,
appears below. Information about other IPRO opportunities is available
at http://ipro.iit.edu (click on the IPRO Listings link). If you would
like to register for an IPRO, contact Dean Krent. All IPROs are one
credit hour.
Ukraine E-Commerce Project:
Students will research different legal aspects of e-commerce to prepare
commentary and case studies for inclusion on a wegb site devoted to
explaining and demystifying legal problems encountered by e-commerce
entrepreneurs. Contact Dean Krent for more information.
Insurance
Professors Chaskin, Posner, & Sigleko
Insurance is an increasingly important
tool for the management of risk by both private and public enterprises.
This course provides a working knowledge of basic insurance law governing
insurance contract formation, insurance regulation, personal, commercial,
and professional liability insurance, and claims processes and disputes.
The emphasis throughout the course is on the link between traditional
insurance law doctrine and modern ideas about the functions of contract
law and public policy. Two credit hours.
Intellectual Property for Corporate
Lawyers
Professor Dicig
This course emphasizes the management of
intellectual property. The intent is to provide the future corporate
practitioner with important information about managing, marketing, selling,
buying, and licensing corporate intellectual property assets (including
patents, trademarks, copyrights, data, trade secrets, software, know-how,
and other types of valuable information), and limiting corporate liability
with respect to those assets. The course places particular emphasis
on software and other emerging technologies, but will also cover traditional
intellectual property issues. Two credit hours.
Intellectual Property Trial Advocacy
Professor Levinson
This course will explore the stages, issues,
and techniques involved in trying an intellectual property lawsuit.
Special emphasis will be given to the unique procedural and evidentiary
considerations that arise in intellectual property trials. The course
will rely heavily on materials from actual patent infringement, trade
secrets, and other cases. Students will participate in mock proceedings
involving motions in limine, opening statements, direct and cross examinations,
and closing arguments. Students seeking the Intellectual Property Law
Certificate have priority for this course. Recommended preparation:
Evidence and either Patent Law or Trademarks & Unfair Competition.
If you have taken both Trial Advocacy 1 and Trial Advocacy 2,
you may not take this course. Three credit hours.
Jurisprudence
Professor Samar
Many people submit to the law simply because
they believe that the institutions administering it are just. But what
if a law itself is unjust? The duty to obey law presupposes that laws
are both consistent and just: because they sometime aren't, difficult
cases arise in which appeals to a higher political morality become necessary
if justice is to be served. But what is this higher political morality
and what is its connection to the institutions we rely upon to do justice
and protect our human rights as well as to the laws that are actually
produced? Is this higher political morality the morality of our society
or something broader? And, if it is something broader, how do we discover
what it is? In this course, we will attempt to answer these and other
questions by considering the relationship between legal and political
philosophy, showing how the former is incomplete without the latter.
Taking the problem of how to solve difficult cases as our point of departure,
we will look at the inherent incompleteness of conventional theories
of law with the idea of developing a meta-theory that would enable judges
to decide difficult cases by drawing upon the best available theory
of politics appropriate to the case's level of abstraction. By so doing,
it is hoped that we will be able to produce resolutions for some kinds
of controversial cases and open doors to the way we should think about
others. It is also hoped that the course will provide an avenue for
a broad critique of the way legal and political institutions operate
including the way law schools educate and judges actually decide cases.
Because the nature of the course is theoretical in its focus, there
is no specific set of accepted doctrine to provide a foundation for
this course. It is hoped that the student will gain the opportunity
to do some serious critical and creative thinking about issues that
are on the cutting edge of the law and about law itself. The course
may be taken for either course or seminar credit. If taken as a seminar,
a paper will be required in which the student will have a fair latitude
to contribute to the way some of the issues in the field are thought
about. Two credit hours.
Justice Web Collaboratory Externship
Professors Gross and Staudt
The Justice Web Collaboratory (JWC) Externship
provides students the opportunity to explore Access to Justice issues,
including the use of technology in legal services, alternative legal
services delivery models, e-lawyering, and pro se litigant assistance.
Students work in conjunction with the Justice Web Collaboratory and
its Illinois Technology Center for Law & the Public Interest (ITC),
a statewide collaboration of legal services providers, whose mission
is to provide low-income individuals with greater access to the legal
system through the use of technology. The externship allows students
to acquire direct client service experience and to use that experience
to assist in the development and upgrading of innovative web resources
for pro se litigants and the public. Students will split their time
between these two activities and will have the flexibility to choose
opportunities that most appeal to them. Students who have computer and
web design skills will have the ability to utilize those skills.
The direct client service portion of the
externship provides students with experience in assisting self-represented
litigants and/or providing brief legal services to low-income individuals.
Examples of these opportunities include the following: Assisting pro
se litigants at court-based help desks; providing legal advice over
telephone hotlines; and negotiating on behalf of tenants in eviction
court.
The development and upgrading of web resources
for pro se litigants and the public involves the following activities:
working with expert attorneys selected from the Illinois legal aid community
to build and maintain the Illinois poverty law web portals (www.itcweb.org);
researching, drafting, and editing of web based legal education materials
and legal forms with instructions for the public; and developing appropriate
user interfaces for web based document assembly.
The classroom component will meet on Wednesdays
from 4:00 - 4:55 p.m. and will be taught by Professors Gross and Staudt.
The externship requires at least 16 hours per week spent on externship
activities. Students can earn additional credit the following semester
by arrangement. Four credit hours.
Latin American Business Law
Professor del Granado
This course will provide a practical introduction
to Latin American business law, using a comparative method. Among the
possible topics covered in the course will be comparative aspects of
contract law, sales law, commercial paper, banking law, securities law,
tax regimes, natural resources law, choice of business entity, corporate
law and corporate forms, cost of capital problems and general corporate
finance, and intellectual property law. The course will also briefly
address macroeconomics and microeconomics with regard to Latin American
economies, the relationship between the cost of capital, cost of entry
for firms and competition, and corporate culture in Latin America. Two
credit hours.
Law of Privacy
Professor Piatt
This course covers all four of the tort
causes of action for protection of privacy as well as the Constitutional
questions; it also includes consideration of the separate right of publicity
and its relationship to the privacy rights (as well as other legal doctrines).
The legal doctrines are explored in the contexts of medical, family,
reproductive, financial, and informational privacy expectations among
others. Three credit hours.
Law of Trade Secrets
Professor Parkhurst
This course will examine trade secret law,
a fourth intellectual property regime. It will include the common law
development of trade secrets as well as the philosophical underpinnings
in contract, property, and tort law, and the development to the present
through the Restatement and the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. It will also
examine the relationships between federal and state trade secret law,
the relationships between trade secret law and the other three intellectual
property regimes, and the relationships between trade secret law and
other areas of law, such as employment law and law governing business
relationships. Three credit hours.
Legal and Economic Transition in
Southeastern Europe and the Balkans
Professor D. Gordon
This course is an introduction to the legal
systems of Eastern Europe. As such, we will cover an area from Poland
to Bulgaria, Romania to Albania. To understand how the current legal
systems have come to be what they are, we must discuss related fields
that helped create the context in which the law operates, including
economics (both Communist and capitalist), history, and culture. Anyone
professionally interested in the region should have at least basic familiarity
with the forces that shaped it. Specific attention will not be paid
to any one country; instead, we will examine broader issues affecting
the region as a whole, such as corporate and commercial law, privatization,
foreign investment, joint ventures, and property ownership. Given the
range of issues that we will cover, in-depth analysis will necessarily
be limited. However, examples will be drawn from throughout Eastern
Europe, with special attention being given--where possible--to examples
from the former Yugoslavia and, in particular, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzogovina.
Two credit hours.
Litigation Technology
Professor Rogers
This course will teach law students interested
in becoming trial lawyers how to integrate technology into their trial
presentations. Students will learn how to apply principles of persuasion
to the creation of courtroom visuals which they will then present in
the trial advocacy portion of the course. The course will use hypothetical
problems and cases to allow students to develop presentations that persuade.
The course will include computer lab sections, some lecture, and student
participation with instructor critique. Students will try civil cases
and criminal cases. Students must have completed Trial Advocacy 1 in
order to take the class, and completion of Trial Advocacy 2 will be
a definite advantage. Students should own their own laptop computers
and be prepared to bring them to class every day. The machine should
be Windows-compatible. The class may run longer than three hours when
students try their mock trials. Maximum class size is 16 students. Students
should contact Mike Rogers at whatumean@msn.com if they have any questions.
Three credit hours.
Patent Litigation
Professor Holbrook
Students will examine major issues of substantive
law and strategy facing a lawyer involved with patent litigation. The
class sessions will focus on the leading cases in emerging areas of
patent law. Such areas include infringement under the doctrine of equivalents,
the scope of remedies available to a patent owner, the proofs required
to establish patent invalidity, and the role of a jury in deciding complex
technological issues. The class will also address procedures for developing
and presenting at trial a credible theme and conducting a coherent program
of trial preparation. This class may be taken either as a course or
a seminar. Prerequisite: Patent Law. Three credit hours.
Race and the Law Seminar
Professor Fuentes-Rohwer
This seminar explores the contested conception
of race across history and doctrinal fields. The first part of the seminar
will focus on the idea of "race," the development of racial categories
in the United States and its larger implications. The second part will
then make use of these insights in a variety of doctrinal contexts,
such as election law, civil rights, criminal law, housing discrimination
and speech. Two credit hours.
Refugee & Asylum Law Externship
Professor Gross
Students will interview asylum applicants,
previously interviewed and accepted by Heartland alliance's Midwest
Immigrant & Human Rights Center, to prepare their asylum applications.
Each student will research and write a legal brief in support of the
client's application for asylum. They will research domestic and international
law as well as country conditions. Each student will handle at least
one asylum case per semester. Asylum applicants either apply for asylum
affirmatively to the Immigration and Naturalization Service or apply
defensively to the Immigration Court if they are in deportation or removal
proceedings. Students will attend the asylum interview with their clients
and a supervising attorney before the Asylum Office of the Immigration
and Naturalization Service. Students who elect to represent an asylum
applicant in removal proceedings will appear before the Immigration
Court with their clients and a supervising attorney. To enroll in the
externship, students must submit their resumes to Prof. Gross. Prior
immigration law experience is not required. Fluency in a second language
is helpful although it is not a requirement for the externship.
State Constitutional Law Seminar
Professor Koehler
This seminar will address the emerging
role of state courts in relation to the federal courts and the increasing
importance of state law, especially state constitutional law, in relation
to federal constitutional law. Topics will include the advantages of
independent use of state constitutions; difficulties with relying on
state constitutional provisions in contrast with similar federal constitutional
provisions; different methods of interpreting state constitutions; the
doctrine of "independent and adequate state grounds"; and how to raise,
brief, and argue state constitutional rights. Two credit hours.
Telecommunications Law and Policy
Professor Piatt
This course addresses the legal and policy
concerns of all aspects of the communications industries and technologies,
including telephony, telegraphy, broadcast, satellite transmissions,
internet, and wireless. It addresses the structure of the industries
and the legal and policy issues that result from or are embedded in
these structures. It also considers content, access, and pricing issues
and develops a framework for thinking about the appropriate structures
for the future. Three credit hours.
Trademarks and Unfair Competition
Professor Renner
Public policies and economic considerations
underlying trademark law are analyzed as background for understanding
trademark fundamentals. This course covers the creation, maintenance
and enforcement of trademark rights. Major topics include: the registration
process and the benefits of federal registration; intent-to-use applications;
descriptive marks and secondary meaning; generic marks; scandalous and
immoral marks; abandonment; concurrent rights; imitation and counterfeit
goods; infringement and dilution; incontestability; fair use; functionality;
remedies. The course will also cover unfair competition law focusing
on section 43 of the Lanham Act and include topics such as false advertising
and rights of publicity. Three credit hours.
White Collar Crime Seminar
Professor Albert-Goldberg
This seminar will focus on the federal
prosecution of fraud, with a particular focus on health care fraud,
securities fraud, and bank fraud. The seminar will also explore civil
prosecution of fraud, prosecutorial discretion in corporate criminal
liability, and ethical duties of prosecutors. Two credit hours.
World Trade Organization Seminar
Professor Gerber
This seminar will examine aspects of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) and its roles. The WTO has become a central
feature in international economic relations, requiring states to follow
specified rules and procedures in regulating the flow of trade across
their borders and in structuring their intellectual property laws. It
has also become a symbol of globalization and a target for those opposed
to that process. The seminar will examine topics such as the following:
the WTO as an organization, its rule-setting and dispute resolution
processes, its objectives and the prospects for attaining them, and
criticisms of the WTO. Two credit hours.
2001-2002 ACADEMIC CALENDAR
(Intersession, and Spring and Summer terms)
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COURSES LIKELY TO
BE OFFERED IN THE 2002 SUMMER SESSION
The courses below are likely to be offered
in the 2002 summer session. This is a partial list only; other courses
will be added to the schedule.
Bankruptcy
Clinical courses
Evidence
Legal Drafting
Negotiations
Personal Income Tax
Professional Responsibility
Tax Procedure
Trial Advocacy 1
CHANGES TO THE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Additional Courses & Sections
- Advanced Research: Corporate Commercial:
This new section will meet Mondays, 11:45 - 1:35 p.m. Professor Freedman
will be the instructor.
- Advanced Research: Intellectual Property:
This new section will meet Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:50 p.m. Professor Weiss
will be the instructor. Students seeking the Intellectual Property
Law Certificate will have priority.
- Advanced Research: Human Resources:
This new section will meet Tuesdays, 6:00 - 7:50 p.m. Professor Wit
will be the instructor.
- Commercial Law: Payment Systems: This
course has been added to the Day Division schedule (it was listed
only on the Evening Division schedule, day/time TBA, on the preliminary
schedule). The class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:25
p.m. The instructor will be Professor Donald Spak.
- Environmental Law Clinic: A one-credit
version of the Clinic was added to the schedule.
- Introduction to American Legal System:
This course was inadvertently omitted from the preliminary schedule.
It will meet Fridays, 11:45 - 12:40 p.m. It is open only to students
in the LL.M. Program in International and Comparative Law.
- Law of Trade Secrets: This new course
will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:25 p.m. The instructor
will be Professor Parkhurst.
- Legal Drafting: Contracts: This new
section will meet Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:50 p.m. Professor Brest van
Kampen will be the instructor.
- Legal Drafting & Research: International
Business: This new section will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00
- 7:25 p.m. Professor Strzynski will be the instructor. Students seeking
the International & Comparative Law Certificate will have priority.
New Days and/or Times
- Advanced Research: The Environmental
Law section taught by Professor Moore will now be offered on Wednesdays
(not Tuesdays), 4:00 - 5:50 p.m.
- Banking Law: The class will end at
11:40 a.m. (not 11:45 a.m.) on Thursdays only.
- Commercial Law: Payment Systems: The
class, listed as day/time TBA on the preliminary schedule, will meet
Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:25 p.m. The instructor will be Professor
Donald Spak.
- Commercial Law: Secured Transactions:
The class, listed as day/time TBA on the preliminary schedule, will
meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:35 - 9:00 p.m. The instructor will
be Professor Litowitz.
- Current Issues in Environmental Law:
The class will now meet Wednesdays, 7:35 - 9:25 p.m. (not 4:00 - 5:50
p.m.).
- Disability Law: The class, listed
as day/time TBA on the preliminary schedule, will meet Thursdays,
4:00 - 5:50 p.m. The instructor will be Professor Nancy Hablutzel.
- Energy Law: The class will now meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00
- 5:25 p.m.
- Estates & Trusts: The ending time of the evening section was
listed incorrectly in the preliminary schedule. The class will end
at 7:50 p.m. (not 8:50 p.m.).
- Honors Scholars Activity (second-year): The class, listed as day/time
TBA on the preliminary schedule, will meet Thursdays, 4:00 - 4:55
p.m.
- International Business Transactions: The class, listed as day/time
TBA on the preliminary schedule, will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays,
6:00 - 7:25 p.m. The instructor will be Professor Lavin.
- International Criminal Law: The class will now meet Tuesdays (not
Thursdays), 4:00 - 5:50 p.m.
- Legal Drafting & Research: The
Labor & Employment section taught by Professor Woulfe will now
be offered on Wednesdays and Fridays, 12:50 -2:15 p.m. (not 12:00
- 1:25 p.m.).
- Legal Writing 2: The days listed for Professor McCormick's and
Professor Morrissey's sections were listed incorrectly in the preliminary
schedule. The sections will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings (not
Monday and Wednesday evenings).
- Personal Income Tax: The evening section
taught by Professor Chapman will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00
- 9:25 p.m. (not 6:00 - 7:25 p.m.).
Other Changes and Information
- Advanced Issues in Family Law: The
course in Family Law is now listed as recommended preparation.
- Advanced Topics in Business/Corporate
Law: The following prerequisites are now listed: Business Organizations
and Securities Regulation completed or taken concurrently, or permission
of instructor.
- Environmental Law Externship: The
externship is worth 4 credits (not one credit). The classroom component,
listed as TBA in the preliminary schedule, will meet Wednesdays, 4:00
- 4:55 p.m. Permission of the instructor is required.
- Gender & the Law: The pass/fail
option is not available.
- Intellectual Property Trial Advocacy:
The recommended preparation for the course is now as follows: Evidence
and either Patent Law or Trademarks & Unfair Competition (Copyright
Law is no longer listed). The recommended preparation and other information
about the course were omitted from the listing on the Evening Division
schedule in the preliminary schedule.
- Patent Litigation: The course in Patent
Law is now listed as a prerequisite.
- Securities Regulation: Business Organizations
is a prerequisite. The pass/fail option is not available.
- Ukraine E-Commerce Project, which
appeared only on the Day Division schedule in the preliminary schedule,
is now also listed on the Evening Division schedule. See the course
description under IIT Interprofessional Projects (IPROs) earlier in
this Registration Bulletin.
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