University of Maryland School of Law : Catalog, 1988-1989

Future Interests (3)
This course is a study of future interests
with special emphasis on
the nature and characteristics of
such interests, and their creation
and use in the drafting of wills and
trusts. A consideration of such topics
as reversions, remainders, executory
interests, possibilities of reverter,
powers of termination,
powers of appointment, problems
of construction, the rule against
perpetuities and problems in fiduciary
administration is included.
P: Estates and Trusts.
Day (LAW 508 C)—Mrs. Brumbaugh.
Government Contracts (2)
The course deals with the specialized
rules and dispute resolution
procedures of federal government
contracts which in many cases depart
significantly from the patterns
of the common law and the
U.C.C. The course will afford students
a second, and deeper, look at
some of the same problems they
encountered in first-year contracts
and in commercial law as examined
through the perspective of an
alternative regulatory scheme. By
comparing and contrasting the
common law and statutory rules
governing private contracts with
the regulatory scheme governing
public contracts, students will be
in a position to make intelligent
and informed judgments as to what
approach may be preferable as a
matter of policy.
Day/Evening (LAW 564 C) at
5:25 p.m.—Mr. Breitowitz.
Health Care Law (2)
This course examines the American
health care system and focuses
on issues not studied in any detail
in the Law and Medicine course.
Such issues to be explored may include
the organization and regulation
of health care institutions;
quality control and peer review organizations;
the emerging role of
alternative delivery settings; cost
containment; health planning and
certificate of need; utilization review;
Medicare and Medicaid;
health insurance; access to health
care; and antitrust and health care.
Day (LAW 516 D)— Ms. Rot/ienberg.
Idea of Law in Western
Culture Seminar* (3)
This seminar will explore the concept
of law in the tradition of the
West through readings and discussions
of the works of the great contributors
to that tradition:
Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch,
Aquinas, Shakespeare,
Montesquieu, Kant, Hegel, Dostoevski
and others. The goals of
the seminar are to develop the
skills of careful and critical reading
and listening, to provide a context
for cooperative learning, in which
each participant assists the others
in increasing mutual understanding
of difficult and important material.
In lieu of the traditional long research
paper, students will be expected
to write a number (3-5) of
short original (i.e., nonresearch)
essays demonstrating that they have
grappled with the problems of the
seminar. Hence, papers prepared
for the seminar will not be eligible
for certification as satisfying the
writing requirement for graduation.
The seminar satisfies the perspective
requirement.
Day (LAW 550 D) Summer,
1988—Mr. Hornstein.
Immigration Law (2)
This course offers a study of immigration
law and policy, the rights
of aliens and the role of the judiciary.
The course will examine the
powers of the sovereign, the administration
and enforcement of
the immigration laws by the executive
agencies, the constitutional
limitations on the power to exclude
aliens and those areas of the law
where the judiciary has intervened.
P: Constitutional Law.
Evening (LAW 551 H)— Ms.
Vaughns.
Income Taxation (3)
Students learn the fundamentals of
federal income taxation, with emphasis
on the ways in which the
tax law develops through the interaction
of congressional policy, administrative
interpretation and judicial
decision. After a brief
examination of federal tax procedure,
the course covers such basic
concepts as the nature of income,
deductions, accounting for the taxable
year and capital gains.
Day (LAW 506 B)— Mr. D. Goldberg,
Mr. Keller; Evening (LAW 506
G)— Mr. D. Goldberg.
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