UC Davis 2008-2010 General Catalog - General Catalog - UC Davis

350 Law, School of
Purpose is to give you background necessary for
understanding and advising clients and for understanding
other business-related law courses.
269C. Corporate Finance (3)
Discussion—3 hours. How corporations raise
money, i.e., stocks and bonds, IPOs, how deals are
structured (or restructured, under Chapter 11 of the
Bankruptcy Code). Intended for those who intend to
practice in a firm where clients raise money in securities
markets or invest in deals.
270. International Business Transactions (2)
Discussion—2 hours. Select legal problems arising
from international business transactions. Topics
include the international sales contract, letters of
credit, transfers of technology, regulation of bribery,
development of joint ventures, repatriation of profits,
and foreign exchange problems.
270S. Special Session International
Business Transactions (2)
Discussion—2 hours. A consideration of select legal
problems arising from international business transactions.
Topics include the international sales contract,
letters of credit, transfers of technology, regulation of
bribery, repatriation of profits, and national efforts to
control imports.
271. Nonprofit Organizations (4)
Discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 215 or
consent of instructor. The legal rules and concepts
applicable to nonprofit organizations. Limited enrollment.
271A. Nonprofit Organizations: State and
Local Governance Issues (2)
Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 215 (may
be taken concurrently) or consent of instructor. State
and local laws applicable to nonprofit organizations,
i.e., public interest, cultural, religious, educational,
and other not-for-profit entities. Federal tax
exemptions of nonprofits, state and local laws
impacting nonprofits with respect to incorporation or
charitable trust formation, operation and governance,
dissolution, fiduciary obligations of trustees
and officers and directors, management and investment
obligations vis-à-vis trust assets, cy pres, rights
of members of social clubs, trade associations and
labor unions, enforcement of obligations and rights
by the attorney general and others, and regulation
of charitable solicitation. Topics may include local
property tax and other tax exemptions, nonprofit
accounting issues public/private partnerships and
Federal antitrust and constitutional constraints.
271B. Nonprofit Organizations: Tax
Exemptions and Taxation Focus (2)
Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 215 or
consent of instructor; course 220 recommended.
Conceptual basis and substantive law criteria for the
federal and state income tax exemption of nonprofit
organizations and those particular circumstances
and activities which will result in income taxation or
financial sanction, including qualifications for
exempt status, the nondistribution constraint, the
inurement and private benefit concepts, limitations
on campaign activities, permissible lobbying expenditures,
the unrelated business income tax, the
deduction for charitable contributions, intermediate
sanctions, the differences between private foundations
and public charities, special excise taxes, the
exemption application process and reporting and
disclosure requirements. Topics may include nonprofit
accounting issues, local property tax and other
local tax exemptions, and public/private partnerships.
272. Family Law (3)
Discussion—3 hours. An introduction to the legal
regulation of the family.
272B. Elder Law (2)
Discussion—2 hours. The legal practice and policy
relating to aging individuals and an older society.
Examination of the roots of legal ethics and the role
of the lawyer as professional problem solver and
advisor, and the uses of law in relationships between
people over life’s course. The traditional divisions of
tort, contract and property and examination of
issues such as age discrimination in employment, eligibility
for public benefits, long-term care, housing
options of the elderly, health care, guardianship,
health care decision making for the incapacitated
client, disability law issues, property management,
euthanasia, elder abuse, neglect and crime, generational
justice, the conflicting values of autonomy versus
protections, and a host of other matters. Studentled
discussions of interdisciplinary assigned readings
and guest lecturers.
273N. Advanced Torts (3)
Discussion—3 hours. Torts not covered in the firstyear
torts course. Defamation, privacy, misrepresentation,
misuse of legal procedure, and business torts.
Nuisance and related environmental torts. The intersection
between statutory remedies and common
law torts.
274. Intellectual Property (3)
Discussion—3 hours. Provides a broad survey of
intellectual property law.
274A. International Intellectual Property (2)
Discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 274 or
296 or 209A or consent of instructor. International
aspects of copyright, patent and trademark law,
including a look at basic international instruments
such as the Paris Convention, the Berne Convention,
and Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights of the World Trade Organization. Topics
include approaches to patent protection for pharmaceuticals
and agricultural products in developing
nations, and copyright protection in a digital world.
274AS. Summer Session Intellectual
Property (2)
Discussion—2 hours This course provides a broad
survey of the field of intellectual property. Areas covered
will include trademarks, patents, trade secrets,
idea protection, unfair competition, and copyright.
274C. Intellectual Property in Cyberspace
Seminar (2)
Seminar—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 274. The
recent expansion of IP laws emerging to meet the
growth of Internet and digital technologies that
enhance human abilities to access, copy, store,
manipulate, and transmit vast amounts of information.
274D. Intellectual Property in Historical
Context Seminar (2)
Seminar—2 hours. How the legal system has
adapted to earlier periods of rapid change by creating,
delimiting, and expanding intellectual property
rights (IPRs). Required paper satisfies advanced writing
requirement.
275. Complex Litigation (2)
Discussion—2 hours. Issues that frequently arise in
large complex litigation involving multiple parties
and multiple claims.
276. Juvenile Justice Seminar (2)
Seminar—2 hours. Legal and philosophical bases of
a separate juvenile justice process for crimes committed
by minors; police investigation, apprehension,
and diversion; probation intake and detention; juvenile
court hearing and disposition; juvenile corrections.
The role of counsel at each phase of the
process is examined.
277. Native American Law (2)
Seminar—2 hours. Legal relations between Native
American tribes and the federal and state governments.
Topics include the basic jurisdictional conflicts,
which dominate this area of law and cover
specific areas such as land rights, hunting and fishing
rights, water rights, domestic relations law, and
environmental protection. Religious freedom, repatriation.
Issues regarding terminated and non-recognized
tribes are also addressed.
277T. Indian Gaming Law Seminar (2)
Seminar—2 hours. Examines unique historical, political
and legal context in which Indian tribes operate
casinos, including impacts on tribal sovereignty, relations
between tribes, states and local governments
and changing relationships among the tribes themselves
members, with particular reference to experience
of California.
278. Pretrial Skills (2)
Discussion—2 hours. This course uses role-playing
exercises, videotaped simulations, and related projects
to introduce students to lawyering skills basic to
the practice of law, including client interviewing, witness
interviewing and discovery, including depositions.
Limited enrollment.
279. Public Sector Labor Law (2)
Seminar—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 251 or consent
of instructor. Application of private sector labor
law doctrines to the public sector. Emphasis on the
four California public sector statutes and the impact
of constitutional law on public employees. Class presentation
and seminar paper required. Satisfies
advanced writing requirement. Limited enrollment.
280. Advanced Legal Writing Seminar (2)
Seminar—2 hours. How to write a variety of legal
documents in plain English. Writing exercises and
outside readings will be assigned weekly. Each student
completes an individual writing project in lieu
of final examination. The writing project will satisfy
the law school’s advanced legal writing requirements.
Limited enrollment. (S/U grading only.)
281. Local Government Law (3)
Discussion—2 hours. Explores the structure of state
and local government through the lens of the virtues
and flaws of the ideas of Madison and DeToqueville,
i.e., centralized federal government vs. decentralized
local government.
282. Energy Law Seminar (2)
Seminar—2 hours. The history, law, and public policy
of energy regulation in the United States with an
emphasis on economic and environmental regulation.
Competitive restructuring of the natural gas and
electric utility industries emphasized. The basic regulatory
schemes for other energy sources such as
hydroelectric power, coal, oil, and nuclear power
explored. Recommended to anyone who has an
interest in the energy sector, various models of economic
regulation, or regulated industries.
283. Remedies (3)
Discussion—2 hours. Survey of modern American
civil remedies law in both private and public law
contexts. Topics addressed include equitable remedies,
equitable defenses, contempt power, injunctive
relief, restitution, and money damages in torts and
contracts.
284. Law and Economics (3)
Discussion—3 hours. Introduces students to the economic
analysis of law. We will explore several economic
methods and concepts, including rational
choice theory, behavioral economics, and utilitarianism.
We will apply these tools to illuminate and critique
familiar areas of law, including property,
contracts, torts, criminal law, and civil procedure.
Prior study of economics is not required.
284A. Law and Economic Development (2)
Discussion—2 hours. The relationship between law
and economic development in transition economies.
Western assumptions about whether the role of law
and legal institutions in economic development hold
true for the non-Western developing nations of Asia
and Africa.
285. Environmental Law (3)
Discussion—4 hours. An introduction to federal and
state environmental law, including coverage of historical
development of environmental law; the role of
courts, the legislature and the executive branch in
the development and implementation of environmental
policy; allocation of authority among different levels
of government; the role of market forces in
environmental decisions; the major regulatory strategies
that have been applied to control environmental
harm, and enforcement of environmental law. Major
statutes considered include the National Environmental
Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air
Act and Clean Water Act.
285B. Environmental Practice (3)
Discussion––3 hours. Prerequisite: course 285 recommended.
Examines underlying theory and practice
in securing compliance with our major
environmental laws.
Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2009-2010 offering in parentheses
General Education (GE) credit: ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Social-Cultural Diversity; Wrt=Writing Experience