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601:587. MUTUAL FUND AND INVESTMENT COMPANY REGULATION (2)
Corsell. Prerequisite: Business Organizations.
Provides an overview of the federal securities laws as they apply
to mutual funds. Focuses on the role and responsibilities of mutual
fund directors, the policies underlying the Investment Company
Act of 1940, and their impact on this important sector of the capital
raising markets. Significant attention is given to the role of the
Securities and Exchange Commission in registering and overseeing
the investment company industry.
601:755. NATIONAL LATINO LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION MOOT
COURT TEAM (P2)
Recommended: A strong background in legal research and writing/moot court.
Each year, a team of three or four law students is selected by
the Latino Moot Court adviser to participate in this competition.
The problems for this moot court competition involve legal issues
affecting the Latino community. Participants need not be of
Latin descent.
601:704. NATIONAL MOOT COURT TEAM (P2)
The National Moot Court Team is composed of two or three
students selected by the faculty adviser, with the advice of the
Hunter Advanced Moot Court Board, to participate in the National
Moot Court Competition. Competitors must have participated in
the Hunter Advanced Moot Court program.
601:644. NEW JERSEY ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (2)
Tassini. Administrative Law is recommended but not a prerequisite.
Begins with an overview of New Jersey administrative law and is
followed by study of administrative rulemaking authority, including
New Jersey’s constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA),
and examples of regulatory statutes that empower agencies to promulgate
rules. Explores the procedure for promulgation of administrative
rules, principles for construction of administrative rules and
principles governing challenges to such rules, litigation of administrative
cases including requests for hearings, defense, fora for hearings,
transmittal from agencies to the Office of Administrative Law
(OAL), discovery, motion practice, conduct of hearings, orders, interlocutory
appeals, initial decisions (IDs), exceptions to IDs, final decisions
(FDs), and appeals from FDs to the Superior Court’s Appellate
Division. Also considers the burden and standards of proof and
standards governing evidence in administrative hearings and governing
appeals and issues relating to exhaustion of administrative
remedies, the opportunity for complaints in the Superior Court’s
trial divisions (instead of administrative hearings), and the opportunity
for petitions for rulemaking simultaneously with administrative
or Superior Court litigation. Concludes with a review of recently
enacted statutes, e.g. amending the APA, and seeks to identify
trends in New Jersey administrative law.
601:594. NEW JERSEY PRACTICE (2)
Fols, King
A survey of civil and criminal practice in both the New Jersey courts
and the administrative agencies. The course is designed to prepare
the student to practice effectively and confidently before the trial and
appellate courts and the administrative agencies in New Jersey. Class
attendance, preparation, and participation stressed and mandatory.
601:570. NEW JERSEY STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2)
Sabatino, Williams
Study of the history, text, and interpretation of the New Jersey
Constitution, with particular emphasis on the 1947 version of the
Constitution. The readings mainly consist of major cases of the New
Jersey Supreme Court, which has been nationally recognized for its
progressive role in articulating and enforcing individual rights
under state constitutional precepts. Subjects include, inter alia, separation
of powers, educational funding, affordable housing, death
penalty, electoral redistricting, privacy rights, and free speech. Guest
presentations made by attorneys who argued some of the key cases
before the Supreme Court. There is an in-class final examination.
Additionally, students may write a paper on a designated topic to
count toward the law school’s writing requirements.
601:534. OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW (3)
Abate
Examines judicial and legislative responses to conflicts in uses of
ocean and coastal resources. Topics to be addressed include law
and policies defining public and private property rights in the
shoreline and submerged lands, coastal zone management and
protection under the federal Coastal Zone Management Act
(CZMA), public shoreline access, coastal erosion, domestic and
international law governing marine wildlife protection and pollution
control, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea (UNCLOS).
601:525. PARTNERSHIP TAXATION (3)
Davies. Prerequisite: Introduction to Federal Income Taxation. Students who
have taken Taxation of Business Entities (601:523) may not take this course.
Covers the federal income taxation of partnerships and their
partners, limited liability companies (LLCs) that are taxed as
partnerships, and S corporations that are taxed in a similar manner.
Topics include the formation and structuring of partnerships, partnership
operations and distributions, retiring partners, and the sale
and the liquidation of partnerships. Designed for both “tax” and
“nontax” students.
601:696. PATENT LAW I (2)
Licata, Reed
Designed for those intending to be patent lawyers and for others
seeking a general knowledge of the subject. Covers the substantive
areas of interface among patents, trade secrets, unfair competition,
trademarks, and copyrights; the origin of the patent statute; what
is a patentable invention and a valid patent; foreign patent rights;
patent property and contract rights; federal tax aspects of patents;
patent litigation, including procedures, remedies, and defenses;
and antitrust and misuse considerations in litigation and licensing.
Considers practical dealings with the individual inventor and corporate
patent owner; how to exploit patents and trade secrets;
whether and how to patent an invention; handling new product
joint ventures; drafting and negotiating license agreements; and if,
when, and how to sue.
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