CATALOG 2006-2007 - Syracuse University College of Law

Advanced Criminal Procedure
This course is a two-semester applied learning
course which will focus on pre-trial procedure:
accusatory instruments, preliminary hearings,
grand jury, discovery motions (covering
suppression of evidence, dismissal for
insufficiency, speedy trial, double jeopardy,
etc.), plea bargaining and guilty pleas, and
interlocutory appeals and sentencing. The
course materials will consist of pertinent
statutory materials and case files which will
be the source of problems and simulations.
Students will be required to draft documents,
pleadings, motion papers, and memoranda for
assigned cases. The course will focus on New
York criminal law.
Advanced Legal Research
Advanced Legal Research expands upon the
foundation of research skills acquired in the
first year. The course addresses effective
research methods and strategies, examines
the structural and theoretical underpinnings of
traditional and automated research systems,
and explores specialized areas of research
(such as legislative history, administrative
law, and non-legal resources). Students will
have ample opportunities to refine research
techniques through hands-on practice sessions
in the law library.
Advanced Topics in Property Law Seminar
This seminar will examine current important
issues in property law and theory, topics to
which students may have been introduced
during their first year but that warrant
investigation in further detail. The course will
first review different notions of what property
actually is, using historical and modern
analyses both from political theory and from
law. We will then consider the extent to which
property concepts can be usefully employed to
resolve an array of current social issues, such
as the enforcement of surrogacy (parenting)
contracts, the sale or other control of body
parts, the fate of human embryos, eminent
domain and takings, an individual’s control
of personal information, employment rights,
and environmental rights. Students will be
exposed to and discuss the relevant law, where
it exists, but will also pursue in more depth
the conceptual and policy-based arguments
that shape and underlie the public debates
currently under way.
Advanced Trial Practice
Advanced training in direct and cross-examination,
witness interviewing and preparation,
negotiation techniques, voir dire and jury
preparation, final arguments, discovery,
pretrial and trial motions, pretrial conferences,
jury trial techniques, and post trial procedure.
Agency/Partnership
The primary focus of the course will be on the
many facets of agency and fiduciary law. Basic
principles of fiduciary obligations, agency
relationships, transacting business through
agents, vicarious tort liability and long-term
commercial relationships may be covered
as well as basic partnership relationships.
Irregular course offering.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
An introduction to the spectrum of processes
other than courtroom litigation that
are available for resolving disputes. This
includes such “pure” processes as negotiation,
mediation, and arbitration and such “hybrid”
processes as the mini-trial and the summary
jury trial.
Anglo American Legal Tradition
This is a legal history course that provides
an overview of our Western legal heritage,
beginning with Roman law and extending into
the 20th century. Its principal focus will be
on the development of English law and legal
institutions, but it is not specifically an English
legal history course. Rather, it is to provide
students with a survey of the English roots of
our own legal order and to demonstrate how
the American legal system has developed from
and blended with those English origins.
Antitrust
A survey of federal antitrust law and policy.
This course will include horizontal restraints,
monopolization, attempts to monopolize,
vertical restraints and mergers.
Appellate Advocacy Skills
Development of skills used in the appellate
process, including postjudgment practice,
creation of the record, finding error, brief writing,
and oral argument structure, emphasizing
written skills. Required for second-year students
seeking Moot Court Board membership.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Law
Seminar
This seminar examines the ethical, legal,
scientific, sociological, and political issues
involved in the use of assisted reproductive
technologies (ART) to treat infertility and
create children. Each week there will be a two
hour class requiring preparation of readings on
topics such as infertility, assisted insemination,
in vitro fertilization, collaborative reproduction
(formerly called surrogacy), reimplantation
genetic diagnosis (PGD), “designer babies,”
cryopreserved (frozen) embryos and gametes,
posthumous reproduction, multiple gestations,
cloning and genetic enhancement, and ART
mistakes. In addition to seminar preparation
and attendance, students will select a topic
on assisted reproductive, research and write a
seminar paper under the professor’s guidance,
and present their research and arguments to
the class. Irregular course offering.
Bankruptcy Law: Business
This course will focus on business bankruptcy
law under Chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy
Code. The course will explore the rights of
debtors and creditors in a liquidation
proceeding under Chapter 7 and the power
to restructure claims under Chapter 11 of
the Bankruptcy Code to preserve a viable
business entity.
Bankruptcy Law: Individual,
State, Creditors’ Remedies
This course will cover state law remedies (how
to collect a debt and how to defend a debtor)
and representing debtors in individual liquidation
and restructuring proceedings under
Bankruptcy Code (Chapter 7 and 13).
Bioethics
This is an interdisciplinary analysis of problems
that arise at the intersection of the medical
and legal professions. Topics include the
history of the American medical profession,
ethical theory, procreative autonomy, distribution
and allocation of medical services, death
and dying, organ transplants, and the values
and interests that inform the decision-making
process on these matters. In alternating years,
this course will be co-taught by professors
from the medical school and law school and
additional topics of study may include assisted
reproductive technologies, genetic discrimination
and enhancement, and cloning.
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