2003-2005 - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEST 507 Legal and Ethical Arguments
(3) Introduction to contemporary legal
research and legal argument. Students learn
to generate original argumentation about
contemporary legal issues of unusual complexity
such as affirmative action, privacy,
biological engineering, obscenity, first
amendment rights, and other civil liberties.
Students learn contemporary methods of
research and current styles of legal citation,
and how to use case material appropriately
in an academic context.
LEST 508 Law and Morality (3) Law and
morality as the two major sources ofstandards
used to measure and govern human
conduct; the relationship between law and
morality, focusing on traditional and contemporary
philosophical views of the
nature of law and the nature of morality;
the interaction between the two and the
purposes and enforceability ofeach.
LEST 600 Advanced Research (3)
Advanced techniques of legal and scholarly
research in specialized areas of law, philosophy
oflaw, and/or legal history. The strategic
and effective use of law finding and
bibliographical aids is stressed, including
some exposure to electronic databases in
the humanities, social sciences, and legal
field. Students work partly in fields designated
by the instrucror and also individually
on an extensive research project.
LEST 601 Ethics and Advocacy (3) The
responsibilities of lawyers to the judicial
system and to their clients. Students consider
the pattern of relationships between
the attorney and client in order to study
the limits of law, the areas in which preventive
legal consultation may be helpful, and
the way in which a client or administrator
may present his or her position to a lawyer
and to the courts. Also covers the
client/court relationship, and consumer
and user advocacy as it relates to the legal
system.
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LEST 602 World Legal Systems (3)
Other world legal systems, including
European, Oriental, and various socialist
systems of law. Considers the legal relationship
between the individual and the state in
other systems, and discusses the role of the
judiciary, the role of good faith in contract
law, property law, criminal procedures, and
the principal elements of civil and common
law procedure in other systems.
LEST 603 Law of Contracts (3)
Theoretical and practical bases of the law of
contracts. Topics include: creation of contracts;
capacity to contract; mutual assent;
offer and acceptance; consideration; compliance
with formality; third party beneficiaries;
mutual mistake; parole evidence;
specific performance; conditions; impossibility;
frustration; assignment and discharge
of contract obligations; statute of
frauds and novation; references to Article 2
of the UCC; and restatement of contracts.
LEST 604 Law of Business
Organizations (3) Introduction to the law
of business organizations, from the individual
proprietorship to the corporation,
emphasizing the elements of public policy
common to all; also combines the traditional
subjects of agency, partnerships, and
corporations. Topics include: the major
forms oforganization; the employment
relationship; rights and obligations of partners
and third parties; and the corporation-its
function, importance, and
methods of finance and control.
LEST 605 Topics in Law (3) Periodic
offering on various courses in specialized
topics of law in accordance with student
interest. Examples ofsuch topics are: historic
cases, copyright law, law of education,
legal debate on punishments. Course is
announced under the topic to be studied.
LEST 606 Family Law (3) The legal,
social, and philosophical problems con­