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Law School Catalog
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Law and Economics Seminar - LAW 6392
Credits Hours: 3
Examines the application of economic reasoning to a variety of legal topics. The overarching questions include whether law is implicitly designed to be efficient and whether it should it be. The course covers both positive and normative aspects of the topic. Previous classes have analyzed topics including contracts to sell organs and criminalizing corporate misdeeds. As a seminar, the course relies heavily on class participation. No economics background is necessary.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Business & Commercial, Government, Public Policy & Regulation
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Law and Literature Seminar - LAWB 6211
Credits Hours: 2
This course is intended to enable and encourage students to explore the relationships among law, jurisprudence, literature, and life. Students read fiction, non-fiction and poetry—contemporary and classical; discuss and examine jurisprudential concepts as they relate to everyday life; and develop skills that will make them better lawyers.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspective
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Law and Medicine - LAW 6272
Credits Hours: 2
Presents interdisciplinary coverage of medical proof in litigation; forensic pathology and toxicology; medical and hospital tort liability; health care reform; the right to refuse treatment; issues of human birth; and public health regulation. Students observe physicians and surgeons at work in hospital, clinical, and post-death investigation environments. Each student prepares a paper on a specific medicolegal topic.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspective, Upper Level Writing
Practice Area: Health Law
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Law and Psychiatry - LAW 6346
Credits Hours: 3
Focuses on concepts of mental illness; raising and administration of impairment defenses and disposition of mentally ill offenders; problems of civil commitments, including standards, alternatives to and procedures for civil commitment; civil rights of those confined to mental hospitals, including the right to treatment and the right to refuse treatment; problems of legal competence; and the psychiatrist-patient relationship.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Civil Rights, Health Law
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Law and Religion Seminar - LAWB 6231
Credits Hours: 2
This course is a study of the intersection of religion and law in the United States, analyzing major decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court and various State and Federal appellate courts. We will study contemporary cases involving religious freedom as it impacts access to abortion and contraception, discrimination in the workplace and marketplace, prison security, public funding of religious institutions and more. Students will write a mock judicial opinion resolving an actual pending appellate case containing significant legal and religious issues. This course satisfies both the upper-level writing and policy and perspectives requirements.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspective, Upper Level Writing
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Law of Sexual Exploitation of Children - LAWB 6371
Credits Hours: 3
This course offers a clear and comprehensive overview of the issues pertaining to the sexual exploitation of children, including the common characteristics of exploiters and their victims, the legal parameters of the interactions between perpetrators and children, and the full nature of commercial exploitation, including child pornography, prostitution, and sex trafficking, and the significance of Internet technology to these issues. The course addresses the civil and criminal aspects of the sexual exploitation of children, including mandatory reporting laws, the admissibility of evidence, including expert and child testimony, the application of relevant statutes of limitations, sentencing variables and conditions and civil commitment and victim restitution reforms. The course also covers the legal basis for institutional liability, including relevant common law and statutory defenses, insurance coverage, and damages.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Family Law
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Law Office Management - LAW 6286
Credits Hours: 2
Law Office Management involves the creation of a simulated law office. The students will confront issues of corporate structure; staff management; accounting; budgeting; billing; advertising; client relations; case management; conflicts of interest; confidentiality; time management and other issues. The grade will be based on class presentations, class participation, written proposals, and a final exam.
Required: Elective
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Law Review I - LAW 6100
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review II - LAW 6101
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review III - LAW 6102
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review IV - LAW 6103
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review V - LAWB 6105
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review VI - LAWB 6106
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review VII - LAWB 6107
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Law Review VIII - LAWB 6108
Credits Hours: 1
Students who expect to receive one hour of Law Review credit should register for the appropriate course listed on the course schedule.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Lawyering Foundations - LAWB 6158
Credits Hours: 1
This required course for first year students is designed to develop students’ skills in a range of areas relating to the day-to-day practice of law, including professionalism, professional reflection, interpersonal communication, client interviewing, finding and succeeding in legal jobs, teamwork, leadership, cross-cultural lawyering, mentoring from the mentee’s perspective, and public service. Practicing lawyers have identified these skill sets as critical to law practice in Arkansas and throughout the United States. The course is integrated with the structured study groups and practitioner career mentoring program that are part of the first-year curriculum. The course also includes two one-hour seminar classes in the fall semester, and six seminar classes in the spring semester, in lieu of study group meetings. Students in the course will write and submit reflective journals every other week on topics related to the practice of law. Students also must complete five hours of pro bono service. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis, but one or more top-performing students will be awarded top paper(s). Upon successful completion of the course requirements, students will receive one hour of ungraded course credit.
Required: Required
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Lawyering Skills I - LAW 6240
Credits Hours: 2
Through a combination of lectures and small group workshops, helps students learn a variety of lawyering skills in both litigation and non-litigation contexts, including interviewing and counseling; problem solving and development of legal theory; drafting various legal documents; negotiation; pre-trial litigation skills; and alternative dispute resolution skills.
Required: Required
Practice Area: Civil Practice, Practice Skills, Litigation
Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II
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Lawyering Skills II - LAW 6308
Credits Hours: 3
Develops lawyering skills in trial preparation, techniques, and tactics through the handling of cases and trial problems under simulated trial conditions, including preparation of witnesses; presentations to the judge; direct and cross-examination of witnesses; and the introduction of real and demonstrative evidence. Each student is involved as counsel in the preparation and trial of an entire case before a jury. Extensive use of videotape is made to assist in critique of student performances.
Required: Required
Practice Area: Civil Practice, Practice Skills, Litigation
Prerequisites: Evidence
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Legal Aspects of Higher Education - LAWB 6373
Credits Hours: 3
This course is designed for educators and administrators who have little or no knowledge of or background in legal matters. It is intended to provide basic information and a broad perspective on post-secondary law as it relates, primarily, to public higher education. As the semester progresses, students will gain an appreciation for the importance and complexity of the law as it exerts an ever-increasing influence on educational policy and practices. Through this course students will acquire the necessary background to recognize and understand basic legal issues that routinely arise in the college and university setting and provide an understanding of potential legal risks and preventive law strategies for maintaining legal “health.”
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation
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Legal Counseling - LAW 6126
Credits Hours: 1
This course will teach the basic skills involved in counseling clients in a law office. The course will rely on simulations, exercises, reflection and discussions.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Practice Skills
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Legal Interviewing - LAW 6125
Credits Hours: 1
This course will teach the basic skills involved in interviewing clients in a law office. The course will rely on simulations, exercises, reflection and discussions.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Practice Skills
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Legislation - LAW 6280
Credits Hours: 2
Surveys statutory law and its interpretation; significant aspects of the legislative process; principles of legislative drafting; and methods of statutory interpretation. A simple drafting project may be assigned.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation
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Legislation - LAW 6374
Credits Hours: 3
Surveys statutory law and its interpretation; significant aspects of the legislative process; principles of legislative drafting; and methods of statutory interpretation. A simple drafting project may be assigned.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation
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Local Government - LAW 6375
Credits Hours: 3
Examines the legal framework for governing urban and rural areas. Topics include the relationship of local governments to one another and to the state and national governments; the organization, financing, and operation of local governments; legislative control of local governments; and sources and limits of local governing power.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Environmental Law, General Practice, Government, Public Policy & Regulation, Real Estate Law
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Mediation Clinic - LAW 6404
Credits Hours: 4
Students study negotiation and mediation techniques and theories that are transferable to all types of legal matters. Students also learn how to represent clients in mediation. In addition to the scheduled classes each week, students must observe/mediate at least eight cases over the term. Students begin by observing, then co-mediate with an instructor. Small claims mediations are scheduled for most Mondays (9-11 a.m. and 1:00-3:15 p.m.) at the Pulaski county courthouse. Some mediations are court ordered and the Court sets the time of the mediation. Students who participate in the Clinic receive a Certificate of Mediation Training. This course meets the training requirements for certification as a civil or family mediator by the Arkansas ADR Commission.
This course requires students to attend a 3 1/2 day training prior to the beginning of the semester.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Experiential Learning
Practice Area: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Law, Practice Skills
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Mediation Seminar - LAW 6329
Credits Hours: 3
Examines current research and theories regarding conflict and their application to the practice of mediation in a variety of conflict situations. Teaches skills necessary to serve as an impartial third-party, such as listening, questioning, creative problem-solving, moving beyond impasse, and caucusing. Addresses various mediation styles and types of mediation.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Law
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Moot Court Competition Class - LAW 6200
Credits Hours: 2
Student teams research and prepare appellate briefs and practice oral arguments. Students are placed on teams and compete in a class-wide competition.
This course is required for selection to a traveling team.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Civil Practice, Litigation, Practice Skills
Prerequisites: Research, Writing & Analysis I, Research, Writing & Analysis II
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Moot Court Competition: International Law - LAW 6274
Credits Hours: 2
This course prepares students to research and prepare appellate briefs (known in international law as “memorials”), and confidently and convincingly deliver oral arguments in the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. While the course uses an interscholastic moot court problem as its basis, the skills practiced are valuable for any future appellate work.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: International & Comparative Law , Practice Skills
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Moot Court Travel - LAWB 6241
Credits Hours: 2
Student teams research and prepare appellate briefs and practice oral arguments, under the direction of a faculty advisor. Students are placed on teams which represent the school in various regional and national competitions. The student must have been selected for a team which will attend a competition in the semester in which they register for the course in order to enroll in Moot Court Travel Team.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Civil Practice, Litigation, Practice Skills
Prerequisites: Moot Court Competition Class
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National Trial Competition - LAW 6157
Credits Hours: 1
Student teams represent the school in various regional and national trial competitions. Students must have been selected for a team which will attend a competition in the semester in which they register for the course in order to enroll in National Trial Competition.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Litigation, Practice Skills
Prerequisites: Advanced Litigation Skills
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Negotiation Basics - LAW 6130
Credits Hours: 1
This course will present theories and techniques of negotiation as methods of resolving or managing conflict. We will study examples of negotiation at many levels, such as buying and selling, contracts, group decision-making, plea bargaining, international treaties, and creation of organizations. Emphasis is on solving problems through negotiation. The course also considers the role of neutral third parties.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Law
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Nonprofit Law - LAW 6290
Credits Hours: 2
Nonprofit Law is designed to familiarize students with the structural framework, operations, and regulation of various types of not-for-profit organizations. Students in this course will participate in activities designed to simulate the processes through which attorneys may be called upon to guide development of a nonprofit organization in the course of a legal practice or other professional career path. The writing requirement for this course will task students with contemplating the function of nonprofits as well as the role of such organizations in our society. Students may use the class to satisfy the upper level writing requirement.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
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Oil and Gas Law - LAWB 6244
Credits Hours: 2
This seminar course explores the fundamentals of oil and gas law including mineral estates, oil and gas leases, unitization, negotiations of agreements, ethics of transactions, and the workflow of the oil and gas industry. Students will also gain perspective on the role of oil and gas in the world economy.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Business & Commercial , Real Estate Law
Prerequisites: Real Property I - LAW 6313 , Real Property II - LAWB 6216
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Powers and Duties of State Attorneys General - LAWB 6233
Credits Hours: 2
This course will explore the evolving powers and duties of State Attorneys General (“AGs”) with a focus on Arkansas law. Readings, lectures, class discussion and guest speakers will focus on the legal authority and duties of the office. Since the year 1348, Attorneys General have represented sovereigns in their own courts in the Anglo-American legal system. AG’s are the states’ top law enforcement officials, top consumer advocates and lead counsel for governors, legislatures, and state agencies. AGs must defend the constitutionality of statutes, administrative rules and criminal convictions and sentences. From the opioid crisis to criminal justice reform to utility rate regulation, the Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”) is always a state’s top public interest advocacy law firm.
Required: No
Bar Exam Tested: No
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation
Elective: Elective
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Privacy & Publicity Law Seminar - LAW 6292
Credits Hours: 2
This seminar surveys rights and remedies associated with the law of privacy and publicity, by which individuals may control aspects of personal autonomy, decision making, and the dissemination of information. The course traces the evolution of privacy rights, illustrating how policies protecting individual privacy interests have been translated into complex legal frameworks. The course also addresses the emerging judicial and legislative recognition of relational privacy interest. The Focus of the course is on the United States’ sectoral approach to protecting privacy, and how that approach compares with international privacy law as new technologies and institutional practices emerge. This course satisfies the upper level writing requirement.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation
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Products Liability - LAW 6389
Credits Hours: 3
This course will examine the history of products liability law including the public policy issues surrounding its evolution. There will be an emphasis on real-world application of products liability principles suitable for those who may be interested in prosecuting such cases, defending against them, or merely learning how to minimize exposure to such liability in a corporate setting. Within this sampling, the role of experts in such complex litigation will also be studied e.g. the fields of engineering, human factors, accident reconstruction, and economics. There will also be an examination of the impact of regulations and regulatory agency rules on litigation including the NHTSA for automobiles, the FDA for medical devices, and the CPSC for consumer products.
Required: Elective
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Professional Responsibility - LAW 6221
Credits Hours: 2
Analyzes the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and their application to practical ethical problems faced by attorneys. The course also seeks to develop the student’s sense of the lawyer’s role in society as advocate, citizen, and counselor.
Required: Required
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Progressive Prosecution: Law & Policy - LAW 6290
Credits Hours: 2
Progressive Prosecution: Law & Policy is a 2-credit course for students who are interested in exploring racial and social justice theory and training in the classroom and who have an interest in public service, prosecution, criminal law, and/or criminal justice reform efforts. Although prosecuting attorneys have typically taken a “tough-on-crime” approach focused on the philosophy of retributive justice and have been historically incentivized to aggressively seek large numbers of convictions and lengthy sentences, a growing number of elected prosecutors across the United States are taking a “progressive” approach. These “progressive prosecutors” see their role as combatting over-incarceration, taking a more holistic view of community safety, eliminating racial and socioeconomic inequity, and ultimately changing a criminal justice system that too frequently exacerbates those well-documented inequities. This course will explore the theoretical underpinnings of the progressive prosecution movement; its promises and limitations; and the progress the movement haS made over the past several years. Students will study the role of the prosecutor in the American criminal justice system and topics such as the history of prosecution in the United States and the role prosecutors have played-and continue to play-in the American phenomenon of mass incarceration. Additionally, this course offers opportunities for real-world application of progressive prosecutorial reforms in all major stages of the criminal justice process, and students will work on research and writing projects that will expound on these issues.
Required: No
Bar Exam Tested: No
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing Requirement Policy and Perspectives Requirement
Practice Area: Civil Rights Criminal Law - LAW 6317 Government, Public Policy & Regulation
Elective: Elective
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Prosecutor Practicum - LAWB 6369
Credits Hours: 3
The Prosecutor Practicum is an experiential-learning course in which students in the part-time division are placed in distance field placements with prosecutors and also attend an accompanying seminar class at the law school. The students work under the supervision of both a faculty member at the law school and a field supervisor at the placement site. Working remotely, students int he course telecommute to perform research and other related writing assignments for the prosecutor with whom they are placed. As their schedule permits, students will be encouraged and permitted to attend courtroom proceedings conducted by the prosecutor for whom they are working. Students receive three credit hours upon satisfactory completion of the course.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Experiential Learning
Practice Area: Criminal Law, Practice Skills, Litigation
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Public Defender Externship - LAW 6359
Credits Hours: 3
The Summer Public Defender Externship is an experiential-learning course in which students are placed to work in the offices of public defenders around Arkansas. To complete the course, students must complete 126 hours of work at the externship site by the end of the term in which they are enrolled in the course, and they also must satisfactorily complete the requirements of an accompanying seminar class at the law school. The students work under the supervision of both a field supervisor at the externship site and a faculty supervisor. Students receive three credit hours upon satisfactory completion of the course requirements.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Experiential Learning Requirement
Practice Area: Practice Skills , Litigation
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Public International Law - LAW 6277
Credits Hours: 2
Emphasizes legal relations of states inter se. Topics include the resolution of disputes between states; the legality of the threat and use of force; individual responsibility; the conflict between domestic and international law; obligations of nationals; and international organizations.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspective, Upper Level Writing
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation, International & Comparative Law
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Public Service Externships - LAW 6239
Credits Hours: 3
The Public Service Externship is a course in which law students step outside of the traditional classroom and have the opportunity to “learn by doing” as they perform legal work in actual practice settings. Working under the supervision of the Externship Director and a field placement supervisor, students earn academic credit while serving in clerkship positions with state or federal judges, legislators, government agencies, and nonprofit agencies. Students who have completed at least 30 academic law school credit hours (including the required first-year curriculum) are eligible to participate in the course. A student enrolled in his or her first externship must complete 100 hours of externship work during the semester and attend a weekly seminar class. A student enrolled in a second externship must complete 115 hours of work during the semester and is not required to attend the weekly seminar class. Students receive three hours of graded academic credit upon satisfactory completion of the course.
Students must have completed 30 hours.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Experiential Learning
Practice Area: Public Interest Law, Practice Skills
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Public Service Law - LAW 6343
Credits Hours: 3
This course will 1) prepare law students to engage in public service as lawyers and to represent non-lawyer public servants and 2) prepare public service students to work with lawyers and the legal system. Subjects may include the definition of public service, the role of lawyers and the legal system, using the legal system to achieve social change, litigation and transactional approaches to social change, and the limitations of the legal system in achieving social change.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Public Interest Law
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Public Utility Law and Regulation - LAW 6380
Credits Hours: 3
This course provides an introduction and overview of the field of public utility law and regulation with emphasis upon the practice before the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
Required: Elective
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Race & the Law - LAWB 6246
Credits Hours: 2
This course will examine the use of the law to eradicate, and also perpetuate, racial injustice in the United States from the inception and rise of slavery during the colonial period to the present. The goals of the course are to achieve an understanding of the role of law in its racial context, especially with regard to the use of legal institutions and law in the creation and maintenance of systems of racial injustice. At the same time, we will examine the potential and limits of the use of law (especially litigation) as a tool for social change.
Required: Elective
Bar Exam Tested: No
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspectives Requirement Upper Level Writing Requirement
Practice Area: Civil Rights Public Interest Law
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Race and the Criminal Justice System Seminar - LAWB 6246
Credits Hours: 2
Focuses on the effects of racial issues on the criminal justice system. Examines each stage of the process to determine if individual or systemic racism affects it. The readings include case law; law review articles; criminal justice studies and biographical accounts.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Upper Level Writing
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Real Estate Finance - LAW 6278
Credits Hours: 2
Studies commercial real estate transactions. Topics include the acquisition, development, and operation of commercial real estate ventures; mortgages and other financing techniques and related matters.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Business & Commercial, General Practice, Real Estate Law
Prerequisites: Real Property I
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Real Estate Transactions - LAW 6244
Credits Hours: 2
Studies the structure of real estate transactions, including substantive rules of law (other than choice of entity and tax considerations). The emphasis is on legal drafting skills, including original drafting and the proper use of forms.
Required: Elective
Alternative Credit Hours: 3
Practice Area: Business & Commercial, General Practice, Practice Skills, Real Estate Law
Prerequisites: Real Property I
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Real Property I - LAW 6313
Credits Hours: 3
Real Property I (three credit hours) and Real Property II (two credit hours) introduce students to the doctrines of adverse possession, estates and future interests, landlord-tenant, contracts for sale, mortgages, deeds, title assurance, easements, restrictive covenants, rights incident to the ownership of real property, land use, eminent domain and takings law. Additional assessed learning outcomes include: 1) comprehending cases and statutes to extract governing legal rules, harmonize apparently conflicting authorities, and recognize genuinely conflicting authorities; 2) applying governing legal principles to factual situations, including being able to identify and formulate issues and to develop potential legal solutions; 3) drafting a warranty deed; 4) communicating effectively in writing by presenting material in a clear, concise, well-organized, and professional manner that is appropriate to the audience and circumstances; and 5) engaging in effective problem solving by working cooperatively as part of a team, identifying and diagnosing problems, generating alternative solutions and strategies, and developing and implementing plans of action.
Required: Required
Bar Exam Tested: Yes
Practice Area: Environmental Law, Estate Planning, Real Estate Law
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Real Property II - LAWB 6216
Credits Hours: 2
Real Property I (three credit hours) and Real Property II (two credit hours) introduce students to the doctrines of adverse possession, estates and future interests, landlord-tenant, contracts for sale, mortgages, deeds, title assurance, easements, restrictive covenants, rights incident to the ownership of real property, land use, eminent domain and takings law. Additional assessed learning outcomes include: 1) comprehending cases and statutes to extract governing legal rules, harmonize apparently conflicting authorities, and recognize genuinely conflicting authorities; 2) applying governing legal principles to factual situations, including being able to identify and formulate issues and to develop potential legal solutions; 3) drafting a warranty deed; 4) communicating effectively in writing by presenting material in a clear, concise, well-organized, and professional manner that is appropriate to the audience and circumstances; and 5) engaging in effective problem solving by working cooperatively as part of a team, identifying and diagnosing problems, generating alternative solutions and strategies, and developing and implementing plans of action.
Required: Required
Bar Exam Tested: Yes
Practice Area: Environmental Law, Estate Planning, Real Estate Law
Prerequisites: Real Property I
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Remedies - LAW 6337
Credits Hours: 3
Explores general principles of remedial relief that can be applied to any field of substantive law, including the principles of having the remedy address the proven injury; making the plaintiff whole; and deterring future violations. The course looks at both private and public law, emphasizing problems of contemporary importance.
Required: Elective
Bar Exam Tested: Yes
Practice Area: Civil Practice, General Practice, Litigation
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Reproductive and Family Rights - LAW 6291
Credits Hours: 2
This seminar studies the cultural and legal aspects of marriage, family, and human reproduction in the U.S., more specifically the legal precedents and social policies that promote, sustain, or curtail, intelligent and healthy decision-making regarding pregnancy, children, marriage, and reproductive healthcare. While the course will expose students to the social and legal histories of contraception, pregnancy, abortion, marriage, and childcare, the primary focus will be on analysis of contemporary legal decisions impacting those areas.
Required: Elective
Bar Exam Tested: No
Practice Area: Family Law Government, Public Policy & Regulation Health Law
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Research, Writing & Analysis I - LAWB 6380
Credits Hours: 3
Research, Writing & Analysis I and II introduce students to the processes of effective legal research and of legal reasoning, using case and statutory analysis, public policy, and equity. Students develop the practical skills needed for planning, researching, drafting, and revising forms of objective legal writing, such as office memoranda commonly prepared by lawyers.
Required: Required
Practice Area: Practice Skills
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Research, Writing & Analysis II - LAWB 6381
Credits Hours: 3
Research, Writing & Analysis I and II introduce students to the processes of effective legal research and of legal reasoning, using case and statutory analysis, public policy, and equity. Students develop the practical skills needed for planning, researching, drafting, and revising forms of objective legal writing, such as office memoranda commonly prepared by lawyers.
Required: Required
Practice Area: Practice Skills
Prerequisites: Research, Writing & Analysis I
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Sales Transactions - LAW 6322
Credits Hours: 3
Studies Uniform Commercial Code Articles One, Two, Six, and Seven: sales transactions involving personal property; obligations of the parties; good faith purchase; warranties; shipment and storage of goods; risk of loss; remedies and the effect of relevant federal and state statutes (other than the UCC).
Required: Elective
Bar Exam Tested: Yes
Practice Area: Business & Commercial, General Practice
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Scholarly Writing - LAW 6160
Credits Hours: 1
Scholarly Writing is offered to students writing their law review notes. It meets periodically during the semester, and offers training to students on each stage of the note-writing process. The class meeting dates coordinate with the law review’s writing schedule. The course is pass/fail, and the assigned course work will primarily be reading in preparation for each class. All work students perform on their notes are evaluated by the Law Review, not by the course instructor.
Required: Elective
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Secured Transactions - LAW 6360
Credits Hours: 3
Studies the issues arising from secured transactions in personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, with additional coverage of secured transactions in real estate and creditors’ remedies, such as execution, garnishment, attachment, replevin, receivership, and avoidance of fraudulent transfers.
Required: Elective
Bar Exam Tested: Yes
Practice Area: Business & Commercial, General Practice
Prerequisites: Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, Real Property I
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Securities Regulation - LAW 6382
Credits Hours: 3
Covers the federal regulation of the distribution and trading of securities, including the registration process; major exemptions from the registration requirements; restrictions on resale; the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the regulatory scheme; and civil liabilities for violation of the federal securities laws.
Business Associations is recommended.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Government, Public Policy & Regulation, Business & Commercial
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Special Education Law - LAWB 6385
Credits Hours: 3
The education of special needs children from early childhood through post-secondary transition will be addressed. The course will focus on statutory and regulatory compliance as well as dispute resolution. Students will become familiar with both federal and state statutory and regulatory procedures in determining eligibility for special education services, evaluations, development of the individualized education program, and provision of services in the least restrictive environment.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Civil Rights
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Specialized Legal Research - LAW 6113
Credits Hours: 1
The course fulfills the upper-level research requirement and is designed to equip students with the knowledge and practical skills necessary for effective legal research. The course will review the basic concepts of research that students learned in Research, Writing, and Advocacy I and II and introduce them to new authorities, sources, and tools. New material will include legislative history, administrative law, court rules, rules of professional responsibility, factual investigation, and specialized treatises and databases. Students will practice their research skills via simulated problems using a variety of legal research resources. Each section will have a different focus, on either business and commercial law issues, criminal law issues, or family law issues.
Required: Required
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Specialized Legal Research
Prerequisites: Research, Writing & Analysis I, Research, Writing & Analysis II
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Sports & Entertainment Law - LAWB 6366
Credits Hours: 3
Sports Entertainment Law provides students with an overview of legal issues related to the sports and entertainment industry. Areas of the law covered include Torts, Contract Law, Title IX, Antitrust Law, Constitutional Law, Labor Law, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Business & Commercial
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Supreme Court Litigation Seminar - LAWB 6249
Credits Hours: 2
Deals primarily with the process of constitutional litigation as seen from the perspective of the U.S. Supreme Court. The course includes a historical analysis of Article III and, more specifically, a consideration of the Court’s evolution over its almost 200 years of existence, with detailed attention to the way in which the courts (lower federal and state courts) operate in exercising the unique power of “judicial review.” Some time is spent on constitutional theory, principally involving the legitimacy and scope of judicial authority in constitutional cases. Focus then shifts to the practical issues related to constitutional litigation–how cases are initiated, how the Supreme Court functions in screening and deciding cases, the essentials of effective appellate advocacy in constitutional cases, and the role and impact of leading justices.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Policy and Perspective, Upper Level Writing
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law
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Survey of Arkansas Courts - LAW 6159
Credits Hours: 1
This course canvases the unique jurisdictional and procedural aspects of both the Arkansas state and local district courts. Students will learn the various subject matter division of the circuit court system in Arkansas and recognize practices, procedures, and cases particular to each division. The jurisdiction of the Arkansas Court of Appeals and Arkansas Supreme Court will also be covered.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Litigation
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Tax Clinic - LAW 6444
Credits Hours: 4
Students handle a small number of real cases under the supervision of clinic faculty. Most of the education occurs through the experience of representing clients in disputes with the IRS through client interviews and fact gathering, tax law research, formulating action plans, preparation of written protests, negotiation, and possibly litigation. Students learn the skills of the practice of law while experiencing and analyzing the law, conducting fact investigation and engaging in direct client interaction. To avoid potential conflicts of interest, no student may work for the Internal Revenue Service or for a federal court with jurisdiction over tax matters at the same time the student is enrolled in Tax Clinic.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Experiential Learning
Practice Area: Taxation, Practice Skills
Prerequisites: Federal Income Taxation, Legal Profession
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Tax Policy - LAW 6224
Credits Hours: 2
Concerns the policy aspects of taxation, especially federal income taxation. Topics include the broad structure of the federal system of taxation and of the political forces shaping it; the effect of untaxed “imputed” income; whether the tax system should provide for progressive or “flat” rates; tax issues arising from marriage and other family relationships; whether some form of consumption taxation should replace the federal income tax; estate taxes; the proper income tax treatment of property passing at death; the concept of “tax expenditures;” the proper tax treatment of personal injury awards; the proper federal tax treatment of a taxpayer’s state and local taxes; whether income earned by a corporation and subsequently distributed as dividends should be taxed to both the corporation and the shareholders; whether capital gains should be taxed differently from ordinary income; and how to deal with the distorting effects of inflation in the measurement of taxable income.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Taxation
Prerequisites: Federal Income Taxation
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The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service - LAW 6140
Credits Hours: 1
This course provides credit for students working on the Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service. The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service is a vehicle for identifying and addressing the pressing needs of our society. It examines issues lying at the intersection of policy, public interest, academia, and the law, raising awareness of topics insufficiently examined in traditional scholarly publications.
Required: Elective
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Therapeutic Justice - LAW 6132
Credits Hours: 1
This course examines the history and development of “problem-solving” courts from the creation of the first drug court in 1989 to the more than 4000 courts and programs which are in operation today, including drug courts, mental health courts, family treatment courts, DUI courts, veterans courts, domestic violence courts, homelessness courts, community courts, reentry courts, truancy courts, HOPE courts, sex offender courts, prostitution courts, and others. Discussion will include the differences between the adversarial and therapeutic court model, their advantages and disadvantages, and the impacts upon the traditional roles and ethical responsibilities of judges and lawyers.
Required: Elective
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Torts - LAW 6425
Credits Hours: 4
Covers the bases of civil liability for physical and nonphysical personal injury (and, to a lesser extent, for damage to property); theory, historical development, and application of liability based on intent, negligence, or without fault; defenses, privileges, and immunities to tort liability; parties to the action; the elements of damage to persons and property; special problems concerning owners and occupiers of land, products liability, ownership of animals, and abnormally dangerous activities; and statutory modifications, including wrongful death and survival actions and Federal Tort Claims Act actions.
Required: Required
Bar Exam Tested: Yes
Practice Area: General Practice
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Trademark Practicum - LAWB 6250
Credits Hours: 2
The main objective of this course is to give students a basic understanding of trademark law and trademark prosecution and provide practical experience in responding to United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) office actions. The student will also be introduced to the procedures for trademark clearance and learn practical tools for the effective advising and counseling of clients on trademark issues. Assignments will include creating or designing a trademark, performing a trademark search on the student’s mark, preparing a trademark availability opinion, preparing a federal trademark application on the student’s mark, and drafting responses to possible Office Actions which might be issued by the USPTO on the trademark application. There will be no text book. We will read cases assigned from the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO. The class will be a combination of lecture, group discussions, and practical exercises.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Intellectual Property
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Veterans Legal Services Clinic - LAW 6602
Credits Hours: 6
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic (VLSC) will provide Bowen law students a high-quality, service-oriented learning experience while helping Arkansas veterans access benefits available to them under federal law. The VLSC seeks to honor those who have served our country, by providing client-centered and trauma-informed advocacy. Clinic students will represent former military service members with VA appeals related to disability compensation and reconsideration of discharge status. Additionally, clinic students will engage in community education and outreach related to veterans’ rights and access to justice.
Required: Elective
Fulfills these Designated Graduation Requirements: Experiential Learning
Practice Area: Practice Skills , Government, Public Policy & Regulation
Prerequisites: First year curriculum, Professional Responsibility - LAW 6221
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Workers’ Compensation - LAW 6249
Credits Hours: 2
Surveys the basic principles of statutory and case law governing the system which requires employers to provide compensation, medical treatment, and survivors’ benefits for employment-related injuries, disease, and death.
Required: Elective
Practice Area: Business & Commercial, General Practice, Labor & Employment Law, Government, Public Policy & Regulation
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Writing for the Bar Exam - LAW 6269
Credits Hours: 2
The course will assist students in developing writing competency sufficient for the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) and the Multistate Performance Test (MPT). This course is skills based, not substantive. It is designed to develop skills necessary to successfully complete the writing portion of the bar exam. It is strongly recommended that this course be taken during the year immediately preceding a student’s graduation.
Required: Elective
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