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Spring 2015 coursework

November 14, 2014

Bok courses, Global Research Seminar, cybercrime, and more international courses.

Bok Course: European Tax Law and Policy (Schoen)

A special three-week course in March/April taught by Bok VIP Wolfgang Schoen, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Finance. This course is meant to address the interplay between the principles governing the Internal Market of the European Union and the sovereignty of Member States in the areas of corporate law and tax law.

 

Bok Course: Latin American Law and Institutions (Alviar)

A special three-week course in April taught by Bok VIP Helena Alviar, Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia.  The goal of this course is to gain an understanding of the major political, social, and economic topics that have been debated in Latin America, and how these relate to relevant legal discussions.

 

Common Law Contracts for Civil Lawyers (Rosenberg)

Although civil law and common law are different legal systems, with different origins, history, methodology and rules, today’s global market demands a global or transnational approach to contract law. The course will emphasize negotiating with lawyers from different legal traditions, as well as enforcement of contracts (created under both common law and civil law) by the courts of both legal systems.

 

Cybercrime (Levy)

This course studies the legal issues raised by computer-related crimes. It considers three main questions: First, what conduct involving a computer is a crime? Second, what law governs the collection of electronic evidence in criminal investigations? And third, which governments have jurisdiction over the investigation and prosecution of computer crimes?

 

Federal Indian Law (Struve)

This course will explore the historical, conceptual and legal roots of tribal sovereignty; the development of federal doctrines concerning the powers of tribal governments; and the current state of federal law concerning tribal legislative, executive, and judicial authority.

 

Global Research Seminar: Rising Powers and International Law (Burke-White/deLisle)

The GRS is an innovative teaching model for exploring the global nature of today’s most complex legal issues. These intensive research courses build toward the overseas field research visit when students and faculty jointly meet with primary stakeholders on key topics in public and private international law.

 

Intellectual Property and National Economic Value Creation (Imasogie)

This course will explore the legal structure of intellectual property laws in the United States and select foreign countries and the effect of these laws on the countries national economic development.

 

International Bankruptcy (Lapowsky)

The course on International Bankruptcy is designed to give students an opportunity to consider the problems and issues that characterize today’s world of bankruptcy. The globalization of business means that the business operations of financially distressed businesses are frequently located in more than one country, either through divisions or subsidiaries.

 

International Business Transactions (Mooney)

This course provides an overview of the legal issues — domestic, foreign, and international — that arise when U.S. companies do business abroad. Transactions discussed include export sales, agency and distributorship agreements, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatization, project finance, and foreign government debt.

 

International Commercial Arbitration (Beale/Raviv)

This seminar provides an introduction to the theory and practice of international arbitration. The seminar is intended to introduce students to both the theoretical questions surrounding international arbitration and the hands-on issues of the practice of international arbitration.

 

International Human Rights Post 9/11 (Pradhan)

This course will analyze the continuing tension between international human rights norms and national security following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

 

International Law (Burke-White)

This course introduces students to the legal rules and institutions that govern the international political system. The course provides a formal introduction to international law and emphasizes the relationships between law and politics in the behavior of states, institutions, and individuals in world politics.

 

Internet, State Power, and Free

Global Internet policy is a zone of contestation, with states, corporations, civil society, and “netizens” seeking to assert particular perspectives. This course studies processes and rhetoric of Internet policy-making. It seeks to identify the major competing positions and the structures in key countries charged with projecting and obtaining global consensus.

 

Islamic Finance (McMillen)

The course of study will explore contemporary Islamic finance (commerce and finance in accordance with the principles and precepts of Islamic shariah) from a transactional vantage and with particular emphasis on structuring financial transactions and products.

 

Law and Society in Japan (Feldman)

Through an examination of law and legal institutions in a non-Western setting, this course emphasizes the complex relationship between law, culture, politics, and economics in advanced industrialized democracies.

 

Public Health Law (Feldman)

This seminar will examine a number of urgent issues at the intersection of law and public health, particularly those that involve a conflict between the rights of individuals and the well-being of the community. The course will use a case study approach to analyze U.S. and international conflicts over (and regulation of) tobacco, junk food, pandemics/vaccines, natural and nuclear disasters, and HIV/AIDS, among others.

 

Strategic Transactions in the Fashion and Retail Industry (Herzeca)

Recent technological advances, the growth of e-commerce and social media, and global demographic shifts have created a “retail revolution.” This seminar explores recent business and legal developments in the fashion and retail industry as a framework for developing the skills of a transactional lawyer.

 

Widening the Lens on Corporate Law (Wachter/Strine)

This seminar will consider some of the canonical cases in corporate law, and use that as a departure point for broadening students’ perspective on corporate law beyond our borders.