Courses

  • ANTITRUST LAWS & COMPETITION (BUSINESS AND FINANCE LAW - 1010)

    3 credits

    This is a survey course dealing with the principal federal antitrust legislation, including the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act and the Robinson-Patman Act. The course considers price fixing, conspiracies in restraint of trade, monopolization, horizontal and vertical mergers, refusals to deal, tying, exclusive dealing and price discrimination. Grades are based upon a final examination.

  • ANTITRUST SEMINAR (BUSINESS AND FINANCE LAW - 1020)

    2 credits

    This course will examine in depth some topics covered in Antitrust Laws and Competition and also deal with issues not covered in the introductory course. Among the problems to be examined are: per se illegality, resale price maintenance and other vertical restraints; damages; contribution; indirect purchase doctrine; summary judgment; discovery; right to a jury trial; complex litigation; and regulated industries and special problems of dominant firms. Grades are based upon memoranda and a final examination.

  • CIVIL PRACTICE SEM. - FEDERAL (STATE AND FEDERAL PRACTICE - 3020)

    2 credits

    This course is the federal analogue of Civil Practice Seminar-State. The course is designed to give students experience in drafting the legal papers necessary to prosecute a civil action in federal court, including pleadings, amended pleadings, discovery requests, dispositive and non-dispositive motions, post-trial motions, and appellate papers. Assignments will be developed through hypothetical case files and will vary from time to time. Grades are based upon written submissions, oral presentations and class participation. This course satisfies the Advanced Practice Writing Requirement.

  • CIVIL PROCEDURE (CIVIL PROCEDURE - 1000)

    4 credits

    This first year course is concerned with the statutory and judicially established procedures governing the conduct of civil litigation in the courts, with an emphasis on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The course examines in depth principles of jurisdiction, conflict of laws, pleadings, joinder of parties (including class actions), motions, summary judgment, discovery and the doctrine of preclusion. Grades are based upon a final examination.

  • FEDERAL PRACTICE (STATE AND FEDERAL PRACTICE - 1080)

    3 credits

    This course differs in purpose and content from Federal Courts in that it concentrates on essentially non-jurisdictional, practical problems of litigation in federal courts. The course will provide in-depth coverage of federal discovery practice, including an analysis of individual discovery methods and their relative strengths and weaknesses as well as discovery privileges and sanctions for abuse and non-compliance. The course will also examine res judicata and collateral estoppel, sanctions, class actions, equitable provisional remedies, summary judgment, extraordinary writs, awards of attorneys' fees, the right to jury trial, multidistrict litigation and the Manual for Complex Litigation. Grades are based upon a final examination.