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Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 903 (01) - Administrative Process

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   60  
CRN: 14175
Administrative law can be a complicated subject, but it is a fundamental component of American law. It is highly likely that lawyers will encounter administrative law and procedure in their legal careers, regardless of practice area. For these reasons, the course is required. By the end of the semester, when challenged with a set of facts, students will be able to understand the scope of legislative, executive, and judicial authority, and the limitations on each branch of government in the administrative context; accurately identify and analyze the stages of the administrative rulemaking process and their legal requirements; accurately identify and analyze the stages of administrative adjudications and their legal requirements; understand and apply Constitutional requirements in the administrative process such as due process analysis, delegation of power, and separation of powers; and accurately identify, apply, and synthesize the relevant legal authority governing an administrative proceeding, including, but not limited to: the Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. Section 551 (2006), or other federal or state statutes, and judicially created rules and doctrines of administrative law. Eligibility: Required JD course. Prerequisites: Constitutional Law Civil Procedure. Course enrollment is limited to 70 students. Course format: lecture. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 TR 5:15pm - 6:45pm UNHL 200
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 904 (01) - Current Issues in Health Law and Policy

Curr Issues Health Law& Policy

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   20  
CRN: 14968
This course will teach students key provisions of federal law regulating the health care delivery and finance system through an analysis of the Affordable Care Act and its historic implementation. Students will review currently debated policy implications of the ACA and analyze legal challenges to it. Students will be guided through two short writing assignments, and choose a longer in depth client oriented analysis of a health care law or issue. Satisfies upper level writing requirement.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 T 3:10pm - 5:10pm UNHL 102
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 909 (01) - Civil Procedure

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   85  
CRN: 14183
This course surveys the civil litigation process, beginning with the pretrial phase of litigation: the requirements for complaints and answers, procedures for joining additional parties and claims, the discovery process for gathering information, and pretrial motions (such as motions to dismiss or for summary judgment). The course considers also some of the procedural aspects of trials: when does a right to trial by jury exist and various motions for judgment made during trial. (Detailed exploration of trial rules and process is available in upper-class courses such as Trial Advocacy and Evidence). Additional topics include the remedies that are available to prevailing parties, the effect of a judgment in one case on litigation involving the same parties and/or facts, and some of the difficult constitutional issues at play in civil litigation (including jurisdiction, i.e., which courts have power over which kinds of cases and over which parties). Throughout the semester, the course emphasizes not only the mechanics of the litigation process but also application of procedural rules to actual and hypothetical disputes, including strategy considerations and lawyers' ethical and professional responsibilities in the litigation process. Eligibility: Required JD course. Course format: lecture. This course is recommended for taking the bar exam. Grading: final exam worth 75% or 100%, depending on quiz performance, with adjustments allowed for class participation. Quiz grades will comprise 25% of the final grade unless performance on the final examination exceeds that on the quizzes. There also will be an ungraded practice midterm exam.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 MW 1:00pm - 3:15pm UNHL 229
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 919 (01) - Contract Design

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   12  
CRN: 17285
When a transaction and the relevant law are thoroughly understood, a good lawyer should be able to write a clear and effective contract before consulting forms and checklists. Although transactions are infinitely varied, there is a structural logic common to all contracts that can help the lawyer clarify the parties' objectives and understandings, see alternatives, organize the performances, anticipate difficulties, minimize or allocate risks, and provide for contingencies or disputes. First we will study this structural logic, the anatomy and physiology of contracts. The second part of the course will be more detailed application to several archetypal transactions, with their characteristic problems and solutions: Commercial Services, Purchase and Sale of Real Estate and of a Business, LLC Operating Agreement. The reading will be a short drafting text, cases involving drafting or design problems or oversights, and a bunch of clauses and contracts. In each part of the course there will be drafting exercises in class and out, starting with individual clauses. Early assignments will come back with comments or a "do-over." Later assignments may be graded. Around week 9 or 10 I will assign a fairly complex hypothetical for which you will have a substantial time to draft a complete proposed contract. I'll give you comments and suggestions toward a final draft. These drafts will be the principal basis for your grade. There will be no final exam. Eligibility: Open to 2Ls and 3Ls. Course enrollment is limited to 14 students. Course format: simulation. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.
Attributes: Law Upper Level Writing
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 MW 10:30am - 12:00pm UNHL 228
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 920 (01) - Contracts

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   85  
CRN: 15982
Contracts is your introduction to the law of voluntary transactions. How do we make enforceable promises? How do we interpret them? When and how can they be undone or excused? If they are broken without lawful excuse, what will the law do about it? There are other things going on in a Contracts class. With trivial exceptions, contracts are made of words. Care in using and interpreting words is vital for lawyers. Contract-making also requires anticipating and providing for contingencies. The course is as much about developing professional habits of thought as it is about rules and vocabulary. Eligibility: Required JD course. Course format: lecture. This course is recommended for taking the bar exam. Grading: final exam, 85%; midterm exam, 10%; class prep. and participation, 5%. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 MW 10:30am - 12:00pm UNHL 229
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 924 (01) - Evidence

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   60  
CRN: 14201
Evidence is a Prerequisite for Trial Advocacy, Expert Witnesses & Scientific Evidence and Patent Litigation. This course involves the study of law governing the flow of information into trials, focusing on the Federal Rules of Evidence. The course emphasizes the development of the skill of factual analysis and of the methods for analyzing evidentiary problems. It is not a course on the memorization of a body of rules. Rather, the principles underlying the rules and, in particular, their application are the focus. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Course format: lecture. This course is recommended for taking the bar exam. Grading: see syllabus. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 TF 10:10am - 11:40am UNHL 229
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 929 (01) - First Amendment Law

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 14202
This course will provide an intensive examination of the First Amendment's free speech and religion clauses. The freedom of speech aspect of the course will consider the various theoretical underpinnings for affording protection to expression and will explore how the protections afforded speech vary depending on (1) the kind of speech regulated, (2) the location where the speech occurs, and (3) the nature of the regulation at issue. The religion aspect of the course will consider the different doctrinal approaches to enforcing the free exercise clause and explore the limitations on government action imposed by the establishment clause. Course readings will include a case book and additional readings provided by the instructor. Eligibility: Open to 2Ls and 3Ls. Course format: lecture. Grading: final exam, 80%; class prep. and participation, 20%. This course may be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 TR 8:00am - 9:30am UNHL 200
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 931 (01) - Health Law

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 14254
This course provides a general introduction to the law and policy of health care delivery in the United States. You will gain an understanding of the legal and policy considerations that shape the relationships between providers - physicians and hospitals, patients, and regulators, and how different areas of law have developed when applied within the health care industry. This course will also give students an understanding of how public health policy is developed and intersects with the health care delivery system. Because health law is a broad subject matter, this course will briefly cover a wide range of topics, including the physician-patient relationship, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, medical malpractice, conflicts of interest, human subjects research, regulation of drugs and devices, end-of-life decision-making, legal issues surrounding human genetics, and public health policy. Eligibility: Open to second and third year students. Prerequisites: None. Grading: Evaluation based on a combination of 1. final exam 30%; 2. oral presentations 15%; 3. graded exercises 44%; and 4. class participation 11%.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 R 5:15pm - 8:15pm UNHL 201
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 933 (01) - Immigration Law

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 14935
Immigration law is complex and multi-faceted; it touches on other substantive areas of the law including constitutional law, criminal law and foreign policy. By the end of the semester students should be able to think critically about the historical, theoretical and constitutional context of immigration law, including division of immigration power between federal and state government as well as limits to the federal immigration power under the United States Constitution and the Amendments; possess a good understanding of the core principles of immigration law, its norms and practices; develop analytical skills to question and appraise immigration law policies and practices; identify current immigration issues in the United States, including analyzing the constitutionality and rationality of recent state and federal legislative enactments and proposals; and explore causes of present immigration problems and violations and what possible steps might Congress or states take to remedy flaws in current legislation on immigration. Eligibility: Open to 2Ls and 3Ls. Course format: lecture and problem based. Classroom attendance and participation are required. Grading: see syllabus. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 TR 5:30pm - 7:00pm UNHL 202
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 939 (01) - Privacy Law

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Law (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 15984
Privacy is the study of society?s efforts to draw boundaries between different contexts in which information flows. In the last few decades, privacy law has gone from being a minor issue largely confined to a few specific industries to one of the most important and pressing issues for businesses, consumers, and government officials of all kinds. This course will survey legal regimes governing the collection, use, and dissemination of information. Topics of discussion will include information dissemination and the First Amendment, associational privacy, the privacy torts, consumer privacy on the internet, the role of the Federal Trade Commission, medical privacy, government surveillance and the Fourth Amendment, privacy and national security, and international privacy regimes.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/28/2017 12/8/2017 T 3:10pm - 5:10pm UNHL 202