The Criminal Practice Clinic is an intensive clinical experience in which students represent indigent clients accused of crimes. This advanced clinical course concentrates on the further development of such skills as managing a client?s file, interviewing and counseling clients, engaging in plea negotiations with prosecutors, conducting witness examination at hearings, and representing clients in all phases of criminal trials in the circuit and superior courts. The course requires a minimum of 9 hours each week working on client?s cases in the clinic, meeting with clients, or attending court sessions. Grading is based on student performance during client representation. Grading factors include communication with clients, file organization, case analysis and preparation, and interaction with the clinical supervisor. Eligibility: Open to 3Ls only. Prerequisite: Criminal Practice Clinic. Course enrollment is limited to 6 students. Course format: clinic. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.

Students represent real clients in IP prosecution, litigation, and transactional matters in their 6 office hours/week schedule (8.5 in summer) under professor supervision. Clients include artists, businesses, and non-profits. Concurrent registration in the Intellectual Property & Transaction Class (LCL 935) is required. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Prerequisites: None: however, if enrollment exceeds the 8 student maximum, the criteria for the selection of the 8 students guaranteed enrollment is (1) preference given to students who have no other opportunity to take the Clinic (such as 3Ls and graduate students), and (2) preference for students with prior relevant courses (such as Fun, IP, Trademarks, Copyrights, Federal Trademark Registration Practice, and Business Associations) or prior relevant life experience (email resume to professor). Course format: lecture.Grading: other (see syllabus). 100%. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade. Open to graduate, residential JD, and hybrid students.

This course is best understood as "Cops, Robbers and the Constitution." It falls within the categories of constitutional law and criminal practice. It focuses on the Fourth , Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and investigates the constitutional regulation of police investigatory activity from one's first encounter with the police through the beginning of trial. Its principal focus relates to the law governing searches and seizures, and the law regulating police interrogation of suspects though it will also cover a few other related topics. Eligibility: Required JD course. Course format: lecture. Recommended for taking the bar exam. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. No S/U grade.

This course will introduce students to the study of contemporary forms of white collar crime and its explanations, theories, and accounts along with its investigation, adjudication, and regulation. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Prerequisites: Criminal Procedure I. Course enrollment is limited to 16 students. Course format: online. Grading: class prep. and participation, 50%; research paper, 50%. This course may be taken for an S/U grade.