The Criminal Practice Clinic is an intensive clinical experience in which students represent indigent clients accused of crimes. This Clinic focuses on the development of client-centered skills in representing clients through all stages of their case. Students manage a client?s file, interview and counsel clients, engage in plea negotiations with prosecutors, conduct witness examination at hearings, and represent 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 2Ls and 3Ls. Prerequisites: Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and Criminal Procedure. Criminal Procedure may be taken concurrently with Clinic. Co-enrollment with Criminal Practice Class is required. Course enrollment is limited to 8 students. Course format: clinic. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.

The Clinic class is the lecture component of the Clinic experience, and registration for the combination of this Class and the Clinic is required for first-term IP Clinic students. The class will cover lawyering skills, ethics, IP-related skills. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Prerequisites: None; however if enrollment exceeds the 8 student maximum, the criteria for 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/or 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.

Weapons and drug trafficking are among the largest underground industries in the world. Generating hundreds of billions of dollars in annual revenue, and spawning a global industry of money laundering, trafficking has profound effects not only in the developing world but also in the well-established economies of Europe, Asia and North America. Trafficking leads also to a series of collateral social issues including increased crime rates, profound societal effects and costs, rampant public corruption and large-scale funding of terrorist activities. This course familiarizes students with the origins and present state of international trafficking in weapons and drugs and the money laundering practices used to conceal it from detection. It includes an examination of how trafficking is conducted on a global scale, what efforts have been undertaken to combat it, and what the international community is doing to address the many complex issues involved. International standards and cross-cultural obstacles are examined, as are political implications. The course will examine the approaches to these problems used in countries that have a strong interest or participation in trafficking. In addition, international best practices and standards will be critically assessed.