Timeroom: Spring 2023

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

LGP 963 (01) - Law and Mental Health

Law and Mental Health

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 53288

This course equips students to manage all phases of legal proceedings in which mental health evidence and testimony are utilized. Students will review theories of law and mental health; assessment, treatment, credentialing, ethics, and practice standards; competency, sanity, and commitment proceedings; mental injury, antidiscrimination, and educational entitlements; delinquency, abuse/neglect, and child custody determinations; and practical aspects of forensic consultation, expert witness retention, and the lawyer?s own mental health.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Majors not allowed in section: LAW: JD HYBRID

Excluding the following students: Graduate Law - Online

Instructors: Eric Drogin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
2/11/2023	2/11/2023	S	9:00am - 4:00pm	UNHL 202
1/17/2023	5/12/2023	M	5:30pm - 8:30pm	UNHL 202

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

LGP 970 (01) - Preliminary Bar Exam

Preliminary Bar Exam

Credits: 0.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Law Satisfactory/Unsatisfactry

Class Size: 300
CRN: 52229

The preliminary bar exam is a requirement for all 1L students, as set forth in the Student Handbook p.53 The prelim will assess students' substantive knowledge of Torts, Contracts, Property, and Civil Procedure, as well as the essential skills necessary for success on the bar exam. Students will not receive course credit for the prelim, and it will not be used to calculate GPA or class rank.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Kevin Frost, Danette Wineberg

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023		Hours Arranged	TBA

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

LGP 971 (01) - BioInnovation Research Collaboration and the Law

BioInnovation Resch Collaborat

Credits: 2.0 to 3.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 52999

This course will explore the legal, regulatory and business issues that arise from the research, development, manufacturing and sale of innovative bio-medical products. Students will work through a case study to simulate the collaborative development of a product, learning in a dynamic and multi-disciplinary classroom. The curriculum will track key areas of the law that impact the development of innovative products, specifically cutting edge issues that arise when bringing together industry, academia and government collaboration around bio generation. Students will emerge from this pilot program ready for the challenge of identifying the issues facing companies working in bioinnovation space and specifically those companies seeking services from ARMI, Inc.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Only listed colleges in section: Graduate School, Franklin Pierce School of Law

Majors not allowed in section: LAW: JD HYBRID

Excluding the following students: Graduate Law - Online

Instructors: Bruce Leicher

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023	R	5:30pm - 7:30pm	UNHL 202

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

LGP 972 (01) - Valuation and the Law

Valuation and the Law

Credits: 1.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 56617

Valuation is a prerequisite for thoughtful decision-making. The old management adage?you can?t manage what you don?t measure?remains true today. In business, sound decision-making involves placing reasonable values on assets and strategies to identify the best decisions among competing, but uncertain, choices. While valuation has long been used by businesses to improve decisions, it has been slow to develop as a wide-ranging decision tool in the legal setting. As a result, valuation principles are too often ignored or poorly implemented in legal settings. Valuation should be a fundamental skill possessed by most lawyers. Consider just a few of the legal settings that require valuation to make properly informed decisions: ? Developing remedies in the litigation context. ? Making sue-or-settle decisions. ? Crafting effective laws and regulations. ? Determining how much to spend on legal services. ? Developing and executing business strategies that are based on legal rights (such as intellectual property strategies). ? Evaluating the success or failure of negotiations. In each of these contexts, the decision-maker must make a value judgment (the option chosen is better than options not chosen), whether the decision-maker appreciates it or not. For example, when a client decides to settle a lawsuit, she has valued the settlement alternative higher than the litigation alternative. Therefore, the choice is not whether to employ a valuation analysis. Rather, the choice is whether to employ an intelligent valuation analysis that helps inform the decision or to employ a jumbled process that ignores such valuable information. One reason (and probably the most powerful reason) for the slow development of valuation analysis in the legal setting is the common misperception that valuation is too difficult. This course will seek to disprove that notion. This course will teach students how to apply valuation principles in their future legal practice and become more effective lawyers. Strong math skills are not required. We will not employ any mathematical concepts beyond what is required in a 6th grade math class.

Instructor Approval Required. Contact Instructor for permission then register through Webcat.

Majors not allowed in section: LAW: JD HYBRID

Instructors: John Orcutt

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023	T	9:00am - 10:00am	UNHL 200

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

LGP 973 (01) - Extended Bar Review

Extended Bar Review

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 56618

This course is designed to jumpstart your bar exam preparation by developing your substantive knowledge and sharpening your critical bar exam success skills. Specifically, you will receive in-depth review of highly tested topics in Contracts, Evidence, Torts and Real Property. You will then put that knowledge to use working through practice MBE and essay questions. You will learn how to develop a strong but flexible framework to resolve bar exam problems, sharpen your reading comprehension, issue identification, rule mastery, critical thinking and legal analysis skills.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Kevin Frost

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023	R	5:00pm - 7:00pm	UNHL 205

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

LGP 973 (1LH) - Extended Bar Review

Extended Bar Review

Online Course Delivery Method: Online (no campus visits), EUNH

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law Hybrid (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 50
CRN: 55360

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Only listed majors in section: LAW: JD HYBRID

Instructors: Marta Young

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023		Hours Arranged	ONLINE

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

LGP 979 (01) - Animal Law

Animal Law

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 24
CRN: 53303

Animal law is the fastest developing field of law in the nation. It is an interdisciplinary practice, encompassing several areas of the law such as property, contracts, torts, constitutional law, criminal law, and even intellectual property. In addition, there are federal and state laws specific to animals, such as trusts and cruelty statutes. This class will focus upon both areas. There will be a strong emphasis on your communication skills: thoughtful and consistent class participation is required. Each week we will address a new area of law, and how it applies to animal law. Class one will be a review of the common law as it relates to animals; class two will be a case file or in class exercise based upon class one.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Majors not allowed in section: LAW: JD HYBRID

Excluding the following students: Graduate Law - Online

Instructors: Patricia Morris

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023	TR	12:30pm - 2:00pm	UNHL 103

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LGP 990 (01) - Law Special Topics

LawSpcTop/State Con Law

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/17/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 56557

Special topics courses explore emerging developments in the law or take advantage of special expertise provided by visitors and guest faculty. Courses offered under this title are approved by the Associate Dean and may be designated to meet skills or advanced writing requirements. Special topics classes may only satisfy elective credit and are available only to law students after their first year of study and graduate students by permission.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 15 credits.

Majors not allowed in section: LAW: JD HYBRID

Instructors: Neals-Erik Delker

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/17/2023	5/12/2023	W	5:30pm - 7:30pm	UNHL 274

Additional Course Details:

State Constitutional Law

State constitutions provide a fertile source of law for a lawyer to advocate for a client’s rights. For the criminal defendant the state constitution may provide broader protections in the area of criminal procedure. For the prosecutor it is important to understand state court approaches to a interpreting the state constitution so that the prosecutor can respond effectively to efforts to impose broader protections under state constitutions than the federal courts recognize under the U.S. Constitution. For the lawyer representing state or local government agencies, an understanding of state constitutional law is essential for the exercise of the government’s general police powers. For the attorney representing a private individual against state action, the state constitution may provide rights or limit state power in ways not contained in the U.S. Constitution. The state constitutions govern issues as broadly as labor relations, proportional taxation, and environmental law. The goal of State Constitutional Law Seminar is to familiarize students with state constitutional law so that the student will consider this important source of law when representing clients.

The course does not focus exclusively on any particular state’s constitution. Rather, the course presents an overview of how the various state supreme courts address rights under their individual state constitutions. Students can then adapt those concepts to the jurisdiction where the student will ultimately practice law.

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

LGP 990 (03) - Law Special Topics

LawSpcTop/HumanRights & SocJus

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/02/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 50
CRN: 56570

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 15 credits.

Instructors: Sindiso MnisiWeeks

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/9/2023	1/13/2023	MTWRF	9:00am - 5:00pm	UNHL 205

Additional Course Details:

Human Rights-Based Social Justice

Over the past two decades, nonprofit organizations and social justice activists around the world have adopted human rights frameworks, strategies and tools to advance their goals. At the international level, Oxfam and Action Aid, for example, have embraced human rights-based approaches to their social justice work. National and local non-profit organizations and activists from Vermont, Peru, South Africa and India have also discovered that human rights can provide a legitimate and coherent framework for analyzing public policy and organizing people to demand social justice. Drawing on case studies from the United States and globally, this course examines human rights-based approaches adopted by non-profit organizations to advocate on social justice issues affecting marginalized groups, including women, children, racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities and migrant workers. In particular, this course draws on cases from domestic, regional and international courts around the world to elucidate how human rights-based approaches and arguments have been used to advance social justice, albeit often meeting with varied success. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: (1) understand and apply basic principles of international human rights law; (2) understand how human rights can be effectively translated, through advocacy and practice, in varied empirical contexts; (3) articulate key social justice arguments for and against adoption of the human rights frameworks, strategies and tools demonstrated in the course case studies; and (4) critically engage with different sources of human rights law––including international agreements (treaties and conventions), customary (international and domestic) law, judicial decisions, domestic constitutions, statutes, and policies––from a social justice perspective.

In-Person attendance required.

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

LGP 990 (04) - Law Special Topics

LawSpcTop/Ethics & Gov Service

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2023 - Law (01/02/2023 - 05/12/2023)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 56571

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 15 credits.

Instructors: Shane Cooper, Daniel Mangual

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/9/2023	1/13/2023	MTWRF	9:00am - 5:00pm	UNHL 200

Additional Course Details:

Ethics and Government Service

The objective of this course is to provide a rigorous introduction to the legal framework surrounding government ethics, standards of conduct in government service, and federal conflicts of interest statutes . The course will utilize the federal ethics rules as applied to individuals servicing Executive Branch positions as our model. The course will allow students to explore the legal complexities related to state and federal ethics regarding employee conduct and the associated challenges for lawyers who represent clients in ethics matters.

The course will include two written components. The first is a team exercise which will follow the timeline for Presidentially Appointed, Senate Confirmed nominees from nomination to confirmation. The second written component will be an individual assignment where students are responsible for providing ethics guidance and advice to a new government employee.

Students who successfully complete this course will gain general knowledge of the legal framework regarding Government Ethics and specific knowledge of selected topics including internal and external gifts, outside activities, use of government resources and misuse of position, conflicts of interest both personal and financial, political activities of government employees, consideration for leaving government services, and other ethics systems guiding congressional, judiciary, and state government. Students will improve their ability to assess fact patterns involving issue spotting, legal analysis, and application of their knowledge in the preparation of a legal memo for a government employee. Finally, students will increase proficiency in practical legal skills by producing a final written product intended as formal legal advice from a government ethics attorney to a new government employee.