Criminal Investigation. Examines the regulation of law enforcement investigatory practices-- searches and seizures, the eliciting of confessions, and lineups and other idenfication procedures. Course materials analyze various constitutional and statutory constraints on law enforcement practices, and deal extensively with landmark federal constitutional cases such as Miranda v.
Criminal Adjudication. Examines the adjudicative part of criminal procedure; covers the decision to charge, bail and pretrial release, grand juries and preliminary hearings, discovery, pretrial motions, plea bargaining, jury trials, appeals, and former jeopardy. Overview of the treatment of wildlife; international regulation; federal regulation; the national wildlife refuge system; wildlife management on U. Forest Service lands and lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management; fish habitat and hydroelectric development; regulation of private lands to protect species on public lands; tribal rights and wildlife; and state regulation of wildlife.
Hazardous Waste Law. Hazardous waste liability and regulation is moving to the forefront of environmental law as industries, governmental agencies, and citizen groups struggle with the problems of remedying contamination caused by past disposal practices and seek to prevent unsafe disposal in the future.
Emphasizes the attorney's roles in compliance counseling, in environmental audits, and in negotiation between governmental agencies and regulated parties.
Examines the debate between animal rights and animal welfare, and considers legal issues concerning companion animals, farm animals, laboratory animals, wild animals, feral animals, and service animals. International Environmental Law.
Investigates treaty and customary principles of international law regarding environmental protection. Covers problems of protecting the international environmental commons, transboundary pollution, and international interest in national environmental resources. Environmental Litigation and Practice. This seminar helps students transition from doctrine and theory to law practice — particularly alone or in an environmental law firm.
Public interest lawyers participate regularly in person or by Skype. Human Rights and Environment. Environmental rights, increasingly recognized as a new category of human rights as well as an application of existing rights, are both substantive and procedural. Presents recent developments in international law and national law in various countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Examines international instruments, national constitutions, and legislation.
Discussion includes novel international court cases that interpret and apply these rights. Professional Sports Law. Is the NFL an illegal cartel? What rights do players and unions have? Explores the regulation of professional leagues, players, teams, coaches, and agents. Amateur Sports Law. Are student athletes pampered or victimized? What has Title IX accomplished? Explores the regulation of intercollegiate and interscholastic sports. A practical look into the world of sports licensing.
The focus will be on examining real-world contracts and the contexts in which they were negotiated. Overview of major consumer protection laws and concepts, including false advertising, consumer privacy, identity theft, credit reporting, home purchases, credit disclosures, and loan regulations. Introduces trademark law, focusing on U. Overview of antitrust law in the United states, with an emphasis on current antitrust practice; recognizing, analyzing, and solving problems involving antitrust issues.
Business Law Clinic. Replicates the environment of a small law firm. Each student assists several clients during the course of the semester under the supervision of an attorney. Includes a weekly seminar. Judicial Externship [Topic]. Externship at the Lane County Circuit Court. Students conduct research, write legal memoranda, draft opinions and generally participate in the daily operation of the court.
Gender-Based Violence and the Law. This class focuses on domestic abuse, sexual assault, and stalking and the diverse array of laws that addresses those topics. Surveys the major federal special education and disability nondiscrimination laws from a disability rights perspective. Introduction to State Administrative Law. Alternative Dispute Resolution Litigation Strategy.
Provides knowledge, tools and skills for lawyers to settle cases, help clients make an informed decision about settlement, and identify appropriate processes. Oregon Constitutional Law. This course covers provisions of the Oregon Constitution that differ from, and usually provide more rights than, the US Constitution, including equal protection, free speech, search and seizure, guaranteed remedy.
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of arbitration. Students will learn the statutory framework and caselaw for arbitration in domestic and international contexts. This course introduces students to the theory and practice of mediation.
In an experiential format, students will learn how to manage the stages of a mediation process. International Sports Law I. International Sports Law II. Repeatable once for a maximum of 2 credits.
Advanced Appellate Advocacy. This simulation course teaches students practical skills for engaging in appellate advocacy. Students focus on structuring arguments, writing and editing appellate briefs, and doing oral argument. Legal Writing for the Bar. Offers a head start on bar preparation by helping students to develop and solidify the fundamental skills needed to pass the bar. Intensive Writing. Introduces students to ways in which lawyers communicate and gives students the opportunity to more extensively study the mechanics of effectively communicating legal analysis.
Writing in Law Practice. Provides students with opportunities to develop practice-oriented writing skills in a variety of contexts. Intensive Legal Writing. Students produce documents in a wide variety of practice settings, including office memoranda, contracts, and client letters.
Students receive extensive feedback and opportunities to revise their work. Offered summer only. Advanced Uniform Commercial Code. Covers property-based aspects of business transactions including secured loans, set-off, and ownership and transfer of investments, from advanced U. Prereq: Secured Transactions or Fundamentals of Loans or equivalent. Writing Colloquium. Student will explore theme, structure, and style as they learn to critique writing. Innovations in Criminal Justice.
Focuses on advanced approaches to the reduction of recidivism in the federal criminal justice system. Discussion centers on the use of therapeutic jurisprudence grounded in evidence-based practice. Child Development and the Law. Provides students with an overview of child development with applications for the law.
Course topics span the developmental spectrum from prenatal influences through childhood. Leadership Practices for Professional Success. Examines leadership theories and models.
Through intensive readings, exercises, introspection, and open discussion, participants develop workable insights into their own leadership styles and how to improve them. Survey of legal issues and lawyering practices associated with the private resolution of litigated cases, including confidentiality, economic incentives, and enforcement.
Study of law related to the visual arts. Analyzes laws related to the creation, purchase, sale, transfer, import and export of art; protection of artist rights. Surveys areas in which law deals with inter-group relations and the biases related to race, gender, and other social categories common to them e.
Law and Development. This course explores the relationship between theories of development and legal knowledge. The class leads students through a thorough discussion of foundational issues in international human rights law and activism. Advanced Human Rights Seminar. This course offers further examination of the philosophical, sociological, and literary contributions to the human rights movement.
Immigration Law and Policy. Covers statutory, constitutional, and administrative law and policy issues relating to foreign nationals and their relationship with the U. Forensic Science in Criminal Law. Introduction to forensic science and criminal law. Topics include crime scene investigation, trace evidence, serology, DNA analysis, fingerprints, firearms, documents, and pathology.
Explores how negotiations work, what makes negotiators effective, and why negotiations fail. Focuses on analyzing and improving negotiation skills. Law Journals: [Topic]. Welcome to law review! It is also a unique opportunity in law school to develop your project management skills and work with others. Repeatable 4 times for a maximum of 10 credits. Criminal Defense Clinic. You will represent Defendants in Misdemeanor Criminal Cases, under supervision, including meting clients, reviewing police reports, discussing alternatives and appearing in Circuit Court for Motions, Hearings and possible Jury Trials.
Prereq: law Students must be Court Certified so they may appear in Court. Evidence, Professional Responsibility and Constitutional Law are strongly suggested. Criminal Prosecution Clinic. Students appear in court on behalf of the state; they prepare and argue legal motions and try cases; and they learn Oregon criminal law and procedure.
Advanced Criminal Prosecution Clinic. Domestic Violence Civil Clinic I. Students provide necessary legal services to survivors of domestic violence, with an emphasis on family law. Provides students with the opportunity to effectively serve survivors of domestic violence in protective-order litigation through mock exercises and real-world client representation. Provides students who have completed the basic clinic with additional opportunities to represent survivors of domestic violence in more complex protective-order proceedings.
Environmental Law Clinic. Under the supervision of an attorney, students work with non-profit clients in the prosecution of primarily federal environmental cases. Students will join new or existing cases, and conduct legal research and writing to develop memoranda, draft sections of complaints or briefs, and review evidence.
Advanced Environmental Law Clinic. In the Advanced Environmental Law Clinic, students work one-on-one with attorneys on aspects of an ongoing or prospective case or cases , with emphasis on research and writing. In this course students, working in interdisciplinary teams, perform as consultants to several Oregon nonprofit boards of directors. Students will engage with expert consultants, executive directors, and client boards of directors and work to formulate and deliver a meaningful governance assessment to two c 3 organizations.
Civil Practice Clinic. You will provide legal services to indigent clients through the local legal aid office. You will gain negotiation and litigation experience, managing your own cases under instructor supervision. Advanced Civil Practice Clinic. Work with Oregon Law Center to represent real clients in real cases. Gain negotiation and litigation experience managing your own cases under instructor supervision.
LLM Seminar: Writing. Master of laws students will explore the United States legal system and legal profession through in-class workshops, legal research and writing, and oral presentations. Students studying for a master of laws LLM degree explore professional development topics and develop practice skills through in-class workshops, legal writing, a simulated symposium, and negotiation exercises. This course is specifically designed for international students in the LLM program.
The course provides foundational knowledge of US legal system necessary to fully participate in graduate legal education. This course is specifically designed for international LLM students. The course provides skills in legal writing and research necessary to participate in graduate legal education in the US. Tribal Courts and Tribal Law. Examines Indian law from the tribal perspective and focuses on the role of tribal lawmaking and tribal courts.
Contemporary Issues in American Indian Law. Comparative Law of Indigenous Peoples. Examines the historical and contemporary legal and policy treatment of indigenous peoples in select countries with significant indigenous populations.
Environmental Law. Overview of environmental law and policy, common-law doctrines, administrative rulemaking, environmental federalism, National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, the regulation of hazardous waste, air and water pollution. Natural Resources Law. Provides a foundation in environmental law.
Spans international, federal, state, and local jurisdiction, interfacing with classic environmental law pollution statutes.
Explores public trust law, which originated as judge-made law and has been enshrined in many statutes and constitutions in the United States and abroad. Food, Farming, and Sustainability. Examines how laws structure processes of food production, distribution, and consumption; surveys food and agricultural laws in review of broader questions of ecological sustainability and commerce. Energy and the Law Seminar.
Introduces students to the policies and laws governing energy in the United States. The class covers federal and state jurisdiction, renewable energy laws and policies, regulation of investor-owned utilities, public power, transmission, and the laws that govern the resources used to generate electricity. University of Oregon. UO Home Dept Index.
Search Catalog. Catalog Navigation. January Term The School of Law offers a collection of one-week intensive courses held the week before the start of the regular spring semester. Summer Session The School of Law offers a summer session that is open to law students who have completed at least one year of legal studies and who are in good standing at a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. Clinics, Field Placements, and Simulation Courses The law school's Clinics Program and Field Placement Program give students real-world experience with concepts learned in the classroom.
Bankruptcy Field Placements Students serve as judicial externs for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon and participate in all aspects of judicial decision-making, including researching and drafting bench memorandums and opinions, and observing oral arguments and chambers conferences.
Business Law Clinic Students represent small companies and entrepreneurs who need legal assistance in forming and operating their businesses.
Criminal Defense Clinic and Advanced Defense Clinic Students conduct client and witness interviews and investigations and help defend clients in a wide range of misdemeanor prosecutions in Oregon Circuit Court through Public Defender Services of Lane County. Criminal Justice Field Placements Students work for public defenders, US attorneys, state attorneys, and district attorneys doing a range of work. Criminal Prosecution Clinic and Advanced Prosecution Clinic Students are assigned to one of several local prosecutors' offices, where they prepare and try minor criminal cases under the supervision of an attorney.
Domestic Violence Civil Clinic and Advanced Domestic Violence Civil Clinic Students work with attorneys to provide comprehensive civil legal services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking while learning the skills required for client representation in litigation-based practice. Domestic Violence Protective Order Clinic and Advanced Domestic Violence Protective Order Clinic Students work with attorneys to provide protective order legal services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking while learning the skills required for client representation in litigation-based practice.
Domestic Violence Field Placements Students are placed at the Klamath Falls Legal Aid Services of Oregon office and handle a range of issues related to the representation of domestic violence victims. Environmental Law Clinic and Advanced Environmental Law Clinic Working with the Western Environmental Law Center, students assist in federal court litigation representing nonprofits in enforcing federal environmental law. Environmental Law Field Placements Students are placed with governmental and nonprofit agencies from Oregon to Washington, DC, working on a variety of issues related to environmental regulations and compliance, energy policy, land use, and climate change.
General Field Placements Students are placed with nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies in a variety of settings to gain practical experience in different readings of the law.
In-House Counsel Field Placements Students are placed in corporate counsel offices to give them a window into the world of major Oregon businesses and the operations of corporate legal counsel. Judicial Field Placements Students work for district and appellate federal courts, federal immigration court, state trial and appellate courts, and the U. Local Government Field Placements Students work in city government offices and with law firms representing cities and counties on a wide range of legal issues.
Trial Practice Students examine and develop courtroom skills in civil and criminal cases. Centers and Programs Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center Many lawyers today are more likely to participate in a settlement conference, mandatory arbitration, or mediation session than they are to argue a case in the courtroom.
Total Costs Because student living arrangements and personal spending habits vary widely, no single figure represents the cost of attending the university.
Financial Assistance See the Student Financial Aid and Scholarships section of this catalog for complete information about financial aid including loans. Scholarships and Fellowships Law school applicants are automatically evaluated for merit-based scholarships. Faculty Sarah J. Minor in Legal Studies The legal studies minor examines how law shapes and is shaped by society.
Requirements for the Minor Course List Code Title Credits Core courses 8 Law elective courses 8 Elective courses in other fields 8 Total Credits 24 Courses must be passed with grades of C— or better, with at least 12 credits earned in upper-division courses at the or levels.
All but two second- and third-year courses are elective. Additional Requirements A total of three years of full-time resident professional study in the University of Oregon School of Law or another law school of recognized standing is required for the JD degree. Master of Laws The School of Law offers a degree program leading to a master of laws with concentrations in American law, business law, conflict and dispute resolution, or environmental and natural resources law.
Students who have been admitted to the School of Law master of laws LLM program, who have satisfactorily completed at least 24 semester credits, and who have otherwise satisfied the LLM program requirements, are granted the LLM degree provided that they have been full-time law students for at least two semesters earn a 2.
The students also work to improve their skills in making presentations, drafting articles, legal research, drafting transaction documents, and working collaboratively.
Master of laws students must complete a written comprehensive paper or project in connection with one of the required concentration-specific courses or as a concentration-focused, independent-study legal research and writing course under the supervision of a faculty advisor.
Additional Requirements First-year students take core courses together as a cohort. Graduate Specializations The Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program partners with several other academic departments to offer four graduate specializations : Environmental Conflict: Climate Change Environmental Conflict: Land Use Environmental Conflict: Water Regional and International Conflict Full information may be found on the program website or by emailing cres uoregon.
Repeatable up to seven times or a maximum of 8 credits. Capstone Seminar. Law Courses LAW Advanced Torts. Civil Procedure. Criminal Law. Tax Policy. Conflict of Laws. Legal Profession. Trial Practice. Family Law. Elder Law. Labor Law. Employment Law. Land Use Law. Legal Writing. Indian Law. Estate Planning.
Wildlife Law. Animal Law. Sports Licensing. Consumer Law. Trademark Law. Antitrust Law. Hollywood Externship, Federal Judicial Internship. Disability Law.
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