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LAW 806
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; open only to students selected to participate in interscholastic moot court competitions following first year or upper level tryout. Students will register for Moot Court I in their first year of interscholastic competition and Moot Court II in their second year of competition. With the exception of interscholastic competitions whose rules mandate that participants be members of specific student organizations, absent permission of the Dean and the Faculty Advisor to Moot Court, no student may participate in interscholastic moot court competitions unless the student is… see more
LAW 809
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; open only to students selected to participate in interscholastic moot court competitions following first year or upper level tryout. Students will register for Moot Court I in their first year of interscholastic competition and Moot Court II in their second year of competition. With the exception of interscholastic competitions whose rules mandate that participants be members of specific student organizations, absent permission of the Dean and the Faculty Advisor to Moot Court, no student may participate in interscholastic moot court competitions unless the student is… see more
LAW 754
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will provide students the opportunity to negotiate and draft agreements that a lawyer advising a sports team would encounter. Students will learn about the various components of complex deal documents and have the opportunity to then draft these documents. Students will also explore and experiment with negotiating strategies. Overall, the goal of the course is to have students master skills related to negotiating, drafting, and analyzing the various “moving parts” of complicated agreements. The class will begin with a unit on stadium lease agreements. From… see more
LAW 722
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. This course considers the legal problems and current issues involved in the structuring and operation of non-profit organizations and includes practical exercises in drafting legal memoranda and corporate documents. Satisfies the upper level writing requirement.
LAW 701
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Student should be scheduled to graduate within the current academic year. The class is designed to achieve three goals: provide students with detailed information about the structure and content of the Ohio Bar Exam; inform students of strategies and tactics for studying and preparing for and taking the bar examination; and help students develop and strengthen their test taking skills through the use of regular practice examinations and detailed feedback. The course is structured so that, by the end, participants will have written multiple bar essay questions, MBE questions,… see more
LAW 667
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course consists of an in-depth study of the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure. A comparison of Ohio and Federal Rules with particular emphasis on Ohio rules relating to venue and process, summons, methods of service, local and out-of-state service, discovery, pleadings, motions.
LAW 833
3 Credit Hours
The Ohio Legislative Process, a once a week seminar will be taught by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, William Batchelder, and by Professor David F. Forte. The case example we shall study will be the Medicaid Expansion required to be adopted by the states under the Affordable Care Act. We shall study the Supreme Court case of NFIB v. Sibellius, in which the Supreme Court struck down the compulsory aspect of the Medicaid Expansion, but left it as a voluntary option. We shall then look at the legislation passed by the Ohio General Assembly rejecting the Medicaid Option, the line… see more
LAW 784
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course will focus on the home-rule powers of Ohio municipalities. The first several weeks of the course will be given over to a discussion of photocopied materials consisting of Ohio cases. The last few weeks will be used for the presentation of student papers. Grading will be based primarily upon the quality of each student’s paper on some topic of Ohio municipal law. The course satisfies the upper level writing requirement.
LAW 662
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. Oil and Gas Law provides students with a survey of the law governing interests in oil and gas, including classification of property interests; conservation and administrative regulation of drilling and production; an examination of the oil and gas lease; conveyance; and pooling and utilization. The rights and responsibilities of the parties to the transaction and other affected persons during the various stages of the development process will also be examined. In the course of the semester, students will be exposed to documents and instruments that are integral to oil and… see more
LAW 838C
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. The Pardon, Clemency, and Expungement Clinic offers students an opportunity to represent clients seeking an expungement of a prior conviction or seeking pardon or clemency from the Ohio governor through the Governor's Expedited Pardon Project. Students will work under the direct supervision of a clinical faculty member, and in coordination with community legal organizations. Students will perform legal representation to individuals in the community including the following: community outreach to identify potential clients; client interviewing and screening for eligibility… see more
LAW 838D
4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC. The Pardon, Clemency, and Expungement Clinic offers students an opportunity to represent clients seeking an expungement of a prior conviction or seeking pardon or clemency from the Ohio governor through the Governor's Expedited Pardon Project. Students will work under the direct supervision of a clinical faculty member, and in coordination with community legal organizations. Students will perform legal representation to individuals in the community including the following: community outreach to identify potential clients; client interviewing and screening for eligibility… see more
LAW 642
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Copyright, Patent & Trademark (LAW 658) (recommended but not required). This course explores the U.S. patent system, including the regulatory framework that governs the procurement and maintenance of patents. The course will also consider various aspects of the burgeoning practice of patent law before federal courts and administrative agencies, such as enforcing patents and seeking available remedies from infringers. The course will also cover some of the distinctions that exist among patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets protection. There are no upper level… see more
LAW 549A
1 Credit Hours
A pop-up practicum is a short-term, practice-based experience responsive to student interest and faculty availability. The pop-up practicums are offered for a semester at a time, upon demand. They are intended to provide the flexibility to respond to opportunities for students to learn and engage with current legal issues aligned with our faculty's diverse expertise. The pop-up practicums give our law students the opportunity to work on real world problems by undertaking projects for private, public, and/or non-profit entities, under the supervision of a faculty member.
LAW 549B
2 Credit Hours
A pop-up practicum is a short-term, practice-based experience responsive to student interest and faculty availability. The pop-up practicums are offered for a semester at a time, upon demand. They are intended to provide the flexibility to respond to opportunities for students to learn and engage with current legal issues aligned with our faculty's diverse expertise. The pop-up practicums give our law students the opportunity to work on real world problems by undertaking projects for private, public, and/or non-profit entities, under the supervision of a faculty member. Satisfies experiential… see more
LAW 714
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the barriers to justice facing convicted, incarcerated defendants through simulated representation of actual clients. Students will learn the post-conviction procedures available to convicted clients. Through engaged participation, students will handle the simulated representation of the criminal case of an actual client. Students will digest trial transcripts, critically review original law enforcement investigations, investigate new areas of factual development, research applicable legal challenges, and draft a filing with a brief in support. From week to week,… see more
LAW 834
3 or 4 Credit Hours
The C-M Law Pretrial Justice Clinic is an experiential course with the combined attributes of a Legal Clinic and Field Experience. The C-M Law Pretrial Justice Clinic working with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office is an effort to address the disparate gap in legal services to indigent defendants and aims to reduce the amount of days indigent defendants spend in jail simply in pretrial detention. Students will work under the direct supervision of both faculty and a site supervisor. The Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office will be the dedicated agency for the students' lawyering… see more
LAW 834B
2 Credit Hours
The C-M Law Pretrial Justice Clinic is an experiential course with the combined attributes of a Legal Clinic and Field Experience. The C-M Law Pretrial Justice Clinic working with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office is an effort to address the disparate gap in legal services to indigent defendants and aims to reduce the amount of days indigent defendants spend in jail simply in pretrial detention. Students will work under the direct supervision of both faculty and a site supervisor. The Cuyahoga County Public Defender's Office will be the dedicated agency for the students' lawyering… see more
LAW 668
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*; Evidence (LAW 661). This course will cover the role of an attorney in representing clients from initial interview up to the time of trial. Topics covered will include interviewing clients and witnesses, fact development, scene investigation, obtaining tangible evidence, interrogatories, depositions and negotiations. Ethical concerns will be discussed in the context of pretrial practice as they confront the students in the preparation of their cases.
LAW 775
2 Credit Hours
This course will examine the historical origins, processes of change, and goals of modern products liability law. We will explore the basic doctrinal theories that support products liability actions against manufacturers negligence, warranty, and strict liability in relation to the manufacturing, design, and marketing processes. We will then examine the principles and proofs courts use to determine whether a product should be classified as defective, as applied to the separate defect categories of manufacture, design, and warnings. Special attention will be given to the Restatement (Third) of… see more
LAW 514
4 Credit Hours
Property Law involves the study of the creation and allocation of rights to resources in varied forms. These resources include real property (land and things permanently attached to land such as houses or other structures). Property law also addresses rights to tangible personal property (such as books or furniture) and intangible personal property (such as author or investor's rights to control use of his creation, or shares in a company.) The major goal of the course is to familiarize students with the foundations and norms of both historic Property Law formulations and contemporary… see more
LAW 558
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course examines the relationship between law and psychiatry, including commitment procedures, the attorney’s role in commitment hearings, delivery of legal services to patients confined to mental institutions and the substantive rights of such patients. Satisfies perspective elective requirement. A paper option may be made available in this course.
LAW 694
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. The objective of this course is to examine social science research about the legal system and to identify ways in which lawyers can benefit from social science insights about the adjudicatory system. The five major topics of classroom focus will be: (1) a general discussion of strategies and techniques for achieving the goals of adjudication; (2) an exploration of the ways we go about selecting and preparing fact finders (most particularly the jury); (3) the ways the legal system attempts to inform fact finders (and whether these are a success or failure--with a… see more
LAW 565
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Through a focus on standard legal materials (cases, statutes and so on), selected archival materials and scholarly writings, this seminar seeks to examine the ways in which the law has both (a) reflected societal attitudes about race and (b) generated racial identities for society. In examining these two mutually constitutive poles, we will attempt to arrive at an understanding of the relationship between law and identity. The course will emphasize the historical construction of racialized identities—those of European-Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, native… see more
LAW 648
2 or 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. This course covers both practice and procedure, emphasizing actual current practices in purchase, sale, tax treatment and financing of commercial, residential and government-owned real estate. We will study the relationships among and between the buyer, seller, financing institutions, title companies, brokers, and public authorities. We will focus on issues that impact the greater Cleveland real estate market including foreclosures, urban renewal, and government financial assistance.
LAW 619
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: RCC*. Students will study monetary damages, restitution and equitable relief in the context of contract, property and torts with an examination of the goals behind remedial rules and whether our system is accomplishing these goals. The course provides insight into the integrated nature of our legal system across the different subject areas by focusing on the impact of the merger of law and equity and the many public policy implications underlying statutory and common law efforts to provide appropriate redress to an injured party.