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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22720
Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 235
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Lawyers are viewed as problem-solvers, and as leaders in society, and this class introduces a framework of ethical leadership and helps set a trajectory for continued growth. This course highlights skills and traits needed for attorneys to thrive, and provides avenues to consider how to act in alignment with one’s values. Given the mission of St. Thomas Law School, the class places a special emphasis on relationships. The class also will facilitate opportunities to discuss problem-solving and cross-cultural competency. Prerequisite: LAWS 640
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22721
Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 238
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Lawyers are viewed as problem-solvers, and as leaders in society, and this class introduces a framework of ethical leadership and helps set a trajectory for continued growth. This course highlights skills and traits needed for attorneys to thrive, and provides avenues to consider how to act in alignment with one’s values. Given the mission of St. Thomas Law School, the class places a special emphasis on relationships. The class also will facilitate opportunities to discuss problem-solving and cross-cultural competency. Prerequisite: LAWS 640
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22723
Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 321
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Lawyers are viewed as problem-solvers, and as leaders in society, and this class introduces a framework of ethical leadership and helps set a trajectory for continued growth. This course highlights skills and traits needed for attorneys to thrive, and provides avenues to consider how to act in alignment with one’s values. Given the mission of St. Thomas Law School, the class places a special emphasis on relationships. The class also will facilitate opportunities to discuss problem-solving and cross-cultural competency. Prerequisite: LAWS 640
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22724
Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 334
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Lawyers are viewed as problem-solvers, and as leaders in society, and this class introduces a framework of ethical leadership and helps set a trajectory for continued growth. This course highlights skills and traits needed for attorneys to thrive, and provides avenues to consider how to act in alignment with one’s values. Given the mission of St. Thomas Law School, the class places a special emphasis on relationships. The class also will facilitate opportunities to discuss problem-solving and cross-cultural competency. Prerequisite: LAWS 640
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22569
Online: Asynchronous | Online: Asynchronous
Online
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This course will provide students with an opportunity to learn about compliance from the perspective of executives and leaders in the industry. Practicing compliance executives will discuss goals, strategies, activities and challenges associated with their business. Students will have an opportunity to relate the philosophies and techniques developed in the MSL/LLM Compliance program to those presented. Through candid and in-depth conversations with participating executives, students will learn about compliance from a leadership perspective relevant to today's complex business environment. Prerequisite: LAWS730/BETH650 AND Prerequisite or concurrent registration with any one of BETH651/BETH625/BETH701
3 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22582
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
The Special Education Clinic will serve elementary and secondary students who have been identified as qualifying for special education services. The students in the clinic will collaborate with various community partners to reach students and parents in communities that have historically been underserved in both special education and legal services. During this course, students will work with parents/students to provide legal training and ongoing support in the special education system so that the parents/students can become strong self-advocates. The course will cover training, analysis of individualized education plans, and, as appropriate, counseling on individual cases or group or class complaints. Prerequisite: Admission is by application.
3 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22529
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 448
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This course is a semester-long limited enrollment course that affords those interested in constitutional litigation an opportunity to increase and refine their trial tactics and skills. This course provides students an opportunity to enhance their effectiveness as a litigator in many areas such as trial strategy, direct examination, including use of documentary evidence, expert testimony, exclusion of evidence through motions and objections, and dispositive motions. The course will begin with a review of basic constitutional concepts such as jurisdiction, standing, ripeness, 10th Amendment limits on federal jurisdiction, and distinctions between state and federal constitutional challenges. Students will select two cases. Working in teams of two, students will take on the task of challenging one law, and defending the second. This will require students to research and brief issues of constitutional due process, free speech, and equal protection.
5 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22585
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22559
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law LL32
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This course will examine perspectives on interviewing and counseling clients, with an emphasis on interviewing techniques, processes for facilitating and structuring inter -views, and active listening to clarify information and develop a relationship with a client. Students will learn to recognize psychological factors affecting the interviewing process, overcome client resistance and hostility and ident- ify legal issues and relevant facts. The course will develop skills through role playing and simulations. Students also will explore the ethical responsibilities of attorneys in the context of client counseling.
2 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22565
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 238
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This course will examine perspectives on interviewing and counseling clients, with an emphasis on interviewing techniques, processes for facilitating and structuring inter -views, and active listening to clarify information and develop a relationship with a client. Students will learn to recognize psychological factors affecting the interviewing process, overcome client resistance and hostility and ident- ify legal issues and relevant facts. The course will develop skills through role playing and simulations. Students also will explore the ethical responsibilities of attorneys in the context of client counseling.
2 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22557
In Person | Simulation
Minneapolis: School Of Law 324
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM/MSL Elective
LLM US Law Elective
This course will examine the theory and practice of resolving legal disputes through negotiation, with an emphasis on negotiation theory, negotiation strategy and settlement dynamics. The course will develop negotiation skills through role playing and simulations. Students will also explore the ethics of negotiation and the ethical responsibilities of attorneys in the context of negotiations on behalf of a client.
3 Credits
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5:15 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22593
In Person | Simulation
Minneapolis: School Of Law 244
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
The judicial externship offers students an opportunity to learn about the judicial process, the impact lawyers have on the administration of justice, and the role of judges, judicial law clerks, and other court staff. Judicial externs work under the direct supervision of state or federal judges and their staff, and students will have the opportunity to discuss active cases with judges and staff. Judges will expect students to have excellent research, analytical, and writing skills. Students must be certain that they are prepared to commit to completing the work as assigned by judges/staff. Externship students will be expected to track and complete 150 hours of work in this course, with at least 125 of those hours devoted to fieldwork, and students will participate in the classroom component as well. Enrollment in the externship is by application only. To be eligible for a credit-earning externship, a student must first complete a minimum of 28 credits of study. Externship students must be in good standing. Externship students may be subject to other prerequisites/policies as required by the placement.
3 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22544
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: Schulze Hall 302
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This course will focus on key drafting principles and provisions found in standard transactional agreements. Students will review key provisions found in Letters of Intent, Non-Disclosure/Confidentiality Agreements, Purchase Agreements, Independent Contractor/Employment Agreements, Technology Agreements (Software License, Maintenance Agreement) and Service Agreements. Students are graded based on in-class participation and several written assignments, either transaction documents or client memos highlighting issues and recommendations based on real contracts.
2 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22595
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 334
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
The public interest externship offers students an opportunity to learn about public interest practice while engaging in significant hands-on legal work in a field placement at a public interest organization or government agency. Students will be challenged to discuss complex issues of ethics, access to justice, and professional growth through personal and group reflection exercises. Placement organizations will provide the extern with an appropriate workload designed to challenge the student while serving the mission of the organization. Externship students will be expected to track and complete 150 hours of work in this course, with at least 125 of those hours devoted to fieldwork, and students will participate in the classroom component as well. Enrollment in the externship is by application only. To be eligible for a credit-earning externship, a student must first complete a minimum of 28 credits of study. Externship students must be in good standing. Externship students may be subject to other prerequisites/policies as required by the placement.
3 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22592
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 238
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM/MSL Elective
LLM US Law Elective
The advanced externship allows students to expand on a previous externship and to continue to develop both the necessary skills and substantive knowledge for professional success. Students will reflect on what they learned in their precious externship and outline, in consultation with the course instructor, semester goals for the advanced externship. Students are eligible for an advanced externship only if they have completed a previous externship semester. The advanced externship can be completed through either: (a) the same placement in the same externship program; or (b) a different placement in the same externship program. Externship students will be expected to track and complete 150 hours of work in this course, with at least 125 of those hours devoted to fieldwork, and students will participate in the classroom component as well. Enrollment in the externship is by application only. To be eligible for a credit-earning externship, a student must first complete a minimum of 28 credits of study. Externship students must be in good standing. Externship students may be subject to other prerequisites/policies as required by the placement. Prerequisites: LAWS 910, 918, 922, or 937.
3 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22653
Blended Online & In-Person | Simulation
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
Mentor Externship is a year-long seminar course taken in fall and spring semester of the 2L year. The seminar integrates the student’s mentor fieldwork with small group coursework that reinforces the development of a trusted mentor relationship, core competencies and expectations of the profession, and other key relationships lawyers must manage. The course also incorporates individualized guidance to assist each student in his or her self-directed professional development journey.
1 Credits
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3:00 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22657
In Person | Simulation
Minneapolis: School Of Law 300
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
The LLM Mentor Externship incorporates two of UST Law’s curricular innovations -- the Mentor Externship Program and the Foundations of Justice course -- to provide LLM students a unique inside view of the American system of justice. Each LLM student is matched with a “mentor” who is active in the legal profession. This relationship is supplemented and supported by the MEFJP course, in which students explore the practical aspects of crafting a professional identity as a lawyer, and reflect together on the fundamental theoretical and moral principles that shape the identity of lawyers across different legal and social cultures. The MEFJP is tailored to help LLM students address the particular challenges of bridging the difference between the legal and social culture of the United States, and the different legal and social cultures in which the LLM students received their primary legal degrees.
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22658
Blended Online & In-Person | Simulation
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
Monica Gould, Loddy/Elizabeth Tolzmann
Mentor Externship II is a year-long seminar course taken in fall and spring semester of the 3L year. The seminar integrates the student’s mentor fieldwork with small group coursework that reinforces the development of a trusted mentor relationship, core competencies and expectations of the profession, and other key relationships lawyers must manage. The course also incorporates individualized guidance to assist each student in his or her self-directed professional development journey.
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22594
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 238
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
In the business externship, students have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience by working in the in-house legal department of a business or in the corporate/business practice of a law firm. Students also come together weekly for a classroom component, taught by the course professor(s), which involves exercises and reflection regarding the experiential learning in their placements. Externship students will be expected to track and complete 150 hours of work in this course, with at least 125 of those hours devoted to fieldwork, and students will participate in the classroom component as well. Enrollment in the externship is by application only. To be eligible for a credit-earning externship, a student must first complete a minimum of 28 credits of study. Externship students must be in good standing. Externship students may be subject to other prerequisites/policies as required by the placement.
3 Credits
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9:00 am |
1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22590
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Students in the Community Justice Project engage in legislative advocacy, problem-solving, legal research and writing, community outreach, and help to shape public policy on cutting-edge civil rights issues. Following the sub-Saharan African ideology of “Ubuntu,” students focus on creating systemic changes in the arenas of economic development, criminal justice, juvenile justice, reentry, and public education. The Community Justice Project also works to build bridges with stakeholders in community, local government, law enforcement, nonprofits, and philanthropy. Enrollment with permission only
6 Credits
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9:00 am |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22591
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
CommGood/Community-Engaged
LLM US Law Elective
Students will represent immigrants seeking to improve their legal status in the United States and may handle political asylum applications, claims under the Violence Against Women Act, and other forms of immigration law relief. Students may conduct client interviews, engage in local and international fact investigation, draft immigration applications and client affidavits, work with expert witnesses, draft legal briefs, and represent clients before immigration judges and immigration-related divisions of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Enrollment by permission only.
6 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22588
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
CommGood/Community-Engaged
LLM US Law Elective
A small number of students who have completed a semester in the Clinic Community Justice Project may be asked to participate in the Community Justice Project as advanced students. Enrollment by permission only.
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22589
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
A small number of students who have completed a semester in the Immigration Law Practice Group Clinic may be asked to participate in the clinic practice for subsequent semesters by continuing client representation and providing assistance to new clinic students. Students may continue representing clients they served in prior semesters or may be assigned new clients. The seminar portion of the course will focus on mentoring skills, client representation skills introduced in the initial semester of clinic (such as client interviewing, teamwork, legal research and writing, and litigation skills – depending on the case load), relevant immigration law history, and case rounds. Variable 1-3 credits. Prerequisites: LAWS 942, Enrollment by permission only.
1 Credits
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3:30 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22628
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
Students in the Advanced Criminal and Juvenile Defense clinic defend both children and adults accused of crimes in juvenile and criminal court. Participation in one semester of the Criminal and Juvenile Defense clinic is a prerequisite for applying. Advanced students may continue representing existing clients or receive new cases presenting legal issues they did not encounter during their initial clinic semester. The seminar portion of the class will focus on refining skills learned during the initial clinic semester, such as drafting memoranda and motions, investigating, crafting persuasive narratives, examining witnesses, and litigating hearings and trials. Prerequisites: LAWS 948
3 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22583
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Third-year students only. Students in the Appellate Clinic will work on a pro bono civil appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas. Students will review the trial court record, identify and research issues for appeal, prepare an opening brief and a reply brief, and a student may be designated to present the oral argument to the court. 3 credits in the fall, 1-3 credits in the spring. Students should anticipate two semesters, but second semester involvement is dependent on case progress (spring semester is called Advanced Appellate). Third-year students who took clinic during their second- year may apply. Enrollment by permission only.
2 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22584
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This is the second semester of the two-semester clinic related to Appellate work. Prerequisite: LAWS 951
2 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22587
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 459
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
This is the second semester of the two-semester clinic related to Federal Commutations work. Prerequisite: LAWS 953
2 Credits
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2:30 pm |
2:30 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22586
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Heather Marx, Thomas Wallrich, Joel Nesset
This is the second semester of the two-semester clinic related to Bankruptcy Litigation work. Prerequisite: LAWS 958
3 Credits
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5:00 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22596
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 448
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Misdemeanor defense externship students will attend classes to learn about the practical and official rules of criminal procedure in Minnesota courtrooms. Students will be assigned to a practicing public defender attorney to learn how to represent clients in different types of proceedings (generally assigned based on student interest - for example, students interested in representing juveniles will be assigned to a juvenile division). Externship students will be expected to track and complete 200 hours of work in this course, with at least 160 of those hours devoted to fieldwork, and students will participate in the classroom component as well. Enrollment in the externship is by application only. To be eligible for a credit-earning externship, a student must first complete a minimum of 28 credits of study. Externship students must be in good standing. Externship students may be subject to other prerequisites/policies as required by the placement.
4 Credits
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5:00 pm |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22597
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: School Of Law 448
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
LLM US Law Elective
Advanced misdemeanor defense externship can be taken for one to three credits as determined by the student and instructor. One credit is equal to 50 hours of time, consisting of both fieldwork and classroom time. Advanced misdemeanor defense externship students will assist and train misdemeanor defense externship students in the courtroom setting. The advanced misdemeanor externship student(s) will attend the misdemeanor defense externship classes, which are dedicated to topics that are practiced by students in a moot courtroom setting (bail arguments, negotiations, guilty plea colloquies). In those classes, the advanced student(s) will conduct demonstrations, serve as judges, and provide feedback to students in the misdemeanor defense externship. Enrollment in the externship is by application only. To be eligible for a credit-earning externship, a student must first complete a minimum of 28 credits of study. Externship students must be in good standing. Externship students may be subject to other prerequisites/policies as required by the placement.
1 Credits
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22635
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
A small number of students who have completed a semester in the Special Education Clinic may be asked to participate in the clinic practice for subsequent semesters by continuing client representation and providing assistance to new clinic students. The seminar portion of the course will focus on mentoring skills, client representation skills, and skills for training parents, introduced in the initial semester of clinic, or additional teaching about special education law and practice, depending on the case load. Variable 1-3 credits. Satisfies requirements for experiential course. Prerequisite: LAWS737, enrollment by permission only.
2 Credits
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10:30 am |
10:30 am |
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Subject: Law (Grad) (LAWS)
CRN: 22636
In Person | Lecture
Minneapolis: In Person
Requirements Met:
Experiential Course
This is the second semester of the two-semester clinic related to Trademark work. Prerequisite: LAWS917
3 Credits