This course analyzes state, federal, and international laws governing psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, mescaline, ibogaine, and dimethyltryptamine (DMT). The course may be of interest to students of many legal disciplines, including health law, criminal law, FDA regulation, constitutional law, religious freedom, and business law. The topics covered include the regulation of psychedelic substance possession, production, sales, research, and use in the contexts of healthcare, commerce, spirituality, and Indigenous traditions.

This course will familiarize students with the role of a corporate attorney advising technology startups from the early stages through an eventual liquidity event. Topics covered will include:  formation of a company, fundraising through SAFEs, convertible notes and sales of stock, equity compensation, selling the company and IPOs. The course will also touch on the legal business of advising startups and funds, the workings of venture capital funds and advising of international startups and funds.

This course will prepare students for the Multistate Essay Examination and Multistate Performance Test components of the Uniform Bar Examination. The course will equip students with the necessary skills, strategies, and confidence to maximize their performance on the UBE.

This course will examine the unique institutional role of the state AG and the challenges and complexities AGs face in providing legal advice and representation as the state’s top legal officer—including their status within their respective state systems, their relationship to the federal government, their role in both offensive and defensive litigation on behalf of the state, and their ever-increasing role in national and even international public policy issues.

Pre/co-req: Gratuitous Transfers/Trusts & Estates or Wills & Trusts Fundamentals; Recommended: Taxation

This course will benefit students by ensuring that students (i) learn advanced real estate topics; (ii) adequately prepare for real estate topics on the Florida Bar Exam; (iii) learn from leading industry experts; (iv) experience a variety of teaching styles; (v) participate in weekly “real life” real estate assignments; and (vi) are exposed to diverse attorneys practicing throughout the state.

This course explores the craft and style of legal writing. Students analyze models in complex legal documents to develop effective writing techniques. This course provides students the critical opportunity to practice these techniques in a variety of legal documents, including pleadings, motions, and legal correspondence. Students learn to write courteous and professional emails, e-memos, client letters, and demand letters. Students also prepare a motion for summary judgment that is ideal for use as a polished and complete writing sample.

This class is a writing course for students who desire additional exposure to fundamental analysis and writing skills after the first-year legal writing and research course. For those students, the course provides a crucial opportunity to return to basic organization, analysis, and writing mechanics. Students learn to accurately and efficiently read multiple legal sources, assess their importance and relevance, and organize those authorities into a comprehensive summary of the law relevant to the question presented.

This course directly addresses the top leadership need for lawyers – the undermining of performance, professionalism, and mental/emotional health by stress, anxiety, work dissatisfaction, and related experiences common in the profession. Transformational leadership is a profound and well-validated approach encompassing numerous positive leadership styles, including authentic, ethical, moral, values-based, and self-leadership.

This course explores the jurisdiction and role of the Supreme Court in comparative perspective. It examines the case law of the Supreme Court and compares it to that of other supreme or constitutional courts in the following areas: federalism, the separation of powers, constitutional rights, judicial review, remedies, and methods of interpretation. The course gives students the opportunity to understand the constitutional underpinnings of selected legal systems and the role of supreme courts in shaping them.