This course develops pretrial skills associated with the discovery phase of litigation. Topics include litigation holds, initial disclosures, depositions, interrogatories, requests for production or inspection of documents, production and collection of ESI, subpoenas, requests for admission, and expert testimony.
There are a number of issues that arise in the course of our lives each day that are philosophically perplexing and interesting. This course is devoted to discussing several of these and to exploring the various ways in which law and morality have responded to them.
This course will provide an overview of environmental regulatory programs in Florida. While the course will broadly cover environmental permitting across a variety of media, we will focus our attention on a case study: the permitting requirements that would typically be associated with greenfield construction. We will examine the substantive permitting requirements, explore the types of issues that might complicate the process, and discuss how public involvement can shape the outcome.
This course provides an introduction to International Criminal Law (“ICL”). Essential topics include the nature, scope, and purpose of ICL, and the broader goal of ending impunity for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Students will learn how the definition of each crime came about and has evolved to facilitate investigation and prosecution in times of crisis and conflict.
In Tax Workshop, six or seven law professors from outside Florida State will present drafts of their work in progress. Students will be expected to read each article and engage in the presentation by the professor. Students will also be assigned to work on their own tax policy paper which they will present to the class at the end of the semester.
This course provides students with an understanding of the history and procedure of the United Nations charter and treaty-based system, as well as exposure to the relevant criticisms surrounding the political nature and the institutional framework of the United Nations that shapes the promotion and protection of human rights within the system. The course will also discuss how the universal human rights system reflects normative human rights within the individual complaints heard by the Human Rights Council and related treaty-bodies.
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This course surveys tensions between human rights interests and national security imperatives as well as the extent to which such might be reconciled placing emphasis on but not limited to the period since the September 11, 2001. A two-credit course that will explore aspects of U.S.
A comprehensive review of laws, rules and regulations that an attorney will encounter while representing clients in the federal, state and local political law arena. Areas of law include federal and state campaign finance and election law issues, lobbying registration and disclosure, the representation of foreign clients, the regulation of gifts to federal and state government officials, the political activities of non-profit organizations, developing corporate ethics compliance programs, representing clients in congressional investigations, impeachment, and legislative drafting.
Overview of legislative & regulatory frameworks for United States space law, including licensing of spacecraft and satellites; use of Government property & equipment by commercial entities; and the establishment of NASA as America's civil space agency. Designed to provide students with a broad understanding of historical legal theories underlying space law and their application to today's marketplace with an emphasis on the U.S. as a customer of private sector space services.
