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.

This course covers topical subjects related to law enforcement and the Intelligence Community's evolving capabilities and authorities in the 21st century. The focus is on contemporary issues related to the government's use of evolving forms of technology, as well as on considerations of threats, technology and authorities determine national security efforts. While this course will be rooted in law, it covers relevant policy considerations as well.

Covers the major legal issues facing K-12 and higher education across the country, with a focus on Florida, where many of the issues facing education systems across the country have been intensely litigated. Issues to be covered will include equal educational opportunity, free speech, desegregation, discrimination, school finance, special education, vouchers, charter schools and discipline.

Applied Legal Concepts is a 2-credit course designed to help students improve their work in law school and their process for preparing for the bar examination. The course focuses on honing and improving students’ analytical and writing skills, with a special emphasis on the skills necessary to engage in effective self-directed study and self-assessment of learning. Students will analyze and apply core concepts using practice-oriented problems as well as bar exam essay and multiple choice questions.

This is a survey course of federal and state laws pertaining to the use and governance of natural resources, such as water, wetlands, forests, rangeland, wildlife, and energy resources. As opposed to Environmental Law (which is a complement to this course), Natural Resources Law deals with the exploitation of resources, rather than the pollution of them, and as such, contemplates a vastly different system of laws and regulations. This course briefly explores some simple ecological and economic concepts, and how some federal and state laws reflect these concepts.

This course provides an introduction to federal natural resources law, with an emphasis on living resources. In a mixed seminar format, we’ll survey the legal treatment of wildlife and biodiversity, fisheries and marine resources, water resources, forests and rangelands, protected public lands, multiple use public lands, and energy (as time allows). We’ll draw lessons from these fields to understand the themes and conflicts of environmental management generally, and the unique qualities of natural resources that render management efforts so difficult.