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Courses
International Biodiversity Law (Prof. Craig)
This course will explore several issues regarding the treaties and other international protections (or lack thereof) for biodiversity. The course will begin with the Convention on Biological Diversity, then progress to topics such as migratory birds, the Ramsar Convention on wetlands, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), international fishing regulation, and marine biodiversity and marine protected areas.
European Union Law (Dr. Fisher)
This course is an introduction to EU law that looks at some of the key legal features of this unique legal system. Topics covered include EU institutional arrangements, direct effect, preliminary references, supremacy, the role of the European Court of Justice, the emerging debates over constitutionalism in the EU, and free movement of goods.
English Legal History
(Mr. Hackney)
The institutional framework of the Common Law. Discusses the initial courts; the emergence of the dominant royal courts, King's Bench and Common Pleas; the writ system and development of the pleading forms and the methods of proof used in trials. Considers tenures, the principal Real Actions for the recovery of land at Common Law and selected writs. Culminates in a consideration of the doctrine of estates. Briefly surveys future interests, perpetuities and the rise of uses and trusts.
Twentieth Century American Legal History
(Prof. Stern)(Grade by paper)
Traces themes and developments in American jurisprudence since the end of the nineteenth century. Special attention is given to the erosion of the concept of private law, the rise of legal realism, and the problems of devising standards of decision making peculiar to the judiciary.
Restitution
(Mr. Swadling)
How to get your money back, especially following commercial fraud and ultra vires acts of government authorities. Covers fundamentals of restitution, its internal interconnections and relationships with other areas of the law. Materials are drawn from the principal Common Law countries, with some reference to the civil law. Subject matter includes restitution as a response to wrongdoing; restitution as a response to causes of action in unjust enrichment, including mistake, compulsion and failure of consideration; defenses to restitutional claims; personal and proprietary responses.