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Landscape Architecture (LAR) |
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LAR 553 - Design Studio III 6 Credit Hours
Explores intermediately complex themes and issues of site-oriented design and planning. Studio work focuses primarily on a range of explorations of medium-scale projects using a mixture of analog and digital media.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 552.
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LAR 554 - Design Studio IV 6 Credit Hours
Focus on large scale community and site planning and land use issues. Particular emphasis on both urban and rural development through sustainable design for both human health and natural environments. Exploration of topical/thematic issues using a mixture of analog and digital media.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 553.
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LAR 555 - Design Studio V 6 Credit Hours
Advanced studio with a focus on urban-scale sites and issues. Particular emphasis on design of urban projects and infrastructure that enhance human knowledge of and sensual engagement with regional civic, cultural, and ecological aspects of urban place while sustaining sustain human health and natural environments. Exploration of topical/thematic issues using a mixture of analog and digital media.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 554.
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LAR 556 - Design Studio VI 6 Credit Hours
An advanced studio with a focus on strategic approaches to landscape architecture and planning. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of systemic strategies, which include physical landscape components, policy innovations, economic mechanisms, PR campaigns, and more.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 555.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 561 - Practicum for Landscape Architecture 3-6 Credit Hours
Supervised experience in a private practice, governmental or non-governmental organization, or on a landscape oriented research project. Business or research practices, management, and design skills.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 552 or consent of instructor.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor and approval of graduate program in landscape architecture.
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LAR 570 - Capstone Studio 6 Credit Hours
Advanced, thematically-based (non-thesis) studio.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 555.
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LAR 571 - Landform and Hydrology 4 Credit Hours
Explores the aesthetic, technical, and hydrologic aspects of shaping the land. The coursework focuses on a systems approach using contemporary best practices from landscape architecture and site engineering to shape landscapes in order to manage water for functional and aesthetic effects.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 572 - Design and Construction I 3 Credit Hours
Focuses on design issues related to construction, fabrication, materiality, and tectonics for landscape architecture. Students will learn about construction-related issues such as layout, dimensioning, and the creation of construction details, as well as explore new technologies, methods, and materials being utilized in contemporary landscape architectural design and construction practices.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 571.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 573 - Design and Construction II 3 Credit Hours
Engages in material, formal, and spatial explorations of landscapes through virtual and physical model making at a variety of scales. Students will learn about the performative capacities of a range of contemporary materials and investigate ways that such materials may be configured for various effects.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 572.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 580 - Thesis Preparation/Programming 3 Credit Hours
Research, planning, and preparation of thesis document under supervision of candidate’s thesis committee in anticipation of thesis design studio.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 555 or consent of instructor.
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LAR 581 - Histories and Theories I 3 Credit Hours
The first of a two-part history and theory sequence. It provides an overview of the human landscape (settlements, cities, gardens) from Antiquity to the 19th century.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 582 - Professional Practices 3 Credit Hours
Provides students with an appreciation for the wide range of professional career paths one may pursue with a degree in landscape architecture and investigates the fundamental skills, legal environments, emergent trends, and ethical responsibilities inherent to the contemporary professional practice of landscape architecture. The course engages a wide range of landscape-related professionals in order to better understand contemporary trends, pressures, and practices.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 583 - Design Theory and Methods I 3 Credit Hours
Provides an introduction to design and planning as intellectual disciplines that shape and sustain regional and global environments. Discussion will address landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, and planning perspectives and theory.
Registration Restriction(s): Landscape architecture major or consent of instructor.
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LAR 584 - Histories and Theories II 3 Credit Hours
Examines landscape architecture from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries with a clear emphasis on the United States and Europe. Introduces students to the scope of ideas generated in landscape architecture’s recent history and the historical background necessary to understand them.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 581.
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LAR 585 - Design Theory and Methods II 3 Credit Hours
Focuses on the development of a student’s abilities to clearly identify a compelling landscape issue or area of research, develop verbal and visual language necessary to frame the issue for diverse audiences, and develop multiple strategies for how the issue may be engaged by designers.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 581, 583, 584.
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LAR 591 - International Study 1-9 Credit Hours
Individual or group study abroad. Academic research, field investigation, and/or studio experiences. Determination of credit based on particular international experience.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor and approval of graduate program in landscape architecture.
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LAR 592 - Off-Campus Study 1-9 Credit Hours
Individual or group study in the United States. Academic research, field investigation, and/or studio experiences. Determination of credit based on particular off-campus experience.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor and approval of graduate program in landscape architecture.
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LAR 593 - Independent Study in Landscape Architecture 1-9 Credit Hours
Independent study on an issue of mutual interest between the student and faculty member.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor and approval of graduate program in landscape architecture.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LAC) |
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LAC 430 - Contemporary Brazilian Studies 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Portuguese 430.)
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LAC 432 - Special Topics in the Literature and Culture of Portuguese-speaking World 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Portuguese 432.)
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LAC 465 - Latin American Film and Culture 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Spanish 465.)
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LAC 479 - Disenchanted Texts in Hispanic Literature 3 Credit Hours
Cross-listed: (See Spanish 479.)
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LAC 510 - Special Topics 3 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
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Law (LAW) |
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LAW 801 - Civil Procedure I 3 Credit Hours
Pleading, joinder of claims and parties, discovery, trials, verdicts, judgments and appeals. Emphasis on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 802 - Civil Procedure II 3 Credit Hours
Binding effect of judgments, selecting proper court (jurisdiction and venue), ascertaining applicable law, and federal and state practice.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 803 - Contracts I 3 Credit Hours
Basic agreement process and legal protections afforded contracts: offer and acceptance, consideration and other bases for enforcing promises; the Statute of Frauds, unconscionability and other controls of promissory liability. Introduction to relevant portions of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 804 - Contracts II 3 Credit Hours
Continuation of Contracts I. Issues arising after contract formation: interpretation, duty of good faith; conditions, impracticability and frustration of purpose; remedies; third party beneficiaries; assignment and delegation. Considerable coverage of Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code with respect to remedies, anticipatory repudiation, impracticability and good faith.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 805 - Legal Process I 3 Credit Hours
Lawyer-like use of cases and statutes in prediction and persuasion. Analysis and synthesis of common law decisions; statutory interpretation; fundamentals of expository legal writing and legal research.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 806 - Legal Process II 3 Credit Hours
Continuation of Legal Process I. Formal legal writing, appellate procedure, and oral advocacy.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 807 - Torts I 3 Credit Hours
Intentional torts, defenses and privileges related to intentional torts; negligence: standard of care, professional malpractice, and liability of owners and occupiers of land; defenses based on plaintiff’s conduct: contributory and comparative negligence, assumption of risk, failure to take precautions, and avoidable consequences; causation, proximate cause; duty rules; and questions of joint and several or several liability.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 808 - Torts II 2 Credit Hours
Vicarious liability and related concepts; strict liability for dangerous animals and abnormally dangerous activities; products liability; nuisance, defamation and invasion of privacy; economic torts: misrepresentation and interference with contract and prospective opportunities; immunities: those of government, governmental employees, charities and family members; and damages.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 809 - Criminal Law 3 Credit Hours
Substantive aspects of criminal law; general principles applicable to all criminal conduct; specific analysis of particular crimes; defenses to crimes.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 810 - Property 4 Credit Hours
Introductory course treating issues of ownership, possession, and title in the areas of: landlord-tenant relations; estates in land and future interests; co-ownership and marital property; real estate sales agreements and conveyances; title assurance and recording statutes; servitudes; and selected aspects of nuisance law, eminent domain and zoning.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 811 - Lawyering and Professionalism 1 Credit Hours
Provides basic training in essential lawyering skills, introduces the values of the legal profession, and offers resources for early career planning.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 812 - Constitutional Law 4 Credit Hours
Fundamental principles of American constitutional law: federalism, separation of powers, equal protection of law, and constitutional protection of other fundamental individual rights.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 813 - Evidence 4 Credit Hours
Introduces students to the full range of rules governing the admission and exclusion of testimony, documents, and other tangible evidence. In addition to studying the codified rules related to relevance, impeachment, hearsay, opinion testimony, authentication, privileges, and presumptions, the course also deals with the mechanics of proof including the role of the judge and the jury, the proper form of making and preserving objections, and the order and burdens of proof in criminal and civil trials. Will include a problem methodology, applying the evidence rules to hypothetical civil and criminal cases.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 920 for students electing concentration in advocacy.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 814 - Professional Responsibility 3 Credit Hours
Legal, professional and ethical standards applicable to lawyers.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 816 - Civil Procedure I (Experiential) 3 Credit Hours
Pleading, joinder of claims and parties, discovery, trials, verdicts, judgments and appeals. Emphasis on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. This experiential class will include three graded, simulation-based assignments. Each simulation will place students in the role of lawyer, raise professionalism issues, require students to perform a lawyering skill, and will result in a written and/or oral work product. In addition to a final examination, the course will also include a midterm exam that will include at least one essay question.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 817 - Torts I (Experiential) 3 Credit Hours
Intentional torts, defenses and privileges related to intentional torts; negligence: standard of care, professional malpractice, and liability of owners and occupiers of land; defenses based on plaintiff’s conduct: contributory and comparative negligence, assumption of risk, failure to take precautions, and avoidable consequences; causation, proximate cause; duty rules; and questions of joint and several or several liability. This experiential class will include three graded, simulation-based assignments. Each simulation will place students in the role of lawyer, raise professionalism issues, require students to perform a lawyering skill, and will result in a written and/or oral work product. In addition to a final examination, the course will also include a midterm exam that will include at least one essay question.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 818 - Fundamental Concepts of Income Taxation 3 Credit Hours
Introduction to basic statutory analysis, fundamental principles of federal individual income tax, and pervasive income tax concerns that arise in practice. Federal concept of gross income, pattern of exclusions, exemptions and deductions from gross income used to arrive at tax base; special treatment of capital gains and losses; and rate structure.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 819 - Taxation of Real Property Interests 3 Credit Hours
Surveys the federal income tax issues relating to the sale, exchange, and ownership of real property interests. Among other topics, the course considers methods of accounting, asset depreciation and recapture, the passive activity and at risk rules, and the treatment of installment sales and like-kind exchanges.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 818.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 820 - Transactional Lawyering Lab 1 Credit Hours
This simulation-based lab will put students in the role of a lawyer representing a client in a commercial transaction. The lab will emphasize skills of client interviewing, negotiation, drafting, and client counseling. Students will also encounter and resolve professionalism issues throughout the class.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 821 - Administrative Law 3 Credit Hours
Administrative agency decision-making processes and judicial review of administrative decisions: procedural standards for informal and formal administrative adjudication and rule-making (attention to federal Administrative Procedure Act); constitutional due process standards in administrative settings; and availability, scope and timing of judicial review of agency actions.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 822 - Legislation 3 Credit Hours
Interpretation and drafting of statutes, legislative process, and legislative power; comparison of judicial views on legislative process with both realities of legislative process and applicable constitutional principles.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 824 - Advanced Legal Research 2 Credit Hours
Offers students experience using and comparing a broad range of legal research tools, focusing on digital sources of information, but including print sources and how various sources or formats might be integrated together into a legal research process. Research strategies will also be examined as a component of the course. Primary authorities will be reviewed and non-traditional and traditional secondary authorities will be examined. Students will learn to evaluate research options and strategies, and make efficient and effective choices that best suit a particular legal research situation.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 826 - Introduction to Business Transactions 2 Credit Hours
Non-technical introduction to accounting, finance, and the functional relationships among the various actors in business transactions. Analysis of business transactions with view toward needs of business clients. Not available for students with business background.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 827 - Business Associations 3 Credit Hours
Legal problems associated with the formation, operation, combination, and dissolution of unincorporated and incorporated business firms; legal rights and duties of firm participants (principals and agents; partners, joint venturers, limited partners, limited liability partners, and members and managers of limited liability companies; and corporate shareholders, directors, and officers) and others with whom those participants interact in connection with the firm’s business, including attorneys. Introduction to legal issues in close corporations and federal law concerning corporations.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 828 - Corporate Finance 3 Credit Hours
Legal issues arising in conjunction with the purchase, sale, and repurchase of securities in capital formation and investment transactions, including: private and public debt, equity, and convertible securities offerings; dividends and other shareholder distributions; and mergers and acquisitions.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 827.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 829 - Advanced Business Associations 2 Credit Hours
In-depth study of the legal issues associated with close corporations, public corporations and complex litigation to enforce the legal rights and obligations of constituents in business entities in the context of fiduciary duties, fundamental change and change-of-control transactions, federal and state disclosure obligations, securities fraud, insider trading, and related matters.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 827.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 830 - Securities Regulation 3 Credit Hours
Basic structure and operation of the federal securities laws, including legal issues associated with: primary and secondary public and private securities offerings; Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Rule 10b-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and other antifraud provisions; periodic reporting and other disclosure requirements; the regulation of proxy solicitations, tender offers, and securities transactions involving officers, directors, and other insiders; and the regulation of stock markets and professional service providers in the securities industry.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 827.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 831 - Mergers and Acquisitions 2-3 Credit Hours
Basic law and practice points governing business combinations through discussion, problem-solving, planning, and drafting. Consideration and exploration of legal and practical considerations involved in making essential structural, drafting, and implementation decisions relating to mergers and acquisitions.
Repeatability: Not Repeatable. May be taken once for 2 to 3 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 833 - Representing Enterprises 3-5 Credit Hours
Capstone course for concentration in business transactions. Simulated business transactions and completion of major planning drafting project. Transactions vary: formation of new business, acquisition of existing business, development of real estate project, various financing transactions and corporate reorganization.
Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 3-5 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 818, 826, 827, 840, 842, 940, and 972.
Recommended Background: Completion of all courses for concentration in business transactions.
Comment(s): Up to two of the prerequisites may be taken as corequisites.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 834 - Antitrust 3 Credit Hours
Federal antitrust laws; monopolization, price-fixing, group boycotts, and anticompetitive practices generally; government enforcement techniques and private treble damage suits.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 836 - Advanced Wills and Trusts 3 Credit Hours
A detailed study of the non-tax aspects of estate planning and gratuitous transmission of wealth from a counseling and drafting perspective. Topics to be covered include: drafting multi-generational trusts including discretionary distributions and future interests; powers of appointment; powers of attorney; charitable gifts; and fiduciary duties. Students will complete two substantial planning and drafting projects requiring them to design an estate plan for a hypothetical client, draft all of the necessary implementing documents, and explain the plan and the documents in writing to the client.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 935.
Comment(s): Limited Enrollment.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 837 - Consumer Bankruptcy and Finance Seminar 3 Credit Hours
Covers Title 11, Chapters 7, 12, and 13 and cross-disciplinary materials from economics, sociology, psychology, and similar fields regarding the role of personal finance, consumer finance, and consumer bankruptcy. Satisfies the perspective requirement.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 839 - Payment Systems 2 Credit Hours
Basic coverage of different payment systems, including money, credit and debit cards, and negotiable instruments (such as checks and promissory notes under Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code).
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 841 - Secured Transactions 3 Credit Hours
Coverage of Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 and relevant Bankruptcy Code provisions dealing with security interests in personal property.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 842 - Contract Drafting 2 Credit Hours
Practical fundamentals of drafting contracts of different types. Integrates doctrinal contract law with theory, skills, and ethics; provides multiple opportunities for performance through drafting and other assignments, as well as opportunities for self-evaluation through exercises based upon different factual scenarios that simulate the experience of a lawyer representing a client in a transactional setting; and involves direct supervision of the student’s performance by the instructor as well as a classroom instructional component.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 843 - Bankruptcy 3 Credit Hours
Basic elements of federal bankruptcy law providing relief for insolvent debtors and their creditors through liquidation of debtor assets or reorganization of the debtor. The course may include the following: The effect of bankruptcy law on business transactions and commercial and tort litigation, as well as family law and environmental law matters, a review of state creditor collection law, analysis of claims of creditors (e.g., lenders, tort victims, providers of goods or services), property of the estate used to pay claims, the automatic stay of creditor actions, the bankruptcy trustee’s powers to avoid pre-bankruptcy transfers, and other basic bankruptcy rules. No prerequisites.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 844 - Business Reorganizations and Workouts 3 Credit Hours
An examination of reorganization under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code from petition date to confirmation of a plan of reorganization as well as coverage of the use of extensions, compositions, workouts and other non-bankruptcy methods of adjusting the rights or parties to business transactions. Although not required as prerequisites, an understanding of the subject matter of Commercial Law and especially Debtor/Creditor law is strongly recommended. The course satisfies the expository writing requirement.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 845 - Commercial Leasing 2 Credit Hours
Commercial leasing seminar involves a detailed examination of the substantive and procedural law applicable to commercial leasing, in a practical, practice-oriented course that will include up to six graded, written assignments, of involving hands-on negotiation and documentation of a commercial lease of office space. Other written assignments may include negotiation and drafting of a letter of intent, an expansion rights provision, an extension of term provision, an accounting right for rent provision, a lease review letter, and an industrial tenancy agreement or rider to a commercial lease. Will require close reading and critical analysis of lease provisions, including examining and becoming intimately familiar with the terms of art involved, the motivations of the various parties to the leases involved, and the substantive law that governs their relationship. Grades will be based upon the written work product turned in over the course of the semester with class participation component.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 842.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 846 - Disability Law 2-3 Credit Hours
An overview of disability law with a major emphasis on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Will focus on many of the policy issues that arise in the area of disability law examining how laws impact the lives of people with disabilities in such areas as employment discrimination, public accommodations, housing, and education, with a particular emphasis on employment discrimination. Will survey relevant cases, statutes, articles, and legal doctrines and explore how this area of law reflects societal attitudes towards people who are perceived as having or not having disabilities. Will introduce students to social science research addressing salient disability issues in contemporary society, in addition to statutes and case law.
Repeatability: Not Repeatable. May be taken once for 2 to 3 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 847 - Advanced Constitutional Law 2-3 Credit Hours
Advanced study of issues in American constitutional law. Specific course offerings vary. Subjects include: constitutional structure of American governmental institutions, federalism, separation of governmental powers: relationship between legislative and executive branches, relationship among states and between states and federal government, and constitutional amendment process; state constitutional law, Tennessee constitution and differences between state and federal constitutional law; Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment to Constitution: constitutional rights as protected by Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment.
Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 9 hours.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 812.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 848 - Civil Rights Actions 3 Credit Hours
Litigation to vindicate constitutional rights in private actions against the government and its officials, as well as rights protected by other civil rights legislation: elements of cause of action under 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983; actions against federal government officials under the Bivens doctrine; institutional and individual immunities; relationship between state and federal courts in civil rights actions; and remedies for violations of constitutional and other civil rights.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 850 - Supreme Court 3 Credit Hours
History of Supreme Court and of procedures by which Court arrives at decisions; influences of justices’ ideology and role of Court in political system.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 854 - Investigatory Criminal Procedure 3 Credit Hours
Police practices and constitutional rights of persons charged with crimes: arrest; search and seizure; identification; interrogation and confessions; electronic eavesdropping; and right to counsel.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 855 - Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure 3 Credit Hours
Pre- and post-trial procedures in criminal case: bail; preliminary hearing; grand jury; prosecutorial discretion; discovery’ speedy trial; plea bargaining; jury trial; and double jeopardy. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 856 - Advanced Criminal Law 3 Credit Hours
Examines corporate criminal liability (also commonly known as white collar crime). Deals with selected substantive criminal law and procedural areas important when dealing with business or corporate clients. Course coverage includes the study and application of several federal criminal statutes, and some state common law doctrines.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 859 - Criminal Law Seminar 2 Credit Hours
Advanced problems in criminal law and administration of justice.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 809.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 862 - Family Law 3 Credit Hours
Survey of laws affecting formal and informal family relationships: premarital disputes; ante nuptial contracts; creation of common law and formal marriage; legal effects of marriage; support obligations within family; legal separation, annulment, divorce, alimony, and property settlements; child custody and child support; abortion; illegitimacy.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 866 - Environmental Law and Policy 3 Credit Hours
Study, through methods of public policy analysis, of responses of legal system to environmental problems: environmental litigation; Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; National Environmental Policy Act; and selected regulatory issues.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 867 - Environmental Law Seminar 2 Credit Hours
Selected topics in environmental law.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 873 - American Legal History 3 Credit Hours
Selected topics in American legal history.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 875 - The Jury System 2 Credit Hours
Study of the Anglo – American jury. Consideration will be given to the history of the jury; the constitutional provisions governing trial by jury; current issues, including jury nullification, use of the jury in complex cases, and “jury reform”; and depictions of the jury in popular culture. Satisfies the perspective requirement.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 877 - Jurisprudence 3 Credit Hours
Critical or comparative examination of legal theories, concepts, and problems: legal positivism; natural law theory; legal realism; idealism; historical jurisprudence; utilitarianism; Kantianism; sociological jurisprudence; policy science; and critical studies.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 878 - Ownership and Justice 2 Credit Hours
Examines a number of classical and contemporary justifications of individual ownership of property. Coverage will include (among others) the labor theory, the constructivist view (as per modern economists and certain social philosophers), the Rawlsian view, and efforts of contemporary Christian philosophers to locate ownership within the community. Considered alongside philosophical materials will be contemporary legal scholarship that focuses on problems of self-realization and distribution. Will seek to apprehend the necessary conditions of any regime of individual ownership as well as the margins of what can be considered property.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 879 - Law and Economics 3 Credit Hours
Relationship between legal and economic thought; application of basic economic concepts to legal problems; economics in legal decision making; scholarly support for and criticism of economic analysis of law. Designed for students with no undergraduate background in economics or mathematics.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 880 - Behavioral Economics 2 Credit Hours
Seminar course will study the policy implications of behavioral economics. In contrast to the standard rational model of economic behavior, human beings’ cognitive abilities and willpower are limited. Moreover individuals do not always act in their self-interest, but can act generously even when contrary to their economic self-interest. Because of this, individuals frequently act in ways that depart systematically from the predictions of economists’ standard models. Behavioral economics attempts to understand these departures and, more generally, integrate psychologists’ understanding of human behavior into economic analysis.
Comment(s): This seminar does not require a background in economics.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 881 - Law and Literature 3 Credit Hours
Reading literary works, development of philosophy and reading technique applicable to both law and life.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 883 - Images of the Law 2 Credit Hours
The way lawyers and legal institutions are portrayed in popular media has important implications for litigants, juries, lawmakers, and lawyers. This seminar will look at portrayals of law and the legal profession in television and film, and discuss how those do – and do not – match institutions in the real world, as well as how they influence behavior among both lawyers and non-lawyers. Satisfies the perspective requirement.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 886 - Public International Law 3 Credit Hours
Seminar course introduces the system of norms, rules, institutions, and procedures that regulate interactions among and between state and non-state actors on the international level. As part of this introduction, a number of themes will be explored, including the tensions between international law and municipal law, state sovereignty and individual rights, and the use of force and settlement of international disputes. These themes will emerge through an examination of a variety of sources, including customary and treaty law, international and regional adjudication and arbitration, and the activity of international and regional intergovernmental bodies.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 887 - International Business Transactions 2-3 Credit Hours
Doing business with foreign persons and in foreign countries; acquisition and use of property within foreign country; regulation of international business transactions by international organizations and foreign governments; analysis of international conventions and laws of foreign countries affecting business and comparison of those conventions and laws with United States law.
Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 2-3 hours.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 888 - International Religious Freedom 3 Credit Hours
Seminar course will examine the multitude of issues that stem from the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, or belief. Following a philosophical and historical overview of the development of the right across various political and religious traditions, students will explore a wide range of contested and often charged legal questions, including defining the relationship between church and state, between freedom of religion and related rights such as freedom of expression and association, and the scope of legitimate limitations on freedom of religion. Readings will pay particular attention to the American experience, though the context for the seminar will be decidedly comparative in nature, bringing into consideration competing political, religious, and ideological frameworks. The common touchstone for analysis will be based on developing an understanding of the right to freedom of religion or belief as it is set forth in key international instruments – including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – as well as regional commitments including the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 889 - International Intellectual Property Law 3 Credit Hours
Intellectual property is increasingly becoming an area of global concern, and practitioners in both intellectual property law and international law need to know how the system operates. Explores the international intellectual property systems, including the various international agreements and institutions as they relate to copyrights, patents, and trademarks, plus some important related doctrines. It also explores some comparative aspects of how these various intellectual property rights are implemented in different countries.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 890 - European Union Law: Rights 3 Credit Hours
Seminar course introduces students to the EU’s burgeoning legal and constitutional processes by exploring “next generation” issues, including the status of fundamental human rights in the EU, the division of powers between member states and the Union, and the EU’s role within the international system, particularly as it relates to questions of foreign policy, security, and development. A survey of the history and evolution of the EU will provide students with a critical understanding of key EU institutions, including relevant treaties, chargers, and decision. Will analyze substantive thematic issue areas, including free movement and other rights related to freedom, security and justice, common foreign and security policy, and EU institution-member state-international community relations. Primary texts, including Court of Justice jurisprudence and other EU institution resolutions and decisions will be considered, as well as the role of other European agencies, and how they interrelate to the primary institutions.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 891 - Global Constitutionalism 3 Credit Hours
Globalization continues to exert a powerful influence on all aspects of modern life, and there are few problems that are not global in scope. The definition, development, and interpretation of laws, including the scope of fundamental rights, have not been immune from this influence. The practice of legal comparativism enjoys a long and respected history. However, with the growing entrenchment of rule of law and civil rights among western democracies and the explosive growth in written constitutions around the world, has this practice remained one of simple comparativism, or is something more profound happening below the surface? Among other questions, this seminar will explore what the implications of this possibility may be and what, if any similarities and/or differences continue to characterize the constitutional experiences of these states. Primary constitutional texts and leading Supreme Court jurisprudence from select countries will be considered in the context of a number of key areas including human dignity, national security, separation of powers, and church-state relations.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 892 - International Human Rights Law 3 Credit Hours
Examines the norms, institutions, and application of key international and regional human rights regimes. The substance and procedure of the United Nations human rights system (treaty and non-treaty-based mechanisms) and regional human rights systems, including the European, Inter-American, and African systems, will be explored in detail, as well as other treaties and mechanisms related to the development and protection of human rights. Specific topics include individual and group rights, political and economic/cultural rights, the interaction between human rights and trade, globalization, and the war on terror.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 886 or permission of the professor.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 894 - Employment Law Seminar 2-3 Credit Hours
Seminar course will examine selected topics in employment law. Students will be expected to write a research paper that satisfies the expository writing requirement.
Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 2-3 hours.
Comment(s): Limited enrollment.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 895 - Labor Relations Law 3 Credit Hours
Political, social and economic influences in development of federal labor relations laws; employee rights of self-organization; union and employer unfair labor practices; strikes, lockouts, boycotts, and collective bargaining processes; enforcement of collective agreements; individual rights of employees; federal preemption and state regulation.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 896 - Law of the Workplace 3 Credit Hours
Explores federal and state regulation of the employment relationship. Focuses on state common-law doctrines, particularly the employment ‘at-will’ doctrine and its erosion through contract (e.g., employee handbooks), tort (e.g., fraud and defamation), and public policy claims. Addresses limits on employee conduct, including non-compete agreements and trade secret protections; laws dealing with whistleblowers, retaliation, and workplace privacy; and constitutional protections of employees’ free speech and free association rights. Considers federal legislation on minimum wage and overtime, family and medical leave, and ERISA.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 897 - Employment Discrimination Law 3 Credit Hours
Surveys the major federal statutes dealing with discrimination in employment, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Considers discrimination based on an employee’s status (e.g., race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, and disability), sexual harassment, reverse discrimination, and affirmative action. Examines some practical aspects of practice in this area, particularly administrative requirements for pursuing discrimination litigation.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 904 - Construction Law: Cases and Studies 3 Credit Hours
Reviewing actual case studies, students prepare for simulated hearings and other dispute resolution proceedings involving a construction and engineering dispute, including arbitration. This course is the capstone to the Construction Law Certificate Program.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Law 944.
Registration Restriction(s): Admission in Certificate in Contractual and Legal Affairs in Engineering and Construction.
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LAW 905 - Advocacy Clinic 6 Credit Hours
Supervised fieldwork requiring substantial responsibility for representing clients with various civil and criminal legal problems. Will explore and begin to develop the fundamental professional skills involved in practicing law. Will gain experience interviewing and counseling clients, negotiating with other attorneys, planning for dispute resolutions, trials and hearings, initiating and defending claims, conducting factual investigations and presenting evidence. Will also explore holistic lawyering and systematic solutions to individual legal problems.
Credit Restriction: May not be taken concurrently with 947, 948, or 949.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 813.
(DE) Corequisite(s): 814.
Comment(s): Third-year standing required. Students may not take Advocacy Clinic (905) in the same semester as the Prosecutorial Externship (947), the Public Defender Externship (948), or the Judicial Externship (949). Second semester second year students may be eligible by waiver, space permitting.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 906 - Expungement Mini-Clinic 1 Credit Hours
The Expungement Mini-Clinic focuses on one of the most significant criminal reentry issues facing people who have been arrested for a crime – cleaning up a person’s criminal record. Students will assist clients with Tennessee’s complex expungement process from conducting the initial interview to preparing the expungement petition. Integrates statutory interpretation, lawyering skills, and ethics through an in-depth study of Tennessee’s expungement statutes, related caselaw, and rules of professional conduct. Will offer a foundation in interviewing, counseling, and advocacy skills. Combines law, theory, and practice through in-class discussions, simulations, and a live-client clinic with professor assessment of all components.
(DE) Corequisite(s): Law 814.
Comment(s): Course is open to second and third-year students.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 907 - Immigration Law Clinic 6 Credit Hours
The Immigration Law Clinic requires students to work 18 hours per week in the Clinic throughout the semester. The early classes will provide basic legal knowledge in substantive immigration law, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, the applicable Code of Federal Regulations, and Department of Homeland Security forms, applications, and internal policies. Classes will also be taught on subjects specific to representing individuals in Immigration Court, such as working with interpreters and the impact of the administrative nature of the court system. Readings in the course will be related to substantive law and will be taken from various sources throughout the semester. Guest lectures throughout the semester may include local immigration attorneys, interpreters, staff from the Immigration Courts, and attorneys with the Department of Justice Students will be expected to prepare for a substantive immigration hearing, appearances and filings with United States Customs and Immigration Service.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 813.
(DE) Corequisite(s): 814.
Comment(s): Third-year standing required; second-semester second-year students may be eligible by waiver, space permitting. Students may not take 907 in the same semester as 947, 948, 905, or 949.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 908 - Mediation Clinic 3 Credit Hours
Supervised fieldwork requiring students to assume substantial responsibility for mediating actual legal disputes. Students study mediation process, theory, strategy, tactics and skills through readings, simulations and service as mediators in the Knox County General Sessions Court and other settings. The course includes mediation ethics, the relationship of mediation to other dispute resolution methods, the roles of attorneys in mediation and the writing of mediation agreements.
(RE) Corequisite(s): 814 and 914.
Comment(s): 914 may be waived based on participation in ABA Representation in Mediation Competition or substantial prior mediation training.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 910 - Non-Profit Corporations 3 Credit Hours
Examines federal and state laws that govern non-profit corporations and offers practical clinical experience representing local corporations. Teams of students conduct “legal audits” of local non-profit corporations, make presentations to administrators and directors, draft corporate documents, and help clients resolve legal problems.
(DE) Corequisite(s): 814.
Comment(s): Third year standing required; second-semester second-year students may be eligible by waiver, space permitting.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 911 - Family Law Mediation Clinic 6 Credit Hours
The Family Law Mediation Clinic focuses on the mediation process, and mediation theory, strategy, tactics, and skills in the context of family relationships. Students study and develop these skills through readings and simulations and through service as mediators in the Knox County Juvenile Court and in other settings. The Clinic has two components: (1) the classroom component of the Clinic, in which students will attend classes that will involve reading assignments, traditional lectures, speakers, simulations, and discussion to prepare for the live- client mediations; and (2) the experiential component, during which student will observe and co-mediate cases with experienced family mediators in the Knox County Juvenile General Sessions Court and scheduled appearances in other settings. The Clinic satisfies Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31’s training requirements (only) for certification as a family mediator.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 914 - Alternative Dispute Resolution 3 Credit Hours
Survey course on various alternatives to the conventional trial process. Introduces several of the more popular alternatives, including negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. Satisfies planning and drafting requirement.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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LAW 915 - Conflict of Laws 3 Credit Hours
Jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and conflict of laws.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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