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LAW 931 - Social Media Discovery

3 Credit Hours
Examines the discoverability of social media data in pretrial civil litigation, including the different approaches courts take to discovery of content posted to platforms like Facebook or Snapchat. Will also explore the privacy issues involved, the ethical constraints on attorney conduct, and the impact social media has on the litigation process. In addition to learning more about the law of discovery, students in this simulation course will represent a mock client, correspond with opposing counsel, draft and serve discovery requests, and, for the final project, prepare a complete pretrial motion.
Grading Restriction: Numeric grading (law students); A-F grading (graduate students).
Registration Restriction(s): JD students only or with Instructor Permission.



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