You will find a broad and challenging curriculum at Georgia Law - nearly 170 courses are offered, although not all of the listed courses are taught each year. Periodically, other courses are offered. Unless otherwise noted, all law courses carry the prefix "JURI."

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  • JURI 5894 Credit Hours: 2
    The world's refugees - persons forced to flee home countries - topped 15 million in 2014. This course will examine laws and policies governing forced migration. To be studied: international and U.S. legal systems and institutions; substantive, procedural, and evidentiary aspects of an asylum claim; causes; and trafficking and other refugee experiences.
  • JURI 5589 Credit Hours: 2
    Digital abuse is on the rise. People are increasingly using networked technologies to engage in harassment, stalking, privacy invasions, and surveillance. The law will often adapt to deal with harmful technologies, and one of the pressing challenges of our time is deciding whether and how to regulate digital abuse. This seminar will consider responses to the harms enabled by networked technologies, exploring issues related to civil rights, consumer protection, cybercrime, free speech, privacy, and private self-governance.
  • JURI 4550 Credit Hours: 3
    Remedies is a transubstantive course that crosses the traditional boundaries within private law, and between private and public law. The course requires students to reconsider from a new perspective the fundamental tort, property and contract law doctrines they learned in their first-year. In particular, they are asked to focus on the relief they are seeking for their clients and the alternative forms of relief that might be available. After all, remedies are the denominator common to every area of the law that imposes liability. The objective of this course is gain an understanding of the relationship between liability and remedy across many areas of the law, looking at both regularities and divergences.
  • JURI 4826 Credit Hours: 3
    This course will introduce students to the legal and policy issues currently arising in the ongoing transition to renewable energy resources in the U.S. electric power sector. Following an introduction to utility regulatory basics, the course will focus on conflicts and challenges in development of solar and wind energy resources, and discuss legal issues related to grid modernization initiatives (e.g., energy storage, demand side management, smart meters), and other renewable energy resources (e.g., biomass, renewable fuels, geothermal). The course is designed to be accessible to students regardless of background familiarity with the subject matter.
  • JURI 4581 Credit Hours: 1
    The course will be designed to equip students with a starter of skills and perspective to create immediate capacity to function effectively in state governmental lawyer capacity.
  • JURI 5595 Credit Hours: 1
    This course will explore the history and law of reproductive rights in the United States. The majority of the term will be spent analyzing the constitutional framework governing forced sterilization, contraception and abortion and the substantial changes made to that framework by the current Supreme Court.  We will consider the historical, ethical, social and religious context; gender, race and socioeconomic class issues; impact on health and the U.S. health care system; the rationales for the protection of reproductive rights; and the practical impact of the regulations. We will also look ahead to the future of reproductive rights jurisprudence in the U.S. in the post-Dobbs era and discuss broader, intersectional areas of reproductive justice, including issues of access, parenting, maternal health and criminalization of pregnancy.  This course is pass/fail.
  • JURI 4950 Credit Hours: 3
    Basic commercial law course dealing with secured financing when the collateral consists of personal property, including goods, fixtures, intangibles, and intellectual property. Focus is on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The course should help students to develop their skills in statutory analysis and in understanding and planning business transactions.
  • JURI 5595 Credit Hours: 1
    This course will examine the enforcement of the federal securities laws and related white-collar crimes from the perspectives of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff, the Department of Justice, and defense counsel. An important focus of the course will be discussing the relevant statutes, regulations, case law, and other legal principles, and applying them to practical situations that arise in government investigations. The required weekly reading will consist of securities enforcement cases, statutes, regulations, and other relevant documents. Given the highly evolving subject matter, many classes will include a short discussion of recent developments. As events occur during the semester, we may supplement or replace the reading materials to account for current events and changes in the law. Additionally, at points throughout the semester, we will have 'practical' classes that will involve workshops in which students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of the course material in simulated real-world settings.
  • JURI 4960 Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisite:

    JURI 4210

    This overview of the federal securities laws focuses primarily on the Securities Act of 1933. Topics covered include the definition of a security, the registration of securities offerings with the Securities & Exchange Commission, exemptions from registration, secondary distributions, and civil liabilities.
  • JURI 4581 Credit Hours: 1
    Selected areas of judicial administration and judging that are too narrow for a full-semester course. Topics may include judicial case management, the judicial role in criminal and civil matters, the role of judges or courts in society and literature, comparative approaches to judging in different legal systems, etc.
  • JURI 4581 Credit Hours: 1
    Sprring 2018: This course will give students the opportunity to discuss and to practice parts of a trial such as jury selection, opening and closing statements, witness examinations, appellate briefs, and appellate arguments with Judge Bernice Donald. Judge Donald has been: a judge on Tennessee's General Sessions Criminal Court; a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Tennessee; and a United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. She currently is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She will share her trial and appellate insights and give feedback as you perform related exercises.
  • JURI 5590 Credit Hours: 2
    This seminar will explore the criminal regulation of sexually-based offenses and sexualized violence. The course aims to examine the rationale for the criminalization of certain sexual behaviors, the definitions of harm, and the collateral consequences for sex offenders. We will explore the theoretical and historical underpinnings of the development of sex crime laws and their interconnection with race, class, power, and privilege. We will also reflect on issues relating to agency and consent as well as the balance between protecting the public and comporting with constitutional due process in the context of surveillance and registration of sex offenders. Class topics will include rape, sexual assault law, human trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse, revenge porn, sexting, and sex offender registration laws. Students will gain an understanding of the unique issues facing prosecutors and defense counsel, such as rape shield laws, how to work with victims, how to defend the accused, the admissibility of hearsay evidence in limited circumstances, and how to work with experts. Students will debate policy issues concerning victimization, redressing harm, and the role of sex crime laws in the context of mass incarceration.
  • JURI 4822 Credit Hours: 2
    This course will examine the evolving constitutional and legal rights of the LGBTQ community. We will begin by exploring the historical evolution of the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians, examining doctrines of privacy and equality as they have evolved to protect LGBTQ individuals. The course will explore ongoing legal battles over religious freedom and nondiscrimination laws, the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming people, employment discrimination, and family law questions (including parentage, adoption, divorce, and alternatives to marriage). We will examine these issues critically, including by addressing concerns over federalism, free exercise, the democratic process, and the proper role of the courts. Throughout the course, students will explore key due process and equal protection concepts and learn how to frame and develop constitutional arguments. This course will focus on numerous procedural and justiciability issues that are critical in civil rights litigation.
  • JURI 4820 Credit Hours: 3
    Characterized by a scientific rather than normative emphasis, legal sociology focuses on empirical patterns of legal behavior, such as initiation and winning of law suits, origins and content of rules, and the development of legal institutions. Most literature has addressed case-level variation and the course will reflect this. But instead of analyzing cases in terms of the applicable rules and policies, lectures and readings will invoke the social characteristics of participants (e.g., social ties, status, marginality, reputation and organizational affiliations) to predict and explain case outcomes. Sociological techniques by which social differentials in cases (discrimination) might be minimized will also be studied. Modern American materials will be emphasized.
  • JURI 4625 Credit Hours: 2
    This course teaches the skills and prioritized steps necessary to thrive either as a solo practitioner or a young associate in a small firm. It will focus on efficient, daily tasks that cover all eight departments of a law firm essential for success. Students will learn how to pick the right practice area, create a blueprint for growth, which reports to monitor and how to read them, how to originate client work by increasing the value of client service, how to know the return on investment for all marketing verticals offered to law firms and how to delegate to technology through workflows and automation. Students will study how to profitably build their own virtual law firm, combining theory, pragmatic implementation and real life examples from small firm owners.
  • JURI 5999 Credit Hours: 1
    Examination of a pivotal global security organization: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to which the United States and twenty-nine other countries belong.
  • JURI 3278 Credit Hours: 1
    In this minicourse, students will learn the legal and practical considerations concerning the welfare of companion animals. The course covers approaches to animal welfare taken by animal sheltering organizations; state and local laws governing the care of companion animals; and current topics in animal welfare. Students will complete short written assignments both during the term of the course and as a final project. Note: This is an undergraduate course.
  • JURI 5595 Credit Hours: 1
    In this minicourse, students will learn the legal and practical considerations concerning the welfare of companion animals. The course covers approaches to animal welfare taken by animal sheltering organizations; state and local laws governing the care of companion animals; and current topics in animal welfare. Students will complete short written assignments both during the term of the course and as a final project.
  • JURI 3505 Credit Hours: 3
    Analysis of any kind first depends on the ability to research and evaluate sources effectively.  This course will provide students with skills and vocabulary necessary for basic research in the modern American setting. In addition to providing students with skills that will help them on any research paper, this class will also expand upon other courses that discuss current laws or politics, including Modern American Legal Theory – JURI 4199/6199; Bureaucracy and the Law – PADP 4690; Sociology of Law – SCOI 4830; and any of the “Law as Professional Practice” courses.  
  • JURI 5550 Credit Hours: 2
    This course will cover legal issues concerning “sports law,” a wide-ranging topic that will include sessions on antitrust issues relating to sports league structures, stadium-development transactions, professional team counsel priorities (e.g., stadium operations), labor and employment issues (including collective bargaining agreements, strikes and lockouts), insights into broadcasting and media agreements in sports, athlete representation and agency law, NIL regulations for collegiate athletes, and intellectual property matters in sports law and related issues (e.g., rights of publicity).
  • JURI 4581 Credit Hours: 1
    Judge Britt Grant of the Eleventh Circuit will lead students in consideration of a range of issues in modern standing jurisprudence. The course will culminate with a class-wide mock oral argument of a recent case raising cutting edge questions concerning the law of standing.
  • JURI 4900 Credit Hours: 2
    This course explores common principles of state and local government with a strategic focus on key aspects of Georgia law. The course will combine practical advice with some theory. Issues addressed include organizational structures of local governments, authority granted to them by the U.S. and Georgia Constitution, and various ways they exercise (or attempt to exercise) their power. The class may explore these concepts generally and in the context of specific subject areas including but not limited to annexation, home rule, immunity, incorporation, intergovernmental agreements, employment, service delivery strategies, regulatory authority, taxation, and zoning. This course will introduce students to varied forms of writing and research associated with a professional practice in this area and reflect on professional roles and responsibilities.
  • JURI 4581 Credit Hours: 1
    This course will consider the role of state constitutions in the development of U.S. constitutional law. Particular attention will be paid to Judge Sutton's book, 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law. Justices Blackwell, Nahmias, Peterson and Warren of the Georgia Supreme Court will lead sessions focused on the Georgia Constitution. Students will write short papers and make presentations based on their research. The course will be graded on a pass/fail basis.
  • JURI 5965E, 5966S Credit Hours: 2 - 4
    The Summer Externship supports students working in governmental, judicial and private non-profit placements through a focused program of reading, reflection and professional development. Students gain direct exposure to the skills and methods of legal practice, focused application of legal concepts to real conflicts, and reflective appraisal of their own skills and abilities. each student engages in an ongoing conversation with the clinic supervisor through journals and interviews; together with readings, this contact expands and deepens the practical and jurisprudential learning gains in the field. Register for both 5965E (graded portion) and 5966S (pass/fail portion).
  • JURI 5190 Credit Hours: 2
    Supervised Research involves an in-depth written analysis of a legal issue under close faculty tutoring and supervision. It requires significant legal research, original thinking and analysis, and must produce final paper of a kind and quality similar to that found in law review articles.