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In a globalizing world, the range of issues with cross-border implications only expands, from finance to trade, environment to human rights, food safety to sports. This upper-level course in International Law examines how and why different legal regimes have developed to govern these issues and when they succeed or fail.

During the Global Governance Summer School, students will engage with guest speakers and visit sites of historic and contemporary significance. This course will allow students to deepen their understanding of important issues in global governance and the context in which international legal institutions function. Students will critically reflect on these experiences through reflective papers and group projects.

Examination of selected topics in global governance. Introduces actors and legal institutions that are involved in addressing issues of transnational or global significance and critically evaluates the role of various actors, legal regimes, and institutions in responding to those issues. The particular focus of the Global Governance Summer School will vary from year to year based on the Supervising Faculty Member’s area of expertise.

This course will inform students of major concepts and themes in government ethics law at both the state and federal level. By the end of the course, students should possess a foundational knowledge of law in these areas that can aid their future practice in advising clients as well as understand the legal implications of government investigations and ethics questions presented through current events. This course will be graded.

Learn the inner workings of how a bill becomes a law, with an emphasis on Georgia legislative process. Go beyond Schoolhouse Rock and pull back the curtain into the myriad processes and people involved. This course will be taught as an online, paced, asynchronous course consisting of six modules that will run for eight weeks. There will be a combination of individual and group work. We will be employing innovative pedagogy for a new type of legal education class.

This course will introduce students to students' and teachers' constitutional rights and obligations in the education context.

A two-student team practices oral arguments under the supervision of a faculty advisor in preparation for a competition against the University of Florida before a panel of state and federal judges. A student registering for this course must be selected as a competing advocate who will attend the competition in the semester in which the student registers.

Study of modern litigation efforts in the United States to combat human trafficking. Examines civil litigation in the context of both sex and labor trafficking and discusses the issues unique to each, including victim advocacy and interaction, trauma-informed lawyering, identifying force, fraud, and coercion in the trafficking context, third-party liability, nascent case law and appellate decisions, and the problems of proof involving clandestine crimes. This class is pass/fail.

With its roots in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, copyright is an essential part of U.S. Law. Moreover, because of the ease of obtaining copyright protection over creative works, nearly all people have countless works to their names. Yet despite these things, people often misunderstand how copyright law operates. As such, this course will explore the fundamentals of U.S. copyright law, from securing protection, to copyright duration, fair use, and the tension between copyright and First Amendment freedom of expression.

This course will examine American immigration law and policy. Topics considered include source and scope of Congressional power to regulate immigration; procedures for entry, exclusion, and deportation; refugees and asylum; current immigration law reform; and the role of states in regulating migrants. This course is intended both for those who are considering immigration law as a career and for those who want a general introduction to an important area of law that intersects with many areas of practice, including administrative, criminal, family, employment, and international.

Independent projects provide student with flexible opportunity to independently explore legal issues or questions sometimes not found in any course or seminar and without following format of a formal research paper. Projects must involve significant legal, social, or empirical research or experience.

This course introduces students to innovations necessary to keep pace with a rapidly changing legal industry and that will cover a wide range of timely topics, including: innovative practice / firm management, the pandemic’s effect on the profession, the need for lawyer resiliency, ESG, equal access to justice, process and change management, AI, alternative pricing models, and business / client development in the modern market.

This is an experiential class based on a survey of liability and first party insurance coverage issues. The course will include a review of current and recurring issues in liability insurance, including commercial general liability insurance, professional liability insurance, directors and officers insurance, and umbrella and excess insurance. Within this context, coverage for subjects such as environmental claims, construction defect claims, and claims against corporate officers and directors for breach of fiduciary duty and mismanagement will be discussed. The course will also include a review of current and recurring issues under first party property policies. Within this general context, the course will also survey emerging insurance coverage issues, such as coverage for cyber liability claims and claims related to alleged climate change. To provide experiential learning, cases will be assigned in advance to be argued by teams of opposing counsel, one team representing the insurer and one team representing the insured. The class will be graded as follows: 10 percent based on class participation in arguing a pre-assigned case (this will be based on the substance of the argument and not on presentation skills); 40 percent based on a mid-term assignment to write a reservation of rights letter or coverage memorandum based on a written problem (which will include a self-evaluation component), and 50 percent on a one hour open book final exam.

This course provides an introduction to researching intellectual property, including copyrights, patents, and trademarks. In addition to reviewing administrative regulation research, this course will explore a variety of free and fee-based tools.  Topics include classification and search techniques, and intellectual property searching in business research and competitive intelligence.

This course provides an introduction to the four primary types of intellectual property protection: copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret. Students gain a basic understanding of the various grounds for and limitations of such protections. This course serves as both an introduction to the field for those anticipating further study and a survey of the area for those planning to focus on a different area of law. NOTE: One cannot take the IP Survey (JURI 5050) after having taken any two of the following courses: Copyright Law (JURI 4430), Patent Law (JURI 4920), or Trademark Law (JURI 4930). If the IP Survey course is taken first, any or all three of the advanced intellectual property courses can be taken.

Course examines how corporations and their personnel investigate their own conduct. Course will develop students' understanding of the roles of management, the board of directors, and their respective counsel in corporate investigations and their interplay with government regulators, such as the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Preparation, handling of international law moot court case and representation of hypothetical states before international legal tribunal. Topics covered impart knowledge of international legal reasoning, novel research and effective oral advocacy. This course is graded S/U. Enrollment extended by permission.

This course will examine the legal regime governing international commercial arbitration. Topics will include the enforcement of arbitration agreements, arbitral procedure and the enforcement of arbitral awards. The course also will consider how to draft arbitral clauses.

This course examines the international commercial law and practices, including the international sale of goods (CISG) and international payments, that govern a variety of cross-border business transactions. Students will gain an understanding of the main tools that multinational firms have at their disposal when considering disputes, regulations, and variation in national laws.

Study of international human rights law and international and regional organizations, states and private actors in field. Examines instruments and institutions forming sources of human rights law (UN system, including Charter and treaties, European, African and Inter-American human rights regimes), role of NGOs and interaction between domestic and international law.