Custom Course Search

Students earn credit while working full-time at law offices and judicial chambers not within travel distance of Athens.

This course is designed to give the student working familiarity with how a merger or acquisition transaction is negotiated and structured, from inception to post-closing, with a heavy emphasis on how the major deal documents allocate risks between the parties through pricing structure, representations, covenants and conditions. This course will be graded pass/fail.

The specifics of family law in Georgia, including divorce, modification, contempt, and legitimation. Covers the life of a divorce case from initial consultation through final hearing.

A hands-on exploration of Georgia legal research resources. The course will cover primary and secondary sources, advanced searching skills, topical research and cost saving strategies. Students will complete research for simulated client matters: preparing civil and criminal cases for trial, completing a business transaction and representing a client in an administrative hearing.

An advanced course in Civil Procedure. Explores in depth the Georgia Civil Practice Act and Long-Arm Statute, as interpreted by Georgia appellate court decisions, along with selected constitutional and statutory provisions allocating jurisdiction among trial courts, venue, and validity of judgments.

Georgia Trial Court Practice is designed to introduce the fundamental skills of trial practice in Georgia for both civil and criminal practice. Subjects include trial preparation, organization, jury selection, opening statements, direct and cross examinations of witnesses, introducing and handling of exhibits, expert witnesses, closing statements, motions practice, courtroom etiquette, decorum and personal mannerisms. Emphasis will be placed on Georgia trial practice through lectures, demonstration, performance of techniques and procedure through mock trial exercises.

Each session includes a classroom instructional component, specific to Georgia court rules and procedure as well as opportunity for student performance integrating doctrine, theory, skills, and legal ethics.

This seminar will focus on the legal and regulatory principles that underpin entities’ handling of personal data. Rather than a survey of various privacy laws, this seminar will rely on the framework, rights, and obligations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a foundational benchmark. While establishing the core legal treatment of data privacy, this seminar will additionally provide insight into the practical application and operational approach to global compliance. At the conclusion of this seminar, you should be materially prepared for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certified Information Privacy Professional - Europe (CIPP/E) certification exam. This class is pass/fail.

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.