WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Summer/Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 COURSE DETAILS AND ADVICE FACULTY

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1 WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Summer/Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 COURSE DETAILS AND ADVICE FACULTY Janet Jackson will be doing a half-load visit at the University of Groningen and at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She will continue to teach Clinic: Transactional next year on-line. Patricia Judd will be on sabbatical during the spring 2019 semester. Ali Khan will retire at the end of the spring 2018 semester. We wish him the very best! Craig Martin will be on sabbatical during academic year Carla Pratt will become Dean of Washburn University School of Law effective July 1, Dean Pratt will succeed Thomas Romig as dean after he steps down on June 30. She is known as an expert on legal education equity and has over 20 years of experience as a law educator and commercial litigator. She currently serves as dean for diversity and inclusion at Dickinson Law, part of the Pennsylvania State University system. Mary Ramirez will be on sabbatical during the fall 2018 semester. Thomas Romig will step down from his role as dean effective June 30, He plans to take sabbatical during academic year NEW ADJUNCT FACULTY Emily Hartz will teach Domestic Violence during the fall 2018 session. Ms. Hartz joined Sloan Law Firm in an Of Counsel position in She presently focuses her practice in the areas of domestic relations, juvenile law, criminal defense, wills, and small business. Ms. Hartz received her J.D. from Washburn University School of Law and her B.S. from Millikin University. She is licensed to practice at the federal and state level in KS. Ryan Hoffman will co-teach the Oil and Gas Conservation Law and Practice course with Professor Pierce during the summer/fall 2018 intersession. Mr. Hoffman is the Director of the Kansas Corporation Commission s Oil and Gas Conservation Division. Prior to becoming Director of the Conservation Division he served as its Litigation Counsel. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Kansas and his J.D. from Washburn Law. Rachel Pickering will teach Fundamentals of Oral Argument during the summer 2018 intersession. Ms. Pickering is a Public Defender for the Third Judicial District. She has been a Moot Court competition coach for Washburn Law since the spring 2014 semester. Ms. Pickering received her J.D. from the University of Missouri at Columbia, and her B.A. from the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She is licensed to practice at the federal and state level in KS and MO. Joe Schremmer will teach Environmental Regulation of the Oil and Gas industry during the fall 2018 session. Mr. Schremmer is a member of the Depew Gillen Rathbun & McInteer law firm in Wichita where he focuses on oil and gas law and environmental law. He received his B.A., B.S., M.B.A., and J.D. degrees from the University of Kansas. Adeel Syed will teach Secured Transactions during the fall 2018 session. Mr. Syed currently is Staff Attorney at the Kansas Bankers Association. He received his J.D. from Washburn Law and his B.S. degree from Newman University. He is licensed to practice in TX, MO, CO, NE, and KS. Tyler Turner will co-teach the Mineral Title Examination course with Professor Pierce during the winter 2019 intersession. Mr. Turner is a partner in the Jeter Law Firm in Hays where he focuses on oil and gas title examination. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Kansas State University and his J.D. from Washburn Law. 1

2 NEW COURSES LW 859 Fundamentals of Oral Argument. The course will build on the skills introduced in LARW II and allow students to further develop their oral advocacy skills in the context of civil or criminal appellate practice. After the first class session, students will be assigned to take a civil or criminal track for the remainder of the course. Criminal and civil students will then meet separately during the course. The students will learn how to advocate for their client by highlighting their arguments strengths, learning to distinguish opposing cases, and, importantly, how to present the best argument in fifteen minutes or less. The course will focus on the preparation needed to succeed at oral argument. The course will be taught primarily through practice drills but will also include classroom instruction on organizing the argument, preparing for questions, and researching your opposing party s strongest cases. The course will end with a graded oral argument. Prerequisite: LARW II, satisfies Skills and ULOR requirements, Graded, 1 credit hour. LW 883 Leadership for Lawyers. As lawyers advance in their careers, they often find themselves in leadership roles with responsibilities beyond traditional legal work. The numbers also bear out that Washburn Law graduates find themselves as leaders in private practice, government positions, and in the corporate world. Therefore, the concepts surrounding the topic of leadership are issues all law students could benefit from giving further examination. This class intends to provide a thorough introduction to leadership topics encountered in any setting but with a focus on how the legal world handles these many layered issues. For this two-credit class, we will focus on topics including motivating employees, generational differences in the law firm, dealing with conflict, diversity, working in teams, and making a difference in the legal profession. This class will rely heavily on case studies to discuss relevant topics, along with background readings and guest speakers, to cover the concept of leadership. Prerequisites: None, satisfies Perspectives requirement, Graded, 2 credit hours. LW 851 Comparative Constitutional Law Rights. This course is a seminar that explores how different rights are enshrined, interpreted, and enforced in different constitutional systems. It will be limited to an examination of a few systems, and only a few specific rights. The emphasis will be on comparing the systems of the United States with those of Canada, Japan, and both the E.U. and in some cases certain specific European countries. Some reference will also be made to systems such as South Africa. The analysis will focus on equality rights, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and security of the person an autonomy. The course will begin with a theoretical exploration of the different understandings of the nature of rights, the role of the judiciary and judicial review in a democracy, and how the limitations on rights and justifications of infringement are, and ought to be, analyzed. Prerequisites: None ( desirable), satisfies Perspectives requirement, Graded, 3 credit hours. COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS Students should take note that a number of required courses are being offered during the summer sessions (Criminal Procedure I, Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure II, and ). It is possible that when a required course is offered during the summer that is may be offered only once the following year. Students should examine the schedule closely when it is released during the Spring 2018 semester to ensure that they can fulfill all graduation requirements. Students who have a GPA under 2.6 after their first two semesters of law school will be required to take two Multiple Assessment Courses as soon as practicable, one of which must be Multistate Legal Analysis. Multiple Assessment Courses are foundation courses that are open to all students, which include exercises, quizzes, or other activities that are designed to provide students, and the faculty members teaching the courses, opportunities for feedback throughout the semester. Additionally, students who have a GPA under 2.6 may not enroll in more than 16 hours per semester until they raise their GPA over

3 UNIFORM BAR EXAM SUBJECTS The following subjects are tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). This information is provided for your convenience only. It is not intended to suggest that you should feel compelled to take all of these classes. If you are contemplating taking a bar exam in another state, you should contact our Professional Development Office for information about subjects tested on that exam and for information about additional requirements that state may impose on bar applicants. Business Associations Civil Procedure I and II Conflict of Laws Constitutional Law I and II Contracts Criminal Law Decedents Estates and Trusts Evidence Family Law Property Real Estate Transactions Secured Transactions Torts Note: Multistate Legal Analysis is a bar exam preparation course best taken in the last semester of law school. Professional Responsibility is tested on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE). MULTIPLE ASSESSMENT COURSES FOR ACADEMIC YEAR Business Associations (fall) Civil Procedure II (summer/spring) Debtor/Creditor Relations (fall) Decedents Estates and Trusts (fall/spring) Law in Context (fall/spring) Multistate Legal Analysis (fall/spring) Real Estate Transactions (spring) Remedies (fall) 3

4 COURSES WITH LIMITED ENROLLMENT Adoption Law (fall) 16 Advanced Legal Research (spring) 16 Advanced Trial Advocacy (spring) 12 Capital Punishment Seminar (fall) 16 Child Advocacy Training (winter intersession) 20 Children in the Law (fall) 16 Clinic Internship/Litigation (sum/fall/spring) 5/16/16 Clinic Internship/Transactional (fall/spring) 4 Corporate Compliance (fall) 16 Criminal Appeal Advocacy (fall/spring) 5 Cross Examination Techniques (summer) 20 Divorce Practice (spring) 16 Domestic Violence (fall) 16 Drafting Contracts and Conveyances (fall) 16 Estate Planning and Taxation (spring) 16 Evolution of a Business Trans. (summer) 16 Family Law Seminar (fall) 16 Federal Courts (fall) 16 Fundamentals of Oral Argument (summer) 16 Housing Law (fall) 16 Immigration Law (fall) 16 Int l Civil Litigation in the U.S. (spring) 16 Int l Law of Indigenous Peoples (spring) 16 International Petroleum Transactions (spring) 16 Interviewing and Counseling (fall) 16 Jurisprudence (spring) 16 Kansas Legal Research (fall) 16 Law and Economics (spring) 16 Law Practice Technologies (fall) 16 LARW for the Government Client (spring) 10 Legal Writing for Clerk/Extern. (summer) 16 Negotiation (fall) 16 Payment Systems (spring) 16 Public Land Law (spring) 16 Race and the Law (spring) 16 SLR: Statutory Regulatory Law (summer) 16 Taking and Defending Depositions (summer) 20 Tax Policy Seminar (fall) 16 Transactional Drafting (spring) 16 Trans. IP Practice: Trdmks & Mktg. (spring) 16 Trial Advocacy (ITAP) (summer/fall) 40 Tribal Law and Government (fall) 16 Workers Compensation (fall) 16 UPPER-LEVEL WRITING AND ORAL PRESENTATION COURSES Course Professor Writing Oral Advanced Oil and Gas Law (spring) Pierce Yes No Advanced Trial Advocacy (spring) Ossmann/Hanley No Yes Clinic Intern/Litigation (sum/fall/spring) Clinic Staff Check/w/Prof. Check/w/Prof. Clinic Intern/Transactional (fall/spring) Jackson, J.T. No Yes Corporate Compliance Law/Policy (fall) Westbrook Yes Yes Criminal Appeal Advocacy (fall/spring) Hodgkinson Yes No Debtor/Creditor Relations (fall) Boyack No Yes Directed Research (sum/fall/spring) Optional Yes No Employment Law Alaka No Check/w/Prof. Family Law Seminar (fall) Elrod Yes Yes Int l Law of Indigenous Peoples (spring) Kowalski Yes Yes Jessup International Competition (fall/spring) Martin Yes Yes Jurisprudence (spring) Rich Student Option No Law and Economics (spring) McMillan Yes Yes Law Journal Membership (fall/spring) Duncan Yes check/w/prof. No LARW for the Government Client (spring) Jackson, K. Yes No Moot Court (all year) Jackson, J.D. Yes check/w/prof. Yes Negotiation (fall) Glaser No Yes Pretrial Advocacy: Civil (fall) Slinkard No Yes Pretrial Advocacy: Criminal (spring) Slinkard No Yes Public Land Law (spring) Duncan Yes No Race and the Law (spring) Pratt Yes Yes Tax Policy Seminar (fall) McMillan Yes Yes Transactional Drafting (spring) Westbrook Yes No Trial Advocacy (ITAP) (summer/fall) Jackson/Ossmann No Yes Tribal Law and Government (fall) Kowalski Yes Yes 4

5 PERSPECTIVES ON LAW COURSES Admiralty and Maritime Law (summer) Capital Punishment Seminar (fall) Comparative Con. Law - Rights (summer) Corporate Compliance Law and Policy (fall) Family Law Seminar (fall) Federal Indian Law (spring) Housing Law (fall) International Business Transactions (spring) International Civil Litigation in the U.S. (spring) International Law of Indigenous Peoples (spring) International Petroleum Transactions (spring) Jurisprudence (spring) Law and Economics (spring) Leadership for Lawyers (spring) Race and the Law (spring) Principles of Int l & Comparative Tax. (summer) Tax Policy Seminar (fall) Torts: Product Liability & Privacy (spring) Tribal Law and Government (fall) SKILLS COURSES Advanced Legal Research (spring) Advanced Oil and Gas Law (spring) Advanced Trial Advocacy (spring) Appellate Practice (spring) Child Advocacy Training (winter intersession) Client Counseling Competition (all year) Clinic: Advanced Litigation & Trans. (all year) Clinic: Litigation (sum/fall/spring) Clinic: Transactional (fall/spring) Criminal Appeal Advocacy (fall/spring) Cross Examination Techniques (summer) Divorce Practice (spring) Domestic Violence (fall) Drafting Contracts/Conveyances (fall) Evolution of a Business Transaction (summer) Fundamentals of Oral Argument (summer) Interviewing and Counseling (fall) Jessup Int l Moot Court Competition (all year) Kansas Legal Research (fall) Law in Context Torts (fall/spring) Law Practice Technologies (fall) LARW for the Government Client (spring) Legal Writing for Clerkships/Externships (summer) Mineral Title Examination (winter intersession) Moot Court (all year) Negotiation (fall) Negotiation Competition (all year) Oil & Gas Conservation Law & Practice (summer) Pretrial Advocacy: Civil (fall) Pretrial Advocacy: Criminal (spring) Renewable Energy Law: Wind and Solar (spring) Spec. Legal Res.: Statutory/Regulatory (summer) Taking and Defending Depositions (summer) Transactional Drafting (spring) Trial Advocacy (summer/fall) Trial Advocacy Competition (all year) HYBRID COURSES Students who take these courses may count 1 or 2 credits, as indicated, towards their six-credit skills requirement: Housing Law (1 credit) (fall) International Business Trans. (1 credit) (spring) Real Estate Transactions (2 credits) (spring) Tribal Law and Government (fall) 5

6 Summer/Fall 2018 Administrative Law (fall) 3 Business Associations (fall) 4 Civil Procedure II (summer/fall) 2 Conflict of Laws (fall) 3 (summer/fall) 3 (summer) 3 Decedents Estates and Trusts (fall) 3 Evidence (fall) 4 Family Law (fall) 3 Pretrial Advocacy Civil (fall) 3 Professional Responsibility (summer/fall) 3 Remedies (fall) 3 Secured Transactions (fall) 3 Taxation of Individual Income (fall) 3 UPPER LEVEL BAR AND FOUNDATION COURSES Hours Spring 2019 Summer/Fall 2018 Admiralty and Maritime Law (summer) 3 Adoption Law (fall) 2 Arbitration (fall) 2 Capital Punishment Seminar (fall) 2 Children in the Law (fall) 2 Clinic: Litigation (summer/fall) 4-5 Clinic: Transactional (fall) 4-5 Comparative Con. Law Rights (summer) 3 Corporate Compliance: Law and Policy (fall) 3 Criminal Appeal Advocacy (fall) 5 Cross-Examination Techniques (summer) 1 Debtor/Creditor Relations (fall) 3 Domestic Violence (fall) 2 Drafting Contracts/Conveyances (fall) 1 Employment Law (fall) 3 Energy Regulation (fall) 2 Environmental Law (fall) 3 Environmental Reg. of Oil/Gas Indus. (summer) 1 Evolution of a Business Transaction (summer) 1 Family Law Seminar (fall) 2 Federal Courts (fall) 3 Fundamentals of Oral Argument (summer) 1 Housing Law (fall) 3 Immigration Law (fall) 2 Kansas Legal Research (fall) 2 Intellectual Property (fall) 3 Interviewing and Counseling (fall) 2 Law in Context (fall) 2 Law Practice Technologies (fall) 1 Legal Writing for Clerkships/Externships (summer) 1 Local Government Law (summer) 2 Multistate Legal Analysis (fall) 3 Negotiation (fall) 2 Oil and Gas Law (fall) 3 Oil/Gas Conservation Law & Practice (summer) 1 Principles of Int l & Comparative Tax (summer) 3 Public Employment Law (fall) 2 Spec. Legal Res.: Statutory/Reg. Law (summer) 2 Taking and Defending Depositions (summer) 1 Tax Policy Seminar (fall) 2 Trial Advocacy (summer/fall) 2 Tribal Law and Government (fall) 3 Workers Compensation (fall) 2 OTHER UPPER-LEVEL COURSES Hours Spring Hours Civil Procedure II 2 3 Decedents Estates and Trusts 3 Evidence 4 Family Law 3 Pretrial Advocacy Criminal 3 Real Estate Transactions 3 Hours Advanced Legal Research 2 Advanced Oil and Gas Law 3 Advanced Trial Advocacy 2 Agricultural Law 3 Antitrust 3 Appellate Practice 2 Child Advocacy Training 1 Clinic: Litigation 4-5 Clinic: Transactional 4-5 Criminal Appeal Advocacy 5 II 3 Divorce Practice 2 Employment Discrimination 3 Estate Planning and Taxation 4 Federal Indian Law 3 Financial Issues in Divorce 2 International Business Transactions 3 International Civil Litigation in the U.S. 2 International Law of Indigenous Peoples 2 International Petroleum Transactions 3 Jurisprudence 2 Labor Law 3 Law and Economics 3 Law in Context 2 Leadership for Lawyers 2 LARW for the Government Client 2 Legislation 3 Mineral Title Examination 1 Mining Law 1 Multistate Legal Analysis 3 Oil and Gas Taxation 1 Payment Systems 3 Public Land Law 3 Race and the Law 2 Renewable Energy Law: Wind and Solar 1 Taxation of Business Enterprises 3 Torts: Product Liability & Privacy 2 Transactional Drafting 3 Trans. IP Practice: Trademarks & Marketing 2 Water Rights 3

7 UPPER-LEVEL REQUIRED COURSES Civil Procedure II Evidence Professional Responsibility One perspectives on law course Six credit hours of skills courses Upper Level Oral Requirement Upper-Level Writing Requirement UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE CURRICULUM RECOMMENDED FOUNDATION COURSES The faculty strongly encourages enrollment in the following foundation courses. These courses are foundations for other advanced electives and are considered part of the core of a well-rounded legal education. Students are urged to enroll in these courses, along with the required courses in, Evidence, Professional Responsibility, and in the second year of law study. Enrolling in these courses in the second year will not only lay the foundation for more advanced courses in the third year, but also result in fewer conflicts in scheduling classes and exams in both the second and third years Administrative Law Business Associations Decedents Estates and Trusts Family Law Pretrial Advocacy Civil Pretrial Advocacy - Criminal Public International Law Real Estate Transactions Secured Transactions Taxation of Individual Income ADDITIONAL COURSE SUGGESTIONS The following additional courses are not as universally considered a part of the core curriculum, but they are nevertheless important classes for many students for the reasons described below. They are also commonly tested on state bar examinations. Thus, while these are not classes that all students would typically take, they are classes to which students should give careful consideration in planning their upper-level curriculum. Remedies and Conflict of Laws are courses best studied in the third year of law school. The others are feasible in either the second or third year. Conflict of Laws The heart of the Conflicts class is the problem of choosing the law to apply to a transaction or occurrence that crosses state lines. Many transactions or occurrences are entirely local. Often, when a transaction or occurrence touches more than one state, the laws of the involved states happen to be in agreement. But a growing number of multi-state transactions or occurrences involve conflicts between the potentially applicable laws. When this happens, the resulting problems are often quite difficult to resolve. For students who may engage in a practice representing clients involved in activities on a multi-state or multinational basis, Conflict of Laws can be a very important class. Payment Systems - This course often appears on bar exam subject lists as Commercial Paper or Negotiable Instruments. It covers Uniform Commercial Code articles 3, 4, and 5, concerning negotiable instruments, bank deposits and collections, regulation of other payment devices such as credit cards and electronic fund transfers, and letters of credit. Remedies - Although the Remedies class looks at legal, equitable and restitutionary remedies, the most important reason to take the class is that it is the only opportunity in law school to obtain a broad exposure to equity practice and the underlying doctrines of equity that apply to equitable remedies such as injunctions and specific performance. Knowledge of Remedies is important in all areas of practice. Prerequisites One factor students should consider in course selection is whether a desired course requires a prerequisite course. Prerequisites are listed at the end of course descriptions on the web site course descriptions. 7

8 COURSE PREREQUISITES COURSE PREREQUISITE PRIOR COMPLETION RECOMMENDED Administrative Law Constitutional Law I Admiralty and Maritime Law Civil Procedure I Adoption Family Law or concurrent enrollment Adv. Intellectual Property Sem. Intellectual Property Advanced Legal Research Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I and II Advanced Oil and Gas Oil and Gas Advanced Trial Advocacy Evidence and Trial Advocacy (or ITAP) All Electives 1st-yr required courses (may be waived by prof.) Antitrust Business Associations Arbitration Alternative Dispute Resolution Civil Procedure II Civil Procedure I Clinic: Advanced Litig. or Trans. Clinic: Litigation or Transactional Clinic: Litigation 60 hours completed, minimum 2.0 GPA, eligible to be certified as a Legal Intern, successful completion of Professional Responsibility, and co-requisite of Evidence (taken same semester) Clinic: Transactional 60 hours completed, minimum 2.0 GPA, eligible to be certified as a Legal Intern, successful completion of Professional Responsibility, and co-requisite of Business Associations Collaborative Law Family Law Mediation and Negotiation Commercial Leasing Property and Contracts Comparative Constitutional Law Constitutional Law I and II Compar. Con. Law Rights Comparative Family Law Family Law Complex Litigation Civil Procedure I and II Conflict of Laws Civil Procedure I and Constitutional Law I Constitutional History Constitutional Law I Constitutional Law I Constitutional Litigation Criminal Appeal Advocacy Criminal Law,, Evidence, and Professional Responsibility II Cross Examination Tech. Evidence and Trial Advocacy (or ITAP) Debtor-Creditor Relations Contracts Secured Transactions Decedents Estates and Trusts Property Dir. Res. Veterans Claims Administrative Law and Veterans Law Dir. Study in Complex Litigation Civil Procedure II and Prof. Responsibility Divorce Practice Family Law Drafting Contracts/Convey. Contracts and Property Elder Law First-year courses Election Law Environmental Law Administrative Law Estate Planning and Taxation Tax. of Indiv. Inc., Decedents Estates & Trusts Evidence Criminal Law, Torts, and Contracts Evolution of a Business Trans. Business Associations Externship I Completion of at least 28 credit hours of study. If required by the sponsor or the work expected of the student extern, certification as a Legal Intern under the KS Supreme Court Student Practice Rule must be obtained. Additionally, some placements may have other requirements. Externship II Externship I Family Law Seminar Family Law 8

9 COURSE PREREQUISITES COURSE PREREQUISITE PRIOR COMPLETION RECOMMENDED Farm Income Tax Plng. & Mgmt. Taxation of Individual Income Federal Courts Constitutional Law I and Civil Procedure I Financial Issues in Divorce Family Law Fundamentals of Oral Argument LARW II Fundamentals of U.S. Int l Tax Taxation of Individual Income Housing Law Property and Contracts Indep. Study in Oil & Gas Law Oil and Gas Law and Adv. Oil and Gas Law Intellectual Property Contracts ITAP Evidence (can be taken concurrently) Int l Civil Litigation in the U.S. Civil Procedure I Civil Procedure II International Human Rights Public International Law Int l Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Prop. Law, Global I.P. Enforce., Int l Bus. Trans., Public Int l Law, or Intl Law of Indigenous Peoples Jury Selection & Voir Dire Trial Advocacy or ITAP Juvenile Offender Kansas Legal Research LARW I and LARW II Law Journal Membership Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I Law Journal Editorial Board Law Journal Membership (may enroll concurrently) Law of Armed Conflict Public International Law LARW for the Govt. Client Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I and II Legal Writing Clerk/Extern Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I Litigation Strategies Evidence and Trial Advocacy Multistate Legal Analysis Student must be in last year of law school Mineral Title Examination Property Mining Law Property and Contracts Negotiation Alternative Dispute Resolution Non-Profit Organizations Business Associations Taxation of Individual Income Patent Law Intellectual Property Payment Systems Contracts Pretrial Advocacy Civil Civil Procedure II (or concurrent enrollment) Prof. Responsibility (or concurrent enrollment) Pretrial Advocacy Criminal Public Land Law Administrative Law Race and the Law (or concurrent enrollment) Real Estate Transactions Contracts and Property Specialized Legal Res. Legal Analysis, Research &Writing I and II Taking/Defending Depositions Evidence, and Trial Advocacy (or ITAP) Tax Policy Seminar Taxation of Individual Income Tax. by State & Local Govt. Taxation of Individual Income Tax of Business Enterprises Taxation of Individual Income Torts: Prod. Liability & Privacy Torts Trial Advocacy Evidence (or concurrent enrollment) Veterans Law Civil Procedure I Evidence and Administrative Law Water Rights Property White Collar Crime Workers Compensation Torts Writing for Law Practice Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I and II 9