Next Semester Schedule

The schedule for next semester was finally released this week. So my friends and I have been pouring over it, trying to decide what classes we need to take and which ones we simply want to take. Generally speaking, there’s a long list of classes that need to be taken either to graduate or to pass the bar exam following graduation. Registration will be next week, with 3Ls registering probably registering either Monday or Tuesday and 2Ls registering a day later. As for me, here’s a picture of the schedule I’d like:

Agency, Evidence, and Secured Transactions are all bar courses. Lawyering Skills is required to graduate so Anti-Trust is my only class that’s not a bar course or required to graduate. In terms of what those classes are about, I’ve put the course descriptions below. The two that may be hard to get into are Evidence and Anti-Trust. They’re both taught with a very popular professor. It may also be interesting to get into lawyering skills, as lawyering skills is limited to just 16 people (there are other sections of the class available as well, but they are either at really bad times or during one of my other proposed classes).

Agency: A study of the fundamental legal relationships for carrying on activities through other individuals or entities acting in a representative capacity, with particular emphasis on the fiduciary nature of agency relationships. The study of general agency principles is followed by an introduction to various forms of unincorporated business associations, including general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.

Anti-Trust: So titled because "trusts" once were used to destroy business competition, U.S. antitrust laws are intended to ensure that the American market economy functions in a competitive manner and for the benefit of consumers. This course will analyze the statutes which provide the basis for U.S. competition law as well as a number of administrative agency interpretations which constitute the most important policies of antitrust enforcement. The substance of the course will encompass horizontal restraints between competitors (price fixing, group boycotts, bid rigging, etc.), vertical restraints involving multiple actors in a chain of distribution, the abuse of monopoly power by single firms, the standards of judicial and administrative review for mergers and acquisitions, and the judicially imposed limitations on private enforcement. The majority of the course will focus on U.S. law although some international and comparative aspects will be considered. No prior knowledge of economics is required.

Evidence: Examines the rules controlling the presentation of information offered as evidence at trials. Common law rules, their exceptions, statutory modifications, and problems of proof.

Lawyering Skills: An introduction to the skills and techniques essential to the pretrial phase of a civil or criminal lawsuit. The course involves simulated experiences, with extensive reliance on role-playing and videotaping to provide immediacy of experience and direct feedback. Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Secured Transactions: The law relating to the creation of security interests in personal property, as codified in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. (Best example of a secured transaction is a car loan or a mortgage – you take out a loan from a bank to buy a car or house & fail to pay back the loan, the bank can take the car or house to sell it and pay back the loan from the proceeds of the sale).

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