After course requirements are met, students are encouraged to select from a wide range of electives. Selected courses are recommended for specific professional goals and meeting bar requirements in some states.
Counseling is provided.
Units vary from 1 to 4. Elective courses may be offered as seminars. This is a survey course of the basic principles of admiralty and mari time jurisdictions, including substantive law areas of carriage of goods, maritime liens, charter parties, collision, general average, salvage, seamen and maritime worker rights, and liability limitations. This course explores the United States government s formation through Madison s records of the proceedings at the convention of 1787, and other primary sources. The significance of the constitutional language and the convention's anticipation of subsequent political and legal issues will be discussed.