Coverage includes the legal principles of the patent right, its acquisition and enforcement, and property and contract rights therein. The course will also cover the basic requirements for trademark registrations and the elementary rules relating to copyright. An introduction to the nature and sources of international human rights law, focusing on United Nations human rights treaties and implementing bodies. Given the increasing commerce between the United States and Europe, litigation between parties from those areas is increasingly common. In addition to giving substantive content on these topics, the course will provide the opportunity for a comparative examination of these important aspects of the litigation systems in the United States and Western Europe.
Breakfast is provided every day, including weekends.
To participate in any of these programs, law students must have completed 30 hours at the end of Spring Semester 2001 and be in good academic standing as determined by their home institution.