This seminar encourages critical thinking about history using both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in American constitutional history. 3N Seminar carefully critiques various theories of judicial review. The impact of theoretical models on the substance of constitutional interpretation also is considered. Using the Sherman and Clayton Acts as a basis, this course explores the economic and legal significance of such concepts as monopoly and oligopoly, price-fixing, boycotts, vertical integration, mergers and restrictive methods of distributions. An in-depth study of the Iowa and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, including rules from the different Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Course explores appellate motion practice such as interlocutory appeals and certiorari proceedings.
2N Seminar considers the legal and bioethical issues connected with human reproduction, death and the use of technology in health care. Also includes coverage of bioethical decision-making, including hospital ethics committees. An examination of partnership concepts with emphasis on the rights and obligations of partners and the formation, management and operation of corporations, especially closely held corporations. State corporation law and some federal securities acts and regulations are also studied. 2-3 A Course covers corporate financing and tax aspects of organizing closely held and publicly held corporations, distributing corporate assets to shareholders, and combining and dividing existing corporations.