In the fall semester, Law, Language and Ethics introduces students to the function of legal rules and concepts in the organizing of society. Drawing on the learning from a broad variety of fields including epistemology, ethics, semantic analysis, aesthetics, sociology and psychoanalysis, the course examines the underlying structure of legal argument and decision. Torts I explores the individual's obligation to refrain from harming others and studies the bases for compensating persons who suffer injuries - either by holding responsible whomever is at fault for the harm, or by invoking other principles of liability including the efficiency of resource allocation and spreading of losses. Procedure introduces students to the issues of what constitutes fair, adequate and efficient procedures in resolving legal disputes. Study focuses on the procedures outlined in Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Contracts studies the law regulating consensual arrangements entered into for commercial purposes.
It concerns such questions as what promises does and should the state enforce and what remedies are available when enforceable promises are breached. Significant attention is given to the moral, psychological and philosophical issues involved in ascribing criminal responsibility. The Legal Profession examines the functions of the lawyer in modern society, the history and organization of the legal profession as well as lawyers' conflicting duties. It also looks into the adversary system, equal access to justice and other problems of ethics and professional responsibility. Constitutional Law considers the delineation of spheres of responsibility between the judiciary and legislature, the nation and the state, and the government and the individual.