Enrollment limited by instructor. Review of litigation strategies to address systemic violations of housing rights, such as racial and other forms of discrimination in the provision of shelter, housing, and neighborhood revitalization. Enrollment is limited. Emphasis on federal income, estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxation. Problem assignments address probate avoidance, interspousal transfers, jointly owned assets, transfers to minors, irrevocable trusts, closely held family and business interests, post-mortem estate planning, retirement planning, and charitable giving.
Enrollment is limited.
Cahn Survey of family law, including statutory law of domestic relations and constitutional restraint on state regulation of the family. The course draws on historical and interdisciplinary materials and involves discussion of public policy issues as well as current law. Ross Examination of the allocation of power and responsibility among parent, child, and state. Topics include freedoms under the First Amendment, education, health care including procreation, child abuse and neglect, custody, adoption, and juvenile delinquency. Enrollment is limited.