The development, application and enforcement of laws. This is a graduate seminar and elective course in the MPA program. The course will introduce students with no previous legal background to selected major pieces of federal environmental legislation. This course examines the basic legal principles as they apply to the courts and the judicial process, torts, and contractual relationships. This course provides a general introduction to law, including courts, legal terminology, procedures, systems, and laws of society.
Emphasis is on ethics and the role of the paralegal in the legal system.
A course in the basic tenets and principals of law including legal system, torts, contracts and liability. An introduction to the U.S. constitutional, legal, and political systems, focusing on the national government and national politics. This course examines the basic resources, techniques and philosophy of finding the law applicable to legal disputes. The methods of finding primary, secondary and search materials including cases and regulations are essential. This course is an introduction to the legal research process and legal writing.