This course provides the foundation for Law 336. As junior associates in various hypothetical law firms or offices, students represent their assigned clients, with all interactions based on actual situations and often incorporating recent or ongoing cases of major significance. All levels of judicial, administrative, and legislative activity are involved. 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.