This course focuses on selected topics in legal studies and will vary from year to year according to student interest and faculty availability. Interns work at least ten hours a week, meet periodically with a supervising faculty member, do research on their field of employment, and prepare a substantive report on work experience and research. Approval required by a supervising faculty member and the department chair. Junior standing is required. Real property law, contracts, sales, assignments, insurance, and negotiable instruments are the topics of this course.
Senior standing is required.
The central questions in each approach center on the often conflicting desires to regulate and control or to foster and promote trade and economic development. A special feature of the course is the framing of analysis in terms of various disciplines of common law including agency, tort and contracts. This course offers analysis of the historical development of the financial structures underpinning the economic system of the United States. Special attention goes to the development and activities of capital markets and to the creation and use of the monetary system. Two other issues of central importance are the impact of technology on the development of alternative payment systems and the extremely tight regulatory environment that has come to characterize the financial services industry.