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ADVANCED IMMIGRATION LAW: IMMIGRATION LAW AND CRIMES SEMINAR |
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Course # 209 |
Units: 2 |
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Course will be a natural progression for students after they obtain the basics of immigration law. Provides students with a more sophisticated look at the issues raised in the basic course by covering such topics as immigration law and gender issues. Some prior basic knowledge of immigration law is encouraged but not required.
Certificate: International Law
Professor: Lynette Parker
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units, or grading options. |
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Course # 209 |
Units: 2 |
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Course will be a natural progression for students after they obtain the basics of immigration law. Provides students with a more sophisticated look at the issues raised in the basic course by covering such topics as immigration law and gender issues. Some prior basic knowledge of immigration law is encouraged but not required.
Certificate: International Law
Professor: Lynette Parker
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units, or grading options. |
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Course # 305 |
Units: 3 |
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Specific, most important, and acute problems of international law: issues recently on the program of the United Nations International Law Commission; recent cases of the International Court of Justice or other courts and tribunals; most important issues discussed by the doctrine; practical issues of international law. Issues include customary rule of international law; general principles of law; responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts; reservations to treaties; international liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law; unilateral acts of states; diplomatic protection; question of the protection and inviolability of diplomatic agents and other persons entitled to special protection under international law; legality of nuclear weapons; use of force in international relations (Kosovo, Afghanistan); issues relating to international terrorism; status of combatants; status of detainees in international armed conflict, and their protection in the course of criminal proceedings. Intellectual property international issues could be also included among the subjects for discussion. Basic knowledge of international law required. 215 International Law recommended.
Certificate: International Law
Professor: Jiri Toman
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH: FOREIGN, COMPARATIVE AND INT’L LEGAL RESEARCH |
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Course # 336 |
Units: 1 |
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Credit/No Credit. This course will familiarize students with primary and secondary sources in international law, primarily treaty research and the documents of international organizations and tribunals. It will also introduce students to researching the law of selected jurisdictions outside of the United States.
Certificate: International Law
Professor: Mary Sexton
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 219 |
Units: 2-3 |
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Survey of recent Chinese economic legislation with special emphasis on foreign trade and investment. Study of various legislative and practical considerations involved with doing business with China. Consideration of issues such as how specific legislation assists Chinese economic development and how these laws and regulations have an impact on foreign businesses.
Certificate: International Law
Professor: Anna Han
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 338 |
Units: 2 |
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Limited Enrollment. Seminar explores the concept of citizenship as a good that sovereignties distribute. Readings will focus on how nations choose to distribute citizenship, what citizenship entails, what it should entail, and what rights or privileges are or should be conditioned on citizenship. Class will involve significant student participation in the form of leading class discussions, and will require periodic two-page written responses to the reading materials. Course requires a substantial research paper as final assignment. Prior coursework in immigration law or comparative immigration law may be helpful, but is not necessary or required.
Certificate: International Law
Professor: Pratheepan Gulasekaram
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 339 |
Units: 3 |
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This course will focus on national and international institutional responses to the gravest environmental global threat this century and beyond. Topics to be covered include: an overview of climate change science and potential impacts of climate change, the primary international instruments to address climate change (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol); national responses to climate change, with an emphasis on the policies of the United States and the role of climate change litigation at the sub-national, national and international levels.
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 345 |
Units: 3 |
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This interdisciplinary policy course addresses selected issues in some government benefit programs, such as agricultural subsidies, Social Security, parental leave, and Medicare. To enlighten and enrich the discussions of the policy implications of these programs and proposed revisions of them, students will compare them to programs in foreign countries. This course may be of special interest to Public Interest and International Certificate students. Students will write a final paper and make interim policy reports.
Professor: Kandis Scott
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester- specific changes to the course description, units, or grading options. |
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Course # 438 |
Units: 2 - 3 |
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Examination of the history, structure, and institutions of civil law, common law, and socialist legal traditions. Although several class meetings and individual research examine substantive law, emphasis is on study of legal systems and traditions. Primary focus is private law (the equivalent of common law system's civil obligation) and some comparative constitutional law and criminal procedure.
Certificate: International Law
Professors: Kandis Scott Jiri Toman Markus Mueller-Chen
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 220 |
Units: 3 |
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Study of the problems that arise when the domiciles of the parties or other significant facts concerning a controversy are connected with states other than the state in which litigation occurs. Problems of jurisdiction of courts, choice of law, the effect of foreign judgments, and constitutional limitations.
Professor: Philip Jimenez
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units, or grading options. |
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Course # 221 |
Units: 3 |
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Focuses on the integration of Europe. Includes considerations of comparative federalism, with a focus on separation of powers among community institutions, the principle of "subsidiarity" and the lawmaking and enforcing process. Substantive areas, such as freedom of movement of persons and goods, environmental protection, and the rights of community citizens are also covered. Antitrust not covered. (3 units) Certificate: International Law
Professor: Jiri Toman
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 276 |
Units: 3 |
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(formerly Federal Taxation of Foreign Income and Foreign Transactions) The class will cover the federal income tax treatment of non-U.S. persons, non-U.S. income of U.S. citizens and residents, and international transactions. We will also discuss international consensus and formal agreements on matters of tax law. We will study the jurisdictional bases for U.S. tax, the source of income and allocation of deductions, different rules applicable to business and non-business income, and the foreign tax credit. We will also consider the U.S. approach to taxing international transactions involving related and unrelated taxpayers, including the problem of transfer pricing and the concept of the controlled foreign corporation. Prerequisite: 270 Federal Personal Income Taxation.
Certificate: International Law
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 247 |
Units: 2 |
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With the dramatic end to the Cold War almost a decade ago, the world's attention has expanded to include concerns centered on politics and national security to the impact of global finance, trade and investment. A new concept has emerged in this period--globalization--which some argue is an accurate way to describe the massive changes underway in the international economy. Others disagree, arguing that the more things change the more they remain the same--that today's issues among nations continue to reflect longstanding differences. The debate is not simply academic but goes to the heart of policy choices being made by millions of people in every region of the globe. The questions raised by globalization are particularly acute for those countries attempting to break away from older state-centered patterns of political and economic organization. From the former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union to many of the developing countries of Latin America, the Middle East and Asia efforts are underway to support new ways of doing business that look, on the surface at least, like American-style capitalism. But the legal institutions necessary to make this effort a success are, as yet, immature and underdeveloped. The risks and uncertainties that this process entails are complicated but represent an exiting challenge for legal scholars and policy makers. This seminar will discuss the major points of view in the globalization debate and explore the role that law plays in solving the problems raised by the new era. Each semester we concentrate on one particular issue- set of significance, such as corporate governance or international labor issues. Students will read both theory and examine case studies. Student-led discussion and research paper will be required. Limited enrollment.
Certificate: International Law
Professors: Stephen Diamond
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 347 |
Units: 3 |
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This course will introduce students to the myriad of practical, ethical and legal issues human rights lawyers face advocating in domestic, regional and international contexts. The course will include class discussion, examination of actual and hypothetical field scenarios, and simulation exercises. Professional Skills course. Prerequisite: International Human Rights, or an SCU summer program in Strasbourg or Costa Rica, or approval by the instructor.
Certificate: International Law
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 538 |
Units: 2 |
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This course gives students an opportunity to enhance their advocacy skills through representation of individual clients in immigration cases pending before the United States court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Students will represent clients under the Ninth Circuit's Pro Bono Program, which appoints counsel for certain applicants appearing pro se before the Court. Cases selected for the Pro Bono Program present issues of first impression complex issues of fact or law, or meritorious claims warranting further briefing. The Ninth Circuit's Pro Bono Coordinator has requested that Santa Clara University School of Law participate in the Pro Bono Program. Public Interest and Social Justice Law Certificate course. (2 units).
Professor: Evangeline Abriel
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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Course # 212 |
Units: 3 |
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Examination of the Department of Justice, State Department, and Labor Department as they affect immigration and naturalization. Immigrant and non-immigrant visa problems; the exclusion, deportation, and naturalization processes.
Certificate: International Law
Professors: Pratheepan Gulasekaram Lynette Parker
Students should also check the current course schedule to view any semester-specific changes to the course description, units or grading options. |
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