IMPORTANT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FOR SCHEDULING (Spring 2016)
The following course descriptions reflect changes that will affect your scheduling. A couple
are new courses or course descriptions while others are courses resurrected from previous
Bulletins that will now be offered on the menu of required courses for the rising 2Ls.
246. Advanced Legal Analysis. 2 Cr.
Advanced Legal Analysis focuses on improving written legal analysis without the necessity of
learning new substantive law. To this end, students in Advanced Legal Analysis spend the entire
semester working on closed universe writing assignments for which students must read fact patterns
and legal authority in order to produce a memo, letter, brief, or other written work product. This
course is designed to improve students’ ability to read and analyze a problem, analyze and synthesize
sources of law, apply the rules to the relevant facts, and communicate effectively in writing. This
course will also help students identify and practice essential test-taking strategies and skills,
specifically those skills needed for taking the Multistate Performance Test on the bar. (The MPT is a
required part of the bar exam in many jurisdictions, including Indiana and Illinois.) For Academic
Year 2016-2017 only: This course is required of all 2L students whose CGPA is in the bottom
half of the class at the end of the 1L year and before transfers. It is not available to any other
students.
324. Bar Exam Substance & Strategies I. Cr. 3 (Fall)
This course is a combination of Law 323 MBE Strategies, Law 655 Advanced Legal Studies, and the
Selected Topics (Property, Contracts & Fed. Civ. Pro.) courses. In this course, students will
experience intensive bar preparation on both the substance of most of the MBE topics as well as
essay writing experiences in topics that are heavily tested in both the MEE and state-specific essay
questions. For Academic Year 2016-2017 only: This course (in conjunction with Law 325) is
MANDATORY FOR all 3Ls, with the exception for those in the top 25% of the class, who
may petition for an exemption.
325. Bar Exam Substance & Strategies II. Cr. 3 (Spring)
This course is a combination of Law 323 MBE Strategies, Law 655 Advanced Legal Studies, and the
Selected Topics (Property, Contracts & Fed. Civ. Pro.) courses. In this course, students will
experience intensive bar preparation on both the substance of most of the MBE topics as well as
essay writing experiences in topics that are heavily tested in both the MEE and state-specific essay
questions. For Academic Year 2016-2017 only: This course (in conjunction with Law 324) is
MANDATORY FOR all 3Ls, with the exception for those in the top 25% of the class, who
may petition for an exemption.
402. UCC: Sales. Cr. 2
This course is devoted to the law of Sales as governed by Article II of the Uniform Commercial
Code.
407. UCC: Payment & Credit Systems. Cr. 2
This course will cover Articles 3, 4, and selected portions of Articles 4A and 8 of the Uniform
Commercial Code, as well as other statutes regulating the payment and credit systems. Topics
covered include paper check and electronic payments, wire transfers, notes, credit enhancement,
negotiability and securitization.
411. Debtors' Protection and Creditors' Rights. Cr. 2 or 3*
The legal positions of the creditor and debtor regarding secured and unsecured transactions and
their legal and equitable remedies, with particular emphasis on the provisions of the 1978
Bankruptcy Code, as amended. Coverage includes: collection by execution; provisional remedies;
proceedings in aid of execution; creditors' bills; exemptions; liability for tortious collection
proceedings; fraudulent conveyances; creditors; receiverships; history and current operation of
bankruptcy legislation in the United States; assets of the bankruptcy estate and the automatic stay;
the avoiding powers of the trustee in bankruptcy; debtors' avoidance and redemption powers;
administration, liquidation and distribution in bankruptcy; reorganization proceedings under Chapter
11 of the Bankruptcy Code; and debt rehabilitation under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code.
[*For academic year 2016-2017, this course will be 3 credits and will fulfill the menu requirements
for both 2Ls (Debtor-Creditor Law) & 3Ls (Bankruptcy). You will NOT get credit for taking both
this course and Bankruptcy).]
466. Conflict of Laws. Cr. 2
Analysis of the problems that arise when the facts of a case are connected with more than a single
sovereign jurisdiction, domestic or foreign. Both traditional and modern choice of law approaches
are considered. Also addressed are the issues of jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of
judgments.
473. Criminal Procedure. Cr.4†
This course focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments and covers search and seizure,
confessions and interrogations, and the procedural and constitutional issues that arise after the
commencement of formal criminal proceedings, such as double jeopardy; forfeiture; ineffective
assistance of counsel; one’s right to counsel; sentencing issues; and the trial proceedings. This
course is strongly recommended for those anticipating litigation, competition, clinical programs,
externships, and the bar exam. Pre- or co-requisite to: Prosecutor's Office Externships.
[†This course combines and replaces Law 467 and Law 468. Students who have taken either Law
467 or Law 468 may not take this course.]