| source University of Washington (X) |
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department Law (X) |
Understanding the legal system, its functions in the social-economic order, legal reasoning, and the world of legal education and the legal profession. Open to nonlaw students only.
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Examines pre-trial rights of persons suspected or accused of crime, primarily those rights covered by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
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Skills course designed to introduce process and problems of negotiating and drafting international agreements. Client interviewing and counseling and negotiation and drafting of a contract between parties in the United States and Japan. Credit/no credit only. Open to nonlaw students only.
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Introduces the basic legal issues raised by networked digital technologies, such as the Internet. Covers jurisdiction, speech, privacy/access, propriety rights (copyrights, domain names), emerging law, leading policy debates, as well as fundamental Internet technical skills. Offered: S.
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Examination of the major legal tools available to shape the urban environment by controlling the use of land. Considers zoning, subdivision controls, urban renewal, private land-use restrictions, and the rules of nuisance law. Credit/no credit only. Open to law and nonlaw students.
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The system of law and its functions rather than substantive law pertaining to any particular subject or discipline. Open only to nonlaw students. Credit/no credit only.
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Examines the relationships between the Constitution of the United States and the American system of public education, excluding higher education, in areas of constitutional freedom and legal controls, racial desegregation, and equal educational opportunity, including equal financing of the public schools. Credit/no credit only. Offered: jointly with EDLPS 444.
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Significant themes in American constitutional law. Doctrine of judicial review, application of the Bill of Rights to the states, Supreme Court's recognition of fundamental rights, the Equal Protection clause, the Religion clauses, freedom of speech, and Presidential powers. Open to law and nonlaw students.
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Examination of modern critical legal thought and critics views regarding proposed alternative forms of social ordering.
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Relationship between Indians and the United States from 1789 to the present. Significant constitutional, legislative, and judicial actions. Legal events explored within their political, military, social, and cultural contexts. Comparisons with other minority-group experiences. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 416.
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Consideration of international control of national trade policies and permissible transnational reach of national trade or other regulation The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the international monetary system examined from legal and economic perspective. Examination and comparison of prescriptive jurisdiction to public international law.
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An examination of literary and cinematic portrayals of and issues important to law, lawyers, and the legal system. Considers both portrayals purporting to depict the legal system as well as works envisioning lawyers and the legal system in a "better world.".
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Survey of principal areas of law of special concern to aging population, considering health care and health care decision-making, public and private income maintenance programs, taxation, guardianships, conservatorships and other methods of protecting the property of the elderly, counseling, and professional responsibility.
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Score: 9.383665 Details | Listing | Web page
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Score: 9.383665 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 9.383665 Details | Listing | Web page
Addresses a number of fundamental income tax concepts, including the computation of individual tax liability, statutory exclusions, deductions, and gains. Also deals with issues related to character and timing.
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Orientation to core concepts of tax practice, including administrative structure and nature of tax law, nuances of statutory interpretation, and the relative authority of statutory, administrative, and judicial sources. Includes overview of print and online tools for federal tax research.
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Examines the theoretical and policy considerations applied in assessing existing and proposed federal tax regimes. Topics include: the nature of the income tax as a tax on saving and consumption; consumption taxes as alternatives to taxes on income; tax policy and charitable giving; taxes and the poor; and more.
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