The course will be divided into three segments as follows: one week of on-line instruction; three weeks of live instruction at the Law School; three weeks of on-line instruction. There will be a take-home examination to be administered at the conclusion of the course in March. The course will be graded on a pass/fail basis. During the Spring 2010 semester, we will offer one section of International Legal Practice. The course will be divided into the following segments.

Part I -The on-line portion of the class will begin on January 22, 2010 and continue through February 6 and will resume after the live session on March 2. There will be a total of 2 hours of on-line instruction for a period of 4 weeks, some of it expected to be live discussion. Students will be expected to have access to the Internet at scheduled times. The on-line portion of the course will be taught by Christian Campbell.

Part II The live sessions will be taught at the Law School by Dennis Campbell on three successive weeks from Friday, February 12 through Saturday, February 27, 2010.

Classes will meet as follows:

Fridays, February 12, February 19 and February 26, 2010 5:00 - 8:00PM Saturdays, February 13, February 20, February 27, 2010 9:30AM - 1:00PM

Part III - The on-line portion will resume on March 6 and will continue through March 22.(no classes week of March 15, 2010 International Legal Practice will cover the basics of practicing law in an international context, i.e., the practicing lawyer's response to ever more frequent confrontation with foreign law issues.

In the on-line segment, students will study the basic structures of some foreign legal systems and the different roles of lawyers, including ethical and practical considerations and constraints when "foreign" counsel gives or receives instruction.

The second, third, and fourth week (in-class instruction) will focus on dispute resolution in a transnational context. The resolution of international litigation issues in U.S. courts, such as problems of jurisdiction, service, discovery, and enforcement of judgments, will be compared with the approaches and responses of non-U.S. judicial systems. Consideration will be given to the alternative of international commercial arbitration, and approaches of different legal systems toward forum selection and choice of law.

During the fifth to sixth weeks (the second on-line segment), students will become familiar with aspects of international business transactions through a combination of problems and discussions associated with different legal entities in other legal systems and the practicalities of import/export controls and tariffs, foreign agent and distributor issues, competition law, and efforts to address corruption in international business.

Elective Course   Meets International Law Concentration Requirements   LLM Course

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