6 courses with the subject ABR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ABR 8000Comparative Criminal Trial Practice3
In Comparative Criminal Trial Practice: From the Classroom to the Courtroom – Barristers, Trial Lawyers, Judges, Jurors and Trials, students will work with British and US criminal trial lawyers and judges to explore the similarities and differences in the training of trial lawyers and judges. Students will analyze the practice, strategy and tactics of criminal trials from the British and US perspectives. The course will conclude in a jury trial during which the students will sit as jurors in a trial conducted by a British Barrister and a US trial lawyer. Topics include: • Regulating the law schools and the Inns of Court • Getting admitted the Practice of Law in the US and Britain • Trial practice, rules, strategies and tactics • How people are charged with crimes and the court process • Jurors • The Role of the prosecutor (Crown Council) and the defense attorney • The Role of judges • Decorum in the courtroom • Dressing for success: wigs and gowns • Getting paid
ABR 8005Comparative Immigration and AsylumLaw, Practice and Procedure3
In Comparative Immigration and Asylum Law: from persecution to protection, the course will provide an overview of temporary visa and permanent residence options available in the US and UK, including visa options created by trade treaties, that allow individuals to lawfully immigrate to the US and UK. The course will also provide an in depth overview of the asylum process in the US and UK, using a hypothetical scenario to illustrate differences between the two systems. For a majority of the course, students will have the opportunity to learn how an unaccompanied minor and a woman fleeing domestic violence would navigate the U.S. and U.K immigration systems and request asylum. Through a series of faculty-led discussions and small and large group exercises, students will examine the asylum process in both the U.S. and U.K. and legal protections in both countries for adults and children in asylum proceedings. Topics include: • Analyzing the legal definition of an “asylee” under the 1952 Refugee Convention; • Examining the persecution and hardship suffered by the client and conditions in the home country to evaluate if the client has a viable asylum claim; • Exploring legal protections afforded to unaccompanied minors seeking asylum; • Weighing alternative forms of relief in addition to asylum; • Preparing an asylum application; • Representing clients in affirmative and defensive requests for asylum
ABR 8010Comparative International Business Transactions3
Work alongside start-up business entrepreneurs located in the United States and England as they introduce an environmentally-friendly “eco-stove” that is great for camping and has sparked interest as an exciting tool to revolutionize development in third world countries. Advise the entrepreneurs on business, legal, and cross-cultural issues as they launch their business and explore global opportunities to supply the eco-stove in diverse regions of the world. In this simulation course, you will counsel, problem solve and negotiate on behalf of the start-up business entrepreneurs and address key issues including: Analyzing global business strategies Comparing opportunities and risks presented by the legal systems of the US and England Structuring business transactions Negotiating hot button provisions Drafting selected cross-border agreements Understanding cross-cultural elements of doing business deals Resolving legal, business and ethical issues
ABR 8035Conflict Resolution from ReligiousTraditions2
As a religiously, politically, and culturally diverse society, the people of Israel are searching for both traditional and new methods for resolving disputes that arise among individuals and communities. This course will explore traditional dispute resolution methods such as the Beth Din, Christian and Muslim courts, and Palestinian silha; the ways in which the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious traditions have shaped dispute resolution values; some of the major conflicts which face Israeli society today and the ways in which modern dispute resolution methods have been adapted to the cultures within Israel to resolve these conflicts.
Transitional justice – the emergence of a new justice-focused legal order following conflicts and massive underlying changes in political, social, and economic structures – could hardly be more timely or more important. Throughout the world, societies struggle to acknowledge historical truths, make just reparations and, through processes of reconciliation, find a way forward. This course will take our students into the heart of one such society, using Kosovo as a case study, and will examine and explore in depth the role of law in attempting to build a just society following the transition from Communism and the emergence of Kosovo as an independent republic following the Serbian-Kosovar wars of the previous decades. As a point of comparison, it will examine similar processes in the post-communist Czech Republic, post-apartheid South Africa and post-fascist Chile. It will also examine the same issues in post-Soviet Ukraine and discuss the prospects for the use of law as a means of reconciliation following the current war. We hope to use this course as a template for future courses focusing on transitional justice in other societies that have recently emerged from a conflict or period of repression of human rights. This course will have four main components: • The Theory of Transitional Justice • The Practice of Transitional Justice in Kosovo • Comparative Transitional Justice • The Prospects for Transitional Justice in Ukraine This is a HyFlex course that will meet at the listed times. We are planning for a portion of the students to participate in-person and a portion to participate remotely and synchronously.
