117 courses with the subject JUDO J, 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.
This pass/fail course is intended to introduce students to the practical legal and cultural issues encountered when drafting and negotiating international agreements in the Asian context. A particular emphasis will be placed on negotiations involving American and Japanese parties through the examination of actual international commercial transactions. Students will have an opportunity to participate in the preparation of mock agreements and negotiations.
This seminar is available only to students with a sufficient level of Japanese language ability to enable them to participate in classes conducted in Japanese and to read primary source material in Japanese. Students are not required to write Kanji, but will have to read complex Japanese texts. A sufficient measure of language proficiency required is the ability to read Japanese newspaper articles, with or without using a dictionary. The course covers a variety of subjects including recent legal reforms in Japan. This course is taught in Japanese and is open only to non-native Japanese speaking students.
A survey of regulatory and transactional aspects of international finance, which is an area of increasing significance to all commercial lawyers. Topics will include an examination of banking and securities regulation in the United States, Japan and the European Union, major areas of international regulation and private ordering, derivatives, and international transactions such as syndicated loans and project finance.
This course deals with selected legal issues which affect persons active in various aspects of the international entertainment industry. Topics will include privacy rights, contract law, copyright law, and labor law which will be discussed in the context of the stages of development of an international entertainment project.
This course will primarily focus on federal courts and will include issues of jurisdiction, venue, forum non convenience and choice of applicable law (the "Erie doctrine"). Res judicata and collateral estoppel concepts with their preclusive effects as the result of prior litigation will also be introduced along with joinder and class actions.
A study of the process of lawmaking and law application by the executive departments and agencies of government and their control by the legislature and the courts. The primary emphasis is on the frequently competing goals of effective government, administrative discretion and fairness to affected parties. A part of the course is designed to give students insights into the allocation of law and policy making among executive, legislative and judicial branches. Another part focuses on administrative procedure and the various constitutional, statutory and common law underpinnings of such procedures.
Class Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classes: Second Year Law Prof, Third Year Law Prof, Fourth Year Law Prof, Law LLM.Level Registration Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law Graduate, Law.Course Attributes: ANONRepeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of U.S. contract law. Areas of principal focus include offer and acceptance, consideration, interpretation and construction, conditions, breach of contract and remedies therefore. Students will also study Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
This course is required of all non-American trained LL.M. candidates. It may be taken in either Tokyo or Philadelphia and should be completed as soon as possible after entering the program. In this course, legal research, writing and advocacy are explored. After introduction to the American legal system and basic research techniques (including on-line data bases such as Lexis/Nexis), problems are assigned and various methods are utilized to help students develop their writing and analytical skills. The objective of the program is to develop basic legal skills in an informal seminar atmosphere that allows maximum contact with the assigned instructor. There will be one or two Saturday morning library workshops. (American J.D. students are not permitted to enroll in this class.)
This basic U.S. law class is open to non-J.D. students. It explores the basic relationships in systems of ownership of personalty and realty, and the devices for transferring ownership are considered. Private and public planning, regulation of land use, the estate system and the new property theories are also examined.
The study of legal remedies in civil proceedings for interference by others with one's person, property and intangible interests. Historical and theoretical bases of the principal theories of tort liability are examined to develop an understanding of current law and a sensitivity to changing patterns of tort responsibility emerging from a dynamic society.
Examination of theory and operation of the main institutions and processes of the American legal system. Techniques of case and statutory analysis are featured, along with consideration of the impact of social, economic, historical and jurisprudential factors on the development of the law. Although judicial and legislative processes receive most attention, students are also introduced to the role and methods of administrative agencies.
With the globalization of business transactions, cross-border civil litigation has become common. This course will examine the international law that governs "foreign" relations between individuals or business entities, and will discuss the theory and practice of international civil dispute settlement. The issues it will cover include determining the proper forum, finding the applicable law, judicial assistance (e.g. service of process, discovery and foreign judgment enforcement), and litigation involving a foreign state. It will also discuss such important practical matters as how to draft a dispute settlement clause, how to meaningfully choose a forum and the applicable law to more effectively protect the client's interest, and how to address potential obstacles facing lawyers engaging in international practice.
This course is intended to provide the student from a non-common law background with an introduction to the basic concepts, structures and institutions of the American Legal System. Topics to be covered include: historical origins of the common law system; common law method; the structure of the United States government, Federal and State; the Constitution; judicial review, structure, organization and operations of courts in the United States, civil litigation, case analysis and precedent; the legislative branch: statutes and legislative history; and the executive branch: administrative law.
This course bridges the gap between contract theory and contract practice and offers practical insights into international contracts such as licenses, distributorships and joint ventures. The principal focus will be on the development of skills in drafting these types of contracts, although ancillary preparation exercises may also be undertaken.
This course critically examines the legal response to a variety of transborder and global environmental problems. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of legal norms in specific contexts such as protection of endangered species, nuclear accidents, ozone depletion and global climate change. The course will also examine legal principles regarding natural resource management and the relationship between trade and environment. Special attention will be given to the practice of Environmental Law in an Asian context.
This course will cover the broad outlines of the four major branches of intellectual property law - patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law - and will consider the following topics: obtaining rights by registration in the U.S. and other typical examination countries; exploitation of intellectual property rights with a focus on technology transfer including compulsory licensing, foreign ownership requirements in ventures and antitrust considerations; protection of rights with a focus on the difficulties of protecting intellectual property rights by litigation, policing property rights, preventing international distribution, international trade piracy, and gray market goods; and other topics as time permits.
Today's state of technology provides limitless possibilities to collect, analyze and exchange information globally. Cyberprivacy law aims to regulate the use of information that may identify an individual, so-called personal information, such as names, pictures, GPS location information, cookies and IP addresses. During this course we will discuss the rationale and ethics behind privacy regulations while defining what should constitute privacy from the perspective of consumers, technology innovators and the government. Even if global cyberprivacy regulations are desired by some stakeholders, laws tend to be limited to the national level. The European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adopted in the European Economic Area in 2016, has set a new standard in terms of protection of personal information that has been followed by many countries since. Analyzing the GDPR, students will learn about the European approach to personal information protection, data processing, and domestic and international data transfers. We will apply the newly acquired knowledge to practice in joint course exercises of daily tasks privacy lawyers face, including analyzing data flows from commercial websites, creating response protocols for data breaches and drafting a privacy policy. Once being familiar with the GDPR, students will have the opportunity to discover and compare other privacy law initiatives from around the globe in class.
Class Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classes: Second Year Law Prof, Third Year Law Prof, Fourth Year Law Prof, Law LLM.Level Registration Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law Graduate, Law.Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This interactive and participatory course is intended to provide a survey of the types of issues confronting lawyers, and particularly in-house lawyers, who advise multinational corporations on a worldwide basis. The areas to be discussed include topics that will cross corporate law, tax law, labor and employment law, employee benefits, litigation and corporate compliance. Real life examples will be used to illustrate the complicated nature yet importance of this type of practice. Further, in addition to the more substantive legal topics to be covered, the course will also be interspersed with practice tips, jurisdictional practice highlights and ethical considerations for the multinational practitioner. The success of the course depends highly on each class member coming to class prepared, and more important, on each class member participating in our discussions. Because of this, class participation will account for 30% of the final grade. The remaining 70% of a student's grade will be based on a final paper and presentation (weighted equally). Note: This course does not satisfy the graduation writing requirement.
As worldwide trade increases, the instances in which disputes cross national borders increase as well. This course introduces the types of issues private international lawyers encounter. Major features of international litigation will be considered, such as uses of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), jurisdictional and discovery questions, and enforcement of arbitration and forum selection clauses. Leading U.S. Supreme Court cases will be analyzed, as well as major treaties.
This course looks at formation, performance and enforcement of international contracts involving the sale of goods. The course focuses on the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and other sources of law. Students will compare provisions of the CISG with Article 2 of the UCC and with comparable commercial codes. The sale of goods in connection with distribution, license and joint venture agreements will be considered, and will explore how contracts doctrines apply in the international and comparative context.
This course will focus, in particular, on the history of banking regulation, the state/federal dichotomy, Dodd-Frank, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, financial institution compliance officer functions, and such core federal agencies as the FDIC, the SEC, the Federal Reserve, the Department of the Treasury, and the CFTC.
Comparison of forms of business organizations, promoting and organizing the business association, allocation of an accountability for management and control of the business organization, problems incident to corporate entity, proxies, and the derivative suit, the issues of shares, going concern and other asset distribution and organic changes are studied.
Class Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classes: Second Year Law Prof, Third Year Law Prof, Fourth Year Law Prof, Law LLM.Level Registration Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law Graduate, Law.Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
An examination of the rules governing the use of evidence, including problems of relevancy, hearsay, impeachment, burden of proof, presumptions and the function of judge and jury.
This course surveys the key areas of Japanese and U.S. immigration law, and provides students with a sound understanding of not only the law, but its application in practice in both Japan and the U.S. Cases and articles are used to illustrate the topics and issues that are relevant to both practicing lawyers and students of immigration law. The course will cover traditional areas such as political asylum and refugees, nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, as well as other issues in order to provide an insight into the practice of immigration law as performed in both Japan and the U.S.
Class Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classes: Second Year Law Prof, Third Year Law Prof, Fourth Year Law Prof, Law LLM.Level Registration Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law Graduate, Law.Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This course will introduce legal, business and policy aspects of international trade with a focus on U.S. trade law in the context of the WTO-GATT agreements. The class will consider tariffs and tariff negotiations, quotas, most favored nation clauses, domestic standards, industrial safeguards, export regulation, regional trading blocks, national treatment clauses, adjustment assistance, antidumping and countervailing duty law, international rules on intellectual property, trade services and other topics. The underlying goal of this course is to provide a rounded understanding of the interplay between national and international trade regulation and its impact on private international transactions.
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of international law. Areas of principal focus include the nature and sources of international law; treaties and customary international law; international dispute resolution; international organizations (including the United Nations, European Union, and the GATT); and the application of international law in United States courts.
The role of the family and its connection with the legal system is considered, including the law pertaining to marriage, annulment, divorce, support and maintenance of the wife, children and other relatives, separation agreements, child custody, guardianship, status of wife, business transactions, property rights of husband and wife and intervention of the legal system in family affairs.
This course covers fundamental concepts in taxation of international transactions, both inbound (taxation of income received by foreign individuals or entities residing within the state) and outbound (taxation of the foreign operations of a nation's citizens and corporations). The course will address questions of residence, jurisdiction to tax, source of income, foreign tax credits, tax treaties, transfer pricing, and the operations of controlled foreign subsidiaries of a corporation. These topics are covered with reference to the U.S. and Japanese tax regulations.
Important and contemporary problems in compensatory and punitive damages, equity and contempt, restitution, and declaratory judgments are studied from a functional and practice standpoint.
Class Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Classes: Second Year Law Prof, Third Year Law Prof, Fourth Year Law Prof, Law LLM.Level Registration Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Law Graduate, Law.Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
This limited enrollment course addresses selected legal subjects likely to be encountered upon entering the practice of law and will involve systematic study and assessment of those subjects.
Surveys the principal devices used in the transmission of accumulated family wealth, concentrating primarily on the requirements for creating, modifying and terminating wills and trusts. Also considers intestate succession, will substitutes and selected issues concerning future interests, powers of appointment and fiduciary administration. The course explores the often clashing policies of effectuating donative intent and restraining dead-hand control.
This seminar examines how political communities accept, reject, and expel individual members as citizens, and how citizenship law defines and reflects national identity. The course considers how citizenship is acquired at birth, and what requirements are imposed on naturalization applicants. It also considers in what circumstances the government can deprive an individual of citizenship; the special problems of dual nationality; historical racial and gender aspects of citizenship; the special context of terrorism; and the status of non-citizens and the extent to which they can be legally disadvantaged, as for instance with respect to public benefits and political participation. The course also considers the meaning of citizenship beyond the nation-state, including local, indigenous, regional, and global citizenship. The course will pursue critical perspectives on citizenship, drawing from constitutional, statutory, comparative, and international law sources.
This course will compare the U.S. and Japanese law on selected aspects of labor and employment law, including hiring/firing and promotion procedures and practices, the role of labor union, employer discretion in job assignments, equal opportunity in employment and sexual harassment.
This course provides an introduction to transactional work undertaken by international commercial attorneys. Primary areas of study include export sale and financing, the international transfer of technology, compliance issues, and relevant international trade law of the United States. Particular attention is given to the mitigation and avoidance of risks attendant to international transactions.
This course explores issues of international law, authority, and legitimacy regarding international organizations and their operations in the world community.
This course covers issues that arise when business organizations plan international structures. It will address such questions as selection of entity, financial and ownership structures, steps in the formation of different entities, the rights and duties of different stakeholders, tax issues related to the foregoing and related issues.
This course will examine how law and legal institutions shape economic, political and social development in both theory and practice. We will look at some key texts and debates to understand the theoretical foundations of the field. We will also look at development practice from a lawyer's perspective, drawing on examples from both developed and developing countries. These case studies will help us critically examine questions such as: Do urban slum residents have the same access to justice as their wealthier neighbors? Which corporate structures should a developing economy adopt? Do intellectual property rights form a barrier to improving public health? What is the rule of law and why are economists promoting it? The aim of the course is not to find definitive answers to development questions. Rather, students will be encouraged to think broadly and deeply about development and how law relates to it.
This course will examine issues relating to corporate governance and ownership, including the legal structure of business entities in the U.S. and other countries; the duties of directors; and the roles of shareholders and employees. The course may also cover issues relating to the role of investors in and regulators of publicly traded corporations.
This course will discuss the importance of corporate compliance and provide an overview of the legal and ethical considerations at play. The course will also explore relevant laws, examine emerging risks and provide an understanding of the design and implementation of compliance programs.
Civil rights and individual freedoms under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution are examined.
Increased globalization of commerce has substantially increased the risk of fines, sanctions and costly litigation resulting from the way and manner business is conducted around the world. Governments and various Unions have responded to globalization in varying degrees by enforcing existing laws, enacting new laws and regulatory requirements addressing competition, market manipulation, trade and corruption. Aside from costly fines levied against the Corporation, various legal regimes have begun to impose direct liability on directors, managers and third parties who have failed to implement and oversee reasonable compliance programs. These factors require a vigorous and ever changing compliance programs for corporations. A thorough understanding of compliance issues helps lawyers to craft creative and effective legal solutions for their clients. An excellent compliance program cannot only prevent problems, but also discover issues at an early stage and can be used to receive credit where a corporation runs afoul of a law.
Technology used in the legal field is rapidly changing. Being competent in the use of technology is no longer an optional skill. Many states, including Pennsylvania, now require some form of technological competence as part of the Rules of Professional Conduct. This course will give students the foundation needed to use the common technology encountered in legal practice including time keeping, privacy and security, creating and managing secure documents, presentation technology, media literacy, legal analytics, and artificial intelligence. In addition to learning how to understand and evaluate these technologies, students will also get hands-on experience using many of these technologies. Students will also learn how to identify and evaluate any ethical implications related to the use of legal technology.
In both the US and Japan, the corporation is the overwhelmingly dominant form of business entity. Moreover, given that a good deal the modern Japanese Company Law was derived from Illinois corporate law, it is not surprising that (on the surface at least), Japanese and US corporate law take similar approaches to many of the legal problems which accompany the characteristic fact of the modern corporation the separation of ownership and control. This course seeks to explore many of these doctrinal similarities, while also analyzing some of the differences in the application and enforcement thereof, within the larger context of Japanese and US business practice. It also hopes to elicit some lessons which the corporate law of each country may provide for lawyers and policy makers of the other.
This course will examine how law and policy affect, and are affected by, innovation and scientific/technological advancement. To understand the relationship between law, policy, and innovation, we will focus on several ways in which innovation, law and policy interact with one another. This course will begin by reviewing certain laws and policies that were developed to promote innovation and technological development. While this course will explore certain concepts revolving around biotechnology, genetics, and neuroscience, students do not need a background in science to take this course.
International Sports Law will examine sports law in an international and comparative context. Among the topics to be studied are the nature of global sports; professionalism versus amateurism; the business structure of team and individual sports; their regulatory oversight; labor relations and collective bargaining; cheating, including doping, the use of performance enhancing drugs, and match-fixing; international merchandising; and entities for dispute resolution. While students will explore several sports and legal environments, the primary vehicles for study will be the Olympics, FIFA, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and European and Asian professional basketball and baseball leagues.
This course explores the role of private fund investors in global financial markets today. This course will focus on hedge funds and two types of private equity investors: venture capital and buyout funds. We will discuss the structure of private funds and investment strategies of private funds. We will also gain an understanding of private fund transactions and will focus on venture capital transactions involving portfolio companies. We will also discuss the regulatory environment for private fund investors, including with respect to the Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and other relevant laws and regulations. We will discuss a number of other issues of current interest in the private fund arena, including issues related to diversity and inclusion and the role of pension fund investors in the private fund arena.
This seminar will consider the implications of the rapidly unfolding climate crisis for domestic and international law and policy. Can the Paris Agreement still play a meaningful role in shaping climate policy around the globe? How should an international agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions be structured to be both politically feasible and fair? Should such an agreement impose costly emissions reduction obligations on developing nations that are already struggling economically, when the problem has been primarily caused by those in the developed world? Who should pay the costs of adapting to those adverse effects of climate change that have already become inevitable - effects that are likely to fall most heavily on the developing world? What kinds of statutory and regulatory changes are needed at the federal, state and local level in order to accomplish the radical restructuring of the U.S. economy that will be necessary in order to shift energy production away from our current heavy reliance on fossil fuels? Should governments employ carbon taxes, cap-and-trade systems, or some other regulatory mechanism? How should the costs of transitioning to the new "green economy" be allocated? Should the poor receive subsidies to offset rising energy costs? In the absence of a unified regulatory approach at either the federal (U.S.) or international level, how have advocates already begun to use existing legal structures to try to force action on climate change? We will address these and other questions in the seminar with the help of readings drawn from books, white papers, scholarly articles, and court opinions.
This independent research offers students an opportunity to (1) satisfy the mandated writing requirement, (2) develop research, writing and analytical abilities through producing a single substantive research paper and (3) work with a faculty member in an area of the teacher's interest or expertise.
This writing seminar introduces students to the major principles of civil law systems and Japanese law in comparison with the common law system such as in the United States.
Guided Research offers students an opportunity to: Develop research, writing, and analytical abilities. Work with a faculty member in an area of the student's interest and the faculty member's expertise.
Guided Research offers students an opportunity to: Develop research, writing, and analytical abilities. Work with a faculty member in an area of the student's interest and the faculty member's expertise.
This course will compare selected aspects of criminal procedure in common law systems and in civil law systems. It will also examine specific aspects of American and Japanese criminal procedure. Topics to be investigated are arrest, detention, bail, search warrants, arrest warrants, the right to counsel, jury trial, confessions and guilty pleas.
This course will explore how law, including domestic and international law rules on cybercrime and international law rules applicable to cyber warfare, regulates cyberthreats. It will also analyze current debates over the appropriate forms of international governance of cyberspace and explore how law might be used to regulate the prospects of cyberterrorism.
This course bridges the gap between contract theory and contract practice and offers practical insights into international contracts such as licenses, distributorships and joint ventures. The focus will be on skills development in drafting these types of contracts. Enrollment is limited to LLM students.
This serial writing seminar will provide an introduction to international and domestic refugee law and policy.
This course will involve in-depth analysis of several major problems in the governance of large corporations, and the ways that power relations operate among the major constituencies of the modern corporation (shareholders, directors, officers, and other stakeholders). To give students a grounding in corporate governance, the course will initially focus on issues raised in the context of U.S. publicly-traded corporations, but as the semester progresses it will introduce particular governance problems and solutions presented in other legal systems.
This course is designed as an introduction to issues of law, policy and institutional machinery for the promotion of human rights in the world community. Are nations bound by human rights laws (such as treaties, customary international law, U.N. Charter, European Convention, etc.)? Are the courts of a nation so bound? Where there is violation of human rights law, when and under what circumstances may diplomatic intervention, economic sanctions or military force be used to redress wrongs or to cause compliance with human rights guarantees?
Most business organizations in the United States are no longer corporations, but unincorporated business associations such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, or limited liability corporations (LLCs). Entities including "mom and pop" stores, high-tech start-ups, and sophisticated investment funds use these business forms. This class examines these business entities, which every attorney engaged in a business practice needs to understand. After a review of agency law, the course will examine partnerships, limited partnerships (LPs), LLCs, and if time permits some less common unincorporated business forms.
This three-credit writing seminar will strive to be, as one noted American scholar recommends, "comparative in method" and "transnational in perspective." It will compare the laws and legal environments of Japan, the U.S., and the E.U, and it will review the materials and discuss the mechanisms for attempting to achieve global labor standards. In their research, students may choose to focus on one of the following components of an inchoate global labor law: international treaties and conventions, best practices, corporate voluntary codes of conduct, transnational labor unionism, and the role of social movements.
This course will study national security threats – those posed to the United States by state and non-state actors who target US civilians, personnel and interests with the aim of achieving political change – and examine the legal controversies raised in responding to these threats domestically and abroad. The course will be divided into two parts. Part One will examine legal controversies in constitutional law. This includes the scope of presidential powers in times of heightened national security threats and the separation of powers more broadly. We will also explore the tension between national security and individual liberties during times of crisis. Part Two will examine the legal controversies raised by irregular combat between the US and non-state actors internationally. We will study some of the most important and controversial legal issues triggered by the so-called 'war on terror.'
This course will examine how law and legal institutions shape economic, political and social development in both theory and practice. We will look at some key texts and debates to understand the theoretical foundations of the field. We will also look at development practice from a lawyer's perspective, drawing on examples from both developed and developing countries. These case studies will help us critically examine questions such as: Do urban slum residents have the same access to justice as their wealthier neighbors? Which corporate structures should a developing economy adopt? Do intellectual property rights form a barrier to improving public health? What is the rule of law and why are economists promoting it? The aim of the course is not to find definitive answers to development questions. Rather, students will be encouraged to think broadly and deeply about development and how law relates to it.
Source: Temple University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
