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MASTER OF LAWS
MASTER OF LAWS
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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A graduate level program for the professional lawyer, law school graduate or jurist.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- 32 semester / 48 quarter credits
- Critical Analysis, Annotated Bibliography, Proposal and Thesis
- One or two years to complete all but a possible 9 credits
- 25%-50% concentration in core curriculum
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PREREQUISITES:
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- 60 semester/90 quarter credits
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Labor Law
Estate Planning
Insurance/Risk Management
Medicine and Law
Corporate Finance
Jurisprudence
Appellate Advocacy
Private and Public Sector Productivity Analysis
Administrative Law
Regulations of Banking
Clinical Program in the Administration of Criminal Justice |
COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 340
Title: Insurance/Risk Management
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advanced knowledge and understanding in insurance/risk management.
- Course Description: Recognition, evaluation, treatment of pure risk, emphasizing macroeconomic effects and microeconomic solutions. Discovery of risks; evaluation of present and potential impact on society and firm. Basic insurance contracts; life, property, casualty and surety. Claim control and loss prevention.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 341
Title: Appellate Advocacy
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will be able to analyze and articulate point-of-view.
- Course Description: One year skills course oriented towards the construction and designation of an appellate record, preparation of a brief and oral argumentation of a case on appeal. Also will be using trial techniques, laboratory experience in the presentation and introduction of evidence.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 342
Title: Medicine and Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will understand the areas where law and medicine intersect.
- Course Description: Concerns the areas in which law and medicine intersect, with special emphasis on protection of the patient's legal rights, medical malpractice, consent and respondeat superior.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 343
Title: Labor Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will research and study the historical development of labor laws.
- Course Description: Study of the labor injunction, the constitutional aspects of picketing and strikes, collective bargaining arbitration and dealings between unions and members with special attention given to the Sherman, Clayton, Norriss -- La Guardia and Taft-Hartley Acts.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 344
Title: Corporate Finance
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze and solve corporate finance problems.
- Course Description: Topics include raising and employment of company funds, corporate equity and debt structure, management of working capital, corporate cash flow and conservation of assets. Special consideration is given to the financial problems arising from corporate welfare programs.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 345
Title: Jurisprudence
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advance knowledge and understanding in jurisprudence.
- Course Description: Course considers the relationship between justice and law, with special attention to the problem of how judges should decide hard cases where the intent of the law is in doubt.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 346
Title: Private and Public Sector Productivity Analysis
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze contemporary problems in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Sources of productivity advance and the effects of productivity, gains on prices and costs in different sectors, market settings and organizations are studied. Measuring productivity, methods of improving productivity and implementing innovations in the private and public sectors are analyzed.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 347
Title: Estate Planning
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advanced knowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: The study of the use of life insurance, trusts, gifts, life estates, wills and business continuation agreements as they relate to business and personal financial affairs. It involves the legal, tax, financial and human factors surrounding the efficient transfer of property.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 348
Title: Administrative Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advanced knowledge and understanding of administrative law.
- Course Description: The powers exercised by administrative agencies, principles governing the exercise of those powers and the legal remedies of persons aggrieved by administrative action will be examined. California as well as federal administrative law will be treated.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Law and Legal Studies
1.2 Department: Law
1.3 Course Number: LLM 350
Title: Clinical Program in the Administration of Criminal Justice
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will exhibit advanced knowledge and understanding in this field.
- Course Description: The opportunity to gain practical experience working full or part time in a District Attorney's or Public Defender's Office in one of several surrounding counties for a minimum of 13 office office hours per week. Students enrolled in the program engage in the full range of activities associated with their specific office with emphasis on observation and participation in factual investigation, interviewing, counseling, negotiating, motion practice and trials under State Bar rules. Journals and seminar attendance are required.
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