Course Descriptions & Frequency
Course Descriptions & Frequency
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A-B C-D E-F G-K L-M N-Q R-S T-Z Selected Topics
Download a comprehensive list including all Course Descriptions (pdf) Updated 4/23/09
The list below indicates how frequently courses are expected to be offered. It is intended as a guide only. The School of Law does not guarantee that courses will actually be offered as frequently as indicated or in the semester listed.
- Click the Course Name for a complete description.
- (R) following the course name indicates required course.
- (*) Courses marked by an asterisk may be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
- Irregularly - Courses listed as taught irregularly will be offered when student interest and faculty availability warrant.
- Except for some skills classes, a class with enrollment of fewer than ten students is likely to be canceled.
- Changes may occur for other reasons, although reasonable efforts will be taken to avoid changes that unduly frustrate student expectations.
Courses (as of Fall 2009)
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
** May be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
| C-D (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered* |
| Cities & Towns, Law of Recommended: Constitutional Law I & II, Administrative Law |
3 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| Civil Procedure (R) | 4 |
Every Fall |
| Civil Rights Recommended: Constitutional Law I & II |
3 | Irregularly |
| Clinical Courses | Varies | Every Semester |
| Communications Skills Lab Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in Professional Responsibility |
1 | Every Spring |
| Community Property Prerequisite: Property |
2 | Every Semester |
| Comparative Civil Liberties | 2 | Irregularly Next: '09-'10 |
| Comparative Law | 2 | Every Other Year Next '09-'10 |
| Comparative Women's Rights | 3 | Irregularly |
| Conflict of Laws Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
2 | Annually |
| Constitutional Law I (R) | 3 | Annually Except: '09-'10 |
| Constitutional Law II (R) Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I |
3 | Every Semester |
| Consumer Law | 3 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| Contracts (R) | 4 | Every Spring |
| Corporations Prerequisite: Agency & Partnership |
3 | Every Spring |
| Criminal Law (R) | 3 | Every Spring |
| Criminal Procedure (R) Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I |
3 |
Spring or |
| 2 | Irregularly Next: '09-'10 |
|
| Directed Research (See Academic Rules 2-3F & 3-7) |
1-2 |
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
** May be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
| E-F (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered* |
| Education Law Recommended: Constitutional Law I & II, Administrative Law |
3 | Annually |
| Elder Law Prerequisite: Trust & Wills |
2 | Irregularly |
| Employment Discrimination Seminar | 3 | Irregularly Next: '09-'10 |
| Employment Law Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
3 | Annually |
| Environmental Dispute Resolution | 3 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| Environmental Law - NEPA, ESA, CAA, & CWA Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
3 | Annually |
| Environmental Law - Toxic & Hazardous Waste Control Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
2 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| Estate Planning Prerequisites: Taxation of Gifts & Estates |
2 | Every Spring |
| Ethical Issues in Representing Children** | 2 | Irregularly |
| Evidence (R) | 3 | Every Semester |
| Family Law Prerequisites: All first-year coursesRecommended: Constitutional Law II, Evidence |
3 |
Every Fall |
| Federal Indian Law | 3 | Every Fall |
| Federal Jurisdiction Prerequisite: Constitutional Law I |
3 | Annually |
| First Amendment Seminar* Recommended: Constitutional Law I & II |
2 | Irregularly |
| Foundations of Appellate Law Prerequisite: Legal Research & Writing IV, or equivalent Moot Court experience |
2 | Every Spring |
| Fundamentals of Health Care Law | 3 | Annually |
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
** May be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
| G-J (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered* |
| Gonzaga Journal of International Law Prerequisite: Vested Member or Board Member |
1-4 | Annually |
| Health Care Fraud & Abuse Seminar Prerequisites: All first-year classes, Fundamentals of Health Care Law, Administrative Law |
2 | Irregularly |
| Immigration Law | 3 | Every Fall |
| Insurance Law Prerequisites: Contracts, Torts |
3 | Every Fall |
| Intellectual Property Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
3 | Every Semester |
| Intellectual Property - Transactions and Licensing Prerequisite: Intellectual Property |
2 | Annually |
| International Business Transactions Prerequisite: CorporationsRecommended: International Law |
3 | Every Fall |
| International & Comparative Intellectual Property Law Prerequisite: Intellectual Property |
3 | Annually |
| International Cultural Heritage Law Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
2 | Irregularly |
| International Environmental Law | 3 | Annually |
| International Human Rights | 3 | Annually |
| International Law Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
3 | Every Fall |
| International Organizations Seminar Recommended: Prior course in international law |
2 | Irregularly |
| Jurisprudence** | 2 | Annually |
| Jurisprudence Reflecting Catholic Social Teaching | 2 | Irregularly |
| Justice and Society* | 3 | Every Other Year Next '09-'10 |
| Juvenile Law* | 2 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
| L-M (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered* |
| Labor Law I (Private Sector) Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
3 | Annually |
| Labor Law II (Public Sector) Prerequisite: Labor Law I |
2 | Irregularly |
| Landlord/Tenant Law Prerequisite: Property |
2 | Annually |
| Law Review - Editing Prerequisite: Membership in Law Review |
4-6 | |
| Legal History Seminar |
2 | Irregularly |
| Legal Research and Writing I & II (R) | 2 & 2 |
Every Fall |
| Legal Research and Writing III & IV (R) Prerequisites: Legal Research & Writing I & II |
1 & 1 |
Fall & Spring |
| Litigation & Dispute Resolution Skills Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in Evidence |
3 | Every Semester |
| Litigation Skills & Professionalism Lab | 2 | Every Fall |
| Media Law | 2 | Irregularly Next: '09-'10 |
| Mental Disability Law | 3 | Irregularly Next: '09-'10 |
| Moot Court Prerequisite: Permission of faculty coach |
2 |
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
** May be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
| N-P (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered* |
| Nonprofit Organizations Seminar* | 2 | Irregularly Next: '09-'10 |
| Oil and Gas Law | 3 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| Patent Prosecution and Litigation* Prerequisite: Intellectual Property |
2 | Annually |
| Payment Systems Prerequisite: Contracts Recommended: Sales (formerly UCC 2) |
3 | Every Other Year Next: '10-'11 |
| Perspectives on the Law (R) | 3 | Every Fall |
| Products Liability Prerequisite: TortsRecommended: Sales |
2 | Every Other Year Next: '10-'11 |
| Professional Responsibility (R) | 3 | Every Semester |
| Property (R) | 4 | Every Spring |
| Public Benefits Law | 3 | Every Other Year Next: '10-'11 |
| Public Lands Law | 3 | Every Other Year Next: '10-'11 |
| Public Policy Law for American Indians | 3 | First in Fall '10 Then Every Fall |
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
** May be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
| R-S (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered |
| Real Estate Transactions** Prerequisite: Property |
3 | Annually |
| Remedies | 2 | Annually |
| Sales Prerequisite: Contracts |
2 or 3 | Annually |
| Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition Prerequisite: Selection by faculty coach |
1 | Annually |
| Secured Transactions Prerequisite: Contracts, PropertyRecommended: Sales |
3 | Annually |
| Securities Regulation | 3 | Every Fall |
| Sports Law | 2 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| State Constitutional Law Prerequisite: State Constitutional Law I & II |
2 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
* Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
** May be taught more frequently than listed (either every year if listed as every other; or every semester if listed as taught during only one semester).
| T-Z (R indicates Required Course) |
Credits | Offered* |
| Taxation of Business Entities Prerequisite: Taxation of Individual Income |
3 | Annually |
| Taxation of Gifts and Estates | 2 | Every Fall |
| Taxation of Individual Income | 3 | Every Fall |
| Torts (R) | 4 | Every Fall |
| Transactional Skills & Professionalism Lab (R) | 2 | Every Spring |
| Trial Advocacy Prerequisite: Evidence |
3 | Every Semester |
| Trusts & Wills Prerequisites: All first-year courses |
3 | Annually |
| Trusts & Wills Skills Labs 1 & II Prerequisite: Completion of or Enrollment in Trusts & Wills |
1 |
Every Fall |
| Washington Practice Prerequisite: Must be third-year student |
3 | Every Spring |
| Water Law | 3 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| White-collar Crime Seminar | 2 | Irregularly |
| Women and The Law | 2 | Irregularly |
| Workers' Compensation Prerequisites: Evidence, Civil Procedure |
2 | Every Other Year Next: '09-'10 |
| Zoning and Land Use Regulation Prerequisite: Property |
3 | Every Spring |
*Course schedules are subject to change without notice.
Selected Topics
| Selected Topics | Credits | Offered* |
| Selected Topics: Animal Law Prerequisites: All first-year coursesRecommended: Wills & Trusts, Administrative Law, Environmental Law |
2 | Irregularly |
| Selected Topics: Comparative Mental Disability Law & Human Rights | 2 | Irregularly |
| Selected Topics: Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 Recommended: Federal Indian Law, Family Law |
2 | Irregularly |
| Selected Topics: Law of Sentencing & Corrections Prerequisite: Criminal Law Recommended: Criminal Procedure, Administrative Law |
2 | Irregularly |
