Syllabi
Click the links below for syllabi of LL.M. courses offered during Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. These syllabi are provided to give you a general understanding of what is covered in each course beyond the course descriptions. Please note that these syllabi are not for the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 semesters and will not be updated throughout the academic year.
- Advanced Individual Income Tax (Kirk)
- Advanced International Commercial Arbitration Practice Seminar (Joelson and Bowker)
- Advanced International Taxation (Wilder and Milner)
- Advanced Issues in International Human Rights Seminar (Cerna)
- Advanced Online Legal Research (Ryan)
- Advanced Partnership Taxation (Huffman Bowers and Crnkovich)
- Advanced Topics in International Arbitration (Bigge and Galindo)
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Law (Crockin)
- Basic Accounting Concepts for Lawyers (Pham and Holmes)
- Biosecurity and the Law (Zucker)
- Comparative Corporate Governance (Magnier)
- Comparative Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Tourism (Crockin)
- Comparative Tax Law (Smiley)
- Complex Derivative Transactions Structure and Usage (Doyle Ritter and Buffa)
- Consolidated Returns Principles and Planning (Pari and Collins)
- Corporate Controls Compliance and Governance (Hamm)
- Corporate Income Tax I (Decker and Zywan)
- Corporate Income Tax Law I (Brady and Levine)
- Corporate Income Tax Law I (Keyes)
- Corporate Income Tax Law I (Smiley)
- Corporate Income Tax Law II (Eisenberg and Schneider)
- Corporate Income Tax Law II (Howard)
- Corporate Income Tax Law II (Solomon and Williams)
- Cross-Border Commercial Regulation Aviation and Maritime Law (Dean and Mendelsohn)
- Cross-Border Tax Controversy Workshop (Majure and Dicker)
- Cross-Border Transactions in Latin America (Noyola)
- Cultural Ethical Strategic Other Aspects of International Business Agreements (Bramson and Bramson)
- Current Issues in Employee Benefits Seminar (Serron)
- Cyber Conflict Cyber Defense and Internet Freedom (Edgar)
- Detention Trial and Lethal Targeting in a Post 911 World (Daskal)
- Developing and Financing Infrastructure Projects (Cohen and Glaser)
- Disclosure Under the Federal Securities Laws (Garnett and Tsacoumis and Van Alstyne)
- Dispute Resolution Under International Trade and Investment Agreements (Grane and van den Broek)
- Domestic Preparedness Law Policy and National Security (A Cohn)
- Drafting Partnership and LLC Agreements (Schneider and OConnor)
- Employee Benefits and Executive Pay Securities Tax and Corporate Governance (Poerio and Borges)
- Employment Discrimination Supreme Court Jurisprudence (Vail and Lopez)
- Energy Trading and Market Regulation I (Higgins and Massey)
- Energy Trading and Market Regulation II (Higgins)
- English for International Lawyers (Schaetzel and Han and Anderson)
- English for International Lawyers (Schaetzel)
- Epidemiology for Lawyers (Kraemer)
- ERISA Avoiding and Managing Employee Benefits Litigation (Eickelberg)
- ERISA Plan Termination and Withdrawal Liability (Paliga and Eggeman)
- ERISA The Fiduciary Provisions (Pickle)
- Estate and Gift Tax (Beckwith and Sega)
- Executive Compensation Cash and Equity Based Incentives (Elinsky)
- Executive Pay and Loyalty From Design to Enforcement (Poerio)
- Federal Limitations on State and Local Taxation (Capino and Tatarowicz)
- Federal Taxation of Bankruptcy and Workouts (Beard and Liquerman)
- Financial Derivatives Taxation (Bedell and Cubeta)
- Financial Products in a New Regulatory Environment (Ambler)
- Financial Reporting and Accounting (Khinda and Estabrook)
- Foreign Relations Law (Stewart and Feldman)
- Fraud and Fiduciary Duties under the Federal Securities Laws (Mills and Maletta)
- Futures Regulation and the Commodity Exchange Act (Cela Architzel and Corcoran)
- Global Communications Policy and Regulation (Manner and Warren)
- Global Competition Law and Policy (Graubert)
- Global Cybercrime Law (Rusch)
- Global Indirect Tax The VAT (Durner and Gillis)
- Global Securities Offerings (Rosenthall and Vasily)
- Health and Welfare Benefit Plans Tax and ERISA Aspects (Moran)
- Health and Welfare Plans The Essential Concepts and Emerging Issues (Davis and LaGarde)
- Health Information Technology and the Law (Geetter)
- Hedge Funds Private Equity Funds and Other Similar Investment Vehicles (Silk and Barbash)
- Human Rights and the Inter-American System (Banfi Vique and Canton)
- Implementation of Financial Market Reform Legislation (Doyle Ritter and Buffa)
- Income Tax Accounting (Jones and Carlton)
- Income Tax Accounting (Rabinowitz)
- Income Taxation of Trusts Estates and Beneficiaries (Beckwith Hood and Kirk)
- Intelligence Reform and the Modern Intelligence Community (Cordero and Stone)
- International Assistance for Global Health (Ooms)
- International Banking in the United States (Bellini)
- International Bankruptcy (Goldowitz)
- International Business Litigation and Federal Practice (Paz and Benitez)
- International Business Transactions (Kantor)
- International Civil Litigation and Federal Practice (Gresser)
- International Commercial Arbitration (Ali and Walter)
- International Commercial Arbitration (Polebaum)
- International Commercial Arbitration (Strong)
- International Courts and Tribunals An Introduction (Sharpe)
- International Criminal Law (Stewart and Chaban)
- International Debt Workouts (Rechden)
- International Human Rights Law (Brancato)
- International Law and Covert Operations (Zirkle)
- International Law Human Rights and Fighting Impunity Fighting War Crimes and Economic Crimes (Vlasic)
- International Negotiations Seminar (Greenberg and Bleicher)
- International Project Finance (Hansen and Alcala)
- International Project Finance (Jenney)
- International Project Finance and Investment (Wiss and Khairallah)
- International Protection of Intellectual Property Through the WTO (Dinan)
- International Trade and Health (McGrady)
- International Trade Development and the Common Good (Kuhlmann)
- International Trade Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health (Watal)
- International Trade Remedies and the WTO (Ettinger and Trossevin)
- International Trafficking in Persons (Mattar and Lederer)
- International Transitional Justice (Rettig and Sheth)
- International White Collar Crime (Sierck and Srere)
- International Womens Human Rights Seminar (Sabahi and Taylor)
- Intersection of National Security and Race in a Post 9-11 America (Huskey)
- Introduction to Contracts (Feinerman)
- Introduction to Employee Benefits Law (Eickelberg Elinsky Goldowitz Lauber Moran Paliga and Wagner)
- Introduction to Transfer Pricing (Magee and Sharon and Stark)
- Introduction to US Constitutional Law (Lenhart and Pemberton)
- Introduction to US Legal Systems (Cedrone)
- Investor-State Dispute Settlement (Wallace and Bravin and Sabahi)
- Islamic Finance Law (Vogel)
- Japan US Comparative Legal Systems (Goodman)
- Joint Ventures Involving Non-Profits and For-Profits (Sanders)
- Law and Foreign Investment in China (Barale)
- Law and Healthy Lifestyles (Magnusson)
- Law and Measures Against International Terrorism (Huntley)
- Law of War Seminar (Schoettler)
- Law Politics and Policy in WTO and US Trade Law (Hecht and Keeler)
- LAWA Graduate Seminar (Morrison)
- Legal Politics (Tramontano)
- Litigation of Individual Income Tax Issues Workshop (Panuthos and Pomerance)
- Litigation Practice in International Arbitration (Kalicki Kantor and Silberman)
- Logic and the Law Taxation Rhetoric and Legal Argumentation (Levy)
- Mental Disorders in International and Human Rights Law (Farrell)
- National Security and the Law of the Sea (Hipfel and Oliver)
- National Security Investigations and Litigation (Demers and Wainstein)
- National Security Law (Moore)
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law and Policy Preventing Nuclear Terrorism (Jonas)
- Pre-Negotiation Strategies for Cross-Border Transactions (Turkmani)
- Presentation Skills for International Lawyers (Pessey)
- Private Equity and Hedge Funds Taxation and Transactions (Sher Sloan Duncan and Crnkovich)
- Professional Responsibility Law in the United States (Cohn)
- Public Finance Tax and Securities Aspects (Kintzinger and Sanchez)
- Public Health and International Investment Law (McGrady and Jacinto)
- Regulated Money Management Mutual Funds and Investment Advisers (Barbash and Berman)
- Regulation of International Securities Markets (Saulski and Tafara)
- Regulation of OTC Derivatives (Sethi)
- Representing Corporations in Cross-Border Investigations and Enforcement Actions (Sokenu)
- Restorative Justice In International Human Rights A New Paradigm (Fraser)
- Rethinking Securities Regulations and the Role of the SEC (Bondi)
- Retirement Plan Qualification Requirements (Cohen)
- Retirement Plans - Design and Taxation (Evans and Green)
- Retirement Plans Design and Taxation (Elinsky and Mong)
- S Corporations and Limited Liability Companies Tax and Business Issues (Starr and Charnas)
- SEC Enforcement and Litigation (Dorfman and Radke)
- SEC Regulation of Financial Institutions and the Securities Markets (Norman and Paz)
- Securities Regulation (McTiernan and Summer)
- Special Topics in State and Local Taxation (Levine and Lipinski Galland)
- State and Local Taxation Income and Franchise Taxes (Evans and Friedman)
- State and Local Taxation Other Business Taxes (Tatarowicz)
- State and Local Taxation Sales and Use Taxes (Griswold and Nagel)
- Takeovers Mergers and Acquisitions (Duchovny and Gilligan)
- Tax Fraud and Tax Crimes (Finley and Ellinwood and Wszalek)
- Tax Lawyering and Professional Responsibility in Federal Tax Practice (Mendelson and Baillif)
- Tax Penalties and Tax Opinions (Greaves and Marshall)
- Tax Planning for Corporate Acquisitions Seminar (Barrie)
- Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions Seminar (Masterson and Tucker)
- Tax Policy Colloquium (Halperin and Talisman)
- Tax Practice and Procedure Administrative Practice (Carney and Rizek)
- Tax Practice and Procedure Litigation (Curtin and Levine)
- Tax Practice and Procedure Litigation (Green and Vouri)
- Tax Practice Workshop (Kaufman)
- Tax Research and Writing (Buch)
- Tax Research and Writing (Fultz and Tan)
- Tax Research and Writing (Fultz)
- Tax Research and Writing (Sieverding and Spencer)
- Tax Treaties (Banjanin and Eggert)
- Tax Treaties A Practical Approach to Interpretation and Application (Fleeman)
- Tax Treaties Advanced Topics and Strategic Planning (De Vos)
- Tax Treatment of Charities (Sanders)
- Taxation of Debt Instruments and Securitization Transactions I (Beeman and Keinan)
- Taxation of Energy Markets (Mikrut and Comstock)
- Taxation of Fringe Benefits (Brown and Klepper)
- Taxation of Nonqualified Deferred Compensation (Kroh and Tackney)
- Taxation of Partnerships (Ellis and Gerson)
- Taxation of Partnerships (Erickson and Kim and Penick)
- Taxation of Partnerships (Kamyans and Jeruchim)
- The Foreign Tax Credit (Rosenberg and Devereaux)
- Trade and Integration in the Americas (Umana and Parga and Rivas)
- Transfer Pricing Selected Topics (Vidano and Ernick)
- US and International Customs Law (Chovanec)
- US Criminal Procedure (Pan)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (AlShawwaf)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Caro)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Carroll and Ference)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Dorn)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Fandl)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Hoffman)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Lauber and S Cohen)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Samuels)
- US Legal Discourse II Writing for Law Practice (Weitz)
- US Taxation of Domestic Persons With Activities Outside of the US (Bowers and Leyva)
- US Taxation of Foreign Persons in the United States (Moens and Shapiro)
- US Taxation of Foreign Persons in the US (Murray and Schmidt)
- Venture Capital Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions (Kaden)
- War Crimes and Prosecutions (Drimmer)
- War Crimes Terrorism and International Criminal Procedure (Paradis)
- World Trade Organization Agreements Negotiations and Disputes (Parlin and Christy)
- WTO and Public International Law (Herlihy)
