• LAW 810: Property

  4.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Introductory course treating issues of ownership, possession, and title in the areas of: landlord-tenant relations; estates in land and future interests; co-ownership and marital property; real estate sales agreements and conveyances; title assurance and recording statutes; servitudes; and selected aspects of nuisance law, eminent domain and zoning.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 811: Lawyering and Professionalism

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Provides basic training in essential lawyering skills, introduces the values of the legal profession, and offers resources for early career planning.Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 812: Constitutional Law

  4.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Fundamental principles of American constitutional law: federalism, separation of powers, equal protection of law, and constitutional protection of other fundamental individual rights.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 813: Evidence

  4.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Rules regulating introduction and exclusion of oral, written and demonstrative evidence at trials and other proceedings, including relevance, competence, impeachment, hearsay, privilege, expert testimony, authentication, and judicial notice.(RE) Corequisite(s): 920 for students electing concentration in advocacy.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 814: Professional Responsibility

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Legal, professional and ethical standards applicable to lawyers.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 815: Legal Research

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Basics of court systems and structures and how they relate to legal sources; types of authorities and their use in the research process; formulation of research plans; basics of researching statutes, cases, and regulations; use of tools for research including indexes, digests, and keyword searching; expanding and updating research; and appropriate use of citations.Grading Restriction(s): Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.Registration Restriction(s): JD students only or with Instructor Permission.
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• LAW 816: Civil Procedure I (In Practice

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Pleading, joinder of claims and parties, discovery, trials, verdicts, judgments and appeals. Emphasis on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. This experiential class will include three graded, simulation-based assignments. Each simulation will place students in the role of lawyer, raise professionalism issues, require students to perform a lawyering skill, and will result in a written and/or oral work product. In addition to a final examination, the course will also include a midterm exam that will include at least one essay question.Grading Restriction(s): Numeric grading (JD students); A-F grading (other graduate students).Registration Restriction(s): JD students; other graduate students with instructor permission.
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• LAW 817: Torts I (In Practice)

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Intentional torts, defenses and privileges related to intentional torts; negligence: standard of care, professional malpractice, and liability of owners and occupiers of land; defenses based on plaintiff’s conduct: contributory and comparative negligence, assumption of risk, failure to take precautions, and avoidable consequences; causation, proximate cause; duty rules; and questions of joint and several or several liability. This experiential class will include three graded, simulation-based assignments. Each simulation will place students in the role of lawyer, raise professionalism issues, require students to perform a lawyering skill, and will result in a written and/or oral work product. In addition to a final examination, the course will also include a midterm exam that will include at least one essay question.Grading Restriction(s): Numeric grading (JD students); A-F grading (other graduate students).Registration Restriction(s): JD students; other graduate students with instructor permission.
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• LAW 818: Fund Concepts/Income Taxation

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Introduction to basic statutory analysis, fundamental principles of federal individual income tax, and pervasive income tax concerns that arise in practice. Federal concept of gross income, pattern of exclusions, exemptions and deductions from gross income used to arrive at tax base; special treatment of capital gains and losses; and rate structure.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 819: Taxat/Real Property Interests

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Surveys the federal income tax issues relating to the sale, exchange, and ownership of real property interests. Among other topics, the course considers methods of accounting, asset depreciation and recapture, the passive activity and at risk rules, and the treatment of installment sales and like-kind exchanges.RE) Prerequisite(s): 818.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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