• LAW 863: Sex, Gender, and Justice

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Analyzes contemporary legal issues concerning the relationship between sexuality, gender, and the law. Will focus on the relationship between social norms concerning sex and gender and the law, introducing students to the different theoretical and judicial approaches to the legal regulation of sex and gender in our society. Topics include: discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity (in the workplace, schools, the family, and the military); reproductive rights; the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality; sexual violence against men and women; sexual assault on campus; and the role of gender and war.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 866: Envrnmntl Law:Admin Reg/Policy

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Study, through methods of public policy analysis, of responses of legal system to environmental problems: environmental regulation and its alternatives; Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; National Environmental Policy Act; Endangered Species Act; Superfund; and selected regulatory issues.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 867: Environmental Law Seminar

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Selected topics in environmental law.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 868: Animals and the Law

  2.00 - 3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Students are exposed to ways in which nonhuman animals influence and are impacted by statutory, regulatory, and decisional law. There are gaps in the legal framework relating to these animals, and that construct is constantly—and in some cases rapidly—evolving. Knowledge of subject matters outside law is necessary as a means of understanding and developing the applicable law. As a result, the work in this course that involves the interface between animals and law involves explorations of aspects of, among other subject matter areas: animal-related professions; business administration and finance; psychology, philosophy; history; economics; political science; jurisprudence; and legislation.Grading Restriction(s): Numeric grading (law students); A-F grading (graduate students).Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 2 or 3 hours.Registration Restriction(s): JD students only or with Instructor Permission.
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• LAW 869: Federal Indian Law

  2.00 - 3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Provides students with an understanding of the foundational doctrine, history, and current trends in Federal Indian law. Using a mix of case law, secondary sources, and newspaper articles, students are given the tools they need to identify and to analyze issues related to Federal Indian law in their legal practice.Grading Restriction(s): Numeric grading (law students); A-F grading (graduate students).Repeatability: Not repeatable. May be taken once for 2 or 3 hours.Registration Restriction(s): JD students only or with Instructor Permission.
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• LAW 873: American Legal History

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Selected topics in American legal history.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 875: The Jury System

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Study of the Anglo – American jury. Consideration will be given to the history of the jury; the constitutional provisions governing trial by jury; current issues, including jury nullification, use of the jury in complex cases, and “jury reform”; and depictions of the jury in popular culture. Satisfies the perspective requirement.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 877: Jurisprudence

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Critical or comparative examination of legal theories, concepts, and problems: legal positivism; natural law theory; legal realism; idealism; historical jurisprudence; utilitarianism; Kantianism; sociological jurisprudence; policy science; and critical studies.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 878: Ownership and Justice

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Examines a number of classical and contemporary justifications of individual ownership of property. Coverage will include (among others) the labor theory, the constructivist view (as per modern economists and certain social philosophers), the Rawlsian view, and efforts of contemporary Christian philosophers to locate ownership within the community. Considered alongside philosophical materials will be contemporary legal scholarship that focuses on problems of self-realization and distribution. Will seek to apprehend the necessary conditions of any regime of individual ownership as well as the margins of what can be considered property.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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• LAW 880: Behavioral Economics

  2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Seminar course will study the policy implications of behavioral economics. In contrast to the standard rational model of economic behavior, human beings' cognitive abilities and willpower are limited. Moreover individuals do not always act in their self-interest, but can act generously even when contrary to their economic self-interest. Because of this, individuals frequently act in ways that depart systematically from the predictions of economists’ standard models. Behavioral economics attempts to understand these departures and, more generally, integrate psychologists’ understanding of human behavior into economic analysis. Comment: This seminar does not require a background in economics.Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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