The Iowa Law Mapping Project

Jason Rantanen

March 10, 2016

2016-17 Academic Year

Torts (4)

Criminal Law (3) Contracts (4).

Property (4) Constitutional Law

I (3)

Civil Procedure (4)

Legal Analysis, Writing &

Research I (2)

Legal Analysis, Writing &

Research II (2)

Intro to Law & Legal

Reasoning (1)

Iowa College of Law First Year Curriculum

Elective (3)

IP Law •  Introduction to IP

(Rantanen) (3) •  Trademarks & Unfair

Competition (Rantanen) (3) •  Copyrights (Bohannan) (3) •  IBL Colloquium: Private

Law of Privacy (Rantanen) (1)

Corporate Law •  Business Associations

(Yockey) (3) •  Mergers & Acquisitions

(Miller) (3) •  Unincorporated Business

Entities (Yockey) (3) •  Corporate Crimes

(Diamantis) (3)

Competition Law •  Antitrust Law

(Hovenkamp) (3) •  IBL Colloquium:

Antitrust & Global Competition Policy (Hovenkamp) (2)

Property Law •  Trusts & Estates

(Gallanis) (3) •  Property II:

Private & Public Controls of Land Use (Hines) (3)

Tax Law •  Basic Federal Income

Taxation (Grewal/Jones) (4)

•  Corporate Taxation (3) •  State & Local Taxation

(Jones) (3) •  Taxation of Partnerships

(Grewal) (2)

Law and Finance

•  Securities Regulation (Miller) (3)

Commercial Obligations Law •  Debt

Transactions (Bauer) (4)

Commercial International Law

•  Int’l Trade Law (Rossi) (3)

•  Taxation of Int’l Business Transactions (Grewal) (3)

Not included: •  Adv Lgl Resh Methods in Specialized

Subj: Business & Tax (Braun/Ford) (1)

•  Intellectual Property Advocacy (Bohannan) (1-2)

•  Journal of Corporation Law (1 per semester)

•  Journal of Corporation Law Staff Editor (arr)

•  Iowa Medical Innovation Group (Rantanen) (arr. – 6 total)

1-credit intersession classes •  Adv. Topics in Corporate Law:

Corporate Governance/Finance (Kamerick) (1)

•  Adv. Topics in Corp Law: Alternative Entities: Business Lawyer’s Guide to Formation, Fiduciary Duties & Governance (Parsons) (1)

Iowa College of Law Business Law Cluster

Criminal Law •  Criminal Procedure:

Investigation (Tomkowicz/Seo) (3)

•  Criminal Procedure: Adjudication (Seo) (3)

•  Federal Criminal Practice (Williams/Berry) (2)

•  Wrongful Convictions & the American Criminal Justice System (Farell) (3)

•  Corporate Crimes (Diamantis) (3)

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

•  Evidence (Stensvaag) (3) •  Advanced Civil Procedure

(Steinitz) (3-4) •  Judicial Remedies (Osiel)

(3) •  Mediation: Theory and

Practice (Gittler) (3) •  Arbitration: Principles &

Practice (Pitton) (3) •  Interest Based Negotiations

for Lawyers (Gittler) (3)

Not included: •  Appellate Advocacy (1) •  Advanced Moot Court Competition Team (1) •  Arbitration Advocacy Competition (1) •  Jessup Int’l Moot Court Competition (1) •  Jessup Moot Court Competition Team (1) •  Moot Court Board (1, 2) •  Stephenson Trial Advocacy Team (1) •  Trial Advocacy (2) •  Trial Advocacy Board (1) •  Van Oosterhout/Baskerville Domestic Competition (1)

Iowa College of Law Litigation, Employment, Family Law and Criminal Law Cluster

1-credit intersession classes •  Topics in Criminal Law Practice (Hughes/

Persaud) (1)

Employment Law •  Employment Law

(VanderVelde) (3) •  Survey: Work Law

(VanderVelde) (3) •  Employment

Discrimination (Onwuachi-Willig) (3)

Family Law •  Family Law

(Onwuachi-Willig/Estin) (3)

•  Sel. Iss. in Family Law: Child Maltreatment (Bandstra) (3-4)

•  Sel. Iss. in Family Law: Adoption (Bandstra) (3-4)

Labor Law •  Labor Law

(Linder) (3)

Health & Medicine Law •  Health Law (Kurtz) (3) •  Public Health Law

(Linder) (3) •  Medical Tutorial for

Law Students (Kurtz) (2-3)

•  Child Maltreatment & Child Welfare Systems (Gittler) (3-4)

Environmental Law •  Environmental Law

(TBD) (3) •  Advanced

Problems in Int’l Environmental Law (Carlson) (3-4)

Administrative Law •  Administrative Law

(Reitz/Rantanen) (3)

•  Regulatory Compliance (Kamerick) 2

Immigration Law

•  Immigration Law & Policy (S. Elias) (3)

Iowa College of Law Administrative and Regulatory Law Cluster

Not included: •  Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Staff Editor – arr

Educa&on  Law  •  Higher  

Educa-on  Law  (Yockey)  (2)    

Veterans  Law  •  Veterans

Benefits Law (Kretkowski) (2)    

Constitutional Law •  Constitutional Law II

(Pettys/Gowder) (3) •  State Constitutional

Law (Baker) (2) •  Pending Supreme

Court Cases Tutorial (Pettys) (1)

Conflict of Laws

Federal Courts

Legislation •  Election Law

(Tokaji/Foley) (3)

Government

Iowa College of Law Government, Courts and Constitutional Cluster

1-credit intersession classes •  Supreme  Court  (Stras)  [August]  (1)  

Privacy Law

IBL Colloquium: Private Law of

Privacy (Rantanen) (1)

Human Rights Law

•  Human Rights in the World Community (Steiner) (3)

Public International & Comparative Law

•  Foundations of International Law (Rossi) (3)

•  Foreign Relations Law (Carlson) (3) •  Law of War, Peace and Military Affairs

(Osiel) (3-4) •  Advanced Problems in Int’l Law: Visions of

World Order (Burton) (3-4) •  Comparative Law (Reitz) (3) •  Terrorism, ISIS, & Intl Criminal Law (Osiel)

(3-4) •  European Union Law (Steiner) (2) •  Global Tort Tutorial (Miller/Steinitz) (1-2)

Iowa College of Law Public International Law and Human Rights Cluster

Not included: •  Transnational Law & Contemp. Problems Journal (1 per semester) •  Transnational Law Journal Staff Editor (arr) •  Foreign Comparative & Int’l Legal Research (Ford) (2) •  London Study Abroad Program (Estin/Elias) (2-3)

Socio-Legal Studies

•  Critical Race Theory (Onwuachi-Willig) (3-4)

•  Sex-based Discrimination (Wing) (3)

Legal Theory •  Law &

Economics (Miller) (3)

Iowa College of Law Legal Theory, Legal History, Socio-Legal Studies, and Unclassified Cluster

Legal History •  Topics in 19th Century

Am. Legal History: Law of the Frontier (VanderVelde) (3-4)

•  The American Legal Experience (Hovenkamp) (3)

•  Roman Law (Bond) (3) •  Hist of Reg of Smoking

and Tobacco (Linder) (2-5)

Unclassified •  Professional Responsibility

(Hughes/Elias B.) (3) •  The Legal Profession (David)

(2) •  Nonprofit Organizational

Effectiveness I (Bathke/Thelan) (3)

•  Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness II (Bathke/Thelan) (3)

•  Survey of Current Issues (Rossi) (3-4)

Not included: •  Adv Lgl Resh Methods in Specialized Subjects: Legal History (Sinclair) (1) •  Adv Lgl Resh Methods in Specialized Subj: Solo Practitioners (Jones) (1) •  Advanced Legal Research (2) •  Directed Research and Writing (arr) •  Field Placement: General (arr) •  Field Placement: Judicial (arr) •  Field Placement: Kosovo (arr) •  Independent Research (arr) •  Law Review (1 per semester) •  Law Review Staff Editor (arr) •  Legal Practice Capstone (3 or 4) •  Supplementary Writing (arr) •  Tutorial (arr) •  Writing Tutorial (arr) •  Clinical Internship (arr) •  SJD Tutorial (Reitz) (5)

Iowa College of Law Substantive Law Courses 2016-2017 academic year