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StuffSchool of Law and SMU linksCurriculum vitaeshort | long | Fall 2012
This course will examine the laws that govern the political process in the United States. Topics will include the right to vote, political representation, election administration, political parties, ballot initiatives, and campaign finance, with some coverage of tax issues, administrative and judicial enforcement, and ethics law. The goal of the course is to provide students with a solid foundation in the basic principles of election law in this country.
This three-credit course surveys the basic corporate-governance laws and federal and state tax-exemption laws that apply to nonprofit organizations. We will also consider applicable limitations on political activity (e.g., campaign activities and lobbying), as well as the legal status of private membership associations and the application of antitrust laws and the First Amendment to nonprofit organizations. Full course description here. Spring 2013
Bioethics examines legal and ethical aspects of death and dying, reproduction, human experimentation, cloning and stem cells, genethics, organ transplantation, and selected everyday clinical situations.
Topics may vary, from bioterror to pandemic flu, mandatory HPV vaccinations for grade-school boys and girls, the right to a decent minimum of health care, anti-obesity laws, helmet laws for motorcyclists, needle-exchange programs, etc.
This course examines professionalism and its implications for and application to a wide variety of patient and client encounters. The materials are almost exclusively literary: novels, poems, plays, and short stories. Open to selected law students and medical school students in their last semester of school. |
