Philip Cleary

The Academic Skills Lab is a non-credit bearing, weekly course for first year law students. Participation is mandatory during the fall semester when instruction focuses on a variety of fundamental legal skills such as law school study skills, case reading and briefing, legal analysis, and law school examination preparation. In the spring semester, the program's focus is remedial. First year students are referred to weekly workshop sessions designed to improve law school exam performance

The Academic Skills Lab is a non-credit bearing, weekly course for first year law students. Participation is mandatory during the fall semester when instruction focuses on a variety of fundamental legal skills such as law school study skills, case reading and briefing, legal analysis, and law school examination preparation. In the spring semester, the program's focus is remedial. First year students are referred to weekly workshop sessions designed to improve law school exam performance

A study of the law, policy, and theory of civil wrongs not arising from contract, including intentional assault, battery, false imprisonment, infliction of emotional distress, trespass, and conversion; negligence concepts, including duty, fault, causation, and injury; defenses, such as consent, assumption of risk, and comparative fault; strict and product liability; and other liability theories, such as nuisance, defamation, invasion of privacy, misrepresentation, and interference with economic relations.

A continuation of LAW 515, Torts I

A continuation of LAW 515, Torts I

Study of the various systems that regulate the payment of monetary obligations. The course will focus on negotiable instruments and bank deposits and collections under Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code and will also examine the law governing credit cards and electronic funds transfers. The course is primarily a statutory course and is taught by the problem method. Among the skills which the students should develop in this course are statutory interpretation, problem solving, and self-sufficiency. The course is primarily a statutory course and is taught by the problem method. Among the skills which the students should develop in this course are statutory interpretation, problem solving and self-sufficiency.

Examines the law governing the sale and leases of goods. The course focuses primarily on domestic sales and leases under Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code and related statutes such as the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, but will also consider some aspects of the international sale of goods under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods (CISG), including the similarities and differences between Article 2 and the CISG. The course is primarily a statutory course and is taught by the problem method. Among the skills which the students should develop in this course are statutory interpretation, problem solving, and self-sufficiency.