2L-3L Upper Level Lesson Topics

This lesson will provide students with an introduction to the federal regulation of proxy solicitation.

The purpose of this lesson is to serve as an introduction to the rapidly growing area of trade dress law. Several new developments have occurred in this area of the law just in the past five years. Most of these developments deal with the correct balance between protecting the freedom of competitors to copy packaging or design features on the one hand and protecting the appearance or physical features of a product when these packaging or design features operate as indications of source on the other.

This lesson is an introduction to patent issues under TRIPS, an important international agreement that impacts the national patent laws of all member countries of the World Trade Organization. This includes over 170 countries, including not only industrialized countries, but all developing and least developed countries. Because TRIPS imposes restrictions on national law in all countries, understanding TRIPS is important to understanding what changes to patent law is possible - in the United States and beyond.

This lesson discusses the accounting treatment of inventory: how to value inventory on the balance sheet, inventory as an expense (the cost of goods sold), and different methods of determining the cost of goods sold.

This lesson discusses the lower-of-cost-or-market rule that sometimes requires the book value of inventory to be reduced to its market value. Before taking this lesson, you should already be familiar with the basic accounting rules that govern inventory. Another lesson, Inventory and the Cost of Goods Sold, covers those basic concepts.

This lesson is intended for students who have studied irreparable injury in class, and want to expand and refine their knowledge.

This lesson focuses on basic concepts and terminology and addresses issues contained in what are called the legal capital provisions of corporate codes. You will encounter equity capitalization, par value, capital, capital surplus and earned surplus accounts in a balance sheet.

This is the third part of five related lessons concerning the issuance of securities by a corporation.

This is the fourth part of five related lessons concerning the issuance of securities by a corporation. This lesson deals with the amount of consideration used to pay for equity securities.

This lesson is the FINAL lesson in a FIVE part series dealing with the ways a corporation is financed, that is, the ways in which a company raises money to pay for its ongoing operations. BEFORE beginning this lesson, you should have completed ALL of the previous lessons and have mastered the concepts introduced in each of the previous lessons. This lesson builds on those earlier lessons. The FIRST lesson in the series is called Types of Securities, Corp27.

The goal of this program is to teach a substantial amount of Article 2 through the study of a single case. This exercise begins with a warranty case, ITT v. LTX.

This lesson explores the concept of a "joint work" in copyright law, including the legal standards which determine whether a work has been jointly authored as well as the legal consequences that attach to this characterization.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Two of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes: Maintaining the Independence and Impartiality of the Judiciary.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Three of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Four of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered include ex parte subject matter.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Five of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes disqualification / recusal.

These questions review the materials covered in Chapter Six of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes: judges' extrajudicial activities and campaigns for judicial office.

This lesson addresses two general questions covered in a typical administrative law course: (1) under what circumstances does the federal Administrative Procedure Act authorize judicial review of claims that an agency's inaction violates the Administrative Procedure Act; and (2) what is the scope of judicial review of such claims?

This lesson discusses judicial review of director's conflicting interest transactions under subchapter F of chapter 8 of the revised Model Business Corporation Act. The definition of "director's conflicting interest transaction" is not discussed; that is dealt with in a companion lesson, What is a Director's Conflicting Interest Transaction? The two lessons may be done in either order.

In this lesson, we explore issues relating to judicial review of an agency's issuance of a "legislative" rule -- a rule issued as a result of the federal Administrative Procedure Act's rulemaking procedures.

This lesson includes a discussion of the statutes and case law regarding labor and employment issues for airline personnel.