L6560 A COMPARATIVE INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LAW (3 pts)
G. Fletcher, I. Bar-Siman-Tov, K. de la Durantaye, J. D. Ohlin, J. Stewart
*Incoming LL.M.s only.
*LL.M. writing credit available.
This course surveys the first year curriculum by selecting the 26 important cases and issues spanning the fields of constitutional law, private law, criminal law, and the main points of civil and criminal procedures. Its purpose is to condense and explain the first year curriculum for students already trained in a foreign legal system. Several lectures are devoted to the differences between the common law and civil law, and so far as is practical, the American material is explained and analyzed comparatively. Among the topics of the course are judicial review, federalism, the Erie rule, the jury system, the exclusionary rule, the relevance of the Civil War, consideration in contracts, and punitive damages. Students learn to isolate and identify those principles and institutions of American law that are distinctive and require particular attention by students trained abroad.

For purposes of further instruction as well as training in research and writing, the class is divided into three sections, which meet with an Associate in Law one hour for every two hours of the main course.

L6106 AMERICAN CONTRACT LAW (4 pts)
Melvin Eisenberg
*Open only to LL.M. students who do not have a U.S. JD. 
This is a basic introductory course in contract law designed for students familiar with other legal systems. Topics include the bases for enforcing promises, the bargaining process including precontractual liability, the requirement of a writing (statute of frauds), policing bargains for unfairness, remedies for breach of contract, mistake, and unexpected circumstances.

 L9108 SEMINAR: DOCTORAL WORKSHOP (2 pts)
M. Barenberg
JSD candidates (including those who are second year Associates) meet weekly throughout the year, at a mutually convenient time to be determined, to present their doctoral work to each other, the chair of the graduate committee, and members of their dissertation committees. Each candidate presents twice: his or her project during the Fall semester, and then work in progress on that project during the Spring.

Grades will be based on class participation (each student will share with the professor the responsibility for conducting one of the classes) and on research and writing undertaken in support of the representation of one or two capital clients whose lawyers work in New York and can assist in supervising the student's work.

L9105 SEMINAR: LEGAL EDUCATION (2 pts)
(see History and Philosophy of Law)