General Course Descriptions for Terms: labor
745 - Labor Relations Law
747 - Employment Law
This is a course in “Employment law”. (“Labor law” typically refers to “traditional” labor law, i.e., legal issues involving unions and/or arising under the National Labor Relations Act, and public sector labor laws.) “Employment law” is everything else: individual employment rights; discrimination law; family medical leave, health and safety, plant closing notice laws, and wage and hour law.
768 - Health Justice Clinic
Our educational program provides a student-centered learning opportunity with particular emphasis on helping patients, advocates, and future providers learn to work in real collaboration. We teach professional, graduate, and returning adult students from a diversity of disciplines the art and science of patient advocacy and truly patient-centered care. Participating in a collaborative, interprofessional environment, students will: �� Develop, implement, and tailor an Independent Learner Plan �� Participate in an applied immersion educational experience that emphasizes both individual and systemic health care advocacy �� Provide critical advocacy to individuals who contact the Center through the intake process �� Explore health systems and patient-centered care in an environment that encourages critical questioning and self-reflection �� Experience core advocacy skills relevant to many disciplines/professions - case management, capacity building, communication & listening, creative problem-solving, decision making, and ethics �� Actively participate in weekly case rounds with colleagues and faculty �� Engage with interprofessional faculty in one-on-one and collaborative teaching and learning.
815 - Appellate Advocacy-Moot Court (skills-building)
Students admitted to Moot Court develop and refine their skills in appellate brief writing and oral advocacy. They work on collaboration, team-building, and peer-review skills. They use critique and feedback to hone their skills. They write and revise an appellate brief, which may satisfy their upper-level writing requirement. They participate in multiple rounds of simulated appellate oral arguments and receive feedback and coaching. The course culminates in an intramural moot court competition. Teams for external moot court competitions are chosen from the class. As representatives of the Law School, external teams engage in regional and national brief-writing and oral-advocacy competitions against students of other law schools.
854 - Clinical Program: Immigrant Justice Clinic (IJC)
Student representatives in IJC will provide high-caliber representation to immigrants in particular immigrant youth and DACA recipients. Students will also participate in Community Clinics for the Center for Dreamers, a statewide program providing legal and social services to DACA recipients. Students may also have the opportunity to represent clients in other types of cases before USCIS and/or the Chicago Executive Office of Review (Immigration Court). They may also handle other matters, including visa petitions; appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) or federal courts of appeals; habeas petitions, immigrant rights cases; or nonlitigation advocacy projects. There are three components to the clinic: A. individual and collaborative work on clinic matters, including direct representation and advocacy projects; B. an interactive weekly seminar designed to teach lawyering skills, substantive immigration law, and ethical practice; and, C. a weekly case team or individual supervision meeting.
928 - SP Land Law: Real Estate Development Law
Real estate developers are collaborators and coordinators who envision a project and carry it through its lifecycle to completion in a competitive and fast-paced environment. To be successful, developers need attorneys who understand the business, process, and legal issues of real estate development. Using a practical, hands-on approach, we'll examine the development process from start to finish, giving you the knowledge and real-world skills you need to provide effective legal counsel to clients developing a parcel of land for commercial or residential use. Through case studies, drafting legal documents, and participating in simulated negotiations, you will learn how to work through all phases of the development process. By the end of the course, you will understand the economics of real estate development, how to secure the land through acquisition, local planning and zoning issues, government incentives designed to drive development, the due diligence necessary for development, pre- and post-development financing and ownership structures, closing the acquisition and loan transactions, and the leasing and sales of completed projects. Your course grade will be based on periodic projects and papers. Students electing to take the class for 3 credits will be required to write an additional final paper guiding their client through a proposed development from start to finish.
935 - Health Law
This course is an overview of the complex laws governing the health care industry and the practical realities of lawyers specializing in this practice area. The course will cover the key laws and regulations that comprise the practice of health care law including for example the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, the False Claims Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, the National Practitioner Data Bank Regulations. We will also cover corresponding Wisconsin law on many of these topics. This course is taught by a practicing health care lawyer. We will invite guest lecturers who are health care lawyers with varying areas of focus or executives/ general counsel from health care entities to share their real experiences managing legal compliance in this challenging legal and regulatory environment. Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the major federal laws governing health care. 2. Apply these laws to practical common health care scenarios 3. Understand the practical realities facing health care entities in this volatile ever-changing environment.
940 - Class, Law, and Labor Relations in Historical Perspective
950 - Spanish for Lawyers
Description: Spanish for Lawyers is intended to aid fluent or highly proficient Spanish speakers develop vocabularies to facilitate more effective attorney communications with Spanish-speaking clients who possess limited English proficiency. This course is not intended for law students with beginning or intermediate Spanish language skills. The course is appropriate for law students whose Spanish proficiency is high (can speak and understand at an advanced level, even if not fluent). The course will introduce Spanish legal terminology in such areas as immigration law, criminal law, employment law, family law, and housing. The emphasis will be on speaking and listening comprehension. Students will also be given coursework assignments, including but not limited to grammar exercises, to assist students with Spanish mastery. Class instruction will be primarily in the Spanish language and will be conducted remotely. Finally, the 2-credit course will be graded on a mandatory pass-fail basis. Instructor: Perla J. Rubio Terrones is a UW Law alumni currently practicing immigration law as a staff attorney with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) in El Paso, Texas. Prior to her role with KIND, she was a Clinical Instructor at the Immigrant Justice Clinic of the University of Wisconsin Law School and previously taught the Spanish for Lawyers course during the Spring semester of 2021. Throughout her legal experience, Perla has used her Spanish skills to represent clients, collaborate with community leaders, and work together with federal representatives and stakeholders. Her experience has taught her the importance of utilizing her language skills for the benefit of those with limited language access. She looks forward to sharing her knowledge with future attorneys that will use their legal profession to serve Spanish-speaking communities.