| Courses I teach regularly at Carolina Law
include: Antitrust Law
LAW 226, 3 units
Taught in: F01, F02, S04, S05, S06, S07, F08, F09, S11, F11,
S13, S14, S15, F15, F16, S18, S19, S20, F20, F21, S25
Recent economic and political developments have led the federal
government to rethink its role in regulating the competitive
structure and performance of American industries in a global
context. This course provides an introduction to the legal
doctrines, public policies, and intellectual theories that inform
the practice and administration of federal antitrust law. We will
encounter problems posed by monopolies, mergers, joint ventures,
tying arrangements, exclusive dealing, collaboration in pricing, and
other business behavior, as they have arisen in a wide variety of
industries and markets. We will discuss these problems together,
applying the recurring terms and elements of antitrust law,
including geographic market definition, product market definition,
entry barriers, market foreclosure, antitrust injury, legitimate
business purposes, market structure, market concentration, market
performance, market failure, monopoly power, market power, the rule
of reason, and the per se rule. We will become familiar with the
historical development of the law, its present state, and the
ideologies and policy choices that will shape its future paths. We
will learn to apply the principles of antitrust law to new
industries and markets, so that you can be an informed observer, or
participant, in its future development.
Intellectual Property
LAW 265, 3 units
Taught in: S02, F02, F04, F05, F07, F08, F09, F12, F14, F17,
S20, F22, S24
Although the law of intellectual property has historically been
deeply intertwined with commerce, trade, technology, culture, and
the human condition, recent technological, economic and cultural
changes have dramatically elevated its significance. Modern
intellectual property law includes such diverse topics as
trademarks, trade secrets, patents and copyrights. This course
provides a broad introduction to these substantive areas and to the
legal reasoning skills involved in intellectual property counseling
and litigation that will benefit students whether or not they choose
to pursue more specialized offerings. No prior technical background
or knowledge is required or expected.
International Intellectual Property
LAW 418, 3 units
Taught in: S07, S08, S10, S12, F13, S17, S25
More than 50 percent of U.S. exports now depend on some form of
intellectual property protection. This course provides an overview
of the substantive content of, and legal authority for,
international IP rights, drawing on cases, treaties and materials in
copyright, patent and trademark law. We will examine international
and comparative law issues of major importance to modern IP
practice, including obligations for IP protection arising under
international public law, the emerging role of transnational private
law in the acquisition and enforcement of IP rights, and the
geopolitics of IP trade and harmonization.
Patent Law
LAW 286, 3 units
Taught in: S02, S03, S04, S05, S06, F06, S08, S09, S10, S11,
F11, F12, F13, S15, F15, F16, F17, S19, F19, F21, S23, F23, F24
This course provides an introduction to essentially all substantive
aspects of patent law, including the legal doctrines, public
policies, and intellectual theories that inform the practices of
patent prosecution, counseling, and litigation. You will initially
develop an understanding of the form and substance of the patent
instrument, with particular attention to the claims that define the
substantive scope of the patent grant. You will then study the
statutory requirements for obtaining a patent grant, including
utility, novelty, non-obviousness, and adequacy of disclosure.
Finally, you will examine the law governing patent infringement,
including literal infringement and infringement under the doctrine
of equivalents, as well as the applicable defenses and remedies. No
prior technical background or knowledge is required or expected, but
students should be comfortable with expository readings in science
and technology.
Cyberspace Law Seminar
LAW 357C, 3 units
Taught in: F14, S17
This is a seminar providing an opportunity to study, critique and
write scholarly writings about a wide range of enduring and emerging
legal issues surrounding the use of the Internet. Topics will vary
according to student interest, but will likely include: governance
of the Internet, information policy, intellectual property on the
Web, software patenting, privacy, content regulation, encryption and
other access controls, law in virtual worlds, fraud and other
Internet crimes, security, law enforcement using the Internet and
blogging and other Internet-related activities.
Artificial Intelligence and the Law Seminar
LAW 552, 3 units
Taught in: F20, S22, S23, S24, F24
Artificial intelligence comprises a set of computationally
intensive information technologies intended to substitute for human
intelligence in the performance of cognitive tasks. These
technologies are being used in connection with an ever-increasing
range of performance-enhancing and labor-saving commercial,
industrial and research applications, and regulatory, law
enforcement and military. Accompanying these developments are
emerging concerns about the transformation of labor, including the
practices of legal services and institutions; the rights, duties and
liabilities attaching to the designs and activities of robotic and
transactional AI agents; and the privacy, security, social and
ethical impacts of AI and automation. Technological changes in AI,
and responses to those changes in law and governance, are ongoing,
rapid and often difficult to predict. This seminar will prepare
students to be critical and informed observers of, and participants
in, the legal developments, disputes and discourses surrounding AI
technologies that will emerge over the course of their careers. We
will engage with a broad range of cases, statutes, regulations,
commentaries and other materials pertaining to AI and the law
through a variety of discussions, presentations, and writing
assignments.
Contract Law
LAW 204, 4 units
Taught in: F18, F19
A
comprehensive survey course, Contracts introduces students to all
aspects of contract law, both at common law and under the Uniform
Commercial Code. The course covers contract formation,
consideration, formal requirements and other aspects of
enforceability, interpretation, effects of unforeseen
circumstances, express and implied conditions, contract remedies,
rights of third parties, and quasi-contract. |
