Classes
June 28 - July 31
International Sports Law---------------------------------------------Mr Jim McCurdy
This course examines issues respecting amateur and professional sports, including sports league decision-making, labor and sports, negotiation of player contracts, baseball salary arbitration, and enforcement of sports contracts, NCAA matters, drug testing, torts in sports, the application of antitrust principles to European professional leagues, and agent practice in representing European basketball players.
Exam: 7/30 (3 cr) MTWThF 9:00 - 10:35am
International Business Transactions-------------------Ms Amy Boss & Mr Roger Clark
National and international laws applied to typical cross-border transactions, such as the sale of goods, distributorship agreements, licensing of technology, franchising, construction agreements and joint ventures, including international dispute resolution.
Exam: 7/30 (3 cr) MTWThF 9:00 -10:35am
European Union Law---------------------------------------Mr Louis Natali
This course is designed to prepare students to advise people and companies doing business in the European Union, currently consisting of 27 nations and over 400 million people. After an introduction to Union institutions, instruments and important procedural devices the course will cover selective substantive areas, including markets, the monetary system, and the free movement of goods, persons, capital and the right of free establishment. The elimination of trade barriers has created tensions between free movement of goods and credit and consumer rights. These will be explored via case law and treaties.. Issues arising from free movement of workers and their families and discrimination in the workplace and other key areas based on peculiar national laws will be examined in some detail.
Directives and Decisions on Consumer rights, Intellectual Property and Human Rights will introduce the problems of harmonization of laws of individual states to the demands of the Treaties creating the Union. Finally decisions involving damages and other remedies will introduce concepts of supremacy and subsidiarity.
Exam: 7/31 (3 cr.) MTWThF 10:45am - 12:20pm
International Entertainment Law------------------------Ms Mary LaFrance
International legal issues arising in movie, TV, music, publishing, other entertainment businesses, such as acquiring foreign rights, using talent abroad, and distributing worldwide (conventional and via the Internet), including those that arise in counseling, contract or treaty negotiations, and transnational litigation.
Exam: 7/31 (3 cr.) MTWThF 10:45am - 12:20pm
Exams are never given in advance.
Clinic/Internships ---- 6/28/10 - 7/31/10
You learn much more from experiencing things and talking to people than you do from only reading books------------Tammy Singleton L88
Solicitor Internships ---------------------------------Ms Nancy Carol Carter
Practice of business law, commercial law, labor law and general civil or criminal law in London. After preparation to function in the English legal system, the student works in a London solicitor firm. Each student's experience depends on the placement's practice. The student may observe client interviews, negotiating sessions, meetings with government representatives, strategy sessions with the firm, and court trials. (S)he may gather facts, and may draft and review contracts, opinion letters, or trial or arbitration documents. Seminars, simulated exercises and a paper integrate the work experience.
(Graded HP, P, LP, F). No Exam (2 cr) MTWThF 11-6pm+
Barrister Internships---------------------------------------Ms Nancy Carol Carter
These full-time internships give intensive practical experience in English litigation. After orientation on the English legal system and professions, each student works in barristers' chambers in criminal and/or civil litigation. (S)he observes a variety of litigation experiences, including preparation and trial of cases in various courts in and around London. Each intern also participates in trial technique sessions that include lectures, demonstrations, and simulations. Seminars, a paper, and dining at Inns of Court integrate work experience.
(Graded HP, P, LP, F) No Exam (3 cr.) MTWThF 9-6pm+
Clinic/Internship Application Process
Early Clinic application is strongly suggested (by January or February). Preference is given to students who have completed at least two years of law school or who are alumni of our summer program. In recent years, there have been enough places to accommodate everyone who applied, even first year students, in one internship or the other.
The Barrister Internships are full-time, precluding simultaneous enrollment in other law classes.
Solicitor Internships are part-time, designed to begin after the early morning class.
Each Internship applicant must submit the following items to our office:
1) A complete resume (c.v.)
2) An informal letter to our office with any job or clinical experience, linguistic abilities or foreign travel, also telling us if we are unable to find a firm for you, which classes would you like to take instead.
3) A formal letter (with your signature) (think of this letter as a job interview letter, addressed to - To Whom it may Concern) and send to our office, explaining why you would like to work with a firm and stating what type of work you would be interested in doing for a firm. Please give at least 2-3 choices of the type of work you would like to do in this formal letter (Int'l Business Contracts, Int'l Human Rights, Constitutional Law, etc.).
4) Two law faculty letters of recommendation that are on letterhead and signed. If you work for a law firm and would like to submit a letter from them as well, that is fine. Also professor's know what to say, they have done this before. This letter should at least address your classroom interaction, any activities the professor knows of that involve you, type of student you are, etc..
5) Student should also include an unofficial transcript containing this fall's grades.
6) Provide a sample of your legal writing.
7) Bring/mail/fax or send as an e-mail attachment all this information to cking@sandiego.edu Ms Cindy King, USD, 5998 Alcala Pk LS 310, San Diego CA 92110-2492; 619-260-2230-fax
8) Once you have provided USD-San Diego with all the required paperwork for the Clinic and proper payment, all your information will then be forwarded to the Clinic Director. From that point on you will deal directly with the Clinic Director and not with our office.
As decisions must be made in both San Diego and London to obtain an internship, your prompt action in submitting all required documents and appropriate payment (within 2 weeks of applying) is to your benefit, as available internships are very limited and no movement can be put forward until we have all the required documents and the appropriate payment.
USD will make every effort to place each internship applicant in an appropriate office. Sometimes these placements are not finalized until the students arrives in London. Occasionally, it is not possible to place an intern because the final decisions rest with the law offices. If that eventuates, the student should be prepared to take courses as alternates to the Internship. Appropriate refunds of the extra tuition paid will be made to either you, back to your lender or back to your school.
If you decide to withdraw from just the Clinic and take classes instead, because USD could not find you a placement, a total refund of all extra monies paid for this Clinic will be refunded either back to you, your lender, or school with no deductions.
If you decide to totally withdraw from the Clinic and not take classes, because USD could not find you a placement, a total refund of all extra monies paid for this Clinic will be refunded either back to you, your lender, or your school with no deductions.
If you decide to totally withdraw from the London Clinic program on your own before April 1st, then the regular London refund policy applies. If you totally withdraw from the London Clinic program on or after April 1st, there is no refund of any monies already paid.
If you decide to take classes in another USD program, please discuss this change with Ms Cindy King at cking@sandiego.edu as soon as possible.
Applications for Internships will be accepted as long as places remain.
Applications should be accompanied by either proof of a Wire Transfer or a US dollar check payable to USD and sent to Ms King at the address below to enroll you. If applying before March 13th, a non-refundable payment of $200 is due; if applying between March 14th and March 31st, the payment amount should be $400 (which includes the non-refundable fee). Full tuition payment is due with your application if applying on or after April 1st, and you should e-mail Ms King at cking@sandiego.edu to ascertain that a post-April 1 application will be entertained.
Faculty
Amy Boss, Professor of Law Drexel. Former faculty Miami, Rutgers Camden, Temple, USD, Victoria NZ, Nova Southeastern. Formerly with Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz & McCarter & English. Law Clerk to Milton Conford, NJ Supreme Court. Former Editor-in-Chief, Business Lawyer and DataLaw Report. Board of Governors, American Bar Association. Member, American Law Institute Council. Author: The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts; ABCs of the UCC: Article 2A Leasing; Electronic Commerce; ABCs of the UCC: Article 5 Letters of Credit; Electronic Data Interchange Agreements; The Legal Status of Electronic Data Interchange in the United States. AB Bryn Mawr, JD Rutgers Camden.
Nancy Carol Carter, Professor and former Legal Research Center Director University of San Diego; writes in the field of American Indian Law and legal research; previous director at USD summer abroad programs in Florence, Oxford, and Dublin; 2010 London Director; M.S., M.L.S. Texas A and M; J.D. Oklahoma.
Roger Clark, Professor of Law, Rutgers Camden. Former faculty Iowa, Miami, USD, Temple, Victoria, Graz, U of South Pacific. Former lawyer for New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Government of Samoa Representative to the UN Conference Establishing the Int'l Criminal Court. General Editor, Procedural Aspects of Int'l Law. Author: No-Fault Automobile Insurance in Action; Tort in Transition; A U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights; Essays on Criminal Law; Development of the New Zealand Constitution; Understanding Int'l Criminal Law; Int'l Criminal Law; Int'l & National Law in Russia & Eastern Europe; The Case Against the Bomb; Prosecution of Int'l Crimes; Human Rights Sourcebook. BA, LLB, LLM Victoria U Wellington NZ; LL.M., JSD Columbia.
Mary LaFrance, Prof and former Associate Dean, Nevada Las Vegas; former faculty Florida State: Author: Intellectual Property. AB Byrn Mawr; MA, JD Duke
James McCurdy, Prof Gonzaga School of Law, Professor McCurdy practiced in the Indian law, natural resources, and environmental law fields before entering teaching. He represented several Indian tribes in major litigation and intergovernmental negotiations. He was appointed by the governor of Washington to represent the state on the Environmental Improvement Basin Commission, which is charged with implementing the Superfund cleanup plan for the Coeur d'Alene Basin. Professor McCurdy teaches Sports Law, Indian law, and environmental courses and is co-author of an innovative casebook, Sports Law: Cases & Materials (6th ed. 2006). He has served as president of the Pioneer Baseball League, and been a member of the Council of League Presidents for minor league baseball. B.A.A. Univ Houston, JD Univ of Texas-Austin.
Louis Natali, Professor, Temple & Nat'l Institute of Trial Advocacy; former faculty Rutgers Camden, Loyola CA, Penn; former partner, Segal Appel & Natali; associate, Dilworth Paxson Kalish Levy & Coleman; First Assistant Defender, Defender Ass'n of Philadelphia; and law clerk to Herbert Boreman, 4th Circuit. Author of numerous law journal articles and NITA cases. BA LaSalle, LLB Georgetown.
Add/Drop / Wait list Information
Application Form & Personal Data Sheet