Residencies

*Business Attire is a suit or nice dress/pants with jacket.

*Business Casual and Professional Law School Attire both mean no jacket needed, a button down or collared shirt for men, and a dress/skirt or nice pants/top for women.

*T-shirts and jeans are not appropriate except on the first day for the welcome reception.

**This schedule is subject to change, please check back for updates throughout the summer**

To be posted Fall 2024.

LAW 994 Advanced Legal Topics 5/6 – Civil Right Litigation

Taught by Katherine A. Macfarlane, Associate Professor and Director, Disability Law & Policy – Wednesday, August 14 at 2 p.m. to Sunday, August 18 at 1 p.m. in Syracuse, NY.

This course examines bringing and defending lawsuits alleging violations of federal civil rights laws, including: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (with respect to actions involving the police and prisons); the American with Disabilities Act; the Fair Housing Act; and Title IX. Discussion of landmark cases will consider their historical context and recent litigation in which the cases have been applied. The course will also address how modern civil rights movements have shaped civil rights litigation. Prior coursework in Constitutional Law II and/or Criminal Procedure is recommended but not required.

Tentative Schedule for this Residency:

*Dress Code: Professional Law School Attire*

**This schedule may be subject to change**

LAW 994 Advanced Legal Topics 5/6 – Crypto and Digital Assets: Lawyering for This Century and Beyond

Taught by Jack Graves, Teaching Professor – Thursday, August 15 to Sunday, August 18, 2024 in Syracuse, NY.

This course will provide a substantial introduction to the history, nature, and uses of digital assets based on blockchain technology. We will explore different forms of fungible and non-fungible tokens (i.e., digital assets) as well as their emerging uses in decentralized finance and other commercial and data-driven transactions. Having mastered these basic concepts, we will next turn to various regulatory regimes and other legal issues potentially affecting digital assets and their use. We will focus particularly on securities regulation but will also survey a broad range of other potentially relevant federal and state laws. Finally, we will consider the application of this law just surveyed to both current and anticipated use cases, as well as future potential challenges and opportunities just beyond our current horizons.

Tentative Schedule for this Residency:

*Dress Code: Professional Law School Attire*

**This schedule may be subject to change**

LAW 994 Advanced Legal Topics 5/6 – The Intersections of Immigration and Employment Policy and Law in the Courts, the Agencies and in the Congress

Taught by Randel Johnson, Cornell Distinguished Immigration Scholar – dates Thursday, August 15 at 9 a.m. to Sunday, August 18 at 1 p.m. in Syracuse, NY.

Individual laws, particularly after interpretation by the courts, are inherently complex in and of themselves. Each of these are typically covered in separate courses but in practice entities are often confronted with situations where these laws overlap and even conflict. This course will examine how apparent conflicts are resolved by the courts and ultimately the enforcement agencies, through a review of general statutory interpretation principles and specific court cases examining the interaction of immigration and a variety of employment laws. This review, however, will stretch beyond legal cannons to include the underlying policies of these laws and the Congressional intent which led to their enactment. The course will build on these lessons and illustrate them through discussion of actual negotiations held in the Congress which turned on interpretation of immigration and employment law principles and conflicts, specifically in S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. These issues continue to permeate though the current debates in Congress on immigration reform initiatives.

The goal of the program would be to educate students with sufficient knowledge to identify potential conflicts in statutes which their clients will invariably confront and how to best argue the underlying principles to reach a certain result favorable to their client. Concurrently, students will gain a knowledge of immigration and employment laws and some insight into the “legislative sausage making” of Capitol Hill and the various competing pressures which go into shaping legislation before it becomes law.

Special Guest Speakers:

• Jon Baselice, Vice President, Immigration Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Josh Bernstein, Director of Immigration, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• Leon Fresco, Partner at Holland & Knight LLP
• Danny Kaufer, Fellow of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers
• Harold Kim, Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Michael Lotito, Co-Chair of Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute
• Seema Nanda, Solicitor of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor
• Camille Olson, Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP
• Eugene Scalia, Partner in the Washington, D.C. Office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
• Chris Thomas, Shareholders at Ogletree & Deakins LLP

Tentative Schedule for this Residency:

*Dress Code: Professional Law School Attire*

**This schedule may be subject to change**

LAW 994 Advanced Legal Topics 5/6 – Consumer Law

Taught by Gary J. Pieples, Director, Criminal Defense Clinic – tentative dates Monday, December 9 to Friday, December 13 in Miami, FL.

An introduction to federal and state regulations of the consumer market including unfair and deceptive practices; consumer credit regulation including truth in lending, usury, and predatory finance; debt collection; warranties; credit reporting, and privacy. We will explore how a federal fee-shifting statutes create opportunities for entrepreneurial law graduates. Students will review and analyze consumer contracts and statutes and drafts legal documents based upon real world scenarios.

Schedule- TBA

LAW 994 Advanced Legal Topics 5/6 – Mediation

Taught by Theodore Bayer, Distinguished Lecturer – tentative dates Monday, December 9 to Friday, December 13 in Miami, FL.

This Mediation course will explain what mediation is and how it works. We will learn about the mediation process and how to manage it. We will study the stages of negotiations and the elements, styles, strategies, and skills involved in problem solving. The classes will be interactive. We will discuss the nature of conflict and how values, emotions, barriers, cultural differences, confidentiality, and ethical issues impact the mediation process. We will examine the roles of the advocate and the mediator. Guest speakers will share their practical experiences. There will be mock mediation exercises with role playing and critiquing.

Schedule- TBA

Taught by Ted Pearce, L’77, Counsel at Bradley Law Firm – Monday, January 13 to Thursday, January 16, 2025 in Charlotte, NC.
We look forward to hosting Franchising Law again in Charlotte, NC with alumnus Ted Pearce. Back by popular demand, Professor Pearce will provide students with a deep dive into franchising law. More details to come!

With one-third out of every retail dollar being spent at a franchised establishment, the complexities of the franchise model are little understood by many attorneys. This course will introduce the student to the franchise business model and the related legal issues surrounding the franchise relationship. In addition to the learning how franchising incorporates principles of, contract law, antitrust concepts, intellectual property, real estate, and government regulation, the student will learn the practical applications of these legal disciplines relative to the franchise model. The course will incorporate lectures, class discussion, and problem solving involving real-world franchise relationship issues. Students will come to appreciate the legal positions taken by the franchisor and the franchisee in navigating these legal issues. During the course student will simulate a preliminary injunction hearing to enforce various post franchise contract termination remedies.

Taught by Shannon Gardner, Associate Dean of Online Education – Monday, January 13 to Thursday, January 16, 2025 in Charlotte, NC.

White Collar Crime focuses on a wide range of criminal activity that is committed by people who hold some sort of privilege in an economic or political position.  This class will examine federal criminal statutes, including mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, false statements, obstruction of justice, and RICO, along with conspiracy and corporate liability.  Students will learn how to read and parse statutes and associated case law to identify and understand the elements of those crimes.  This class will include an examination of legal practice in the area of white collar crime, including issues in the prosecution and defense of such cases, with particular emphasis on grand jury proceedings.  This class also will include practical elements such as review of indictments and jury instructions, as well as exploration of several newsworthy white collar prosecutions.

Taught by Peter Blanck, University Professor Chairperson, Burton Blatt Institute – Monday, March 10 to Thursday, March 13, 2025. The Location is TBA (either Los Angeles, CA or Syracuse, NY).

This Advanced Legal Topics class examines “Employment Law Under the Americans with Disabilities Act” (“ADA”, 1990 as amended), with a focus on lawsuits brought in federal court. Employment law under the ADA as well as under related ADA civil rights, is a fast-evolving area, further complicated by the COVID-19 epidemic. Employment law under the ADA has evolved dramatically over the past thirty-four years. By some estimates there are sixty million Americans (almost one in five Americans) with disabilities. Yet people with disabilities still are disproportionately excluded from, and discriminated against in, the labor market and other economic, social, and civic opportunities. My ambition is to help class participants appreciate the expansive impact of employment law under the ADA, and related disability law and policy, on the lives of persons with disabilities.