Education Law
Education law includes schools, school systems and school boards, students' rights and student movements.
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Contracts
- Contract law covers the elements of a valid contract, and issues pertaining to verbal or oral contracts.
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Corporate Law
- Corporate law is the study of how shareholders, directors, employees, creditors, and other stakeholders such as consumers, the community and the environment interact with one another.
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Courts and the Judiciary
- The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.
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Criminal Law
- Criminal law regulates social conduct and proscribes whatever is threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people. It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws.
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Defamation
- Defamation law includes libel and slander.
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Disability Law and the ADA
- Disability law includes the range of common law, statutes, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, and regulations, protecting the rights of and remedies available to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
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Employment Law
- Employment law governs the rights and duties between employers and workers.
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Entrepreneurship
- This law covers issues that arise when taking an entrepreneurial venture from conception, through formation, financing and growth, including exit strategies.
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Environmental Law
- Environmental law includes the areas of land use, planning, regulation and zoning, sustainable growth and development, and water policy and regulation.
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Family Law
- Family law refers to rules, regulations, and court procedures involving the family unit, such as marriage, divorce and division of property, child custody and adoption.
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First Amendment
- First amendment law includes the areas of free exercise and government establishment of religion, freedom of speech, the press and association.
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Freedom of Information
- The Freedom of Information Act is a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government.
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Gay Rights and Sexual Orientation
- This area of study includes same-sex marriage laws, adoption and discrimination cases.
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Intellectual Property
- Intellectual property law includes the areas of copyright, trademark, patent and publicity.
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International Law
- International law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations. It serves as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.
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Judicial and Legal Ethics
- Judicial and legal ethics define the attorney-client relationship and prescribe standards of conduct and professionalism for judges and attorneys.
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Lawyering Skills
- Includes use of a law library and legal materials, preparation of legal memoranda, brief writing and oral advocacy.
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Legal History
- Legal history is the study of how law has evolved and why it changed and includes U.S., Kentucky and English legal history.
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Legal Research
- Identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making.
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Legal Writing
- Writing used by lawyers, judges, legislators and others in the field of law to express legal analysis and rights.