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• LAW 4600: Elder Law

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course concentrates on the legal problems associated with the elderly and issues of aging. It introduces students to the unique client needs of the elder client and their families. This course introduces substantive legal theories in modern elder law, including introduction to government program, such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security for old age retirement assistance; advanced planning for retirement; elder abuse and protective services legislation; and nursing home rights legislation. Topics include health care funding; health care decision making; long-term care; end-of-life decisions; elder abuse and neglect, both institutional and non-institutional, and guardianship.
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• LAW 4700: Immigration Law

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the process and procedures relating to immigration law. It also provides proper methodology for client interviews and client files, as well as an introduction to preparation of petitions and agencies that are part of Immigration law. Students will have practice in completing standard immigration forms, researching immigration law, accessing government and other websites for immigration related materials, and reviewing current issues in immigration law. Students will be able to assess each Visa category, determining the type of filing required by client circumstance. Students will analyze hypothetical situations, allowing students to scrutinize actual problems and issues that arise when processing a case. United States immigration statutes, rules and regulations, and precedent and administrative policies relevant to immigration law are fully covered.
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• LAW 4800: Education Law

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide a foundational understanding of the legal framework within which public schools operate, and to examine selected legal issues that arise in the organization and administration of public schools. Emphasis and focus will be placed on the relevant law as it pertains to students in today's schools.
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• LAW 4900: Legal Studies Experience

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  In this course, students explore paralegal practices in various types of legal settings, including community programs, institutions, and courts. Student will be instructed on ethics, office procedures, confidentiality, and general paralegal practice.
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• LAW 6000: Law and Public Policy

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The cornerstone course of the graduate degree comprises this program of study. Exactly how law plays out in a multitude of settings, from political and legal institutions, to schools and educational entities, to business and free enterprise forms, in social structures and cultural institutions, should be a perpetual concern for the policymaker. How the law impacts individuals also receives some needed attention and course participants will weigh and gauge the effects of proposed and implemented legislation in a wide array of contexts including: police and the citizenry, correctional institutions and the incarcerated, government benefit plans and targeted recipients, entitlement programs and the public treasury, tax policy and the incentive based model, charitable giving and the law's role in fostering giving, to name a few. Measuring impacts and effects on individuals and institutions stands in the forefront of course delivery.
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• LAW 6001: Law, Civ Lib, & Constitution

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The place of the Constitution and Supreme Court in American policy, using both empirical and case materials is the primary purpose of this course. Focus also includes the structure and powers of national government, with special emphasis on the Supreme Court as a policy-making institution. Civil liberties and corresponding constitutional protections will be examined in depth including a close up of the Bill of Rights and Civil War Amendments. Issues of jurisdiction, search and seizure, police powers, free speech, privacy and its penumbras, state action, eminent domain, states rights, and other constitutional issues will be fully analyzed. Even more attention will be given to questions involving discrimination whether based on race, disability or gender.
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• LAW 6002: Law and Legal Method

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  A review of the American legal system, including the courts and the legislatures, role and functions of its personnel, form and substance of law from a procedural and substantive perspective, and primary and secondary sources of the law. Students will be exposed to federalism, the function of law making, and dispute resolution in the judicial system. The course also surveys the processes of the judicial, legislative, and executive branches and the role of administrative agencies. Another facet of the course is dedicated to the mastery of legal method and the research tools essential to that success including: judicial reports, including federal and state court reports and citation forms; case finding aids, including federal, state and Supreme Court digests and encyclopedias; citators such as Shepard's Citations; digests; annotated law reports; legal periodicals, including periodical indexes and research procedure; the nature, function and characteristics of treatises; research procedures; state and federal administrative law; federal, state and local court rules; miscellaneous research aids and non-legal research aids. The student will also be exposed to the various types of law including crimes, civil actions, contract and business actions as well as other typologies of law. Course participants will have ample opportunity to hone and develop critical legal skills by argument, advocacy, interpretation and preparation of legal documents.
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• LAW 6003: Law and Civil Litigation

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  A comprehensive review of civil action and remedies that are part and parcel of the American legal system is the central focus of this course. Civil actions, in the law of torts and contracts, and in the arena of administrative process, impact the justice system in varied ways. From litigation to court docketing, to enforcement and fines, as well as other legal responses, civil litigation consumes the resources of the justice model. In the law of torts and damages, the civil system provides intentional causes of action, from assault to defamation, from invasion of privacy to false imprisonment, to injured parties. Negligence delivers remedies to those injured by a lack of due caution and expected behavior from the reasonable person. Covered, too, will be the principles of strict, product and vicarious liability in particular relationships such as employer/employee, parent/child or product manufacturer/consumer. Methods and issues of damage awards will be fully critiqued, as well as the current debate over reform in the law of torts, workers compensation and other no-fault claim processes.
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• LAW 6004: Law and Admin Agencies

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Course exposes participants to administrative law theory and the practical aspects of administrative law practice, both within and outside the administrative agency. Coverage equips the student with the necessary skills to understand, apply, and research relevant statutory and regulatory provisions at the federal and state level; to read, interpret and draft proposed rules and regulations; to become familiar with the process known as the administrative law hearing, the concept of administrative discretion and corresponding remedies. Preliminary drafts of documents, briefs, and opinions relative to the appellate stage of an administrative law proceeding will also be covered.
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• LAW 6005: Law, Business & the Workplace

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Course content includes the various business entities and the steps necessary for creation and operation, from initial and amended articles of incorporation, state filing requirements, stock certificates and securities, stock ledgers and books, resolutions, dividends and stock splits, employment agreements, as well as introducing other business forms from partnerships to limited liability corporations. In the employment sector, coverage will examine constitutional and statutory protection related to employee rights from benefits and pensions to discrimination remedies. Collective bargaining and other labor questions will be keenly assessed as well as emerging workplace questions involving maternity and family leave, wages and compensation, COBRA, free expression and religious rights and novel forms of disability claims.
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