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PROGRAM AND DESCRIPTION OF CLASSES

ENTERTAINMENT LAW
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
This course is an overview of those aspects of entertainment law, other than copyright, encompassed in the relationships between artist, and personal manager, artist and agent, artist and record producer, artist and motion picture producer. Other areas explored are: right of publicity, and performers rights; protection of ideas by property, quasi-contract, and express and implied contract theories; television packaging deals; and motion picture financing and distribution.

ESTATE AND GIFT TAXATION
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
Regulations of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the amount of gross estate, deductions and exemptions, taxability of intervivos gifts.

EVIDENCE
Two Semester/Session - 6 Units
The law relating to relevancy and materialbility, privileged communications, the heresay rule and its exceptions, the opinions rules, authentication and the best evidence rule, impeachment and rehabilitation, presumptions, and burden of proof, parole evidence rule.

FAMILY LAW
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
The law of family relations including the law of marriage and annulment, divorce, legitimacy of children, custody and adoption.

FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE TAX
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
This is a basic course in corporate tax problems and includes a detailed consideration of reorganization problems of organizing corporation, corporate taxable income, the relationship between corporate earnings and individual taxes, stock redemptions, stock dividends and recapitalazations, taxfree division, reincorporation and redemptions

INCOME TAXATION ALSO INTRODUCTION OF TAXATION
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
The regulations of the Internal Revenue Code relating to income deductions, exemptions, depreciation, and capital gains and losses.

INSURANCE LAW
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
Insurance contracts, types of coverage, insurable interests, beneficiary rights, credit and assignee rights, powers and duties of insurer and insured examined; as well as the rose of insurance in commercial and personal transactions.

INTERNATIONAL LAW
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
The course deals with the bases of jurisdiction in the international community, resolution of conflicts between legal systems, the nature and sources of international law, standards for international trade and investment, international and regional courts and organizations, and control of the use of force in international disputes.

INTRODUCTION TO LAW *
One Semester/Session - 3 Units
An introduction to the process of legal analysis, the case method, legal research, decision making process of the courts, the legislature. Use of the law library; techniques for reading and legal analyzing.

The above courses are not meant as an exclusive list. Courses and content may be added to the curriculum or taken from it at the discretion of the administration. Each unit represents 15 hours of classroom instruction.



 
 

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