Emory Law Offers Spring Courses for Employees

Emory Law is offering several courses in the spring semester which are open to University employees. Emory employees may take courses as a student-in-special-standing using the courtesy scholarship, with tuition and fees for up to 5 credit hours per semester covered. The courses offered are as follows:

The American Legal System
Tuesdays, 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 pm
This course introduces the constitutional principles, governmental structures, and fundamental legal rules that define the American legal system.  It explores the structure and role of the U.S. judicial system and introduces students to the basic principles of legal reasoning.  

Contracts
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 pm
This course explores the basic principles governing the formation, performance, and enforcement of contractual obligations, and the role of these principles in the ordering our economic and social life.

Higher Education Law
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 pm
This course exposes a range of administrative challenges in higher education that entails legal and ethical implications, beginning with the basis from which higher education law originates, current (case, state and regulatory) law as well as risk management and liability issues for higher education.

The new semester at the Law School begins January 3rd. For more information about how to enroll, please email Lynn Labuda, Emory Law’s Director of Graduate Programs.