SUMMER STUDY : SWEDEN : 2009 COURSES

COMPARATIVE HEALTH LAW
Associate Professor Renee M. Landers
2 credits — 11:30 AM — 1:05 PM

The principal text for the course is Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (2d ed. 2007 Carolina Academic Press) by Timothy Stolzfus Jost.

The course will examine: the right to health care; health care organization and finance; the relationship among patients, professionals, and institutions; patient rights to self-determination in reproductive health care and decisions about terminating treatment; patient rights to privacy in health information; public health law; and regulation of research involving human subjects. There are materials from Europe, the U.S., Japan and developing countries. The course will offer opportunities for students to consider the cultural, political, economic and demographic differences that influence health law and policy.

Course Syllabus

Dear Students: I am looking forward to meeting all of you at the orientation for the Suffolk University Law School Summer Program in Lund, Sweden, in a short while. As you may know from looking at the web page for the program, I have now posted the reading assignments for Comparative Health Law for the first week of classes. We are fortunate that we will have a distinguished speaker on the second day of class from the Swedish Institute for Health Economics. I also want you to know that the electrionic readings for the first two classes are now posted on the "Shared Files" section under "Current Class" on the Campus Cruiser page for the course. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions about the readings or the course. Have a safe trip over to Sweden. Regards, Professor Renée Landers

INTERNATIONAL BANKING
Mitchel S. Ross, Esq.
2 credits — 9:30 AM — 11:05 AM

Text used for course: International Banking: Cases, Materials and Problems, Second Edition, Michael P. Malloy, Carolina Academic Press 2005. Supplement 2008-2009.

This course is an introduction to the regulation of financial services enterprises internationally. It will provide students with a baseline perspective on U.S. banking practices to compare with the regulation of international banking. The course will touch on banking in the European Union, regional financial services regulation under NAFTA, and banking systems in Eastern Europe and the Islamic countries.

At this critical juncture in the current global economy, financial systems play an increasingly central role in the allocation of resources and risks, and in controlling the flow of funds. Students will have the opportunity to explore how developed economies around the world approach the law of financial services in a variety of ways as a result of historical developments, market failures, and political choices.

Grading will be based on final take-home examination.

Mitchel S. Ross, Esq., member of the adjunct faculty, Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, is a partner in the firm of Sweder & Ross LLP. Professor Ross has been engaged in the practice of law since 1970. He also served as general counsel of a four billion dollar financial institution headquartered in Boston. Professor Ross holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Syllabi

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
Professor Jeffrey J. Pokorak
2 credits — 9:30 AM — 11:05 AM

This course will explore aspects of international white collar and corporate crime. The course will begin by studying international criminal law jurisdiction. In our discussion, we will explore the international law of extradition and rendition as well as the United States constitutional regulation of international jurisdiction over persons and evidence. We will also study the United States criminal punishments for money laundering, export control violations and corporate bribery in the international context. Throughout the course we will utilize a number of sources -- international conventions, treaties, model codes and statutes, and information from the media. The goals of the course are to instruct in the area of criminal law regulation of international white collar crime; articulate how such crimes are currently detected, investigated, and punished; and generate ideas regarding ways in which the international criminal justice system might better operate in the growing global community of interdependent finance and trade.

Course syllabus

Book for course: Wise et at, International Criminal Law Cases and Materials, isbn 0820564222

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW - U.S. & FOREIGN PERSPECTIVES
Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau
2 credits — 11:30 AM — 1:05 PM

This course will provide an overview of U.S. intellectual property law including coverage of common law idea protection, trade secrets law, trademark law, patent law, copyright law and the right of publicity. Specific differences between U.S. and foreign law will be explored. Also, international requirements of the TRIPS intellectual property agreement will be examined. Students will be administered an in-class multiple choice examination. Students will be administered an in-class multiple choice examination.

Class assignments listed on Professor Beckerman-Rodau's website.

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Professor Valerie Epps
2 credits — 11:30 a.m. — 1:05 p.m.

This course will introduce students to the field of international law, its nature, sources, and application. Some, or all, of the following topics will be addressed: treaties and international agreements; the law of title to territory; the scope of national jurisdiction, including diplomatic, consular and head of state immunity; terrorism and extradition; the law of the sea; international environmental law; the international capacity of states, international organization, including the United Nations, and individuals; human rights; the peaceful settlement of international disputes, including the work of various international courts and tribunals; and the use of force, including war.

There will be an examination at the end of the course.
Successful completion of the course will satisfy the International Law Concentration requirement of the core course in International Law.

Book for Course; Syllabus; Class Assignments