Differentiating yourself in the legal job market begins by standing out in Capital University Law School classes. Whether you’re a current Capital student or visiting us from another institution, make the most of your summer and get ahead with one of our intensive course offerings taught by professors who are nationally recognized legal experts in their fields. Courses feature a one week intensive format, giving you the flexibility to accelerate your studies and lighten your work load in future semesters.
Capital’s summer Law School classes will help you develop the skills needed to maximize your potential in the legal profession. Our summer classes cover a wide array of subjects in emerging fields, with Capital being one of a very few law schools to offer a course in Ridesharing and Autonomous Vehicle Litigation. Our intensive summer courses also include the highly respected Summer Adoption Law Institute, the Trademark Prosecution class with experiential learning opportunities, and Divorce Mediation, which will satisfy one of the requirements an attorney must meet to be included on any list of court-approved family mediators.
Capital University Law School welcomes visiting student applications from students who are in good standing at an ABA-accredited law school in the United States. Visiting status allows students to transfer credits for coursework completed at Capital Law back to their home institution.
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SUMMER COURSES
Law 933 Ridesharing & Autonomous Vehicle Litigation (1cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Saturday, May 23 & Saturday, May 30
9am-5pm
DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the practical implications that changing technology plays in the role of tort law. The goal of this course is to examine how traditional tort law has adapted and been changed to apply to technologies and business relationships that did not traditional exist in tort law. This course will also exam the role that insurance plays in tort law, from shaping policies to compensating injured parties. Further, this course will discuss and exam the statutory and regulatory response to that has occurred in response to several of these emerging technologies.
Law 843 Judging and the Nature of Justice (2cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, July 13-Friday, July 17
Noon‐5:10 pm
DESCRIPTION: This course will examine the ethical and legal responsibilities of the neutral arbiter of disputes and debate the appropriate role of judges in making, interpreting and applying law. It will include analysis of various judicial philosophies and the contemporary theories of law which influence their development. Through readings and excerpts from film, it will trace notions and concepts of justice through time with an emphasis on the evolution of the administration of justice in contemporary U.S. society. Discussion will focus on topics such as methods of factual decision-making, judicial ethics, judicial writing and the characteristics intrinsic to those who are perceived as “good” and “bad” judges. Lastly, the course will provide an opportunity to compare the practical realities of the profession of judging with aspirational notions of “justice”.
Law 904 Negotiation (2 cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, July 20-Friday, July 24
8 am‐1:10 pm
DESCRIPTION: Selected materials in negotiation, the process by which lawyers resolve 90% of their clients' legal problems. Topics include selecting appropriate strategies for a particular negotiation, planning for a negotiation, and implementing strategy, selecting tactics and considering ethical issues of misrepresentation and zealous advocacy.
Law 903 Business Negotiations (2 cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, July 20-Friday, July 24
8 am‐1:10 pm
DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for students who have taken an introductory Negotiation course and wish to learn about the use of negotiation in the business environment. A student who completes this course will acquire: a comprehensive and well-founded knowledge of business negotiation necessary for successful negotiation in business; the skills and abilities necessary to engage successfully in negotiation in various business and organization settings; an understanding of how the discipline of law relates to business negotiation; the ability to identify problems, create solutions, innovate, and improve current practices in business negotiations; and the ability to think creatively to reach mutually satisfactory negotiated outcomes in business.
Law 932 Trademark Prosecution & Practice (1 cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, July 20-Friday, July 24
9 am-12 pm
DESCRIPTION: Course will provide a comprehensive review of trademark law and teach students the process of selecting, clearing, prosecuting and maintaining a trademark. The course will start with students (as clients) creating a new business or product name. Students will learn how to advise a client and apply trademark law to assist with selecting an effective trademark. The course will focus on the skills to research and clear a trademark for use and the process of preparing and prosecuting a trademark application with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Students will understand the trademark examination process and will prepare an application, respond to an office action from the USPTO, and know how to perfect the registration, and protect and maintain the mark after registration.
Law 902 Dispute Resolution (2 cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, July 27-Friday, July 31
8 am ‐1:10 pm
DESCRIPTION: Study of the major alternatives to litigation for the resolution of disputes including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and court-annexed procedures. Theoretical materials applied in simulated exercises.
Law 910 Mediation (2cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, July 27-Friday, July 31
8 am-1:10 pm
DESCRIPTION: This course approaches mediation from the advocate's perspective. Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of mediation and will learn when to use mediation as a settlement process. Learning objectives will be met through in class role-plays, reading assignments, written analysis of mediation role-plays, and a final examination.
Law 825 Summer Adoption Law Institute (SALI) (2cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, Aug. 10-Friday, Aug. 14
8 am-1:10 pm
DESCRIPTION: The Family and Youth Law Center teaches the Summer Adoption Law Institute as a summer intensive course to explores issues relating to adoption law. The course content will include the history of adoption law and child welfare law in the United States, Constitutional rights in the family context, types of adoption, parties to adoption, adoption procedure, confidentiality and records in adoption, the Indian Child Welfare Act, race and sexual orientation issues in adoption, interstate dimensions of adoption, assisted reproductive technologies, and wrongful adoptions. Class participants will be provided in-class opportunities for discussion and the opportunity to interact with guest speakers and families involved in adoption. This course is open to law students and practicing attorneys seeking CLE credit. The Institute is offered over five consecutive days in the summer of even-numbered years.
Law 911 Divorce Mediation (3cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, Aug. 10-Friday, Aug. 14
8 am‐5: 30 pm
DESCRIPTION: Mediation in the domestic/divorce arena combines a thorough understanding of the basic skills of mediation with the substantive knowledge of the relevant issues on divorce such as custody, visitation, support and property division. The student will receive education and training that will explore these areas as well as provide the necessary educational requirements to comply with the standard divorce/domestic mediation certification. This course is well suited for those future attorneys who wish to mediate divorce cases or to represent clients in divorce mediations. A final exam is given. This course has been approved by the Ohio Supreme Court to meet the requirement of Rule 16 of the Ohio Rules of Superintendence for a 40-hour course in specialized family or divorce mediation. Students interested in practicing in Ohio and being included on any list of court-approved family mediators should refer to Rule 16 for other Ohio Supreme Court requirements. Students must have completed a course in mediation such as Law 910.
Law 849 E Discovery (2cr)
DATES & TIMES:
Monday, Aug. 10-Friday, Aug. 14
Noon-5:10 pm
DESCRIPTION:This course covers legal issues pertaining to discovery of electronically stored evidence (ESI) in civil litigation. The course will provide traditional doctrinal instruction about the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence pertaining to the discovery of ESI and case law interpreting these provisions. Additionally, the course will provide instruction on and opportunities to practice skills essential to managing the production and review of ESI. Finally, the course will provide a basic introduction to the technology most commonly used in the production and review of ESI. The course will explore issues surrounding ESI throughout the entire course of civil litigation from the duty to preserve to the eventual admissibility at trial of ESI.