Course I: Doing Deals Across the World: Advising Global Entrepreneurs (3 credits)
Monday–Thursday, June 26–29 and Monday–Thursday, July 3–6, 2023
Work alongside start-up business entrepreneurs located in the United States and England as they introduce an environmentally-friendly “eco-stove” that is great for camping and has sparked interest as an exciting tool to revolutionize development in third world countries.
Advise the entrepreneurs on business, legal, and cross-cultural issues as they launch their business and explore global opportunities to supply the eco-stove in diverse regions of the world. In this simulation course, you will counsel, problem solve and negotiate on behalf of the start-up business entrepreneurs and address key issues including:
- Analyzing global business strategies
- Comparing opportunities and risks presented by the legal systems of the US and England
- Structuring business transactions
- Negotiating hot button provisions
- Drafting selected cross-border agreements
- Understanding cross-cultural elements of doing business deals
- Resolving legal, business and ethical issues
Taught by Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professors Leanne Fuith and Denise Roy along with experienced faculty from University of Greenwich School: Law and Criminology and other international faculty.
Course II: Global Environmental Law (2 credits)
Monday–Thursday, June 26–29 and Monday–Thursday, July 3–6, 2023
This course introduces students to international and comparative environmental and natural resource regulation pertinent to startup businesses. Students will approach these issues from the perspective of counsel advising a startup on such issues as sourcing raw materials such as endangered-species woods and rare-earth minerals; siting production facilities and the attendant environmental justice issues; management of environmental impacts associated with maritime supply chains; and management of air and water pollution as well as waste disposal associated with production.
Students successfully completing this course should be able to:
- Explain, compare, and apply legal principles governing extraction of natural resources and protection of endangered species under international law and the domestic legal regimes of the U.S., U.K., and other countries
- Explain, compare, and apply legal principles governing land use, siting, and environmental justice under the domestic legal regimes of the U.S., U.K., and other countries
- Explain, compare, and apply legal principles governing pollution control (air pollution, water pollution, waste disposal) under international law and the domestic legal regimes of the U.S., U.K., and other countries
- Efficiently and effectively formulate and communicate advice on these issues to a business client
Taught by Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professor Mehmet Konar-Steenberg along with experienced faculty from University of Greenwich School: Law and Criminology and other international faculty.
Course III: Comparative Criminal, Constitutional, and Statutory Law and Practice: The Strange Case of Napoleon Felhaber (3 credits)
Tuesday–Friday, July 11–14 and Tuesday–Friday, July 18–21, 2023
Students will have the rare opportunity to act as the clerk for a high court judge (Supreme Court) assigned to write the opinion in the remarkable case of Midstate v. Felhaber. This case will decide the future of criminal law and practice. The high court judge has asked you to write the preliminary opinion as the judge respects your insights and intelligence. Working as a member of a team, you will explore and analyze many issues facing the famous record producer, Napoleon Felhaber, as the case travels from the crime to the Supreme Court. Your analysis will be based on your own personal philosophy of criminal law and procedure as it applies to precedent and common law. The judge has told you that you may write the opinion any way you please. Has Napoleon met his Waterloo?
Students will address:
- The role of the attorney in criminal law and practice
- Training
- Becoming a lawyer
- Finding a job
- Getting paid
- How crimes become law
- Interpreting and applying the language of the criminal code
- Interpreting and applying the law and theory dealing with:
- Charging a person with a crime
- Arrest
- Search and seizure
- The identification process
- Trial (jury or court)
- Effective assistance of counsel
- Sentencing
- Appeal
- The role of public opinion and politics
Taught by Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professor John Sonsteng and Rick Petry along with experienced faculty from University of Greenwich School: Law and Criminology and other international faculty.
Course IV: Movement of Workers and Comparative Asylum Law, Practice and Procedure: Can They Stay or Must They Go? (2 credits)
Tuesday–Friday, July 11–14 and Tuesday–Friday, July 18–21, 2023
In Movement of Workers and Comparative Asylum Law, Practice and Procedure: Can They Stay or Must They Go?, students will have the opportunity to learn about the US and UK immigration systems, generally and how an unaccompanied minor would navigate the US and UK immigration systems and request asylum.
During the first week of the course, students will learn about general legal principles related to the US, UK and EU immigration systems, including:
- Paths to acquiring permanent resident status (US), indefinite leave to remain status (UK) and permanent status in EU member countries based on a family relationship or through employer sponsorship;
- Temporary Visa Options for Low-Skilled and High-Skilled Workers in the US and UK;
- Treaty-Based Visa Options in the US (NAFTA) and the UK (Commonwealth Countries and the EU Pre-Brexit);
- Movement of labor within the EU Common Market;
- The impact of NAFTA 2.0 and Brexit to movement of labor in the US and UK; and
- Acquired Citizenship and Citizenship through Naturalization in the US, UK and EU member states.
The second week of the course will focus on asylum law and other humanitarian remedies available to those fleeing persecution or civil conflicts in their home countries. The second week will also use a simulation exercise, where students will prepare an asylum application on behalf of a hypothetical unaccompanied minor client, to better understand application of US asylum law in practice when representing asylum seekers. Topics during week 2 will include:
- Overview of International Asylum and Refugee Law under the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol;
- General overview of US Asylum Law, including elements of an asylum claim under US law;
- Evolution of the “Particular Social Group” ground for asylum under US law;
- Overview of UK Asylum Law and other humanitarian remedies available under UK law;
- Survey of Asylum Law in EU Member Countries;
- Comparison of “immigration crisis” at US Southern Border and EU “countries of first arrival” in Southern Europe; and
- Discussion of Economic, Political and Human Rights impact of Global Refugee Crisis
Taught by Mitchell Hamline School of Law Professors Ana Pottratz Acosta and Paula Duthoy along with experienced faculty from University of Greenwich School: Law and Criminology and other international faculty.
*Mitchell Hamline credits will only be awarded to U.S. law students for either or both courses taken.
Course location and format
The London courses will be held at: University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS, United Kingdom.
The courses are comprised of a combination of lectures and class discussion and extensive small group break-out sessions that require hands-on practical application of topics under discussion.
Grading
Students will be awarded a letter grade on an A-F scale based on criteria announced by each faculty member. Acceptance of any credit or grade for any course taken in the program is subject to determination by the participant’s home school.
Workload
All courses are condensed and intensive 3 credit courses. Under ABA requirements, students must complete required hours for in-class and out-of-class work.
Anticipated course workload:
- 3 credits-Total 131 hours
- 2 credits-Total 94 hours
- 48 hours of class time for a 3-credit course
- 28 hours of class time for a 2-credit course
- 8 hours of pre-course prep (reading and understanding practicum exercises, assignments, and preparatory reading)
- 16 hours daily prep (2 hours per day for a 2–and 3-credit course)
- 3-credit course: 9 hours for three short projects/papers (3 hours each for a 3-credit course)
- 2-credit course: 4 hours for two short projects/papers (2 hours each for a 2-credit course)
- 3-credit course 50 hours of preparation and writing of final paper/project (due dates to be determined)
- 2-credit course 40 hours of preparation and writing of final paper/project (due dates to be determined)
Papers/projects
In lieu of a final examination:
Students taking Course I and/or III will complete:
- three short papers not to exceed 6 pages.
- a final long paper/project that will be due, not to exceed 16 double-spaced pages after the end of the session on Friday, August 11, 2023.
Students taking Course II and/or IV will complete:
- three short papers not to exceed 4 pages.
- a final long paper/project that will be due, not to exceed 14 double-spaced pages after the end of the session on Friday, August 11, 2023.
Course calendar
Course I: Doing Deals Across the World: Advising Global Entrepreneurs, and
Course II: Comparative International Environmental Law
| June & July 2023^ | ||||||
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| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| June 26 | June 27 | June 28 | June 29 | June 30 | July 1 | |
| Week 1 |
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| Course I | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | Free for travel | |
| Course II | 3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
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| July 2 | July 3 |
July 4 |
July 5 |
July 6 |
July 7 | July 8 |
| Week 2 |
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| Course I | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | Free for travel | |
| Course II | 3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
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Course III: Comparative Criminal, Constitutional, and Statutory Law and Practice: Strange Case of Napoleon Felhaber, and
Course IV: Can They Stay or Must They Go? Comparative Analysis of Immigration and Asylum Law, Procedures, and Practice
| July 2023 | ||||||
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| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| July 9 | July 10 |
July 11 |
July 12 |
July 13 |
July 14 |
July 15 |
| Week 3 | ||||||
| Course III | Free for travel | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | |
| Course IV | 3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
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| July 16 | July 17 | July 18 |
July 19 |
July 20 |
July 21 |
July 22 |
| Week 4 |
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| Course III | Free for travel | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | 9–3:30 pm | |
| Course IV | 3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
3–6:30 pm |
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^ Calendar subject to change. * There will be a 30 minute lunch break each day of the program.