Examsoft Reminder

Just a reminder about the following download deadlines:

ALA with Professor Reeves:  Ends 5/10/14

All other exams: 4/28/14

Here are some things to remember with the software:

  1. There are a default of 10 questions on every Examsoft exam file that you download.
  2. Do not leave the room after your exam until you receive the screen that has the green check mark congratulating you on a successful upload.
  3. Be sure to have your computer’s power plugged in.
  4. PC users will not have to input their student ID when starting an exam.  However Mac users will.
  5. Show up to your exam at least 15 minutes early.

If you have any questions, please contact law-support@uakron.edu.

Advanced Legal Applications for Fall 2014

The Fall Advanced Legal Applications course is offered first to students graduating in December 2014 that are required to take the course.  These students will receive an email once they have been identified.  Registration will take place after the July 1st Law School graduation application deadline to insure that all students intending to graduate in December 2014 have applied for graduation.  Once all required students are registered for the course then any remaining seats will be filled from a waitlist for December 2014 graduates only.  If you would like to be placed on the waitlist for the Fall offering, please email Misty D. Franklin at misty@uakron.edu.

Fall 2014 Updated Course Information

The following courses are on the Fall 2014 schedule and were listed as TBA for course meeting dates and times.  We have now confirmed with our adjunct professors the following:

New since posting of schedule:

(76961) 9200:659-801 – Negotiations with Professor Irv Sugerman.  This course will meet on Saturdays, October 11, 18 and 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and on Saturday, November 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  Attendance is required at all sessions to obtain credit for the course.

(74525) 9200:816-801 – International Patent Law with Professor John Hornickel.  This course will meet on Saturday, September 20th from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, September 27th from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.  Attendance is required at all sessions to obtain credit for the course.

Changed since schedule posting:

(73537) 9200:659-001 – Negotiations with Professor William Dowling.  This course will meet on Wednesdays from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. beginning October 8th and ending on November 19th.

New Course Opportunities and New Faculty for Fall 2014

The Fall 2014 course offerings include three new courses, two of them offered by our two extraordinary new faculty members, the third by an alum with deep practice experience in the field:

Entrepreneurship – Professor Patrick Gaughan will offer this interdisciplinary course designed to prepare you to serve entrepreneurial business clients and venture capital supported firms. This training can get you in on the ground floor of the start-up businesses so vital to economic growth. Think Amazon, Google, Apple, and so many others that began in someone’s garage. Those businesses will need you.

Professor Gaughan, is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Innovation Practice Center at the University of Akron. The IPC is part of the major Presidential Achieving Distinction initiative aimed at enhancing the stature of the University of Akron and the economy of this region. Prof. Gaughan has successfully obtained private equity investment in both high-tech and traditional investments.

2.  Cyberlaw – Cyberlaw returns to the curriculum with the arrival of Prof. Jacqueline Lipton as the new Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology. The course will address a wide range of the legal issues posed by continuing developments in cyberspace, including jurisdiction, freedom of expression, trademark, copyright, and associated intellectual property issues, privacy and defamation, and Internet governance.

Prof. Lipton joins us from the University of Houston Law Center, where she was the Baker Botts Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law. Before that, she served as Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

3.  Advertising Law – Adjunct Professor Adam Ekonomon will offer this two-credit course surveying the full range of a subject important to any business that wants to sell its products. An Akron alum, Professor Ekonomon is Director of Marketing, Advertising and Regulatory Law and Assistant General Counsel at The J.M. Smucker Company. With experience like Smuckers, the course has to be good!

 

 

 

What is Cyberlaw?

Have you ever wondered “What is Cyberlaw?”  Take this course from Jacqueline D. Lipton this fall.  Professor Lipton has described this course as follows:

The cyberlaw course examines ways in which the unprecedented rise of global digital communications has impacted various areas of law and the extent to which this necessitates an acknowledgment of a new “field” of law that may be termed cyberlaw, cyberspace law, internet law, or digital information law.  And, if so, what that field may comprise.  The course will focus on the impact of the internet and other digital technologies on legal issues such as: jurisdiction; freedom of expression; trademark and copyright law, and associated intellectual property issues; privacy and defamation; and internet governance.