From CNN

MALIBU, California (AP) — Kenneth W. Starr, who led the investigation into President Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky, has been named dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law, a school official said.

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502 - Jurisdiction and Choice Of Law

The course deals with the special problems arising in cases involving more that one jurisdiction (state or nation), i.e. cross-boundary disputes. Special attention is given to how a complicated, interjurisdictional case can mean unlimited billing hours for you and yours.

520 Contracts

This course is an introduction to commercial and consumer law and lays the foundation for advanced study in commercial transactions, corporations, restitution, consumer credit, and investment securities. Substantively, the Contracts course deals with how contracts are formed, which contracts are valid, and how to score massive contracts as a perfectly legal quid pro quo for serving the interests of corporate and political money makin’ machines. The course is also designed to introduce the student to legal methodology and the techniques of statutory interpretation, but just ‘cuz something’s designed to do something doesn’t mean it can’t be used to do something else, n’est-ce pas? Anybody for racquetball?

540 - Intro to Constitutional Law

This course introduces the student to certain fundamental cases in Constitutional law, to the questions they raise, and to the modes of thought and criticism appropriate to this field. Major questions include: What is the justification for judicial review? What are appropriate occasions and standards for getting totally hot, steamy testimony? Okay, how can you MAKE them appropriate, and how can you make witnesses tell you the story really, really slowly but then a little faster towards the end and then leaving pretty quickly afterwards so that things don’t get awkward or strained? Hey, lookit the funbags on that second-year coed in the first row! Whatsamatter, mamacita, you only put out for Democrats? No, I’LL tell YOU what’s relevant. C’mere. Don’t make me subpoena you, sweet cheeks… Also: How has the power actually been used throughout our history? Campaign finance reform advocates: Jealous thugs, anti-free-speech nazis, or just plain assholes?

714 - The Nature of Law

This course will introduce students to certain central issues of legal philosophy - those that arise when one considers classical and contemporary answers to the question, “What is law and why does it matter?” Issues to be considered include: the arguments for legal positivism and its alternatives; the reasons why only suckers remain judges for too long; ethics, principles and when they become superfluous; and the implications of legal theory for theories about how courts should and do decide cases, and why those decisions really aren’t the point, when you really think about it.