WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022 COURSE DETAILS AND ADVICE FACULTY Professor Aïda Alaka will retire at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year. Professor Rory Bahadur will be a visiting professor in New York for the 2021-2022 academic year. Professor Cheryl Nelson Butler will be a visiting professor at Washburn Law during the 2021-2022 academic year. She currently is an associate with the John Chiles Law Firm in Houston, handling contingency employment discrimination and tort claims including worker’s compensation, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and race discrimination. She has taught most recently at Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. She received her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law and her A.B. degree from Harvard University. Professor Antonina Kowalska will return to teaching after being on sabbatical during AY 2020-2021. Professor Bill Rich will return to teach Constitutional Litigation for the spring 2022 session as an emeritus adjunct professor. Professor Tom Romig will retire at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year. NEW ADJUNCT FACULTY Shanelle Dupree will teach Children in the Law in fall 2021. She currently is the Kansas City Regional Director of the Department for Children and Families. She manages resources and staffing across 5 counties for 450 employees. Ms. Dupree received her J.D. from Washburn University School of Law and her B.S. degree from Oklahoma State University. Brittany Lauritsen will be teaching Sports and the Law in spring 2022. She is currently the Assistant Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator at Washburn University. She is the sole compliance officer for 16 varsity sports at the NCAA Division II level, serving over 400 student-athletes. She is an active member of Women Leaders in College Sports, the MIAA Athletic Administrators Committee, and several campus task forces at WU. She received her B.S. from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and her J.D. from Indiana University McKinney School of Law. Kyle Mendenhall will teach Patent Law in fall 2021. He currently is an Intellectual Property & Patent Attorney with the Hovey Williams LLP firm in Overland Park, Kan. He consults with in-house counsel and technology teams to prepare and prosecute patent and trademark applications. Mr. Mendenhall received his J.D. from Drake University Law School and his B.S. degree from the University of Kansas. Rekha Sharma-Crawford will teach Immigration Law in spring 2022. She currently works at the Sharma- Crawford Clinic, a nonprofit organization in Kansas City, Mo., to close the gap between low-income immigrants facing removal and the availability of qualified, affordable representation with the U.S. Immigration Court. Ms. Sharma-Crawford received her J.D. and D.C.L. degrees at Michigan State University. Jennifer Sheldon-Sherman will be teaching Gender, Sexuality, and the Law in spring 2022. She is currently a Career Law Clerk for the Honorable Duane Benton with the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She formerly was a Business and Employment Litigation Associate with Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Ms. Sheldon-Sherman received her B.A. from the University of Kansas and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. Sharla Smith will teach Health Care Law and Policy online for fall 2021. 1 NEW COURSES Advanced Evidence: Expert Witnesses (LW 737; 1 hour): In recent years, the use of expert witnesses has proliferated as both civil and criminal litigation have become more complex and technical. This course introduces students to hiring, deposing, and obtaining trial testimony from an expert in a real case. During class, students will prepare a witness to give a deposition, practice voir dire, and prepare a cross examination of an opposing expert. Students will also learn the applicable FRE, FRCP, and case law. Prerequisite: Evidence. Graded. Advanced Natural Resources Law (LW 774; 2-3 hours): Advanced Natural Resources Law explores legal and policy matters not covered in Oil and Gas, Water Law, Federal Indian Law, and Public Lands Law. These include: the environmental regulation of oil and gas and of water rights; ‘cross-resource’ issues such as the water-energy nexus and water-dependent ecosystems; inter-jurisdictional resources issues (interstate, state- federal, and state-tribal); takings issues in oil and gas development and in water law; and property rights and regulation in renewable energy (hydropower, wind, and solar). Students may opt to take the course for three- hour credit, which requires the completion of a research or readings paper. Doing so satisfies the writing requirement for the Natural Resources Law Certificate as well as the upper-level writing requirement. Prerequisite(s): Oil and Gas Law and Water Law (can be taken concurrently; may be waived by professor). Prior completion recommended: Environmental Law. Graded. Gender, Sexuality, and the Law (LW 934; 3 credit hours): This course will examine the interaction between gender and law in the United States, with a focus on how the law affects and reflects societal constructs of gender and sexuality. The course will explore legal issues such as governmental regulation of sex and gender in the context of reproductive rights, employment, family, and educational institutions. Prerequisites: None. Satisfies perspectives requirement. Graded. Lawyering Competencies II (LW 894; 1 hour): Lawyering Competencies II is the second semester of Lawyering Competencies I, which provides the educational framework for students enrolled in Third Year Anywhere. This is not a self-paced class. Throughout the class students will have readings and/or videos and discussion assignments. In addition to discussion topics, students will also submit weekly journals to the faculty supervisor. Journals will allow students to reflect on what they are learning in the placement and to share information with faculty in a more private setting. This course will help students build competencies identified as important by legal employers while allowing students to undertake reflective learning. Depending on the field placement location, students may acquire competencies in areas such as Lawyering in Rural Locations or International Lawyering. Specific competencies covered in this class will include topics not covered in the Lawyering competencies I course in the fall/first semester and may include, but not be limited, to the following areas. 1) Legal Advertising in Different Markets; 2) Challenges of Legal Representation on a Client’s Budget; 3) The Business of Running a Law Office; 4) Professional Identity and Reputation; 5) Ethical Issues in the Real World – Conflicts and Access to Justice; 6) Referrals and Collaborating with Other Lawyers and Mentors; 7) Battling Burnout – Mental Health for Lawyers. Credit/No Credit. Prerequisite: Eligibility for enrollment in Third Year Anywhere. Sports Law (LW 794; 2 hours): COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS Courses listed on the “Online Courses” list will be offered as fully online, asynchronous classes. Those classes will count toward the maximum number of online credits that students may take under Washburn Law’s academic policies. Other courses that are offered either fully remotely or in a hybrid modality because of COVID-19 mitigation measures will not count towards the maximum number of online credits that students may take under Washburn Law’s academic policies. 2 Washburn Law students who enroll in Multistate Legal Analysis will receive a paid subscription to Adaptibar for use during the semester of enrollment until they take the bar exam. So, February 2022 bar takers who enroll this fall, will have Adaptibar access from August through February 2022. UPPER-LEVEL WRITING AND ORAL PRESENTATION COURSES Course Professor Writing Oral Advanced Intellectual Property (spring) Judd Yes Yes Advanced Natural Resources (spring) Griggs, B. Check/w/Prof. No Alternative Dispute Resolution (fall) Matthews No Yes Clinic: Litigation (fall/spring) Clinic Staff Check/w/Prof. Check/w/Prof. Clinic: Transactional (fall/spring) Jackson, J.T. No Yes Comparative Family Law (fall) Elrod Yes Yes Constitutional Litigation (spring) Rich Yes Yes Corporate Compliance Law (spring) Westbrook Yes Yes Criminal Appeal Advocacy (fall/spring) Hodgkinson Yes No Directed Research (all year) Optional Yes No International Human Rights (fall) Martin Yes Yes Int’l Human Rights/Indigen. Peoples (spring) Kowalska Yes Yes Interviewing & Counseling (spring) Leisinger No Yes Jessup International Competition (all year) Martin Yes Yes Jurisprudence (fall) Rubenstein Student option No Law and Economics (fall) McMillan Yes Yes Law Journal Membership (fall/spring) Duncan Yes check/w/Prof. No Legal History Seminar (spring) Griggs, B. Yes No Moot Court (all year) Jackson, J.D. Yes check/w/Prof. Yes Pretrial Advocacy: Civil (fall) Slinkard No Yes Pretrial Advocacy: Criminal (spring) Francis No Yes Race and the Law (fall) Butler Yes No Tax Policy Seminar (spring) McMillan Yes Yes Transactional Drafting (spring) Westbrook Yes No Trial Advocacy (ITAP) (summer/spring) Jackson/Ossmann No Yes Tribal Law and Government (fall) Kowalska Yes No Writing for Law Practice (fall) Ewert Yes No COURSES WITH LIMITED ENROLLMENT Advanced Intellectual Property (spring) 16 Interviewing and Counseling (spring) 16 Advanced Legal Research (spring) 16 Jurisprudence (fall) 16 Appellate Practice (fall) 16 Law and Economics (fall) 16 Clinic: Litigation – Ewert (fall/spring) 4/8 LARW for the Govt.