| Credit Hours: | 1 |
| Description: | This is a three-credit, one-semester course for upper-class students. It will introduce students to the substantive and procedural issues that underlie multi-plaintiff litigation, whether consolidated actions or class actions. The course will focus heavily on pharmaceutical litigation (involving Vioxx, Baycol, and diet drugs) and environmental litigation (involving the BP Oil spill). The course will also address the domestic litigation that sometimes precedes or accompanies foreign litigation (including the nine-year forum nonconveniens litigation and the nationwide discovery motions filed in Aguinda v. Chevron, a case originally filed in the United States but ultimately litigated to judgment in Ecuador). Class meetings will include lecture, discussion and group exercise (students will frequently advocate orally for assigned clients). They will also include ample use of technology, e.g., PowerPoint presentations and film clip viewings. |
| Prerequisite: | None |
| AWR Possible: |
AWR Research |
| Enrollment Cap: |
20 |
Salmon P. Chase College of Law
Office of Admissions
1 Nunn Drive, 216 Nunn Hall
Highland Heights, KY 41099
859-572-5490
