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my classes for the fall term

By michaelcorleone in Columbia University - Class of 2010 on Sep 29, 2009

 

securities - great professor, lectures are very clear, but he's very very fast.  

corporations - from a visiting prof from oxford. this class is a bit different, since it's more about the economic and public policy foundations of corporations, not so much the rules.
 
global constitutionalism - the prof is a former assistant secretary general in the UN when kofi annan was the sec gen. we're studying the theories on the creation of a constitution that would apply for the world. so the class is a combination of ethics, international law, consti law and international relations. we're reading kant, hobbes, habermas, rawls, and a bunch of the "must reads" in international law and international relations. this class is quite heavy. i spend the whole weekend just working on the readings. 

law in the internet society - this is an intellectual property law class, but is completely different from all the other IP law classes i've taken. rather than building and protecting IP, this is about "destroying" IP law, in the sense that old IP laws no longer work in the internet society. 

seminar on international commercial transactions - it's a survey of the 14 most often encountered transactions in practice and we're introduced to them, one transaction per week. 

Comments

  1. Southpaw, Thu Oct 01, 2009 04:39 PM

    these blogs are great!!! very interesting to hear about your choices. are any of these obligatory or are they all elective classes? kant, habermas, hobbes ?!! is that normal for an llm class? that would bog me down too!

  2. michaelcorleone, Thu Oct 01, 2009 09:05 PM

    these are all elective classes. the only "required" class was a class on "comparative introduction to american law" but i got out of it by passing an opt-out exam. i took global constitutionalism for a change from the hardcore law classes, and also because i'm interested in international law and international relations.

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