Opportunities for students to pursue law and science studies at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law abound in upper division course offerings. Reflecting faculty interests, the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law offers a considerable breadth of courses in the area of law, science and technology. These include:

• Intellectual property (copyright, patent law, patent prosecution, patent litigation, trademarks, trade secrets, high technology licensing, intellectual property in cyberspace, international intellectual property, patent law clinic); 
• Scientific evidence (including legal statistics); 
• Biotechnology law (genetics and the law, nanotechnology law, biotechnology: law, science and policy, Federal Drug Administration regulation, controversies in global health and agricultural biotechnology);
• Health law (public health law and policy, law and medicine, medical malpractice, research ethics, private health law, bioethics); 
• Environmental law (natural resources law, water resources law, land use planning and regulation, international environmental law, timber and range law, environmental justice, tribal environmental law, legal issues in sustainability, international trade and sustainable development, environmental litigation); 
• Law and psychology (family law, neuroscience and the law, gender and family policy, mental health law, law and psychology in the trial process, cults and religions, probabilities and science in the courtroom, empirical research and the legal process); 
• Courses on particular products and industries (antitrust, media law, national and international computer law, products liability, entertainment law, sports law, employment law);
• Various other courses with science and technology content (privacy, the scientific revolution, law and social sciences). 

The Nanotechnology Law and Neuroscience and the Law courses are among the first in any law school to pursue these subjects.  The law and psychology focus can include a joint J.D / Ph.D. in psychology curriculum.  Several faculty members offer interdisciplinary courses and many teach as guest lecturers in other departments. For example, Faculty Fellow Andrew Askland collaborates with Global Institute of Sustainability Professor Jonathan Fink to teach Legal Issues in Sustainability.

In addition to regular courses, students arrange independent studies, enroll in for-credit externships with technical content (e.g., at ASU's Biodesign Institute and the Translational Genomic Institute (TGen)) and cross-register for course credit with other departments on campus. There is also a technology and entrepreneurship clinical opportunity with the Innovation Advancement Program.  The Center continually explores new opportunities, in addition to specific interdisciplinary teaching projects, to further enrich student experience.


 

Innovation Law Handbook (pdf)

Center Student Papers

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