Our current workshop list is as follows:
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Skills: This workshop provides students the techniques to resolve conflict and promote resolution at the expense of litigation. These tools are a must in any professional field and will become useful for situations in everyday life. Students will be exploring topics such as negotiation, mediation and arbitration.
• Basic Contract Law & Corporations/Agency Law: Study of the nature, formation, and essential elements of contracts, including performance and remedies for breach. Additionally, the workshop covers agency law, including the rights and duties of a principal/an agent, scope of authority and relationships to third persons.
• California State Initiative Process: This workshop will explore the concept of the initiative process, or “direct legislation,” and its impact nationally and within the state. Topics include: direct and representative legislation, popular support, the courts and constitutionality, the rise of special interest and expansion/limitations of the initiative process.
• Civil Liability: Topics include joint and several liability, waivers and releases.
• Comparative Legal Structures: This workshop focuses on national and international organizations, treaties, the European union and human rights. The workshop provides a comparative analysis of American legal systems with foreign countries.
• Consumer Protection: How to protect one’s self from insurance fraud, product recalls, travel scams and telemarketing.
• Controversial Social Issues and Their Constitutional Implications: The line between black and white is not as distinguishable as it once used to be. This workshop will be discussing the legalities of “gray” topics.
• Copyright Law: As technology explodes, it is vital that one protect one’s inventions. Find out what a copyright is, how to get permission to use copyrighted materials and how to procure a copyright.
• Credit Protection: Topics include, but are not limited to, credit and financial scam avoidance, the importance of one’s credit history, review of one’s credit report, correcting credit report inaccuracies, repairing poor credit, building credit history.
• Date Rape & Other Sex Crimes: Targeted towards the aggressor, this workshop provides students with legal definitions of date rape and other sex crimes and explains the legal ramifications of committing such crimes.
• Disorderly Conduct: This workshop concerns the legal consequences of disorderly conduct, noise violations and violent behavior.
• Employee Rights: This workshop focuses on the rights of employees including job contracts, sexual harassment, minimum wage, promotions, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), unemployment benefits and workers’ compensation. Recent case law and agencies that provide services will be discussed as well.
• Environmental Law: This workshop focuses on land use and natural resources law. Areas include clean air compliance, CERCLA litigation, zoning and mining law, environmental impact analysis, liability and recovery, hazardous waste and oil spill response, wetlands and water quality protection and coastal and marine resources law.
• Family Law: This workshop addresses dissolution of marriage, adoption, domestic violence, child custody, domestic partnership and child/spousal support.
• Gender Discrimination: This workshop focuses on the legal consequences of gender discrimination during the hiring process and the employment relationship.
• Government Agencies: This workshop will discuss the various legal arms in the United States: corporate and private firms as well as government and public agencies, and how the interaction affects daily life.
• Identity Theft: What is identity theft (IT)? Identity theft is a crime in which an individual obtains private pieces of information such as a Social Security number or a driver’s license numbers to obtain credit, merchandise, or services in the name in of the victim. This often damages the victim’s credit. This workshop provides methods to protect one’s self from this crime.
• Immigration Law: This workshop covers common immigration procedures. Topics include, but are not limited to, residence by marriage to a U.S. citizen, labor certification, financé visa or by Refugee, Asylee, or Protectee status.
• Internet Privacy: This workshop will provide a history of the development of the Internet. Additionally, the session covers privacy infringements and the Freedom of Information Act.
• Introduction to the Legal System: Topics cover: the distinction between federal and state courts, criminal and civil claims, the role of the prosecution and the defense and the interaction between judicial rulings and legislative deliberations. Participants will meet at the Courthouse.
• Landlord/Tenant Workshop: This workshop focuses on the rights and responsibilities of a tenant or landlord under California law. This is a small workshop designed to aid the student with particular legal needs. Additionally, the workshop leader will suggest several conflict resolution and problem avoidance measures.
• Legal Research Available on the Internet: This workshop focuses on teaching individuals how to use Internet resources to find legal information.
• Malpractice: This workshop provides definitions of malpractice various contexts, including in medicine, biotechnology, law and business.
• Moving Off Campus: We offer this workshop with the Office of Off Campus Housing. It serves to give you all of the legal and practical assistance you need as you move off campus!
• Party Time, Not Jail Time: This workshop focuses on legal consequences of drinking and driving, minor in possession, alcohol and drug policies, using fake identification, possession and sale of illegal narcotics and purchasing alcohol for minors.
• Patent Law: This workshop is designed for any individual in the science/technology field. The workshop offers information about the importance of patents, the consequences of patent infringement and how to successfully receive a patent.
• Pre Law Society: Are you interested in pursuing a career in law? Come learn about different opportunities at UCSD and how you can get involved in law at UCSD.
• Representing Yourself: Did you know that there are many resources available to you for completing simple legal transactions without having to pay outrageous legal fees? This workshop focuses on the legal resources available, where to find them, and how to use them. Topics include Small Claims, Dissolution, Domestic Violence, Restraining Orders, Landlord-Tenant, Wills, and Promissory Notes.
• Small Claims Court: This workshop will give students the opportunity to learn how to file and serve a claim in Small Claims Court, win your claim at the hearing and successfully enforce the judgment.
• Supreme Court Preview, 2002-2003: This workshop will introduce cases the Supreme Court will be deciding during the coming year. Background of the Supreme Court, the Justices and the process will also be covered.
• Tax Seminar: This workshop provides tax professionals from the Federal and State Tax boards to answer questions for California Residents. The focus will be on filing requirements, tax forms, and tax withholding information as it relates to student fellowships, grants and financial aid.
• The U.S. Constitution: What are your basic rights in the United States? An overview of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, the amendments, and watershed issues that made an impact in American history.
• Wills: This workshop covers what a will is, what can be accomplished by a will, what happens when there is no will, guidelines for writing a will, length of time a will is good and who should prepare a will.