Students must complete sixty-seven units of required courses in order to satisfy the Law School's graduation requirements. For information regarding the sequencing of classes, please see the Student Handbook, XII. Appendix A, “Program of Study,” here: https://www.tjsl.edu/student-life
CALS 101
Contracts
This course covers the law relating to formation of contracts, the Statute of Frauds, third-party beneficiary contracts, assignment of rights and delegation of duties and liability for breach of contract, including the law of conditions and discharge, and available remedies.
Credits: 5.00
CALS 103
Civil Procedure
This course introduces a number of basic skills that are essential to legal practice while providing students with a fundamental understanding of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Topics include subject matter and personal jurisdiction, venue, Forum Non Conveniens, the Erie Doctrine, pleadings, sanctions, joinder of claims and parties, class actions, discovery, motions to dismiss and summary judgment, motions for judgment as a matter of law and new trial motions, jury trials, appellate jurisdiction, and claim and issue preclusion.
Credits: 5.00
CALS 105
Criminal Law
This course covers the basic substantive criminal law, discussion of concepts of mens rea, actus reus, causation, the inchoate offences and the Model Penal Code. The basic common law crimes and defenses comprise the majority of the course.
Credits: 3.00
CALS 106
Criminal Procedure
This course covers the procedural rules governing the investigation of crimes and the use of the Exclusionary Rule as an enforcement mechanism. It covers all aspects of the Fourth Amendment as well as the Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Clause and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel Clause as they apply to the investigative phase of a criminal prosecution
Prereq: CALS 101 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 And CALS 111 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 3.00
CALS 111
Torts
This course examines civil liability independent of contract, including torts based on intentional conduct, strict liability, or negligence, and the available remedies for each type of tort.
Credits: 5.00
CALS 115
Business Associations
This course provides a broad survey of the legal rules controlling the formation, financing, operation, governance and dissolution of business enterprises. It provides an overview to agency principles and the legal entities through which business activities are carried out, including partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. The primary focus of the course is on the corporate form of doing business, with an emphasis on the roles of management and shareholders, fiduciary obligations, and the anti-fraud provisions governing securities trading.
Prereq: CALS 101 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 And CALS 111 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 3.00
CALS 119
Learning Skills
This course enables students to acquire the skills needed to succeed in law school. It focuses on material relevant to the student’s other course(s) offered during the same semester. The course will provide practice in case-briefing, multiple choice test-taking, essay writing using IRAC as the building block for legal analysis, and self-analysis. This class is graded on the credit/no credit scale. Credits: 1.00
CALS 135
Constitutional Law I
This course examines the scope of federal powers, the separation powers, the federal system, due process, equal protection, and the First Amendment.
Prereq: CALS 101 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 And CALS 111 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 3.00
CALS 136
Constitutional Law II
This course examines the scope of federal powers, the separation powers, the federal system, due process, equal protection, and the First Amendment.
Credits: 3.00
CALS 138
Evidence
This course examines the law relating to relevance, special exclusionary rules, privileged communications, the hearsay rule and its exception, the opinion rules, authentication and the best evidence rule, impeachment and rehabilitation, presumptions, burdens of proof and character evidence.
Credits: 4.00
CALS 140
Professional Responsibility
This course examines relevant codes and cases in an attempt to better understand a lawyer's ethical obligations and conflicts.
Credits: 3.00
CALS 145
Property Law
Covering a range of topics relating primarily to the acquisition, ownership, leasing, and sale of land, possessory, non-possessory, and future interests in land, and regulation through public and private means of land use.
Credits: 5.00
CALS 166
Remedies
This course addresses the theory and practice of the law relating to the various forms of legal and equitable relief, including: various measures of damages for both tort and contract cases; specific forms of relief such as replevin, ejectment and specific performance; injunctive relief; and legal and equitable forms of restitutionary remedies.
Prereq: CALS 101 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 And CALS 103 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 And CALS 111 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00
Credits: 3.00
CALS 167
Community Property
This course explores the classification of separate and community property, management and control of the community, liability for debts and problems arising from the dissolution of the community or death of a spouse.
Prereq: CALS 145 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 2.00
CALS 171
Wills & Trusts
This course examines the law of disposition of property through inter vivos and testamentary means: intestate succession; execution, alteration and revocation of wills; family protections and restrictions on testation; will substitutes; probate and will contests; creation, modification, and administration of various types of trusts and related trust issues.
Prereq: CALS 145 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 3.00
CALS 199
Legal Writing II
This course builds upon the concepts taught in Legal Writing I. Students research and write trial court and appellate court briefs and participate in an appellate oral argument.
Credits: 3.00
CALS 202
California Civil Procedure
This course examines practical aspects of civil litigation in California, highlighting differences between the California Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Prereq: CALS 103 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 2.00
CALS 225
California Evidence
This course surveys California evidence rules with particular emphasis on the important differences between the state’s rules and the Federal Rules of Evidence. The materials will focus on all aspects of evidence, reviewing of important evidentiary principles learned in the federal Evidence course.
Prereq: CALS 138 Lecture Min Credits: 4.00 Credits: 2.00
CALS 533
MBE Mastery
This course focuses on the skills used to successfully answer MBE multiple choice questions and reviews relevant substantive law while providing an opportunity for students to practice reasoning and analysis. Students are eligible to take this course during the student’s next-to-last semester of law school.
Prereq: CALS 135 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 And CALS 145 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 3.00
CALS 646
Bar Exam Fundamentals
This course re-introduces students to doctrinal subjects tested on the multi-state bar exam (MBE) prior to students commencing bar review. The course reviews key topics within selected MBE bar subjects, reviews multiple-choice test-taking strategies and skills, highlights approaches needed to answer bar essay questions, and provides students with opportunities to develop their
multiple-choice and essay-writing skills in order to prepare effectively for the bar exam. Students are eligible to take this course in their last semester of law school.
Prereq: CALS 101 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 And CALS 111 Lecture Min Credits: 5.00 Credits: 3.00