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For Immediate Release
January 19, 2007

Contact:
Christi Fish
cfish@wilkinguge.com
(909) 625-2225 ext. 15

ULV College of Law Adds “Law and Terrorism” to Spring 2007 Course Roster

Ontario, Calif., January 19, 2007 – Should the increased risk of terrorism justify restrictions on civil liberties? How should the criminal justice system respond to terrorism? Can a suspected terrorist obtain a “fair” trial outside the domestic criminal justice system? What should the law say about compensating of victims of terrorism? These and other questions will be explored this spring in Law & Terrorism, a new upper-division elective offered to future attorneys studying at University of La Verne College of Law. The interdisciplinary course will call upon diverse areas of the law including domestic criminal law and procedure, public international law, regulatory law, torts and civil procedure.

“Law school is about engaging the world,” said John Linarelli, professor of law at ULV and the course’s instructor. “A common misconception persists that international law only happens outside a country’s borders. On the contrary, to effectively represent our clients, lawyers in the twenty-first century must be sensitive to the international and comparative contexts of our practices, in whatever fields we practice. The distinction between the domestic and the international is outmoded.”

Topics covered in Law and Terrorism include the relationship between terrorism and criminal law and procedure, problems in the criminal prosecution of suspected terrorists, legal issues concerning the use of military force to combat terrorism, law relating to detention of suspected terrorists, the use of military tribunals to prosecute suspected terrorists, civil liberties questions relating to government investigation of suspected terrorist activities and civil remedies for victims of terrorism.

“I distinctly recall one of my first-year law professors telling my class there is a premium on creativity in the law, and I have tried to remember that in my own work and transmit it to my students,” Linarelli added. “Students must critically engage with the important questions of the day, which is why Law and Terrorism is so important to the law school curriculum.”

In addition to Law & Terrorism, ULV College of Law will offer three other new courses to students: Contract Theory Seminar (taught by Professor Juanda Daniel), Computer Game Law Seminar (taught by Professor Ashley Lipson) and White Collar Crimes (taught by Robert Stacy and Jerry Behnke).

About the University of La Verne College of Law
Located in Ontario, Calif., University of La Verne College of Law serves over 3.8 million people as the only ABA-accredited law school in Inland Southern California and an additional 2.2 million people in San Gabriel Valley and Eastern Los Angeles County. Applications are accepted year round. For more information about the College of Law, please call (909) 460-2001 or visit the Web at http://law.ulv.edu.

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The University of La Verne College of Law was provisionally approved by the American Bar Association on February 13, 2006.

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