Advanced Family Law: Domestic Violence Law LAW 712B
Course Number: LAW 712B
Course Credits: 2
This course will consider U.S. legal system responses to problem of domestic violence. The focus will be an examination of the intersection of domestic violence with family and criminal law as well as the civil protective order remedy. Other topics will include remedies for immigrant survivors of domestic violence and law enforcement liability for failure to protect against domestic violence. Finally, the course will discuss domestic violence in the context of international human rights law.