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• FAMU Law Advanced Topics in Law: Real Estate

  • Professor: Tshaka Randall
  • Program Assistant: David Castellucci

  The Real Estate course examines the role of the lawyer in each phase of the cycle of creating value in real property, with an emphasis on commercial real estate. The course follows a transactional approach, beginning with the land acquisition. Next, the course focuses on how these transactions are financed; in examining financing, we will also look at what happens when projects fail and the role commercial real estate leasing plays in the land transaction. In addition, we will examine the use of different forms of enterprise in real estate transactions, the tax consequences of owning and dealing in real estate, and the environmental issues involved in a real estate practice. Throughout the course, students will be urged to consider materials and problems from a transactional point of view – as planners designing the facts of a transaction and anticipating possible events and risks in advance, rather than as litigators analyzing rights and liabilities based on a pre-existing set of facts. The basic tax course, and/or secured transactions, taken before or concurrently with the Real Estate course is not required but may be helpful.
  

• FAMU Law Property II (Spring 2010)

  This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of American property law with an emphasis on Landlord-Tenant law, and limitations on the use of real property.
• Law 6520 Health Disparities (Intrasession)

  • Professor: Vernellia Randall
  • Teaching Assistant: Stephanie Washington

  The United States spends twice as much on health care as any other wealthy country, yet our life expectancy is 30th in the world and our infant mortality is 26th. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, 20 years of research shows that there is much more to our health than bad habits, health care or unlucky genes. It is social conditions--the circumstances into which we are born, live and work—more than any other factor, that affect our chances for a healthy life or an early death. Those social condition includes being born white or a person-of-color and the experience of racism. This course explores how race, class and other social inequalities contribute to health inequalities and the role of the law in eliminating health inequalities. 

• Law 6845 Remedies (Spring2009)

  • Professor: Vernellia Randall
  • Teaching Assistant: Nicholas Shjerve

  Remedies is the study of the legal and equitable relief that a client may obtain as a result of litigation. In effect, it is about selecting the appropriate remedy to meet your client goals , deciding how to measure the remedy and deciding how to enforce it.
• Law 6892 Race, Racism and the Law

  • Professor: Vernellia Randall

  This course explores the way in which the law is used both to combat and to legitimate racism in American society. It will trace the relationship between racism and American law from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21^st century.This course employs an interdisciplinary approach and covers the experiences of American Indians, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and White Americans and Arab Americans. Through an integrated analysis of each racial groups' legal histories, the class fosters a comprehensive understanding of race and racism as foundational elements in United States law.

• S.W.A.T. Workout Unit 1

  • Captain: Tom Stroup