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Illustrative List of Subjects

Admissions
Advertising
Affiliation Agreements
Affirmative Action
Agency Issues
Alcohol
Alumni Relations
Antitrust
Arrests
Assaults
Athletics
Automobiles
Bailments
Bankruptcy
Battery
Bonds
Borrowing
By-laws
Cemeteries
Civil rights
Communications law (licensing, violations)
Conflicts of interests
Conflicts of law
Consortiums
Constitutional law-including
Federal: 1st Amendment-speech, association, assembly, religion.
4th Amendment-search, seizure
9th Amendment-privacy
l1th Amendment-federal jurisdiction immunity
14th Amendment-due process, equal protection
Contracts
Construction
Copyrights-grants and licenses, Fair Use, reproductions, registrations
Corporations
Criminal law
Defamation
Discrimination-students and employees
Domicile-residency for tuition
Drugs
Due process
Easements
Employment-discrimination, termination, grievances, pensions, other benefits,
wages, wage assignments, FLSA, Equal Pay Act, management prerogatives
Equity
Estates
Facility Use
False Arrests
FERPA (Buckley Amendment)
Financing statements
Fraud
Garnishments
Gifts-tax consequences, documents, policies
Governance
Grievances and grievance procedures
Guarantees
Hazardous wastes and substances
Human Subjects research
Indemnity
Independent contractors
Immigration
Injunctions
Insurance
Investments-statutory and other constraints
Judgments
Know-how: protecting technology
Landlord/tenant-evictions, leases, regulations
Legislation
Libel
Licensing
Liens
Limitations of actions
Literary and artistic property

 Litigation
Lobbying
Malpractice
Negligence
Nuisance
OSHA
Open Meetings Act
Parking
Partition (real property)
Partnerships
Patents-ownership, licensing, infringement, misuse Pensions
Placement and counseling
Political activity
Policies-drafting, redrafting, interpretation
Pooled Income Funds
Postal regulations
Principal and agent
Private foundations
Privacy
Privilege
Process
Promissory notes
Property-real and personal
Public Records
Publishing
Quiet title actions
Regulations
Releases
Research
Restitution
Search and seizure
SEC
Secured transactions
Securities
Sexual harassment and discrimination
Slander
Social Security
Solicitation (gifts)
Statutes-drafting, interpreting
Students-academic and disciplinary decisions, dismissals, discrimination, financial aid,
grades, grievances, housing, organizations, residency, taxation of stipends/awards/fellowships, use of facilities
Subpoenas
Taxes-foreign, federal, state, city, income, estate, gift, excise, sales, use, Single Business Tax, property
Torts
Trademarks-use and registration
Treaties-tax and other
Trespass
Truth-in-lending
Trusts
Umstead Act
Unemployment compensation
Unfair competition
Uniform Commercial Code
Unitrusts
Unrelated business taxable income
Use of facilities-peddling, religious groups, student groups, political activity
Usury
Utilities
Wage and hour
Waivers
Warranties
Wills and will contests
Withholding taxes
Witnesses and evidence
Work Study
Workers' Compensation
Writs
Wrongful death
Zoning