David K. Linnan
Associate Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 304
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-7740
f 803-777-8613
linnan@sc.edu
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Courses
ASIAN & COMPARATIVE LAW, LAWS 827 (3 Hours) This course looks at the overlap between public and economic law in developing Asia touching on the following countries: Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam and Indonesia. In doing that we examine differing views of the role of the State, differing economic views (Washington Consensus versus non-neoclassical views, etc.), hidden assumptions underlying the issue whether civil society approaches a la Eastern Europe work well in Asia (including cultural arguments, "soft" authoritarianism and now Islamic complications), old & new (economic) development models, structural conditionality and (legal) development models including IFI or donor roles, plus traditional comparative law issues.
CORPORATE FINANCE, LAWS 602 (3 Hours) An advanced corporations course examining transactional law and finance, including the capital structure of corporations. This year's focus will be on venture capital and project finance. This course includes elements of financial and management theory as they relate to legal issues and planning.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW, LAWS 665 (3 Hours) This course focuses on the law of international trade, sometimes also called international economic law, which is a specialized area of public international law of growing importance because of economic groupings like NAFTA (representing a regional free trade area approach) and the WTO (representing the worldwide multilateral free trade approach) as well as foreign direct investment law. The world is in the early stage of another multilateral trade liberalization round (aka the Doha Round), and beyond existing law we shall look at how things are shaping up. The course is taught using website materials, and is a shared video conferenced course taught together with foreign universities requiring USC law students to work through trade law problems together with foreign students.
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW, LAWS 783 (3 Hours) Public international law is the traditional law applicable between states and multilateral organizations (e.g., the United Nations), now supplemented by human rights law representing the post-World War II recognition of individuals' rights within the international law system. This is an introductory course, and public international law is a self-contained system with a different basis than US domestic law which you normally study. The course is taught by the problem method, and is a shared videoconferenced course taught together with foreign universities requiring USC law students to work through international law problems together with foreign students.
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