Robert M. Wilcox
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
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Contact Information
Room 202
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-6112
f 803-777-8613
wilcoxrm@gwm.sc.edu
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Courses
PROBLEMS IN PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, LAWS 554 (3 hours) A problem based course that focuses on lawyers' ethical obligations in various areas of practice: criminal defense and prosecution, civil litigation, office practice, government, and the judiciary. The course also examines significant issues facing the profession, including limitations on advertising and solicitation, restrictions on the adversary model and regulation in the profession. A central theme of the course is the need for students and lawyers to develop a philosophy of lawyering.
PROPERTY I, LAWS 510 (3 hours) A course designed to give the student basic training in legal techniques of commercial land transactions and to introduce him or her to property concepts underlying modern donative transfers. Subject matter to cover includes a survey of the history of land law; estates in land and their rules affecting their creation; preparation of leases and landlord and tenant problems; contracts of sale; conveyances and financing; recording acts and examination of titles; control of land use through judicial, legislative, and private means.
PROPERTY II, LAWS 511 (3 hours) Continuation of Property I.
TRUSTS AND ESTATES, LAWS 646 (4 hours) Disposition of property upon death by intestacy, by will and by will substitute, including consideration of the related problems of limitations upon the testamentary power and contests of testamentary disposition; interview disposition of property by gift and trust; future interests and rules regarding restraint on alienation; brief survey of administration and probate.
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