Law School Courses
Evidence
In this course, students examine the Federal Rules of Evidence and learn how those Rules work in application with common law evidence concepts as well as the how, when, and what requirements for testimony and other material to be admitted to the record of a case as evidence. The course specifically addresses concepts of relevance, hearsay, testimonial privileges, character evidence, expert witnesses, and electronic evidence from both a practical and theoretical viewpoint.
Information Privacy Law
This course addresses the legal issues surrounding the privacy of information – including data ownership, data collection, data retention, data access, and data use. These issues have grown increasingly urgent and complicated, particularly post the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling. Information privacy and the laws that regulate it (or fail to do so) dramatically impact individuals and society as a whole, including governments, businesses, institutions, and elections.
Cyberlaw in Practice
Anne designed this course and is turning it into a casebook that comprehensively covers what trial attorneys need to know to handle matters involving data, privacy, surveillance, electronic evidence, and online content and business-related web issues. In this course, students integrate constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and common law sources to study the rapidly evolving technological and societal changes that impact the law and our legal system.
Civil Procedure
This course constitutes an introduction, with emphasis on federal law, to rules governing jurisdiction, venue, service of process, pleadings, joinder, discovery, summary adjudication, trial, judgments, direct and collateral attack on judgments, appellate procedure, and choice of law in civil litigation.
National Security Agency Course:
Principles of Cyber Law and Policy
Working alongside the National Security Agency (NSA), Professor McKenna created the course “The Principles of Cyberlaw and Technology” in order to address the nationwide need for education on cybersecurity and the intersection emerging technology, domestic law, and national security law.
The course consists of four primary modules:
Module I Understanding Cyberspace
Module II Cyber Governance: Three Branches of Government
Module III Legal Foundations of Modern Cyber Law and Policy
Module IV Cyber Operations
It is designed with the general public in mind, and can be used or taken by undergraduate students, national security policy professionals, law students, and professors.