Advance Assignments - Fall 2009

Professor Course Name Course Number Assignments and Documents Date Posted
Abraham Lawyering Process 1086/1087 For August 17: Class 1: Introduction to Course and Legal Method, Read: Chapter 1 of Legal Research & Writing, by Murry & DeSanctis, Chapter 1 (pages 1-9) and Chapter 9 (pages 209-236) of Just Writing, by Enquist & Oates 8/10/2009
Aviel Legal Profession 1099 For our first class (Tuesday, August 18), please read pages 36-38 and pages 45-59 in Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, by Lisa G. Lerman and Philip G. Schrag. 8/13/2009
Bassett/Schlauch Int’l Mining Law and Policy 1071 The Syllabus and Course Materials have been posted on TWEN. For the first class, please read pages 25-76in the USFS article and read the article by Bastida (both are on TWEN). 8/14/2009
Beall Media Law 1104 There is no case book assigned for this class. Rather, we will be reading assigned cases in their “native” format in the applicable case reports, i.e., you should expect to locate the assigned cases on Lexis, Westlaw, FindLaw, or whatever research source you prefer. The first week of class we will be reading and discussing the following cases: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964); Getz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323 (1974); and Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988). As additional supplemental reading, you will profit from reviewing (but will not be held responsible for): Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, 388 U.S. 130 (1967); Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc., 472 U.S. 479 (1984); and Walker v. Colorado Springs Sun, Inc., 538 P.2d 450 (Colo. 1975). For our first class, you should focus your attention on the Sullivan case. 8/12/2009
Best Evidence 1050 Please go to the Blackboard site for this course to see the assignments for the first week of classes and to download Chapter One of our casebook. 7/31/2009
Campbell Immigration Reform 1202 Required Textbooks: THOMAS ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF, DAVID A. MARTIN & HIROSHI MOTOMURA, IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP: PROCESS AND POLICY (2008, 6th ed.) (“AM&M”) and THOMAS ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF, DAVID A. MARTIN & HIROSHI MOTOMURA, IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES (2007) (Statutory supplement)
Assignment for First Class:
Please prepare a short (1-2 page) essay about your interest in this class, and some preliminary thoughts on topics you are interested in exploring for your final research paper. Also, please read AM&M pp. 157-92 and be prepared to discuss. 		8/10/2009
Campbell Immigration Law 1057 THOMAS ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF, DAVID A. MARTIN & HIROSHI MOTOMURA, IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP: PROCESS AND POLICY (2008, 6th ed.) (“AM&M”) and THOMAS ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF, DAVID A. MARTIN & HIROSHI MOTOMURA, IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES (2007) (Statutory supplement)
Assignment for First Class:
Please prepare a short (2-3 page) essay summarizing your personal immigration history and/or the immigration history of your family to the United States. Also, please read AM&M pp. 1-44 (the concept of citizenship and birthright citizenship – jus soli), and be prepared to discuss. 		8/10/2009
Corrada Contracts 1040 Week of August 17: Read and be prepared to discuss Chapter 1 (pp. 1-30) in Frier & White, The Modern Law of Contracts (2nd ed.). 8/04/2009
DuVivier Civil Procedure 1028 Advanced Assignment for Class on Tuesday, August 18
(Note our first class will be on Tuesday, August 18, not Monday, August 17) Please read: (1) Chapter 1, pages 1 through 20 of the course textbook—A. Benjamin Spencer, Civil Procedure , A Contemporary Approach (2nd ed. Thomson West 2008) and (2) The entire book called The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern.
Be prepared to discuss the following issues in class: (1) What circumstances encouraged the miners to sue the coal company rather than remain passive victims? (2) What types of activities did Stern engage in before he drafted and filed the complaint and what prompted him to do so? (3) What were the legal issues confronting Stern and how did he resolve them? (4) What strategic errors do you think the coal company made at the beginning and throughout the case? 		7/29/2009
Ehrenreich Torts 1124 Advance Assignment 8/10/2009
Felter Administrative Law 1001 Before the first class on August 17, please read pages 1-41 of your Course Book (hereinafter “CB”) [ADMINISTRATIVE LAW DESK REFERENCE FOR LAWYERS, John H. Reese] to familiarize yourselves with the role of administrative agencies in government. I look forward to a productive class, designed to make you competent practitioners of administrative law. 7/7/2009
Germain Asylum Law 1019 Syllabus 7/13/2009
Hammond Trusts & Estates 1136 1. Long onto TWEN; 2. Register for this T&E class on TWEN; 3. Follow home page instructions for syllabus, initial course outline, and course policies. 8/10/2009
Harris Urban Environmental Law 1137 For the First Class, Please Read: Jenny Price, remaking american ENVIRONMENTALISM: ON THE BANKS OF THE L.A. RIVER, 13 Env. History 1 (2008), available on Westlaw (citation “7/1/08 ENVTLHIST 536”) 8/6/2009
Hyatt Civil Procedure 1030 Assignment 8/6/2009
Jefferson Basic Real Estate 1176 Students should enroll in the TWEN site for this course and secure a copy of the casebook Robin Paul Malloy & James Charles Smith, Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, And Materials (3rd ed. 2007) . Read and be prepared to discuss pages 1-24 and problems 1A, 1B and 1C. 8/10/2009
Jefferson Criminal Justice Seminar 1175 Students should enroll in the TWEN site for this course and secure a copy of Marc Mauer & Meda Chesney-Lind (eds.), Invisible Punishment: the Collaterl Consequneces of Mass Imprisonment (2002) (“Invisible Punishment”). The book is available in the bookstore. Read and be prepared to discuss the following (a link to the Pinard & Thompson article is on the TWEN site): Jeremy Travis, Invisible Punishment: An Instrument of Social Exclusion, in Invisible Punishment 15. Also, Michael Pinard & Anthony C. Thompson, Offender Reentry and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: An Introduction, 30 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 585 (2006). [Parts I-III] 8/10/2009
Jones Oil and Gas 1108 Syllabus 8/10/2009
Kamin Basic Criminal Procedure 1022 Please register on the TWEN page for this class and read pages 1-8 in the Chapter One of the casebook, which can be found in the Course Materials tab on the TWEN page. 8/12/2009
Kamin Criminal Law 1043 Please register on the TWEN page for this class and read Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, which appears at pages 73-78 of your casebook. We will discuss this case on Tuesday. 8/11/2009
Marceau Basic Criminal Procedure 1021 Please read pages 1-16 of the textbook 8/10/2009
Miccio Criminal Law 1044 Syllabus 8/6/2009
Moffat Contracts 1041 Register on the TWEN site. For our first class, please read pp. 20-37 of the casebook. For our second class, please read pp. 39-50 of the casebook. Also, sometime during the first week, skim pp. 1-20. 8/3/2009
Moffat Intro to I.P. 1073 Register on the TWEN site, and, for the first week, please read (1) pp. 1-31 of the casebook; and (2) INS v. AP — pp. 854-863 — and Malcom Gladwell, “Something Borrowed,” The New Yorker, 11/22/04, available at Something Borrowed 8/3/2009
Pepper Torts 1125 Monday, August 17: First, read pages 1-4 and 131 to the top of 133 of the casebook (Prosser, Wade & Schwartz’s, Torts – Cases and Materials, 11th Ed. 2005) and pages 11-14 of the packet of photocopied Supplementary Readings as an introduction. (The Supplementary Readings will be available outside my office, 407G). Do not be concerned if you find this introductory material difficult or impossible to understand at this point—you will come to understand it later. After you have read that material, then read and be prepared to discuss Cohen v. Petty and the following notes at pages 10-13 of the casebook. (If you don’t know the meaning of a word or phrase, please look it up in a legal dictionary.) We will discuss Cohen v. Petty during class.
Thursday, August 19: Read pages 1-10 and 15-16 of the photocopied Supplementary Readings. 		7/20/2009
Ragonetti Land Use Planning 1077 It would be helpful but not absolutely necessary if you could read the three items that will be available to be picked up from the Registrar’s office at 11:00 a.m. Monday, August 17, 2009. See you Tuesday night. 8/14/2009
Rossman Civil Procedure 1029/1033 1. Please register for our course TWEN website. 2. Read Spencer textbook pp. 1-37 (including review of hypo 1) 3. Read Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 1 and 2 4. Read U.S. Constitution, Article III 5. Read Orin S. Kerr article (available on TWEN) 6. Complete Background Statement – Assignment 1 (available on TWEN) 7/30/2009
Ruan Lawyering Process 1084/1092 Read chapter 1 of the Murray and DeSanctis text and pages 1-9 of the Just Writing text. Also, please bring a 3 ring binder and a set of 1-10 tabs to our first class. 8/12/2009
Smith Torts 1123 Read and brief cases in the first assignment for the first day of class. Syllabus 8/17/2009
Sousa Bankruptcy 1158 1. Register for course webpage on TWEN
2. Read this article
3. Read, casebook, pgs. 1-20 (Bankruptcy: Cases, Problems, and Materials (4th ed.)(Adler, Baird, and Jackson) 		8/11/2009
Sterling American Legal History 1015 Lawrence M. Friedman, History of American Law, Prologue and Part I – pages 3-29. 8/12/2009
Sterling Legal Profession 1101 Lerman and Schrag, Introduction, pages 1-18; Chapter 1, pages 20-44. 8/12/2009
Stone ADR 1012 Required text: Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice and Law, Folberg, Golann, Kloppenberg & Stipanowich, and Aspen Publishers (2005).
Advance Reading: Fisher and Ury Getting to Yes, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (1981) 2nd Edition Penguin Books (187 pages) Folberg et. al chapter 1, 16 pages. Begin reading. To be discussed during class on August 27, 2009 and from time to time thereafter. 		8/11/2009
Taylor Corporations 1042 Corporations Syllabus, 2009 8/04/2009
Walker Conflicts 1037 Conflicts first class will meet on Wednesday, August 19, 2009. 8/14/2009