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| Administrative Law | #3130 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Craig Coleman and Jonathan Dettmann |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | Week #1: Jan. 13th, Overview of the Administrative State, read pgs 1-15; 339-51; Mass v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007). Week #2: Jan. 20th, Overview of the Administrative Procedures Act & the non-delegation doctrine. Read APA in appendix (pgs. 896-916); pgs. 15-38; 503-14. |
| ADR | #4573 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Madge Thorsen |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | ADR sec 2 Thorsen first assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment information. |
| ADR - Advanced | #4574 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Chris Ver Ploeg and Jim Hilbert |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Advanced ADR Spring 2010 First Assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | See above-linked PDF for first assignment. |
| ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) | #4573 Section 4 | |
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| Professor | Rebecca Picard |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Picard ADR first assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for text and first assignment information. Also, please enroll yourself into the course on Blackboard. |
| Advanced Advocacy | #8200 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | John Sonsteng |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | ORAL ASSIGNMENT: None. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: None. READING ASSIGNMENT: Read and know the facts of: Picket Up Delivery Services & IATW & Karol Brezenski Exercise, which you purchase from the bookstore on CD and TRIAL, Chapter 2, “Planning and Preparation.” Suggested readings: Read as continued reference: SUPPLEMENT TO TRIAL, “Administrative Hearing Transcript,” pp. 359 – 445. |
| Advocacy | #9555 Section All | |
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| Professor | Ann Juergens and Eileen Scallen |
| Required Text | See Advocacy Manual located on TWEN |
| Instructions | Please register for the Advocacy course on TWEN between January 10, 2010 and January 14, 2010 as described in the December 23, 2009 e-mail sent to students registered for Advocacy. You will need to be registered in order to receive course e-mail messages, review exercise schedules, sign up for your mandatory writing conference, and arrange tutoring. In addition to the course-wide TWEN, please also register for the TWEN site specific to your appellate writing group. All of your required appellate assignments will be submitted electronically via TWEN. |
| Animal Law | #4700 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Corwin Kruse |
| Required Text | Sonia Waisman, Pamela Frasch, & Bruce Wagman, ANIMAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (3e), Carolina Academic Press (2006) (Hereafter referred to as “AL”). |
| Instructions | AL pp. 3-5, 15-24, 39-40, 56-58, 63-69; Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. R. 175 (NY 1805); Corwin R. Kruse, The Relevance of “Animal Issues” for Sociology, 20 ISAZ Newsletter 2 (Nov. 2000) (skim article), available at http://www.isaz.net/newsletter/isaz20.pdf>. |
| Antitrust Survey | #3190 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Bill Sippel |
| Required Text | Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (2nd Edition) by Gavil, Kovacic and Baker. |
| Supplemental Material | Antitrust First Assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment information. |
| Art, Cultural Heritage Law, and the Law | #8799 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Patricia Zurlo |
| Required Text | ART, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND THE LAW, 2nd Edition, by Patty Gerstenblith |
| Supplemental Material | Supplemental materials will be distributed in class. |
| Instructions | Read the following from the text: 1. Chapter I pp. 3-19 2. Notes and Questions p. 14, Question #3: Write your answer/thoughts on this question in either an outline form or paragraph form, less than a page double-spaced, to be handed in. Be prepared to discuss your point of view. 2. Text: Notes and Questions, pg. 14 and pg. 19. Choose one question from those provided and be prepared to discuss your responses with the class. 3. Peruse the USPTO website (www.uspto.gov) focusing on copyright and trademark law in general. |
| Bankruptcy | #3270 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Gregory M. Duhl |
| Required Text | Sepinuck & Rusch, PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON BANKRUPTCY LAW AND PRACTICE (West 2007); Warren, BANKRUPTCY AND ARTICLE 9: STATUTORY SUPPLEMENT (Aspen 2009). |
| Instructions | Instructions: Our first class is an introduction to bankruptcy law. Please read pp. 1-46 in the Rusch and Sepinuck text and sections 101-103, 105, 109, 341-343 in the Bankruptcy Code. Prepare the answers to Problems 2-1, 2-3, and 2-4 in the text. In order to answer Problem 2-1, review the table of contents of the book. Please also read the syllabus carefully, to be posted on Blackboard by January 1, 2010. |
| Bar Preparation Strategies | #9099 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Sally Zusman |
| Required Text | Mini Bar-in-a-Box, Aspen, 2009 |
| Supplemental Material | BPS Diagnostic Q.docx BPS Contracts Study Guide & Questions1.pdf |
| Instructions | o Read Contracts MBE Refresher Course pp. 1 to 40 (the book is one of five books in the Mini Bar-in-a-Box package). o Use the attached Study Guide and Study Question to guide you in your reading. As you read, look for the answers to the questions. You need not submit the answers to me. o Answer the attached Contracts diagnostic essay question to the best of your ability. Submit your answer to me via e-mail (sally.zusman@wmitchell.edu) by noon on Friday, January 8. Name your document as follows: LAST NAME.DIAGNOSTIC (ZUSMAN.DIAGNOSTC). o Visit the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) Web site and familiarize yourself with the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Performance Test (MPT). In the MBE section, look at and print the outlines for all the MBE subjects. Look at the resources available for purchase and consider buying the online MBEs. o Visit the State Board of Law Examiners (SBLE) Web site. Familiarize yourself with the requirements and deadlines you need to meet to sit for the Minnesota bar exam. Familiarize yourself with the Minnesota Essay Exam (MEE). o Toward the end of the week, check the TWEN site for the course. |
| Bar Preparation Strategies | #9099 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Dean Raths |
| Required Text | Mini Bar-in-a-Box, Aspen, 2009 |
| Supplemental Material | BPS Diagnostic Q.docx BPS Contracts Study Guide & Questions1.pdf |
| Instructions | o Read Contracts MBE Refresher Course pp. 1 to 40 (the book is one of five books in the Mini Bar-in-a-Box package). o Use the attached Study Guide and Study Question to guide you in your reading. As you read, look for the answers to the questions. You need not submit the answers to me. o Ao Answer the attached Contracts diagnostic essay question to the best of your ability. Submit your answer to me via e-mail (d.raths@gmail.com) by noon on Friday, January 8. Name your document as follows: LAST NAME.DIAGNOSTIC (RATHS.DIAGNOSTIC). o Visit the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) Web site and familiarize yourself with the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Performance Test (MPT). In the MBE section, look at and print the outlines for all the MBE subjects. Look at the resources available for purchase and consider buying the online MBEs. o Visit the State Board of Law Examiners (SBLE) Web site. Familiarize yourself with the requirements and deadlines you need to meet to sit for the Minnesota bar exam. Familiarize yourself with the Minnesota Essay Exam (MEE). o Toward the end of the week, check the TWEN site for the course. |
| Biomedical Ethics | #3100 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Ruth Mickelsen |
| Required Text | (1) Furrow, et al., BIOETHICS: HEALTH CARE LAW AND ETHICS (Sixth Edition 2008) (hereinafter Bioethics); (2) Kuczewski & Pinkus, ETHICS CASEBOOK FOR HOSPITALS: PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO EVERYDAY CASES (1999) (hereinafter Ethics Casebook); (3) Additional photocopied materials available at the bookstore and distributed throughout semester. |
| Instructions | For January 11: Introduction to course, review of syllabus, course format, grading, and participation requirements; overview of ethical theory and methods. Bioethics pp. 1-23. Albert R. Jonsen, “The Birth of Bioethics: The Origins of a Demi-Discipline,” 2 Med. Human. Rev. 9-21 (1997). James F. Childress, “The Normative Principles of Medical Ethics,” in Medical Ethics 29-56 (Robert M. Veatch, 1997). Daniel Callahan, “Communitarian Bioethics: A Pious Hope?” 6 The Responsive Community 26-33 (1996). |
| Business - Agency, Partnerships, and LLCs (A-P-LLC) | #2005 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Daniel Kleinberger |
| Required Text | The materials for this course consist of: (i) Kleinberger, AGENCY, PARTNERSHIPS, AND LLCS: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS, 3rd edition (“APLLC-E&E”); (ii) Problems; and (iii) cases. Problems and cases will be distributed electronically. |
| Supplemental Material | APLLC - first assignment - Kleinberger - SP 10.doc APLLC chapter 1and 2 exercises - SP 10.doc |
| Instructions | Materials for the first two assignments (other than the readings in the book) are attached to this announcement. Further materials will be distributed via Blackboard. Please enroll in the Blackboard section for the course before the first class. |
| Business - Corporations | #2015 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Thuy Vo |
| Required Text | The course textbook is Eric A. Chiappinelli, CASES AND MATERIALS ON BUSINESS ENTITIES (2006). The required statutory supplement is Klein, Ramseyer, & Bainbridge, BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, 2009 STATUTES AND RULES. |
| Instructions | Monday, January 11: 19 – 39, Wednesday, January 13: 43 – 61, 73 – 82. |
| Business - Corporations | #2015 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Dan Kleinberger |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Corporations - Kleinberger - First Assignment.doc Corporations First Assignment Readings.pdf |
| Instructions | See the above-linked first assignment and associated handouts PDF. |
| Civil Advocacy Clinic | #8305 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Ann Juergens and Peter Knapp |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | Please pick up the manual at the front desk in Legal Practice Center, Room #254. The first assignment is on page 10. |
| Comparative Constitutional Law | #3504 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Afsheen John Radsan |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Comparative Con Law syllabus Radsan.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked syllabus for text and first assignment information. |
| Comparative Law: Lawyers - Opponents of Democracy? | #3500 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Denise Roy |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Roy Comparative Law first assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Please check the above-linked document for information on the first assignment. |
| Constitutional Law - Liberties | #2420 Section 3 | |
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| Professor | Anthony Winer |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | For the week of Wednesday, January 13 & Friday, January 15: - Choper, Fallon, Kamisar & Shiffrin casebook (10th edition 2006): Prepare pages 292-323, 361-376. - - Choper, Fallon, Kamisar & Shiffrin supplement (2009): Prepare pages 16-17. |
| Constitutional Law - Liberties | #2420 Section 4 | |
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| Professor | Michael Jordan |
| Required Text | Chemerinsky, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (3d Ed.). |
| Supplemental Material | 2009 Casebook Supplement. |
| Instructions | Read 14th Amendment and pp. 523-563. |
| Constitutional Law - Liberties | #2420 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Raleigh Levine |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Supplementary materials will be posted on Blackboard. Con Law-Liberties Section 2 Levine.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment information. |
| Constitutional Law - Liberties | #2420 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Mary Pat Byrn |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Con Law Liberties - Byrn.pdf |
| Instructions | Please refer to the above-linked PDF for the first assignment. |
| Criminal Law | #1106 Section 3 | |
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| Professor | Phebe Haugen |
| Required Text | Weaver, Abramson, et al, CRIMINAL LAW: CASES, MATERIALS, AND PROBLEMS, 3d Ed. (new) |
| Instructions | The Purposes of Criminal Law and Requirement of a "Voluntary Act," pp. 1-56. |
| Criminal Law | #1106 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Christine Funk |
| Required Text | Moskowitz, CASES & PROBLEMS IN CRIMINAL LAW, 5th ed. |
| Instructions | Please read "Larceny," (Chapter 2) and be prepared to discuss in detail. |
| Criminal Law | #1106 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Emery E. Adoradio |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | First Assignment Crim Law Adoradio.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment and text information. |
| Criminal Procedure | #1204 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Brad Colbert |
| Required Text | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: INVESTIGATION by Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurie Levenson. |
| Instructions | For the first week of class, please read pages 1 – 36 from the text and State v. Carter, 569 N.W.2d 169 (Minn. 1997). |
| Criminal Procedure | #1204 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Peter Erlinder |
| Required Text | Duplicated Material: Erlinder, Criminal Procedure Casebook. |
| Supplemental Material | Erlinder Crim Pro SP10.docx |
| Instructions | Refer to above-linked document for course information and first assignment. |
| Disability Law Seminar | #3834 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Kim Dayton & Patti Jurkovich |
| Required Text | DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW, Bagenstos ed. |
| Instructions | Read Chapter 1 in Casebook. Read this article: |
| Drug and Device Law Seminar | #3006 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | J. David Prince |
| Required Text | Noah, LAW, MEDICINE & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, 2d ed. (Foundation Press) |
| Instructions | Read pages v-viii, 2-19. |
| Elder Justice and Policy/Achievement in Public Service | #3832 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Kim Dayton and Iris Freeman |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | Reading Assignment: Many illustrative elder justice policy issues concern health care and protection from maltreatment. The field is so much broader. These are some brief policy readings from other perspectives. - Elmore, Dianne L. and Lisa M. Brown. (2007). Emergency preparedness and response: Health and social policy implications for older adults. Generations 31 (4), 66-74. - Burr, Jeffrey A. et. al. (2008). Economic well-being and welfare program participation among older adult immigrants in the United States. Generations 32 (4), 53-60. - Rosenthal, Larry A. (2009). The role of local government: Land-use controls and aging-friendliness. Generations 33 (2), 18-25. Note: Generations: The Journal of the American Society on Aging is available in full text in the William Mitchell online subscription databases accessible via the law library's website. Please see a librarian if you do not know how to use this resource. |
| Electronic Commercial Law | #3550 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Christina Kunz |
| Required Text | Mann, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, 3d Ed. |
| Instructions | Tues. Jan. 12: Read the Preface, Introduction, and Assignment 1 (pp. 1-42). Be ready to discuss Problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 in class, with supporting points from the readings. |
| Employment Discrimination | #3860 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Michael Jordan |
| Required Text | Joel Friedman, THE LAW OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION 7th ed., Foundation Press) |
| Instructions | Read Title VII §701-703 (in casebook appendix) and pp. 17-57. |
| Employment Law Survey | #3870 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Mary Dobbins |
| Required Text | M. Rothstein & L. Liebman, EMPLOYMENT LAW (6th ed. 2007) |
| Instructions | Text pages 2-33 and 65-77. |
| Employment Law Survey | #3870 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Deborah Schmedemann |
| Required Text | EMPLOYMENT LAW (2d ed. 2009) and Willborn et al.'s EMPLOYMENT LAW: SELECTED FEDERAL AND STATE STATUTES (2007). |
| Instructions | For the first week of class, please read the following pages in Carlson: 1-23, 25-37, 40-45, and 77-85. |
| Environmental Law | #3925 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Thad Lightfoot |
| Required Text | “Casebook” is Robert V. Percival, Christopher H. Schroeder, Alan S. Miller, and James P. Leape, eds., ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: LAW, SCIENCE, AND POLICY, 6th Edition (Aspen Publishers 2009). |
| Supplemental Material | Supplemental photocopied materials available in the bookstore. |
| Instructions | Casebook: 1-8 (environmental values and policies: an introduction; environmental problems and progress). Casebook: 27-31 (role of prices and markets; cost-benefit analysis). Casebook: 38-40 (ecological perspectives). Casebook: 50-53 (Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons”). Casebook: 793-799 (land use controls and regulatory takings; evolution of regulatory takings doctrine; Penn Central v. City of New York). |
| Estates and Trusts Survey | #3961 Section 1&2 | |
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| Professor | Carolyn Grose |
| Required Text | FUNDAMENTALS OF TRUSTS AND ESTATES (3d ed., 2006) by Roger W. Andersen and Ira Mark Bloom (“A & B”). In addition, Prof. Grose will assign various Minnesota statutes from Minnesota’s Probate Code which is available online at https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=524. |
| Supplemental Material | Grose Estates and Trusts Course Outline.pdf |
| Instructions | See the above-linked PDF for full assignment information. |
| Estates and Trusts Survey | #3961 Section 3 | |
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| Professor | Sally Silk |
| Required Text | WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES, by Dukeminier, Sitkoff, Lindgren (8th ed.) |
| Instructions | Assignment for Jan. 11: Introduction; The Probate Process Read pp. 1-10, 16-49. |
| European Union Law | #3840 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Anthony Winer |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | For the week of Tuesday, January 12 & Thursday, January 14: Bermann, Goebel, Davey & Fox casebook (2nd edition 2002): prepare pages 1-33. |
| Evidence | #2500 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Peter Knapp |
| Required Text | Fisher, EVIDENCE 2d. ed. and 2009-2010 Supplement. |
| Instructions | The assignment for the first week of class is to read Fisher, pp. 1-53, and the accompanying rules, along with the Advisory Committee Notes for those rules. Student can go to the course Blackboard site for a copy of the first portion of the syllabus for the class. |
| Evidence | #2500 Section 2 | |
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| Professor | Link Christin |
| Required Text | Mauet and Wolfson, TRIAL EVIDENCE |
| Instructions | Please read the first 3 chapters of the Mauet text and register yourself for the course on Blackboard. |
| Evidence II | #2512 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Ted Sampsell-Jones |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO CLASS ON JAN. 12. OUR FIRST CLASS WILL BE ON JAN. 19. For Evidence II, we will continue to use the Fisher Evidence casebook (2nd edition). That is the same book that you all used in Evidence I. We will also be reading a fair amount of material from outside the casebook, especially Minnesota state cases. In this course, we will focus on doctrinal material not covered (or not covered thoroughly) in Evidence I. We will cover scientific evidence and expert testimony (Rules 701-05), authentication (Rules 901-02), and privileges (Rule 501). We will begin the course by examining scientific evidence and expert testimony. This creates a little bit of a problem, since some of you already covered this to some extent in Evidence I, while some of you did not. As a compromise solution, we will work through a large amount of material fairly quickly on the first day. For the first day, please read/review: 1. Federal Rules 701-705. 2. Casebook pp. 680-707. 3. Casebook pp. 726-41. 4. Goeb v. Tharaldson, 615 N.W.2d 800 (Minn. 2000). For those of you who have already covered some of this material in Evidence I, please skim and review it. For those of you who haven't covered any of this, please read it. I realize that this is an unusually long reading assignment, but it is necessary given the discrepancies in coverage between the different Evidence I professors. Also, you essentially have an extra week to do the reading, since we will not have class during the first week. This course will be graded based on a variety of assignments. We will have one or two short writing assignments during the semester. We will also have a final examination, which will be at least part multiple-choice. I will give you more details on the first day of class. |
| Family Law | #4000 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | John Jerabek |
| Required Text | Robert Oliphant & Nancy Ver Steegh, WORK OF THE FAMILY LAWYER, (2nd Edition Aspen Pub., 2008). |
| Supplemental Material | Minnesota Family Law Statutes (Located on Westlaw, exact statutes required will be listed on the syllabus). You may want to create a chart of statutes and what they pertain to as you read them to assist you as you move through the semester. |
| Instructions | Work of the Family Lawyer: Read Chapter 1. The Family Lawyer; Cultural Changes; and State Power to Regulate Marriage and Divorce and Chapter 5. Constitutionalizing the Marriage Relationship. Read Minn.Stat. §§ 517.01, 517.02, 517.03, 517.04, 518.01, 518.05, 518.055 and 518.06. |
| Federal Jurisdiction | #4060 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Eric Tostrud |
| Required Text | Low & Jeffries, FEDERAL COURTS AND THE LAW OF FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS (6th ed.). |
| Instructions | Read pages 256-284. |
| Federal Tax Law Research | #3301 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Don Zhou |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Federal Tax Law Research-first asssignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment information. |
| Feminist Jurisprudence | #4070 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Sandra Smalley-Fleming |
| Required Text | GENDER AND LAW THEORY, DOCTRINE, COMMENTARY by Katherine T. Bartlett, Angela P. Harris & Deborah L. Rhode (4th ed. Foundation Press 2006) |
| Instructions | Read pages 1-15, “Historical Foundations for Women's Claims to Formal Equality,” from the text GENDER AND LAW THEORY, DOCTRINE, COMMENTARY by Katharine T. Bartlett. |
| Food Law and Policy Seminar | #1957 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Donna Byrne |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | FoodLaw_First3Articles.pdf |
| Instructions | GFirst Week ASSIGNMENTS: 1. Read the three articles posted here. (26 page PDF) 2. Go to the FDA website and find the Food Materials. 3. Go to the USDA website. Find the APHIS page. Find the National Organic Program page. 4. Locate, read, and bring to class at least one news article on a food law issue that has been reported on within the last week. 5. Enroll on Blackboard and post an introduction on the Discussion Board if you have not already done so. |
| Health Law I | #4152 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Sheva Sanders |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | Reading: 1. Health Law Cases, Materials and Problems (“Health Law”) Ch 1. Section 1 2. Please take a look at, and generally familiarize yourself with, the statute and regulations relating to GINA. You do not have to memorize the statute or regulations, and we will not be doing an in depth study of this statute or regulations. My purpose is that you be aware of the law and be able to think about it in the bigger context of the issues relating to defining sickness. H.R. 493 (GINA: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:6:./temp/~c110ZiavZ7:e1638: . http://www.genome.gov/Pages/PolicyEthics/GeneticDiscrimination/GINAInfoDoc.pdf. http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-4221.pdf. 3. Similarly, please familiarize yourself with the anti-discrimination rules contained at: 29 CFR 2590.702 In this regard, see, also, http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/regs/fab2008-2.html. In class problem: The Couple’s Illness (p.10). |
| Immigration and Citizenship Law Survey | #4200 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Malinda Schmiechen |
| Required Text | Aleinkoff's 2008 Casebook; Aleinkoff's 2009 IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWS OF U.S. and Johnson's UNDERSTANDING IMMIGRATION LAW. |
| Instructions | January 12, 2010 – Federal Immigration Powers/Constitutional Rights &
Limitations Read: Aleinikoff pp 192-237 & Zadvydas v. Davis 533 U.S. 678 (US 2001) (read for discussion of Congress’ plenary power) Skim: Johnson pp 89-115 Assignment Due: Class Preparation – A typed page containing 3 questions/discussion points for class. To be turned in at the end of class. |
| Income Tax | #2600 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Donna Byrne |
| Required Text | TAXES IN PARADISE (the book) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND REGULATIONS |
| Instructions | This course is organized in six modules. The assignments for each module come from several sources. You have to buy the first two: - TAXES IN PARADISE (the book) - INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND REGULATIONS Everything else is provided on Blackboard under Course Documents. The materials fall into several categories: - New Paradise letters -- these are available on Blackboard under Course Documents - Cases, some Treasury Regulations, and Revenue Rulings - Handouts and Practice Problems You can print these out one at a time, or you can print out whole modules. Note: We will not cover all of these materials. In general, you should read the assigned cases unless I tell you otherwise, but we will not have time to discuss them all in class. - For Monday, 1/11, please read Module I: Basic Income Tax Concepts. - For Wednesday, 1/13, please read Modle 1.A: The Tax Base |
| Intellectual Property Transactions | #5055 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Raymond Bonnabeau |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | Please sign-up for the course in Blackboard and check for readings. |
| International Criminal and Humanitarian Law Seminar | #4615 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Peter Erlinder |
| Required Text | INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, Zahar and Sluiter. |
| Supplemental Material | Additional occasional readings as assigned. |
| Instructions | Week 1: Sections 1-2: pp. 3-78 (prepare 1 of several study questions -- discussion of questions-weekly—study questions posted one-week before first class). Weekly assigned readings and two-page maximum response to one study question-- Excellent/Pass/Fail (check plus/minus). Study questions to be assigned each week, due following week. Papers meet long-paper requirement. |
| Introduction to Tribal Law | #3010 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Sarah Deer |
| Required Text | Richland & Deer, INTRODUCTION TO TRIBAL LEGAL STUDIES, 2nd edition (2009). (Note: Students should not purchase the 1st edition) |
| Instructions | Read chapters 1-3 of Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies (pp.1-58). You need not answer any of the questions at the end of the chapters. Please come to class prepared to discuss the reading. |
| IP - Entertainment Law | #3900 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | James A. Barnum |
| Required Text | Text (Casebook): Weiler, Paul C., ENTERTAINMENT, MEDIA, AND THE LAW (Thomson/West, 3rd ed. 2006) [ISBN—10: 0-314-16722-6]; Supplement to Text (Supplement): 2009 Supplement to Entertainment, Media, and the Law (Thomson Reuters (West), 2009) [ISBN: 978-0-314-19964-5]; and Course Document PDF (“Statutes 2010”; “Statutes 2010.pdf”): Barnum, James A., Entertainment Law: Selected Constitutional Provisions, Statutes, Regulations, and Rules (2010). |
| Supplemental Material | Entertainment Law 1st.pdf |
| Instructions | Please see above-linked PDF. In addition, the first assignment and course syllabus will be posted as a course document on Blackboard. |
| IP Appellate Advocacy | #3600 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Jim Baker and Kristine Dorrain |
| Required Text | Mary Beth Beazley, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO APPELLATE ADVOCACY, 2d Ed., (2006). Recommended: Sheldon W. Halpern, Craig Allen Nard and Kenneth L. Port, FUNDAMENTALS OF UNITED STATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, PATENT AND TRADEMARK (2007) (hereinafter “Port”). |
| Supplemental Material | Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and the Local Rules for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. These can be found in the library or on the Internet at: http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/appel2007.pdf; |
| Instructions | Skim Beazley, Introduction & Chapter 1 Review Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure 1, 3, 25, 28, 30, 32 & 34 Review Federal Circuit Rules 1, 3, 25, 28, 30, 32 & 34 Review Supreme Court Rules 10, 18, 24, 25, 26 and 28 |
| Juvenile Justice | #4583 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Pamela. G. Alexander |
| Required Text | JUVENILE JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION (3d Ed. 2009) by Barry C. Feld. |
| Instructions | Please read chapters one and two. |
| Labor Law | #4500 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Paul Iversen |
| Required Text | LABOR LAW IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORKPLACE, Dau-Schmidt, et.al, editors, West Publishing (2009). |
| Supplemental Material | Statutory Supplement to above. |
| Instructions | Class Session: a) Why Study Labor Law? Students should be prepared to discuss their individual reasons for taking Labor Law and goals for the course. b) We will begin discussing the History of American Labor Law to put the class in a historical, legal, social and political context. Reading: Text, Begin “A Brief History of American Labor Law,” pp. 11-67. |
| Land Use | #4801 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | John M. Baker |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Land Use Baker First Assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked document for text and first assignment information. |
| Legal Practicum: General Practice | #8905 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | John Sonsteng |
| Required Text | |
| Instructions | FIRST ASSIGNMENT – DUE TO JENNIFER MILLER BY JANUARY 8, 2010. Each student is required to prepare a brief, one page writing self-assessment. Include your name and turn in your assignment by emailing it to Jennifer at (jennifer.miller@wmitchell.edu) by Friday, January 8, 2010. The writing self-assessment should include one paragraph on each of the following three subjects: 1.) Your writing strengths, 2.) Your writing weaknesses, and 3.) What you hope to work on this semester to improve your writing. |
| Legal Profession: Retooling for the New Economy | #6001 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Gregory Duhl and Eileen Roberts |
| Required Text | None. |
| Instructions | Instructions: The court meets the following Thursdays: January 14 (Origins of the New Economy: What Went Wrong? Where Are We Now?); January 28 (Employment Law); February 18 (Employee Benefits and Compensation); Febraury 25 (Immigration Law); March 18 (Debtor-Creditor Law); March 25 (Bankruptcy Law); April 8 (Health Law); and April 22 (Energy Law). For the first class, read the three short articles posted on Blackboard, as well as the syllabus (to be posted on Blackboard by January 6, 2010). |
| Legislation | #4681 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Sara Grewing |
| Required Text | Jack Davies, LEGISLATIVE LAW AND PROCESS (2007). |
| Supplemental Material | Legislation 1st Assignment Grewing.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment information. |
| National Security Law | #9910 Section 111 | |
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| Professor | John Radsan |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Natl Security Law Radsan syllabus.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked syllabus for text and first assignment information. |
| Negotiation | #4575 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Jim Hilbert |
| Required Text | Photocopied Materials available in the Bookstore; Mnookin, BEYOND WINNING. |
| Instructions | There is a short assignment for our first class: Read pp 1-10 in the Mnookin Text ("Beyond Winning"). Read article #1 (“Opening Statement: The Vanishing Trial”) in the supplemental materials. The syllabus will be distributed in class Tuesday. |
| No-Fault Insurance | #4950 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Paul McEllistrem |
| Required Text | No-Fault Benefits Article - available online and to be discussed on the first night of class. |
| Supplemental Material | Minnesota cases designated in the syllabus. |
| Instructions | 1) Read the following statutory provisions: 65B.42; 65B.46, subd 1; 65B.43 subd 3. 2) Read Continental Western Ins. Co. v. Klug, 415 NW2d 876 |
| Online Games Seminar | #3101 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Justin Kwong |
| Required Text | Benjamin T. Duranske, VIRTUAL LAW: NEGOTIATING THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE OF VIRTUAL WORLDS (2008). |
| Supplemental Material | See "Course Documents" foler in Blackboard. |
| Instructions | Read Chapters 1 and 2 of VIRTUAL LAW -AND- Lastowka and Hunter, "Laws of Virtual Worlds," Sections I and III (skip Section II for now) -AND- Register for this course on Blackboard. |
| Patent Litigation | #5010 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Alan Kowalchyk |
| Required Text | NITA Patent Trial Advocacy Casebook (not in bookstore until after January 8); Moore’s Patent Litigation Strategy. |
| Instructions | Topics in Class: Introduction to Patent Litigation, Pre-suit Investigations, Declaratory Judgment Actions, Types of Infringement (Assignment: Read Moore chapters 1-2). |
| Pretrial Litigation | #5200 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Patricia Hartmann |
| Required Text | FUNDAMENTALS OF PRETRIAL LITIGATION, 7th ed., by Haydock, Herr & Stempel. |
| Instructions | Read Chapter 1 on Case Planning, pp. 3-42. |
| Products Liability Seminar | #5142 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Michael L. Weiner |
| Required Text | Photocopied materials available in the Bookstore. |
| Supplemental Material | Products Liability syllabus Weiner.pdf McCormack v. Hankscraft.pdf |
| Instructions | The first assignment is a single case, the 1967 Minnesota Supreme Court decision in McCormack v. Hankscraft, which I am attaching for your convenience. McCormack is a landmark Minnesota case, in which the Court adopted Section 402A of the 2nd Restatement of Torts (strict liability in tort). As you read McCormack, think about the following questions: 1. The opinion does not include a photograph of the product. Do you think you have ever seen the vaporizer that caused the injury? Almost every family (including mine) had one, might there be one in your grandparent's attic? How do you visualize it? How do you visualize the claimed defects? Complex or simple product? Rocket science or engineering 101? What would a strict liability cause of action add? 2. Andrea was only 3 years old when she was injured, do you think Andrea's parents were at fault? Could you bring a claim against them in 1967? Would the parents' homeowners insurance have to pay a judgment? If you represented 3 year old Andrea today, and the law allowed it, would you include them as defendants? If you represented the defendant manufacturer, would you third party them in? 3. The Supreme Court's adoption of 402A was obviously meant to be a significant change in the law. What did strict liability add to the claim that negligence did not have? What did the Court have in mind in the bolded language below. (My emphasis.) If traditional commercial contractual limitations, such as the requirement of notice or the doctrine of privity, were applied to this case, defendant's liability upon the ground of breach of an express warranty could not be upheld. Plaintiff would be denied recovery despite adequate proof that the vaporizer was 'in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user'; that plaintiff was injured thereby; and that defendant represented the vaporizer as 'safe' and did everything by advertising and otherwise to induce that belief while creating the risk and reaping the profit from its sales. Recovery would be denied unless, as here, the injured plaintiff is able to investigate fully, hire experts, and marshal evidence sufficiently persuasive to convince a jury that evidence of elaborate precautions employed by the manufacturer to make its product safe did not measure up to the standard of reasonable care. |
| Professional Responsibility | #3200 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Douglas Heidenreich |
| Required Text | Schwartz, Wydick et al, PROBLEMS IN LEGAL ETHICS, 8th Ed. Morgan & Rotunda, SELECTED STANDARDS ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, 2010 Ed. |
| Instructions | Schwartz, Wydick, et al: SScan pp. 1-27; Read carefullypp. 28-50. |
| Property II | #1650 Section 4 | |
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| Professor | Colette Routel |
| Required Text | PROPERTY (6th Ed.) by Dukeminier Krier et al. |
| Instructions | Week #1 Assignment: Law of Nuisance, pages 639-666. |
| Public Health Law | #4345 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Julie Ralston Aoki and Michael Freiberg |
| Required Text | |
| Supplemental Material | Public Health Law First_Assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for text and first assignment information. |
| Real Estate - Finance & Development of Commercial Real Estate | #5262 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | John Koneck |
| Required Text | George Lefcoe, REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS (5th ed.); Year 2010Real Estate Course Supplement |
| Supplemental Material | Finance & Dev of Comml RE - Koneck.pdf |
| Instructions | Read Supplement pp. S-1-16: "Preparing for a real estate workout," MINNESOTA REAL ESTATE JOURNAL, September 2008, and the attached PDF. |
| Real Estate Transactions | #4930 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Marcus Mollison |
| Required Text | Lefcoe, REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, 6th Ed. |
| Instructions | Assignments for Real Estate Transactions for the first week are as follows: 1/11: Read Lefcoe pp. 1-27, and be prepared to answer Questions 2 and 4 on p. 16. 1/12: Read Lefcoe pp. 29-47, and be prepared to answer Question 3(a) and (b) on p. 16. |
| Remedies | #5270 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Hon. Randall Slieter |
| Required Text | REMEDIES: CASES AND MATERIALS; Doug Rendleman 2006 Seventh Edition, Westgroup. |
| Supplemental Material | Additional Minnesota Cases, Rules, and/or Commentary are noted by “Web” which is Blackboard. These materials will be attached to the class Web location no later than three days prior to the next class period. In some instances, the appropriate cite is also listed below. Check the Web weekly for Syllabus and/or assignment modifications. Remedies 1st Assignment.pdf |
| Instructions | Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment information. |
| Sales | #2301 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Bill Fisher |
| Required Text | Chomsky & Kunz, SALE OF GOODS 2d ed. |
| Supplemental Material | SELECTED COMMERCIAL STATUTES, West 2009 Edition, Chomsky & Kunz |
| Instructions | Read Pass v. Shelby Aviation, Inc., pp. 35-41 of the text. |
| Secured Transactions | #5353 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Gregory Duhl |
| Required Text | Lynn LoPucki and Elizabeth Warren, SECURED CREDIT: A SYSTEMS APPROACH (6th ed. 2009); Elizabeth Warren, BANKRUPTCY AND ARTICLE 9, 2009 STATUTORY SUPPLEMENT (2009). |
| Instructions | We begin our study of Secured Transactions, or Article 9, with a discussion of the rights of unsecured creditors under state law. For Monday, January 11, please read Assignment 1 in the LoPucki and Warren text and prepare the problems at the end of the chapter, except for Problem 1.2. You also should read carefully the syllabus and Assignment No. 1 study questions, both to be posted on Blackboard by January 1, 2010. |
| Securities Regulation | #5370 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | David Rosedahl |
| Required Text | COX: Cox, Hillman & Langevoort, SECURITIES AND REGULATION: CASES AND MATERIALS (6th Ed. 2009) STAT: 2009 SECURITIES REGULATION, SELECTED STATUTES, RULES AND FORMS Cox, Hillman & Langevoort (Aspen Publishers) MALKIEL: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET, Burton G. Malkiel, W. W. Norton, 2003 (Paperback), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 11 |
| Supplemental Material | ARP: Alan R. Palmiter, SECURITIES REGULATION: EXAMPLES & EXPLANATIONS (4th Edition, 2008) |
| Instructions | The reading assignment for the first meeting on January 16 is: Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 of B.G. Malkiel's book A Random Walk Down Wall Street-----skim pp. 53 to 81. Chapter 1, pp. 1-18 and Chapter 3, pp. 93-106 of Cox, Hillman & Langevoort, Securities and Regulation: Cases and Materials (6th Ed.2009) |
| Taxation of Business Entities | #3670 Section 1 | |
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| Professor | Denise Roy |
| Required Text | Jeffrey L. Kwall, THE FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION OF CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES AND THEIR OWNERS, (3d ed. Foundation 2004). Please check the supplement for updates on these pages as well. |
| Instructions | 1/12 (T): pp. 3-15 (up to “Assessing Distributional Impacts of Integration Prototypes”), 184-194 (begin w/ § E), 89-94. 1/14 (Th): pp. 17-38 (up to 3. Scope of . . .), 65-66. |
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