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ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) | #4573  Section 1
Professor Linda Mealey-Lohmann
Required Text
Supplemental Material ADR s1First AssignmentSpr2012.pdf
Instructions Refer to the above-linked PDF for texts and assignment.
Advanced Advocacy | #8200  Section 1
Professor John Sonsteng
Required Text
Supplemental Material Advanced Advocacy.pdf
Instructions If you are registered for this class you already should have received the first assignment via email. The assignment is also linked above as a PDF.
Advocacy | #9555  Section All
Professor Peter Knapp and Eileen Scallen
Required Text See Advocacy Manual located on TWEN.
Instructions Please register for the Advocacy course on TWEN between January 8, 2012 and January 14, 2012 as described in the December 22, 2011 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.
Constitutional Law - Liberties | #2420  Section 1
Professor Michael Jordan
Required Text Chemerinsky, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (3d Ed.) and 2011 Supplement.
Instructions Read pages 523-553 in the casebook and The McDonald Case, pages 69-85, in the 2011 supplement.
Constitutional Law - Liberties | #2420  Section 3
Professor Afsheen John Radsan
Required Text Erwin Chemerinsky, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 3nd edition, plus the 2011 supplement.
Instructions Week 1: Pages 523-560
Employment Discrimination | #3860  Section 1
Professor Michael Jordan
Required Text Joel Friedman, THE LAW OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION 7th ed., Foundation Press).
Instructions Read pp. 17-58.
Income Tax | #2600  Section 1 & 2
Professor Jeffrey Peterson
Required Text Selected IRC Statutes (2012 Ed)(Set:Txt/Tax Map) Lathrope (or most current edition) and

Freeland, FUNDAMENTALS OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION, 16th Ed. (2011)
Instructions Freeland, Chapter 1, Orientation 2-50 (48).
Law and the Justice of War | #4992  Section 1
Professor Peter Thompson
Required Text
Instructions The syllabus and all assignments are posted on Blackboard.
Legal Practicum: General Practice | #8905  Section 1
Professor John Sonsteng
Required Text
Instructions FIRST ASSIGNMENT – DUE TO JENNIFER MILLER BY JANUARY 3, 2012

You are required to prepare a brief, one page writing self-assessment. Remember to include your name on your document, enter the name of your assignment in the email subject line and save your document as Last name. First name. Name of assignment. Email your assignment to jennifer.miller@wmitchell.edu by January 3, 2012.

Your 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.

(You should have received this information already via email from Jennifer Miller.)
National Security Law | #9910  Section 1
Professor Afsheen John Radsan
Required Text Dycus, NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, Fifth Edition.
Instructions Week 1: Chapter 14

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