Refer to the above-linked PDF of the syllabus for first assignment and course information.
ADR | #4573 Section 4
Professor
Madge Thorsen
Required Text
(1) Menkel-Meadows, Love, Schneider, MEDIATION: PRACTICE, POLICY AND ETHICS; (2) Ury, GETTING PAST NO, (3) Beer, THE MEDIATOR'S HANDBOOK; (4) Supplemental Packet, Minn. R. 114, Statutes.
Instructions
Reading Assignment: Menkel-Meadow, Ch. 1 p. 3-33 and “Understanding the Theory: Conflict Styles”, an excerpt at www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_81.htm.
FIRST ASSIGNMENTS: 1) Do Menkel-Meadow Exercise 1.6 for some 24 hour period before the first class. Bring your list to class and be prepared to discuss it. 2) Do exercise 1.3 and be prepared to identify your conflict style (see “Understanding the Theory”) and think of some examples of how you react to various conflicts.
Think about: what is conflict? What is an effective conflict resolution process or method? Is conflict resolution the same as problem-solving? What characteristics or qualities or activities contribute to the successful resolution of conflict or instead exacerbate it? What does “success” mean in resolving conflict? How does leadership affect conflict situations?
Menkel-Meadow, Love, Schneider, MEDIATION: PRACTICE, POLICY, AND ETHICS, (Aspen 2006); Stone & Patton & Heen, DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS (Penguin Group 1999); Ury, GETTING PAST NO (Bantam Books 1993); Selected Readings (distributed in Class / on Blackboard).
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.
Advanced Civil Procedure | #3060 Section 1
Professor
Tom Tinkham
Required Text
Marcus & Sherman, COMPLEX LITIGATION, 4th Ed.
Instructions
Register for the course in Blackboard and refer to the syllabus posted there for first assignment information.
Advocacy | #9555 Section All
Professor
Ann Juergens and Carolyn Grose
Required Text
See Advocacy Manual located on TWEN.
Instructions
Please register for the Advocacy course on TWEN between August 16, 2010 and August 20, 2010 as described in the August 6, 2010 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.
Appellate Law and Practice | #8955 Section 1
Professor
David F. Herr & Eric J. Magnuson
Required Text
Martineau & Sinclair, APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (2d ed. 2005) (Thomson West).
Bring to class completed student questionnaire . Read intra-school competition problem (posted on Blackboard).
Argumentation & Persuasion Theory for Lawyers | #3195 Section 1
Professor
Eileen Scallen
Required Text
Hart, MODERN RHETORICAL CRITICISM, 3rd ed.; Cialdina, INFLUENCE, 5th ed.
Instructions
First Assignment for Wednesday, August 25: 1) Read James Boyd White, "Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life" (posted on Blackboard). 2) Be prepared to debate in class, both pro and con, this proposition: The name of this law school should be changed to "William Mitchell College of Rhetoric."
Art, Cultural Heritage Law, and the Law | #8799 Section 1
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
1. Text: Chapter 1, pp.3-19
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.
PLEASE NOTE: no laptop usage permitted during class sessions for this course.
Enroll in the course on Blackboard and refer to the first assigment posted under "Course Assignments."
Business - Corporations | #2015 Section 1
Professor
Robert Kuhns
Required Text
Melvin Aron Eisenberg, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: CASES AND MATERIALS (Concise 9th ed., Foundation Press); Melvin A. Eisenberg, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (2010 SUPPLEMENT).
Supplemental Material
Melvin A. Eisenberg, CORPORATIONS AND OTHER BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: STATUTES, RULES, MATERIALS AND FORMS (2010 Edition).
Instructions
Please read pages 77 to 85, and pages 88 to 92 of the Eisenberg case book. Lso read the cases referenced in the 2010 Supplement, and the statutory materials referenced in the case book.
Child Abuse and the Law | #4590 Section 1
Professor
Michael Furnstahl and Hon. Anne McKeig
Required Text
Instructions
The class will use cases so that no text is required. Please sign up for the course in Blackboard and refer to the first assignment posted under "Course Assignments."
Client Counseling | #7096 Section 1
Professor
Michael Gibbons and Stacy St. George
Required Text
LAWYERS AS COUNSELORS, 2d ed., Binder et al.
Instructions
Read Chapter 1 (pages 1-13) of the text.
Constitutional Law - Powers | #2410 Section
Professor
Anthony Winer
Required Text
Instructions
Greetings! Welcome to Section 4 of the Fall 2010 course in Constitutional Law--Powers! The first class session is on Thursday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 323. The first assignment is described in the "Study Guidelines for Class 1", provided in the "Study Guidelines" folder of the "Course Assignments" file on the Blackboard website for the course. The assignment involves the review of both the current U.S. Constitution and the Articles of Confederation. However, the description of the assignment in the Study Guidelines is more detailed, and provides background that may be helpful for many students. Accordingly, please access the Study Guidelines for Class 1, and prepare for the first class session as indicated therein. We'll look forward to seeing everyone at the first class session!
Constitutional Law - Powers | #2410 Section 3
Professor
Michael Jordan
Required Text
Chemerinsky's CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 3d ed., and 2010 Casebook Supplement
Instructions
Read Article III, pages 1-13 and 34-69.
Constitutional Law - Powers | #2410 Section 1
Professor
Mehmet Konar-Steenberg
Required Text
Chemerinksy, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 3d ed.; Chemerinsky, 2010 Casebook Supplement.
Instructions
(1) Read the Constitution, Marbury v. Madison, and intro to theories of constitutional interpretation in your Chemerinsky test, pp. xli-13. Identify up to three provisions that you found surprising or ambiguous. Send me an email identifying your surprising/ambiguous provisions no later than 5pm, Sunday, August 22.
(2) Read and be prepared to discuss Chemerinsky, pp. 1-11; and William Treanor, “Federal Court Stories: Marbury v. Madison,” pp. 1-17 (posted on Blackboard under “Course Material”).
(3) Read and be prepared to discuss “Originalism vs. Nonoriginalism” (posted on Blackboard under “Course Material”).
Constitutional Law - Powers | #2410 Section 2
Professor
Sarah Deer
Required Text
Chemerinksy, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 3d ED.; Chemerinksy, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 2010 SUPPLEMENT. (Note: the 2010 supplement has not yet shipped – expected arrival is 8/24/10.)
Instructions
Enroll in the Webcourse as soon as possible. Prior to the first day of class, read and be prepared to discuss the following: Pages 1-34 of the textbook. Consult the Webcourse for specific questions to consider as you read.
Criminal Law | #1106 Section 1
Professor
Emery E. Adoradio
Required Text
Weaver, Abramson, et al., CRIMINAL LAW, CASES, MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS , 3rd Ed. (2005).
Instructions
The Purposes of Criminal Law and the Requirement of a “Voluntary Act”: Weaver, pp 1 – 56.
Punishment and Actus Reus: MINNESOTA STATUTES, Chapter 609, Criminal Code (2008), (available on-line at www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/pubs/) §§ 609.01, .02 (subds. 1-4), Minnesota Criminal Code (2008) (Table of Contents).
Criminal Law | #1106 Section 2
Professor
Ted Sampsell-Jones
Required Text
Instructions
Please spend a few minutes looking around the Minnesota Criminal Code.
(Bookmark this link!) You don't need to read the whole thing, since it's huge, but just spend 10 or 15 minutes looking around and familiarizing yourself generally with what's there. But do make sure to read three introductory sections: 609.01, 609.015, and 609.02.
Consider the following question: What is one strange or unexpected feature of the Minnesota Criminal Code?
Criminal Law - White Collar & Corporate Crime | #5580 Section 1
Professor
Mark Larsen
Required Text
Israel, Podgor, Borman, WHITE COLLAR CRIME, LAW AND PRACTICE, West, 2009 3d Edition;
White Collar Crime 2009 Stat. Doc. And Case Supplement.
Instructions
From pp. 321-346 primary casebook, red and be prepared to discuss Bronson, Hixon and Arthur Andersen, and Notes 1, 2, 4 & 5 (325-327); 10 (330-331); 3 (337-338); and 4 (p. 338).
Refer to the above-linked PDF for the first assignment.
Employment Law Survey | #3870 Section 1
Professor
Nancy Miller-Levin
Required Text
Rothstein, Mark A. & Liebman, Lance, EMPLOYMENT LAW CASES AND MATERIALS, 6th Ed. 2007.
Supplemental Material
A supplement will be published for this text in August. The bookstore has ordered it.
Instructions
Assignment: Prepare a short reflection of your work experiences? Discuss what role the law should play in establishing the kind of workplace where you would want to be an employee.
Read Chapt. 1 of the Dukeminier & Johanson: Wills Estates & Estates, 8th ed.; skim the text of the chapter but make note of the nomenclature when it is defined, e.g., when personal representative, administrator, testator, heir, devisee etc.; Start reviewing Chapter 2 and in particular, start reviewing the Minnesota intestate statutes in the supplement materials for the course.
See the above-linked PDF of the class syllabus for course information and the first assignment.
Evidence | #2500 Section 2
Professor
Link Christin
Required Text
Mauet and Wolfson, TRIAL EVIDENCE, 4th Ed. (2009)
Instructions
Please read the first chapter of the Mauet text.
Evidence | #2500 Section 4
Professor
James Fox
Required Text
Fisher, EVIDENCE (2nd edition); Federal Rules of Evidence Handbook, 2010-11 Edition (Lexis Nexis) or equivalent.
Instructions
Preface and pp. 1-7 (Fisher); FRE 606(b) (supplement); pp. 7-16 (Fisher); FRE 401 & 402 (supplement); and pp. 18-30 (Fisher).
Evidence | #2500 Section 1
Professor
Ted Sampsell-Jones
Required Text
Fisher, EVIDENCE, 2d ed.;
2010-2011 Statutory Supplement
Instructions
Read pages 18-25 in the Fisher casebook.
Family Law | #4000 Section 2
Professor
Pamela Waggoner
Required Text
WORK OF THE FAMILY LAWYER, 2d Ed., Oliphant and Ver Steegh
Instructions
Enroll in the course on Blackboard and complete the first assignment as posted there.
Family Law | #4000 Section 1
Professor
Mary Pat Byrn
Required Text
Instructions
1. Register for this class on Blackboard ASAP.
2. Read the syllabus.
3. Define “family” and illustrate your definition. Do not put your name on your paper. Instead, write your name on a separate sheet of paper and attach it to your definition and illustration. Turn in the assignment to Meg Daniel, Room 337 by noon on Tuesday, August 24th.
4. Complete the reading for Class 1 on the syllabus.
Federal Indian Law | #4313 Section 1
Professor
Colette Routel
Required Text
AMERICAN INDIAN LAW (2010), by Robert Anderson et. al.
Supplemental Material
Supplemental materials will be distributed in class and/or posted on BlackBoard. If you are looking for a study aid for this course, you may wish to consult WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., AMERICAN INDIAN LAW IN A NUTSHELL. Federal Indian Law 2010 SYLLABUS.pdf
Instructions
Refer to the above-linked tentative syllabus for first assignment and additional information regarding the course.
Feminist Jurisprudence | #4070 Section 1
Professor
Sandra Smalley-Fleming & Courtney Rogers-Reid
Required Text
GENDER AND LAW THEORY, DOCTRINE, COMMENTARY by Katherine T. Bartlett, Angela P. Harris & Deborah L. Rhode (5th ed. Foundation Press 2006); and TELLING STORIES OUT OF COURT by Ruth O'Brien
Instructions
For class one, 8/24/10: Read pp. 1-15 in GENDER AND LAW, "Historical Foundations for Women's Claims to Formal Equality."
Health Law I | #4152 Section 1
Professor
Sheva Sanders
Required Text
Furrow et al., HEALTH LAW, 6th Ed.
Instructions
There is no required assignment to complete prior to the first class.
Immigration Law: Immigration and Citizenship Law Survey | #4200 Section 1
Professor
Malinda Schmiechen
Required Text
Aleinkoff, IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP, 6th Ed.; Aleinkoff, IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWS OF U.S. (2010 ed.); and
Johnson's UNDERSTANDING IMMIGRATION LAW.
Refer to the above-linked PDF for first assignment.
Income Tax | #2600 Section 2
Professor
Jeffrey Peterson
Required Text
Selected IRC Statutes (2010 Ed)(Set:Txt/Tax Map) Lathrope 0314907009 (or most current edition); FUNDAMENTALS OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION (Casebook) Freeland 15th 1599417006.
Instructions
First few reading assignments: Chapter 1, Orientation 2-45 (43) (Casebook); Chapter 18, Deductions for Individuals Pages 548-586 (38) (Casebook). If you want to work ahead: Chapter 28, Procedures & Professional Responsibility Pages 964-1000 (36) (Casebook).
Income Tax | #2600 Section 1
Professor
Denise Roy
Required Text
Klein, et al., FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION, 15th ed.
Federal Income Tax Code 2010-2011, with CD.
Supplemental Material
Recommended: Chirelstein, FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION, 11th ed.
Instructions
Thusday, August 19, 2:00-3:50 p.m.: Klein, Bankman et al, pp. 1-20.
Assignment: find a IP-related current events story, email a link to me and tell me why it is interesting to you. Refer to the above-linked PDF for contact and course information.
International Human Rights Law | #2007 Section 1
Professor
Katherine Barrett Wiik
Required Text
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEXT, eds. Steiner, Alston, and Goodman (3d ed. 2007), Oxford Press.
Instructions
In Steiner, Alston & Goodman: Read Preface, Summary of Contents, and pgs. 1-57.
Please also prepare a short paper of just a few paragraphs to turn in and also share a summary of orally with the class. You paper should include your name, year, hometown, what you did prior to W. Mitchell, your career interests or goals if known, and address the following questions:
1. What sparks your interest in human rights law? What do you hope to get out of this course?
2. Do you have any previous experience with human rights law, either formally or informally?
3. Do you have any particular areas of interest within human rights law, such as any particular subject matter or issue, or geographic area?
Land Use | #4833 Section 1
Professor
Eileen Roberts
Required Text
DANIEL R. MANDELKER ET AL., PLANNING AND CONTROL OF LAND DEVELOPMENT: CASES AND MATERIALS (7th ed. 2008).
Supplemental Material
Students will receive supplementary material throughout the semester via Blackboard.
Refer to the above-linked PDF for assignment due by August 13.
Media Law | #3530 Section 1
Professor
Raleigh Levine
Required Text
The required casebook is the seventh edition of MASS MEDIA LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS, by Marc A. Franklin, David A. Anderson, and Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, published by Foundation Press in 2005.
Supplemental Material
Readings will be assigned regularly from the 2010 Casebook Supplement. An electronic version of the supplement will be posted on the Blackboard website for the course.
Instructions
Please read pages 2 through 49 (up to but not including Notes and Questions on page 49) in the Franklin/Anderson/Lidsky casebook.
Refer to the above-linked syllabus for first assignment and course information.
Property I | #1600 Section 5
Professor
Curt Stine
Required Text
Dukeminier, et al, PROPERTY, 7th Ed. (2010)
Instructions
Read pp. 1-29 of Chapter 1 of the Dukeminier text.
Public International Law | #4350 Section 1
Professor
Anthony Winer
Required Text
Instructions
Please enroll yourself in Blackboard for this course. Greetings! Welcome to the Fall 2010 course in Public International Law! The first class session is scheduled for Tuesday, August 24, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 125. For that class, please prepare the material indicated below. (The subject we will discuss first is treaties, and the pages indicated below have been chosen to supply introductory background specifically for treaties.) By the way, please make sure you are using the 2009 5th Edition of the course book, and its 2009 Documents Supplement. Any earlier editions are not comparable and will be entirely inadequate for our purposes. The assignment for the first class is: (a) from the Casebook: pages 3, 43-44, 55-58, 122-24 & 126-63; and (b) from the Documents Supplement: pages 43-50 (This is the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Parts I & II). We'll look forward to seeing everyone in class!
Public International Law Research Workshop I | #4349 Section 1
Professor
Anthony Winer
Required Text
Instructions
Greetings! Welcome to the Fall 2010 Workshop on Public International Law Research! The first class session is scheduled for Wednesday, August 25 at 2:00 p.m. in the Library Conference Room. (Please see the separate announcement—on the Blackboard website for the class—for instructions on how to get there, should you need them.) The assignment for this class session is identical to the assignment for the Tuesday afternoon lecture course. We'll look forward to seeing everyone in class!
Real Estate Transactions | #4930 Section 1
Professor
Marcus Mollison
Required Text
Lefcoe, REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, 6th Ed.
Instructions
For Thursday, 8/19, read Lefcoe pp. 1-15 and 17-27.
Religion and the Constitution | #2440 Section 1
Professor
Mike Steenson
Required Text
Michael W. McConnell, John H. Garvey & Thomas C. Berg, RELIGION AND THE CONSTITUTION (2d ed. 2006).
Instructions
For Wednesday, August 25, read pp. 1 – 45 in the Casebook. Before we get to the reading we will discuss the firestorm surrounding the proposed Islamic center in Manhattan, a couple of blocks from Ground Zero. In particular, I would like you to view the controversy from the standpoint of the First Amendment.
Sales | #2301 Section 1
Professor
Gregory Duhl
Required Text
Linda J. Rusch & Stephen L. Sepincuck, SALES & LEASES: A PROBLEM SOLVING APPROACH (West 2009); Ronald J. Mann, Elizabeth Warren & Jay Lawrence Westbrook, COMPREHENSIVE COMMERCIAL LAW (Aspen 2010).
Instructions
For the first and second classes, please read pp. 1–31 (skip state law statutes on pp. 27–29) in the Sepinuck & Rusch text, as well as U.C.C. sections 1-103, 2-102, 2-105, 2-106(1), 2-107 and CISG arts. 1–6 and 10. Please use revised Article 1 and old (unamended) Article 2, which, with few exceptions, is the law in Minnesota. Prepare Problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.5. Additionally, please read the syllabus and In re Sonrise Landscaping (the course “problem”), which will be posted on Blackboard by August 12, 2010.
For 1-hour class on Mon. Aug. 23rd: In the textbook, read the Preface. Then add tabs to your statutory supplement to locate unrevised and revised Article 1, as well as unamended and amended Article 2. Unless the Problem says otherwise, you will be using unrevised Article 1 and unamended Article 2 to answer the questions in the textbook. In the textbook, read Assignment 1 and complete Problems 1-1 and 1-2. For the Problems, you should jot down your reasoning, the UCC sections and language that you used, and how you found that language (your classmates will want to know), so that you can recount your analysis to your classmates and me. For Problem 1-2(B), skip the diagram instruction and instead list which items are “goods,” which items are not “goods,” and which items could be either.
For 2-hour class on Tues. Aug. 24th: In the textbook, complete Problems 1-3 and 1-4. Then read Assignment 2 and complete all of the Problems in it except Problem 2-3(C).
Secured Transactions | #5350 Section 1
Professor
Gene Hennig
Required Text
(1) SECURED TRANSACTIONS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY, 7th ed. (2007) by Warren and Walt;
Read pages 1-22 of the Warren and Walt text and pages II-1 to II-4 in the Supplement.
Sports Law | #5360 Section 1
Professor
Clark Griffith
Required Text
SPORTS LAW AND REGULATION (2d ed.), by Matthew Mitten, et.al., published by Aspen Publishers.
Instructions
August 23: Table of Contents and Preface, pages xi-xxiii and xxv-xxvii, Chapter 1, pages 1-23. Read the TOC to gain a perspective on the wide world of sports law. We will discuss this issue in the first class.
Tax Practice and Procedure | #2001 Section 1
Professor
David Zoss
Required Text
TAX CONTROVERSIES: PRACTICE & PROCEDURE, L. Lederman & S. Mazza, 3rd ed., 2008.
Supplemental Material
None, at present; changes will be posted to Blackboard.
Instructions
Read chapters 1 and 2 and be prepared to discuss the problems.
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