Assignments for First Day of Classes
Spring 2012 Semester Beginning Tuesday, January 10
Please forward assignment additions/updates to Donna McMurry in the Dean's Office.
If your course does not appear on this page, please check back-- first day assignments are still being submitted.
On this page:
» Administrative Law - Robinson
» Alternative Dispute Resolution - Rute
» Business Associations - Westbrook
» Civil Procedure I (A) - Glashausser
» Civil Procedure II - Bahadur
» Constitutional Law I (A) - Rubenstein
» Constitutional Law I (B) - Rich
» Constitutional Litigation - Rich
» Contracts II (A) - Schwartz
» Contracts II (B) - Schwartz
» Criminal Procedure (A) - Kaye
» Criminal Procedure (B) - Ramirez
» Criminal Procedure II - Ramirez
» Decedents' Estates and Trusts & Future Interests - Pease
» Divorce Practice - Elrod
» Employment Law - Alaka
» Environmental Law - Duncan
» Family Law - Maxwell
» Federal Courts - Bahadur
» Financial Institution Regulation - Westbrook
» Financial Issues in Divorce - Booth
» Higher Education Law - Robinson
» Immigration Law - Rubenstein
» Insurance Law - Wine
» International Intellectual Property Law - Judd
» Law and Economics - McMillan
» Law in Literature - Pease
» Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I (JA) - Jackson, J.D.
» Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I (JB) - Jackson, J.D.
» Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (A1) - Byers
» Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (A2) - Mastrosimone
» Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (A3) - Grant
» Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (B2) - Mastrosimone
» Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (B3) - Grant
» Pretrial Advocacy-Criminal - Francis, J.
» Public Land Law - Duncan
» Real Estate Transactions - Judd
» Remedies - Ho
» Sexuality and the Law - Maxwell
» Taxation of Business Enterprises - Foster
» Taxation of Individual Income - McMillan
» Water Rights - Rolfs
Administrative Law - Robinson for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Read pp. 1-17 for Tuesday
Read pp. 17-24; pp. 307-311; 727-734 (Article I through Article III) for Thursday.
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Rute for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please Read Riskin pages 1-115
Business Associations - Westbrook for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
READING:
- Palmitar/Partnoy: Ch. 8 (pp. 180-182)
- Restatement 3rd of Agency, Sections 1.01-1.04.2.01-2.04, 2.06 (link on TWEN page)
- Gorton v. Doty Excerpt (TWEN page)
- A. Gay Jenson Farms Co. v. Cargill Inc. Excerpt (TWEN page)
Civil Procedure I (A) - Glashausser for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Sign up for the TWEN site and download the syllabus.
- Read assignment #1, which consists of
- (1) pp. 1-6 of the text;
- (2) 28 U.S.C. section 2072 (p. 406 of the rule book);
- (3) Rule 1 (p. 13 of the rule book); and
- (4) the Jones article, which you will download from TWEN (under course materials).
Please read the syllabus as well. If you are new to TWEN, to sign up, go to www.lawschool.westlaw.com; select the TWEN tab; click on the drop/add a course button; check the box in front of Civil Procedure I (Spring 2012) Glashausser; and click on submit. If you have any problems, please just let me know.
Civil Procedure II - Bahadur for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Read Introduction and General Course Description: Sibbach v. Wilson, 312 U.S. 1 (1940)(Prof);FRCP: 35, 37;
Please read Rules and Rule reading initiation:28 USC §§ 2071-2074; 28 USC §§1331, 1332 (Skim);
Constitutional Law I (A) - Rubenstein for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Read from Textbook, pp.1-42
Constitutional Law I (B) - Rich for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Read Maggs & Smith, Constitutional Law, 2nd Edition, Pages 1-13
Constitutional Litigation - Rich for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Read Course Materials, Chapter (1 Pages 1-29).
Contracts II (A) - Schwartz for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Review Syllabus
- Read pages 493-495 and 411-418 of CONTRACTS: A CONTEXT AND PRACTICE CASEBOOK and answer the questions therein
- You must bring the contract you intend to study this semester to class
- Looking at the contract you are bringing to class, identify as many of the terms listed in the Chart on page 412 as you can. Use sticky notes to label those terms in your contract.
Contracts II (B) - Schwartz for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Review Syllabus
- Read pages 493-495 and 411-418 of CONTRACTS: A CONTEXT AND PRACTICE CASEBOOK and answer the questions therein
- You must bring the contract you intend to study this semester to class
- Looking at the contract you are bringing to class, identify as many of the terms listed in the Chart on page 412 as you can. Use sticky notes to label those terms in your contract.
Criminal Procedure (A) - Kaye for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
All assignments refer to pages in the course casebook: Criminal Process: INVESTIGATION Third Edition by Weinreb (Foundation Press, NY.NY. 2004) and the Supplement (2006).
- 1. January 11 read in casebook, pp.1-22
- Be ready to discuss all case material including numbered paragraphs. Brief and be ready to discuss Giordenello (p.6) and Jaben(p.8).
- 2. January 13 read in casebook, pp. 22-35; Maryland v. Pringle
- Be ready to discuss all material and brief Watson (p.22). Pringle will be posted on the TWEN page.
Criminal Procedure (B) - Ramirez for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
For the first day of class, please read the following pages in the assigned casebook, Moskovitz, Cases and Problems in Criminal Procedure: The Police (5th Ed. 2010): Pp. 1-33: Overview of Criminal Process; On Problem Analysis, Bill of Rights, Probable Cause (Draper, Aguilar)
Criminal Procedure II - Ramirez for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
In preparation for our first class, please read Chapter One (pp.1-27) in Chemerinsky & Levenson, Criminal Procedure Adjudication. The first 11 pages are introductory materials that you should be familiar with already. We will cover a couple of key concepts (due process through procedural rules, incorporation of the bill of rights in criminal cases) that we will discuss through cases, Powell v. Alabama and Duncan v. Louisiana. Retroactivity rounds out the reading.
Decedents' Estates and Trusts & Future Interests - Pease for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Read pp. 38-48 in textbook.
Divorce Practice - Elrod for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Read: Introduction: Images of Family Lawyers & Professionalism. Chapter 1. Marsha Kline Pruett & Tamara D. Jackson, The Lawyerfs Role During the Divorce Process: Perceptions of Parents, Their Young Children and Their Attorneys, 33@Fam. L. Q. 283 (1999); Samuel V. Schoonmaker, III & Samuel V. Schoonmaker, IV, Two Generations of Practitioners Assess the Evolution of Family Law, 42 Fam. L. Q. 687 (2008).
Employment Law - Alaka for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
- 1) Register for this course on TWEN and add it to your TWEN courses.
- 2) Read Rothstein & Liebman - Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, pages 15-25.
- 3) Read the Syllabus and Tentative Schedule of Assignments, which you can locate on TWEN.
- 4) Laptops are used only occasionally in this class. Bring paper and something to write with. Optimally, you will have a 3-ring binder dedicated to this class.
Environmental Law - Duncan for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
We will work through an intro handout the first couple of classes. The handout will be available in the bin on the wall outside Shirley's office (302) sometime on Friday 1/6/12.
Family Law - Maxwell for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Sign up for the course TWEN site (password FL2012).
Course Materials:
- COURSES AND MATERIALS ON FAMILY LAW, 2012, Compiled by Nancy G. Maxwell (The text will be posted periodically in separate chapters on the course TWEN site under the Text tab.)
- STATUTORY SUPPLEMENT 2012 (The Statutory Supplement is posted on the course TWEN site under the Statutes tab.)
- Read:
- IntroductionTwo Generations of Practitioners Access the Evolution of Family Law
- Chapter 1, Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships A. Common Law Marriage Read pages 1-18 Ks. St. 23-2502, 23-2501
- See Class Questions for the 1st and 2nd Classposted on Class Questions tab on course TWEN site.
- Optional Reading A Kansas Sex Fiend Pages 18-26
- As a reminder--Laptop computers, I-Pads, Blackberries and other electronic devices are not allowed for use in the classroom (tape recorders are allowed and videos of class will be posted on the TWEN course site), except for special accommodations arranged through Assistant Dean Lynette Petty.
Federal Courts - Bahadur for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please read introduction in textbook.
Financial Institution Regulation - Westbrook for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Introduction to the Class
- Why Study Financial Markets and Institutions?
- READING: FM&I Chapter 1, pp. 6-8
- Overview of the Financial System
- READING: FM&I Chapter 2, pp. 15-20
Financial Issues in Divorce - Booth for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
There is no first day assignment other than the students need to become familiar with Professor Booth's on line resource at:
Higher Education Law - Robinson for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Read pp. 1-38 for Tuesday.
Read pp. 38-64 for Thursday.
Immigration Law - Rubenstein for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Read from Textbook, pp. 1-11; 25-37
Insurance Law - Wine for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please Read Introduction, pp. 1-24
Kansas Attorney General Opinion 1980-8, 1980 WL 117687
Darby & Darby v. VSI International, p. 1
Griffin Systems v. Ohio, p. 6
Truta v. Avis, p. 13
International Intellectual Property Law - Judd for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Note: Todays reading assignment is a little on the long side, but actually covers part of the reading for the January 18 class as well. I assign the full set now because the readings work together well to inform our discussion for the first day. Feel free to skim the WIPO Magazine readings lightly for this week, reading them more carefully for the January 18 class.
Please complete the Opening Student Survey, available in the Course Materials section of the TWEN site, or in hard copy during the first class session.
Dinwoodie Casebook (CB) pp. 8-13, 15-17, 20-24
- Sullivan, Dot-Communist Manifesto
- McCarthy, Intellectual PropertyAmericas Overlooked Export
- Gana, Has Creativity Died in the Third World? Some Implications of the Internationalization of Intellectual Property
- Keefauver, The Need for International Thinking in Intellectual Property Law
Fisher, Theories of Intellectual Property, Section I (prints out as pp. 1-4); available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/iptheory.html.
WIPO MAGAZINE, Dec. 2011, pp. 2-13, 17-19; available at http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/. You are welcome to read the entire magazine, but for purposes of our discussion, read the following:
- WIPO Re:Search - IP at Work for Social Benefit
- The Global Impact of the America Invents Act
- Safeguarding Cultural Heritage - The Case of the Sacred Wandjina
- Ian Hargreaves on Adapting IP to the Digital Age
- Navigating an Expanded Domain Name Landscape
Law and Economics - McMillan for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please have prepared Reading Module 1.
- Introduction to Economic Concepts Cooter pp. 7-14, 18-33 (ignoring graphs), 37-54.
- Please sign up for the course on TWEN and you can access the syllabus there.
Law in Literature - Pease for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Start reading The Confession by John Grisham.
Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I (JA) - Jackson, J.D. for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please Read Legal Writing and Analysis pp. 3-12
Legal Analysis, Research & Writing I (JB) - Jackson, J.D. for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please Read Legal Writing and Analysis pp. 3-12
Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (A1) - Byers for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please review your graded, open memo from LARW I and bring it to class.
Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (A2) - Mastrosimone for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
- (1) Signup for the TWEN page for their respective classes
- (2) Scan the Supplemental Reading Material 1 on Bar Exam statistics found on the TWEN site
- (3) Scan the course schedule and class policies found on the TWEN site
- (4) Read the Supplemental Reading Material 2 on the Hardy & Tisdale problem found on the TWEN site. Be prepared to discuss the problem and cases in class. Please bring to class a draft annotated outline of a synthesized rule that you can create from the cases in the Hardy and Tisdale problem set to determine when a person will be admitted to the bar despite having less than perfect character and fitness. Please bring a hard copy of your annotated rule to pass in during class. This will count as an analytical exercise.
Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (A3) - Grant for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please add yourself to the TWEN page for this semester's class.
Read Supplement #1 and Supplement #2 (posted on the Supplemental Readings link on TWEN).
Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (B2) - Mastrosimone for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
- (1) Signup for the TWEN page for their respective classes
- (2) Scan the Supplemental Reading Material 1 on Bar Exam statistics found on the TWEN site
- (3) Scan the course schedule and class policies found on the TWEN site
- (4) Read the Supplemental Reading Material 2 on the Hardy & Tisdale problem found on the TWEN site. Be prepared to discuss the problem and cases in class. Please bring to class a draft annotated outline of a synthesized rule that you can create from the cases in the Hardy and Tisdale problem set to determine when a person will be admitted to the bar despite having less than perfect character and fitness. Please bring a hard copy of your annotated rule to pass in during class. This will count as an analytical exercise.
Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II (B3) - Grant for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please add yourself to the TWEN page for this semester's class.
Read Supplement #1 and Supplement #2 (posted on the Supplemental Readings link on TWEN).
Pretrial Advocacy-Criminal - Francis, J. for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
For the first workshop session, we will meet in Room 150 on Tuesday, January 10, at 5:30 p.m. During this first workshop, we will watch a movie which we will refer to at different points in the semester. Due to the length of the movie, this workshop will run 95 minutes. You will get the extra time back later in the semester.
Public Land Law - Duncan for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Read pp. 1-33 of text, Klein, et al, Naturual Resources Law. For Fri 1/13, pp. 37-66.
Real Estate Transactions - Judd for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Please complete the Opening Student Survey, available in the Course Materials section of the TWEN site, or in hard copy during the first class session.
Malloy & Smith Casebook Chapter 1pp. 1-24. Review and be prepared to discuss the three problems featured in the reading, as well as Bohn v. Cody.
Remedies - Ho for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
- (1) Read p. 2 only - Michael Hunter Schwartz and Barbara Wilson, MATERIALS, CASES AND PROBLEMS ON REMEDIES (2010).
- (2) Students, please note that the text, Kaplan PMBR, KAPLAN PMBR FINALS: REMEDIES: CORE CONCEPTS AND KEY QUESTIONS (Kaplan Publg 2009), is no longer required for this course. It has unfortunately gone out of print this past fall. If you have been able to purchase this text already, it can be an excellent course study aid for this class and I would be glad to give you corresponding pages in the outline that would be helpful to you in Remedies this Spring.
Sexuality and the Law - Maxwell for Thursday, 1/12/2012
CASES AND MATERIALS ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND THE LAW(CASEBOOK)
- Read: Preface to the Third Edition, starting on page v and up to, but not including "Acknowledgements" on page vii
- Read: Preface to the Second Edition, starting on page xv up to the page break on page xxi Preface to the First Edition, starting on page xxiii and up to, but not including the "Acknowledgements" on page xxxi.
- Read: Chapter One, Basic Documents, 1. Sexuality, pages 1-36.
Taxation of Business Enterprises - Foster for Tuesday, 1/10/2012
Students should complete and be prepared to discuss Assignment 1. This assignment can be downloaded on the TWEN Page.
Taxation of Individual Income - McMillan for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Read
- Module 1: Introduction
- BF Chapter 1
- http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-11-12.pdf
- Please sign up for the course on TWEN and you can access the syllabus there.
Water Rights - Rolfs for Wednesday, 1/11/2012
Read pp. 1-15 in textbook
