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Spring 2013 Class Assignments

The following is a list of class assignments for this term. If your class does not have an assignment, please contact your professor.

Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 1:00 PM

Antitrust

Prof. Lee

The information in this posting – and more – appears on the TWEN page for this course.

Course materials:

Goetz, McChesney, & Lambert, Antitrust Law: Interpretation and Implementation, 5th ed. (2012)
The authors maintain a website at http://www.gm-antitrustlaw.com/
I recommend The Wall Street Journal (student subscription rate available through me)

First day assignment:

Prefaces to the 5th and 1st editions
Pages 1 - 12
Pages A-1 & A-2 (the text of the first two sections of the Sherman Act)

Mathphobes Beware: These pages contain not only numbers, but graphs. If you suffer from mathphobia, please try not
to panic. I will bring a partial antidote to our first class meeting.

I plan to ask most of the questions on pages 4, 9, and 10, so please prepare yourself to answer
them before coming to class.

California Civil Procedure

Prof. Heiser

Course materials:

Heiser, California Civil Procedure, 3rd ed. (LexisNexis 2012)

First week assignment:

Monday, January 14 - read pages 1-26, 39-49, and 52-54 in the casebook
Wednesday, January 16 - read pages 57-88 in the casebook

Civil Practicum

Prof. Wharton

Read the Interviewing and Counseling articles, the course handbook and calendar, and complete the student information and schedule form. All documents have been sent to students’ sandiego.edu email accounts. Contact Haley Shumaker at hshumaker@sandiego.edu with questions.

Civil Procedure II

Prof. Brooks

Course Materials:

New Casebook: Brooks, Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials for An Advanced Course
Old: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (any current edition)

First Assignment:

Read Chapter 1 in Casebook

Important Note:

There have been several studies indicating that student learning in the classroom is greatly hampered by the use of computers or other electronic devices. The traditional method of taking notes is still the best method for facilitating thinking. That has been my experience as well in more than three decades of teaching. Ergo, the use of electronic devices in class is strictly prohibited. No cell phones, pagers or other type of audio or video recording device, including ipods, laptop computers, blackberries, raspberries et. al. Use paper and pen or pencil.

Civil Procedure II, § A & § B

Prof. Heiser

First Assignment:

Read pages 585-606, 606-616 in the Pleading and Procedure casebook. Also read Rules 7-11 and 12(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, reproduced in the California Civil Procedure Handbook.

Comparative Constitutional Law

Prof. Allen

Course materials:

Available in the USD bookstore.

First assignment:

Near the start of my course materials is a short article by Mark Tushnet. Please read this for the first class.

Complex Litigation

Prof. Schulman

Course materials:

Klonoff, Bilich & Malveaux, Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation, 3rd ed. (West 2012)
FRCP Rule 23 (see Text pp. lix-lxii)

First week assignments:

Monday, January 14 - Class Actions, Panacea or Engine of Destruction? Read Rule 23 F.R.Civ.P. (Text pp. lix-lxii); then read Text 1 – 17, 25-36

Wednesday, January 16 - Threshold Requirements 37-52; Explicit Requirements -- Rule 23(a) 57; Numerosity 57-71 (notes 1-13).

Note: All students are required to register on my course page on TWEN prior to the first class. Course materials, including a course outline and the course syllabus with reading assignments are posted on TWEN. I use TWEN email to post handouts, study questions and communicate with the class about syllabus revisions, assignment changes, etc. Please read the Student Information Memo posted on TWEN prior to the first class.

Please email me alans@sandiego.edu if you have any questions about the course.

Constitutional Law I

Prof. Claus

First class on Monday, January 14, please read once through

The Constitution of the United States and
The Articles of Confederation

What are the most important differences between the two documents?

(You should all have pocket copies of the Constitution, which you will need to bring to each class. Copies of the Articles are readily available on the internet, e.g. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.html .)

Second class on Wednesday, January 16, please read the extract from, and commentary on, Marbury v. Madison in the Sullivan Gunther casebook (pages 1-15).

In the syllabus, I will give you page references for both the 17th and the 16th editions. There are not many places where additional reading from the 17th is necessary. You will, however, need to buy the 2012 Supplement too.

Constitutional Law I

Prof. McGowan

Please, sign up for this class on TWEN.

First week assignments:

The Basis for Judicial Review
- A Tour of the Constitution Exercise (TWEN)
- A Prologue on Constitutional History, Text 1-15
- Marbury v. Madison (Text, 90-100)
- Federalist 78 (Hamilton) (Text, Appendix 2, pp. 26-28)
- The Court’s supremacy in Constitutional interpretation, Cooper v. Aaron, 100-105.
The Limited Power of the National Government – Congress’ Authority Under the Commerce Clause
- James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States (TWEN)
- McCulloch v. Maryland (Text, pp. 814-26

Constitutional Law I

Prof. Ramsey

Course materials:

Sullivan & Gunther, Constitutional Law, 17th ed. (Foundation Press 2010)

First assignment:

Read the text of the Constitution (Appendix A of the casebook)
Find and read a brief historical account of the 1787-88 drafting and ratification of the Constitution
Consider and be prepared to discuss the following:
- Why do we need a Constitution?
- What purposes does a constitutional system serve, as compared to a system of simple majority rule?

Information regarding the course and the assignments is posted at the course webpage, www.mdramsey.com/index_files/Page453.htm (you can also reach this page by going to my website homepage, www.mdramsey.com, and following the link to “USD Courses” and then to “Constitutional Law I”). Please visit the webpage to download (a) the course syllabus; and (b) the reading assignments for Part 1 of the course.

Contracts

Prof. Claus

It turns out that the bookshop was able to stock a sufficient number of the 4th edition of the Barnett casebook, which is good news as the two editions are for our purposes substantively much the same and the 4th will be cheaper (some of you may be able to get it second hand too). Here are the page numbers for the first week in the 4th edition. If some of you have already bought the 5th edition from other sources, that is fine – let me know and I can give you corresponding page numbers.

Here are the readings for the first week, from Barnett, 4th edition:

First Class, January 14
- 22-44 Baby M case
- 60 Restatement §§178, 179
- 605-611 Marvin v. Marvin
Second Class, January 16
- 63-68 Hawkins v. McGee
- 70-71 Restatement §347
- 71 Nurse v. Barns
- 86-91 Tongish v. Thomas

Here are the readings for the first week, from Barnett, 5th edition:

First Class, January 14
- 22-44 Baby M case
- 57 Restatement §§178, 179
- 579-585 Marvin v. Marvin

Second Class, January 16
- 61-66 Hawkins v. McGee
- 68-69 Restatement §347
- 69 Nurse v. Barns
- 84-89 Tongish v. Thomas

Copyright

Prof. Bell

First reading assignment:

Casebook (Cohen, et al, 3d ed.), pages 3-42

Corporations

Prof. Dallas

Course materials:

A. Palmiter & F. Partnoy, Corporations: A Contemporary Approach (2010)
Other materials, including statutory provisions and rules, are on TWEN Web Links

First week's assignments:

Introduction to Corporation Law. Text 25-42, 57-66, 72-73, 86-93; CA 2115. What are the characteristics of corporations? What are the shareholder options of exit, voice and loyalty? What are the competing conceptions of the corporation and what implications do they have for the role of law? What are securities? What are the internal affairs of the corporation and what is the internal affairs doctrine? What are “pseudo foreign” corporations? How are they defined under California corporations laws? Does competition among states for corporate charters result in a “race to the top” or a “race to the bottom” or neither? What explains the preeminence of Delaware corporation law? Should the federal government determine the content of corporate law?
Choice of Business Association: Corporate Characteristics. Text 141-62; Choice of Bus Assoc Chart; Taxation of Bus Assoc Chart. What are the default characteristics of corporations, general partnerships (GPs), limited partnerships (LPs), and limited liability companies (LLCs) concerning formation, the liability of owners, management and control, transferability of ownership interests, and continuity of life? What is an “inadvertent” partnership? What are the characteristics of limited liability partnerships ((LLPs) and limited liability limited partnerships (LLLP)? What does “check the box” refer to? Compare “corporation” tax treatment and “partnership” tax treatment? What is “Subchapter S” treatment?

Corporations

Prof. Lee

The information in this posting – and more – appears on the TWEN page for this course.

Course materials (required):

Ribstein & Letsou, Business Associations, 4th ed. (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender 2003) ISBN: 9780820570075
Ribstein & Letsou, Business Associations, 4th ed. Supplement (LexisNexis 2007) - posted in the Course Materials folder on the TWEN page for this course and available as free download at http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/study/texts/
Hazen & Markham, Corporations, Other Limited Liability Entities and Partnerships: Statutory and Documentary Supplement, 2012-2013 (West 2012); ISBN: 9780314280800 (Statutory supplements to other business association or corporations casebooks should serve as decent substitutes.)

Course materials (recommended):

Klein, Coffee & Partnoy, Business Organizations & Finance, 11th ed. (West, 2010); ISBN: 9781599414492 (I will assign readings from the 11th edition, but the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th 9th, or 10th edition will serve as a good substitute – even though Prof. Partnoy was not an author.)
The Wall Street Journal (discount subscriptions available through me)

First day assignment:

Ribstein & Letsou (“R&L): 1 - 15; 17 - 26; 333 - 336
Klein, Coffee & Partnoy (“KCP”): Preface; 1 - 8; 12 - 47
“Not a ‘Bar Course:’ My Take on the Laws of Corporations and Other Business Associations” (posted in the Announcement folder on the TWEN page for this course)

Criminal Procedure II

Prof. Huffman

Textbook:

Kamisar, et al., Advanced Criminal Procedure, 13th ed.

First reading assignment:

Pages 1-24 and 1119-1133

Employment Discrimination

Prof. Heriot

Textbook:

Rutherglen & Donohue, Employment Discrimination: Law and Theory

First week assignment:

Read pages 51 -119

Environmental Law

Prof. McAllister

First day reading assignment (Tuesday, January 15):

Our casebook is Driesen, Adler and Engel’s Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (2nd ed., Aspen Press 2011). For our first class, please read Chapter 1 (pp. 5-28). In addition, please read the handout: “Introductory Problem Exercise,” which you can find on the TWEN site that I’ve created for our course.

Evidence

Prof. Devitt

Course materials:

Mueller & Kirkpatrick, Evidence Under the Rules, Text, Cases, and Problems, 7th ed. ("MK" below)
Federal Rules of Evidence ("FRE" below)

First week assignments:

Monday, January 14

Introduction to the Law of Evidence
Course Objectives
Overview of Course
Grading and Examination Format
Class Participation
Mandatory Class Attendance
The Adversary System; and the Necessity for Rules of Evidence
- MK pp. 1-48
- FRE 101-106, 1101
Problems: 1-A, 1-B
Creativity in the Courtroom; Closing Argument Video Example

Wednesday, January 16

Direct and Cross-Examination
- FRE 611
Writing Used to Refresh Memory
- FRE 612
Cross-Examination on Witness Preparation Material
Excluding Witnesses
- FRE 615
Competency of Witnesses
- MK pp. 471-497
- FRE 601-606
Problems: 6-A, 6-B, 6-C, 6-D, 6-E, 6-F

Federal Courts

Prof. Smith

Course materials:

Redish et al., Federal Courts, 7th ed.

First reading assignment:

Please read pages 1052-53 and pages 1-18

Federal Crimes

Prof. Rice

Course materials:

Abrams, et.al, Federal Criminal Law and Its Enforcement, 5th ed.

First Class Reading Assignment:

Read pages 1 - 27 of the casebook and the case U.S. v. Perez, 402 U.S. 146 (1971)

Fundamentals of Bar Writing

Prof. Berent

January 16, first class:

Overview of the components of the bar exam, with emphasis on writing components & proper formatting
Write In-class Diagnostic Essay Exam

High Technology Start Ups

Prof. Smith

Textbook:

Bagley and Dauchy, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law, 4th ed.

First class assignment:

Please read chapters 1 and 2

Immigration Law

Prof. Olender

Textbook:

Alexander Aleinikoff, Immigration & Citizenship, 7th ed. (2012) ISBN 978-0-314-26709-2

First week's assignment:

Pages: 38-80, 114-139, 148-161 (optional background pp. 3-24)
Cases covered: Wong Kim Ark; Elk v. Wilkins, Afroyim v. Rusk; Schneider v. Rusk; Vance v. Terrazas; US v. Puerta
Concepts covered: Citizenship, Jus Sanguinis, Jure Sanguinis, Jus Soli, Naturalization, Dual Citizenship, Denaturalization, Expatriation, Equal Protection Issues

Income Tax Aspects of Corporate Reorganizations

Prof. Ferguson

Assigned materials for the course:

Internal Revenue Code and Regulations
Bittker and Eustice, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, 7th ed. (Student Edition)(“B&E”)
Eustice and Cummings, Study Problems for Bittker and Eustice Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, 7th ed (“Lessons”)
Additional materials will be handed out in class.

Assignment for First Class, Monday, January 14:

Lesson 9, Problems 1 and 2(a)

E&C Study Problems (pp. 59-62), with indicated assignments in Internal Revenue Code Regulations and B&E text. Do not read the “suggested cases” which will be handed out or summarized in class.

Intellectual Property Seminar

Prof. Ramsey

Required materials :

In addition to other free online materials I will assign during the semester, I will use the following two books: (1) the Second Edition of Understanding Intellectual Property Law by Donald Chisum, Tyler Ochoa, Shubha Ghosh, and Mary LaFrance; and (2) the Fourth Edition of Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review by Eugene Volokh. Please do not buy an earlier edition of these books.

Reading assignments:

January 15 - Read pages 1-46 of Academic Legal Writing; Optional assignment: By noon on Monday, Jan. 14, send me a link to any news item in the intellectual property field that you think would be interesting for us to discuss in class
January 17 - Read pages 85-102 of Academic Legal Writing; Start thinking about your paper topic and consult the relevant pages of Understanding Intellectual Property Law

International Commercial Arbitration

Prof. Page

Textbook:

Varaday, International Commercial Arbitration, 5th ed. (West Law 2012)
Varaday, International Commercial Arbitration Document Supplement , 5th ed. (West Law 2012)

First class assignment:

Read chapter 1.1 "Approaches to Dispute Resolution: (CB, pages 1-46)
Be prepared to give a personal introduction, including (1) whether they are a 2L, 3L or LLM candidate; (2) their experience living in countries or cultures other than the United States of America; (3) their fluency in languages other than English; (4) their experience with overseas study and travel and (5) their familiarity with other comparative law legal systems outside of the United States. The class will be presented in English.
You should also be prepared to describe any prior classes or experience they have had with the "ADR" (alternative dispute resolution) methods of negotiation, mediation and arbitration, and with international business transactions and international law.
The Professor will discuss the Casebook ("CB"), Supplement ("SUPP"), course structure, Fact Pattern ("FP") and final exam. The use of handouts and materials outside of the CB and SUPP will be described.

International Finance

Prof. Dillon

Textbook:

J. Forry, International Finance Techniques: Key Elements, Challenges and Opportunities, 2nd ed.

First Reading Assignment:

Section X of International Finance Techniques textbook.

International Law in U.S. Courts

Prof. Ramsey

There is no textbook for this course. Readings will be posted online as described below.

Information regarding the course and the assignments is posted at the course webpage, www.mdramsey.com/index_files/Page812.htm (you can also reach this page by going to my website homepage, www.mdramsey.com, scroll to the bottom of the page and follow the link to “International Law in U.S. Courts”). Please visit the webpage to download information about the course, including the course syllabus (currently posted) and the initial reading assignment (to be posted shortly).

The assignment for the first class meeting (Monday, Jan. 14, 2013) is:

Read the posted assignment (Note: the initial assignment is expected to be posted by the end of the day on Wednesday, Jan. 9)
Consider and be prepared to discuss the following:
- Is international law the type of law that can be applied by U.S. courts in the same way they apply statutes and the Constitution? What are the potential differences that might pose challenges for courts? What are some strategies for overcoming (or at least mitigating) these challenges?
- Even assuming international law can be applied easily by U.S. courts, should it be? Why might some people feel very strongly that it should not, and how might their concerns be addressed?

International Sales Transactions

Prof. Lawrence

Textbook:

Spanogle & Winship, International Sales Law: A Prob Oriented Coursebook, 2nd ed. (West)

First week assignment:

Read pages 1-36; prepare problem 1-1

Mergers and Acquisitions

Prof. Smith

Textbook:

Thompson, Mergers and Acquisitions (2010)

First class assignment:

Please read chapters 1 and 2

Law of the Sea

Prof. Vargas

Textbook:

Sohn, Law of the Sea in a Nut Shell, 2nd ed.

First reading assignment:

Start reading and preparing for class discussion the first two chapters of the LOS Nutshell (available at the USD bookstore) and start thinking about possible interesting topics for your respective papers to be submitted at the end of the course.

Note: Due to the late expansion of my LOS course, the two classes next week (Monday Jan. 14 and Wednesday Jan. 16) will be introductory classes to the course, informing the class about the content of the course, format and content of the papers to be written, individual LOS presentations to be made by some students (starting with each of those enrolled in the LLM program), guest speakers, reading assignments, etc.

Music, Technology, and Copyright

Prof. Cronin

The reading assignment for the first week:

Frank Music Corp. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, 772 F.2d 505 (9th Cir. 1985)
Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros., 222 U.S. 55 (1911)
U.S. Copyright Statute, 17 USC, §§101, 102, & 110

Negotiation

Prof. Wied

Course materials:

Folberg & Golann, Lawyer Negotiation: Theory, Practice, and Law, 2nd ed. (Aspen Publishing 2011)

First week assignments:

Class 1, Tuesday, January 15 - Before class, answer the following questions in writing to be handed in at the beginning of class:

How do you presently deal with different kinds of conflict, personal and professional?
What interests you about negotiation?
What is your goal for this class?

Class 2, Thursday, January 17

Read Folberg, ch. 1
Purchase and bring Thomas-Killmann Conflict Mode Instrument exercise to class (Do not open until directed in class.)
Review Introduction to the Thomas Killman Conflict Mode Instrument in Course Materials (A hard copy of course materials will be distributed in class on January 15 and a copy will also be provided via e-mail.)

Property

Prof. Bell

First reading assignment:

Casebook (Merrill & Smith, 2d ed.), pages 1-41

Property

Prof. Schwarzschild

Required text:

Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith, Property: Principles and Policies, 2nd ed. (Foundation Press 2012)

First week assignments:

Class 1 - Read 1 - 23 and 82 - 90
Class 2 - Read 97 - 113, 242 - 257 (skim), 291 - 296 and 355 - 360
Class 3 - Read 124 - 143, 161 - 167 (thru note 4) and 183 (bottom) - 190

Property

Prof. Wiggins

Required text:

Dukeminier & Krier, et.al, Property, 7th ed. (2010)

First week assignments:

January 14: Read pages 1-29
January 16: Read pages 30-56 and the Cohen Essay (which will be distributed in class on 1/14); do problems 1-4 on pages 33-35

Property

Prof. Wonnell

Required text:

Dukeminier et al, Property, 7th ed. (2010)

First assignment:

Monday, January 14 - please read pp. 3-31 in the casebook
Wednesday, January 16, please read pp. 31-60 in the casebook

Religion and the Constitution

Prof. Smith

Required text:

McConnell et al., Religion and the Constitution, 3rd ed.

First reading assignment:

Please read pages 769-83. You might also look through the table of contents in the book and begin thinking about possible topics for your seminar paper.

Remedies

Prof. Heriot

Textbook:

Laycock, Modern American Remedies Concise Edition (Kluwer Law 2012)

First week assignment:

Read pages 1-40 (Chapter 1 and sections A, B & C of Chapter 2)

Sports and the Law

Prof. Len Simon & Prof. Katie Pothier

Required Text:

Weiler, Roberts, et al, Sports and the Law: Text, Cases, Problems, 4th ed. (Thomson-West) and Statutory and Documentary Supplement by the same authors.

Assignment for first class:

We will spend part of the first class getting oriented, and also doing a fun project, but you do have a short assignment relating to the powers of a league Commissioner – Text, pp. 1-15, and Supplement, pp. 56-61.

Think about the assigned reading in the context of players behaving badly. Could the Commissioners of Baseball, Football, Basketball or Hockey suspend a player as soon as he is charged with a crime, or does he have to wait for a conviction (think about Barry Bonds or Plaxico Burress)? Can a Commissioner favor one buying group over another when a team is for sale (Texas Rangers, Phoenix Coyotes, San Diego Padres?). Can the NFL Commissioner suspend a player for offering a bounty for sacks? Hard hits? Actually injuring the opposing quarterback? Can a Commissioner order a recalcitrant player to play in the All Star Game, the Olympics or the World Baseball Classic for the good of the game?

State and Local Government Law

Prof. Sansone

Required Text:

Daniel R. Mandelker, Dawn Clark Netsch, et al, State and Local Government in a Federal System, 7th ed.

Reading Assignment for first two classes (Mon 1/14 and Mon, 1/28):

Pages 1-44 of textbook
After “Note on Delegation” page 18 in text, read the following case in TWEN: Sturgeon v. County of LA (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 630
After Hunter case page 30 in text, read the following cases in TWEN: City of So. Lake Tahoe v. Calif. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (9th Cir. 1980) 625 F.2d 231; Star-Kist Foods, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles (1986) 42 Cal.3d 1.; Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority v. City of Burbank (9th Cir. 1998) 136 F.2d 1360

Survey of Pharmaceutical Law and Policy

Profs. Lasezkay and Voet

Course Materials:

Voet, The Generic Challenge, 3rd ed. 2011 (Brown Walker Press)

First reading assignment (1/17):

Chapters 1-3 of course book
We also suggest you read the cases cited in the reading assignment.

Second reading assignment (1/24):

Chapter 4 of course book
Review FDA "Orange Book"
Review FDA Form 3542
We also suggest you read Novo Nordisk v. Caraco (US Supreme Court, 2012)

Tax Policy

Prof. Barry

Revised first class meeting time:

Class will not meet at its usual time this Thursday. Instead, we will meet on Tuesday at 2:30 pm in Warren Hall room 314. The class will be recorded for those of you who are not able to attend.

First Class Assignment:

We’re going to start our semester by talking about something that was in the news a lot last year—Herman Cain’s proposed 9 9 9 tax plan. While you are of course welcome to do the reading in any order you like, I recommend that you read the ABC News article first, as it provides an overview of the plan and is shorter and more general than the Kleinbard article, which goes into much greater depth.

Ben Forer & Jonathan Karl, ABC News, What Could Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan Mean for You?, available at http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/9-9-9-plan-would-almost-double-taxes-on-middle-class/

Edward D. Kleinbard, Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Tax Plan, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1941800
(Note: This website tends to come up better in Internet Explorer than Chrome or Firefox.)

Telecommunications Law and Regulations

Prof. Hoffinger

Required Text:

Benjamin, Shelanski, Speta and Weiser, Telecommunication Law and Policy, 3rd ed.

First week's assignment:

Read pages 1 - 37 of the textbook

Trademark Law

Prof. Ramsey

Required materials:

I will use the Third Edition of the casebook by Graeme Dinwoodie and Mark Janis entitled Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy and the 2012-13 case and statutory supplement for that casebook. Please do not buy an earlier edition of the casebook or supplement.

Reading assignments:

January 15 - Introduction to Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, Read pages 3-41 of the casebook (CB) and page 4 of the supplement (Supp.)
January 17 - Distinctiveness, CB 45-68; Supp. 7-8

UCC: Sales and Leases of Goods

Prof. Brennan

Required texts and first reading assignment:

Chomsky, et al, Selected Commercial Statutes, (West 2012): read all of Article 1, sections 1-101 to 1-310) and Article 2, sections 2-101 to 2-107)
Whaley, Problems and Materials on the Sale and Lease of Goods, 6th ed. (Wolters-Kluwer 2012): read page 1 to mid-page of 30. We will address numbered-problems: 1, 3 and 4, but not 2 (Portia Moot) or 5 (Hegemony). The CISG issues on pages 30-31 (Hegemony) will be taken up during our later one-week session on this subject and the UCC section 2-314 issues (Portia Moot) will be taken up during weeks 3-6
Lawrence and Henning, Understanding Sales and Leases of Goods, 2nd ed. (LexisNexis 2009): read page 2 to mid-page of 16

If you have questions before then, please contact me by email at: dbrennan@sandiego.edu

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