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The following is a list of class assignments for this term. Please be aware that this listing may not include all assignments that are posted on the Assignment Board. If your class does not have an assignment, please check the assignment board or contact your professor.

Updated: Tuesday, 25-aug-09 11:47 AM

Administrative Law
Fall 2009
Prof. Michael Rappaport

Tuesday & Thursday 2:30 - 4:20pm
WH-2A

FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT

For the first class, please read Strauss, pages 69-139, which is available on reserve at the Legal Research Center.

Advanced Business Planning
Fall 2009
Professor Shaw

FIRST ASSIGNMENT

I. THE ROLE OF THE ATTORNEY

Friedman, Corporations, Chapter 1, Preliminary Considerations
California Rules of Professional Conduct ("CRPC), Chapters 1-4

A. Professional Competence

CRPC 3-110

B. Ethical Conflicts of Interest

CRPC 1-320, 3-300, 3-310, 3-600
California Probate Code § 16004

C. Attorney Fees and Costs

CRPC, Chapters 2 and 4
Calif. Civil Code § 3287
Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6148
Internal Revenue Service Circular 230, § 10.28
Calif. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 6210-6228

D. The Client Interview

Please note: Course materials may be picked up from Perla Bleisch in Room 218 of Warren Hall. Thank you.

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Fall 2009
Professor Alan Schulman

Mondays, Wednesday 8:30 - 9:45 am
Classroom: WH-3C

Course Description

This course offers students an introduction to the skills required by lawyers representing clients in three primary alternatives to trial for resolving disputes between parties: negotiation, mediation and arbitration. The course begins with an overview of U.S. arbitration law, primarily through readings from judicial decisions and problem-solving exercises. Students with then engage in role-play exercises to learn negotiation and mediation skills by doing, being observed, and trying different styles.

Required Text

Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law - Folberg, Golann, Kloppenburg & Stipanowich; Aspen Publishers (2005)
Handouts (posted on TWEN)

TWEN

All students are required to register on TWEN prior to the first class. Course materials, including a course outline and syllabus with reading assignments, and a Student Information Memo are posted on TWEN. In addition, handouts and information concerning role-play for particular classes will be periodically posted on TWEN. Also note that Chapter One of the text, including the first class reading assignment is posted on TWEN (under Additional Course Materials) in case you have not yet obtained the course text.

Reading Assignment for First Class

Class 1: (8/24/09): Assignment for first class

Register on TWEN
Read Student Information Memo
Read pp 1-12 of Resolving Disputes. This Chapter is posted on TWEN under Additional Course Materials for those students who have not yet obtained the textbook.

Animal Law
Fall 2009
Professor Henning

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Waisman, Frasch & Wagman, Animal Law: Cases and Materials (3rd ed. 2006)("Casebook")

Casebook: 1-8; 17-21 ("Selected State Statutory Definitions of 'Animal' through "'Domestic' and 'Wild' Animals" on page 21); 24-37 (beginning with Commonwealth v. Massini on page 24)

On Tuesday, I'll talk about the format of the class for the rest of the semester. We'll also begin discussing the assigned reading, but probably won't finish with it and will continue our discussion of it on September 1, the second class.

I am in the process of creating a TWEN site for this class. If you would like more information, you should be able to download the syllabus by Friday, August 21, if not before.

Art Law
Fall 2009
Professor Lazerow

Materials for the Course
Reading material for the course consists of photocopied materials. It may be purchased for $30 (exact change would be appreciated; no checks or credit cards) from Prof. Lazerow's office, WH310. The first installment will be delivered now; the rest during the semester.

First Assignments
For the first class, please read Chapter 1 quickly, then prepare the Brancusi and Mazer cases, and the questions following Janson.

For the second class, please prepare through p. 2.8.
Class 3: 2.8-2.18
Class 4: 2.18 - 2.24
I will collect your Notes on Observation (pages 1-2) at class 4.

Class Discussion
Please be prepared to participate actively in the class discussion. The Art Law course is not a spectator sport.

Attendance
Attendance is mandatory. A person who misses more than 3 regularly scheduled class sessions may be excluded from the course.

Grading
The course will be graded primarily by an exam which will be open-book, open-written-note. I reserve the right to increase a person's exam score by one grade level for outstanding class participation in computing the final course grade.

Business Planning
Fall 2009
Professor Friedman

Assignment for First Class

Pick up Handout Problem I ("Mod-Belt, Inc.") in the faculty office, LRC 3rd floor. (Available Aug. 19)

Read and be prepared to discuss:

1) Chapter 1 ("Preliminary Considerations") of Friedman's
Corporations-2008 Edition;

and

2) Handout Problem No. 1 ("Mod-Belt, Inc."), Topic I
Outline of Topics: "The Role of the Attorney" and the
material referenced therein.

Course Information (PDF)

California Civil Procedure
Fall 2009
Professor Heiser

REQUIRED TEXTS:

(1) California Civil Procedure (LexisNexis 2nd ed. 2005), by Heiser; and

(2) 2008 Supplement to California Civil Procedure (LexisNexis 2008), by Heiser.

ASSIGNMENT FOR FIRST CLASS: Prior to the first class on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, read pages 1-9 and 18-36 in the California Civil Procedure casebook, and pages 1-4 in the 2008 Supplement.

ASSIGNMENT FOR SECOND CLASS: Prior to the second class on Thursday, Aug. 28, read pages 75-94 and 101-106 in of the casebook, and pages 8-14 in the Supplement.

Civil Rights Theories
Fall 2009
Professor Brooks

Course Materials:

Brooks, Racial Justice in the Age of Obama

One other book, costing about $20.00, will be assigned later in the semester.

First Day Assignment:

In Racial Justice in the Age of Obama, read the Preface and Figures 1-16 in the Appendix. Think about the reading. Write a 1-2 page well-developed analysis of the assigned reading, and hand it in at the beginning of class. Be prepared to express and defend your views.

IMPORTANT NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND THE
FIRST CLASS, YOU MAY FORFEIT YOUR RIGHT
TO BE IN THIS SEMINAR. CLASS ATTENDANCE
IS ESSENTIAL IN THIS SEMINAR.

Another Important Note
There have been several studies indicating that student learning in the classroom is greatly hampered by the use of computers. That has been my experience as well. For that reason, I do not allow students to use computers in the classroom. The traditional method of taking notes is the best method of assuring the quality of student
engagement. I know this may not sit well with some tech-obsessed students, but I care about your ability to comprehend complex material. NO COMPUTERS IN CLASS.

Civil Procedure I
Fall 2009
Professor Henning

We will be using the following two books for the entire year:

Freer & Perdue, Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (5th ed. 2008) ("Casebook")

Heiser, California Civil Procedure Handbook: Rules, Selected Statutes and Cases (2009-2010 ed.)("Statute Book")

Reading Assignment for Week 1 - August 24 & 25

Monday, August 24
Casebook: 1-19
Statute Book: Chapter 1 ("Introduction to California Civil Procedure")*

Monday's reading assignment consists mainly of background materials that we will briefly go over after finishing the first-day administrative formalities. You do not need to digest all of the information contained in the assignment at this point in the school year, but you should at least thoroughly skim the materials in the Freer & Perdue Casebook.

The last I heard, the 2009-2010 edition of the Heiser Statute Book had not yet arrived in the bookstore. We won't be really using the Statute Book for several weeks, so don't worry if you don't have it yet and are unable to read the August 24 reading assignment in it until later. A used copy of the 2008-2009 edition of the Statute Book is acceptable if you don't mind the discrepancy in page numbers between the 2009-2010 edition and the 2008-2009 edition.
Wednesday, August 26
Casebook: 21-32

Civil Procedure I, Section A
Fall 2009
Prof. Brooks

Course Materials:

Brooks, Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials for Policy Analysis

Brooks, Structures of Judicial Decision Making From Legal Formalism to
Critical Process (2d edition)

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (any 2009 edition)

First Day Assignment:

We shall begin with Structures of Judicial Decision-Making, but we shall read
only Part 1 of this book, meaning we shall not read the material on Critical Process.

For our first class, lightly read the Preface up to (i.e., not including) Section B,
and carefully read the Introduction in its entirety.

Important Note:

The in-class use of electronic devices 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 I, Section B
Fall 2009
Professor Heiser

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

(1) Pleading and Procedure, Hazard, Tait, Fletcher, & Bundy (10th ed. 2009);
(2) California Civil Procedure Handbook, Heiser (LexisNexis 2009-10 ed.); and
(3) "SELECTED READINGS IN CIVIL PROCEDURE" (Photocopied course materials
sold in the USD Bookstore).

ASSIGNMENT FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2009: Read pages 1-9, 18-24 in the photocopied "SELECTED READINGS," and pages 33-35, 47-52 in Pleading and Procedure.

ASSIGNMENT FOR THURSDAY, AUG. 27: Read pages 15-32 in Pleading and Procedure; and the U.S. Constitution (in the Handbook), 28 U.S.C. §1331 and §1332(a), and Rules 11 and 23, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Civil Procedure I, Section C
Fall 2009
Professor Shaun Martin

For our first class together, please peruse Sections A through D of "A Survey of the Civil Action" (i.e., pages 1-24) and carefully read Sections A and B of Chapter 2 (i.e., pages 71-84) in Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton & Hershkoff, Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (10th ed. 2009).

Civil Procedure I, Section D
Fall 2009
Professor Shaun Martin

Civil Rights Law and History
Fall 2009
Professor Heriot

Assignment for First Week

Pick up First Week's Assignment at the Third Floor LRC faculty offices (available Friday, August 21).

Monday: What are "Civil Rights"?

NY Married Women's Property Act
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Lochner v. New York
Muller v. Oregon
Suzanne La Follette, Concerning Women: The Economic Position of Women
Runyon v. McCrary
James Madison Quote

Wednesday: Slavery & the Constitution

Original Provisions of the Constitution Concerning Slavery
Essay on Frederick Douglass
Thirteenth Amendment
Peonage Abolition Act
Bailey v. Alabama

Climate Change Law & Policy
Fall 2009
Professor McAllister

Assignment:

Wold et al. (Casebook) pp. 1-14, 16-33, 44-47

Conflict of Laws
Fall 2009
Professor Steve Smith

For the first class, please read pp. xxvii-23 in the Brilmayer-Goldsmith casebook.

Constitutional Law I
Fall 2009
Professor Claus

For our first class on Monday, August 24, please read once through
1. The Constitution of the United States and
2. The Articles of Confederation

What are the most important differences between the two documents?

(You should all have 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 .)

For our second class on Wednesday, August 26, please read the extract from, and commentary on, Marbury v. Madison in the Sullivan Gunther casebook (pages 1-15).

Con Law II
Fall 2009
Professor Miranda McGowan

EQUAL PROTECTION & SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS
The History and Evolution of the 14th Amendment
MW 10:30 to 11:45 am

REQUIRED TEXTS:
Farber, Eskridge, Frickey, Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century (4th Ed. 2009) & 2009 Supplement.

Please visit the TWEN site and sign up for the course.

I. A Prologue on Constitutional History

Assignment 1
Overview of the history of our Constitution, major controversies and trends, and interpretive methodologies. Text: 1-63 and problems 1 & 2 on p. 2.

II. Introduction to Constitutional Decisionmaking and Methods of and Sources for Constitutional Interpretation.

A. The Constitution and federal law on slavery and the interstate slave trade before the Civil War and the 14th Amendment.

Assignment 2
Read the introduction to this course in the syllabus (see above), Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Dred Scott v. Sandford (excerpts on TWEN), notes following the excerpts, AND Const. Art. I, Secs. 2 & 3; Art. 2, Sec. 1; Art. III, Sec. 2 [the section in question in Dred Scott], Art. IV, Sec. 2 (the privileges and immunities clause), and the 11th Amd. (ratified 1795).

Con Law II
Fall 2009
Professor Mike Ramsey

For the first class meeting (8/25/09):

A. Please visit the course webpage, http://mdramsey.com/index_files/Page812.htm (or go to my main website page, mdramsey.com, click on "USD Courses" and click on "Information, Assignments and Downloads for Students in Constitutional Law II"). This page will have information about the course, downloads and assignments. Current downloads are (i) the course syllabus; (ii) an outline of readings for Part 1of the course; (iii) this assignment page; and (iv) the assigned excerpt listed in (C) below.

B. Read the text of the Constitution, especially Amendments I through X (pp. xliii - lviii of the textbook) and the introduction (pp. 1-8). Also, review quickly the historical materials on pp. 8-29 of the textbook (these matters should be familiar from Constitutional Law I; if not, read them more carefully).

C. At the course webpage, download the excerpts from District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008), and read Justice Scalia's opinion for the majority. [Note: we will read the dissenting opinions later].

D. Consider, and be prepared to discuss, with reference to Heller, the following questions:

Why should a Constitution have provisions protecting individual rights, and how do we decide what those rights should be? Should the fact that some people 200-plus years ago agreed on certain rights (and not others) to protect be binding on us?

Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Superior Court
Fall 2009
Professor Perry

(Advanced Constitutional Law)
The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy

Tuesday, Wednesday &Thursday
PLRC-113
4:00 - 5:20 pm

Course Syllabus (PDF)

Contracts, Section C
Fall 2009
Professor Kelly

Assignments for 24-27 August 2009

Before classes: MATERIALS FOR CONTRACTS 1-31, available on The West Education Network (TWEN) in the Course Materials section. (Page numbers may not appear in the online version. The assignment consists of the first three introductory essays: Introduction to Materials for Contracts, Introduction to Law School, and Introduction to Contracts.)

To register for TWEN and add this course, go to www.lawschool.westlaw.com and click on the TWEN tab near the top of the page. Follow the instructions there. You will need a Westlaw ID number to register for TWEN.

Monday,24 August

MATERIALS FOR CONTRACTS, Problem: Why Didn't I Think of That?, available on TWEN in the Course Materials section.
- The problem may be found in two places: It is a standalone entry (numbered Problem 22) in Course Materials just under the entry for MATERIALS FOR CONTRACTS. The problem also may be found in the MATERIALS FOR CONTRACTS book as Problem 45.
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS '' 317, 318, 322 (in either the 3-volume Restatement books or Burton & Eisenberg, CONTRACT LAW: SELECTED SOURCE MATERIALS);
Sample Answer: Why Didn't I Think of That?, on TWEN in the Course Materials section.

Wednesday,26 August

R. BARNETT, CONTRACTS: CASES AND DOCTRINE 3-21
MATERIALS FOR CONTRACTS, Civil Procedure for Contracts Students (the essay immediately following the essays assigned for before classes).

Thursday,27 August

R. BARNETT, CONTRACTS: CASES AND DOCTRINE 61-72

Corporations
Fall 2009
Prof. Lynne Dallas

Monday & Wednesday
WH-131
2:30 to 4:20 pm

First Reading Assignment

First class: Introduction to Corporation Law and the Choice of State Law.
Text 19-28, 50-55 (omit problem), 59-61, 70-75.

Second class: Choice of Organizational Form. Text 132-147 (including problem).
Text: Jeffrey D. Bauman et al., Corporations Law and Policy Materials
and Problems (6th Edition 2007).

Corporations
Fall 2009
Professor Frank Partnoy

T/R, 10:00am - 11:50am
First Week Assignment

Check TWEN for class syllabus and assignments.

Counterterrorism and the Law
Fall 2009
Professor Joseph J. Darby

Tuesday and Thursday
WH-314
8:30 - 9:45 am

READING ASSIGNMENT

From Abrams, Anti-Terrorism and Criminal Enforcement, 3rd edition, 2008.

25 August 2009 - Introduction to the course.

Coursebook, pp. 6 - 50. "What is terrorism?"; "What can be done about it?".

27 August 2009

Coursebook, pp. 51 - 78; "The Prince of Darkness"excerpt from The Looming Tower, 2006.

Criminal Clinic I
Fall 2009
Professor Ramirez

Criminal Clinic 1 with Professor Jean Ramirez is on TWEN. Students should promptly register on TWEN as course participants. The initial assignment is posted there.

Criminal Clinic II
Fall 2009
Professor Ramirez

Criminal Clinic II with Professor Jean Ramirez is on TWEN. Students should promptly register on TWEN as course participants. The initial assignment is posted there.

Criminal Law, Section A
Fall 2009
Professor Alexander

Assignments
Mon., Aug. 24: Dressler, Chs. 1-3.
Wed., Aug. 26: Dressler, Chs. 4-6.

Criminal Law, Section B
Fall 2009
Professor Alexander

Assignments
Mon., Aug. 24: Dressler, Chs. 1-3.
Wed., Aug. 26: Dressler, Chs. 4-6.

Criminal Law, Section E
Fall 2009
Professor Ramirez

Criminal Law 01E with Professor Ramirez is on TWEN. Please go to TWEN and sign up as a course participant. The initial assignment and syllabus are posted there.

Criminal Procedure I
Fall 2009
Professor Dripps

First Class Assignment:

Pick up Booklet in the faculty office, LRC 3rd floor. (Available Aug. 20)

Read and be prepared to discuss:

Tu. Aug. 25: Chapter 1, sections 1, pp. 1-22

Criminal Procedure Handout (PDF)

Criminal Procedure I - Evenings
Fall 2009
Professor Richard Huffman

Monday & Wednesday
WH-3B
7:30 - 8:45 pm

Text: Chemerinksy, Criminal Procedure (Investigation)

Reading assignment: Text, pages 1-54

Employment Law
Fall 2009
Professor Orly Lobel

Tuesday & Thursday 2:30-4:20 pm
Room: TBA

Materials

Steven L. Willborn, Stewart J. Schwab & John F. Burton, Jr., Employment Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2007).
Steven L. Willborn, Stewart J. Schwab & John F. Burton , Employment Law Statutes, 2007.

Readings for First Week

DAY 1 Tuesday, Aug 25

1. Introduction and administration
2. Course Requirements
3. Mapping the Field and Themes of Employment and Labor Law
4. Course Outline
5. Register on TWEN

READINGS p. 3-11

DAY 2 Thursday, Aug 27

1. The New World of Work
2. The Values of Work
3. Intro to the At Will debate
4. Legal Boundaries of the Employment Relationship and Coverage of Protections

READINGS p. 13-29

Energy Law & Policy
Fall 2009
Professors Downey/Sullivan

Aug 27: Course Introduction/Energy Issues Overview (Downey & Sullivan)

Topics: Instructor and student introductions, scope and organization of the course, overview of the energy business, current trends and issues in energy law and policy.

Reading: Bosselman p 1-5, 13-22 Energy Law Origins

ERISA
Fall 2009
Professor Wolds

For the first class (8/26), please read pages 1-28

European Legal Cultures
Fall 2009
Professor Legrand

Click here to view the first week assignments (PDF)

Evidence
Fall 2009
Professor Devitt

August 24, 2009

Introduction to the Law of Evidence
Course Objectives
Overview of Course
Grading and Examination Format
Possible One Grade Level Increase
Possible One Grade Level Decrease
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

August 31, 2009

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. 459-485
  FRE 601-606
Problems: 6-A, 6-B, 6-C, 6-D, 6-E, 6-F

Evidence
Fall 2009
Professor Dripps

First Class Assignment

Tu. 8-25 1-70; FRE 602; CEC §702 (This is background material that we will discuss and that you should read at some point during the term, but if you only skim it at the start of term, that will suffice.)

Evidence Handout (PDF)

Evidence
Fall 2009
Prof. Aimee Mackay

During the first week of class, please read pages 1-70 in your casebook Evidence: Cases and Materials (Waltz, Park & Friedman). This chapter will familiarize you with the purpose of the trial record and the methods by which it is made at trial, which will be important for the remainder of class. Below are specific assignments for the first two days of class.

August 25:

Read pages 72-94 in casebook. Students should be prepared to discuss the cases and the hypotheticals. Also read Rules 401-403 and accompanying notes (located in the appendix to the casebook).

August 27:

Read pages 94-121 in casebook. Students should be prepared to discuss the cases and the hypotheticals.

Federal Estate and Gift Tax
Fall 2009
Professor McCouch

T&Th 4:00 - 5:15 pm
WH-133

The casebook for the course is Bittker, Clark & McCouch, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation (West, 9th ed. 2005). Students should also have a current edition of the relevant provisions of the Code and Regulations (e.g., CCH, Federal Estate and Gift Taxes: Code and Regulations). Optional supplementary reading (not required) is McNulty & McCouch, Federal Estate and Gift Taxation (West, 6th ed. 2003).

Classes meet in Room 133 at 4:00-5:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning Tuesday, August 25. The assigned reading for the first class is Chapter 1 of the casebook, especially pages 17-37.

Students can pick up a course syllabus and problem set from Perla Bleisch in Room 218.

Federal Tax Procedure
Fall 2009
Professor Gidlund

Reading Assignment for the first class:

L. Lederman and S. Mazza, Tax Controversies: Practice and Procedure, Third Edition (2009)
Overview of Federal Tax Controversies, § 1.01-1.02, 1.04-1.05[A][2]

Intellectual Property & Antitrust
Fall 2009
Professor McGowan

The first assignment is to read chapters one and two in the reader

Intellectual Property Survey
Fall 2009
Professor Lisa P. Ramsey

Required Materials: I will use the Revised Fourth Edition of the casebook by Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, and Mark A. Lemley entitled Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age. The book was published in July 2007 by Aspen Publishers and the ISBN is 9780735569898. The 2009 Case and Statutory Supplement for this casebook is also required for the course and the ISBN is 9780735579415. (Please do not purchase earlier editions of the casebook or supplement.)

Reading Assignments for the First Week
8/24: Pages 1-31 of the casebook ("CB")
8/26: CB 33-62
Reading assignments for the class are posted on the IP Survey page of my website located at www.lisapramsey.com.

International Business Ethics
Fall 2009
Professor John I. Forry

Assignments and Grading Policies

1. For the first class session on Friday, August 28, 2009, 9-11:50 am, please read the Topic Outline and, in the course text International Finance Techniques: Key Elements, Challenges and Opportunities, Section IA's subsection on "Controls on Capital Flows" and Section III's note on "Facilitating Payments". Assignments for each subsequent class session will be announced at the end of the previous session.

2. In the last class session, students will work in small teams to address a case study raising many of the matters covered in the course, which will be the basis for the students' grades.

3. I may increase - but not decrease - grades based upon classroom performance by one grade level (e.g., from B to B+).

International Human Rights
Fall 2009
Prof. Perry

Friday 9:00am - 12:15pm
WH-2A

Introduction

First Class - First Half

Topic 1: The Beginning of the Era of International Human Rights: The United Nations and the Universal Declaration

Introduction to the course
Introductory Inquiry
Introductory Comment
Charter of the United Nations (1945) (excerpts)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
*The Legal Status of the [Universal] Declaration

First Class - Second Half

Topic 2: The International Bill of Human Rights

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (1989)
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
Status of Ratification of the Principal International Human Rights Treaties

Appendix

International Law: An Overview
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969)
Statute of the International Court of Justice (1945)

Judicial Lawmaking
Fall 2009
Professor Ursin

Tuesday & Thursday
WH-3C
1:00 - 2:15pm

For the first class please read and be prepared to discuss
pp. i-xi and 1-5 of the Class Materials, which can be picked up
in WH-218.

Law and Economics
Fall 2009
Professor Chris Wonnell

For Monday, August 24, please read pp. 3-24 in the Posner book (7th edition).

For Wednesday, August 26, please read pp. 24-49 in the same book.

Law of the Sea
Fall 2009
Prof. Jorge A. Vargas

Wednesday 7:00 - 8:50 p.m.
WH-133

FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT

Please read Chapter 1 of the Law of the Sea Nutshell. First class will be
an introductory class providing a major discussion overview of the Law of the Sea.

Lawyering Skills I, Section B
Fall 2009
Professor Panikowski

PART ONE:
Part One of assignment requires you to draft a legal question as well as the facts that pertain to the legal question. Your legal question needs to focus on a legal issue that you find interesting and that you want to spend some time exploring. There are two primary restrictions on topics, which are as follows: 1) you may not choose a legal question that is based on cases or controversies that you are studying in your other law school classes. This does not mean that you cannot pursue a question involving a crime, but it does mean that you cannot focus on cases and controversies from your text book or your course lectures; 2) avoid selecting broad constitutional questions, such as whether there is a constitutional right to bear arms, whether there is a constitutional right to marriage between individuals of the same gender, or whether the president can grant him/herself a presidential pardon. Although these are interesting legal issues, they are simply too broad and far reaching for this assignment. I recommend that you consider framing a legal issue based on your personal experiences or the experiences of friends and family. With that said, it is important that you have a genuine interest in this legal issue because you will be working with it on multiple assignments.

Assignment: Draft a legal question and include the facts that pertain to the legal question. (I recommend that you err on the side of including too many facts rather than too few.)

Format:

This assignment must be typed in 12 point Times New Roman font with one (1) inch margins on all sides.
Your name and section number must appear in the upper right hand corner of each page.
Double or single space, but the assignment may not exceed two (2) pages. Please staple pages together.
Number all pages in the center at the bottom of the page. (Please see the page numbering on this assignment for an example).

Due: Tuesday, Beginning of Class.

PART TWO:
Please draft a case brief for the following two (2) judicial opinions: 1) United States v. Higdon; and 2) United States v. Baker. Copies of these judicial opinions are attached. (Please use the judicial opinion format that we discuss during orientation.)

Format:

Part Two of this assignment must be typed in 9 point or greater font.
Please use the case brief format handed out during our orientation session.
Please number all pages and staple all pages together.
Your name and section number must appear in the right hand corner of each page.

Due: Tuesday, Beginning of class

If you have any question, please contact me via email (kpanikowski@sandiego.edu).

Higdon Judicial Opinion (PDF)

Baker Judicial Opinion (PDF)

Lawyering Skills I, Section E
Fall 2009
Professor Brandes

Do not buy books for your Lawyering Skills I (Prof. Brandes) class until AFTER orientation

Lawyering Skills II
Fall 2009
Professor Player

For the week of August 24 through 28:

1. There will be NO SMALL SECTION CLASSES during the first week.

2. The LARGE SECTION WILL MEET on Thursday, August 27, in Grace Courtroom on the third floor at the regularly scheduled time, 2:30 - 4:20 p.m.

3. During the large section class we will cover these topics:

a. Orientation, Policies & Procedures
b. Overview of a lawsuit
c. Observation and discussion of "Inside the Jury"

4. Prior to the first class, please review the following items, which will be available on the class TWEN site (available through Westlaw) as of Friday, August 21:

a. Summary Syllabus
b. Course Policies and Procedures
c. Article: "Justices say jurors may not vote conscience"
d. Article: "Jurors likely to follow beliefs, not judge's instruction, poll says"
e. Article: "Nullification is a first for high court"

Legislation: Introduction to Statutory and Regulatory Interpretation
Fall 2009
Professor Miranda McGowan

Class: M/W 2:30 to 3:45
Office: Guadalupe Hall 208 C
Phone: 260-4154
Email: mirandamcgowan@gmail.com

Required Text
Lawmaking Course Materials (CM). I have emailed you the first installment. If you have not received them or are in the process of registering for the course, email me. Hard copies available in Perla Bleish's, my assistant, office, WH 218.

Monday, August 24

I. Introduction

How to read observantly and ethically - Lawmaking 1-17

Robert Frost, "A Silken Tent"
A Medical Privacy Story (please write your answers to the questions on page 8, as you will be called on to discuss this problem in class).
David Luban, A Different Nightmare & A Different Dream

Wednesday, August 26

Framing Statutory Interpretation - Lawmaking 18-37

The Soupmeat Problem
Holy Trinity Church v. U.S.
Theories of Interpretation

Mexican Law
Fall 2009
Prof. Jorge A. Vargas

Wednesday 2:30 - 3:45 p.m.
WH-314

FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT

Please read Chapter 1 from the book titled "Mexican Law for the American Lawyer" (Published by Carolina Academic Press, 2009). Class one will provide an overview of the major topics on Mexican law.

Partnership Taxation
Fall 2009
Professor Burke

Introduction:

The casebook used in this course will be Yin & Burke, Partnership Taxation (Aspen 2009). You should also have a current copy of the Internal Revenue Code and Regulations (complete or selected editions). Recommended reading: Burke, Federal Income Taxation of Partners and Partnerships (3d ed. 2005); Cunningham & Cunningham, The Logic of Subchapter K: A Conceptual Guide to the Taxation of Partnerships (3d ed. 2006).

Class attendance is required; a student who misses more than four classes may be penalized in the final grade or excluded from the course. All assignments should be prepared in advance of class meetings; the final grade may be adjusted by one grade level to reflect class participation.

Class Assignments:

In preparation for the first week of classes, you should read Chapter 1 (Introduction to Partnership Taxation).

Partnership Taxation
Fall 2009
Professor Walter D. Schwidetzky

Telephone: 619 515-1555
wds@cwsl.edu

Required

Selected Sections, Corporate and Partnership Income Tax Code and Regulations by Kirk Stark and William Klein, Foundation Press

Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Taxation, Lind, Schwartz, Lathrope, and Rosenberg (4th ed.), Foundation Press

Recommended

Corporate and Partnership Taxation, Stephen Schwarz and Daniel J. Lathrope (6th ed.), Thomson West

I. Introduction/Business Entity Classification

Code: §§ 761(a),(b), 7701(a)(2),(3), skim 7704, 469(k)

Regs: §§ 1.761-1(a),(b),-2(a), 301.7701-1,-2,-3 (skim associated proposed regs and foreign materials)

Lind: pp. 2-24, skim 24-32, read 32-36

Problem: Lind-pp. 21-22 #1

II. Formation

A. Code: §§ 721, 722, 723, 1223(1),(2)

Regs: §§ 1.721-1, 1.722-1, 1.723-1

Lind: pp. 40-46

Patent Law
Fall 2009
Professor Reisman

The first week's assigned reading is:

In the course textbook (Adelman, Rader & Thomas, Patent Law, 3rd Edition (2009)), pages 1-57.

Patent Law
Fall 2009
Professor Sichelman

For the first class, please read pages 1-24. Please read the patent pages 21-24 in full, but there is no need to understand it in detail.

Professional Responsibility
Fall 2009
Professor McGowan

The first class assignment is to read the introduction and chapter one in the reader.

Professional Responsibility
Fall 2009
Prof. Penning

Tues/Thurs 5:30 p.m.

Assignment for Tuesday 8/25: Intro to Course and Lawyer Regulation

Zitrin, Langford & Tarr, Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law (3d ed.): Ch. 1, pp. 1-34
ABA Model Rules, Preamble (all ABA Model rules are available on ABA Web site at http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/model_rules.html)

Assignment for Thursday 8/27: Undertaking a Case--Hanging Out Your Shingle

Zitrin, Langford & Tarr, Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law (3d ed.): Ch. 2, pp. 37-58 & Problem 1
ABA Model Rules 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5

Public Land and Natural Resource Law
Fall 2009
Professor McAllister

Assignment:

Klein et al. (Casebook) pp. 10-31

Property, Section A
Fall 2009
Professor Minan

Text: J. Dukeminier and J. Krier, Property (6th ed., 2006)

A limited number of copies of the textbook are available in the bookstore. Additional copies have been ordered and will be available in the next week or so. Any student unable to purchase the textbook from the bookstore's current supply may access the first week's reading assignments through the USD Law School website. Students preferring a paper copy may see Professor Minan's secretary, Cia at the LRC Third Floor.

Class I: Professor will give overview to Property Course. In addition, please read pages 51-60 in the text for the first day of class. A syllabus for the class will be distributed the second day of classes.

Property (6th edition) pp. 51-93 (PDF)

Real Property Transactions
Fall 2009
Professor Horning

Assignment for Thursday 8/27/09, 5:30 pm:

Greenwald, Real Property Transactions
(Westlaw database: TRG-CAPROP)
§§ 4:263 - 4:272.2

Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1624(a); 1698; 1091

Cal. Code of Civ. Proc. § 1971

Bed, Bath & Beyond of La Jolla v. La Jolla Village Square Venture Partners, 52 Cal.App.4th 867 (1997)

Wilk v. Vencill, 30 Cal.2d 104 (1947)

Religion and the Constitution
Fall 2009
Professor Steve Smith

For the first class, please read pp. 711-25 in the McConnell-Garvey-Berg casebook.

Remedies
Fall 2009
Professor Kelly

In the Weaver, Partlett casebook, please read:

Monday, 24 August pp. 459-481

Wednesday, 26 August pp. 481-507

Securities Regulation
Fall 2009
Prof. James C. Krause

Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 - 10:15am
WH-2B

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Coffee, Seligman & Sale, Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Eleventh Edition (2007).

Coffee, Seligman & Sale, Federal Securities Laws: Selected Statutes, Rules and Forms (2009 Edition).

FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT

The Capital Markets: An Overview pp 1-53

Tax I
Fall 2009
Professor Lilly

ASSIGNMENT FOR CLASS, MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009

Welcome back.

For the first class, please read lightly the Preface and all of Chapter 1 of the casebook, and familiarize yourself with the very useful Income Tax Map chart that comes with the statute book. We will just be talking generally in this first class.

We will start the substantive material on Wednesday with Chapter 2, so you might read ahead and include a study of the relevant Code and Regs provisions as cited in the chapter.

A projected syllabus/schedule will be posted to my USD website.

NOTE: I advise against using the old 14th edition. I haven't seen the new edition yet - they are very late in sending me my copy - but there have been enough law etc changes since the earlier one was published to suggest that you will be disadvantaged without whatever new material they have added and the old material they have rearranged and re-presented. While it is true that these new editions are often very little changed, in this case I am wary of using the old one and am recommending against it, at least until I see what's different in the 15th. Sorry about that.

My contact information is as follows, and is also posted to the website:

Office: Warren Hall Room 310 D (in with the Int'l Programs Office)
Telephone: 619.260.7911, with voice mail
Email: dlilly@sandiego.edu

USD website: from the USD home page, not the Law School home page, add: ~dlilly
Thus, the complete address is: www.sandiego.edu/~dlilly
Or: home.sandiego.edu/~dlilly

See you Monday.

Tax I
Fall 2009
Professor Shue

Tuesday & Thursday 1:00 - 2:15 PM
WH 3-B

ASSIGNMENT FOR FIRST CLASS

Please read pages 1 through 44 in Fundamentals of Federal Income Taxation (Fifteenth edition) by Freeland, Lathrope, Lind and Stephens.

Tax II - Corporate Tax
Fall 2009
Professor Burke

Introduction:

The casebook used in this course will be Lind, Schwartz, Lathrope & Rosenberg, Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation (7th ed. 2008). You should also have a current copy of the Internal Revenue Code and Regulations (complete or selected versions). Recommended reading: Burke, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Stockholders (6th ed. 2007).

Class attendance is required; a student who misses more than four classes may be penalized in the final grade or excluded from the course. All assignments should be prepared in advance of class meetings; the final grade may be adjusted by one grade level to reflect class participation.

Class Assignments:

In preparation for the first week of classes, you should read pages 1-52 from the casebook.

Taxation of Anti-Money Laundering
Fall 2009
Prof. Sandy C. Horowitz

Tuesday
WH-133
6:00 - 6:50 pm

First Reading Assignment

First class: Please read Chapter 1 from the text Federal Money Laundering: Crimes and Forfeitures
(Lexis Law Publishing)

Taxation of International Finance
Fall 2009
Professor John I. Forry

Assignments and Grading Policies

1. For the first class session on Friday, August 28, 2009, 1-3:30 pm, please read the Topic Outline and Sections X & IB of the course text, International Finance Techniques: Key Elements, Challenges and Opportunities. Assignments for each subsequent class session will be announced at the end of the previous session.

2. In the last class session, presentations of one or more Hypothetical Case Studies - to be distributed well in advance of the class - will account for 75% of the students' grades; and an Exam to be completed in class will account for 25% of the students' grades.

3. I may increase - but not decrease - grades based upon classroom performance by one grade level (e.g., from B to B+).

Tax on Int'l Transactions
Fall 2009
Professor Lazerow

Reading Materials
The reading material for this course consist of photocopied materials. The first set of those materials is now available in Professor Lazerow's office, WH 310. The cost for the entire semester's reading material is $30. Please bring cash in exact change.

The Course
This is a problem method course that requires each student to plan the assigned transaction in advance and to come to class ready to discuss and defend his or her planned course of action.

I reserve the right to "push" the final grade of a student who demonstrates outstanding class participation during the semester.

It is my assumption that each student in the class has taken Tax I. Any student who has not taken Tax I should contact me by e-mail at lazer@sandiego.edu.

Assignment
For class 1, please read pages 1-6 for background and prepare pages 7-26. Class 2: 27-34 to prepare answers to the tax inquiries at §3.12 & §3.21.

The Exam
There will be an open-book, open note exam.

Tax Research and Communication
Fall, 2009
Professor Bauman

TUESDAY & FRIDAY CLASSES

TEXT AND MATERIALS

Required:

Federal Tax Research, Guide To Materials And Techniques, 7th Edition, by Gail Levin Richmond, Foundation Press.

Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations, 2010. Lathrope.

ASSIGNMENT

1. Read Federal Tax Research, pages 1 - 29.
2. Be prepared to discuss Chapter 4 Illustrative Problem in class.
3. Read and be prepared to discuss IRC Section 121.

NOTE:

DO NOT MISS CLASS FRIDAY, August 28, 2009. The LRC has removed the paper BNA Tax Management Portfolios and has purchased a wonderful online subscription to replace them. As part of this change the LRC has arranged for a BNA representative to demonstrate the BNA tax research platform on Friday, August 29, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in the LRC Computer Lab. My Friday class will attend this presentation. I STRONGLY RECOMMNED that the Tuesday class also attend the Friday presentation. This may be the only BNA presentation this year.

Topics in Insurance Law
Fall 2009
Professor Eydith Kaufman

Tuesday and Thursday
GH-117
7:30 - 8:45 p.m.

Required Materials:

L. Martinez & J. Whelan, Cases and Materials on Insurance Law (West Publishing, 5th ed. 2006). Supplemental Cases listed on this syllabus and/or any additional reading materials will be provided by the professor and distributed during the class.

Class 1 - August 25

Class Assignment

Please skim the Glossary of Terms, located on pgs. 790-797.

You may also wish to review the exemplar policies in the back of your textbook:

1. Basic Standard Form Fire Ins. Policy, pg. 798-802
2. Commercial General Liability Coverage Form, pg. 803-817

Torts, Section B
Fall 2009
Professor Morris

The required books for Torts Section B are:

Torts Coursebook: Prosser, Wade, and Schwartz, TORTS, 11th ed. 2005, and

Torts Supplement: This is a 54-page photocopied set of materials that is available to you FREE from Cia, my Administrative Assistant, located on the third floor of the LRC (take a sharp right turn as soon as you enter the LRC building and take the elevator or stairs to the third floor). Please pick up a copy of the Torts Supplement as soon as possible.

I strongly encourage you to purchase a new copy of the Prosser, Wade, and Schwartz TORTS coursebook. You will learn more if you make your own markings on the pages, rather than merely relying on the markings of others.

For our first class session on August 24th, prepare the materials (including briefing the cases) found on:

Torts Supplement: pages 1-8 (The material on pages 7 and 8 of the Supplement explains how to brief a case, so read these pages before you read the rest of the assignment in the Prosser Torts Coursebook).

Torts Coursebook (Prosser, Wade, and Schwartz, TORTS, 11th ed. 2005): pages 1-13.

Torts, Section C
Fall 2009
Professor Nolan

Assignment: Week of 8/24/09

Casebook: Franklin, Rabin & Green (FR & G)

Tort Law and Alternatives, 8th Edition

Read and be prepared to discuss (FR & G)

Pages 1 - 9, 698 - 706 (top), 709 n. 4 - 710, 715 n. 10, 739 (bottom) - 740 (top).

Background Reading: FR & G pp. 9 - 16

Please pickup supplemental materials from Professor Nolan's executive assistant, Miriam DeBerry in Warren Hall 308.

Torts, Section E
Fall 2009
Professor Gail Heriot

Text: Henderson, Pearson Kysar & Siliciano, The Torts Process (7th ed.)

Reading Assignment:

1st Week -August 24: pp 1-65

Tentative Readings:

1st Week–August 24: 1-65
2nd Week–August 31: 65-103
3rd Week–September 7: 105-148
4th Week–September 14: 149-203
5th Week–September 21: 203- 236, 242-257

6th Week–September 28: Handout, (Epstein at 452-467, 471-480, 435-452).
7th Week–October 5: 300-323, 344-349, 352-383. Omit Problems 24 and 25.
8th Week–October 12: 385-407, 409-422
9th Week–October 19: 423-450, Handout (Franklin & Rabin at 596- 621)
10th Week–October 26: Handout (Franklin & Rabin at 638-653) and Handout (Twerski & Henderson at 513 - 556)

11th Week–November 2: Handout (Twerski & Henderson at 556-579).
12th Week–November 9: 647–679 and Handout (Epstein at 61-84).
13th Week–November 16: 817-853
14th Week–November 23: 853-874
15th Week–November 30: Review

Class Requirements:

1. Problems in the Henderson Text - All students are required to write an answer to each of the problems in the Henderson text in the required reading. Each Monday, students will e-mail one of the answers to my assistant Cia Salanger at cecilia@sandiego.edu. The "Re Line" on your e-mail must say "TOIREH ASSIGNMENT" In those weeks in which more than one problem is assigned, the student may choose which of the problems he or she wishes to turn in. In those weeks in which the Henderson text is not assigned or the Henderson text assigned has no problems, no problem will be due. Answers will be graded on a "good faith effort" basis.* Any student who fails to demonstrate a good faith effort will have up to two grade notches deducted from his or her final grade.

2. Written Case Briefs - All students are required to draft case briefs for each of the assigned cases in the Henderson text & hand-outs up to the week of November 2nd. So-called "book-briefing" is not a permissible alternative. On November 3rd, each student is expected to turn in a notebook containing his or her case briefs. This may be done by e-mailing an electronic version to my assistant Cia Salanger at cecilia@sandiego.edu or by handing in a paper version in class. If you send your notebook in via e-mail, the "Re Line" must say "TOIREH ASSIGNMENT." These notebooks will be graded on a "good faith effort" basis. Any student who fails to demonstrate a "good faith effort" to brief each case, will have up to two grade notches deducted from his or her final grade.

3. Practice Mid-term Examination - All students must to take the ungraded practice midterm as a condition to sitting for the semester final examination. The practice mid-term will be available for take home on October 19th at the regularly-scheduled class hour. It will be due on Wednesday the 22nd.

4. Semester Final Examination - All students must take the semester final examination. The date and time of the examination will be announced when that information becomes available to me.

*"Good faith effort" is judged leniently. In the typical year, nobody in the class falls below the standard. But there have been exceptions–one year I had five exceptions out of 85 students. Go figure

Trademark Law
Fall 2009
Professor Lisa P. Ramsey

Required Materials: I will use the Second Edition of the casebook by Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Mark D. Janis entitled Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy. The book was published in August 2007 by Aspen Publishers and the ISBN is 9780735568303. The 2009-2010 Case and Statutory Supplement for this casebook is also required for the course and the ISBN is 9780735579347.

Please do not purchase earlier editions of the casebook or supplement. Note until August 17 the bookstore had an older version of the supplement. If you purchased the old version, you can return it for a full refund. Until the 2009-2010 version of the supplement arrives in the USD bookstore (August 28 is the expected date), I will either not assign pages of the supplement or I will provide you with handouts for the relevant materials in the supplement.

Reading Assignments for the First Week
8/25: Pages 3-40 of the casebook ("CB")
8/27: CB 43-63

Reading assignments for the class are posted on the Trademark Law page of my website located at www.lisapramsey.com.

Trusts & Estates: Community Property
Fall 2009
Prof. Robert F. Wesley

Tuesday & Thursday 1:00 - 1:50 pm WH-131
5:30 - 6:45 pm PLRC-132

First Reading Assignment

Community Property in California, Fifth Edition by Grace Ganz Blumberg
Pages 77 - 90 and 477-520

Family Code sections: 760, 770, 300, 301, 302, 306, 308, 308.5, 310, 297, 297.5, 298, 298.5 2200, 2201, 2210, 2212, 2250, 2251, and 2254.

Trusts & Estates: Wills and Trusts
Fall 2009
Professor Lilly

ASSIGNMENT FOR CLASS, TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009

For the first class, please read Chapter 1 in the casebook, just as background - do not study it.

Please also read and study Chapter 2, pages 50 - 64; this will begin the substantive material for the course.

In the second class, on Thursday, we will continue with that, and add pages 64 - 105 in the casebook, along with the related statutes, including now the relevant sections from the California Probate Code. You will get the California Probate Code handout in class.

A projected syllabus/schedule will be posted to my USD website.

My contact information is as follows, and is also posted to the website:

Office: Warren Hall Room 310 D (in with the Int'l Programs Office)
Telephone: 619.260.7911, with voice mail
Email: dlilly@sandiego.edu

USD website: from the USD home page, not the Law School home page, add: ~dlilly
Thus the full address is: www.sandiego.edu/~dlilly
Or: home.sandiego.edu/~dlilly

Enjoy the rest of the summer holiday; see you Tuesday.

Trusts and Estates: Wills and Trusts
Fall 2009
Professor McCouch

MW 2:30 - 4:20pm
WH-3B

The casebook for the course is Clark et al., Gratuitous Transfers (5th ed., West 2007). Optional supplementary readings (not required) are McGovern & Kurtz, Wills, Trusts and Estates (3d ed., West 2004), Haskell, Preface to Wills, Trusts and Administration (2d ed., Foundation 1994), and Ascher & McCouch, Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates (West 2009).

Classes meet in Room 3B at 2:30-4:20 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, beginning Monday, August 24. The assigned reading for the first class is Chapter 1 of the casebook, especially pages 10-17, 21-28 and 32-43.

Students can pick up a course syllabus, statutory supplement, and problem set from Perla Bleisch in Room 218.

UCC: Sales
Fall 2009
Professor Lawrence

CHAPTER ONE (PDF)

First Class Assignment:

Scope of Article 2

U.C.C. §§ 2-101; 2-102; 2-106(1); 2-103(1)(a),(d);
Rev. 1-103
Text: 1-10
"In Memoriam: Karl Llewellyn" by Gilmore (supplement)
Wivagg case (supplement)
Glen Dick Equipment Co. case (supplement)
I.LAN Systems case (supplement)

Assignment for the Rest of the Week

Scope of Articles 2 and 2A

U.C.C. §§ 2-105(1); 2-501(1)(a),(b); 2-107;
Text: 10-16
Foster case (supplement)
Problem on Goods to be Severed from the Land (supplement)

U.C.C. §§ 2A-102; 2A-103(1)(j); Rev. 1-201(b)(35); Rev. 1-203
Text: 16-22 (read generally)

U.C.C. § Rev. 1-103
Text: 22-24; 25-27

UCC: Secured Transactions
Fall 2009
Professor Lawrence

First Class Assignment:

Secured and Unsecured Creditors; Scope of Article 9

U.C.C. §§ Rev. 1-201(35); 9-109(a)(1); 9-102(a)(12),(28),(59)(71),(72),(73)
Text: 1-14
Problems on Scope of Article 9 (supplement)

Assignment for the Rest of the Week:

Distinguishing Leases and Consignments

U.C.C. §§ Rev. 1-203(a),(b); 9-109(a)(4); 9-102(a)(20),(19),(21)
Text: 14-19
Problem on Copier Machine (supplement)

Classifying Collateral: Goods

U.C.C. §9-102(a)(12),(23),(33),(34),(35),(44),(48)
Text: 20-28
Problems on Characterization of Collateral (#1 – #9) (supplement)

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