Summer 2008 Upper Division First Class Assignments
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• Course Title: Business Associations
  Course Number: Law100 A
  Instructor: Professor Halpert

  Required Materials:  Klein, Ramseyer and Bainbridge, Business Associations, 6th ed. (Foundation Press, 2007) and the Statutory Supplement to Klein, et al. You should also pick up a course syllabus and photocopied supplemental materials at the Distribution Center.

  Assignment for the First Class:   Klein, et al. pp. 1-13 and Restatement 2nd of Agency §§ 1 and 3 and Restatement 3rd of Agency § 1.01.

• Course:  (106) Trusts & Estates I

  Instructor:  Professor Robinson

  Required:  Dukeminier..., Wills, Trusts, & Estates (latest ed.) (“T”); Uniform Trust & Estate Statutes (Langbein & Waggoner) (latest ed.) (“S”).  You will need two course handouts available in the distribution center: ... Course Handout (with attachments including course syllabus) (“ho1”); and ... PowerPoint class slides (“ho2”).   (For summer classes, the Distribution Center will sell handouts outside our classroom beginning about 1/2 hour before class.)

  Assignment for second class hour:  Preface; 1A1 (“The Right...”), except skip Hodel & NQ 1 & 5 following; and 1A2 (“The Policy...). After preliminaries, class discussion will begin with 1A3 (“An Introduction...”) and Shapira.

  Important Notes: Class preparation, participation and daily (hourly) attendance are required.  There are no “passes”; be prepared.  (I am more lenient than usual in calling on students in our first meeting.) The ho2 PowerPoint slide-sets corresponding to each assigned chapter are good guides to our probable class discussion.  I may lower your final grade or drop you from the course if you have more than eight hourly absences.  I orient the (semi-) Socratic discussion with PowerPoint slides.  If you don’t like slides, please respect your preferences (I do), and take another course.  Examination by multistate-type questions (see ho1).

• Course: Civil Procedure II/Law 211A
  Schedule: Monday & Tuesday, 7:30 – 8:50 pm; Wednesday & Thursday, 6:00 – 7:20 p.m.; Room F108
  Instructor: Professor Anthony V. Alfieri
  Required: Stephen C. Yeazell, Civil Procedure (6th ed. 2004)[“SCY”]

  Stephen C. Yeazell, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (2007)[“FRCP”]

  L. Grossman & R. Vaughn, A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action (3rd ed. 2006)[“G&V”]

  Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (1995)[“Harr”]

  Gerald M. Stern, Buffalo Creek Disaster (1976)[“Stern”]
  Professor Alfieri, Civil Procedure II: TWEN Case Supplement (Summer 2008)[“Supp.”]
  Recommended: Joseph Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations (6th ed. 2008)
  Notes: The above-mentioned books are available at the University of Miami Bookstore and at Book Horizons. The Supplement is available on TWEN.
  First Class Assignment, May 27, 2008: Please read Fed. R. Civ. P. 11, including Advisory Committee Notes.
  Please speed read Stern’s The Buffalo Creek Disaster and Harr’s A Civil Action.

  Please skim Yeazell, Civil Procedure 1-56, Grossman & Vaughn, A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action vii-xliii, 1-153, 721-28 and Glannon, 1-231, 559-666.

  Please review Civil Procedure I class notes and materials on remedies, pleadings, jurisdiction, choice of law, pretrial motions, fees, and sanctions in order to discuss both the Buffalo Creek and Woburn case histories and litigation strategies, affirmative and defensive. Note that our five subsequent classes will address joinder.
  Syllabus & Seating Chart: Both a syllabus and a seating chart are located in Room 288. Please pick up a syllabus and select a permanent seat by May 27, 2008.

• Course: Analysis of Evidence
  Instructor: Professor Anderson, Terence J.
  

  Required: The text for the course will be Anderson, Schum, and Twining, Analysis of Evidence (2005 2d ed.). There may also be a supplement.
  Recommended: Twining, Rethinking Evidence (2006 2d ed.) and Schum, Evidential Foundations of Probabilistic Reasoning (1994) as supplemental texts.
  Assignments: Preface, xvii-xxiv; Chapter 1, 1-10, 40-45, 23-28; chapter 2, 46-71; chapter 3, 87-111

• Course: International Law
  Schedule: M, T: 6-7:20 pm;  W, Th: 7:30-8:50 pm
  Instructor: Professor Bernard H. Oxman
  Required: Damrosch, Henkin, Pugh, Schachter & Smit: International Law Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2001) and Supp.
  Assignments:

  1	T	5/27	xix-xxi, xxvii-xxxvi, 1-24, 30-37 (this is foundational material that you should read now, and to which you should refer again as we progress through the course); Glance at xxiii-xxvi
  2	W	5/28	Sources & Evidence of Int’l Law 56-87
  3	Th	5/29	87-108
  4	M	6/2	114-16, 127-31, 134-54

• Course Number: Law 223 A
  Course: Alternative Dispute Resolution

  Instructor: Prof. Williamson
  Required Materials for the Course:  The texts are Fisher & Ury, Getting to Yes (Penguin, any edition); G. Richard Shell, Bargaining for Advantage, (Penguin, 2nd edition); and Rau, Sherman & Peppet, Mediation and Other Non-Binding ADR Processes, (Foundation, 3rd Ed.)  Supplemental materials will be passed out in class.

  Assignment for First Class: Read Getting to Yes Chapters 1 (“Don't Bargain over Positions”), 2, & 3. [Notes: (1) Not the Roman numeral designated parts, which have several chapters each; (2) We will read all of Getting to Yes.  Many of you will already have read it.  Read it again, more carefully.]  Also, if you have negotiated in the past, come prepared to provide a brief explanation of your experience.

  Special Instructions:  Differing start times have been listed for the course.  Be ready to start promptly at 9:00 a.m, and we will then vote on whether to have the course start at 8:30 and run until 5:00 p.m., or start at 9:00 and finish at 5:30