Summer 2009 Upper Division First Class Assignments
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• Course Number: 101A
  Course:  Commercial Law I

  Professor:  Robinson

  Required:  Whaley, Problems ...Commercial Law (latest ed.) (“T”); West, Selected Commercial Statutes (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:  Please read Preface and solve problems 1-5 (the PowerPoint slides in handout 2 will help).  You need only be prepared on the problems. You should read the cases, but I will not require you to discuss them.

  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 Number: 217A
  Course: US Constitutional Law II
  Required: Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet - Constitutional Law 5th Edition; and distribution materials.
  Notes: For our first meeting, Monday, June 1, please read US CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENTS 1, 5, 13, 14, 15, and Casebook pp 14-18, 29-36, 74-75, 453-456

• 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.  (3)  Please read critically.  I don’t assign the book because it is entirely right, but rather because some of it is correct and some that is not forms a good basis for discussion.]  Also, if you have negotiated in the past, come prepared to provide a brief explanation of your experience.

  Special Instructions:  Be ready to start promptly at 9:00 a.m, and we will then vote on the exact class meeting hours.
  
  

• Course Number: 136A
  Course: Family Law
  Instructor: Prof. Fenton
  Web Page: http://faculty.law.miami.edu/zfenton/family%20law.htm
  
  

• Course Number:           LAW 320    
  Course:                        SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW
  Instructor:                    Martha Mahoney

  Required Materials for the Course:   Kaplan, Weisberg, & Binder, CRIMINAL LAW:  CASES AND MATERIALS (6th Edition 2008), and supplementary cases and materials on TWEN.
  Assignments for First Class:  As background, read the introduction, pages 1-20. Class discussion will cover pages 21-66 and Fla.Stat. 775.012 (TWEN).  We will use the problems on pages 29-30 as a framework for discussing the essays on the principles, purposes and justifications for punishment on pages 21-27 & 31-63, and then we will discuss whether those theories apply to the Hendricks case on pages 63-66. 

  Special Instructions:  Sign up for the TWEN page for this class. The TWEN password is "subcrim." 

  Class preparation is required.  Students will have a maximum of four passes that can be be used at any time, including on the first day of class, as long as the passes are submitted in the TWEN drop box before class begins.
   

• Course Number: LAW 403A
  Course: Legal Profession
  Instructor: Professor Alfieri
  Special Instructions: syllabus