Source: http://www.law.msu.edu/registrar/assignments.php?view=all
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 00:44:19+00:00

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1L Advanced Topics and Skills ( - 530U) - Spoon, E.
Comments: This entry will be updated once the coursepack is available.
1L Advanced Topics and Skills ( - 530U) - Barnhizer, D., Bedikian, M.
1L Advanced Topics and Skills ( - 530U) - Lawton, A.
Assignment: Sign up for TWEN. Read Chapter 1(A) (Express Warranties) and 1B (Warranty of Title) in the course pack.
Accounting for Lawyers ( - 502) - Lameti, R.
pp. 1-27; Problem 1.1A & 1.1B (pp. 27-29).
Administrative Law ( - 532) - Staszewski, G.
Administrative Law ( - 532) - Sant'Ambrogio, M.
Reading: MICHAEL ASIMOW & RONALD M. LEVIN, STATE AND FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (4th ed., 2014) (“A&L”) 1-14; Supp. 1 (Stewart, The Reformation of American Administrative Law); and Supp. 2 (ESKRIDGE & FEREJOHN, A REPUBLIC OF STATUTES 29-34, 69-74). Supplements are posted on TWEN under Course Materials.
Advanced Civil Procedure ( - 530T) - Wittner, N.
Comments: This Supplement is only for sale at the Spartan Bookstore.
Advanced Legal Research ( - 586) - Domann, B., Eicher, A.
Assignment: Log in to the course D2L site and read the syllabus.
Advanced Legal Research ( - 586) - Meland, J.
Assignment: Please join the course website on D2L. Assignments for the first week of class are posted on D2L.
Advertising Law-Food Focus ( - 810T) - Ekonomon, A.
Course Introduction; Overview; Introduction to Advertising and Advertising Law; The Regulation of Commercial Speech.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Gentry, K.
Author: Joan M. Rocklin, et.al.
Before our first class on Friday, January 11th, please do the following. Note that there is a substantial amount of reading, so please allow plenty of time.
1) Sign up for my TWEN site.
2) Read An Advocate Persuades, Chapters 1-3 & 5.
3) The spring appellate problem concerns whether a school district violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by suspending a student for his speech. To prepare for the problem, read Thomas E. Wheeler II, Lessons from the Lord of the Flies: Protecting Students from Internet Threats and Cyber Hate Speech, 10 J. Internet L. 3 (2006), which will be available on the RWA webpage after December 30, 2018.
4) Read the Joint Appendix for the spring appellate problem. The Joint Appendix will be available on the RWA webpage after Dec. 30, 2018.
a) Print and place the Joint Appendix in a binder.
•	a list of issues not raised on appeal or conceded by the parties in the court below, if any.
c) As you read the Joint Appendix, create a detailed timeline of the key events. Bring the timeline to class.
d) As you read the Joint Appendix, answer the following questions. Cite to the relevant page numbers.
•	What was the school district’s reason for the suspension?
•	What was the relevant speech?
•	How did the administrators react?
•	How did the fellow classmates react?
•	Did the trial court grant the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment?
•	Describe the reasons for the court’s decision on these two issues.
•	What legal authority is cited for the court’s decision?
•	What is the relevant jurisdiction?
5) Westlaw and LexisNexis will be offering optional further training Thursday, Jan. 10 - Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. The training will be jointly conducted, so going to one session will cover both Westlaw and Lexis. More training will probably be helpful in completing the research required for Advocacy and in preparing for your first legal job. However, the service representatives have been requested to teach advanced research strategies, not the precise issues in the appellate problem.
Further details, including how to sign up, will be emailed to you the first week of January. Please watch for that email. Please contact librarian Daryl Thompson at thomps43@law.msu.edu if you do not receive an email by Jan. 7 or have questions about the trainings.
6) For Advocacy, you are required to attend an appellate court, view one or more arguments, and write a brief summary of your visit. This assignment is called the "Court Session Synopsis." The requirements for this assignment are posted on the RWA webpage.
You may find it convenient to attend an appellate argument before your first Advocacy class. The argument can be in any jurisdiction as long as it is in an appellate court. You can usually find oral argument schedules online. Be sure to contact the court clerk’s office to confirm.
Before attending an oral argument, please review the Court Session Synopsis and note what is required, so you can complete the assignment. The Court Session Synopsis is due at the end of spring break.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Lawrence, D.
Before our first class on Friday, January 11th, please do the following. Note that there is a substantial amount of reading, so allow plenty of time.
•	In detail, describe the reasons for the court’s decision on these two issues.
o	The Defendant will argue that the school district did not violate the First Amendment because the student made the Facebook post while at home.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Rosa, J.
listed on the “First Assignment” posted to the RWA website.
Before our first class on Friday, January 11, please do the following. Note that there is a substantial amount of reading, so allow plenty of time.
1. Sign up for our TWEN site.
2. Read An Advocate Persuades, Chapters 1-3 & 5.
3. The spring appellate problem concerns whether a school district violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by suspending a student for his speech. To prepare for the problem, read Thomas E. Wheeler II, Lessons from the Lord of the Flies: Protecting Students from Internet Threats and Cyber Hate Speech, 10 J. Internet L. 3 (2006), which will be available on the RWA webpage after December 30, 2018.
4. Read the Joint Appendix for the spring appellate problem. The Joint Appendix will be available on the RWA webpage.
• A list of issues not raised on appeal or conceded by the parties in the court below, if any.
c) Answer the following questions. Cite to the relevant page numbers.
• What was the school district’s reason for the suspension?
• What was the relevant speech?
• How did the administrators react?
• How did the fellow classmates react?
• Did the trial court grant the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment?
• In detail, describe the reasons for the court’s decision on the two issues.
• What legal authority is cited for the court’s decision?
• True or False: The Defendant will argue that the school district did not violate the First Amendment because the student made the Facebook post while at home.
• What is the relevant jurisdiction?
6. Read the excerpt of an appellate brief on TWEN under Course Materials.
- Place a C next to the conclusion.
(Note: in RWA, you may have called the structure an IRAC, but now we refer to it as a CREAC).
b) Draft and post to TWEN a 1-2 page memo addressing the similarities and differences between this argument section and the discussion section from your final memo last semester and tell me reasons why this is an example of effective legal writing.
7. Westlaw and LexisNexis will be offering optional further training Thursday, Jan. 10 - Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. The training will be jointly conducted, so going to one session will cover both Westlaw and Lexis. More training will probably be helpful in completing the research required for Advocacy and in preparing for your first legal job. However, the service representatives have been requested to teach advanced research strategies, not the precise issues in the appellate problem.
8. For Advocacy, you are required to attend an appellate court, view one or more arguments, and write a brief summary of your visit. This assignment is called the "Court Session Synopsis." The requirements for this assignment are posted on the RWA webpage.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Stokstad, P.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - O'Regan, D.
1) Sign up for our TWEN site, which will be available after December 30, 2018.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Spiliopoulos, E.
Assignment: Before our first class on Friday, January 11th, please do the following. Note that there is a substantial amount of reading, so allow plenty of time.
• In detail, describe the reasons for the court’s decision on these two issues.
o The Defendant will argue that the school district did not violate the First Amendment because the student made the Facebook post while at home.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Copland, J.
Assignment: For Prof. Copland's First Assignments (Section 013), please sign on to her class TWEN page. First assignments will be posted on TWEN.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - LaRose, S.
Assignment: Before our first class on Tuesday, January 8th, please do the following. Note that there is a substantial amount of reading, so allow plenty of time.
1) Read An Advocate Persuades, Chapters 1-3 & 5.
2) The spring appellate problem concerns whether a school district violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by suspending a student for his speech. To prepare for the problem, read Thomas E. Wheeler II, Lessons from the Lord of the Flies: Protecting Students from Internet Threats and Cyber Hate Speech, 10 J. Internet L. 3 (2006), which will be available on the RWA webpage after December 30, 2018.
3) Read the Joint Appendix for the spring appellate problem. The Joint Appendix is available on the RWA webpage.
b) Create a typed, chronological list of facts to submit in hard copy.
Advocacy ( - 530J) - Costello, N.
Before our first class on Thursday, January 10, please do the following. Note that there is a substantial amount of reading, so allow time.
3) The spring appellate problem concerns whether a school district violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by suspending a student for his speech. To prepare for the problem, read Thomas E. Wheeler II, Lessons from the Lord of the Flies: Protecting Students from Internet Threats and Cyber Hate Speech, 10 J. Internet L. 3 (2006), which is available on the RWA webpage.
4) Read the Joint Appendix for the spring appellate problem. The Joint Appendix is available on the RWA webpage.
Agricultural Law ( - 566N) - Deacon, B.
Assignment: Week 1 – Wednesday, January 9, 2019: Introduction, Commodity Assignment, History of Agriculture Production and Policy - Chapter 1 of book, through page 42.
•	Michigan’s Public Act 13 of 1921, Department of Agriculture, MCL 285.1 et seq.
American Indian Children & the Law ( - 635D) - Fort, K.
Books: None. Material will be provided electronically by professor.
Animal Welfare Clinic I ( - 631R) - Nasser, C.
Carney Anne Nasser, MSU’s Animal Welfare Clinic Roars onto the Scene, Michigan Bar Journal (July 2018); available at http://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pdf4article3426.pdf.
Automated Vehicles and the Law ( - 537S) - Wittner, N.
Books: Lipson and Kurman, “Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead” (MIT Press, 2016).
Also, articles will be posted on TWEN.
Assignment: Preface and chapter 9 from the book.
Pages 1 – 41 of this document: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/policy-initiatives/automated-vehicles/320711/preparing-future-transportation-automated-vehicle-30.pdf It is Safety Policy 3.0 in the TWEN Course Materials folder. I am also attaching it as a PDF.
All of this document: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/13069a-ads2.0_090617_v9a_tag.pdf In the TWEN folder it is Safety Policy 2.0.
Bankruptcy ( - 506A) - Gerdes, A.
o	Cases: Compare Prochnow v. Apex Properties (p. 60) with Sharp v. Dery.
•	If you want to test your knowledge of Secured Transactions, try the Secured Transactions Overview Problems posted on TWEN.
Your first assignment documents on TWEN are listed under Marie Gordon, for now.
Details: A federal supplement may be needed, but none has been selected yet.
Basic Will Drafting ( - 540A) - Behan, M.
Business Enterprises ( - 500M) - Reyes, C.
Professor will also send students a link to other online materials.
• Read the PDF Available on TWEN – Introduction by Epstein et al.
• Read Pages 1-40 in the Drake text. Be prepared to discuss case problems 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3 in class.
• Be sure to carefully review the Restatement of Agency provisions provided for you by Drake in the text. Consider finding an electronic version to consult as well.
Business Enterprises ( - 500M) - Barnhizer, D.
Comments: Students are free to use the 9th edition, but they are responsible for all readings in the 10th edition. Professor will not be providing a cross-reference between the two editions.
Assignment: First assignment is pages 1-32 in the Klein, Ramsayer, Bainbridge casebook.
Capital Punishment ( - 579Y) - Grosso, C.
Chance at Childhood Clinic I ( - 631F) - Kozakiewicz, J.
Books: Other Materials: No book is required. All materials will be available online.
Civil Rights Clinic I ( - 630X) - Manville, D.
Other Materials: Current Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence are also required.
Comments: These materials are all found online - you are not required to purchase these materials. All materials are available online via the law school library catalog and/or Westlaw. Additionally, physical copies of these materials are also in the Clinic's law library.
Assignment: The first two classes are orientation and learning about the cases that they will be assigned to.
Civil Rights Clinic II ( - 630Z) - Manville, D.
Commercial Arbitration ( - 505A) - Bedikian, M.
Advanced Bodycare Solutions, LLC v. Thione International, Inc.
Constitutional Law and the Regulatory State ( - 530S) - Morag-Levine, N.
Constitutional Law and the Regulatory State ( - 530S) - Chen, J.
Comments: Do not buy any subsequent casebook supplements; our TWEN page contains supplementary material reflecting more recent developments.
Assignment: TIP to top: The Hail Mary pass of the law. E 301-28: Holy Trinity Church; Speluncean Explorers. I recommend that you study the editors’ notes at E 329-30 and E 332-33 and the Eskridge excerpt at E 334-36. You may skip the materials on NBA rules, female jurors, and stem cell research. These items may appear later as review exercises.
Constitutional Law and the Regulatory State ( - 530S) - Lawrence, M.
Constitutional Law II ( - 500N) - Bitensky, S.
Comments: UPDATE JANUARY 7, 2019: PLEASE PURCHASE THE 15TH EDITION, NOT THE 14TH.
Assignment: Hardcover casebook pp. 411-434 (up to Duncan).
Constitutional Law II ( - 500N) - Kuykendall, M.
Constitutional Litigation ( - 579X) - Pucillo, P.
(4) review—and be prepared to discuss—pp. 1-18 of Sheldon H. Nahmod., et al., CONSTITUTIONAL TORTS (4th ed., LexisNexis 2015) (our casebook for the semester).
Contract Drafting ( - 594A) - VanAntwerp, M.
Contract Drafting ( - 594A) - Lawrence, D.
Required Text - Tina Stark, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do (2nd ed. 2014).
Note – Be sure to buy the second edition.
2) Read and be prepared to discuss the following chapters from Drafting Contracts.
Type your answers, post a copy to TWEN, and bring a print copy to class.
Copyright Law ( - 533B) - Pager, S.
Assignment: The first assignment is to read Chapter One of the Cohen et al.
that class (on Jan. 9) will focus on fixation and works of authorship.
Corporate Finance ( - 508B) - Spoon, E.
Assignment: Read pp. 1-32 in Carney casebook.
Corporate Governance and Compliance ( - 508F) - Hall, C.
review the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Code of Conduct, which is available on the GSK website (in the “About Us” – “Policies, Codes and Standards” section). Be prepared to discuss the elements of an effective compliance program according to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the strengths and weaknesses of GSK’s and Mike’s Bagels’ codes of conduct.
Corporate Income Taxation ( - 508C) - Wease, J.
Criminal Law ( - 500F) - Candeub, A.
Comments: This ISBN includes a LawClassFeedback access code. Do NOT get any other edition.
Assignment: Reading materials/assignments will be available on Professor's D2L course site.
Criminal Law ( - 500F) - O'Brien, B.
Criminal Procedure: Investigation ( - 616B) - Grosso, C.
Criminal Trial Advocacy - PreTrial ( - 617A) - Kaplan, S.
Books: None. Materials will be posted on TWEN.
*Read & analyze the Gianolla police reports (found at the end of the course materials on my TWEN site).
Criminal Trial Advocacy Post-Conviction Remedies ( - 617C) - Scullion, M.
Books: There will be no textbook or course pack for this course. Cases and/or supplemental materials will be assigned for individual/group reading. In addition, supplemental materials will be provided during the course of the semester.
Delivering Legal Services: New Legal Landscape ( - 537Q) - Kennedy, D.
Author: Michael E. Gerber, Robert Armstrong, J.D., Sanford Fisch, J.D.
Assignment: There will be no reading assignment for the first class.
Domestic Violence ( - 541B) - Thronson, V.
E-Discovery ( - 537D) - Hluchaniuk, M.
Estate and Gift Taxation ( - 540D) - Schweitzer, L.
European Union Law ( - 548C) - Reifenberg, Jr., J.
Evidence ( - 500P) - Pucillo, P.
Comments: Information in this supplement can also be found online via Westlaw subscription. The law library has multiple copies of the 2017-2018 on reserve.
Evolutionary Analysis and Law ( - 537U) - Candeub, A.
Family Law: Child, Family and the State ( - 541F) - Jacobs, M.
Books: Other Materials: No textbook is required. The professor will post her materials on the TWEN site for this course.
Assignment: Please note that the course syllabus AND ALL COURSE MATERIALS are posted on TWEN (there is no casebook to buy!). Throughout the course we will explore the tension between state regulation and familial privacy. What does “privacy” mean and whose interests are protected? In affording certain groups the “benefits” of familial definition, how do courts decide which groups constitute a family? For our first class on January 7th, please read Griswold and Eisenstadt.
Federal Jurisdiction ( - 579G) - Fletcher, M.
The students should also familiarize themselves with the required Federal Jurisdiction treatise so that they can spot federal jurisdiction issues from the assigned memoranda.
Food Regulation in Canada ( - 810C) - Jameson, G.
different responses). Do you agree with the decision? Why or why not?
and cities can enact by-laws that affect food.
summarize it using the IRAC method described in the supplemental readings, and tell us what you think.
Food Regulation in the U.S. ( - 810A) - Fortin, N.
Other Materials: All required reading will be provided as PDFs on the course site in Desire2Learn.
Halal Food: An Introduction to Islamic Laws and Ethics ( - 545K) - Moghul, U.
Health Care Fraud and Abuse ( - 558J) - Gulick, P.
Assignment: First week's assignment are the three documents listed on the professor's TWEN page.
Immigration Consequences of Crime ( - 541T) - Kloet, J.
Books: No book is required or recommended. All readings will be posted on TWEN or available through Westlaw.
Assignment: Class readings are listed on professor's TWEN page.
Immigration Law ( - 541G) - Thronson, D.
Other materials will be distributed throughout the semester. Please note that developments in immigration law are constant and rapid, so that adjustments to the syllabus are likely. Also, earlier editions of casebooks and statutory supplements are obsolete and cannot be reliably substituted for the assigned course materials.
Immigration Priorities Exercise – Please complete the exercise on the following pages prior to the first class and come prepared to discuss your decisions.
You have just been appointed Immigration Czar, giving you absolute power over immigration status questions in the United States. For purposes of this exercise, U.S. immigration law is exactly what YOU want it to be – do not concern yourself with the actual state of current immigration law or politics.
First, rank the following applicants for admission to legal immigration status from 1 to 22, with 1 as the highest priority and 22 as the lowest priority.
Second, decide how many of the applicants you will admit. In other words, from your ranked list will you allow admission to none, to all or to some number in between?
Be prepared to discuss and explain your decisions.
_____A is the spouse of a U.S. citizen and has two children. A has never worked.
_____B is A’s minor child by a previous marriage.
_____C is A’s adult child by a previous marriage.
_____D is a highly skilled scientist with no relatives in the United States.
_____E owns a large and successful business that she wishes to expand into the United States.
_____F is an agricultural laborer who never finished high school.
_____G is an outstanding basketball player who has been drafted by an NBA team.
_____H is an experienced nurse with no relatives in the United States.
_____I, now age 18, was brought to the United States on a tourist visa by a parent at age three from Iran. Since arrival, she has never left the United States. She does not speak the language of her home country and just graduated from high school with honors.
_____J is the adopted teenage child of a U.S. citizen. She has a juvenile delinquency adjudication for possession of marijuana.
_____K is a victim of domestic violence who has assisted the police in the prosecution of her abuser.
_____L is a 15-year-old girl who was smuggled into the United States and forced to work at a brothel for several months before being freed during a law enforcement raid.
_____M is a 15-year-old boy who was smuggled into the United States and forced to work long hours on an isolated farm where his documents and wages were withheld until he was freed during a law enforcement raid.
_____N is the aging parent of a legal permanent resident.
_____O entered the country unlawfully and gave birth to a child. The child, a U.S. citizen, was born with severe physical disabilities.
_____P is the adult sibling of a U.S. citizen who has a spouse and five minor children.
_____Q participated in a failed military coup to overthrow a brutal dictator in her home country and fears that she will be tortured and killed if returned to her native country.
_____R is a 6-year-old girl who will be subjected to a high risk of female genital mutilation if returned to her native country.
_____T came to the United States two years ago with her young son and husband, who has several years of study remaining in his Ph.D. program. T, who has been the primary caretaker for her son, recently divorced her husband.
_____U is a 9-year-old boy from a gang-infested country with the highest murder rate in the world who entered the United States by himself and without authorization. He has an undocumented aunt living in Texas.
_____V is an aspiring fashion model who has just been signed by a talent agency in New York City.
Bring your completed exercise to the first class and be prepared to discuss your decisions.
Immigration Law Clinic I ( - 630R) - Thronson, V.
Indian Law Clinic I ( - 631J) - Fort, K.
Indian Law Clinic II ( - 631K) - Fort, K.
Insurance Law ( - 514) - Bowden, D.
Assignment: Insurance Law - Week One - Introduction - This class will explore the history of insurance, key constituents in the development of insurance law, social and policy issues, methods used by insurers to mitigate risk, and countermeasures employed by government and courts to protect consumers and other insureds.
Also, please check the professor's TWEN page for more notifications and/or materials.
International Food Laws and Regulations ( - 810D) - Fortin, N.
Books: Other Materials: No textbook is required. All required readings will be provided on the course site in Desire2Learn or via URLs.
International Human Rights ( - 548F) - Bitensky, S.
Author: David S. Weissbrodt et al.
Assignment: In textbook, read Chapter 1; and in document supplement, read UN Charter preamble and the Charter’s articles 1, 2, 55 & 56, and the entire Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Introduction to Islamic Law ( - 545F) - Khalil, M.
Jurisprudence ( - 579J) - Fletcher, M.
Juvenile Law ( - 541K) - Darden, T.
King Scholars Jurisprudence ( - 626C) - Fletcher, M.
King Scholars Seminar ( - 626D) - Fletcher, M.
Law and Economics ( - 515) - Mercuro, N.
Books: Other Materials: A reader for this course will be available at Budget Printing. The professor will email students when it is available.
Law and Interpretation ( - 579R) - Ravitch, F.
Assignment: Read Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003); Lucy v. Zehmer, 196 Va. 493, 84 S.E.2d 516 (1954) (both cases available on TWEN site under Course Materials).
Legal Issues with Energy Development and Wildlife ( - 565C) - Frampton, C.
Legislation ( - 579P) - Staszewski, G.
Please read pages 1-24 of the casebook.
Michigan Civil Procedure ( - 593A) - Lauderbach, J.
Assignment: first assignment is to read Article VI of the Michigan Constitution, and MCL 600.605, 600.841 and 600.8301.
Negotiation ( - 591C) - Raheem, A.
The Goal of this class is to introduce students to the types of verbal and non-verbal communications that are important to observe in Negotiations. Students will also be given an overview of the class, its rules and requirements.
Negotiation ( - 591C) - Basta, J.
Assignment: Register for the TWEN course, where the syllabus is located.
No-Fault Insurance Law ( - 595) - Sinas, S., Sinas, G., Waldman, B.
Partnership Taxation ( - 519) - Kulick, P.
Other Materials: Students will also need access to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury Regulations. Both of these are included in their Westlaw subscription. Students could optionally purchase a print set of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations.
Assignment: Professor's TWEN page now contains Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 for the first week of classes. Please add his class to your TWEN.
Patent Litigation ( - 533R) - Mettes, L., Murphy, K.
Books: No book is required.
Products Liability ( - 522) - Wittner, N.
(Read §402A, which is hyperlinked at the bottom of the list).
Professional Responsibility ( - 500Q) - Pucillo, P.
Property ( - 500G) - Favre, D.
Comments: This ISBN includes a LawClassFeedback access code. Do NOT get a different edition.
Property ( - 500G) - Blankfein-Tabachnick, D.
Comments: The recommended text was added 11.15.2017.
Assignment: The first reading assignment is pages 57-72 in MERRILL & SMITH, PROPERTY: PRINCIPLES AND POLICY.
Racial Justice - Legal and Societal Dimensions of Truth & Reconciliation ( - 541W) - Lawrence, M.
Please see class TWEN site for additional details.
Regulating Environmental Risk ( - 566Q) - Morag-Levine, N.
1)	“What is Environmental about Environmental Law-The Nature of Environmental Injury,” pp. 20-23.
2)	Climate Disruption Case Study, pp. 24-29.
Regulation of Agricultural Production & Marketing ( - 810M) - Eicher, A.
Assignment: Log in to the class D2L page, read the syllabus, and complete the student introduction in the discussion board.
Sales and Leases ( - 501F) - Reifenberg, Jr., J.
Sales and Secured Transactions ( - 501N) - Lawton, A.
Books: e-book with information to follow on how to order directly from publisher; any statutory supplement (can be a used copy) that includes Articles 2 and 9.
Assignment: Sign up on TWEN for the Sales and Secured Transactions course page. Read In re Bailey, which is posted under Course Materials on TWEN. Read Chapter 2 in your text/course pack. Prepare Problems 2.1 and 2.3 in the text/course pack.
Details: Click on the links below to access and order either the e-book version of the text for spring semester or the print on demand version. The links explain what to do.
Secured Transactions ( - 501E) - Johnson, C.
Securities Regulation I ( - 524B) - Spoon, E.
Assignment: Read pp. 3-6,16-19, 26-28, 41-44, 47-59, and 62-89 in the Steinberg casebook.
Special Topics in Comp Law: Comparative Constitutional Law ( - 549C) - Sachs, A.
Assignment: The assignment is to read the book through page 62, and the participants must each mention five surprises they have encountered in the reading.
From the beginning up to Page 62. Mention 5 surprises.
Sports Law ( - 609) - Schneider, D.
Tax Clinic I ( - 630C) - Wease, J.
Tax Clinic II ( - 630D) - Wease, J.
Technology Enhanced Trial Advocacy ( - 623G) - Swartzle, B.
Technology Transactions Skills ( - 537T) - Reyes, C.
o What is Ethereum?, https://coincenter.org/entry/what-is-ethereum.
Topics in Constitutional Law: Judicial Biographies ( - 579U) - Kuykendall, M.
The spine of the course will be provided by G. Edward White, The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges (2007). It is aging a bit but still is, I think, the primary available text that presents accounts, chronologically, of the eras on the Court and the justices that are emblematic of the period. The second text on which I expect to place heavy reliance is Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History—three volumes. It received its finishing touches in 1922, but in the preface Warren disclaims any attempt to do a detailed treatment of cases since the end in 1888 of the Chief Justiceship of Morrison Waite. He states that the thirty years after that are “clearly within the view of living men,” so he need not do more than broad outlines. In that regard, I shall assume that that the years since 2007 are “within the living memory of the men and women of the Judicial Biography class of spring 2019.” We can negotiate possible readings addressing the period in a manner comparable to the materials in White and Warren, respectively. I will assign portions of various biographies of specific judges during the semester.
Warren, The Supreme Court, Preface (pp. v-ix), Introductory Chapter (pp. 1-30), and Chapter 1 (31-90).
Mark Tushnet, Symposium: National Conference on Judicial Biography: Themes in Warren Court Biographies. 70 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 748 (1995). You can find this article on Westlaw.
1.	Please note the view taken by Warren in the Introduction about the Court’s importance (as he sees it in 1922) to the Nation (he provides a statement about his approach to capitalization). “No one can read the history of the Court’s career without marveling at its potent effect upon the political development of the Nation, and without concluding that the Nation owes most of its strength to the determination of the judges to maintain the National supremacy.” How does that compare to what might be thought salient today in summing up the contribution of the Supreme Court to “the Nation?” Would we use that term at all in making such a summation? What comes to your mind as the primary word as of 2019 in a sentence about the history of the Court since the Founding?
2.	In thinking about Warren’s statement that he is too close in 1922 to events in the Court since 1888, examine the piece shown above by Prof. Mark Tushnet about the paucity, in 1995, of strong biographies of members of the Warren Court. Also, in connection with my plan to mix a narrative history of the Supreme Court by Charles Warren with Ted White’s series of profiles that use biographies to capture the mood of periods in jurisprudence, note the following Tushnet statement: “I think it useful to distinguish between biographical analyses of individual Justices and more general thematic analyses of the Warren Court as a whole. In the end, one hopes to connect the biographical points to the thematic ones. Those connections might be much looser than we think, however.” For our purposes, we will be in an information rich environment, in which we learn a lot of history and then proceed to try to form generalizations of various kinds.
3.	The first day assignments are substantial, but I hope that your taking this course means that you will be engaged by the readings and will not find them onerous. The following are readings I’ve assigned in the past for first day; I may find time to do a little lecture about them. Dip in if you please, or not. Michael J. Gerhardt, Art of Judicial Biography, 80 CORNELL L. REV. 1595 (1995).
Richard Posner, Judicial Biography, 70 N.Y.U.L.Rev. 70 (June 1995). This is available in Westlaw.
4.	I will be working to refresh the website for the course. When it goes live, my secretary will email you and ask you to sign up for the course. From that point, I can use the email function to send you more messages about the first day plans.
Torts II ( - 525) - Kalt, B.
Our book is Prosser, Wade and Schwartz’s Torts (13th ed.).
The assignment for the first day is to read pages 851–861 in the casebook.
If you have any concerns or problems, feel free to come by my office (415), call me (432-6987) or e-mail me (kalt@law.msu.edu).
What is Torts II? This course covers a grab bag of tort law not covered in Torts I: nuisance, defamation, privacy, civil rights, misuse of legal procedure, misrepresentation, interference with advantageous relationships, torts in the age of statutes, and alternative compensation systems. This knowledge will allow you to determine when injured people can get a legal remedy for injuries in these contexts, and from whom. We will also discuss some of the theory and policy bases of tort law, so that you can understand why tort law is the way it is, and how it may change.
How is class run? Class will feature a mixture of lecture, discussion, and cold-calling.
How is performance assessed? Grades will be based on a 2-hour closed-book, closed note exam, with minor adjustments based on class participation. The exam will feature essay questions and multiple-choice questions.
Trial Practice Institute-Pretrial II ( - 623C) - McNally, V.
Assignment: Students should review the professor's Google Classroom site after December 31 regarding the first assignment.
Trial Practice Institute-Pretrial II ( - 623C) - Sherman, A.
Assignment: Students should review the professor's TWEN site after December 31 regarding the first assignment.
Trial Practice Institute-Trial II ( - 623E) - Burakoff, P.
final trial. Students must purchase this case problem in hard copy format.
in both your opening statement and final argument, as well as direct and crossexamination.
significant aspect of the prosecution or defense case.
Trial Practice Institute-Trial II ( - 623E) - Aquilina, R.
Trusts and Estates ( - 501D) - Johnson, C.
Trusts and Estates ( - 501D) - Blankfein-Tabachnick, D.
Assignment: The First assignment is pages 1-29 in JESSE DUKEMINIER & ROBERT H. SITKOFF, WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES (10th ed. 2017).
Workers' Compensation ( - 610) - Bruce-Erickson, C.
Assignment: January 7, 2019 - Introduction. Chapter 1: Employees’ Remedies Prior to Workers’ Compensation, from the textbook Workers’ Compensation Cases and Materials, West Publishing, 7th Edition.

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