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First Class Assignments (Spring 2012)   

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Professor Course Title Assignment
A    
All Sections
Appellate Advocacy
Beazley Chapter 1, pp. 1-10 and Chapter 2, pp. 11-31.
All Sections
Legal Research & Writing
Workshop Announcement and First Class Assignment
All Sections
Persuasion & Advocacy
Please read the NY Times article "This is Your Life" posted on your blackboard page, as well as Chapter 1 of the Mauet text.
Ambrosio, Michael
Law and Morality
Syllabus
Ambrosio, Michael
Legal Malpractice

Syllabus

The assignment is Chapter 1 and 2 in Text, Fortney and Johnson, Legal Malpractice Law, and problems 1-1 and 2-1.
B    
Barnes, David
Foundations of Intellectual Property Law and Policy
The reading for the first class is Reading 1
"Subject Matter of Intellectual Property."
This reading will be available for download
from the Blackboard page for this class.
Barnes, David
Trademark and Unfair Competition
The texts for this course are Jake Barnes,
Trademarks: Volume 1 ($16.90 on Amazon.com) and Trademarks: Volume 2 ($15.57 on Amazon.com).
These books are only available at Amazon.com. For Class1, read Chapter 1. For Class 2, read Chapter 2.
Bring a laptop with wireless capability to Classes 1 and 2.
Baroni, William
Election Law
The first class assignment is Casebook 13-44; 66-69; 84-88.
Bernstein, Gaia
Patent Law
The books are:
Merges & Duffy/Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (5th edition)
The New United States Patent Law (Black Line Edition)

Please read:
pp. 48-54 (Overview)
pp. 53 (Enforcement)
pp. 1045-1048 (Allocation of Power)
pp. 14-16; 24-26 (Patent Architecture) and with that Skim iPod Patent (Blackboard)
pp. 54-66 (Globalization and Patents)
Boon, Kristen
International Law
Assignment
Bourne, Robert
Estate Planning and Drafting
The texts for this course are Shaffer, Mooney & Boettcher, The Planning and Drafting of Wills and Trusts (Fifth ed., 2007) and Dukeminier, Sitkoff & Lindgren, Wills, Trusts and Estates (Eighth ed., 2009).
For the first class, read S, M & B Chapters 1 and 2.
Buck, Isaac
Bioethics Assignment
Buck, Isaac
HealthCare Fradud and Abuse
Assignment
C    
Caraballo, Wilfredo
Evidence Message

Syllabus
Caraballo, Wilfredo
Professional Responsibility
Message

Syllabus
Carmella, Angela
Property (Day)
For our first two class meetings, please read pp. 97-116 in Property (Dukeminier, Krier, et al, 7th ed. 2010).
For the first class, please bring your name cards and be prepared to discuss Armory v. Delamirie and Hannah v. Peel.
Carmella, Angela
Property II (Evening)
For our first class meeting, please read pp. 1061-1078 (Kelo and notes) and 1113-1128 (Penn Central) in Property (Dukeminier, Krier, et al, 7th ed. 2010).
Coverdale, John
Estate and Gift Tax
Assignment
D    
Dorfman, Howard
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Marketing and Communication
Syllabus
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F    
Franzese, Paula
Property
Please read from Dukeminier & Krier, Property
(Seventh Ed., 2010), pages 3-55.
Freamon, Bernard
Slavery, Human Trafficking and the Law
You should purchase a copy of Rachel Lloyd, "Girls Like Us" (Harper) 2011, ISBN# 9780061582059.
For the first class, please read pp. 1-99 in "Girls Like Us."
You should also read the article by Anne T. Gallagher distributed via Blackboard (or available from my assistant, Ms. Silvia Cardoso (silvia.cardoso@shu.edu) and come to class prepared to discuss whether the facts described by Ms. Lloyd should be classified as slavery or trafficking or both or perhaps something else.
G    
Glenn, Kevin
International Tax Planning
First Week Assignment
Glynn, Timothy
Labor Law
Assignment
H    
Hampden, Brenda
Entertainment Law
Text: Burr - Entertainment Law - Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media (West).
First Week's Reading Assignment: pp. 1-9; pp. 28-58
Hartnett, Edward
Federal Courts
The Nature of the Federal Judicial Function, General Considerations, pages 49-80 plus Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
In addition, at some point during the first several weeks of class, you should also read the background and historical materials at pages 1-47 of the casebook.
Healy, Thomas
Constitutional Law
Thursday Jan. 19 - Please read the handout. Please also familiarize yourself with the Constitution, which is reproduced in the appendix of the book.
Monday Jan. 23 - pp. 1-30
Tuesday Jan. 24 - pp. 30-48
Thursday Jan. 26 - pp.48-59
All page numbers refer to Constitutional Law by Sullivan and Gunther (17th ed.).
Healy, Thomas
The First Amendment
Wednesday Jan. 18 - pp. 2-24
All page numbers refer to First Amendment Law by Sullivan and Gunther (4th ed.).
Hurlock, William
Health Law for MJS's Course Introduction; Structure/Choice of Entity Governance. Please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 909-929 in the casebook.
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Jacobi, John
Comparative Health Law
The text for this course is Timothy Jost, Readings in Comparative Health Law & Biothics (2d Ed. 2007). For the first class, please read the Introduction (pp. x-xii) and pp. 3-33. These materials will introduce the idea of "rights" to health and health care, a topic we will discuss for our first several classes.
Jacobi, John
Health Law
The text for this course is Furrow et al., Health Law: Cases Materials and Problems (6th Ed. 2008) and the 2011 Supplement. Please read Text, pp. 596-604 and 609-637. Also please read the materials in the Supplement supplementing Chapter 8.
Johnson, Kristen
Securities Regulations
The casebook for this course is Securities Regulation, Cases and Materials, Cox, Hillman & Langevoort, Sixth Edition and the accompanying statutory supplement (2009).

Please read the following:
"The Framework of Securities Regulation" pages 1-18.
"The Definition of a Security" pages 19-33, inclusive of all "Notes and Questions".
K    
Kaye, Tracy
Federal Income Taxation
First Week Assignment
Kipnees, Robert
White Collar Defense
Assignment

Article 1

Article 2
L    
Lao, Marina
Commercial Law
Assignment

Syllabus
Lewis, Margaret
Criminal Law (Section AA & DD)
The first assignment is available under the "Assignments" folder on Blackboard. In addition to the assigned pages in the Dressler casebook, please read the syllabus and excerpt from the California Penal Code.
Lowenfels, Lewis
Advanced Corporations and Securities Practice
Assignment
M    
Martin, Robert
Animal Law
Text: Animal Law, 2nd Ed., (2011), by David Favre, Wolters Kluwer Pub.
For class on 1/19, the subject will be Discussion of Class Procedure; Introduction to Topic. Please read pages 1-27.
Martin, Robert
Zoning, Planning and Land Use Policy
Text: Land Use Regulation, (2011), by Stewardt E.Sterk & Educardo M. Penalver, Foundation Press.
For class on 1/18, the subject will be Discussion of Class Procedure; Introduction to Topic (Chap.1). Please read pages 1-17.
McCarthy, Robert
Mass Media Law
Assignment
McCauliff, Catherine
Agency - Partnerships and LLC's
The book is J. Dennis Hynes & Mark J. Lowenstein, Agency, Partnership and the LLC (8th ed. Lexis Nexis 2011). The pages for Wednesday, January 18th are 9-42.
Michaels, Eric
Tax of Partnerships and
LLC's
Syllabus

The first assignment is the Overview pages 1-10 and 14
(from Note) - 28

The second assignment is Formation of a Partnership,
pages 30-43; Problems 36 a&b; 43-44.
Miles, Jessica
Domestic Violence and the Law
Schneider textbook Chapter 1, pp. 4-16 and 38-48; Chapter 2, pp. 56-64.
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O    
Ostrowski, Chet
Health Law for MJS's
Course Introduction; Structure/Choice of Entity Governance. Please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 909-929 in the casebook.
P    
Paradise, Jordan
Administrative Law
Casebook: Ronald A. Cass, Colin S. Diver, Jack M. Beermann, and Jody Freeman, Administrative Law: Cases and Materials, 6th ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2011).
January 19: Casebook p. 1-33; APA § 551 (Casebook p. 982-983)
January 20: Casebook p. 34-51; Const. Articles I-III (Casebook p. 973-980)
Paradise, Jordan
Law & the Life Sciences
Assignment

Eugene Volokh Chapter
Pinguelo, Fernando
Electronic Discovery
First Week Assignment
Poirier, Marc
Property Message

Assignment
Politano, Frank
Copyright Syllabus
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R    
Riccio, Ronald
Constitutional Law
Syllabus
Ristroph, Alice
Constitutional Law
For the first class on Wednesday, January 18, please read
Sullivan & Gunther, Constitutional Law (17th ed. 2010), pp. 1-15 and Appendix A1-A14 (U.S. Constitution).
Romberg, Jonathan
Contracts II
Assignment
S    
Schiff, Daniel
Law and Literature
Camus, The Stranger, Part I
Simkovic, Michael
Bankruptcy
First Week Assignment
Steele, Gary
Corporate Taxation
Syllabus
Steinberg, Joseph
NJ Land Use Practice
The required text for the course is Cox, New Jersey
Zoning and Land Use Administration, 2011 Edition.
The first class assignment is (1) read pages 1-16 and pages
21-22 in Cox; and (2) read Petrick v. Plan. Bd. of Jersey
City, 187 N.J. Super. 325 (App. Div 1996); In the Matter of
Fichner, 144 NJ 457 (1996); City of Hoboken V. Jersey
City, 347 N.J. Super. 27 (Law Div. 2001).
Steinman, Adam
Complex Litigation
Read pp. 1-23 of the casebook.
Sullivan, Charles
Employment Discrimination
Zimmer et al Cases & Materials on Employment
Discrimination, pp. 1-15.
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U    
Urbano, Brian
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law by Chemerinsky
Ready the U.S. Constitution (pp. xli-lvii)
Read Marbury v. Madison (pp. 1-11)
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