Legal Research & Writing
(For all sections)

Required Texts:

Linda Edwards, Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization (Aspen, 2006);The Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation (Harvard Univ. Press, 18th ed.)

First Class Assignment: 

Please read Edwards, Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization - Chapter One. 

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Alexander, Mark

Criminal Procedure: Inv., Arrest & the Right Counsel

Reading Assignments for first two classes:

1. Casebook pp. 32-72 & 84-85.  Coverage: What is a search, what is a seizure?

2. Casebook pp.86-127. Coverage: Reasonableness and Warrant Clauses; Obtaining a Warrant: Probable Cause.

Election Law

Reading Assignment for First Class Session Read:

THE LAW OF DEMOCRACY: Table of Contents; pages 1-10 (Introduction); and 11-25 (The Right to Participate).

Informal Writing Assignment for First Class SessionPlease explain in under 500 words:
 
What is the best movie or television show about law and democracy, and why?  This is not a formal writing (i.e., no footnotes, Blue Book, etc.), but it should be clear and persuasive.  Please bring two copies to class. 

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Barnes, David

Contracts

In ECONOMICS OF CONTRACT LAW, read pp. 1-11 (stop before Part C). 

In PROBLEMS IN CONTRACT LAW, read pp. 1-11 (stop before "International Commercial Law").

Baroni, William

Professional Responsibility

Model Rules 1.2, 1.3, 3.4, Casebook 1-21, 26-46 

Legislation

Casebook 1-42

Bernstein, Gaia

Law & Genetics

Read from the textbook: Andrews, Mehlman & Rothstein, Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (second edition): pp. 7-10, 10-15, 44-53, 58-61 (notes 7-14).
Bring to class one newspaper article about any topic related to genetics.

Intellectual Property

August 24: Please read pages 1-25 in the casebook
August 25: Please read pages 25-40, 59-66 and 69-71 in the casebook

Boon, Kristen

Contracts

Please see attachment.

Boozang, Kathleen

Health Law

August 24 
Introductory Overview.  No reading assignment.Complete Health Care Reform SURVEY on TWEN by 5 pm  August 23

August 31      
Defining Sickness; Quality in Health Care Text 1 – 40
The genetic mutations that cause BRCA 1 and 2 can now be identified through genetic testing.  See http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/risk/brca

Brown, Abbott

Medical Malpractice Law

Please see attachment.

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Caraballo, Wilfredo

Contracts

Assignment for First Week: 
All references are to the Crandall, Whaley casebook, 5th edition. 
Tuesday 8/25 - pgs. xxix-xxxiii and 1-16. 
Wednesday 8/26 - pgs. 17-31. 
Friday 8/28 - pgs. 32-47. Please work on the problems in the materials.

Cornwell, John

Criminal Procedure

Assignment for Week One:

Read Chapter OneBe prepared to discuss all cases in the chapter, including those in the notes.I’m looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

Coverdale, John

Federal Income Taxation

The syllabus has been posted on Blackboard.  For the first class, please read pages 1-8 of Chirelstein.

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Deeney, Ray

Mental Health Law

Law and the Mental Health System: Civil and Criminal Aspects (Fifth Edition) Slobogin, Rai & Reisner  p. 3 - 32; p. 35 - 42(Questions & Comments)

Defeis, Elizabeth

Selected Problems

The reading assignment to be completed for the first class is available on the fourth floor.

DiTommaso, Jennifer

Persuasion & Advocacy

Please see attachment.

Dworetsky, Samuel

Patent Law and Practice

Please see attachment.

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Eisinger, Erica

Civil Procedure

Please see attachment.

Engelman-Lado, Marianne

Family Law, Marriage & Divorce

Please read Areen, Regan, "Family Law," 5th Edition, the casebook, pages 2-38, 47-56, and 57-74.

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Franzese, Paula

Commercial Law Survey

 Please read Article One of the UCC and sections 2-104, 2-302.

Freamon, Bernard

Professional Responsibility

Text: Stephen Gillers, Regulation of Lawyers, 8th Edition (Aspen, 2009); 

Rulebook: Gillers, Simon, and Perlman, Regulation of Lawyers 2009: Statutes and Standards (Aspen, 2009). 

First Assignment: Read Chapter 1 in the Text, pp. 1-20; skim introductory material in the rulebook.

Post-Conviction Remedies

Please pick up one copy of the reading assignment for the first class from the handout shelf on the 4th floor in the law school. See my assistant, Ms. Silvia Cardoso, 973-642-8804, on the 5th floor if you have any questions or difficulty getting the assignment.

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Garfinkle, Marc

Persuasion & Advocacy

Please see attachment.

Gialanella, Kathleen

Patient Rights & Public Health

Law and Bioethics by Jerry Manikoff, Georgetown University Press (2001)ISBN 0-87840-838-X 

Pages 9-14, 17-38, and 39-52.

Glynn, Timothy

Torts I

For the first class, please read and be prepared to discuss the material on pp. 1-17 of the Franklin casebook.

Godsil, Rachel

Family Law

Please read Areen, Regan, "Family Law," 5th Edition, the casebook, pages 2-38, 47-56, and 57-74.

Greenberg, William

Military Law

The cases and materials will be available at the Registrar's Office, which includes the syllabus for the course, as of August 1, 2009.  The Manual for Courts Martial 2009 may not be available until later in the course.  Check with the book store.  The assignment for the first class is to read the cases listed in the syllabus for the first week.

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Hartnett, Edward

Civil Procedure

Pages 1-28 of Rowe, Sherry, and Tidmarsh, Civil Procedure (2d edition 2008).

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Johnson, Kristin

Business Associations

Please see attachment.

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Kaster, Laura

Dispute Resolution Processes

Summer reading:
Getting to Yes Negotiating Without Giving In (2nd Ed. Penguin Books) Roger Fisher, William Ury

Difficult Conversations (Penguin 1999)
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

First Class assignment:
Jay Folberg, Dwight Golann, Lisa Kloppenberg,  Thomas Stipanowich
Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law(Aspen 2005)  pages 1-16, 32-41, (Optional 19-31)

Kaye, Tracy

Federal Income Taxation

Please see attachment.

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Lao, Marina

Business Associations

Please see attachment.

Please read PP. 1-20, 27-36, 36-52, and 52-35 of the assigned case book.

Antitrust

Please read all pages assigned for Chapter 1.  Syllabus

Lewis, Margaret

Criminal Law

For Monday, August 24, read pages 1-22 in Joshua Dressler, Criminal Law (4th ed. 2007), and Model Penal Code §1.02 (in the Appendix to the Dressler casebook at pages 975-76).  I also recommend that you read Orin S. Kerr, “How to Read a Judicial Opinion:  A Guide for New Law Students” (available at http://volokh.com/files/howtoreadv2.pdf).

Lillquist, Erik

Intellectual Property

August 24: Please read pages 1-25 in the casebook
August 25: Please read pages 25-40, 59-66 and 69-71 in the casebook

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Maldonado, Solangel

Torts

Franklin, Rabin & Green, Tort Law & Alternatives (Foundation Press 8th ed.), pp. 1-17.

Estates & Trusts

Dukeminier et al., WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES (8th ed. 2009)

Class 1   (pp. 1-3, 16-49, 58-70)
Class 2   (pp. 71-92)

Martin, Robert

Land Finance

Monday, Aug. 24th: pp. 99-116 & 127-142 in text (Real Estate Transfer, Finance, and Development, by Nelson and Whitman).

Wednesday, Aug. 26th: 256-279 in text.

State Consitutional Law

Thursdaqy, Aug. 27th: pp. 1-25 and 62-80 in text (State Constitutiona Law by Robert Williams).

McCauliff, Catherine

European Union Law

Copies of the 1st assignment in EU Law are available at the 4th floor handout shelf.

The handout is :  Martin Shapiro, The European Court of Justice, Chapter 9 of the Evolution of EU Law (Paul Craig & Grainne de Burca eds., 1999).  Please concentrate on  § 2 b,  pp. 333-40.  It puts 5 major cases in perspective: fn 20, van Gend en Loos (doctrine of supremacy of EU norms), Costa v. ENEL (direct effect of EU norms), fn 25, Cassis de Dijon (free movement of goods in trade law), fn 29, Dassonville and fn 30 Keck, both free movement of goods.For those who want, or need, to read ahead, the assigments are in STEPHEN WEATHERILL, CASES & MATERIALS ON EU LAW (Oxford 2007).2.  xiii-xiv; 1-243.  25-31; 55-74

Students seeking an e-mail attachment of this article should e-mail me directly.

First Amendment

The casebook is:  WILLIAM W. VAN ALSTYNE, THE AMERICAN FIRST AMENDMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (3d ed. Foundation Press, 2002).

The first two assignments are:
1. 1-31
2. 34-55     

McLaughlin, Denis

Civil Procedure

Please see attachment.

McLellan, Harry

Construction Law

Please read the following cases:

-Broadway Maintenance v. Rutgers, 90 NJ 253 (1982); and
-Insullation Contracting, Inc. v. Kravco, 209 N.J. Super. (App. Div. 1986).

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Opderbeck, David

Torts

Read casebook pages 3-11; 31-32; 38-40 and 41-56.

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Paradise, Jordan

Food & Drug Law

August 24, 2009: Introduction to the Food & Drug Administration

Course Text and Materials:
PETER BARTON HUTT, RICHARD A. MERRILL & LEWIS A. GROSSMAN, FOOD AND DRUG LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (3d ed. 2007).
Food and Drug Law Institute, FDCA: STATUTORY SUPPLEMENT (2008).

Readings: 
Casebook: 1-27
Supplement: FDCA §903/21 USC §393(b) (Mission Statement); 906/396 (Practice of Medicine); 910/399(a) (Office of the Chief Scientist).
Visit FDA website, http://www.fda.gov/ 
• At “About the FDA” section, review organizational charts links, budget links, past commissioners, and advisory committee links.  
• Also review “Regulatory Information” links.  This will show you how to access CFR.

Emerging Technologies Law

August 27, 2009: Science, technology, law & society
Course Materials are available on Blackboard.  I’ve attached the articles for the first reading assignment to this email as I’ve not yet uploaded them into Blackboard.

Readings:
1a) Gibbons, M. Science’s new social contract with society. Nature 402: C81-C84 (1999).
1b) Lewenstein, B.  What counts as a ‘social and ethical issue’ in nanotechnology? HYLE International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 11(1): 5-18 (2005). 
1c) Service, R. Nanotechnology Grows Up. Science 304: 1732-34 (2004).

“Course Materials are available on Blackboard.” 

Pinilis, William

New Jersey Practice

Please note that class has been cancelled for August 25th & 27th.

Poirier, Marc

Administartive Law

Please see attachment.

Politano, Frank

Copyright

First assignment is the readings listed in Class 1 of the syllabus.

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Reicher, Terri

Dispute Resolution Processes

Please see attachment.

Romberg, Jonathan

Contracts

Please see attachment.

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Schecter, Jennifer

Business Law Survey

Page numbers refer to The Legal Environment of Contemporary Business (Hunter/ Shannon/ Amoroso/ O’Sullivan).

Introduction       •       Pages 17-23; 25-26, 31-39

CONTRACTS

Contracts/Enforceable Obligations Overview        
                         •       Pages 99-104
Unconscionability 
                         •       Pages 104-110        
                         •       Read book version & read case in its entirety:  Williamsv. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co., 198 A.2d 914 (D.C. App. 1964) & 350 F.2d 445.        
                         •       U.C.C. § 2-302

Sorin, David

Accounting for Lawyers

Please read the preface and pages 1 through 38 for the first class session.

Sullivan, Charles

Civil Procedure

The required casebook is Rowe, Sherry, & Tidmarsh, Civil Procedure (Foundation Press, 2d ed). Please read pp. 1-45.  Class discussion will focus on pp/29-45, but the earlier material will be helpful in understanding what follows.

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Waldeck, Sarah

Estates & Trusts

For Thursday’s Class: 
            + pp. 1-3  (introduction)
            + pp. 16 - 48  (more introduction)

For Friday’s Class: 
          * pp. 71-80  (treatment of spouse; definition of spouse)    
          * pp. 87-91  (treatment of children & descendants)

All readings are from the Dukeminier textbook.

Property II

Reading Assignment for the First Class: 
               1. The tenant in possession  
                    Berg and notes; pp. 403-410  
               2. The tenant who has abandoned possession  
                    Sommer and notes; pp. 410-418  
                    Skim pp. 419-421  

Reading Assignment for the Second Class:                   
                  Overview; pp. 421-422                  
                  Reste, Hilder and notes; pp. 422-440                  
                  Gombo (will be distributed duirng first class) 

Please note that all readings are from PROPERTY by Dukeminier, Krier, Alexander and Schill, 6th edition.  This is the same book you used for Property I.

Willborn, Steven

Employment Law

Assignments are from the textbook we’ll use this semester:  
Steven L. Willborn et al., EMPLOYMENT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (4th ed. 2007). Please note that class has been cancelled for September 2nd & 3rd.

August 26: Pages 3-11
August 27: Pages 13-44

Wiliams, Rosemarie

Persuasion & Advocacy

Please see attachment.

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Zalesky, Christopher

Fraud & Abuse

Here is the class one reading assignment and syllabus for the Fraud and Abuse class. Notice, as the syllabus indicates under class one, there are additional statutes you have to read that are not attached. Only 41 USC is attached because that was the only one of the statutes provided to us.  

Statutes:
1. The False Claims Act 31 U.S.C. 3729, et seq.
2. The Anti-Kickback Act 41 U.S.C. 51, et seq.
3. The Medicare Medicaid Anti-Kickback Act 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(b)
4. The mail, wire, and health care fraud statutes 18 U.S.C. 1341 -1347, 18 U.S.C. 1035  

Please see attachments: 
Gosfield 2008
KFF Medicare
KFF Medicaid

The additional attachments are also part of class one reading, as indicate in the syllabus.