University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law

For the first First Amendment: Church/State class, please ask the students to read pages 1-15 in the casebook, Leslie C. Griffin, Law and Religion: Cases and Materials.

Subrin, Minow, Brodin, Main, Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context, 3rd Edition, pps. 1-26.

Delgado and Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, pps. xvii - 33.

Fall Day Class – Prof. Beiner

Readings for the first week of class:

In Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, Tushnet & Karlin, Constitutional Law (6th ed. 2009), read and brief the following cases:

Marbury v. Madison, pp. 29-43

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, pp. 52-61

McCulloch v. Maryland, pp. 61-78

The Power of Political Control over the Supreme Court & Ex parte McCardle, pp. 78-90

Fall Night Class - Prof. Beiner

Readings for the first week of class:

In Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton & Hershkoff, Civil Procedure: Cases & Materials (10th ed. 2009), read and brief the following cases:

Pennoyer v. Neff, pp. 71-81

Harris v. Balk, pp. 160-161

Hess v. Pawloski, pp. 81-84

NY Life v. Dunlevy, pp.719-722

Notice – Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank, pp.199-213

The first class assignment for my Sports Law Seminar is to read pages 1-64 of the textbook [Weiler & Roberts, Sports and the Law (3rd edition)].

Policies and Syllabus
First Assignments

Policies and Syllabus
First Assignments

Please pick up a problem packet from the bulleting board outside my office. Your first assignment is posted on TWEN. Please register for the TWEN site as soon as possible.

All students should register on the TWEN site for this course. Attendance policies and rules are posted there.
 
Required case book: Merritt and Simmons, "Learning Evidence From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom" West Publishers, ISBN-13:978-0-314-19112-0.

For the first class (Friday, August 21, 2009 from noon until 1;30) read the Study Guide and pages 1 - 54.

Assignments for first week of class

First week assignment (Also in the class policies document):  

Week 1 Topic: What Moot Court Competition Is All About

Before class:

(1) Read Beazley, Chapter 1, pp. 1-7, and Chapter 2, pp. 9-25.
(2) Be prepared to talk for two to three minutes, introducing yourself and discussing your choice of one of the following topics:

(a) Your legal hero: who and why
(b) What your classmates will remember about you twenty years from now
(c) What you wish you had learned before coming to law school
(d) A childhood experience that shaped the adult you are today

In class: Both sections will meet jointly in Room 505 for the first hour. Bring your two labeled videotapes with you. This class will provide a course overview and cover introductory material and contents of the TWEN web site, as well as give you your first speaking exercise. Your section's TWEN forum will be available for your use by the end of this week.

Attached document has course policies and procedures + First Month of assignments.

Course Policies and First Month of Assignments

Assignment for August 25, 2009

Read chapters 1 and 2 of The Counselor-At-Law: A Collaborative Approach To Client Interviewing and Counseling.

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignment for Thursday, August 20:

Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis
      Read Chapter 1 (pp. 3-12)
      Complete Exercises 1-1 and 1-2 for class discussion (not to be turned in).
     
ALWD Citation Manual
      Read Part 1 (pp. 3-10).

Interactive Citation Workbook
      Read "Using the Interactive Citation Workbook" (pp. ix-x).

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

At our first session on Thursday August 20, 2009, we will cover the Introduction to Natural Resources Law materials on pages 1-51 in the text book (FEDERAL PUBLIC LAND AND RESOURCES LAW, Sixth Edition, by George Cameron Coggins, Charles F. Wilkinson, John D. Leshy, and Robert L. Fishman)

Assignments for first week of class
Assigned Reading

Assignments for first week of class

The first class session will meet on Tuesday, August 25, from 7:05 until 9:05 p.m. in Room 305. We will take a ten minute break at 8 p.m.
 
Students should read the following material:

Read the Constitution of the United States (Pages 1595-1609 in the Casebook). Pay close attention to Article III, the Judicial Article.

Read Chapter 1 in the Casebook (Nature and Scope of Judicial Review), and page 1 in the Supplement.

Be prepared to discuss the following principal cases:

o Marbury v. Madison
o Martin v. Hunters' Lessee
o Nixon v. United States
o Ex Parte McCardle
o Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show

The first class session will meet on Friday, August 21, 2009, from 9:50-10:45 a.m. in Room 305, and will cover the following material.

                Pages 1-74, Casebook
                Pages 1-2, Supplement
 
                Powell v. Alabama
                Brown v. Mississippi
                  (p. 21, Note 5; Ch. 6, p. 507, Notes 4 and 5)
                Duncan v. Louisiana
                Wolf v. Colorado
                Weeks v. United States
                Mapp v. Ohio

Assignments for first week of class

Chow & Schoenbaum text: read pages 1-35; prepare problems 1-1 through 1-5 for class discussion.

Rusch Text: pages 1-31; Problems: All;
UCC Sections 1-301, 2-102, 2-105, 2-501, 2-106, 2-107;
UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Arts. 1-6, 10.

Assignments for first week of class

Syllabus
For the first class, please complete the Week 1 readings from the syllabus.

Understanding Capital Punishment Law chapters 1 through 3

Here are the assignments for the first three classes:

Reading Assignments

The casebook is designed with exam-style Problems appearing throughout the text. Unless specifically indicated, students are not expected to read the Problem for classroom discussion. Shortly after the class session, I will post solutions to that session’s Problems on the TWEN site under the Discussion link. Please read and be prepared to discuss the following:

Aug. 20: Introduction to Intellectual Property Regimes 1 - 18
Excerpt From Article on Preliminary Injunction Litigation (available on TWEN)

Aug. 24: Distinctiveness of Marks 19 – 37

Aug. 26: Trade Dress and Nonqualifying Marks

First Hour 38 – 55
Second Hour 55 – 80

There is no first day assignment for Law and Literature. We will spend the first two class days talking about models of literary criticism and how they can inform our views of the law, and about the research papers and perspectives on legal writing.
Please read Book 3 of Native Son "FATE" for class on Tuesday September 1. A Syllabus will be posted shortly. I apologize for the delay, but I am having to revise portions of my plans for the class because the anthology I intended to use was unavailable.

Assignments for first week of class
Syllabus

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Assignments for first week of class

Week One (August 20):

Introduction to Class Procedures,
Assignments and Due Dates,
Westlaw and LexisNexis Passwords, TWEN,
and the United States Legal System

* Oates - Chapter 1.
Fortresses, Tumors, and Legal Research, pp. 3-6.

* Oates - Chapter 2.
The United States Legal System, pp. 7-16.

* Olson - Section 1.1.
Intro: Context and Process - the U.S. Legal System, pp. 2-5.

The assignment for the first class meeting of Poverty Law, CRN 63053, is to read and be prepared to discuss the following materials:

1. Julie Nice & Louise Trubek, Cases and Materials on Poverty Law: Theory and Practice, pp. 17-23 (excerpt of Austin Sarat, "The Law Is All Over:" Power, Resistance, and the Legal Consciousness of the Welfare Poor)

2. John Iceland, Poverty In America: A Handbook (2d edition), Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-19

3. The attached article, DeNeen L. Brown, Poor? Pay Up., The Washington Post, May 18, 2009

Assigned Reading