First Day Assignments
Spring, 2008

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Professor and Course Assignments
Askin, Frank
Civil Procedure		 Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. S1
Bennooune, Karima
International Law & World Order		 Please see Syllabus:  http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/bennoune_ilwo_081.pdf
Bennoune, Karima
Terrorism & International Law		 Please see Syllabus:  http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/bennoune_til_081.pdf
Bergelson, Vera
Criminal Law		 Text: Kadish & Schulhofer, Criminal Law and Its Process: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition, Aspen.
Supplementary Reading: Dressler, Understanding Criminal Law, Fourth Edition, LEXIS. First Class Assignment

For our first class on Monday January 7 please:

-  as a background reading, read The Career of a Criminal Case (posted on Blackboard); and
-  study and prepare for class discussion Regina v. Dudley and Stephens – pp. 73-78; Notes – pp. 809-811 (casebook).
Bergelson, Vera
Moral Puzzles of Criminal Law

For our first class on Monday, January 7, please read all materials included in the Blackboard materials for Class 1 and be prepared to discuss the following questions:

  1. What is the purpose of punishment?
  2. What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for the imposition of criminal punishment?
  3. Whom shall we punish?  Whom shall we forgive?
  4. What considerations are appropriate in choosing the measure of punishment?
Gelpern, Anna
Commercial Law		 Required Texts

LoPucki, Warren, Keating & Mann, Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach (3rd Ed. 2006) (“LWKM”)
Mann, Warren & Westbrook, Comprehensive Commercial Law: Statutory Supplement 2007

First Assignment:  Monday, January 7, 2008

Introduction to the UCC
Introduction to Sales and Leases

LWKM Assignment 1, Problems 1.2, 1.5, 1.6
LWKM Assignment 2, Problems 2.1, 2.5
Kathleen Patchel, Interest Group Politics, Federalism, and the Uniform Laws Process: Some Lessons from the Uniform Commercial Code, 78 Minn. L. Rev. 83 (1993), pp. 88-101 (footnotes optional).

Second Assignment:  Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Contract Formation

LWKM Assignment 3, Problems 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
LWKM Assignment 4, Problems 4.1, 4.2
Glazer, Steven
Patent Litigation		 For the first class, In Moore et al.: read pages 1-3, 19-21. Then read pages 50-84 in the page proofs for Moore et al. (3d Ed.), available on Blackboard

Also read the first five pages of a memorandum titled "Legal Research Concerning Patent Law" by the first class, also available on Blackboard.
Gold, Steve
Environmental Law		 For the week of January 7 (class meetings January 9 and 10), please read:

1. The following pages in the case book, Percival et al., Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, Fifth edition, 2006):

a. pages 1 through 18 (up to but not including the "Notes and Questions" on page 18);

b. pages 26 (starting with Section C) through 59; and

c. pages 61 through 72 (up to but not including the subsection titled "Harmonizing Conflicting Interests.... that begins on page 72); and

2. The short excerpt from Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, that will be posted to Blackboard before the first meeting of class.
Gugig, Michael
New York Practice		 Required Texts:
1) Siegel's "New York Practice" (4th Edition, Student Edition); and
2) the 2008 CPLR "Redbook" published by Lexis Nexis.

Please read the first 2 chapters in Siegel for the first class on January 7 (only about 39 pages in total).
Hyde, Alan
Employment Discrimination		 There are three required texts for this course:
1. Belton, Avery, Ontiveros, & Corrada. Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace. 7th Edition 2004. Thomson West.

2. 2006 [Case] Supplement to Casebook.

3. Statutory Supplement to Casebook, or some other statutory supplement containing the post-1993 texts of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

For our first class on January 8, please read pages 1-25 of the casebook. Our second class, on January 10, will focus on coverage issues: St Francis College v. Al-Khazraji, 43-50, and Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates v. Wells, 50-55.
Hyman, Jonathan
Mediation		 Week 1: January 8: Introduction to the theory of conflict and its resolution: Menkel-Meadow, Love & Schneider, Mediation: Practice, Policy, and Ethics (Aspen 2006) (“MMLS”) Ch. 1 (pp. 1 - 36).

Week 2: January 15: Negotiation: MMLS Ch. 2 (pp. 37 - 87) and Ch. 5, Part A (pp. 160 - 196).

Week 3: January 22: Mediation: MMLS Ch. 3 & Ch. 4 ( pp. 89 - 156) and Ch. 5, introduction and Part B (pp. 157 - 160 and 196 - 213).
Kettle, John
Copyright & Trademark		 Course Book:  COPYRIGHT, PATENT TRADEMARK AND RELATED STATE DOCTRINES
Cases and Materials on the Law of Intellectual Property-Revised Fifth Edition
Paul Goldstein (Foundation Press)

Statutory Supplement:  SELECTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND UNFAIR COMPETITION -- Statutes, Regulations & Treaties
2007 Edition (West Publishing Company)

Class #1 Part One- Intellectual Property Law in Context, pp. 1-35

Class #2 Part Two- State Law- Idea Protection, pp. 36-67
Kettle, John
Entertainment Law & Business		 Course Books: ENTERTAINMENT LAW (Third Edition)
Howard Siegel, Esq.
New York State Bar Association

Class #1 Introduction to Entertainment Law and Overview
Intellectual Property (Ideas/Copyright/Trademarks/Right of Publicity) -- Handout 1 (Available on Blackboard)

Class #2 Introduction to Entertainment Law and Overview-Continued
Intellectual Property (Ideas/Copyright/Trademarks/Right of Publicity -- Handout 1
Legal Research & Writing II, all DAY sections Read Sloan, chapters 10 and 11
Read Shapo, chapter 12
Legal Research & Writing II, EVENING sections 1 and 2 For the first class of the semester, please read chapters 1 & 2 of Shapo, et al., Writing and Analysis in the Law (Rev. 4th ed. 2003) and chapters 1-4 of Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers (5th ed. 2005). You do not need to prepare answers to any of the exercises in those chapters.
Magpantay, Gregg
Race and the Law		 The required casebook for this course is Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (Perea, Delgado, Harris & Wildman, 2000).

The topic for Week 1 will be "Introduction to Race and Racism." For our first class on Thursday, Jan. 10, please read the following:

Perkins v. Lake County Dept. of Utilities, pages 6-19
Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference, 26-27
Robert Chang & Keith Aoki, Centering the Immigrant, 43-46 and Notes 1, 2, 4
Kenneth Prewitt, Racial Classification in America, 81-90, and Notes 1, 4, 6
Matheke, Cynthia
Trial Presentation		 The assignment for the first class is to read the chapter on jury selection in the textbook (Perrin: The Art and Science of Advocacy).
Students should NOT buy the case problem booklet until AFTER the first class.
Novitsky, Marshall
State and Local Tax		 Read pages 351-395 of Hellerstein book  (Jurisdiction/Nexus) 
Olsen, Eric
Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders		 The required materials for this course consist of:

1. Selected Federal Taxation Statutes And Regulations, edited by Daniel J. Lathrope.
2. Lind, Schwarz, Lathrope & Rosenberg, Fundamentals Of Corporate Taxation (the “Text”).

First class assignment:

1: Review the following basic tax principles:

A Realization, Gain, Loss & Basis
Code: §§ 61(a), 100l(a)—(e), 1011, 1012, 1014(a), 165(a) - (c)

B Liabilities
Code: §§ 1001, 7701(g)
Regs: § 1.1001-2

C Characterization
Code: §§ 1(a), 1(c), 1(h)(skim), 1(i), 165(f), 1211, 1212(a)(1), 1221(a), 1222, 1223 (skim), 1231 (skim)

D Installment Sales
Code: §§ 1001(c), 1001(d), 453(a), 453(b), 453(c)

E Like Kind Exchanges
Code: § 1031

F Depreciation and Recapture
Code: §§ 64, 167(a), 168(a), 1016(a)(2), 1245(a)

G Timing: Accrual vs. Cash Method Taxpayer/Original Issue Discount
Code: §§ 446(a), 446(c), 448(a), 448(b), 451(a)

Skim: §§ 1272(a), 1272(c), 1272(d), 1273(a), 1273(b),1274(a), 1274(b), 1274(c), 163(e)

2: Chapter 1: Overview of Corporate Taxation
Code: §§ 11, 1201(a), 1211, 1212(a)(1), 7701(a)(1), 7701(a)(3), 7701(a)(42), 7701(a)(43), 7701(a)(44), 7701(a)(45)
Regs: §§ 301.7701-1(a), 301.7701-2 (a), 301.7701-3

Text: Chapter 1, pages 1-55 (omit pp. 26-32, omit UPS case, omit pp. 34-43, and omit pp. 50-55 Bollinger case)
Read: Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935)(p. 516 of Text)

Questions regarding the class or this assignment may be directed to eric.olson@akerman.com
Pope, James
Constitutional Theory		 The assignment for the first class is to be prepared to give your opinion on the following questions:

1. What do you think is the best constitutional decision ever issued by the U.S. Supreme Court? (If you can’t settle on a single case, you may choose two or three.)

2. What do you think is the worst constitutional decision ever issued by the U.S. Supreme Court? (If you can’t settle on a single case, you may choose two or three.)

3. Why should anyone feel bound by a Constitution drafted and ratified more than two centuries ago by an electorate limited almost entirely to white men in a tiny Agrarian nation that embraced slavery?
Pope, James
Labor Law		 The casebook for this course is Harper, Estreicher & Flynn, Labor Law: Cases, Materials, & Problems (6th ed. 2007). For the first class, please read pages 34-40 and 1-11. In case you would like to read ahead, the assignment for the second class is pages 40-48 and 11-23.
Sclar, Diana
Federal Courts		 On Tuesday, January 8, please be prepared to discuss the assigned reading in Chapter II, Section 1.

I anticipate that on Wednesday we will cover Section 2 plus the readings under Section 3, Subsection A up through Notes (1) and
(2)on Akins; and that on Thursday we will cover the remaining reading on Page 1 of the Syllabus.
Soled, Jay
Corporate Tax		 Please read the first chapter in the textbook, entitled Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation. 
Spring, Gary
Civil Procedure		 Please read pages 1-20 in the Spencer text