For your first assignment, please read Chapters 1-4 and Chapter 27 (27.1-27.6 only) of the course text, Tina Stark, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do. The text is now available in the school book store.
The course syllabus will be delivered this week to your school mailboxes.
Please feel free to email me at cbanks@rwu.edu if you have any questions.
I look forward to seeing you all next week.
Prof Banks
LAW.784.W Bankruptcy
Lucciola
Meeting:
Tuesday 5/20/08
Description:
For our first class, please read the following from the Warren casebook:
pp. 1-28 (review problems 1.1, 1.2) and pp. 45-52, 81-83 and 101-102.
Welcome to my class!
LSM.672.W First Amendment Free Speech
Eberle
Meeting:
Monday, May 19, 2008
Description:
For our first class meeting, please prepare the Introduction to Freedom of Expression (pp.1049-1060 in Stone Seidman et. al casebook), and the cases of Schenk, Abrams, Whitney (focusing on Brandeis concurrence) and Brandenburg. The syllabus can be picked up outside my office.
LSM.862.W Sem: International Litigation
Louise Ellen Teitz
Meeting:
Monday, May 19, 2008
Description:
Please pick up hand-out packet outside my office Rm 214.
Please read generally Baumgartner, Is Transnational Litigation Different? (hand-out); read Lowenfeld casebook 400-415; Lowenfeld pp 176-208; Nowak, Yahoo (read the personal jurisdiction portions of Yahoo now) hand-outs; Lowenfeld 208-228; Brussels Regulation and Proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments 2001)-skim jurisdicition portions of both.
