1. Two cases in hand-out, Sibbach and Schlagenhauf. The hand-out will be in a box outside my office (Room 214).

2. 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (in Rules Book).

3. Fed. R. Civ. P. 35, 37 (in Rules Book).

4. Peter Simon, The Anatomy of a Lawsuit (Revised Edition) pp. 1-54.

You will be responsible for finishing Anatomy of a Lawsuit for the second class.

The required casebook for this class is Freer & Perdue, Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Problems (5th ed.), published by LexisNexis. I have ordered both the looseleaf and the hardbound versions for the class. You may choose the version you prefer. (The looseleaf is about a third the price of the hardbound, but it cannot be sold back to the bookstore at the end of the year). In addition, we will use the 2009-2010 Edition of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pamphlet published by LexisNexis.

In advance of our first class, you should have both these books in your possession. If for some reason you do not have the assigned books, it is your responsibility to photocopy from another student the pages assigned for our first class.

For our first class, please read the Freer & Perdue casebook, pages 1-12 and prepare carefully pages 283-289 (do not yet read "Legal Sufficiency" on page 289). In the LexisNexis rules pamphlet, study Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 1, 7(a) & (b)(1)-(2), 8(a), and 10 as well as Forms 1 and 2, 11, and 17 in the Appendix of Forms to the Federal Rules in the Lexis/Nexis Federal Rules pamphlet.

Based on these readings, draft a simple complaint for Sarah Jones in federal court based on the following facts and any additional facts that you deem warranted: On August 1, 2009, Mark Jones was physically injured in an automobile accident. Jerry Smith rear-ended Jones's car while Jones was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Metacom and Tupelo Streets in Bristol, RI. Mark Jones is married to Sarah Jones. Sarah wishes to sue Smith for loss of Aconsortium,@ which the relevant law defines as Aconjugal fellowship and sexual relations between wife and husband.@ In drafting the complaint, consult the assigned Federal Rules and use as a guide Forms 1 and 2, 11, and 17. In your complaint, do not attempt to make a statement of jurisdiction.

I have posted to Blackboard for our course a lengthy document called: "Course Information, Syllabus, and Materials." I will distribute this document in hardcopy when we meet during orientation, but you may wish to start reading the first five pages of the document.

I look forward to meeting you.

CPM

For the first week, please read pages 1 to 4 (stop at Problem 1-1; we will not discuss it), 5 to 11, (stop at 5. International Commercial Law), 21 to 38 (stop at Izadi).

Please consider the following definition of Contract from Sec. 1 of the Restatement (2d) of Contracts: "A contract is a promise or a set of promises for the breach of which the law gives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty."

Please consider the following two sentences:

1. Your attendance in class shall be recorded.

2. Your attendance in class may be recorded.

Professor Thompson's students (sections A4, A5 & C1) also have the following assignment:

Please read Shapo, pages 39-62 for the orientation;read(Shapo)29-38,62-87,and 117-125 for the first class.

WEEK 1: Read as Background pp. 1-8, 16-32, 599-600. Read carefully pp. 35-50.

We will focus our attention on 3 cases: McAfoos, Snyder, & Garratt, setting aside detailed attention of Cohen & Mullins, pp. 39-42, for our 3rd week.

Please read pages 1-13 of the casebook (Business Associations, by Klein, Ramseyer and Bainbridge, 6th edition).

1. Are you eligible for the House of Representatives? The Senate? The Presidency? The Supreme Court?

2. Find the first instance of the word "slave" or "slavery" in the Constitution. What are the hints that the original Constitution contemplated and tolerated slavery?

3. What is the only part of the Constitution that may never be amended? Speaking of amendments, how can they be made? (Name two methods.)

4. The President tells you that he has decided to skip this year's State of the Union address. As White House legal counsel, what do you advise?

5. The House begins debating a bill to cut the President's pay and Supreme Court Justices' pay. As counsel to the Speaker of the House, what do you advise?

6. Before 1913, who chose Senators? After 1913?

7. Could Bill Clinton be elected Vice President now?

8. What constitutional clause, if any, permits Congress to establish an air force?

9. What is "corruption of blood," and why do we care? (you did look it up, didn't you?)

10. Is there anything in the Constitution that would prevent a state from choosing its legislature by a lottery among all registered voters?

Prizes may be awarded. Good luck.

For our first class, please read chapters 1 & 2 in Lawyers as Counselors.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at jrindsberg@rwu.edu.

In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your summer!

Prepare in Writing answers to Problems 1.2 through 1.6; Expect to be called on.

Chomsky et al, selected commercial statutes West, 2009 or an earlier edition such as 2007 or 2008 will give you the version of Article 2 needed to do the problems.

We do not use the amended version of Article 2; we use the current [2002] version.

For the first week, please read pages 1 to 30 in Brook, and all the U.C.C. sections mentioned in those pages.

Sorry. Guess this means summer is over.

Welcome back.

http://healthlawpolicy.blogspot.com

Introduction to Health Law and Policy

1. Text: 1-15

2. Atul Gawande, Piecework: Medicine's money problem, The New Yorker, Apr. 4, 2005, at 44, available at

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050404fa_fact

3. Problem: p. 10 ("The Couple's Illness"): Students whose last names begin with A-M prepare to argue for coverage on behalf of the Hendersons; students whose last names begin with N-Z be prepared to argue against coverage.

Approaches to Expanding Access and Controlling Costs 1. Text: 560-595 2. Problem: p. 594 ("Health Reform") All students should work through this problem, draft a brief outline of your initial thoughts for a reformed health care system and be prepared to present your ideas to the class.

For our first class on Wednesday, September 9, please read pp. 20-40 (omit "problems" on pp. 33-34) in the Ellman (4th edition) casebook.

For our second class on Friday, September 11, please read pp. 73-92 (through "note 5" on page 92) in the Ellman casebook. In addition, please read the articles that will be sent to you via email (these will be sent by Friday, August 28).

Although I will hand out a syllabus for the remaining readings on our first class, for those of you who wish to read a week ahead, those readings are:

Wednesday, September 16: pp. 95-102 of the Ellman casebook.

Wednesday, September 18: pp. 104-129 of the Ellman casebook (plus a newspaper article to be determined).

Rank, Toward a New Understanding of American Poverty, 20 J Law & Pol'7 17 (2006). and

Blacksher, Health Care Disparities: The Salience of Social Class, 17 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 243 (2008).

For our first class, please read the introductory chapter on trademarks from the Dreyfuss and Kwall casebook (pages 1 to 24).

After the introductory materials, we will take up the problem on page 26, so be sure to carefully read pages 25 to 59 of the casebook and the statutory materials identified on page 27.

Using these materials as your sources, you will need to be ready to discuss in class your approach to the problem posed on page 26.

PLEASE NOTE that for the first week, there will be NO CLASS on Tuesday, August 25. Instead, a make-up class will be held on Friday, August 28, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in Room 262. The Thursday class will proceed as scheduled.

Thanks.

Please read Chapters 1-4 and Chapter 27 (subsections 27.1-27.6 only, pp. 329-38).

Also, please read the Syllabus, which will be in your mailboxes by Thursday of this week.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you all in class at 10:45 on Monday, August 24 in Room 33.

Professor Banks

Tuesday: pp. 113-32

Mohl, Raymond A., Shifting Patterns of American Urban Policy since 1900, in Urban Policy in 20th Century America (1993).

Orlebeke, Charles J., The Evolution of Low-Income Housing Policy, 1949-1999, Housing Policy Debate Vol. 11(2) 489 (2000).

Dreier, Peter, The New Politics of Housing, in Housing and Community Development (1997)

Also, review the first half of the syllabus, it is also posted on Blackboard.

Prof. Elorza

Rothstein Handout -- available on Blackboard site.

Please come prepared for a discussion about the basic justifications for regulation of the workplace, the various tools available to regulators, and the strengths and weaknesses of those tools.

1-29; 93-97

I would like us to talk about the justifications for protecting employees who desire to engage in collective bargaining from certain forms of employer resistance.

For the excerpt of Eberle article on Comparative Methodlogy, just read the section, as set out in Table of Contents, on Steps or Rules 1-4.

The first assignment is Chapter I pp. 1-35 and Chapter II pp. 37-53 in Daniel R. Coquillette, The Anglo-American Legal Heritage. This is the basic text and it is available in the bookstore.

For any pre-class questions email to me at jcohen@burnslev.com or call: 617-345-3000 office phone

Prologue and pages 5-101

Read: Text pp. 1-65.

Course Instructor: Paul Stanzler

PStanzler@burnslev.com

A course syllabus is available in the rack outside of Student Finance & Records.

Thank you

Mary Joan Hoene

Baumgartner, Is Transnational Litigation Different? (hand-out available outside my office Rm 214); Lowenfeld 400-415 Introduction to Arbitration; Litigation vs Arbitration Nowak v. Tak How (hand-out available outside of my office) Lowenfeld 176-208 Adjudicative Jurisdiction of Courts (some of this should look familiar) Please think about: how International Litigation differs from domestic litigation; how litigation and arbitration differ; adjudicative jurisdiction (personal jurisdiction) in transnational cases. See you on Tuesday the 25th.