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Fall 2009

Full-Time Division

Advanced Issues in Labor and Employment Law - Levinson, Ariana R. (Section 08)
See syllabus.
Basic Legal Skills - Fischer, Judith D. (Section 21)
Linda H. Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis (2d ed., Wolters Kluwer 2007)

Association of Legal Writing Directors & Darby Dickerson, ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (3d ed., Aspen Pubs. 2006)

A Course Supplement of photocopied materials, available in the Law Resource Center.
Basic Legal Skills - Fischer, Judith D. (Section 22)
Linda H. Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis (2d ed., Wolters Kluwer 2007)

Association of Legal Writing Directors & Darby Dickerson, ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (3d ed., Aspen Pubs. 2006)

A Course Supplement of photocopied materials, available in the Law Resource Center.
Basic Legal Skills - Barris, Linda J. (Section 31)
• Legal Writing and Analysis by Linda H. Edwards, 2nd edition

• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 18th edition

• Understanding and Mastering The Bluebook by Linda J. Barris
Basic Legal Skills - Barris, Linda J. (Section 32)
• Legal Writing and Analysis by Linda H. Edwards, 2nd edition
• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 18th edition
• Understanding and Mastering The Bluebook by Linda J. Barris
Basic Legal Skills - Duncan, Susan H. (Section 41)
Legal Writing by Richard K. Neumann, Jr. & Sheila Simon

ALWD Citation Manual
Basic Legal Skills - Bean, Kathleen S. (Section 42)
Course Materials: Richard K. Neumann, Jr. and Sheila Simon, Legal Writing (Aspen Publishers 2008); Association of Legal Writing Directors & Darby Dickerson, ALWD Citation Manual (3d ed., Aspen L. & Bus. 2006). A helpful additional text is Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers (Carolina Academic Press). Do not purchase this text yet. I will talk about it in the first couple of days and you can decide then. Any edition is fine; the most recent is (5th ed., 2005). A copy is also available from the library reserve desk.
Basic Legal Skills - Duncan, Susan H. (Section 52)
Legal Writing by Richard K. Neumann, Jr. & Sheila Simon

ALWD Citation Manual
Civil Procedure I - Abramson, Leslie W. (Section 01)
Cross, Abramson & Deason, Civil Procedure, SECOND EDITION (West 2007)

2009 Supplement to Cross et al. casebook
Civil Procedure I - Jordan, Karen A. (Section 02)
Stephen C. Yeazell, CIVIL PROCEDURE (Aspen Publishers, 7th Edition).

2009 FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (WITH SELECTED STATUTES, CASES, AND OTHER MATERIALS) (Aspen Publishers, edited by Yeazell).

MATERIALS FOR CLASS 1, available from the Copy Center during Orientation.

Constitutional Law I - Trucios-Haynes, Enid F. (Section 03)
Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law (3d Edition)
Constitutional Law I - Powell, Cedric M. (Section 04)
Varat, Cohen, and Amar, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (13th ed. 2009)

Supplement (publication pending)
Contracts I - Giesel, Grace M. (Section 01)
1. Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, 6th Edition, by Knapp, Crystal & Prince (Aspen 2007) (the Text)

2. Rules of Contract Law, by Knapp, Crystal & Prince (Aspen)(the Supplement)
Contracts I - Nowka, Richard H. (Section 02)
Required Texts:
Knapp, Crystal & Prince, Problems in Contract Law, 6th ed.
Contract Law and Theory, Selected Provisions: Restatement of Contracts and Uniform Commercial Code, fourth edition, 2007.
Corporate Taxation - Lewis, Barbara B. (Section 05)
LIND, SCHWARTZ, LATHROPE & ROSENBERG, CASES & MATERIALS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE TAXATION, 7TH ED.

INTERNAL REVENUE CODE & REGULATIONS, SELECTED SECTIONS.
Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Issues - Weaver, Russell L. (Section 03)
Weaver, et al, Criminal Procedure: Cases, Problems and Exercises (3rd ed. 2007); & 2009 Supplement.

Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Issues - Milligan, Luke M. (Section 04)
Weaver, et al., Criminal Procedure: Cases, Problems, and Exercises (3rd ed. 2007); & 2009 Supplement.
Decedents' Estates and Trusts - Levinson, Ariana R. (Section 03)
Please see syllabus, attached below and posted on TWEN.
Domestic Relations - Ewald, Linda S. (Section 03)
Domestic Relations - CAses and Materials - Wadlington and O'Brien
Employment Discrimination - Marcosson, Samuel A. (Section 08)
Zimmer, Sullivan & White, Employment Discrimination (7th Ed.)

Zimmer Sullivan, Employment Discrimination, Selected Statutes
Evidence - Jordan, Karen A. (Section 03)
George Fisher, EVIDENCE (2d edition) (Foundation Press, 2008).

2009-2010 FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE STATUTORY AND CASE SUPPLEMENT (Edited by George Fisher) (Foundation Press, 2009).

Federal Jurisdiction - Cross, John T. (Section 05)
See Syllabus
First Amendment Law - Weaver, Russell L. (Section 08)
Required: R. Weaver, C. Hancock, D. Lively & J. Knechtle, The First Amendment: Cases, Problems & Materials (LexisNexis, 2d ed., 2008); & 2009 Supplement.

Recommended: R. Weaver & D. Lively, Understanding the First Amendment (LexisNexis, 2d ed., 2006).
Intellectual Property in the Digital Age - Tomain, Joseph A. (Section 05)
Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (3d Ed.)

Authors: Bellia, Berman, Post
Intellectual Property Law - Cross, John T. (Section 05)
1. Barrett, Intellectual Property 3d ed (West)

2. Cross, Long, Vetter, and Yu, Intellectual Property Law and Policy (draft 2009), available on the Blackboard site
International Business Transactions - Lynch, Kevin (Section 05)
Available to purchase for $130 (check/cash only) at the Law Resource Center room 272 of the law school. Your syllabus comes with the book.
International Law - Trucios-Haynes, Enid F. (Section 05)
Weston, Falk & Charlesworth, International Law and World Order (4th Edition)
Weston, Falk & Charlesworth, Basic Documents (4th Edition)
Introduction to Health Law - Parento, Emily W. (Section 08)
Hall, Bobinski and Orentlicher, Health Care Law and Ethics, 7th Ed.
Jurisprudence - Milligan, Luke M. (Section 05)
Hayman, et al., Jurisprudence: Classical and Contemporary (2d ed. 2002).

Course Packet (will be available in LRC starting the first week of class).
Law and Economic Analysis - Smith, Lars S. (Section 05)
Barnes and Stout's Cases and Materials on Law and Economics
By
David W. Barnes, Lynn A. Stout

ISBN-13: 9780314001887
Law and Literature - Leibson, David J. (Section 08)
1. Villiers (ed), Law in Literature, Legal Themes in Short Stories, (1995)
2. Supplemental Materials--Please purchase at the Law Resource Center across from classroom 275
Legal Research - Metzmeier, Kurt X. (Section 01)
Amy Sloan, Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies, 4th ed. New York, N.Y.: Aspen Law & Business, 2009.
Legal Research - Ensign, David J. (Section 02)
Sloan. Basic Legal Research, 4th ed.
Legal Research - Hilyerd, William A. (Section 17)
Sloan, Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies 4th ed., New York, NY: Wolters Kluwer, 2009.

(If you can find a copy of the 3rd edition on e-bay or half.com, you may use the older edition. I do not recommend using any edition older than the 3rd. All reading assignments are keyed to the 4th ed.).
Negotiable Instruments - Nicholson, Lisa H. (Section 10)
1. Problems and Materials on Payment Law, 8th Edition, Douglas Whaley -- Aspen Publ. and
2. Selected Commercial Statutes for Payment Systems Course (West Publication) or Any statutory supplement that contains 2002 revisions to UCC Articles 1, 3, and 4.
Professional Responsibility - Giesel, Grace M. (Section 05)
Required Text and Required Statutory Supplement
Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law by Lisa G. Lerman & Philip G. Schrag (2d Edition Aspen 2008)
Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, by Stephen Gillers, Roy D. Simon, & Andrew M. Perlman (Concise Edition Aspen 2009)
Recommended Aids
Mastering Professional Responsibility by Grace M. Giesel (Carolina Academic Press 2009)
Professional Responsibility: Examples & Explanations by W. Bradley Wendel (2d Edition Aspen 2007)
Professional Responsibility - Powell, Cedric M. (Section 06)
Lerman and Schrag, ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW (2nd ed. 2008)

Gillers, Simon, and Perlman, REGULATION OF LAWYERS: STATUTES AND STANDARDS (Concise Edition 2009)
Property I - Rothstein, Laura (Section 01)
Rabin & Kwall, Fundamentals of Modern Property Law, 5th edition
Property I - Rothstein, Laura (Section 02)
Rabin & Kwall, Fundamentals of Modern Property Law, 5th Edition
Secured Transactions - Nowka, Richard H. (Section 05)
The required texts are: Mastering Secured Transactions – UCC Article 9, Carolina Academic Press, and Comprehensive Commercial Law, 2009 edition, Aspen, (the UCC statutory supplement). Do not purchase the statutory supplement until after the first class. If you purchased a UCC statutory supplement for another course, it might be sufficient for the course (check with me), and I have a couple supplements that I raffle for free.
Securities Regulation - Warren, Manning G. (Section 05)
Marc Steinberg, SECURITIES REGULATION, (Revised 5th Ed. 2008) ISBN 978 1 4224 1751 5.
J. Cox, R. Hillman, D. Langevoort, SECURITIES REGULATION: SELECTED STATUTES, RULES & FORMS (2008 Ed.) ISBN 978 0 7355 7206 5
Recommended: Hazen, SECURITIES REGULATION IN A NUTSHELL (9th Ed.) ISBN 978 0 314 17243 3
Selected Problems in Civil Procedure - Abramson, Leslie W. (Section 08)
Fundamentals of Pretrial Litigation, SEVENTH EDITION (West 2008)
Torts I - Leibson, David J. (Section 01)
Prosser, Wade and Schwartz, Torts, Cases and Materials, 11th Edition
Torts I - Lens, Jill (Section 02)
REQUIRED: Prosser, Wade & Schwartz's Cases and Materials on Torts (11th ed. 2005).

OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED: Dan B. Dobbs, The Law of Torts; John L. Diamond et al., Understanding Torts; and Joseph W. Glannon, The Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations.

Part-Time Division

Business Organizations - Nicholson, Lisa H. (Section 12)
Required Material:
1. Business Associations: Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations, 7th Edition, by Klein, Ramseyer & Bainbridge

2. 2009 Statutes and Rules -- Business Associations: Agency Partnerships, and Corporations, by Klein, Ramseyer & Bainbridge

Recommended Materials:
1. Business Organization and Finance, William A. Klein and John C. Coffee, Jr.

2. Corporations: Examples and Explanations, Lewis D. Solomon and Alan R. Palmiter, 6th Edition
Constitutional Law I - Marcosson, Samuel A. (Section 12)
Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law (3rd Edition)
Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law 2009 Supp.
Constitutional State and Local Tax Issues - Hahn, Mark C. (Section 12)
State and Local Taxation. Cases and Materials. Eighth Edition. Hellerstein and Hellerstein.
Dispute Resolution - Becker, William F. (Section 12)
Goldberg, Sander, Rogers and Cole, Dispute Resolution (5th ed. 2007), and Fisher, Ury & Patton, Getting to Yes (2d ed. 1991).
Domestic Relations - Ewald, Linda S. (Section 12)
Domestic Relations - Cases and Materials - Wadlington and O'Brien
European Union Law - Warren, Manning G. (Section 08)
Folsom, EUROPEAN UNION LAW IN A NUTSHELL, 6th Ed. (2008)
Legal History - Mackey, Thomas C. (Section 12)
See TWEN.
Negotiations - Gleason, Mary Jo, Grant-Rudovich, Michelle L. (Section 12)
See Syllabus
Property I - Smith, Lars S. (Section 12)
Casebook: Fundamentals of Modern Property Law, Edward H. Rabin, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall & Jeffrey L. Kwall, 5th Ed., Foundation Press (2006).