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2009-10 First-Year Course Descriptions

The course materials listed below are for informational purposes only and should not be considered final. Students must check with the Registrar for a current list of closed courses.

502 - LLM Legal Writing

Professor: Jessica Richman Dworkin
Credits: 2
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Course description not available.

502 - LAW I

Professor: Katherine Hall
Credits: 1
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Use of law books and computer legal retrieval systems; research methodology and citation form.

502 - LAW I

Professor: Melanie Oberlin
Credits: 1
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Use of law books and computer legal retrieval systems; research methodology and citation form.

502 - LAW I

Professor: Matt Steinke
Credits: 1
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Use of law books and computer legal retrieval systems; research methodology and citation form.

502 - LAW I

Professor: Bruce S. Johnson
Credits: 1
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Use of law books and computer legal retrieval systems; research methodology and citation form.

502 - LAW I

Professor: Matt Steinke
Credits: 1
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Use of law books and computer legal retrieval systems; research methodology and citation form.

502 - LAW I

Professor: Thomas Sneed
Credits: 1
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Use of law books and computer legal retrieval systems; research methodology and citation form.

503 - Contracts

Professor: Larry T. Garvin
Credits: 2
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Remedies for breach; offer and acceptance; consideration; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; conditions; impossibility and frustration; statute of frauds.

503 - Contracts

Professor: Stephanie Hoffer
Credits: 2
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Remedies for breach; offer and acceptance; consideration; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; conditions; impossibility and frustration; statute of frauds.

503 - Contracts

Professor: Scott J. Burnham
Credits: 2
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Remedies for breach; offer and acceptance; consideration; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; conditions; impossibility and frustration; statute of frauds.

503 - Contracts

Professor: Larry T. Garvin
Credits: 3
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Remedies for breach; offer and acceptance; consideration; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; conditions; impossibility and frustration; statute of frauds.

503 - Contracts

Professor: Stephanie Hoffer
Credits: 3
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Remedies for breach; offer and acceptance; consideration; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; conditions; impossibility and frustration; statute of frauds.

503 - Contracts

Professor: Scott J. Burnham
Credits: 3
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Remedies for breach; offer and acceptance; consideration; third party beneficiaries; assignment of rights and delegation of duties; conditions; impossibility and frustration; statute of frauds.

504 - Torts

Professor: Sarah Rudolph Cole
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Trespass to person; negligence; misrepresentation; nuisance, strict liability; liability insurance; alternatives to the fault system; and federal and state regulation of traffic safety.

504 - Torts

Professor: Kathy Seward Northern
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Trespass to person; negligence; misrepresentation; nuisance, strict liability; liability insurance; alternatives to the fault system; and federal and state regulation of traffic safety.

504 - Torts

Professor: Ray L. Yasser
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Trespass to person; negligence; misrepresentation; nuisance, strict liability; liability insurance; alternatives to the fault system; and federal and state regulation of traffic safety.

505 - Property

Professor: Daniel C.K. Chow
Credits: 4
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Acquisition, incidents, and transfer of ownership; possessory, concurrent, marital, and future interests, and contractual modification of these results.

505 - Property

Professor: Michael Braunstein
Credits: 4
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Acquisition, incidents, and transfer of ownership; possessory, concurrent, marital, and future interests, and contractual modification of these results.

505 - Property

Professor: Bruce S. Johnson
Credits: 4
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Acquisition, incidents, and transfer of ownership; possessory, concurrent, marital, and future interests, and contractual modification of these results.

507 - Civil Procedure

Professor: Ellen E. Deason
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Special Notes: This is a small section paired with Hoffer's Contracts

Civil procedure in state and federal courts; development of equity; abolition of common law forms of action; merger of law and equity; jurisdiction; venue.

507 - Civil Procedure

Professor: Charles E. Wilson
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Special Notes: This is a small section paired with Hoffer's Contracts

Civil procedure in state and federal courts; development of equity; abolition of common law forms of action; merger of law and equity; jurisdiction; venue.

507 - Civil Procedure

Professor: Arthur F. Greenbaum
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Civil procedure in state and federal courts; development of equity; abolition of common law forms of action; merger of law and equity; jurisdiction; venue.

507 - Civil Procedure

Professor: Sanford N. Caust-Ellenbogen
Credits: 4
Semester: 2009 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Civil procedure in state and federal courts; development of equity; abolition of common law forms of action; merger of law and equity; jurisdiction; venue.

510 - Constitutional Law

Professor: Marc Spindelman
Credits: 4
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Functional study of the major substantive, methodological, and federalistic limitations upon governmental power obtaining under practice of judicial review.

510 - Constitutional Law

Professor: Edward B. Foley
Credits: 4
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Functional study of the major substantive, methodological, and federalistic limitations upon governmental power obtaining under practice of judicial review.

510 - Constitutional Law

Professor: Ruth Colker
Credits: 4
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None

Functional study of the major substantive, methodological, and federalistic limitations upon governmental power obtaining under practice of judicial review.

511 - LAW II

Professor: Terri L. Enns
Credits: 2
Semester: 2010 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None