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2011-12 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 - LAW I
Professor: Terri L. Enns
Semester: 2011 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: Monte Smith
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
This course will be the beginning of the process of developing the ability to identify legal issues, to perform legal research and analysis, and to communicate legal analysis effectively. During the course of the semester, students will perform a number of small writing exercises and two more substantial writing projects.
502 - LAW I
Professor: Matt Steinke
Semester: 2011 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: Donald B. Tobin
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
502 - LLM Legal Writing
Professor: Jessica Richman Dworkin
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Course description not available.
502 - LAW I
Professor: Bruce S. Johnson
Semester: 2011 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: Katrina Lee
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
This course will be the beginning of the process of developing the ability to identify legal issues, to perform legal research and analysis, and to communicate legal analysis effectively. Students will prepare written documents and engage in oral communications that respond to simulated client problems.
502 - LAW I
Professor: Todd Starker
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
This course will provide an introduction to legal research, analysis, and writing.
502 - LAW I
Professor: Anne E. Ralph
Semester: 2011 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 Cooper
Semester: 2011 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: Stephanie Hoffer
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Class participation and exam
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
Semester: 2012 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: Steven M. Davidoff
Semester: 2012 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.
504 - Torts
Professor: Kathy Seward Northern
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Exam
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: Cinnamon Carlarne
Semester: 2011 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: Sarah Rudolph Cole
Semester: 2011 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: Michael Braunstein
Semester: 2012 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
Semester: 2012 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: Gerry W. Beyer
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Final Exam
Acquisition, incidents, and transfer of ownership; possessory, concurrent, marital, and future interests, and contractual modification of these results.
507 - Civil Procedure
Professor: Christopher M. Fairman
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Mid-Term Exam & Final Exam
This course introduces you to the field of civil procedure. As distinguished from substantive matters, civil procedure focuses on how attorneys frame their cases in order to bring them properly before a particular court and how the case then proceeds from its institution until a judgment is reached and enforced. Civil Procedure I focuses primarily on the power of courts to act on parties over particular causes of action, and the ability of litigants to make choices to their strategic advantage. The course also provides a survey of civil litigation, including its finality, as well as alternatives to litigation.
507 - Civil Procedure
Professor: Arthur F. Greenbaum
Semester: 2011 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: Charles E. Wilson
Semester: 2011 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
Semester: 2011 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: Edward B. Foley
Semester: 2012 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: Marc Spindelman
Semester: 2012 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
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: 28 hour take-home exam
Functional study of the major substantive, methodological, and federalistic limitations upon governmental power obtaining under practice of judicial review.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Christopher M. Fairman
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Douglas A. Berman
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Steven F. Huefner
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Elizabeth Sherowski
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Monte Smith
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Mary Beth Beazley
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Todd Starker
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Introduction to legal analysis and writing.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Anne E. Ralph
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
This course builds upon the foundations laid in Legal Analysis and Writing I. Students will learn to write as advocates and will continue to develop research, analysis, writing, oral communication, and professionalism skills. Students will prepare written documents and engage in oral communications that respond to simulated client problems.
511 - LAW II
Professor: Katrina Lee
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
This course will continue the process, started in LAW I, of developing the ability to identify legal issues, to perform legal research and analysis, and to communicate legal analysis effectively. Students will prepare written documents and engage in oral communications that respond to simulated client problems.
529 - Legislation
Professor: Saul Zipkin
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
The lawmaking process; how the legislative process works; process by which statutes are enacted; how judges interpret the legislative product in theory and practice.
529 - Legislation
Professor: Daniel P. Tokaji
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Take-Home Exam
This course is about the process through which laws are made and interpreted Although the first-year law school curriculum has traditionally emphasized common law, much of the law you will actually apply as lawyers comes from legislative and administrative bodies. It is therefore essential that you understand how the legislative process works. Specific topics to be addressed include statutory interpretation, voting rights, corruption, campaign finance regulation, lobbying, due process of lawmaking, and direct democracy. The unifying theme of this course is the relationship between courts and lawmaking bodies.
529 - Legislation
Professor: Steven F. Huefner
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Take-home exam
The lawmaking process; how the legislative process works; process by which statutes are enacted; how judges interpret the legislative product in theory and practice.
533 - Criminal Law
Professor: Sharon L. Davies
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Justifications for regulating behavior through criminal sanctions, how laws are crafted to reach the intended behavior, and issues of culpability, mens rea, and excuses.
533 - Criminal Law
Professor: Joshua Dressler
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Exams (Mid-term and Final) and Class Participation
Justifications for regulating behavior through criminal sanctions, how laws are crafted to reach the intended behavior, and issues of culpability, mens rea, and excuses.
533 - Criminal Law
Professor: Joshua Dressler
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Justifications for regulating behavior through criminal sanctions, how laws are crafted to reach the intended behavior, and issues of culpability, mens rea, and excuses.
533 - Criminal Law
Professor: Katherine Hunt Federle
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Closed book essay examination
Justifications for regulating behavior through criminal sanctions, how laws are crafted to reach the intended behavior, and issues of culpability, mens rea, and excuses.
533 - Criminal Law
Professor: Lawrence Herman
Semester: 2011 Autumn
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Means of Assessment: Written examination; class participation
Justifications for regulating behavior through criminal sanctions, how laws are crafted to reach the intended behavior, and issues of culpability, mens rea, and excuses.
590 - Legal Methods
Professor: Creola Johnson
Semester: 2012 Winter
Second Writing Requirement? No
Seminar? No
Professional Responsibility? No
Prerequisites: None
Course description not available.
