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Spring 2012 Course Materials

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1L

Criminal Law

Cribari

Criminal Law

Reitz

Corporations

Adams
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. CorporationsISyllabus.pdf

International Law

NiAolain / Wippman
Below is a link to the course materials.

  1. IntLawSyllabus.pdf

Practice & Professionalism

Ciano

Property

Karkkainen

Statutory Interpretations

Hickman

Statutory Interpretations

McDonnell

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. StatIntMcD.pdf

Statutory Interpretations

Morrison

2L/3L

Advanced Trial Practice

Hopeman / Beens

TWEN

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. ATPSyllabus.pdf

Constitutional Law ll

Carpenter
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. ConLaw2Carpenter.pdf

Criminal Procedure

Frase

Criminal Procedure

Reitz

Assignments for my first 3 classes:

(1) January 18.   U.S. Const. Amendments IV, V, VI, and XIV, Casebook 993-94; Selected Provisions of the Minnesota Constitution, Supp.

(2) January 19.  “Fundamental Rights” Note;  Palko, “The Modern Approach” Note for Section 2, and Duncan, Casebook 26-29; footnote a, at 34-35 (Rochin case); 36-47.

(3) Jaunuary 20.  Wolf, Mapp, and Leon, Casebook 63-81; Warrant Application Hypothetical No. 1, Supp.

Below are links to the course materials.

TWEN

  1. CriminalProcedureReitz.pdf

  2. CriminalProcedureSuppReitz.pdf

Depositions

Roen

TWEN

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. DepositionsSyllabus.pdf

Disability in the Workplace

Befort
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. ADAFirstAssign.pdf

Employee Benefits

Monahan

Please complete assignment #1 for the first day of class (see course syllabus, available on TWEN).

Employment Discrimination

Clarke

TWEN

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. EmpDiscSyllabus.pdf

Evidence

Cribari
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. EvidenceCribariSyllabus.pdf

Evidence

Roen

TWEN

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. EvidenceRoen.pdf

Federal Securities Regulations

Painter

Feminist Theory

NiAolaon

TWEN

First day reading is week 1, assigned reading for the class.

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. FemTheorySyllabus.pdf

Health Law

Warch
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. HealthLaw.pdf

Humphrey Law Seminar

Arimond

Immigration Law

Meili

TWEN

The assignment for the first class of Immigration Law is:

Immigration Law and Procedure in a Nutshell (6th ed.), pp. 1-28; 109-126.

DHS organizational chart at http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/editorial_0644.shtm

International Business Transactions

Gross
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. IBTSyllabus.pdf

International Intellectual Property

Okediji

Investment Management Law

Royal
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. InvestmentManagement.pdf

Judicial Process and Administration

Anderson

Judicial Externship

Chomsky

Labor & Employment Law Capstone

Cooper

Law & Economics

Parisi
Below are links to the course materials.

  1. LawEconomicSyllabus.pdf

Law of Wars

Gross

Mergers & Acquisitions

Hill

Partnership Taxation

Monahan

Please complete assignment #1 for the first day of class (see course syllabus, available on TWEN).

Presidential Powers

Gross / Rotenberg

Pretrial Skills

Gufstafon

Privacy

McGeveran

Secured Transactions

Schwarcz

Tax l

Shnider

TWEN

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. Tax1Syllabus.pdf

Trial Practice

Burke

Unfair Competition

Cotter

Unfair Competition students that they should register as participants on the TWEN site for the course. On TWEN, they will find (under "Syllabus") the course syllabus, which includes all the assignments for the semester.

Winning Patent Litigation

Gross D.

The casebook for the course is Winning Patent Litigation by Faegre & Benson LLP. The first chapter (and the assignment for the first class) is attached as a pdf. Your casebook and course handouts may be picked up from Debbie Nelson’s office (Walter Mondale Hall Room 327) anytime after 2:00pm on January 13, 2012, or will be available in the classroom on the first day of class.

The cost of the casebook is $100. Please make checks payable to Faegre Baker Daniels LLP and give the check to one of the professors during one of the class sessions this semester. You may choose to pay for the casebook at any time.

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. PatLitSyllabus.pdf

  2. PatLit-Chapter1-pp1-20-.pdf

Wrongful Convictions

Jonas

Clinics

Bankruptcy

Cutler

Civil Practice Clinic

Warren / Thomas

Consumer Protection Clinic

Cox

Criminal Defence

Merz-Godes

Criminal Prosecution

Crain

Environmental Sustainability Clinic: Land Use Policy

Coleman

Environmental Sustainability Clinic:Energy Policy

Peterson / Taylor

Federal Defense

Frase

Housing

McDonough

Innocence Project

Jonas

Misdemeanor Defense

Simon

Misdemeanor Prosecution

Simon

Public Interest Law Clinic

Bogucki

Special Education Clinic

Stewart

Workers' Rights Clinic

Smart

Seminars

Advanced Legal Research

Jackson

Antitrust

Gifford

Biotechnology & Patents Seminar

Ellinger

Contract Drafting

Alt

Contract Drafting

Coleman

Contract Drafting

Willardson

I'm Niel Willardson, your Contract Drafting instructor this Spring.  I'm looking forward to seeing you on Monday, January 23 for our first class.

Attached please find the syllabus for the course -- this includes the reading assignment that will be discussed on January 23.

If you have any questions, feel free to write or call. Otherwise, see you next week!

Niel

  1. ContractDraftingWilllardson.pdf

Contract Drafting

Yanish

Current Issues in Environmental Law

Nauen

Equal Justice

Cook

Genetics & Assisted Reproduction: Law & Ethics Seminar

Fatehi / Van Ness

Health Care Fraud & Abuse

Struthers

Health Insurance & Health Care Reform Seminar

Schwarcz
The syllabus and assignment for the first class can be accessed through the class's TWEN website. The readings themselves are also available through the TWEN website.

International Contracts

Kennedy

International and Foreign Legal Research

Rumsey

International Human Rights

Marrero

Investment Banking Law

Nguyen

Law and Economics Workshop

Hill

Learning the Law by Avoiding it in the Process

Froham

Legal History Workshop Seminar

Blumenthal

Legislative Process

O'Neill

LLM Legal Research and Writing

Hornsby

Local Govt Economic Development

Street / Adkins

Offenses & Defenses

Duff

Learning the Law by Avoiding it in the Process

Froham

Practical Estate Planning Seminar

Cound

TWEN

Pennell:

Preface

Ch. 1 Introduction (skip “Litigation and Malpractice” and “Networking”)

Ch. 2 Getting Started (read up to “The Engagement Letter”)

Ch. 16 The Big Picture (read only “Estate Planning Judgment”)

Ch. 19 Forms (Read only “Estate Inventory”)

Below are links to the course materials.

  1. PracticalEstateSyllabus.pdf

Public Law Workshop

Hasday

Real Estate Transactions

Darji

Street Law

Bloom

Structured/Securitization Finance Seminar

Macaluso

Topics in Legal History - Risk

Welke

White Collar Crime

Mohring

Women's International Human Rights Seminar

Freeman