First Assignments Fall 2009

This page is updated as assignments are submitted

• Administrative Law

  Professor John Bonine

  Chapter I - Nature and Function of Federal Agencies
  25
  1, 3-10
  A. What is Federal Administrative Law?
  15-19, 20n.4 (only), 22-25, 30-38n.6
  B. Delegation; American Trucking (Supreme Ct. only) (Socratic discussion begins)

  Chapter II - Federal Standards of Judicial Review
  27
  109-124, APA §706
  A. Standards of Judicial Review generally; Overton Park

• Advanced Legal Research Survey

  Professors: Fordyce-Ruff and Rowe

  Tuesdays, 2:30-4:20 p.m.

  1. Read Blum handout on the research process, posted on Blackboard under "Assignments."

  2. Write a one-page summary of your research experience and your goals for the course. Follow the format guidelines posted on Blackboard. Bring two copies to class.

  There is no required textbook for this course.

• Advance Persuasive Writing (LL.M.)

  Professor Judy Giers

  Read Legal Writing in Plain English, pp 3-16, and work through for yourself the beginning and intermediate exercises on pages 12 & 13.

• Animal Law Seminar

  Professor Caroline Forell

  For the first day of class, Wednesday, August 26th, please read and be prepared to discuss the handout materials titled "Animal Law Seminar, Forell, Readings for First Class" located at the table on the third floor. Also read Introduction: pp.1-5; (omit section 3, pp. 5-6); 7-32 of the Favre text.

  The syllabus will be available by the second class when I have a better handle on class enrollment and therefore know how many time slots need to be allocated to student presentations. The supplementary materials will be available to purchase by the end of the first week of class.

• Arbitration Law

  Adjunct Instructor Michael Tedesco

  Easy First Session: Get text Arbitration Advocacy, by Cooley and Luber and read pp 1-21

  Class Powerpoints

  Class 1
  Class 2
  Class 3
  

• Bankruptcy

  Professor Andrea Coles-Bjerre

  Welcome back! For our first class meeting, Tuesday, August 25th, prepare to discuss the following:

  Pages 33-42 (j.) and (k.), 45-47, 50-53 and 54-55 in Warren and Westbrook, eds., The Law of Debtors and Creditors (6th ed. 2009); UCC Sections 9-317 and 9-102(A)(52), which are excerpted on a handout located on the assignments table on the third floor; Problem 2.1 on p. 53 of the casebook; and The video of Dr. Diablo, Venezuela’s most successful debt collector, at the following cite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgdDMXQEGks

• Business Associations

  Professor Rob Illig

  Download Assignment (PDF)

• Civil Procedure A

  Prof. Andrea Coles-Bjerre

  Welcome! For the first day of class, Monday, August 24th, please read and prepare to discuss the following:

  Pages 53-75, Problems 2-1 and 2-3 A, B, and C on pp. 65-66, and Problem 2-4 on pp. 75-76, in our casebook, Ides and May, eds., Civil Procedure Cases and Problems (3rd ed. 2009); and

  Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States on p. 7 of our supplement, Ides and May, eds., Civil Procedure: Rules, Statutes, and Cases (2009).

  At some point over the next two weeks, please read for background pp. 1-24 (to D.) in the casebook. We will not specifically address this material in class; rather, it is intended to provide you with a general framework for understanding the topics we will be covering throughout the semester.

  See you on Monday.

• Civil Procedure B

  Professor Jen Reynolds

  Welcome to Civil Procedure!

  Our first class will meet on Monday, August 24, at 2:30 pm, in Room 184. For this class, please read the following materials carefully:

  1. Course Syllabus, available on Blackboard
  2. Casebook pp. 1-20 and 552-53 (Note on the Arrival of Modern Procedure). Our casebook will be Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (10th ed.) by Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton & Hershkoff. You should be able to find the casebook and the accompanying Supplement at the bookstore. Both texts are required.
  3. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (1948), available at http://www.americanliterature.com/Jackson/SS/TheLottery.html
  4. Avista Management, Inc. v. Wausau Underwriters Ins. Co. (2006) (attached to the Course Syllabus)

• CIVIL PROCEDURE C – FALL 2009

  PROFESSOR MICHAEL MOFFITT

  ASSIGNMENT FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2009

  Pick up a copy of the “Initial Civil Procedure Packet.” Hard copies are available on the table beside the receptionist’s desk on the third floor. The packet is also available electronically on my faculty website (www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/mmoffitt/).

  Please prepare the following material in advance of our first class.

  1. 1. Complete the Case Writing Assignment described in the Initial Civil Procedure Packet and submit it to me no later than 9:00 am, Monday, August 24, 2009. I may use one or more of the assignments in class, beginning that afternoon.
  2. 2. Read the “Personal Jurisdiction and The Internet” section of this packet. In it, you will find descriptions of the facts underlying four lawsuits, along with a question to consider regarding the appropriate forum for each lawsuit.
  3. 3. Read the Introductory Chapter found in the casebook (Freer & Perdue, pp.1-19).
  4. 4. Read the Introduction to the Supplement for this course (Moffitt Fall 2009 Civil Procedure Supplement, p.1).
  5. 5. Read the first three pages of the Syllabus for this course. The syllabus is available on my faculty website.

• Climate Law & Policy

  Professor Jason Eisdorfer

  Thursday, 6:00 – 7:50 p.m., Room 282

  Course Materials:
  Michael B. Gerrard, ed., Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (2008)
  Nicholas Stern, The Global Deal, Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity (Public Affairs Books, 2009).

  For August 27:
  Text: Gerrard pp. 1-24; Stern pp. 1 - 37

  - IPCC Summary for Policymakers (Working Group 1)
  http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf

  - Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S., 9 – 40, 135 – 138.
  http://downloads.globalchange.gov/usimpacts/pdfs/climate-impacts-report.pdf

  - Energy Information Website
  http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/greenhouse/Chapter1.htm

• Coastal Law

  Professor Richard Hildreth

  Please note that the FIRST CLASS IS NOT UNTIL TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 FROM 1:00-2:15 P.M. IN ROOM 241. Please be seated by 12:55 p.m. so that we can begin our course videoconference on time with Oregon State University marine resource management graduate students.

  The first assignment is pages 1-18 in the course text Kalo, Hildreth et al, Coastal & Ocean Law (West 3d ed 2007), plus the Class #1 items in the required purchased course packet.

  For Thursday, October 1, 2009, the assignment is pages 19-46 plus the Class #2 items in the course packet.

  Hard copies of the 2-page course syllabus are available on the 3rd floor distribution table and included in the supplement.

• Commercial Law

  Professor Carl Bjerre

  On the first day of class, we will cover casebook Assignment 42 and part of casebook Assignment 43. In Assignment 42, please read all of the text and do all of the Problems. In Assignment 43, please read only pages 732-34 and page 745, and do only Problem 43.1.

  Looking forward to seeing you in class.

• Constitutional Law II

  Professor Stuart Chinn

  Casebook: Stone, Seidman, Constitutional Law (Sixth Edition) Introduction to Implied Fundamental Rights, 711-20

• Constitutional Law II

  Professor John Greenman

  Reading: Reread The United States Constitution, main text and amendments, Appendix A of Sullivan & Gunther, Constitutional Law, 16th ed. Focus particularly on Amendments I, V and XIV. Try to read the whole thing to get a flavor for it, but skim the boring parts if need be.

  Question: What about Equal Protection distinguishes it from other constitutional rights?

• Contracts, Section A

  Professor Mooney

  Tuesday, August 25

  For our first meeting, on Tuesday, August 25, please read The Merchant of Venice and Farnsworth pages v, 29-40.

• Contracts, Section B

  Professor Jennifer Martin

  First Assignment - Week 1

  Burton (brown book) pages 1-22 Chirelstein chapter 1

• Contracts, Section C

  Professor Carl Bjerre

  To prepare for our first class meeting, please study the following:

  1. pages 25-26 of the casebook ("Contracts: Law in Action");
  2. Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.; and
  3. pages 38-39 of the casebook. Please be prepared to discuss the questions on page 39 with reference to the cited statutes in our other Contracts book ("Contract Law and Theory -- Selected Provisions").

  Looking forward to seeing you in class.

• Copyright Law, Professor Eric Priest

  Textbook: Gorman & Ginsburg, Copyright Cases and Materials (7th Ed.)

  Assignment: August 25

  
  Class 1: Introduction to the history and law of copyright

  Assignment: Please read the Economist online debate “Copyright and Wrongs” at http://goliveinternet.economist.com/debate/days/view/314. This takes the form of an Oxford-style debate with arguments pro and con, a moderator, and guests, so it has a bit of an unconventional structure. Progress through the debate by clicking on the calendar “days” near the top. No need to read the readers' comments unless you wish to. If you have trouble with the format or accessing the site, please feel free to email me (priest@uoregon.edu) or drop by my office (343) for help.

  Optional background reading: Pgs 1-28.

  August 27
  Class 2: Intellectual property theory; Distinctions between types of IP

  Assignment: - Read Fisher, Theories of Intellectual Property (handout); skim textbook pgs. 49-70, which discuss the distinctions between copyright, patent, and trademark; in this section you need only read the following cases: Alfred Bell (p. 52), the Trade-Mark Cases (p. 57), and Dastar (pg. 68).

• Criminal Law

  Professor Leslie Harris

  Required Materials: The text for this class is Kaplan, Weisberg & Binder, CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (6th ed., Wolters Kluwer). You also need to download the class packet of supplementary materials from the class Blackboard site or Download the packet here (PDF)

  FIRST ASSIGNMENT: For the first day of class, please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 1-20 in your textbook and the two opinions in the Woodward case, pp. 2-13 of your supplement. We will focus on the procedural issues in the case in this class.

  SECOND ASSIGNMENT: Please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 21-27 and 31-83 in your textbook.

• Criminal Law A

  Professor Margie Paris

  Required texts: (1) Kaplan, Weisberg & Binder, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (6th. ed., Wolters Kluwer publisher); (2) Class Packet (print this from Blackboard site, https://blackboard.uoregon.edu/).

  Aug. 25: Kaplan text 1-20 (skim); Class Packet 2-13 (Woodward opinions)
  Aug. 27: Kaplan text 21-27, 31-83 (skim)
  Sept. 1: Kaplan text 83-102

  Download Syllabus (PDF)

• Domestic Abuse Law

  Professor Mere H. Weiner

  For the first class, please read the following:
  Domestic Violence: Restraining Order Systems

  Elizabeth M. Schneider, Cheryl Hanna, Judith G. Greenberg, and Clare Dalton, Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice (Casebook), 210-257

  Statutory and Class Materials: ORS 107.700-.735 (pp. 34-41); ORS 90.453-.459 (pp. 20-22); 18 U.S.C. 2265 (pp. 106-107); ORS 659A.270-.285 (pp. 102-103); skim Johnson article (pp. 206-217); skim Websdale article (pp. 218-225).

• Domestic Violence Clinic

  Pat Vallerand

  First Assignment for August 26:

  Chavkin, Chapter 1: Introduction to Clinical Legal Education

  Chavkin, Chapter 2: Clinical Methodology

  Chavkin, Chapter 3: Grading and Evaluation

  Manual, Table of Contents

  Manual, Chapter 4, pp.65 (re: confidentiality), 74-94 (ORPC 1.6)

  Manual, Appendix: Legal Resources

• Employment Discrimination

  Credence Sol, director of communications

  Casebook: Zimmer, Sullivan & White, Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination (7th ed.) (Aspen 2008)

  NO CLASS MONDAY, AUGUST 24

  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26: Zimmer, pp. 1-32.

  MAKE-UP CLASS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28: Zimmer, pp. 32-68

  Monday, August 31: Zimmer, pp. 68-95.

• Estate & Gift Tax

  Professor Janice Hatton

  Aug. 26, 2009:
  Estate and Gift Tax.
  Introduction to Federal Transfer Tax System; Legislative History.

  Text: pp. 1 - 24
  Text: CAMPFIELD, DICKINSON & TURNER, TAXATION OF ESTATES, GIFTS AND TRUSTS (23rd ed. 2006)

• Evidence

  Professor Tom Lininger

  Tuesday, August 25: Introduction; relevance

  • Assigned reading: Federal Rules of Evidence ("FRE") 104(a), 401-03; Mueller and Kirkpatrick, Evidence Under The Rules, 6th ed. ("Textbook"), pp. 5-35
  • What we'll emphasize in class: Mechanics of class; chronology of trial; junctures when parties can introduce evidence; roles of court and jury; balancing prejudice vs. probative value
  • Relevant handouts: "Introduction to Course" and "Basic Concepts" (Handout Book, pp. 9-15)

  Thursday, August 27: Witness rules; introduction to impeachment

  • Assigned reading: FRE 601-09; Textbook, pp. 511-34; Guernsey, Problems and Simulations in Evidence, 3rd ed. ("Problem Book"), pp. 88-92, appendices A-C
  • What we'll emphasize in class: Abel and Manske cases in Textbook; limitations on who can be a witness; five methods of impeaching witnesses; distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic evidence used for impeachment; all problems in reading assignment for Problem Book.
  • Relevant handouts: "FRE 607-09: Impeachment" (Handout Book, pp. 16-22)

  You will receive the Handout Book on the first day of class

• Family Law

  Professor Leslie Harris

  Required Materials: Family Law, Harris, Teitelbaum and Carbone (Aspen, 3d ed. 2005), Materials and Statutory Supplement

  For the first day of class, please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 1-30 in the text and Numbers Drop for the Married with Children in the materials supplement, pp. 2-3.

  For the second day, please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 31-44, ORS 108.010 thru 108.100, which are in the statutory supplement, at the back of the materials and statutes packet.

• Federal Income Tax I

  Professor Roberta Mann

  The reading for the first class will be pp 1 -18 in the textbook, and the first 10 pages of the handout, available at the 3rd floor handout table.

• Federal Judicial Settlement

  Judge Thomas Coffin

  First Assignment:
  "Come to class with open minds and we will take it from there"

• Federal Jurisdiction

  Professor John Greenman

  Reading: Low & Jeffries, Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (6th ed. 2007) U.S. CONST. Art. III, App. A7-A8; Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (5th ed. 2007) 1-11, 20-28

  Question: What do courts do? What don’t they do?

• Hazardous Waste Law

  Instructor Gregory Costello

  First Assignment:

  Class #1 – Aug. 24

  Topic:

  1. Course introduction
  2. Overview of environmental law
  3. Administrative framework
  4. The difference between a hazardous substance and a hazardous waste

  Assignment:

  Text, pp. 1-10 (top of page); 46-63, 83-88

  Discussion questions:

  1. What is the interaction of statutory law and tort law in hazardous waste liability?
  2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of tort law and statutory law in addressing hazardous waste liability?
  3. What are the separate roles of CERCLA and RCRA in hazardous waste law?
  4. Can lawyers without science backgrounds adequately represent clients on hazardous waste issues?
  5. What are the advantages and drawbacks of having a science background in this field?
  6. How can lawyers more effectively work with technical staff and consultants?

• Human Rights and Environment

  Professor Svitlana Kravchenko

  Tuesday, August 25
  Why Human Rights?
  Reading: Human Rights and the Environment (Kravchenko, Bonine, 2008) chapter
  1, pp. 1-22

  Thursday, August 27
  Substantive Environmental Rights in International Law (part 1)
  Reading: chapter 2, pp.23-47

• Immigration Law and Policy

  Professor Michelle McKinley

  Aleinikoff, Martin, Motomura & Fullerton (AMMF) Casebook, Chapter One: Citizenship pp. 1-15

• International Law

  Professor Michelle McKinley

  Mahmood Mamdani, "The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency" London Review of Books 29:5, March 2007.
  Samantha Power, "Dying in Darfur: Can the Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan be stopped?" (New Yorker, August 30, 2004).

• International Environmental Law

  Professor Richard Hildreth

  For our first class, please read pages 1-42, 641-643 in the required course text International Environmental Law and Policy (Foundation 3d ed 2007).

  A free course syllabus packet is available from the 3rd floor course handout table. Course coverage, organization, and grading options also will be discussed at that first class. Please note that your papers or exam answers submitted for your course grade must be word processed or typed, not handwritten.

  For our 2nd class, please read text pages 162-218 plus the Climate Change Chapter 3 included in course packet. For our 3rd class, please read pages 123-141, 340-350

• Labor Law

  Adjunct Instructor Michael Tedesco

  TEXT: "A Primer on American Labor Law – 4TH Edition", By: William B. Gould: Chapter 1 & 2

  Familiarize yourself with the following case, I know it is 50 pages and hardly worth the trouble but review it so you will know what the heck I am talking about.

  IBM COPR. 341 NLRB 148 (JUNE, 2004)
  http://www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/mtedesco/docs/IBMCASE.pdf

  Ordinance of Laborers, 1349
  file:///Volumes/BAY%202/personal%20information%20mjt/Law%20school/labor%20law%2007/new%20cases/ordinance-labourers.webarchive

  NLRA AND PECBA (REVIEW FOR INITIAL FAMILIARITY WITH THE STRUCTURE AND PROCESS--you aren't going to be quizzed on it so don't panic)

  http://www.nlrb.gov/rr.html

  Class Powerpoints

  Class 1
  Class 2
  Class 3
  

• Legal Profession

  Professor Tom Lininger

  Tuesday, August 25: Introduction to course; advertising

  • Assigned reading: Rhode and Luban (5th ed.), 756-70; Model Rules 7.1-7.3
  • What we'll emphasize in class: Rationale for regulating marketing by attorneys; which groups benefit and which groups are burdened by these regulations; evolution of regulations.
  • Relevant handouts: "Sources of Authority in Ethics Law" and "Advertising" (pages 9-16 of Handout Book); PowerPoint handout on framework of course (to be distributed in class)

  Thursday, August 27: More on advertising; solicitation and referral

  • Assigned reading: Rhode and Luban, 770-86; Model Rules 7.4-7.6
  • What we'll emphasize in class: Problems on pages 761-63 of Rhode and Luban; Ohralik, Primus, and Teichner cases; rules limiting marketing by attorneys; contrast between for-profit and "political" solicitation; other means of marketing
  • Relevant handout: Article on attorney ads (pages 17-18 of Handout Book); "Solicitation and Referral" (pages 19-22 of Handout Book); PowerPoint handout on marketing (to be distributed in class)

  You will receive the Handout Book on the first day of class

• Legal Research and Writing: A & B

  Professor McAlpin

  Welcome to law school! I look forward to meeting you on Tuesday, August 25. Please complete the assignment below for the first class meeting.

  • Read A Lawyer Writes Ch. 1: How Attorneys Communicate
  • Read A Lawyer Writes Ch. 2: Sources and Systems of the Law, omit Section I
  • Read Oregon Legal Research Ch. 1: The Research Process and Legal Analysis
  • Read Plain English for Lawyers Ch. 1: Why Plain English

• Legal Research and Writing: C & D

  Professor Rebekah Hanley

  Welcome to law school. I look forward to seeing you in class on Tuesday, August 25. Please complete the following assignment before class that day.

  - Read Oregon Legal Research (OLR), Chap. 1

  - Read A Lawyer Writes (ALW), Intro, Chap. 1, & Chap. 2

  - Complete the online diagnostic exercise that accompanies Just Writing. To do so, you’ll need to follow this process:
  

  • Go to http://www.aspenlaw.com/oatesenquistdiagnostic
  • Enter Class id (you'll find this on pink paper in your mail folder) and click submit
  • Click Add to Cart
  • Click View Cart (the website should credit you for the $9.95 charge)
  • Click Continue to Check Out
  • Create account (register)
  • Click Place Your Order
  • Click on the link on the confirmation page, which is http://www.aspenlawschool.com/diagnosticexam/
  • Sign in
  • Complete the diagnostic exercise

• Legal Research and Writing: E & F

  Professor Joan Rocklin

  For August 24
  - Resume due (guidelines posted on Blackboard and hard copies available on 3d floor in faculty area).
  - Read Class Information (posted on Blackboard).
  - Read A Lawyer Writes, Introduction, Chs. 1 & 2.
  - Read Oregon Legal Research, Ch. 1, pp. 3-12.

  Note: There is some overlap between the reading in A Lawyer Writes, Ch. 2, and Oregon Legal Research Ch. 1. I apologize for the duplication. The readings are sufficiently different that I couldn't assign just one or the other.

• Legal Research and Writing: H & I

  Professor Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff

  A Lawyer Writes, Chapters 1 & 2

• Legal Research and Writing

  Professor Suzanne Rowe

  Read the article Putting Law School into Practice (posted on Blackboard and on the LRW website under "Curriculum")

  Read Oregon Legal Research, Chapter 1

  Skim the sample memo in A Lawyer Writes(page 279)

• Legislation

  Professor Stuart Chinn

  Casebook: Eskridge, Cases and Materials on Legislation (Fourth Edition) Implementing the Civil Rights Act: Griggs and Weber, 38-47, 87-104

• Litigation Practice and Procedure

  Professor Judy Giers

  Read Pretrial, 7th Ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2005), Part A, I.

• Negotiation

  Professor Jamie Moffitt

  On the first day of class we will be negotiating the Oil Pricing Case. A copy of the case instructions will be placed in the mail folders of all students confirmed for the course. Please read the instructions carefully and prepare for the exercise. The instructions are relatively short and should not take you long to read. On the first day of class you will receive materials for the other cases that we will be negotiating the first week.

• Oregon Practice & Procedure

  Professor Margie Paris & Judge Rasmussen

  Start all reading assignments with the relevant ORCP, UTCR and ORS sections, some of which are found in the Statutory Supplement and referenced in the assignment. Then read them again. In an effort to save you money, we have not ordered West’s Rules of Court (about $100), so please double check the rules and statutes against other sources. Be prepared to discuss the problems.

  1. 8/25: Jurisdiction and Venue (Text p. 1-18)
  2. 8/27: Forum Non Conveniens & Service of Summons/Complaint (Text p. 18-33)

  Download Syllabus (PDF)

• Patent Law and Policy

  Adjunct Instructor Elizabeth Tedesco Milesnick

  Casebook: Patent Law and Policy, Merges and Duffy, Fourth Edition (2007)

  Wednesday, Aug. 26: Pages 1-64

• Public Lands

  Professor Marianne Dugan

  Download Assignment (PDF)

• Public Trust Seminar

  Professor Mary Wood

  Reading assignments and reading materials will be posted on Blackboard and on my faculty website. A duplicate set of reading materials will also be available in the library on reserve.

  Mary Christina Wood, Advancing the Sovereign Trust of Government, Parts I and II, 39 Env. L. 43, 39 Env. L. 91 (2009).

  Bill McKibbon, Civilization’s Last Chance.

• Renewable Energy

  Professor Karen Reed

  Komor, Renewable Energy Policy, chapters 1 & 2.

• Torts A

  Professor Ibrahim Gassama

  TEXT: Vetri et al., Tort Law and Practice (3rd ed.)

  I. READINGS FOR FIRST & SECOND WEEKS

  A. PP. v-xiv and xix-xxxix. Read the introduction and Bookguide closely; note especially the case briefing guidelines on page xiii-xiv. Review the summary of contents and the table of contents. Reflect on the breadth and depth of what you are about to embark upon.

  B. Chapter One--PP. 1-29. Introduction to tort law (Accidents in the United States, historical development of tort law, its structure and functions, and its relationship to other accountability systems).

  C. Chapter One--PP. 30-51; p. 72. The Tort law litigation process (skip the vicarious liability materials on pp. 51-72 for now).

  D. Chapter Two--PP. 73-93. OVERVIEW OF NEGLIGENCE LAW (Focus on the Rudolph case)

  Course Syllabus

• Tort Law (Section C)

  Professor Merle H. Weiner

  Wednesday, August 26: Dobbs, Hayden & Bublick, pages 1-9, 20-38

  Friday, August 28: Dobbs, Hayden, & Bublick, pages 38-44

• Torts B

  Professor Caroline Forell

  Welcome to law school!

  For the first day of class, Wednesday, August 26th, please read and be prepared to discuss the materials titled "Forell -- Torts B -- First Day – Fall'09" which are available at the table on the third floor near the receptionist's desk and pp. 1-4 of the Prosser/Schwartz textbook.

  Also please print out and bring to class the Fall '09 Torts syllabus which will be posted at my faculty web page on the UO Law School website: www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/cforell by the first day of law school classes.

• Trademark Law

  Professor Eric Priest

  Casebook: Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law and Policy, Dinwoodie & Janis (2nd Ed.)

  Monday, Aug. 24: Pages 3-17 (stop at Section D), including the notes that follow the readings

  The background readings in this first assignment should begin to spark in your mind some fundamental questions about trademarks: what functions do trademarks serve in commerce and society, and what is their historical relation to the law of "unfair competition"? What or whom does trademark law aim to protect: Producers? Consumers? Our system of commerce?

• Trial Practice

  Professor Leslie Baker

  Casebook: Winning at Trial, Shane Read (NITA)
  Monday August 24: Chapter 1 (pp. 1-26)
  Wednesday August 26: Chapter 3 (pp. 65-133), Appendices 1 and 2

  Please meet for our first class in room 241.

• Trusts and Estates – Prof. Gary

  The Course Packet should be available in the Bookstore on Thursday, August 20.

  August 26

  Introduction to the Legal Rules Governing Trusts and Estates; Public Policy Restraints on Freedom of Testatation Chapter 1, pp. 1-20. Be prepared to discuss the questions preceding Feinberg and to discuss the exercise on p. 20. Review the appendices for this chapter this week.

  August 31

  Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Estate Planners Chapter 1, pp. 20-38

• White Collar Crime

  Professor Chris Cardani

  Download Assignment (PDF)