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Upper-Class Reading Assignments

This information is correct as of 1/10/08. Students should check CourseInfo for a complete list of all course assignments and information.

D-L

Deals: Economic Structure (Walker/Whitehead)
JD904 A1
Course Materials
Except for deal packages, which will be distributed in hard copy in class, a substantial portion of the course materials will be posted, or the internet link to the relevant documents will be listed, on the course website.  From time to time, we will also distribute written materials in class.  Please refer to the course website to obtain the relevant reading materials.  Those who are unable to access the course website should contact Professor Whitehead or Walker.
Early Drop/Add
Deal teams will be put together and deal packages distributed after the first week of class.  In order to facilitate this, an early drop/add deadline of Friday, January 18, will apply for this course.  Students must attend the first two classes in order to remain in the course.
Class 1 (January 15)
Introduction; Value Creation Through Contracting
Why Lawyers?, Mnookin et al., The Lawyer as Negotiator, Part II intro. & Chapter 5
Business Research Corporation (A) (case study) – Read this case study carefully prior to class.  Imagine yourself as Bill Benjamin.  You want capital, and the two proposals described in the case lie before you.  What should you do?  Why?  We will go over this case study closely in class – so be please prepared to discuss it at length.

Effective & Ethical Depositions-Plaintiff (Browne)
JD958 A1
[Not yet received]

Effective & Ethical Depositions-Defendant (Browne)
JD958 B1
[Not yet received]

Energy Law and Policy (Feld)
JD832 A1
[Not yet received]

Entertainment Law (Neeff)
JD905 A1
Read pages 525-547 in the course text, Entertainment Law.

Environmental Law (Ferrey)
JD833 A1
[Not yet received]

European Union Law (di Robilant)
JD880 A1
[Not yet received]

Evidence (Connaughton)
JD831 C1
Welcome to Evidence! The following is background information and the first assignment for class on Jan. 16, 2008. I look forward to seeing you all then.
Background
Texts and Reading Assignments: Fisher, “Federal Rules of Evidence Statutory and Case Supplement, 2007 ed., (Foundation Press) (“FRE”), Fisher, “Evidence” (2002, Foundation Press) (“Fisher”).Our primary text is the FRE which contains the Rules, related Legislative History, including the Advisory Committee Notes (“ACN”) and supplementary cases. Applicable rules and legislative history for each segment of the course are assigned below. Fisher’s “Evidence” will help us to analyze and apply these rules with a combination of cases, commentary and problems.
For your regular class preparation, be sure to:
1) read the text of each cited FRE listed below
2) read the relevant Legislative History, especially the ACN.
3) work through the assigned pages listed from Fisher’s “Evidence” or
from the cases contained in his FRE Supplement.
First Assignment
1. Jan. 16, 2008 – FRE 606, 401, 402, Fisher, p. 1-24 Introduction, A. Probativeness and Materiality.

Federal Courts (Yackle)
JD836 A1
[Not yet received]

Federal Habeas Corpus (Yackle)
JD830 A1
[Not yet received]

Fiduciary Law (Frankel)
JD860 A1
Class preparation. We have very few hours to cover the materials, as scant as they are. Most of our time will be used for discussion and developing the ideas about the subjects. Therefore, the assigned teaching book is replete with Discussion Topics and Problems. Thus, after reading the materials, please concentrate on the Discussion Topics and Problems and prepare, for each class, to discuss a topic or a problem of your choice and e-mail to me the one you chose. The two classes that have no assigned materials were left open for the last chapter coverage or a visiting speaker, depending on how fast we advance.
Class  Date                          Pages
1.         1.16                             1-19

Forensic Mental Health Issues (Bassil/Cone)
JD962 A1
[Not yet received]

Global Climate Change (Partan)
JD796 A1
[Not yet received]

Health Insurance, Managed Care & the Law (Mariner)
JD992 A1
[Not yet received]

Historical Perspectives on Law (Collins/Leonard)
JD846 A1
[Not yet received]

Homicide Investigations (Meier)
JD950 A1
For the first class on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, students should identify, think about, and be prepared to discuss a factual, tactical, legal, or ethical issue raised by an ongoing murder investigation or trial -- whether local, state, national, or international -- of their choice.
Please note as well that those students now on the waiting list are encouraged to attend the first class because -- as in past years -- it is my intention to accept into the seminar an appropriate number of students from the waiting list.
Please feel free to contact me by e-mail at David.Meier@suf.state.ma.us or by telephone at 617/619-4242 if you have any questions about the class.
I look forward to seeing you on January 16.

Immigration Law & Practice (Kelly)
JD968 A1
[Not yet received]

Insurance Law (M. Hylton)
JD850 A1
[Not yet received]

Intellectual Property (Bone)
JD857 B1
Welcome to Intellectual Property!  There are two books for the class, which you can obtain from the bookstore.  These are: (1) Robert Merges, Peter Menell, and Mark Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (Revised Fourth Edition 2007), and (2) Supplement to (1).   I have established a class website, which you can access from the law school’s courseinfo list, which you can get to through http://courseinfo.bu.edu (Click on “Spring 2008,” then “School of Law,” and find our Intellectual Property course listed at JD857.) I have posted two additional documents to the Course Documents section of the website: Part I of the Syllabus and Distribution No. 1.  You can download these from there.  (I also e-mailed these documents before the holidays to everyone who was on the Registrar’s list at that time.  I’d be happy to do the same for anyone who did not receive the earlier e-mail.  But it’s probably easier if you just download the documents from the website.) 
For the first class meeting, on Tuesday, January 15, please read through I.C.1. of the Syllabus.  In other words, please read pages 1-10 of Distribution No. 1 and pages 1-24 of the Merges, Menell & Lemley casebook.  After saying a few words about the class, I want to launch into a study of the policy reasons for giving legal protection to creations and information products.  For this purpose, imagine you are hired by a new nation to design laws that will protect information and the products of creative activity.  Assume that this nation already has the general common law of tort and contract that you studied in the first year as well as property law for tangible things and assume that the nation is committed to a regulated market economy like that in the United States. Should you propose any additional legal protection for products of the creative process beyond the traditional common law?  Why?  Let's start by focusing on the utilitarian/economic rationale discussed at pages 10-20 of the casebook.  If you think something more is needed, what about exclusive property rights in perpetuity?  What about using public subsidies to finance creative activity?

International & Interethnic Conflict Resolution (Nolan-Haley)
JD993 A1
[Not yet received]

International Business Agreements (Greiman)
JD959 A1
Class 1 - Comparative International Commercial Law:  An Overview of the World’s Major Legal Systems and the Rules of Transnational Practice
Reading Assignments:
1.         Course Packet:  Class 1 - Professor Greiman, The Design of
            International Commercial Law, 2004
2.         Vagts, pp. 65-75 and 84-93 - Basic Introduction to Public and
            Private International Law
3.         Salacuse, Chapter 1 (The Global Negotiator), pp. 1-4 and Appendix
A:  The Global Negotiator’s Checklist, pp. 273-276, Appendix B, pp.
277-290
Written Assignment, Vagts:  Sumitomo Case Pg. 92 - Questions (1-3).

International Business Transactions (Park)
JD842 A1
[Not yet received]

International Human Rights (Akram)
JD991 A1
First Assignment: Weissbrodt, Chapter 17, pp. 1-35; 67-74. The Chapter is linked on the CourseInfo website for this class. If students have any trouble accessing it, they can contact Lauren Brody, my administrative assistant, at: lclinic@bu.edu.

International Project Finance (Greiman)
JD936 A1
Class 1 - An Introduction to Project Finance
Readings:
1.         Esty, Chapter 1, pp. 1-14, Introduction to Project Finance
2.         Esty, Chapter 2, pp. 23-29, An Overview of Project Finance
3.         Esty, Chapter 3, pp. 53-60, Why Study Large Projects?
4.         General Legislative and Institutional Framework, UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects, United Nations, New York, 2001 (Course Packet)
5.         Project Diagram (Course Packet)
Assignment:
(1)        Prepare a two page paper highlighting the differences between (1) project finance and corporate finance, and describe five major risks assumed by the lender in a project finance on an international
development project.

International Trade Regulation (Partan)
JD858 A1
[Not yet received]

Internet Law (Dogan)
JD964 A1
For the first class, please go to “Course Documents” on the CourseInfo website for Internet Law, and follow the instructions there.

Introduction to Federal Income Taxation (Walker)
JD889 W1
The first assignment is detailed on the course website.  If you have access to the website, please go there and ignore the following.
The casebook for this course is Graetz & Schenk, Federal Income Taxation (5th ed., Foundation Press).  You will also need a current copy of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and regulations.  The bookstore will stock the 2007-2008 edition of Federal Income Tax Code and Regulations, Selected Sections published by CCH.  The casebook will be supplemented with handouts and certain cases that you will be asked to retrieve through Westlaw or Lexis. 
For our first meeting on Tuesday, January 15, please read the following:
Casebook pages 89-96 (omit “B” on 94).
Turner (TC Memo 1954-38) (downloaded from Lexis or Westlaw).
IRC section 61.
We will also analyze President Bush’s 2006 federal income tax return, a copy of which may be downloaded through the course website.

Islamic Law & Legal System (Reza)
JD902 A1
1. Readings and Questions posted in "Course Documents" on CourseInfo site (and available in hard-copy in room 1024).
2. Coulson: Introduction, Chapter 1 (all), Chapter 3 (pp. 36-43), Chapter 4 (pp. 55-61).

Jewish Law (Hecht)
JD835 A1
Please pick up an assignment sheet, materials and books for our first class from Dan in room 1134.  The cost of these materials is $60 (cash, not check).  It is vital that you pick up the materials as soon as possible in order to be prepared for our first meeting.
Please note that the books for our course are only available from that office; they will not be found in the bookstore.

Judging in the American Legal System (Young)
JD908 A1
[Not yet received]

Judicial Internship Program (Diamond)
JD848 A1
[Not yet received]

Juvenile Delinquency (Kaplan)
JD824 A1
Please read the materials under “Documents” on CourseInfo titled Class 1:  The idea of childhood, and come to class prepared to discuss the themes raised in these readings.
There is no reading response paper due for this first class meeting.

Labor Law (Harper)
JD851 A1
The text for the course is Labor Law, 6th Edition, Harper, Estreicher and Flynn. On Tuesday, we will discuss pages 31-48; pages
48-97 should be read as background for the opening lecture. Thank you.

Land Use (Ryckman)
JD855 A1
[Not yet received]

Law & Education (Rosen)
JD822 A1
[Not yet received]

Law & Religion (Michaelson)
JD944 A1
[Not yet received]

Law & Sexual Minorities (Volk)
JD957 A1
For the first class, students should read the Ratchford decision and the Klarman article excerpt. Note that the syllabus and all materials are posted on the Course Info site for the seminar.

Law & Sports (Harper)
JD886 A1
The text for the course is Law and Sports, 3rd Edition, Weiler and Roberts. On Wednesday, we will discuss pages 1-48 and 101-137. You should also read Oakland Raiders v. NFL, posted on the course web site.
Thank you.

Lawyering in the 21st Century (Moore)
JD972 A1
Jan. 15:           Introduction: Regulation of the Legal Profession
In our first meeting, we are going to discuss the legal profession’s response to Congressional legislation (Sarbanes-Oxley) and newly adopted SEC regulations for lawyers in the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals. Consider what authority both Congress and the SEC have to regulate lawyers and the nature of the objections the American Bar Association (ABA) had to the recent Congressional and SEC action. Why did the ABA amend its Model Rules after the enactment of federal regulation and how do these amendments affect lawyers practicing before the SEC?
1. Wendel, Professional Responsibility: Examples & Explanations (2d ed. 2007), pp. 1-15.
2.  Ethics ABA speech (posted in Course Documents section of CourseInfo website).
3.  Dzienkowski, Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules & Statutes 3-4 (2007-2008 abridged edition). Familiarize yourself with the two versions of the ABA Model Rules contained in this book—the 2007 Rules and the 2001 Rules (prior to significant modifications in 2002)---as well as the ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility (in effect from 1969 through 1983, when the Model Rules were first adopted). As noted in the syllabus, we will focus on the 2007 Rules, although we will refer to the 2001 Rules and to the Model Code on occasion.
I will be posting Part I of the syllabus in the Course Document section of the CourseInfo website for this course. It includes a description of the seminar, including a required research paper and class participation.

Legal Externship Program/Fieldwork (Knight)
JD924 B1
[Not yet received]

Legal Externship Program/Legal Ethics (Knight)
JD925 B1
[Not yet received]

Legal Writing Fellows (Volk)
JD986 B1
[Not yet received]

Legislative Counsel Clinic (Kealy)
JD786 B1
[Not yet received]

Legislative Internship Program/Fieldwork (Kealy)
JD937 B1
[Not yet received]

Legislative Internship Program/Problem Solving (Kealy)
JD938 B1
[Not yet received]

Legislative Policy & Drafting Clinics (Seidman)
JD818, JD817, JD784, JD783
[Not yet received]