Academic Information

 

Exam Room Assignments

We will post information for only a few exam dates at a time to keep information as accurate as possible. Please check back regularly during the exam period to view updated exam information and room assignments.

Spring 2013

Monday, April 29

Labor Law (Harper)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Securities Regulation (Webber)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
520

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/OPEN BOOK. Part I: Objective – 90 mins; Part II: Essay – 90 mins. Calculators are permitted.

Trademark (Roberts)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may bring casebook, slide excerpts, personal outlines, & class notes from this class.

 

Tuesday, April 30

Corporate Finance (Marks)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1570

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students May have course materials including course packet & materials from blackboard, class handouts, notes prepared by you or your study group, calculator, foreign language dictionaries. No other material allowed in exam room.

Criminal Procedure (Rossman)

9:30-12:30

All Students

A – L

Room
520

All Students

M – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may bring one sheet of 8 ½ x 11 paper with notes written on both sides.

Constitutional Law (A1) Baxter

2:00-5:00

All Students
A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/CLOSED BOOK

Constitutional Law (A2) Fleming

2:00-5:00

All Students
A – Z

Room
870

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Constitutional Law (B) Lahav

2:00-5:00

All Students
A – Larussa

Room
520

All Students
Lewis – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/CLOSED BOOK. Copy of Constitution will be distributed with the exam.

Constitutional Law (C) Maclin

2:00-5:00

All Students
A - Leatherberry

Room
1420

All Students
Lee – Z

Room
1570

FORMAT: ESSAY/SHORT ANSWER/OPEN BOOK.

 

Wednesday, May 1

Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights (Tung)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
520

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Business Law: Sales (W. Miler)

9:30-11:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
532

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

International Business Transactions (Faulhaber)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Intro to Federal Income Taxation (Sims)

9:30-1:15

All Students
A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. You may have with you your casebook, statutory supplement, class notes, and other materials (such as outlines) purchased or prepared by you (alone in or conjunction with your colleagues). You may bring a calculator if you wish. No library material are permitted.

 

Thursday, May 2

Insurance Law (M. Hylton)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1434

FORMAT: ESSAY/CLOSED BOOK

Professional Responsibility 
(Moore)

9:30-12:30

All Students

A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may use the following: The casebook, The Standards Supplement, any supplemental materials distributed in class or posted to the course website. Class notes, personally prepared outlines (including group outlines to which students substantially contributed). No commercial outlines or outlines obtained from current or former students

Taxation of Corporations & Shareholders (Feld)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1420

FORMAT: ESSAY/ RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may have the Internal Revenue Code and Regs, their casebook, materials distributed during the semester and any notes or other material that they themselves have prepared.

Trusts & Estates (Hurwitz)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – H

Room
520

All Students
J – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/SHORT ANSWER/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may have the Uniform Trust and Estate Statutes book (the 2012-2013 edition-blue cover or the 2011-2012 edition-green cover) “Statutes book.” No other books, documents or outlines are permitted. The following is permitted: The Statutes book may be tabbed, a handwritten table of contents with page numbers may be written in the statutes book as an alternative to tabbing; Uniform Probate Code and Uniform Trust Code provisions may be marked up in handwriting (terms explained), NO common law rules including Restatement, Rule against Perpetuities etc may be written in your book; The Uniform Probate Code antilapse provision from 1969 may be handwritten in next to the 1990 antilapse provision; Massachusetts statutory provisions (without comment) may be handwritten into the Statutes book. Nothing else is permitted to be written into the Statutes book – no outlines of any form, no case names or case descriptions. Nothing may be pasted into the Statutes book.

 

Friday, May 3

Antitrust Law (K. Hylton)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
520

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/ OPEN BOOK.

Evidence (Pettit)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK. Students should have a copy of the Federal Rules of Evidence

First Amendment (Marshall)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Property (A) Lawson

2:00-5:30

All Students
A – Kaplan

Room
520

All Students
Katz – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK.

Property (B) Kull

2:00-5:00

All Students
A – Larussa

Room
820

All Students
Lewis – Z

Room
870

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may consult the assigned casebook and course supplement, as well as notes and study materials that they themselves have produced.

Property (C) di Robilant

2:00-5:00

All Students
A- Lee

Room
1420

All Students
Lu - Z

Room
1570

FORMAT: ESSAY/CLOSED BOOK. Supplement will be provided with the exam.

 

Monday, May 6

Administrative Law (Beermann)

9:30-1:00

All Students
A – Lingenfelter

Room
520

All Students
Lu – Z

Room 570

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED CLOSED BOOK. Students are allowed one piece of 8 ½ x 11 paper with notes on both sides legible without use of magnifying equipment. A supplement will be handed out with the exam.

Business Law: Secured Transactions (O’Rourke)

9:30-12:30

All Students

A – Z

Room
1434

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may consult the casebook and statutory supplement. May use a standard calculator

European Union Law (Caruso)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
734

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Family Law (McClain)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. You may use the casebook, Contemporary Family Law (D. Abrams et al, 3rd edition 2012), any photocopied or scanned pages from the casebook, the Supplemental Readings (whether in photocopied form or printed out from Blackboard), the Class Handouts, your class notes, and any additional notes or outlines you have prepared. But no other books (e.g., treatises, commercial outlines, bar review guides) are permitted

Intellectual Property (Meurer)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1420

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may consult any hard copy material except library books. (Notes or photocopies derived from library books are allowed) Digital material is prohibited.

Mergers & Acquisitions (Marks)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may have course materials including packet, statutes and material from Blackboard; class handouts; notes prepared by the student personally or as part of their study group. May have foreign language dictionary. May have calculator.

Legislation (A) Wexler

2:00-5:00

All Students
A – K

Room
520

All Students
L – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK. No electronic devices of any kind except for the computer they are taking the exam on.

Legislation (B) Leonard

2:00-5:30

All Students
A – Larussa

Room
820

All Students
Lewis – Z

Room
870

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students allowed to bring two 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper with writing on one side or one 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper with writing on both sides. Sheet(s) should have 1" margins and no smaller than 10 pt font or handwritten equivalent.

Legislation (C) Silbaugh

2:00-4:00

All Students
A- Lee

Room
1420

All Students
Lu - Z

Room
1570

FORMAT: ESSAY/SHORT ANSWER/CLOSED BOOK.

 

Tuesday, May 7

Business Law: The UCC (W. Miller)

9:30-11:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
520

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE. Part I - Objective portion is 1 hour and is CLOSED BOOK. Part II – Essay portion is 1 hour and is OPEN BOOK.

Corporations (Outterson)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1420

FORMAT: ESSAY/SHORT ANSWER/CLOSED BOOK

Patent Law (Meurer)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may consult any hard copy material except library books. (Notes or photocopies derived from library books are allowed) Digital material is prohibited.

 

Wednesday. May 8

Negotiated M & A (LaCascia/Taylor)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
520

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/CLOSED BOOK

Trade Secrets (Beck)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may have their own notes and anything else they have prepared; May not have the course materials.

 

Thursday, May 9

Evidence (Lowy)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
520

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/CLOSED BOOK

Private Equity & Venture Capital (Kendall/White)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/CLOSED BOOK

 

Friday, May 10

Environmental Law (Wexler)

9:30-1:00

All Students
A – Z

Room
620

FORMAT: ESSAY/OPEN BOOK

Transnational Litigation (Balzano)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
734

FORMAT: ESSAY/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Students may use their documents supplement. Students may write whatever notes of comments they would like in their supplement and to tab the pages to mark their place. They may not staple additional pages to their supplement, add post it notes to the pages, or add to the supplement in any way other than by writing in it.

Criminal Law (A) Bridges

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Kaplan

Room
520

All Students
Katz - Z

Room
570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/CLOSED BOOK. Part I – objective, Part II – essay. Supplement will be handed out with exam.

Criminal Law (B1) Fisher

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
820

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBECTIVE/RESTRICTED OPEN BOOK. Part I – Objective, 90 minutes; Part II – Essay, 90 minutes. Students may refer only to the following: Course textbook (Dressler & Garvey, Cases & Materials on Criminal Law); Robinson, Criminal Law Case Studies; Copies of any handouts & Quizzes posted on blackboard site; copies of emails sent by professor to the class; personally prepared notes & outlines. May NOT bring Dressler, Understanding Criminal Law; any hornbooks or other library or purchased material.

Criminal Law (B2) Sloane

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
870

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/OPEN BOOK. Part I – Objective; Part II – Essay.

Criminal Law (C1) Leonard

9:30-1:00

All Students
A – Z

Room
1420

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/CLOSED BOOK. Part I – Objective: 90 minutes; Part II – Essay: 120 minutes.

Criminal Law (C2)

9:30-12:30

All Students
A – Z

Room
1570

FORMAT: ESSAY/OBJECTIVE/OPEN BOOK. Part I – Objective: 85 minutes; Part II – Essay: 95 minutes