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First Year Book List | Upper-class Book List

Upper-Class Book List
Fall 2009

Students should check CourseInfo and Blackboard 8 for a complete list of all required materials. Materials may be available through CourseInfo, Blackboard 8 or FedEx/Kinkos – whether supplemental to the texts listed below or in lieu of a text.

A-C | D-L | M-Z

Administrative Law (Lawson)
JD801 A1
Federal Administrative Law, 4th Edition, Lawson (West Law)

Advanced ADR (Weiner)
JD955 A1
Getting to Yes, 2nd Edition, Fisher (Houghton Mifflin)

Advanced Legal Writing (Browne/Volk)
JD874 A1
*No Text Required*

Advanced Trial Practice (Young)
JD967 A1
Trial Techniques & Evidence, 3rd Edition 2008, Fontham (LexisNexis)

Affordable Housing (Freeman)
JD935 A1
*No Text Required*

Africa i-Parliments Drafting & Policy Clinic (Kealy/Seidman)
JD765 A1, JD766 A1
Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change: A Manual for Drafters, 2003, Seidman, Seidman and Abeysekere, available from Sue Morrison, Room 1170

Alternative Dispute Resolution (Hurwitz)
JD881 A1
Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes, 5th Edition, Goldberg (Aspen)
Getting to Yes, 2nd Edition, Fisher (Peng USA)

American Legal History (Seipp)
JD804 A1
Law & Jurisprudence in American History, 6th Edition, Presser (West Law)

Animal Law (Karfunkel)
JD865 A1
Animal Law, 3rd Edition, Waisman (Carolina A)

Appellate Advocacy Program Director (Volk)
JD901 A1
*No Text Required*

Bankruptcy Practice (Mikels)
JD794 A1
Business Reorganization in Bankruptcy: Cases & Materials, 3rd Ed., Scarberry et al (West Law)
Collier Portable Pamphlet 2009, Part 3, Resnick (LexisNexis)

Civil Litigation Program (Akram/Diamond)
Asylum and Human Rights Clinic
JD861 B1, JD973 B1
Essential Lawyering Skills, 3rd Edition, Krieger (Aspen)
Deposition Questioning Strategies & Techniques, 2001, Binder (West)
Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell, 4th Edition, Bergman (West)
Immigration Law & Procedure in a Nutshell, 5th Edition, Weissbrodt (West)
Trial Techniques, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)

Civil Litigation Program (Burdick et al)
Employment Rights Clinic
JD 861 C1, JD973 C1
Essential Lawyering Skills, 3rd Edition, Krieger (Aspen)
Deposition Questioning Strategies & Techniques, 2001, Binder (West)
Trial Techniques, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)
Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell, 4th Edition, Bergman (West)

Civil Litigation Program Burdick et al)
Housing, Employment, Family and Disability Clinic
JD861 A1, JD973 A1
Essential Lawyering Skills, 3rd Edition, Krieger (Aspen)
Deposition Questioning Strategies & Techniques, 2001, Binder (West)
Trial Techniques, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)
Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell, 4th Edition, Bergman (West)
Recommended:
Getting to Yes, 2nd Edition, Fisher (Penguin USA)
Evidentiary Foundation, 7th Edition 2008, Imwinkelried (LexisNexis)

Civil Litigation Program: Professional Responsibility (Burdick)
JD862 A1
Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, 2nd Edition, Lerman (Aspen)
Law Governing Lawyers, 2009 Edition w/CD, 4th Edition, Martyn (Aspen)

Civil Rights Litigation (Horn)
JD877 A1
Civil Rights Actions, 2nd Edition, Jeffries (West Law)

Civil War & Reconstruction (Samito)
JD845 A1
Slavery & the Law, 1997, Finkelman (RPLG)
Changes in Law & Society During the Civil War & Reconstruction, 2009, Samito (UPC)
The Radical & the Republican, 2007, Oakes (Norton)
Final Freedom, 2001, Vorenberg (Cambridge)
The Fourteenth Amendment, 1988, Nelson (Triliteral)
Death of Reconstruction, 2001, Richardson (Triliteral)

Commercial Law: Sales (W. Miller)
JD808 A1
Sales: Cases & Materials, 5th Edition, 2007, Benfield (West Law)
Commercial and Debtor-Creditor Law: Selected Statutes, 2009, Baird (West Law)

Comparative Family Law (Ruebenacker)
JD888 A1
*No Text Required*

Comparative Law (Di Robilant)
JD951 A1
*No Text Required*

The Constitution & Foreign Affairs (Lahav)
JD917 A1
*No Text Required*

Constitutional Theory (Fleming)
JD922 A1
The Tempting of America, 1990, Bork (S & S)
Life’s Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom, 1993, Dworkin (Random)
Democracy & Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review, 1980, Ely (Triliteral)
Securing Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Autonomy, 2006, Fleming (U. of Chicago)
American Constitutional Interpretation, 4th Ed., Fleming (West Law)
Recommended:
Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions, 2007, Fleming (Oxford)
The Partial Constitution, 1993, Sunstein (Triliteral)

Copyright Law (Gordon)
JD952 A1
Copyright in a Global Information Economy, 2nd Edition, Cohen (Aspen)
Copyright in a Global Information Economy Supplement 2009, Cohen (Aspen)

Corporations (Nowicki)
JD816 A1
Corporations & Other Business Organizations: Cases & Materials, Concise 9th Edition, Eisenberg (West Law)
Corporations & Other Business Organizations: Statutes, Rules, Materials & Forms, 2009 Edition, Eisenberg (West Law)

Corporations (Marks)
JD816 M1
*No Text Required*

Criminal Procedure: Investigatory Process (Maclin)
JD 821 A1
Basic Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments, Questions, 12th Edition, Kamisar (West Law)
Modern Criminal Procedure 2009-2010 Supplement, 13th Edition, Kamisar (West Law)
Recommended:
Criminal Procedure Stories, 2006, Steiker (West Law)
Understanding Criminal Procedure: Investigation – Volume 1, 4th Edition, Dressler (LexisNexis)

Criminal Procedure (Rossman)
JD819 A1
Criminal Procedure: Investigation & Right to Counsel, 2005, Allen (Aspen)

Criminal Trial Practice I (Rossman)
JD982 A1
Massachusetts Criminal Practice, Abridged Student Ed., 3rd Edition 2001, Blumenson (LexisNexis)

Criminal Trial Practice II (Rossman et al)
JD913 A1
*No Text Required*

Criminal Trial: Issues in Criminal Justice (Rossman)
JD920 A1
*No Text Required*

Criminal Trial: Professional Responsibility (Wiebusch)
JD923 A1
2009 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility, Morgan (West Law)

Discovery: Theory & Practice (Donweber)
JD747 A1
*No Text Required*

Domestic Violence (Whitman)
JD829 A1
*No Text Required*

E-Commerce Law, IP & the Business Lawyer (Gurvits)
JD997 A1
*No Text Required*

Effective & Ethical Depositions (Diamond)
JD958 A1
Deposition Questioning Strategies & Techniques, 2001, Binder (West Law)
Deposition Rules, 4th edition, Malone (NITA)
Polisi V. Clark Plaintiff Materials, 2nd Edition, Bocchino (NITA)
Polisi V. Clark Defendant’s Materials, 2nd Edition, Bocchino (NITA)
Recommended:
Deposition Evidence, 2005, Bocchino (NITA)

Employee Benefit Plans (M. Hylton)
JD790 A1
Introduction to Employment Benefits Law, 2nd Edition, Medill (West Law)

English Legal History (Seipp)
JD942 A1
Introduction to English Legal History, 4th Edition, Baker (Oxford)

Entertainment Law (Neeff)
JD905 A1
Entertainment Law, 3rd Edition, Simensky (Bender)

Environmental Law (Wexler)
JD833 A1
Mountains Without Handrails, 1980, Sax (Perseus D)
Environmental Policy Law, 5th Edition, Schoenbaum (West Law)
Recommended:
Selected Environmental Law Statutes 2009-2010 (West Law)

European Legal History (Di Robilant)
JD993 A1
*No Text Required*

Evidence (Foley)
JD831 F1
Evidence, 2nd Ed., Fisher (Foundation)
Federal Rules of Evidence 2008-2009, Fisher (Foundation)

Evidence (Pettit)
JD831 P1
Evidence, 2nd Edition, Fisher (Foundation)
Federal Rules of Evidence 2008-2009, Fisher (Foundation)

Family Law (McClain)
JD814 A1
Contemporary Family Law, 2nd Edition 2009, Abrams (West Law)

Federal Courts (Yackle)
JD836 A1
Federal Courts: Cases & Materials, 2007, Wells (West Law)
Federal Courts: Cases & Materials 2009 Supplement, 2009, Wells (West Law)
Recommended:
Federal Courts, 3rd Edition 2009, Yackle (Carolina A)

Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law (F. Miller)
JD802 A1
Food & Drug Law: Cases & Materials, 3rd Edition, Hutt (West Law)

Gender & Law Colloquium (McClain)
JD966 A1
*No Text Required*

Government Regulation of Financial Services (Roiter)
JD864 A1
The Law of Banking & Financial Institutions, 4th Edition, Macey (Aspen)
Banking Law & Regulation 2008 Statutory Supplement, 2008, Macey (Aspen)

Health Care Reform & the Constitution (Moncrieff)
JD977 A1
*No Text Required*

Health Law (F. Miller)
JD867 A1
Health Law: Cases, Materials, & Problems, 6th Edition 2008, Furrow (West Law)

Health Law Externship (Moulton)
JD764 A1, JD762 A1 A2 & A3
*No Text Required*

Historical Perspectives on Law & Culture (Collins)
JD846 A1
*No Text Required*

Housing Law (Winik)
JD961 A1
*No Text Required*

Human Rights Law (Nersessian)
JD875 A1
International Human Rights:, 4th Edition 2009, Weissbrodt (LexisNexis)

Immigration Law (McHaffey)
JD968 A1
Immigration and Refugee Law & Policy, 5th Edition, Legomsky (Foundation)
Federal Immigration Laws & Regulations, 2009, West (West Law)

Intellectual Property (Dogan)
JD857 A1
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age - Revised, 4th Edition, Merges (Aspen)
Recommended:
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age Statutory and Case Supplement, 2009, Merges (Aspen)

International Business Agreements (Greiman)
JD959 A1
Transnational Business Problems, 4th Edition, Vagt (West Law)
The Global Negotiator, 2003, Salacuse (Palgrave Macmillan)

International Business Arbitration (Park)
JD980 A1
International Commercial Arbitration, 1997, Reisman (West Law)
International Commercial Arbitration: Documentary Supplement, 1997, Reisman (West Law)

International Intellectual Property (Zemer)
JD953 A1
International Intellectual Property Law & Policy, 2nd Edition 2008, Dinwoodie (LexisNexis)

International Law (Sloane)
JD927 A1
International Law: Norms, Actors, and Process, 2nd Edition, Dunoff (Aspen)
International Law Frameworks, 2nd Edition, Bederman (West Law)

International Law for the 21st Century (Saberi)
JD748 A1
*No Text Required*

International Tax I (Park)
JD781 A1
Taxation of International Transactions, 3rd Edition, Gustafson (West Law)
International Income Tax Codes & Regulation, 2008-2009, Perroni (CCH)

Intro to American Law (Beermann)
JD700 A1
Introduction to the Law & Legal System of the United States, 4th Ed., Burnham (West Law)

Introduction to Federal Income Taxation (Feld)
JD889 A1
Federal Income Taxation, 15th Edition, Klein (Aspen)
2009-2010 Federal Income Tax: Code and Regulations, Selected Sections, Dickinson (CCH)

Introduction to Federal Income Taxation (Sims)
JD889 S1
*No Text Required*

Jessup Moot Court: Problem Solving in International Law (Reidel)
JD989 A1
International Law Frameworks, 2nd Edition, Bederman (West Law)
International Law, 2nd Edition, Dunoff (Aspen)

Jewish Law (Hecht)
JD835 A1
*An assignment sheet, materials and books for the first class are available from Rachel in room 1134. The cost of these materials is $60 (cash, not check).
Please note that the books for this course are available only from that office; they will not be found in the bookstore.*

Labor Law (Harper)
JD851 A1
Labor Law: Cases, Materials & Problems, 6th Edition, Harper (Aspen)
Labor Law: Selected Statutes, Forms & Agreements, 2007, Harper (Aspen)

Land Use (Ryckman)
JD855 A1
Land Use - Cases, 7th Edition, Nolon (West Law)

Law & the Color Line – 20th Century (Lyons)
JD882 A1
*No Text Required*

Law & the Democratic Process (Baxter)
JD825 A1
The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, 3rd Edition, Issacharoff (West Law)
The Law of Democracy 2008 Supplement, Issacharoff (West Law)

Law, Work & Poverty (M. Hylton)
JD909 A1
Code of the Street, 1999, Anderson (Norton)
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education, 2004, Bell (Oxford)
Worlds Apart, 1999, Duncan (Triliteral)
Promises I Can Keep, 2005, Edin (UCal Press)
Nickel & Dimed, Revised 2008, Ehrenreich (MPS)
Big Squeeze, 2008, Greenhouse (Random)
Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2004, Kidder (Random)
What Money Can’t Buy, 1997, Mayer (Triliteral)
Chutes & Ladders, 2006, Newman (Triliteral)
Falling From Grace: Downward Mobility, 1999, Newman (UCal Press)
Two Income Trap, 2003, Warren (Basic Books)
Which Side Are You On? 2004, Geoghegan (New Press)
Philadelphia Freedom, 2008, Kairys (UMich Press)

Legal Externship Program: Legal Ethics (Knight)
JD925 A1
Legal Ethics: Law Stories, 2006, Rhode (West Law)
Legal Ethics: Rules, Statutes, & Comparisons, 2009, Zitrin (LexisNexis)

Legal Writing Fellows (Volk)
JD986 A1
*No Text Required*

Legislative Council Clinic (Kealy)
JD786 A1
Legislative Law & Statutory Interpretation: Cases & Materials, 4th Ed., Hetzel (LexisNexis)

Legislative Internship Program/Fieldwork (Kealy)
JD937 A1, A2, & A3
*No Text Required*

Legislative Internship Program: Problem Solving (Kealy)
JD938 A1
An Introduction to Statutory Interpretation and the Legislative Process, 1997, Mikva (Aspen)

Local Government Law (Beermann)
JD800 A1
Local Government Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd Ed. Baker (West Law)

Medical Research & the Law (Glazier)
JD910 A1
*No Text Required*

Mergers & Acquisitions (Marks)
JD988 A1
Business Associations: 2009 Statutes and Rules, 2009, Klein (West Law)

Mutual Funds: Investment Companies (Frankel)
JD852 A1
Investment Management Regulation, Tamar Frankel and Cliff E. Kirsch (3d ed. 2005)
*Book to be ordered directly from the publisher Fathom Publishing Company, as noted on the course information.*

Pretrial Advocacy: Civil & Criminal (Ball)
JD956 A1
Pretrial w/ CD, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)
State v. Diamond: Problems & Case File, 4th Edition 1992, Seckinger (NITA)
Dixon v. Providential: Technology Case File, 2000 Revised Edition, Stein (NITA)

Professional Responsibility (Moore)
JD984 M1
Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules & Statutes, 2009-2010 Abridged, Dzienkowski (West Law)
Regulation of Lawyers, 8th Ed., Gillers (Aspen)

Prosecutorial Ethics (Breen)
JD806 A1
Prosecutorial Ethics, Cassidy (West Law)
Legal Ethics: Rules, Statutes, & Comparisons, 2009, Zitrin (Bender)

Real Estate Finance (Nessen)
JD914 A1
*No Text Required*

Representing Life Sciences Companies (Donohue)
JD907 A1
Drugs: From Discovery to Approval, 2nd Edition, Ng (Wiley)
Recommended:
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech, 2006, Pisano (Perseus D)
The Business of Healthcare Innovation, 2005, Lawton (Cambridge)

Taxation of Financial Instruments (Sims)
JD971 A1
*No Text Required*

Topics in Education Law & Policy (Silbaugh)
JD777 A1
Brown V. Board of Education & The Civil Rights Movement, 2007, Klarman (Oxford)
Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1983, Kaestle (MPS)
No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Policy 1965-2005, 2006, McGuinn (U of Kansas)

Topics in Trademark Law (Dogan)
JD791 A1
*No Text Required*

Trial Advocacy (McNeil)
JD894 A1
Problems in Trial Advocacy 2007 w/ CD (Revised), 2006, Bocchino (NITA)
Trial Techniques, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)
Students required to purchase only one of the following cases – please wait until after 1st class:
State v. Diamond: Problems & Case File, 4th Edition 1992, Seckinger (NITA)
Dixon v. Providential: Technology Case File, 2000 Revised Edition, Stein (NITA)
United States v. Andre Clark, 2006, Cochran (NITA)
Recommended:
2009 Federal Rules of Evidence – Trial Guide, 2009, Eleazer (Elex)

Trial Advocacy (Saylor)
JD894 A2
Problems in Trial Advocacy 2007 w/ CD (Revised), 2006, Bocchino (NITA)
Trial Techniques, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)
Students required to purchase only one of the following cases – please wait until after 1st class:
State v. Diamond: Problems & Case File, 4th Edition, Seckinger (NITA)
Dixon v. Providential: Technology Case File, 2000 Revised Edition, Stein (NITA)
Recommended:
Evidentiary Foundations, 7th Edition, Imwinkelried (LexisNexis)
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, 2008, Scalia (West Law)

Trial Advocacy (Del Vecchio)
JD894 D1
Evidentiary Foundations, 7th Edition 2008, Imwinkelried (LexisNexis)
Materials in Trial Advocacy: Problems & Cases, 6th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)
Trial Techniques, 7th Edition, Mauet (Aspen)

Trial Evidence (Lu)
JD849 A1
Monique Adams v. Corr-Train, Inc., Curcio (NITA)
Trial Evidence (with CD), 4th Edition 2009, Mauet (Aspen)

Trust & Honesty (Frankel/Fagan)
JD965 A1
Trust and Honesty (2006) Tamar Frankel
Trust and Honesty in the Real World (2009) Mark Fagan and Tamar Frankel
* Books to be ordered directly from the publisher, Fathom Publishing Company, as directed in the course description.*

Trust, Wills & Basic Estate Planning (Stewart)
JD871 S1
Wills, Trusts & Estates (Casebook), 7th edition 2005, Dukeminier (Aspen)

War on Drugs (Nilsen)
JD975 A1
An Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy, 2005, Boyum (National Book Network)

White Collar Crime (Wiebusch)
JD854 A1
Federal White Collar Crime: Cases & Materials, 4th Edition, O’Sullivan (West Law)

Wrongful Convictions (Fisher)
JD837 A1
*No Text Required*
Recommended:
Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell, 7th Edition, Israel (West Law)

First Year Book List
Fall 2009

All texts are required unless otherwise noted. Students should check CourseInfo and Blackboard 8 for a complete list of all required course materials. Materials may be available through CourseInfo, Blackboard 8 or FedEx/Kinko’s- whether supplemental to the texts listed below or in lieu of a text.

Section A (A1 All Courses) | Section A (A2 Contracts) | Section B (B1 All Courses) | Section B (B2 Contracts & Torts) | Section C (C1 All Courses)

Section A (A1 All Courses)

Civil Procedure (Collins)
JD873 (A1)
Civil Procedure: Cases & Problems, 4th Edition 2009, Babcock (Aspen)
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with Selected Statutes, Cases & Other Materials, 2009, Yeazell (Aspen)
The Buffalo Creek Disaster, 2008, Stern (Random House)
Recommended:
Introduction to Civil Procedure, 1st Edition 2005, Freer (Aspen)

Contracts (Farnsworth)
JD813 (A1)
Recommended:
The Legal Analyst: A Tool Kit for Thinking about the Law, 2007, Farnsworth (U Chicago)
* Additional Course materials available for purchase through FedEx/Kinko’s. *

Research & Writing Seminar I (Volk)
JD884 (A1)
Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 18th Edition, (Harvard Law Review)
Aspen Handbook for Legal Writers, 2nd Edition, 2009, Bouchoux
Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies, 4th Edition, Sloan (Aspen)
Recommended:
Elements of Style, 4th Edition, Strunk (Longman)

Torts (K. Hylton)
JD892 (A1)
Cases and Materials on Torts, 9th Edition, Epstein (Aspen)

Section A (A2 Contracts)

Contracts (W. Miller)
JD813 (A2)
Contracts: Problems, Cases & Materials, 1999, Miller (Carolina)

Torts (K. Hylton)
JD892 (A1)
Cases and Materials on Torts, 9th Edition, Epstein (Aspen)

Section B (B1 All Courses)

Civil Procedure (Farnsworth)
JD873 (B1)
A Civil Action, 1995, Harr (Random)
Recommended:
The Legal Analyst: A Tool Kit for Thinking about the Law, 2007, Farnsworth (U Chicago)
* Additional Course materials available for purchase through FedEx/Kinko’s. *

Contracts (Caruso)
JD813 (B1)
Cases & Comments on Contracts, 9th Edition, Dawson (West Law)
Death of Contract, Gilmore *Any Edition*
Contract Law: Selected Source Material, 2009 Edition, Burton (West Law)
Optional (on reserve in the Pappas Library):
Brian A. Blum, Contracts: Examples and Explanations, 3rd Edition, 2004
E. Allan Farnsworth, Contracts, 4th Edition, 2004
Robert Hillman, Principles of Contract Law, 2004

Research & Writing Seminar I (Volk)
JD884 (B1)
Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 18th Edition, (Harvard Law Review)
Aspen Handbook for Legal Writers, 2nd Edition, 2009, Bouchoux
Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies, 4th Edition, Sloan (Aspen)
Recommended:
Elements of Style, 4th Edition, Strunk (Longman)

Torts (Simons)
JD892 (B1)
Torts: Cases & Questions, 2nd Edition 2009, Farnsworth (Aspen)

Section B (B2 Contracts & Torts)

Contracts (W. Miller)
JD813 (B2)
Contracts: Problems, Cases & Materials, 1999, Miller (Carolina)

Torts (Fleming)
JD892 (B2)
Tort and Accident Law, 4th Edition, Keeton (West Law)

Section C (C1 All Courses)

Civil Procedure (Bone)
JD873 (C1)
Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach, 5th Edition 2009, Marcus (West Law)
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 2009, Clermont (West Law)
The Economics of Civil Procedure, 2003, Bone (West Law)
The Buffalo Creek Disaster, 2008, Stern (Random)

Contracts (Pettit)
JD813 (C1)
Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, 4th Edition, Barnett (Aspen)
Contract Law: Selected Source Materials, 2009, Burton (West Law)

Research & Writing Seminar I (Volk)
JD884 (C1)
Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 18th Edition, (Harvard Law Review)
Aspen Handbook for Legal Writers, 2nd Edition, 2009, Bouchoux
Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies, 4th Edition, Sloan (Aspen)
Recommended:
Elements of Style, 4th Edition, Strunk (Longman)

Torts (Moore)
JD892 (C1)
Tort Law: Responsibilities and Redress, 2nd Edition, Goldberg (Aspen)
Recommended:
Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations, 3rd Edition, Glannon (Aspen)