UMKC SCHOOL OF LAW FIRST DAY ASSIGNMENTS Spring 2008

as of January 14, 2008

Keep Checking - Assignments will be posted on an on-going basis.  


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 8500s

ASSIGNMENTS

8502C
Contracts II
Abdel-khalik

Welcome back. We will be continuing our study of Contracts using the same textbook and statutory supplement: Knapp, Crystal, Prince's Problems in Contract Law (6th ed. 2007) and Burton & Eisenberg's Contract Law: Selected Source Materials 2007 ed. The first day's reading assignment is pg. 349 - 361. Introduction to Interpretation and the Joyner v. Adams case. Sometime before school or during the first week, please also review your notes regarding Parol Evidence Rule, as it will make your study of interpretation a bit easier.

8513
Defamation, Privacy & Emotional Torts
Levit

For our first class, please read page 345 and then skip over to page 382 and read from page 382-to HIRPA on 391 in Dan Dobbs & Paul Hayden, Torts and Compensation (5th ed. 2005).
Syllabus located at  http://www1.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/levit/DefamationPrivacy/spring08/Syllabus.htm

8521A
Civil Procedure I
Berman

Read and be prepared to discuss: An Outline of the Procedure in a Civil Action in your Federal Rules of Civil Procedure book, pages XVII-XXVII (up to and including subparagraph 12).
Enroll in my LexisNexis web course, which provides a course syllabus, including assignments and discussion questions; and course documents. The assignments section does not have a daily/weekly breakdown of coverage. After each class session I will provide you with the anticipated course coverage projection for the next session.
Step 1: Go to the law school homepage at  http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/Login.asp
Step 2: Enter your ID number (your Lexis number)
Step 3: Click on Web Courses
Step 4: Click on Launch Web Courses
Step 5: Click on Courses
Step 6: Click on Browse Course Catalog
Step 7: Click on Missouri , University of-Kansas City
Step 8: Click on Civil Procedure I-Berman.

8521B
Civil Procedure I
Grover

Marcus, Redish and Sherman, Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach pp. 98-108

8521C
Civil Procedure I
Achtenberg

Handout 1) Elements of a Civil Procedure Decision Brief
Handout 2) One Way of Looking at a Holding
Handout 3) Pennsylvania Railroad v. Chamberlain
For the first day of class, please study the first two handouts carefully. When you have done so, please read Chamberlain and brief it thoroughly using the suggested format.
If you have any questions, call me at 235 2382, e-mail me at achtenbergd@umkc.edu , or come by my office in the Holmes Suite. If it is during the break, e-mail or phone will be best.

8532
Intro to Law II
Section I - Intro Plus

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
1st class
Topic: Road Mapping: Basic Organizing Principles
Assignment: Clary Preface, Ch. 1 & 8-11
2nd class
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

8532
Intro to Law II
Section II - Intro Plus

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
1st class
Topic: Road Mapping: Basic Organizing Principles
Assignment: Clary Preface, Ch. 1 & 8-11
2nd class
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

8532
Intro to Law II
Section III

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

Workshops: Appellate Processes & Standard of Review

Additional Required Class: Computer-Assisted Legal Research – Part I Schedule on syllabi. If a conflict with class, Flex students may attend any session that fits their schedule.

8532
Intro to Law II
Section IV

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

Workshops: Appellate Processes & Standard of Review

Additional Required Class: Computer-Assisted Legal Research – Part I Schedule on syllabi. If a conflict with class, Flex students may attend any session that fits their schedule.

8532
Intro to Law II
Section V

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

Workshops: Appellate Processes & Standard of Review

Additional Required Class: Computer-Assisted Legal Research – Part I Schedule on syllabi. If a conflict with class, Flex students may attend any session that fits their schedule.

8532
Intro to Law II
Section VI Intro Plus
 

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
1st class
Topic: Road Mapping: Basic Organizing Principles
Assignment: Clary Preface, Ch. 1 & 8-11
2nd class
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

8532
Intro to Law II
Section VII

First day Assignments
All classes will meet for the first time in Room 2 on Friday, January 11, 2007
Section A – 1:00 p.m.
Section B – 11:00 a.m.
Section C – 9:00 a.m.

Topic: Legal Research on the Internet
Assignment: Missouri Legal Research, Chapter 9.

Week of January 14th
Topic: Appellate Processes & Standards of Review
Assignment: Neumann, Ch. 31 & 33

Workshops: Appellate Processes & Standard of Review

Additional Required Class: Computer-Assisted Legal Research – Part I Schedule on syllabi. If a conflict with class, Flex students may attend any session that fits their schedule.

8532I
Introduction to American Legal Skills
Thomas

Please read pages 3-41 from “Essential Lawyering Skills” (3rd Edition) by Krieger & Neumann.

8542A
Property II
Belian

We continue with the same casebook. Reading assignment for the first day of class is pp. 453-454; skim the contract on pp 454-462; read pp 462-472. Also, the new TWEN site will be up soon, and you’ll need to sign up for it when it becomes available.

8542B
Property II
Carbone

I will be out of the country on January 10th and the class scheduled for that day will not meet. The first class will be on Tues. January 15th. The assignment is The Land Sale Contract, pp. 453-472.

 8600s

ASSIGNMENTS

8603
Taxation of Business Organizations
Hoyt

Syllabus located at www1.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/Hoyt/TaxBusOrg/spring2008/syllabus.pdf 

8611
Estates & Trusts
Belian

The casebook is Dukeminier’s Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 7th Edition, by Aspen Publishers. Reading assignment for the first day of class is pp. 30-40, plus Mo. Stat. 473.050. Also, the TWEN site for this semester will be up soon, and you’ll need to sign up for it when it becomes available.

8614
Estate Planning & Drafting
Hanna

Please read pages 1-20, Chapter 1 in Price on Contemporary Estate Planning.

8621A
Evidence
Eckhardt

First Day Assignment:  Pick up Syllabus in Cardozo Suite.
In Evidence under the Rules (5th ed) by Mueller and Kirkpatrick read:
Week #1 and #2
Introduction to Evidence and Judicial Notice
Chapter I (pp. 1-49): Very important
Chapter 11 (pp. 733-755)
Problems 1-A. 11-A,11-B,11-C,11-D, 11-H.

8621B
Evidence
Thompson

Please read pages 1-16 in Evidence by George Fisher (Foundation 2002).

8631A
Constitutional Law I
Linder

Assignment for our first session, January 10, 2008:
For our first class, read the United States Constitution. The Constitution can be found, among other places, on our Con Law I website. You can access the website by doing a Google search for “exploring constitutional law”—it should be the first site listed—or by using the link below:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/home.html 
Identify those provisions that (1) confer powers on the federal government, (2) confer powers on state governments, or (3) confer powers on individuals. Also identify those provisions that (1) restrict the powers of the federal government, (2) restrict the powers of state governments, or (3) restrict the powers of individuals. What seem to be the primary functions of our Constitution? Are there some provisions of the Constitution that do not seem to fit into any of the categories listed above?
All course materials, including a course syllabus, are posted online at our course website, “Exploring Constitutional Law.”

8631B
Constitutional Law I
Rostron

There is a website for this class, with the title “Constitutional Law I - Section B,” set up on Westlaw’s TWEN (The West Education Network) system. Please go to www.lawschool.westlaw.com and register yourself for the course.
There is no textbook for this course. Instead, there is a set of materials that you can purchase from Roo Prints in the law library or you can download from the course’s TWEN website and print for yourself. (It’s 480 pages long, and probably costs only about $25 to $30 to purchase it.)
You’ll see that the first twelve pages of the reading materials (pp. i-xii) are a copy of the Constitution’s text. You do not need to read those pages for class, but they are included at the beginning of the reading materials so that you can refer to them throughout the semester when necessary.
For the first class (which will be on Friday, January 11th), please read “Assignment A” of the reading materials (in other words, pages A-1 through A-14).

8631C
Constitutional Law I
Kobach

Please read CASEBOOK, Appendix A (The U.S. Constitution).
Gerald Gunther and Kathleen Sullivan, Constitutional Law, 16th Ed.

8632
Constitutional Law II
Rostron

There is a website for this class, with the title “Constitutional Law 2,” set up on Westlaw’s TWEN (The West Education Network) system. Please go to www.lawschool.westlaw.com and register yourself for the course.
The textbook is called “American Constitutional Law – Volume 1 – Constitutional Structures – Separated Powers and Federalism.” The authors are Louis Fisher and David Gray Adler. The publisher is Carolina Academic Press. We are using the 7th edition, published in 2007.
Please note that the book you need is volume 1. It is a soft-cover book and costs about $40 for a new copy. There is also a volume 2 by the same authors called “American Constitutional Law – Volume 2 – Constitutional Rights – Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.” That is not the right book; you need volume 1. There is also a larger, hard-cover book by the same authors called “American Constitutional Law,” which costs about $100. It contains all the material from volume 1 that we’ll be using, but it also contains volume 2 which you don’t need, so you might as well just buy volume 1 only because it’s less expensive (and also lighter to carry). If you buy the book online, be sure you’re getting the 7th edition – it has a green cover (the 6th edition was red).
For the first class (which will be on Thursday, January 10th), please read pages 79-84.

8635
Criminal Procedure I
O'Brien

Syllabus located at www.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/OBrienlinks.htm 

8636
Criminal Procedure II
Berger

Assignment for first class: Kamisar, et al, Modern Criminal Procedure (11th ed. with latest supplement)- Read pages 788-803 on your own, and for class discussion read pages 804-821.

8636A
Applied Federal Criminal Procedure & Evidence
Larsen

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Time Table for Lawyers in Criminal Cases (pp. 2-12) United States Attorneys' Manual, Juveniles Practice Guide for Defending a Federal Criminal Case, Chapter 1 - Overview of a Federal Criminal Case, The System of Government, Origins & Sources of Law, and  Limitations on Criminal Law

United States Attorneys' Manual, Juveniles Practice Guide
Defending A Federal Criminal Case
Limitations on Criminal Law
Origins and Sources of Law
The System of Government

8650
Race and the Law
Thompson

Please read pages 1-35 in Critical Race Theory, Second Edition by Dorothy A. Brown (West 2007).

 8700s

ASSIGNMENTS

8700
Trial Advocacy I
All Sections

Syllabus (revised)
Introduction to Trial Advocacy
Course Information and Student Exercises
State of Missouri v. John Harper

8707A
Advanced Legal Writing - Practical Skills
Fulkerson

Read Ray & Cox, Beyond the Basics, Chapter 1 and Pages 250-251

8707C
Advanced Legal Writing - Litigation Drafting
Connor

Read Ray & Cox text, chapters 1 and 2, chapter 2 exercises 1 and 2.

8707E
Advanced Legal Writing: R&W Writing
Hall
MacLachlan
Weddle

Volokh, pp. 1-38; Fajans, 1-45

8711
Remedies
Wilson

For Monday, January 14, 2008 please read pp. 1-9 in the Rendelman text, Remedies: Cases and Materials (West 7th ed. 2006).

8714
Gender & Justice
Levit

For our first class, please read and be prepared to discuss pages 1-25 in Mary Becker, Cynthia Grant Bowman, and Morrison Torrey’s Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously (third edition West 2007), pages 1-7 in Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer (paperback edition New York University Press 2006), and Barbara Ehrenreich’s article, Why We Lost the ERA, in the supplementary materials that will be available from Roo Prints in the Law School during the third week of December. The supplementary materials packet contains a syllabus with reading assignments for the remainder of the course.

8720
Secured Transactions
Hoffmann

Text information – Students may substitute any statutory supplement that has (a) the entire current Uniform Commercial Code, (b) the Bankruptcy Code, and (c) the Uniform Certificate of Title Act
1/10/08 Assignment 1 All Problems
1/15/08 Assignment 2 Problems 2.1-2.4
1/17/08 Assignment 3 Problems 3.1-3.4

8721
Commercial Transactions
Abdel-khalik

This class will take a problem based approach to evaluating payment systems, including the checking system, credit cards, debit cards, electronic fund transfers, and letters of credit. The main text for this class is Mann's Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions (3rd ed. 2006), and the statutory supplement is Comprehensive Commercial Law (2007 Statutory Supplement) by Mann, Warren, and Westbrook. The casebook is arranged into assignments. Each assignment has general material on a topic (like a mini-treatise entry) and several problems that are designed to ensure that students dig deeply into the relevant code and learn to apply the various provisions. In fact, you cannot get a full understanding of the material without working through the problems. There is a list of relevant provisions at the end of each problem, which you should review and use to prepare your answer.
To prepare for the first day of class, please read pages 1-6 as background material. In class, we will cover Assignment 1 (pg. 7-18) and will discuss Problems 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.

8729
Preservation Law
Ragsdale

Please read section I, volume I of Materials "Tom Outlands' Story" by Willa Cather.

8733E
Elder Law
Kisthardt

Please read and be prepared to discus pages 1-20, 25-30, 35-40 & 44-47 in the text. We will be using Dayton, Wood & Belian, Elder Law: Readings, Cases and Materials, 3rd ed. Lexis/Nexis 2007 ( ISBN # 1-4224--0794-2) and Elder Law: Statutes and Regulations, 3rd ed. Lexis/Nexis 2007 ( ISBN# 0-8205-6880-5).

8733R
Juvenile Offenders and the Law
Raith

Read pp 1-47 of text (Feld, Juvenile Justice Administration 2nd ed.)

8734
Mediation
Kisthardt

Please read and be prepared to discuss pages 1-32 in the text. We will be using Alfini, Press, Sternlight & Stulberg, Mediation Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. Lexis/Nexis 2006 ( ISBN # 0-8205-7021-4)

8738P
Immigration Law & Policy
Kobach

Required texts:
Aleinikoff, Martin, & Motomura, IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP: PROCESS AND POLICY (West, 5th ed., 2003) (“Aleinikoff”); and Aleinikoff, Martin, & Motomura, IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES: SELECTED STATUTES, REGULATIONS, AND FORMS (West, 2005) (“INA”).
Additional readings indicated below (available on TWEN) can be downloaded from the course website on Westlaw’s TWEN (The West Education Network) system.
Please go to www.lawschool.westlaw.com and register yourself for the course, or it is available in Roo Prints in the law library.
I. Introduction—Normative Justifications for US Immigration Controls
● Aleinikoff: 1-14, 210-237.
Schuck, CITIZENS, STRANGERS, AND IN-BETWEENS: ESSAYS ON IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP, 4-11, 139-48.
Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, Who Left the Door Open?, TIME, Sept. 20, 2004.

8740M
Missouri Civil Procedure
Achtenberg

1. Enroll in the Missouri Civil Procedure Lexis-Nexis webcourse. If you have any difficulty enrolling, please let me know.
2. Once you have enrolled, familiarize yourself generally with the various files in the Course Documents section of the webcourse.
    a. Check out all the links in the Missouri Law Links folder. These will provide you with much of the material we will study in the course and you will need to know how to find things through these links. You may want to save them as favorites on your own computer. If you have difficulty accessing the links or copying them into your favorites, download the word document at the end of the folder, “Word Document with Links,” and then copy the links from that document.
    b. Look at the files in the Case Summaries folder. I have given you forms for case summary charts in both Word and Excel format. I have also provided some sample summaries. Finally, I have given you the list of “Topics” to be used to classify your entries.
3. Once you are familiar with these parts of the webcourse, do the following project:
    a. Find the case of Brungard v. Risky's Inc. It was decided by the Missouri Supreme Court on 12/18/2007. Find it first in the Supreme Court’s official website, then using Westlaw, then try to find it using MoBar ESQ. (Hint: for ESQ, look in the archived summaries and do a search for Brungard.) Then find and listen to the oral arguments in the case. (It was argued on 11/6/07. You can find the oral arguments in the “Upcoming Cases” portion of the Supreme Court’s web site.)
    b. Read the case carefully trying to decide what it teaches you about Missouri Civil Procedure.
    c. Then, download one of the Case Summary forms and make the entries you would make for the case. If you have Excel, use the Excel form. It is easier to use than the Word form and easier to search and sort later. Do not worry if you are not sure that you are doing it right. That is how you will learn.
4. Finally, go back to the Course Documents section of the webcourse and look at the Chapters folder. Download (and, if you want, print) the chapter on Standards of Review. Study pages 1-5 (Anglim) and answer the questions after the case. If I were you, I would answer them in the Word file itself (either putting your answers after the questions or inserting them as Word comments).

8743
Comparative Law
Picker

8751
Family Law
Carbone

FIRST CLASS ASSIGNMENT (THURS. JAN. 10TH)
  I will be attending a wedding in Argentina on January 10 (ask me for a report on my field research on comparative wedding practices when I return!)
  Professor Glesner-Fines will use the first class period to introduce a premarital negotiation exercise that I have always included as part of the Family Law course. You will have the option of using the class period to begin the negotiation or scheduling a meeting outside of class time to do so. If you want to take advantage of the class period to begin the actual negotiation, it would be helpful find a partner before the class (or arrive a few minutes early and find another eager participant), and come to class having carefully reviewed the entire exercise, so that you can prepare your pre-negotiation memo during class time. You are also welcome to schedule the negotiation for another time. The completed assignment will not be due until February 5th.
  The readings for the negotiation exercise include an eighteen page handout, and a relatively short reading from the text. I will spend a later class on the law governing pre-marital agreements so don’t feel you need to be an expert before you begin the negotiation.
Pre-marital Agreement Exercise available here.
SECOND CLASS ASSIGNMENT (TUES. JAN. 15TH)
Read pp. 3-30 in the text.

8751S
Seminar in Family Violence
Glesner Fines

Please review the course web page at www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/bgf-dv.htm
For the first class, please purchase the course supplement in Roo Prints and Study the MCDAV handbook : The Nature & Dynamics of Domestic Violence in the first section of the supplement . Also read text pages one - 37.

8752G
Guardian Ad Litem Workshop
Glesner Fines O'Malley

Please reserve January 12 from 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM for orientation and training session .

8757N
Entrepre neurship & New Venture Creation
Luppino

First Day (Thursday, January 17) Assignment:
Read: (1) Course Syllabus; (2) Introduction pages xvii-xxi in the BODDE book; and (3) Pages 1-26 in the TIMMONS & SPINELLI book. Also, skim the List of Potential Projects and read the related 2-page Memo re: Nondisclosure Agreements. The materials other than the textbooks will be posted on the Blackboard site for the course by January 7 (students will receive an e-mail on how to access the site).
NOTE: Because of the schedules of the Bloch (Business) and Engineering Schools, the first meeting of this interdisciplinary class will be on Thursday, January 17.

8764
Administrative  Law
Eckhardt

First Day Assignment: Pick up Letter in Cardozo Suite.
Please read in Administrative Law: A Casebook (6th ed.) by Schwartz:
Week #1 and #2
Chapter I. Administrative Agencies and Administrative Law (pp. 1-51).

8765
Federal Jurisdiction
Wolfe

Before the first class, you must register for TWEN!!!
For the first class, please temporarily forget everything you know or believe about the role and responsibility of the federal courts. Then, read the following materials:
Article III of the Constitution
Federalist Papers 78, 80 and 82

The Federalist Papers are available on the TWEN page for this class. Article III of the Constitution may be found in the book – and if you do not yet have a book, I am sure you can find it somewhere.

As you read these materials, consider and be prepared to answer the following question: If you were solely responsible for deciding the functions and powers of the judicial branch for the United States at the time the Constitution was being debated, how would you alter Article III?

8769
Law & Poverty
Glesner Fines

Please review the course web page at www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/bgf-pov.htm  and be prepared to assist in choosing topics and learning methods for the course

8783
Natural Resources Law
Ragsdale

Please read text Coggins p. 1-29.

8798
Copyright Law
Stroder

There is no advance reading due for the first session. A syllabus will be distributed in class, with the reading assignments.

 8800s

ASSIGNMENTS

8813P
Equal Employment Practicum
Grover

No first-day reading assignment.

8814R
Employment Law Seminar
Berger

Assignment for first week: Rothstein and Liebman, Cases and Materials on Employment Law (6th ed.) - Read pp. 2-59; 65-77.

8815T
Drug & Medical Technology Torts
Holman

Please read pages 1-19 and 35-43 in Noah, Law, Medicine and Medical Technology, Second Edition (Foundation Press 2007).

8820
Criminal Trial Techniques
Wyrsch
Hobbs

Text information – Missouri Criminal Trial Practice by James R. Wyrsch, Susan Hunt & Hon. Anthony Nugent and is out of print, but available on reserve in the Law Library
Missouri Criminal Trial Practice, Ch. 2, 6, 7, 12

8832
International Trade and Finance
Picker

Syllabus located at www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/Picker/internationaltrade/spring08/syllabus.pdf 

8845
Deferred Compensation
Hoyt

First Class Handout located at
www1.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/Hoyt/DeferredCompensation/spring2008/firstclasshandout.pdf 
Syllabus located at www1.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/Hoyt/DeferredCompensation/spring2008/syllabus.pdf

8861
Real Estate Finance
Randolph

The assignment for the first two days of class consists of pages 99-116 in the casebook and Handouts One and Two, which are available in the Cardozo/Marshall Suite. You should also review the forms at the back of the casebook beginning at page 1199. The primary focus will be on those documents ending at 1217, but you should look at the other forms as well so you know what is there.
We will be referring to these forms regularly, and one of the handouts will direct your attention to them as well. The class syllabus is also available from my assistant, Nancy Kunkel.

8868
Trusts: Planning, Drafting, Administering & Litigating
Hanna

Please read pp. 485-506, Chapter 8 in Wills, Trusts and Estates, 7th ed., by Dukeminier, Johanson, Lindgren and Sitkoff.

8870R
Governmental and Legal Aspects of Education
Weddle

Biegel, pp. 1-10; 12-19; 22-29; 36-46
Assigned (Law Students): Bring two copies of the key provisions of Kansas and Missouri “safe school acts” and be prepared to explain and discuss their provisions.

8882
Patent Law
Holman

Please read pages 1-35 of Merges & Duffy, Patent Law & Policy, Fourth Edition (LexisNexis 2007).

8882R
Patent Prosecution
Dickey
Lewis

Text information – texts are required, but materials also available online
Read Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) Sections 608.1 and 608.2

8888R
Partnership Taxation
Luppino

First Day (Tuesday, January 15) Assignment:
Read Memorandum Re: Overview of Partnership Taxation and Course Syllabus (both will be available in Whittaker Suite and on Blackboard Site by January 3)
Note: There is no January 10 Class Session; the First Class Session will be January 15.

8895
The Jury: Practice and Perspectives
Linder

Assignment for our first session, January 16, 2008:
We will discuss the origins of the jury system and the powers and rights of juries. Read Hans & Vidmar, "The Evolution of the American Jury" (from Judging the Jury), Duncan v Louisiana, United States v Dougherty, and the other short pieces relating to the jury’s powers (including jury nullification) found on the outline linked below. All of the materials assigned for this first session are available on the course website.
An outline for the course can be accessed from the link below:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/juryseminar/syllabus2007.html 
(The outline above includes more topics that we will be able to cover in a one-credit course, but all of the readings you will be assigned will be drawn from those listed on the outline.)
Printed materials for the course are available for purchase from Roo Prints.

8898
Construction Law
DeBauche

Most of the class materials will be available on the TWEN system. The syllabus and materials will be updated shortly. You should read Hart and Son Hauling, Inc. v. MacHaffie, 706 S.W.2d 586 (Mo.App. 1986) for the first class session, which is on the TWEN system for this class from last year.
The other reading for the first day of class is the “Construction Supervision” article from Construction Briefings, Second Series, September, 1993 issue, No. 93-10. This article will be available in a limited set of bound materials which will be for sale at the CLE office shortly after January 1.