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8/14/2008 1:00 PM
Graham
6317-001
Banking Law -- Fall 2008
Professor Ann Graham
 
Textbooks:
 
Macey, Miller & Carnell -- BANKING LAW & REGULATION (3d. Ed.)
Macey, Miller & Carnell -- Statutory Supplement
 
Assignment for the First Day:
 
Historical Development of the U.S. Banking System
Reading:  Textbook -- pages 1-46
 
Banking Issues are all over the news these days.  We'll be considering some very current legal developments -- after we establish the basic regulatory framework.  See you Tuesday!
  
8/14/2008 1:00 PM
Professor Graham
6356--1 Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance -- Fall 2008
 
Professor Ann Graham
 
Assignment for First Class:  Textbook:  Thomas W. Joo, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE:  LAW, THEORY & POLICY (2004) -- Read the First Chapter.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing you all in class!
 
8/13/2008 7:00 PM
Professor Kwon
Advanced Income Taxation

Please read pages 1-15 and 22-24 from the casebook for the first day of class.  The casebook for this course is Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Taxation, Fourth Edition, Lind, Schwarz, Lathrope, and Rosenberg (2008).   

 

  
8/14/2008 8:00 AM
Professor Torres
Advanced Legal Research
Please read the following for first class (08/19)
 
1. ALR Syllabus
2. The Process of Legal Research (7th ed., 2008), pp. 5-25
3. Walder vs. State, 85 SW3rd 824 (2003)
4. Smith vs. Lewis, 530 P2d 589 (1975)
 
8/13/2008 3:00 PM
Professor Camp
Basic Federal Income Tax

Camp                                                Basic Federal Income Tax                                          Fall 2008

 

                               First Assignment

 

The instructions and materials for your first assignment are in a package of materials on the table in the second floor faculty commons area.  Please come to the first class having read the materials and followed the instructions.  The package also contains the Course Policy memo and the reading assignments and other handouts for the first part of the course.

 
8/11/2008 11:00 AM
Professor Casto
Business Entities

BUSINESS ENTITIES WILL NOT MEET MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH.  Our first day of class will be Tuesday, August 19th.  For the first day, read pages 1-13 of the Casebook.
 
8/13/2008 3:00 PM
Professor Camp
Civil Procedure

Camp                                               Civil Procedure - Section 4                                         Fall 2008

 

                        First Assignment

 

The instructions and materials for your first assignment are in a package of materials on the table in the second floor faculty commons area.  Please come to the first class having read the materials and followed the instructions.  The package also contains reading assignments and other handouts for the first part of the course.

  
8/11/2008 4:00 PM
Professor Laughlin
Civil Procedure

FIRST DAY OF CLASS NOTICE

CIVIL PROCEDURE B FALL 2008

LAUGHLIN

 

REQUIRED TEXTS

 

            Subrin, Minow, Brodin, Main, Civil Procedure B Doctrine, Practice, and Context, Third Edition (Aspen Publishers, 2008)        

           

            Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (LexisNexis 2008-09 ed.)

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS

 

What Students Should Know From the Start:  Case Book 1-10;

Practice Exercise 1 (pg. 68 of CB). 

 

COMPUTER USE

 

**No personal computers may be used during the class period.

 

SYLLABUS

 

            The syllabus for this class is available in the second floor office suite.
 
8/14/2008 4:00 PM
Professor Myhra
Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure 5405-003    

Professor Myhra

 

For the 1st day of class, please read Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 1 and pages 1-9 in the casebook.

  
8/12/2008 8:00 AM
Fernando Bustos
Civil Rights Law
The following is the reading assignment for the first day of class: Mon., Aug. 18, 2008: Skim Supp. pgs. 1-7 (handouts) Introduction - State Sovereign Immunity and Eleventh Amendment

Read Case Book pgs. 1-31

Required Reading: John C. Jeffries, Jr. et al, Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution (2007)

Michol O'Connor, O'Connor's Federal Rules-Civil Trials (2008)

Supplemental Materials (Bustos, Fall 2008)

The Supplemental Materials can be picked up at the administration office.
 
8/1/2008 10:00 AM
Professor Shannon
Contracts - Section 2

Prior to the first day of class read and study pp. 1-10 of the Burton casebook (through the middle of p. 10). You should brief the case. You also should find seating charts posted near the doors of our classroom (Room 105) prior to the first session. Please sit in the designated seat. Also, here is a link to the course syllabus:

Fall 2008 Contracts Syllabus.

 
8/12/2008 3:00 PM
Pawlowic
Contracts Sections 3 & 4

1. Please go to the class web page for your section of this course at MyTechLaw web site, courses tab, and down load:

(A) a copy of the syllabus, and

(B) the White v. Benkowski case handout.

2. For Monday, August 18, please read and prepare assignment number 1 on the syllabus, and brief White v. Benkowski.
 
8/12/2008 4:00 PM
Pawlowic
Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy

1. Please sign out a copy of the Statutory Supplement located in the secretarial area of the 3rd floor faculty suite. It contains Texas materials and excerpts from federal consumer protection statutes.

2. Go to the class web page for this class at MyTechLaw web site, courses tab, and download:

(A) the tentative syllabus, and

(B) Worksheet 1

3. For Monday, August 18, please read and prepare Worksheet 1 and the readings referenced therein.

  
8/12/2008 2:00 PM
Professor Bubany
Criminal Procedure

Criminal Procedure

Prof. Bubany

The first class will meet on Monday, August 18, at 9:00 a.m. in Room 153. In our first class, we will discuss the material at pp. 26-52 of our casebook, Israel, Kamisar, LaFave & King, Criminal Procedure and the Constitution (2008 ed.) For an overview of the criminal process, read pp. 1-25 that is designated as outside reading. A syllabus and assignment outline will be distributed in class
 
8/6/2008 5:00 PM
Professor Gonzalez
Employment Discrimination
The assignment for the first day of class in Employment Discrimination is to read pages xxvii-xxx and 761-787 from the Casebook.  The Casebook for the course is Cases and Materials on Employment Discrimination, Seventh Edition, Zimmer, Sullivan, and White, Aspen Publishers (2008).  A class supplement that I have prepared is available to be picked up at a table on the 3rd floor faculty offices prior to the first day of class.  The supplement contains class policies and rules, the complete list of class assignments, and the statutory materials that will be used during the course.
  
8/12/2008 3:00 PM
Professor Jeffery
Environmental Law

Environmental Law 6327-1

Fall 2008

MWF 8:00 – 8:50, Room 203

Bill Jeffery

 

            For our first day of class, please read pages 1-15 in Percival et al, Environmental Regulation:  Law, Science, and Policy (5th Ed., 2006) and come to class prepared to advocate in favor of, or opposed to, the following proposition:

 

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and offshore areas previously subject to the U.S. ban on offshore drilling should be opened to oil exploration and development.

 

If your last name begins with the letters A-L, come to class prepared to advocate on behalf of the supporters; if your last name begins with the letters M-Z, come to class prepared to advocate on behalf of opponents.

 

The ANWR issue is discussed in Percival at and pp. 53-59.  Additional information is available on the Internet.  The official site for ANWR is http://arctic.fws.gov/#.  Information from an advocacy group supporting drilling can be found at  http://www.anwr.org/.  Information from an advocacy group opposing drilling can be found at http://www.sierraclub.org/arctic/myths/.  What else can you find to support your position?

 

The offshore drilling issue has been widely discussed in the media following President Bush’s recent action rescinding the Executive Order banning offshore oil exploration and drilling in designated offshore areas.  What can you find to support your position?
 
8/15/2008 10:00 AM
Prof. Gerry W. Beyer
Estate Planning
Course information and the syllabus are available by following this link:
  
8/13/2008 1:00 PM
ASSOC. PROF. JOHN L. WATTS
EVIDENCE (LAW 6416-002)

FIRST WEEK ASSIGNMENTS

 

August 18 & 19: Introduction to Evidence

Chapters 1 

FRE 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 

 

August 21 & 22:   Relevance

Chapter 2, 17- 38 

FRE 401, 402, 403
 
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8/5/2008 4:00 PM
Professor Spain
Family Law
For the first day of class, read pp. 73-95 of the text for the course, Ellman et al., FAMILY LAW: CASES, TEXT, PROBLEMS and Sections 1.001-1.108 and 2.001-2.405 of the Texas Family Code.
 
The Syllabus for the course is attached.
  
8/11/2008 11:00 AM
Professor Casto
Federal Courts

FEDERAL COURTS WILL NOT MEET MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH.  Our first day of class will be Tuesday, August 19th.  For the first day, read pages ix-x and 326-27 of the Casebook.
 
8/6/2008 1:00 PM
Professor Ramirez
International Business Transactions

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

Course #:  6306-001

FALL 2008

Jorge A. Ramírez, Professor of Law

MWF 9:00-9:50 p.m., Room 202

 

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS:

 

1.             International Business Transactions (A Problem Oriented Coursebook  -  Ninth Edition), by Folsom, Gordon, Spanogle & Fitzgerald  (2006) ("Casebook");

 

2.             2006 Documents Supplement to International Business Transactions (A Problem Oriented Coursebook --  Ninth Edition), by Folsom, Gordon, Spanogle & Fitzgerald (2006)  (“Supplement”).

 

FIRST CLASS ASSIGNMENT:

 

Aug 18                Chapter 1 - Commerce or Isolation:  The Decision to Trade.

                        Chapter 2 – The Actors: The Nations and Institutions of International

Trade.

                        Chapter 3 - Forms of International Business.

                            Casebook pp. 2-22; 40-45                              (26 pages)

 

 

COURSE SYLLABUS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS.

 

 

  
8/14/2008 4:00 PM
Professor Myhra
Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence 6003-001                                            

Professor Myhra

 

For the 1st day of class, in the D’Amato Anthology, please read the Editor’s Preface and page 1.
 
8/1/2008 10:00 AM
Professor Shannon
Law & Psychiatry
The reading assignment for the first day, along with additional course information, is included in the syllabus:

Fall Law & Psych Syllabus

 
8/13/2008 6:00 PM
Professor Brie Sherwin
Law, Science, Policy & Scientific Evidence

Law, Science, Policy & Scientific Evidence

Fall 2008

Professor Brie Sherwin

Office #301     742-3990 ext. 319

brie.sherwin@ttu.edu

Class Location and Time: Room 202, MWF 12:00-12:50 p.m.

 

 

Monday 8/18 Assignment:

Casebook: pp.  xv-xvii (A Jurist’s Forward) and pp. 34-39 (Keynote Address, 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association)

 

Please also read the July 2008 ABA Journal article: “The Good, The Bad and The Tiny.”

The article is available on the My Tech Law class web site or in printed form on the 3rd Floor.

 

 

Wednesday 8/20 Assignment:

Casebook: pp. 26-34 and consider the following questions:

1.      How are “legal evidence” and “scientific evidence” similar?  Different?

2.      How are “precedent” in law and “precedent” in science similar?  Different?

3.      How are “proof” in law and “proof” in science similar?  Different?

Be prepared to discuss in class.

Required Text:

Sutton, Law & Science: Cases and Materials, 2001.
 
8/15/2008 12:00 PM
Professor Phillips
Legal Practice I - Sections 11 and 12
Please read the following chapters and articles for Monday:
 
Krieger, Chp. 2-3
"Top 10 Myths Regarding Legal Research and Writing"
"How To Excel In Law School: A Concise Guide"
 
You may find your readings on your class website:
 
Also, please register with TeachingLaw.Com (you will find registration instructions on your class website).
  
8/11/2008 3:00 PM
Professor Jeffery
Oil and Gas Law

Oil and Gas Law 6311-1

Fall 2007

MWF 11:00 – 11:50, Room 107

Bill Jeffery

 

            The syllabus for this semester is available on the table in the second floor faculty office area.  For our first day of class, please read pages 1-26 in Maxwell, Martin, & Kramer, Oil and Gas Cases and Materials (8th Ed., 2007) and be prepared to discuss the following hypothetical:

 

A new client of your law firm has come to your office with a problem she describes as “Somebody’s stealing my oil!”  During the initial interview, you learn the following information:

 

  • Your client and her neighbor each have a producing oil well on their respective properties.
  • Your client and her neighbor attended high school in small towns in West Texas and since purchasing adjoining properties they have been involved in a long and bitter rivalry over the football teams from their respective high schools.
  • Your client has learned that her neighbor recently completed a hydraulic fracture project at the neighbor’s well which significantly increased production from that well.
  • Your client thinks the additional oil being produced from the neighbor’s well is coming from your client’s property.

 

What advice do you give your client?  Why?

 
8/6/2008 1:00 PM
Professor Ramirez
Professional Responsibility

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

Course #:  6357-001

FALL 2008

Jorge A. Ramírez, Professor of Law

MWF 12:00-12:50 p.m., Room 109

 

 

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS:

 

1.             Problems in Legal Ethics, by M. Schwartz, R. Wydick, R. Perschbacher & D. Bassett (8th ed. 2007) ("Casebook"); 

 

2.             2008 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility,

                by Thomas D. Morgan and Ronald D. Rotunda  (Nov., 2007) (“Model Rules”).

 

 

FIRST CLASS ASSIGNMENT:

 

Aug 18            Introduction to Legal Ethics:  Moral Philosophy as an Ethical Guide.

Read:  Schiltz, Patrick J., “On Being a Happy, Healthy and Ethical

Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession,”

52 Vanderbilt Law Review 871 (1999) (10-page Handout of

selected excerpts emailed to each student and also available in the

2nd floor Faculty area);

                                    Read and be prepared to discuss Problems 1-2 (pp. 1-2

Casebook);

                                    Read Casebook pp. 2-3 ("How to Use This Book");

                                    Skim Casebook pp. 5-27 (beginning with “Utilitarianism”)

 

 

COURSE SYLLABUS AND OTHER HANDOUTS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS.

 

  
8/14/2008 10:00 AM
Prof. Gerry W. Beyer
Texas Estate Administration
Complete class information is available by following this link:
 
8/11/2008 5:00 PM
Adjunct Professor Gary R. Terrell
Texas Land Titles
As you may or may not know, there is not a published casebook for this course. Therefore, you will need to regularly check back to this Assignment Board to keep up with reading assignments. I will be lecturing during the first meeting on August 19, but you should locate and read the following cases before the second class period on Thursday (21st):
 
Simpson vs. Green, 231 S.W. 375
Stitzle vs. Evans, 12 S.W. 326
Garrett vs. Interstate Bank, 15 S.W. 224
Samworth vs. Hudson, 234 S.W. 423
Buhler vs. McIntire, 365 S.W.2d 237.
  
8/6/2008 5:00 PM
Professor Gonzalez
Texas Pretrial Civil Procedure
The assignment for the first day of class in Texas Pretrial Civil Procedure is to read Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 1, 3a, 814-822, Tex. Const. art. V Section 31, and Tex. Govt' Code Section 22.004.  The Texas Rules of Civil Procedure are in the O'Connor's book; the cited statutory and constitutional provisions are are in the Appendix to the Casebook.  Also read pages 1-23 in the Albright Casebook and page 5 in O'Connor's Texas Rules--Civil Trials 2008.  An overview of the Texas civil procedure system is provided in pages 1-5 of the Gonzalez supplement.  The Gonzalez supplement, which contains the class syllabus, list of class assignments, the motion docket assignment and other information will be available to be picked up on a table located on the 3rd floor faculty offices prior to the first day of class.
 
8/1/2008 11:00 AM
Dean Cochran
Torts

Please read DAN B. DOBBS & PAUL T. HAYDEN, TORTS & COMPENSATION: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INJURY (5th ed. 2005) pp. 2-16 (stop reading following Note 12 on p. 16) & pp. 21-34.  I do not allow laptop computers in Torts class.  Please brief your cases accordingly.

  
8/13/2008 1:00 PM
ASSOC. PROF. JOHN L. WATTS
TORTS (LAW 5404-001)

August 18 & 19: Tort Law: Aims, Approaches, and Processes

                Reading Tort Cases: Trial Procedures

 

Chapters 1 & 2  

 

August 21 & 22:   Battery

 

Chapter 3, section 1 
 
8/8/2008 4:00 PM
Professor Rosen
Torts Section # 2

First-day reading assignment (Monday, August 18):

 

Introduction (pages xxix—xxxiv) and Chapter 1 (pages 1—10) of Aaron D. Twerski & James A. Henderson, Jr., Torts: Cases & Materials (2d ed. 2008)

  
8/13/2008 6:00 PM
Professor Bard
Torts Section 4

Please do the following to be prepared for our first class:

 

 Bring paper and pen or pencil to class—we will be writing.

 

Buy (from the University Barnes & Noble or Varsity Books) your CPS RF Unit (“clicker) and activate it.

 

We will use them the first day to take attendance.

 

Sign on to TWEN.  This is the electronic class web page where I will be posting al assignments from now    on.  It is part of Westlaw so you will need your Westlaw password to access it and register for this class.  There is an assignment for you to complete already on TWEN.

 

If you have trouble “finding” it, consult one of the reference librarians.

 

Bring Vincent Johnson and Alan Gunn, Studies in American Tort Law (3rd Edition) (“The Casebook”) and Vincent Johnson, Mastering TORTS (“The Student Guide” or “The Green Book”) 

 

Read all pages assigned.  We will start with the material—no warm up.  You are responsible for ALL the material and cases in those pages—I will NOT be listing individual cases by name beyond the first two.   Start a vocabulary list and write down every word you do not know.  Look up these words in Black's Law Dictionary available in the library or on-line at http://dictionary.law.com

 

What does it mean to be prepared?

 

Be on time.  You can choose your own seat.

 

For every class be prepared to answer the following questions if called on (the very short note cases may not have all this information)

 

What is the Case’s name?

 

Where and when did the case take place?

 

What is the name of the Court it is in and what is the name of the Judge who wrote the opinion?

 

What is the “procedural posture of the case?” [Why does the court say it is hearing the case? (what is the legal reason that the parties are allowed to have their case heard in court?)—is it an appeal of a jury verdict?  An appeal of a pre-trial motion to dismiss or motion for summary judgment?]

 

What is the plaintiff’s version of what happened (the facts)?

 

How does the defendant’s version of the facts differ (if it does)?

 

What facts the court found relevant in making its decision?

 

How did the judge apply the facts to the law?

 

What is the Court’s decision (Who won?  What did they get?) 

 

What is the holding: [This is not who won.  The holding is the court’s take-home lesson.  The legal rule you’ve learned from the case.  Not just who won, but what the law is.  Example, Smith sues Jones for Trespass. Jones wins because the court finds that he went on Smith’s land without permission.  The holding is: Going on someone’s land without permission is Trespass.]

 

 

 

 

Specific reading assignments

 

August 18

The Concept of Intent

 

Mastering Torts, pp. 1-6; 15-16.

 

Studies in American Tort Law (The Casebook), Chapter One: Introduction, pp. 3-12;

Chapter Two, 12-15 (do not go on to section B.)

 

Vosburg v. Putney, 50 N.W. 403 (Wis. 1891) (p. 11)

 

Garratt v. Dailey, 279 P.2d 1091 (Wash. 1955)

 

 

August 20

BASIC INTENTIONAL TORTS

Mastering Torts, pp. 15-18

The Casebook, pp. 44-45 (don’t go on to section 3)

 

August 22nd

 

The Casebook, pp. 45-49 (don’t go on to section 4).

Mastering Torts, pp. 18-20

 

 

**Note—we will not be reviewing “Getting to Maybe” or any other optional material in class.  It is for you to read if you want to.
 
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8/15/2008 1:00 PM
Professor Castleberry
Water Law
For the first day, please read pages 1-32 from the textbook and the attached chapter from Total Water Management.
  
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8/14/2008 8:00 AM
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