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Hello students and welcome back-

For the first class, please read the following:

1.  Order on Haddix/Tonka/PETA case (attached)

2.  Article on Case:  

3.  Captive Primate Safety Act - 

4.  Book, pp 32 (starting with NOTES) -45

Please be prepared to discuss on August 21st, thank you!

Please note that I am estimating what we will cover; actual coverage will be based on the pace of the class as we move through the materials.

The required texts are Field, Kaplan & Clermont, Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Procedure (14th ed. 2023) ("FKC") and West Publishing Co., Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Educational Edition (2024-2025).

For the first class, please read the following materials under the undersection B. 1. a. Stating the claim of the syllabus :  FKC: at 39-53;1282-1286; Rule 8(a),(c),(d) and (e); form 11.

For the second class, please read FKC at 53-60; 1314-1315; 1307-1310;1295-1297; Rules 9(b), 11

The casebook for this course is Feldman & Sullivan, Constitutional Law (21st ed.). The reading for the first class is:

U.S. Const. Amendments 1-X

Casebook pp. 459-67

August 20      

Introduction to the Course                                         

Historical Perspective - Chapter 1, pp. 1-16

Construction in the Ancient World, 19^th Century Transformational Events, Construction Dispute Resolution, Construction Law Scholarship

Participants in the Process - Chapter 2, pp. 17-33

Owner, Design Team, Contractor, Subcontractor, Supporting Cast, The Project Team

Textbook: Construction Law by Carol J. Patterson, Ross J. Altman, Stephen A. Hess, and Allen Overcash (Editors), ABA Publishing, Second Edition

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Contemporary Family Law Coursebook:

Families and Family Law in Contemporary America – Chapter 1

The American Family Today – pp. 1-10

• Problem 1-1 

An Introduction to Family Law Practice – pp. 56-60, 61-65 (skip Notes and Questions on pp. 60-61)

• Problem 1-5

Family Law Simulations Supplemental Book

Practicing Family Law - Chapter 1

1. Introduction -- V. Understanding Cultural Differences – pp. 1-12

• Professional Identity Formation
• Simulation #1

For our first class on Monday, Aug. 19, please read pp. 4-48, 51-64, and 72-78 in John H. Langbein, Renée Lettow Lerner & Bruce P. Smith, History of the Common Law: Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (Aspen Publishers, 2009).

Our first class is Monday, August 19^th at 8am.  The two required texts are: (1) Lind, Lathrope and Field, Fundamentals of Federal Income Taxation (20th ed. 2022) and (2) Selected Federal Taxation: Statutes and Regulations 2025 (or 2024) Edition.  Read chapter 1 and pages 39-56 of chapter 2.  We will focus (i.e., cover in class) on pages 18-32, 39-56.  Work problems 1 and 3 on page 56.  Please bring both texts to class.

Please note that I am estimating what we will cover; actual coverage will be based on the pace of the class as we move through the materials.

For the first two classes, please read the Aquinas selection on natural law beginning at page 52 of the required textbook:  Philosophy of Law (9th edition, 2014, edited by Joel Feinberg, Jules Coleman and Christopher Kutz) (“PL”).

August 20, 2024

Textbook:  Lawyering and Ethics for the Business Attorney

Scenario I, pages 1-13

Scenario III, pages 39-46

Scenario X, pages 187-196

Appendix, pages 231-247

Before our first class, you must:

(1) Log on and make sure you can access the MPT Matrix course site. You'll receive an email from Matrix with log-in information by Tuesday, August 20.

(2) Review the course syllabus posted on the MPT Matrix course under "Resources"

(3) Respond to the questions provided in my welcome e-mail, which you'll receive by Thursday, August 22.

Book: Renee Knake Jefferson et al., Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach,FifthEdition (West Academic Publishing 2023).

Additional requirement: American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which you can find :.

It’s important that you havehard copiesof both your textbook and the Rules.

First-Day Assignment:

1. August 19. Setting the Stage: Professionalism and Legal Ethics
1. What you need to read:

1. RKJ 1-23
2. Preamble to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct
   2. What you should think about:

    

3. What does “professionalism” mean and can it be taught/learned in a law school course? When you think of law practice, does it connote for you more of a “business” or a “profession”? (And what’s the difference between a business and a profession, anyway?)

1. Our first class (and, honestly, the whole course) will focus on “What is Privacy?” To start this discussion, I want each of you (individually) to submit a picture/image of what you think about when you think about “privacy.” This could be an image, graphic, or cartoon you find online, a photo you take, or drawing you make. You will not be graded on the "quality" of your selection, but it will be displayed in class and you may be asked to explain your choice. Please submit your photo to me by email (JLKOPLOW@gmail.com – I DO NOT check my SMU email) no later than Sunday, August 15 (and sooner is appreciated).

    

2. Watch the Black Mirror episode “The National Anthem” (season 1, episode 1) and come to class ready to discuss the privacy issues in the episode. There are mature themes in this episode (…and in most all of the episodes).

    

3. Read/skim one (or more) of the following:
   1. “” by Dan Solove in the Florida Law Review (forthcoming January 2025)
   2. “” by Woody Hartzog in University of Chicago Law Review (May 2021)
   3. “” by Kirk Nahra at Greenbag (Autumn 2019)

    

4. Finally, to encourage broad and free participation in class – and so that we are not all absorbed in our personal “black mirrors” – I do not allow laptops in class, nor recording of the lectures. If there is an SMU approved accommodation I will, of course, support that. I can record classes if there is conflict impacting multiple students, but otherwise ask that you obtain notes from a classmate if you are absent.

August 20, 2024

Textbook:  Securities Regulation (8th edition 2022)

Introduction

Pages 3-29 (skim)

Definition of a “Security”

Pages 31-58

For our first class on Tuesday 8/20, please read the following: 1) the syllabus (to be posted on Canvas shortly before the start of class); and 2) Farnsworth & Grady (Third Edition), pages xxvii-xxxix (the introduction).