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First Day Class Assignments

last update May 2006

OBSOLETE LIST!!! - updates expected the week of August 14th, 2006

The following assignments are to prepare you for the indicated classes using the materials shown. Be sure to check back frequently as this list will continue to expand through 5pm on Friday the 5th of May.

Business and State Issues in Environmental Law
Pages 11-41 and 51-76 of the text

Commercial Law
Negotiable Instruments Preface and Pages 1-7 of Whaley Problems and Materials on Payment Law 7th edition.

Constitutional Law
Read the Constitution

Criminal Law
Skim pages 3 - 50 in the casebook, The 2ND Edition of Kaplan, Weisberg's Criminal Law.

LARC I
Writing and Analysis in the Law, review table of contents and read pages 3-25. Read Supplement #1. Turn in one-page typed case brief from case discussed in orientation: Arguello-Gilliand v. Brinker Int’l, 2003 WL 21185484 (Tex. App. – Dallas, 2003).

LARC II
Legal Research for the Texas Practitioner - Chapter 1, The Bluebook - pp. 1-2

Property II
“The Typical Real Estate Transaction in Texas” (found at the beginning of the Supplement, part 2), Please review “Information on Agency Relationships” and “Residential Real Estate Listing Agreement”, which can be found in the Supplement after page 5-74.

Prosecutorial Externships
MANDATORY orientation, 4:30 pm, Monday, May 8, Serr's office (will last about 30 minutes)(be prepared to do a second orientation at the D.A.'s office immediately following).

Torts I
Casebook (“CB”) 1-16; 1261
Tip for first class: Think about the circumstances under which a person should be held responsible for injuries she causes to another. Note that, in Cohen, the trial court “took the case from the jury” and the plaintiff was not allowed to recover, whereas the plaintiff in Spano was given the chance to recover. What accounts for the different results reached in those two cases? Do you agree with the decisions reached by the two courts?

Voting Rights
Please read: Baker v. Carr 369 U.S. 186 (1962), Wesberry v. Sanders 376 US 1 (1964), Reynolds v. Sims 379 U.S. 870 (1964), Avery v. Midland County 390 U.S. 474 (1968), Hadley v. Junior College District 397 U.S. 50 (1970)

Class materials, syllabi, etc. for many of the Law School courses are now being posted on Blackboard (http://my.baylor.edu). If you have a class for which you do not see materials on Blackboard, you should check back periodically prior to the beginning of each class to see if materials have been placed there for those classes.

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