Initial Assignments Summer 2013

Advanced Research   LAW 684-03  Professor Newcombe
1st
Class		 Read pages 5-63 from Mark K. Osbeck's, Impeccable Research:  A Concise Guide to Mastering Legal Research Skills.    PDF available on our TWEN coursepage.
Child, Family, State   QWC 788-03  Professor Kaiser
 1st Class Please sign on to TWEN site for this course.  Under the link "Course Materials," you will find a document called "Court Investigator's Report."  This report summarizes the background of the simulation we will be doing this summer. Read report carefully.  On first day of class, you will be assigned to represent the Dept. of Children and Families, the mother or the child during the course of the simulation.  I will give you an opportunity to state a preference for which party you would like to represent before making the assignments, so read with that opportunity in mind.
Estate Planning  QWCS 723-51 (on-line)  Professor Baker
 1st
 Class		 May 20th -  Introduction to the Law of Wills and Trusts; Introduction to the Law of Estate and Gift Taxation; Introduction to Estate Planning

Reading:  Shaffer, Chapters 1, 2, 3
Estate PLanning Information Booklet
Objectives
Confidential Client Questionnaire
Confidential Information Form
Asset Form
Suggested Reading:  Pernell, Chapter 1
Price Chapters 4, 10
Shaffer, Chapters 4, 5
For students who have never taken a course in Trusts & Estates, skim Pennell,
Chapters 2-14.
International Military Conflict and the Law  LAW 613-03  Professor Statchen
1st Class

 Introduction (pp. ix-xii)
Forward (pp. xv-xvi)
Chapter 1:  (pp 1-7) Conduct of War
Treaty With Sioux Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands (TWEN) (3 pp) pay attention to ART IV.

Chapter 1: (pp 18-31 (Detention of POWs))
US v. Batchelor, 22 CMR 144 (1956) [Posted on TWEN, 7 pp; case dealing with U.S. soldier during Korean War charged with aiding the enemy while held in captivity]

1955 Executive Order with Code of Conduct fo Members of the Armed Forces (TWEN) 2 pp

(Online Video) Hitlers Courts:  Betrayal of Rule of Law in Nazi Germany
(http://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep1814) (58 minutes)
Professional Responsibility   LAW 575-03  Professor Chapman
1st Class Textbook (Professional Responsibility Pages 1-30 and 46-62
Religion and the Constitution   LAW 790-03 Professor Harpaz
1st Class There is no reading material to purchase for this course.  All reading materials for the course are posted on the course web page as a series of PDFs.  Please go to www.wneclaw.com.  At the top of the page, you will see a link for Religion & the Constitution.  Once there you will see the assignments for the first week (3 classes).  The assignments contain links to the reading material for those assignments. 

Please read pages 1-31 in advance of the first class.



 
Remedies   LAW 731-03  Professor Orlen
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