first class assignment -- spring 2013 - Hastings College of the Law

January 11, 2013 (11:34am)
1ST YEAR -- FIRST CLASS ASSIGNMENT -- SPRING 2013
PROFESSOR COURSE NAME CURRENT DATE ASSIGNMENT DATE
BORNSTEIN 1ST YR: EMPLOYMENT January 2, 2013 January 11, 2013
The required casebook is Avery, Ontiveros, Corrada, Selmi & Hart, eds., Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and
Materials on Equality in the Workplace, 8th Edition (2010). In addition, you will be required to download a free statutory
supplement from a link that will be provided on your syllabus on the first day of class. On occasion, I will also provide
handouts of required reading related to statutory interpretation. Our first meeting is a two-hour class, so please come prepared
to discuss the reading.
For Friday, 1/11/13 - Overview of course; Theories of equality; The legislative process
• Please read casebook pp. 2-8. (If you will not have obtained the casebook prior to the first class meeting, there is a
copy available on course reserve in the library for you to use.)
• Please pick up and read the Class 1 Handout: Eskridge, et al., “he Story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the
Procedures of Statute-Creation.” The handout is available outside of my office, 200 McAllister Street, Room 329.
CARRILLO PROPERTY January 2, 2013 January 10, 2013
Dear Students, this course has a TWEN site. It will open on Monday, January 7, 2013. In advance of that date, here is some
relevant information. We will use the following casebook: Dukeminier et al, Property, 7th ed. ISBN 978-0-7355-8899-8.
The first reading assignment is, pp. 3-39. Once you register for TWEN, you will find a Unit #1 class outline and set of class
slides under Course Materials. Please bring those materials to class. A printed copy of the Syllabus will be distributed at the
first class. I look forward to meeting you all again. Professor Carrillo
DIAMOND CRIMINAL LAW December 20, 2012 January 10, 2013
Revised
The required casebook is Saltzburg, Diamond, Kinports, Morawetz and Little, Criminal Law - Cases and Materials (3d Edition,
2008) LexisNexis. There is a 2012 supplement to the Criminal Law casebook available free on line from the publisher,
LexisNexis.

Please read for the first class in the casebook, pp. 141-143; pp. 147-156 (including Jones v. United States); pp. 479-491
(including Lund v. Commonwealth).
DODGE CONTRACTS December 13, 2013 January 10, 2013
Please read: (1) Knapp, Crystal & Prince, Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials 1-17 (7th ed. 2012); and (2) the
following provisions from Knapp, Crystal & Prince, Rules of Contract Law (2012-2013)
• Restatement (Second) of Contracts §§ 1, 17
• Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) §§ 1-103, 1-201(3) & (12), 2-102, 2-105(1)
• U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) arts. 1, 2(a), 4, 6.
Please also consider Problem 1-1(B) on pp. 4-5 of the casebook, especially nos. 2, 4, 7, and 10.
FIELD 1ST YR: FEDERAL INCOME TAX December 19, 2012 January 11, 2013
For this course, we will use Freeland, Lathrope, Lind & Stephens, Fundamentals of Federal Income Taxation (16th ed., 2011)
[hereinafter, “FLLS”]. You MAY NOT use an earlier edition of the text.
We will also use the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) and the Treasury Regulations; in class, we will refer to the most current
edition (2013 edition) of Thomson/West’s Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations. You MAY use a slightly older
edition of the Code book (no earlier than the 2011 edition).
For the first class session (1/11/13), the assignment is as follows:
• Introduction - Please read pages 2-5, 5-17 (skim), and 48-50 in FLLS.
• Tax Legislative Materials - Please read IRC §1(a) and §61(a), and please skim the table of contents in the
statute/regulation book. Also, please read pages 17-21 in FLLS.
• Tax Administrative Materials - Please read IRC §7805(a) and Treasury Regulation § 1.61-1. Also, please read pages
21-22 and 29-31 in FLLS.
• Tax Judicial Materials - Please read pages 22-29 and 31-34 in FLLS.
Please sign up on the course webpage on TWEN: http://lawschool.westlaw.com/manage/homepage.aspx?courseid=126267.

GRAY 1ST YR: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW January 7, 2013 January 11, 2013
Environmental Law (Statutory Elective): Please familiarize yourself with the class web pages and read the first assignment,
which you may download from the Assignments page. Class web pages:
http://www.brianegray.org/1st_Year_Environmental_Law/Environmental_Law.html.
LEE, Evan CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I December 11, 2012 January 11, 2013
The required texts for this course are Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law (3d ed. 2009) (Aspen) and 2012 Supplement thereto.
The assignment for Friday, January 11, is pp. 1-11, “The Authority for Judicial Review.”
Please think about why American society should or should not want courts to be able to decline to enforce laws enacted by the
elected branches of government.
LESHY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I January 4, 2013 January 10, 2013
Please see Syllabus on Professor Leshy’s class website for 1st class assignment at:
http://www.uchastings.edu/academics/faculty/facultybios/leshy/classwebsite/index.php
MARCUS CIVIL PROCEDURE I January 2, 2013 January 10, 2013
Read G. Stern, The Buffalo Creek Disaster, and the assignment sheet (posted on my assignments webpage). The book for the
course is Marcus, Redish, Sherman & Pfander, Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (5th ed. 2009). If it is of interest, there
will be a new sixth edition next year. You should also get a copy of Levine, Civil Procedure in California.
OBASOGIE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I § 2 December 21, 2012 January 10, 2013
Our first meeting will be on Thursday, January 10th at 8:30AM in Room A. For our first session, please read pages 1-8 in the
assigned casebook (Constitutional Law, edited by Stone, Seidman, et. al., Sixth Edition, 2009) as well as Articles I - VII of the
United States Constitution.
RAPPAPORT CRIMINAL LAW January 4, 2013 January 10, 2013

Required Text: The primary text will be Kaplan, Weisberg, Binder, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2012).
Supplemental materials will be distributed by the professor either during class or on TWEN.
First class assignment: For the first class, please read pages 1-19 of Supplement #1. The Supplement is available through
TWEN (which can be accessed using your Westlaw password). The materials can be found under the folder entitled “course
materials.”
ROHT-ARRIAZA TORTS January 3, 2013 January 14, 2013
Please read and be prepared to discuss pp. 2-25; 43-51 and 62-78 (stop before sec. 2.03) in Vetri, Levine, Vogel and Gassama,
Tort Law and Practice, 4th ed. Please skim over pp. 26-43 re procedure sometime during the first week of class.
SHORT 1ST YR: LEGISLATION December 19, 2012 January 11, 2013
Class 1: Introduction to the Modern Administrative State (Friday, 1/11)
Read: Introduction [pp. 1-29 of the pdf], “No Vehicles in the Park Statute and Materials” on Prof. Short’s class website
at:
http://www.uchastings.edu/academics/faculty/facultybios/short/classwebsites/legislation-statutory-interp/Casebook_Introducti
on.pdf
Class exercise: Is a tricycle a “vehicle” covered by the statute?
WILLIAMS PROPERTY January 2, 2013 January 14, 2013
Revised 1/11/13:
Buy the reader by clicking on the link in the email I will send you on January 8 (or shortly before). For Monday January 14,
read pp. 1 - 37. Class is canceled on Wednesday, January 16; instead, we will have a make-up class in room B on Friday,
January 18 from 1:10 - 3:20. (Please put it on your calendar.)