PROPERTY A SPRING 2015
COURSE PAGE
Professor Marc Fajer
Law Library Room G280
mfajer@law.miami.edu
Assistant: Tina Sutton
Law Library Room G287
305-284-4241
tsutton@law.miami.edu
Dean's Fellow: David Jarzabek
602-505-8792 (Text Only Please)
Dean's Fellow Sessions: Complete
STATUS OF GRADING (5/18 @ 9:00 am)
455 373 279 230 164 72
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Currently processing numbers & proofreading spreadsheet entries, then will submit grades.
GRADING TASKS
QUESTION I (Order of the Phoenix)
1st Read 24 0
2d Read 54 0
QUESTION IIA (Philosopher's Stone)
1st Read 20 0
2d Read 45 0
QUESTION IIB (Prisoner of Azkaban)
1st Read 20 0
2d Read 43 0
QUESTION IIC (Chamber of Secrets)
1st Read 22 0
2d Read 50 0
QUESTION IID (Deathly Hallows)
1st Read 19 0
2d Read 39 0
QUESTION III (Goblet of Fire)
1st Read 15 0
2d Read 30 0
QUESTION IV (Half-Blood Prince)
1st Read 37 0
2d Read 37 0
COURSE MATERIALS & HANDOUTS
Syllabus (Complete) (Updated 4/5)
Assignment Sheet (Complete) (Revised & Updated 4/5)
Supplemental Material: Chapter 1 -Complete
Supplemental Material: Chapter 2
Supplemental Material: Chapter 3
Supplemental Material: Chapter 4
Supplemental Material: Chapter 5 (Minor Correction to S137 3/31)
Supplemental Material: Chapter 6 (Pages S156-57 added 4/5)
INFORMATION MEMOS
Information Memo #1 (Course Info)
Information Memo #2 (Chapter 1)
Information Memo #3 (Chapter 2)
Information Memo #4 (Chapter 3)
Information Memo #5 (Chapter 5)
Information Memo #6 (Chapter 6)
POWER POINT SLIDES FROM COMPLETED CLASSES
FRI JAN 16 SLIDES (Intro to Subject Matter & Course Requirements; Jacque & DQs1.01-1.02)
TUE JAN 20 SLIDES (Jacque (cont’d) & DQs1.01-1.02; Start Intro to Shack)
THU JAN 22 SLIDES (Approaching Second Semester; Intro to Exam Q2; More Intro to Shack & DQs1.05-1.07)
FRI JAN 23 SLIDES (Shack (cont’d), 1971, DQs1.07-1.11 & 1.13)
TUE JAN 27 SLIDES (Shack (cont’d), Application of Shack Generally, DQs1.12-1.15(a))
THU JAN 29 SLIDES (Intro to Use of Statutes; Application of Shack (cont’d), DQs 1.15(a) & (b), Rev. Prob. 1A)
FRI JAN 30 SLIDES (Rev. Probs 1A & 1B; Florida MW Statutes & DQ1.16-1.19(a))
TUE FEB 3 SLIDES (Intro to Exam Q1; Florida MW Statutes & DQ1.16-1.19(b)-(d); Property Open to the Public & DQ1.20-1.21; Intro to Brooks & DQ1.22)
THU FEB 5 SLIDES (Brooks (cont’d) & DQ1.22-1.23; Rev Prob. 1K (Part (ii); Rev. Prob. 1J)
FRI FEB 6 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 1J (cont’d); Free Speech Rights, JMB & DQ1.24-1.25, 1.28)
TUE FEB 10 SLIDES (JMB (cont'd) & DQ 1.26-1.27; Intro to Chapter 2 & DQ2.01 & 2.05)
THU FEB 12 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 1I; Exam Q4; DQ2.02-2.03; Intro to Berman & Midkiff)
FRI FEB 13 SLIDES (Rev. Probs. 1K(Part i) & 2A; Set-Up for Rev Prob 2B; Midkiff (cont'd) & DQ2.04-2.07; Poletown & DQ2.08-2.09)
TUE FEB 17 SLIDES (Poletown, Hatchcock & DQ2.09-2.11; Rev. Prob. 2B)
THU FEB 19 SLIDES (Kelo Majority/Concurrence & DQ2.12-2.14; Rev. Prob. 2C)
FRI FEB 20 SLIDES (Exam Q3; Set-Up for Rev. Prob. 2G; Kelo Dissents/Merrill & DQ2.15-2.17; Rev. Prob. 2D)
TUE FEB 24 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 2G & Closing Up Chapter 2; Intro to Chapter 3, Intestacy & Wills) (Sample Intestacy Problems @ Slides 36-37)
THU FEB 26 SLIDES (Will Formalities & Substantial Compliance; Weiss, Stasis, & DQ3.0-3.04; Intro to Capacity & DQ3.05)
FRI FEB 27 SLIDES (Intro to Chapter 4; Present Possessory Estates; Futute Interests that Follow Finite Estates; Capacity, Strittmater & DQ3.05-3.06; Undue Influence, Webb, DQ3.07-3.08; Review Problem 3B (Formalities & Subst. Compl.))
TUE MAR 3 SLIDES (Rev. Prob 3B (Subst. Compliance & Undue Infl) & Rev. Prob. 3C; White v. Brown & DQ4.01-4.04; Intro to Vested & Contingent Remainders)
THU MAR 5 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 3D (Capacity); More on Remainders; Problems 4A-4G; Intro to Defeasible Fees)
FRI MAR 6 SLIDES (Defeasible Fees Cont'd; Mahrenholz & DQ4.05-4.12)
TUE MAR 17 SLIDES (Executory Interests; Destructibility of Contingent Remainders; Problem 4F Revisited; Problems 4J-4N)
THU MAR 19 SLIDES (Problem 4I; Unacceptable Conditions; Shapira & DQ4.13-4.14; Timing Ambiguties)
FRI MAR 20 SLIDES (Problem 4O; Rev. Probs 4R, 4S, 4U; Intro to Chapter 5 Doctrine & Cases; DQ5.01)
THU MAR 26 SLIDES (Intro to Adv Poss (continued); Actual Use Element; DQ5.02-5.06)
FRI MAR 27 SLIDES (Actual Use (continued) & DQ 5.06-5.07; Open + Notorious & DQ5.08-5.11; Continuous & DQ5.16-5.18)
TUE MAR 31 SLIDES (Exclusive & DQ5.12-5.15; Adverse/Hostile/State of Mind & DQ5.19-5.21; Rev. Prob. 5A)
THU APR 2 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 5A (continued); Rev. Prob. 5C; Intro to Boundary Disputes; Intro to Chapter 6; Rev. Prob. 6A)
FRI APR 3 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 5D; Boundary Disputes, Nightmare on 68th St. & DQ5.22-5.25)
TUE APR 7 Slides (Rev. Probs. 5F & 5I; Easement v. Fee & DQ6.01)
THU APR 9 SLIDES (Rev Prob 5H; Scope of Express Positive Easements & DQ6.02-6.03)
FRI APR 10 SLIDES (Course Selection Advice; Scope of Express Easements: Rev. Prob. 6C; Marcus Cable; Petersen & DQ6.03-6.05)
TUE APR 14 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 6B; Intro to Implied Easements; Easements-by-Estoppel & DQ6.06; Brief Intro to E-mts by-Implication & by-Necessity)
THU APR 16 SLIDES (Rev. Prob. 6D; Easements by Implication and By Necessity; Williams Island & Dupont)
FRI APR 17 SLIDES (Completion of Easements-by-Implication & Necessity; Easements-by-Prescription; DQ6.07-6.11; Review Problems 6I and 6L)
TUE APR 21 SLIDES (Completion of Review Problem 6L; Pre-Exam & Exam Logistics; Overview Slides for "What is Property?" Lecture)