Elements B15 Course Page

ELEMENTS B FALL 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

Course Meetings: Complete

Course Materials: See Below

Dean's Fellow: Bryston (B.A.) Stafford

bryston.stafford@gmail.com

305-542-5898 (text only please)

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FINAL EXAM

Question I(a)

First Read 74 0

Second Read 74 0

Question I(b)

First Read 74 0

Second Read 74 0

Question II

First Read 30 0

Second Read 74 0

Question III

First Read 30 0

Second Read 74 0

SECOND CASE BRIEF: All Complete

Group Written Assignment #3: All Complete

EARLIER GROUP WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS

Group Written Assignment #1: Grading Complete; Scores Provided

Group Written Assignment #2: Grading Complete; Comments on Individual Arguments Distributed.

FIRST CASE BRIEF (APPELLATE OPINIONS) Grading Complete; All Submissions Returned

COURSE MATERIALS & ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS

Course Materials (Unit One Part 1)

Course Materials (Unit One Part 2)

Course Materials (Unit One Part 3)

Course Materials (Unit Two Part 1)

Course Materials (Unit Two Part 2)

Course Materials (Unit Three) (Correction to page 122 posted 10/21)

Information Memo #1 (8/15/15)

Syllabus (Complete) (updated 11/9)

Assignment Sheet (Complete) (updated 11/9)

Panel Assignments

- SELF-QUIZZES & SAMPLE BRIEFS

-- Unit One Part A (1st Possession of Wild Animals)

Pierson v. Post Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Liesner v. Wanie: Appellate Opinion No Self-Quiz (very short case) Sample Brief

Liesner v. Wanie: Trial Court Proceedings Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz No Sample Brief (Not Judicial Opinion)

State v. Shaw Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Demsetz Article Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz No Sample Brief (Not Judicial Opinion)

-- Unit One Part B (Escaping Wild Animals)

Manning v. Mitcherson Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Mullett v. Bradley Self-Quiz (fixed 9/23) Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

E.A. Stephens & Co. v. Albers Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Kesler v. Jones Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

-- Unit Two Part A (Whaling Cases) (Rose Self-Quiz Availably by 10/16)

Taber v. Jenny Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Bartlett v. Budd Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Swift v. Gifford Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

Ghen v. Rich Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

"Bad" Ghen Brief for DQ2.19 Comments on Bad Ghen Brief

Rose Article Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz No Sample Brief (Not Judicial Opinion)

-- Unit Two Part B (Oil & Gas Cases)

Westmoreland & Cambria Nat'l Gas Co v. DeWitt No Self-Quiz or Sample Brief (Background Only)

Hammonds v. CKNGC Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

White v. NYSNGC Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz Sample Brief

-- Unit Three (No Sample Briefs)

Hadacheck v. Sebastian Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz

Mahon v. Penn. Coal Co. Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz

Miller v. Schoene Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz

Michelman Excerpt Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz

Penn Central v. City of New York Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz

Penn Central Self-Quiz is New; Please Let Me Know if You see Errors or Ambiguities

Ackerman Excerpt Self-Quiz Answers to Self-Quiz

- WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS & RELATED MATERIALS

Prior Property Class Assignment re State v. Shack (FYI; No Submission Required)

Instructions Fajer Comments & Best Student Answers

2015 Group Written Assignment #1

Instructions Fajer Comments & Best Student Answers from Prior Years

2015 Group Written Assignment #2

Instructions Fajer Comments & Best Student Answers from Prior Years

2015 Group Written Assignment #3

Instructions Fajer Comments & Best Student Answers from Prior Years

Sample 2014 Submissions & Comments: Sub-Assignment 3A Sub-Assignment 3B Sub-Assignment 3C

- POWER POINT SLIDES

Class #1 August 19 (Intro to Course and to Pierson v. Post; DQs 1.01-1.02)

Class #2 August 21 (1L Problems: Confusion; Pierson cont'd; 1805; DQs 1.02-1.04(a))

Class #3 August 24 (1L Problems: Control; Pierson cont'd; DQ1.03; Start of Brief)

Class #4 August 26 (1L Problems: Competition v. Cooperation; Pierson Brief cont'd: Issues & Holdings & DQ 1.04-1.05)

Class #5 August 28 (Pierson Brief Continued: Rationales and DQs 1.05-1.07)

Class #6 August 31 (Pierson Continued: DQs 1.08-1.11; Intro to Liesner v. Wanie & DQ1.12-1.14)

Class #7 September 2 (Closing Up Pierson & DQ 1.10-1.11; Start of Liesner Brief & DQ1.15; Too Many Cooks)

Class #8 September 4 (Rest of Liesner Brief & DQs 1.15-1.17; Liesner Trial & DQs 1.19-1.22; Start of DQ1.18)

Class #9 September 9 (Closing Up Liesner & DQ1.18; Start of Shaw Brief)

Class #10 September 11 (Intro to Demsetz & DQ1.30; Intro to Group Assignment #1; DQs 1.23-1.25; 1902; Shaw Brief Cont'd)

Class #11 September 16 (Intro to Escape & DQs 1.41-1.42; Conclusion of Shaw Brief & DQs 1.26-1.28)

Class #12 September 18 (Intro to Manning Brief & DQs 1.43-1.44; DQ1.28; Mid-September Crisis; Intro to Demsetz, First Thesis & DQs 1.29 & 1.31-1.36(a)

Class #13 September 21 (Finishing Up Demsetz & DQs1.36-1.40; Intro to Mullett Brief; Manning Brief Continued & DQ1.46)

Class #14 September 25 (Manning Cont'd & DQs 1.45-1.47; Mullett Cont'd & DQs 1.49-1.50

Class #15 September 28 (Applying Manning & DQs 1.48 &1.54; Applying Mullett & DQs 1.51 & 1.54)

Class #16 September 30 (Intro to Group Assmt #2; Applying Mullett Cont'd & DQs 1.51-1.52 & 1.54; Logic of Albers & DQs1.55-1.57)

Class #17 October 2 (Albers Cont'd & DQs 1.58-1.59; Skills, Exam Prep, Fall Break & DQ1.53; Kesler Brief & DQs 1.60-1.62) (Includes Several Slides Not Shown in Class)

Class #18 October 12 (Taber Brief & DQs 2.01 & 2.04)

Class #19 October 14 (Group Assignment #2 & Ratione Soli; Taber Cont'd & DQs 2.02-2.04; Bartlett Brief & DQs 2.05-2.08; More on Argument by Analogy)

Class #20 October 16 (Westmoreland & DQ2.22; Mid-October Crisis; Argument by Analogy: Escaping Whales & DQs 2.09-2.11; Intro to Swift Brief)

Class #21 October 19 (Swift Cont'd & DQs 2.12-2.15; Rose Excerpt & DQ2.20)

Class #22 October 21 (Review Problem 2B; Ghen & DQs 2.16-2.18)

Class #23 October 23 (Review Problem 2C; Rose Cont'd & DQ2.21; More on XQ1 v. XQ2 & Intro to Group Assignment #3; Argument by Analogy: 1st Possession of Oil & Gas & DQs 2.23-2.24)

Class #24 October 26 (Argument by Analogy: 1st Possession of Oil & Gas & DQ2.25; Review Problem 2F; Intro to Escaping Oil & Gas & Hammonds & DQ2.26-2.27)

Class #25 October 28 (Hammonds Cont'd & DQs 2.28-2.29; White & DQ2.30-2.32; Argument by Analogy: Escaping Gas & DQ2.33)

Class #26 November 2 (Argument by Analogy: Escaping Gas& DQs 2.34-2.37; Review Problem 2I)

Class #27 November 4 (Revew Problem 2G; Intro to Unit III & DQs 3.01-3.05; Brief Intro to Mahon and Hadacheck)

Class #28 November 6 (Choosing 1L Elective; Review Problem 2J; Hadacheck & DQs 3.06-3.09)

Class #29 November 9 (Hadacheck & DQ 3.09 Cont'd; Sax Excerpt & DQs 3.10-3.11; 1922, Holmes & Brandeis; Mahon & DQs 3.12-3.14)

Class #30 November 11 (Mahon Cont'd & DQs 3.14-3.18; Friedman Excerpt & DQ3.19; Intro to Exam Q3; Mid-November Crisis; Epstein Excerpt & DQ3.20-3.21; Miller & DQs 3.22-3.23)

Class #31 November 13 (Miller Cont'd & DQs 3.24-3.25 & Apples/Oranges; Euclid, Nectow & DQ3.26; Transition 1920s-1978; Intro to Penn Central & DQ3.31; Intro to Michelman Excerpt & DQs 3.27-3.28)

Class #32 November 16 (Review Problem 3A(i); Michelman Cont'd & DQs 3.27-3.30; Penn Central Cont'd & DQs 3.31-3.33 & 3.40)

Class #33 November 18: (Review Problem 3B; 1978; Penn Central Cont'd & DQs 3.34, 3.37-3.39)

Class #34 November 20: (Review Problem C(i); Penn Central Cont'd & DQs 3.34-3.36 & 3.41; Ackerman Excerpt & DQs 3.44-3.45)

Class #35 November 23 (DQs 3.42 & 3.46; Review Problems 3A(ii) and 3C(ii); Final Lectures)

EXAM PREPARATION HEADQUARTERS

Exam Tips: Preliminary Exam Tip Memo

Exam-Tips Workshops: Power Point Slides

Exam-Tips Workshop (11/10): Link to Video

Exam Prep Exercises:

Short State v. Shack Exam Q (Same as Above) Prof's Comments/Best Student Answers to Shack Q