ELEMENTS  FALL 2012

(Introduction to Case Reading & Legal Analysis)

SECTIONS B1 & B2

COURSE PAGE

 

PROFESSOR MARC FAJER

LAW LIBRARY ROOM G280

mfajer@law.miami.edu

305-284-3914

 

    

 

ASSISTANT: Michelle Gomez

LAW LIBRARY ROOM G287

mgomez1@law.miami.edu

305-284-3910

 

FINAL WEEK CLASS MEETINGS: 

Mon 11/26: B1 8:00-8:55am Room F402

Tue 11/27:  B2 8:00-8:55am Room F402

Wed 11/28:  No Class

Final Class:  Both Sections: Thu 11/29 8:00-9:50 Room E352

 

DEAN'S FELLOW:  CATHERINE LAUGHLIN

claughlin@students.law.miami.edu

603-276-9071

 

 

 

AVAILABLE FOR PICK UP FROM MICHELLE:

ALL ASSIGNMENTS

 

 

 

STATUS OF GRADING (1/15 @ 3:30 pm)

0

 

I'LL E-MAIL YOU WHEN PACKETS ARE READY WITH YOUR EXAMS & SCORES AND COMMENTS & MODEL ANSWERS FROM THE TEST.  AFTER THAT, IF YOU'D LIKE, WE CAN SET UP TIMES TO MEET TO REVIEW YOUR WORK.

 

 

 

 

 

COURSE MATERIALS & INFORMATION

 

Syllabus (Units I-III) (updated 10/27 to include Info Memo #6)

Assignment Sheet (8/21-12/14) (updated 11/18)

Course Materials (Unit I: Part 1)

Course Materials (Unit I: Part 2)

Course Materials (Unit I:  Part 3)

Course Materials (Unit II: Part 1)

Course Materials (Unit II: Part 2)

Course Materials (Unit III)

Panel Assignments

 

INFORMATION MEMOS

Information Memo #1 (8/20/12) (Introductory Material)

Information Memo #2 (9/4/12) (Instructions for Written Assignments; Common Writing Concerns; Comparison Box #2; Liesner Brief)

Information Memo #3 (9/11/12) (Group Written Assignment #1; State v. Shack Assignment; Shaw Brief; Grading Info)

Information Memo #4 (9/30/12) (Group Written Assignment #2; Pre-Midterm Info; Manning/Mullett Briefs; Comments/Models for Group Assignment #1)

Information Memo #5 (10/13/12) (Comments/Models for Practice Midterm; Albers/Kesler Briefs; Taber Brief; Exam Prep Exercise; Internet Analogies)

Information Memo #6 (10/27/12) Preliminary Takings Survey; Group Written Assignment #3; Comments/Models for Group Assignment #2; Published Ghen Brief for DQ77)

 

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS

Will Be Posted After Both Sections Have Completed

Slides from Exam Tips Workshop

Class #37 (Ackerman & DQ138-39; XQ3d & 3F; Thinking About Takings)

Class #36 (Closing Up Penn Central; Ackerman; XQ3D & 3F (Hard Qs); DQ135-37)

Class #35 (Penn Central Analysis: DQs127-29, 131-34)

Class #34 (Michaelman; Applying Prior Authority & Demsetz Story to Penn Central; Arbitrariness; Start of Penn Cenral Takings Analysis; DQ123-26 & 130)

Class #33 (Euclid & Nectow; Intro to Michaelman; Appying Prior Cases to Penn Central; DQs119-22, 125)

Class #32 (1L Elective; 3d Crisis; Miller; Intro to Penn Central and XQ3; DQs116-18 & 124)

Class #31 (Closing Up Mahon; Epstein; Intro to Miller; DQs 111-15)

Class #30 (Mahon & DQs 106-10, 112)

Class #29 (Sax; Intro to Mahon; 1922; DQs 104-06)

Class #28:  (Hadacheck cont'd: DQs 100-03)

Class #27: (Intro to Unit III cont'd; Intro to Hadacheck; DQs 95-100)

Class #26: (Closing Up White & ACs Analogy & Oil & Gas; Written Assignment #3; Intro to Unit III; DQs 87-91; 94-95)

Class #25 (ACs Analogy & Oil & Gas Cont'd; Hammonds; Intro to White; DQ83-86, 92-94)

Class #24 (Closing Up Ghen & Rose; ACs Analogy & 1st Possession of Oil & Gas; DQ75(d)-76, 79-83)

Class #23 (Closing Up Swift; Introduction to Rose; Ghen  DQ75(a-c) & DQ78)

Class #22 (2d Crisis; Swift; Intro to Ghen; DQ71-74)

Class #21 (Argument by Analogy Cont'd; Swift Brief; DQ68-71)

Class #20 (Taber & Bartlett; Intro to Argument by Analogy; DQ61-68)

Class #19 (Taber Brief & DQ60-61)

Class #18 (Conclude DQ55; Kesler: Brief & DQ57-59)

Class #17 (Info on Written Assignment #2; Logic & Holding of Albers: DQ52-56)

Class #16 (Begin Albers Brief; Albers Under Manning & Mullett:  DQ50-51)

Class #15 (Practice Midterm Info; Closing up Mullett & Manning; DQ47-49)

Class #14 (Begin Mullett Brief; Manning & Mullett Factors; DQ45-47)

Class #13 (1st Crisis; Manning Holding/Rationales & DQ42,44, 46) (modified slightly 9/23)

Class #12 (Closing Up Demsetz & DQ36-38; Manning Brief & DQ42-43)

Class #11 (Demsetz cont'd & DQ33-35; Intro to Escape & to Manning & DQ39-41)

Class #10 (Info on Written Assignment #1; DQ27 & 28; Demsetz & DQ29-32)

Class #9 (Shaw Brief cont'd; DQ22-26)

Class #8 (Closing Up Liesner & DQ20-21; Shaw Brief)

Class #7 (Liesner Rule & Trial Transcript; DQ17-19)

Class #6 (Closing Up Pierson & DQ10-11; Liesner Brief & DQ14-16)

Class #5 (Pierson Brief & DQ7-11; Intro to Liesner & DQ12-13)

Class #4 (Pierson Brief & DQ5-7)

Class #3 (Pierson Brief & DQ4)

Class #2 (Pierson & DQ1-3)

Class #1 (Intro to Course and to Pierson)

 

EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMMENTS & BEST STUDENT ANSWERS

EXAMINER GENERAL’S WARNING:  Best student answers to old exam questions should be used as guides to the type of answers that have received high grades in the past.  They are generally written in formats I found useful and contain many clever arguments.  Do not view them as the best possible answers to the questions; they contain  errors and do not exhaust the arguments that could be made about a particular issue.

Practice Midterm              Question          (Comments/Models at IM77-90)

Exam Questions 1 & 2     Old Questions    Q1-Comments/Models    Q2-Comments/Models

                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Exam Question 3              Old Questions    Q3-Comments/Models