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MUSIC (to accompany demsetz ) : The Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967)

MUSIC (to accompany demsetz ) : The Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967). Lunch Today Meet on Brix @ 12:25 Dally * Kushner * Mayor Ponce * Stein * Vazquez. 3:00 Today: OXYGEN Written Manning Briefs Due URANIUM Written Mullett Briefs Due Thurs 9/19 @ 9pm.

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MUSIC (to accompany demsetz ) : The Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967)

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  1. MUSIC (to accompany demsetz):The BeatlesMAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967) Lunch Today Meet on Brix @ 12:25 Dally * Kushner * Mayor Ponce * Stein * Vazquez 3:00 Today: OXYGEN Written Manning Briefs Due URANIUM Written MullettBriefs Due Thurs 9/19 @ 9pm

  2. FRIDAY Pop Culture MomentCartoon Characters with Speech Impediments

  3. FRIDAY Pop Culture MomentCartoon Characters with Speech Impediments Tweety Bird (& Xmas Carols)

  4. FRIDAY Pop Culture MomentCartoon Characters with Speech Impediments Elmer Fudd & the Battle Hymn of the Republic

  5. FRIDAY Pop Culture MomentCartoon Characters with Speech Impediments

  6. Script for an Ordinary School YearOne Month Into Law School: Three Things to Think About • September Fog • Calisthenics • A Thousand Words

  7. The Rhythm of the First Year • Same at Every School Where I’ve Taught • Same Every Year But Two Since 1988

  8. The Rhythm of the First Year Three Typical Fall Semester Low Points: • Mid-September • Mid-October • Mid-November

  9. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis You Have Never in Your Life Worked So Hard for a Whole Month Without Feeling on Top of Things!!! Common to Start to Worry That …

  10. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis I’m the Stupidest Person Here & They Let Me In By Mistake

  11. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis KEEP IN MIND: • We’ve Already Discussed: • You’re Learning New Language by Immersion

  12. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis KEEP IN MIND: • We’ve Already Discussed: • You’re Learning New Language by Immersion • Perception of “Hard” v. “Easy” Questions (Different Backgrounds; Different Speeds on Different Skills)

  13. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis KEEP IN MIND: • Learning New Language by Immersion • Perception of “Hard” v. “Easy” Questions • Nature of Socratic Method: Profs Control Discussion & Decide What’s “Relevant”

  14. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis KEEP IN MIND: • Second Year Students (No Secret 1L Graveyard)

  15. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis So Let Yourself Believe the September Fog is Normal and Nearly Universal

  16. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis Almost All of You Will be Worried About Something Else A Month from Now!

  17. The Rhythm of the First YearThe Mid-September Crisis • Uranium • Radium • Oxygen • Krypton

  18. One Month In: Three Things to Think About • September Fog • Calisthenics • A Thousand Words

  19. The Rhythm of the First Year & Elements Common Mid-September Concern: This class is fun and all, but does any of this really matter?

  20. The Rhythm of the First Year • Same at Every School Where I’ve Taught • Same Every Year But Two • Fall 2017 with the 2 weeks lost in mid-September to Irma &

  21. FALL 2001

  22. FALL 2001 Pierson v. Al-Qaeda????

  23. The Rhythm of the First Year & Elements Analogy to Calisthenics

  24. The Rhythm of the First Year & Elements Analogy to Calisthenics • Apply Language of Case to New Facts • Compare Facts of Case to New Facts • Apply Policy Concerns to New Facts • Identify Key Similarities & Differences

  25. The Rhythm of the First Year:The Mid-September Crisis KEEP IN MIND: • Analogy to Calisthenics: You Are Starting to Use New Muscles, So You’ll Be a Little Sore

  26. One Month In:Three Things to Think About • September Fog • Calisthenics • A Thousand Words

  27. The Rhythm of the First Year Staying Motivated

  28. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Fall 2014: Ray Rice, the Elevator Videotape & the Failure of Words

  29. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Storytelling Will Be Your Responsibility

  30. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Storytelling Will Be Your Responsibility • Development Project

  31. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Storytelling Will Be Your Responsibility • Development Project • Parental Rights

  32. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Storytelling Will Be Your Responsibility • Development Project • Parental Rights • Environmental Partnership

  33. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Storytelling Will Be Your Responsibility • Development Project • Parental Rights • Environmental Partnership • Less Visible Assault

  34. The Rhythm of the First YearStaying Motivated Storytelling Will Be Your Responsibility • Development Project • Parental Rights • Environmental Partnership • Less Visible Partner Assault Remember the Client Who is Waiting for You!!

  35. Back to Work!!

  36. WEASEL ASSIGNMENT Due Thursday October 3 @ 9pm

  37. Weasel Assignment Standard Exam Task: Apply Authorities Studied to New Hypothetical or “Fact Pattern” • HERE: Structured Sequence of Arguments • Three sets of specific arguments for each party • Each Team Submits Two Sets + a Tie-Breaker Argument • Helpful to Do Unassigned Set of Arguments Yourself • Not everything you could say about the hypo • But together, good basis for an exam answer

  38. Weasel Assignment Two Important Skills to Practice • Isolation: Focusing on One Narrow Topic at a Time • Dialogue: Finding Best Arguments for Each Party

  39. ISOLATION: Focusing on One Narrow Topic at a Time Common Idea in Many Contexts • Exercise or Massage Muscle Groups • Football Film/Replays Individual Players • Cooking Specific Ingredients

  40. Weasel Assignment Two Important Skills to Practice • ISOLATION: Focus on One Narrow Topic at a Time • Read Instructions Carefully & Confine Each Argument to its Stated Topic: • (#1/#2) Specific Language from Shaw -OR- • (#3/#4) Facts of Shaw - OR - • (#5/#6) Labor Policy • How Literal? Very!! (Cf. Reality TV Challenges)

  41. Weasel Assignment Two Important Skills to Practice • ISOLATION: Focus on One Narrow Topic at a Time • Confine Each Argument to Stated Topic (Very Literal!) • Doing more than you’re asked earns penalties not extra credit (lot of this in prior years) • Cf. Responding to Judges in Oral Argument • Cf. Coverage in Associate Assignments at Law Firm   • Cf. Limited Scope Short Exam Q

  42. Weasel Assignment Two Important Skills to Practice • DIALOGUE: Finding Best Arguments for Each Party • Built into Structure of This Assignment • Until Highest Court in State Decides Open Q • No “Right” Answer • Just Best Available Arguments • Good Exam Answers Reflect This & Often Sound Like Schizophrenic Monologues

  43. DIALOGUE: Finding Best Arguments for Each Party Legal Smeagols

  44. Weasel Assignment Some Final Points • Suggested Structures: Use Unless Clear Reason to Change • Tie-Breaker Qs: Challenge is to Simultaneously: • Address Strengths & Weaknesses of Prior Arguments • Make New Points (Don’t Just Repeat & Announce Winner) • Show Split if Team Disagrees • Appropriate Length: Depends on Substance of Each Argument • No Particular Lengths Suggested or Anticipated • Proofread; Edit; Be Concise BUT • Include All Steps Necessary to Logic of the Argument

  45. Weasel Assignment Some Final Points • Working Together (v. Collage of Individual Work) • Take Advantage of Multiple Perspectives • Be Cooperative (Different LComm Schedules; Rosh Hashanah; Uranium & Krypton Briefs; Contracts Midterms) • Keep Each Other on Track • Re Both Time & Substance (e.g., Isolation) • Diplomacy as Lawyering Skill • Look at Entire Submission to Avoid Repetition/Overlap

  46. Weasel Assignment Questions • I’ll Take Qs in Class Today & • Thursday 9/19 • Thursday 9/26 • I’ll Take Qs • By E-Mail or in Person until 3:30 pm on Wed 10/2 QUESTIONS?

  47. DF Scheduling & Wolverines • Adding Monday 10-10:50 in Room E 352 • Next Several Sessions: Wolverine Problem

  48. McKinley v. FordThe Case of the Wounded Wolverine

  49. DF Scheduling & Wolverines:1st Possession Issue Mon 9/16 & Wed 9/18 (Brendan) •  Arguments re Mortal Wounding & Pursuit •  Arguments re "Reasonable Precautions to Prevent Escape" Thu 9/19 & Mon 9/23 (Lauren) •  Arguments re [Substantial Permananent] Deprivation of Natural Liberty • Arguments re Application of Policy of Rewarding Useful Labor

  50. Shaw Demsetz:Intro to Externalities RADIUM: DQ 1.29 & DQ1.31

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