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Extra Fajer Office Hours Today 10- 12:15 Tomorrow 9:15-11 Friday 10- 12:15

Moussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition C omposition for Piano (1874) Orchestration: Ravel (1922) Recording: Cleveland Orchestra (1979) Lorin Maazel, Conductor Reminder: No Dean’s Fellow Today Everyone Friday in Rm 352. Extra Fajer Office Hours Today 10- 12:15 Tomorrow 9:15-11

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  1. Moussorgsky, Pictures at an ExhibitionComposition for Piano (1874)Orchestration: Ravel (1922)Recording: Cleveland Orchestra (1979)Lorin Maazel, ConductorReminder: No Dean’s Fellow TodayEveryone Friday in Rm 352 Extra Fajer Office Hours Today 10-12:15 Tomorrow 9:15-11 Friday 10-12:15

  2. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE

  3. SECTION E Contracts (Widen) WF 8-10 Criminal Procedure (Stotzky) TR 8-8:55 U.S. Constitutional Law I (Casebeer) TWR 3:30-4:50 LRW II Elective SECTION G Contracts (Sidel) MTR 8-9:20 Criminal Procedure (Bascuas) TR 11-12:20 U.S. Constitutional Law I (Rosenn) MTR 2-3:30 LRW II Elective SPRING 2010

  4. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE The most important decision you will make …

  5. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE The most important decision you will make on Monday.

  6. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE The most important decision you will make on Monday. Maybe.

  7. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE You are picking one course out of the 20 or so electives you will take in law school.

  8. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE You are not picking a spouse.

  9. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE

  10. Administrative Law (Copeland) Analysis of Evidence (Anderson/Twining) Civil Procedure II (Lynch) Comparative Law (Wagner) Environmental Law (Williamson) European Union Law (Bradley) Financial Accounting (Mundstock) Labor Law (Casebeer) Professional Liability (Alfieri) Race, Ethnicities & Law (Valdes) Substantive Criminal Law (Jones) CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE: OPTIONS (LOTS)

  11. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE: CONSIDERATIONS • Past Student Evaluations (Circ. Desk) • Method of Evaluation • Size of Class (Estimated) • Prerequisite/Intro to Other Courses • Likely to Be Offered Later? • Upper Level Students in Room? • Furthering Career Goals (See Website)

  12. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW (COPELAND) Administrative Agencies & Regulations • Evaluation: Exam • Scheduled in a Small Room • Helpful for Lots of Upper Level Courses • Offered Every Semester as Upper Level • No Upper Level Students in Room • Very Helpful for Lots of Areas of Law (e.g., Communications, Consumer Protection, Environmental, Labor, Tax); Good Synergy with US Con Law I

  13. ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE (ANDERSON/TWINING) Inferences & Proof of Facts • Evaluation: Group Projects & Exam • Scheduled in a Small Room • Can take Litigation Skills • Sometimes Offered as Upper Level • No Upper Level Students in Room • Especially helpful for litigation, but analytic skills help everywhere; some intro to evidence rules on bar exam (but most students take Evidence)

  14. CIVIL PROCEDURE II (LYNCH) Continuation of Civ Pro I • Won’t be Evaluations Available • Evaluation: Exam • Scheduled in a Large Room • Helpful Generally for Upper Level Courses • Offered Every Semester as Upper Level • No Upper Level Students in Room • Probably should take at some point if considering non-criminal litigation • You know what you are getting w Lynch

  15. COMPARATIVE LAW (WAGNER) Compare Legal Systems (Civil/Common Law) • Won’t be Evaluations Available • Evaluation: Exam • Scheduled in a Large Room • Helpful Intro to Comparative/Int’l Courses • Offered Every Year as Upper Level • Upper Level Students in Room • Good course for int’l careers and for gen’l understanding of law

  16. Environmental Law (Williamson) Complex Statute; Not Trees & Squirrels • Midterm & Final Exam • Scheduled in Fairly Large Room • Prereq/Intro to Upper Level Environmental • Offered Every Year for Upper Level • Upper Level Students in Room • Good practice with modern statutes; can use directly for public interest, gov’t, or business advising

  17. EUROPEAN UNION LAW (BRADLEY) Structure & Operation of European Union • Final Exam • Scheduled in Large Room • Intro to Public & Pvt. Int’l Law; Not Prereq • Rarely Offered as Upper Level Course • No Upper Level Students in Room • Interest in Int’l or Business Areas; Good Synergy with US Con Law I

  18. FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING FOR LAWYERS (MUNDSTOCK) Intro to Accounting (Legal Perspective) • Exam • Scheduled in Large Room • Helpful Intro to Business Law for Students w/o Business Background • Sometimes Offered to Upper Level Students • No Upper Level Students in Room • Can’t Take as 1L if More Than One Prior Accounting Course

  19. LABOR LAW (CASEBEER) Intro to Collective Bargaining Labor Issues • Exam • Scheduled in Small Room • Good Intro to Upper Level Labor Classes • Offered Every Year to Upper Level Students • Upper Level Students in Room • Helpful for Either Labor or Management Side; Common Part of Corporate Practice • Section E : 7 Credits of Anyone May Be A Lot

  20. PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY & MALPRACTICE (ALFIERI) Intro to Legal Malpractice • No Evaluations Available (New Course) • Short Papers/Exercises & Exam • Scheduled in Small Room • Not a Prerequisite or Intro: • NEW INFO: Does satisfy Group 4 Reqm’t • May Not Be Offered to Upper Level Students • Upper Level Students in Room • Advanced Tort Class; Useful Intro to Legal Profession

  21. RACE, ETHNICITIES & LAW (VALDES) Interaction of Race & Various Areas of Law • Long Paper; Shorter Reflection Papers; Presentation (No Exam) • Scheduled in Large Room • Helpful for Con Law II & Discrimination Courses • Offered Every Year to Upper Level Students • Upper Level Students in Room • Good Perspectives Course • Section G: Beware 4 Classes on Tues & Thurs

  22. SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW (JONES) Elements of Crimes & Defenses • Final Exam • Scheduled in Largest Room • Intro/Prereq to Upper Level Crim Electives • Offered Every Semester for Upper Level • Upper Level Students in Room • Many Students Go Into Criminal Law, But Comes Up in Every Area of Practice; Good Synergy with Crim. Pro.,

  23. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE: LOGISTICS • Registration Time & Significance • Learn the Procedures • Wait Lists & Add/Drop

  24. CHOOSING YOUR 1L ELECTIVE: QUESTIONS?

  25. 1922

  26. Carolina in the Morning Chicago Do It Again I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise My Buddy Taint Nobody’s Business if I Do Toot, Toot, Tootsie Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Louis Armstrong Goes to Chicago 1922: American Popular Music

  27. Bea Arthur Helen Gurley Brown Sid Caesar Doris Day Judy Garland Redd Foxx Boutros-Boutros Ghali Jack Kerouac Jack Klugman Christopher Lee Charles Mingus Leslie Nielsen Yitchak Rabin Jean-Pierre Rampal Carl Reiner Charles M. Schultz Kurt Vonnegut Betty White 1922: BIRTHS

  28. 1st US Navy Aircraft Carrier Better Homes & Gardens British Broadcasting Co. Campbell’s Soup Dr. Doolittle Eskimo Pie. “Etiquette” by Emily Post Hollywood Bowl Insulin Treatment of Diabetes King Tut’s Tomb Lincoln Memorial Dedicated 1st Microfilm Device National Football League Reader's Digest Rin Tin Tin Ulysses, by James Joyce Vitamin D The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot Water Skiing Yankee Stadium Construction Begins 1922: INTRODUCTIONS & DISCOVERIES

  29. 1922: WORLD EVENTS • Ecuador & Egypt & Ireland Independence • Ottoman Empire Abolished • Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent • Fascists take power in Italy, Mussolini becomes Prime Minister • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Formed; Joseph Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party

  30. 1922: WORLD EVENTS • Germany’s Stock Market collapses in August • Mark falls from 162/Dollar to 7000+/Dollar • The Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay war reparations. • President Ebert declares "Deutschland Über Alles" as German national anthem • Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich

  31. 1922: U.S.EVENTS • Last horse-drawn fire equipment used in Brooklyn • Henry Ford makes more than $264,000 per day; AP says he’s a billionaire • Mah Jongg introduced in US; becomes a craze; by 1923; tile sets outselling even radios

  32. 1922: U.S.EVENTS (RADIO) • Many New Radio Stations • 1st Paid Radio Commercial • 1st Radio in White House & 1st Presidential Broadcast • 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game • 1st radio play by play of World Series (Giants over Yankees 4-0 with one tie)

  33. 1922: FedEral Baseball Club v. National LEAGUE • U.S. Supreme Court holds Major League Baseball exempt from Federal Antitrust Laws (Still True) • Justice Holmes’s Majority Opinion says the business of giving “exhibitions of base ball” is not interstate commerce, and so can only be regulated by the states.

  34. 1922: JUSTICE Holmes • Born in 1841 • Fought in Civil War (Wounded at Antietam & Fredericksburg) • Wrote The Common Law (1881) • Appointed to US Supreme Court in 1902 • Would serve until death in 1932

  35. 1922: JUSTICE BRANDEIS • Born in 1856 • Progressive Cause Lawyering (Brandeis Brief) • Appointed to US Supreme Court in 1902 • Served until 1939; Died 1941

  36. 1922: JUSTICE BRANDEIS Justice Douglas on Brandeis’s Nomination: “[T]he image of Brandeis, when [President] Wilson sent his name to the Senate … was one that frightened the Establishment. Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible. . . The fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court.”

  37. Holmes (1902) Cardozo (1932) Frankfurter (1939) Goldberg (1962) Fortas (1965) Blackmun (1970) Breyer (1994) HOLMES & BRANDEIS: SUCCESSORS

  38. Holmes (1902) Cardozo (1932) Frankfurter (1939) Goldberg (1962) Fortas (1965) Blackmun (1970) Breyer (1994) Brandeis (1916) Douglas (1939) Stevens (1975) HOLMES & BRANDEIS: SUCCESSORS

  39. DQ100-01: Intro to Mahon FEATURING NEONS: • Gibbs, Rachael • Patel, Jayna • Mansoor, Roushani • Chung, Simo • Hackl, Derek • Wetterau, Jane

  40. DQ100: Intro to Mahon MY STANDARD SET OF Qs • Government action at issue? • Purpose of the action? • Limits placed on owners’ use of property? • What uses still permissible? • Harm to the owners?

  41. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? • Kohler Act; can’t collapse surface when mining • Purpose of the action? • Limits placed on owners’ use of property? • What uses still permissible? • Harm to the owners?

  42. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? • Kohler Act; can’t collapse surface when mining • Purpose of the action? • Prevent cave-ins; preserve city; safety • NOTE: Rational to believe will help safety & welfare • Limits placed on owners’ use of property? • What uses still permissible? • Harm to the owners?

  43. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? • Kohler Act; can’t collapse surface when mining • Purpose of the action? • Prevent cave-ins; preserve city; safety • Limits on owners’ use of property? • Must mine as to leave surface up • Can’t mine some coal • What uses still permissible? • Harm to the owners?

  44. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? Kohler Act • Purpose of the action? Prevent cave-ins • Limits?Leave surface up; can’t mine some coal • What uses still permissible? • Mining rest of coal • Harm to the owners?Hard to Answer • B/c of posture of case, no factual record • Opinions differ as to extent of harm

  45. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? Kohler Act • Purpose of the action? Prevent cave-ins • Limits?Leave surface up; can’t mine some coal • Still permissible?Mining rest of coal • Harm to the owners according to Holmes?

  46. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? Kohler Act • Purpose of the action? Prevent cave-ins • Limits?Leave surface up; can’t mine some coal • Still permissible?Mining rest of coal • Harm according to Holmes? • p.91 end 3d para. “warranted in assuming” whole value gone. • According to Brandeis?

  47. DQ100: Intro to Mahon • Government action at issue? Kohler Act • Purpose of the action? Prevent cave-ins • Limits?Leave surface up; can’t mine some coal • Still permissible?Mining rest of coal • Harm according to Holmes? • p.91 end 3d para. “warranted in assuming” whole value gone. • According to Brandeis? • mid p.93“for aught that appears the value of the coal kept in place ... may be negligible”

  48. DQ100:Mahon & Demsetz Takings Story Decision: Old Rule: Externalities: Changes  Increased Externalities Rule Change: Losers under new rule claim unconst. interference with property rights

  49. DQ100:Mahon & Demsetz Takings Story Decision: Do mineral rights owners mine in a way that undermines surface? Old Rule?: Externalities: Changes  Increased Externalities Rule Change: Losers under new rule claim unconst. interference with property rights

  50. DQ100:Mahon & Demsetz Takings Story Decision: Do mineral rights owners mine in a way that undermines surface? Old Rule?:Can undermine surface if own subsidence rights Externalities: Tricky Issue Changes  Increased Externalities Rule Change: Losers under new rule claim unconst. interference with property rights

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