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2012-2013 Fall Booklist

Banner Title Title Instructor Course Level Req. Text ISBN First Week Reading
LAW-669S-001 Advanced Evidence Judge Bernstein Upper Level
Merritt, Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom, 2d (Learning Series), (West).
9780314275400
Not Available
LAW-939S-001 Advanced Legal Research Bernstein Upper Level
Recommended:
 
Armstrong & Knott, Where the Law Is: An Introduction to Advanced Legal Research, (Thomson West, 3rd Ed.)
Recommended:
9780314199270
Chapter 1
Articles TBD which will be available via TWEN
LAW-908S-001 Advanced Trial Advocacy: Trials of the Century Stern Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-910S-001 Appellate Advocacy Merenstein Upper Level
Murray & DeSanctis, Appellate Advocacy and Moot Court, (Foundation Press, 1st Ed.)
9781587789787
Murray & DeSanctis, Chapter 1, Parts I, II, & III.
LAW-947S-001 Appellate Litigation Clinic I Montemarano Upper Level
Martineau, Sinclair, Solimine, & Holland, Appellate Practice and Procedure, (Thomson West, 2nd Ed.)
9780314152466
None Required
LAW-700S-001 Business Organizations Okamoto Upper Level
Klein, Ramseyer, & Bainbridge, Business Associations, (Foundation Press, 8th Ed.)
 
9781609300647
Please read Chapter 1 of the Casebook
LAW-643S-001 Children and the Law West Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-628S-001 Civil Litigation Remedies Johnson Upper Level
Thompson, Sebert, Gross, & Robertson, Remedies: Damages, Equity, and Restitution, (LexisNexis, 4th Ed.)
9781422429549
Chapter One, pp. 1-42
LAW-554S-001 Civil Procedure Asbury First Year
Required:
 
Freer & Perdue, Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions, (LexisNexis, 6th Ed.)
 
**The casebook also comes in a looseleaf version. Please see separate ISBN listing. **
 
Recommended:
 
Freer, Civil Procedure, (Aspen, 3rd Ed.)
Required:
9780769847429
9780769847368 (Looseleaf Edition)
 
Recommended:
9781454802228
Please read pages 1-19 in the Freer/Perdue casebook.
LAW-554S-002 Civil Procedure Saunders First Year
Spencer, Civil Procedure: A Contemporary Approach, (West, 3rd Ed.)
 
Spencer, Federal Civil Rules Supplement 2012-2013, (West, 2012-13 Ed.)
9780314908643
9780314280978
For the first class, please read chapter 1 of the casebook.
 
W: Spencer 19-20; Goodyear (available on TWEN course website)
F: McIntyre (available on TWEN course website)
LAW-884S-001 Contract Drafting Friedman Upper Level
Haggard & Kuney, Legal Drafting: Process, Techniques, and Exercises, (West, 2nd ed.)
 
Adams, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, (American Bar Association, 2nd ed.)
9780314184405
9781604420289
Not Available
LAW-884S-002 Contract Drafting Copeland Upper Level
Stark, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do, (Wolters Kluwer, 2007 Ed.)
9780735563391
Not Available
LAW-552S-001 Contracts Boss First Year
Knapp, Crystal, & Prince, Problems in Contract Law: Cases and Materials, (Aspen, 7th Ed.)
 
Knapp, Crystal, & Prince, Rules of Contract Law, (Aspen, 2012-2013 Ed.)
9780735598225
9781454818564
Not Available
LAW-552S-002 Contracts Benforado First Year
Barnett, Contracts: Cases and Doctrine, (Aspen, 5th Ed.)
9781454809982
For the first day of class, please read pages 3-16 of the Barnett casebook.
LAW-760S-001 Copyright Garfield Upper Level
Joyce, Leaffer, Jaszi, & Ochoa, Copyright Law, (LexisNexis, 8th Ed.)
 
Joyce, Leaffer, Jaszi, & Ochoa, Copyright Law (8th Ed.) 2012 Cumulative Supplement, (LexisNexis, 8th Ed.)
 
9781422477380
9780769855226
Monday, August 20th: Copyright Law text, pp. 1-27, 44-63
Wednesday, August 22nd: Copyright Law text, pp. 65-98
(IMPORTANT: Bring the cumulative supplement to EVERY class)
LAW-670S-001 Criminal Procedure: Investigations Tibbs Upper Level
Jerold, Israel, Kamisar, LaFave, & King, Criminal Procedure and the Constitution: Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text, (West, 2011 Ed.)
9780314274526
Please read: Chapter 3: The Exclusionary Rule, Wolf v. Colorado & Mapp v. Ohio
LAW-899S-001 Current Issues in Criminal Law Filler Upper Level
Professor will provide details.
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-680S-001 Death Penalty Law Abreu/Nolan Upper Level
Required:
 
Rivkind & Shatz, Cases and Materials on the Death Penalty, (West, 3rd Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Carter, Kreitzberg, & Howe, Understanding Capital Punishment, (LexisNexis, 2nd Ed.)
Required:
9780314199560
 
Recommended:
9781422423868 
None Required
LAW-622S-001 Employment Discrimination Pedersen Upper Level
Estreicher & Harper, Cases and Material on Employment Discrimination, (Thomson/West, 3rd Ed.)
 
Estreicher & Harper, Statutory Supplement to Cases and Material on Employment Discrimination and Employment Law, (Thomson/West, 3rd Ed.)
9780314189776
9780314189783
Not Available
LAW-728S-001 Entertainment Law Moss Upper Level
Appleton and Yankelevits, Hollywood Dealmaking: Negotiating Talent Agreements for Film, TV and New Media, (Allworth Press, 2nd Ed.)
 
Krasilovsky and Shemel, This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide to the Business and Legal Issues of the Music Industry, (Billboard Books, 10th Ed.)
 
Levine, Negotiating a Book Contract: A Guide for Authors, Agents, and Lawyers, (Asphodel Press, 2nd Ed.)
9781581159713
9780823077236
9781559213837
Hollywood Dealmaking, Chapter 1 (pages 1-23), Chapter 2 (pages 24-42), Chapter 3 (pages 43-70), Chapter 5 (pages 94-111 only), Chapter 6 (pages 114-127), Chapter 7 (pages 128-147) and Chapter 11 (pages 204-216)
LAW-624S-001 Environmental Law Geisinger Upper Level
Mercival, Miller, et al., Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, (Wolter Kluwer Law, 6th Ed.)
 
Selected Environmental Statues, (West, 2010-2011 Ed.)
9780735584624
9780314911612
 
Not Available
LAW-634S-001 Evidence Oates Upper Level
Fischer, Evidence, (Thomson/West, 2nd Ed.)
 
Fischer, Federal Rules of Evidence 2009-2010 Statutory Supplement, (Thomson/West, 2nd Ed.)
Required:
9781599410319
 
Recommended:
9781599416878
Pages 1-75 in Fisher
LAW-701S-001 Federal Income Tax Pardys Upper Level
Klein, Bankman, and Shaviro, Federal Income Taxation (Aspen, 15th Ed.)
 
Bankman, Federal Income Tax: Examples & Explanations, (Aspen, 6th Ed.)
 
Lathrope, Selected Federal Tax: Statutes & Regulations, (Thomson/West, 2011 Ed.)
 
Chirelstein,Federal Income Taxation, (Foundation Press, 12th Ed.)
9780735578098
9780735599550
9780314262813
9781599419374
Not Available
LAW-873S-001 Foreign & International Legal Research Thorpe Upper Level
Hoffman and Ramsey, International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
 
Law Reserves: K85. H64 2007
 
Also available through the University Library as an e-book:
 
 
Not Available

Chapter 1, pp. 1-15; Chapter 4, pp. 55-64

LAW-838S-001 Foundations of Legal Analysis Kraybill/McGrain Upper Level
Couglin, Malmud, and Patrick, A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis, (Caroline Academic Press, 2008 Ed.)
 
Students should purchase a one-year online subscription for $38.00 to Core Grammar for Lawyers at this link: http://www.caplaw.com/getCGL . Once you purchase your subscription, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to activate the subscription.
9781594603600
Read Chapters 1 and 2 in A Lawyer Writes; Core Grammar for Lawyers:Take the Pretest ONLY. If you have questions, email Professor Kraybill at nck26@drexel.edu.
LAW-674S-001 Health Care Fraud & Abuse Hutchinson/Smith Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
 
Not Available
LAW-780S-001 Health Law I Furrow Upper Level
Furrow, Greaney, Johnson, Jost, & Schwartz, Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems, (West, 6th Ed.)
 
Furrow et al., Health Care Reform: Supplementary Materials, (West, 2nd Ed.)
9780314184740
 
*Supplementary Materials not yet published - ISBN forthcoming.
Class 1, August 22 - Read Introduction Katskee and the Meaning of Health and Illness; Enthoven's Seven Misconceptions (CB 1-15). Prepare Problem: The Couple's Illness for Class Discussion.
LAW-872S-001 Health Law Legal Research Steussy Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-782S-001 Health Policy Colloquium Field Upper Level
Please see materials posted on TWEN.
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-820S-001 Immigration Law Judge Morley Upper Level
Required:
 
Aleinikoff, Martin, Motomura, & Fullerton, Immigration and Citizenship-Process and Policy, (West, 7th Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Aleinikoff, Immigration & Nationality Laws of the United States: Selected Statutes, Regulation and Forms, (West, 2012 Ed.)
Required:
9780314267092
 
Recommended:
9780314281852
Class 1 - pp. 238-271 (fed. agencies); pp. 162-201 - federal power and Chinese exclusion cases (Chae Chan Ping & Foug Yue Ting cases) and text on federal immigration power.
 
Class 2 0 pp. 37-51 (citizenship principles); 52-61 (US v. Wong Ark Kim); 99-105 (Bosniak article); 114-127 (naturalization provisions); 134-138 (Puerta case); 141-147 (Duvall article); 148-156 (Terrazos case); notes 156-161; problems on 115 and 132-133.
LAW-796S-001 Insurance Law Tomilson Upper Level
Baker, Insurance Law and Policy: Cases, Materials, and Problems, (Aspen, 2nd Ed.)
9780735569317
Not Available
LAW-768S-001 Internet Law Kagan Upper Level
No Information Received
LAW-902S-A Intro to Trial Advocacy - Lecture Stern Upper Level
Bocchino & Beskind, Problems in Trial Advocacy, (LexisNexis, 2011 Ed.)
 
Stein, Dixon v. Providential Life Insurance Co. Casefile, (LexisNexis)
 
Mauet, Trial Techniques, (Aspen, 8th Ed.)
9781601561602
9781556817199
9780735594418
Trial Techniques, Mauet - pages 97-168; Problems in Trial Advocacy, Bocchino - Problems 1 and 2.
LAW-656S-001 Justice Lawyering Seminar Brooks Upper Level
Hurder, Bloch, Brooks, & Kay, Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics, (LexisNexis, 2nd Ed.)
9781422483473
Not Available
LAW-844S-001 Law and Social Movements Corrigan Upper Level
Stern, The Buffalo Creek Disaster,  (Random House)
 
Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950, (University of North Carolina Press)
 
Paris, Framing Equal Opportunity: Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform, (Stanford University Press)
9780394723430
9780807855959
9780804763542
Please read Stern's The Buffalo Creek Disaster in its entirety.
LAW-654S-001 Lawyering Practice Seminar Parambath Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
First Week's Assignment will be provided at orientation on the first day of co-op, August 20, 2012.
LAW-654S-002 Lawyering Practice Seminar Edwards Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
First Week's Assignment will be provided at orientation on the first day of co-op, August 20, 2012.
LAW-565S-001 Legal Methods I Oates First Year
Required:
 
Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis, (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd Ed.)
 
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, (The Harvard Law Review Association, 19th Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Shertzer, The Elements of Grammar, (Longman)
 
Garner, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, (2nd Ed.)
 
Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, (Carolina Academic Press, 5th Ed.)
Required:
9780735598508
9780615361161
 
Recommended:
9780028614496
9780314168917
9781594601514
Edwards, Chapters 1-3 and Orientation Packet to be distributed.
LAW-565S-002 Legal Methods I Zimmerman First Year
Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis, (Aspen, 3rd.)
 
Sloan, Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies, (Aspen, 5th Ed.)
 
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, (The Harvard Law Review Association, 19th Ed.)
9780735598508
9781454808473
9780615361161
There will not be a reading assignment for the first class during Orientation week.
 
For our second class during Orientation week, you should read Edwards, Chapters 1 & 2, and Sloan, Chapter 1 (Introduction to Legal Research)(pages 1-25)(You do not have to read the material about the ALWD manual)
LAW-565S-003 Legal Methods I McElroy First Year
Required:

Coughlin, Malmud, & Patrick, A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis, (Carolina Academic Press, 2008 Ed.)

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, (The Harvard Law Review Association, 19th Ed.)

Recommended:

Shertzer, The Elements of Grammar, (Longman)
 
Garner, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, (2nd Ed.)
 
Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, (Carolina Academic Press, 5th Ed.)

Required:
9781594603600
9780615361161
 
Recommended:
9780028614496
9780314168917
9781594601514
NOTE CHANGE: Students will not have any assignment due prior to orientation.
LAW-565S-004 Legal Methods I Gordon First Year
Required:
 
Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis, (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd Ed.)
 
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, (Harvard Law Review Association, 19th Ed.)
 
Sloan, Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies, (Wolters Kluwer, 5th Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Shertzer, The Elements of Grammar, (Longman)
 
Garner, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, (2nd Ed.)
 
Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, (Carolina Academic Press, 5th Ed.)
Required:
9780735598508
9780615361161
9781454808473
 
Recommended:
9780028614496
9780314168917
9781594601514
Edwards, Chapters 1-3; Sloan, Chapter 1; Orientation Packet and other materials to be distributed.
LAW-565S-005 Legal Methods I Coleman First Year
Required:
 
Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis, (Wolters Kluwer, 3rd Ed.)
 
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, (The Harvard Law Review Association, 19th Ed.)
 
Osbeck, Impeccable Research: A Concise Guide to Mastering Legal Research Skills, (Thomson Reuters West, 2010 Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Shertzer, The Elements of Grammar, (Longman)
 
Garner, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, (2nd Ed.)
 
Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, (Carolina Academic Press, 5th Ed.)
 
Required:
9780735598508
9780615361161
9780314202727
 
Recommended:
9780028614496
9780314168917
9781594601514
Edwards, Chapters 1-3, Orientation Packet, and other materials to be distributed. Please also read the decision in Lindh v. Surman, which was sent directly to all class members by Professor Coleman on 8/9/12.
LAW-840S-001 Literature and The Law Seminar Asbury Upper Level
Camus, The Fall, (Vintage, 1991 Ed.)
 
Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, (Grove Press, 1994 Ed.)
 
Beha, What Happened to Sophie Wilder, (Tin House Books, 2012 Ed.)
 
Chandler, The Big Sleep, (Vintage, 1988 Ed.)
 
 
 
9780679720225
9780802132758
9781935639312
9780394758282
Not Available
LAW-882S-001 Litigation Drafting Kahan Upper Level
Weresh, Legal Writing: Ethical and Professional Considerations, (LexisNexis, 2nd Ed.)
 
Fajans, Falk, and Shapo, Writing for Law Practice, (West, 2nd Ed.)
9781422473054
9781599416304
Fajans, Falk, and Shapo: Introduction, xix-xxv
Weresh: Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 pp. 15-24
LAW-849S-001 Making a Smooth Transition to Law Firm Practice Candiello Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
 
LAW-608S-001 Marshall-Brennan Montemarano Upper Level
Raskin, We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and About Students, (CQ Press, 3rd Ed.)
9780872897618
Reading Due: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 through Ex. 2-9 on page 29.
LAW-646S-001 Mediation and Arbitration Kraybill Upper Level
Folberg, et al., Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law, (Aspen, 2nd Ed.)
 
*A looseleaf version of the text has been created.*
9780735589018
 
Looseleaf Version
*9781454828365*
Before the first class, please:
 
1) Read Chapter 1 in Resolving Disputes and be prepared to discuss the note questions in the chapter.
2) Sign up for the course TWEN site.
3) Complete the questionnaire posted on the TWEN site and submit your completed questionnaire in the assignment drop box no later than Monday, August 20th at 5:00 p.m.
LAW-793S-001 Mental Health Law DeMatteo Upper Level
Required:
 
Slobogin, Rai, & Reisner, Law and the Mental Health System: Civil and Criminal Aspects, (Thomson/West, 5th Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Bersoff, Field, Anderer, & Zaplac, Law and Mental Health Professionals: Pennsylvania, (American Psychological Association, 1st Ed.)
Required:
9780314183644
 
Recommended:
9781557985552
Not Available
LAW-724S-001 Nonprofit Organizations Field Upper Level
Fishman & Schwartz, Nonprofit Organizations: Cases and Materials, (Foundation Press, 4th Ed.)
9781599416656
Not Available
LAW-761S-001 Patents Sheridan Upper Level
Merges & Duffy, Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, (LexisNexis, 5th Ed.)
 
The New United States Patent Law: Black Line Edition, (LegalPub.com, 1st Ed.)
9781422480304
9781934852095
Not Available
LAW-900S-001 Pre-Trial Advocacy Judge Robinson Upper Level
Mauet, Pretrial, (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 7th Ed.)
9780735572034
None Required
LAW-712S-001 Private Equity & Venture Capital Law Kennedy Upper Level
Fraser-Sampson, Private Equity as an Asset Class, (Wiley, 2nd Ed.)
9780470661383
Read the entire book.
LAW-830S-001 Professional Responsibility Woodson Upper Level
Required:
 
Morgan and Rotunda, Professional Responsibility: Problems and Materials, (Foundation Press, 11th Ed.)
 
Recommended:
 
Morgan and Rotunda, 2012 Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility, (Foundation Press, 2012 Ed.)
Required:
9781599418544
 
Recommended:
9781599419459
"Problems and Materials," pp. 1-16, 31-46. Students will also be expected to have carefully read ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct 8.1, 8.3, and 8.4.
LAW-830S-900 Professional Responsibility Haas Upper Level
Lerman & Schrag, Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, (Wolters/Kluwer, 3rd Ed.)
9781454803010
Not Available
LAW-556S-001 Property Stein Upper Level
Chused, A Property Anthology, (LexisNexis, 2nd Ed.)
 
Singer, Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices, (Aspen, 5th Ed.)
9780870847356
9780735588608
Not Available
LAW-824S-001 Public International Law Saunders Upper Level
Dunoff, Ratner, & Wippman, International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problems Approach, (Aspen, 3rd Ed.)
 
**The casebook also comes in a looseleaf version. Please see separate ISBN listing. These loose-leaf pages are 3-hole punched, collated, and in shrink wrap. The pages are not sold in a binder nor are they binded together in any way. For a limited time, student will receive a digital version of the casebook with their loose-leaf book, via a unique promotion code. You will not receive access until you receive the loose-leaf. ** 
9780735589179
 
Looseleaf version:
9781454819974

For the first class, pleae read pp. 1-17 of the casebook.

LAW-791S-001 Regulating Patient Safety Hoffman, D. Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-711S-001 Sales Boss Upper Level
Commercial and Debtor-Creditor Law: Selected Statutes, (Foundation Press, 2012 Ed.)
9781599419480
Not Available
LAW-672S-501 Sentencing Law Judge Goldberg Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-612S-001 Sexual Orientation and the Law Palmer Upper Level
None Required
Not Available
Not Available
LAW-726S-001 Sports Law O'Brien Upper Level
Mitten, Sports Law and Regulation: Cases, Materials, and Problems, (Aspen, 2nd Ed.)
9780735576223
Please read and be prepared to discuss PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin on page 106.
LAW-638S-001 State & Local Government Law O'Donnell Upper Level
Baker & Gillette, Local Government Law, (Foundation Press, 3rd Ed.)
9781587787423
Chapter 1 except p. 31 to 50
LAW-550S-001 Torts Furrow First Year
Franklin, Rabin, & Green, Tort Law and Alternatives, (Foundation Press, 9th Ed.)
 
Baker, The Medical Malpractice Myth, (University of Chicago Press, 1st Ed.)
9781599418605
9780226036496
Monday 8/20 - Introduction to the Litigation Process Read 1-17 and map out the flow of the tort trial process. Read Hamontree and Holmes (The Common Law) with particular case. What purposes does tort litigation serve, according to Holmes? Then read pp. 710-727 and outline the damages in Seffert in writing.
LAW-550S-002 Torts Geisinger First Year
Wade, Schwartz, et. al., Cases and Material on Torts, (Foundation Press, 12th Ed.)
9781599417042
Please read pages 1-16 of the casebook.
LAW-740S-001 Trusts and Estates Gordon Upper Level
Dukeminier, Sitkoff, Lindgren, Wills, Trusts & Estates, (Aspen, 8th Ed.)
 
Gallanis, Uniform Trusts & Estates Statutes, (Foundation, 2012-2013 Ed.)
 
 
9780735579965
9781609301361
Class 1: Reading: WT&E, pp. 1-3, 16-46, Ps. 1-4 (pp. 47-48).
Class 2: Reading: WT&E, pp. 49=51, 71-85; In re Estate of Gardiner, 42 P. 3d 120 (Kan. 2002)(on TWEN).