University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law

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Assignment for first week of class

1. Amendments - Read FRCP 15; pages 551-561 of text (carry over from last semester; please re-read)
2. Summary Judgment - FRCP 56; pages 857-882; hypotheticals to be handed out in class.

Course Materials:

• Real Estate Transactions, Problems, Cases and Materials, Third Edition, (Aspen Publishers, 2007) by Robin Paul Malloy and James Charles Smith

Class Discussion Topics and Reading Assignments

• 1/15 - Chapter 1, pgs. 1-24
• 1/17 - Chapter 2, pgs. 25-60

Remainder of Syllabus is available on Twen site.

Timing of Income and Deductions.

1. "Annual" accounting. Text pages 582-586.
2. Cash receipts and disbursements method. Text pages 586-612.
1. Cash receipts.
1. Doctrine of economic benefit.
2. Doctrine of cash equivalence.
3. Charles F. Kahler, page 587.
4. Williams v. Commissioner, page 588.
5. Cowden v. Commissioner, page 590.
3. Doctrine of constructive receipt.
4. Hornung v. Commissioner, page 595.

For the first two classes (January 15 and 17, 2008), read Chapter 14 (pages 159-169), Linda H. Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis, (2d ed., Aspen Publishers 2007).

I will provide handouts on Arkansas and Eighth Circuit appellate briefs in class.

Register on the TWEN site.  All assignments for the semester and information about the class are posted there.

First day of class reading:

• U. S. Constitution, Article One, Section 8
• U. S. Constitution, First Amendment

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Barry R. Furrow et al., Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics (5th ed.) (West 2004) - Read Pages 1-30 and 238-241.

The first assignment for Fendler's Drafting Contracts class is Chapters 1-5 in the Stark textbook.  Look over the Exercises at the end of Chapter 5, but you won't be asked to turn anything in.  We will discuss those Exercises in class.

CASEBOOK:

• Wadlington & O'Brien, DOMESTIC RELATIONS: CASES AND MATERIALS (6th ed. 2007, Foundation Press)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR FIRST WEEK:

• First Class (Jan. 14, 2008): No assignment; arrive at class on time.
• Second Class (Jan. 16, 2008): Read pages 1-11 and 20-48 in the casebook.

CASEBOOK:

• Wadlington & O'Brien, DOMESTIC RELATIONS: CASES AND MATERIALS (6th ed. 2007, Foundation Press)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR FIRST WEEK:

• First Class (Jan. 14, 2008): No assignment; arrive at class on time.
• Second Class (Jan. 16, 2008): Read pages 1-11 and 20-48 in the casebook.

Monday pp. 584-612
Wednesday pp. 612-634

Pp. 1-62, and A.C.A. §§ 28-11-204 and 23-47-204. the book is Dobris, Sterk and Leslie, Estates and Trusts, 3d edition. There are hyperlinks to the Arkansas statutes on the front page of the course TWEN site.

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There will NOT be a textbook for the Spring 2008 Environmental Law class.  Handouts/Reading Materials will be made available for each student.  A copy of these handouts can be picked up from the Associate Dean's Office after 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 8, 2008.

Assignment for Environmental Law for Wednesday, January 16, 2008, finish reading Endangered Species Act Handout.

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For Monday and Wednesday, January 14 and 16, 2008, please read pages 3-40 and 43-64 of Graeme B. Dinwoodie and mark D. janis, Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law & Policy (Aspen Publishers Inc. 2d ed. 2007)

ASSIGNMENT FOR JANUARY 15, 2008
Contracts II (Day) Jenkins
John Edward Murray ("Text"): Pages 299 - 324
Burton & Eisenberg Supplement:
UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: Arts. 11 & 12
Restatement (Second) of the Law of Contracts ("Restatement"): §§ 110, 112, 116, 124
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) 2-201 (unamended)

ASSIGNMENT FOR January 15, 2008
Establish Firms & Complete the Problem Set.  Answers to the Problems Set from prior years are likely to be available.  The goal of working the Set is to become acquainted with the statutory material.  Using the work of others may not facilitate this goal.  Hypothetical contexts similar to but not identical to those in the Problem Set will be the bases of our discussion during class.
Text: Pages 15 -24
Statutes: See Problem Set for relevant sections.

The Problem Set and Course Policies with description of firms are available online on the class TWEN site or on the bench outside my office, room 402.

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Picking up where we left off last semester, we will begin by finishing our discussion of landlord-tenant law.  Although we will generally aim to complete one assignment per class session, for the first week of class we will only cover the following assignment:

• Class No. 1 Subleases and Assignments, pp. 388-402

Welcome to State and Local Taxation.  For first class Jan. 14 please read the first three chapters in the Hellerstein and Hellerstein text.  I have not yet received the latest edition of the text and am working from the Fifth Edition.  The titles of the Chapters may be slightly different with the latest edition but the first three chapters should include:

Chapter 1.  The Development of the American State and Local Tax System
Chapter 2.  Preliminary Materials
Chapter 3.  Uniformity and Equality Requirements of State and Local Taxation

I hope to have received the new edition of the text in time to prepare a Syllabus prior to the first class.  I will also make any necessary corrections to these chapters if the new edition differs and mail those to you if possible.

Chapter 1 of Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation, pp. 2 - 55
Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935)
Gregory v. Helvering, 69 F.2d 809 (2nd Cir. 1934)
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Commissioner, 254 F.3d 1313 (11th Cir. 2001)
Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Commissioner, 113 TC 254 (1999)
Choice of Entity handout

Jan. 14
Casebook 10 (starting at "Incentive Perspective") - 30
Excerpt from Article on Preliminary Injunction Litigation (Course Materials on TWEN)
Class Supplement 1 - 3 (stop at Modern Unfair Competition)
Casebook 853 - 863
Class Supplement 3 (begin at Modern Unfair Competition) - 9

Jan. 16
Skim Casebook 633 - 640
Casebook 640 - 650
Class Supplement 10 - 17

My first class assignment is to pick up the handout by my door and read it.  Bring a copy of the U.S. Constitution and the Arkansas Constitution as well as Allen v. Ingalls, 33 SW 2d 1099 (AR)  As with all the assignments, you will be downloading them from the internet.

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For Monday and Wednesday, January 14 and 16, 2008, please read Chapter 3 of Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff et al., Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (5th ed. Thomson West 2003).

For Monday, January 14, 2008, please read Chapters 4 and 14 of Linda H. Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis (2d ed. Aspen Wolters Kluwer L. & Bus. 2007).

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I look forward to our class.  The required casebook is Employment Law by Richard R. Carlson, published by Aspen.  The law school's bookstore may not have it by our first week of class, so please be prepared to discuss the following Arkansas cases:

Gladden v. Arkansas Children's Hospital, 292 Ark. 130, 728 S.W.2d 501 (1987)
Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Oxford, 294 Ark. 239, 743 S.W.2d 380 (1988)
Smith v. American Greetings Corporation, 304 Ark. 596, 804 S.W.2d 683 (1991)
Hice v. City of Fort Smith, 75 Ark. App. 410, 58 S.W.3d 870 (2001)

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