Mon. 8/26

Introduction to the Course and Subject

M1-5; G1-2; 8-11 (intro)

Wed. 8/28

History of Common Law and Civil Law; Civil Law=s Roman Roots

G44-54; G58-64 (civil law); HO1-2 (Roman jurists); M14-18 (revolution); HO3-9 (succession of Codes); 438-454 (common law)

Wed. 9/4

Nature, Sources and Cate­gories of Law: Codes and Statutes

HO10-18 (Hoffman v. Jones); G192-203 (codes); HO19-21 (skim) (French Civil Code Contents); HO22 (diagram on warranties)

Mon. 9/9

The Legal Reasoning: Categories of the Law and Judicial Process

G54-58; M61-67; G265-274 (divisions of the law); G203-220 (cases and other sources); HO24 (Capitant); HO25-31 (French and German deci­sions on privacy; Greenman v. Yuba Products; Chan and Leatherman)

Wed. 9/11

Sources of Law: Case Law and Interpretation of Enacted Law

Continue with German and US court decisions; HO39-48, HO49-51 (skim - US and German prod­uct liability statutes); HO37-38 (Stein Roman Law article)

Mon. 9/16

Judicial Process: Cases and Interpretation of Enacted Law

HO 52-55 (doctrine); HO56-73 (French cases on car accidents); HO74-79 (US statutory interpreta­tion); G220-241 (German and French statutory interpreta­tion)

Wed. 9/18

Judicial Process: Constitutions as Sources of Law and Judicial Review

G242-251 (our changing sources); G323-339 (Ger­man courts= policing of contracts); G65-73 (constitutional structure)

Mon. 9/23

Court Systems

G73-85; 85-118 (judicial review and abortion); HO80-86 (Roe v. Wade); G118-129 (court systems); HO 87-88 (legible diagrams of French and German systems

Wed. 9/25

Civil Procedure

G190-191; HO 89-95 (Russian judicial system and judicial review); G166-179; HO 96-110 (Langbein, Allen et al. on German Civil Procedure)

Mon. 9/30

Civil Procedure

HO126-147  (French civil procedure; Beardsley); HO 123-125; (Allendale case)

Wed. 10/2

Legal Education and the Legal Professions

G130-152; HO 148-151 (legal education); G152-165 (legal profession)

Mon. 10/7

European Human Rights Law B Prof. Brad Roth

G371-394 (European HR system and Marckx case)

Wed. 10/9

European Human Rights Law B Prof. Brad Roth

HO152-198 (Streletz, Kessler, and Krenz v. FRG cases)

Mon. 10/14

Judges; Criminal Procedure

HO199-205 (Clark, Allen, Nagourney on judges); HO283-290 (French judges); M124-132 (summary of crim pro); HO on Incarceration Rates [if you have not had Crim Pro, read pp. 263-276 of Burn­ham, Intro to US Law first]

Wed. 10/16

Criminal Procedure

G179-190 (Schlesinger); HO206-207 (questions and notes); HO223-228 (pre­liminary investiga­tions); HO207-208 (victim civil claims)

Mon. 10/21

Criminal Procedure

HO209-222 (Bedford trial descriptions); HO239-246 (juries and lay judges); HO267-282 (Thaman, juries and lay judges)

Wed 10/23

Criminal Procedure

HO228-238 (German plea bargaining); HO257-266 (French plea bargaining); HO247-256 (Italian criminal procedure reforms)

Mon. 10/28

English Legal System: Judicial System

G492-522 (courts) [31]; G522-537 (appeals) [16]

Wed. 10/30

England: Legal Education and Legal Professions

G538-553 (legal education) [16]; G553-573 [21] (lawyers); G590-607 [17] (judges)

Mon. 11/4

England: Procedure

G608-627 (civil procedure)[20]; G627-654 (criminal procedure)[27]

Wed. 11/6

England: Judicial Process

G663-670 [8] (appellate procedure); G671-682 (precedent)[12]; G699-716 (judicial style)[18]

Mon. 11/11

Comparative Individual Rights: Hate Speech in US and European Law (class with Prof. Gregory Fox)

Burnham, Intro to the Law and Legal System of the US, pp. 355-360; RAV v. St. Paul (US 1992); European Cases

Wed. 11-13

I am in Kazakhstan; work on your paper

Mon. 11-18

Same

Wed. 11-20

Same

Mon. 11-25

England: Governmental Structure and Judicial Review

G455-468 (government)[14]; G468-492 (judicial review)[25]

Wed. 11-27

European Community Law

G340-371