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Fall 2021
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Course Description
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tba
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Course Schedule
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08-23-2021 - 12-01-2021
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9:30 AM-10:45 AM
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F309
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Course Frequency
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This course is usually offered once every academic year
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Course Information
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Credits:
3
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Pass/Fail Option:
No
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Prerequisite:
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Grading:
Graded
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Method of Evaluation:
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Graduation Requirements Fulfilled By Course:
General
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Special Attributes:
None
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Course Delivery:
Residential
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Special Restrictions:
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Law Track(s):
None
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Bar Subject(s):
None
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Concentration(s):
None
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Course Book(s):
Textbook Required:
Yes
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Textbook Name: Gorgias
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Required
Author: Plato
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140449044
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Textbook Name: The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law School
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Required
Author: Karl N. Llewellyn and Steve Sheppard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780195368451
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Textbook Name: An Introduction To Legal Reasoning (Phoenix Books)
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Required
Author: Edward H. Levi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Edition: Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780226089720
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Textbook Name: Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Recommended
Author: Irwin P. Stotzky
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Edition: New Edition
ISBN: 9780226776279
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Textbook Name: The Theory and Craft of American Law
Textbook Type: Hardcover
Requirement: Required
Author: Soia Mentschikoff and Irwin Stotzky
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Edition: 1981
ISBN: 9780820562803
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Textbook Name: Law as Justice: The Moral Imperative of Owen Fiss's Scholarship
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Recommended
Author: Irwin P. Stotzky
Publisher: Twelve Tables Press
Edition: October 2009
ISBN: 9780974728650
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Textbook Name: Send Them Back
Textbook Type: Paperback
Requirement: Recommended
Author: Irwin P. Stotzky
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Edition: 2018
ISBN: 9781611638493
Additional Materials:
Maitland, The Forms of Action at Common Law and Llewellyn & Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way, are out of print. However, there are copies on Reserve in the Library and are Recommended.
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First Class Assignment(s):
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Assignment:
The First Class Meeting is Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 9:30AM. The Assignment for Class Week 1 is Introductory Lecture Week 1: Searching for a Perspective on Elements and Legal Education. Please read GORGIAS (the entire book); What Should a Billionaire Give - What Should You, by Peter Singer (attached) and be prepared to discuss the moral bases for being a lawyer.
Material:
Casebook: Mentschikoff & Stotzky, The Theory and Craft of American Law - Elements ("Casebook"). Other Required Readings: Levi, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning; Llewellyn, The Bramble Bush; Plato, GORGIAS. Recommended (but not required) Readings: Llewellyn & Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Maitland, The Forms of Action At Common Law; Stotzky, Silencing The Guns In Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy; and Stotzky, Law As Justice: The Moral Imperative of Owen Fiss's Scholarship; Stotzky, Send Them Back. (Maitland, The Forms of Action At Common Law and Llewellyn & Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way, are out of print. However, copies of those two books as well as all these suggested books are on Reserve in the Library).
Additional Information:
Page 1 of the Syllabus is attached.
Fall 2021 Pages 1 of Elements' Syllabus.pdf
what should a billionaire give.pdf
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