01: Getting Started

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• Complete "Getting Started" lesson assignment and activities

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 1, Foundations of American Law, pages 3-28.
  Chapter 3, Constitutional Law, pages 73-105.
  U.S. Constitution, reference sections, pages 451-469.
   
• Multiple-choice and short written answers to questions -- 9 points

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 1: Foundations of American Law, pages 3-28.
  Chapter 2: Structures of American Law, page 31-66.
  Chapter 3: Constitutional Law, pages 73-105.
   
• Multiple-choice and short written answers to questions -- 10 points.

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 2: Structures of American Law, pages 31-66.
  Chapter 12: Administrative Law and Procedure, pages 423-447.
   
• Multiple-choice and short written answers to questions -- 10 points

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 9, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and the Appellate Process, pages 330-336.
   
• Multiple-choice and short written answers to questions -- 10 points

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 2: Structures of American Law, pages 38-42.
  Chapter 3: Constitutional Law, pages 74-79.
  Chapter 9: Appellate Procedure, pages 330-336.
  
  Baum, American Courts, Process and Policy
  Chapter 9: Appellate Courts: Policy and Impact, pages 284-313.
   
• Short written answers to questions -- 4 points

• Exam 1 -- choose 4 of 6 essay questions -- 50 points

08: Attorneys and the Legal Profession

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 2, Structures of American Law, "The Legal Profession," pages 57-62.
  
  Carlson, Introduction to Paralegalism,
  Chapter 3, "The Paralegal in the Work Environment," pages 68-84.
  
  Preamble, The Rules Regulating the Florida Bar.
   
• Short written answers to questions -- 8 points

• Baum, American Courts Process and Policy
  Chapter 4, Selection of Judges, pages 93-121.
  Chapter 5, Judges, pages 124-147.
   

• Paper
  Seven- to eight-page written summary, analysis, and opinion of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas -- 100 points.

Due at the end of Lesson/Week 10

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 1, Foundations of American Law, "Criminal and Civil Law," pages 12-13.
  Chapter 4, Criminal Law, pages 111-113.
  Chapter 5, Torts, pages 167-173.

• Short written answers to questions -- 4 points

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 9, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and the Appellate Process, pages 309-316.
  
  Baum, American Courts, Process and Policy
  Chapter 7, Trial Courts: Civil Cases, pages 206 (A Summary of Court Procedures) through 219.
  
  Theodore M. Becker, "How to Limit Discovery Without Costing Your Client the Case," Illinois Legal Times (May 1997), p. 13.
  
  Steve Weinberg, "Hardball Discovery," ABA Journal 81 (November 1995), p. 66.
   
• Short written answers to questions -- 10 points

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 9, Civil Procedure, Evidence, and the Appellate Process, pages 316-330.
   
• Short written answers to questions -- 15 points

13: Criminal Law, Part 1

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System
  Chapter 4, Criminal Law, pages 111-161.
   
• Short written answers to questions -- 10 points

• Scheb, An Introduction to the American Legal System,
  Chapter 10, Criminal Procedure, pages 341-380.
   
• Short written answers to questions -- 10 points

• Exam 2 -- choose 4 of 6 essay questions -- 50 points