Curriculum (PDF)

First class will be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 on Zoom.   

The Syllabus is available on Lexis Classroom (see registration instructions, below).  Print copies will be distributed upon request.

Before our first class, please do the following:

1. Please make sure you can sign into Bloomberg Law, Lexis and Westlaw.  If you need help registering for any of these, please contact the Library Reference desk at hofstralawlib@gmail.com, contact me at lawlas@hofstra.edu or stop by the Reference desk or my office – 102A in the Library.
2. If you have not already done so, register for the Course web site on Lexis Classroom. See instructions below.

Our first class will be on Zoom.  The link is posted on the course web site and I will also send via email.

Syllabus (PDF)

INITIAL ASSIGNMENTS

Required Text:  Brilmayer, Goldsmith, O’Hara O’Connor, Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials (7th edition)

• Class: 1
  • Date: Wed. 1/20
  • Reading Assignment:
    • Chapter 1 – Conflict of Laws: An Overview
    • Chapter 5 – The Jurisdiction of Courts Over Persons and Property
• Class: 2
  • Date: Mon. 1/25
  • Reading Assignment:
    • Chapter 5 – The Jurisdiction of Courts Over Persons and Property
• Class: 3
  • Date: Wed. 1/27
  • Reading Assignment:
    • Chapter 6 - Conflict of Laws in the Federal System

The case book for the course is Copyright: Cases and Materials, 9^th edition, by Robert A. Gorman, Jane C. Ginsburg, and R. Anthony Reese with 2019 statutory supplement.

First Assignment

Read pages 1-56. Burrow-Giles v. Sarony (photograph case),

Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing (circus poster) general outline of copyright law

 Required Course Materials:

The required text is Employment Discrimination, Procedure, Principles and Practice by Joseph Seiner (2nd Ed 2019). Published by Wolters Kluwer.

Administrative Details:

Class meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays: 8:40 -10.00am.

Email: Charis.J.Damiano@hofstra.edu

Office hours: By appointment

Assistant: Jennifer Calautti, Room 223

Course webpage: TWEN (please refer to TWEN for further details of the course)

First Assignment: The first class will be on Wednesday January 20 2021. Please read pages 1-12 and 79 to top of 87 before that class meeting.

Points for discussion:

1)    What are the major statutes that form the backbone of employment discrimination laws in the US? What does “at will employment” mean?

2)    What kind of constitutional anti-discrimination claims can federal workers bring?

3)    Consider the difference between federal anti-discrimination laws and state anti-discrimination laws.

4)    Read the interactive problem on page 79 and be prepared to discuss it in the context of the case of McDonnell Douglas Corp v. Green (1973) on page 81.

1. What is the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence of discrimination?
2. What are the prongs of the McDonnell Douglas prima facie test?

Assignments for First Week of Class

1. Go to Blackboard and make sure you have access to this course. Class announcements will be distributed using the BB e-mail list and you are responsible for them.
2. Download the syllabus from the BB site and read the entire document with care.
3. Prepare for the course meeting on Zoom at 4:30 P.M. on Tuesday, January 21 in accordance with the syllabus.
4. In the event of any logistical difficulties, contact Joyce Amore Cox, Joyce.A.Cox@hofstra.edu, tel. 516-463-6339.

The casebook for the course is Schwarz & Lathrope, Fundamentals of Corporate Taxation (Tenth Edition 2019).   

In addition, we will be using Lathrope, Selected Federal Taxation Statutes.  This should be the same statutory supplement that you used in Federal Income Taxation of Individuals. 

For our first session (Friday, January 22, 2021), please read pages 3-12 in the casebook.  

The Zoom link, syllabus and other course information can be found on the course TWEN page.

Class, 

Happy New Year.  Attached is our syllabus including the assignment for our first class on January 21.  Once I’m fully set up on the Hofstra system I’ll be communicating with you through the Hofstra email and/or Blackboard.  I’ll also be sending information for our Zoom classes through February 1, after which I hope we’ll be able to meet in person.  Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Thank you,
Eric Kriftcher 

First Assignment

Welcome to International Family Law! The text is D. Marianne Blair et al., Family Law in the World Community (3rd ed. 2015). Please sign up on TWEN before our first class on January 20th and read the assignment and be prepared to discuss the questions below.

Class #1

pp. 3-19

Chapter 1 • Introduction to the Study of Family Law in the World Community

1. An Introduction to Comparative Law
   1. Why Study Comparative Law
      Problem 1-1
   2. What Is Comparative Family Law?

1.  Would a comparative legal analysis presented by the advocates be helpful in Problem 1-1? Why or why not?

2.  If you think it would be helpful, what would you want to know and why?

3.  What functions can comparative law serve here?  

First Assignment

Welcome to the International Human Rights Seminar! The text is Philip Alston & Ryan Goodman, International Human Rights (2013). Please sign up on TWEN before our first class on January 26th, read the assignment below and be prepared to discuss the questions starting at the bottom of p.3 through the top of p. 4 and the questions at p. 17.

Class #1

pp. 3-17

Questions starting at the bottom of p. 3-4, p. 17

1. Human Rights Concepts and Discourse
   1.  Global Snapshots

First Assignment

Welcome to Secured Transactions with Profess Hamroff. 

Below is your First Assignment.  The entire Syllabus has been placed on TWEN under Syllabus.  Please register for this class so you can view the entire Syllabus.

• Date: WED. 01/20
• Class No.: 1
• Topics/Issues: Overview: (1) the context in which debtor-creditor relationships arise, (2) the difference between secured and unsecured creditors, (3) the reality that some creditors are not timely paid what they are owed, (4) the basic creditor collection remedy which is known as "execution" and the rights of "statutory liens", (5) the difficulties facing creditors when debtors do not voluntarily pay their debts, (6) fraudulent transfers, and (7) pre-judgment remedies.
• Required Reading Material Pages/ Problems: Pgs. 1-43; Problem 1-3
• Statutes: NY Lien Law §§80, 151, 160, 180, 184; CPLR §§5201, 5202, 5203, Articles 62-65, 270 et. seq. and Bky Cod 548.

Hello and Welcome to Wills, Trusts, and Estates!

I look forward to meeting each of you in class next week.  Please be sure to sign into and register for our class’ TWEN Site.  For your convenience, I am attaching the class syllabus and the case that is assigned for class.

With best regards,
Professor Folami