General Assignment Information
Federal Courts (LAWS 659)
Professor Scott R. Bauries
(803) 777-5662
First Day Assignment and Information
REQUIRED TEXT
Curtis A. Bradley, Tara L. Grove, Peter W. Low, & John Jeffries, Jr., Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (10th ed. 2022, West Academic), ISBN: 978-1-68561-085-2. Hardcover version only. No e-books.
COURSE TWEN PAGE
I have established a page for this course on Westlaw’s The West Education Network (“TWEN”). You can find it by searching for Federal Courts—Fall 2025—Bauries. The Course Policies and First Full Set of Readings and posted there. Please sign yourself up for this course, and make sure your email address is correct, as I will use the email list from the TWEN course to contact you if I need to.
LAPTOP AND INTERNET USE IN CLASS
I do not permit the use of laptops by students in this class. I do permit notetaking using an electronic stylus on a lie-flat tablet.
Of course, if you have an ADA or Section 504 accommodation providing for laptop use for class notetaking, I will certainly honor that, but please let me know prior to the first class meeting if that is the case.
FIRST DAY READING ASSIGNMENT
Wednesday, August 20th (Monday schedule): Judicial Review and the Federal Court System. Please read pages 1-17 (Marbury v. Madison).
Looking forward to meeting you all soon!
Textbook Information
REQUIRED TEXT
Curtis A. Bradley, Tara L. Grove, Peter W. Low, & John Jeffries, Jr., Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (10th ed. 2022, West Academic), ISBN: 978-1-68561-085-2. Hardcover version only. No e-books.
General Assignment Information
State Constitutional Law (LAWS 661)
Professor Scott R. Bauries
(803) 777-5662
First Day Assignment and Information
COURSE TWEN PAGE
I have established a page for this course on Westlaw’s The West Education Network (“TWEN”). You can find it by searching for State Constitutional Law—Fall 2025—Bauries. The Course Policies and other materials are already posted there. Please sign yourself up for this course, and make sure your email address is correct, as I will use the email list from the TWEN course to contact you if I need to.
REQUIRED TEXT
Robert F. Williams & Lawrence Friedman, State Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2015), ISBN: 978-1-6304-3586-8. This ISBN corresponds with the Hardcover print format. I do not permit laptops in class (see below), so you are not permitted to use the e-book format.
LAPTOP AND INTERNET USE
I do not permit the use of laptops by students in this class. However, if you have a lie-flat tablet and wish to take notes on that using a stylus rather than typing, I will permit that.
Also, if you have an ADA or Section 504 accommodation for laptop use, I will certainly honor that, but please let me know prior to the first class meeting if that is the case.
FIRST READING ASSIGNMENT
Thursday, August 21st: Introduction, pages xv-xix; Founding Era State Constitutionalism, pages 1-11; State Constitutional Lawmaking, pages 57-79.
Looking forward to meeting you all on the 21st!
--Prof. Bauries
Textbook Information
Robert F. Williams & Lawrence Friedman, State Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2015), ISBN: 978-1-6304-3586-8. This ISBN corresponds with the Hardcover print format. I do not permit laptops in class (see below), so you are not permitted to use the e-book format.
General Assignment Information
Welcome to Torts, Section 2,
For Aug. 21, please read casebook pages 1-27.
For Aug. 22, read pages 27-61
- Recommended: Prepare a full case brief for Garratt v. Dailey and bring to class
I look forward to meeting you soon.
Textbook Information
The primary text for this course is Victor Schwartz et al., Prosser, Wade and Schwartz’s Torts: Cases and Materials (15th ed. 2024) (print or electronic copy with access to Casebook Plus).
General Assignment Information
READ THE SYLLABUS ANNOTATIONS ABOUT THE VARIOUS TEXTS BEFORE BUYING ANYTHING!
Aliche (book): Intro, Ch. 1, 5; Fernando: webpage (link on course page and in syllabus);
Holt: webpage (link on course page and in syllabus); inDebted, Ep. 7. (podcast – substitute
lawyer for doctor) (see course page); Klontz: webpage (read after Smith, A.) (link
on course page and in syllabus); Kobliner: Ch.1 (book); Perhach: webpage (link on
course page and in syllabus); Smith, A.: article (link in course page); Smith, C.:
Ch. 1-4, 8 (book).
Class to be scheduled - keep an eye on your emails.
General Assignment Information
FIRST-DAY READING ASSIGNMENT
For Aug. 21 (Class 1): Please read Ch. 1.A and Ch. 1.B (pp1-30) of the Casebook, on Agency Structure. About half of these pages are charts showing various agency structures and mandates, which you can skim. Please also read Ch. 6.G (pp701-713) of the Casebook on Presidential Control, and read Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act, found in your casebook index. Additional information available on Blackboard.
Textbook Information
Casebook: William F. Funk, Sidney A. Shapiro, Russell L. Weaver, Administrative Procedure and Practice: A Contemporary Approach, Revised (7th Ed.) (2023) ISBN: 9781636591629
(Purchasing only the ebook or only the hard copy is fine. I allow laptops in class. Discount code: WAUOFSC .)
General Assignment Information
FIRST-DAY READING ASSIGNMENT
It should go without saying that you need to read the Syllabus in great detail. The first reading assignment is pages 1 to 9 in the Casebook. Hammontree v Jenner is a very difficult case to understand. I would suggest that you read it at least 6 times. This is a case I will use as the basis for much of what we will talk about the entire semester.
Textbook Information
Franklin and Rabin, Tort Law and Alternative Cases and Materials --Eleven Edition (2021) and
July 2025 SUPPLEMENT
First Reading
General Assignment Information
First Reading (Textbook pp. 1-20)
General Assignment Information
Income Tax—LAWS 633-001
Fall 2025
First Week Assignment
Welcome to Income Tax (and happy Monday on a Wednesday)!
For our first class, please prepare the following materials:
Unit 1A (details copied below); and
“A Kennedy Aide’s Start-Up Can Get You a Tax Break on a $9,000 Sauna” (accessible without a subscription at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/business/truemed-fsa-hsa-calley-means-maha.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b08.JaaL._RqHheoVwsYI&smid=url-share).
On August 20th, our first day, we will do an in-class exercise drawing upon the readings, talk course mechanics, and the lay the groundwork for how to best approach learning tax law.
Our course will use Blackboard so go ahead and check out the course page. Once the semester gets started, that’s where you’ll find the syllabus, PowerPoint slides, and other materials. This assignment is cross posted there as well.
|
1 |
Introductory Materials: Big Picture |
|
|
|
A |
Introduction
|
Preface |
None |
General Assignment Information
Textbook, pp. 1-32
General Assignment Information
Casebook, pp. 271-302
General Assignment Information
Welcome back! I hope you had a good summer.
Our required texts are as follows:
- Freer, Civil Procedure (5th ed. 2022).
- Joseph Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations (8th ed. 2018). There is now a new, 9th, edition available, but it doesn’t add much at all to the 8th edition, which is much cheaper online. The assigned readings in the syllabus have page numbers for both editions for folks who have the 9th edition.
For our first class, please do as follows.
- Find this course on TWEN and read the Syllabus and Course Objectives that are posted there. Bring any questions about the Syllabus to class.
- Refresh your memories of 1L Civ Pro by reading § 1.4 in Freer.
- Click on the “Readings for Class” tab on the TWEN site and take the open-book, ungraded Diagnostic Quiz there. You can check your answers in the “Diagnostic Quiz Answers & Explanations” doc, which is also posted there. Follow up in the textbooks if necessary, as indicated in the explanations of the quiz answers.
- Gather any books, notes, outlines, etc. you retained from your 1L Civ Pro course.
I look forward to working with you!
Textbook Information
Our required texts are as follows:
- Freer, Civil Procedure (5th ed. 2022).
- Joseph Glannon, Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations (8th ed. 2018). There is now a new, 9th, edition available, but it doesn’t add much at all to the 8th edition, which is much cheaper online. The assigned readings in the syllabus have page numbers for both editions for folks who have the 9th edition.
General Assignment Information
Welcome back!
I look forward to working with you!
Before our first class meeting on Wednesday, August 20th, please email to me (eichhorn@law.sc.edu) the three things listed below. The first four people I hear from will get gift certificates from Knowledge Perk Coffee Company!
(1) Your completed answer sheet for the short Diagnostic Test on Punctuation & Grammar, which is under the “Course Materials” tab on the TWEN site for this course.
(2) A short (3-10 pp.) writing sample that reflects your current abilities in legal writing. It may be a document you drafted for work or school. If you use a paper from LRAW, please revise it to reflect your current analytical and editing skills rather than the skill-level you had as a 1L.
(3) A maximum-one-page explanation of why you chose this course and what you hope to gain from it; include your strengths and weaknesses as a writer.
We have two required texts: (1) Anne Enquist & Laurel Currie Oates, Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer (any edition) and (2) The Bluebook (any recent edition).
General Assignment Information
Read the article "What Juries Really Think: Practical Guidance for Future Trial Lawyers" on TWEN.
General Assignment Information
Greetings, students, and welcome to Real Estate Transactions I. Our first class will meet on Wednesday, August 20 at 4:20 pm in Room 395. The assignment for the first class is as follows:
Read the Benya v. Gamble case (it's the first item under "Course Materials" on TWEN)
Read pages 5-21 of the Lefcoe textbook
Read pages 55-59 (bottom) of the Johnson textbook
Review SC Code Section 32-3-10
I look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday, August 20 at 4:20 PM.
Thanks,
Bill Higgins
Textbook Information
Real Estate Law and Business - Brokering, Buying, Selling, and Financing Realty, George Lefcoe, Carolina Academic Press, 2016 ("Lefcoe")
Understanding Modern Real Estate Transactions, Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Carolina Academic Press, 2018 ("Johnson")
General Assignment Information
TWEN will be the primary course management tool for Insurance Law # 695 this Fall. Please be sure to register on TWEN for that course and review the information already posted, which includes a Schedule and Syllabus under the Navigation Box. I will use the e-mail addresses that you provide in TWEN to build a class e-mail list for distributing future assignments and handouts.
This course will center upon automobile, homeowners, and umbrella liability insurance. The first class will include a review of negligence and damages, as the occurrence triggering liability insurance coverage. Please review your notes on those subjects from prior classes that you have taken in law school.
Read Couram v. Tidwell, 2021 WL 4979939, 2021-UP-367 (Ct.App. October 27, 2021); Clark v. Cantrell, Facts and Discussion I. Punitive Damages, 332 S.C. 433, 504 S.E.2d 605 (Ct.App. 1998) and Facts, Issue(s) 1, and Discussion, I. Punitive Damages, 339 S.C. 369, 529 S.E.2d 528 (2000) well enough to understand the facts surrounding the accident and the effect of comparative negligence on punitives; and Daniel O'Shields, et al., v. Columbia Automotive, LLC d/b/a Midlands Honda, 443 S.C. 29, 902 S.E.2d 375 (2024).
Textbook Information
No textbook will be required.
General Assignment Information
Module 1
An Introduction to the Law of Banking
Thursday August 21, 2025
Introduction
What Banks Are, What Banks Do
Basic Economic Concepts
What is a Bank?
CMMC: 1-17; 63-73; 744–748 (Dimension Financial Corporation)
12 U.S.C. § 1813(a)
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
History of U.S. Financial Regulation–
From the Founding Years to the Financial Crisis and its Aftermath
Banking Industry Structure
The U.S. Regulatory Structure
Pros and Cons of the American Regulatory Structure
Why Regulate Banks?
CMMC: 18-56; 81-85; 90-98; 101-102
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Critiquing the Dual Banking System
Hamilton’s Proposal, The Federalist Papers (TWEN)
Jefferson’s Opinion, The Federalist Papers (TWEN)
An Overview of the Banking Law System Using Media: It’s A Wonderful Life
General Assignment Information
General Assignment Information
Textbook Reading (pages 3-82): What is an Animal? Defining “Animal” and the Classification of Animals; Property and Beyond: The Evolution of Rights
Textbook Information
Course Book: Animal Law Cases and Materials (sixth edition) - Wagman/Waisman/Frasch ISBN: 978-1-5310-1099-7
General Assignment Information
Hello, Class!
For our first week/class, please read the following introductory materials in the Dressler & Garvey book:
Nature of Criminal Law, pp. 1-14
Punishment, pp. 31-53
Principle of Legality, pp. 95-98
I don't know if we will get far in the legality materials. Regardless of where we land, we will have fun getting there.
See you soon! s
General Assignment Information
See First Day Readings attached as PDF document
General Assignment Information
See First Day Readings attached as PDF document
General Assignment Information
Read: Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, prior to first class meeting.
Textbook Information
- Nickel & Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Bad Paper, by Jake Halpern
- The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein
General Assignment Information
No assignment for first class. Pages 92-102 for second class.
General Assignment Information
I am looking forward to having you in class this term! Our first week reading assignments are linked in the course syllabus, which is posted on Blackboard (https://blackboard.sc.edu/). Please head over to the Blackboard course for full details and to access the readings. Be sure to Complete the “Introduction to the Course Survey!” by August 19 at 5:00 p.m. (ET) on Blackboard under Week One. Please reach out with any questions, and I am looking forward to seeing you soon!
Textbook Information
You do not need to buy a textbook for this course. Readings will be assigned from various sources, including academic articles, legal cases, and policy reports. Reading assignments are designated (and linked) in the Class Assignments Chart in the syllabus, which is posted on Blackboard (https://blackboard.sc.edu/)
General Assignment Information
I am excited to have you in class this term! The reading assignment for our first class on August 21 is pages 1-32 in the textbook. The course syllabus is posted on Blackboard - https://blackboard.sc.edu/.
Textbook Information
Our textbook for this course is Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials, 6th ed., Douglas Laycock & Richard Hasen (ISBN 979-8886142303). You are welcome to use a hardcover copy, or a digital copy – whatever works best for you!
General Assignment Information
Disability Law, Cases and Materials, 2d ed. Befort and Porter, read 1-6,18-21,23-33, skim 47-51, read for class discussion 51-70 The first class will also spend time on tips for writing the seminar paper.
General Assignment Information
Discuss whether you want to represent the State or the defendant and why; Read pages 1 – 32 of the textbook
General Assignment Information
8/20
- Casebook pgs. 1-41;
- Statutory Supplement: RESTATEMENT 2D CONTRACTS (2dK) Introduction, §§ 1-4 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (UCC) §§ 1-302; 1-201(3);
- 1-201(12); 2-106(1);
8/21
- Casebook pgs. 43-55; 63-66;
- Statutory Supplement: 2dK §§ 17-21 UCC § 2-204 United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) Art. 8
General Assignment Information
- Danielle Citron & Daniel Solove, Privacy Harms, 102 B.U. L. REV. 793, 830-861 (2022) 4
- Bert-Jaap Koops et al, A Typology of Privacy, 38 U. PA. J. INT’L L. 483, 504-543 (2017)
- Helen Nissenbaum, 15 - Respect for context as a benchmark for privacy online: what it is and isn’t, in SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF PRIVACY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 278, 285-290 (Beate Roessler & Dorota Mokrosinska eds., 2015)
General Assignment Information
Course Introduction: Reading: Textbook, pp. 21-40.
General Assignment Information
Read textbook: pp. 1-13: The Problem of Employment Discrimination and Statutory Overview.
General Assignment Information
For the first day of class, read pages 3-16 of the assigned textbook. I have posted the first two chapters of the textbook because it is back-ordered.
General Assignment Information
For the first day, please read pages 3-14 and 25-30 of the required textbook. The textbook is: PATENT LAW: FUNDAMENTALS OF DOCTRINE AND POLICY, by Daniel Brean and Ned Snow (2d ed. 2024).
General Assignment Information
Class 1: pp. 315-30, skim pp. 330-40
Class 2: pp. 340-52 & 366-72
Class 3: Supp. 1
Class 4: pp. 352-58, 372-79, & Supp. 2
Textbook Information
Allen et al., Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Right to Counsel (4th Ed. 2020), ISBN 9781543804379
Supplemental materials available on TWEN.
General Assignment Information
For Orientation on 8/19 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Room 393
Read:
* CHAMPS Clinic Manual (on TWEN) (for Introduction to Clinic)
* Epstein et al., The Clinic Seminar, pp. 3-11 (for Introduction to Clinic); 70-90 and 413-426 (for Introduction to Lawyer-Client Relationship); 749-755 (for Boundaries).
* Binder et al., pp. 4-8 (#2 A-E) (on TWEN) (for Introduction to Lawyer-Client Relationship); 80-92, 98-110, 169-170, 273-284 (for Introduction to Interviewing)
* Lawton & Sandel, Investing in Legal Prevention (on TWEN) (for Introduction to MLPs)
*Villarosa, Why Black Mothers & Babies Are In a Life-or-Death Crisis, (on TWEN) (for Introduction to MLPs)
* S.C. Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Rules 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6-1.10
Assignment: i. Complete the student schedule form (on TWEN) and bring it
to orientation. When doing so, please insert all your time commitments (class, student organization meetings, jobs, etc.). I will treat any open times as times available for your supervision meeting.
*Complete the student conflicts form (on TWEN). Note any updated information, and if none, note that and bring the form to orientation.
*Complete the ethics modules in the Fall 2025 Clinic Orientation Course on Blackboard by Thursday, 8/21, at 9 am and email me when you have completed the modules.
*Complete the Collaboration Spectrum Sheet in the text (pp. 427-434) and review it with your partner prior to your first supervision meeting. Together develop concrete strategies for addressing any differences you discover. Bring the results of the Collaboration Spectrum Sheet and your concrete ideas for addressing differences to your first supervision meeting and be prepared to discuss them.
***
For our 1st Class on 8/21: Children’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Read:
* 20 C.F.R §§ 416.202, 416.906, 416.904, 416.924a of SSI Regs (“Selected SSI Regulations” on TWEN)
* Holden, Children’s SSI Disability Benefits (on TWEN)
* Clearinghouse Review, How to Make Fair Hearings More Fair (on TWEN)
*Jason DeParle, The Coronavirus Generation (on TWEN)
General Assignment Information
Casebook pages 1 - 19
General Assignment Information
Reading Assignment - Int'l Law: 100 Ways it Shapes Our Lives
General Assignment Information
Welcome to USC Law! Complete the "Before class" assignment at https://newlypossible.org/wiki/Torts#Welcome . To access the practice exam, use username "lawstudent" and password "Traindozo".
General Assignment Information
Please come as you are. There is no first assignment.
General Assignment Information
Chapter 1—Defining Competition Policy for a Global Economy:
Week 1: pp. 1-37 (Andreas & Notes, Coffee Shop, Brown) and pp. 44-48 (Brunswick)
Textbook Information
Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (5th ed.) (Gavil, Kovacic, Baker)
General Assignment Information
Books:
• DAVID A. BINDER, ET AL., LAWYERS AS COUNSELORS (West, 4th ed., 2019) – This can be purchased at the bookstore.
• ROGER FISHER AND WILLIAM URY, GETTING TO YES: NEGOTIATING AGREEMENT WITHOUT GIVING IN (3d ed. 2011) – This can be purchased from the bookstore or Amazon.
Class 1 Reading : CLIENT CENTERED LAWYERING, THE LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP & COMMUNICATION Read Chapters 1-2 (Lawyers as Counselors)
General Assignment Information
For our first class please: (1) Read pages 1-19 of our textbook; (2) Read or skim pages 19-26 of the textbook; and (3) read the short article from the Wall Street Journal that is posted on Blackboard.
General Assignment Information
For our first week of class, please read pages 1-14 and 22-48 of your textbook.
Textbook Information
The required textbook for this course is: Stephen J. Choi & A.C. Pritchard, Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis, Sixth Edition.
The affiliated Statutory Supplement: Securities Regulation, 2025 Edition is recommended, but not required. Instead of buying the statutory supplement, you may access the specific statutes and regulations through other sources such as Westlaw or Lexis Nexis.
General Assignment Information
Class 1/2: The Unmarried Family
• Casebook notes pages 575-581
• Village of Belle Terre 638-642
• Borough of Glassboro 644-648
• Moore v. City of East Cleveland 631-637 Articles: Available on TWEN (under Additional
Reading Materials in the articles folder)
• Older Women Team Up to Face Future Together, Jane Gross, The New York Times (Feb.
27, 2004)
• I Now Pronounce you Friend and Friend
Please note the the above assignment is for the first two days of class. We typically
do not get to more than than Belle Terre on the first day.
General Assignment Information
Class 1 Casebook (CB):
• Maynard v. Hill (13-16)
• Skinner v. Oklahoma (16-20)
• US v. Bitty (43-47) Skim :
• Turner v Safely (21-24)
• Loving v. Virginia (65-69)
Articles: • https://newrepublic.com/article/148493/forgotten-war-women