Required Materials
(1) Eugene Volokh, Academic
Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (Foundation Press 3rd ed. 2007)
(2) Cases, statutes,
law review articles, briefs, pleadings, and other online materials - On the TWEN website for this class (available through
Westlaw), I will post links to these materials on Westlaw or the Internet, and/or I will post copies of materials I want you
to read for class. You can print the materials or download them to your computer.
Important Deadlines
Jan. 20 at
5:00 p.m.: Proposal for research paper topic due
Feb. 17 at 5:00 p.m.: Outline for paper due
March 14 at 5:00 p.m.: First 3 papers due for students doing presentations on March 18. For the remaining presentations in March and April (on March 25 and April 1, 8,
and 15), papers are due 8 days before your presentation, on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.
Presentation Dates and Paper Deadlines:
3/18 (paper due 3/14): Kayvon,
Sahar, Brit
3/25 (paper due 3/17): Sarah, Bala, Bryan
4/1 (paper due 3/24): Mike, Evan, Christina
4/8 (paper
due 3/31): Ric, Heather, Kevin
4/15 (paper due 4/7): Anthony, Kollin
April 29 at 5:00 p.m.: Final research paper due
Reading Assignments
Reading assignments are posted on TWEN. Topics
we will cover during the first half of the semester include:
Patentable Subject Matter and the Bilski Case
Patenting by Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Study
Impersonation of Markholders: U.S. Chamber
of Commerce v. The Yes Men
Trademarks and Parody: North Face v. South Butt
Copyright and Parody Fair Use on YouTube
Patent Law and the Environment
