Current Courses

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International Human Rights Law (Law 311A)
International Law Lecture Series Presented by the University of Miami School of Law Office of International Graduate Law Programs
Lunch is provided.
Where: Reading Room (Law Library D201)
When:  Tuesdays at 12:30-1:50 p.m. on the following dates:
  • Tuesday, September 29, 2009: Professor Bernard Oxman reflects on his service on the International Court of Justice.
  • October 13, 2009: Professor Keith Rosenn and Eduardo Apio (Brazilian Federal Judge), Judicial Activism and Health Rights in Brazil
  • October 27, 2009: Current Issues Facing the World Trade Organization
  • November 10, 2009: Professors Perlmutter and Schnably, “International Law and the Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida and Beyond”
Course Description: This course will examine international human rights agreements, international and regional human rights courts and tribunals, and international human rights organizations and bodies, both governmental and non-governmental. It will also cover issues relating to the nature of human rights (e.g., civil and political rights, economic and social rights, individual and collective rights). In addition, it will examine the role of international human rights law in domestic law.
Semester: Fall 2009
Credits: 3
Meeting Times: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Meeting Room: A265
Casebook and Other Materials: Casebook: FORREST MARTIN ET AL., INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (2006).

Other Materials:

  • Final Cumulative Assignment Sheet (No. 6).
  • Supplementary Readings
    • Part I (pp. 1-291): available at the Copy Center
    • Part II (pp. 292-315): available here
    • War Crimes Act-Related Statutes (related to reading at SR 296).
    • Part III (pp. 316-408): available here. Note: If you prefer you may pick up a copy for free at the Copy Center instead of printing it out.
  • Documentary Supplement
    • pp. 1-669: available at Copy Center
    • Corrected pages 565-574 for the Documentary Supplement here (handed out in class).

  • Optional (New): The UN Chronicle recently had a useful “Short History” of Human Rights Law.
Office Hours: Please see the Office Hours page.
Ground Rules: Mandatory: You must read the Ground Rules before the first day of class, and observe them at all times.
Current Assignments:

  • Tuesday, November 17: We will complete our discussion of the material in IV.A of the Final Cumulative Assignment Sheet (No. 6). In addition, please read the material in IV.B. and IV.C.1. With regard to the Rome Statute of the ICC, you need not read it word for word, but make sure you can answer the following questions:
    • What crimes are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Court? (Arts. 5-9) Is there a statute of limitations on them? (art. 29)
    • What crimes are within the territorial jurisdiction of the Court? (Arts. 12-13)
    • What power does the U.N. Security Council have to refer a matter to the Court? (art. 13)
    • What is the temporal jurisdiction of the Court (arts. 11, 24)
    • What is the relationship between the Court’s jurisdiction and action by the state or states that have territorial jurisdiction over the matter? (art. 17)
    • What provisions does the statute have regarding double jeopardy? (art. 20).
    • What is the responsibility of an individual for committing a crime within the Court’s subject matter jurisdiction? For ordering it, aiding or abetting it, contributing to it in any other way, inciting others to it, or attempting it? (art. 25)
    • May a defendant plead immunity based on his or her status as head of state? (art. 27)
    • What is the responsibility of commanders and superior officers? (art. 28) May a defendant assert that he was “just following orders”? (art. 33)
    • May insanity or some other ground be a basis for excluding individual criminal responsibility?
    • How are judges elected to the Court? (art. 36)
    • How are charges brought by the prosecutor against an individual? (arts. 53-61)
    • May the ICC impose the death penalty on someone convicted of a crime? (art. 77)

  • Thursday, November 19: Please read the material in IV.C.2.a of the Final Cumulative Assignment Sheet (No. 6).

  • Tuesday, November 24: Please read IV.C.2.b of the Final Cumulative Assignment Sheet (No. 6).
Past Assignments Click here for prior assignments.
Class E-mail List: I post all announcements on this web page, but I do also use the class e-mail list. This list, which is automatically generated, uses your law school e-mail address. If you don’t regularly check that account, then you should use the Law School e-mail forwarding page to have e-mail that is sent to you law school e-mail forwarded to whatever account you use. NOTE: The Law School e-mail forwarding page is not the same thing as the forwarding on MyUM. Entering a preferred e-mail address on MyUM will not cause e-mail that is sent to your law school account to be forwarded to your preferred account.
Current Topics
(optional)		 Links to topical articles and blog posts.
Exam and Class Participation There will be an exam at the end of the course (open-book). Class participation may raise your grade by a half a grade, but not lower it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Property (H) (Law 014H)
Course Description: Property focuses on basic principles governing private and public control over tangible and intangible resources, especially land. The course addresses concepts and policies concerning property and special concepts concerning real estate, such as estates in land, future interests, and the rule against perpetuities. the course also studies real estate transactions, recording methods of title assurance, easements, covenants, and land use controls.
Semester: Fall 2009
Credits: 4
Meeting Times: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Meeting Room: Room F402.
Ground Rules: Mandatory: You must read the Ground Rules before the first day of class, and observe them at all times.
Dean’s Fellow Nicole Messamore.
Casebook and Other Materials: Mandatory:
  1. Jesse Dukeminer, James E. Krier, et al., Property (6th ed. 2006)
  2. Robert Laurence & Pamela Minzner, A Student’s Guide to Estates in Land and Future Interests (2d ed. 1993)
  3. Supplementary Materials (with Assignment Sheet) from the Distribution Center (available now).
Optional (only if you want to read more; at the reserve desk in the library): William B. Stoebuck & Dale A. Whitman, The Law of Property (2000)

Other materials:

You may pick up an Exam Packet with Past Exams available at the Copy Center (Law Lib. B207).

Office Hours: Please see the Office Hours page.
Current Assignments:
  • Monday, November 16: We will complete our discussion of the material in V.A of the Revised Assignment Sheet. For an overview of the material in V, you may wish to read this material on Easements and Covenants Running with the Land. In addition, please read the material in V.B.1. It is possible that we will also get to pages 750-755 of the casebook (from V.B.2.), so please read that as well. Finally, you might be interested in this article related to the Kelo case.

  • Wednesday, November 18: Please read the material in V.B.2.

  • Monday, November 23: Please read the material in V.B.3 (focusing on the material at CB 773-783) & V.B.4.

Past Assignments: Click here for a list of past assignments.
Practice Exam: If you did not take my practice exam, but wrote an answer on your own, you may want to print out my General Comments (and Model Answer).
Exam and Class Participation: There will be an exam at the end of the course (closed-book). You may pick up an Exam Packet with Past Exams available at the Copy Center (Law Lib. B207). Class participation may raise your grade by a half a grade, but not lower it. I may also lower your grade by half a grade for excessive absences. See the Ground Rules for details.

 

 

 

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