WINTER 2008 FOOTNOTES

(Pre-requisites and co-requisites are included when applicable.)

1. This course is graded on a mandatory limited grade option (pass/fail) basis.

2. This is course is graded and may not be taken on an elective (you choose) limited grade option (pass/fail) basis.

3. This course fulfills the professional responsibility requirement for graduation applicable to all students.

4. This section of the course/seminar/clinic fulfills the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students and the research requirement for LLM students. EXCEPTION—when course/seminar is elected by Fall Starters as the required first-year elective.

5. This section of the course/seminar/clinic does not fulfill the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students nor the research requirement for LLM students.

6. This section is for administrative purposes only and does not indicate the availability of additional seats. Students may not enroll themselves into this section.

7. STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF THIS SEMINAR, PRACTICE/SIMULATION COURSE, OR CLINIC.  This policy includes students who enrolled through the Priority Registration System (PRS) or during the Drop/Add period from the waitlist and those students not enrolled but who are interested in enrolling, whether or not they are on the waitlist.  Students who fail to attend the first class meeting without making prior arrangements with the professor for an excused absence will have their name removed from the class roster or forfeit their enrollment opportunity. IMPORTANT— IF A STUDENT DECIDES TO DROP A SEMINAR OR CLINIC, S/HE MUST DO SO WITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER THE FIRST CLASS MEETING. This will allow another waitlisted student an expedited opportunity to enroll in the seminar or clinic.

8. This seminar, practice/simulation course, or clinc requires that students follow specific registration procedures:

§ A seminar or practice/simulation course requires students to complete TWO-steps: (1) students must follow the “time sensitive” special sign-up procedure listed in the Registration Instructions and (2) students must request the seminar or practice/simulation course via the Priority Registration System (PRS) during Round One. The Registration Instructions are located on the Office of the Registrar web site, click “Registration” in the left-hand column, click “Registration Instructions” in the middle column (http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/registration/registration/Pages/default.aspx).

§ A clinic requires students to complete and submit a Live Client Clinic Programs Application. The application is available by: (1) e-mail from Lou Anne Betts (bettylou@umich.edu), (2) in hard copy format at each of the clinics, or (3) by printing a hard copy on the Office of the Registrar web site, click “Registration” in the left-hand column, click “Live Client Clinic Programs Application” in the left column (http://www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/registration/registration/Pages/LiveClient.aspx). Students must return the completed application to Lou Anne Betts (bettylou@umich.edu), 727 Legal Research, no later than the deadline listed at the top of the application.

9. This seminar, practice/simulation course, or clinic has been designated a “Prof Pick.” During PRS Round One processing, admission into this seminar, practice/simulation course, or clinic is by permission of the professor. The professor receives a list of students who requested the class and makes selections. The curriculum coordinator enrolls the selected students. During the Wolverine Access Drop/Add period, admission to this seminar, practice/simulation course, or clinic off the waitlist is also by permission of the professor and not according to waitlist order. If seats are available, the professor makes selections from the waitlist and contacts the curriculum coordinator who creates individual “time sensitive” permission codes and e-mails the selected students so they can enroll themselves via Wolverine Access.

10. Students must elect both the clinic and related seminar. The seminar does not satisfy the seminar requirement for graduation.

11. Students must elect both the clinic and related field course.

12. This course is limited in size.

13. Class will meet an average of two days per week.

14. Class will meet an average of three days per week.

15. Class will meet an average of four days per week.

16. Winter Term--First-year students (Fall Starters) may select this course/seminar as the required first-year elective.

17. Students must elect both the course and related research.

18. Students enrolled in this course have the option of writing a paper instead of taking the final exam. The “paper option” fulfills the law upper-level writing requirement (LUWR) for JD students and the research requirement for LLM students. EXCEPTION—when course is elected by Fall Starters as the required first-year elective. See footnote #19.

19. To choose the “paper option” students must complete two steps: 1.) Make arrangements with the professor to write a paper instead of taking the final exam. 2.) Request enrollment in the paper option section of the course by sending an e-mail to lawPrsAdmin@umich.edu and make “Paper Option” the subject line. This request must be made no later than the last day of classes for the term in which you are enrolled for the class unless an earlier deadline has been established by the professor. The e-mail should contain the following information:

§ Your FULL name (no nicknames)

§ Your EMPLID number (listed on your U of M ID card)

§ Professor’s FULL name (remember, we have many professors with the same last name and even the same first initial)

§ 3-digit course number

§ Course title

§ 5-digit class number of the section to drop (the section in which you are enolled)

§ 5-digit class number of the section to add (the section displaying footnote #4)

§ Term in which you are making the section change

20. Both sections of this course meet simultaneously in the same classroom.

21. This “meet-together” course/seminar will include students from another department or school.

22. #900 RESEARCH, #980 ADVANCED CLINICAL LAW, and #985 ADVANCED POVERTY LAW IN A MEDICAL LEGAL COLLABORATIVE: These courses may be elected for 1, 2, or 3 credit hours.

23. Winter Term--First-year students (Summer Starters) may elect this course as their foundation (bottleneck) course.

24. #799 SENIOR JUDGE SEMINAR or #794 SENIOR JUDGE SEMINAR II must be elected by and may only be elected by Senior Judges.

25. #794 SENIOR JUDGE SEMINAR II: Students must complete two semesters of #799 Senior Judge Seminar I to be eligible to enroll in this course.

26. #930 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PRACTICUM: Students are strongly encouraged to have taken #713 Federal Litigation: Environmental Case Study either before or concurrent with this clinic.

27. #940 EXTERNAL STUDIES and #941 EXTERNAL STUDIES PAPER: Consult the externship descriptions available in the rack outside 313 Hutchins Hall for important information about externship procedures and requirements. Students must be registered in both #940 External Studies and #941 External Studies Paper.

28. #945 SEMESTER STUDY ABROAD and #946 SEMESTER STUDY ABROAD PAPER: Information concerning the International Externship Program is available from the Center for International and Comparative Studies, 300D Legal Research. Students must be registered in both #945 Semester Study Abroad and #946 Semester Study Abroad Paper.

29. #900 RESEARCH: This is a two-step registration process. 1.) Make arrangements with a professor to do an independent study. 2.) Refer to the Registration Instructions, Section III: Research, for the procedure to follow to be enrolled.

30. #942 LAW PRACTICUM RESEARCH: Please make an appointment to see Assistant Dean David Baum for more information.

31. #942 LAW PRACTICUM RESEARCH: Eligible JD students may enroll in this course for 1, 2, or 3 credits. Eligible LLM/SJD students must enroll for either 2 or 3 credits.

32. #980 ADVANCED CLINICAL LAW and #985 ADVANCED POVERTY LAW IN A MEDICAL LEGAL COLLABORATIVE: Students are enrolled by invitation only after having expressed interest to one of the clinic faculty or administrators.

33. Summer Term--See the DETAILED MEETING PATTERN GRID for more information on class meeting days and times.

34. Reserved number

35. Winter Term--First-year students (Fall Starters) cannot elect this course/seminar as the required first-year elective.

36. Foreign graduate students (LLM) cannot elect this course/clinic.

37. Winter Term--First-year students (Fall Starters) cannot elect this practice/simulation course, clinic, or research course.

38. Winter Term--First-year students (Summer Starters) cannot elect this clinic.

39. This seminar is offered for 2 credits. However, the professor has the option of allowing students to write a longer seminar paper or do other additional work to receive additional credit. Any student making such an arrangement with the professor must enroll in #800 SEMINAR SUPPLEMENT. See footnote #40.

40. #800 SEMINAR SUPPLEMENT: This is a two-step registration process.  1.)  Make arrangements with the professor to write a longer seminar paper or do other additional work to receive additional credit.   2.)  Refer to the Registration Instructions, Section V:  Seminar Supplement, for the procedure to follow to be enrolled in the course.  Points of Clarification  1.) #800 SEMINAR SUPPLEMENT on its own does not fulfill the seminar requirement for graduation.  2.)  Whether or not to permit a student to enroll for a Seminar Supplement is entirely the decision of the faculty member teaching the seminar.

41. Laptops are not permitted to be used during class sessions for any purpose.

42. #800 SEMINAR SUPPLEMENT: Seminars listed in the in the class schedule at three (3) credits are not eligible for the #800 SEMINAR SUPPLEMENT additional credit.

43. The time listed for this class is PM.

44. Reserved number

45. Reserved number

46. Reserved number

47. Reserved number

48. Reserved number

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51. Not used this term

52. Not used this term

53. #608 ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH: #590 Legal Practice I and #591 Legal Practice II are pre-requisites.

54. #608 ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH: Students may earn a total of 3 credits (2 credits for the class and 1 credit for #900 Research) by making arrangements with Professor Leary to write a longer research paper. Refer to the Registration Instructions, Section III: Research, for the procedure to follow to be enrolled.

55. #753 TRIAL PRACTICE: #669 Evidence is a pre-requisite or must be taken concurrently.

56. #753 TRIAL PRACTICE: This course will meet on 11 Thursdays and 8 Saturdays throughout the term plus one additional Saturday at the end of the semester for the Jury Trial. Saturday meetings will be in Rooms 232, 236, and 242. The list of meeting dates is contained in the course materials.

57. Students who have taken #645 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE SURVEY may not elect either #641 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ADMINISTRATION OF POLICE PRACTICES or #641 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: INVESTIGATION & POLICE PRACTICES or #643 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: BAIL TO POST CONVICTION REVIEW or vice versa.

58. Students who have taken #692 INTERNATIONAL LAW, #692 INTERNATIONAL LAW: U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW, and #744 INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, all of which are no longer being offered, may not elect #606 TRANSNATIONAL LAW. #606 TRANSNATIONAL LAW is the foundational course in the international and comparative law curriculum. Students who elect #606 TRANSNATIONAL LAW may also elect any other international and comparative law course.

59. Students who have taken #818 HATRED AND SELF-HATRED may not elect #818 FAKING IT.

60. #545 LAWYERS AND CLIENTS, #718 LEGAL PROFESSION AND LEGAL ETHICS, #769 LITIGATION ETHICS, and #731 LEGAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY are mutually exclusive elections.

61. Not used this term

62. Students who took #679 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY may not elect #679 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW or vice versa.

63. Students who took #738 REMEDIES may not elect #738 INJUNCTIONS AND EQUITABLE REMEDIES or vice versa.

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64. #933 LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC and #934 LOW-INCOME TAXPAYER CLINIC FIELD: #747 Taxation of Individual Income is a pre-requisite or permission of the instructor is required.

65. #683 FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT and #844 PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL THEORY: EDUCATION LAW: Both the course and seminar will meet roughly every other week beginning the week of January 21 and running up through the end of the term. Professor Rosenbaum will provide specific dates to the students who are enrolled.

66. #751 ACCOUNTING FOR LAWYERS: Students who have previously taken any class in financial accounting are presumptively ineligible to take this course. If you have had a financial accounting course in the past, you may speak to the instructor, who may permit you to enroll for this course if the only course you took was introductory and if you took it a significant amount of time ago.

67. #637 BANKRUPTCY: #623 Commercial Transactions or #652 Secured Transactions is a pre-requesite or may be taken concurrently. Alternatively, students may enroll with Professor Pottow’s permission (pottow@umich.edu).

68. #635 CORPORATE FINANCE: #657 Enterprise Organization or #723 The Public Corporation is strongly recommended, particularly for those students without a business background.

69. #635 CORPORATE FINANCE: #650 Corporate Finance Tutorial, is being offered for one credit to students enrolled in 635 Corporate Finance.  The course is strongly recommended for students with no previous background in corporate finance.

70. #749 CORPORATE TAXATION: #747 Tax I or #747 Taxation of Individual Income is a prerequisite.

71. #643 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: BAIL TO POST CONVECTION REVIEW: #530 Criminal Law is a pre-requisite.

72. #657/001 ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATION: This section of Enterprise Organization will devote extra time to the study of business fundamentals to help students with no prior exposure to business concepts.  Any student, regardless of prior business background, is eligible to enroll in this section, but it is recommended that students with some business background, either academic or practical, enroll in another section of this course.

73. #677 FEDERAL COURTS: #693 Jurisdiction is a pre-requisite.

74. #684 HEALTH LAW AND POLICY: A student who has previously taken #684 Health Law is ineligible to take #684 Health Law and Policy.

75. #691 INTERNATIONAL TAX: Either #747 Tax I or #747 Taxation Of Individual Income is a pre-requisite for JD students but not a pre-requisite for LLM students.

76. #705 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: #657 Enterprise Organization or #723 The Public Corporation is a pre-requisite. For LL.M. students, #657 Enterprise Organization or #723 The Public Corporation can be a co-requisite for #705 Mergers and Acquisitions.

77. #726 PARTNERSHIP TAXATION and #801 TAX PLAN FOR BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS: Either #747 Tax I or #747 Taxation of Individual Income is a pre-requisite.

78. #727 PATENT LAW and #732 PROTECTION OF TECHNOLOGY are mutually exclusive elections.

79. #636 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Students who have taken #636 Church and State may not take #636 Religious Liberty, and vice versa.

80. #743 SECURITIES REGULATION: #657 Enterprise Organization or #723 The Public Corporation is a pre-requisite.

81. #743 SECURITIES REGULATION: #657 Enterprise Organization or #723 The Public Corporation is a pre-requisite. This pre-requisite may be waived by permission of the instructor.

82. #745 SEX EQUALITY: This class meets in the evenings, begins Monday, March 10, and runs through the end of the term.

83. #746 TAXATION OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS: #747 Taxation of Individuals is a pre-requisite or instructor’s permission.

84. #746 TAXATION OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS: This course will meet only on the following eight Fridays: January 11 and 25; February 8 and 22; March 7 and 21; April 4 and 18.

85. #606/003 TRANSNATIONAL LAW: This course will ordinarily meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 2:35-4:00.  However, due to the professor's business travel schedule, this course will not meet at all some weeks and will also meet occasionally on Mondays from 5:00-6:25 in Room 250 HH.  The professor will provide the specifics about changes to the normal meeting schedule after the course begins.

86. Not used this term

87. #771 HOW TO SAVE THE PLANET: Students who want to take this course are strongly recommended to have laptop computers, since there will likely be some on-line interaction during the class sessions.

88. #809 ANATOMY OF A DEAL: #657 Enterprise Organization or The Public Corporation is a pre-requisite.  Beginning in the 2007-2008 academic year, students will also be required to have taken at least one of the following as a pre-requisite:  #644 Introduction to Income Taxation of Business; #749 Corporate Taxation; #751 Accounting for Lawyers or an equivalent accounting course at the Ross School of Business (#471 or #501); or #743 Securities Regulation.  Students who have not met these requirements may seek permission to enroll from the professor, who may waive any or all of these requirements at his discretion.  It is understood that most LLM students will not have been able to meet these requirements.  We recommend that LLMs consult with the professor before enrolling in this course. Professor Adelman can be reached by e-mail at badelman@fklaw.com, by phone at 212-833-1107 or by fax at 212-833-1250.

89. #805 CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN INDIAN LAW: Students who have taken #686 Federal Indian Law may elect this seminar. Students who have not met the pre-requisite may enroll with permission of the instructor.

90. #879 INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND #823 WOMEN AND WAR: These seminars will meet for five weeks beginning Monday, March 17.

91. #831 INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS: #606 Transnational Law and is  recommended but not required.  Beginning in the 2007-2008 academic year, students will be required to have taken at least one course from two of the following four groups as a pre-requisite:  1. #657 Enterprise Organization or The Public Corporation; 2. #644 Introduction to Income Taxation of Business or #749 Corporate Taxation; 3. #751 Accounting for Lawyers or an equivalent accounting course at the Ross School of Business (#471 or #501); 4. #743 Securities Regulation.  Students who have not met these requirements may seek permission to enroll from the professor, who may waive any or all of these requirements at his discretion. It is understood that most LLM students will not have been able to meet these requirements.  We recommend that LLMs consult with the professor before enrolling in this course.

92. #831 INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRANSCTIONS: This seminar will not meet on some Tuesdays during the term due to the professor’s business travel schedule. The professor will announce the Tuesdays on which the seminar will not meet after the seminar begins.

93. #893 PRESIDENTIAL POWER: #540 Introduction to Constitutional Law is a pre-requisite.

94. #899 SHAREHOLDER LITIGATION: #657 Enterprise