Next Wednesday evening, February 26, will mark the half-way point in the semester.
Here is a proposal for the second half -- on which, as always, I solicit your suggestions and response.
Class Week/Date/Subject
7th Week February 26 Professor Carlson will make a presentation, and lead a discussion, on international trade law. (This is subject to his schedule. He and I think this will work, but he needs to check a couple of possible conflicts. We will let you know. There may or may not (probably) be (a modest bit of) assigned reading for this evening.) [Note: Based on your responses to my proposal for next week, for which I thank you, I have reconsidered. I now think it may be best to invite the LL.M. students from Asia to our March 12 dinner and concert evening, for informal interaction, rather than ask them to do a classroom presentation.] [Additional note: This evening has now been confirmed. See "Assignment for February 26," both on the CLS Main Page, and in e-mail, for details.]
8th Week March 5 Open (We will meet, but the agenda has not yet been set; if you have suggestions/preferences pass them along. It may well be a good time to have another update on where you are with your research and writing. At some point we want to review what we've found out about the global corporations you've selected to report on. Perhaps it will be a good evening to do that -- in some ways a good follow up to Professor Carlson's presentation.)
9th Week March 12 Dinner and concert (This is the evening you are invited to my home for dinner, following which we will hear Alex Klett in concert at Hancher. To make clear: You are not obliged to attend both -- or either. It's just for fun. But at some point Mary (my wife) and I will need to know how many are coming to plan the food, so please "RSVP." As indicated above, it's my present intention to include the LL.M. students from Asia on the invitation list for that evening.)
10th Week March 19 Professor Janis will make a presentation, and lead a discussion, on intellectual property law generally, with some emphasis on Asia. There will probably be a reading assignment (of manageable proportions) for this evening. It may be available from a Web site, or it may be a hard copy handout. He will e-mail you directly about that.
March 26. There is no class this evening, as it falls in the middle of spring break week.
11th Week through 14th Week April 2, 9, 16 and 23 We will use these four evenings for your final presentations -- providing each of you approximately a half-hour each. Time slots will be assigned according to our usual first-come-first-served procedure. Bear in mind that we will probably want to distribute some electronic version of your draft a week or so prior to the presentation evening.
[Without objection, we will put associates' drafts on our class Web site -- either quasi-permanently, or for the week prior to class. If anyone prefers, theirs can be distributed as group e-mail. Bear in mind, this means that if you are presenting April 2, and will not be around prior to March 26, I will need to have the material from you prior to your departure for spring break.]
As always, reactions to this schedule are solicited.
NJ