First Week Reading Assignments

First Readings for Fall 2024

This may not be an exclusive listing of all faculty members’ first assignment and class meeting notices. If you do not see a class that you are in listed below, it may be necessary to check with the faculty member.

Dates for Fall 2024

  •  The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
    • Assignments will begin to be posted Thursday, August 1, 2024.
  • The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.
    • Assignments will be removed on Wednesday, September 11, 2024.

Family Law (LAWS 759 §001)

Instructor Name(s)

Zug

Textbook Information

Judith Areen and Marc Spindelman Family Law casebook, 7th edition.

General Assignment Information

 

  1. What is A Family?

Class 1: The Unmarried Family

Casebook

  • Casebook notes pages 575-581
  • Village of Belle Terre 638-642
  • Borough of Glassboro 644-648

Skim:

  • When Every Relationship is Above Average: Perceptions and Expectations of Divorce at the Time of Marriage, Lynn Baker & Robert
  1. Emery, 17 Law and Human Behavior 439 (1993)

(posted on TWEN under Additional Reading Materials in the articles folder)

Articles: (additional reading materials folder)

  • I Now Pronounce You Friend and Friend
  • Older Women Team Up to Face Future Together, Jane Gross, The New York Times (Feb. 27, 2004)

Syllabus

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