Unit One Introduction to the American Legal System

Lesson One Law：Deflnition，Classification，and Sources

Lesson Two Duality in the American Legal System

Lesson Three The Adversary System in the American ludicial Process

Lesson Four Commencing a Lawsuk

Lesson Five Pre—trial Discovery

Lesson Six The Trial

Lesson Seven Judgment，Enforcement，and Appeal

Lesson Eight Criminal Process

案例阅读指导

Cases for Supplementary Reading

(1)Gray v．American Radiator＆Standard Sanitary Corp．(1961)

(2)Alderman v．Baltimore＆ohio R．Co．(1953)

(3)130ldt v．Sanders(1961)

(4)Brian Schafter v．JeT Weast(2005)

(5)Texas Empbyers’Ins．Ass’n v．Price(1960)

(6)Dobson v．Masonite Corp．(1966)

(7)Jay Shawn Johnson v．California(2005)

(8)Michael D．Turner，Petitioner v．Rebecca L．Rogers et al．(2011)

(9)Denman v．Spain(1961)

(10) Jones v. Morris Plan Bank of Portsmouth(1937)

(11) Harrisv. NewYork(1971)

(12) Olmstead v. United States(1928)

(13) United States v. Madoff(2009)

Unit Two Constitutional Law

Lesson One The Institutions of Government

Lesson Two Separation of Powers

Lesson Three FederalState Relations

Lesson Four Civil Liberties

Cases for Supplementary Reading

(1) Marbury v. Madison(1803)

(2) Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer(1952)

(3) City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey(1978)

(4) City of Ontario v. Quon(2010)

(5) Brownv. Board of Education(First Case)(1954)

(6) Everson v. Board of Education(1947)

(7) New York Times Company v. Sullivan(1964)

(8) Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States(1964)

(9) Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union et al.

(2004)

Unit Three Contracts

Lesson One Introduction

Lesson Two Performance and NonPerformance

Lesson Three Contract Remedies and Computation of Damages

Lesson Four Rights of Third Parties

Lesson Five Sales Contracts

Cases for Supplementary Reading

(1) O'Keefe v. Lee Calan Imports, Inc.(1970)

(2) Benson v. Chalfonte Development Corp.(1976)

(3) Connors v. Wilkinson(1978)

(4) Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District(1966)

(5) Bartels v. Denier(1975)

(6) Smith v. Roberts(1977)

(7) Casale v. Carrigan & Boland, Inc.(1974)

(8) Theodore Roxford v. Ameritech Corporation(2003)

(9) Massachusetts Mut. Life. Ins. Co. v. Fraidowitz(2006)

(10) International Airport Centers v. Citrin(2006)

(11) Centex Homes Corp. v. Boag(1974)

(12) The People v. Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc.(2011)

(13) ACME Mills & Elevator Co. v. Johnson(1911)

(14) Equilease Corp. v. State Federal S & L Ass'n(1981)

(15) Advance Leasing & Crane Co., Inc. v. Del E. Webb Corp.(1977)

(16) Bartus v. Riccardi(1967)

Appendix I Key to Exercises

Appendix H Text Translation