First Assignment Fall 2025

Welcome to LegReg, JDO Students!
Here's what you should do to prepare for the residency -- and beyond!
See you soon-
HGR

Residency (Module 0): Introduction to Legislation and Regulation
August 20 to 24, 2025
In-person class during residency (Saturday, August 23, 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)

Read Bressman, Preface xxi-xxiii
Read the Course Requirements carefully. Get a sense of the Syllabus structure and contents. (Attached document) Come to class prepared with questions.
Read and think about the Table of Contents of the Bressman casebook. Also think about why I asked you to do this and how it will be useful to you in the course. (Be prepared to answer that question!)
Login to the Blackboard site and do Module 0 -- the Orientation/Residency Module

Introduction to Leg/Reg
No Vehicles in the Park
Newspaper project (you'll get the materials in Cleveland)

Module 1: From Common Law to Regulation
August 20 to 31, 2025
A. The Limitations of Tort Law, pgs. 1-15, 24-27
MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
Notes and Questions
Rotche v. Buick Motor Co.
Notes and Questions
Note on the Limitations of Common Law Adjudication More Generally
B. The Limitations of Contract Law, pgs. 27-29
Notes and Questions
C. The Justifications for Regulation, pgs. 29-39
Economic Justifications for Regulation
OMB, Circular A-4 (see added materials)
Notes and Questions
Social Justifications for Regulation
Sunstein, After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State
Notes and Questions
D. What is an Agency? pages 41-43