Spring 2010


                     “Public Health Emergency Law: Domestic and International”

                      John Marshall Law School (JMLS), Chicago, Illinois USA

                  Masaryk University Faculty of Law (MUFL), Brno, Czech Republic

                                            Instructor

                                          Judith W Munson

                                        jwmunson2@yahoo.com


                                         SKYPE ASSIGNMENT


  * The Objectives


The objectives of the VoIP Skype conversation assignment are two-fold:  The first objective is to
connect up law school students transatlantically for a substantive discussion about a topic
involving public health emergency law.  The students at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago,
Illinois and at Masaryk University Faculty of Law in Brno, Czech Republic are taking the same
course in the spring of 2008.  This fact alone is unique.  The students also all speak English.
This is very fortunate.  The only communication barriers are distance (across the Atlantic Ocean)
and time (there is a 7-hour time difference between Chicago and the Czech Republic).  The second
objective is to introduce the students in both classes to the use of technology for international
communication purposes, for personal use but especially for professional purposes.  Skype is
recommended because use of the www.Skype.com software is FREE.


  * The Assignment


The assignment is to set a specific appointment time with the Skype partner(s) in the other country
as to when the conversation will take place.  The appointment should be set for one hour although
it might not take that much time and it might take a bit more.  Generally, one hour should be
sufficient.  During the one hour, personal information is encouraged to be exchanged as a prelude
to the substantive assignment which is simply this:  the one-hour conversation should involve a
topic connected to public health emergency law.  It could be a law in the Czech Republic; it could
be a law in Illinois; it could be a law of international application.  Then, write up a short
report on the subject matter (usually two pages) and submit it to the instructor electronically.


  * One Suggestion for Selecting a Topic for the Skype Conversation


Search the Internet for the Pandemic Plans of the Czech Republic and the State of Illinois. Discuss
one or two (or more) of the subjects covered in them.  In the written report, take a “compare and
contrast” approach to the subjects from the documents which were discussed.  NOTE:  Please put a
proper heading on the document, i.e., the title of the assignment, your name, the name of the
course, the instructor, the semester, the date of submission, etc. Please make it as professional
as possible by proofreading it and correcting all typos prior to submission.