About this Course
This course offers you a glimpse into six completely different areas of American legislation: Tort Regulation, Contract Regulation, Property, Constitutional Regulation, Legal Regulation, and Civil Process. You’ll acquire perception into the complexities and dilemmas that come up from the appliance of legislation in several settings, and what’s distinctive about American approaches.
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
- American Regulation
- Frequent Regulation
- Regulation
- Structure
Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course
1 hour to finish
Welcome
1 hour to finish
Tort Regulation
Tort legislation governs how folks might sue one another civilly (versus criminally) as a way to obtain compensation for harms or accidents different folks prompted them. On this module, Professor Allen will discover the objectives of tort legislation by means of a historic case. She is going to tackle what makes tort legislation distinct and points surrounding negligence and legal responsibility.
1 hour to finish
Contract Regulation
Contract legislation governs how guarantees between two people are enforced. Few areas of legislation influence our each day lives as a lot as contract legislation, and on this module you’ll acquire a deeper understanding of what a contract is and what makes it enforceable. Professor Wilkinson-Ryan will tackle what constitutes a contract, why the legislation enforces them, the authorized meanings of phrases in contracts, and the vital requirement of consideration. Expectation damages, or the quantity a court docket orders somebody who breached a contract to pay may also be explored, all by means of hypothetical and actual circumstances.
2 hours to finish
Property Regulation
Property legislation governs the connection between people and issues, referred to as property. On this module, Professor Balganesh will discover the variations between property and tort and contract legislation and about a number of particular examples of property legislation in motion: adversarial possession, landlord/tenant, and licenses. You’ll study what makes U.S. property legislation distinct – its origins in widespread legislation, imprint of authorized realism, and pragmatism.
2 hours to finish
Constitutional Regulation
The research of constitutional legislation is among the many most enjoyable elements of the legislation as a result of it offers for the construction and functioning of the U.S. authorities. On this module, Dean Ruger will tackle the doc itself, the way it has been utilized over time, the historical past of the doc, and what makes it distinctive. The construction of the U.S. authorities as a authorities of restricted, separated powers will probably be explored together with the vital particular person rights the Structure offers and the way the U.S. Structure compares to others around the globe.
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