Law School for Everyone brings four exceptional professors from four of the nation’s most distinguished law schools right to you, providing you with much of the foundational knowledge of expert lawyers without the enormous time and financial commitments. Over the span of 48 lectures, these experienced lawyers and teachers recreate key parts of the first-year student experience, introducing you to four main areas of law most every beginning student studies: - litigation and legal practice, - criminal law and procedure, - civil procedure, and - torts.
If a product or service exists, someone might want to buy it or sell it. And if they do, the vehicle they'll use is a contract. This makes contract law a fascinating field that is as broad as everything humans do.
Taking you through all three branches of the federal government, Law School for Everyone: Constitutional Law uses some of the most important legal cases in United States history to probe the open-ended nature of the Constitution's language and illustrate how legal reasoning has defined—and in some cases, redefined—the relationship between the Constitution and power.
Corporations are inextricably linked with our lives. They produce amazing products. They sell us basic food and necessities. They employ us and pay our salaries. But sometimes, they can have a darker side.
Join an award-winning law professor for an eye-opening look at how laws in America are legislated and regulated. A recent addition to the traditional law school curriculum, legislation and regulation are becoming more of a mainstay in some of the country's top law schools. Law School for Everyone: Legislation and Regulation examines everything from the nature of regulation, to the challenge of interpreting statutes based on the spirit versus the letter of the law, to the role of federal agencies in our legal system.