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.
When many of us think about the law, we think of a judge wielding a gavel with authority. The truth, however, is that in the United States, laws are more likely to be enacted by a legislature or a regulatory agency than simply announced by a court.