Torts (LAW-522-003)
Nicola
Meets: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM (TTH) - Room 602
Enrolled: 81 / Limit: 90
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Description
This course addresses the questions arising when determining if the law should require a person to compensate or not to compensate for harm intentionally or unintentionally caused to another person. Namely, the legal system determines the legally protected interests that, once violated, require compensation. We will develop these themes by tackling three competing approaches in tort law: strict liability, negligence and no-duty (or damnum absque injuriam (harm but no tort). This course will show how these three competing approaches have developed, historically, through the expansion or contraction of liability affecting determinate social situations such as domestic violence, auto-accidents, professional malpractice and product injuries. The course exposes students to the different tort law doctrines and their intersection with other areas of the law such as civil procedure, contract, constitutional, criminal and anti-discrimination law. Students will learn how to master legal doctrines and legal reasoning by producing, for each particular scenario, those recurrent policy arguments characterizing tort law.
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First Class Readings
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Syllabus
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