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Nov 21, 2024
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LAW 817 - Torts I (Experiential)3 Credit Hours
Intentional torts, defenses and privileges related to intentional torts; negligence: standard of care, professional malpractice, and liability of owners and occupiers of land; defenses based on plaintiff’s conduct: contributory and comparative negligence, assumption of risk, failure to take precautions, and avoidable consequences; causation, proximate cause; duty rules; and questions of joint and several or several liability. This experiential class will include three graded, simulation-based assignments. Each simulation will place students in the role of lawyer, raise professionalism issues, require students to perform a lawyering skill, and will result in a written and/or oral work product. In addition to a final examination, the course will also include a midterm exam that will include at least one essay question.
Registration Restriction(s): Law students only.
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