Tort Law Course
This course is a survey of civil causes of action for which an injured party may seek redress and compensatory relief in court. Students will learn various theories of tort liability including intentional torts to person and property such as assault, battery, false imprisonment, trespass, and infliction of emotional distress. Students will also examine the law relating to causes of action for ordinary and professional negligence, wrongful death, products liability, and dignitary torts such as invasion of privacy, defamation, constitutional torts, and nuisance. They will also examine strict liability causes of action such as pet ownership and products liability. Finally, students will examine tort defenses of privilege, mistake, self-defense, consent, necessity, immunity, contributory and comparative negligence, and assumption of the risk.
This course is only available to students registered in the Juris Doctor program.
Read MoreContracts Law Couse
Students will study both the common law contract principles relating to contracts for services and the Uniform Commercial Code contract principles relating to contracts for goods.. They will learn the rules governing the formation of contracts such as offer, acceptance, consideration & defenses, such as, the statute of frauds, incapacity, illegality, misrepresentation/fraud, duress, unconscionability, undue influence, and mistake. Students will also study contractual conditions, third-party rights, assignments, delegations & the law pertaining to the enforcement of contracts, liability & remedies for breach of contract.
This course is only available to students registered in the Juris Doctor program.
Read MoreEvidence Course
This course teaches the standards that regulate the admissibility of proof at judicial proceedings placing special emphasis on the Federal Rules, California rules, and general principles of evidence law. Students will study burdens of proof, relevancy, the hearsay rule and its exceptions, policy-based exclusionary rules, legal privileges, expert and lay opinions, scientific, forensic, and demonstrative evidence, impeachment, authentication, character, and habit evidence, and presumptions.
Who Can Take this Course?
- Current students who have successfully passed the First-Year Law Students Examination (FYLSX)
- Students who transferred their First-Year courses from an ABA or Committee Accredited law school.