|
2024-2025 Law School Catalog
|
LAW 676SEM - The Tort Law System This seminar (formerly known as Injuries) will address selected issues in the development of modern tort doctrine and it will consider how the tort system actually operates in the lives of injurers, victims, and legal professionals. Beginning with a broad overview of the flow of injury cases from initial harms to lawyers, offices and into the courts, the seminar will explore such topics as: medical malpractice, tangible and intangible harms, internet injuries, wrongful life and wrongful birth claims, damage awards and settlement practices, punitive damages, race and gender in the tort law system, juries, tort reform, and the impact of popular culture and the media. The readings are interdisciplinary, with occasional comparisons to tort law in other societies.
Each student will carry out a research project addressing any aspect of the tort law system that is of particular interest. Research must be based on student interviews, so the seminar will also provide instruction on how to conduct an interview to establish rapport and obtain needed information. Grades will be based on presentations and a seminar paper. There is no exam.
Credits: 3
|
|