Torts (Private Wrongs) - Law School for Teens
A look at the area of tort law and intentional torts for students new to the topic.
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What You Will Learn!
- Learn to think like a lawyer
- Exposure to an important legal topic of "Torts."
- Learn to read more closely in searching for details.
- Law at a high school level.
Description
This is a great introduction on how to think like a lawyer. Thinking is a skill that most people believe they have, but really they react emotionally to a problem rather than think it through. Learning to think like a lawyer allows you to detach from a situation and think it through from all angles.
This is a skill that is transferable to other areas of life. Ideally, as a student working their way through law courses, you will find yourself asking things like “Why?” and “What’s your evidence for that claim?” or “Why should I believe that statement?” This doesn’t make you a skeptic; it just makes you demand evidence for other people’s thinking, which is not always available!
This course is about tort laws, one of the basic subjects found in American law schools. We look at Intentional torts, which is where most law schools will start as well. Here, we challenge ourselves in an easily accessible way. We will look at such topics as battery, assault, and false imprisonment, conversion, trespass to land, trespass to chattel, and intentional infliction of emotional distress among other interesting topics. By understanding the elements of each tort, thinking them through, proving the elements with evidence from the fact pattern (the story problem of law), students will learn to think through an issue without resulting to an emotional reaction.
Who Should Attend!
- Anyone who wants an introduction into law at a high school level and those interested in law school and want to explore the topics before investing in an expensive legal education.