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Law School for Everyone
Taught by Professors Edward K. Cheng,
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LECTURE TITLES
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Problematic Evidence
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Cross-Examination
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Your Client Driving Your
4. Trial Strategy Theory Home
behind the Scenes 11. Understanding the
5. Opening Statements: Appellate Process
The Moment 12. Arguing before the
of Primacy Supreme Court
6. Direct Examination:
Questioning Your
Witnesses
Criminal Law and Procedure
1. Who Defi nes 7. Due Process and the
Crimes, and How? Right to Counsel
2. Crime and the 8. Government
Guilty Mind Searches and
3. Homicide and Privacy Rights
Moral Culpability 9. The Shrinking
4. The Law of Warrant Requirement
Self-Defense 10. The Fifth
5. Federal Crimes and Amendment Privilege
Federal Power 11. Miranda and Police
6. Cruel and Unusual Interrogations
Punishments 12. Plea Bargains, Jury
Trials, and Justice
Civil Procedure
1. Procedural Rights 7. The Use and Abuse
and Why They Matter of Discovery
2. Subject Matter 8. Deciding a Case
Jurisdiction before the Trial Ends
3. Jurisdiction over 9. The Right to a
the Defendant Civil Jury Trial
4. A Modern Approach 10. Determining What
to Personal Law Applies
Jurisdiction 11. Relitigation and
5. The Role of Pleadings Preclusion
6. Understanding 12. Appeals and How
Complex Litigation They Are Judged
Torts
1. The Calamitous 7. Liability for the
World of Tort Law Acts of Others
2. Legal Duty to Others 8. When Tort Plaintiff s
3. Reasonable Share the Blame
Your Guide to the Care and the 9. Animals, Blasting,
Reasonable Person
and Strict Liability
Rules versus
4.
Products Liability
Standards of Care 10. The Rise of
American Legal System 5. The Complexities of 11. Products Liability
Today
Factual Causation
Legal Causation
12. Punitive Damages
6.
and Foreseeability and Their Limits
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