This course addresses two important questions:
- When is someone else legally responsible for harm done to you?
- When are you legally responsible for harm done to someone else?
This course of eight lectures discusses torts, the body of law designed to redress through civil litigation harms done to persons.
This lecture series not only explains the basics of this substantive body of law, but it also gives insight through examples of how the law is based on a logical idea of a just outcome.
Key issues studied include:
- negligence
- intentional interference with property
- defamation, privacy, and emotional distress
- product liability
- interference with business relations
- misappropriation of business information
- trademarks.