Law School TA
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Stanford Law graduate Kasey Baughan takes you through the first year of law school. We will start with a brief overview of the US legal system, and then move to contract law, tort law, criminal law, and the other subjects you'd typically cover in the first year of law school.
Law School TA
1y ago
Topic: Remedies, Damages, Foreseeability
Court of Exchequer 1854 (England)
Case Link: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/45164
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Law School TA
1y ago
Topic: Specific Performance
Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1907
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/curtice-bros-co-v-catts
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Law School TA
1y ago
Topics: Contract Remedies
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973
Damages Spectrum:
Restitution <---> Reliance <---> Expectation
Restitution Damages:
The $622 she paid for surgery
Expectation Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and "beautiful" nose
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Difference between her earnings with messed up nose and earnings she would have had with "beautiful" nose
Reliance Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and pre-surgery nose
+ Pain and suffering for first two ..read more
Law School TA
1y ago
This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.
Topic: Remedies
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Law School TA
1y ago
This topic comes as a special request from one of our listeners.
Topic: Remedies
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Law School TA
1y ago
Topic: Moral Obligation
Court of Appeals of Alabama, 1935
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/webb-v-mcgowin-1
Second Restatement ยง86: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/2718
Professor Ian Ayres Video Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/mills-v-wyman-moral-obligation-webb-v-mcgowin-rescuers-recompense-DkjYX
Commentary on Webb v McGowin, Harrington v Taylor, and Mills v Wyman: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.faulknerlawreview.org/article/16603.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CTeGX6uUIoKOygTS-ZbwCQ&scisig=AAGBfm2HsO5RJCYhdtzOZO8hfIosMyrp3Q&nossl=1 ..read more
Law School TA
1y ago
Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1945
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/harrington-v-taylor-2
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Law School TA
1y ago
Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Utah, 1961
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/manwill-v-oyler
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Law School TA
1y ago
Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman
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Law School TA
1y ago
We are moving from the study of consideration onto a new topic called Moral Obligation.
If you promise to pay someone for something they gave you in the past, will courts enforce that promise?
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