Law School for Everyone

De: The Great Courses, Edward K. Cheng, Joseph L. Hoffmann, Molly Bishop Shadel, Peter J. Smith

Narrado por: Edward K. Cheng, Joseph L. Hoffmann, Molly Bishop Shadel, Peter J. Smith

The skills lawyers wield in courtrooms across the country are the result of years of study. As much as we'd like to cultivate these same skills, the truth is that you cannot know how a lawyer thinks and works without studying the law itself.

Now there's an easier way to get the same foundational knowledge as lawyers - without the enormous time and financial commitment. Over the span of 48 lectures, four experienced lawyers and teachers recreate key parts of the first-year law student experience, introducing you to main areas of law most every beginning student studies.

You'll start with 12 lectures on litigation and legal practice that offer eye-opening answers to many questions about the art and craft of legislation. In the second 12 lectures, you'll learn how criminal law and procedure - an area of law dramatized by countless TV shows - really works. Additional lectures investigate the civic procedures courts follow to resolve disputes about substantive rights and examine broader questions any system of litigation must address. And 12 lectures are devoted entirely to the stranger-than-fiction topic of tort law.

Enriched with famous cases from the annals of American law and powerful arguments by some of history's most successful lawyers, these lectures offer access to an often intimidating, surprisingly accessible, and civically important field.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)2017 The Great Courses

Very Interesting and Entertaining

This is the first (and only) “multi-professor” course I’ve had wherein all four professors were articulate, engaging, well-prepared and just plain entertaining. The legal subjects covered are wide-ranging and the professors include both historic and current reasoning and examples. The “reasoning” is especially interesting because they don’t just describe the current environment but also provide background on what it was like in the past and why it changed. This in one of my favorite courses and I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in the law and/or our legal system.

Wonderful introduction to basic law, fascinating cases review and top notch lectureres

Wonderful introduction to basic law, fascinating cases review and top notch lectureres
I would like to see this expanded and renewed every year

Law School for EVERYONE

Wow. This has been a great course. I believe this course is absolutely necessary and this should’ve been taught and made a requirement from junior high and all throughout High School. I started this course having virtually zero knowledge and understanding of our legal system to a better informed and equipped citizen of the United States. If the United States was a person, the legal system will be the veins in which the lifeblood of this nation flows through, the constitution being the heart pumping that blood from the day this nation was conceived, the states will be its various organs, while its people the cells that make it all happen. The Supreme Court will be the brains, the Executive Branch the physical and most visible part of the body, and the legislature the guts with its flora, its good and bad bacteria, representative to our immune system. The laws are like the food which is eaten and digested, the economy its sexual organs, the highways and all that connects the states are like the neurons in the body, the soul is it’s history while the spirit is who we have become in our present day. All this and more I was able to gather from studying this course. I absolutely recommend it to EVERYONE who cares.

Legal Education for the Average Person

This book is long with four sections and several chapters per section. It is logically arranged and easy to understand. I took the advice of the narrator and dedicated about 30 minutes a day to the course. The accompanying PDF is helpful.

The younger you are when you read this, the more it will help you understand legal issues that come up in life.

It is funny that lawyers invent a "Product Defect" called "Failure to Warn" then make fun of manufacturers' outrageous warnings like "This coffee is hot." Especially considering every chapter in this book comes with the warning like, "This is not meant as legal advice..."

Interesting material

Learned a lot about the history and structure of our judicial system, tort law and other interesting stuff. Well presented and well read. Eager to learn more