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.

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What Law School Should have been like!

Would you listen to Law School for Everyone again? Why?

I plan on definitely listening to it again just to review the trail tactics!

Who was your favorite character and why?

I enjoyed hearing actors relive various famous trials!

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This was the first time I heard these professors.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The way law should be taught in law school!

Any additional comments?

As a lawyer I often thought about how law schools should teach the law. Instead of the Socratic method it should be the way "Law School for Everyone" teaches. What I especially liked about the course is how they used real life trials to illustrate legal concepts and trail tactics. The O.J. Simpson "Trial of the Century" is a perfect example of this. So much could be learned by reviewing this trial and the mistakes and successes of the opposing sides. This course not only discusses this trial and several other famous trials, it even had actors read salient portions of the trial transcripts. Bringing the legal concepts to life!

every us resident needs this book

very useful background info on aspects of the us legal system, interestingly and convincingly presented

I'm not completely ignorant anymore :-)

If you are starting from scratch as I was, it will require time, discipline and concentration to go through this course. The reward compensates by far on the effort, since this course will help you understand the very basics of common laws legal system and prepare you to dig in deeper in other topics if you wish. 100% recommended.

great overview of our legal system

In 25 hours, you can listen to the history that makes up our legal system. From the roots in common law traced to England to modern tort cases that make every day citizens ask if the legal can handle the complexity of the modern word and every landmark case in between. A definite book to listen to from the great courses.

Layman’s guide to the legal system

Only way you can teach yourself legal system without being a student of law.

The book does a good job of highlighting the details of laws and the challenges it presents.
Also the explanation of how things evolved overtime.

Excellent

Way more interesting than I thought it would be! Great professors! Well presented. Interesting cases.

nice intro to law

overall very nice. chapter 3 could be improved with reducing the number of names in hypothetical scenarios

Excellent overview of a complicated subject

I learned a lot. Made me want to learn more. There are some latin phrases and other legal terms that are a bit difficult to catch, but for an audio only format the lecturers did an excellent job of explaining things.

Well constructed and masterfully delivered

A very well-structured and thought-through combined course (that is actually a 4-in-1). Excellent choice of lecturers. I'd highly recommend it as a first taste of the American legal system.

Great general knowledge of law.

helped me have better conversations with the lawyers I work with on a daily basis