Description
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic concepts in civil and criminal law and the workings of the judicial system. Class study begins with a reading of the U.S. Constitution, combined with a focus on the court system and limitations on its power. The class also studies the institutional sources of American law, procedural aspects of a trial, concepts and cases in family law, tort law (both intentional and unintentional), and judicial remedies in both equitable and common law.
*PO/AM/DC