An Introduction to American Law

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Offered by University of Pennsylvania. This course will give you a glimpse into six different areas of American law: Tort Law, Contract Law, ... Enroll for free.

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Taught by
Anita Allen
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
and 5 more instructors

Offered by
University of Pennsylvania

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0 posts • 13 mentions • top 5 shown below

r/suggestmeabook • comment
2 points • neeeedhelpplz

Not a book, but Coursera offers a course for free: https://www.coursera.org/learn/american-law

r/LawSchool • comment
1 points • slowdownlambs

I suspect most of us don't really have the answer to your question, since we're all in intensive 3 year programs to learn these subjects.

I did spot that Coursera has a free intro course offered by UPenn that might be what you're looking for. Best of luck!

r/technews • comment
1 points • inm808

Dude, nice!!! This looks awesome!

I’ve been idly thinking about doing this for awhile, but had no clue where to start. Strangely motivating hearing your story and current hobby

I do agree about understanding of law. It’s so fcking important for life in America, and there’s so many backward ass laws that people may not even know they’re breaking or what rights they have.

Ima check this out for sure

link for the interested

r/slatestarcodex • comment
1 points • naraburns

> What is the equivalent of "law 101"?

Many universities teach a course called "introduction to law."

> My naive understanding is that a lot of law studies are country specific.

And in the United States, they are state-specific, too!

> Is there some common set of principles that transcend the nation state and are useful for any inhabitant of the early XXI century to have on their pocket?

> I am imagining something like the concept of inflation, the role of central banks and monetary policy in economics.

Basically: no. In the West, Plato. In the anglophone West, John Locke probably qualifies, as well as Hobbes, some Bentham and Mill... or skip straight to Rawls. In China, Confucius. Some might say you could read Marx or Foucault, "power dynamics" might arguably transcend cultures in a generalized way, but I wouldn't bet on it.

> Or, If you wanted to understand how different law systems in the world work and the philosophical principles that they emanate from, then this set of fundamental concepts will help you to cut through the complexity. Some fundamentals...

Philosophy and political science majors often end up in law school, those are places where you'll find the "fundamentals" of jurisprudence. But the actual practice of law is often much more rhetorical, depends heavily on reputations, connections, and networks of contacts, and most lawyers don't learn anything about how to actually practice law until their first day on the job. In the 21st century, most lawyers are more like social technicians than they are like philosophers.

r/NoStupidQuestions • comment
1 points • GVSU_WildeJ

Here's a few MOOCs I found. You can audit these courses for free, which means you'd have access to all the material except graded quizzes and stuff. I used MOOCs to get my GED prior to getting into uni. MOOCs are legit resources.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/chemerinsky-individual-rights?action=enroll&authMode=signup

https://www.coursera.org/learn/american-law?action=enroll

Cornell also has a law section on the constitution I used to review the constitution for the GED. Here's a link: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution