Law School for Teens - Basics of Law - Ongoing Class
Mike Traywick - Think, Reason, and Argue Better
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In this course, we will learn one of the first areas lawyers study about in law school - Torts - at a high school level - learn to think like a lawyer!
Class experience
US Grade 9 - 12
If you are hit by a car and have to stay in the hospital for a long period of time, who pays your medical bills? How do you make up for lost time at work? What happens if you are using a product that damages you in some way, preventing you from living your life to the fullest? Who is responsible and how do you recover financial damages? Or what happens if a doctor is negligent (makes a mistake) during a surgery? How does the patient get compensated? Get $10 off my classes with coupon code...
- Students will learn to apply the facts to the law to come to a conclusion backed up by reasoning. - Students will be exposed to the law as applied in a courtroom at a high school level. - Students will be challenged with difficult language and interpreting actual legal rules for understanding.
I am a practicing attorney and a high school teacher with over ten years experience teaching law to high school aged students.
This class will cover some more mature themes in the scenarios used for illustration of legal concepts. For example, you will see the terms "Battery" and "Assault" in torts law, but these are not the same concepts as found in criminal law. A battery is an intention harmful or offensive contact for which a plaintiff (the person suing) may recover from. The cases I use here are a child pulling out a chair, a scuffle in a classroom, and other similar situations. Assault is intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. The cases I use here are verbal threats of one sort or another to put someone in fear of potential harm.
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Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(378)
My name is Mike Traywick, and I am a high school teacher, a lawyer, and a veteran of the US Navy. If you are new to Outschool, you can use the PROMO Code: MIKETRA2020 for $20 off and enter the coupon code at checkout. Look through my classes at...
Group Class
$20
weekly1x per week
50 min
Completed by 35 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-17
2-10 learners per class
