Law School TA

By Kasey Baughan

Stanford Law graduate Kasey Baughan takes you through the first year of law school. We will start with a brief overview of the US legal system, and then move to contract law, tort law, criminal law, a... more

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The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.

Law School TA episodes:

July 31, 2024 Hola
Really cool test
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1min
September 15, 2022 Contracts: Hadley v Baxendale
Topic: Remedies, Damages, Foreseeability
Court of Exchequer 1854 (England)
Case Link: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/45164
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8min
September 09, 2022 Contracts: Curtice Bros. Co. v. Catts
Topic: Specific Performance
Court of Chancery of New Jersey, 1907
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/curtice-bros-co-v-catts
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12min
January 01, 2021 Contracts: Fear and Loathing v Mills
Topic: Moral Obligation
Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825
Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman
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6min
January 01, 2021 What cases do you want to hear?
Are there any cases or topics you'd like me to do an episode on?
Send a request!
Doesn't need to be about contracts.
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2min
January 01, 2021 Contracts: Stonestreet v. Oil Co.
Learn about an oil company swindling a landowner out of their well.
Supreme Court of North Carolina 1946
1:34 – Case start
https://casetext.com/case/stonestreet-v-oil-co
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7min
January 01, 2021 Contracts: Kirksey v Kirksey
Learn about more about consideration and a man who gave false hopes to his brother's widow.
Supreme Court of Alabama 1845
1:34 - Case start
https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/2227
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksey_v._Kirksey
This paper gives (a lot) more back story: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=899002
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8min
January 01, 2021 Contracts: Expectation, Reliance, and Restitution Damages
This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.
Topic: Remedies
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9min
December 18, 2020 Contracts: Sullivan v O'Connor
Topics: Contract Remedies
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1973

Damages Spectrum:
Restitution <---> Reliance <---> Expectation

Restitution Damages:
The $622 she paid for surgery

Expectation Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and "beautiful" nose
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Difference between her earnings with messed up nose and earnings she would have had with "beautiful" nose

Reliance Damages:
Difference between her messed up nose and pre-surgery nose
+ Pain and suffering for first two surgeries
+ Any hospital expenses for first two surgeries
+ Pain and suffering for third surgery
+ Any hospital expenses for third surgery
+ Lost earnings due to messed up nose
+ The $622 she paid for surgery

Coursera Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/sullivan-v-o-connor-nose-job-kjokM?authMode=login
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23min
November 05, 2020 Contracts: Remedies Intro
This topic comes as a special request from one of our listeners.
Topic: Remedies
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9min

FAQs about Law School TA:

How many episodes does Law School TA have?

The podcast currently has 38 episodes available.