Law School TA

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, and the other subjects you'd typically cover in the first year of law school. Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97

Contracts: Hadley v Baxendale

Topic: Remedies, Damages, Foreseeability Court of Exchequer 1854 (England) Case Link: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/45164 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

09-15
07:12

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 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

09-09
11:38

Contracts: Fear and Loathing v Mills

Topic: Moral Obligation Supreme Court of Massachusetts 1825 Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

01-01
05:44

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. Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

01-01
01:17

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 Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 https://twitter.com/lawschoolta

01-01
06:11

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 Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 https://twitter.com/lawschoolta

01-01
07:15

Contracts: Expectation, Reliance, and Restitution Damages

This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts. Topic: Remedies Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

01-01
08:40

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 Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

12-18
22:42

Contracts: Remedies Intro

This topic comes as a special request from one of our listeners. Topic: Remedies Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

11-05
08:26

Contracts: Webb v McGowin

Topic: Moral Obligation Court of Appeals of Alabama, 1935 Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/webb-v-mcgowin-1 Second Restatement §86: https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/2718 Professor Ian Ayres Video Lecture: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/contracts-1/mills-v-wyman-moral-obligation-webb-v-mcgowin-rescuers-recompense-DkjYX Commentary on Webb v McGowin, Harrington v Taylor, and Mills v Wyman: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.faulknerlawreview.org/article/16603.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CTeGX6uUIoKOygTS-ZbwCQ&scisig=AAGBfm2HsO5RJCYhdtzOZO8hfIosMyrp3Q&nossl=1&oi=scholarr Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

10-29
12:42

Contracts: Harrington v Taylor

Topic: Moral Obligation Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1945 Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/harrington-v-taylor-2 Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

10-22
04:45

Contracts: Manwill v. Oyler

Topic: Moral Obligation Supreme Court of Utah, 1961 Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/manwill-v-oyler Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

10-15
06:31

Contracts: Moral Obligation

We are moving from the study of consideration onto a new topic called Moral Obligation. If you promise to pay someone for something they gave you in the past, will courts enforce that promise? Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

10-02
06:30

Contracts: Omni Group, Inc. v. Seattle-First National Bank

Topic: Mutuality of Obligation Court of Appeals of Washington, 1982 Case link: https://casetext.com/case/omni-group-v-seattle-first-natl-bank Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

09-24
09:08

Contracts: Wood v Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

Topic: Mutuality of Obligation Court of Appeals of New York, 1917 Case link: https://casetext.com/case/wood-v-duff-gordon Wikipedia entry on the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_v._Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon Wikipedia bio on Lady Duff-Gordon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy,_Lady_Duff-Gordon Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

09-17
12:42

Contracts: McMichael v Price

Topic: Mutuality of Obligation Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1936 Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mcmichael-v-price Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

09-10
06:41

Contracts: Rehm–Zeiher Co. v FG Walker Co.

Topic: Mutuality of Obligation Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1913 https://cite.case.law/ky/156/6/ Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

08-27
07:08

Contracts: Mutuality of Obligation

What happens when one party promises to fulfill their side only "if they feel like it"? Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

08-24
02:12

Contracts: Angel v Murray

Learn about a garbage man who bit off more than he could chew. Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1974 https://casetext.com/case/angel-v-murray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_v._Murray Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

08-20
11:32

Contracts: Alaska Packers' Association v Domenico

Learn about a fishing trip that turned into a hold up. US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1902 1:00 – Case start http://madisonian.net/downloads/contracts/alaska.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Packers'_Association Join our PodTalk Section 3 group at https://podtalk.app/join_group?u=podtalk://join/group:97 Email: kasey.podtalk@gmail.com

08-13
09:29

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