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An Introduction to Torts

Original Creator: Pam Karlan Current Version: Pam Karlan Show/Hide
Welcome to Stanford Law School and to Torts! I'm excited to be working with you this quarter. Instead of using a standard casebook, we are using materials compiled specifically for this course. The vast bulk of the material was edited either by me or by Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School (who also teaches regularly at Stanford during January) as part of Harvard's H2O project. H2O is a Web-based platform for creating, editing, using, and sharing course materials electronically. If you want to read more about it, check out http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/h2o# Two advantages of the materials for this course beyond their being tailored to what we're doing: They're available on line and they're free. We'll orient you on some neat technical features later on, but for now, here's what you need to know: The authoritative version of the materials will be on the Stanford Canvas site for this course. The reason for this is that, while H2O is an amazing idea, there have been some technical glitchesin the past that make us want to be sure that we have a version of the course materials that is under Stanford's control. That version is supported in-house at Stanford, but H2O is NOT. So feel free to use, markup, edit, remix, collage, and whatever else you want to do with the H2O version, but understand that SLS cannot respond to problems that arise if you store something in your H2O account. That being said, H2O is a wonderful tool and the last time I taught the class, students really liked using it. EDIT PLAYLIST INFORMATION DELETE PLAYLIST

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    Original Creator: Pam Karlan Current Version: Pam Karlan
  4. 4 Show/Hide More Excerpt from Kahan, Hoffman, and Braman, Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe?
    This article offers both a theoretical response to, and an empirical test of, the Supreme Court's assertion in Scott v. Harris that no reasonable juror could find that the police used excessive force in stopping Harris's car during a high-speed chase.
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