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Law School TA
Kasey Baughan
36 episodes
1 day ago
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
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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
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Law School TA
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

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3 years ago
7 minutes 12 seconds

Law School TA
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

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3 years ago
11 minutes 38 seconds

Law School TA
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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4 years ago
5 minutes 44 seconds

Law School TA
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

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4 years ago
1 minute 17 seconds

Law School TA
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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4 years ago
6 minutes 11 seconds

Law School TA
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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4 years ago
7 minutes 15 seconds

Law School TA
Contracts: Expectation, Reliance, and Restitution Damages

This lecture covers the three different ways of calculating damages in contracts.

Topic: Remedies

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4 years ago
8 minutes 40 seconds

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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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4 years ago
22 minutes 42 seconds

Law School TA
Contracts: Remedies Intro

This topic comes as a special request from one of our listeners.

Topic: Remedies

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5 years ago
8 minutes 26 seconds

Law School TA
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

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5 years ago
12 minutes 42 seconds

Law School TA
Contracts: Harrington v Taylor

Topic: Moral Obligation

Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1945

Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/harrington-v-taylor-2

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5 years ago
4 minutes 45 seconds

Law School TA
Contracts: Manwill v. Oyler

Topic: Moral Obligation

Supreme Court of Utah, 1961

Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/manwill-v-oyler

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5 years ago
6 minutes 31 seconds

Law School TA
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?

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5 years ago
6 minutes 30 seconds

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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

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5 years ago
9 minutes 8 seconds

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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

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5 years ago
12 minutes 42 seconds

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Contracts: McMichael v Price

Topic: Mutuality of Obligation

Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1936

Case Link: https://casetext.com/case/mcmichael-v-price

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5 years ago
6 minutes 41 seconds

Law School TA
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/

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5 years ago
7 minutes 8 seconds

Law School TA
Contracts: Mutuality of Obligation

What happens when one party promises to fulfill their side only "if they feel like it"?

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5 years ago
2 minutes 12 seconds

Law School TA
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

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5 years ago
11 minutes 32 seconds

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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

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5 years ago
9 minutes 29 seconds

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