Overview
Description
Examines economic implications and objectives of legal institutions and legal rule making: including common law, public regulations of the market and legal procedures.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify the distinct features of economic analysis of law, including its basic assumptions.
- describe the key contributions of law and economics to the legal fields of Property, Torts, Contracts, Legal Procedure, and Criminal Law.
- critically apply economic analysis to new problems in those fields and to problems on other topics, such as Election Law and judicial decision-making.