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Key informationClassroom Notes and Presentations:
Mindmap of Torts — initial version
This is the semester's starting version of the mindmap — as it was when I first opened it up in class. It does not include changes I made along the way.
Mindmap of torts [.html] (Dated 8/30/2022)
This is the webpage version, which is easy to look at using your web browser, but which doesn't include all the sprawling formatting. Mindmap of torts mindmap file [.mm] [right click to download] (Dated 8/30/2022)
This [.mm] mindmap file allows you to see the mindmap-style formatting, as I worked with it in class. This file can be viewed with free/open-source Freeplane software.
Mindmap of Torts — updated version
This is the semester's mindmap after my having made revisions as we went through it.
Mindmap of torts [.html] (Dated 8/30/2023)
This is the webpage version, which is easy to look at using your web browser, but which doesn't include all the sprawling formatting. Mindmap of torts mindmap file [.mm] [right click to download] (Dated 8/30/2023)
This [.mm] mindmap file allows you to see the mindmap-style formatting, as I worked with it in class. This file can be viewed with free/open-source Freeplane software. Course Polling:Book assignments
There is one traditional get-it-from-a-bookseller book you need for the course. Get your own physical, printed copy of this:
Four Trials by John Edwards, with John Auchard
Published: 2004, Simon & Schuster ISBN-10: 0743272048 ISBN-13: 978-0743272049
The main casebook for the course is an open-source/open-access (a/k/a "OER") book. It is in two volumes:
These volumes are available for free download in PDF and DOCX formats. To make sure you are looking at the right edition/revision, look for the green safety cone on the cover.
You have lots of options in terms of how you might access the books:
Note that from time to time, the manuscript is updated to fix minor typos. These fixes don't affect pagination or the usability of the book. (I keep a list of these fixes here.)
Unfortunately, OU Law has frequently changed their exam policies in past semesters. Because of new and shifting policies, I cannot say at this point what format of exam I will have. (I anticipate that I can pin down some details after the semester begins.) But if I have an exam that allows access to printed materials while writing an essay answer, then you will want to have a printed copy by the end of the semester to use on the exam. So for that possibility you might choose to start the semester with a printed copy (which you might mark-up and highlight), or you might instead choose to wait until the end of the semester to print out a copy (which perhaps you will have marked-up electronically over the semester).
First week's assignments
Readings are from Torts: Cases and Context, Volume One (Pylon Edition, Version 2.0) (TC&C), which is (as mentioned above) available for free download in PDF and DOCX formats.
First day of class: - Read all of TC&C Chapter 1 "Basic Concepts." Second day of class: - Read all of TC&C Chapter 2 "An Overview of Tort Law." Third day of class: - No additional reading. Copyright 2023 Eric E. Johnson. All rights reserved. Konomark - most rights sharable.
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