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Introduction to US Law

1A Government of Laws 2Common Law and the Case Method 3The Constitution as Legal Document 4Contracts and the Law of Promises 5Property — The Right to Exclude 6Torts — Harm, Duty, and Compensation 7Criminal Law — Punishment and Its Justifications 8Civil Procedure — The Architecture of Litigation 9Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties 10The Administrative State — Who Really Makes Law 11Corporate Law and the Code of Capital 12Immigration Law — Borders, Sovereignty, and Persons 13Environmental and Public Health Law 14Law, Race, and Structural Inequality 15Legal Reasoning and Interpretation 16Law and Technology 17International Law and Its Discontents 18Law as a Luhmannian System

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