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Pre-Law Courses from Gatlin International
The LearnLaw program is one of our most popular pre-law courses. It is an online, multimedia, interactive program offering first-year law school required courses and is ideal for anyone starting law school.
Over the years, we’ve found that students who enrol in our online pre-law courses tend to be as successful as those who attend similar courses in traditional brick-and-mortar courses.
Enroling in our pre-law courses is quick, easy and complete secure and our open enrollment policy makes it possible for you to begin learning right away.
The LearnLaw program consists of six substantive pre-law courses.
Constitutional Law: This module examines the United States Constitution, its development and importance in all aspects of judicial decisions. The Bill of Rights and the Amendments are summarized and incorporated into constitutional cases of particular importance in the development of major legislation. The concepts of due process, equal protection, the First and Fourteenth Amendments are also explored in this module.
Contracts: This module examines the fundamental elements of a contract: offer, acceptance and consideration. This module examines contractual relationships, defenses to a contract and the main legal rules of law school cases.
Torts: The law of torts pertains to injuries against one’s person or property. The elements of individual torts, such as intentional torts and negligence, are examined from a black letter law perspective. The module includes an overview of the types of torts such as trespass, false imprisonment, defamation, nuisance, assault, battery, negligence and misrepresentation.
Criminal Law and Procedure: This module combines criminal law. The module examines the elements and classification of crimes and focuses on the handling and disposition of criminal cases from a law school perspective.
Civil Procedure: An introduction to the Code of Civil Procedure (litigation at the Federal level) including jurisdiction, venue, parties and claims, joinder, motions, interpleader, and intervention are explored in this module. Also discussed are litigation aspects, including discovery, pre-trial and post-trial motions, pleadings, functions of the judge and jury, and appeal procedures.
Real Property: This module focuses on law school real property issues such as estates in land, future interests, easements, covenants running with the land, concurrent ownership, transference of land and the Recording system, title insurance, restrictions on land use and conveyance and landlord and tenant law.
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Outline
- Contracts
- Torts
- Real Property
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 180.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Students are given 6 months to complete the program.
- Instructor
Katherine Pang, PhD, JD, LLM, MBA, MEd, MS
Dr. Pang has instructed, facilitated, and led numerous business skill courses including team building, building effective groups, and similar courses for several manufacturing companies including Weir SPM, Turbomeca, as well as the City of Arlington along with numerous top 100 law firms.
Dr. Pang served as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Tyler and has been an adjunct faculty member in the law and business/ schools of many universities including the Stern School of Business at New York University, the Graduate School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas, Pepperdine University, USC, Golden Gate University, the University of California, Irvine, Regent University, and Northeastern University. Dr. Pang received her B.A. from Clark University, her J.D. from the University of Dayton Law School, her LL.M in Taxation from Georgetown University Law School, her M.Ed from the University of Texas, her MBA, MS (Psychology), and her Ph.D in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M – Commerce. Dr. Pang also has two theology degrees.
Dr. Pang has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and operational experience in professional services, manufacturing and education oriented companies. Dr. Pang has served as founder, president, CEO, COO and CFO of several companies over the last 15 years. Prior to forming Corporate Growth Strategists, Dr. Pang was recruited to serve initially as COO/CFO and General Counsel for a Dallas-based CNC precision and assembly manufacturing company to effectuate a restructure of corporate obligations and operations. The successful reduction in corporate indebtedness and the substantial increase in cash-flow flowing from operational and financial changes resulted in Dr. Pang’s promotion to interim CEO and General Counsel for a period of 12-months. Dr. Pang has also served as COO and General Counsel for Technology Training Services Corporation a technology training company delivering services in Europe under Unites States Government contracts. Dr. Pang was also the Manager, Firmwide Practice Section Development, Training and Forms for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Pang has over 20 years of experience in the design, development and delivery of educational courses and professional development and training content. She has been the CEO and Founder of three companies in the field of applied skills, active learning both in an ILT, CBT and Web-Based environment. Dr. Pang has served as an SME for over 65 business and law-related courses. In addition, Dr. Pang serves in a consulting capacity for various institutions and organizations in designing and developing curricula, adopting new technologies, integrating technology with instruction and implementing training and professional education programs. Dr. Pang has served as an SME for over 100 business and law-related courses. In addition, she has served in a consulting capacity for various institutions and organizations in designing and developing curricula, adopting new technologies, integrating technology with instruction and implementing training and professional education programs.
Dr. Pang has been a speaker at numerous e-learning conferences, including the MEC 2001 Conference sponsored by Arizona State University, the 2001 Conference on Training and Knowledge Management sponsored by Generation 21 Learning Management Systems; E-Learn 2005 and Online Educa Berlin 2005, AACE/ED Media 2006, E-Learn 2006, E-Learning Guild 2006, CELDA 2007, Learning Conference 2008 at University of Illinois, Chicago, EduComm 2008 in Las Vegas, DevLearn 2008 in San Jose, among numerous other professional conferences.
- Prerequisites/Audience
The LearnLaw – Pre-Law School program is for anyone who is thinking about or has been accepted to, or is in his or her first year of law school. The program is an overview of the first year law school required courses which includes the basics of first semester Torts, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and real Property.
- Requirements/Materials Included
This program must be taken on a PC. There are no specific computer requirements other than an Internet connection (a high-speed or broadband Internet connection is highly recommended). In addition, you'll need to have Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Flash Plug-in, and a QuickTime plug-in on your computer (all are available through free downloads).
There are no required textbooks for this program. All materials are available online.
