| Elsa Y. Ransom |
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| Associate Professor of Law |
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| Phone:(713) 313-1047 |
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| Email:
eransom@tmslaw.tsu.edu |
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| Joined the faculty in 1990. |
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Course Syllabi and Information
1st Year/Torts I/508-4
This course addresses the judicial treatment of claims
based on personal injuries and property loss where the complaining
party utilizes one or more of the following three major bases of
liability: intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability. More
particularly, the course covers: battery, assault, false
imprisonment, intentional infliction of mental distress, trespass to
land, trespass to chattels, conversion, defenses to the intentional
torts, negligence, joint torfeasors, damages, wrongful death and
survival, contributory negligence defense, assumption of risk
defense, comparative negligence defense, last clear chance, statute
of limitations and repose, immunities, imputed negligence, strict
liability, products liability, nuisance, misrepresentation,
defamation, invasion of privacy and misuse of legal procedure.
Syllabus for Torts I, Section 4
Electives/Intellectual Property/854
An introduction to the basic law of property in
intellectual endeavors including trademark, patent and copyright.
This course will examine the theoretical bases for intellectual
property and will ask why some kinds of intellectual effort receive
protection and others do not, based on these different theories. It
will also question the different forms of legal protection for
different kinds of intellectual activity, e.g., patents for
invention, copyright for expression. Time permitting, the course
will take up some of the critiques of intellectual property emerging
from new information technology, biotechnology, medical ethics and
the demands and achievements of less developed countries.
Syllabus for Intellectual Property
