| L. Darnell Weeden |
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| Professor of Law |
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| Phone:(713) 313-4249 |
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| Email:
lweeden@tmslaw.tsu.edu
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| Joined the faculty in 1990. |
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Course Syllabi and Information
1st Year/Torts II/509-3 (Spring 2013)
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 II, Section 3
Electives/First Amendment/741 (Spring 2013)
This course concerns the constitutional rights of the
freedom of expression and the freedom of religion as guaranteed by
the First Amendment. Among the topics covered will be offensive
speech, libel, pornography, symbolic speech, commercial speech,
campaign finance, Internet and broadcast regulation, restrictions on
time, place, and manner of expression, selective government
subsidies of speech, unconstitutional conditions on speech,
religious autonomy, rights of religious communities, aid to
parochial schools and other religious institutions, permissible
accommodations of religious practice and state establishments of
religion.
Syllabus for First Amendment
1st Year/Torts I/508-3 (Fall 2012)
Syllabus for Torts I, Section 3
2nd-3rd Year/Constitutional Law/540-2 (Fall 2012)
A study of the United States Constitution including
judicial review, national power, state power, executive and
congressional relations, substantive due process, procedural due
process and equal protection.
Syllabus for Constitutional Law, Section 2
