Insurance Law (Baker)
Faculty
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| Tom Baker William Maul Measey Professor of Law tombaker@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Other Professional Skills: Litigation strategy; financial planning
Grading
100% Exam
Exam
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can send you an email with instructions for accessing the recording for the class session(s) you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
MW 10:30AM - 11:50AM
Silverman Hall 280
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
3.0
This course introduces students to insurance institutions and insurance law, with the goal of preparing them for successful careers in litigation, employee benefits, health law, and other practice areas. Part advanced torts, part advanced contracts, and part financial services regulation, the course explores the central, but often hidden, role of insurance across many fields of law practice. Liability insurance will receive the most attention, but we will also discuss life, health, disability, and property insurance. After taking this course, students will know how to spot the insurance issues in a variety of legal and public policy contexts, how to read and analyze a standard form insurance contract, how to be an informed consumer of professional and personal insurance, and how to think about insurance institutions and insurance law using conceptual tools from a variety of disciplines. Cross-cutting themes include the behind-the-scenes role of insurance in shaping litigation strategy, the role of insurance in financial planning and employee benefits, and the complexities that come from using private insurance arrangements to achieve social goals. Class will be cancelled on February 20, April 5 and April 12. Make-up classes for those three classes will be asynchronous, with recorded lectures, readings and web-based discussion.
Business and Corporate Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of business and corporate law; Perform legal analysis in the context of business and corporate law; Communicate effectively on topics related to business and corporate law; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between the world of business and finance and that of business and corporate law, and how they affect other areas of law and society.
Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.
Employment Law and Employee Benefits Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of employment law and employee benefits; Perform legal analysis in the context of employment law and employee benefits; Communicate effectively on topics related to employment law and employee benefits; Demonstrate an understanding of how employment law and employee benefits affect other areas of law.
Administrative and Regulatory Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of administrative and regulatory law and the administrative process, including the role of statutory authorization and work of administrative agencies; Perform legal analysis in the context of administrative and regulatory law; Communicate effectively on topics related to administrative and regulatory law; Demonstrate an understanding of the role administrative and regulatory law play in our legal system and in society as a whole.
Textbooks
"Insurance Law and Policy" by Baker, Logue, Saiman |