201S sec. 001 - Business Torts (Summer 2025)
Instructor: Daniel Farber (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
MTuWThF 2:00 PM - 4:35 PM
Location: Law 132
From June 03, 2025
To June 24, 2025
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Enroll Limit: 35
As of: 12/13 01:14 PM
This is a course on tort law for business lawyers, whether their practices focus on IP and technology, corporate, or general business representation. The key question is: when does aggressive competition cross the line and become unlawful? Crossing that line can result in major liability, including punitive damages. This body of tort law has great commercial importance but isn't covered in introductory courses or is covered only in passing. The class starts with a brief introduction to U.S. tort law and then turns to key areas of litigation: misrepresentation. deceptive marketing, tortious interference with contract or prospective advantage, and liability for bad faith breach of contract.
Dan Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment. Professor Farber is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Life Member of the American Law Institute.
Professor Farber is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he earned his B.A., M.A., and J.D. degrees. He graduated, summa cum laude, from the College of Law, where he was the class valedictorian and served as editor-in-chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. After law school, he was a law clerk for Judge Philip W. Tone of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Farber practiced law with Sidley & Austin, where he primarily worked on energy issues, before returning to the University of Illinois as a faculty member in 1978. He taught at the University of Minnesota Law School faculty from 1981 to 2002, where he was the McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law. He also has been a visiting professor at the Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.
His most recent book is Contested Ground: How to Understand the Limits on Presidential Power (UC Press 2021). His earlier books include Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law (Elgar 2010) (with A. O’Connell); Judgment Calls: Politics and Principle in Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press 2008) (with S. Sherry); Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment and the Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have (Basic Books 2007); Lincoln’s Constitution (University of Chicago Press 2003); and Eco-Pragmatism: How to Make Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World (University of Chicago Press 1999).
Exam Notes: (F) In-class final exam
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Bar Courses
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Business Law
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