I am drowning in torts reading – well in reading in general. The first couple weeks of law school have been intense, but not in the expected ways. The law, simply put, is much less pragmatic than I had anticipated – or to be more specific, its study is not.
What I’m enjoying significantly more than expected are the cases we’re reading. Some are hilarious; like the guy whose doctor convinced him to choose an experimental new skin grafting surgery by guaranteeing that his burnt hand would be “100% perfect” afterward. The hand wasn’t and the skin grafted from his chest to his palm began to grow hair…..on the palm of his hand! Not surprisingly, the court ruled that the doctor’s words, as a professional, expert and with a duty of care to his patient constituted a legally binding contractual promise. The rest was, well, remedy.
More to come, it’s about to get way more tort-y up in here.
