Overview

Online Pre-Law Courses

Our pre-law courses provide you with online, multimedia, interactive instruction in the basic subjects required of first-year law school students.

Historically, students who complete our online pre-law courses have proven to be as successful in their careers as students who attended similar pre-law courses in traditional brick-and-mortar learning institutions.

This program consists of six, essential pre-law courses including:

Legal Contracts: Over the course of the contracts module, students explore the basic elements of the legal contract, including the offer, acceptance of the offer and consideration.

Constitutional Law: This module provides students with an in depth study of the United States Constitution, how it was developed and its relevance and importance in all aspects of the judicial decision-making process. Students also study the Bill of Rights and the 27 Constitutional amendments. These are summarized and incorporated into constitutional cases that have played a special role in the formation of major legislation. Students will also explore other legal principles and concepts, including due process and equal protection, with a special focus on the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Legal Torts: Tort law is limited to injuries against ones person or property. Over the course of this module, students are provided with a broad overview of the types of torts including trespass, false imprisonment, character defamation, nuisance, assault, battery, negligence and misrepresentation.

Criminal Law: In this module, students learn about the various elements and classifications of crimes and about legal processes including criminal dispositions.

Civil Law Procedure: This module serves as an introduction to the Code of Civil Procedure (litigation at the Federal level). Students learn about a variety of legal principles and terms including jurisdiction, venue, parties, claims, joinder, motions, interpleader, and intervention are explored in this module. The module also includes a discussion of various aspects of the litigation process, including discovery, pre- and post-trial motions, pleas, specific functions and responsibilities of the judge and jury, and the appeal process.

Real Property: Over the course of this module, students learn about real property legal issues including estates in land, future interests, easements, covenants running with the land, concurrent ownership, transference of land and the real property recording system, title insurance, restricted use and conveyance, as well as legal issues related to landlord and tenant relations and contracts.

World Education's pre-law courses are 100% online and instructor-led to provide students with greater flexibility as they pursue their educational and career goals. Enrolling for these pre-law courses is quick and completely safe using our secure registration process. Simply click on the registration button to get started.

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Languages

English

Course Access Time

Students are given 6 months to complete the program.

Instructor

Katherine Pang, PhD, JD, LLM, MBA, MEd, MS

Dr. Pang has instructed, facilitated, and led numerous business skill courses including team building, building effective groups, and similar courses for several manufacturing companies including Weir SPM, Turbomeca, as well as the City of Arlington along with numerous top 100 law firms.

Dr. Pang served as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Tyler and has been an adjunct faculty member in the law and business/ schools of many universities including the Stern School of Business at New York University, the Graduate School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas, Pepperdine University, USC, Golden Gate University, the University of California, Irvine, Regent University, and Northeastern University. Dr. Pang received her B.A. from Clark University, her J.D. from the University of Dayton Law School, her LL.M in Taxation from Georgetown University Law School, her M.Ed from the University of Texas, her MBA, MS (Psychology), and her Ph.D in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M Commerce. Dr. Pang also has two theology degrees.

Dr. Pang has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and operational experience in professional services, manufacturing and education oriented companies. Dr. Pang has served as founder, president, CEO, COO and CFO of several companies over the last 15 years. Prior to forming Corporate Growth Strategists, Dr. Pang was recruited to serve initially as COO/CFO and General Counsel for a Dallas-based CNC precision and assembly manufacturing company to effectuate a restructure of corporate obligations and operations. The successful reduction in corporate indebtedness and the substantial increase in cash-flow flowing from operational and financial changes resulted in Dr. Pangs promotion to interim CEO and General Counsel for a period of 12-months. Dr. Pang has also served as COO and General Counsel for Technology Training Services Corporation a technology training company delivering services in Europe under Unites States Government contracts. Dr. Pang was also the Manager, Firmwide Practice Section Development, Training and Forms for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Pang has over 20 years of experience in the design, development and delivery of educational cours

Requirements

This program must be taken on a PC. There are no specific computer requirements other than an Internet connection (a high-speed or broadband Internet connection is highly recommended). In addition, you''ll need to have Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Flash Plug-in, and a QuickTime plug-in on your computer (all are available through free downloads).

There are no required textbooks for this program. All materials are available online.

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Lesson 1
I. Contracts
II. Torts
III. Real Property
IV. Criminal Law and Procedure
V. Civil Procedure
VI. Constitutional Law

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