Law School for Everyone
Season 1
Ep 40. Rules versus Standards of Care
- TV-PG
- September 22, 2017
- 28 min
Lawyers define rules as the alternative to flexible, case-specific standards. Rules, as you'll discover in this lecture, have their advantages and disadvantages over standards - but they all take power and discretion away from the jury. Professor Cheng uses an example that hits close to home for many of us: speed limits.