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The Curious Lawyer: Where the Law Goes Crazy

This episode of The Curious Lawyer series takes you on an odyssey through a variety of laws and legal rulings that are hard to square the circle on.

Created byNew Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
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IntermediateUpdated Mar 31, 2025
The Curious Lawyer:  Where the Law Goes Crazy

What You'll Learn

check_circleIdentify unusual legal cases and their constitutional implications.
check_circleUnderstand contradictions in state and federal law applications.
check_circleRecognize how historical laws impact modern legal systems.
check_circleExplore the intersection of family, criminal, and constitutional law.
check_circleAnalyze quirky legal rulings and their rationales.
check_circleDiscuss the societal impact of outdated and unusual laws.

About This Course

Ever look at a legal ruling or law and muse, “You Just Can’t Make it Up?” This episode of The Curious Lawyer series takes you on an odyssey through a variety of laws and legal rulings that are hard to square the circle on. Strip searched by police for not putting your dog on a leash?

A private right to adult consensual sex without government interference, yet state liability regimes that can lead to civil liability for adultery? State prohibitions on possession of too many sex toys, but federal grants of patents for sex toys because they are useful devices? Liability for men who question a woman’s chastity? No marijuana trademarks, but a plethora of marijuana patents, even to the US government no less? 

From fortune tellers to loud muscle cars to cross dressing, and everything in between, this program will leave you laughing and crying as you look at constitutional, criminal, tort and IP law through a lens that leaves you scratching your head.

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.

Legal Technology & Education

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc. is a legal publishing company based in Los Angeles, California, that develops, produces, markets, and distributes innovative legal education content for law firms and companies. For more information about NMLP and its products, please visit  http://www.newmedialegal.com .

Peter  Afrasiabi
Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner at One, LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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