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The Curious Lawyer: Crazy, Weird Laws on the Books

Exploring Unbelievable Laws Still on the Books Today.

Created byNew Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
IntermediateUpdated Mar 31, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDiscover surprising and outdated laws still enforceable in various jurisdictions.
  • check_circleAnalyze the criminalization of adultery and its implications for both spouses and lovers.
  • check_circleUnderstand the legal requirements for unique laws such as residency for fortune tellers.
  • check_circleExplore the legal loopholes, including the “law-free” zone in Yellowstone National Park.

About This Course

In the next installment of this popular series, Peter Afrasiabi highlights some crazy, weird criminal, family, tort and regulatory laws that you can’t believe are still on the books in 2021.  Examples include laws that criminalize adultery for both spouses and their lovers, require fortune tellers to meet a residency requirement, prohibit the sharing of online passwords and perhaps most shockingly, create a potential “law-free” zone in a corner of Yellowstone National Park where no federal venue exists to prosecute offenders.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 7m

  • videocamThe Curious Lawyer: Crazy, Weird Laws on the Books
    Duration 67:04

Your Instructors

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

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.

Credit Information

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