If judicial decisions are unintelligible to the polity and no group accepts responsibility for explaining the Constitution's evolving meaning to the polity, we undermine part of the foundation of the constitutional scheme of things. For example, constitutional law deals with the political system of the United States that has evolved through 200 years of history. If you don't know anything about that history, it's very difficult to understand constitutional law. Although a specialist in First Amendment law, Brownstein also relishes teaching torts to first-year students. These are courses that emphasize reasoning by analogy, while civil procedure and property are more informational and rely less on case analysis.
Contracts covers the least number of human interactions because it involves liability by consent.
Criminal law only deals with particularly pernicious wrongful acts. But torts-there's nothing you can do in this world that doesn't at least create the opportunity for a tort.