Questions and Answers of Law Courts And Justice In America

How did Christopher Columbus Langdell influence legal education?
What is the case method of legal education?
What is the role of the law professor?
What is the role of hypotheticals in a law school class?
What is the model of legal education copied by other law schools?
What is the economic advantage of the case method?
Who accredits law schools?
What courses are required for first-year law students?
What is the advantage of the uniformity of legal education?
How is legal education stratified?
What are the characteristics of elite law schools?
What distinguishes national law schools from local law schools?
What is the view of legal realists?
What does it mean to “distinguish away”?
What is the view of critical legal studies?
What is the view of the law and economics perspective?
Why was there hostility toward lawyers during the colonial era?
What was the educational background of most post-Revolutionary lawyers?
Why were Revolutionary War veterans hostile to lawyers?
How did bar associations limit entry in the practice of law?
What was the connection between reform, prejudice, and machine politicians?
What are the four categories of cases handled by the juvenile court?
Who were the “child savers,” and what was their role in establishing the juvenile court?
How did social Darwinism influence the practice of not helping the poor?
What is the source of funds for public interest law firms?
What is the makeup of a typical bar exam?
Who accredits law schools?
How is stratification of legal education reflected in the stratification of the legal profession?
What is the Cravath system?
For national law firms, why does litigation generally represent failure?
Why would law firms want attorneys with science backgrounds?
For whom do national law firms provide pro bono legal services?
What are the attorney categories in Stratum II?
Why, in addition to retaining national law firms as outside counsel, do large corporations employ salaried attorneys?
What were the conditions in England and the colonies that resulted in different approaches to criminal justice?
In what way did court structures become complex?
Why was William Blackstone popular in pre-Revolutionary America?
Why was the convening of court a major event?
Why did vigilantism emerge on the frontier?
What are the different types of jurisdiction?
Why is venue in civil cases more complex than in criminal cases?
What are long arm statutes?
What is diversity jurisdiction?
Why do trial lawyers support diversity jurisdiction?
What crimes violate both federal and state laws?
What two crimes does the Constitution provide federal jurisdiction?
In the federal system, how do legislative courts differ from constitutional courts?
How is the size of Supreme Court determined?
What is the role of appellate courts?
What is an amicus curiae?
What is judicial review by the Supreme Court?
What does the Constitution say about the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
What is certiorari jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
What are the reasons the Supreme Court usually gives for turning down a case for review?
Why is a losing attorney who declares he/she will take a case to the Supreme Court engaging in rhetorical excess?
Who do Supreme Court justices usually select to be their clerks?
What are the “cues” that improve the chances of a case being accepted for review?
Why is the written opinion often more important than the actual vote?
How can the precedential effect of court decisions on the interpretation of a statute be nullified?
What are the symbols the judicial branch uses to promote a perception of legitimacy?
How can judicial reasoning predict the likely outcome of a dispute?
How are liberals and conservatives inconsistent with respect to judicial activism/judicial restraint?
In what ways were those who wrote the Constitution not representative of the people?
Why is it difficult to discover the original meaning of a clause in the Constitution?
What are the arguments of strict constructionists and advocates of originalism?
Why is interpreting a statute less controversial than interpreting the Constitution?
Why is determining legislative intent difficult?
What is the only policy area in which the judicial branch has not involved itself, at least since the Civil War?
What are the three forms of opposition to judicial decisions?
Why are lawyers who graduate from the elite law schools seldom found among the ranks of these who work in criminal justice?
In a trial court, when a jury is used what is the role of a judge?
What are the three methods most often used to select judges?
How are all federal judges selected?
Why is electing judges controversial?
In addition to money, what are the three overlapping variables that control an election for judicial office?
What is the merit system of selecting judges?
Why is accountability almost completely absent in the merit system?
What are the basic methods used to impose judicial discipline and removal?
What is the only method for removing a federal judge?
What is the role of the solicitor general?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of early screening of criminal cases?
Why is horizontal prosecution the predominant mode of handling cases in more populous jurisdictions?
What is the justice role of a prosecutor?
Why does a criminal defense attorney have no interest in justice?
When is a defendant entitled to an attorney at public expense?
Why do relatively few lawyers in private practice handle criminal cases on a regular basis?
Why do private criminal attorneys usually require “upfront money?”
What are the advantages of being represented by a public defender?
What are the reasons for using assigned counsel?
What are the two elements of the corpus delecti that must be proven?
What is an affirmative defense?
What does a drug enforcement agent need to show to thwart an entrapment defense?
What is meant by due process?
How is the amount of due process required determined?
Why is the conflict between due process and crime control a zero-sum continuum?
How does the crime control model differ from the due process model?
What is the purpose of the exclusionary rule?
What are the due process rights to which a criminal defendant is entitled?
In the absence of probable cause, when can a police officer frisk a suspect?
How does a “frisk” differ from a search?

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