Procedural
At the trial court level, these two words refer to people or entities on either side of a civil lawsuit
What are plaintiff and defendant?
When an employee’s moonlighting goes against her employer’s best interests, she commits this legal wrong
What is a breach of duty of loyalty?
Fancy lawyer lingo for signing and completing a formal document; sounds morbid
What is execute?
The place you go to find course descriptions, syllabi, faculty bios, and course schedules.
What is the MSL Student Resources site on Canvas?
A week of high intensity compressed classes held at the end of each half-semester.
What is a Power Week?
A type of remedy that requires a party to do or refrain from doing specific things
What is an injunction?
The name of the executive branch agency responsible for issuing regulations that implement the ADA
What is the Department of Justice?
A type of legal wrong that sounds like a dessert
What is a tort?
Northwestern’s learning management system, where all of your course materials are housed
What is Canvas?
The last day to add or drop a regular term class
What is Friday of the first week of the term?
A verb describing what lawyers do with facts they plan to prove later in a lawsuit
What is allege?
What people and companies own that is created by the human mind
What is intellectual property?
When you see wet ground and conclude that it recently rained, even though you never saw it raining, you have done this
What is making an inference?
The site you use to register for your MSL classes
What is CAESAR?
The document that defines the ethical responsibilities of law students at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
What is the Honor Code?
When the appellate court sends a case back to the lower court to reconsider
What is remand?
A worker who can be fired at any time without a reason
What is an at-will employee?
A term for law that gets enacted by a legislature
What is a statute?
The MSL staff member that can help you with your post-MSL plans.
Who is Evan Goldberg?
The web-conferencing platform used for synchronous sessions in online courses.
What is Zoom?
What a lawyer files with the court to make a formal request for a court to get rid of a case
What is a motion to dismiss?
A sufficient connection required between a website and physical goods and services
What is nexus?
Judicial opinions create this type of legal authority (Hint: not "precedent" - a different word)
What is common law?
The Dean of Students here at Northwestern Law.
Who is Dean Susie Spies Roth?
The maximum number of credit/no credit units you can count toward the MSL degree
What is 8 units?