Constitution
This many amendments make up the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
Who was the first Chief Justice of the United States?
Who is John Jay?
"You can't handle the truth!" is from this 1992 military courtroom drama.
What is A Few Good Men?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This former Undergraduates at Law guest speaker is the current Dean of UGA Law.
Who is Usha Rodrigues?
This amendment prevents individuals from being prosecuted multiple times for the same offense (Double Jeopardy! Haha...get it? Yeah, you get it).
What is the 5th amendment?
This 1215 document, signed by King John, established the principle that everyone, including the king, was subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
Elle Woods attends Harvard Law School in this iconic 2001 comedy.
What is Legally Blonde?
This enslaved man sued for his freedom after living in free territories, but the Supreme Court ruled in 1857 that African Americans could not be citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
The UGA School of Law was founded in this year.
What is 1859?
This constitutional principle, established in Marbury v. Madison, allows courts to strike down laws.
What is Judicial Review?
This 17th-century English philosopher argued for the social contract and natural rights, heavily influencing Thomas Jefferson.
Who is John Locke?
This 1957 film features a jury deliberating a murder case.
What is 12 Angry Men?
This 1966 Supreme Court case required police to inform suspects of their rights to remain silent and to an attorney.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This is the name of UGA Law's main law library, also the name of a famous UGA figure.
Who is Alexander Campbell King? (King Library)
This amendment was the only one ever repealed (later by the 21st).
What is the 18th amendment?
She was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Joe Pesci plays a loud, inexperienced lawyer from Brooklyn who wins a murder trial in this 1992 comedy.
What is My Cousin Vinny?
In the O.J. Simpson trial, this piece of evidence was famously used during a dramatic courtroom demonstration.
What is the bloody glove?
This famous UGA Law alumnus served as Governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011.
Sonny Perdue
How many times is the word "Democracy" included in the United States Constitution?
What is zero?
What were the earliest "lawyers" in ancient Athens called?
What are Orators?
This folksy Atlanta defense attorney, played by Andy Griffith, famously won most of his cases by finding the real killer.
Who is Ben Matlock?
In the 2024 New York case, Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of this specific crime.
What is falsifying business records?
This UGA Law graduate (class of 1973) became the first woman to serve on the Georgia Supreme Court and later its Chief Justice.
Who is Leah Ward Sears?