Legal Terms
What is a verdict?
What is a conclusion drawn from premises?
What is an inference?
Law about crimes and punishment.
What is Criminal Law?
When are Pre-Law Society meetings and where?
Tuesdays at 4 pm in the Park Boulevard room in the union!
Lawyers must pass this to practice.
What is the Bar Exam?
What's a judge’s order requiring someone to appear in court?
What is a subpoena?
What is the scale that the LSAT is scored on?
What is 120-180?
Law governing disputes between individuals.
What is Civil Law?
What do we have at (almost) every meeting?
Speakers!
Power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
What is it when a judge ends a case without a trial due to a lack of evidence?
What is a summary judgment?
What is a logical error assuming correlation equals causation?
What is a causal fallacy?
Deals with IRS and revenue.
What is Tax Law?
How much are member dues?
$10!
A precedent case that established that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel applies to state felony defendants who cannot afford an attorney.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
What is a law that retroactively criminalizes conduct?
What is an ex post facto law?
What is the “If A then B” logic structure?
What is conditional reasoning?
Protects inventions and trademarks.
What is Intellectual Property Law?
How many points does someone need to be considered active?
At least 12 points
The highest standard of judicial review used by courts to evaluate the constitutionality of laws that infringe on fundamental rights or involve suspect classifications.
What is Strict Scrutiny?
What is a friend-of-the-court brief?
What is amicus curiae?
What is the timing strategy involving skipping hard questions?
What is question triage?
Governs legal issues related to navigation, shipping, and maritime commerce.
What is Admiralty Law?
What law school do we visit frequently?
USD Law!
This case established the “clear and present danger” test for speech restrictions.
What is Schenck v. United States?