About Prof de Gyarfas
The law school Prof de Gyarfas attended.
Where is Southwestern Law School?
The learning management system used for this course.
What is Canvas?
The three main sources of law.
What are: Constitutions; Statutes; and Case Law?
Constitution that is binding on everyone.
What is the federal constitution?
The entry level court in California.
What is the California Superior Court?
Prof de Gyarfas worked as this by day while attending law school in the evenings.
What is an Aerospace Engineer?
What is the Harvard Blue Book?
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What is the Blue Book?
What is the Constitution?
The entry level court in the federal court system.
The typical number of Appellate Judges that hear a case.
What is three (3)?
Prof de Gyarfas held this position on the law review board at Southwestern Law School.
What is the Managing Editor?
Where you go to sign up for one-on-one office hours with Prof de Gyarfas.
Where is TWEN (on Westlaw)?
Law written by judges based on the facts of a case the judges hear in court.
What is case law?
The circuit to which the State of California belongs.
What is the 9th Circuit?
The highest court in California.
What is the California Supreme Court?
Prof de Gyarfas' daughter attends this university.
Where is the University of Michigan? #goblue
Learning the content outside of the classroom and then practicing with lessons and exercises in the classroom.
What is a flipped classroom?
Laws that are passed by the legislative branch.
What are statutes/codes?
The highest court in the country.
What is the United States Supreme Court?
The number of Appellate Districts in California.
What is six (6)?
Who is Rowdy?
The three core values adopted in this course.
What are Mindset, Grit, and Responsibility?
Law Review Articles, Practice Guides, and Legal Encyclopedias.
What are secondary sources?
The actor that said the famous line: "You can't handle the truth!"
Who is Jack Nicholson?
The effect of a federal judge's ruling on state law.
What is persuasive but not binding?