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?
A week of high intensity compressed classes held at the end of each half-semester.
What is a Power Week?
When an employee operates a company that competes with her current employer, she commits this legal wrong
What is a breach of duty of loyalty?
This acronym describes a tool that is often used by law students to organize their written analysis
What is IRAC?
The place you go to find course descriptions, syllabi, faculty bios, and course schedules.
What is the MSL Student Resources site on Canvas?
This tool is often used by law students to summarize the key components of a judicial opinion, helping them prepare for class discussions and exams.
What is a case brief?
The document that defines the ethical responsibilities of law students at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
What is the Honor Code?
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?
In the United States, the highest source of law, considered the supreme law of the land?
What is the United States Constitution?
The day by which you need to add your classes for the Fall 1 session.
What is Friday, August 22?
The type of machine the two employees at Kerstein Metals (Metzner & Sellers) urged their employer to acquire
What is a shredder?
This method of classroom discussion, often used in law schools, involves asking students questions to help them think critically about cases and legal concepts.
What is the Socratic Method?
The site you use to register for your MSL classes
What is CAESAR?
The particular court you would appeal to if you lost a case in a federal district court in California.
What is the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (or just the 9th Circuit)?
The maximum number of credits you can take in a Power Week.
What is 2 credits?
The two names Joshi used for the company he created to compete with his employer, Blackbird
What are Deep Lambda and PlutoSearch?
A term for law that gets enacted by a legislature
What is a statute?
The MSL student services team is comprised of these two people.
Who are Jessica Woodhouse and Jeremy Adler?
The doctrine that allows a California company incorporated in Delaware to bring a case in federal court against a defendant in Washington for a violation of California state law
What is a diversity jurisdiction or civil diversity?
The maximum number of credit/no credit units you can count toward the MSL degree
What is 8 credits?
Term used by the court to describe a sufficient connection between Domino's website and its physical goods and services
What is nexus?
A Latin term that means a court will follow previously decided cases.
What is stare decisis?
The Dean of Students here at Northwestern Law.
Who is Dean Susie Spies Roth?