What are the important definitions of law?

What are the important theories of law?How do the theories and definitions fit together?

What are some important definitions of justice?

What is the difference between common, civil, Sharia, and communist law?

What is the difference between the consensus and conflict perspectives on the law?

What are more, taboo, norm, and folkway?

What is the difference between formal and informal law?

What is international law? What is its basis?

How is the American judicial system structured?

How do judges get their jobs in the federal courts, the states?

What is the difference between a trial and an appellate court?

What document(s) creates the U.S. Supreme Court, the lower federal courts?

What is judicial review? What is its basis?

How do judges decide cases?

What is the Missouri Plan? Why is it important?How do groups influence policy through the courts? What is the difference between an interest group and a political interest?

Give a brief history of lawyers, from Athens to today.

Why did the American Bar Association emerge?

What are the two hemispheres of law?

What hemisphere was the Porsche driving protagonist in A Civil Action?

What are government/corporate lawyers? Who is attracted to these positions?

What are some issues facing female/minority lawyers?

Who was Gideon Wainwright? Why is he important?

How do people pay for legal services? What are their advantages/drawbacks?

What do the following Latin phrases mean: amicus curiae, pro se, pro bono, certiorari, voir dire, and habeas corpus?

What constitutes ethical conduct for an attorney?

How can attorneys be punished?

What are the adversarial and consensus models, crime control, and due process models?

Describe defense attorneys? How do they address criticism for defending those accused of crimes? Who do they work for?

Describe prosecutors? How do they get their jobs? Describe their offices. How do prosecutors change with time?

What are some advantages and disadvantages of plea bargaining? Who benefits? Why is it so prevalent? Is it just?

What are the strengths and weaknesses of juries?

Why are juries most often biased in death penalty cases?

Are judges or jurors more lenient?

What is jury nullification? What's its history in the U.S.?

What is voir dire? How do attorneys eliminate prospective jurors from a trial?

What is Three Strikes You're Out?What percentage of death row inmates do researchers estimate are innocent?

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